| 25-6814 |
Tony Minh Le v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-02-13 |
Pending |
IFP |
continuance district-court fourth-circuit judicial-review procedural-fairness speedy-trial-act |
Whether the district court and Fourth Circuit made a fair and lawful Speedy Trial Act ruling denying relief, without properly assessing the timing of … |
| 25-942 |
In Re Ronny Jackson, Individually and as U.S. Representative for Texas's 13th Congressional District, et al. |
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2026-02-09 |
Pending |
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congressional-districts district-court jurisdictional-requirements mandamus statutory-interpretation three-judge-court |
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2284(a) requires a district judge to request the convening of a three-judge district court whenever an action is filed challenging… |
| 25-6739 |
In Re Brandy Cornett |
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2026-02-06 |
Pending |
IFP |
access-to-courts constitutional-guarantee district-court emergency-relief judicial-discretion material-allegations |
Whether the constitutional guarantee of access to the courts permits a District Court to adopt all material allegations as true while concluding that … |
| 25-6653 |
Randy Campos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-01-22 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Did the district court err by considering retributive factors under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(2)(A) when revoking supervised release? |
| 25-6643 |
Lawrence Rhoden v. Brittany Greene, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2026-01-22 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court habeas-corpus procedural-ruling |
Whether a criminal defendant is legally entitled to a certificate of appealability where a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right… |
| 25-6639 |
In Re Deon D. Colvin |
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2026-01-21 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-court district-court judicial-procedure jurisdiction writ-of-mandamus |
Does the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals have jurisdiction over this matter, and is a writ of mandamus appropriate to direct the court to send the case … |
| 25-6633 |
Leihinahina Sullivan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-01-21 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-history district-court plea-agreement sentence-adjustment sentencing-guidelines status-points |
Whether a defendant's sentence should be adjusted for status points when the District Court failed to consider dismissed counts in calculating crimina… |
| 25-825 |
Katharina Katja Isabel Meier, Individually and as Next Friend of Her Minor Child N. B. M. v. Aspen Academy, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2026-01-13 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure discovery-stay district-court pleading-stage summary-dismissal |
Whether a district court may categorically stay all discovery at the pleading stage and dismiss a civil action on a closed record where adjudication o… |
| 25-6551 |
Esteban Burgos v. Florida |
Florida |
2026-01-12 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court constitutional-procedure district-court judicial-administration speedy-trial-rule supreme-court-order |
May a district court of appeals and circuit court disregard mandatory rules of judicial administration associated with a Supreme Court order? |
| 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 |
QP1: Did appellants Cyr Banguguilan and Miguel Bocardo forfeit their Fed. R. Evid. 403 challenge to the admission of photographs and video recordings … |
| 25-6531 |
Rafael Jorge v. Marie Adler |
First Circuit |
2026-01-09 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-procedure district-court judicial-discretion jurisdictional-deadline notice-of-appeal pro-se-litigant |
Whether a court of appeals can dismiss an appeal by a pro se litigant for failing to file a Notice of Appeal within 30 days of entry of judgment by th… |
| 25-6506 |
John Wesley Patton v. Gary Westcott, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, et al. |
Louisiana |
2026-01-07 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights district-court judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality procedural-fairness recusal |
Whether a Louisiana District Judge can be considered impartial when presiding over cases involving claims against himself and when district attorneys … |
| 25-6498 |
Cynthia Stephanie Jones v. Providence Teachers Union, Local 958 |
First Circuit |
2026-01-07 |
Pending |
IFP |
district-court eeoc employment-discrimination in-forma-pauperis right-to-sue teachers-union |
Shall the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issue a Right to Sue to a claimant only to have the Right-to-Sue expeditiously denied upon entry to … |
| 25-6505 |
Kenneth Christopher Pointer, aka Keith Johnson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-01-07 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights district-court evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment |
Whether the district court abused its discretion by failing to conduct a prompt Evidentiary Hearing and violating Sixth Amendment Rights through multi… |
| 25-767 |
Daren K. Margolin, Director of the Executive Office for Immigration Review v. National Association of Immigration Judges |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-31 |
Pending |
Amici (2) |
csra-preclusion district-court party-presentation personnel-actions summary-reversal supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the decision below should be summarily reversed for violating the party-presentation principle and failing to adhere to Supreme Court preceden… |
| 25-6439 |
Marquis Melton v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-12-29 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split district-court district-court-discretion harmless-error procedural-error sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a district court's statement asserting it would have imposed the same sentence regardless of any potential procedural error renders that error… |
| 25-715 |
Masahide Kanayama v. Scott Kowal, Chief Pretrial Services Officer, Southern District of New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-12-18 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure damage-calculation district-court dual-criminality extradition japanese-law |
Whether the District Court improperly relied on a hypothetical damage calculation to satisfy the dual criminality element in Dr. Kanayama's extraditio… |
| 25-6405 |
Jerel D. Kent v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-court district-court federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-review motion-denial |
Whether a single circuit court judge may deny a motion for certificate of appealability under Fed. R. App. P. 27 (c) by finding the district court rea… |
| 25-702 |
CO2 Committee, Inc. v. Montezuma County, Colorado, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-12-17 |
Pending |
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civil-rights district-court facial-attack motion-to-dismiss rule-12b1 tenth-circuit |
Because the District Court and the County agreed on the facial attack procedure, should the Tenth Circuit on appeal have reversed the Order of the Dis… |
| 25-6385 |
Johnathan Morrison v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-12-16 |
Pending |
IFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court miscarriage-of-justice sentencing-guideline |
Does the miscarriage of justice exception to appeal waivers apply to an appellate claim that a district court sentenced a defendant under the wrong se… |
| 25-6343 |
Sharard Collier v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
district-court due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment |
Whether the district court and Fifth Circuit abused their discretion by failing to conduct evidentiary hearings on multiple ineffective assistance of … |
| 25-6335 |
Jake Paul Heiney v. Ashley Richardson, Director, Lucas County Adult Probation Department, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability district-court evidentiary-review habeas-corpus reasonable-jurists state-court-record |
Whether a district court must review evidence in the state-court record when the habeas petitioner alleges it demonstrates that the state court unreas… |
| 25-6334 |
Robert Ruben Ornelas v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
discovery-request district-court exculpatory-evidence government-assertion judicial-review post-trial-motion |
Did the district court erroneously rely on the government's bare assertion that no exculpatory evidence existed in denying a post-trial motion for dis… |
| 25-6307 |
Carl Sidney Race v. Montana State Prison Infirmary, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure district-court magistrate-authority motion-to-dismiss personal-involvement rule-12b6 |
Whether a U.S. Magistrate Judge can supersede an Article III District Court Judge's order denying a motion to dismiss under Rule 12(b)(6) when the pla… |
| 25-6283 |
Samuel Patrick Cain, Jr. v. Carrie Bridges, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-12-04 |
Pending |
IFP |
constitutional-claim district-court federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-review state-law |
Whether the District Court erred in denying habeas relief based on its determination that the petitioner's claim involves state law and did not presen… |
| 25-639 |
Banc of America Securities LLC, et al. v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-12-03 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
civil-procedure class-action district-court expert-evidence predominance rule-23 |
Whether, when putative class-action plaintiffs offer expert evidence to prove predominance under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(3) and the defe… |
| 25-6271 |
Eric Arthur Walton v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure discretionary-standard district-court pro-se-representation standard-of-review supervised-release |
Whether the standard of review of a district court's decision to allow a defendant to proceed pro se at a supervised release revocation hearing is de … |
| 25-6263 |
Sherri Richardson v. Irongate Mutual Homes, Inc., trading as Pear Tree Park Townhomes |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-02 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-review counterclaims district-court federal-question jurisdiction procedural-considerations |
Whether the appellate court erred in affirming the district court's ruling on federal question jurisdiction and procedural considerations |
| 25-6260 |
Richard Johnson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-12-01 |
Pending |
IFP |
district-court extraordinary-and-compelling-reason nonretroactive-law sentence-reduction sentencing-commission u.s.s.g.-amendment |
Whether the United States Sentencing Commission acted within its expressly delegated authority when it amended U.S.S.G. § 1B1.13(b) to permit district… |
| 25-614 |
Jefferson A. McGee v. California |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-11-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeal district-court federal-financial-assistance racial-discrimination |
Whether the appeal in this action lacked merit to proceed and therefore should not have been allowed to proceed |
| 25A619 |
Jose M. Gonzalez v. Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-11-25 |
Application |
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circuit-court constitutional-rights district-court en-banc-review judicial-conflict petition-for-certiorari |
Whether a circuit court panel's decision that conflicts with a prior United States District Court ruling constitutes a violation of a petitioner's con… |
| 25-6180 |
David Craig Milam v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court guilty-plea judicial-discretion plea-withdrawal sentencing |
Whether the district court erred by denying Petitioner's motion to withdraw his guilty plea |
| 25-6142 |
John Elwood Tyrone Martin v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-11-17 |
Pending |
IFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure district-court guilty-plea mandate-rule sentencing-error |
Whether the mandate rule precludes a district court from considering a defendant's motion to withdraw a guilty plea after a court of appeals remands f… |
| 25-6110 |
Daniel Louis Jackson v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
district-court due-process habeas-proceeding judicial-review rule-60b writ-of-mandamus |
Did the district court's summary denial of a Rule 60(b) motion without appellate court permission constitute an inadequate means of relief, and did th… |
| 25A553 |
Shirley V. Remmert v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-11-13 |
Application |
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appellate-procedure district-court frivolous-appeal in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court has the authority to dismiss an appeal as frivolous under 28 U.S.C. § 1915 without providing a detailed explanation of its re… |
| 25-6077 |
In Re Brian William Schumaker |
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2025-11-10 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-prosecution district-court federal-jurisdiction newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-discretion |
Whether federal courts have jurisdiction to prosecute and convict the petitioner in light of newly discovered evidence from the Georgia Secretary of S… |
| 25-551 |
United States v. Shaheem Johnson |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-11-06 |
Pending |
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criminal-procedure district-court extraordinary-reasons sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court permissibly found 'extraordinary and compelling reasons' to allow reduction of respondent's sentence under 18 U.S.C. 3582(c… |
| 25-6052 |
David D. Richardson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review district-court duty-of-care medical-relationship pennsylvania-law third-circuit |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals committed reversible error in affirming the District Court's judgment by misapplying Pennsylvania substanti… |
| 25A527 |
Cristian Chaverra Moreno v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-06 |
Application |
|
criminal-procedure district-court eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether a federal district court has proper subject matter jurisdiction to hear a criminal case when the defendant challenges the court's statutory au… |
| 25-6033 |
Willie Frank Nelson v. Tanya Demers, Acting Superintendent, Bare Hill Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2025-11-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review district-court judicial-discretion merits-review procedural-impediment statute-of-limitations |
Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals abused its discretion by resurrecting a forfeited statute of limitations issue instead of reviewing the di… |
| 25-5963 |
Cesar Edgardo Castillo-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails to reference or address substantial arguments for a sentence outside the Gui… |
| 25-5948 |
Jody D. Kimbrell v. United States District Court for the Central District of California, Los Angeles |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-procedure pro-se venue-change |
Whether a Central District Court can change venue procedures for a pro se plaintiff under Federal Rule 1404(a) and Ninth Circuit precedent |
| 25-5922 |
Victor M. Hernandez-Carrasquillo v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court evidence-sufficiency rule-29 sentencing |
Whether evidence was sufficient to justify the district court denial of Rule 29 of the Fed. R. Crim. P. and whether the district court committed rever… |
| 25-468 |
Walter Rosales, et al. v. Condon-Johnson Associates, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-16 |
Denied |
|
district-court federal-claims futility-exception remand statutory-interpretation supplemental-jurisdiction |
Does a District Court have supplemental jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. §1367 to dismiss a proffered amended complaint deleting all federal claims pursua… |
| 25-5892 |
Daniel Jacob Werk v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court federal-rule judgment-of-acquittal ninth-circuit rule-29-motion |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in upholding the district court's denial of Petitioner's Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 29 motion for judgment of … |
| 25-430 |
Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. v. Yassir Fazaga, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-08 |
Pending |
Relisted (4) |
district-court judicial-review merits-adjudication ninth-circuit privileged-information state-secrets-privilege |
Whether dismissal of a claim after assertion of the state-secrets privilege requires a district court to adjudicate the merits of the claim using the … |
| 25-5824 |
Luis Marrot Caceres v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 automatic-reversal district-court habeas-corpus judicial-error motion-denial |
Whether the district court's misunderstanding of the record in a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion was so fundamental and material that the entire order must be… |
| 25-5767 |
Robert Draft v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-09-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-court district-court habeas-corpus legal-merit procedural-error |
Did the United States District Court err in ruling that Mr. Draft's petition for writ of Habeas Corpus was untimely, and did the Circuit Court of Appe… |
| 25-5760 |
Darval Ledet v. Keith Cooley, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-right district-court habeas-corpus miller-el reasonable-jurists slack-standard |
Whether Ledet made a substantial showing of denial of a constitutional right under MillerEl v. Cockrell, such that reasonable jurists would find the d… |
| 25-322 |
Dimitry Kuperschmidt v. Jeff Angradi, Chief Probation Officer, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-09-18 |
Denied |
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appellate-court custody district-court habeas-corpus procedural-default waiver |
Was the Pennsylvania appellate court rule on which the District Court relied to find procedural default a 'firmly established' and 'consistently follo… |
| 25-318 |
Eric Matthew Mumaw v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township |
Third Circuit |
2025-09-17 |
Denied |
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appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court habeas-corpus procedural-error third-circuit |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying the Petitioner's Certificate of Appealability and whether the District Court should have g… |
| 25-5645 |
In Re Derrick L. Johnson |
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2025-09-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-violation custody-challenge district-court habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-judgment |
Whether the 12/26/24 judgment of the United States District Court is void or in violation of the Constitution or law of the United States |
| 25-5623 |
Devon Joseph Anderson v. Alicia Carver, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability district-court federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default state-conviction |
Whether the United States District Court for the District of Nevada properly issued a certificate of appealability for a habeas petition challenging a… |
| 25-5609 |
Jackie Kavaskia McMillan v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-09-11 |
Pending |
IFP |
appeal-waiver district-court illegal-sentence jurisdictional-challenge plea-agreement sentencing |
Does the appeal waiver in a plea agreement foreclose an appeal raising a claim that a sentence is illegal on its face and thus beyond the district cou… |
| 25-5611 |
Daquan Carey v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
article-iii constitutional-interpretation district-court judicial-discretion sentencing-authority sentencing-requests |
Whether a district court's sentencing authority is constrained by the parties' sentencing requests under Article III, Section 2, of the United States … |
| 25-5598 |
Mary Martha McComas v. United States District Court for the District of Oregon |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-09-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
amendment civil-procedure district-court judicial-discretion pleadings pro-se |
Whether a district court must provide a reason for denying a pro se litigant leave to amend a complaint when such denial occurs |
| 25-5586 |
David Priest v. Bentley, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
discovery-ruling district-court inmate-rights judicial-discretion legal-standard pro-se-litigation |
Whether pro se inmate litigants are held to the same legal standard as lawyers in court proceedings, whether proper notice was given for raising issue… |
| 25-5513 |
In Re Olamide Olatayo Bello |
|
2025-09-02 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction criminal-procedure district-court mandamus notice-of-appeal pro-se |
Whether an Appellant proceeding Pro Se without counsel and without notice can challenge a district court's decision through a writ of mandamus or appe… |
| 25A243 |
C. Holmes v. Granuaile, LLC, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-29 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure district-court motion-for-reconsideration recusal res-judicata |
Whether a district court's dismissal of a civil action as barred by res judicata can be challenged when the plaintiff alleges exceptional circumstance… |
| 25-5444 |
Steven Wilson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure dismissed-charges district-court judicial-review sentencing-colloquy third-circuit |
Whether the Third Circuit erred in determining that the sentencing colloquy of the district court did not unambiguously show the district court consid… |
| 25-5451 |
Zephaniah S. Edwards v. Bland Management, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure district-court due-process evidence-admissibility federal-rules virginia-law |
Whether under Virginia Law, multiple procedural irregularities occurred in the Alexandria District Court and Federal Court proceedings that potentiall… |
| 25-5427 |
Rufus E. Dennis v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
base-offense-level criminal-procedure district-court hobbs-act sentencing-guidelines upward-variance |
Did the Defendant 'possess' a handgun for the purposes of the sentencing court assessing a 5 point level increase to his base offense level, pursuant … |
| 25-165 |
Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians v. Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-08-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
district-court equitable-relief inherent-power injunctive-standards treaty-rights tribal-sovereignty |
Whether a district court has inherent equitable power to enter a coercive decree restricting an Indian tribe's treaty rights without its consent and w… |
| 25-5254 |
Xena Ames v. Federal Express Corporation |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-08-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellant-court compulsory-process constitutional-rights district-court due-process sixth-amendment |
Whether the denial by the District Court and Appellant Court of compulsory process violated petitioners rights under the Sixth Amendment to the United… |
| 25-5227 |
Derrick Kellen Mitchell v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court due-process guilty-plea plea-understanding sixth-circuit |
Should the Court grant certiorari to consider if the Sixth Circuit has improperly deviated from this Court's requirement, grounded in the Due Process … |
| 25A121 |
James Taric Byrd v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-07-29 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-conviction criminal-sentencing district-court life-imprisonment notice-of-appeal third-circuit |
Whether the district court's imposition of a life sentence for the charged criminal offenses was legally appropriate given the circumstances of the ca… |
| 25A122 |
Muhamed Pathe Bah v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-29 |
Presumed Complete |
|
28-usc-2255 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court federal-prisoner habeas-corpus |
Whether a federal prisoner can obtain a certificate of appealability after the district court denies habeas relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 |
| 25-94 |
Angela DeBose v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-07-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
administrative-error district-court judicial-procedure magistrate-judge motion-to-dismiss rule-65 |
Whether the district court properly dismissed and closed the case if the case was filed in the wrong court, rather than transfer it to the correct cou… |
| 25-5174 |
James Bradley Hammond v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability district-court federal-review habeas-corpus time-limitation |
Whether the Court of Appeals should have issued a Certificate of Appealability (COA) when the 1-year limitation period commenced and the claim of actu… |
| 25-73 |
Ali Al-Maqablh v. Crystal Heinz, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as County Attorney of Trimble County, Kentucky, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-07-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
district-court judicial-mandate malicious-prosecution section-1983 sixth-circuit thompson-case |
Whether the Sixth Circuit's decision should be vacated and the case remanded with instructions to enter judgment in Petitioner's favor under 42 U.S.C.… |
| 25-5112 |
Brian Lee Corbett v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court judicial-discretion rule-35 sentencing supervised-release |
Whether Rule 35(a) of the Rules of Criminal Procedure allows a district court to reopen and modify a final, imposed sentence sua sponte |
| 25-57 |
Edward Ronny Arnold v. Allstate Insurance Company |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-07-15 |
Denied |
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appellate-civil-court authority-exceeding district-court eighth-circuit judicial-district tennessee-constitution |
Whether the district court erred in not understanding the Eighth Circuit Court of Davidson County, Tennessee Twentieth Judicial District violated Tenn… |
| 25A47 |
Sandra A. Zikry, Individually, and as Parent and Natural Guardian of N. D., a Minor, et vir v. Florida Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Association, et al. |
Florida |
2025-07-11 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review district-court due-process florida-supreme-court jurisdiction-dismissal mandatory-jurisdiction |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court improperly dismissed a mandatory jurisdiction review petition without providing substantive explanation, potentially… |
| 25-5046 |
Pierre Haobsh v. Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-07-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights district-court due-process false-evidence habeas-corpus procedural-violation |
Whether the district court's denial of habeas corpus relief based on alleged procedural violations and false evidence constitutes a violation of due p… |
| 25-16 |
Larry Elliott Klayman v. Judicial Watch, Inc., et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-07-03 |
Denied |
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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 err in affirming the district court's order regarding attorney's fees and costs? |
| 24-7523 |
Sean Kerwin Bindranauth v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court deliberate-ignorance district-court jury-instructions legal-error |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying Petitioner direct review where the district court fundamentally misstated the law on de… |
| 24-1321 |
Saul Lassoff, et al. v. MGM Resorts International |
Third Circuit |
2025-06-27 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure district-court first-to-file forum-shopping preclusion-order venue-transfer |
Whether the New Jersey District Court or Third Circuit Appellate Court erred in denying First to File Petitioners a Preclusion Order and preventing th… |
| 24-7520 |
Salvador Nolasco Romero v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court guilty-plea judicial-discretion legal-error |
Does the district court commit legal error in rejecting a guilty plea based on a legally inadequate defense, or can the district court reject it in an… |
| 24A1292 |
Terry Duane Qualls v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-06-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-appeal district-court eighth-circuit motion-to-dismiss procedural-dismissal rehearing |
Whether a criminal defendant's appeal can be dismissed for procedural reasons without addressing the underlying merits of the case |
| 24-7444 |
Jameel Ibrahim v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-06-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-1291 appellate-jurisdiction district-court final-order interlocutory-appeal third-circuit |
Whether the Third Circuit erred in dismissing Petitioner's appeal for lack of jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 without remanding to the district co… |
| 24-7391 |
Angel L. Martinez v. Howard Sissem, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Forest, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court federal-law ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-standard |
Was the District Court's decision that Petitioner received effective assistance of counsel, contrary to or involve an unreasonable application of clea… |
| 24-7377 |
Jay J. Lin v. Hudson City Savings Bank, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-review district-court judicial-procedure legal-error supremacy-clause |
Whether the Third Circuit erred in failing to review a potential violation of the Supremacy Clause by the District Court of New Jersey |
| 24A1205 |
Leonard W. Hoffmann, et al. v. WBI Energy Transmission, Inc. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-06-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review attorney-fees district-court eighth-circuit judicial-discretion legal-standard |
Whether a federal appellate court may vacate a district court's award of attorney's fees without providing a substantive legal rationale |
| 24-7361 |
Deshaun Curtis Jones v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court judicial-review motion-to-suppress third-circuit |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's denial of Appellant's Motion to Suppress |
| 24-1219 |
Dora L. Adkins v. JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-05-30 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure district-court federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit motion-to-dismiss pro-se-plaintiff |
Whether the Fourth Circuit properly affirmed the district court's order and whether the district court properly denied Adkins' motions for leave to fi… |
| 24-7331 |
Jeremiah S. Farmer v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-claims district-court federal-review habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court's denial of habeas corpus relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 was proper after appellate review |
| 24-1216 |
In Re Micron Technology, Inc., et al. |
|
2025-05-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-discovery district-court executive-branch national-security protective-order technical-documentation |
Does a district court clearly and indisputably err in ordering production of sensitive technical documentation without applying the standards set fort… |
| 24-7306 |
William Thomas Hill v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
counsel-failure district-court evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance motion-to-suppress supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the district court abused its discretion by summarily denying ineffective assistance of counsel claims without conducting an evidentiary heari… |
| 24-7295 |
Riley Dyson Biro v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court habeas-corpus procedural-bar state-court-rule |
Did the Court of Appeals err by denying a certificate of appealability when the district court's findings were debatable and multiple constitutional r… |
| 24-7298 |
Thurmond R. Guess, Sr. v. Leonardo Brown, Administrator, Richland County, South Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-05-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
42-usc-1983 constitutional-rights district-court equal-protection fourth-circuit rule-59e |
Whether the District Court and Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred under Rule 59(e) and violated constitutional rights related to judgment modificat… |
| 24-7230 |
Armani Davis-Malone v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
defendant-rehabilitation district-court judicial-discretion reversible-error sentence-reduction stipulation |
Whether a district court commits reversible error by denying a stipulated sentence reduction without acknowledging the stipulation or and evidence of … |
| 24-7180 |
Yolanda M. Williams v. Austin Police Department |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights district-court federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-misconduct legal-standing |
Did the Judges and Officers of the U.S. District Court Western District of Texas deprive petitioner of her constitutional rights and fail to abide by … |
| 24-7162 |
Deshawn Whited v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-robbery district-court fair-trial right-to-counsel sixth-circuit uncharged-evidence |
Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in finding that the District Court was correct in permitting evidence of an uncharged attempted robbe… |
| 24-7138 |
Steve Van Horne v. Harriett L. Haag, Judge, County Court at Law No. 2, Taylor County, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
district-court first-amendment in-forma-pauperis judicial-error motion-to-reconsider religious-freedom |
Whether the district court erred in ignoring the 1st Amendment and 42 USC 21b § 2000bb in denying Petitioner's Notification of Religious Obligation |
| 24-7123 |
Carlos Edward Thurman, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court equal-protection firearm-enhancement second-amendment sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the district court's application of the USSG § 2D1.1(b)(1) firearm enhancement was clearly erroneous and whether such enhancement violates equ… |
| 24-1126 |
Avon Capital, LLC, a Wyoming Limited Liability Company v. Universitas Education, LLC |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-05-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
district-court mootness personal-jurisdiction service-of-process subject-matter-jurisdiction tenth-circuit |
Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in assuming the District Court reacquired subject matter jurisdiction after a judgment's expiration without new claims… |
| 24-7100 |
Gerald Brent Harris v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-04-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-trial district-court due-process fundamental-fairness gvr-order intervening-decision |
Whether the Court should issue a GVR order to allow the district court to apply the intervening decision in Andrew v. White to Petitioner's admission … |
| 24-7026 |
In Re Andre Monteek Edwards |
|
2025-04-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
claim-adjudication district-court judicial-jurisdiction legal-finality sixth-circuit writ-of-mandamus |
Whether Edwards has a clear and indisputable entitlement to a writ of mandamus declaring the district court's failure to adjudicate the merits of his … |
| 24-1073 |
Ghislaine Maxwell v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-04-14 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
contract-interpretation district-court federal-prosecutors plea-agreement prosecutorial-promise santobello-principle |
Under Santobello and common principles of contract interpretation, does a promise on behalf of the 'United States' or the 'Government' that is made by… |
| 24-6979 |
Gregory Hearns v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
district-court evidence-admission government-duty judicial-responsibility jury-instruction jury-note |
When a jury note indicates a factual misunderstanding concerning a key piece of evidence admitted by the government, do the government and the distric… |
| 24-6930 |
Demetris Sean Robinson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court effective-assistance-counsel evidence-suppression fourth-circuit |
Whether the District Court erred by allowing evidence obtained in violation of petitioner's constitutional rights and whether the Fourth Circuit Court… |
| 24-6925 |
Arthur J. Burton v. Melody Johnson, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-04-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
district-court judicial-discretion motion-procedure prisoner-rights pro-se reconsideration |
Whether a District Judge must rule on a pro se prisoner's motion for reconsideration when filed timely after receipt of judgment |
| 24-6894 |
William J. Wise v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-03-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aging-process compassionate-release district-court eighth-amendment first-step-act medical-conditions |
Whether the District Court established an improperly high standard for demonstrating 'serious deterioration in physical or mental health because of th… |
| 24-1029 |
Abram J. Harris v. Department of Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-03-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure district-court jurisdictional-requirements removal-jurisdiction state-court statutory-interpretation |
Whether an action may be removed to the district court after it has been dismissed in the state court and a notice of appeal filed; Whether the remova… |
| 24-6796 |
Steven Nicholson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
covid-19-test district-court ninth-circuit sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act summary-reversal |
Whether the Supreme Court should summarily reverse the Ninth Circuit's decision that relied solely on a COVID-19 test for analyzing the Speedy Trial A… |
| 24-6630 |
Amado De La Mora Cardenas v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-waiver criminal-defendant district-court legal-error plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a criminal defendant may prospectively waive the right to appeal the District Court's legal errors in applying the Use of a Minor Specific Off… |
| 24-894 |
Michelle Avery Bey v. David Harper, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-02-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-USC-1961 circuit-court district-court federal-jurisdiction racketeering statute-of-limitations |
Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in declaring federal questions under 18 U.S.C. §§ 1961 and 1962 should be adjudicated by a county appraiser and whethe… |
| 24-869 |
Randall P. Ewing, Jr., et ux. v. Erik Carrier, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-02-13 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure claim-preclusion district-court judicial-discretion motion-to-amend |
Whether a court should dismiss a plaintiff's claim based on an unsuccessful motion to amend in a prior lawsuit when claim preclusion does not require … |
| 24-6535 |
Christopher Vitti v. Kevin Brian Jones, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
district-court equitable-remedy statute-extension subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court tort-claim |
Did the ninth district court error in finding that there's no equitable remedy to make an extension of statute, and can the Supreme Court under 28 U.S… |
| 24-839 |
Roman Storm v. United States District Court for the Southern District of New York |
Second Circuit |
2025-02-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure district-court federal-rules inherent-power judicial-discretion mandamus |
Whether a district court may rely on its inherent power to contravene an express provision of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure Rule 16, and whether … |
| 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? |
| 24-6407 |
Samuel Tanel Crittenden v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court fifth-circuit jury-instruction sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether a conviction should be reversed and remanded for a new trial when a district court erroneously fails to give a jury instruction, despite suffi… |
| 24-6392 |
Joseph Raymond McCoy v. Angel Gonzales, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
district-court judicial-review legislative-intent magistrate-judge procedural-fairness summary-judgment |
Whether a district court's failure to comply with legislative intent under Title 28 Sections 636(b)(1)(A), 144, and 1291 constitutes grounds for judic… |
| 24-783 |
Enbridge Energy, LP, et al. v. Dana Nessel, Attorney General of Michigan, on Behalf of the People of the State of Michigan |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-01-23 |
Granted |
Amici (13)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) |
district-court federal-jurisdiction procedural-rule removal statutory-interpretation time-limit |
Whether district courts have the authority to excuse the thirty-day procedural time limit for removal in 28 U.S.C. § 1446(b)(1) |
| 24A709 |
Ghislaine Maxwell v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-01-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court federal-jurisdiction plea-agreement prosecutorial-discretion |
Whether a plea agreement entered in one federal district court is binding on federal prosecutors in other districts when resolving potential criminal … |
| 24A661 |
Nazir Khan v. Merit Medical Systems, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-01-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review district-court en-banc-petition legal-reasoning patent-law summary-judgment |
Whether a district court's summary judgment ruling in a patent-related case can be affirmed without a comprehensive written opinion explaining the leg… |
| 24-6229 |
Terrell Jason Armstrong v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-01-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims district-court eighth-circuit evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance |
Whether the district court erred in summarily denying an evidentiary hearing on claims of ineffective assistance of counsel and whether the Eighth Cir… |
| 24-697 |
Terry J. Clark v. Debra Anne Taylor, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-12-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-jurisdiction case-preclusion district-court federal-procedure legal-doctrine rooker-feldman |
What are the standards and exceptions to the Rooker-Feldman doctrine in appellate courts |
| 24A645 |
Carina Conerly, et al. v. Sharif R. Tarpin, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-12-31 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review civil-rights district-court federal-jurisdiction pro-se procedural-dismissal |
Whether pro se litigants can overcome procedural deficiencies in a federal civil rights action when alleging systemic filing interference |
| 24A647 |
Owen Marlon Alexander v. Andreea Gleeson, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-12-31 |
Presumed Complete |
|
complaint-adjudication district-court judicial-review pro-se rehearing-petition second-circuit |
Whether the Second Circuit and Eastern District of New York courts properly adjudicated a pro se litigant's complaint and subsequent rehearing petitio… |
| 24-680 |
Dennis G. Collins, et al. v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-12-26 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure civil-procedure district-court rule-9b sua-sponte waiver |
Whether a United States Court of Appeals can sua sponte affirm a district court's judgment on Rule 9(b) and other grounds that were waived on appeal w… |
| 24-6187 |
Joe Willie Cannon v. Michael Dehner, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review district-court factual-findings interlocutory-appeal qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Whether reviewing courts deciding qualified immunity on interlocutory appeal are permitted to reconsider the factual findings of the District Court |
| 24-6120 |
Leprinceton Dewon Burks v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court legal-theory mandatory-findings rule-12d |
Whether Rule 12(d) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure mandates essential findings by district courts and requires appellate remand when findin… |
| 24-6125 |
Nathan Rivera v. Brian Cates, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
district-court habeas-corpus inadmissible-testimony ineffective-assistance murder-trial trial-counsel |
Whether the district court erred in denying the petition for a writ of habeas corpus where Petitioner's trial counsel provided ineffective assistance … |
| 24-628 |
BNP Paribas SA, a French Corporation, et al. v. Entesar Osman Kashef, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-12-09 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split class-certification district-court interlocutory-appeal manifest-error rule-23f |
Whether the courts of appeals have discretion under Rule 23(f) to grant interlocutory review solely because a district court's class-certification ord… |
| 24-6045 |
Shawn M. Berila v. Tom Watson, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
district-court due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure procedural-rights report-and-recommendation |
Whether a petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment due process rights are violated when a district court does not allow an extension to object to a report an… |
| 24-6033 |
Frederico Bruno v. Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-11-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability district-court evidentiary-hearing judicial-review third-circuit |
Whether the District Court and Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in refusing to issue a certificate of appealability and granting an evidentiary he… |
| 24-6034 |
David Lee Hering v. Iowa District Court, Muscatine County |
Iowa |
2024-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legislative-mandate |
Does the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments' due process of law guarantee apply to criminal sentencing when a district court refuses to impose a legislat… |
| 24A496 |
Lawrence Byron Watson v. Pamerson Ifill, Commissioner of Probation |
First Circuit |
2024-11-19 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review district-court habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-timeliness section-2254 |
Whether a habeas corpus petition filed under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 can be dismissed on procedural timeliness grounds when the petitioner seeks to challenge… |
| 24-5915 |
Willie D. Orr v. Zorian Trusewych, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review district-court in-forma-pauperis legal-procedure motion-to-proceed summary-judgment |
Did the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois err when granting defendants' summary judgment motion, and did the Seventh Circuit Co… |
| 24-5919 |
Kent Booher v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing district-court judicial-discretion restitution sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the district court improperly calculated restitution in a criminal case |
| 24-5895 |
Jonathan Godwin v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
district-court due-process judicial-discretion motion-to-dismiss relief-from-judgment rule-60-motion |
Whether a District Court abused its discretion by dismissing a Rule 60(b)(4) Motion for Relief from Judgment alleging a due process violation |
| 24-479 |
Teresita A. Canuto v. Department of Justice, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-10-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
case-caption circuit-court defendant-naming district-court judicial-procedure jurisdictional-issue |
Whether the Circuit Judges erred in changing the defendants' case caption and failing to detect a purported jurisdictional 'key' in a district court p… |
| 24-5877 |
Holston Banks, III v. John H. Spence |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights district-court eighth-amendment judicial-error legal-framing pleading-rules |
Did the district court commit judicial error by dismissing a complaint based on legal framing when the factual allegations supported an Eighth Amendme… |
| 24-5735 |
Robert G. Moore v. Ronald Weber, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
district-court due-process evidentiary-ruling fourth-circuit judicial-review procedural-error |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals improperly applied due process standards in reviewing a district court's evidentiary rulings and potential… |
| 24-5728 |
Anthony Raymoné Clark v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2024-10-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal-process criminal-procedure district-court final-judgment post-conviction procedural-rules |
Whether the trial judge and state's attorney improperly created an impediment to a timely post-conviction application appeal |
| 24-5734 |
In Re Abdur-Rahim Dib Dudar |
|
2024-10-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure default-judgment district-court judicial-discretion procedural-motion venue-transfer |
Whether the transfer of a case from District 1 to District 2 under 28 U.S.C. § 1404(a) was proper and whether the defendant is entitled to a default j… |
| 24A336 |
Michael Tyrone Young v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-10-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit correctly applied federal criminal procedural standards in reviewing the district court's judgment |
| 24-5716 |
Dale B. Green v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2024-10-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violations dismissal district-court judicial-review legal-standing |
Whether the district court's dismissal of a civil rights action was proper given the plaintiff's allegations of constitutional violations |
| 24-5702 |
James Robert Bailey v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-procedure district-court good-faith-exception legal-error void-ab-initio warrant-validity |
Whether the district erred by applying the good-faith exception to a warrant that was void ab initio? |
| 24A327 |
James Franklin Snyder v. Al Ramirez, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim district-court habeas-corpus procedural-ruling slack-standard |
Whether a state prisoner can obtain a certificate of appealability when challenging a district court's procedural ruling on a constitutional claim |
| 24-5675 |
Lenore Albert v. Roxanne Gonzalez, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-suspension district-court legal-practice local-rules rules-enabling-act state-bar |
Whether a United States District Court can automatically suspend an attorney's membership to practice law based on a State Bar suspension, and whether… |
| 24-5622 |
Elaine Mickman v. Superior Court of Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2024-09-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-conflict constitutional-rights district-court fundamental-rights injunctive-relief judicial-overreach |
Whether the U.S. District Court erred in denying injunctive relief for alleged constitutional rights violations and potential judicial overreach |
| 24A280 |
Peter J. Strauss v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-09-19 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-proceeding district-court due-process judicial-discretion judicial-recusal mandamus |
Whether a federal district court judge's refusal to recuse themselves from a criminal proceeding violates a defendant's due process rights or constitu… |
| 24-298 |
In Re Kelsey Cascadia Rose Juliana, et al. |
|
2024-09-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review cheney-conditions district-court jurisdiction ninth-circuit writ-of-mandamus |
Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the Ninth Circuit to vacate its writ of mandamus and remand to the district court where the Ninth Ci… |
| 24-5442 |
Philander Philippeaux v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
district-court due-process fifth-amendment judicial-delay mandamus motion-pending |
Whether a federal district court judge's prolonged delay in ruling on pending motions constitutes a violation of procedural due process |
| 24-5433 |
David Vargas v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-08-30 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split district-court judicial-discretion legal-interpretation procedural-error sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a district court's failure to follow the plain language of the Sentencing Guidelines constitutes an incorrect application of the Sentencing Gu… |
| 24A187 |
Aisha Wright v. Transportation Communication Union/IAM |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-08-20 |
Presumed Complete |
|
dismissal-with-prejudice district-court fifth-circuit ineffective-counsel pro-se res-judicata |
Whether the doctrine of res judicata can bar a pro se plaintiff's claims when the prior dismissal may have resulted from ineffective legal representat… |
| 24A134 |
Dimas Deleon Rios v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-08-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certificate-of-appealability district-court federal-prisoner habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief section-2255 |
Whether a federal prisoner can obtain a certificate of appealability (COA) to challenge a district court's denial of habeas corpus relief under 28 U.S… |
| 24-5186 |
Issa Doreh v. Unknown Rodriguez, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedies civil-procedure court-of-appeal district-court due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-courts federal-statutes judicial-review standing |
Whether the district court and court of appeal erred in finding that Doreh had failed to exhaust administrative remedies in count one? |
| 24-5143 |
Nicholas Nassif Hayek v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-statement district-court due-process evidence motion-to-suppress procedural-error sixth-circuit standard-of-review |
fourth-amendment |
| 24-5133 |
Brian Wright v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
district-court equitable-jurisdiction exceptional-circumstances federal-insurance federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure motion-to-return person ramsden-factors rule-41g standing |
Did Federal Insurance Company have standing to file a motion under Fed. R. Crim. P. 41(g) |
| 24-5104 |
Anthony Mungin v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-07-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals-court district-court due-process federal-appeals federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus notice notice-requirement opportunity-to-be-heard statute-of-limitations |
Whether the prohibition on a federal district court's ability to dismiss a federal habeas corpus petition on statute of limitations grounds without af… |
| 24-5078 |
In Re Hassan Williams |
|
2024-07-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-provisions district-court due-process grounds-for-relief jurisdiction petition-for-writ standing statement-of-case statement-of-the-case |
Question not identified |
| 24-27 |
Next Generation Technology, Inc., et al. v. Ur M. Jaddou, Director, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-07-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure de-novo-review district-court federal-magistrates-act federal-procedure judicial-review magistrate-judge subject-matter-jurisdiction waiver waiver-of-objections |
Waiver-of-subject-matter-jurisdiction |
| 23-7844 |
Marcus Orlando Armstrong v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-jurisdiction forfeiture forfeiture-doctrine judicial-discretion objection sentencing sentencing-procedure standard-of-review |
Does a defendant forfeit a challenge to the manner in which the district court imposed sentence by failing to object after the sentence is pronounced,… |
| 23-7821 |
Noe Rodriguez-Adorno v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
communications constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-counsel district-court impasse right-to-counsel sixth-amendment supervised-release |
Should certiorari be granted where defense counsel informed the District Court he and Petitioner were at an impasse, and all communications between th… |
| 23A1134 |
Faresha Sims v. University of Maryland Medical System Corporation, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-06-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-procedure district-court pro-se-appeal reconsideration rule-59-motion summary-judgment |
Whether a district court's summary judgment ruling and denial of a Rule 59(e) motion can be challenged when the appellant faces extraordinary personal… |
| 23-7755 |
Anthony Raymoné Clark v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2024-06-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appeal-process criminal-procedure district-court due-process due-process,civil-procedure,post-conviction,appeal final-judgment impediment post-conviction post-conviction-procedure procedural-rules |
Whether the trial judge and state's attorney unreasonably created an impediment to the timely submission of a post-conviction application, contrary to… |
| 23A1121 |
Gary Pisner v. Robert McCarthy, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-06-18 |
Presumed Complete |
|
district-court due-process judicial-notice motion-clarification oral-arguments procedural-defects |
Whether the district court's procedural deficiencies and failure to provide oral arguments or adequately address multiple pre-opinion motions constitu… |
| 23-1259 |
BLOM Bank SAL v. Michal Honickman, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-06-03 |
Judgment Issued |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
amendment-standard civil-procedure district-court extraordinary-circumstances federal-rules-of-civil-procedure finality-of-judgments judgment-finality rule-15(a) rule-60(b)(6) second-circuit |
Whether Rule 60(b)(6)'s stringent standard applies to a post-judgment request to vacate for the purpose of filing an amended complaint |
| 23A1079 |
John Thomas v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-06-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appeal-standard constitutional-right district-court federal-prisoner post-conviction section-2255 |
Whether a federal prisoner can successfully challenge a district court's denial of a post-conviction motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 through a certifica… |
| 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… |
| 23-7606 |
Tommy Tate Collins v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-05-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure district-court fair-and-just-standard government-breach judicial-discretion plea-agreement remedy santobello-v-new-york sentencing-remedy |
What is the appropriate test or what factors should a district court consider when determining the appropriate remedy, after an appellate court has fo… |
| 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… |
| 23-1226 |
McLaughlin Chiropractic Associates, Inc. v. McKesson Corporation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-21 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law civil-procedure district-court fcc fcc-interpretation hobbs-act legal-interpretation statutory-interpretation telephone-consumer-protection-act |
Whether the Hobbs Act required the district court in this case to accept the FCC's legal interpretation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act |
| 23-7512 |
Dallas M. Acoff v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fifth-amendment guidelines harmless-error judicial-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the district court committed error and imposed a procedurally unreasonable sentence |
| 23-7471 |
Shauntavus Berklin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-appeal criminal-procedure district-court due-process eleventh-circuit evidence federal-sentencing-guidelines gun-accountability sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines |
Whether certiorari review should be granted where the Eleventh Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of Berklin's objection to the nu… |
| 23-7454 |
Jennifer L. M. Sendzul v. Jay C. Hoag, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts appeals-court civil-rights covid-19 district-court due-process indigent-rights judicial-access judicial-discretion remote-proceedings writ-of-certiorari |
Whether a writ of certiorari is appropriate when a district court denies any other form of meaningful access other than in-person for scheduled hearin… |
| 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 |
| 23-7371 |
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 |
| 23-1176 |
Sean Houston, et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-05-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims district-court due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction sixth-circuit standing sua-sponte-dismissal subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the court of appeals and district court made erroneous judgments in sua sponte dismissing the complainant's cause of action for lack of subjec… |
| 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? |
| 23-7285 |
Sabrina Gibson v. Thomas F. Roupas, Jr., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure district-court federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discretion manifest-error prejudice procedural-standard standard-of-review |
Whether it was manifest error and significantly prejudicial for the District Court to apply a heightened standard under Federal Rule of Civil Procedur… |
| 23-7232 |
Quotez Tyvick Pair v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitution constitutional-rights covid-19 district-court due-process federal-courts judicial-procedure pandemic-restrictions sixth-amendment speedy-trial |
Can a United States District Court's general order suspend rights under the Constitution of the United States of America? |
| 23-7223 |
Daquan Doral Carter v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver arraignment criminal-procedure district-court due-process merits-review plea-agreement plea-bargaining rule-11 sentencing |
Can the Government invoke an appeal waiver to preclude merits review of an appeal when the district court failed to specifically question the defendan… |
| 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 |
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 Constitut… |
| 23-7170 |
Edward Revenous Brown v. Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-04-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation district-court due-process federal-habeas federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-error notice-of-appeal state-habeas |
Did the United States District Court magistrate err in denying the petitioners' 28 U.S.C. §2254 state habeas corpus petition without ruling on the mer… |
| 23-7161 |
James E. Homan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
district-court due-process facts judicial-discretion record revocation revocation-proceeding sentencing supervised-release |
Whether the district court violated Mr. Homan's right to due process during the sentencing phase of this supervised release revocation proceeding when… |
| 23A874 |
Rodrigo Alvarez-Quinonez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
18-u-s-c-3231 certiorari criminal-appeal direct-appeal district-court ninth-circuit |
Whether a federal district court's denial of a direct criminal appeal under 18 U.S.C. § 3231 can be challenged through a subsequent petition for certi… |
| 23A865 |
James Joseph Bryant v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-03-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-appeal district-court eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction sentencing-guidelines statutory-review |
Whether the federal appellate court correctly applied sentencing guidelines in reviewing a criminal conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 3742 |
| 23-7043 |
C. Holmes v. Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-03-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure district-court due-process judicial-neutrality judicial-review procedural-due-process standing substantial-rights |
Whether the lower appellate court misapprehends appealability and/or overlooks the request and denial in the district court for certification of appea… |
| 23-7036 |
Brent J. Daigle v. Steve Kallis, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-agency administrative-law civil-rights district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-remedy standing unlawful-imprisonment |
Can a United States District Judge deny the right of a private citizen to invoke the aid of the courts of the United States if held in unlawful impris… |
| 23-7027 |
John Stancu v. Hyatt Corporation/Hyatt Regency Dallas |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights district-court due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-procedure seventh-amendment standing |
Did the district court and the 5th Circuit usurped the Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution by wrongly denying Stancu's right to a jury… |
| 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… |
| 23-6929 |
Herve Wilmore, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-03-08 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-procedure pre-filing-injunction standing suspension-clause |
Whether the district court's pre-filing injunction violates the suspension clause |
| 23-6914 |
Matthew W. Miller v. Dan Wilcot, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-03-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court due-process exile fair-treatment insubordination pro-se-petition racketeering standing |
Why is this case required to reach the Supreme Court? |
| 23-6904 |
Chance Joseph Seneca v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review categorical criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion due-process guidelines harmless-error judicial-procedure sentencing-guidelines |
Whether errors in calculating the Sentencing Guidelines are rendered categorically harmless by the district court's routine assertion that the Guideli… |
| 23-945 |
Ilana Bangiyeva v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-02-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
asset-seizure civil-procedure criminal-procedure district-court due-process forfeiture judicial-review legal-interest property-forfeiture property-rights standing united-states-government |
What is the appropriate test to determine whether petitioner has a sufficient legal interest in forfeited property |
| 23-912 |
Dora L. Adkins v. The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, L.L.C. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process magistrate-judge standing |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit properly affirmed the district court's and magistrate judge's orders |
| 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… |
| 23-6707 |
Sean Robert Wathen v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure dangerous-weapon district-court drug-offense enhancement factual-findings findings-of-fact sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g-2d1.1(b)(1) weapon-enhancement |
Is the sentencing court required to make specific findings of fact, supported by the record, that a defendant possessed a dangerous weapon in connecti… |
| 23-6672 |
Christopher R. Williams, Jr. v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court drug-purity drug-quantity methamphetamine-case procedural-errors sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines |
whether-the-district-court-erred-by-sentencing-the-defendant |
| 23A700 |
Cyrus Sanai v. Alex Villanueva |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-disentitlement district-court due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default sua-sponte |
Whether a federal district court may sua sponte dismiss a habeas petition on procedural default grounds without providing the petitioner an opportunit… |
| 23-816 |
In Re Shiva Akula |
|
2024-01-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights conflict-of-interest district-court due-process financial-disclosure judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal recusal standing venue |
Does district-court-judges have-to-disclose-financial-holdings |
| 23-6585 |
Arnulfo Fagot-Maximo v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure district-court due-process fourth-circuit government-vouching habeas-corpus witness-testimony |
Should a writ of certiorari be granted since the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in not granting a Certificate of Appealability |
| 23-6531 |
Terrance Brown v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
borden-v-united-states career-offender crime-of-violence criminal-conviction criminal-sentencing district-court judicial-review mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the district court erred in finding that Brown is a career offender under U.S.S.G. §§4B1.1 and 4B1.2, where one of Brown's predicate convictio… |
| 23-6491 |
Peyton John Wesley Hopson v. Deborah S. Hunt |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-01-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-good-cause certificate-of-good-faith circuit-court counsel-appointment district-court due-process jurisdiction right-to-counsel sixth-amendment sixth-circuit |
Did the Sixth Circuit lose jurisdiction to proceed to review where the Sixth Circuit failed to comply with the Sixth Amendment requirement to appoint … |
| 23-6519 |
Tonette L. Vazquez v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review mediation remand settlement |
Whether the district court erred in approving the proposed settlement of $50,000 through mediation |
| 23-697 |
Tony Evers, in His Official Capacity as Governor of Wisconsin v. Michael Dean, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-12-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-mandate civil-procedure costs district-court fees judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction legal-fees sanctions sanctions-motion section-1927 |
Did the Seventh Circuit err in holding that district courts lack jurisdiction to consider motions under Section 1927 after a court of appeals has issu… |
| 23A594 |
Joseph Randolph Mays v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-28 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review district-court federal-tort-claims-act motion-to-dismiss pro-se-litigant procedural-default |
Whether a pro se litigant's Federal Tort Claims Act lawsuit against the United States can be dismissed with prejudice when the plaintiff fails to time… |
| 23-6374 |
Vonell Davis, Jr. v. Wayne Hill, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion cause-of-action civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process health-risks inmate-rights motion-to-amend standing |
Did the district court err when it denied the original complaint without a hearing, and concluding appellant had no cause of action? |
| 23-6351 |
Jerome Terry, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect ninth-circuit notice sentencing sentencing-departure upward-departure waiver |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in dismissing the appeal |
| 23-6337 |
Mahfooz Ahmad v. Colin Day, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-12-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2284 arbitration-agreement civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court district-court-composition federal-arbitration-act federal-law-challenge ninth-amendment seventh-amendment |
What does 28 U.S. Code § 2284 mandate regarding the composition of a district court when an action challenges the constitutionality of a federal law? |
| 23-6339 |
Juan Guzman, aka Juan Villarreal-Guzman, aka Juan Guzman-Villareal, aka Victor Nava, aka Francisco Lara, aka Francisco Lara-Paramo, aka Ayala Ramoro, aka Carlos Solorio, aka Daniel Solorio, aka Flaco v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion assault-with-a-firearm criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion evidence-admission firearm-possession prior-allegation prior-bad-acts sixth-circuit |
Does a District Court prejudicially abuse its discretion in a firearm-possession case when it receives evidence about a prior, unrelated allegation of… |
| 23-654 |
Malka Leeal v. Newrez LLC, dba Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-12-18 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review case-caption civil-procedure claims-raised-or-could-have-been-raised district-court final-judgment legal-obligation res-judicata same-transaction summary-judgment |
Whether the district court erred in its burden to establish all four elements of res-judicata-and-conduct-de-novo-review |
| 23-6235 |
John S. Romero, aka John Silva Romero v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bargained-for-product district-court embezzlement federal-question health-care health-care-embezzlement insurance-coverage restitution victim-compensation victims |
Whether a district court may award restitution in a health care embezzlement case where all of the alleged victims received the product they bargained… |
| 23-6191 |
In Re Colby Jerome Hale |
|
2023-12-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure consent consent-search constitutional-jurisdiction district-court due-process federal-procedure magistrate notification peace-officer standing statutory-interpretation |
What is the purpose of Rule 18 of the Supreme Court of the United States on an appeal from the U.S. District Court |
| 23-6147 |
Brett Alexander Jones v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit habeas-corpus state-courts |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals is required to issue a COA if a state high court has found a substantial showing of a denial of a constitut… |
| 23-6148 |
Lawrence Jeffrey Brooks v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure district-court drug-quantity due-process judicial-discretion judicial-transfer motion-to-dismiss sentencing sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review transfer-of-venue |
Whether the District Court erred by transferring the case back to the original District Court Judge |
| 23-579 |
Shenzen Sanlida Electrical Technology Company, Limited, et al. v. Whirlpool Corporation, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-29 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split civil-procedure district-court injunctive-relief notice-requirement personal-jurisdiction preliminary-injunction rule-65 |
Should the district court consider personal jurisdiction when issuing a preliminary injunction order under Rule 65? |
| 23-6098 |
Ricardo Dinnall v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-justice criminal-procedure district-court federal-sentencing first-step-act judicial-discretion sentencing-reduction sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation |
Whether Concepcion v. United States, 142 S. Ct. 2389 (2022), requires district courts to consider all nonfrivolous arguments raised by the patties in … |
| 23-6105 |
Alvin Henry Dalton v. M. Votari |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-provisions dismissal district-court due-process environmental-justice equal-protection jurisdiction legal-procedure standing |
Whether respondent's actions in forcing petitioner to live in an unhealthy environment violate petitioner's constitutional rights |
| 23-6079 |
Santos David Ramirez-Ortega v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review conflict-with-other-courts criminal-procedure district-court guideline-range holguin-hernandez judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines substantial-arguments |
Whether a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails to reference or address substantial arguments for a sentence outside the Gui… |
| 23-6085 |
Randall Gray Stoneman, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure district-court evidence evidence-seizure federal-sentencing-guidelines motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure sentencing sentencing-guidelines video-surveillance |
Was the district court in error in denying the motion to suppress the evidence? |
| 23-6019 |
Luis Olivares v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion exceptional-circumstances fair-sentencing-act sentence-modification statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Fair Sentencing Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A), permits a district court to modify Mr. Olivares' unusually long sentence in this exception… |
| 23-508 |
Micah Sherif Matthews v. Chris Tripp, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-11-14 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process eighth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review sixth-amendment |
Whether the United States District Court For the District of Iowa erred in denying Petitioner Matthews a Certificate of Appealability |
| 23-5983 |
Eric Spencer v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-11-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review court-procedure de-novo-review district-court evidence evidence-rules hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-discretion standard-of-review |
Should the Court of Appeals apply an abuse of discretion standard or engage in de novo review when reviewing a district court's ruling to admit hearsa… |
| 23-5986 |
Francisco Rodriquez Ruiz, Jr. v. Jordan Wierenga |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-11-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights dismissal district-court due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pleadings procedural-default standing |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's civil rights claims against defendants without properly considering the factual allegation… |
| 23-483 |
Mauricio Gonzalez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure district-court eleventh-circuit predicate-offense rule-29 rule-29-motion standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether the District Court applied the proper standard of review to find guilt and issue their judgment on Petitioner's Rule 29 motion |
| 23-5915 |
Keith Alexander v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review appointment-of-counsel civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court due-process evidence habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-error standard-of-review |
Whether the district court abused its discretion when it refused to appoint counsel for the appellant and denied the appellant due process and the rig… |
| 23-5848 |
In Re Naser A. Abdallah |
|
2023-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment abuse-of-discretion administrative-law appellate-review civil-rights district-court due-process equal-protection fifth-circuit identity-theft standing writ-of-prohibition |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause |
| 23-419 |
USIC, LLC v. Northern Illinois Gas Company |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-10-19 |
Denied |
|
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure district-court federal-jurisdiction final-order new-argument postjudgment-motion summary-judgment tolling |
If a federal court of appeals construes a filing below as a postjudgment motion tolling the time for appeal, does that court have authority to reverse… |
| 23-5805 |
Jeffrey Corporal v. Ronald Weber, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-10-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction filing-deadline harmless-error pro-se-litigant procedural-error standing statute-of-limitations |
Does a federal district court harmlessly err when it erroneously extends a defendant's inexcusably neglectfully missed filing deadline to respond to a… |
| 23-384 |
Michael Boresky, in His Individual and Official Capacity as a Special Agent for the U.S. Secret Service v. Jeremy Graber |
Third Circuit |
2023-10-12 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appeals appellate-jurisdiction bivens-action civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-courts federal-remedy implied-cause-of-action standing |
Whether a district court decision fashioning a new implied cause of action under Bivens is immediately appealable |
| 23-5771 |
Cornel Jackie Drummer v. Ken Maynard, III, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process failure-to-state-claim frivolous-claims judicial-procedure medical-error medical-malpractice procedural-due-process standing |
Did the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas err in dismissing Plaintiff's Civil Rights violation complaint? |
| 23-378 |
Joel Douglas, et al. v. David Hirshon, et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-10-11 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure district-court extrinsic-documents extrinsic-evidence judicial-discretion legal-procedure motion-to-dismiss pleadings public-records standard-of-review |
Whether the District Court was required to consider extrinsic documents that were public records or not directly challenged by anyone attached to the … |
| 23-5699 |
Jose J. Galiany-Cruz v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure district-court district-court-authority extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines |
Does a district court have the authority to determine what constitutes 'extraordinary and compelling reasons' warranting compassionate release or are … |
| 23-5669 |
Steven Grimm v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 2255-petition compassionate-release compassionate-relief district-court federal-prisoner first-amendment habeas-corpus religious-beliefs religious-exemption rluipa section-3582 |
Where a federal prisoner's religious beliefs prevented him from getting vaccinated, was it error for the district court to deny his motion for compass… |
| 23-5675 |
Brandon A. House v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 appellate-court appellate-court-interpretation concepcion-precedent concepcion-v-united-states district-court district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling extraordinary-compelling-reasons section-3582 sentencing-modification |
When does the power to modify a sentence based on 'extraordinary and compelling' reasons rest with the district court that imposed the sentence? |
| 23-5658 |
James Kevin Ball v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
covid-19 covid-19-delay criminal-defendant-rights district-court due-process ends-of-justice ends-of-justice-provision jury-trial-suspension jury-trials ninth-circuit-review speedy-trial |
Whether a district court may continue to rely on emergency circumstances to delay a trial under the ends-of-justice provision at 18 USC. § 3161(h)(7)(… |
| 23-5651 |
Harry J. Williby v. Sergey Brin, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-09-26 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 28-U.S.C-455(a) district-court due-process judge judicial-ethics recusal section-455 sua-sponte |
Does a District Court Judge violate a litigant's right to Due Process, under the 14th Amendment, when the District Court Judge rules on a recusal moti… |
| 23-285 |
Amory Investments LLC, et al. v. Tyson Foods Incorporated, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-09-22 |
Denied |
|
antitrust-law appellate-review collateral-order-doctrine district-court federal-antitrust-law judicial-procedure private-enforcement public-interest standing |
Does a district court order permitting significant interference with private enforcement of federal antitrust law implicate an interest sufficiently i… |
| 23-5617 |
Anthony Castillo Sanchez v. Christe Quick, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-09-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
abandoned-clients attorney-abandonment capital-punishment civil-procedure court-procedure dilatory-removal district-court habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-delay stay-of-execution |
Whether a District Court can deny a stay of execution when it has been dilatory in removing attorneys who abandoned their clients until a month before… |
| 23-5445 |
William Bazemore v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion crime-of-violence criminal-procedure district-court factual-findings guilty-plea section-1591 sex-trafficking voluntariness withdrawal |
Whether the district court abused its discretion when it denied defendant's motion to withdraw his guilty plea and failed to make factual findings nec… |
| 23-158 |
Dora L. Adkins v. Fitness International, LLC |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure complaint-dismissal dismissal district-court district-court-order emergency-complaint fourth-circuit in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion standing |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit properly affirmed the district court's order denying the plaintiff's requests and dismissing … |
| 23-5391 |
Walter Raul Maguina v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidence extrinsic-evidence harmless-error judicial-procedure prejudice prejudicial-evidence remand |
Whether a district court's failure to address the prejudicial nature of extrinsic evidence requires remand |
| 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 |
| 23-5357 |
Carlos Edwin Smith, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a adult-sentencing adverse-childhood-experiences criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court judicial-discretion mitigation-factors relevancy sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a district court fully considers the factors set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) when sentencing a defendant if it questions the relevancy of adv… |
| 23-5333 |
Abussamaa Rasul Ramzidin v. Angelo J. Onofri, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Mercer County Prosecutor, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-08-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process judicial-error legal-standard prejudice procedural-prejudice standing third-circuit |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey erred in their decisions which unfairly… |
| 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 |
| 23-5290 |
Littleton William Clark v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-08-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law district-court double-jeopardy due-process felony-offense firearms guideline-application sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the District Court erred in interpreting Note 14(@) of §2K2.1(b)(6)(B) when it applied a four-level enhancement pursuant to §2K2.1(b)(6)(B) fo… |
| 23-5278 |
Earl Monroe Belcher v. Brian Williams, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
chain-of-custody constitutional-rights district-court dna-evidence due-process federal-law habeas-corpus hearsay ineffective-assistance reasonable-doubt unreasonable-application |
Whether the District Court's decision was an unreasonable application of clearly established federal law |
| 23-5268 |
Marc Amouri Bakambia v. Paul Schnell, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-08-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights de-novo-review district-court due-process judicial-procedure magistrate-judge report-and-recommendation summary-judgment |
Whether the provision of the 28 U.S.C. 636 requires the district court judge to prevent the assigned magistrate judge from issuing a report and recomm… |
| 23-90 |
Shaomin Sui v. FedEx Ground Package System, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-07-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-circuit abuse-of-discretion appellate-review arbitration civil-procedure district-court |
Whether the 4th Circuit Court erred in upholding the district court's order concluding that arbitration fully decided all claims in the case |
| 23-5223 |
Fidel Rios, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure district-court due-process equitable-tolling judicial-review legal-remedy limitations-period procedural-doctrine standing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court erred in concluding that Mr. Rios was not entitled to equitable tolling |
| 23-5225 |
Leonard Sapp v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure district-court due-process fair-trial government-misconduct imminent-danger |
Was Leonard Sapp afforded a fair trial when the Government shifted the burden of proof to the Defense during trial? |
| 23-5205 |
Steven Lesane v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure district-court factual-basis guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel mental-competency motion-to-withdraw plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation |
Whether the District Court abused its discretion in denying appellant's motion to withdraw guilty plea |
| 23-5187 |
Juan Sepulveda-Arreola v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administration-of-justice criminal-procedure district-court federal-jurisdiction federal-law fifth-circuit minor-participant sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it conducted a cursory review of the facts related to the district court's erroneous refusal to de… |
| 23-5177 |
Kenneth Ragan-Armstrong v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion plain-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-conditions supervised-release |
Whether the district court plainly erred in imposing special conditions of supervision without explaining why such conditions were necessary or approp… |
| 23-5163 |
Michael Joseph Formica v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2023-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence impeachment judicial-discretion standing |
Whether the Circuit Court for the City of Corvallis violated the Fourth Amendment by failing to compel the Multnomah County District Attorney's office… |
| 23-5132 |
Alfredo Gonzalez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release covid-19-risk district-court extraordinary-and-compelling-circumstances extraordinary-circumstances incarceration medical-vulnerability SARS-CoV-2 scientific-assumptions |
Whether a district court may rely on its own medical or scientific assumptions about the risks associated with a SARS-CoV-2 to deny compassionate rele… |
| 23-5135 |
Leonardo Burgos-Valencia v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process judicial-procedure ninth-circuit right-to-be-heard standing substantial-rights summary-affirmance |
Whether the lower court's summary affirmance violated petitioner's right to be heard |
| 23-5118 |
In Re Dustin Ray Braddock |
|
2023-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court due-process expert-testimony jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct structural-error subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court trial-error |
Whether a dual-role jury instruction is required when law enforcement officers testify as both expert and percipient witnesses |
| 23-5008 |
Michael Bien v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-court covid-19-tolling district-court extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus hearing new-evidence rule-60(b) rule-60b |
Whether a United States District Court's ruling to deny a §2254 Certificate of Appealability should be vacated by the Circuit Court when Rule 60(b) ne… |
| 22-7804 |
Ricky Simmonds v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
breach-of-contract constitutional-law contract-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process offense-level plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-hearing |
Whether the United States breaches a negotiated plea agreement |
| 22-7796 |
Jose Alfredo Perez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review case-specific-facts criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance upward-variance |
Whether a district court's mere recitation of the sentencing statute absent any application of case-specific facts is sufficient to support a five-yea… |
| 22-1207 |
Columbia Falls Aluminum Company, LLC v. Atlantic Richfield Company |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-06-13 |
Denied |
|
abuse-of-discretion cercla district-court environmental-response-costs equitable-allocation fourth-circuit judicial-review standard-of-review |
Whether a district court's equitable allocation of environmental response costs pursuant to Section 113(f)(1) of CERCLA is properly reviewed on appeal… |
| 22-7766 |
Ramon Ramirez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-law criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure district-court federal-courts interstate-commerce jurisdiction second-circuit statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in concluding that the district court had jurisdiction based on evidence supporting the interstate c… |
| 22-7729 |
William J. Sears v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement section-2255 |
Did the Court of Appeals err when it denied my Motion for Certificate of Appealability? |
| 22-7714 |
George M. Lecco v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law district-court federal-courts federal-jurisdiction first-step-act individual-rights state-sovereignty |
Whether the First Step Act of 2018 changed the jurisdictional boundaries for federal criminal prosecutions, and whether federal courts are obligated t… |
| 22-1153 |
Hector Mendez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review constitutional-rights district-court due-process federal-prisoner habeas-corpus procedural-grounds right-to-hearing statutory-rights |
Does a district court deny a federal prisoner the constitutional or statutory right to be heard by misreading or ignoring the case files and records a… |
| 22-7637 |
Michael D. Beiter, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court constitutional-rights district-court due-process forced-counsel jurisdiction pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment vagueness |
Whether a district court can force counsel upon a person even without inquiring the provisions set forth in §3006(A) |
| 22-1138 |
John C. Eastman v. Bennie G. Thompson, in His Official Capacity as Chairman of the United States House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure attorney-client-privilege civil-procedure crime-fraud-exception district-court emergency-stay mootness production-order vacatur work-product-doctrine |
Whether complying with a court order disqualifies a petitioner from the equitable remedy of vacatur |
| 22-7619 |
Earl Anderson v. Aramark Correctional Services, LLC |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-05-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-court appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights corporate-disclosure dismissal district-court due-process in-forma-pauperis standing supplemental-complaint |
Whether the Appellate Court erred in affirming the dismissal of Petitioner Andersen's Original Complaint |
| 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)? |
| 22-7594 |
Gary V. Jenkins v. United States, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-05-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure dismissal district-court district-court-order docket federal-docket judicial-review motion-to-strike related-cases standing supreme-court-procedure |
Will this UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT effectuate the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, ORDER NO. 22-3757 |
| 22-7540 |
Harry Cole v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure district-court due-process essential-element jurisdiction jurisdictional-concept sua-sponte venue |
Whether venue is only a jurisdictional concept rather than essential element of an offense that must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt |
| 22-7447 |
In Re Antonio D. McCaster |
|
2023-05-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion petition-review procedural-error standing statute-of-limitations timeliness writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's habeas corpus petition as untimely |
| 22-1061 |
Jonathan B. Andry v. Lawyer Disciplinary Committee of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review attorney-discipline disciplinary-proceedings district-court due-process fifth-circuit legal-rationale quasi-criminal quasicriminal-proceedings |
Does an appellate court violate an attorney's right to due process of law when it upholds a disciplinary violation in a quasicriminal proceeding on gr… |
| 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… |
| 22-7414 |
John Henry Moore v. United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process fourth-circuit judicial-procedure mandamus standing writ-of-relief |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Erred When It Denied Certiorari to the District Court Proceedings |
| 22-7417 |
Keanan Dequez Bond v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release criminal-procedure district-court due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment plea-agreement sentencing |
Whether the court of appeals violated the defendant's Fourteenth Amendment right to equal protection |
| 22-7421 |
Michael Anthony McDowell, aka Red v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compel criminal-procedure district-court due-process government-discretion government-refusal judicial-review rule-35 rule-35-motion standing |
Whether the due process rights of Petitioner violated by the Government's refusal to file a Rule 35 motion, and the district court's refusal to compel… |
| 22-7396 |
Richard Anthony Wilford v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-04-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cocaine-quantity criminal-procedure district-court due-process equal-protection false-declaration pro-se pro-se-petition sentencing sentencing-memorandum supervised-release supremacy-clause |
Whether to grant the petition for a writ of certiorari, vacate the judgment, and remand for reconsideration in light of Concepcion V. United States, 1… |
| 22-7390 |
Robert James Turner, aka Robert James Branham v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-04-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assimilative-crimes-act civil-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction government-action jurisdictional-dispute legal-review ninth-circuit stipulation |
Whether the district court's jurisdiction over the case was legally defeated by the defendant's stipulation regarding the location of the offense, and… |
| 22-1014 |
Estate of Rex Vance Wilson, et al. v. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure district-court exceptions federal-appeals federal-procedure issue-preservation judicial-discretion legal-arguments preservation-of-claims standard-of-review |
Where a plaintiff may advance new arguments on appeal |
| 22-1010 |
Robert A. Heghmann, et ux. v. Djamel Hafiani, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-04-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
automatic-stay bankruptcy-court-jurisdiction bankruptcy-jurisdiction circuit-split compensatory-damages district-court district-court-jurisdiction punitive-damages status-quo |
Does the Bankruptcy Court or the U.S. District Court, or both, have jurisdiction to entertain a complaint filed by a debtor seeking compensatory and p… |
| 22-7290 |
Michael Kenneth Howard v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure district-court fourth-circuit right-to-appeal sentencing-guidelines waiver waiver-of-appeal |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by ruling that Mr. Howard waived his right to appeal whether the District Court erred by not applying Acceptance of R… |
| 22-7273 |
Fidelmar Hernandez-Jimenez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review conflict-with-other-courts criminal-procedure district-court district-court-error holguin-hernandez judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines substantial-argument substantial-arguments |
Whether a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails to reference or address substantial arguments for a sentence outside the Gui… |
| 22-982 |
Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections v. Danny Lee Jones |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-10 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (4)Relisted (9) |
capital-case capital-punishment credibility-findings district-court district-court-deference habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review strickland strickland-standard |
Did the Ninth Circuit violate this Court's precedents by employing a flawed methodology for assessing Strickland prejudice when it disregarded the dis… |
| 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… |
| 22-965 |
Heewon Lee v. Bank of America, N.A., et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-04-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeals-court civil-procedure claim-requirements district-court legal-precedent legal-precedents res-judicata rico rico-claim supreme-court |
Validity of Res Judicata application to RICO claim |
| 22-953 |
Pablo Calderon v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-03-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-charges criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation substantive-law |
Does a federal district court have habeas corpus jurisdiction when a substantive element of the criminal charges was not found under the law mandated … |
| 22-929 |
BYD Motors Inc. v. Soderholm Sales and Leasing, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-24 |
Denied |
|
appellate-panel appellate-review de-novo-review district-court hawaii-statute judicial-review memorandum-disposition salve-regina-college-v-russell standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Memorandum disposition, where the majority of the split appellate panel affirmed the district court's appealed decision without having con… |
| 22-7055 |
Terrindez Xsidrick Bryant v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines booker-kimbrough-precedent district-court district-court-authority judicial-discretion kimbrough-v-united-states methamphetamine methamphetamine-sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance united-states-v-booker |
Whether a sentence imposed after a district court states it is not the proper forum for addressing flawed Guidelines, and essentially treating Sentenc… |
| 22-870 |
Eliezer Taveras v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-03-10 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure claim-splitting district-court due-process federal-courts forum-shopping improper-claim-splitting mandamus removal removal-jurisdiction |
Whether a district court's decision to dismiss with prejudice an action improperly removed from state court is clear and manifest error that should be… |
| 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… |
| 22-6878 |
Roger Keith Lunsford v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-attack constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court double-jeopardy due-process federal-prosecution habeas-corpus hearing-requirement legal-relief |
Could the theft of a defendant's substantive and procedural right to due process be so egregious that it would bar a future federal prosecution? |
| 22-790 |
Vanessa Wereko v. Lori Rosen, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-02-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1291 28-usc-1292 appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure congressional-intent discretionary-appeal district-court interlocutory-appeal judicial-discretion status-quo statutory-interpretation |
Whether Congress' intent for an interlocutory appeal as of right, under 28 U.S.C. § 1292(a)(1), can be 'unilaterally converted into a discretionary ap… |
| 22-797 |
Marquay Quamaine Sheppard v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-02-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal circuit-court-precedent criminal-appeal criminal-procedure district-court due-process fourth-circuit precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-decisions |
Did the Fourth Circuit err by dismissing the Petitioner's appeal and affirming the 188 month sentence imposed by the trial court, inasmuch as this dec… |
| 22-6799 |
Emeka Dominic Okongwu v. County of Erie, New York |
Second Circuit |
2023-02-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
amendment appellate-review civil-procedure complaint-amendment district-court due-process judicial-procedure reconsideration second-circuit standing summary-judgment |
Did the court of appeals err in affirming the district court's refusal to allow amendment of the complaint? |
| 22-6767 |
Travis Ray Thompson v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-02-13 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure covid-restrictions district-court due-process excusable-neglect federal-courts frap-4 habeas-corpus notice-of-appeal standing |
Whether the Ninth Circuit abused its discretion in finding that the petitioner had not shown excusable neglect for not filing his Notice of Appeal wit… |
| 22-740 |
Harinder Jeet Singh v. RXR 620 Master Lease, LLC, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-02-07 |
Denied |
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abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process emotional-distress evidence-spoliation judicial-misconduct spoliation-of-evidence standing summary-judgment |
Whether District Court falsified facts to favor respondents |
| 22-6711 |
Antonio Walton v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights covid-19 district-court due-process fair-trial national-emergency |
whether-mr-walton-was-denied-his-constitutional-rights-to-a-fair-trial-and-due-process-of-law |
| 22-6699 |
Marquita Leigh Meredith v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release criminal-procedure district-court federal-sentencing policy-statement sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a 2007 policy statement binds a district court in deciding a defendant's motion for compassionate release |
| 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 |
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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… |
| 22-701 |
Norman Bartsch Herterich v. Mary E. Wiss, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appellate-review claims-and-issues constitutional-violations district-court federal-constitutional-violations federal-district-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-adjudication state-court-proceedings |
Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars federal-district-court jurisdiction over an action merely because the action alleges federal-constitutional-v… |
| 22-6590 |
In Re Harry Sharod James |
|
2023-01-20 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-law district-court federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-review jurisdictional-challenge mandamus procedural-standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the petitioner is entitled to a writ of mandamus to compel the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and the U.S. District Court for th… |
| 22-6548 |
United States, ex rel. David Shu v. Nancy Hutt, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-general civil-rights district-court due-process false-claims-act legal-center lincoln-law pro-se standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a pro se is allowed to initially file a False Claims Act (FCA) complaint in a district court without a lawyer? |
| 22-6535 |
Murphy Alex Begay v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment audio-recording civil-procedure constitutional district-court due-process evidence-rules federal-rules-of-evidence rule-106 rule-of-completeness |
Did the District court violate the Petitioners 14th Amendment right of the Due Process Clause, by denying the introduction of the complete audio recor… |
| 22-6487 |
Chasity Reanee Orellana v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court due-process jurisdiction post-release-conduct revocation sentencing supervised-release |
Whether the district court erred by revoking Ms. Orellana's supervised release because its revocation decision relied on conduct that occurred after h… |
| 22-6428 |
Jermaine Scott v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability certiorari-standard circuit-court-review civil-rights district-court due-process federal-habeas judicial-discretion procedural-standard standing |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals abused its discretion in denying petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability |
| 22-6417 |
Eric C. Burgie v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-12-29 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure claim-construction criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation racial-discrimination standing statute-of-limitations tolling |
Whether the district court abused its discretion in denying Mr. Burgie's Rule 60(b) motion and appointment of counsel |
| 22-6355 |
Jess Richard Smith v. Sgt. Ellis, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-courts federal-procedure free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief standing |
Whether Khe Uuth Circo tks (0-722, ORDER Granting CVeseevdeniis _ Metion TO Reveke TH Comme |
| 22-6316 |
Kalvin Walker v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court guideline-range harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines |
Whether errors in calculating the Sentencing Guidelines are automatically rendered harmless by a district court's statement that the correctness of th… |
| 22-6238 |
David N. Firewalker-Fields v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-court civil-procedure constitutional-review district-court due-process evidence first-amendment procedural-default withholding-evidence |
Did the District Court and Court of Appeals err in not granting a certificate of appealability due to a procedural default caused by the Circuit Court… |
| 22-6253 |
Michael J. Moller, aka Michael Robinson v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-waiver certiorari criminal-procedure district-court due-process paycheck-protection-program plea-bargaining sentencing sophisticated-means-enhancement standard-of-review |
Should certiorari be granted to address the enforceability of an appellate waiver where the District Court's entire inquiry consisted of a single ques… |
| 22-6204 |
Ronnie L. Famous v. Larry Fuchs, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-12-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-claims discretionary-review district-court due-process exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default stay-and-abeyance |
Whether the district court violated the rule announced in Caines v. Dewac by denying petitioner's motion to stay and abeyance, thereby depriving him o… |
| 22-6205 |
Demetric Hardaway v. Lori Myers, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-12-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law district-court first-amendment fourth-circuit legal-interpretation retaliation summary-judgment transfer work-assignment |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of the respondent on the petiti… |
| 22-6214 |
Timothy Robert Gallion v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-12-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fourth-circuit sentence-credit sentencing-credit sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by dismissing Mr. Gallion's meritorious argument that the district court committed reversible error … |
| 22-6196 |
Morris Rucker v. Jim Purviance, Executive Director, Tennessee Board of Parole, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-12-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim district-court due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto filing-fee standing |
Whether the TN U.S. District Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals erred in denying petitioner's ex-post-facto-claim |
| 22-6137 |
Bryan Thornton v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court first-step-act intervening-legal-developments legal-developments retroactivity section-404(b) sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court must or may consider intervening legal developments when deciding to impose a reduced sentence under the First Step Act of 20… |
| 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… |
| 22-6140 |
Taylor Winston Wright v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-claim district-court due-process judicial-review merits-review ninth-circuit procedural-violation |
Can the Ninth Circuit fail to address the merits of a constitutional claim based on a procedural violation the district court adjudicated wrong? |
| 22-6113 |
Guillermo Garcia v. James Hill, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appeal-denial civil-procedure civil-rights counsel-appointment district-court due-process legal-error motion-to-appeal petition petition-review standing |
Whether the lower court made a legal error when denying petitioner's appeal |
| 22-6069 |
Rufus Spearman v. Mary Parson, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violations district-court dolan-v-city-of-tigard due-process endangered-species-act federal-procedure judicial-dismissal nollan-v-california-coastal-commission section-1983 takings |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision in Wimbleton v. Ospn, 210 F.3d 1088 (9th Cir. 2000), which held that the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment do… |
| 22-6034 |
Francis Stock v. Chanelle Braswell, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-11-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure district-court due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-filing notice notice-of-appeal prisoner-rights service-of-process standing |
Whether a prisoner's notice of appeal was timely filed when he did not receive notice of the district court's dismissal order within 21 days |
| 22-6025 |
Christopher Alan Mitchell v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review concurrent-sentences criminal-procedure district-court final-order finality habeas-corpus section-2255 sentencing sentencing-range statutory-interpretation |
Whether an order granting relief and resentencing under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 is final when the order changes the statutory sentencing range |
| 22-6001 |
Medgar Samuel v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-07 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act circuit-split district-court federal-courts federal-statute habeas-corpus procedural-default state-courts |
Whether a State can forfeit the affirmative defense of procedural default |
| 22-5990 |
Leroy Brooks v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
3553a-factors abuse-of-discretion compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion extraordinary-reasons judicial-review sentence-reduction sentencing |
Whether the district court abused its discretion in denying Petitioner's motion for compassionate release/reduction in sentence |
| 22-402 |
James Vorley v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-10-31 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court ends-of-justice implied-misrepresentation speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation wire-fraud |
Whether a 'scheme or artifice to defraud' under the wire fraud statute encompasses an 'implied misrepresentation' |
| 22-5875 |
Bryan Protho v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3509 child-victim closed-circuit-testimony criminal-procedure district-court district-court-procedure statutory-interpretation testimony two-way-closed-circuit-television witness-testimony |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3509 requires a district court to question a child victim on the record before introducing the child victim's testimony at trial v… |
| 22-5886 |
Fareed Sepehry-Fard v. U.S. Bank National Association, As Trustee for Greenpoint Mortgage Trust Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2007-AR2, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-chapter-5 article-iii balzac-v-porto-rico court-jurisdiction district-court judicial-power mookini-v-united-states statutory-interpretation territorial-court |
Whether the lower courts have correctly interpreted Sections 81-131 of Title 28 U.S.C. Chapter 5 - DISTRICT COURTS in light of the Supreme Court's rul… |
| 22-5841 |
Harry Sharod James v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-10-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure commerce-clause confrontation-clause constitutional-authority district-court filing-fee judicial-tax procedural-discretion standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and the United States District Court of North Carolina, Eastern District abuse its discr… |
| 22-5811 |
Matthew Poulin v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alcohol-consumption alcohol-prohibition appeal criminal-procedure district-court due-process reasonableness sentencing supervised-release unreasonable-sentence |
Whether the district court erred in sentencing Mr. Poulin to twelve months considering the circumstances of the case |
| 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? |
| 22-5782 |
Matthew Tassin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-10-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 circuit-court circuit-court-authority criminal-procedure district-court federal-prisoner ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel resentencing section-2255 sentencing-authority statutory-interpretation |
Whether a Circuit Court can limit the authority of a district court to resentence a federal criminal defendant or correct a criminal sentence 'as may … |
| 22-5754 |
Jamal Laurent v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-conviction district-court insufficient-evidence joint-trial joint-trials missing-witness missing-witness-instruction rico-act rico-statute unavailable-witness warrantless-seizure witness-statement |
Whether RICO is a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. §924(c) |
| 22-295 |
In Re Deborah Walton |
|
2022-09-28 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure court-order district-court due-process first-amendment judicial-interpretation jurisdiction legal-procedure remand seventh-circuit standard-of-review |
Did the District Court err by misinterpreting the Order from the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals? |
| 22-5701 |
Terry Wayne Cope v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 compassionate-release congress covid-19 criminal-procedure district-court judicial-discretion public-health sentencing |
Does the precedent that a defendant's incarceration during the COVID-19 Pandemic, when the defendant has access to the COVID-19 vaccine, does not pres… |
| 22-280 |
Rashid A. Buttar v. Rachan Damidi Reddy |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-09-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration arbitration-agreement civil-procedure district-court due-process new-york-convention personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the District Court had personal jurisdiction over Petitioner |
| 22-5660 |
Jon Anthony Terry v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ability-to-pay criminal-procedure district-court due-process future-assessment hypothetical-means judicial-discretion sentencing special-assessment statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court may impose a special assessment under 18 U.S.C. 3014(a) based on a defendant's hypothetical future ability to pay, rather tha… |
| 22-256 |
Cletus Woodrow Bohon, et al. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2022-09-19 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
delegation district-court eminent-domain ferc non-delegation private-parties |
Whether a facial challenge to Congress's delegation of eminent domain power to private parties is properly filed in district court |
| 22-242 |
Cyrano R. Irons v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-09-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court harmless-error judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure |
Whether errors in calculating the Sentencing Guidelines are rendered categorically harmless by the district court's assertion that the Guidelines woul… |
| 22-5581 |
Alfonso Ponton v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-09-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 castro-v-united-states castro-warning district-court equitable-tolling habeas-corpus pro-se statute-of-limitations |
Whether a district court's recharacterization of a prior pro se pleading as a 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas corpus petition without the warnings required by… |
| 22-5555 |
Denni Valdez v. Eckert Stewart, Warden |
Second Circuit |
2022-09-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights constitutional-violations district-court due-process en-banc-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure rehearing-en-banc |
Did the Court of Appeals violate Appellant's Constitutional right to Due Process |
| 22-5525 |
Terron Gerhard Dizzley v. Melvin Garrett |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-09-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 accrual appellate-review civil-rights district-court federal-courts federal-law section-1983 statute-of-limitations supreme-court |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit's affirmance of the District Court's order that state law determines the time of acc… |
| 22-5515 |
Jose Agapito Salas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process federal-prisoner findings-of-fact habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court violated the congressional mandate under 28 U.S.C. §2255(b) by denying a federal prisoner's first-time habeas motion withou… |
| 22-5484 |
Erika Perez-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review conflict-with-other-courts criminal-procedure district-court holguin-hernandez judicial-discretion sentencing-argument sentencing-guidelines substantial-arguments |
Whether a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails to reference or address substantial arguments for a sentence outside the Gui… |
| 22-5485 |
Juan Daniel Cano v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas, Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure diligence district-court due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances fifth-circuit habeas-corpus standard-of-review |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in affirming the district court's finding that the petitioner failed to show both that he pursued habeas relief diligently a… |
| 22-5470 |
Larry Marlowe Chambers v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-08-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review concepcion-v-united-states criminal-resentencing district-court first-step-act judicial-discretion remand sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court commits reversible error by issuing contradictory analyses for reductions under § 404 of the First Step Act without clear exp… |
| 22-5433 |
Tedd Wilson v. State Farm General Insurance Company |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-08-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process insurance insurance-dispute legal-standing procedural-challenge standing summary-judgment takings |
Whether the district court erred in granting summary judgment in favor of the defendant insurance company |
| 22-112 |
Simonetta Vespucci Sutton v. Mountain High Investments, LLC, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-08-04 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judgment-amendment jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss motion-to-remand removal standing |
Whether the district court erred in denying petitioner's motion to remand |
| 22-5255 |
Selwin Martin v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus procedural-timeliness statute-of-limitations third-circuit writ-petition |
Whether the District Court and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the Petitioner's Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus as untimel… |
| 22-5265 |
Preston Hester, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines advisory-range criminal-procedure district-court due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines SORNA SORNA-tier tier-level |
Whether the district court's failure to determine Mr. Hester's correct SORNA tier level in calculating the correct advisory Guideline sentencing range… |
| 22-5191 |
Anis Blemur v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion certificate-of-appealability controlling-precedent district-court eleventh-circuit guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion remand |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability, where the district court erred or alternatively abused its discretion in hold… |
| 22-5154 |
Myron Baker v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-record criminal-procedure district-court evidence evidence-admission federal-prosecution record-of-court search-and-seizure search-warrant state-search-warrant structural-error |
Whether the federal prosecution's reliance on a state search warrant without making it part of the formal record of the United States District Court c… |
| 22-5132 |
Joe Octavio Granado v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583 concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences district-court incarceration liberty-deprivation liberty-interest revocation sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether the District Court, in revoking supervised release, excessively sentenced Petitioner with consecutive incarceration from an original concurren… |
| 22-5094 |
Garfield D. Campbell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidence fourth-circuit marijuana-use reversible-error sentencing supervised-release |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by denying Mr. Campbell's meritorious argument that the district court committed reversible error by… |
| 22-5028 |
Damien Dre Gonzales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adam-walsh-act appeals commerce-clause criminal-procedure district-court federal-kidnapping federal-sentencing guidelines-error harmless-error sentencing-guidelines |
Is a district court's Guidelines error always harmless when the court states that it would have imposed the same sentence regardless of the Guidelines… |
| 22-5014 |
Willie Johnson v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-07-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
case-law civil-rights constitution constitutional-interpretation dismissal district-court due-process election federal-courts judicial-procedure legal-standards standing |
Whether the District Court for the District of South Carolina erred in dismissing the case on the ground that the petitioners lacked standing to chall… |
| 21-8269 |
James Paris Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines advisory-range criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness upward-variance |
Did the district court impose a substantively unreasonable sentence when it varied upward from the advisory sentencing range? |
| 21-8234 |
Bithomas Ceasar, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
bureau-of-prisons commitment competency competency-hearing criminal-procedure district-court judicial-authority mental-health-commitment restoration statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court lacks authority to order additional competency restoration commitment under 18 U.S.C. § 4241(d)(2) |
| 21-8186 |
In Re Douglas Cornell Jackson |
|
2022-06-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-authority district-court due-process filing-refusal habeas-corpus petition-rights pro-se standing |
Whether the United States District Court Clerk was constitutionally authorized to refuse to file a pro se litigant's petition for habeas corpus |
| 21-1558 |
John Curtis Dewberry v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Divisions |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-14 |
Denied |
|
aedpa certificate-of-appealability death-penalty district-court evidentiary-hearing fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel minor-sentencing |
Whether the United States District Court For The Eastern District Of Texas erred in denying Petitioner Dewberry a Certificate of Appealability |
| 21-8134 |
Jacquere Doran v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-procedure waiver |
Whether the District Court Erred in Ruling that Petitioner Waived an Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Claim Based on a Fourth Amendment Violation? |
| 21-8079 |
Kenyad Laquan Kelly v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process federal-sentencing gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion legal-standard sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether the District Court Erred in Applying a Different Starting Point for Defendant's Sentence than the United States Sentencing Guidelines? |
| 21-8080 |
Travis Horne v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure district-court error-of-law excusable-neglect federal-rules-of-civil-procedure final-judgment inadvertence mistake relief-from-judgment rule-60b surprise |
Whether Rule 60(b)(1) authorizes relief based on a district court's error of law |
| 21-8053 |
Ron Delano Kuntz v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
concurrent-representation conflict-of-interest crime-of-violence critical-stages cuyler-v-sullivan district-court jury-trial sentence-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Whether a conflict arises when trial counsel's concurrent representation ends prior to trial |
| 21-8014 |
Reginald Woods v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 district-court district-court-discretion first-step-act policy-statement sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether U.S.S.G. § 1B1.13 is an 'applicable' policy statement that binds a district court in considering a defendant-filed motion for sentence reducti… |
| 21-8017 |
Stephen Scott Meals, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure district-court due-process exclusionary-rule federal-law fifth-circuit judicial-review motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure standing |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of the defendant's motion to suppress |
| 21-7970 |
Oscar Geovanny Campos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court guideline-range holguin-hernandez judicial-discretion sentencing-arguments sentencing-guidelines substantial-arguments |
Whether a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails to reference or address substantial arguments for a sentence outside the Gui… |
| 21-7951 |
Omar Sierre Folk v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 3582-motion community-safety compassionate-release criminal-sentencing danger-to-community district-court due-process sentence-reduction sentencing-factors third-circuit |
Whether the Third Circuit or District Court Erred in Denying Petitioner § 3582(c)(1)(A) Release or Reduction of Sentence |
| 21-7953 |
Antonio D. McCaster v. Ron Neal, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion petition-dismissal procedural-error related-cases standing time-bar |
Whether the United States District Court Northern District of Indiana South Bend Division's judge abused his discretion in dismissing the petitioner's… |
| 21-7962 |
Jimmie Spratt v. Timothy Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure direct-appeal district-court due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review lozada-precedent lozada-v-deeds |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying a certificate of appealability, which deprives the petitioner of a direct appeal from the … |
| 21-7935 |
Jason K. Feister v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law district-court due-process judicial-review legal-order petitioner-rights separation-of-powers |
WHETHER THE SECOND DISTRICT'S ORDER VIOLATES THE PETITIONER'S RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS |
| 21-7865 |
Kra Deangelo Brooks v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review district-court eighth-circuit evidence-law fourth-amendment independent-source judicial-procedure murray-v-united-states national-importance search-warrant |
Whether an appeals court may 'implicitly find' an 'independent source' absent evidence and findings at the district court level |
| 21-7790 |
In Re Gina Russomanno |
|
2022-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights curative-remedy dismissal district-court due-process mandamus mandamus-writ ministerial-action res-judicata rule-12b6-dismissal |
Whether the Supreme Court will compel Chief Judge Freda L. Wolfson to perform a required ministerial action |
| 21-7766 |
Jacory Brown v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process effective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-claims prima-facie-case sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington |
When does a showing under Strickland v. Washington establish a prima facie case of ineffective assistance of counsel under the Sixth Amendment? |
| 21-7767 |
Michael Don Billups v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-opinions appellate-review district-court federal-sentencing judicial-discretion prejudice prejudicial-error sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether courts of appeals evaluating the prejudicial effect of a Guideline error must accept a district court's claim that the Guidelines exerted no i… |
| 21-7717 |
Kacy Fonteze Williams v. Mississippi |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-claim discretion discretionary-review district-court federal-review firearm-charge habeas habeas-corpus right-to-be-heard standard-of-review state-court |
Whether the District Court failed to properly utilize its discretion on the petitioner's habeas where the court dismissed the firearm charge issue ren… |
| 21-1382 |
Audubon Imports, LLC, dba Mercedes Benz of Baton Rouge, et al. v. Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft (BMW AG), et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
antitrust civil-procedure conspiracy conspiracy-inference district-court lawful-conduct plausibility-standard pleading pleading-burden sherman-act |
whether-plaintiffs-have-met-their-burden-to-plead-a-plausible-claim-under-§-1-of-the-sherman-act |
| 21-7697 |
Michael Mirando, aka Michael John Mirando v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court loss-calculation sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
What standard of review applies to an appeal challenging a district court's methodology for calculating the loss amount under Section 2B1.1 of the Uni… |
| 21-7700 |
Ronald Hunter v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling extraordinary-compelling-reasons rehabilitation sentencing-guidelines sentencing-law sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court may consider changes in sentencing law as a possible 'extraordinary and compelling' reason warranting a sentence reduction un… |
| 21-7701 |
Francisco Rosales Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines advisory-range criminal-procedure district-court extraordinary-compelling-reasons judicial-discretion molina-martinez-v-united-states ninth-circuit plain-error remand remand
21-7700" rosales-mireles-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines sentencing-law sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether a district court may consider nonretroacti |
When should a case be remanded for resentencing under the plain-error standard of review if the district court failed to announce its calculation of t… |
| 21-7706 |
Irving Ernesto Arias v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process fifth-circuit guilty-plea motion-to-withdraw plea-bargaining sentencing |
Did the district court err in denying the defendant's motion to withdraw his guilty plea? |
| 21-7674 |
Jamie Allen v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-04-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fourth-circuit reversible-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by refusing to hear Mr. Allen's meritorious claims that the district court committed reversible erro… |
| 21-7662 |
Michael Wayne Cook v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-opinions appellate-review district-court district-court-discretion federal-sentencing judicial-standard prejudice prejudicial-error sentencing-guidelines |
Whether courts of appeals evaluating the prejudicial effect of a Guideline error must accept a district court's claim that the Guidelines exerted no i… |
| 21-7625 |
Jonathan Scott May v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court enhancement federal-sentencing judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing-guidelines |
Did the district court plainly err when applying an enhancement under U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual § 2G2.2(b)(5)? |
| 21-7626 |
Joseph Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court guideline-range holguin-hernandez judicial-discretion sentencing-argument sentencing-guidelines substantial-arguments |
Whether a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails to reference or address substantial arguments for a sentence outside the Gui… |
| 21-1347 |
Kevas L. Ballance v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-04-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review circuit-split clear-error criminal-procedure de-novo-review district-court standard-of-review suppression-hearing suppression-ruling |
When reviewing a suppression ruling on appeal, should the appellate court review factual findings for clear error and the ultimate legal determination… |
| 21-1345 |
Jeffrey B. C. Moorhead v. Glenda Lake, Clerk, District Court of the Virgin Islands, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-04-12 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-1291 28-usc-47 appellate-review district-court judicial-bias judicial-procedure lawyer-suspension legal-practice mandamus-relief notice-of-appeal statutory-interpretation |
Does a lawyer have the statutory right to appeal a final order suspending the lawyer from the practice of law? |
| 21-7587 |
Jose Garcia Solorzano v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility appeal criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion reduction-in-sentence sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-§3e1.1 u.s.s.g.-interpretation |
Did the district court err in not granting Mr. Solorzano a reduction in sentence for his acceptance of responsibility under U.S.S.G. §3E1.1? |
| 21-7588 |
Gloria Marigny v. Centene Management Company LLC |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-04-11 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-144 appellate-review bias civil-rights conflict-of-interest district-court document-admissibility due-process federal-procedure judicial-recusal standing summary-judgment |
Why Judge Brett Ludwig Denied Motion for Recusal |
| 21-7582 |
Francisco Abreu Tartabull v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-circuit 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability district-court eleventh-circuit evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2255 |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability, where the district court erred or alternatively abused its discretion by deny… |
| 21-1336 |
Jeffrey Olsen v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-07 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
covid-pandemic criminal-procedure district-court district-court-authority due-process judicial-discretion jury-trial-suspension jury-trials pandemic prosecutorial-delay speedy-trial-act |
Whether a District Court may dismiss an indictment under the Speedy-Trial-Act where the District Court finds that it is possible to hold a jury trial … |
| 21-7565 |
Brandon James Lee v. Eddie M. Buffaloe, Jr., Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-04-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discretionary-review district-court due-process federal-courts fifth-amendment habeas-corpus standing |
Whether the district court's fact-finding procedures were unduly prejudicial and denied petitioner a constitutional right |
| 21-7543 |
Gerardo Castillo-Chavez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 constitutional-ruling district-court habeas-corpus jurisdiction preponderance-of-evidence section-2255 standard-of-proof successive-motion successive-petitions |
Whether a district court is authorized to dismiss a successive § 2255 motion for lack of jurisdiction after a court of appeals has authorized the fili… |
| 21-7504 |
Michael Bruce Bynoe v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2022-03-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-claims constitutional-law district-court due-process equal-protection immunity-provision judicial-jurisdiction legal-review post-conviction racial-discrimination standing |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause |
| 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 |
| 21-7469 |
Jermeal White v. Ronald Erdos, Warden, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process legal-proceeding pro-se summary-judgment video-evidence |
Did the district court and the United States Court of Appeals fail to consider Petitioner's opposition to Respondent's cross-motion for summary judgme… |
| 21-7443 |
Roberto Arenas-Tellez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court guideline-range holguin-hernandez-v-united-states judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines substantial-arguments |
Whether a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails to reference or address substantial arguments for a sentence outside the Gui… |
| 21-1259 |
Jay J. John v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-16 |
Denied |
|
adversarial-system civil-procedure covid-19 covid-19-procedure district-court due-process judicial-inquiry judicial-neutrality legal-contention motion-standard standing |
Must a district court decide a motion based on those judicial inquiries framed by the movant and his adversaries by applying the legal contentions of … |
| 21-7386 |
Sandchase Cody v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 compassionate-release district-court district-court-discretion due-process federal-criminal-procedure first-step-act sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 121.15 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines on 'Applicable Data Statement' binds a district court when considering a motion for … |
| 21-7395 |
Konstantinos Zografidis v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus second-circuit writ-of-habeas-corpus |
Did the Second Circuit Court of Appeals en banc err in failing to reverse the District Court's ruling denying my Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus … |
| 21-7327 |
Tina Carol Ortega v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure delegation-of-authority district-court due-process judicial-discretion plain-error probation probation-officer sentencing separation-of-powers |
Did the district court plainly err when it delegated to a probation officer the authority to determine the duration of a residential treatment program… |
| 21-7306 |
Jonathan Mota v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellant-standard appellate-review circuit-conflict civil-rights criminal-procedure cumulative-error district-court due-process judicial-error legal-prejudice prejudice |
What degree of error and of prejudice must an appellant show with respect to individuals errors of the district court before those errors may be consi… |
| 21-7314 |
William Jones v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence criminal-sentencing cumulation-order district-court double-jeopardy evolving-standards judgment juvenile-culpability neuroscience-mitigation newly-discovered-evidence subsequent-prosecution |
Is Petitioner actually innocent in a subsequent prosecution when in the previous prosecution another District Court in another county convicted, prono… |
| 21-7183 |
Ruth Diaz-Burgos v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment interrogation plea-bargaining plea-colloquy self-incrimination |
Whether Rule 11(b) requires advice of Fifth Amendment rights before plea colloquy interrogation |
| 21-7136 |
Gregory Nesbitt, aka Spooky v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release district-court first-step-act policy-statement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 1B1.13 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines is an 'applicable' policy statement that binds the district court in considering a d… |
| 21-1113 |
Brock Fredin v. Lindsey E. Middlecamp, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-02-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights district-court first-amendment free-speech inherent-judicial-powers inherent-powers injunctive-relief prior-restraint public-officials |
Did the District Court have the authority under its inherent powers to issue a wide-sweeping injunction to restrict speech for a period of five (5) ye… |
| 21-1117 |
Reginald Watkins, et al. v. U.S. Bank National Association, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-02-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure district-court due-process mortgage-foreclosure quiet-title sheriff-sale standing statutory-interpretation statutory-redemption takings |
Whether the petitioners have standing to establish standing |
| 21-7011 |
Jabari J. Johnson v. Kathleen McGuire, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-01-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation district-court due-process judicial-review jurisdiction ninth-circuit standing supreme-court takings |
Whether the District Court erred in dismissing Plaintiff's claims |
| 21-1047 |
Annick Roy, as Special Administrator of the Estate of Jean-Guy Veilleux, Deceased, et al. v. Canadian Pacific Railway Company |
First Circuit |
2022-01-27 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
appeal appeal-tolling bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure district-court federal-rules judicial-review title-11 |
Whether the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure govern procedure in district court cases that are merely 'related to a case under title 11 |
| 21-6962 |
Robert Eugene Plaster v. Michael Burgess, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-circuit certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights denial-of-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review sixth-circuit |
Did the lower courts erroneously deny petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability in this habeas-corpus case? |
| 21-6922 |
Jeffrey Charles Rodd v. Leann LaRiva, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-01-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights deliberate-indifference discovery district-court due-process eighth-circuit procedural-error standing summary-judgment |
Did the District Court err in dismissing Mr. Rodd's complaint without the benefit of discovery to further support his deliberate indifference claim |
| 21-6937 |
Colin Michael v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-01-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review district-court district-court-discretion judicial-presumption rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness united-states-sentencing-commission |
Should an appellate court automatically presume that a within-or-below-guideline sentence is substantively reasonable when the underlying rationale fo… |
| 21-6921 |
Sedale Pervis v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-01-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) criminal-law criminal-sentencing district-court family-impact judicial-discretion mitigating-factor procedural-background respect-for-law respect-for-the-law sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Did the District Court err in not finding that promoting respect for the law, in the context of this case is a mitigating factor? |
| 21-6881 |
Aaron J. Bressi v. Tracy McCloud, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-01-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeals-court civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure legal-dismissal public-interest standing subpoena-service |
Whether the U.S. District and U.S. Appeals Court erred in dismissing motions for appointment of counsel and amended complaints without serving defenda… |
| 21-6863 |
Nesly Loute v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel remand section-2255 |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability |
| 21-989 |
Jean Coulter v. Paul Laurence Dunbar Community Center, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-01-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review bias district-court due-process extrajudicial-source-doctrine judicial-bias pervasive-bias third-circuit |
Has Bias/Pervasive Bias violated Due Process in both the District Court and the Third Circuit? |
| 21-6805 |
Louis Roy Chapman v. Phyllis Smith, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-01-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process judicial-bias judicial-recusal jury-trial procedural-error recusal standing summary-judgment |
Whether the district court judge erred in not recusing himself |
| 21-962 |
In Re Whole Woman's Health, et al. |
|
2022-01-04 |
Denied |
|
abortion civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure mandamus remand standing texas writ-of-certiorari |
Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the court of appeals to remand the case to the district court without delay |
| 21-6730 |
Mehmet Fatih Biyikoglu v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-waiver breach-of-contract criminal-procedure district-court due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing |
Whether petitioner's appellate waiver was enforceable after the district court found him in breach of his plea agreement |
| 21-6703 |
Joshua Cumberland v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254 actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court fifth-circuit habeas-corpus statutory-provisions timeliness |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit properly denied petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability |
| 21-6705 |
Robert Tracy Warterfield v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest contracts-clause district-court due-process final-judgment habeas-corpus interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction plea-agreement sixth-amendment |
Does a United States Court of Appeals have jurisdiction to deny a Motion for a Certificate of Appealability when the District Court's putative Final J… |
| 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? |
| 21-6676 |
Mario Murillo-Mora v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-court district-court due-process garza-v-idaho habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review precedent-interpretation roe-v-flores-ortega |
Whether Circuit Courts of Appeals can Properly Summarily Deny Issuance of a Certificate of Appealability to a Habeas Petitioner |
| 21-6690 |
Joe Pyatt v. AECOM Technical Services, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review burden-shifting civil-rights discrimination-framework disparate-treatment district-court due-process employment-discrimination judicial-precedent mcdonnell-douglas precedent title-vii |
Whether the district court, as well as the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, can overrule the precedent of this court set in McDonnell Douglas Corp. … |
| 21-6652 |
Salatheo Fluid v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion attorney-representation criminal-procedure district-court federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-standing motion-for-new-trial |
Whether the lower courts abused their discretion in dismissing petitioner's motion for a new trial |
| 21-6663 |
Asher Abid Khan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-deference remand sentencing |
Did the Court of Appeals fail to accord due deference to the district court's reasons for reimposing the same sentence after remand? |
| 21-884 |
Blake Fields v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-12-15 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
criminal-procedure district-court factual-developments first-step-act intervening-factual-developments intervening-legal-developments legal-developments reduced-sentence sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court must or may consider intervening legal and factual developments when deciding to impose a reduced sentence under the First St… |
| 21-875 |
Harry Barnett v. Menard, Inc. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-12-14 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure district-court federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discretion judicial-power local-rule local-rules procedural-authority separation-of-powers |
Whether a district judge has the power to enact a local rule that contravenes the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure? |
| 21-865 |
Deborah Walton v. First Merchants Bank |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-12-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
60(b)-motion 7th-circuit-court appeals civil-procedure district-court due-process final-order jurisdiction procedural-due-process |
Whether the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals neglected to apply procedural-due-process in accordance with the Fifth-and-Fourteenth-Amendments, by not acce… |
| 21-837 |
Robert Bohanon, et al. v. Jacqueline Lawrence, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-08 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure district-court federal-courts interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction qualified-immunity summary-judgment |
Whether a federal court of appeals has jurisdiction over an immediate appeal from a denial of qualified immunity |
| 21-6509 |
Adesijuola Ogunjobi v. United Nations, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure complaint-dismissal covid-19-class-action district-court fourth-circuit judicial-discretion judicial-immunity merit-of-complaint procedural-rules standing subject-matter summons-service |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erroneously held that the district court has the absolute authority to dismiss a valid complaint on its own without allowin… |
| 21-6455 |
Anthony Pretty On Top v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment-violation appellate-review constitutional-rights district-court due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-standard |
Whether the court erred in affirming the district court's decision that petitioner's Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights were not violated? |
| 21-748 |
Chinyere U. Nwoke v. University of Chicago Medical Center |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-11-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination district-court due-process employment employment-discrimination judicial-review motion-to-amend pay-equity standing university-employment |
Whether the lower courts judged Petitioner's claims correctly |
| 21-6324 |
Jesus Alfredo Ramirez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-procedure communication-interception criminal-procedure district-court evidence-suppression probable-cause title-iii wiretap |
Whether the district court erred in authorizing a wiretap of Petitioner's communications under Title III and in failing to suppress the evidence inter… |
| 21-6240 |
Michael Roger Clemons, aka Chinaman v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review district-court guidelines-error harmless-error sentencing-error standard-of-review |
Whether any procedural sentencing error can be deemed harmless if the district court announces, without further explanation, that it would have impose… |
| 21-701 |
Oakley Grain, Inc., et al. v. M. Randy Rice, Chapter 7 Trustee, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-11-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-court circuit-split civil-procedure district-court injunction interpleader standing state-court-lawsuit |
Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in affirming the District Court's Order affirming the Bankruptcy Court's ruling that the State Court lawsuit did not … |
| 21-6185 |
Rodney Smith v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion downward-departure judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines |
Was the District Court's decision not to depart downward appropriate? |
| 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… |
| 21-6102 |
Anthony B. Williams v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-10-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment district-court double-jeopardy due-process grand-jury-indictment jury-instructions sentencing |
Whether the absence of a specific unanimity instruction at trial requires the distribution of PCP and occasional quantity counts to be vacated |
| 21-616 |
Lee W. Yeager v. FirstEnergy Generation Corporation |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-10-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure dismissal district-court due-process federal-procedure fifth-amendment legal-redress notice opportunity-to-be-heard pleading-amendment standing |
Whether a federal district court's outright dismissal of a stayed action without having first lifted that stay, to permit ruling on plaintiffs pending… |
| 21-6064 |
Robert William Knopping v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion downward-departure government-motion sentencing sentencing-guidelines third-level-reduction u.s.s.g. |
When can district court deny government's motion for 3rd-level reduction for acceptance of responsibility under U.S.S.G. § 8E1.1(b)? |
| 21-6068 |
Ronald Tingle v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-10-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-3582 district-court drug-offenses extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-compelling-reasons first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district judge is categorically prohibited from considering the First Step Act's amendment to penalties for drug offenses when determining w… |
| 21-6060 |
Ance Payton v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 compassionate-release covid-19 criminal-procedure district-court federal-criminal-procedure health-conditions motion sentencing |
Whether the district court erred by denying Mr. Payton's Motion for Compassionate Release under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A) |
| 21-6038 |
In Re Brian David Hill |
|
2021-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitution constitutional-violations district-court due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus judicial-rebellion north-carolina supreme-court-authority uncontested-motions |
Where the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina had systematically and repeatedly deprived a Petitioner of Due Process of Law … |
| 21-6032 |
Charles Francis Hurt v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-limits district-court due-process federal-procedure federal-rules judicial-precedent jurisdiction prosecutorial-authority standing territorial-court territorial-jurisdiction |
Whether the United States district court can prosecute a defendant outside the limited jurisdiction provided to a territorial court |
| 21-6007 |
Carlton Potts, aka Pep v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-19 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-resentencing criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion factual-developments fair-sentencing-act first-step-act legal-developments sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court must or may consider intervening legal and factual developments when deciding to impose a reduced sentence under the First St… |
| 21-546 |
Michael G. Harper, aka Cuban Mike v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-13 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
criminal-justice-reform criminal-resentencing district-court district-court-discretion first-step-act intervening-legal-developments legal-developments reduced-sentence sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether, when deciding if it should 'impose a reduced sentence' on an individual under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, a district court … |
| 21-507 |
Lawyers United Inc., et al. v. United States, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-10-06 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
28-usc-2071 28-usc-2072 attorney-licensing bar-association constitutional-rights district-court district-court-licensing judicial-council local-rules rule-making-authority |
Whether local rules that create classes of citizens and lawyers exceed the rule-making authority of the United States District Courts |
| 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… |
| 21-5885 |
Michael Alan Webb v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2021-10-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment arbitration-award civil-rights district-court due-process federal-law legal-precedent manifest-disregard motion-to-vacate qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing |
Whether the lower courts erred in denying the petitioner's Fourth Amendment claims regarding an allegedly unconstitutional search and seizure |
| 21-5879 |
Dheadry Powell v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion first-step-act guidelines justification money-laundering resentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Under the First Step Act, did the district court fail to provide a sufficiently compelling justification that thoroughly explains its above the guidel… |
| 21-5833 |
In Re Leslie Willis |
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2021-09-30 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure district-court federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure perpetuate-evidence petition-to-perpetuate-evidence rule-27 rule-27-petition standing trust-litigation writ-of-mandamus writ-of-prohibition |
Whether the Court should issue a WRIT OF PROHIBITION, WRIT IN MANDAMUS/MANDATE, WRIT OF PROHIBITION |
| 21-5778 |
Jeffrey Glenn Hutchinson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-court circuit-split district-court habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard merits-analysis merits-ruling standard-of-review |
Does a court of appeals violate the threshold certificate of appealability (COA) standard when it adopts the district court's merits rulings as its ow… |
| 21-5782 |
Cenobio Humberto Herrera, Sr., aka Bert Herrera, aka Cenobio Herrera Lanz, aka Cenobio Humberto Lanz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure custodial-status district-court methamphetamine methamphetamine-production ninth-circuit pseudoephedrine section-3553a sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Did the Ninth Circuit err in failing to vacate the district court's order based on clearly erroneous facts? |
| 21-5757 |
Calvin Tinsley v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2021-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 abuse-of-discretion civil-rights denial district-court due-process |
Did the court err in denying petitioner's claim under 42 U.S.C. Code §1983 that the district court abused its discretion in the order of denial? |
| 21-5773 |
Alex Baah v. AT&T Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion alternative-dispute-resolution civil-procedure district-court district-court-discretion motion-for-reconsideration ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review procedural-rules reconsideration timely-response untimely-response |
Did the Ninth Circuit Court and the District Court overlook a clear procedural rule? |
| 21-5741 |
Jonathan Godwin v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 abandonment-of-claims certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constitutional-claims district-court habeas-corpus procedural-ruling procedural-rulings slack-v-mcdaniel |
Whether an applicant must demonstrate both the debatability of constitutional claims and the debatability of procedural rulings to obtain a certificat… |
| 21-5726 |
Dexter Earl Kemp v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-20 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (1)IFP |
civil-procedure district-court error-of-law excusable-neglect federal-rules-of-civil-procedure final-judgment inadvertence mistake relief-from-judgment rule-60b surprise |
Whether Rule 60(b)(1) authorizes relief based on a district court's error of law |
| 21-5690 |
Pedro Zavala-Armendariz v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(f) appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court judicial-discretion safety-valve sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Did the District Court err by not adequately explaining its ruling in applying or not applying the safety valve in connection with 18 U.S.C. §3553(f)? |
| 21-5702 |
Ronald Webster v. Scott Dauffenbach, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-09-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2253 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights district-court habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason procedural-ruling procedural-rulings |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals erred in failing to issue a Certificate of Appealability |
| 21-411 |
Damon B. Cook v. Brian Cates, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure constitutional-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence judicial-discretion motion-to-reconsider rule-60b standing |
Whether the petitioner DAMON Cook has made a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right pursuant to 28 USC 2253(c)(2) in order to obt… |
| 21-5632 |
Eliseo Carrillo, III v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons criminal-law district-court due-process liberty liberty-interest mental-health sentencing supervised-release upward-departure |
Whether the District Court deprived the Petitioner of liberty within the terms of 18 U.S.C. 3583 (c) and (d) by upward departing in re-sentencing Peti… |
| 21-5593 |
Dennis Akaazua v. Walker Novack Legal Group, LLC, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-09-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure district-court equitable-relief equitable-tolling filing-deadline postal-delivery postal-service pro-se timeliness weather-conditions winter-conditions |
Whether the U.S. District Court could equitably rule that the Petitioner's reply brief was untimely despite postal delivery suspension due to extreme … |
| 21-5575 |
Frederick Arayatanon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial defendant-rights district-court due-process evidence evidentiary-admission fair-trial jail-telephone-calls presumption-of-innocence |
Did the District Court's admission of jail telephone calls by the defendant during trial undermine the defendant's presumption of innocence? |
| 21-294 |
Rukminesh Mehta v. Maggie Kuhl |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-08-30 |
Denied |
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case-statement civil-rights constitutional-provisions district-court due-process jurisdiction legal-review standing statutory-provisions |
Why is FISC involved in a child custody case in the first place? |
| 21-277 |
Betty E. Smith, as Attorney-In-Fact for Paul C. Smith, Individually and on Behalf of the ERISA-Covered Plan v. HPR Clinic, LLC, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-08-25 |
Denied |
|
daubert-standard district-court evidentiary-procedure expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-appointment methodology methodology-standards rule-706 |
Whether an expert appointed by agreement of the parties by a District Court under Federal Rule of Evidence 706 must employ methodology that is general… |
| 21-5456 |
Yarlin Garcia v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure district-court evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment legal-standard motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure standard-of-review |
Whether the District Court erred by denying Mr. Garcia's Motion to Suppress? |
| 21-5418 |
Sergio Bucio v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion mitigating-role money-laundering role-adjustment sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg-3b1.2 |
Whether the district court erred in calculating the amount of laundered funds attributable to Mr. Bucio |
| 21-5409 |
Antonyo Reece v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court judicial-discretion pepper-precedent pepper-v-united-states rehabilitation-evidence sentencing sentencing-variance upward-departure |
Whether imposing an upward departure of 200 months to a criminal defendant who has exemplary rehabilitation evidence is incongruous to this Court's ho… |
| 21-5410 |
Joydeth Robinson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure court-discretion district-court judicial-remand legal-procedure limited-remand plain-error substantial-rights |
Whether courts of appeals should order a limited remand to determine whether a plain error has affected a party's substantial rights |
| 21-5382 |
Nickie Nathanial Rico v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-murder criminal-enhancement criminal-procedure defendant-objection district-court enhancement objection presentence-report sentencing |
Whether the District Court erred in overruling Defendant's Objection to the Attempted Murder Enhancement in the Presentence Report |
| 21-5386 |
Michael Kenneth Young v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal criminal-classification district-court drug-offense fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-appeal prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines serious-drug-offenses |
Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal err in reversing the decision of the District Court which had determined that Petitioner Michael Young was not … |
| 21-211 |
Valueland Auto Sales, Inc., and Ron Benit v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-08-13 |
Denied |
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circuit-split criminal-charges criminal-procedure district-court expungement judicial-procedure jurisdiction record-expungement |
When the district court dismisses all criminal charges against a defendant, does that court have jurisdiction over a motion to expunge the records rel… |
| 21-5340 |
Gerald Allen Hiler v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure district-court factual-basis federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plea-agreement sentencing |
Does a federal criminal defendant's valid waiver of appeal in a plea agreement bar the defendant from an appeal that challenges the sufficiency of the… |
| 21-5324 |
Michael Dasean Robinson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process harmless-error rule-32 sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review |
Whether an explanation inconsistent with Rule 32(i)(3)(B) can inoculate an otherwise unreasonable sentence from appellate review |
| 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 |
| 21-157 |
Anderson & Anderson LLP-Guangzhou, et al. v. North American Foreign Trading Corporation |
Second Circuit |
2021-08-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
amended-complaint appellate-review civil-procedure district-court federal-jurisdiction foreign-trading motion-to-dismiss second-circuit standing |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred when it affirmed the United States District Court for the Southern District of… |
| 21-150 |
The Texas Brandon Corporation, Inc., et al. v. EOG Resources, Inc., et al. |
Texas |
2021-08-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure corporate-dispute district-court due-process judicial-misconduct oil-and-gas-rights severance standing summary-judgment trespassing trial-court |
Does Russell Wilson, the judge of the 218th District Court of Karnes County, Texas, list the objections, stated by John R. Chiles IV, and Ronald Wilso… |
| 21-5243 |
Charles Givens v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-due-process standard-of-review unelaborated-opinion |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in issuing an unelaborated opinion denying a certificate of appealability after denial of a COA by… |
| 21-5229 |
Jevante Marcus Richmond and Arthur Gene Evans, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing district-court fourth-circuit procedural-reasonableness sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the Fourth Circuit failed to apply substantive reasonableness review of the sentences imposed by the district court? |
| 21-5239 |
Kevin A. Craig v. O'Bell T. Winn, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-counsel certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-court-of-appeals trial-counsel |
Did the sixth circuit court of appeals clearly err in its denial of petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability, when it assessed petition… |
| 21-5216 |
Fredie Phillip Koryal v. Sarah Schroeder, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review sixth-circuit |
Whether the lower courts erred in denying a certificate of appealability in a habeas corpus case |
| 21-5202 |
Esteban Figueroa-Larrea v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
contested-element criminal-procedure district-court jury-charge jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-scope plain-error standard-of-review trial-court-error trial-procedure |
Whether the district court plainly erred by misadvising the jury about the legal scope of the sole contested element at trial |
| 21-99 |
Hensley K. McCalla v. Liberty Life Assurance Company of Boston, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-07-23 |
Denied |
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civil-procedure contract district-court enforcement federal-jurisdiction federal-law judicial-authority jurisdiction legal-enforcement settlement-agreement |
Did the District Court maintain jurisdiction to enforce the settlement agreement that defendant placed before it? |
| 21-89 |
Mati Leeal, et ux. v. Ditech Financial, LLC |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
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appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction legal-claims Sixth-Circuit summary-judgment |
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… |
| 21-5129 |
Gary E. Peel v. Barbara Zarrick |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence appellate-review district-court due-process federal-criminal federal-criminal-procedure habeas-corpus non-capital standing writ-of-mandamus |
Whether a stand-alone (a/k/a free-standing) claim of 'actual innocence' is cognizable in a federal non-capital criminal case |
| 21-5092 |
Dawn J. Bennett v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-07-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fourth-circuit judicial-discretion presumption-of-reasonableness presumptive-reasonableness procedural-error sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review summary-reversal |
Whether a district court applies an impermissible presumption of reasonableness to the Sentencing Guidelines range by referring to the range as 'presu… |
| 21-5004 |
Bo Daniel Shafer v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel trial-counsel trial-procedure voir-dire witness-testimony |
Did the federal district court erroneously conclude that Bo Shafer's IAC claim regarding his trial counsel's performance during voir dire was without … |
| 20-8468 |
Deborah Petty v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-identity-theft criminal-procedure criminal-venue district-court due-process identity-theft interstate-crime jurisdiction venue |
Was venue proper in the Northern District of Texas when the crimes were actually committed in Nevada and Florida? |
| 20-8476 |
Scott Charles Bauer v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constitutional-review de-novo-review district-court habeas habeas-corpus judicial-procedure klamath-siskiyou-wildlands-center-v-bureau-of-land miller-el-v-cockrell report-and-recommendations |
Whether a Certificate of Appealability should issue where the district court failed to conduct de novo review of the portions of the Report and Recomm… |
| 20-8458 |
Patrick Eugene Stein v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-06-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process jury-act jury-selection standing tenth-circuit weapon-of-mass-destruction |
Does this practice substantially violate the plain language of the Jury Act under 28 U.S.C. § 1861, and was the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals wrong t… |
| 20-8439 |
Francisco Coto-Mendoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-review guideline-range judicial-discretion objection plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-arguments |
Whether a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails to address substantial arguments for a sentence outside the Guideline range,… |
| 20-1805 |
Wylmina Elizabeth Hettinga v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-civil-rights ninth-circuit standing summary-judgment |
Are the United States District Courts routinely deciding disputed facts in favor of the defending state court actor's motion for summary judgment unde… |
| 20-8379 |
Anthony Donell Johnson v. Rowan Helping Ministries |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights district-court due-process employment evidence-review job-performance performance-evaluation pretext summary-judgment termination workplace-dispute |
Did the district Court err in not acknowledging evidence presented by petitioner to demonstrate satisfactory job performance, through outstanding job … |
| 20-8332 |
Damen Rabb v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244 certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus innocence-claim standards-for-coa-determinations successive-petition |
whether-due-process-requires-district-court-to-give-petitioner-fair-opportunity-to-provide-proof-supporting-claims |
| 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… |
| 20-1732 |
Thomas Bryant, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-15 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-procedure district-court first-step-act policy-statement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 1B1.13 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines is an 'applicable' policy statement that binds a district court in considering a def… |
| 20-8309 |
Robin Renee Melchior v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court habeas-corpus newly-presented-evidence rule-4 section-2254 slack-standard standard-of-review state-court-records |
Whether a United States District Court erred in failing to grant a certificate of appealability for a habeas corpus appeal |
| 20-8316 |
Michael Lawrence Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing district-court first-step-act sentencing-reform substantive-reasonableness |
Whether a district court's denial of a motion for relief from under Section 404 of the First Step Act is subject to substantive reasonableness review? |
| 20-8290 |
Anthony Leon Waits v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court federal-court federal-rule forfeiture forfeiture-judgment indictment indictment-notice statutory-basis |
Does Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32.2(a) prohibit a district court from entering a forfeiture judgment when the indictment does not give notice… |
| 20-8274 |
RaySean D. Barber v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-06-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights complaint-deficiencies district-court due-process equal-protection indigent-claims leave-to-amend meaningful-review prisoner-claims standing |
Whether the district court's finding with regard to Mr. Barber's equal-protection-claim conflicted with this-Court's-governing-determinations |
| 20-8157 |
In Re Blake Joseph Sandlain |
|
2021-05-27 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-circuit mandamus personal-jurisdiction |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit erred in denying the petitioner's request for a writ of mandamus to compel the district cour… |
| 20-8144 |
Tamara Rouhi v. Kettler, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-05-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-courts fourth-circuit injustice judicial-procedure motion-to-dismiss standing |
There has been no redress of my grievance |
| 20-8145 |
Tamara Rouhi v. Comcast Cable Communications, LLC |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-05-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-courts federal-procedure injustice judicial-review motion-to-dismiss standing |
There has been no redress of my grievance |
| 20-8146 |
Edward Lee Smith v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-05-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compulsory district-court district-court-interpretation judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-booker |
Whether the District Court committed significant procedural error when it mistakenly interpreted section 7B1.3(f) of the United States Sentencing Guid… |
| 20-8120 |
Gary Lee Willingham v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 acca-enhancement certificate-of-appealability district-court habeas-corpus jurisdiction merits-review post-conviction section-2255 standard-of-review summary-reversal |
Whether Mr. Willingham waived his argument that the district court had jurisdiction to adjudicate the merits of his § 2255(h) motion |
| 20-8123 |
Verlan Perez, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal precedential-ruling |
Can an appeals court deny a certificate of appealability to a petitioner who has shown that the district court ignored precedential rulings from this … |
| 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 |
| 20-7964 |
John Riley, aka P. J. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-justice criminal-sentencing district-court federal-jurisdiction first-step-act motion-denial motion-to-modify sentence-reduction sentencing |
Whether the district court erred by denying the Motion for Sentence Reduction under The First Step Act of 2018 |
| 20-7975 |
Larry Welenc v. Department of Justice, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure district-court document-redaction foia-exemption freedom-of-information-act government-transparency judicial-review |
Can a US District Court Judge determine that an excised Document released under the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552, consisting only of a b… |
| 20-1519 |
Ismael Rivera v. Glennis Gelabert-De-Peguero, et al. |
First Circuit |
2021-04-29 |
Dismissed |
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appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process judicial-doctrine police-conduct police-officer qualified-immunity standing |
Whether Police Officer Ismael Rivera was correctly denied his entitlement to qualified-immunity |
| 20-7878 |
Maci Denon Davis and Joe L. Franklin v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-04-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
congress congressional-intent discretion district-court eighth-circuit first-step-act sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines unwarranted-disparities |
Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals incorrectly found that the district court was permitted to tether itself to the United States Sentencing G… |
| 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 |
| 20-7826 |
Jimmie C. Johnson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights collateral-review crack-cocaine district-court due-process eighth-circuit first-step-act ineffective-assistance-of-counsel johnson-case legal-review motion-denial sentencing |
Whether the district Court and Eighth Circuit erred in determining that Mr. Johnson's 2255 motion was not effective in cases on collateral review file… |
| 20-1477 |
Randy R. Bell v. New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-04-21 |
Denied |
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appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-discretion district-court due-process fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction notice-of-appeal standing |
Did the district court lack jurisdiction due to fraud upon the court? |
| 20-1467 |
Michael Varco v. Superior Court of the District of Columbia, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-04-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights crime-victims-rights crime-victims-rights-act dc-code district-court due-process federal-law metropolitan-police-department mpd standing statutory-interpretation victims-rights |
Whether a person harmed by a D.C. Code offense may assert rights under the Crime Victims' Rights Act against the MPD Chief |
| 20-7807 |
Woodrow Andrew Clark v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-04-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure claims-assessment constitutional-law district-court due-process judicial-review legal-standard patent procedural-merit reasonable-jurists standing takings |
Whether reasonable jurists would find the District Court's assessment of Claims one and two debatable or wrong? Or that the issues presented are adequ… |
| 20-1439 |
Phillip Dwayne Loyd v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-04-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims district-court due-process evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea habeas-corpus |
Whether a district court may deny a habeas corpus petition solely because a petitioner's factual allegations contradict a guilty plea |
| 20-7703 |
Gary Lamont Robinson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court fourth-amendment fourth-circuit individualized-assessment judicial-discretion procedural-reasonableness sentencing-review |
Whether the Fourth Circuit's decision is in conflict with the Court's decision in Gall v. United States |
| 20-1389 |
Kaboni Savage v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-04-05 |
Denied |
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appellate-procedure district-court federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion procedural-barriers record-on-appeal record-reconstruction statement-of-proceedings supplemental-record third-circuit transcript |
Whether the Third Circuit properly held—in conflict with decades of federal practice endorsing flexible procedures to assemble a complete record on ap… |
| 20-7652 |
Lawrence L. Colton v. J. A. Terris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus interests-of-justice procedural-validity sixth-circuit writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the district court abused its discretion in determining the appropriateness of a habeas corpus petition |
| 20-7634 |
Nevia Abraham v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-04-01 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP |
appeals-court appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure district-court extraordinary-circumstances federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jurisdiction motion-review rule-60b |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals had jurisdiction to review the District Court's February 13, 2019 Order granting Petitioner's Federal Ru… |
| 20-7646 |
Kennis Earl Gatson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-04-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence district-court due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit habeas-corpus procedural-bar schlup-exception schlup-v-delo standard-of-review |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in deferring to the district court finding that petitioner's Schlup v. Delo exception to overcome the procedural bar was not… |
| 20-1363 |
Merit Medical Systems, Inc. v. Nazir Khan, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-03-30 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-285 attorney-fees civil-procedure district-court federal-circuit patent patent-infringement rule-11 rule-11-sanctions sanctions section-285 |
Whether the denial of additional attorney fees under 35 U.S.C. § 285 should be vacated if the Rule 11 sanctions are disturbed on appeal |
| 20-7558 |
Kesha S. Packer v. Wisconsin Department of Corrections |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure district-court excusable-neglect jurisdiction notice-of-appeal procedural-default standing |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals has jurisdiction to hear the plaintiff's appeal? |
| 20-7549 |
Shane Arnold v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure defense district-court due-process evidence evidence-introduction knowledge-of-status plain-error rehaif-standard Rehaif-v-United-States trial-error |
Whether a defendant satisfies the final two prongs of plain-error review for a Rehaif-v-United-States trial error |
| 20-1316 |
Daniel Fling v. United States Postal Service, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-03-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights claim-preclusion constitutional-claim district-court due-process federal-common-law standing statute-of-limitations |
Does the federal common law of claim preclusion bar a party's due-process claim against the United States Government in a United States district court… |
| 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… |
| 20-1246 |
Anna Valentine, Warden v. Johnny Phillips |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland credibility-determination district-court expert-witness federal-civil-procedure federal-habeas habeas-corpus standard-of-review |
Did the Sixth Circuit violate Fed. Rule Civ. P. 52(a)(6) when it failed to apply the proper, heightened and deferential standard to the district court… |
| 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… |
| 20-7331 |
Kevin L. Martin v. Frank Vanihel, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-claim district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-care prison-conditions procedural-default |
Whether the state failed to provide the inmate with the necessary medical care and treatment as required, violating his constitutional rights |
| 20-7317 |
Darex Antonio Chester v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge district-court due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-review petition-denial standing |
Whether the United States District Court decision to deny Petitioner's §2254 Habeas Corpus Petition as untimely is constitutional |
| 20-7294 |
James Peter Sabatino v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-circuit appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights communication-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process mootness statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing petitioner's appeal as moot |
| 20-7259 |
Juan Garcia v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability compulsory-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel section-2255 sixth-amendment |
Was petitioner denied his Constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel during his trial, that is guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment of the U… |
| 20-1185 |
Douglas Edwards v. Solomon and Solomon P.C. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
|
concurrent-jurisdiction district-court eleventh-circuit fair-debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act federal-courts federal-district-courts inconsistent-decisions renewal-statute state-courts uniformity |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's affirmation of the District Court's refusal to apply Georgia's renewal statute was in error |
| 20-7256 |
James Timothy Cobb v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court fourth-circuit motion-to-suppress pretrial-motion search-and-seizure standard-of-review |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Appellant's pretrial motion to… |
| 20-7237 |
Clyde E. Bradley v. Teri Kennedy, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus petition pro-se rebuttal statutory-interpretation |
Whether the U.S. District Court erred in dismissing the pro se petition for habeas corpus relief without permitting the petitioner a fair opportunity … |
| 20-7197 |
Roberto Elias Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court due-process maximum-term plain-error plea-bargaining plea-colloquy sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether plain error resulted from the district court erroneously advising the client during plea colloquy |
| 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? |
| 20-7186 |
Brian Dale Lee v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5k2.1-motion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court fourth-circuit judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fourth Circuit court erred in finding that the district court's consideration of conduct raised in a 5k2.1 motion was appropriate? |
| 20-7045 |
In Re Cyrus Linton Brooks |
|
2021-02-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
appearance-of-justice appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-court district-court due-process extraordinary-writ judicial-review procedural-fairness |
Did the review treatment accorded the request for the issuance of a certificate of appealability by a circuit judge fail to satisfy the appearance of … |
| 20-7018 |
Lawrence Westbrook, III v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion enhancement firearm-enhancement firearms sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the district court erred by applying a six-level enhancement pursuant to USSG § 2K2.1(b)(1)(C) |
| 20-7022 |
Amado Reyes Trujillo v. Mona D. Houston, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review language-barriers petition-for-relief pro-se standing |
Whether the District Court erred in denying petitioner's writ of habeas corpus due to lack of procedures, without considering that petitioner is not a… |
| 20-7012 |
Stanley Dan Reczko, III v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-court continuance district-court judicial-discretion legal-doctrine party-presentation sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-challenge united-states-v-sineneng-smith |
Does the Ninth Circuit's rule permitting it to decline to address a defendant's Sixth Amendment challenge (arising from the district court's denial of… |
| 20-7005 |
Andre King v. Brian Kendall, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-procedure legal-error motion-to-dismiss procedural-discretion standing summary-dismissal |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred as a matter of law in allowing the district court to summarily dismiss the petitioner's motion to reopen the case p… |
| 20-1034 |
Narkis Aliza Golan v. Isacco Jacky Saada |
Second Circuit |
2021-01-29 |
Judgment Issued |
CVSGAmici (16)Relisted (3) |
ameliorative-measures child-abduction district-court grave-risk habitual-residence hague-convention international-child-abduction international-law |
Whether, upon finding that return to the country of habitual residence places a child at grave risk, a district court is required to consider ameliora… |
| 20-6957 |
Alfred Paul Centofanti, III v. Dwight W. Neven, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split collateral-order district-court habeas habeas-corpus interim-release interlocutory-appeal ninth-circuit standard-of-review |
Is a district court's order granting or denying an interim release motion in a habeas case an appealable collateral order? |
| 20-6973 |
Tommy Demond Fannin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assault criminal-procedure cross-reference district-court due-process fifth-circuit firearm-possession sentencing-guidelines |
Did the district court err when it imposed a cross-reference under U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual § 2K2.1(c)(1) without a connection between the po… |
| 20-6909 |
Brian Gale v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law district-court due-process elements-clause hobbs-act residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a 'crime of violence' |
| 20-6828 |
Mwenda Murithi v. Bryan Gleckler, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ANOER-Son-v.-LIBERTY-LOBBY civil-procedure credibility-determinations deposition-testimony district-court due-process federal-rules material-fact summary-judgment venue |
Whether the district court and the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals superseded this Court's ruling in ANOER Son v. LIBERTY LOBBY, INC., 477 U.S. 242, … |
| 20-6893 |
Patrick Wallace v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process federal-court habeas-corpus recusal right-to-be-present section-2255 |
Did the courts commit reversible error denying petitioner's COA, to resolve the factual disputes |
| 20-6861 |
Justin Lee Sanders v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process eighth-circuit factual-disputes federal-jurisdiction federal-writ habeas-corpus reversible-error |
Whether the district court and court of appeals erred in denying a certificate of appealability to review the denial of the petitioner's federal habea… |
| 20-922 |
Lisa Marie Montgomery v. Jeffrey A. Rosen, Acting Attorney General, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-01-09 |
Denied |
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appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-regulations first-impression judicial-procedure legal-standard standing summary-reversal |
whether the director may designate a new execution date while a stay is in place |
| 20-919 |
Richard Spinnenweber, et al. v. Dan Williams |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arrest civil-rights criminal-arrest criminal-procedure district-court due-process fourth-amendment judicial-determination law-enforcement legal-standard probable-cause |
Whether the district court erred in holding that there was probable cause to believe the plaintiffs had committed the crime for which they were arrest… |
| 20-6777 |
James Baxton v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-evidence criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidence fourth-circuit rico rico-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Government produced sufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the Petitioner's actions were part of a Rico Conspiracy |
| 20-6758 |
Patrick Koroma v. Katti Lanham, et al. |
Georgia |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
antiterrorism-act appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure collateral-order death-penalty-act district-court due-process equal-protection final-judgment habeas-corpus standing writ-of-appeal |
Whether the Georgia Court of Appeals had jurisdiction to review the petitioners' case, and whether the collateral order denying the petitioners' motio… |
| 20-6768 |
Quentin Watson v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-evaluation petition-review standing |
Whether the United States District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana and Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied clearly established law in evalu… |
| 20-875 |
Sok Kong, Trustee for Next of Kin of Map Kong, Decedent v. City of Burnsville, Minnesota, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review circuit-split district-court genuine-issue-of-material-fact interlocutory-appeal material-fact qualified-immunity standard-of-review summary-judgment |
Whether, on interlocutory review of a denial of qualified-immunity, an appellate court may reject a district court's determination of a genuine-issue-… |
| 20-6721 |
Monwell Dwight Booth v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights district-court fourth-amendment legal-standard search-and-seizure standard-of-review |
Whether the court erred in affirming the district court's decision that petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights were not violated? |
| 20-6703 |
Roberto Antoine Darden, aka Dizz-e, aka Javon v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
district-court factual-dispute fourth-circuit government-breach hill-v-lockhart legal-interpretation plea-bargain plea-contract prejudice prejudice-standard |
Whether the government's failure to dispute the factual manifestations of the Petitioner's government breach claim due to the plea contract's accounta… |
| 20-6655 |
Alonso Sanchez Ochoa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consecutive-sentence criminal-sentencing defense-counsel district-court pre-sentence-report probation-officer relevant-conduct sentencing |
Is it reasonable for a District Court to order a consecutive sentence despite an agreement among Probation Officer, Pre-Sentence Report Addendum, and … |
| 20-6668 |
Christopher Zamarripa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
ambiguity appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-interpretation plea-bargaining plea-colloquy procedural-ambiguity |
Does a district court's mischaracterization, during the plea colloquy, of an appeal waiver create an ambiguity that must be construed against the gove… |
| 20-6658 |
Michael Brent Brown v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-petition fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prisoner-rights procedural-grounds statute-of-limitations |
Whether the courts erred in denying relief and review on procedural grounds |
| 20-6647 |
Douglas Charles Knicely v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court fourth-circuit motion-to-suppress pretrial-motion search-and-seizure standard-of-review |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Appellants' pretrial motion to… |
| 20-817 |
Louis Roderick Ogden v. Eric Tice, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-12-17 |
Denied |
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appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure standing third-circuit |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying the Petitioner's Certificate of Appealability? |
| 20-800 |
Tracy Alan Barnett v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-12-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-claims district-court district-court-jurisdiction federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure final-order habeas-corpus |
Are United States District Courts required to address and resolve all constitutional claims or issues raised in a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 Motion to satisfy t… |
| 20-6577 |
Victor Mondragon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility appellate-review criminal-sentencing district-court downward-adjustment federal-jurisdiction panel-review standard-of-review |
Did the district court err by denying Mr. Mondragon a three-level downward adjustment for acceptance of responsibility? |
| 20-789 |
Rebecca Dikes, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Shawn C. Dikes v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
causation-standard civil-procedure constitutional-rights district-court due-process evidence-presentation federal-tort legal-procedure |
Whether a District Court's decision to implement a new causation standard in a federal tort case after the Petitioner presented all her evidence const… |
| 20-6561 |
Jesus N. Rodriguez v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-law district-court due-process incorporated-grounds judicial-discretion pleading-defect procedural-error rule-violation standing statutory-interpretation supervisory-authority |
Whether the district court invited error resulting in a fundamental pleading defect |
| 20-6537 |
Tamara Rouhi v. CVS Pharmacy, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-12-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appeals-court case-dismissal civil-procedure district-court due-process fraud injustice judicial-misconduct legal-procedure procedural-error standing |
Question not identified |
| 20-6473 |
Jessica Arnold v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review district-court failure-to-address judicial-discretion mitigation procedural-error sentencing sentencing-mitigation standard-of-review trial-counsel |
What standard applies to appellate review of the appeal of a district court's failure to address arguments of counsel in mitigation of sentencing, whe… |
| 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… |
| 20-6442 |
Jonair Tyreece Moore v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a circuit-split crack-cocaine discretionary-reduction district-court first-step-act racial-disparity sentencing-factors |
Whether a district court must consider the sentencing factors of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) when determining whether to impose a reduced sentence for a crack… |
| 20-6380 |
China Hester v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari counsel criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-proceeding remand reversal-and-remand right-to-counsel standards-of-review |
Whether Ms. Hester may have received ineffective-assistance-of-counsel |
| 20-6381 |
Domenico Anastasio v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure district-court indictment rico-conspiracy second-circuit standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred by affirming the judgment of conviction and sentence pronounced by the United … |
| 20-6329 |
Daniel Acedo v. United States District Court for the Southern District of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process extraordinary-remedy federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation property-rights relief-sought standing statute-of-limitations |
Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits warrantless searches of vehicles parked on private property |
| 20-6293 |
Raymond Alan Griffin v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-law findings-of-fact motion-to-suppress threshold-determination |
May a district court make findings of fact resolving contested issues in determining that the threshold for holding an evidentiary hearing on a defend… |
| 20-626 |
In Re Robert A. Heghmann |
|
2020-11-10 |
Denied |
|
apportionment civil-rights congressional-districts district-court due-process one-person-one-vote standing three-judge-panel writ-of-mandamus |
Should a Writ of Mandamus be issued |
| 20-6259 |
Angela de Jesus-Concepcion v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-11-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure district-court evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel misrepresentation sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel was impermissibly violated |
| 20-6237 |
Jamar Parker v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-history district-court mitigating-factors mitigation-arguments procedural-reasonableness sentencing substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the 168-month sentence is procedurally and substantively reasonable |
| 20-6239 |
Abdul Mohammed v. Prairie State Legal Services, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
amendment civil-procedure complaint-amendment dismissal district-court notice pro-se rule-8 |
Whether a District Court can dismiss a Pro Se Plaintiff's complaint under Rule 8 without giving an opportunity to amend the complaint at least once af… |
| 20-6201 |
Anthony Thomas v. Victor Calloway, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process federal-constitutional-law habeas habeas-corpus perjury procedural-default state-law |
Should a certificate of appealability have issued? |
| 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… |
| 20-562 |
John Yearwood, et al. v. Department of the Interior, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure-act appellate-procedure constitutional-claims district-court forney-v-apfel judicial-review national-importance res-judicata standing standing-to-appeal |
Whether the decision below denying the Petitioners' standing to appeal the district court's final judgment on their constitutional claims under the Ad… |
| 20-6157 |
Pedro Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process motion-to-dismiss prejudicial-error sixth-amendment |
Did the district court prejudicially err denying petitioner's motion to dismiss based on Sixth Amendment violations? |
| 20-6095 |
Ray Anthony Chaney v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-3582 compassionate-release covid-19 criminal-justice district-court federal-criminal-procedure health-conditions home-confinement motion sentencing |
Whether the district court erred by denying Mr. Chaney's Motion for Compassionate Release under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A) |
| 20-6082 |
Douglas D. Yokois v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice ninth-circuit procedural-ruling |
Whether the Ninth Federal Circuit Court of Appeals improperly denied Petitioner's Motion for Issuance of Certificate of Appealability |
| 20-6059 |
Paul Edward Duran v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review arbitration-award civil-rights constitutional-violations district-court due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-arbitration-act federal-court habeas-corpus judicial-discretion motion-to-vacate |
Did the Ninth Circuit Court err by not issuing a COA, when the Court had knowledge that there were allegations of constitutional violations that were … |
| 20-6062 |
Montgomery Carl Akers v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-10-16 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure criminal-process district-court due-process legal-counsel post-conviction-proceedings right-to-counsel standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the district court has subject-matter jurisdiction |
| 20-483 |
Artem Koshkalda v. Seiko Epson Corporation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-14 |
Denied |
|
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review case-termination civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure legal-order ninth-circuit sanctions |
Did the district court err in imposing case-terminating sanctions? |
| 20-487 |
Ho Wong Jeong v. Angel Cabrera, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion motion precedent pro-se rule-60 standing supreme-court-precedent |
Did the district court act contrary to SCOTUS precedents in denying appellant's pro se Rule 60(b)(3) motion on untimeliness without oral argument? |
| 20-6002 |
Curtis Lee Dale v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts adverse-decision appeals case-seizure criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-law-enforcement pro-se procedural-due-process warrant-search |
Does Petitioner have a procedural due process right to access the Court and file an initial brief in the appeals court related to the district court's… |
| 20-5979 |
Steven Dwayne Bailey v. Stuart Sherman, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-review compassionate-release criminal-justice district-court due-process early-release judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-standard parole procedural-error sentencing |
Whether the court can recall and/or resentence the defendant upon recommendation of the district attorney due to change in circumstances since the inm… |
| 20-5946 |
Roberto Antoine Darden v. Barbara Von Blanckensee, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights disciplinary-notice district-court due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus liberty-interest prisoner-rights procedural-grounds qualified-immunity |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision that due process was satisfied because the officer's act was 'above the norm' conflicts with other appellate cour… |
| 20-443 |
United States v. Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev |
First Circuit |
2020-10-06 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (10)Relisted (7) |
capital-sentences district-court penalty-phase pretrial-media-coverage reversible-error voir-dire |
Whether the court of appeals erred in concluding that respondent's capital sentences must be vacated |
| 20-5909 |
David Conerly v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court evidence evidence-review judicial-review ninth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Did the Ninth Circuit err by mining the district record to uphold an upward adjustment to petitioner's offense level under the Sentencing Guidelines? |
| 20-5915 |
Perry Cortese v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals-court criminal-procedure district-court enhancement federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing |
Did the District Court and the Eleventh Circuit err in their application of the Special Skill enhancement? |
| 20-5838 |
Daryl Dude Nelson v. Mike Brown, Acting Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-09-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-court-review district-court due-process ex-parte-proceeding fact-finding fraud-on-the-court judicial-oversight legal-authority prosecutor prosecutorial-fraud relief-from-judgment |
Did the Circuit Court commit a reversible error and grossly violate petitioner's Due Process when it (1) overlooked the district court's fact-finding … |
| 20-5804 |
Bobby Burghart v. Sarah Beyer |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights counsel discovery district-court due-process fourth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-standard reversible-error standing |
Did the District Court err, and did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals compound the errors, when petitioner's request for counsel was denied, because… |
| 20-388 |
Lingfei Sun v. City of New York, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-09-25 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights claim-preclusion collateral-estoppel continuing-violation-doctrine district-court due-process res-judicata standing |
Whether the continuing violation doctrine applies to the Petitioner's current U.S. district court suit |
| 20-5818 |
Tyrone Johnston v. Kevin Ransom, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
autopsy certificate-of-appeal circuit-split confrontation-clause confrontation-rights constitutional-provisions district-court due-process habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason third-circuit |
Did the Third Circuit err in denying a certificate of appeal (COA) |
| 20-331 |
Donald J. Trump, President of the United States v. District of Columbia, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-14 |
GVR |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
abuse-of-discretion district-court domestic-emoluments emoluments-clause foreign-emoluments interlocutory-appeal legal-error mandamus motion-to-dismiss presidential-immunity |
Whether a writ of mandamus is appropriate to correct the district court's denial of the President's motion to dismiss and refusal to certify an interl… |
| 20-5687 |
John Oliver Bryant v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure district-court due-process judicial-procedure jurisdiction legal-review petition-dismissal standing suspension-clause timeliness |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petition as untimely |
| 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… |
| 20-5633 |
Darren M. Rowe v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence daubert-standard district-court due-process evidence-analysis expert-testimony habeas-corpus judicial-discretion legal-error new-evidence schlup-v-delo standard-of-review |
Whether the district court committed legal error when it determined that the newly presented evidence does not qualify for consideration under the act… |
| 20-254 |
Kuang-Bao Ou-Young v. John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice, Supreme Court of the United States, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3) |
civil-rights competence-restoration criminal-action criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-tort-claims-act habeas-corpus judicial-procedure standing |
Whether a three-judge court should have adjudged the FTCA case |
| 20-257 |
Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc., et al. v. Maxcimo Scott, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-09-01 |
Dismissed |
Amici (4)Relisted (5) |
civil-procedure class-certification collective-action district-court employment-law fair-labor-standards-act material-question opt-in-plaintiffs similarly-situated |
Whether a district court may consider factors other than the presence of a single material question of law or fact common to a group of employees when… |
| 20-5529 |
Herman Bernard v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa amendment bankruptcy-court district-court due-process habeas-corpus judgment jurisdictional-defect procedural-rules successive-motions successive-petition |
Whether the Bankruptcy Court erred in denying a motion to amend a petition under the AEDPA, as the Eleventh Circuit has required that a motion to amen… |
| 20-5516 |
Joseph Peter Garbarini v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-court district-court double-jeopardy due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-disagreement procedural-bar |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in denying a certificate of appealability on a double jeopardy claim |
| 20-208 |
Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Company v. Ethan Volungis, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
amendment civil-procedure district-court federal-rules-of-civil-procedure leave-to-amend motion-to-dismiss represented-plaintiff rule-15 sua-sponte |
Whether Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 15(a) requires district courts to grant plaintiffs represented by counsel leave to amend their complaint sua s… |
| 20-5432 |
Michael James Barnes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court fifth-circuit habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states plea-agreement plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief post-conviction-waiver section-2255-petition sentencing |
Whether the post-conviction waiver in plea agreement bars relief in Johnson-related § 2255 petition |
| 20-5433 |
Gregory Wind v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-deference circuit-split deference district-court federal-courts-of-appeals federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Did the district court impose a substantively unreasonable sentence upon Mr. Wind? |
| 20-5437 |
Wendell Taylor v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court fifth-circuit habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states plea-agreement plea-bargaining post-conviction-waiver section-2255-petition sentencing |
Whether the post-conviction waiver in Mr. Taylor's Plea Agreement bars him from the relief sought in his Johnson-related § 2255 Petition |
| 20-5367 |
In Re Abdul Mohammed |
|
2020-08-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure district-court district-court-judgment frivolous-appeal good-faith good-faith-complaint judicial-immunity mandamus-petition subject-matter-jurisdiction |
whether-judges-have-immunity-for-lack-of-subject-matter-jurisdiction |
| 20-5394 |
Eugene Mona, aka Gino v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment-782 criminal-sentencing district-court drug-guidelines drug-sentencing-guidelines first-degree-murder motion-denial motion-for-sentence-reduction rico-conspiracy sentence-reduction |
Whether the District Court erred in denying Petitioner's Motion For Sentence Reduction |
| 20-147 |
Timothy B. Brown v. U.S. Bank National Association, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-13 |
Denied |
|
adversary-process civil-procedure district-court due-process magistrate magistrate-referral pro-se-litigant res-judicata sua-sponte |
Does the Supreme Court's ruling in Arizona v. California empower a District Judge to raise the issue of res judicata sua sponte? |
| 20-145 |
Carl Skidmore v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
certificate-of-appealability cumulative-error de-novo-review district-court evidentiary-hearing fact-finding habeas-corpus post-conviction speculative |
Whether a certificate of appealability should have issued to address the question whether a district court may deny a habeas-corpus-petition as 'specu… |
| 20-5291 |
Dexter Leemon Johnson v. John Marlar |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-conflict civil-procedure district-court due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirements medical-treatment standing tenth-circuit warrant-constitutionality |
Whether the Tenth Circuit's failure to satisfy itself of district court's jurisdiction resulted in it exceeding its discretion and jurisdiction |
| 20-5271 |
Toshi Edward Willingham v. Catherine S. Bauman, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review sixth-circuit |
Whether the lower courts erroneously denied a certificate of appealability in a habeas corpus case |
| 20-5274 |
James S. Harris v. Sherie Korneman, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability district-court equitable-tolling habeas-corpus limitations-period reasonable-jurists |
Did Mr. Harris present reasons for why the one-year limitations period should be equitably tolled in his case to which reasonable jurists could differ… |
| 20-5280 |
Rahim Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure cross-reference district-court error federal-jurisdiction homicide sentencing-guidelines u-s-sentencing-commission u.s.s.g.-§-2k2.1(c)(1)(b) |
Whether the district court erred by applying the Sentencing Guidelines cross reference under U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(c)(1)(B) |
| 20-5251 |
Michael Owen Harriot v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-08-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2401b appeals appellate-review civil-procedure district-court federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit heck-v-humphrey jurisdictional-issue standing statute-of-limitations statutory-time-bar |
Whether the Fourth Circuit's lack of authority to raise 28 U.S.C. § 2401(b)'s time bar on its own when the district court's opinion did not rest on § … |
| 20-5235 |
Michael D. Bikundi, Sr. v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2020-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure discovery district-court due-process federal-rule-criminal-procedure harmless-error legal-obligation material-violation prejudice prejudicial-error sanction sanctions |
Whether a district court has an obligation to impose a meaningful sanction for a material and highly prejudicial violation of Federal Rule of Criminal… |
| 20-5201 |
Travaris Crawford v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability cross-appeal district-court eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus jennings-v-stephens judicial-procedure |
Whether Jennings v. Stephens allows an appellee to expand the certificate of appealability and urge affirmance of a district court denial of a habeas … |
| 20-5178 |
Jimmy Fernetus v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment district-court eighth-amendment executive-branch executive-power legislative-branch legislative-power minimum-mandatory-sentence separation-of-powers |
Whether the separation of powers doctrine prohibits the legislative and executive branches from forcing a district court judge to impose a minimum man… |
| 20-5136 |
In Re Abdul Mohammed |
|
2020-07-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-dismissal civil-procedure district-court due-process executive-committee executive-power federal-courts judicial-procedure legal-order mandamus mandamus-petition standing |
whether the Executive Committee's Order entered against the Petitioner on June 17, 2020 is legal |
| 20-5140 |
Wilfredo Torres v. City of New York, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process judicial-procedure petition-for-certiorari qualified-immunity standing warrantless-raids warrantless-search |
Whether the U.S. District Court-Southern District of New York and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred in dismissing the petitioner'… |
| 20-5110 |
Gabriel Cardona-Ramirez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-conflict collateral-appeal-waiver district-court due-process plea-agreement section-2255 standing sua-sponte |
Whether a district court has authority to raise a collateral-appeal-waiver sua sponte |
| 20-5083 |
Telly Kavantzas v. Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure district-court electronic-dockets federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-notice rule-4 rules-governing-section-2254-cases section-2254 timeliness |
Whether Rule 4 of the Rules Governing Section 2254 Cases allows the district court to dismiss a habeas corpus petition as untimely without calling for… |
| 20-5006 |
Manuel Olivas-Guevara v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abduction appeal appeal-timeliness base-offense-level civil-procedure dismissal district-court jurisdiction robbery sentencing-guidelines standing timeliness |
Did the panel err by dismissing the appeal for timeliness? |
| 19-8911 |
Lee Montez Thompson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari criminal-procedure davis-v-united-states district-court due-process habeas-corpus plain-error pleading-defendant reasonable-probability rehaif-v-united-states sentencing |
Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light of… |
| 19-8898 |
Angelo Peter Efthimiatos v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-07-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-circuit-split calendar criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion jury-selection presentation-of-evidence speedy-trial-act trial-delay uniformity |
Whether the Speedy Trial Act permits district courts to conduct jury selection within the time limits of the speedy trial clock but delay presentation… |
| 19-8902 |
Rafael Antonio Patino-Villalobos v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acknowledgement criminal-procedure defense-counsel district-court federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure invited-error legal-doctrine procedural-waiver rule-52(b) sentencing |
Whether defense counsel's acknowledgement of the district court's statement during sentencing constitutes an affirmative, intentional, deliberate, and… |
| 19-8887 |
Maria Pena-Rivera v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court evidence-admissibility evidence-admission evidentiary-standard federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-error rule-403 rule-404(b) |
Is it error by the district court to fail to enumerate the specific basis for allowing evidence pursuant for Federal Rule of Evidence section 404(b) s… |
| 19-8817 |
Barry Lalane Harrell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
above-range criminal-procedure district-court justification policy-statement sentencing |
Whether the district court erred when it sentenced Petitioner significantly above the policy statement range without adequate justification? |
| 19-1404 |
Michael Lieberman v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-06-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
all-writs-act amendment criminal-defendant district-court judicial-relief post-conviction-remedies relief restitution restitution-order sentencing statutory-interpretation |
What relief is available to a criminal defendant under the All Writs Act? |
| 19-8754 |
Francisco Armando Martinez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-06-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split consensual-encounter district-court fourth-amendment law-enforcement motion-to-suppress reasonable-suspicion standard-of-review suppression |
Whether an appellate court must uphold the ruling of the district court if there is any reasonable view of the evidence to support it where the distri… |
| 19-8734 |
In Re Ren Y. Deng |
|
2020-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure district-court genuine-issue jurisdictional-review material-fact material-facts procedural-rule procedural-rules standard-of-review summary-judgment |
Did the district court deviation from procedural rule while there was overwhelming genuine issue of material fact disputed in the record granting the … |
| 19-8716 |
Eric Martin Pepke v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review standing |
Whether the Fourth Circuit appellate court erred in dismissing Pepke's motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 which included an unconstitutionality challenge t… |
| 19-1364 |
Heather Henry, et vir v. CMBB, LLC |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
certification civil-procedure common-law district-court intentional-injury intentional-tort preemption sixth-circuit standing statutory-interpretation tennessee-law workers-compensation |
Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in affirming the decision that Petitioners' claim is barred by Tennessee Code Annotated § 50-6-108(a) and the common l… |
| 19-8622 |
Kimberley McQueary-Layne v. Louisiana State Board of Nursing, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law case-number civil-procedure civil-rights court-case district-court due-process government-liability judicial-system jurisdiction legal-proceeding standing |
Whether the lower courts erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims |
| 19-8609 |
Madhu Sameer v. Sameer Khera, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights damages declarative-relief district-court due-process injunctive-relief legal-malpractice standing unconstitutional-judgment void-judgments |
Whether District Court's Characterisation of a suit seeking injunctive, declarative relief and damages against making of Unconstitutional and Void Jud… |
| 19-8616 |
Anthony Helton v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure district-court fourth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-error motion-to-dismiss standing |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Helton's motion to dismiss? |
| 19-8605 |
Courtland Barnes v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography criminal-sentencing district-court federal-appeals federal-sentencing-guidelines fourth-circuit mitigating-evidence sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the district court's reliance on the child pornography guideline and the mitigating evidence Petitioner offered to the court require the vacat… |
| 19-8562 |
Alexander Rosenblatt v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court paroline-analysis plain-error restitution total-loss victim-loss |
Whether a district court's failure to determine the total loss to the victims and its failure to conduct a Paroline analysis before entering an order … |
| 19-8537 |
Susan Xiao-Ping Su v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-05-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction legal-remedy procedural-error sentencing |
whether the Ninth Circuit should sua sponte vacate a grand jury conviction and sentence because the defendant alleges court error in failing to apply … |
| 19-8503 |
Darieus Malik Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administration-of-justice criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court fact-intensive-inquiry federal-criminal-cases fifth-circuit prostitution-enhancement review-standard sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Did the Fifth Circuit's cursory review of the district court's record lead to an illegal, unreasonable sentence |
| 19-8474 |
Brittany Dawn Thomas v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(e) 18-USC-3553e criminal-procedure district-court judicial-authority mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-discretion separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
Does a district court's inability to depart below a mandatory minimum under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(e), for any factor other than defendant's substantial ass… |
| 19-8482 |
Graylin Gray v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conviction district-court due-process habeas-corpus judgment judgment-of-conviction petition-for-writ procedural-error sentence state-custody |
Whether petitioner is in state custody pursuant to a sentence, not pursuant to the judgment, which includes both the conviction and sentence? |
| 19-8453 |
John Christopher Dobbs v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure cross-reference district-court federal-rules firearm-possession judicial-findings presentence-report rule-32 sentencing-guidelines |
When a defendant disputes that he has committed a Cross Reference crime, does Rule 32(i)(3)(B) require the district court to make specific findings ab… |
| 19-8354 |
Nelson Romero v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-04-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court due-process fundamental-liberty liberty-interest procedural-flaws procedural-violation summary-judgment |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's case with prejudice and failing to certify any issue for appellate review, depriving petit… |
| 19-8315 |
Todd Michael Vincent v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-04-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review rule-60b section-2255 statutory-interpretation |
Is issuance of a certificate of appealability a prerequisite to appealing the denial of a Rule 60(b) motion? |
| 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? |
| 19-8187 |
Kahwahnas Nucumbhi Potts v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1028a circuit-split consecutive-sentencing criminal-law criminal-sentencing district-court federal-procedure inter-circuit-conflict sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether this honorable Court should grant certiorari to resolve inter-Circuit disharmony regarding a District Court's consideration of consecutive sen… |
| 19-8095 |
Deville McCants v. Cheryl Hansen, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law administrative-rules civil-procedure discovery district-court due-process judicial-interpretation medical-bills standing summary-judgment |
Whether the district court erred in denying the petitioner's motion to compel discovery |
| 19-8016 |
Jaime Vega, aka Jimmy Johnson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeals criminal-procedure district-court due-process revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
To what extent does 18 U.S.C. § 3553 require a district court to specifically state the reasons for imposing a revocation sentence above the guideline… |
| 19-8017 |
Maria Mercedes Cancino, et al. v. Cameron County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-circuit civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court due-process legal-error state-created-danger |
Whether the District Court and the 5th Circuit erred, as a matter of law, in failing to find that Appellants have a constitutional right to be free fr… |
| 19-8031 |
James Allen Gregg v. United States District Court for the District of South Dakota |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure credibility credibility-determination district-court due-process evidentiary-standard judicial-review magistrate-judge procedural-fairness witness |
Is a defendant's due process rights adequately protected when a district judge rejects a magistrate judge's proposed findings on credibility when thos… |
| 19-8019 |
Efrain Sifuentes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
resulting in an unreasonable sentence appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines unreasonable-sentence |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit improperly condone the District Court's error in applying the United States Sentencing Gu… |
| 19-7995 |
Elijah Jackson, Jr. v. Magoon Estates Limited, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts article-3-court civil-procedure district-court due-process filing-fee in-forma-pauperis prisoner-rights related-cases standing |
Did the federal article 3 court or United States District Court for the District of Hawaii, in Honolulu err/error or breach its own order failing to a… |
| 19-7998 |
Paul Anthony Montanez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Did the district court impose a plainly unreasonable sentence upon Mr. Montanez? |
| 19-7918 |
Patrick Harris v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a child-pornography criminal-sentencing district-court enhancement-factors excessive-sentence sentencing-discretion sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines statutory-considerations |
Did the district court err in applying sentencing enhancements under U.S.S.G. §2G2.2(b)(2), (b)(3), (b)(4), (b)(6) and (b)(7)(D) to Mr. Harris' case? |
| 19-7886 |
Dennis Mahon v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constitutional-review custodial-interrogation district-court effective-assistance-of-counsel functional-equivalent-of-interrogation judicial-disagreement legal-standard magistrate-judge miranda-v-arizona right-to-silence substantial-showing |
Whether the lower courts erred in failing to find that a defendant made a substantial showing that jurists of reason could disagree on a constitutiona… |
| 19-7871 |
In Re Antonio Damarcus Woodson |
|
2020-03-04 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
access-to-courts appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-jurisdiction civil-procedure-standing-jurisdiction-federal-rule civil-rights district-court due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure final-judgment jurisdiction legal-standards procedural-due-process retroactive-law standing |
Whether the jurisdictional requirements under 28 USC §§ 1331, 1332, 1343, 1367, 2072, and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were met, and whether t… |
| 19-7851 |
Lenin Martinez-Alvarado v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 concurrent-sentences criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court downward-departure eleventh-circuit jurisdiction substantive-reasonableness u.s.s.g-§4a1.3 |
Whether certiorari review should be granted where the Eleventh Circuit held that it did not have jurisdiction to review the district court's denial to… |
| 19-1075 |
Bryan Adrian Copeland v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court due-process eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment habeas habeas-corpus habeas-review ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan miller-el-v-cockrell strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in affirming the District Court and denying Copeland a Certificate of Appealability for § 2255 habeas review |
| 19-7812 |
Lajbar Lajaward Khan v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
clearly-erroneous criminal-procedure declaration district-court drug-quantity drug-weight fatico-hearing objections probation-office role-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether the District Court's findings as to drug weight and role were clearly erroneous |
| 19-7817 |
Maria de Lourdes Acosta v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court judicial-procedure plain-error pre-sentence-report prejudice procedural-error sentencing |
When the district court fails to either order a Pre-Sentence Report or make explicit on-the-record findings as to why a Pre-Sentence Report is unneces… |
| 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… |
| 19-1034 |
Tami L. Mitchell v. Thomas M. Dillahunt |
Minnesota |
2020-02-19 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment district-court due-process enforceability evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment military-retired-pay state-courts uniformed-services-former-spouses-protection-act |
Did the Minnesota District Court's division of petitioner's military retired pay violate the Uniformed Services Former Spouses' Protection Act? |
| 19-7677 |
Sandchase Cody v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-U.S.C.-2255 28-usc-2255 acca district-court due-process resentencing resentencing-hearing sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether Mr. Cody was denied due process when after the removal of his unlawful ACCA sentencing enhancement, following a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion, the d… |
| 19-7648 |
Otis Renaldo Harris v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-justice criminal-procedure discretion discretionary-power district-court due-process equal-protection judicial-review sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court abused its discretion when it found that petitioner Harris was not eligible for a sentence reduction under Section 404? |
| 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 |
| 19-7536 |
James Henry Simpson v. Martesha Bishop, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure criminal-liability criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution federal-rules immunity judicial-docketing prisoner-filing standing statutory-interpretation |
Should a U.S. District Court docket a Criminal Complaint as a civil action? |
| 19-7440 |
Alan Strattan v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-U.S.C-2253 28-usc-2253 basis-for-denying-relief certificate-of-appealability circuit-court district-court habeas habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason merits-of-claims standard-of-review |
Whether a petitioner seeking the issuance of a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253 is required to demonstrate that jurists of reason w… |
| 19-7315 |
Andrew Wright v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-U.S.C-2255(f)(4) civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal retained-counsel standing statutory-interpretation |
Does equitable tolling automatically apply under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(4) where a defendant relies, to his detriment, on an oral order of a United State… |
| 19-7306 |
Dmitry Pronin v. Charles Wright, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-circuit appellate-review civil-rights credibility district-court due-process legal-construction procedural-interpretation standing summary-judgment |
Whether the district court properly construed the legal argument for a party in a civil rights lawsuit, and whether the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals i… |
| 19-872 |
Matthew Reid Hinson v. R. A. Bias, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure collateral-order district-court factual-review factual-sufficiency qualified-immunity summary-judgment surveillance-video |
Did the Eleventh Circuit exceed its limited jurisdiction when, on appeal from a denial of summary judgment in a qualified-immunity case, it vacated th… |
| 19-7177 |
Eric C. Miller v. Randy Gibbs, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa civil-procedure district-court federal-courts federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus procedural-dismissal successive-petition successive-petitions time-bar |
Can District Courts continue to dismiss (numerically) second habeas petitions as 'successive' and hold the petitioner to the stricter AEDPA requiremen… |
| 19-7231 |
Joshua Andrew Monroe v. Scott Lewis, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure district-court due-process fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-court-of-appeals habeas-corpus procedural-ruling statute-of-limitations |
Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals err in not issuing a certificate of appealability where petitioner demonstrated that jurist of reason could fi… |
| 19-861 |
Mark Shumski v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-09 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion prisoner-rights standard-of-review |
Is a prisoner entitled to a certificate of appealability (COA) on a claim for which other jurists have reached different conclusions from the district… |
| 19-825 |
Federal Trade Commission v. Credit Bureau Center, LLC, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Granted |
Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (6) |
circuit-split district-court enforcement-authority federal-trade-commission federal-trade-commission-act injunction permanent-injunction restitution section-13(b) statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 13(b) authorizes district courts to enter an injunction that orders the return of unlawfully obtained funds |
| 19-7059 |
John Kenneth Schiefer v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion legal-reasoning plain-error procedural-error respect-for-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure |
Did the district court plainly procedurally err when it selected and imposed sentence based on its desire to promote the defendant's respect for the l… |
| 19-7056 |
Robert Keith Kinsey v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court judicial-objection objection preservation-of-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-procedure |
Must challenges to the procedural reasonableness of a sentence be preserved by a separate 'reasonableness' objection in district court? |
| 19-7033 |
Ali Darwich v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appeals-court appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60-b-6 district-court district-court-discretion due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-review motion-for-reconsideration rule-60-motion rule-60(b)(6) sixth-circuit-appeal standing |
Whether the panel erred in construing Darwich's motion as a motion for reconsideration under local rule 7.1(h)(1) and remanding the case back to the d… |
| 19-7044 |
Darmarcus Fisher v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-assault appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fifth-circuit procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the district court imposed a substantively unreasonable sentence and erred by imposing a 4-level enhancement for aggravated assault |
| 19-7009 |
Daniel Rosario-Gonzalez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review case-disposition civil-procedure dismissal dismissal-with-prejudice district-court judicial-authority jurisdiction prejudice procedural-error standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether a district court which had no jurisdiction over a case can dismiss it with prejudice |
| 19-7014 |
Geoffrey Scott Gaffney v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals constitutional-provisions district-court due-process eighth-circuit evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus procunier-v-atchley stare-decisis |
Should this court grant this petition to address the obvious failure of the eighth circuit court of appeals to require a district court to conduct an … |
| 19-6961 |
Hernan Navarro v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process equitable-relief evidence evidentiary-proceedings intellectual-predicate judicial-review precedent precedent-analysis standing statutory-interpretation |
Did the District court of The Virgin Islands contravene Binding precedents, holdings of Haein and Controlling Statutory Provisions, when they failed t… |
| 19-769 |
Alaa Elkharwily v. Franciscan Health System |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bright-line-rule civil-procedure claim-preclusion different-facts district-court due-process federal-courts fraud-on-the-court issue-preclusion ninth-circuit post-trial-relief res-judicata |
Whether federal courts must refuse to dismiss on res-judicata grounds a second claim against the same defendant that is based on different facts, evid… |
| 19-6932 |
Dustin Larmon McDonald v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-13 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certiorari criminal-procedure district-court due-process fifth-circuit leniency-arguments preservation-of-error procedural-objection reasonableness sentencing-procedure sentencing-reasonableness united-states-v-haymond |
Must challenges to the procedural reasonableness of a sentence be preserved by a separate 'reasonableness' objection in district court? |
| 19-6935 |
Rickie James King v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certiorari criminal-procedure district-court due-process fifth-circuit leniency-arguments preservation-of-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness remand sentencing sentencing-procedure united-states-v-haymond |
whether-challenges-to-procedural-reasonableness-of-sentence-must-be-preserved |
| 19-6925 |
Sulaiman Taalibdin v. Lawrence Mahally, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals-court appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure district-court due-process final-decision habeas-corpus motion-timeliness rule-60(b) rule-60b standing third-circuit |
Did the Circuit Court possess appellate jurisdiction when the district court ruled petitioner's Rule 60(b) motion untimely under Rule 60(b)(6) which w… |
| 19-6890 |
Kevin Lamont Pearson v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
district-court due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure final-revocation-hearing magistrate-judge probable-cause procedural-review revocation-hearing rule-32.1 standing |
Does the plain text of Rule 32.1 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure bar a district court from considering an alleged violation at a final revo… |
| 19-6881 |
April Torres v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion parole probation reasonableness revocation sentencing supervised-release |
Did the district court impose a plainly unreasonable revocation sentence upon Ms. Torres? |
| 19-6783 |
Virgil Lamont Jarvis v. David Allison, Sheriff, Pearl River County, Mississippi, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-review appeal-rights appeals civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process exhaustion-of-administrative-remedies in-forma-pauperis jury-trial legal-procedure prison-litigation-reform-act standing summary-judgment |
Whether officials can refuse to process inmate grievances and then dismiss a subsequent civil rights lawsuit for failure to exhaust administrative rem… |
| 19-6787 |
Robert Lee Mitchell v. Miller, Magistrate Judge, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions district-court due-process jurisdiction patent standing statutory-provisions takings |
Is the order of the U.S. district court dated 11-19 valid? |
| 19-680 |
Kenneth Sealey, et al. v. J. Duane Gilliam, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process summary-judgment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court due-process fourth-circuit legal-analysis qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment |
Did the Fourth Circuit err in holding that District Courts are not required to properly apply the qualified immunity analysis as to each officer and e… |
| 19-665 |
John Doe v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3553a criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure rule-35 rule-35b sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-factors substantial-assistance |
May a district court deny a government's Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 35(b) motion for reduction of sentence based on substantial assistance wit… |
| 19-662 |
Thomas Sander v. City of Dickinson, North Dakota, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights de-novo-review district-court due-process evidence seventh-amendment summary-judgment trial-by-jury |
Whether a civil litigant's right to trial by jury is violated when a district court ignores the non-moving party's evidence and a court of appeals sum… |
| 19-6705 |
Keenan G. Wilkins v. J. Galvin, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeals appellate-jurisdiction arbitration-award civil-procedure dismissal district-court due-process jurisdiction legal-standard manifest-disregard motion-to-strike motion-to-vacate standing |
Does the Court of Appeal have jurisdiction to decide an appeal before hearing an oral argument by the appellants, and is the appellants' request for I… |
| 19-6700 |
Abid Naseer v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisement appellate-review district-court right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment standard-of-review waiver |
Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals applied an incorrect standard in concluding that Petitioner knowingly and intelligently waived his Sixth A… |
| 19-6681 |
Louis Milton Willis v. Territory of the Virgin Islands |
Virgin Islands |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
48-usc-1612 district-court exclusive-jurisdiction gross-receipts-tax income-tax organic-act revised-organic-act statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction virgin-islands |
Whether the plain language of § 22 of the Revised Organic Act of 1954 vests exclusive jurisdiction over gross receipts taxes in the District Court of … |
| 19-6650 |
Fidel Rios, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a 8th-circuit criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court downward-variance guidelines judicial-discretion life-circumstances sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines u-s-code |
Whether the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals and District Court for the Southern District of Iowa failed to adequately consider the sentencing factors set… |
| 19-6611 |
William Severs v. Gurbir Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254 civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts federal-statute habeas-corpus petition section-2254 statute-of-limitations time-bar |
Was the District Court's decision to dismiss Petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition as untimely correct? |
| 19-6576 |
James Marvin Reed v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
blackledge-v-perry circuit-court-review district-court district-court-power eighth-circuit guilty-plea jurisdictional-challenge penson-review subject-matter-jurisdiction united-states-v-cotton waiver |
Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in ruling that the defendant waived his jurisdictional challenge by pleading guilty, despite the well-settled princip… |
| 19-6509 |
William Gaudet v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2423(a) appeals-court appellate-review conviction criminal-sentencing district-court evidence-exclusion evidence-rule-403 federal-rules-of-evidence federal-sentencing-guidelines judgment-of-acquittal motion-in-limine prior-testimony sentencing standard-of-review whether-the-appeals-court-erred-in-upholding-the-d |
Whether the appeals court erred in upholding the district court's denial of the petitioner's motion in limine |
| 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… |
| 19-6426 |
John Ramirez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-30 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure district-court extraordinary-circumstances finality finality-exception legal-standard relief-from-judgement relief-from-judgment timely-filing timely-motion |
Whether Petitioner is entitled to relief from judgement where he files a motion in a timely fashion and provides the district court with extraordinary… |
| 19-6415 |
Jose Eleuterio Nava v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure deference district-court due-process judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors? |
| 19-6433 |
Edward Anthony Torres v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-jurisdiction district-court due-process federal-courts indian-status jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue magistrate-court native-american native-american-law ninth-circuit pretrial-decision standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether a district court may, pretrial, decide an Indian status jurisdictional question |
| 19-493 |
James J. Maksimuk v. Connor Sport Court International, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2019-10-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
cafc corporate-representation court-procedure district-court due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause legal-counsel legal-representation overturning-decisions supreme-court-rulings trademark-cancellation trademark-law |
Did the CAFC, District Court, 10th Cir., TTAB orders and judgments and referenced Supreme Court rulings—that required corporations to be represented b… |
| 19-6292 |
Malcolm Muhammad v. Y. Taylor, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights disciplinary-conviction district-court due-process evidence fourth-circuit good-time-credit hearing-rights jury-verdict liberty-interest parole retaliation standing |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in deferring to the District Court's findings |
| 19-6295 |
Antonio Flores v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appearance-of-partiality circuit-split constitutional-due-process constitutional-review district-court due-process judicial-bias judicial-impartiality miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement sentencing-procedure |
Does a broad appeal waiver preclude appellate review of a district court's findings if the judge created a constitutionally impermissible appearance o… |
| 19-6258 |
In Re Tiran R. Casteel |
|
2019-10-11 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review competency district-court due-process eighth-circuit false-premise legal-competency mental-health restoration retroactive-determination trial trial-procedure |
Was the Petitioner restored prior to the November 2009 trial? |
| 19-6225 |
Marc Pierre Hall v. Warden Andrews |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 district-court fundamental-errors habeas-corpus judicial-review precedent-analysis retroactive-statutory-interpretation savings-clause-28-usc-2241 statutory-interpretation statutory-interpretation-28-usc-2255 subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the district court had proper subject matter jurisdiction in light of United States v. Cotton, 535 U.S. 625 (2002), Bailey v. United States, 5… |
| 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… |
| 19-6138 |
William A. White v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-02 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure district-court due-process evidentiary-development evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings post-conviction-relief section-2255 supervisory-power |
May a District Court strike all evidence in a 28 USC §2255 proceeding and deny relief for failure to present evidence? |
| 19-6084 |
Jair Mendoza Montoya v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals-court constitutional-power criminal-jurisdiction criminal-jurisdiction-territorial-principle-extrat district-court drug-enforcement extraterritorial-effect international-waters maritime-jurisdiction nicaragua-international-waters statutory-interpretation territorial-principle |
Was the criminal jurisdiction of the United States based upon territorial principle, and unlawfully conferred to the U.S.A. by implication given to ex… |
| 19-6104 |
Freya D. Pearson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-1001 district-court due-process duty-to-speak false-statement government-knowledge government-misconduct jury-determination jury-instruction jury-instructions materiality prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation wire-fraud |
Can a conviction stand under 18 U.S.C. 1001 (2) without a 'Materiality' determination, and should that Determination come from the District Court or f… |
| 19-6119 |
Masnik Sainmelus v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing district-court firearm-possession firearms guideline-enhancement guideline-range sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-2k2.1 |
Whether the district court erred in increasing the appellant's guideline range by finding the offense involved 8-24 firearms under U.S.S.G. 2K2.1(b)(1… |
| 19-418 |
Benoit Brookens v. Patrick Pizzella, Acting Secretary of Labor |
District of Columbia |
2019-09-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal civil-rights district-court due-process federal-circuit jurisdiction merit-systems-protection-board mixed-appeal non-discrimination |
Whether the Federal Circuit has jurisdiction over non-discrimination issues in a mixed appeal filed within 60 days of the decision by the Merit System… |
| 19-393 |
Estelle Stein v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure district-court due-process due-process-clause evidence evidence-submission federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure summary-judgment |
Does a party have a right under the Due Process Clause to file evidence in opposition to a motion for summary judgment? |
| 19-367 |
Shambria Necole Smith v. Kansa Technology, L.L.C. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-19 |
Denied |
|
appeal district-court district-court-procedure due-process due-process,jury-tampering,jury-taint,trial-procee evidence-admissibility jury-taint jury-tampering trial-proceedings workers-compensation |
Whether the District Court violated the Due Process Clause by disallowing the interview of the jurors |
| 19-5949 |
Marcelino Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-11 district-court federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plain-error plea-bargaining plea-negotiations rule-11 substantial-rights |
when-district-court-violates-rule-11(c)(1)-of-federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure |
| 19-5922 |
Pedro Munoz, aka Pedro Munoz Ruiz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure deference district-court federal-courts-of-appeals federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors? |
| 19-5899 |
Willie Harold House, et ux. v. Eileen Egland, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure fraud-upon-the-court judicial-procedure misprision-of-felony misprision-of-treason oath-of-office treason void-ruling |
Did the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overlook potential indication of treasonable actions in the District Court record, condoning a series of m… |
| 19-5901 |
In Re Charles K. Hamilton |
|
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure-standing-jurisdiction-due-process- civil-rights constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge legal-standing standing |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's petition for writ of mandamus |
| 19-5868 |
William Charles Burgess v. Chuck Bowers, Jr., et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment circuit-court circuit-court-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-finding district-court-findings expectation-of-privacy legal-precedent precedent prior-decisions search-and-seizure sixth-circuit |
Whether the Sixth Circuit Court improperly reversed the District Court's finding that Petitioner had an expectation of privacy in and around his busin… |
| 19-5873 |
In Re Richard Arjun Kaul |
|
2019-09-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
all-writs-act appellate-jurisdiction district-court fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-corruption mandamus summary-judgment writ-of-mandamus |
Whether the district court's arbitrary refusal to adjudicate the petitioner's 22 motions for summary judgment was a consequence of judicial corruption… |
| 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? |
| 19-5742 |
Robert Gene Rand v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion factual-findings ninth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-application sentencing-reductions standard-of-review |
Whether a circuit court errs by affirming a district court's decision regarding the applicability of the United States Sentencing Guidelines based on … |
| 19-5728 |
Kristin L. Hardy v. Kelly Santoro, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review district-court evidentiary-hearing federal-habeas-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel performance-prong plea-negotiations sentencing-exposure state-court |
Whether a federal appellate court fails to provide legitimate federal habeas review |
| 19-5718 |
Alexander Lee Salazar v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility appeal criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion mitigating-factors mitigating-role offense-level role-adjustment sentencing-guidelines |
Did the district court err when it declined to grant Mr. Salazar a mitigating role adjustment under the Guidelines? |
| 19-239 |
Larry Benzon, Warden v. Troy Michael Kell |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-08-23 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
appeal appeals appellate-review capital-case capital-punishment collateral-order-doctrine district-court federalism habeas-corpus rhines-v-weber stay |
Whether a district court's order staying and abeying a capital prisoner's habeas corpus petition under Rhines v. Weber, 544 U.S. 269 (2005), is immedi… |
| 19-5668 |
Jerry Ellis, aka Jerry Leonard Ellis v. Noel Barlow-Hust, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights-counsel continuance due-process ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment trial-preparation appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-procedures habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction post-conviction-relief standing |
Whether the United States District Court for the District of Idaho erred in denying the petitioner's motion for counsel on post-conviction appeal |
| 19-5518 |
Muamar A. Sayyed v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
§2254 §2254-petition civil-procedure district-court district-court-authority due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion motion-correction procedural-error successive-petitions void-judgment |
Does the district court have the authority to dismiss §2254 habeas corpus petition as successive when it was clearly not successive? |
| 19-5515 |
Lester Leon Sanders v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-U.S.C-2255 28-usc-2255 circuit-conflict criminal-defendant district-court district-court-judgment federal-criminal-procedure federal-statutory-provision original-judgment retroactive-constitutional-decision second-successive-motion statutory-provision |
What standard governs a criminal defendant pursuing a second or successive motion under 28-U.S.C-2255, asserting relief pursuant to a retroactive-cons… |
| 19-5474 |
Terry Lee Carlson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
computer-search district-court due-process evidence evidence-suppression fourth-amendment jurisdiction search-limitation search-warrant territorial-jurisdiction venue warrant-scope |
Did the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals disregard plain and unambiguous language in the search warrant limiting searches to the computers located in t… |
| 19-5465 |
Isela Alejandra Campos v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court district-court-error guideline-range guidelines molina-martinez plain-error plain-error-review prejudice prejudice-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the defendant may rely on the district court's error alone to show prejudice under plain error review |
| 19-5412 |
Jean Claude Phillip McKenzie v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a 6th-circuit appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court history-and-characteristics judicial-discretion nature-and-circumstances sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance |
Whether the district court's upward variance in sentencing was proper |
| 19-5400 |
Jason Alston v. Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc., dba Luvel |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
admissibility civil-procedure dispositive-motion district-court evidence evidence-admissibility evidence-hearing evidentiary-hearing hearing judicial-procedure jurisdiction legal-motion |
Whether the Respondent's Declarations submitted with their Dispositive Motion inadmissible evidence? |
| 19-5406 |
Ronald Lee Coleman v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims constitutional-law district-court due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-error petitioner-rights procedural-due-process standing takings |
Whether the District Court erred in failing to address Petitioner's constitutional claims |
| 19-5333 |
Charles York Walker, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
GVR |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion case-specific-factors criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-11 discretion district-court district-court-discretion felon-in-possession grand-jury incorrect-assumptions opioid-crisis plea-agreement plea-bargaining policy-disagreement rehaif-standard rule-11 |
Whether a district court abuses its discretion in rejecting plea agreements based on policy disagreements |
| 19-5314 |
Aurora Barrera v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2255-petition 28-usc-1291 28-usc-2255 appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review district-court due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-procedure jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a court of appeals has jurisdiction over an appeal of the denial of a § 2255 Petition pursuant to § 1291 when the District Court fails to adju… |
| 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 |
| 19-5251 |
Thomas Cascio v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
below-guidelines below-guidelines-sentence criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion due-process prison-time rehabilitation rehabilitative-needs sentencing sentencing-guidelines tapia-error tapia-v-united-states |
Should certiorari be granted to find that a Tapia error occurs anytime a district court considers rehabilitative needs in imposing prison time, even f… |
| 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… |
| 19-5101 |
Darryl Puderer v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process equitable-tolling evidence-standard forcible-rape jurisdiction second-degree-kidnapping standing statute-of-limitations tolling |
Did the Federal District Court err in denying the petitioner's statutory or equitable tolling request when adequate record evidence was presented in s… |
| 19-5080 |
Reyes Vega, aka Ray Vega v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-1291 28-usc-2255 appellate-jurisdiction district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review section-1291 section-2255 unadjudicated-claims |
Whether a court of appeals has jurisdiction over an appeal of the denial of a § 2255 Petition pursuant to § 1291 when the District Court fails to adju… |
| 19-5086 |
Iris McClain v. Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
bankruptcy-fraud civil-procedure district-court emotional-distress false-and-deceitful-misrepresentation fourth-circuit fraud-upon-the-court infliction-of-emotional-distress mail-and-wire-fraud mail-fraud wire-fraud |
Whether the Fourth Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's Order Dismissing the Bankruptcy Fraud (Claim … |
| 19-5071 |
Erwin Burley v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion eleventh-circuit judicial-discretion sentencing-explanation sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines supervisory-power upward-variance |
Whether this Court should exercise its supervisory power and grant review because the Eleventh Circuit has permitted an upward variance sentence almos… |
| 19-5049 |
Michael Wilson v. Shawn Hatton, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-right constitutional-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason procedural-ruling sixth-amendment standing |
Whether jurists of reason would find it debatable whether the petition states a valid claim of a denial of a constitutional right, and whether jurists… |
| 19-11 |
Lin Rountree v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure compliance dismissal district-court judicial-discretion mediation mediation-order motion-for-reconsideration motion-to-dismiss order procedural-error reconsideration standing |
Whether the district court erred in granting respondents' motion to dismiss when the respondents failed to comply with the district court's order to m… |
| 19-5017 |
Shanta Phillips-Berry v. Louisiana, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court due-process equal-protection evidence-presentation fair-trial judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-procedure standing |
Whether the district court abused its discretion in denying the petitioner a fair trial by jury and the opportunity to present evidence against the re… |
| 18-9815 |
Kazi Bowles v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions discretion district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction petition relief standing writ-of-habeas-corpus |
Whether the district court erred in not applying a clear error standard of review when reviewing the petitioner's motion for relief from judgment for … |
| 18A1362 |
Marshall Leon Watkins v. Nurse Jones, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-26 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure district-court final-order interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction |
Whether a district court's failure to rule on all claims against a defendant renders the order non-final and non-appealable |
| 18-9769 |
Ishmael Wahid v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process equitable-relief preliminary-injunction remand standard-of-review standing |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in not applying the correct standard for granting a preliminary injunction |
| 18-1560 |
Richard Leland Neal v. B. Marc Neal, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-21 |
Denied |
|
amended-complaint appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts federal-rules motion-to-dismiss ninth-circuit pleadings rule-12(b)(6) standing |
Whether the Arizona District Court and the Ninth Circuit created a split by holding that defendants timely responded to Plaintiff's amended complaint … |
| 18-9743 |
Hollins Tizeno v. Gerald Janda, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion legal-procedure procedural-default standing sua-sponte waiver |
Whether a district court may sua sponte raise a waived procedural default defense and, if so, under what circumstances is it appropriate to do so. |
| 18A1330 |
Gale Zamore v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, Individually and as Trustee for JP Morgan Mortgage Acquisition Trust 2007-CH5 Asset Backed Pass-Through Certificates Series 2007-CH5, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-18 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certiorari district-court eleventh-circuit federal-appellate judicial-review mortgage-foreclosure |
Whether a federal appellate court's affirmance of a district court's dismissal of a mortgage-related complaint can be challenged through a Supreme Cou… |
| 18-9597 |
Jose Berrum, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure district-court fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
May This Court Grant Certificate Of Appealability Or Overturn Conviction Where The Fifth Circuit Court Of Appeals Sanctioned District Court's Misappli… |
| 18-9600 |
Patricia Diane Smith Sledge v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidence-rules evidentiary-ruling federal-rules-of-evidence procedural-error sufficiency-of-evidence summary-evidence witness-tampering |
Did the district court prejudicially err when admitting Exhibit 1 as a summary pursuant to Fed Rules of Evidence, rule 1006? |
| 18A1288 |
Steve Chabot, et al. v. Ohio A. Philip Randolph Institute, et al. |
Ohio |
2019-06-10 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-challenge district-court election-law gerrymandering redistricting voting-rights |
Whether partisan gerrymandering claims present a justiciable federal question that federal courts can adjudicate |
| 18-9589 |
Nicholas Bradley Gilbert v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-07 |
GVR |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-penalties criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion felon-possession interstate-commerce sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review requires or permits the courts of appeals to 'substantively second guess' the district court and/or to 'rewe… |
| 18-9559 |
Aracelis N. Ayala v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
article-iii-judges civil-rights criminal-defendants criminal-procedure district-court due-process fifth-amendment individualized-determination judicial-tenure presumption revised-organic-act shackling shackling-policy virgin-islands-court |
whether a blanket policy of shackling criminal defendants without an individualized determination of need violates due process? |
| 18-9540 |
Clifton D. Harvin v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence actual-innocence-exception aedpa district-court due-process federal-review fifth-circuit habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins miscarriage-of-justice slack-v-mcdaniel statute-of-limitations |
When a Petitioner relies upon the McQuiggin V Perkins 133 S.Ct. 1924 miscarriage of justice actual innoccence exception to overcome the AEDPA one year… |
| 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 |
| 18-1482 |
Semyya Lanise Cunningham v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
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circumstantial-guarantees circumstantial-guarantees-of-trustworthiness credibility credibility-of-witnesses district-court district-court-discretion evidence-law evidence-rule-807 federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay-exception hearsay-rule judicial-discretion residual-hearsay-exception rule-807 trustworthiness witness-credibility |
Whether a finding of 'circumstantial guarantees of trustworthiness' may be premised on a district court's belief in the truth of the hearsay statement… |
| 18-9443 |
Arthur L. Campbell v. Sherman Campbell, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction miller-el-v-cockrell procedural-error sixth-circuit standard-of-review statute-of-limitations |
Whether the Sixth Circuit committed plain error in considering the merits of Campbell's appeal without issuing a certificate of appealability first |
| 18-9378 |
In Re Tae Hon Chon |
|
2019-05-22 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights criminal-statute district-court due-process ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-doctrine fair-warning substantive-law |
Does a District Court's ex post facto construction of a substantive criminal statute deprive a petitioner of the fair warning to which the Constitutio… |
| 18-9370 |
Mark A. Blankenship v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction criminal-procedure district-court district-court-determination fed-r-crim-p-35(b) federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-review reduced-sentence sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-factor sentencing-factors |
Does appellate jurisdiction lie from a district court's determination that a particular sentencing factor is relevant to the imposition of a reduced s… |
| 18-9336 |
Saul Elias Camilo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 appellate-review district-court due-process fair-administration-of-justice ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain plea-bargaining section-2255 sentencing-guidelines |
Where a plea deal has opposing clauses, is such confusion sufficient to reach the bar for appellate review in a §2255 process when ineffective-assista… |
| 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 |
| 18-9218 |
Alexandro Gerandino-Aracena v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
article-iii district-court due-process judicial-appointment judicial-appointments judicial-tenure non-Article-III-courts non-Article-III-judges presidential-appointment revised-organic-act separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation tenure Virgin-Islands |
Can non-Article III judges serve indefinitely? |
| 18-9170 |
Cynthia Ortiz v. Charles Perry, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-1292 abuse-of-discretion ambiguity appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure district-court injunctive-relief interlocutory-appeal jurisdictional-dispute objections transfer venue-transfer |
Whether the Tenth Circuit has jurisdiction to consider for Interlocutory Appeal, under 28 U.S.C. § 1292 (a)(1) and (b), denial of Injunctive Relief |
| 18-9203 |
Leslie E. Thomas v. Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Union County |
Third Circuit |
2019-05-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeals appeals-court appellate-review civil-procedure court-authority court-hierarchy district-court due-process federal-courts jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction procedural-standing standing state-court |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit have jurisdiction? |
| 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… |
| 18-9070 |
Gabriel Urzua Sanchez v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure direct-appeal district-court fifth-amendment first-step-act mandatory-minimum privilege sentencing witness-testimony |
Whether the district court abused its discretion in failing to properly determine that Mr. Sanchez's proposed witnesses had a valid Fifth Amendment pr… |
| 18-9046 |
Richard Shusterman v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-jurists standard-of-review |
Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying issuance of a Certificate of Appealability of a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 ruling when the District Court… |
| 18-9079 |
Steven Dedual, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alternate-sentences appellate-review district-court guideline-range harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing-discretion sentencing-enhancement sentencing-procedure unsupported-alternate-sentences unsupported-claims |
Can a district court that has erroneously applied a sentencing enhancement shield itself from appellate review by claiming, without providing specific… |
| 18-1364 |
Jim Miller v. Eric Olsen, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-court district-court employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa erisa-plan jurisdiction ninth-circuit primary-purpose-test retirement-plan surrounding-circumstances-test |
Whether the Oregon District Court and Ninth Circuit erred in applying the 'primary purpose' test rather than the 'surrounding circumstances' test to d… |
| 18-9026 |
Arrez Meliton-Salto v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court guidelines-range molina-martinez-v-united-states plain-error prejudice record-silence sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the defendant may rely on the district court's error alone to show prejudice under plain error review when the record is silent as to what the… |
| 18-9007 |
Nicholas D. Weir v. Montefiore Medical Center, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-04-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1964 district-court employment-discrimination frcp-rule-60(b) frcp-rule-61 frcp-rule-62.1 harmless-error retaliation retaliation-claim rule-60b substantial-rights |
Does a district court judge's misunderstanding of the initial timeline that establishes a retaliation claim (under 42 U.S.C. § 2000e) not considered a… |
| 18-8978 |
Rico Montell Reid v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-11 defendant-rights district-court due-process judicial-coercion judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines withdrawal-of-plea |
Whether Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11 prohibits a district court from discussing sentencing options with a defendant at the sentencing hearing |
| 18-8961 |
Dion Thomas v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-04-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion blackledge-v-allison civil-rights district-court due-process evidentiary-hearing evidentiary-hearing-discretion habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ins-v-phinpathya plea-bargaining plea-negotiations rose-v-lundy sixth-amendment standing unsworn-statements |
Whether the District Court abused its discretion by failing to conduct an evidentiary hearing |
| 18-8914 |
Manuel Cazares v. Jay Cassady, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-04-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 conclusiveness district-court due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-procedure lower-court reply rules-governing-section-2254 section-2254 writ-of-habeas-corpus |
May Rule 5(e) of the Rules Governing Section 2254 cases in the United States District Courts, entitled Reply, be disregarded by the lower court? |
| 18-8923 |
Ryan Watkins v. Norm Robinson, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appeals-court criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts federal-law habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief re-sentencing sentencing sixth-amendment sixth-circuit successive-petition |
Whether Petitioner was entitled to present his claims after re-sentencing to the United States District Court of appeals |
| 18-8865 |
Marvin Lopez-Aguilar v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-04-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-conflict collateral-attack collateral-challenge conviction criminal-procedure district-court forfeiture government-enforcement government-forfeiture habeas-corpus waiver |
Does the government forfeit its right to enforce a defendant's waiver of a collateral challenge to his conviction by failing to raise the waiver issue… |
| 18-8877 |
Reginald Knox v. Unknown Parties |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law constitutional constitutional-error court-rules district-court due-process federal-statute judicial-review jurisdiction mandamus petition-for-certiorari standing statutory-provisions writ-of-mandamus |
Should the District Court's dismissal of the Petitioner's Writ of Mandamus under 28 U.S.C. § 1361 be reviewed? |
| 18-8846 |
Silvio Lopez Cuellar v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-appeal sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation waiver-of-rights |
Does a defendant's plea agreement waiver of the statutory right of a sentencing appeal preclude appellate review of the sentence even where the distri… |
| 18-8820 |
Carman L. Deck v. Richard Jennings, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability death-penalty district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-standard reasonable-jurists standard-of-review |
Did Mr. Deck present grounds for relief as to which reasonable jurists could differ concerning the correctness of the district court's conclusion, thu… |
| 18-8825 |
Timeiki Hedspeth v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-history criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process evidentiary-rulings fair-trial federal-sentencing-guidelines offense-level reasonable-doubt restitution sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Did the District Court use an incorrect criminal history category to sentence Ms. Hedspeth? |
| 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 |
| 18-8814 |
Michael Perales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure district-court due-process objection preservation-of-error sentencing substantial-arguments |
Whether parties to a criminal action must lodge a separate objection to the failure of a district court to address substantial arguments for a differe… |
| 18-8675 |
Joshua Sedillo v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-precedent criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process gall-v-united-states judicial-review rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance variance |
Is the Tenth Circuit precedent allowing a district court to say nothing when a reasonable request for a variance is made at sentencing consistent with… |
| 18-1263 |
Jason Brian Braun v. Department of the Interior, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-04-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure-error civil-rights constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction district-court due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-procedure mandamus mandamus-petition standing status-conference transfer venue venue-transfer |
Whether district court erred in dismissing claims and transferring venue in violation of rules and procedures |
| 18-8676 |
Ronald Smith v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
counsel criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-remedy post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment |
Whether the district court violated Petitioner's Sixth Amendment rights by failing to return him to his original position absent the ineffective assis… |
| 18A1004 |
Marcus Davis v. Universal American Mortgage Company, LLC, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-02 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review district-court foreclosure judicial-procedure pro-se waiver |
Whether a pro se litigant's failure to challenge the specific legal basis for a district court's dismissal of a foreclosure complaint constitutes a pr… |
| 18-8649 |
Bradley Cobbler, aka B-Rad v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure district-court due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion motion-to-withdraw plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing withdrawal-of-plea |
Whether the District Court erred by partially denying Mr. Cobbler's Amended Motion to Withdraw Plea of Guilty? |
| 18A1000 |
Parviz Karim-Panahi v. District of Columbia, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-04-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
district-court federal-jurisdiction judicial-procedure pro-se removal writ-of-certiorari |
Whether a federal district court improperly remanded a case to state court after the plaintiff had validly removed the case to federal jurisdiction |
| 18-8610 |
Antonio Sierra v. Josh Shapiro, Attorney General of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2241 article-iii civil-procedure constitutional-review district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction procedural-impairment standing |
Whether the District Judge of the Custodial United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania is precluded from exercising Article… |
| 18-8549 |
Keith D. Goodman v. I. D. Hamilton, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process facial-unconstitutionality fourth-circuit habeas habeas-corpus second-or-successive second-successive-petition standing statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-statute |
Whether a § 2254 (habeas) claim of a conviction under a facially unconstitutional statute is sufficient to overcome a statutory 'second or successive'… |
| 18-8539 |
Blake Joseph Sandlain v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction remedy standing writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's case |
| 18-8514 |
Jonathan Leroy Homedew v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion co-defendant co-defendants criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion plea-arrangement plea-bargaining procedural-rights right-to-be-present speedy-trial waiver |
Whether Petitioner waived Speedy-Trial-Rights based on Co-defendants-Plea-arrangements |
| 18-8451 |
Luciano Garcia v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process gall-v-united-states judicial-review rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance tenth-circuit variance |
Is the Tenth Circuit precedent allowing a district court to say nothing when a reasonable request for a variance is made at sentencing consistent with… |
| 18-8421 |
Timothy M. Thomas v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 abuse-of-discretion amendment certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-of-appeals district-court due-process exhaustion habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-28-usc-2254 habeas-corpus-amendment judicial-discretion law-of-the-case merits section-2254 slack-v-mcdaniel |
Did the circuit court of appeals err when it denied (COA) status on the point raised that the U.S. district court abused its discretion by not allowin… |
| 18-8354 |
Anthony K. Anderson v. Jerry Howell, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights district-court due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-district-court federal-habeas habeas-corpus post-conviction post-conviction-review pro-se pro-se-litigant protective-petition standing |
Whether a Federal District Court Unfairly Precluded pro se Prisoner Litigant Anthony Anderson's Future Ability to a Federal Habeas Review of his Nevad… |
| 18-8355 |
Mario Chester Tabron v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burglary burglary-element criminal-enhancement criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment fourth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Did the Fourth Circuit and the Middle district Of North Carolina (Greensboro) err in affirming the USSG 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) | 4-Level enhancement without p… |
| 18-8328 |
Maritza Burgueno-Gonzalez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) 18-USC-3553a criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion federal-sentencing sentencing-considerations sentencing-disparities smuggling smuggling-scheme unwarranted-sentences |
Whether the district court violated 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)'s rule that a district court must consider unwarranted sentencing disparities |
| 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? |
| 18-8314 |
Jose Nino-Carreon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion guidelines plain-error sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights |
Whether a court of appeals that finds a plain Guideline error should ordinarily find an effect on the defendant's substantial rights if the district c… |
| 18-8272 |
Juliette Fairley v. Don Ford, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-circuit civil-procedure civil-rights disgorgement district-court diversity-jurisdiction due-process federal-courts standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Did the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals violate the 14th Amendment when it upheld Petitioner Juliette's dismissal which was based on the District Court's… |
| 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 |
| 18-8212 |
Harry Brantley v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-convictions dismissal district-court due-process federal-review federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus petition-dismissal standing state-court timeliness |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas corpus petition challenging his state court convi… |
| 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 |
| 18-8161 |
Kali Lord v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
above-guidelines-sentence appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion plain-error preservation-of-error procedural-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-arguments sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness |
Is a district court's gross failure to explain an above-range sentence or to respond to arguments for a lesser sentence reversible on plain error? |
| 18-8107 |
Dheadry Loyd Powell v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-error drug-quantity due-process grouping grouping-of-counts judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg-1b1 ussg-calculation |
Did the District Court err with its finding of a new inaccurate drug quantity? |
| 18-8083 |
Reshawn D'Arby Magnificent-El, aka Reshawn D'Arby Phillips v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion compliance criminal-procedure discretion district-court drug-testing due-process knowingly-used-drugs sentencing-conditions supervised-release supervised-release-conditions |
Whether a district court abuses its discretion in imposing a drug-testing condition on a defendant who never knowingly used drugs, and has otherwise b… |
| 18-8096 |
Antonio R. Hall v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure district-court houston-v-lack mailbox-rule notice-of-appeal pro-se timeliness timely-filing |
Does the presumption of timeliness under Houston v. Lack apply when the petitioner proves timely mailing but the district court did not receive the no… |
| 18-8017 |
Jacoby Kindred v. Jeff Titus, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-02-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
barefoot-standard barefoot-v-estelle certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process federal-courts habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default procedural-grounds slack-standard slack-v-mcdaniel standard-of-review |
Whether district courts can employ the Barefoot v. Estelle standard instead of the Slack v. McDaniel analysis when determining whether to issue a cert… |
| 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 |
| 18-7963 |
Fredmun Wayne Reynolds v. Noah Nagy, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus prisoner-rights procedural-rules rules-of-civil-procedure state-prisoner statute statute-interpretation timeliness |
Does a district court's dismissal of a state prisoner's habeas petition under Habeas Rule 4 for lack of timeliness violate statute, the Rules of Civil… |
| 18-7918 |
Rutilio Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a 18-usc-924 abuse-of-discretion constitutional-law criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion sentence-reduction sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-directive statutory-interpretation substantive-error sufficient-but-not-greater-than-necessary |
Whether the District Court Committed substantive error when failed to impose a sentence that was sufficient but not greater than necessary to comply w… |
| 18-7791 |
Joyce Ann Smith v. City of Princeton, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
case-dismissal civil-mediation civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal district-court due-process magistrate-judge mediation procedural-review reconsideration settlement settlement-dispute standing towing |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims |
| 18-7861 |
Gary Don Boyd Graves v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3014 criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion future-earning-capacity future-earnings indigency mandatory-assessment mandatory-special-assessment non-indigent sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether district courts can consider future earning capacity in determining whether a person is 'non-indigent' for the purposes of assessing the $5000… |
| 18-7829 |
Joe Homer Mark v. Amy Rabeau |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review civil-procedure counsel-performance custodial-interrogation district-court fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-error miranda-warning procedural-default self-incrimination standing |
Whether Petitioner Joe Mark's Fifth Amendment Rights were violated |
| 18-7839 |
Eric Mario Byers v. E. K. White, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appeals-court case-dismissal civil-rights district-court due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-7616 |
Rodrigo Tovar Pupo v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal constitutional-issue constitutional-issues criminal-appeal criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal district-court due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel offense-enhancement plea-bargaining sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
If Appeals Court erred by not considering the grounds raised by Appellant and denying his appeal disregarding the Constitutional issues raised by Appe… |
| 18-7646 |
Jesse Sawyer v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process federal-procedure judicial-mandate judicial-power mandate sentencing standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the powers of federal appellate courts are diminished and whether a defendant is deprived of his fundamental right to appellate review |
| 18-7548 |
David Abiodun K. G. B. Onafeko v. Great Britain, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellant-rights civil-rights district-court due-process human-rights international-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge legal-venue standing treaty united-nations |
Whether the Appellant is entitled to rights afforded him under the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights whilst he is residing in the United Stat… |
| 18-973 |
In Re Lee Chatfield, et al. |
|
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-procedure-abuse-of-discretion civil-rights district-court due-process emergency-motion equal-protection gerrymandering judicial-discretion judicial-economy jurisdictional-issues mandamus standing stay-of-trial |
Did the three-judge panel abuse its discretion in denying a stay of trial pending resolution of related cases |
| 18-7585 |
Lemuel Gay v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-court appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court guideline-enhancement guidelines judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing-court sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Can the sentencing court's statement—that it would impose the same sentence irrespective of any error in its application of a guideline enhancement—ab… |
| 18-7587 |
Biven Hudson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-circuit 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability district-court eleventh-circuit magistrate-court mandatory-minimum minimum-mandatory-enhancement reasonable-jurists sentencing-enhancement sentencing-review |
Whether the appellate court erred in denying Mr. Hudson's motion for certificate of appealability |
| 18-7588 |
Frank Odom, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver district-court due-process fourth-circuit mitigation mitigation-arguments plea-agreement remand sentencing |
Does a plea agreement with an appeal waiver waive the right to obtain a remand requiring the district court to actually consider the defendant's mitig… |
| 18-7444 |
Chad Talada v. David V. Cole, Sheriff, Steuben County Jail |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence administrative-procedure binding-precedent collateral-review criminal-procedure district-court habeas-corpus inadequate-or-ineffective retroactivity saving-clause |
Whether § 2255(e)'s saving clause permits a criminal defendant to pursue a claim of actual innocence in the district where he is detained when binding… |
| 18-7454 |
Tyshaun St. Vallier v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 18-usc-3582(c)(2) constitutional-statutory-provisions district-court district-court-discretion lodestone lodestone-principle sentence-reduction sentence-reductions sentencing sentencing-decisions sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation third-circuit |
Are district courts required to maintain the Sentencing Guidelines as the lodestone of the sentencing decision when ruling on motions for sentence red… |
| 18-7410 |
Walter A. Kott, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit judicial-review legal-precedent petitioner-claim precedent standing supreme-court |
Whether the United States District Court, Eastem District of Louisiana and Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals mis-applied clearly established Supreme Cour… |
| 18-7363 |
Christopher David Krohe v. Zandra Steinhardt |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-review district-court due-process facts judicial-remedy money-damages remedy standing |
If the district court should not have denied case on its resolution of facts presented & If the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals should not have denied … |
| 18-885 |
Bennie Kennedy, et al. v. Schneider Electric, fka Square D Company |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-01-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-455 case-consolidation civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-review pleadings standing summary-judgment supervisory-power |
Whether or not this Court should call for an exercise of this Court's supervisory power by rejecting the Seventh Circuit's reasoning |
| 18-7178 |
David Kinh Duc Tran v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-review civil-procedure district-court due-process injustice judicial-error mandate-recall miscarriage-of-justice statutory-construction statutory-construction-error statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction united-states-v-clark |
whether-the-court-erred-in-its-previous-construction-of-the-statute |
| 18-7181 |
Antonio Amar White v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
dismissed-conduct district-court due-process judge-found-facts sentencing sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-violation unreasonable-sentence |
Whether Petitioner's sentence violated the Sixth Amendment |
| 18-7140 |
Tommy Ray Hull, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
chavez-meza-precedent chavez-meza-v-united-states circuit-split district-court district-court-discretion due-process fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-standard mitigation mitigation-arguments sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in its standard of review when a district court fails to address arguments of counsel in mitigation of sentencing |
| 18-782 |
William C. Bond v. United States, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
|
amendment circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process leave-to-amend pleading pleading-deficiencies pro-se pro-se-litigant standing |
Whether a district court must provide a reason for denying a pro se litigant leave to amend the complaint |
| 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… |
| 18-7120 |
Carlos Zuniga Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60-d constitutional-right district-court due-process evidentiary-hearing gonzalez-v-crosby rule-60-motion rule-60(d) standing successive-claim |
Whether a Rule 60(d) motion challenging only the District Court's failure to hold an evidentiary hearing presents a successive claim within the meanin… |
| 18-7077 |
JC Christopher Pulham v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review district-court legal-standard plain-error plain-error-review presumption presumption-of-correctness presumption-of-knowledge sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
When a district court does not articulate the legal standard it is applying, may an appellate court presume that the district court knew and correctly… |
| 18-7079 |
Franklyn Morillo v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-waiver certiorari controlled-substances criminal-procedure district-court due-process first-impression first-impression' 'Should certiorari be granted i judicial-discretion knowing-intelligent-voluntary legal-standard plea-bargaining procedural-rights role-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review' 'Should certiorari be granted |
Should certiorari be granted to decide whether a district court can only ask a Petitioner a single question about an appellate waiver, even though tha… |
| 18-7065 |
Fabio Porfirio Lobo v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process inaccurate-information judicial-discretion life-sentence sentencing |
Whether Petitioner's due process rights were violated when the United States District Court relied on inaccurate information sentencing him to a defac… |
| 18-7033 |
Michael Casey Jackson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
congress district-court federal-indian-law indian-country judicial-restoration land-relinquishment land-rights native-american-lands native-americans reservation-status separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation treaty-rights |
Whether a district court judge can restore lands relinquished by treaty to Native Americans |
| 18-7035 |
Eminiano A. Reodica v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court evidentiary-hearing federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea motion-to-withdraw plea-withdrawal rule-11 |
Whether Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(d) governing motions to withdraw a guilty plea establishes a liberal standard which precludes the distri… |
| 18-7037 |
Gerald L. Smith v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60b-6 criminal-law district-court due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus johnson-ii johnson-v-united-states judicial-procedure retroactivity rule-60b sentencing welch-v-united-states |
Whether the district court and Eighth Circuit erred in denying petitioner's true Rule 60(b)(6) motion, when the district court failed to address petit… |
| 18-759 |
Matthew D. Sample v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-12-14 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-authority district-court-discretion imprisonment income-earning probation restitution sentencing-discretion victim-compensation |
Whether a district court may reduce a prison sentence, or impose a probationary term in lieu of imprisonment, to enable a defendant to earn income to … |
| 18-6980 |
Traveon Shaquille Martin v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility clear-error criminal-procedure district-court offense-level sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g-3e1.1 |
Whether the district court clearly erred in denying a three-level reduction in Petitioner's offense level for acceptance of responsibility under U.S.S… |
| 18-6982 |
Jerry Walden v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 28-usc-994 career-offender district-court due-process federal-sentencing guideline-application harmless-error johnson-v-united-states molina-martinez molina-martinez-precedent molina-martinez-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-error |
Whether the petitioner is entitled to resentencing due to Guideline application error |
| 18-712 |
Jerry Artrip v. Ball Corporation, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-12-03 |
Denied |
|
amendment civil-procedure claim-dismissal complaint-amendment district-court federal-circuit judicial-review patent patent-infringement standing |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit erred in affirming the district court's dismissal of Petitioner's patent infringeme… |
| 18-6857 |
Joel Marvin Munt v. Paul Schnell, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure collateral-appeal district-court due-process judge judicial-jurisdiction judicial-recusal jurisdiction nondiscretionary-standard recusal standing |
Does the Court of Appeals have jurisdiction to hear a collateral appeal of a district court judge's refusal of a nondiscretionary recusal? |
| 18-6792 |
Christopher W. Fillmore v. Indiana Bell Telephone Company, Inc. |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court circuit-split civil-procedure cross-motions district-court equitable-remedies evidence evidence-sufficiency evidentiary-insufficiency judicial-discretion representation-resources summary-judgment |
Whether the district court and Seventh Circuit erred in granting summary judgment for Indiana Bell despite finding that both parties submitted 'sparse… |
| 18-6753 |
Jesse Mendez v. Gary Swarthout, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254 28-usc-2255 district-court federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-petition harrington-v-richter judicial-deference reasoned-decision state-appellate-court state-court state-court-decision statutory-interpretation |
When a state court denied a habeas claim without a reasoned decision, can the district court reject the state appellate court's clear statement that i… |
| 18-6729 |
Jesus Santiago v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure district-court due-process guidelines-calculation guidelines-range judicial-discretion sentencing-determination sentencing-guidelines upward-variance |
Whether a circuit court can competently conclude that the Sentencing Guidelines were immaterial to a district court's sentencing determination |
| 18-6733 |
Laura Shauger v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 aba-standards-for-criminal-justice certificate-of-appealability circuit-courts-of-appeals district-court district-court-ruling ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-jurists section-2255 sentencing-counsel supreme-court-of-idaho third-circuit |
Whether rulings by the district court denying relief are debatable by jurists of reason if rulings by other courts in similar situations arguably supp… |
| 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… |
| 18-631 |
Kevin McCabe v. Gerardo Aranda, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure class-action class-action-settlement-agreement class-members cy-pres district-court due-process guidance judicial-discretion potential-recipients procedural-fairness recipient-selection settlement-agreement standing |
Whether a cy pres provision of a class-action settlement agreement may authorize class members to make recommendations for the selection of a cy pres … |
| 18-633 |
Gary Jefferson Byrd v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court district-court-summary-denial due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-litigant standing summary-denial |
Should a Certificate of Appealability (COA) be denied to a pro se litigant thus denying an appeal when the issue has been extensively researched and c… |
| 18-6693 |
Victor M. Mangual-Rosado v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split conclusions-of-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court findings-of-fact opportunity-to-object procedural-error role-behavior role-in-crime sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-error |
whether-the-district-court-erred-in-sentencing |
| 18-6505 |
Brian Powell v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review district-court first-circuit fourth-amendment fourth-amendment,private-search-doctrine,united-st motion-to-suppress private-search-doctrine search-and-seizure united-states-v-jacobsen |
Whether the First Circuit erred when it relied upon the private search doctrine as delineated by this Court in United States v. Jacobsen, 466 U.S. 109… |
| 18-6514 |
In Re Melvin T. Bell |
|
2018-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus imprisonment jurisdiction liberty-deprivation standing territorial-jurisdiction |
Whether the petitioner is illegally deprived of his liberty |
| 18-6526 |
In Re Masao Yonamine |
|
2018-10-31 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights district-court exhaustion-of-state-remedies federal-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction federal-writ habeas-corpus personal-liberty state-writ unlawful-detention void-judgment writ-of-mandamus |
Whether a federal court may entertain and determine the merits of a state prisoner's application for habeas corpus relief from a void judgment, when t… |
| 18-561 |
Orus Ashby Berkley, et al. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-30 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
15-usc-717r administrative-review administrative-review-scheme agency-action agency-order congressional-delegation constitutional-challenge delegation-of-power district-court district-court-jurisdiction non-delegation-doctrine separation-of-powers |
Is a delegation of Congressional power an 'agency order' or 'agency action' such that a party wishing to challenge that delegation must file that chal… |
| 18-6494 |
Terrance Johnson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure discretionary-review district-court due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-procedure motion-to-reopen post-conviction-relief rule-60(b) rule-60b section-2255 standard-of-review |
Did the district court abuse its discretion by denying the Rule 60(b) motion without discovery or an evidentiary hearing? |
| 18-6415 |
Amalya Cherniavsky, aka Amalya Surenovna Yegiyan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing standard-of-review sua-sponte sufficiency-of-evidence theory-of-defense trial-procedure |
Under what circumstances must a district court sua sponte instruct the jury on a theory of defense presented and relied upon at trial where the theory… |
| 18-6430 |
Kinzie Decarlos Thomas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 alibi-defense appellate-review district-court evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel off-the-record off-the-record-facts procedural-default section-2255 statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court erred in denying an evidentiary hearing on a § 2255 motion without resolving contested material facts |
| 18-528 |
Elias Kifle, et al. v. Jemal Ahmed |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-23 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure district-court diversity diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts jurisdiction rule-19 standard-of-review standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
What is the standard of review for a District Court's determination that a required party is dispensable under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 19? |
| 18-6393 |
Omar Qazi v. Janice Killian, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2243 certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-procedure petition-dismissal standing |
Does 28 U.S.C. § 2243 authorize dismissal of a 2241 petition for failure to state a claim? |
| 18-479 |
Marc Schenkel v. Xyngular Corporation, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-10-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
case-management civil-procedure civil-rights district-court district-court-authority due-process free-speech inherent-authority judicial-discretion pre-litigation-conduct prelitigation-conduct sanctions standing |
Whether a district court's inherent authority to manage the disposition of cases, including by imposing sanctions on a party, does not extend to condu… |
| 18-6301 |
Darrell Lynn Dancy v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals-court armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance criminal-procedure district-court factual-innocence predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement unlawful-distribution |
Whether the Appeals Court and District Court erred by failing to address Petitioner's factual innocence claim |
| 18-6193 |
Kenneth A. White v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus jurisdiction sixth-circuit |
Did the District Court err in failing to grant Mr. White a Certificate of Appealability on his Fifth Amendment argument? |
| 18-6161 |
Terrance Lombard v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review clear-error clear-error-standard criminal-procedure district-court due-process motion-to-suppress standard-of-review suppression-hearing |
Did the court of appeals misapply the clear error standard by considering facts adduced at trial, but not considered by the district court during the … |
| 18-6180 |
Brian Deronceler v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure district-court due-process eleventh-circuit insufficient-evidence judgment-of-acquittal motion-for-acquittal sentencing sentencing-errors sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the evidence was insufficient to support the defendant's conviction and the motion for judgment of acquittal should have been granted |
| 18-6144 |
Guadalupe Padilla v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-procedure-habeas-corpus-standing-due-process civil-rights constitutional-provisions district-court due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus legal-remedy petition standing statutory-provisions writ |
Whether the U.S. District Court has authority to order the clerk to not file any further pleadings in habeas corpus proceedings, where the order resul… |
| 18-6126 |
Sally D. Villaverde v. Greg Smith, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60b constitutional-rights district-court due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ninth-circuit rule-60b standing |
Whether the U.S. District Court and U.S. Court of Appeals incorrectly treated petitioner's Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b) motion as a second or successive peti… |
| 18-6118 |
Martin Jonassen v. J. T. Shartle, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-27 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-circuit appeal appeal-procedure appealable-order civil-procedure district-court due-process final-order judicial-review standing |
Does the 4th Circuit Court's order violate due process? |
| 18-6077 |
Omar Qazi v. Nevada, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
2254-petition 28-usc-2254 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process federal-district-court federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel remittitur state-court-appeals |
Did the Federal District Court of Nevada have the jurisdiction to hear my 2254 Petition? |
| 18-6041 |
Robert Burse v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure cross-reference district-court error firearms-offense review sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-§-2k2.1(c)(1)(a) u.s.s.g.-2k2.1(c)(1)(a) |
Whether the district court erred by applying the Sentencing Guidelines cross reference under U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(c)(1)(A) |
| 18-353 |
Tate Clark v. Southwest Airlines Company |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anderson-v-liberty-lobby appellate-review causation-standard civil-procedure district-court evidence-standard factual-inferences fmla-retaliation genuine-issue-for-trial judicial-review mixed-motive pretext prima-facie-case standard-of-review summary-judgment |
Whether the District Court and Court of Appeals failed to view the evidence presented in conjunction with Respondent's motion for summary judgment in … |
| 18-5989 |
Gary Dan Bilbo, Sr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation 28-usc-2255 appeals district-court habeas-corpus motion-to-reopen standard-of-review |
What is the appropriate standard of review for a district court's denial of a motion to reopen a habeas corpus petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2255? |
| 18-5962 |
Theadene Mattis v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process free-speech legal-conflict national-importance standing supreme-court-review takings |
Whether the Florida 4th District Court of Appeal erred in its decisions in this case, which conflict with relevant decisions of the Supreme Court |
| 18-5929 |
David T. Odom v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal conditional-plea conditional-plea-agreement criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-appeals-court fourth-circuit plea-agreement standard-of-review statute-of-limitations |
Whether a defendant can make a knowing and voluntary decision under a conditional plea agreement when, believing he is preserving his Motion to Dismis… |
| 18-5856 |
David Gerard Jeep v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-09-04 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process eighth-circuit judicial-act judicial-immunity probable-cause qualified-immunity rico-act standing xiv-amendment |
Is the issuance, and support on appeal, of a court order without a 'reasonable probable cause' a judicial act? |
| 18-5836 |
Ya'shua Amen Shekhem El-Bey v. United States, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2018-08-30 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fraud fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court minute-order rule-60 rule-60-motion service-of-process standing |
Whether the district court denied Petitioner's rights to due process of law |
| 18-5811 |
Eusebio Escobar De Jesus v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appeals-court criminal-procedure district-court due-process gall-v-united-states guideline-range guidelines molina-martinez-v-united-states offense-level procedural-error rosales-mireles-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Appeals Court erroneously concluded Petitioner failed to state a claim, reasoning for want of a substantial question |
| 18-5828 |
Adolfo Lopez-Garcia v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a 18-usc-3582(c)(2) 3582c-motion amendment-782 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court procedural-reasonableness sentence-reduction sentencing-discretion sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-directive statutory-interpretation substantive-error substantive-reasonableness sufficient-but-not-greater-than-necessary |
Whether the District Court Committed substantive error when failed to impose a sentence that was sufficient but not greater than necessary to comply w… |
| 18-5789 |
John Thompson v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason motion-for-appeal procedural-default procedural-ruling second-circuit standard-of-review standing |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred in denying Thompson's Motion for Certificate of Appealability |
| 18-5780 |
Peter Vincent Capra v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-court appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure district-court due-process duty-to-disclose evidentiary-hearing expert-testimony final-order good-faith-defense ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion jurisdiction standing |
Did the Appellate Court lack jurisdiction over the Appeal due to the fact from review of the record that the District Court had not adjudicated all of… |
| 18-5693 |
Arlow Antone Kay v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
making robust appellate review unnecessary appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-booker |
Have the departure provisions of the United States Sentencing Guidelines been rendered 'obsolete' and 'superfluous' by this Court's opinion in United … |
| 18-5664 |
Chan Cheeseboro v. Little Richie Bus Service, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
accident-report civil-procedure deposition discovery district-court due-process evidence false-testimony judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct legal-standing standing witness witness-testimony |
Why the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York would allow the law firm of Lewis Bris Bois Bisgaard and Smith LLP. allowed … |
| 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… |
| 18-5555 |
William Womack v. Landan Adams, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-review district-court due-process jurisdiction legal-procedure ninth-circuit standing summary-judgment |
Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has jurisdiction to review the district court's erroneous decision |
| 18-184 |
John Ayanbadejo v. Mark Siegl, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion administrative-law appellate-court appellate-review civil-procedure court-procedure district-court due-process immigration judicial-proceedings legal-standard mootness procedural-error standing |
Whether the Lower Appellate Court departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, and/or sanctioned such a departure by the U.S. … |
| 18-5522 |
Edward Vincent Ray v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review buck-v-davis civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-courts gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus legal-standard rule-60b standing successive-petition |
Whether the United States District Court abused its discretion by construing Petitioner's Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 60(b) motion as a 'suc… |
| 18-5485 |
William N. Washington v. Eric Arnold, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-case civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court due-process false-arrest habeas-corpus heck-v-humphrey judicial-review malicious-prosecution parole qualified-immunity standing washington-v-diamond |
Whether a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right has been made by the petitioner, in light of the recent factual finding by the U… |
| 18-5477 |
Thomas Ebron v. Karen D. Brown, Chair, Virginia Parole Board, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 appeal appeals appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-procedure legal-access standing statutory-interpretation |
Has the U.S. Court of Appeals abused its discretion and committed reversible error in dismissing Ebron's 42 USC § 1983 appeal, finding no reversable e… |
| 18-5493 |
Maceo Gant v. Thomas Winn, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability district-court district-court-decision due-process federal-jurisdiction final-judgment habeas-corpus jurisdiction plea-bargain plea-conviction sixth-circuit state-court-conviction unresolved-claims |
Whether the Sixth Circuit had jurisdiction to consider the petitioner's unresolved challenges to his state court plea conviction where the district co… |
| 18-5469 |
Chad Allen Dorton v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion obstruction-of-justice offense-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standard-of-review |
Did the district court err in applying the sentencing guidelines offense enhancement for obstruction of justice? |
| 18-151 |
Alfred J. Petit-Clair, et al. v. Gurbir Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-procedure,standing,due-process,tort,dismissa civil-procedure,standing,tort-claims,individual-de civil-rights district-court due-process municipal-defendant settlement settlement-enforcement standing third-circuit tort tort-claims |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit erred in affirming the District Court's dismissal of tort claims against an individual defenda… |
| 18-146 |
Veronika Marcoski v. Jan Rath |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
' 'credibility-determinations" ' 'habitual-residence" ' 'hague-convention" ' 'multi-circuit-split' ' 'newborn-child" appellate-review credibility-determination credibility-determinations district-court habitual-residence hague-convention harmless-error multi-circuit-splits newborn-children |
Whether the harmless-error rule applies when a district court expressly relied on clearly erroneous factual findings in its credibility determinations… |
| 18-5410 |
Charles Podaras v. City of Menlo Park, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure good-faith good-faith-appeal in-forma-pauperis informal-form-brief ninth-circuit pro-se pro-se-litigant statement-of-reasons written-reasons |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in not permitting the petitioner to proceed on appeal in forma pauperis without further authorization |
| 18-140 |
In Re Cliven Bundy |
|
2018-07-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-admission civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process free-speech judicial-error legal-admission mootness ninth-circuit pro-hac-vice prosecutorial-misconduct sanctions standing |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in failing to vacate the erroneous denial of Mr. Larry Klayman's admission pro hac vice despite the fact that it is no… |
| 18-123 |
In Re Citizens for Fair Representation, et al. |
|
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2284 chief-circuit-judge civil-rights district-court district-judge due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure legislative-apportionment mandamus motion-to-dismiss redistricting standing standing-doctrine three-judge-district-court three-judge-panel voting-rights |
Challenge to legislative district apportionment, three-judge district court, standing |
| 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… |
| 18-5188 |
James Wilks v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) abuse-of-discretion district-court judicial-discretion plain-error plainly-unreasonable revocation revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-factors supervised-release unreasonable-sentence |
Whether the district court imposed a plainly unreasonable revocation sentence by failing to properly balance the sentencing factors under 18 U.S.C. § … |
| 18-5212 |
Markentz Blanc v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-circuit 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-flight-instructions district-court due-process elements flight-instructions prejudice prior-decisions sufficiency-of-evidence wiretap wiretap-evidence |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in affirming the district court's rulings on the flight instructions, the necessity requirement for the wiretap, an… |
| 18-5178 |
Kimberly Baltimore v. Frank Stephen Buck |
Alabama |
2018-07-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure-abuse-of-discretion-reversal-judgm civil-rights conspiracy district-court due-process fraud fraud-allegation judicial-misconduct legal-ethics procedural-irregularity standing unsworn-testimony |
Whether the lower court erred in allowing the appellee's 'because I said so' defense without sworn testimony |
| 18-5123 |
Eric Glenn Parker v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting conspiracy criminal-conviction criminal-procedure district-court jurisdiction murder murder-charge rico rico-conspiracy sixth-amendment venue venue-proof |
Was venue proven to convict Eric Glenn Parker of conspiracy to commit RICO and aiding and abetting murder in the Northern District of Mississippi? |
| 18-5136 |
Francisco Illarramendi v. Securities and Exchange Commission, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
article-iii-standing civil-procedure civil-proceeding constitutional-liberty constitutional-property constitutional-property-rights constitutional-rights district-court inextricably-intertwined liberty-interests parallel-criminal-proceeding property-rights |
Can Article III standing be denied to a defendant in a civil proceeding who objects to district court rulings that directly affect the defendant's con… |
| 18-16 |
Larone Frederick Elijah v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing-guidelines-harmless- district-court federal-sentencing harmless-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness variance-sentence |
When a criminal defendant argues that a district court made an error in calculating his United States Sentencing Guidelines range resulting in a sente… |