due-process-clause

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25-422 Deshawn M. Dawson v. United States Armed Forces 2025-10-08 Denied Response Waived court-martial criminal-conviction due-process-clause military-justice sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict Does the Constitution preclude a court-martial panel of lay members from convicting a defendant of a criminal offense by a non-unanimous vote?
25-5463 Trent Nelson v. URSA Major Corporation Seventh Circuit 2025-08-25 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process-clause federal-court-procedure fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigation Do Pro Se litigants have constitutional protections in federal court under the Due Process Clause?
24-6084 Christopher Roalson v. Jon Noble, Warden Seventh Circuit 2024-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process-clause evidence-preservation forensic-evidence Whether a state's forensic evidence preservation statute that allows destruction of evidence after a specified time period is consistent with a crimin…
24-609 James L. Martin v. David H. Nixon Delaware 2024-12-04 Denied civil-judgment due-process-clause escheat fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment takings-clause Do the Fifth Amendment Takings Clause and the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause protect a civil judgment creditor from escheat when the judgment…
23-7840 Douglas Lemon v. Illinois Illinois 2024-07-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence constitutional-violation disclosure-of-evidence due-process due-process-clause evidence-disclosure fitness-evaluation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated due to lack of a fair fitness evaluation, failure to disclose evidence, ineffective assis…
23-7677 Daniela Bowman v. Cordelia Friedman Tenth Circuit 2024-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-production due-process due-process-clause equal-protection equal-protection-clause evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment judicial-review motion-to-dismiss oklahoma-press-publishing-co-v-walling statutory-interpretation Whether the Tenth Circuit's ruling rejecting a person's right to a due process evidentiary hearing conflicts with the Due Process and Equal Protection…
23-7671 James Chamblin v. Ohio Ohio 2024-06-07 Denied IFP amendment constitutional-rights due-process due-process-clause equal-protection fourteenth-amendment indictment indictment-amendment pleading-recasting recasting-of-pleadings state-appellate-court Does a State Appellate Court violate a Petitioner's right to Due Process under the United States Constitution, when a court recast a litigants pleadin…
23-7640 Devin Fischer v. North Dakota North Dakota 2024-06-05 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process due-process-clause fair-trial guilty-plea judicial-discretion legal-standards Is a defendant denied due process when the court ignores legal standards and relies solely on their discretion?
23-1146 Jade Joseph Nickels v. Drew Evans, Superintendent, Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Minnesota 2024-04-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-penalty criminal-procedure due-process due-process-clause liberty-interest personal-information-disclosure sex-offender-registration stigma Whether a registration scheme that requires a person to provide detailed information about every aspect of his life, where failing to provide the info…
23-1021 Kari Lake, et al. v. Adrian Fontes, Arizona Secretary of State, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-03-18 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived article-iii-standing civil-rights due-process due-process-clause election-controversy election-integrity jurisdictional-amendment national-security standing voting-machine-tampering voting-machines Whether an Article III case or controversy existed at all relevant times and still exists
23A335 Simeon Bozic v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2023-10-13 Presumed Complete due-process-clause evidence-of-innocence fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-counsel post-conviction-relief shinn-v-ramirez Whether a state court conviction violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when photographic evidence of innocence was not presented…
23A323 Robert Perkel, et al. v. Jane (Canella) Perkel, et al. New Jersey 2023-10-12 Presumed Complete discovery-rights due-process-clause equal-protection notice-and-hearing probate-procedure will-contest Whether the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibit a state probate court from denying an heir notice and an opp…
23A258 Tracy Nixon v. General Motors Corporation Fifth Circuit 2023-09-21 Presumed Complete due-process-clause fifth-amendment long-arm-statute personal-jurisdiction registered-agent service-of-process Whether a federal district court properly exercised personal jurisdiction over an out-of-state defendant corporation where service of process was atte…
23A177 Geoffrey Hamilton Woodward v. Sarah Edge Woodward Tennessee 2023-08-25 Presumed Complete compelled-medical-procedures due-process-clause family-court medical-treatment parental-contact parental-rights Whether the Due Process Clause permits a family court to compel unwanted medical treatment as a condition of allowing a fit parent to maintain contact…
23A143 Javier Martinez v. Lowell Clark, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-08-17 Presumed Complete dangerousness-determination due-process-clause immigration-detention judicial-review mandatory-detention mixed-questions-of-law-and-fact Whether a dangerousness determination in immigration detention proceedings constitutes a reviewable mixed question of law and fact under the Due Proce…
23A121 Williams Alaska Petroleum, Inc., et al. v. Alaska, et al. Alaska 2023-08-11 Presumed Complete due-process-clause environmental-regulation fair-notice hazardous-substances retroactive-liability sulfolane Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits a state from imposing retroactive environmental liability for the discharge of a …
23A70 Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, et al. v. Texas Texas 2023-07-25 Presumed Complete due-process-clause foreign-manufacturer fourteenth-amendment nationwide-market nicastro personal-jurisdiction Whether a foreign manufacturer's conduct directed to the United States market as a whole, rather than to a particular state, provides a sufficient bas…
23A63 Johnny Johnson v. David Vandergriff, Warden Missouri 2023-07-24 Denied brady-violation due-process-clause habeas-corpus impeachment-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct suppression-of-evidence Whether a state court's denial of a Brady claim alleging prosecutorial suppression of material impeachment evidence, without explanation or argument, …
22-6966 In Re Antwoyn Terrell Spencer 2023-03-08 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-decisis constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process-clause final-decisions grand-jury grand-jury-clause indictment jurisdiction statute-of-limitations Whether the district court erred in refusing to address the merits of the petitioner's motion to dismiss the indictment for lack of jurisdiction
22-552 Camellia Grill Holdings, Inc. v. Grill Holdings, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-12-16 Denied Response Waived circuit-split contractual-terms due-process due-process-clause exxon-mobil inextricably-intertwined intellectual-property property-rights rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine Whether the Court should resolve the circuit split in the wake of Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Saudi Basic Industries Corp., 544 U.S. 280 (2005) and elucidate…
22-396 Christa Fischer, et al. v. Federal Express Corp., et al. Third Circuit 2022-10-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bristol-myers bristol-myers-squibb collective-action due-process due-process-clause fair-labor-standards-act opt-in-plaintiffs personal-jurisdiction service-of-process Whether a federal court has the authority, absent general personal jurisdiction over the defendant or the defendant's consent, to maintain a Fair Labo…
22-5922 Andrew S. Andersen v. Jennifer Shaffer, Executive Director, California Board of Parole Hearings Ninth Circuit 2022-10-26 Denied IFP beliefs-thoughts civil-rights due-process due-process-clause first-amendment free-speech government-benefit parole parole-regulations speech-suppression turner-test When a plaintiff alleges denial of a governmental benefit based on beliefs/thoughts and the benefit is conditioned on adopting government-approved bel…
22-308 Ramin Seddiq v. Virginia Indigent Defense Commission, et al. Virginia 2022-09-29 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process due-process-clause fourteenth-amendment judicial-conflict liberty-interest statutory-disclosure statutory-entitlement virginia-freedom-of-information-act Does the Virginia Freedom of Information Act afford the citizens of Virginia with a statutorily created liberty interest for Fourteenth Amendment purp…
21-1377 The Roman Catholic Bishop of Oakland, et al. v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2022-04-25 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived cover-up due-process due-process-clause ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause punitive-damages retroactive-legislation sexual-abuse-claims statute-of-limitations Whether the Ex Post Facto Clause allows retroactive legislation that was enacted with an avowedly punitive purpose, imposes additional punitive liabil…
21-1356 M. H. v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Services, et al. West Virginia 2022-04-18 Denied Response Waived best-interest-analysis best-interests child-welfare due-process due-process-clause foster-care foster-child-bill-of-rights grandparents statutory-interpretation west-virginia-law Whether the Supreme Court of Appeals misinterpreted the Foster Child Bill of Rights under West Virginia statutory law to the detriment of the child in…
21-203 John A. Mandacina v. Frederick Entzel, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-08-12 Denied Response Waived brady-claim brady-rule due-process due-process-clause evidence-withholding federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief savings-clause statutory-interpretation Did the court of appeals correctly conclude that petitioner's Brady claim fell outside the scope of the 'savings clause' of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e)
21-5124 Derrick Wilson v. United States Second Circuit 2021-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process-clause evidence-fabrication government-misconduct habeas-corpus miller-el-standard standing Did the Court of Appeals err in concluding that Petitioner's Certificate of Appealability had not 'made a substantial showing of the denial of a const…
20-1792 Patricia Earnest, et al. v. Joann Ellison, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied 14th-amendment appellate-procedure appellate-review due-process due-process-clause issue-preservation legal-basis procedural-fairness trial-court Does a court of appeals deny a party due process under the 14th Amendment when it decides the case on a basis never litigated or passed on as a matter…
20-1426 Epic Systems Corporation v. Tata Consultancy Services Limited, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-04-12 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (3) civil-procedure compensatory-damages due-process due-process-clause notice-requirement punitive-damages statutory-cap statutory-caps trade-secrets Does a state statute that expressly caps punitive damages at two times compensatory damages satisfy the notice requirement of the Due Process Clause s…
20-6415 Larry Antonio Burleigh v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP §2255-motion carjacking categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability collateral-review due-process due-process-clause fourth-circuit inchoate-crime johnson-ii mandatory-sentencing Whether Petitioner is entitled to a certificate of appealability to appeal the denial of his motion to vacate his firearm convictions and mandatory se…
20-6039 Earl McBride v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP due-process due-process-clause equitable-tolling evidentiary-standard habeas-corpus habeas-petition parole parole-board postal-service-form procedural-grounds Does USPS Form 3811 meet 28 USC 2244 evidentiary standard for equitable tolling?
20-468 Xpedite Systems, Inc. v. John J. Ficara, Acting Director, New Jersey Division of Taxation New Jersey 2020-10-09 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived apportionment commerce-clause deference due-process due-process-clause interstate-commerce revenue-reapportionment state-taxation tax-apportionment Whether granting unfettered deference to a State tax commissioner's decision to reapportion the revenues of an interstate business violates the Due Pr…
20-5580 Kyle Phillips v. Florida Florida 2020-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process due-process-clause evidence-law evidentiary-rules fourteenth-amendment prior-act-evidence sexual-battery Whether it is a violation of the due process guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment for irrelevant prior-act evidence to be received in a criminal tri…
20-5487 Jerome Adams v. Illinois Illinois 2020-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process due-process-clause eighth-amendment procedural-bar res-judicata standing Whether the procedural bar of res judicata may serve as the basis for the dismissal of constitutional claims that were previously raised, but with sub…
19-1345 Jon Butcher v. Cady Vishniac Massachusetts 2020-06-05 Denied Response Waived defamation defamation-law due-process-clause first-amendment gertz-precedent gertz-v-robert-welch private-concern private-figure republication republication-doctrine Does the First Amendment or Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. impose limitations on defamation claims by private, non-public figures involved in private mat…
19-7574 Luis Beltran v. United States Second Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment brain-development due-process due-process-clause eighth-amendment juvenile-defendants juvenile-sentencing mandatory-life-imprisonment proportionality proportionality-principle sentencing Does the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause provide defendants who were between 18 and 22 an opportunity to demonstrate they are similarly situated,…
19-7435 In Re Robert N. Brooks 2020-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process due-process-clause fdic-insured fifth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-clause indictment indictment-clause notice-clause sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction whether-a-manifest-miscarriage-of-justice-occurred
19-7126 Ronald Damon v. United States Third Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3583 5th-amendment appeal appellate-waiver circuit-split due-process due-process-clause plea-agreement post-conviction-waiver sentencing supervised-release Whether an appellate and post-conviction waiver in a plea agreement barring challenges to the 'sentence imposed' precludes an appeal of the denial of …
19-6917 In Re Sherri Jefferson 2019-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-discipline civil-rights constitutional-rights disbarment due-process due-process-clause equal-protection equal-protection-clause fifth-amendment professional-conduct self-incrimination Whether the order of disbarment should be reversed, remanded, or vacated and set aside for violation of the Due Process and Self-Incrimination Clause …
19-6635 Matthew Paul Borowski v. Kimberly Bechelli, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process due-process-clause fifth-amendment judicial-remedial-structure judicial-remedies section-1983 section-2 standing ziglar-v-abbasi Is the judicial remedial structure created in Ziglar v. Abbasi constitutional under Article III, Section 2?
19-6437 Lee E. Peyton v. California California 2019-10-31 Denied IFP confrontation-clause courtroom-protocol criminal-procedure due-process due-process-clause farretta-v-california fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-representation sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments permit a trial court to deny a defendant's request to proceed pro se based on the judge's accusations of t…
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?
19-5970 Murad Razzaq v. Kansas Kansas 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-evidence criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process due-process-clause evidence evidentiary-rules prior-bad-acts prior-crimes propensity-evidence state-prosecution state-supreme-courts unrelated-crimes Does a state violate a defendant's due process rights by admitting evidence of a prior, unrelated crime to show his propensity to commit another crime…
19-5653 Edward Lee Busby v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-08-21 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 adjudication-on-the-merits atkins-claim due-process due-process-clause eighth-amendment federal-constitutional-claim federal-law habeas-corpus intellectual-disability standard-of-review state-court state-court-review When a state habeas court denies a petitioner relief on a federal constitutional claim by imposing a higher burden than is required by federal law, sh…
19-5644 Keith Stuart Cumbee v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-08-21 Denied IFP criminal-procedure does-judicial-confession double-jeopardy due-process due-process-clause fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus indigent-defendant judicial-confession legal-assistance legal-assistance-clause sixth-amendment without-prior-appointment-of-counsel without-waiver Does judicial confession in this case, without a waiver and without prior appointment of counsel for an indigent defendant, violate the Legal Assistan…
19-5404 Steven Hoff v. California California 2019-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempted-first-degree-murder due-process due-process-clause evidence-code general-intent intent jury-instructions mistake-or-accident premeditation uncharged-misconduct uncharged-offense Whether the Due Process Clause is violated when a jury is instructed to consider evidence of an uncharged, general intent offense in determining guilt…
19-127 Anmarie Calgaro v. St. Louis County, Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived due-process due-process-clause emancipation local-government medical-providers minor-children parental-rights welfare-payments Whether parents' Due Process Clause rights apply to local governments and medical providers ending parental rights, responsibilities or duties over th…
19-5212 Larey Douglas Brown v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-17 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-limitations constitutional-amendments due-process due-process-clause habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance presumption-of-correctness state-court-proceedings state-habeas Did the AEDPA's 28§2254(e) legislation do away with Supreme Court precedent regarding the 14th Amendment Due Process Clause's entitlement to a full an…
18-9732 Bejan David Etemad v. North Dakota North Dakota 2019-06-19 Denied IFP appeals certiorari constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process-clause federal-certiorari federal-jurisdiction jury-trial jury-verdict state-court state-courts state-supreme-court Can any State Court of last resort or specifically the North Dakota Supreme Court completely abrogate due process to the point that no process existed…
18-1551 Joseph Q. Mirarchi v. Office of Disciplinary Counsel Pennsylvania 2019-06-19 Denied Response Waived attorney-disbarment constitutional-rights disbarment due-process due-process-clause effective-assistance-of-counsel expert-witness-testimony fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-evidence mitigation-evidence neuropsychological-evidence sixth-amendment Whether the state supreme court order for attorney disbarment is inconsistent with the standards set forth in Selling v. Radford and In re Ruffalo, an…
18-9519 Michael Wesley v. New York New York 2019-06-03 Denied IFP alvarez-v-united-states constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process-clause equal-protection fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-witness-perjury griffin-v-united-states petitioner's right to have newly-discovered-eviden sixth-amendment united-states-v-biberfeld washington-v-texas witness witness-perjury Does a petitioner have a right to have a witness in their favor protected by the Due Process Clause and the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments?
18-9330 Thomas Anthony Hammond v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender-guideline circuit-split criminal-justice criminal-law-sentencing due-process due-process-clause ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause federal-sentencing-guidelines robbery-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether New York's Robbery Statute § 160.15 qualifies as a Crime of Violence under the Career Offender Guideline § 4B1.2
18-1431 Frank G. v. Renee P.-F., et al. New York 2019-05-15 Denied Amici (8)Response Waived best-interests-of-child best-interests-of-the-child custody custody-determination due-process due-process-clause fourteenth-amendment obergefell-v-hodges parental-rights same-sex-marriage same-sex-partner Whether a state violates a biological parent's rights under the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause when it strips the parent of custody in favo…
18-9197 Earl Moore v. Stephen Kallis, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender crime-of-violence descamps-v-united-states due-process due-process-clause mathis-retroactivity mathis-v-united-states retroactivity saving-clause section-2241 stash-house-robbery statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states Whether Mathis v. United States represents a substantive change in law and should be applied retroactively in a § 2241 petition
18-8932 Vickie L. Sanders v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights drug-offense due-process due-process-clause equal-protection federalism recidivist-provisions recidivist-sentencing retroactive-reclassification sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether a state's retroactive reclassification of a felony drug conviction to a misdemeanor precludes its use as a predicate offense under federal rec…
18-8841 Frizzell Carrell Woodson v. Megan J. Brennan, Postmaster General Fourth Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-access due-process due-process-clause employment-discrimination federal-employment-discrimination in-forma-pauperis pro-se-plaintiff property-right retaliation title-vii-litigation Whether the Due Process Clause provides heightened protection for a property right of action vested upon filing an in forma pauperis complaint allegin…
18-1278 Corey A. Kerns, et al. v. Chesapeake Exploration, L.L.C., et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-04-08 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 due-process due-process-clause horizontal-drilling mineral-extraction mineral-rights permanent-physical-invasion property-rights regulatory-police-power state-action state-regulatory-police-power state-regulatory-power subsurface-rights takings-clause Whether state regulatory police power statute allowing permanent physical invasion of private subsurface for oil/gas extraction violates due process a…
18-8459 Wayne A. Bisso v. Florida Florida 2019-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment blockburger-test common-law-marriage double-jeopardy due-process due-process-clause estate-inheritance fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-theft property-rights Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment protects a surviving spouse, who is factually and actually innocent, from being convicted a…
18-8348 Blair Garner v. William Lee, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 911-recordings ancillary-finding appellate-review civil-procedure de-novo-review due-process due-process-clause factual-determination factual-findings federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-procedure notice notice-and-opportunity-to-be-heard standard-of-review Whether the Second Circuit erred in rejecting the district court's prejudice determination without consulting the underlying 911 call recordings, with…
18-1026 William Kinney, et ux. v. Anderson Lumber Company, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-02-06 Denied anti-trust antitrust-law-sherman-act concurrent-jurisdiction due-process due-process-clause equal-protection fourteenth-amendment religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act sherman-antitrust-act unlicensed-practice-of-law Whether Tennessee's law for the unlicensed practice of law violates the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
18-7489 Jurijus Kadamovas v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied IFP 18-usc-1203 bond-v-united-states capital-case due-process-clause federal-authority hostage-taking international-terrorism recusal-standard statutory-interpretation treaty-power Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1203 should be interpreted in accordance with its underlying treaty and the principles in Bond v. United States, 572 U.S. 844 (201…
18-7068 Nelson Figueroa v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne almendarez-torres apprendi apprendi-rule constitutional-protections due-process due-process-clause federal-sentencing-guidelines jury-trial prior-conviction prior-conviction-exception sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether the rule of Apprendi must apply to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines to comport with the constitutional protections of due process and jury tr…
18-6773 Tito Knox v. David Plowden Fourth Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process due-process-clause equal-protection life-liberty-property standing takings Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause and Equal Protection Clause prohibit the government from depriving individuals of life, liberty,…
18-605 Mitchell J. Stein v. California California 2018-11-08 Denied Response Waived civil-litigation civil-procedure constitutional-law declaratory-relief due-process due-process-clause harmless-error judicial-review prejudice structural-error When a fundamental structural error results in an invalid judgment against a civil litigant in violation of the Due Process Clause, is the error per s…
18-6481 Jeremy Fontanez v. Joseph Coakley, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-10-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2241 bureau-of-prisons circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process due-process-clause fifth-amendment inmate-financial-responsibility-program mandatory-victims-restitution-act restitution restitution-order voluntary Does the sentencing court violate the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act (MVRA) when it delegates its restitution payments to the BOP?
18-538 Wendy A. Nora v. Wisconsin Office of Lawyer Regulation Wisconsin 2018-10-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) due-process due-process-clause exculpatory-evidence fair-hearing first-amendment fourteenth-amendment lawyer-discipline petition-for-redress petition-rights procedural-due-process prosecutorial-misconduct Whether a lawyer can be disciplined based on evidence known by the state to be false and when the state suppresses exculpatory evidence
18-532 Sixty-01 Association of Apartment Owners v. Penny D. Goudelock Ninth Circuit 2018-10-23 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived assessment-discharge bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-discharge chapter-13 chapter-13-bankruptcy community-association community-association-assessments due-process due-process-clause federalism fifth-amendment property-ownership ripeness-doctrine takings takings-clause Does the Bankruptcy Code discharge community association assessments that accrue after the filing of a Chapter 13 bankruptcy even if the debtor retain…
18-402 Anna Pezhman v. Chanel, et al. New York 2018-09-28 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment court-denial due-process due-process-clause fraud fraud-motion judgment judgment-set-aside legal-pertinence misconduct misrepresentation motion-to-set-aside-judgment When dealing with a motion to set aside a judgment based on fraud, misconduct and misrepresentation, must a court proffer reasons for its denial or ca…
18-322 Steven A. Miner v. Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission Illinois 2018-09-12 Denied attorney-disciplinary-proceedings attorney-discipline burden-of-proof clear-and-convincing-evidence due-process due-process-clause first-amendment misappropriation personal-relationships private-relationships professional-misconduct Whether the burden of proof was improperly shifted to the attorney, in violation of the Due Process Clause, by finding dishonesty based on lack of rec…
18-5732 James LaConte v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act due-process due-process-clause florida-robbery florida-robbery-statute sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation victim-resistance violent-felony Whether Florida's State § 812.13 robbery offense is categorically a violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act
18-5470 Jeremy J. Bohlman v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process compulsory-process-clause confrontation-clause criminal-evidence due-process due-process-clause evidence fed-rule-evidence-412 federal-rules-of-evidence-412 rape-allegations rape-shield-law sexual-assault sexual-behavior subsequent-behavior-evidence Whether Fed.R.Evid 412 bars a defendant from introducing evidence showing that the alleged victim engaged in subsequent sexual acts inconsistent with …
18-5384 Wendell Rivera-Ruperto v. United States First Circuit 2018-07-30 Denied IFP 8th-amendment due-process due-process-clause eighth-amendment government-manipulation mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimum sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements statutory-manipulation sting-operation sting-operations Whether the Eighth Amendment forbids the creation of a de-facto mandatory life without parole sentence through stacking 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) charges
18-5275 Christopher Counts v. Eddie Wilson, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-issues deference due-process due-process-clause ex-parte federal-court-deference judicial-order retroactive-application state-court-order summary-judgment Does federal court deference to an ex parte judicial order violate due process?
18-84 ConAgra Grocery Products Company, et al. v. California California 2018-07-18 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (3) causation century-old-conduct civil-procedure due-process due-process-clause first-amendment injury massive-liability no-proof-of-injury public-nuisance retroactive-liability speech-liability Whether imposing massive and retroactive 'public nuisance' liability without requiring proof that the defendant's nearly century-old conduct caused an…