| 25A914 |
Nicole Malliotakis, et al. v. Michael Williams, et al. |
New York |
2026-02-13 |
Application |
|
congressional-redistricting due-process elections-clause equal-protection fourteenth-amendment racial-gerrymandering |
Question not identified. |
| 25-960 |
Oregon, et al. v. Paul Maney, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-02-13 |
Pending |
|
corrections-leadership covid-19-response cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment public-health-emergency qualified-immunity |
1. Whether the Eighth Amendment requires state corrections leadership to implement an overall "reasonable" statewide response to a public-health emerg… |
| 25-6792 |
Daniel Smalls v. South Carolina Department of Social Services, et al. |
South Carolina |
2026-02-12 |
Pending |
IFP |
child-support due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction paternity personal-service |
1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause permits a state court to assert jurisdiction and impose child support obligations on a nonres… |
| 25-955 |
Delmart Ejm Vreeland, III v. Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. |
Colorado |
2026-02-11 |
Pending |
|
constitutional-review due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdictional-defect merits-review procedural-bar |
Whether a State violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when it limits a defendant's ability to raise all meritorious claims on di… |
| 25-952 |
Brij Mohan, et al. v. Jordan Watkins |
Seventh Circuit |
2026-02-11 |
Pending |
|
bivens-claim constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment inmate-rights pretrial-detention |
In Carlson v. Green, 446 U.S. 14 (1980), this Court recognized a cause of action under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcoti… |
| 25-6781 |
Stacy Gene Hall v. Buddy Myotte, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-02-11 |
Pending |
IFP |
due-process evidence-suppression fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction rule-60b section-1983 |
1. Procedural Due Process I Rule 60(b) Jurisdiction
Whether the Due Process Clause pennits a lower court to refuse to consider a Rule 60(b) motion
be… |
| 25-6768 |
In Re Mark Anthony Morris |
|
2026-02-10 |
Pending |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-violation due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus state-interference |
1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibit Mark Morris' continued imprisonment after establishing that constitutional viol… |
| 25-6777 |
Olda Rachel Guardiola v. Maricela Rodriguez |
Texas |
2026-02-10 |
Pending |
IFP |
due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-jurisdiction nunc-pro-tunc procedural-change state-court |
1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment permits a state court —after its
plenary jurisdiction has expired —to use a nunc pro tunc order to
retroactively… |
| 25-6773 |
Devern Clemons, III v. Florida |
Florida |
2026-02-10 |
Pending |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial serious-felony sixth-amendment |
Whether Petitioner was derived of his right, under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged w… |
| 25-6766 |
Eric Joshua Mapes v. United States District Court for the Western District of Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-10 |
Pending |
IFP |
arrest-warrant due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-oversight probable-cause |
1. Police Complaint as Arrest Warrant Whether a notarized police-authored criminal complaint, executed without judicial oversight and misrepresented a… |
| 25-6763 |
Frederick Pina v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company |
California |
2026-02-10 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-taking property-rights vexatious-litigant |
1. Whether a state appellate court effects a deprivation of property without due process of law, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment, when it dis… |
| 25-943 |
Antonio M. Smith v. John Kind, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2026-02-09 |
Pending |
|
clearly-established-law constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment government-official qualified-immunity |
When a government official acts in an obviously unconstitutional manner, is that sufficient for the violation to be clearly established, as this Court… |
| 25-939 |
James Garfield Broadnax v. Texas |
Texas |
2026-02-06 |
Pending |
|
confrontation-clause due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment |
1. Whether the State's use in a capital sentencing proceeding of rap lyrics composed by a Black defendant to argue to a nearly all-White jury that the… |
| 25-931 |
BAS, LLC v. Tommy Land, in His Official Capacity as Commissioner of State Lands for the State of Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2026-02-06 |
Pending |
|
fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment just-compensation property-rights sovereign-immunity takings-clause |
Does a state's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment obligation to pay just compensation waive sovereign immunity when it takes private property? |
| 25-6746 |
Ronald Palmer Heath v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
2026-02-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
eighth-amendment lethal-injection maladministration method-of-execution pleading-requirements severe-harm |
1. Is a narrowly tailored Eighth Amendment claim based on a State's documented, repeated maladministration of its chosen method of execution subject t… |
| 25-926 |
Alexander Keely v. Pennsylvania Board of Law Examiners |
Pennsylvania |
2026-02-05 |
Pending |
|
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment law-school-accreditation professional-licensing racial-discrimination |
Shortly after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, when most American Bar Association (ABA) law schools had not yet admitted Black students or minorities, Pe… |
| 25A887 |
Arron Benedetti, et al. v. Marin County, California, et al. |
California |
2026-02-05 |
Application |
|
fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment land-use-exaction nollan-test property-rights residential-development |
Question not identified. |
| 25A876 |
Jernice Hamilton, aka Garnaris Hamilton v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2026-02-04 |
Application |
|
disability-retirement fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment military-records pro-se subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Question not identified. |
| 25A874 |
Huong Giaccio v. Meredith Lyon, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-04 |
Application |
|
constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment municipal-immunity retaliatory-arrest |
1. Whether absolute judicial and prosecutorial immunity applies when municipal officials act without jurisdiction and in coordination with retaliatory… |
| 25A873 |
Patricia Tillman v. Illinois State Board of Elections, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2026-02-04 |
Application |
|
ballot-access candidate-exclusion election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment irreparable-harm |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6717 |
Alaa Elkharwily v. Kaiser Permanente, et al. |
Washington |
2026-02-04 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-limits due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-sanctions pro-se-litigation |
1- UNCONSTITUTIONALLY BIASED ADJUDICATION (RULE OF NECESSITY/
SELF-INTEREST): Did the state appellate court violate the Due Process
Clause of the Fo… |
| 25-910 |
MEI-GSR Holdings, LLC, et al. v. Second Judicial District Court of Nevada, Washoe County, et al. |
Nevada |
2026-02-03 |
Pending |
|
civil-contempt contempt criminal-contempt due-process fourteenth-amendment receiver-restitution |
1. This Court has been grappling with the contempt due process requirements when a contemnor removes property from a receiver's control without author… |
| 25-903 |
Sandra J. Bezanson, as Executor of the Estate of Dennis G. Bezanson v. Exeter Hospital, Inc. |
New Hampshire |
2026-02-02 |
Pending |
|
administrative-error court-system due-process electronic-filing fourteenth-amendment procedural-due-process |
1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits a state supreme court to forfeit a litigant's rights based on an administrative … |
| 25A856 |
James Daryl West v. Sabrina Schultz, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-01-30 |
Application |
|
constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment monell-claim prison-medical-services supervisory-liability |
Question not identified. |
| 25-899 |
Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. O. Doe, et al. |
First Circuit |
2026-01-30 |
Pending |
|
citizenship-clause constitutional-interpretation executive-order fourteenth-amendment immigration-law statutory-construction |
Whether President Trump's Executive Order No. 14,160, 90 Fed. Reg. 8449 (Jan. 29, 2025), which identifies circumstances in which a person born in the … |
| 25-6678 |
Isaac Ramirez Rodriguez v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2026-01-30 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment mandatory-minimum proportionality sentencing |
Are the mandatory minimum life sentence provisions of Virginia Code §§ 18.2-61(B)(2) and 18.2-67.2(B)(2) unconstitutional as constituting Cruel and Un… |
| 25-6676 |
Vincent Terry v. Teresa Bailey, et al. |
Georgia |
2026-01-29 |
Pending |
IFP |
attorney-immunity constitutional-claims due-process federal-review fourteenth-amendment summary-affirmance |
1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is violated when a state appellate court resolves federal constitutional claims through … |
| 25-883 |
James Thomas Ford v. Florida |
Florida |
2026-01-23 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
due-process fourteenth-amendment human-trafficking jury-trial prosecutorial-discretion vindictive-prosecution |
Does a prosecutor engage in vindictive prosecution in violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment where she amends the criminal ch… |
| 25-880 |
In Re Roy Dixon, et ux. |
|
2026-01-22 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment foreclosure fourteenth-amendment mandamus |
Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the 15th Judicial Circuit Court in West Palm Beach, Florida, to perform its ministerial duty to vaca… |
| 25-6642 |
Jimmy ONeal Spencer v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2026-01-22 |
Pending |
IFP |
due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-selection pretrial-publicity sixth-amendment venue-change |
In a capital case where the pretrial publicity was extensive, gruesome, and negative, including statements by the current Attorney General that the Ji… |
| 25-6634 |
Joseph D. Reaves v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2026-01-21 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea newly-discovered-evidence pcra-petition psychiatric-medical-history |
1. Does the Due Process Clause of the Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment entitle an Petitioner in a PCRA Petition, Notice of Appeal and Allowance of … |
| 25-864 |
Daniel Otu v. Anita Whyte-Otu |
Georgia |
2026-01-21 |
Pending |
|
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment protective-order void-for-vagueness |
1. Does a court of law violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause when the issuance of a permanent protective order relies on the Petitione… |
| 25-866 |
Charles Wright v. Monica Marie Wright |
Michigan |
2026-01-21 |
Pending |
|
brady-violation constitutional-claims due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct |
1. Whether a state court's destruction and suppression of exculpatory evidence used to enforce MCL § 552.27 support obligations violates a litigant's … |
| 25-6623 |
Hamed Kian v. Florida |
Florida |
2026-01-20 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial serious-felony sixth-amendment |
Whether Petitioner was derived of his right, under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged w… |
| 25-6628 |
Elhadj Alpha Mahmoud Souare v. Court of Common Pleas of Ohio, Summit County, et al. |
Ohio |
2026-01-20 |
Pending |
IFP |
administrative-law custody-order due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure procedural-requirements |
1. Whether a magistrate's issuance of a dispositive custody and support order—adopted the same day by an administrative judge without a hearing—violat… |
| 25-6607 |
Kevin Esaud Perez Rojas v. Florida |
Florida |
2026-01-16 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial serious-felony sixth-amendment |
Whether Petitioner was derived of his right, under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged w… |
| 25A823 |
Brij Mohan, et al. v. Jordan Watkins |
Seventh Circuit |
2026-01-16 |
Application |
|
bivens-remedy due-process eighth-amendment federal-tort-claims-act medical-negligence prisoner-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 25A821 |
Taylor Rene Parker v. Texas |
Texas |
2026-01-16 |
Application |
|
capital-punishment criminal-culpability death-penalty eighth-amendment intellectual-disability mental-capacity |
Question not identified. |
| 25-852 |
Kimberly Edelstein v. Eliott Edelstein |
Ohio |
2026-01-16 |
Pending |
|
civil-rights fourteenth-amendment judicial-notice property-interest state-law supremacy-clause |
1. Did the state court err and violate the Supremacy
Clause and Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment
rights in reclassifying a federal civil rights ver… |
| 25-6593 |
Jason Jones v. Florida |
Florida |
2026-01-15 |
Pending |
IFP |
criminal-fines eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment immunities-clause incarceration-costs |
Whether the Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment must restrict government from imposing costs of incarceration and criminal fines that are gr… |
| 25-836 |
Rockland County, New York, et al. v. New York, et al. |
New York |
2026-01-15 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
county-administration due-process election-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment voting-rights |
This petition presents federal constitutional questions concerning Equal Protection and voting-rights limits on a state's authority to selectively res… |
| 25-835 |
Jean-Francois Rigollet v. Le Macaron Development, LLC |
Florida |
2026-01-15 |
Pending |
|
appellate-review due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-contradiction procedural-exclusion summary-judgment |
The circumstances following the presented questions, creates two constitutional questions under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment:
1… |
| 25-6579 |
Robert Keaton v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-01-14 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus takings-clause |
Whether an accused's right under the Due Process Clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment is offended when a United States Court of Appeals denies… |
| 25A815 |
Natural Lands, LLC v. City of Boca Raton, Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-01-13 |
Application |
|
42-usc-1983 due-process federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment property-rights state-remedies |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6571 |
Maxo Casseus v. Florida |
Florida |
2026-01-13 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial serious-felony sixth-amendment |
Whether Petitioner was derived of his right, under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged w… |
| 25-6552 |
Angeliina Lynn Lawson v. Jonathan David Lawson |
Tenth Circuit |
2026-01-12 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights equal-protection fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigant removal-jurisdiction |
1 Whether 28 U.S.C. §1443(1) permits removal to federal court when a pro se litigant with disabilities alleges systemic discrimination, retaliation, a… |
| 25-822 |
Thomas DeCola v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2026-01-12 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
bill-of-rights constitutional-claims fourteenth-amendment legal-estoppel section-1983 state-liability |
Whether 42 U.S.C. § 1983 is the congressional consent for asserting individual God-granted rights that are acknowledged within the U.S. Bill of Rights… |
| 25-6537 |
David T. Everett v. Sarah E. Tharrett, as Successor Trustee of the Roxine Poznich Revocable Trust |
Kansas |
2026-01-09 |
Pending |
IFP |
due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdictional-error meaningful-hearing supremacy-clause trust-law |
I.
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause is satisfied when state courts at three
successive levels either ignore or refuse to rule on… |
| 25A788 |
Kriston Price v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2026-01-08 |
Application |
|
fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment home-invasion self-defense sixth-amendment voluntary-manslaughter |
Question not identified. |
| 25-805 |
Kerry Kruskal v. Alan Maestas, et al. |
New Mexico |
2026-01-08 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
access-to-courts civil-claims due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review procedural-fairness |
1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is violated when a state court affirms the dismissal of civil claims without findings of… |
| 25A792 |
Anthony A. Browne v. Kimberly Reynolds, in Her Official Capacity as Governor of Iowa, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2026-01-08 |
Application |
|
clemency felony-conviction firearm-rights fourteenth-amendment restoration-of-rights second-amendment |
1. Iowa Code § 914.7 (2025) entitled "Rights not restorable" infringes the Petitioner's right to keep and bear arms enshrined by the Second and Fourte… |
| 25-798 |
Rick Siegel v. Jude Salazar |
California |
2026-01-07 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
administrative-authority constitutional-claims contract-law due-process fourteenth-amendment state-procedural-rules |
1) "Whether state procedural rules are 'adequate' under the Fourteenth Amendment when, in combination (limited-case misclassification, jurisdictional … |
| 25A787 |
Jacquelyn Miller v. Dylan Farris, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-01-07 |
Application |
|
constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review procedural-safeguards |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6509 |
Charles Bocock v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2026-01-07 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-conviction digital-evidence due-process forensic-attribution fourteenth-amendment substantive-proof |
1 Due Process —Sufficiency of the Evidence / Digital Possession.
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause permits
affirmance of a convic… |
| 25-6508 |
In Re Angeliina L. Lawson |
|
2026-01-07 |
Pending |
IFP |
ada-protections due-process federal-removal fourteenth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction supervisory-power |
1. Whether the Supreme Court should exercise its supervisory power under Rule 20 and the All Writs Act to restrain a state judge who continues to act … |
| 25A782 |
Société Générale De Banque Au Liban, S.A.L. v. Ester Lelchook, as Personal Representative of the Estate of David Martin Lelchook, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2026-01-06 |
Application |
|
asset-purchase due-process fourteenth-amendment personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction successor-liability |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment permits the exercise of personal jurisdiction over: (i) a foreign-based non-culpable asset-and-liability purchaser wh… |
| 25-6495 |
Jason Elysse v. Florida |
Florida |
2026-01-06 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-claim discretionary-jurisdiction fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment |
First, whether a State Appellate Court violates a Defendant's Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights when it affirms a trial Court's denial of a… |
| 25-6484 |
Donald N. S. Mortvedt v. Charles E. Clawson, III, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2026-01-06 |
Pending |
IFP |
due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-liberty pro-se section-1983 sua-sponte |
1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment excludes equity from jurisdiction over deprivations of liberty, including parental liber… |
| 25-6476 |
Demond Depree Bluntson v. Texas |
Texas |
2026-01-05 |
Pending |
IFP |
faretta-standard fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion mental-illness self-representation sixth-amendment |
This case presents important issues concerning the Sixth Amendment right to represent oneself in a criminal proceeding and the fair administration of … |
| 25-775 |
Westforth Sports, Inc. v. City of Chicago, Illinois |
Illinois |
2026-01-02 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
due-process fourteenth-amendment non-resident-seller personal-jurisdiction product-transportation specific-jurisdiction |
Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution allow a state to exercise specific personal jurisdiction ove… |
| 25-6447 |
Torrence Belcher v. Joshua Wallen, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-12-30 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment inmate-rights physical-injury prison-safety |
1. How isn't an official being responsible for an inmate 's death not a basis for suing them??
2. If it is possible to hypothesize a set of facts cons… |
| 25-6444 |
Rashid Muhammad Abdullah v. City of Plant City, Florida, et al. |
Florida |
2025-12-30 |
Pending |
IFP |
collateral-estoppel double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment warrantless-seizure |
The doctrine of collateral estoppel or the Double Jeopardy Clause precludes a municipality from re-litigating factual determinations resolved in the p… |
| 25-755 |
The Society of Apostolic Church Ministries Bishop, Elizabeth Gardner Corporation Sole and Her Successors v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-29 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
church-autonomy church-property first-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-interference ministerial-exemption property-seizure religious-freedom-restoration-act |
I. Whether the Ninth Circuit permitted the government to violate the First Amendment of the Constitution, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, the Estab… |
| 25A752 |
Charles Don Flores v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-12-29 |
Application |
|
actual-innocence death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus state-court-review |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6437 |
Sean Blaine James v. Oregon |
Oregon |
2025-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury-clause incorporation-doctrine sentence-enhancement |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment fully incorporates the Grand Jury Clause of the Fifth Amendment? |
| 25-745 |
Bobby MacBryan Green v. Michael John May, et al. |
Tennessee |
2025-12-23 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
appellate-review due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-system property-interests subject-matter-jurisdiction |
The trial court has been placed in an untenable position by aberrant appellate rulings. First, the
intermediate appellate court issued a judgment and
… |
| 25-6409 |
Krystle Hoffman v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2025-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
absurd-principles-doctrine due-process fourteenth-amendment rule-of-lenity sentencing-statute statutory-construction |
Whether a defendant's due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment are violated when a court refuses to apply the rule of lenity to an ambiguous … |
| 25A714 |
Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. O. Doe, et al. |
First Circuit |
2025-12-18 |
Application |
|
birthright-citizenship citizenship-clause executive-order fourteenth-amendment preliminary-injunction standing |
Question not identified. |
| 25-716 |
ENI S.p.A v. Gulf LNG Energy, LLC, et al. |
New York |
2025-12-18 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
arbitration claim-preclusion corporate-affiliation due-process fourteenth-amendment nonparty-preclusion |
1. Whether, consistent with the Fourteenth
Amendment of the United States Constitution and the
Federal Arbitration Act, a state court may extend the… |
| 25-708 |
Rupert Baptiste v. Fatou Jallow |
Third Circuit |
2025-12-18 |
Pending |
|
due-process fourteenth-amendment haines-v-kerner judicial-act pro-se-rights self-representation |
The United States Constitution grants certain inalienable rights to its citizens. The purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment is to protect people from be… |
| 25A712 |
Donald Wayne Read v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-12-17 |
Application |
|
constitutional-claim deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-treatment prisoner-rights pro-se |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6394 |
Joshua Abrams v. Richard Isolda |
New Jersey |
2025-12-17 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation due-process fourteenth-amendment immunity-doctrine judicial-sanctions seventh-amendment |
1. Whether immunity doctrines eliminate all remedies for constitutional violations.
2. Whether judicial sanctions imposed as penalties require due pr… |
| 25-6382 |
Frank A. Walls v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge eighth-amendment federal-review lethal-injection method-of-execution undue-delay |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in denying Mr. Walls review, based solely on undue delay, despite the primary basis for his challenge —records r… |
| 25-6378 |
Kriston Price v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2025-12-16 |
Pending |
IFP |
aggravated-murder criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-instruction self-defense sixth-amendment |
1. Whether sufficient evidence existed to reject the defense of self defense where the defendant was violently attacked, beaten, and through the a mir… |
| 25A699 |
Larry E. Harrison v. Sharon A. Oliver, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-12-16 |
Application |
|
eighth-amendment hirschsprung-disease incontinence medical-indifference medical-treatment prisoner-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6365 |
Timothy Robert Provo v. Geoffrey W. Tenney, Individually and as Judge, Tenth Judicial District, Wright County, Minnesota, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-12-15 |
Pending |
IFP |
ada-retaliation due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-recusal parental-rights transcript-access |
1. Recusal and Void Orders
Whether the Due Process Clause and the Supremacy Clause permit a state judge to
continue issuing substantive custody, cont… |
| 25-6364 |
Joshua Luckey v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2025-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-right due-process false-allegations fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment trial-evidence |
Did the trial court violate Luckey's Sixth Amendment right to confrontation and his XIV Amendment right to due process when evidence showing prior fal… |
| 25-6356 |
Elvert S. Briscoe, Jr. v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2025-12-15 |
Pending |
IFP |
appeal-as-of-right due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment notice-of-judgment pro-se |
1. Has a pro se party received due process of notice and redress under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution if the fi… |
| 25A690 |
United Services Automobile Association, Inc. v. Estate of Sylvia F. Minor, et al. |
Mississippi |
2025-12-12 |
Application |
|
compensatory-damages due-process fourteenth-amendment punitive-damages ratio-test state-farm |
This case implicates the due process limits on punitive damages when a plaintiff has already recovered substantial compensatory damages. See State Far… |
| 25-6352 |
Marcus Allen Cooper v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2025-12-12 |
Pending |
IFP |
complete-defense credibility-challenge evidence-exclusion fourteenth-amendment trial-court-discretion witness-fabrication |
Whether a trial court abridges the defendant's Fourteenth Amendment right to present a complete defense by excluding evidence that the sole inculpator… |
| 25-681 |
Zhi Wu, et al. v. Superior Court of California, Alameda County, et al. |
California |
2025-12-11 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure discovery-referee disqualification due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-impartiality |
This petition arises from a California civil action in which a privately compensated discovery referee, whose impartiality was formally questioned, wa… |
| 25-6346 |
Corey Gaynor v. Ken Hollibaugh, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-instruction sixth-amendment |
1. Whether trial counsel was ineffective and the trial court s unconstitutional jury instruction derived from Pennsylvania's consolidated statute 18 P… |
| 25-6340 |
Robert Knickerbocker v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2025-12-11 |
Pending |
IFP |
constitutional-violation dna-evidence due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct post-conviction-review |
I. Did A FUNDAMENTAL MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE AND CONSTITUTIONAL DUE PROCESS VIOLATION OCCUR WHEN THE STATE COURT VIOLATED SCHLUP V. DELO, 513 U.S. 29B … |
| 25-678 |
Louis B. Antonacci v. Renu Brennan, in Her Official Capacity as Bar Counsel for the Virginia State Bar, et al. |
Virginia |
2025-12-10 |
Pending |
|
bar-complaint constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-discretion |
Whether this Court's decision in Loper Light Enterprises v. Raimondo, 144 S. Ct. 2244 (2024) militates in favor of abrogating the prosecutorial discre… |
| 25-6322 |
Jeremy Ian Frieday v. Washington |
Washington |
2025-12-09 |
Pending |
IFP |
factual-findings fourteenth-amendment jury-trial-guarantee prior-conviction-exception sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Whether Petitioner's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated when he was subject to an increased standard sentence based on the trial cour… |
| 25-671 |
In Re Mark Christopher Tracy |
|
2025-12-09 |
Pending |
|
constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure ministerial-duty writ-of-execution |
Whether the California state court violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by failing to issue a writ of execution following entry… |
| 25-669 |
Timothy Rosin v. Kimberly Hill |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-transfer collective-bargaining due-process fourteenth-amendment property-interest school-principal |
1. Whether Rosin's involuntary transfer was: 1) an administrative transfer, or 2) a punitive/disciplinary demotion?
2. Whether a certified public-sch… |
| 25-6317 |
Harold Wayne Nichols v. Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General of Tennessee, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-12-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment lethal-injection method-of-execution statute-of-limitations |
1. Because a method-of-execution-challenge involves a future harm, and not a past harm, lower courts have struggled to determine when the claim accrue… |
| 25-6308 |
Johnny Joe Figueroa-Mangual v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights eighth-amendment fifth-amendment plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether it was a violation to the Fifth, Sixth and Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the sentencing factors enshrined in 18 U.S.C. 3553 (a) a… |
| 25-6305 |
Anthony Darrell Heath v. Kathy Brittain, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Frackville, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-12-05 |
Pending |
IFP |
constitutional-rights custodial-interrogation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-health miranda-rights |
1. Was Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 86 S. Ct. 1602, 16 L. Ed. 2d 694 (1966) decided for that specific class of persons "not mentally ill" that is… |
| 25-6291 |
Georgianna Parisi v. Estate of Jackie Jones, et al. |
Ohio |
2025-12-05 |
Pending |
IFP |
equal-protection fourteenth-amendment interstate-commerce judicial-oversight probate-court trustee-compensation |
This case presents a question of exceptional national importance because it implicates the federal constitutional limits on States' authority to regul… |
| 25A661 |
Oregon, et al. v. Paul Maney, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-04 |
Application |
|
communicable-disease covid-19 deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment prison-conditions qualified-immunity |
Question not identified. |
| 25A658 |
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Bette Eakin, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-12-04 |
Application |
|
anderson-burdick election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment mail-in-voting voter-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6279 |
Steven Matthew Wolf v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-12-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment death-penalty fourteenth-amendment juror-bias jury-selection sixth-amendment |
Whether Mr. Wolf was deprived of a jury of his peers as guaranteed by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments where the trial court removed a juror who pr… |
| 25-618 |
Craig Jonathan Warner v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-12-01 |
Pending |
|
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony fourteenth-amendment witness-testimony |
1. At least ten states' courts and four federal circuit courts recognize that a state's unknowing presentation of false testimony denies a defendant d… |
| 25-610 |
Hansueli Overturf v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District |
California |
2025-11-25 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure default-judgment due-process fourteenth-amendment hague-service-convention service-of-process |
1. Whether entry of default based on defective service of process, which failed to provide defendant with actual notice of the action, violates the Fo… |
| 25A618 |
Antonio M. Smith v. John Kind, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-11-25 |
Application |
|
constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment excessive-force prison-conditions qualified-immunity |
Whether the Eighth Amendment precludes qualified immunity for corrections officers who deliberately subject a prisoner to extreme cold conditions with… |
| 25-6230 |
McKinley Kelly v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2025-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment rehabilitation sentencing-procedure |
Whether the sentencing procedure mandated by Indiana Code Sec. 35-38-l-7.1(A) and utilized by the state trial court in imposing Kelly 's sentence, whi… |
| 25-611 |
Delta Air Lines, Inc. v. Oregon Department of Revenue |
Oregon |
2025-11-25 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
administrative-convenience equal-protection fourteenth-amendment intangible-property state-law taxation |
Whether the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits a state from singling out a few businesses for taxation of their intangible … |
| 25-6208 |
Matthew Peckham v. Rhode Island |
Rhode Island |
2025-11-24 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP |
bias-evidence cross-examination fourteenth-amendment juvenile-records sixth-amendment witness-impeachment |
1. Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments permit a state court to bar all cross-examination of a key prosecution witness concerning her own juven… |
| 25-6201 |
Frank Paul Ferrara v. Virginia, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-11-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-general civil-commitment constitutional-law discretionary-action equal-protection fourteenth-amendment |
Question No. 1: Whether the Commonwealth of Virginia violated the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of equal protection of the laws when the Attorney G… |
| 25-6179 |
Benny Lee Hodge v. Laura Plappert, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-sentence cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection habeas-corpus sixth-circuit |
I. Under its original meaning, the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause of the Eighth Amendment was interpreted as including disproportionate and arbi… |
| 25-593 |
Gerald Scott v. Boca Landings Homeowners Association, Inc. |
Florida |
2025-11-20 |
Denied |
|
discretionary-review due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigants statute-of-limitations |
1. Does a state supreme court's practice of summarily denying discretionary review of Per Curium Affirmance (PCA), involving a Statute of Limitation d… |
| 25-6172 |
Quantell Williams v. Austin J. Robinson, et al. |
Florida |
2025-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process fourteenth-amendment pro-se-filing psychiatric-duress settlement state-court |
1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause is violated when a state court enforces a settlement entered over a litigant's explicit objec… |
| 25-6171 |
Aldo DiBelardino v. Jason S. Miyares, Attorney General of Virginia, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury law-enforcement |
1. Does the systematic manipulation of our grand jury
authority —contrary to its constitutionally intended role as a
"protector of citizens [the Peo… |
| 25-6164 |
Shannon Bernard Jackson v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
anders-brief appellate-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment pro-se-brief |
QUESTION No. 1: Is a criminal defendant deprived of his rights under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution to file a pro se brief… |
| 25-6150 |
Cristina M. Lancranjan v. Superior Court of California, San Diego County, et al. |
California |
2025-11-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-custody due-process educational-status-quo first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion |
1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is violated when a
state court, without a full evidentiary hearing on the child's best … |
| 25-578 |
Joshua Eric Hawk Clark v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
certificate-of-appealability fourteenth-amendment gatekeeping-function habeas-corpus scientific-evidence shaken-baby-syndrome |
Did the Court of Appeals erroneously deny Petitioner Joshua Clark a Certificate of Appealability on his Fourteenth Amendment claims even though Petiti… |
| 25A569 |
Eric Drake v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-11-14 |
Application |
|
deferred-adjudication due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment probation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether a state court's deferred probation order violates due process and equal protection when imposed by a judge lacking subject-matter jurisdiction |
| 25A563 |
Rodney Vance Frith v. Kyle Smith |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-11-14 |
Application |
|
cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment medical-indifference prisoner-rights section-1983 serious-medical-needs |
Whether a prison's alleged deliberate indifference to a prisoner's serious medical needs constitutes a violation of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition… |
| 25-6130 |
Eric Drake v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-11-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
deferred-probation due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment second-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the State's refusal to allow out of state travel for life-saving medical treatment to a defendant on deferred probation violates the Eighth an… |
| 25-577 |
Chaldean Coalition, Inc. v. San Diego County Independent Redistricting Commission, et al. |
California |
2025-11-14 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
district-design equal-protection fourteenth-amendment population-deviation racial-gerrymandering redistricting |
During the summer of 2020, the term "BIPOC"—
"Black, Indigenous, and People of Color"—emerged as the
preferred moniker for the theory that all non-wh… |
| 25-6120 |
In Re Steven Michael Backstrom |
|
2025-11-14 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
cruel-unusual-punishment due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance trial-counsel |
1- a) Does a failure by trial counsel to investigate known-to-be
material facts and/or witnesses, constitute federally defined
ineffective assistanc… |
| 25-6093 |
Shari Lynn Oliver v. Matthew Warren Oliver |
Michigan |
2025-11-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias procedural-fairness res-judicata void-judgment |
I. Whether a state court violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by refusing to vacate a facially void judgment that was procured … |
| 25-566 |
Eddie Grant, Jr., et al. v. Ronnell Higgins, in His Official Capacity as Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Transportation, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-11-12 |
Pending |
|
common-use constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment gun-possession second-amendment semiautomatic-rifles |
Whether the Second and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution guarantee the right to possess semiautomatic rifles that are in common … |
| 25-6074 |
Olayiwola Adebisi v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas |
Texas |
2025-11-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-support-enforcement due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdictional-access pro-se-litigant service-of-process |
Whether the Texas courts violated clearly established federal precedent protecting jurisdictional access and due process rights of pro se litigants wh… |
| 25-6061 |
Bryan Fredrick Jennings v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
2025-11-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment meaningful-access postconviction-counsel state-representation |
Mr. Jennings was deprived of counsel for three years before his death warrant was signed. On the day his death warrant was signed, the State requested… |
| 25-6059 |
Cristina M. Lancranjan v. Superior Court of California, San Diego County, et al. |
California |
2025-11-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process extrinsic-fraud fourteenth-amendment parental-rights state-court |
1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause is violated when a state court, with knowledge of extrinsic fraud that results in void orders… |
| 25-552 |
Nicholas Lupo, et al. v. Tre Hargett, Tennessee Secretary of State, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-11-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ballot-access elector-candidates electoral-college first-amendment fourteenth-amendment presidential-election |
Is not States ' premature adjudication of qualifications of Elector Candidates ' Pledged Candidates unconstitutional and violation of the foundational… |
| 25A510 |
Terrance Carew v. Robert Morton |
Second Circuit |
2025-11-04 |
Application |
|
batson-violation fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-selection racial-discrimination sixth-amendment |
Whether a criminal defense attorney's failure to demand a remedy for a proven Batson violation constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel when raci… |
| 25-541 |
Benjamin Schoenthal, et al. v. Kwame Raoul, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-11-04 |
Pending |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
citizens-rights constitutional-challenge firearms-regulation fourteenth-amendment public-transportation second-amendment |
Whether Illinois' flat ban on ordinary citizens carrying firearms on public transportation violates the Second and Fourteenth Amendments. |
| 25-537 |
Raymond H. Pierson, III v. Phyliss M. Rushing |
California |
2025-11-04 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment insurance-litigation medical-emergency |
1a. Isn't it true that under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, that Dr. Pierson, a self-represented party without alternat… |
| 25A503 |
William Muhr v. Kristin Lee, aka Kristin Ellias |
Colorado |
2025-11-03 |
Application |
|
due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-appointment judicial-integrity jurisdictional-defect state-court-procedure |
Whether a state court judge's secret, unilateral appointment of a successor judge without public record or independent oversight violates the Due Proc… |
| 25-6015 |
Timothy Marcus Mayberry v. Aramark, et al. |
Indiana |
2025-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment pro-se |
I. Whether the Court of Appeals of Indiana denies a litigant due process, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment, when it selects a singular appella… |
| 25-6004 |
Fillmore Wright v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2025-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment uncorroborated-confession |
Under the U.S. Constitution Amendment VI's right to a fair trial and the due process clause of U.S. Constitution Amendment XIV, can a conviction rest … |
| 25-533 |
Minnesota Deer Farmers Association, et al. v. Sarah Strommen, Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, or her successor, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-10-31 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
demographic-discrimination equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights legal-vocation strict-scrutiny |
1. Whether pursuing a legal vocation that is completely prohibited by state law for a demographic group is a fundamental right under the Fourteenth Am… |
| 25-6011 |
John De Light v. Laura De Light, et al. |
California |
2025-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review due-process equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment jurisdictional-transfer |
1. Automatic Preemptive Rulings and Judicial Overreach
Whether a state court violates basic principles of due process by issuing preemptive rulings —s… |
| 25-5996 |
Jean-Michael Kisi v. Joseph Joyce, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-10-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-deliberation sixth-amendment |
I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT EXCLUDING THE PETITIONER FROM
THE COURTROOM WHEN PERSONS DISPLAYED THE STATE 'S LAPTOP IN
THE DELIBERATION ROOM AND A … |
| 25-5973 |
Eric Michael Schuster v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review clearly-erroneous-standard due-process fourteenth-amendment mixed-questions-of-law standard-of-review |
Whether a reviewing court must strictly adhere to the Supreme Court requirement that a district court's fact-findings "must not be set aside unless cl… |
| 25-5971 |
Jeffrey Rivard v. Vermont |
Vermont |
2025-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-error due-process fourteenth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence pro-se-motion probation-modification |
I. Whether the Vermont Supreme Court's denial of Petitioner's right to file a pro se motion to vacate and modify probation based on newly discovered e… |
| 25-5949 |
Matthew Johnson v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2025-10-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-claims due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance |
1. Whether the Oklahoma courts ' categorical refusal
to grant evidentiary hearings on colorable claims of
ineffective assistance of counsel, actual … |
| 25-508 |
Richard Rynn, et al. v. UHS of Phoenix, LLC, et al. |
Arizona |
2025-10-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure due-process ex-parte fourteenth-amendment fraud-on-court jurisdictional-defect |
1. Whether due process is violated when state courts rely
on a concealed ex parte proceeding and fraudulent
allegations —previously adjudicated as l… |
| 25-5940 |
Stephen Elliot Powers v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2025-10-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct |
(1) Whether the State's suppression of exculpatory evidence of an alternate, original suspect with a nexus to the victim deprived Powers of his right … |
| 25-5932 |
Garland Ray Gregory, Jr. v. South Dakota |
South Dakota |
2025-10-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
choice-of-counsel coram-nobis equal-protection fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment structural-error |
1. Is a Sixth Amendment 'erroneous deprivation of choice of counsel ' structural error, an
error of the most fundamental character, properly before t… |
| 25A457 |
Anthony Boyd v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-21 |
Denied |
|
asphyxiation cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment execution-method nitrogen-hypoxia preliminary-injunction |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits execution by nitrogen hypoxia that causes prolonged conscious suffering and asphyxiation when a less painful al… |
| 25-5928 |
Anthony Boyd v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
comparative-analysis cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-method nitrogen-hypoxia |
When performing a comparative analysis to determine whether an alternative means of execution would significantly reduce a substantial risk of severe … |
| 25-5919 |
Kevin Griffin v. New York |
New York |
2025-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony fourteenth-amendment search-warrant |
1. Did the State Courts error by denying Petitioner 's Fourteenth Amendment 's Due process rights by the State's knowing use of false testimony and th… |
| 25-489 |
Norman Engel v. Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers' Compensation, et al. |
Texas |
2025-10-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment medical-stability property-rights workers-compensation |
Injured workers in Texas have One Year after their date of injury to make a claim for workers' compensation benefits and a Two Year limit to reach med… |
| 25-485 |
Alvin E. Williams, et ux. v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. |
California |
2025-10-20 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fraud-on-court judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct |
1. Whether the doctrine of judicial immunity protects judges who engage in and facilitated fraud in violation of constitutional due process rights?
2… |
| 25A438 |
Demond Depree Bluntson v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-10-16 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-murder certiorari death-row due-process eighth-amendment indigent-defendant |
Whether the Eighth Amendment and due process protections prohibit the imposition of a capital murder conviction and death sentence where there are sub… |
| 25-460 |
Donata Edwards v. U.S. Bank National Association, Trustee for RMAC Trust, Series 2016-CTT, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-10-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
covid-19-restrictions equal-protection executive-order foreclosure fourteenth-amendment property-sale |
1. Whether the DC Court of Appeals improperly
affirmed the decision of its lower court to
ratify the sale of Petitioner 's real property
and the su… |
| 25A427 |
Indiana, ex rel. Freddie L. Byers, III v. Superior Court of Indiana, St. Joseph County, et al. |
Indiana |
2025-10-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
attorney-client due-process fourteenth-amendment motion-to-compel property-rights state-court |
Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires a state court to provide a full and fair opportunity for a client to litigate a mo… |
| 25-455 |
Thanh C. Tran v. Liberty Mutual Group Inc., et al. |
Massachusetts |
2025-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment petition-clause trial-errors |
Whether a state appellate court violates the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause by deeming properly preserved trial errors waived without meani… |
| 25A424 |
Adam Kanuszewski, et al. v. Sandip Shah, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-10-14 |
Presumed Complete |
|
fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment genetic-privacy medical-data newborn-screening parental-autonomy |
Whether the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit a state from indefinitely storing and using newborn genetic material without parental consent |
| 25A423 |
Heather Swanson, et al. v. Michael T. Hilgers, Attorney General of Nebraska, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-10-14 |
Presumed Complete |
|
equal-protection fourteenth-amendment home-birth medical-regulation midwifery rational-basis |
Whether a state law completely prohibiting certified nurse midwives from attending home births violates the Fourteenth Amendment's rational basis revi… |
| 25A421 |
Delta Air Lines, Inc. v. Oregon Department of Revenue |
Oregon |
2025-10-14 |
Presumed Complete |
|
centrally-assessed discriminatory-tax equal-protection fourteenth-amendment intangible-property taxation |
Whether the Equal Protection Clause permits a state to impose property taxes on intangible assets of only select businesses while exempting other taxp… |
| 25-5865 |
Aaron Norman Dunn v. California |
California |
2025-10-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment payne-v-tennessee victim-impact-evidence |
Whether under Payne v. Tennessee, 501 U.S. 808 (1991), a prosecutor can be permitted to play for the jury during the penalty phase of a capital trial … |
| 25-5859 |
Wisconsin, ex rel. Paul M. Nigl v. Cheryl Eplett, Warden |
Wisconsin |
2025-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance postconviction-relief wisconsin-statutes |
1. Whether the Wisconsin Court of Appeals unfairly blocked Petitioner access to his only remaining avenue for postconviction relief? |
| 25-443 |
Ted Velleff v. Thomas J. Dart, Sheriff, Cook County, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-10-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process fourteenth-amendment governmental-policy property-rights section-1983 state-remedies |
1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment forbids the government from depriving individuals of personal property by applying a pol… |
| 25-442 |
Joseph J. Roybal, Sheriff, El Paso County, Colorado, et al. v. Darlene Griffith |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-10-10 |
Pending |
Amici (1) |
constitutional-scrutiny due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection prison-policies transgender-rights |
1. Whether a transgender inmate's challenge to sex-based prison policies is subject to heightened scrutiny under United States v. Virginia, 518 U.S. 5… |
| 25-5852 |
Amro N. Elkabany v. Louis C. Shapiro, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Judge, Superior Court of New Jersey, Gloucester County, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-10-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-immunity rooker-feldman-doctrine state-law |
Part I - Constitutional / Federal Questions
Whether judicial immunity bars relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when a judge conducts a secret, off-the-reco… |
| 25-5827 |
Errol Victor, Sr. v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2025-10-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-violation equal-protection fourteenth-amendment government-oppression racial-discrimination sixth-amendment |
WHETHER A STATE RACIALLY MOTIVATED PERVASIVE Unconstitutional Statute
purposed to deny it's African American Citizens their equal protection of
law … |
| 25A406 |
Samuel Lee Smithers v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-10-08 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment execution-stay meaningful-hearing |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a death row inmate when substantial constitutional questions remain unresolved and the defenda… |
| 25-5829 |
Samuel Lee Smithers v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-10-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment elderly-defendant standards-of-decency |
1. Does the execution of the elderly violate the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment… |
| 25-427 |
Walid Abdelaziz, in His Individual Capacity as a Police Officer for the City of Oakland, California, et al. v. Estate of Decedent Lolomania Soakai, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-08 |
Pending |
Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
due-process fourteenth-amendment police-liability qualified-immunity state-created-danger substantive-due-process |
1. Whether bystanders injured when a fleeing criminal suspect lost control of his car and crashed into them have a Fourteenth Amendment substantive du… |
| 25-417 |
Francis Nielsen v. Kekai Watanabe |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-07 |
Pending |
|
alternative-remedies bivens-remedy damages-action eighth-amendment prison-conditions special-factors |
Whether the Ninth Circuit here erred in recognizing a Bivens cause of action. |
| 25-5809 |
Anthony Lee Van Durmen v. Bryan Morrison, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-10-06 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal-of-right constitutional-claim due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus state-impediment |
WHERE PETITIONER'S APPEAL OF RIGHT WAS DELAYED FOR OVER (20) YEARS DUE TO THE STATE'S CREATED IMPEDIMENT WHICH PROHIBITED HIM FROM FILING, RESULTING I… |
| 25-5807 |
Tamatha Lynn Melom v. Stone County, Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2025-10-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias sixth-amendment |
1. Whether the seizure, destruction, and permanent transfer of a citizen's lawfully owned dogs, based on untested hearsay, without production of polic… |
| 25-411 |
John Doe v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2025-10-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
criminal-records due-process expungement-rights fourteenth-amendment state-action statutory-interpretation |
1. Does the Illinois scheme for the sealing and expungement of criminal records create, confer, or otherwise entail an interest protected under the Fo… |
| 25-401 |
Alexander Carter, et al. v. Thomas J. Dart, Sheriff, Cook County, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-10-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-provisions due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment government-seizure property-rights |
The circuits are divided on whether the Fourth Amendment protects property rights when a person's "papers and effects" remain in government custody af… |
| 25-398 |
Adeayo O. Turton v. Saks Fifth Avenue, LLC |
Pennsylvania |
2025-10-03 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-review waiver-doctrine |
1. Whether a state may constitutionally guarantee rights to appeal in all cases, then suppress that right by rigidly and/or arbitrarily applying proce… |
| 25-5798 |
Mikhael Y. Lerman v. Celine E. Lerman |
California |
2025-10-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment thirteenth-amendment |
1. Whether California Family Code § 2550, as applied in this case, violates my Equal Protection and Due Process rights.
2. Whether rigid equal divisi… |
| 25-5780 |
Timothy Marcus Mayberry v. Stacy Hall |
Indiana |
2025-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure court-of-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review state-law |
I. Whether the Court of Appeals of Indiana deprived me of the secured right to one appeal under state law, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment, w… |
| 25-389 |
Abolfazl Hosseinzadeh v. Swedish Health Services, et al. |
Washington |
2025-10-02 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure due-process expert-affidavit fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigant summary-judgment |
1. Whether a state court's application of summary
judgment standards, by excluding qualified expert
affidavits through credibility assessments rathe… |
| 25-5789 |
Joseph Anthony Barrett v. California |
California |
2025-10-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment implicit-bias juror-bias jury-selection sixth-amendment |
When a charged crime occurs within prison walls, do the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments require excusal for cause of prospective jurors who are employ… |
| 25-5784 |
Daniel Raul Santiago Vasquez v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2025-10-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment mitigation-testimony videoconference-testimony |
1. Does the Eighth Amendment allow the State to prevent live mitigation testimony in favor of a capital defendant based upon financial reasons alone (… |
| 25-5778 |
Ashlie R. Anderson v. Automobile Club of Southern California ("AAA") LLC, et al. |
California |
2025-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anti-slapp-statute due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment property-rights vehicle-salvage |
a) Whether a summons and complaint that was filed on February 2, 2022 and was served on the defendants timely on March 19, 2022 and March 21, 2022, wh… |
| 25-364 |
Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Washington, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-09-29 |
Pending |
Relisted (2) |
birthright-citizenship citizenship-clause constitutional-interpretation executive-order fourteenth-amendment immigration-law |
The Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment provides that those "born * * * in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof," are… |
| 25A360 |
Henry B. Berrocal v. San Antonio Police Department-Headquarters, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-29 |
Application |
|
civil-rights eighth-amendment fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment |
Whether the First, Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments permit state actors to engage in repeated retaliatory arrests, physical abuse, and… |
| 25-5757 |
Kristopher Jacob Freda v. Oregon |
Oregon |
2025-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violations cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment writ-of-mandamus |
Will SCOTUS order a writ of mandamus to stop the State of Oregon from punishing Freda with cruel and unusual punishment and stop the Constitutional vi… |
| 25-5754 |
Biobele Georgewill v. Joshua M. Ball, et al. |
Tennessee |
2025-09-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-bias due-process fourteenth-amendment impartial-tribunal judicial-recusal professional-relationship |
I. This case presents a substantial federal due process question.
The Fourteenth Amendment requires an impartial tribunal. A judge who maintained a 14… |
| 25-5749 |
Victor Saldano v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-09-29 |
Pending |
IFP |
atkins-claim due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability procedural-bar state-court-review |
1. Does the TCCA's creation of a novel and unforeseeable procedural bar in its interpretation of Article 11.071 Section 5 preclude review of Mr. Salda… |
| 25-371 |
Clark's Barber Lounge, LLC, et al. v. Destin Health and Fitness, LLC |
Florida |
2025-09-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-representation conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-ethics per-curiam |
1. Whether a conflict of interest exists for an attorney who gave advice to one client and then represented another client on the same matter, and whe… |
| 25-365 |
Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Barbara, et al. |
First Circuit |
2025-09-29 |
Pending |
Amici (22)Relisted (2) |
birthright-citizenship citizenship-clause constitutional-interpretation executive-order fourteenth-amendment immigration-law |
The Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment provides that those "born * * * in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof," are… |
| 25-5744 |
Anthony Balducci v. Jerry Spatny, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment |
I. Whether a hearing in which a defendant seeks to withdraw a guilty plea, made at his first opportunity and before sentencing, at which he asserts in… |
| 25-5732 |
Jeremy Baum v. Missouri |
Missouri |
2025-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-conviction due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial legal-precedent |
Whether affirming a criminal conviction on a different theory than what was presented to the jury conflicts with this Court's holdings in Cole v. Arka… |
| 25-5738 |
Mark H. Wilson v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-09-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review brown-v-sanders capital-punishment eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment harmless-error |
Where the trial court in a capital case allows the State to present and argue an invalid aggravating factor to the jury in support of a death sentence… |
| 25-5730 |
Michael Dean Ross v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2025-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-liberties constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-interpretation supreme-court |
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| 25A330 |
John F. Carbin v. Massachusetts Board of State Examiners of Plumbers and Gas Fitters, et al. |
First Circuit |
2025-09-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights licensing-restrictions property-rights rational-basis |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment protects a fundamental right to perform one's own home repairs and plumbing work without state licensing restrictions… |
| 25-5711 |
Jermal Williams v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2025-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circumstantial-evidence constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment standard-of-proof |
Under the due process clause of the U.S. Constitution Amendment XIV, is La. R.S. 15:438 a higher standard of proof than Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. … |
| 25-330 |
Eugene Cory Dingle v. James G. McGee, Judge of Dorchester County Family Court, Individually and in His Official Capacity, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-19 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment guardian-ad-litem judicial-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. Whether a state judge who acts in the clear absence of subject-matter jurisdiction may nonetheless invoke absolute judicial immunity to bar a 42 U.… |
| 25-321 |
Jeanette A. Stengel, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Dale E. Stengel v. Heartland Bank |
Nebraska |
2025-09-18 |
Denied |
|
active-concealment discovery-rule due-process fourteenth-amendment fraud-claims probate-rule |
1. Whether a state probate rule barring a personal representative from invoking the discovery rule for fraud claims, based on the representative's kno… |
| 25-324 |
Richard William Kleinhammer v. California |
California |
2025-09-18 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
actual-innocence due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment self-representation sixth-amendment |
Self representation for a postconviction collateral appeal was denied applying People v. Scott as a policy which is at loggerheads with actual innocen… |
| 25-5662 |
Martha Jane Ford v. Bank of New York Mellon, Trustee, for CWABS, Incorporated Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2007-2 |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
access-to-justice attorney-misconduct due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-integrity mediation-agreement |
1. Whether the enforcement of a mediation agreement procured through fraud, coercion, and attorney misconduct —despite a prior court order barring for… |
| 25-316 |
Kerlee Jilla v. Luzabelle Lucas-Jilla |
Florida |
2025-09-17 |
Rehearing |
Relisted (2) |
access-to-justice appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct |
1. Whether a state court's denial of
meaningful appellate review, based on
the absence of a transcript that the court
itself suppressed or failed t… |
| 25-5642 |
Tonnerrious Jamarcus McGee v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-09-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process fourteenth-amendment government-code judicial-appointment misdemeanor-sentencing trial-judge |
1. Whether the Trial Court 122nd District Court (Galveston County) Texas use of a visiting trial judge who was not properly appointed nor noted on the… |
| 25-301 |
Frank Marshall, et ux. v. Wisconsin Elections Commission, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-09-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ballot-access electoral-college first-amendment fourteenth-amendment presidential-qualifications state-election-law |
For the first time in the history of the United States, a State violated the foundational principles of the Electoral College by removing bona fide Pr… |
| 25-5659 |
Ohio, ex rel. Ricardo Dodson v. Shelbie Smith, Warden |
Ohio |
2025-09-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-verdict sixth-amendment trial-procedure |
1. Can a trial court correct-Amend a jury's verdict that announced the wrong name upon reading the verdict, upon assenting to the verdict on polling, … |
| 25-305 |
Louise DeBerry v. Chicago Board of Education, et al. |
Illinois |
2025-09-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-hearing due-process evidence-admissibility fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness witness-testimony |
Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment provide a mechanism for relief in administrative hearings when evidence is introduced that is … |
| 25-5628 |
Stephen Shapiro, et al. v. Harbor Freight Tools USA, Inc. |
California |
2025-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights fourteenth-amendment incarcerated-litigants procedural-due-process self-represented-litigants |
Due process principles are designed to ensure a party is afforded his or her right to be heard during adversarial proceedings: "As the rubric itself i… |
| 25A292 |
Larce Spikes v. Lesley Wheat, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-minimum deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-care prisoner-rights qualified-immunity |
Whether the Eighth Amendment requires a substantive inquiry into the adequacy of medical treatment provided to prisoners, or if the mere provision of … |
| 25-5605 |
David Joseph Pittman v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-09-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection ex-post-facto retroactive-effect |
1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's decision in Phillips v. State , 299 So.3d 1013 (Fla. 2020) , denying some capital defendants the retroactive effec… |
| 25-5615 |
Shahram Shakouri v. Scott Becker, former Judge, 219th Judicial District Court of Texas, Collin County, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process filing-fee fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceeding poverty-exception |
(1) Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in denying the motion of this poverty-stricken Petitioner for extension of time to pay the filing fee, denied him … |
| 25-5606 |
Joan Doe v. Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas, in their Official Capacity, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ada-title-ii ada-title-v administrative-law due-process fourteenth-amendment university-discipline |
1. Whether the Due Process Clause permits a 13-day interim suspension —without notice or an exigency claim —that merged into an eight month suspension… |
| 25-279 |
Matthew Wood v. New Mexico |
New Mexico |
2025-09-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment felony-murder fourteenth-amendment proportionality |
Where a defendant is not convicted of the predicate offense, does a conviction for first-degree felony murder comport with due process under the Fourt… |
| 25-5589 |
Shane Stevens v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2025-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea mootness postconviction-relief procedural-default |
Whether a state postconviction scheme that bars relief for a guilty plea induced by
a sentence later declared void ab initio—on the grounds of proced… |
| 25-5583 |
Anthony E. Ntamere v. Amerihealth Administrators, Inc., et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
discrimination-charges due-process eeoc-regulations fourteenth-amendment judicial-review property-interest |
I. Cause of Action as Property Right Under the Fourteenth Amendment
Whether a state-created statutory right to file discrimination charges and receive… |
| 25-5572 |
Robert Gene Rega v. Lorraine Rega Scottie |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-malfeasance appeal-dismissal court-of-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review |
WHETHER THE PETITIONER'S RIGHT OT DUE PROCESS UNDER THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT WAS VIOLATED WHEN THE CLERK OF COURT FOR THE FOUTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEA… |
| 25-5549 |
Vladislav Konstantin Aksenov v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment racial-bias trial-procedure |
Do the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit the government at trial from implicitly evoking stereotypes about a defendant's racial or ethnic backg… |
| 25-5547 |
Samreen Riaz v. Shazib Riaz |
California |
2025-09-04 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
appellate-review due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias procedural-error property-division |
Does a state supreme court's summary denial of a petition for review s291778on july 23 25—despite a documented record of procedural due process violat… |
| 25-5534 |
Carl G. Lindsey v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2025-09-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fetal-alcohol-spectrum-disorder fourteenth-amendment |
Does the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishments, and the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantees of Due Process and Equal Prot… |
| 25-5532 |
James Randall Rogers v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2025-09-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
bitemark-evidence capital-punishment discretionary-appeal eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment scientific-evidence |
1. Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments require a remand where the State has conceded that no court ever addressed the impact of Rogers's new … |
| 25-247 |
Charles L. Payne, II v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2025-09-03 |
Denied |
|
criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-vouching sixth-amendment witness-credibility |
Under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, a defendant has a right against a prosecutor or law enforcement vouching … |
| 25-5525 |
Teresa Lynette Bloodman v. Robert Brech, Executive Director,
Arkansas Supreme Court Committee on Professional Conduct |
Arkansas |
2025-09-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
attorney-discipline due-process fourteenth-amendment interim-suspension liberty-interest procedural-fairness |
I. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits a state supreme court to impose a imposes an interim suspension of an attorney '… |
| 25-5523 |
Mohamed A. Ibrahim v. Allison L. Lynn |
Maryland |
2025-09-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-settlement mental-disability procedural-safeguards |
1- Whether a Maryland state courts' failure to recognize and accommodate a documented mental disability who is suffering from:
A- Dementia and Alzhei… |
| 25-5511 |
Matthew Thomas Parkins, By and Through His Guardian ad Litem and Next Friend, Cecil Matt Parkins, et al. v. Henry Dargan McMaster, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process family-rights fourteenth-amendment intellectually-disabled section-1983 state-removal |
Question I. Whether the state's removal of an intellectually disabled adult from his home and family by application of a standard of proof lower than … |
| 25-238 |
Cutberto Viramontes, et al. v. Cook County, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-08-29 |
Pending |
Amici (1)Relisted (6) |
constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment gun-rights individual-liberty second-amendment semiautomatic-weapons |
Whether the Second and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to possess AR-15 platform and similar semiautomatic rifles. |
| 25-241 |
Jason Arthur Aho v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-08-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
evidence-suppression fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-standard |
I. Whether the trial court's summary denial of
Petitioner's facially sufficient ineffective
assistance of counsel claim without an
evidentiary hear… |
| 25-5498 |
Jason Strauch v. New Mexico |
New Mexico |
2025-08-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment right-to-appeal writ-of-mandamus |
1. Was the New Mexico Supreme Court's denial of Mr. Strauch's State Writ of Mandamus, contrary to the United State Constitution First Amendment, Right… |
| 25-5494 |
Donald A. Allen v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2025-08-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
deportation due-process fourteenth-amendment fugitive-warrant judicial-process sentencing-delay |
1. Whether the State of New Jersey violated Petitioner's rights under
the Due Process Clause of the Fourtheenth Amendment by sentencing
him more tha… |
| 25-5492 |
Shedrick Givens v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Louisiana |
2025-08-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
bill-of-information constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment grand-jury subject-matter-jurisdiction thirteenth-amendment |
1. Whether the trial court, in the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jefferson, lacked subject matter jurisdiction where in United States v. Cot… |
| 25-231 |
Jon Wynn Jarrard, Sr. v. Wilfredo Martell, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
confrontation-clause due-process false-testimony fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment |
1. Was the conviction obtained through the use of what the Solicitor knew, or should have known to be false testimony, and did the Solicitor fail to c… |
| 25A230 |
Clyde Wendell Smith v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2025-08-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus mississippi-supreme-court sixth-amendment successive-postconviction |
Whether a state court's denial of a successive postconviction motion violates a criminal defendant's constitutional rights under the Sixth, Eighth, an… |
| 25-5483 |
Z. G. v. M. C. |
Pennsylvania |
2025-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
americans-with-disabilities-act disability-discrimination due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-recusal |
The question presented is whether a judge who made a number of troubling statements that appear to have been motivated by stigma and stereotypes assoc… |
| 25-5474 |
Jacob I. Severson v. Shabnum Gupta, et al. |
North Dakota |
2025-08-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
bodily-integrity due-process expert-affidavit fourteenth-amendment indigent-litigants medical-battery |
1. Whether a state 's application of an expert-affidavit requirement to dismiss a
claim of extreme and obvious medical battery —where a doctor non-co… |
| 25-224 |
Bernard Gelb v. Preston Niblack, Individually and as Commissioner of the New York City Department of Finance, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-08-26 |
Denied |
|
due-process fourteenth-amendment notice-requirement property-rights takings-clause unclaimed-funds |
Did the Respondents taking $500 million dollars without sending any notice to the Owners violate the Due Process Clause of the of the Fourteenth Amend… |
| 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 |
1. Do a Pro Se litigant have constitutional provision in federal court? Violation of the 5th and 14th Amendments, "Due process clause". Ensures that t… |
| 25-5459 |
Robert Keith Woodall v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2025-08-25 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
confrontation-clause death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability |
The Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments forbid the execution of persons with intellectual disability. Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304, 321 (2002). Perso… |
| 25-5440 |
Curtis Windom v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
2025-08-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-protections due-process eighth-amendment litigation-schedule public-conscience sixth-amendment |
1. Whether the "evolving standards of decency" test, which has been recognized for Eighth Amendment protections, should be used to analyze other const… |
| 25A208 |
Francis Nielsen v. Kekai Watanabe |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-08-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
alternative-remedies bivens-action eighth-amendment federal-detention medical-treatment prisoner-rights |
Whether the Supreme Court should recognize a Bivens cause of action for a prisoner's medical treatment claim involving non-life-threatening injuries i… |
| 25-5430 |
Ravon Lovowe Ramsey v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment expert-testimony jury-trial medical-malpractice |
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| 25-205 |
Schuyler E. Cole, et al. v. City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii |
Hawaii |
2025-08-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment property-valuation tax-assessment tax-classification |
Whether a real property tax class that consists of certain residential properties that are distinguished from identical residential properties based s… |
| 25-204 |
Jeri Pearson, et al. v. Shriners Hospitals for Children, Incorporated, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-20 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
due-process fourteenth-amendment informed-consent medical-treatment research-ethics state-action |
Since Congress enacted the 1974 National Research Act, it has been the federal government's policy that no individual can be subjected to a penalty or… |
| 25A194 |
EMVLP, LLC, et al. v. Thuy Martinez, et al. |
Missouri |
2025-08-19 |
Presumed Complete |
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bristol-myers-squibb class-action due-process fourteenth-amendment nationwide-class personal-jurisdiction |
Whether a state court can exercise personal jurisdiction over out-of-state defendants for a nationwide class action involving claims by predominantly … |
| 25-5397 |
Willie Roy Jenkins v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-08-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-murder due-process false-evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus procedural-bar |
(1) Was the novel state procedural ground for denying the false evidence claims in the initial habeas application inadequate?
(2) Was the state proce… |
| 25-200 |
Kevin Salvador Golphin v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2025-08-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole sentencing-discretion |
Whether North Carolina, in conflict with this Court's precedents and those of other states, has violated the Eighth Amendment by creating a de facto m… |
| 25-5398 |
Ricky L. Miller, Jr. v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-08-19 |
Rehearing |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment |
(1)
DID THE THIRD CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS IN VIOLATION OF A
MYRIAD OF SUPREME COURT SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO
TRIAL BY JURY PRECEDENTS MISAPPREHEND … |
| 25A186 |
Charles Brooks, et al. v. Jeremy James Allen |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-08-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
amended-complaint eighth-amendment interlocutory-review plra-exhaustion prisoner-litigation section-1983 |
Whether the Prison Litigation Reform Act's exhaustion requirement applies to an amended complaint filed after a prisoner's release when the original c… |
| 25-189 |
Ron J. Waterman v. Robyn B. Waterman |
Massachusetts |
2025-08-15 |
Denied |
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due-process federal-law-interpretation fourteenth-amendment judgment-modification state-court-jurisdiction variable-separation-incentive |
A dozen States' Appellate Courts have issued opinions holding that Variable Separation Incentive (VSI) is a retirement benefit/pension. Subsequently, … |
| 25-5371 |
Douglas Manning v. Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney General of New Jersey |
Third Circuit |
2025-08-15 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights correctional-facility cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment prisoner-treatment |
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| 25-5378 |
Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Mark H. Slimak |
Florida |
2025-08-15 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment procedural-rights stalking-injunction |
Did the trial court commit reversible error 's dismissing the petition for an injunction to prevent Respondent from stalking? Did the court violate th… |
| 25A185 |
Kayle B. Bates v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
2025-08-14 |
Denied |
|
capital-punishment constitutional-protection cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment irreparable-harm |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a death row inmate when the state supreme court has denied constitutional protections that saf… |
| 25-5366 |
Jane Doe v. Jack Dwosh |
California |
2025-08-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment indigent-party pro-per |
The Eighth Amendment's Excessive Fines Clause, which protects against excessive punitive economic sanctions, is fundamental to the scheme of ordered l… |
| 25A182 |
Morgan Joseph Langan v. Chip Davis, et al. |
Arizona |
2025-08-13 |
Application |
|
constitutional-protections due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines petition-rights republican-form-of-government |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits local governments from imposing excessive fines that violate constitutional protections and deny citizens' righ… |
| 25-5354 |
Michael Joshua Henderson v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-08-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment first-amendment marijuana-scheduling medical-necessity |
A. Whether this Court should overrule Gonzales v. Raich, 545 U.S. 4, 125 S.Ct. 2145 (2005) in this present day and time?
B. If so, whether in this pr… |
| 25-5350 |
Monica Curtis v. Justice Court of the North Las Vegas Township, Clark County, Nevada |
Nevada |
2025-08-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights employment-discrimination fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment sovereign-immunity |
If a state asserts sovereign immunity against a civil rights complaint, should the court accept the submission as the state, "Pleading the Fifth," and… |
| 25-5341 |
Kenneth Jeremy Laird v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing sentencing-discretion supreme-court-precedent |
In 1994, an Arizona judge sentenced Mr. Laird to death for a murder conviction and a total of 129 years in prison for 13 other nonhomicide crimes. Mr.… |
| 25-176 |
Tristram Heinz v. City of Philadelphia Bureau of Administrative Adjudication |
Pennsylvania |
2025-08-13 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment speed-camera |
1. Whether Section 3370 of the Pennsylvania Motor
Vehicle Code, 75 Pa.C.S. § 3370, the Automated
Speed Camera Enforcement Program, and an
implementing… |
| 25-5287 |
Andrew W. Bell v. Karli Swift, et al. |
Georgia |
2025-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-guarantees due-process election-contest fourteenth-amendment judicial-jurisdiction service-of-process |
1. Whether Georgia courts may dismiss election-contest petitions for "failure to perfect service " when O.C.G.A. § 21-2-524(f) places that duty on cle… |
| 25-143 |
Rebecca Hartzell v. Marana Unified School District, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-08-06 |
Denied |
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circuit-split constitutional-education fourteenth-amendment government-employee-liability parental-rights school-choice |
This Court has held for over a century that the Fourteenth Amendment protects the right of parents to control and direct the education of their childr… |
| 25-5279 |
Evan McCarrick Jerald v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2025-08-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole sentencing-guidelines |
Under Graham v. Florida, the Eighth Amendment "prohibits the imposition of a life without parole sentence on a juvenile offender who did not commit ho… |
| 25-5278 |
Reynaldo Alberto Peña v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compulsory-process confrontation-clause due-process fourteenth-amendment polygraph-evidence sixth-amendment |
If a Trial Court admitted into evidence inculpatory statements made by a defendant during the post-interview portion of a polygraph examination, but e… |
| 25-5265 |
Jessica M. Graulau Maldonado v. Orange County Public Library System |
Florida |
2025-08-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
due-process fourteenth-amendment material-facts negligence-tort summary-judgment witness-credibility |
Whether in holding that under federal summary judgment standard there is discretion to dismiss a jury negligence claim after determine credibility of … |
| 25-5264 |
Craig Alan Sandhaus v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-08-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-instruction nondeadly-force sixth-amendment trial-counsel |
Whether the Petitioner's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated when his trial attorneys failed to request a jury instruction on the just… |
| 25-131 |
David C. L. Walton v. Ashley Nehls |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-08-04 |
Denied |
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consent constitutional-rights eighth-amendment incarceration prison-official sexual-misconduct |
Whether the Eighth Amendment, which is interpreted according to "evolving standards of decency," permits a contrary rule that treats an incarcerated p… |
| 25-5261 |
Byron Black v. Frank Strada, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Corrections, et al. |
Tennessee |
2025-08-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment execution-method injunctive-relief medical-procedure |
1. Where a state government facilitated the implantation of a cardiac defibrillator that has been shown to be very likely to result in severe pain dur… |
| 25-124 |
Theresa Maria Laws v. Borough of Lansdale, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-07-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine malicious-prosecution monell-claim probable-cause section-1983 |
1. Whether lack of probable cause as an element of
malicious prosecution under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 is
a factual question for the jury?
2. Whether dism… |
| 25-5234 |
Cathy E. Butler v. Estate of Dana Grace Butler, Deceased, et al. |
Florida |
2025-07-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment open-courts probate-administration self-representation |
1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause and Fla. Const, art. I, §§ 9 & 21 require meaningful notice, hearing, and written findings be… |
| 25-5239 |
Robert Largo v. New York |
New York |
2025-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process extrinsic-fraud fourteenth-amendment mandatory-assessment new-york-penal-law victim-surcharge |
1. Does imposition of New York Penal Law § 60.35, subdivision 1, as-applied to Petitioner result in State perpetrating extrinsic fraud upon Petitioner… |
| 25-5232 |
Doina Rosu Almazon v. Town of Oyster Bay, New York |
Second Circuit |
2025-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment municipal-action property-rights |
Did the Town of Oyster Bay's action in demolishing the plaintiff's nearly completed, rebuilt home violate the due process guarantee under the United S… |
| 25A118 |
Byron Lewis Black v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2025-07-28 |
Denied |
|
atkins-claim death-penalty eighth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-scores medical-standards |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of an individual with intellectual disability when their IQ scores and diagnostic evidence demons… |
| 25-5209 |
Andrea Nicole Weetly v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. |
California |
2025-07-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-support due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-delay modification-motions procedural-compliance |
1. Whether a state court's prolonged failure to rule on timely filed child support modification and
enforcement motions —despite irrefutable financia… |
| 25-5195 |
Missouri, ex rel. Steven Albert Martin v. Ann Hansbrough, Presiding Judge, Circuit Court of Platte County, Missouri, et al. |
Missouri |
2025-07-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
declaratory-judgment due-process fiduciary-control fourteenth-amendment judicial-inaction state-court |
1. Whether a state court may constitutionally refuse to act on a properly filed Petition for
Declaratory Judgment regarding private trusts and fiduci… |
| 25A104 |
Edward J. Zakrzewski, II v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-07-24 |
Denied |
|
arbitrary-and-capricious cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-override |
Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit executing a defendant whose death sentences were imposed by bare majority jury votes and judicia… |
| 25A101 |
John Allen Rubio v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-24 |
Presumed Complete |
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capital-murder eighth-amendment false-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment |
Whether the Eighth Amendment and Sixth Amendment require reversal of a capital murder conviction where trial counsel provided constitutionally ineffec… |
| 25-96 |
Maryville Baptist Church, et al. v. Andy Beshear, Governor of Kentucky |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-07-24 |
Denied |
|
attorney-fees due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-precedent retroactive-application vested-rights |
This case presents a classic vehicle for this Court to clarify that a judicial decision which changes legal precedent cannot be applied retroactively … |
| 25-5188 |
Bethzaeli Safier v. Thelma Woolridge |
Florida |
2025-07-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct probate-law |
1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court 's refusal to review Petitioner 's case permitted
a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth A… |
| 25-5175 |
Rayon Payne v. Eric Parke LaRue, II, et al. |
Florida |
2025-07-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
all-writs-act due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-recusal state-court-procedure supremacy-clause |
One, whether the Florida Supreme Court's refusal to address federal constitutional issues presented in an original All Writs Petition violates the Sup… |
| 25A93 |
Kevin Don Foster v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-07-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-violations death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5182 |
Ronda Melnychuk-Beselt v. Waldorf=Astoria Management LLC, a Foreign Limited Liability Company, et al. |
Hawaii |
2025-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ada-accommodations discovery-sanctions due-process fourteenth-amendment health-information-laws medical-records |
A. Novel Questions
1. Whether the Court violated foreign Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment rights of the United States Constitution during an attorne… |
| 25A69 |
Nicholas Lupo, et al. v. Tre Hargett, Tennessee Secretary of State, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-07-17 |
Presumed Complete |
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ballot-access election-law electoral-college first-amendment fourteenth-amendment presidential-eligibility |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5136 |
Christopher Thomas Scamahorn v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-07-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-offenders meaningful-opportunity rehabilitation |
Question 1: Whether under the Eighth Amendment as applied to the states via the Fourteenth Amendment, the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause prohibi… |
| 25-59 |
Joseph Very Sherman, Individually, and as Biological Father, Next Friend, and Natural Guardian of H. M. S., J. C. S., and M. R. S., Minor Children, et al. v. Louis R. Lerner, former Judge, Circuit Court of Virginia, City of Norfolk |
Virginia |
2025-07-16 |
Denied |
|
child-custody due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment liberty-interests parental-rights |
The trial judge entered an Order (App. 10a-21a) that deprived each of the three child Petitioners of their right to associate with their fit and lovin… |
| 25-5129 |
Byron Lewis Black v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2025-07-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
common-law-prohibition competency-to-execute cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment ford-standard mental-incompetency |
Whether a state may refuse to provide a process by which a state inmate may prove that he is not competent to be executed because he meets the common … |
| 25-5122 |
Raheem Brown v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-testify sixth-amendment |
Is a criminal defendant's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment right to testify and to receive a fair trial abridged where trial counsel announces to the ju… |
| 25A53 |
Victor Saldano v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-07-14 |
Presumed Complete |
|
atkins-claim competency-to-execute death-penalty eighth-amendment expert-testimony intellectual-disability |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of an individual with intellectual disability under Atkins v. Virginia when multiple experts, inc… |
| 25-5092 |
Hussein S. Yousif v. Susan Larson Christensen, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-07-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-interpretation due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review rule-41 |
Does Logic disqualify Judicial actions?
Statutory provisions Is the first and the fourteenth Amendment meaningless in the Constitution for a Citizen … |
| 25A49 |
Karyn M. Kelley, Individually and as Trustee of The Karyn M. Kelley Revocable Trust Agreement of July 13, 2016 v. Mary Feeney, et al. |
New Hampshire |
2025-07-11 |
Presumed Complete |
|
due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial probate-court subject-matter-jurisdiction title-dispute |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's due process protections require a jury trial in state probate court proceedings involving title disputes when funda… |
| 25-41 |
Jan Peters v. Malia M. Cohen, In Her Official Capacity as Chief Fiscal Officer, State Controller of California, and as Trustee of the Unclaimed Property Fund |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-07-11 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment takings-clause unclaimed-property |
1. Whether the Controller's actions under color of the California Unclaimed Property Law, Cal. Civ. Proc. Code §§ 1300, et seq. ("UPL"), violate the D… |
| 25-5084 |
Douglas Manning v. Administrator, East Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-07-11 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force prisoner-rights |
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Act aMou/Adl 40 a<)eJhVation of AU Planning fi'qhj-
To reasonable Protection Prom aS5ccu.lt aS Proi4ct… |
| 25A50 |
Alfonso E. Chavez Ayub v. Alfonso Chavez Pacheco |
Texas |
2025-07-11 |
Presumed Complete |
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due-process fourteenth-amendment international-law probate-law property-rights treaty-obligations |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause prohibits a state court from rejecting a foreign will that was validly executed and probated in … |
| 25-5083 |
Michael Bernard Bell v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-07-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct witness-recantation |
Does the Petitioner's execution violate the Eighth and Fourteenth amendments to the United States Constitution when the conduct of the government and … |
| 25-5079 |
Leon Carter v. Bradley Mlodzik, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-07-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
counsel-deprivation ex-parte-communication fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-instruction sixth-amendment |
1. Should a writ of habeas corpus issue when a bailiff reinstructed the jury in a criminal trial by directing it to continue deliberating until it rea… |
| 25-38 |
Seth Adam Lilly v. Melissa Ann Lilly |
Indiana |
2025-07-10 |
Denied |
|
contract-clause due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review settlement-agreement state-courts |
1. Did the refusal of the Indiana state courts to enforce the Petitioner's rights as unambiguously stated in the Settlement Agreement between the part… |
| 25-37 |
Theresa England v. Steven R. Siebe, et al. |
Indiana |
2025-07-10 |
Denied |
|
common-law-tort equal-protection fourteenth-amendment joint-employer seventh-amendment third-party-tortfeasor |
1. Whether the Indiana courts below violated Petitioner's Fourteenth and Seventh Amendment rights by barring her from pursuing a common law cause of a… |
| 25-5068 |
Dwayne Anderson v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2025-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
bill-of-particulars constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment |
1. Was Dwayne Anderson 's right to be informed of the nature and cause of the
accusation against him violated when the state failed to provide him a … |
| 25-27 |
Judy A. Brannberg v. Jefferson County Public Schools, et al. |
Colorado |
2025-07-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
antitrust charter-school civil-rico due-process fourteenth-amendment rule-55 |
The questions presented are:
Question One: Whether Petitioner is entitled to $2.6 billion in civil RICO default judgment under Rule 55 where Defendan… |
| 25A28 |
Mica Alexander Martinez v. Christe Quick, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-07-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-punishment constitutional-error death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-protocol habeas-corpus |
Whether the Eighth Amendment permits the imposition and execution of a death sentence in light of systemic delays and potential constitutional errors … |
| 25-5056 |
Edward Lee Busby, Jr. v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-07-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-standard cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment expert-testimony intellectual-disability |
Where the clinical criteria unequivocally establish that a death row inmate is intellectually disabled, and where all the experts -- including the exp… |
| 25-20 |
Ali Esseily v. Kathy Hochul, Governor of New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-07-07 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review constitutional-interpretation fourteenth-amendment government-misconduct landlord-fraud legal-procedure |
1. Why the second circuit court of appeal misapprehended
and misinterpreted the Fourteenth Amendment of the
Constitution as "lacks an arguable basis… |
| 25-5026 |
C. M. C. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services |
Texas |
2025-07-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-protective-services counsel-effectiveness dependency-proceeding due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-rights |
1. Did Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment embody Petitioner with the effective assistance of counsel in initial dependency proceeding wher… |
| 25A15 |
Ali Awad Mahmoud Irsan v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-07-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-conviction constitutional-review death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment texas-criminal-procedure |
Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals applied constitutionally adequate standards of review in affirming a capital conviction and death sentence |
| 25-5024 |
Roy Glenn Reay v. Seth Norris, Warden |
Wyoming |
2025-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof due-process fourteenth-amendment kidnapping-statute sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
The Wyoming Supreme Court has consistently decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the decision of other state courts of la… |
| 24A1287 |
Kenneth J. Jouppi v. Alaska |
Alaska |
2025-06-26 |
Presumed Complete |
|
alcohol-transportation dry-village eighth-amendment excessive-fines forfeiture mandatory-seizure |
Whether the Excessive Fines Clause of the Eighth Amendment prohibits the mandatory forfeiture of an aircraft used to transport a small quantity of alc… |
| 24-7491 |
Richard Jordan v. Mississippi State Executioner, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
chemical-paralytic constitutional-challenge eighth-amendment lethal-injection method-of-execution prisoner-rights |
Whether a method-of-execution challenge requires comparing the proposed lethal injection protocol to known alternative methods under the Eighth Amendm… |
| 24-1312 |
James J. Decoulos v. Board of Registration of Hazardous Waste Site Cleanup Professionals, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2025-06-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-deference due-process fourteenth-amendment professional-disciplinary-proceeding statutory-interpretation |
Whether a state court violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when it defers to a state agency's interpretation of statutes and re… |
| 24-7493 |
Christopher David Harrell v. Seth Norris, Warden |
Wyoming |
2025-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof due-process fourteenth-amendment kidnapping-statute sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Whether the Wyoming Supreme Court's interpretation of kidnapping statutes unconstitutionally reallocates the burden of proof and violates due process … |
| 24-7495 |
Jose Mario Lopez Carrillo v. Karin Arnold, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Corrections Center, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-06-25 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment |
Whether ineffective assistance of counsel occurred when discovery was not properly provided and multiple constitutional rights were allegedly violated |
| 24A1279 |
Richard Jordan v. Mississippi State Executioner, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-25 |
Denied |
|
alternative-method chemical-paralytic eighth-amendment execution-protocol lethal-injection midazolam |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the use of a three-drug lethal injection protocol that includes midazolam, a chemical paralytic, and potassium … |
| 24-1300 |
Andrew John Blount v. Joan Michelle Blount |
Texas |
2025-06-24 |
Denied |
|
community-property due-process evidentiary-burden fourteenth-amendment property-rights sua-sponte |
Whether a state appellate court violates the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause by sua sponte imposing an unargued, heightened evidentiary burd… |
| 24-7487 |
Nicholas Noelani D. Smith v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2025-06-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-murder due-process fourteenth-amendment lesser-included-offenses specific-intent voluntary-intoxication |
Whether a criminal defendant in a capital trial is deprived of his Fourteenth Amendment right to due process when the evidence supports voluntary into… |
| 24A1265 |
Charles L. Payne, II v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2025-06-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
due-process fourteenth-amendment harmless-error prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-vouching |
Whether a trial court violates a defendant's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights by permitting prosecutorial and police vouching for a witness's cre… |
| 24-7457 |
Thomas Lee Gudinas v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-06-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights death-penalty eighth-amendment executive-discretion fourteenth-amendment public-records |
Whether Florida abused its discretion in denying public records and whether the Governor's unbridled discretion in death warrant selection is unconsti… |
| 24A1253 |
Daniel Raul Santiago Vasquez v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2025-06-18 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-murder death-penalty eighth-amendment extension-of-time post-conviction pro-bono-counsel |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the imposition of a death sentence where the defendant was represented by pro bono counsel during post-convicti… |
| 24-1285 |
Dongxiao Yue v. Wenbin Yang |
California |
2025-06-17 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias pro-se-litigant |
Whether a trial judge's prejudgment, bias, and usurpation of the adversarial role in a civil trial constitutes a violation of due process and equal pr… |
| 24-7442 |
Patrick L. Booker v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2025-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-contempt due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceeding procedural-rights summary-contempt |
Whether the Due Process Clause requires explicit notice and opportunity to be heard when a court delays criminal contempt punishment by one hour after… |
| 24-7452 |
Robert Hart v. Beth Mae Hart |
California |
2025-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-estoppel constitutional-principles due-process fourteenth-amendment issue-preclusion judicial-reformation |
Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits application of the doctrine of issue preclusion to a party who did not participate … |
| 24-1273 |
Jonathan Phillips v. California |
California |
2025-06-13 |
Denied |
|
due-process equal-protection felony-false-imprisonment fourteenth-amendment nolo-contendere plea-bargaining |
Does a felony false imprisonment conviction obtained by way of a nolo contendere plea violate due process protections where the defendant was not advi… |
| 24-1269 |
Jeremiah Curtis-Shanley v. J.G. |
Connecticut |
2025-06-12 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-speech prior-restraint |
Whether the State of Connecticut violated the petitioner's First and Fourteenth Amendment rights through a no-contact order that allegedly chilled spe… |
| 24-1263 |
Jeannine Bedard v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. |
California |
2025-06-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process employment-conditions fourteenth-amendment labor-law property-rights vested-rights |
Did the state courts, including the California Supreme Court, violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by failing to rule on substan… |
| 24-7399 |
Lake Robinson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment stand-your-ground |
Whether defense counsel's failure to request a pretrial immunity hearing constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel under the Sixth and Fourteenth … |
| 24-7394 |
Edwin D. Calligan v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-disqualification procedural-grounds sixth-amendment |
Whether jurists of reason would find it debatable that a Certificate of Appealability (COA) should have been issued under Slack v. McDaniel after the … |
| 24-1256 |
Gary Robinson v. Jerry N. Higgins, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-06-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process fair-hearing fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure property-rights tax-lien |
Whether the state of Kentucky violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by enforcing an illegal tax lien, depriving the petitioner o… |
| 24-1250 |
Art Bullock, et al. v. R-Ranch Property Owners' Association, et al. |
California |
2025-06-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-rules constitutional-authority due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review stare-decisis |
Whether the California Supreme Court's no-stare-decisis rules violate the Fourteenth Amendment by preventing lower court review of rule constitutional… |
| 24-7360 |
Daniel David Strader v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-06-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence sentencing |
Whether a court violates the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments by using a petitioner's silence at sentencing as the sole definitive factor to deny relie… |
| 24-7365 |
Anthony Floyd Wainwright v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-06-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation due-process eighth-amendment mitigating-evidence post-conviction-relief scientific-evidence |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's persistent misapprehension of Brady v. Maryland and its progeny deprives Mr. Wainwright of due process rights, and… |
| 24-1235 |
Suliang Bu v. Missouri |
Missouri |
2025-06-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure cross-section-of-community due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial-waiver sixth-amendment |
Whether the Missouri Court of Appeals erred in holding that a jury trial waiver does not require the record to show the defendant understood all funda… |
| 24-1226 |
S. G. S. v. S. F. |
Illinois |
2025-06-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-custody due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure parental-rights |
Whether a state court may completely remove a parent's constitutionally protected right to the care, custody, and control of their child through a hea… |
| 24-1227 |
Frank L. Slaughter, Jr. v. Board of Professional Responsibility of the Supreme Court of Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2025-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
attorney-licensure disciplinary-proceedings due-process ethical-rules fourteenth-amendment supervisory-authority |
Whether Tennessee Supreme Court Rule 9 violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by conferring plenary power on a single decision-ma… |
| 24-7343 |
Christopher Harris v. Officer Lesko, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-contract kokkonen-rule |
Where an officer of the court violates the 'Kokkonen rule' by 'enforcing' an on-the-record promise only, who has unambiguously invoked the Fourteenth … |
| 24A1175 |
Kevin Salvador Golphin v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2025-06-02 |
Presumed Complete |
|
cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment juvenile-offender life-without-parole miller-v-alabama rehabilitation |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits sentencing a juvenile offender to life without parole based solely on the nature of the crime without meaningfu… |
| 24-7309 |
Brandi Abts v. Cynthia Arnold-Abts |
Nevada |
2025-05-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness judicial-misconduct structural-error |
Whether a District Court Judge committed structural error by abandoning judicial neutrality and violating fundamental fairness during an evidentiary h… |
| 24-1207 |
Angela Schuncey Richardson v. Krystle Reed Duncan, Corporal |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-05-27 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split coercion eighth-amendment prison-official-liability prisoner-rights sexual-misconduct |
Whether a prisoner challenging a prison official's sexual misconduct must plead that the prisoner's participation was coerced in order to state a clai… |
| 24-7246 |
Tamika Seay v. Lisa James, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-05-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-procedure procedural-fairness |
Whether procedures by the United States Government satisfy Due Process under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment before depriving Petitioner of life, l… |
| 24-7247 |
Tamika Seay v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plain-error probable-cause substantive-rights |
Whether the United States Government violated Petitioner's Substantive Rights under the Due Process Clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment, and … |
| 24-7248 |
Tamika Seay v. Georgia, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-procedure procedural-fairness |
Whether procedures by the United States Government satisfy Due Process under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment before depriving Petitioner of life, l… |
| 24-7252 |
Issa L. Lamizana, Jr. v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2025-05-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6)IFP |
confrontation-clause due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-verdict ramos-unanimity sixth-amendment |
Whether a non-unanimous verdict can be sustained under Ramos v. Louisiana when the record is silent on jury vote unanimity and what burden of proof ap… |
| 24-1180 |
Corrine Morgan Thomas, et al. v. Humboldt County, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-05-19 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
civil-rights common-law fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine jury-trial seventh-amendment |
Whether the Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial in suits at common law is incorporated against the States by the Fourteenth Amendment. |
| 24-7242 |
Lazarus Casas v. New York |
New York |
2025-05-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation firearm-possession fourteenth-amendment licensing-regime proper-cause-requirement second-amendment |
Under the Second and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, may New York punish an individual for failing to comply with the licensing regime… |
| 24-7235 |
Timmy Orlando Collier v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2025-05-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment jurisdictional-defect |
Did the district court commit a jurisdictional defect by not following Michigan's law and standards, and did the court of appeals and magistrate judge… |
| 24-7204 |
Sandra Leigh Tomey v. Bill Howard Property Management, LLC |
Virginia |
2025-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment standing unlawful-detainer |
Whether the courts violated standing requirements by allowing a fictitious named person to pursue an unlawful detainer action |
| 24-7187 |
Elizabeth Anne Fitzgibbon v. Adam Paul Fitzgibbon |
Wisconsin |
2025-05-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
divorce-proceedings due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct marital-settlement-agreement |
Did the trial court violate Elizabeth Fitzgrebon's due process and equal protection rights under the Fourteenth Amendment by losing the parties' final… |
| 24-7172 |
Erick Alfredo Peralta v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-05-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-murder criminal-sentencing eighth-amendment life-without-parole proportionality texas-penal-code |
Does the Eighth Amendment prohibit disproportionate sentences, specifically Life Without Parole for capital murder under Texas law when intent is remo… |
| 24-7185 |
Wayne Johnson v. First District Appellate Project, et al. |
California |
2025-05-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-fiduciary-duty confidential-communications criminal-defendant fourteenth-amendment public-defender sixth-amendment |
Whether an attorney appointed at public expense has a fiduciary duty to a criminal defendant to not disclose confidential communications in an environ… |
| 24-7169 |
Glen Edward Rogers v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-05-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment due-process fourteenth-amendment lethal-injection post-conviction procedural-rules |
Whether Florida's successive pleading requirements under Rule 3.851(d) violate a capital defendant's due process rights in a post-warrant context and … |
| 24-7151 |
Zane Michael Floyd v. Jeremy Bean, Warden, et al. |
Nevada |
2025-05-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-ruling capital-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment intellectual-disability medical-consensus |
Whether a state may constitutionally execute a defendant who meets the strict medical standard for severe brain damage caused by fetal alcohol exposur… |
| 24-1131 |
Fei Fei Fan v. Yan Yao Jiang, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-05-05 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split equitable-tolling fourteenth-amendment thirteenth-amendment trafficking-victims visa-dependency |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's interpretation of 18 U.S.C. § 1595(c) forecloses equitable tolling and continuing violation principles for trafficking vic… |
| 24-7129 |
Frank John Richard v. O'Bell T. Winn, Warden, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure confrontation-clause equal-protection fourteenth-amendment initial-disclosure pro-se-litigant |
Does Fed. R. Civ. P. Rule 26(a)(1)(B)(iv) deny Initial Disclosure to incarcerated, pro se litigants, thereby rendering the Confrontation and Equal Pro… |
| 24-7117 |
Jeffrey Hutchinson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-05-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
competency-to-execute death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment mental-health panetti-standard |
Does the Panetti standard for competency to be executed require more than a mere rational understanding of the physical fact of execution, and must it… |
| 24-7087 |
Jeffrey G. Hutchinson v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
2025-04-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-review criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fundamental-fairness |
Whether due process requires more than the arbitrary truncation of pending substantive review by an unnoticed death warrant signed midway through acti… |
| 24-7096 |
Timothy Wayne Calhoun v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2025-04-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment non-unanimous-jury sixth-amendment |
Whether non-unanimous jury verdicts violate a criminal defendant's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights |
| 24-1111 |
Damon Peterson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-04-28 |
Denied |
|
certificate-of-appealability eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-offender life-sentence parole-commission |
Whether a Certificate of Appealability should have issued for a mandatory life-with-parole sentence for a juvenile offender when the state parole comm… |
| 24-1112 |
Rolland G. Shoup, II v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2025-04-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-foundation fourteenth-amendment officer-testimony |
Does a state deprive a defendant of their Fourteenth Amendment right to due process of law when it admits adverse evidence not on the basis of a prope… |
| 24-7077 |
Todd Stephens v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-04-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fifth-amendment pro-se-litigant restitution |
Does imposing a restitution order of $130,220,803.65 derived from speculative calculations and disproportionately exceeding the petitioner's limited n… |
| 24-1107 |
Jonathan Peoples v. Cook County, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-04-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-behavior overdetention |
Whether the Eighth Amendment provides the sort of explicit textual source of constitutional protection for 'overdetention' such that the Eighth Amendm… |
| 24-7059 |
Dennis L. Magee v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2025-04-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-rape constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment non-unanimous-jury sixth-amendment |
Whether non-unanimous jury verdicts in aggravated rape cases violate a defendant's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights |
| 24-7024 |
Jesse Scott Fulcher v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2025-04-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment |
Whether a state court's failure to disclose material exculpatory evidence violates a criminal defendant's fundamental right to due process as guarante… |
| 24-7009 |
Leonard Harris v. Nakita Ross, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights discovery due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment summary-judgment |
Whether the district court's dismissal of Petitioner's case without permitting record development deprived Petitioner of a meaningful opportunity to p… |
| 24-6991 |
Jessica L. Morris v. Jeremy Howard, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-04-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment |
Whether certiorari is appropriate due to alleged constitutional violations in criminal proceedings |
| 24-1075 |
Lecram Omari Sanders v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2025-04-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
after-discovered-evidence due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment |
Whether the Supreme Court of Virginia erred in affirming the judgment of the Court of Appeals of Virginia, which denied the defendant's motion for a n… |
| 24-6985 |
R. V., Jr. v. S. V. |
Texas |
2025-04-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
court-appointed-counsel due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness indigent-parent parental-rights |
Whether an incarcerated and indigent parent in a parental rights termination suit is entitled to court-appointed counsel under the Fourteenth Amendmen… |
| 24-1067 |
John Wetzel, et al. v. Roy L. Williams |
Third Circuit |
2025-04-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-rights death-row eighth-amendment mental-illness qualified-immunity solitary-confinement |
Was it clearly established for qualified immunity purposes that long-term solitary confinement for a death-row inmate with a mental illness violated t… |
| 24-6940 |
Tam Q. Le v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
allen-charge constitutional-rights fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment non-unanimous-jury sixth-amendment |
Whether the trial court committed reversible error by providing an Allen charge to a deadlocked jury and whether Mr. Le was convicted by a non-unanimo… |
| 24-6943 |
Noah Duncan v. The Curators of the University of Missouri, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
disciplinary-procedures due-process ferpa first-amendment fourteenth-amendment student-rights |
Whether a public university can use a student's disciplinary history from a private institution to impose sanctions, particularly when the history inv… |
| 24-6944 |
Andrew Isaacs v. Interplex Sunbelt, Inc., et al. |
Florida |
2025-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fourteenth-amendment judicial-jurisdiction labor-law osha-regulations workers-compensation workplace-safety |
Whether a Judge of Compensation Claims' jurisdictional ruling over an employee's Fourteenth Amendment claim creates an unconstitutional judicial void … |
| 24-6946 |
Logan Dyjak v. Stacey Horstman, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-04-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
bodily-movement constitutional-claim due-process fourteenth-amendment procedural-rights summary-judgment |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment requires individualized determinations for bodily movement restrictions and whether procedural due process requires a… |
| 24A960 |
U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for the RMAC Trust, Series 2016-CTT v. Cassandra Fox |
New York |
2025-04-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mortgage-foreclosure retroactive-legislation takings-clause |
Whether the retroactive application of New York's Foreclosure Abuse Prevention Act (CPLR § 205-a) to mortgage foreclosure actions filed before its ena… |
| 24-1050 |
Estate of Te’Juan Johnson v. Amanda Rakes, Administrator of the Estate of Amylyn Slaymaker and Next Friend to the Minor Children G. C. and M. C. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-04-04 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment police-duty qualified-immunity state-created-danger |
Whether a theory of liability under the Fourteenth Amendment based on 'state-created danger' is incompatible with the purpose of the Due Process Claus… |
| 24-6927 |
Bryant Cobb v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2025-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights excessive-bail fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress |
Whether the Ohio Court of Appeals' affirmation of the denial of Petitioner's motion to suppress violates the Excessive Bail Clause and Fourth Amendmen… |
| 24-6929 |
Michael James Carson v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-04-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
custodial-interrogation due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment illegal-seizure probable-cause |
Did the lower courts erroneously fail to acknowledge and apply the correct laws and facts surrounding Petitioner's custodial interrogation, and did po… |
| 24-6931 |
Ohio, ex rel. David E. Feathers v. Eleventh District Court of Appeals of Ohio, Portage County, et al. |
Ohio |
2025-04-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
custodial-supervision due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection separation-of-powers writ-of-mandamus |
Whether the use of a sham legal process by the Eleventh District Court of Appeals of Ohio warrants the issuance of a writ of mandamus, prohibition, or… |
| 24-6932 |
Michael Tanzi v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2025-04-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-recommendation sixth-amendment |
Whether Florida may limit a jury's penalty phase role under the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments despite the Supreme Court's overruling of Spa… |
| 24-1042 |
Robert R. Parker, Jr. v. John D. Burnes, et al. |
Oregon |
2025-04-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fraudulent-concealment judicial-review systemic-racism |
Whether the Oregon Supreme Court's denial of the Petition for Judicial Review violates due process and equal protection rights under the Fourteenth Am… |
| 24-1045 |
City of Los Angeles, California v. Jesus Pimentel, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-04-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 burden-of-proof eighth-amendment excessive-fines gross-disproportionality prima-facie-case |
Does a government defending against an Eighth Amendment excessive fines claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 bear a burden to produce affirmative evidence tha… |
| 24-6893 |
Jonathan Taum v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-03-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment hudson-v-mcmillian prison-guard prisoner-rights |
Did the Ninth Circuit err when it disregarded Petitioner Taum's argument that Hudson v. McMillian was wrongly decided and should be overruled based on… |
| 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… |
| 24-6885 |
Thomas Creech v. Idaho |
Idaho |
2025-03-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment evolving-standards execution-attempts |
Should Resweber be overruled? |
| 24-6887 |
Rufus Rivers, et al. v. James Smith, Jr. |
South Carolina |
2025-03-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process fourteenth-amendment implied-agreement landlord-tenant procedural-rights property-law |
Whether the state Supreme Court's decision finding a landlord-tenant relationship based on an implied rental agreement violated the Petitioners' due p… |
| 24-6880 |
Charles Christopher Wendell v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-03-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-impeachment |
Whether failure to adequately impeach a witness, challenge other crimes evidence, investigate witnesses, request medical examination, and object to pr… |
| 24-6859 |
Cecil Ray v. Angela Phams, Warden, et al. |
Georgia |
2025-03-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment right-to-counsel state-courts |
Whether the Georgia State Courts violated the petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment due process rights by denying access to case records for direct appeal… |
| 24-6847 |
Richard Darren Emery v. Missouri |
Missouri |
2025-03-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment impartiality religious-consideration sentencing |
Does a sentencing court violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when it invokes a defendant's lack of spirituality—while crediting … |
| 24-6855 |
Eric Rogers v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
curative-instructions due-process fourteenth-amendment pretrial-conduct trial-court witness-identification |
Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment require a new trial when a witness's in-court identification of the defendant is tainted by su… |
| 24-1010 |
Raphael Weitzman v. Committee on Grievances for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York |
Second Circuit |
2025-03-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment professional-conduct |
Whether the lower Court violated attorney's rights as to Due Process under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments and Equal Protection under the Fourteen… |
| 24-1000 |
In Re Michael Prete |
|
2025-03-20 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment first-amendment fourth-amendment sixth-amendment |
Did the R.I. Judiciary violate multiple constitutional rights through retaliatory actions, improper evidence handling, and procedural misconduct? |
| 24-6806 |
Torrey-Tyree Lewis v. Wilmington Savings Fund Society |
Pennsylvania |
2025-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure procedural-due-process property-seizure replevin |
Does the seizure of all the Petitioners' belongings, without providing notice or obtaining consent, and based on a writ that wasn't addressed to the P… |
| 24-993 |
Gabriel Olivier v. City of Brandon, Mississippi, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-18 |
Granted |
Amici (32)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
civil-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment heck-v-humphrey prospective-relief section-1983 |
Whether Heck v. Humphrey bars § 1983 claims seeking purely prospective relief where the plaintiff has been punished under a law challenged as unconsti… |
| 24A274 |
Marcellus Williams v. Missouri, ex rel. Michael L. Parson, Governor of Missouri, et al. |
Missouri |
2025-03-18 |
Denied |
|
actual-innocence capital-punishment clemency death-penalty eighth-amendment post-conviction-relief |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a death row inmate who has presented substantial new evidence of actual innocence after his or… |
| 24-6775 |
Edward Thomas James v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-03-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-error death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment evolving-standards-of-decency non-unanimous-jury |
Whether a state law prohibiting Florida courts from considering evolving standards of decency may preclude a death row inmate from challenging a non-u… |
| 24-6778 |
Jessie Hoffman v. Gary Westcott, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-16 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment execution-method nitrogen-gassing religious-freedom rluipa |
Whether a method of execution that superadds psychological suffering violates the Eighth Amendment's bar on cruel and unusual punishment; Whether exec… |
| 24-6769 |
Maylois Bacot, aka Maylois Conerly Price, aka Maylois Conerly, aka Maylois Price v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Ameriquest Mortgage Securities, Inc., Asset-Backed Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2005-R4 |
Louisiana |
2025-03-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-speech right-to-petition |
Whether the court violated the Petitioner's First Amendment right to freedom of speech and right to petition the court, and whether the court's proced… |
| 24-6773 |
Jerry Jeron Daniels v. Pennsylvania Parole Board |
Pennsylvania |
2025-03-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment parole-board sixth-amendment |
Whether the Pennsylvania courts erred in denying the petitioner's appeal of the Pennsylvania Parole Board's decision and violating his constitutional … |
| 24-6757 |
Caed Brawner v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole |
Whether a sentence of mandatory life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on a teenager violates the prohibition of cruel and unusual punish… |
| 24-973 |
Justin Savage v. Henry County School District |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-03-12 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment petition-for-rehearing |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals' dismissal of the petition for rehearing without providing reasoning violates the petitioner's due proce… |
| 24-978 |
Kristopher Paul Hochendoner v. Michael J. King, Executor of the Estate of James E. King |
Pennsylvania |
2025-03-12 |
Denied |
|
default-notice due-process fourteenth-amendment property-rights sheriff-sale subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by failing to set aside a sheriff's sale due to … |
| 24-6748 |
Clifford Charles Galley, II v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2025-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consecutive-sentences constitutional-proportionality cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment life-without-parole sentencing |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment requires consideration of aggregate, consecutive sentences amounting t… |
| 24-6711 |
Kris Chapter Jackson v. Soave Automotive Group, Inc., et al. |
Kansas |
2025-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review vexatious-litigant |
Whether a lower court's vexatious litigant order violates due process rights and is immediately appealable |
| 24A850 |
Dieudruch Emmanuel v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-03-04 |
Presumed Complete |
|
controlled-substance-distribution fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment sixth-amendment spousal-privilege |
Whether the admission of privileged spousal communications and erroneous role-in-offense determinations in a drug distribution prosecution violated th… |
| 24-941 |
Wayne Sellers, IV v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2025-03-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
diminished-culpability eighth-amendment felony-murder life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing penological-goals |
Whether a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for felony murder, imposed on a defendant who did not kill or inte… |
| 24-6685 |
Rodney Douglas Eaves v. Ms. Kory, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-03-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
covid-19 eighth-amendment injunctive-relief mootness prisoner-rights pro-se-complaint |
Whether COVID-19 exposure in prison constitutes an Eighth Amendment violation and whether transfer between state institutions moots injunctive relief |
| 24-6673 |
Israel Romero v. Meta Platforms Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-02-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
court-of-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment half-truth judicial-bias procedural-error |
Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteen Amendment requires recusal of a judge when there are multiple instances of bias, including half-truths,… |
| 24A836 |
Cedric Allen Ricks v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-28 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-case certificate-of-appealability federal-habeas-corpus fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth Circuit properly denied a Certificate of Appealability in a capital habeas corpus proceeding involving alleged Fifth, Sixth, and Fou… |
| 24-934 |
Edward Turnbull, IV v. Board of Directors of the State Bar of Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-proceedings civil-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment injunctive-relief standing |
Whether private citizens have standing to seek injunctive relief against local and state officials to compel them to conduct administrative proceeding… |
| 24-928 |
Zackery Terrell v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-02-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment suggestion-of-reconsideration |
Whether the denial of the Applicant's Suggestion of Reconsideration violates the Eighth Amendment protection against cruel and unusual punishment and … |
| 24-6639 |
Mario Ayala Alfaro v. California |
California |
2025-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
common-law-infant criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment jurisdictional-defect mens-rea |
Whether punishing a common-law infant without requisite knowledge and mens rea violates the Eighth Amendment and due process rights when the defendant… |
| 24-6646 |
Randy Allen Herman, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insanity-defense involuntary-act sixth-amendment |
Whether Petitioner was deprived of effective assistance of counsel in violation of his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constituti… |
| 24-6628 |
Adrin Smack v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof disputed-facts due-process fourteenth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence sentencing |
Was Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment due process right violated when a Delaware State Sentencing Court applied a minimal indicia of reliability burde… |
| 24-6608 |
Felix Pusey v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
eighth-amendment firearm-possession juvenile-offender mandatory-minimum second-amendment sixth-amendment |
Whether a Florida statute criminalizing firearm possession for individuals under 24 with prior juvenile felony adjudications violates the Second Amend… |
| 24-6602 |
Amia Young-Trezvant v. Lone Star College System |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
court-documents due-process equal-access fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure notification-systems |
Did the lower court's failure to ensure timely delivery of judgment and opinion documents violate due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment, a… |
| 24-6604 |
Siddhanth Sharma v. Alan Hirsch, Chairman of North Carolina State Board of Elections, in His Official Capacity, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-02-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
ballot-access candidate-qualifications election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment voter-privacy |
Whether a North Carolina law requiring felony disclosure for congressional candidates and displaying voter addresses violates constitutional rights an… |
| 24-6578 |
Donald Lee Billings v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2025-02-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights equal-protection fair-cross-section fourteenth-amendment jury-selection systematic-exclusion |
Whether courts can establish a clear methodology for assessing fair representation of distinctive groups in jury selection and what constitutes system… |
| 24-6548 |
Kynnedi'Rae Joan Charles v. Officer Gary Wayne Chambers, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement |
Whether law enforcement's involvement in a private vehicle repossession potentially violates constitutional protections under the Fourth and Fourteent… |
| 24-853 |
Rory Douglas Wilson v. Idaho |
Idaho |
2025-02-11 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-liberties constitutional-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech municipal-ordinance |
Whether Moscow's ordinance or prosecution of Wilson violates the First or Fourteenth Amendments |
| 24-854 |
Mark Miller, et al. v. Jane Nelson, Texas Secretary of State, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anderson-burdick-test ballot-access election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-party-rights |
Whether a statutory scheme compelling candidates and political parties to spend substantial funds to qualify for the ballot violates the First and Fou… |
| 24-6514 |
Phillip Jason Garrett v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2025-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confession-voluntariness fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment interrogation-deception law-enforcement-tactics miranda-warnings |
Whether law enforcement quasi-legal representations about a truth verification machine's accuracy, combined with deceptive interrogation tactics and m… |
| 24-6531 |
Mary Ruffin v. Mark Henry |
Texas |
2025-02-10 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
court-fees fourteenth-amendment judicial-authority jurisdictional-challenge mandamus-writ procedural-due-process |
Whether multiple procedural due process violations occurred in a case involving jurisdictional challenges, court fees, and judicial authority under th… |
| 24-6510 |
James D. Ford v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-02-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment evolving-standards fourteenth-amendment post-conviction-relief |
Whether Florida's use of the 'conformity clause' in the Florida constitution improperly violates Ford's Fourteenth Amendment Due Process rights and hi… |
| 24A767 |
Jacob Brown v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2025-02-07 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-relief eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole post-conviction |
Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments require resentencing or the possibility of parole for juveniles convicted of first-degree murder |
| 24-831 |
Eddie Lee Evans v. James Hill, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-02-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment murder-charge supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a 17-year unjustified delay in filing a murder charge violated petitioner's due process rights under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 24-837 |
Anne Francisco, et al. v. Jason England, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-02-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
corrections-staff deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment mental-health qualified-immunity suicide-watch |
Whether evidence of violations of suicide intervention procedures constitutes deliberate indifference under the Eighth Amendment for denying prompt me… |
| 24-824 |
Bernice M. Rutland v. Regions Bank, as Trustee of the William Hunter Rutland Family Trust |
Mississippi |
2025-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
chancery-court due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-notice rule-56 summary-judgment |
Whether a Chancery Judge has jurisdiction to modify a final divorce order thirteen years after the original ruling, without a Rule 59 motion or appeal… |
| 24-6449 |
Belinda Jones v. Jeremy Howard, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
due-process false-testimony fourteenth-amendment legal-conflict napue-standard trial-fairness |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment is violated when lower courts' legal standard for false testimony claims conflicts with the Supreme Court's standard … |
| 24-6450 |
Jason Orlando Rios v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment florida-law post-conviction-relief sexual-battery |
Whether a Florida court's denial of post-conviction relief for a sexual battery conviction violates the petitioner's constitutional rights under the E… |
| 24-819 |
Larry E. Parrish v. Supreme Court of Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2025-02-03 |
Denied |
|
due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias recusal structural-error subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether Rule 10B of the Tennessee Supreme Court Rules constitutes a structural constitutional violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clau… |
| 24-809 |
Howard Goldey, Associate Warden, et al. v. Andrew Fields, III, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-01-30 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
bivens-action constitutional-damages eighth-amendment excessive-force federal-officers judicial-remedy |
Whether an implied cause of action exists for Eighth Amendment excessive force claims against federal officers and whether the Court should reconsider… |
| 24A747 |
Corrine Morgan Thomas, et al. v. County of Humboldt, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-01-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-penalties due-process fourteenth-amendment incorporation jury-trial seventh-amendment |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment incorporates the Seventh Amendment's right to a jury trial against the states in civil proceedings involving substant… |
| 24-6408 |
Clinton Folkes v. South Carolina, et al. |
South Carolina |
2025-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-preservation retroactivity state-court |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection is violated when a state court conditions the retroactivity of a new rule of criminal… |
| 24-6383 |
Christian Ricker v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2025-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance post-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the state appellate court's ruling on a criminal defendant's post-conviction claims of prosecutorial misconduct and ineffective assistance of … |
| 24-791 |
Barry J. Byrnes v. Sylvia Marie Byrnes |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-01-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bankruptcy-procedure constitutional-rights district-court-review eighth-amendment judicial-sanctions jury-trial-right |
Did the bankruptcy judge enter an illegal judgment and violate Petitioner's right to a jury trial in district court on the tort claims? |
| 24-6356 |
RonAllen Hardy v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2025-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brain-development cognitive-maturity cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing miller-principles |
Whether sentencing a young adult to life without parole violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment when the offe… |
| 24-774 |
Reginald Keith Clark v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2025-01-22 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
for-cause-challenge fourteenth-amendment jury-selection racial-bias sixth-amendment trial-court-discretion |
Whether a trial court violates a defendant's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights when it erroneously denies a for-cause challenge to a racially bias… |
| 24-6342 |
A. B. v. Florida Department of Children and Families |
Florida |
2025-01-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-review due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights judicial-procedure |
Whether the lower court's de novo review of constitutional claims violated the petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment due process rights and right to a fai… |
| 24-773 |
Joshua Wade v. University of Michigan |
Michigan |
2025-01-21 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
campus-carry constitutional-rights firearm-possession fourteenth-amendment second-amendment sensitive-places |
Whether the Second and Fourteenth Amendments allow a criminal ordinance that prohibits mere possession of firearms on an entire poorly-delineated univ… |
| 24A718 |
Kai D. Ingram v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-01-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus parole-revocation preliminary-hearing |
Whether a state parole board's failure to provide a preliminary hearing within fourteen days of a parole revocation arrest violates a parolee's proced… |
| 24-6337 |
Sirhan B. Sirhan v. California |
California |
2025-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment governor-discretion parole-review youth-offender-protections |
Does California Constitution Article V, Section 8(b) violate the U.S. Constitution's Due Process Clause by allowing a publicly elected Governor to rev… |
| 24-6320 |
Aaron Abadi v. Eric L. Adams, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-01-16 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights executive-powers first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review vaccine-mandate |
Whether COVID-19 vaccine mandates violate individual constitutional rights and the scope of executive emergency powers |
| 24-6317 |
James Anthony Gray v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2025-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alternative-perpetrator due-process fourteenth-amendment kentucky-constitution structural-error supreme-court-rule |
Did the failure by the Kentucky Supreme Court to adjudicate the claims of error challenging the two murder convictions deny Anthony of his right to a … |
| 24A698 |
Randy W. Duck v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-01-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment method-of-execution prisoner-rights |
Whether a state corrections director's denial of a prisoner's request for a specific method of execution violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition o… |
| 24-6313 |
Eric St. George v. Jason Lengerich, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-01-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admission fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness propensity-evidence |
Does the admission of unrelated weapons evidence render a criminal trial fundamentally unfair under the Fourteenth Amendment, notwithstanding prior pr… |
| 24-6300 |
Pablo Gutierrez v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-01-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment interpreter-rights sixth-amendment |
Whether Petitioner was deprived of his rights to due process and confrontation under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, where the interpreter was pr… |
| 24A688 |
Thomas Creech v. Idaho |
Idaho |
2025-01-14 |
Presumed Complete |
|
botched-execution cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-attempt resweber-precedent |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits a second execution attempt after a botched first attempt that poses a substantial risk of serious harm or cruel… |
| 24-6278 |
In Re Sherly Cadet |
|
2025-01-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights contract-enforcement fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigant racial-discrimination section-1981 |
Whether the Second Circuit erred in dismissing a pro se litigant's appeal challenging the interpretation of 42 U.S.C. §1981 and the right to be heard |
| 24A680 |
Katie Garding v. Montana Department of Corrections |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-01-13 |
Presumed Complete |
|
circuit-split federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment strickland-standard |
Whether a federal appellate court retains jurisdiction to review a habeas petition when the underlying state criminal conviction has been vacated and … |
| 24-6263 |
William S. Hurt, III v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2025-01-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment oklahoma-court-of-criminal-appeals post-conviction-dna statutory-rights |
Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals violated the petitioner's statutory rights under the Oklahoma Post-Conviction DNA testing statute and F… |
| 24-722 |
Larry E. Parrish, P.C. v. Nancy Strong, et al. |
Tennessee |
2025-01-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-recusal structural-constitutional-right subject-matter-jurisdiction williams-precedent |
Whether Rule 10B of the Rules of Tennessee Supreme Court constitutes a structural constitutional violation under the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Proces… |
| 24A675 |
Jermaine Alexander Foster v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-01-10 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment intellectual-disability postconviction-relief supreme-court-review |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a death-sentenced inmate with an intellectual disability claim that was rejected by the Florid… |
| 24-6248 |
Kenneth Brown v. Robert Adams, Jr., Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-01-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-homicide due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance proximate-causation sixth-amendment |
Whether trial counsel was ineffective for failing to request a jury instruction on proximate causation in a criminal homicide case and whether conflic… |
| 24-6231 |
Emmanuel Zleh Totaye, Jr. v. Iowa |
Iowa |
2025-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure fair-trial fourteenth-amendment inconsistent-verdict reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment |
Does an inconsistent verdict in a criminal case violate a defendant's right to a fair trial under the Sixth Amendment and their right to be found guil… |
| 24A659 |
Karl Douglas Roberts v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-01-02 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certiorari circuit-court death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus time-extension |
Whether the Eighth Amendment permits the execution of a death row inmate after a significant delay in seeking federal habeas review |
| 24-6209 |
Edvin Santiagomazariegos v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent |
Whether trial counsel's performance deprived Petitioner of his Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel as made applicable by the Four… |
| 24A637 |
Davone Unique Anderson v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2024-12-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-punishment criminal-culpability death-penalty eighth-amendment intellectual-disability supreme-court-review |
Whether the Eighth Amendment permits the imposition of a death sentence where the defendant's intellectual disability substantially impairs his capaci… |
| 24A638 |
John Paul Gomez v. Judge Dan Favreau, et al. |
Ohio |
2024-12-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
access-to-courts constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment vexatious-litigator |
Whether a state court's vexatious litigator designation violates a pro se litigant's constitutional rights to access the courts and seek judicial redr… |
| 24A626 |
Larry E. Parrish v. Supreme Court of Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2024-12-26 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment impartial-judge judicial-recusal structural-right |
Whether a state supreme court rule requiring timely judicial recusal motions violates a litigant's structural due process right to an impartial judge … |
| 24A627 |
United States v. Steven Zorn, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-12-26 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-penalty eighth-amendment excessive-fines false-claims-act medicaid-fraud qui-tam |
Whether the Excessive Fines Clause of the Eighth Amendment limits the civil penalty amount in qui tam False Claims Act cases where the government decl… |
| 24A619 |
Tonia Scott v. Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2024-12-20 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-prosecution due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction native-american tribal-sovereignty |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's due process protections are violated when a state court fails to properly consider tribal jurisdiction and sovereig… |
| 24-6178 |
Michael Harvel v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-12-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights color-of-law eighth-amendment kidnapping sexual-assault statute-of-limitations |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 242 allows the death penalty for state actor sexual assault and kidnapping under color of law, triggering an unlimited statute of … |
| 24A608 |
Miguel Adan Cayetano v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-12-19 |
Presumed Complete |
|
confrontation-clause due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause and Sixth Amendment Right of Confrontation were violated by alleged collusion between a District… |
| 24-6172 |
Tyrone T. Johnson v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-12-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrary-capricious capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment proportionality-review |
Has the Florida Supreme Court misapplied Pulley v. Harris and rendered Florida's capital sentencing scheme unconstitutional by abandoning comparative … |
| 24A602 |
Zackery Terrell v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-12-18 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-procedure eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance plea-bargain right-to-counsel sentencing-guidelines |
Whether ineffective assistance of counsel occurs when a criminal defense attorney provides misinformation about plea bargains, fails to appeal the suf… |
| 24A595 |
Wayne Sellers, IV v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2024-12-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-culpability eighth-amendment felony-murder life-without-parole proportionality youth-sentencing |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits a mandatory life sentence without parole for a felony murder defendant who did not kill or intend to kill and w… |
| 24-650 |
Robert Lee Webb v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2024-12-16 |
Denied |
|
circumstantial-evidence fourteenth-amendment jury-instruction meaningful-defense sixth-amendment trial-court-error |
Whether the trial court's refusal to give a Virginia Model Jury Instruction on Circumstantial Evidence violated the appellant's Sixth and Fourteenth A… |
| 24-6142 |
Warren Lee Weisman v. Charles E. Clark |
Washington |
2024-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias linguistic-drift |
Whether courts have deviated from the original constitutional intent through linguistic drift and bias, undermining due process and the self-correctin… |
| 24A576 |
Indiana Green Party, et al. v. Diego Morales, Indiana Secretary of State |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-12-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
ballot-access election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-parties signature-requirements |
Whether Indiana's ballot access statutory scheme imposing substantial financial burdens on new political parties violates the First and Fourteenth Ame… |
| 24-6123 |
Michael Ray Senn v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-status penalty-enhancement sexual-assault |
Does a penalty provision of the Texas sexual assault statute that increases penalties based on marital status violate the Equal Protection Clause of t… |
| 24-6105 |
Ryan Lewis Hilyard v. Wyoming |
Wyoming |
2024-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection federal-rules-of-evidence fourteenth-amendment procedural-default strickland-standard |
Did the Wyoming Supreme Court apply federal rules of evidence correctly and deny Mr. Hilyard's Fourteenth Amendment right to effective assistance of c… |
| 24-6108 |
Sixto Jorge Diaz-Colon v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment procedural-rules sixth-amendment |
Whether an appellate court violates due process by dismissing an appeal based solely on procedural deficiencies without addressing substantial constit… |
| 24-6093 |
Garland Ray Gregory, Jr. v. South Dakota |
South Dakota |
2024-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
attorney-client-relationship due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel |
Whether South Dakota's statutory appointment of counsel for indigent prisoners in habeas proceedings violates the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protect… |
| 24-6098 |
Timothy R. Brown v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2024-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-resentencing double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment reasonable-doubt |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires retroactive application of a new rule of law in criminal resentencing, and whether cons… |
| 24-6086 |
Curtis James McGarvey v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lasciviousness-standard sexual-exploitation sixth-amendment |
Whether the application of the Dost factors is appropriate in determining the lasciviousness standard for attempted sexual exploitation of a minor und… |
| 24-625 |
Elana Thibault v. State Bar of California |
California |
2024-12-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-discipline due-process fourteenth-amendment professional-misconduct property-interest state-bar |
Does the suspension from practice of law and imposition of monetary sanctions by methods that deviate from the prescribed means and offend the sense o… |
| 24-6075 |
Lamar Williams v. Alyeska Seafoods, Inc. |
Alaska |
2024-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violations fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment government-funding labor-law |
Whether the plaintiff seeks judicial review of potential constitutional and labor law violations by Alyeska Seafood company and government agencies |
| 24-6076 |
Reginald Wright v. Virginia Department of Child Support Enforcement, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-support constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction legal-proceedings |
Did the false information and improper jurisdiction in a child support case violate the petitioner's constitutional due process and civil rights? |
| 24-6058 |
Blaine Keith Milam v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-12-04 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
adaptive-behavior atkins-standard clinical-assessment eighth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-testing |
Did the state court violate Atkins v. Virginia by improperly assessing intellectual disability through a single IQ score and incomplete adaptive behav… |
| 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… |
| 24-612 |
Paul A. Eknes-Tucker, et al. v. Steven T. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-12-04 |
Dismissed |
|
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment medical-treatment parental-rights transgender-rights |
Whether Alabama's Treatment Ban triggers heightened scrutiny under the Equal Protection Clause and Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment for … |
| 24A540 |
Timothy R. Brown v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2024-12-04 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-resentencing due-process fourteenth-amendment retroactive-rule |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires retroactive application of a new rule of law defining a criminal offense element when t… |
| 24-6057 |
Luis Alfredo Aparicio v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-12-03 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8)IFP |
constitutional-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment gender-classification non-discrimination scrutiny-standard |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's equal-protection clause requires heightened scrutiny for gender-based classifications that claim non-prejudiced rat… |
| 24-607 |
Zhi Wu, et al. v. Superior Court of California, Alameda County, et al. |
California |
2024-12-03 |
Denied |
|
access-to-justice civil-procedure discovery-referee due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment |
Whether the appointment of a discovery referee without considering financial hardship and using an unfair selection process violates due process, equa… |
| 24A533 |
Adeena Weiss-Ortiz v. Carolina Weiss, et al. |
Florida |
2024-12-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment independent-judgment proposed-judgment trial-court |
Whether a trial court's verbatim adoption of a proposed judgment submitted by one party, without independent analysis or addressing contrary evidence,… |
| 24-6050 |
Lolita Barthel v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-12-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection juvenile-offender sentence-review |
Whether juvenile offenders are entitled to sentence review under the Eighth Amendment and Equal Protection Clause when serving consecutive sentences |
| 24A525 |
Mark Miller, et al. v. Jane Nelson, Texas Secretary of State, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-02 |
Presumed Complete |
|
ballot-access constitutional-burden election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-parties |
Whether a state's ballot access requirements that impose substantial financial burdens on minor political parties violate the First and Fourteenth Ame… |
| 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… |
| 24A523 |
Willie R. Burgess, Jr. v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2024-11-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-murder death-penalty eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing postconviction state-review |
Whether the Eighth Amendment permits the imposition of a death sentence following a capital murder conviction where the defendant was denied an eviden… |
| 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… |
| 24-6042 |
David Leonard Wood v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-11-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-standard criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics |
Whether the Due Process Clause requires judicial disqualification when a judge presides over a case after publicly commenting on a prior ruling in the… |
| 24-6026 |
Ana Ortiz, aka Ana Lopez v. Circuit Court of Illinois, Lake County |
Illinois |
2024-11-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process family-court fourteenth-amendment legal-representation sixth-amendment |
Does the absence of counsel and transcripts in family court proceedings violate constitutional due process rights under the Fourteenth and Sixth Amend… |
| 24-6027 |
In Re Pierre Haobsh |
|
2024-11-25 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus search-and-seizure |
Whether the State of California violated the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights of the petitioner through unconstitutional search and seizure prac… |
| 24-572 |
Reginald Pittman, By and Through His Guardian and Next Friend, Robin M. Hamilton, v. Madison County, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-11-22 |
Denied |
|
due-process evidence-exclusion fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-instruction pre-trial-detainee |
Did the Circuit Court improperly impair the plaintiff's due process right to a fair trial by sustaining the jury's verdict and failing to order a new … |
| 24-6017 |
Hanoi Hormachea v. Haridas Bhadja, in His Official Capacity as Chief Medical Officer at Okeechobee Correctional Institution |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-exhaustion civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment section-1983 |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit improperly dismissed an appeal when the petitioner had exhausted administrative remedies under Florida administrative reg… |
| 24-565 |
Linnea W. v. Matthew P. |
New York |
2024-11-20 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-rights counsel-representation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-fees state-court-procedure |
May a state court contravene its own state laws requiring legal fees and counsel representation, potentially violating the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendm… |
| 24A503 |
Latausha Simmons v. City of Southfield, Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-11-20 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment indigent-litigant property-deprivation section-1983 |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment permits dismissal of a pro se civil rights action based on procedural deficiencies when the plaintiff is an indigent … |
| 24-560 |
Dennis Hopkins, et al. v. Michael Watson, Mississippi Secretary of State |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-11-19 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
constitutional-law eighth-amendment equal-protection felony-disenfranchisement fourteenth-amendment voting-rights |
Does Mississippi's lifetime felony disenfranchisement scheme violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishments? |
| 24-5993 |
Carey Grayson v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
conscious-suffocation cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment execution-method nitrogen-hypoxia superadded-terror |
Does the Eighth Amendment prohibit a method of execution involving conscious suffocation or superadded terror? |
| 24-5994 |
David Rodriguez v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-11-19 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion due-process fourteenth-amendment right-to-counsel right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment |
Did the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas err in holding that the trial court did not abuse its discretion and violate Rodriguez's Fourteenth Amendme… |
| 24-549 |
Stephen B. Grant, on Behalf of the United States and the State of Iowa v. Steven Zorn, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-11-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
civil-penalty eighth-amendment excessive-fines-clause false-claims-act qui-tam statutory-damages |
Whether the False Claims Act's statutory civil penalty must be limited to a single-digit multiplier of actual damages under the Eighth Amendment's Exc… |
| 24-5980 |
Vernell Moore v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
district-court-discretion eighth-amendment methamphetamine-enhancement proportionality-of-punishment sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the District Court and Sixth Circuit erred in applying the 10:1 methamphetamine enhancement under U.S.S.G. §2D1.1 given potential constitution… |
| 24-5952 |
M. C. v. Washington State Department of Children, Youth & Families |
Washington |
2024-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-welfare constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-rights procedural-deficiencies |
Whether the termination of parental rights without substantial evidence of unfitness violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 24-5960 |
Christopher Patrick McGowan v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2024-11-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment grand-jury preliminary-hearing probable-cause |
Did the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas violate the petitioner's Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights through improper judicial proced… |
| 24-5967 |
Robert Emert v. Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division One, et al. |
California |
2024-11-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-justice due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment vexatious-litigant-statute |
Are the State of California courts at multiple levels violating self-represented litigants' constitutional rights to due process and equal protection … |
| 24-5950 |
Terry Eugene Iversen v. David Pedro, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment life-sentence public-indecency recidivist |
Whether a life sentence without parole for recidivist public indecency violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment |
| 24A464 |
Daniel O. Conahan, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-11-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
brady-violation certificate-of-appealability eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments require a new trial or resentencing where the prosecution withheld material exculpatory evidence … |
| 24-521 |
Bethany Farber v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-11-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment section-1983 substantive-due-process unreasonable-seizures wrongful-detention |
Whether the right against wrongful detention falls under the Fourth Amendment's proscription against unreasonable seizures or the Fourteenth Amendment… |
| 24-5930 |
Anthony Tawon Williams v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2024-11-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment merger-errors sentencing |
Whether a criminal defendant's sentence violates the Fourteenth Amendment's due process rights when the trial court refuses to correct merger errors a… |
| 24A448 |
Christopher Michael Montoya v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2024-11-05 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-case for-cause-strike fourteenth-amendment jury-selection sixth-amendment witherspoon-standard |
Whether the Arizona Supreme Court improperly applied precedent in denying a for-cause challenge to a biased juror in a capital case, thereby violating… |
| 24-5904 |
Allen Ward Cox v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-11-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
brain-damage cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment evolving-standards medical-condition mental-impairment |
Whether the Petitioner's medical condition involving brain damage and dementia constitutes cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment bas… |
| 24-499 |
Nita A. v. A. A. |
Illinois |
2024-11-01 |
Denied |
|
domestic-violence due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment ninth-amendment personal-jurisdiction |
Whether the Illinois Domestic Violence Act violated Nita's First, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights by interfering with her parent-child relation… |
| 24A438 |
Montana, et al. v. Planned Parenthood of Montana, et al. |
Montana |
2024-11-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
abortion due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-decision-making minor-rights parental-consent |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause protects parents' fundamental right to make healthcare decisions for their minor children by all… |
| 24-488 |
Fadi Georges Ghanem v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-10-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process felony-penalties fourteenth-amendment legal-framework medical-practice state-courts |
Whether state laws criminalizing medical practice through felony penalties that create an unworkable legal framework violate the Due Process Clause of… |
| 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… |
| 24-5839 |
Jordan Powell v. JBG Smith Properties, LP First Residences, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-10-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights-removal fourteenth-amendment remand-review statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction thirteenth-amendment |
Whether the civil rights removal statute 28 U.S.C. Section 1443 permits removal remand review according to the text thereof where Subsection 1447(d) d… |
| 24-5833 |
Douglas Fauconier v. Virginia |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment parole-eligibility section-1983 strict-scrutiny |
Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments' Due Process Clauses require strict scrutiny review of a state statute amendment affecting parole eligibil… |
| 24A411 |
Donald Sherman v. William Gittere, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-28 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-punishment eighth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a capital defendant whose underlying conviction or sentence may have been tainted by ineffecti… |
| 24A406 |
Deshawn Drumgo v. Sergeant William Kuschel |
Third Circuit |
2024-10-25 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment prison-conditions punitive-damages sexual-assault |
Whether the Eighth Amendment permits a substantial punitive damages award for an inmate's sexual assault claim where the jury found no compensable phy… |
| 24-5816 |
Terrance A. Burlison v. Jerry W. Benefield, dba Green Oaks Manor Mobile Home Park |
Florida |
2024-10-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure dismissal due-process florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment procedural-rules |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court violated the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause by entering an order of dismissal before the time prescribed … |
| 24A399 |
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. v. Wisconsin Elections Commission, et al. |
Wisconsin |
2024-10-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
ballot-access candidate-qualification election-law fourteenth-amendment insurrection-clause state-election-commission |
Whether a state election commission can constitutionally remove a presidential candidate from a primary ballot based on alleged insurrection-related d… |
| 24-448 |
Oskana Marinaro v. Parks Ziegler, PLLC |
Virginia |
2024-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review attorney-fees due-process fourteenth-amendment pro-se-representation state-law |
Whether a state appellate court can refuse full appellate review without a transcript when state law requires review based on written pleadings |
| 24-5796 |
Deandre Arnold v. Chad Chronister, Sheriff, Hillsborough County, Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-10-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias prosecutorial-immunity standing |
Whether a petitioner lacks standing to sue a Sheriff's Office for alleged First and Fourteenth Amendment rights violations and whether a conspiracy to… |
| 24-441 |
A. M. B., et al. v. Kelly J. McKnight, Presiding Judge, Circuit Court of Wisconsin, Ashland County |
Wisconsin |
2024-10-21 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
adoption-rights constitutional-rights equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment second-parent-adoption |
Whether a State's categorical disqualification of unmarried people from adopting the children of their partners violates the Equal Protection Clause o… |
| 24-5791 |
Paul David Storey v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-10-21 |
Denied |
Amici (2)IFP |
brady-violation death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the State's suppression of favorable evidence and presentation of false arguments at a death penalty case's penalty phase violates due process… |
| 24-5787 |
Taiming Zhang v. X Corp., fka Twitter, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment immunity-doctrine section-230 |
Whether the Supreme Court will review the 9th Circuit's interpretation of 47 U.S. Code § 230 and its potential constitutional implications |
| 24-431 |
Danny Ray Dunn v. Caryn Alissa Dunn |
Georgia |
2024-10-17 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-ethics recusal-motion |
Whether the lack of an adequate recusal enforcement mechanism in Georgia state courts violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 24-425 |
Jesse Rehbein, et al. v. Annette Rehbein, et al. |
Montana |
2024-10-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
best-interest-standard child-custody due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-rights parenting-plan |
Whether a state statute allowing court-ordered parental interest without finding parental unfitness violates due process rights under the Fourteenth A… |
| 24A352 |
Coleman County, Texas v. Patsy K. Cope, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
42-usc-1983 conditions-of-confinement eighth-amendment municipal-liability pre-trial-detainee suicide-prevention |
Whether a county jail can be held liable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for a pre-trial detainee's suicide when the jail's suicide prevention policies were no… |
| 24A354 |
Jessie J. Barnes v. Donald Uhler, Superintendent, Upstate Correctional Facility, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-10-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
conditions-of-confinement cruel-and-unusual deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-care prisoner-rights |
Whether a prison's conditions of confinement and alleged deliberate indifference to a prisoner's medical needs constitute a violation of the Eighth Am… |
| 24-5747 |
Elmer Dean Baker v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2024-10-11 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights equal-protection-clause fourteenth-amendment harmless-error non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment |
Whether a State violates the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments by upholding a criminal conviction obtained through non-unanimous jury verdicts and claim… |
| 24A347 |
Blaine Keith Milam v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-10-11 |
Presumed Complete |
|
atkins-v-virginia capital-case death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the imposition of the death penalty for a defendant with an intellectual disability |
| 24A342 |
Robert Emert v. Andrea Schuck |
California |
2024-10-10 |
Presumed Complete |
|
access-to-courts due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigation vexatious-litigant |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's due process and equal protection clauses prohibit a state court from designating a pro se litigant as vexatious wit… |
| 24-393 |
George Arsenis, et al. v. Borough of Bernardsville, New Jersey, et al. |
New Jersey |
2024-10-09 |
Denied |
|
discriminatory-taxation equal-protection fourteenth-amendment property-assessment spot-assessment taxation-uniformity |
Whether a selective property reassessment by a town assessor violates the Equal Protection Clause through discriminatory taxation practices |
| 24-5713 |
Hector Acosta v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-10-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-sentence due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment national-origin race-discrimination |
Whether the State's invocation of a defendant's nationality and ethnicity to obtain a death sentence violates the Equal Protection and Due Process Cla… |
| 24-5704 |
Lori M. Moody v. Edward W. Horan |
Florida |
2024-10-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
absolute-privilege defamation-per-se due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial seventh-amendment |
Does the Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial extend to a state court defamation per se action, and does absolute privilege protect a lawyer who fa… |
| 24-379 |
Larry D. Sapp v. Kimberly Foxx, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as State's Attorney of Cook County, Illinois |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-10-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
citizenship-forfeiture civil-death cruel-and-unusual-clause eighth-amendment punishment-disability res-judicata |
Whether Illinois's punishment disability statutes without time limits violate the Eighth Amendment's Cruel and Unusual Clause constituting a 'civil de… |
| 24-5698 |
Tony Moore, Jr. v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2024-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment grand-jury jurisdictional-challenge wrongful-imprisonment |
Whether the state court violated the petitioner's due process rights by refusing to hear jurisdictional challenges and improperly constituting the gra… |
| 24-371 |
Troy Thomas York v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2024-10-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
collateral-review constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance trial-counsel |
Does the Fourteenth Amendment confer the right to effective assistance of first collateral review counsel for ineffective assistance of trial counsel … |
| 24-376 |
Brennaris Marquis Johnson v. Washington |
Washington |
2024-10-02 |
Denied |
|
fourteenth-amendment jury-finding reasonable-doubt sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment upward-departure |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments require a jury to find beyond a reasonable doubt that aggravating facts amount to 'substantial and compell… |
| 24-5680 |
P. H., Mother v. Cumberland County Children and Youth Services, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2024-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment mental-health parental-rights state-court-action |
Was the state court's termination of parental rights based on mental health issues a violation of the fundamental constitutional right to parent under… |
| 24-5673 |
Jonathan Eugene Brunson v. John Herring, Superintendent, Maury Correctional Institution |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-01 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-claim due-process evidence-review fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus |
Whether the lower courts violated the Fourteenth Amendment by denying Petitioner's claim of actual innocence and right to review evidence supporting h… |
| 24-5676 |
Henry Altamirano v. Nethanjah Breitenbach, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
antiterrorism-act due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus limitation-period subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Did the Petitioner have the right to have his subject matter jurisdiction claim heard on its merits despite filing a federal habeas petition after the… |
| 24-5671 |
Garcia Glenn White v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-row Does the Eighth Amendment prohibition against crue eighth-amendment intellectual-disability time-limitation |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's resolution of counsel substitution replicates the Christeson error and fails to address a potential conflict of interest i… |
| 24-5652 |
Tiffany Smith v. Shannon Olds, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-09-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-discretion provocation self-defense |
Whether the appellate court violated due process by affirming a conviction without properly considering uncontradicted evidence of self-defense and pr… |
| 24A298 |
James Herard v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-09-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-sentencing constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment jury-unanimity |
Whether the Eighth Amendment requires jury unanimity in capital sentencing decisions and whether a judge may impose a death sentence after a non-unani… |
| 24-342 |
Shiva Ayyadurai v. New Jersey Democratic State Committee, et al. |
New Jersey |
2024-09-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ballot-access citizenship-clause equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment presidential-qualifications |
Whether states can unilaterally remove a presidential candidate from the ballot based on 'natural born' citizenship requirements without congressional… |
| 24-5647 |
David Rashaun Hamil, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment social-science |
Whether Petitioner was derived of his right, under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, to a trial by a 12 person jury when the defendant is charged w… |
| 24-335 |
Vivendi S.E., et al. v. EPAC Technologies Ltd. |
New York |
2024-09-25 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
contract-law due-process forum-selection-clause fourteenth-amendment nonresident-defendant personal-jurisdiction |
Does the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause permit personal jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant with no forum contacts based solely on a … |
| 24A295 |
Larry D. Sapp v. Kimberly Foxx, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as State's Attorney of Cook County, Illinois |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-09-25 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-punishment cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment mendoza-martinez public-office time-limits |
Whether civil punishment statutes that permanently restrict an individual's right to hold public office without time limits violate the Eighth Amendme… |
| 24-5617 |
In Re Kesean Calvin Wilson |
|
2024-09-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
bank-robbery constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment state-power |
Whether Kesean Wilson was denied Fourteenth Amendment equal protection and substantive due process rights when punished for bank robbery without ratio… |
| 24-5619 |
Francisco Tineo-Santos v. Lynn Lilley, Superintendent, Eastern Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2024-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus pro-se rule-60-motion |
Whether the denial of a pro se Certificate of Appealability (COA) by the United States Court of Appeals constitutes a merits denial of civil habeas co… |
| 24A285 |
Team Kennedy, et al. v. Henry Berger, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-09-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
ballot-access election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment independent-candidate presidential-qualifications |
Whether a state's ballot residency requirement for independent presidential candidates violates the First and Fourteenth Amendment rights of ballot ac… |
| 24A290 |
Prosecuting Attorney, 21st Judicial Circuit, ex rel. Marcellus Williams v. Missouri |
Missouri |
2024-09-23 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
capital-crime death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-stay innocence-project new-evidence |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a death row inmate who has presented new evidence potentially exculpating him from the underly… |
| 24-5589 |
In Re Joseph G. Aulisio |
|
2024-09-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
cause-and-prejudice confrontation-clause due-process eighth-amendment false-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether prosecutorial misconduct, false testimony, and failure to correct known false evidence constitute a violation of due process and grounds for o… |
| 24A282 |
Linnea W. v. Matthew P. |
New York |
2024-09-19 |
Presumed Complete |
|
custody-trial due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-fees state-court |
Whether the New York State Court of Appeals violated a parent's constitutional due process rights by arbitrarily denying legal fees and counsel in a c… |
| 24-305 |
Justin Savage v. Georgia Office of Administrative Hearings |
Georgia |
2024-09-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
commission-review constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment material-evidence |
Whether the failure of the Commission and subsequent courts to duly consider and address material evidence constitutes a violation of the Petitioner's… |
| 24A277 |
Dennis Hopkins, et al. v. Michael Watson, Mississippi Secretary of State |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-18 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-challenge eighth-amendment equal-protection felony-disenfranchisement mississippi-constitution voting-rights |
Whether Mississippi's lifetime felony disenfranchisement law violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment when it perma… |
| 24-5547 |
Clifton Bean v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-composition life-sentence sixth-amendment |
Does the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a twelve-person jury in felony cases with potential life without parole sentences? |
| 24-5538 |
John Ross Stenberg v. Don Langford, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-counsel self-incrimination |
Whether the District Court erred in denying suppression of statements and finding ineffective assistance of counsel claims without merit when constitu… |
| 24-5521 |
Vernon Carter v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2024-09-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights eighth-amendment fifth-amendment jury-instructions sixth-amendment verdict-form |
Whether the trial court's jury instructions and verdict form violated the Petitioner's Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Amendment rights by failing to specify… |
| 24-5498 |
Lenore Luann Albert v. State Bar of California |
California |
2024-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-discipline disbarment due-process federal-court-practice fourteenth-amendment state-bar-regulation |
Whether California State Bar can regulate the practice of law in federal court and impose disbarment without due process |
| 24A251 |
Darryl Carter, et al. v. James E. Stewart, Sr., in his Official Capacity as District Attorney of Caddo Parish, Louisiana |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-10 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination summary-judgment |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment permits civil rights lawsuits by prospective jurors challenging racially-motivated peremptory challenges when statist… |
| 24-5481 |
Cody Mercure v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure eighth-amendment federal-sentencing judicial-review proportionality sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a 300-month sentence for a federal offense violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on grossly disproportionate sentences due to potential … |
| 24-5463 |
Ashley Wilkerson v. City of Houston, Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
42-usc-1983 constitutional-violations due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment police-interference |
Do the government's repeated First and Fourteenth Amendment violations, including police interference and intimidation, constitute actionable constitu… |
| 24-5466 |
Jarell Davis Terry v. William Straughn, Deputy Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force pro-se-prisoner |
Whether the use of force against a handcuffed and compliant individual violates constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment |
| 24A231 |
OCA-Greater Houston, et al. v. Kim Ogg |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-04 |
Presumed Complete |
|
election-law ex-parte-young first-amendment fourteenth-amendment sovereign-immunity voting-rights |
Whether a local district attorney can be sued under Ex Parte Young for prospective injunctive relief challenging the constitutionality of state electi… |
| 24A233 |
Sandra A. Zikry v. Hernie David Vann, Jr., et al. |
Florida |
2024-09-04 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment informed-consent medical-consent |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause and First Amendment's Free Exercise Clause protect a patient from medical procedure consent viol… |
| 24A234 |
Sandra A. Zikry v. Exodus Women's Center, Inc., et al. |
Florida |
2024-09-04 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment informed-consent medical-consent |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause and First Amendment's Free Exercise Clause protect a patient from medical procedure consent viol… |
| 24-5436 |
David Fink v. California |
California |
2024-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-of-appeal |
Should an appellant have a voice in their own appeal when the Court of Appeal appoints counsel who fails to raise substantial constitutional claims? |
| 24-234 |
Raymond Guzall III v. Grievance Administrator, Attorney Grievance Commission of Michigan |
Michigan |
2024-08-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
court-manipulation due-process evidence-concealment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias legal-procedure |
Can a state prosecute upon manipulated court records or withhold original court recordings that potentially exonerate a defendant? |
| 24-5431 |
Jacob Valle v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment social-science unanimous-verdict |
Whether Petitioner was derived of his right, under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged w… |
| 24-225 |
B. S. v. D. S. |
California |
2024-08-29 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-rights domestic-violence-restraining-order due-process evidentiary-standard first-amendment fourteenth-amendment |
Does the preponderance of the evidence standard for Domestic Violence Restraining Orders in California violate due process under the Fourteenth Amendm… |
| 24-5420 |
Jerry E. Russell, Sr. v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2024-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
atkins-v-virginia criminal-punishment eighth-amendment intellectual-disability life-without-parole sentencing |
Should the Eighth Amendment prohibition, against sentencing intellectually disabled individuals to death, announced in Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 30… |
| 24-5407 |
Darnell Anderson v. Aaron Fuson, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bivens-doctrine constitutional-claim deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment federal-corrections summary-judgment |
Whether the Court of Appeals correctly applied the Bivens doctrine in evaluating an Eighth Amendment deliberate indifference claim against a federal c… |
| 24-212 |
Lewis Archer v. America's First Federal Credit Union, et al. |
Alabama |
2024-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure property-rights state-court-jurisdiction |
Whether the Alabama Supreme Court's reversal of a lower court's order granting a deed to the Archers violates their constitutional rights to due proce… |
| 24-213 |
Willis Franklin v. California |
California |
2024-08-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
client-autonomy counsel-of-choice fourteenth-amendment mccoy-v-louisiana sixth-amendment trial-continuance |
Was petitioner denied his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to retained counsel of choice and client autonomy when the trial court failed to conti… |
| 24-5389 |
Loran Cole v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-08-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
baze-glossip-test due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment lethal-injection parkinson's-disease |
Whether Florida courts violated Cole's Fourteenth Amendment Due Process and Equal Protection rights by failing to hold an evidentiary hearing on his a… |
| 24-5367 |
Khadijah A. Muhammad Kebe v. Washington Township School District, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-08-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-aid pro-se-litigant systemic-disadvantage |
Whether the lack of legal aid for pro se litigants in civil cases violates equal protection rights under the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 24-199 |
Aldo Ortega v. Tanya Ford, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-08-22 |
Denied |
|
due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourth-amendment psychological-detention warrant-clause |
Whether a warrant issued by the Department of Corrections for allegedly violating a non-existent mandatory supervised release agreement violates the F… |
| 24A194 |
Hector Acosta v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-08-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-murder death-sentence equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection racial-bias |
Whether racial bias in the jury selection process violated the defendant's Fourteenth Amendment right to equal protection in a capital murder case |
| 24-177 |
Alison Gershenson v. Elizabet Da Silva |
Florida |
2024-08-20 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment per-curiam-decision summary-judgment |
Whether Florida's appellate procedure of issuing per curiam decisions without opinion on summary judgment appeals violates due process and equal prote… |
| 24-182 |
Roy Sargeant v. Aracelie Barfield |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-08-20 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment federal-inmates inmate-rights prison-violence |
Whether federal inmates may bring a cause of action against prison officials for deliberate indifference to inmate-on-inmate violence under the Eighth… |
| 24-184 |
Xuejie He v. United States, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights due-process en-banc-review equal-protection fourteenth-amendment immigration-law |
Whether the denial of a petition for rehearing en banc violated Xuejie He's Fourteenth Amendment due process and equal protection rights |
| 24-5347 |
Devin Allen Bennett v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2024-08-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance mitigation-evidence sixth-amendment strickland-standard |
Whether trial counsel's failure to investigate, uncover, and present evidence of defendant's reduced moral culpability may be categorically discounted… |
| 24-5352 |
Spencer Farwell v. Fountains at Tidwell Limited, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure court-access due-process fourteenth-amendment indigent-litigant judicial-recommendation |
Whether the District Court's adoption of the Magistrate Judge's recommendation without party consent violates due process rights, and whether denial o… |
| 24A185 |
Derek Don Posey v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2024-08-19 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-punishment eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-selection sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments were violated by the improper dismissal of prospective jurors and whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendm… |
| 24-173 |
Malcolm Johnson, et al. v. Tina Kotek, Governor of Oregon, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-16 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
due-process emergency-use-authorization experimental-vaccine fourteenth-amendment informed-consent qualified-immunity |
What is the proper standard of review for a Fourteenth Amendment Due Process challenge to a State official's order mandating experimental vaccine inje… |
| 24-174 |
Jack Jordan v. Attorney Grievance Committee for the First Judicial Department |
New York |
2024-08-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights disbarment due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech |
Whether the New York State Court of Appeals violated the Fourteenth Amendment by dismissing an attorney's appeal without addressing substantial consti… |
| 24-167 |
Tim Makoto Nukida v. California |
California |
2024-08-15 |
Denied |
|
criminal-procedure cruel-unusual-punishment csaas-testimony due-process eighth-amendment expert-witness |
Whether state courts are divided on the admissibility of Child Sexual Abuse Accommodation Syndrome (CSAAS) and if such testimony violates due process … |
| 24-5320 |
Ahkemon J. Bardell v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2024-08-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-defense due-process fourteenth-amendment trial-procedure |
Whether the trial court violated the petitioner's constitutional rights by failing to detect and prevent a potential confrontational violation during … |
| 24A174 |
Omnisun Azali v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2024-08-14 |
Presumed Complete |
|
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment self-defense sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments require the State to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a defendant was not acting in lawful self-defens… |
| 24-155 |
James R. Fouts v. The Warren City Council, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-08-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-expression term-limits |
Whether a city charter provision barring a specific individual from the ballot through a lesser term limit violates First and Fourteenth Amendment rig… |
| 24A159 |
LeGregory Davis v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2024-08-09 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-punishment constitutional-violation death-penalty eighth-amendment lethal-injection procedural-due-process |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a death row inmate based on claims of procedural irregularities or constitutional violations i… |
| 24-5283 |
In Re Kenton G. Findlay |
|
2024-08-08 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights court-of-appeal due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-relief |
Did the Third District Court of Appeal violate due process rights under the Florida Constitution and the 5th and 14th Amendments of the U.S. Constitut… |
| 24-139 |
Lei Jiang, et al. v. Kevin Chu, et al. |
California |
2024-08-07 |
Denied |
|
business-records deposition-subpoena due-process fourteenth-amendment motion-to-compel real-estate-fraud |
Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment was violated when the California Superior Court denied Petitioners' Motion to Compel third-… |
| 24-140 |
Raymond H. Pierson, III v. Northern California Collection Service, Inc., et al. |
California |
2024-08-07 |
Denied |
|
access-to-courts due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment separation-of-powers vexatious-litigant |
Whether the California Vexatious Litigant Statute unconstitutionally violates due process and separation of powers by restricting pro se litigants' ac… |
| 24A140 |
Christopher Harry West v. Mark Emig, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-08-07 |
Presumed Complete |
|
cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment mattress-removal mental-health prisoner-rights qualified-immunity |
Whether the Eighth Amendment permits the removal of a prisoner's mattress as a mental health intervention without violating constitutional protections… |
| 24A132 |
Kyle Trevor Flack v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2024-08-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-punishment eighth-amendment kansas-supreme-court mitigating-factors murder sentencing |
Whether the Eighth Amendment permits the imposition of a capital sentence under circumstances involving multiple murder victims and potential mitigati… |
| 24-5244 |
Justin G. Reedy v. California Department of Social Services, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-hearing due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment goldberg-v-kelly mathews-v-eldridge public-benefits state-regulation substantive-due-process title-ix |
Whether the principles of due process prohibit the Ninth Circuit Court's consideration of a new argument raised by the State Defendants' on appeal tha… |
| 24-5247 |
Eric Cruz v. Officer Domingo Cervantez |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment brady-rule brady-rule-of-evidence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment evidence evidence-exclusion qualified-immunity safe-prison-act |
Did the U.S. District courts' failure to allow relevant evidence into trial proceedings violate the Brady Rule of Evidence under Brady v. Maryland, 37… |
| 24-127 |
The Center For Reproductive Medicine, P.C., et al. v. Felicia Burdick-Aysenne, et vir, in Their Individual Capacities and as Parents and Next Friends of Baby Aysenne, Deceased Embryo/Minor |
Alabama |
2024-08-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure due-process fair-notice fourteenth-amendment punitive-damages standing statutory-interpretation |
due-process-clause-14th-amendment |
| 24-128 |
Caf Dowlah v. American Arbitration Association, et al. |
New York |
2024-08-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitral-immunity butz-v-economou civil-rights collateral-estoppel due-process federal-arbitration-act fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct res-judicata |
Does a conflict exist between the Federal Arbitration Act and Butz v. Economou regarding arbitral immunity? |
| 24A124 |
Arthur Lee Burton v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-08-04 |
Denied |
|
atkins-claim death-penalty eighth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-testing moore-v-texas |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a death-row inmate with intellectual disability when new clinical evidence demonstrates he mee… |
| 24-102 |
Manuel Adams, Jr. v. City of Harahan, Louisiana |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-31 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response Waived |
career-advancement circuit-split civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment government-interference liberty-interest occupational-liberty professional-rights standard-of-review |
Whether a plaintiff must plead that the government 'effected [a] prohibition' of his ability to pursue his career to state a claim for a violation of … |
| 24-5188 |
Patrick Wilson v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2024-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trials non-unanimous-jury second-degree-murder sixth-amendment state-courts |
Whether non-unanimous jury verdicts in state criminal trials violate the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution |
| 24-5192 |
Matthew Nicholson v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2024-07-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrariness constitutional-proportionality county-geography criminal-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment equal-protection geographic-disparity gregg-v-georgia sentencing-disparities |
Is Ohio's death penalty being arbitrarily applied in violation of Gregg v. Georgia, when geography dictates whether a defendant will be subject to the… |
| 24-5193 |
James E. Clifford v. Carla Walker, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-07-31 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights default-judgment due-process fair-adjudication fourteenth-amendment procedural-error racial-discrimination |
Does the failure of the Appellate Court to recognize and address a procedural error, especially the entry and subsequent denial of default judgment ou… |
| 24-74 |
In Re Alphonza Leonard Phillip Thomas Bey |
|
2024-07-25 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment black-negro-colored-persons constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment jurisdiction property state-court |
Question not identified. |
| 24A88 |
Michael Collins Iheme v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2024-07-25 |
Presumed Complete |
|
due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-bias postconviction-relief sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments require reversal of a criminal conviction due to ineffective assistance of counsel, judicial bias, and all… |
| 24A92 |
Christine A. Arakelian v. City of Falls Church, Virginia, et al. |
Virginia |
2024-07-25 |
Presumed Complete |
|
board-of-equalization due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment property-tax section-1983 |
Whether a local government's Board of Equalization can systematically deny due process rights to property owners through procedural rules that allow u… |
| 24A76 |
Jonathan Andrew Arias, Christopher Lee McLeod, Thomas James Odom, Felipe Petrone-Cabanas, and Charles Vincent Wagner v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2024-07-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing miller-v-alabama youth-mitigation |
Whether the Eighth Amendment requires resentencing for juvenile offenders who were previously sentenced to mandatory life without parole under Arizona… |
| 24-5123 |
Angel Sanchez v. Teresa Cisneros, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
calcrim-375 constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment prior-acts sixth-amendment |
Whether petitioner was denied his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment right to due process and fair trial |
| 24-5125 |
Corvin J. Young v. Spartanburg County Detention Facility, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-07-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment federal-custody habeas-corpus medical-treatment pretrial-detention prison-conditions prisoner-rights |
Question not identified |
| 24A65 |
Tina Peters v. Daniel P. Rubinstein, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-07-19 |
Presumed Complete |
|
election-records federal-immunity fourteenth-amendment privileges-or-immunities state-prosecution supremacy-clause |
Whether a state official can claim immunity from state prosecution for actions taken in good faith to preserve federal election records under federal … |
| 24-55 |
Montana v. Robert Murray Gibbons |
Montana |
2024-07-18 |
Denied |
|
eighth-amendment excessive-fines-clause financial-burden financial-circumstances mandatory-fine mandatory-fines proportionality proportionality-factors sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Whether the Excessive Fines Clause requires the sentencing judge to consider a defendant's personal financial circumstances and the nature of the burd… |
| 24-5113 |
Steven Alexander Mantecon v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-07-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-right criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-offense fourteenth-amendment jury jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-procedure |
Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a twelve-person jury to try a criminal defendant accused of a felony offense |
| 24-5095 |
Moises Gamboa v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution |
Did the lower courts improperly interpret United States Sentencing Guideline § 4C1.1 that violated the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause of the Eigh… |
| 24-5084 |
Terrence E. Gilchrist v. Simone Craig |
Ohio |
2024-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
child-support due-process equal-protection equitable-relief fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights privileges-and-immunities procedural-protections social-security-act takings-clause turner-v-rogers |
Whether non-adherence to Turner procedural protections violates substantive-due-process-and-privileges-and-immunities,takings-clause,due-process-and-e… |
| 24-38 |
Bradley Little, Governor of Idaho, et al. v. Lindsay Hecox, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-15 |
Granted |
Amici (26)Relisted (4) |
biological-differences biological-sex equal-protection fourteenth-amendment sex-discrimination sports-participation transgender transgender-rights women's-sports |
Whether laws that seek to protect women's and girls' sports by limiting participation to women and girls based on sex violate the Equal Protection Cla… |
| 24-5071 |
Dennis German v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance eighth-amendment fifth-amendment relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the government violated the petitioner's 8th Amendment and 5th Amendment constitutional rights by using separate incidents as relevant conduct… |
| 24-5065 |
Damon John Broussard v. Lousiana |
Louisiana |
2024-07-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment proportionality sentencing |
Does Petitioner's sentence constitute cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment? |
| 24-5063 |
Bruce Rowan v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bail-conditions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment lower-court trial-court |
Does a conviction for breach of bail conditions-set by lower court-violate the Fourteenth Amendment right to due process, where trial court set bail c… |
| 24-5060 |
Bert Hudson v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole |
Pennsylvania |
2024-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment eighth-amendment furman-v-georgia mandatory-minimum parole parole-review second-degree-murder sentencing-guidelines sentencing-statutes |
Whether Pennsylvania's sentencing statutes for second-degree murder, which provide for a mandatory maximum sentence of life imprisonment with a requir… |
| 24-31 |
Michael J. Libman, et al. v. Antwon Jones, et al. |
California |
2024-07-12 |
Denied |
|
ability-to-pay attorney-fees disgorgement eighth-amendment excessive-fines professional-conduct proportionality-test |
Does the court-ordered disgorgement of attorney fees for violation of state rules of professional conduct fall under the 'excessive fines' clause of t… |
| 24-5049 |
Irena Shie v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2024-07-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
americans-with-disabilities-act communication-disability deprivation-of-constitutional-rights-under-color-o equal-protection fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-speech judicial-procedure meaningful-participation-in-justice-system petition-government-for-redress-of-grievances reasonable-accommodation reasonable-accommodations |
equal-protection-under-law |
| 24-5052 |
In Re Kenton G. Findlay |
|
2024-07-11 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-violation court-of-appeal criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus legal-relief |
Due process-violation |
| 24A15 |
Bobby Tatum v. Correctional Officer Hunter, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-07-09 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-protection cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment injunctive-relief prisoner-rights sexual-assault |
Whether the district court's failure to issue an injunction protecting a prisoner from alleged sexual assault violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibit… |
| 24-5029 |
Jurgen Marku v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Bruton-v-United-States Codefendant confrontation-clause criminal-prosecution Cross-Examination Due-Process felony-murder fourteenth-amendment Guilty-Plea sixth-amendment |
Whether it is a violation of a criminal defendant's Confrontation-Clause |
| 24-22 |
Lauren N. Stone v. Theodore Worner, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2024-07-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-custody due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights grandparent-visitation harm-to-child parental-rights strict-scrutiny |
Does Pennsylvania's Child Custody Act violate a fit parent's due-process-rights, |
| 24A3 |
Darnell Anderson v. Aaron Fuson, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-07-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
Bivens eighth-amendment excessive-force federal-tort prisoner-rights qualified-immunity |
Whether the Supreme Court should extend the Bivens remedy to allow a federal prisoner to bring a monetary damages claim for alleged Eighth Amendment e… |
| 23-1369 |
John Rust v. Diego Morales, Indiana Secretary of State, et al. |
Indiana |
2024-07-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-association primary-election primary-elections state-election-laws voter-registration voting-rights |
Whether the Affiliation Statute violates Indiana citizens' right to freely associate with the political party of their choosing pursuant to the First … |
| 23-1368 |
Luis S. Arana, aka Luis S. Arana Santiago v. Luis Tapia Maldonado, et al. |
Puerto Rico |
2024-07-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
administrative-hearing administrative-procedure cross-examination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment notice-requirement public-employment tenure-rights |
Due-process-violation |
| 23-1366 |
Jenny Jing, et al. v. Joseph Womack, et al. |
Montana |
2024-07-02 |
Denied |
|
adversary-rights constitutional-rights domestic-partner first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech petition-to-redress-grievances privacy probate-court unauthorized-practice-of-law |
Did the Montana Supreme Court overlook a violation of First and Fourteenth Amendment rights, specifically concerning free-speech, petition-to-redress-… |
| 23-1351 |
Torrey Lynne Henderson, Amara Jana Ridge, and Justin Royce Thompson v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-06-27 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
criminal-conviction first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech obstruction-of-passageway obstruction-statute peaceful-assembly peaceful-protest public-forum public-sidewalks |
Do the First and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit the government from convicting individuals for obstructing a passageway based solely on their particip… |
| 23-7822 |
Nukarri Williams v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law due-process equal-protection equal-treatment federal-code fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction petition relief state-court writ |
Whether the state court's failure to provide the petitioner with the relief provided to similarly situated defendants violates the Equal Protection Cl… |
| 23-1342 |
David W. Foley, Jr., et ux. v. Orange County, Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-06-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment administrative-injunction constitutional-provision due-process federal-courts fourteenth-amendment judicial-determination state-courts state-law |
Whether the Due Process Clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments require federal and state courts to answer the question of state law that the c… |
| 23-1336 |
Noel West Lane, III v. Matthew Curtis Witt, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-06-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure due-process fair-hearing fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion manifest-fraud pro-se-litigants pro-se-litigation procedural-error |
Should the Supreme Court provide guidance on mandatory accommodation of judicial discretion to ensure fair hearings for pro se litigants and clarify i… |
| 23-7792 |
In Re Ramiro Felix Gonzales |
|
2024-06-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment constitutional-review death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness post-conviction-review state-law |
Does it violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to execute an individual who does not meet the eligibility criteria for a sentence of death under… |
| 23-7791 |
Ramiro F. Gonzales v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-06-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-punishment-eligibility death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness jury-determination post-conviction-review |
Can a state refuse to recognize challenges to the accuracy of a jury's determination of 'future dangerousness' as cognizable grounds for postconvictio… |
| 23A1147 |
In Re Ramiro Felix Gonzales |
|
2024-06-24 |
Denied |
|
death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness habeas-corpus jury-prediction |
Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit the execution of a prisoner whose demonstrated character and rehabilitation fundamentally challe… |
| 23A1146 |
Ramiro F. Gonzales v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-06-24 |
Denied |
|
capital-murder death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness jury-determination |
Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit executing a capital defendant who may not meet state-law eligibility criteria for the death pena… |
| 23A1143 |
George Cleveland, III, et al. v. South Carolina Department of Social Services |
South Carolina |
2024-06-24 |
Presumed Complete |
|
child-welfare due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-rights procedural-protections termination-of-rights |
Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires meaningful procedural protections for parents facing potential termination of pare… |
| 23-7785 |
Jared Pierce Sanchez v. Brown University, et al. |
First Circuit |
2024-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
academic-exclusion civil-rights covid-19-mandate equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise public-hospitals religious-discrimination |
Whether the First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment rights of the plaintiff were violated due to religious discrimination, harassment, and academic e… |
| 23-7784 |
Cornell Smith v. Nicholas Sanchez |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-power civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment ministerial-acts retaliation |
Retaliation-against-civil-rights-lawsuit |
| 23-7766 |
Charles Edward Luckett v. Robert Neuschmid, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-06-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process evidence exclusionary-rule fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment witness |
Whether the exclusion of evidence related to Luckett's brother's detention inside the crime scene perimeter violated Luckett's Sixth and Fourteenth Am… |
| 23-7740 |
William H. Baker v. Angela Hunsinger-Stuff, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-06-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default sixth-amendment |
Whether the procedural default creates a miscarriage of justice that denies Petitioner his fundamental rights to due-process |
| 23-1319 |
B. B. v. Florida Department of Children and Families, et al. |
Florida |
2024-06-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-interpretation due-process fourteenth-amendment standing statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause |
Whether Florida courts are refusing to consider that their interpretation of Statute § 39.8155 is unconstitutional as applied when it contradicts the … |
| 23-1306 |
Linda Smith, et al. v. David R. Heilman, Trustee of the Ralph A. Siddell Living Trust, et al. |
Michigan |
2024-06-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
beneficiary-rights estates-and-trusts fourteenth-amendment limitations-period notice-requirements statutory-interpretation trust-validity trust-validity-challenges trustee-duties trustee-duty |
Whether the Michigan Courts committed plain legal error construing and applying §700.7604(1)(b) by declining to apply the relevant statutory definitio… |
| 23-7724 |
In Re Shomas T. Winston |
|
2024-06-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
evidentiary-hearing fair-trial fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury juror-misconduct jury-selection sixth-amendment voir-dire |
Whether a petitioner should be denied an evidentiary hearing to question a juror who failed to disclose information |
| 23-1302 |
Kevin Hardaway v. Dwight Hamilton, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-06-13 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-rights eleventh-amendment-immunity monell-claim monell-v-department-of-social-services official-capacity section-1983 use-of-force |
Whether existing Eleventh Circuit precedent of Manders v. Lee, 338 F.3d 1304 (11th Cir. 2003), holding that a Georgia sheriff is an 'arm of the state'… |
| 23-1295 |
Linnzi Zaorski v. Nicholas Usner |
Louisiana |
2024-06-12 |
Denied |
|
child-custody civil-contempt civil-procedure contempt-of-court criminal-contempt criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence purge-clause reasonable-doubt suspended-sentence suspension-of-sentence |
Due-process-clause-violation |
| 23-7702 |
Stevie Whitehorn v. Maverick Tube Corporation, fka Tenaris Hickman |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection fourteenth-amendment pretext-evidence racial-discrimination standard-of-review summary-judgment |
Whether the fabrication of false evidence by the respondent is evidence of pretext to discharge the petitioner |
| 23-7703 |
Walter Taylor, III v. Vermont |
Vermont |
2024-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
defense-theory due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions jury-trial sixth-amendment voluntary-intoxication |
Is a criminal defendant denied his right to a jury trial under the Sixth Amendment and due process under the Fourteenth Amendment when the trial court… |
| 23-7684 |
Andrew W. Bell v. Brad Raffensberger, Georgia Secretary of State, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ballot-access constitutional-rights due-process election-law first-amendment first-amendment-rights fourteenth-amendment independent-candidates rooker-feldman-doctrine signature-verification |
Should-the-Rooker-Feldman-doctrine-apply-to-moot-decisions-by-state-courts |
| 23-7685 |
Edwin K. Davis v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial ramos-v-louisiana sixth-amendment williams-v-florida |
Whether Petitioner was derived of his right, under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged w… |
| 23-7657 |
Leslie Willis v. PNC Financial Services Group Inc., et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-06-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
due-process due-process,14th-amendment,judicial-misconduct,bia equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-disqualification judicial-misconduct lgbtq-rights |
Ongoing violation of Fourteenth Amendment due process rights,judicial-misconduct,bias-and-prejudice,disqualification,perpetuation-of-evidence,trust-do… |
| 23-7665 |
Kenneth Oteng Duodu v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-06-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
article-vi confrontation-clause constitutional-rights consular-notification criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus international-obligations vienna-convention |
Whether the failure of the Fairfax County Police Department to notify the Consulate of Ghana in contravention of the petitioner's established consular… |
| 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… |
| 23A1095 |
Manuel Adams, Jr. v. City of Harahan, Louisiana |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-07 |
Presumed Complete |
|
brady-list civil-service-protections due-process fourteenth-amendment occupational-liberty professional-employment |
Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment protects an individual's liberty interest in pursuing a chosen profession when government a… |
| 23-1274 |
Brian Philip Manookian v. Board of Professional Responsibility of the Supreme Court of Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2024-06-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-discipline disbarment due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech notice retaliation |
Does the disbarment of an attorney for truthful out-of-court statements about other attorneys violate the First Amendment? |
| 23-1266 |
Tonya Parks v. Affiliated Bank, et al. |
Texas |
2024-06-04 |
Denied |
|
campaign-finance constitutional-fairness due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-integrity judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal recusal |
Does the Texas judicial system's approach to recusal, in conjunction with judges' collaborative fundraising and expenditure activities, violate the Fo… |
| 23-1267 |
David W. Murphy, Individually and as Personal Representative for the Estate of Kathleen J. Murphy v. Medical Oncology Associates, P.S., et al. |
Washington |
2024-06-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-selection medical-negligence patient-relationship patient-treatment standing voir-dire |
Whether the plaintiffs Fourteenth Amendment right to due process was violated by seating a juror whose brother had been successfully treated by, and w… |
| 23-7598 |
Arnaud Paris v. Heidi M. Brown |
Oregon |
2024-05-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
custody-dispute due-process equal-protection family-law federal-statutes fourteenth-amendment international-custody international-law national-origin state-statutes uccjea |
Does a state court's decisions and actions violating both Federal Statutes (UCCJEA) and State Statues in a custody dispute, which appears to favor an … |
| 23A1072 |
Anthony Tyrone Brown v. James Corrigan, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-05-31 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process eighth-amendment personal-liberty prisoner-rights |
Whether a state prisoner's civil rights have been violated such that emergency relief or release is warranted based on alleged constitutional deprivat… |
| 23-7588 |
Ruben Mendezsales v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-05-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure felony felony-charges fourteenth-amendment jury-trial overrule sixth-amendment williams-v-florida |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-7591 |
Jamie Mills v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-counsel access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment due-process eighth-amendment execution-procedure prisoner-rights |
Whether Alabama's execution process violates the Eighth Amendment |
| 23A1065 |
Jamie Mills v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-29 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-gurney prolonged-restraint |
Whether prolonged restraint on an execution gurney without access to counsel constitutes a violation of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel an… |
| 23-7570 |
Leonard Blackstock, Jr. v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2024-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-duty physical-harm statutory-interpretation |
Whether a legal authority is required to help the escape from physical harm by Section 1 for 15 U.S. Code s. 1116 to provide equal protection of the F… |
| 23A1052 |
Richard E. Glossip v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2024-05-24 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certiorari criminal-appeals death-penalty eighth-amendment execution supreme-court |
Whether the Eighth Amendment permits the execution of a death row inmate who challenges the constitutionality of the state's method of execution |
| 23-7534 |
Charles Feick v. The Brutsche Family Revocable Trust, et al. |
Washington |
2024-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
ability-to-pay constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment indigent-rights |
Whether the Equal Protection Clause and Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment require the state to demonstrate a rational basis for treating … |
| 23A1044 |
Michael J. Libman, et al. v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. |
California |
2024-05-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
attorney-fees disgorgement eighth-amendment ex-post-facto excessive-fines professional-conduct |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits a state court from disgorging an attorney's fees without finding harm to clients or assessing the attorney's ab… |
| 23-7520 |
Toran Peterson v. Esmaeili Emami, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-05-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-remedies civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment exhaustion juvenile-sentencing mandatory-life-sentence mental-health prison |
Whether Michigan's involuntary mental health treatment hearings comply with the mandatory language of the statute and prison policy directive, and whe… |
| 23-7521 |
Keith Lamar Rodgers v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-05-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-7503 |
Christopher Michael Bullins Croce v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony first-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment stalking-statute |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-7505 |
Daniel Lynn Goering-Runyan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-provisions criminal-justice cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment judicial-review legal-petition parole procedural-document sentencing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Supervised Release Statute/probation for life violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment for misdemeanor … |
| 23A1024 |
Roy Sargeant v. Aracelie Barfield |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-05-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
bivens-remedy constitutional-claim deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment federal-prison inmate-violence |
Whether the Eighth Amendment permits a Bivens damages remedy for deliberate indifference to the risk of inmate-on-inmate violence in federal prisons |
| 23-7488 |
Jose Eliso Zavala v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-05-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment actual-bias constitutional-rights fair-trial fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury juror-bias prejudice sixth-amendment structural-error |
Whether the petitioner was deprived of his constitutional rights to a fair and impartial trial |
| 23-7472 |
Torrie Chermaine Austin v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-7479 |
Ronald Lee Howard v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-05-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-procedure constitutional-rights discretionary-review douglas due-process evitts fourteenth-amendment griffin state-court texas-court-of-criminal-appeals |
Is procedural due process violated regarding the constitutional requirement of a meaningful or effective appeal of right under Evitts, Griffin and Dou… |
| 23-7460 |
William Burton v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-05-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-stipulation fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mccoy-v-louisiana plea-rights sixth-amendment strickland-standard |
Was Petitioner's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel violated? |
| 23-7466 |
Beatrice M. Uwamariya v. Enias Baganizi |
California |
2024-05-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-interpretation due-process extradition federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment judicial-authority standing state-officers supreme-court-orders unauthorized-practice-of-law |
Whether state court judges can defy orders of the U.S. Supreme Court |
| 23-7448 |
Gabriel Paul Hall v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-05-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-murder due-process fair-trial false-testimony fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel |
When a state habeas applicant makes a prima facie case that the state knowingly presented false and material testimony in the punishment phase of his … |
| 23-7427 |
Alton Pelichet v. Fredeane Artis, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability due-process equal-protection fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment |
Whether the petitioner's rights to a fair trial, due process, and equal protection were violated |
| 23A999 |
Thomas E. Creech v. Tim Richardson, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-09 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-punishment constitutional-challenge death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus judge-sentencing |
Whether judge-sentencing in death-penalty trials violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment |
| 23-7417 |
Nersius Adonliel Artisani, aka Roger Joseph Hoffert, Jr. v. Iowa, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-05-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment heat-exposure prison-conditions |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment protects prisoners from being subjected to extreme heat and inadequate cool… |
| 23-7387 |
Justin Luis Sanchez v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition sixth-amendment trial-by-jury |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-7389 |
Brad Evans v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigants |
Whether the State of Florida has created rules of criminal and appellate procedure that arbitrarily and unreasonably encroach upon the personal rights… |
| 23-7391 |
Markeith D. Loyd v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-05-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment individual-responsibility jury-instructions sentencing-phase |
Where the court in a capital case allows the State to argue that the jury should, or must, try its best to reach a unanimous penalty phase verdict, is… |
| 23-7379 |
Michael Hebert v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation constitutional-violations due-process evidence evidence-contamination fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
Whether the lower court erred in denying COA on the claim of prosecutorial misconduct |
| 23-1192 |
Christine Mire v. University Hospital & Clinics, Incorporated, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-conduct civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment estoppel excessive-fines first-amendment free-speech punitive-sanctions subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the lower courts' imposition of punitive sanctions violates Petitioner's rights under the First and/or Eighth Amendments |
| 23-1183 |
California Herbal Remedies, Inc. v. Sara Perez |
California |
2024-05-02 |
Denied |
|
attorney-client-confidentiality cannabis-employees cannabis-employment class-action controlled-substances discovery-sanctions due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-integrity privacy privacy-rights |
Does the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause vindicate third-party privacy rights in State class action proceedings? |
| 23-1186 |
Rodney Thomas Ternovsky v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-05-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
consent due-process evidence-admissibility fair-trial Fourteenth-Amendment irrelevant-evidence jury-prejudice prejudicial-evidence trial-procedure |
Whether the Petitioner's Fourteenth-Amendment-due-process-right-to-a-fair-trial-was-violated |
| 23-7367 |
John E. Garrett v. Richard Clouse |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bail bail-revocation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment judicial-proceedings liberty liberty-interest standing |
Is notice and a hearing required, prior to depriving one of his liberty pending trial and does said liberty qualify as a substantive and/or procedural… |
| 23-7358 |
Eric LaQuinne Brown v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2024-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brown-v-state constitutional-error due-process fourteenth-amendment howell-v-state mississippi post-conviction-relief procedural-rule retroactive-application upccra |
Is it a Due Process violation, to apply a 2023 decision (Howell v. State.) case holding, that abolishment of the exception to Mississippi's procedural… |
| 23-1165 |
Raymond H. Pierson, III v. CSAA Insurance Services, Inc., et al. |
California |
2024-05-01 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process duty-to-settle fourteenth-amendment good-faith-dealing insurance insurance-law public-interest standing third-party-liability tort |
Whether injured third parties can directly sue an insurer for breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, even without obtaining a … |
| 23-1172 |
Kristen Lovell, et al. v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State, et al. |
Georgia |
2024-05-01 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
constitutional-rights critical-infrastructure election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment georgia-constitution ninth-amendment official-immunity official-misconduct sovereign-immunity voting-rights |
Whether the granting of the defense of sovereign or official immunity for employees or officials that are acting outside of the authority of their off… |
| 23-7346 |
Oksana Marinaro v. Zimmer & Lewis, Attorneys & Counselor at Law |
Virginia |
2024-04-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-appointment judicial-appointments judicial-authority judicial-procedure procedural-rights separation-of-powers state-statutes |
Can a retired judge preside over a case without an appointment required by a state statute? |
| 23-7348 |
Oksana Marinaro v. Cheryl Eddy Benn, PC |
Virginia |
2024-04-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
case-mootness civil-procedure court-order due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-appointment procedural-notice retirement standing state-statute |
Can a retired judge preside over a case without an appointment required by a state statute? |
| 23-7328 |
Leslie Hood v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment employment probation-requirements sentencing sentencing-discretion supervision supervision-conditions |
Was the district court's imposition of supervision conditions requiring Mr. Hood to obtain some form of work/employment violated the Eighth Amendment … |
| 23-7329 |
Alrick Brown v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel premeditated-murder self-defense sixth-amendment |
whether-a-state-criminal-appellant-has-constitutional-right-to-fair-trial |
| 23-7314 |
S. C. v. Vermont |
Vermont |
2024-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-welfare clear-and-convincing due-process fourteenth-amendment hearsay hearsay-evidence parental-rights parental-unfitness santosky-standard santosky-v-kramer |
Whether Vermont's law allowing courts to terminate parental rights based on hearsay violates the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 23-7322 |
Gabriel Paul Hall v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-04-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-conduct capital-appointments capital-punishment due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pecuniary-incentive sixth-amendment state-statute |
Whether a state statute that makes an attorney ineligible for future capital appointments if found to be ineffective creates a pecuniary incentive for… |
| 23-7303 |
Demetriaus L. Blaylock v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-04-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-justice cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment emerging-adults juvenile-justice miller-v-alabama sentencing |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment requires the protections granted under Miller v. Alabama to be extende… |
| 23A959 |
Predrag Tosic v. Heather Tosic |
Washington |
2024-04-25 |
Presumed Complete |
|
ada-accommodations disability-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se |
Whether the First and Fourteenth Amendments require courts to provide reasonable accommodations and due process protections for pro se litigants with … |
| 23-1160 |
Derrick Williams v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2024-04-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-evidence first-amendment fourteenth-amendment petition-clause right-to-counsel |
Whether the fundamental right to petition the state courts is restricted by any timeframe for appealing the denial or deprivation of counsel on direct… |
| 23-7302 |
In Re Michael A. Farrell |
|
2024-04-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254d due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment full-and-fair-hearing reasonable-doubt state-court |
Did the U.S. District Court violate petitioners XIV Amendment right to due-process, equal-protection, 28-usc-2254d |
| 23A951 |
Keyvon Sellers v. Jerry Nelson, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Eddie Lee Nelson, Jr., Deceased, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-04-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
deliberate-indifference fourteenth-amendment inmate-safety jail-intake qualified-immunity racial-animus |
Whether a jail intake officer can be held liable under the Fourteenth Amendment for deliberate indifference when aware of potential racial animus that… |
| 23-7283 |
Hector Manuel Gomez Rodriguez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
21-usc-841 constitutional-scrutiny criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences non-capital-sentences proportionality-review sentencing |
Whether the Ninth Circuit contravened Harmelin's plurality and Ewing by exempting all sentences imposed under 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(A)(vii) from Eight… |
| 23-7260 |
Mark R. Zana v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2024-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ninth-circuit post-conviction retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Whether Petitioner's conviction and continued incarceration under Nevada Revised Statute 207.010 violates the due process clause of the Federal Consti… |
| 23-7261 |
Geary Wayne Walton v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment execution mental-illness rational-understanding |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a prisoner who has a severe mental illness that … |
| 23-7265 |
Nicholas Stewart Hines v. South Dakota |
South Dakota |
2024-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-considerations sixth-amendment |
Whether acquitted conduct or dismissed conduct pursuant to a plea can be argued and considered at sentencing |
| 23-7266 |
Nathaniel O. Robinson v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2024-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure direct-review fourteenth-amendment griffin-v-kentucky jury-unanimity ramos-v-louisiana sixth-amendment state-proceedings |
Whether a conviction can be obtained, in light of Ramos v. Louisiana holding that the Sixth Amendment requires a unanimous jury to convict, when the r… |
| 23-7272 |
Matthew Michael Albritton v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-7276 |
Robert Dwayne Smith v. Amy Robey, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment sixth-circuit |
Did the court of appeals erroneously deny petitioner's habeas corpus petition due to procedural default without reviewing the record and basing its de… |
| 23-7256 |
John Pedelahore v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process eighth-amendment federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness supervised-release |
Whether the district court erred by ordering Mr. Pedelahore to serve 30 months in prison for nonviolent supervised release violations when the recomme… |
| 23-1131 |
Marcus Traylor v. Gideon Yorka |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-fabrication fabrication-of-evidence felony fourteenth-amendment misdemeanor qualified-immunity |
Whether fabrication of evidence for misdemeanor charges violates due process |
| 23-7241 |
Michael Allen v. Fidencio N. Guzman, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment aider-and-abettor constitutional-law criminal-law due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
Does California Penal Code Section 117.95(a)(1)-(3) statute violate the United States Constitution 14th Amendment Equal Protection of the Law by not i… |
| 23-7244 |
Clarence F. Stephenson v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-04-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial life-felony sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a twelve-person jury when the defendant is charged with a life felony? |
| 23-7245 |
Dustin Jay Harpel v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-04-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-7246 |
Harold Stewart v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-04-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-charge fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-7248 |
Hector Negron-Espada v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-04-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-charges fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23A928 |
John C. Baer v. Larry Trent Roberts, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-04-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
absolute-immunity civil-rights fourteenth-amendment investigative-function prosecutorial-immunity witness-interview |
Whether a prosecutor's pre-trial witness interview and identification constitutes an investigative function precluding absolute prosecutorial immunity… |
| 23A933 |
Kurt Benshoof v. Freya Brier, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights-act due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment mask-mandate |
Whether the First, Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments protect an individual from retaliatory, discriminatory prosecution for refusing to wear a… |
| 23-7239 |
Bertrand Laidler, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-charges fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-by-jury |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23A920 |
Gatewood A. Walden v. The Disciplinary Board of the Alabama State Bar |
Alabama |
2024-04-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
binding-precedent due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-review precedent |
Whether a state appellate court violates a litigant's due process and equal protection rights under the Fourteenth Amendment when it refuses to follow… |
| 23-7218 |
Leslie Shannon v. Cherry Creek School District, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights discrimination due-process employment-discrimination employment-law equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment retaliation summary-judgment |
Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated |
| 23-7197 |
Michael David Logering, et al. v. Morrison County Sheriff's Office, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-04-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-rules fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-error standing |
Did the United States Appeals Court for the Eighth Circuit violate the Plaintiffs' Constitutional Rights to Due Process and Equal Protection under the… |
| 23A910 |
Chen Chen Hsu v. Superior Court of California, Alameda County, et al. |
California |
2024-04-11 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certiorari due-process fourteenth-amendment mental-illness pro-se supreme-court-rules |
Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari for a pro se litigan… |
| 23-1108 |
Daril Foose, et al. v. Sherelle Thomas, Administrator of the Estate of Terelle Thomas, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-04-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
civil-rights constitutional-violation custody drug-toxicity due-process fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement law-enforcement-custody medical-care qualified-immunity |
Whether the police officers' decision to transport a detainee who they suspected had ingested drugs to a nearby prison where he was evaluated by the p… |
| 23-7171 |
Darryl Puderer v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2024-04-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jurisdictional-claims out-of-time-appeal pleadings standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted |
| 23-7186 |
Anthony Roland v. Department of Justice |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourteenth-amendment in-camera-review judicial-system legal-proceeding meet-and-confer preliminary-injunction summary-judgment |
Whether permitted by Due Process shall a ruling and proceeding take place without a 'Meet and Confer'? |
| 23-1097 |
J. D. Hartman, Individually and in his Official Capacity as Sheriff of Davie County, North Carolina, et al. v. Charles Willis Short, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Victoria Christine Short |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-04-09 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
8th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment objective-knowledge pretrial-detainee pretrial-detention prison-officials |
Whether a pretrial detainee alleging deliberate-indifference must prove the defendant actually-knew of a significant-risk-of-harm or instead must prov… |
| 23-7162 |
James Hodge v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-7164 |
Jason Bryan Cass v. California |
California |
2024-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection federal-courts jurisdiction standing violent-circumstances |
Was the petitioner's constitutional rights violated? |
| 23A891 |
Vicki Baker v. City of McKinney, Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights equal-protection fourteenth-amendment municipal-liability police-conduct |
Whether a municipality can be held liable under the Fourteenth Amendment for a police officer's alleged violation of a citizen's constitutional rights… |
| 23A890 |
Brian J. Dorsey v. David Vandergriff, Warden |
Missouri |
2024-04-07 |
Denied |
|
capital-punishment certiorari-standard death-penalty eighth-amendment penological-goals rehabilitation |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a death-sentenced individual who has demonstrated full rehabilitation and for whom the penolog… |
| 23-7153 |
Brian J. Dorsey v. David Vandergriff, Warden |
Missouri |
2024-04-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-row deterrence eighth-amendment penological-goals rehabilitation retribution |
When a death-sentenced person has demonstrated that he has been rehabilitated, does the Eighth Amendment prohibit his execution because the penologica… |
| 23A889 |
Walter Taylor, III v. Vermont |
Vermont |
2024-04-05 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-rights criminal-defense fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury jury-instruction sixth-amendment |
Whether a criminal defendant is entitled to a jury instruction on a valid defense theory when there is sufficient evidence to support such an instruct… |
| 23A882 |
Daniel Kinsinger v. Sherelle Thomas, as Administrator of the Estate of Terelle Thomas, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-04-04 |
Presumed Complete |
|
deliberate-indifference drug-toxicity fourteenth-amendment medical-care qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Whether a law enforcement officer's decision to transport a potentially drug-intoxicated arrestee to a jail medical facility instead of a hospital con… |
| 23-7124 |
Naftali Dominguez Zenon v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial life-felony life-without-parole sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a twelve-person jury when the defendant is charged with a life felony? |
| 23A873 |
Jose Luis Garcia v. Kyeong Park |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-needs prison-conditions section-1983 summary-judgment |
Whether a prison official's medical treatment of an inmate's foot condition constitutes deliberate indifference to serious medical needs under the Eig… |
| 23-7091 |
Brandon De McCall v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-03-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment capital-punishment culpability due-process eighth-amendment jury-instruction jury-instructions mitigating-evidence moral-blameworthiness |
Whether the 'moral blameworthiness' jury instruction prevented the consideration of constitutionally relevant mitigating evidence |
| 23-7093 |
Jeremy J. Quinn, Jr. v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2024-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment sentencing sentencing-statute state-courts |
Whether a state court's imposition of a criminal sentence that violates the defendant's due process rights and constitutes cruel and unusual punishmen… |
| 23-7099 |
Keatron Walls v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law due-process eighth-amendment mental-health sentencing sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent variance-argument |
Whether the Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that 18 U.S.C. § 2261A(1) is not an unconstitutional expansion of the Commerce Clause in light o… |
| 23-7084 |
Gregory S. Kudla v. Kenneth Black, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure arbitrary-enforcement constitutional-vagueness discriminatory-enforcement due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment vagueness |
Is the undefined, non-specific, ambiguous language used in Ohio's App-R.26(B)(2)(c) that results in arbitrary, inconsistent, and discriminatory enforc… |
| 23-7080 |
Curtis Dwayne Vaughn v. Sean M. Flannery, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment rehabilitation-act rule-15d standing standing-defects supplemental-pleading |
Whether the court agrees to resolve the circuit split on Rule 15(d) supplemental pleading to cure standing defects and provide reasonable accommodatio… |
| 23-7057 |
Sammy Tinnin v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2024-03-22 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment |
Whether the admission of evidence that is not supported by the record deprives a defendant of their Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment right to a fair tri… |
| 23-7059 |
Alissa Peterson v. Jackson County Department of Health and Human Services, et al. |
Michigan |
2024-03-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process edwards-v-arizona fair-trial fourteenth-amendment gideon-v-wainwright res-judicata screws-v-united-states sixth-amendment |
Where CPS investigators and Judge Diane Rappleye violate the rules announced in Doe v. Doe, where Prosecution and Appointed legal counsel of Ms Peters… |
| 23-7061 |
Cody Dillon Hogan v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment child-pornography civil-rights criminal-law due-process eighth-amendment mandatory-minimum restitution statutory-interpretation |
Proximate causation, due process, conflicting interpretation, statutory interpretation, substantive due process |
| 23-7062 |
Clark D. Thomas v. McKendley Newton, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability discovery-and-counsel-denial double-jeopardy due-process equitable-tolling fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in denying a certificate of appealability |
| 23-1049 |
John-Henry Ayanbadejo v. Chanel Goosby, et al. |
Texas |
2024-03-22 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings seventh-amendment supreme-court-procedure |
Whether the Lower Appellate Court departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, and/or sanctioned such a departure by the Texas… |
| 23-7050 |
David Phillip Ryan v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment standing |
Whether the jury guaranteed by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments is a 12-person jury? |
| 23-7051 |
Loren J. Larson, Jr. v. Joe Schmidt, Commissioner, Alaska Department of Corrections, et al. |
Alaska |
2024-03-21 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias sixth-amendment state-court-of-appeals structural-error systemic-bias |
Does a systemic appearance of bias from a State court of appeals create structural error to a defendant's Sixth Amendment guarantee to a fair trial? |
| 23-7042 |
Willie James Pye v. Shawn Emmons, Warden |
Georgia |
2024-03-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia burden-of-proof capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability |
Can the State under Atkins v. Virginia execute a person who is intellectually disabled by all clinical standards? |
| 23A856 |
Willie James Pye v. Shawn Emmons, Warden |
Georgia |
2024-03-20 |
Denied |
|
adaptive-deficits death-penalty eighth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-testing woodard-precedent |
Whether the Eighth Amendment categorically bars the execution of an intellectually disabled defendant whose IQ scores and adaptive deficits demonstrat… |
| 23-7024 |
Thomas Bevel v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-03-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors arbitrary-sentencing capital-sentencing death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment proportionality-review reasonable-doubt |
Whether Florida's capital sentencing scheme violates the Eighth Amendment |
| 23-7028 |
Hunter Thomas Boesch v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brain-development cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment emerging-adults late-adolescent-brain-development mandatory-life-without-parole miller-v-alabama sentencing-protections youth |
Whether the sentencing protections afforded in Miller v Alabama should be applied to defendants who are emerging adults 18 to 20 years old |
| 23-7029 |
Byron James Shepard v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2024-03-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstance aggravating-factors capital-punishment capital-sentencing criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-discretion |
Does Oklahoma's continuing threat aggravating circumstance violate this Court's capital sentencing jurisprudence and the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendme… |
| 23-7030 |
Logan Dyjak v. Joseph Harper, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-03-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection forced-medication fourteenth-amendment judicial-review mental-health petition-denial vitek-v-jones writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the conditions of hospitalization, including forced medication, violate the petitioner's constitutional rights under the Fourteenth Amendment … |
| 23-7033 |
Donte Taylor v. California |
California |
2024-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus sentencing |
Why was my 8th amendment denied? |
| 23-6980 |
Matthew Murphy v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bias constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea prosecutorial-bias recusal sixth-amendment structural-error |
whether-this-court-should-grant-this-petition |
| 23-6988 |
Anthony Shief v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-03-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mitigating-factors sentencing sentencing-procedure |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment requires Miller protections for juvenile offenders who receive de facto lif… |
| 23A829 |
Joseph Daryll Rued, et al. v. Charlene W. Hatcher, Judge, Hennepin County, Minnesota, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-03-13 |
Presumed Complete |
|
child-welfare constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review liberty-interest |
Whether due process protections are violated when state child welfare investigations rely on admittedly falsified conclusions to deprive parents of fu… |
| 23-6963 |
James Deon Bryant, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-charges fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-6968 |
Raymond Vincent v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-charges fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-986 |
Joseph Daryll Rued, et al. v. Charlene W. Hatcher, Judge, Hennepin County, Minnesota, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
access-to-venue association child-welfare children's-welfare civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment natural-parents rooker-feldman unlawful-confinement |
Did the Eighth Circuit err in affirming the District Court's Order and denying Petitioners' petition for rehearing en banc? |
| 23-6956 |
David Wilbanks v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-order-doctrine confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing due-process final-judgment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review jurisdiction sixth-amendment statutory-construction |
Did the Court of Appeals have jurisdiction over the collateral order doctrine when the district judge failed to issue a COA for the final judgment und… |
| 23-6960 |
Tasha Mercedez Shelby v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2024-03-11 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment cause-of-death death-certificate due-process fourteenth-amendment homicide-conviction medical-examiner recantation resentencing shaken-baby-syndrome |
Does the Due Process Clause require resentencing when the principal evidence supporting a conviction is later recanted? |
| 23-989 |
Robert J. Murphy v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2024-03-11 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process ex-parte-communications first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-code sixth-amendment workers-compensation |
Where petitioner sought removal of unelected administrative Workers' Compensation judges involving their actual or apparent improprieties involving ad… |
| 23-6931 |
Darrell Tillery v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Louisiana |
2024-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-rape constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial non-unanimous-jury sexual-battery sixth-amendment |
Whether non-unanimous jury verdicts violate the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 23-6937 |
Mahmoud Almuhtaseb v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-983 |
Nicholas Harding v. Google LLC |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-03-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure article-iii civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction equal-protection federalism fourteenth-amendment standing state-citizenship |
Does the 'state wherein they reside' provision of the Fourteenth Amendment define state citizenship for purposes of Article III diversity jurisdiction… |
| 23A828 |
Benedict C. Ogbodiegwu v. Bryan Daniel, et al. |
Texas |
2024-03-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-hearing due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fraud-on-court judicial-review |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's due process and equal protection clauses require judicial review when state administrative proceedings involve alle… |
| 23A823 |
Paul Siladi v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company |
Connecticut |
2024-03-07 |
Presumed Complete |
|
due-process fifth-amendment foreclosure fourteenth-amendment standing summary-judgment |
Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments require a state court to conduct an evidentiary hearing and allow discovery before granting summary judgme… |
| 23-6918 |
A. S., a Minor v. Palmdale School District |
California |
2024-03-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equitable-estoppel fourteenth-amendment government-entity intentional-deception standing |
Whether the State Appellate Court erred in denying the assertion of equitable-estoppel by the petitioner, against a government-entity, which, intentio… |
| 23-6925 |
Sadat El-Amin v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2024-03-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection forcible-rape fourteenth-amendment jury-trial non-unanimous-jury sixth-amendment |
Whether non-unanimous jury verdicts for felony convictions violate the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 23A822 |
Dennis O'Connor v. Rachel Eubanks, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-03-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment just-compensation pre-deprivation-process property-rights unclaimed-property |
Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments require state governments to compensate property owners for interest earned on unclaimed funds held by the… |
| 23-6891 |
Joshua Terrel Brown v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-trial felony fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-size sixth-amendment trial-by-jury williams-v-florida |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a twelve-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-6901 |
Joshua Lane Tansil v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23A815 |
Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, et al. v. Steven McCraw, Director, Texas Department of Public Safety, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-04 |
Presumed Complete |
|
detention due-process expedited-removal fourteenth-amendment immigration judicial-review |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires individualized hearings for detained immigrants facing expedited removal without meanin… |
| 23-6879 |
Christopher Sean Burrus v. Washington |
Washington |
2024-03-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment drug-offense due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-requirements ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum mental-health sentencing-law |
Questions Presented |
| 23-6838 |
Danny Lee Warner, Jr. v. Montana |
Montana |
2024-02-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-client-privilege due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment presumption-of-prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment warrantless-search |
Are unsworn assertions sufficient to overcome clear and convincing evidence of illegal search and seizure? |
| 23A798 |
John Seely v. James Seely, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-02-29 |
Presumed Complete |
|
due-process extrinsic-fraud federal-lawsuit fourteenth-amendment rooker-feldman state-court-judgment |
Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine permits a federal lawsuit seeking damages for alleged extrinsic fraud that resulted in an adverse state court judg… |
| 23-6843 |
Joseph A. Crenshaw v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process expert-witness fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance post-conviction sixth-amendment trial-procedure |
Does a trial court's 'tender and accept' procedure of an expert witness in front of a jury violative of a Defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a fair … |
| 23-940 |
Kenneth James Rosellini v. New Jersey Office of Attorney Ethics |
New Jersey |
2024-02-28 |
Denied |
|
attorney-ethics due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud fraud-upon-court professional-misconduct res-judicata |
Can an attorney be suspended from the practice of law for failure to obey tribunal rules when asserting the orders are unconstitutional? |
| 23-931 |
J. W., et al. v. Elvin Paley |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-27 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment school-official school-seizure seizure student-rights |
Whether a claim that a school official has used excessive force against a student that meets the definition of a Fourth Amendment seizure should be ev… |
| 23-6824 |
Jeremiah James Lynch v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment parole proportionality sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the application of a 'grade A' violation for a local crime, which resulted in the peti… |
| 23-6830 |
Thomas E. Creech v. Josh Tewalt, Director, Idaho Department of Correction, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment execution-secrecy lethal-injection |
Whether it comports with due process for a state to refuse to provide a condemned inmate information about his method of execution that would enable h… |
| 23-6810 |
Larry D. Mosley v. Phillip A. White, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-02-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
Abuse-of-Discretion Equal-Protection Fourteenth-Amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance Police-Misconduct Prosecutorial-Misconduct Sixth-Amendment trial-court-discretion |
Ineffective-Assistance-of-Counsel |
| 23-6814 |
Martin Akerman v. Court of Appeals of Virginia, et al. |
Virginia |
2024-02-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-records due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-mismanagement procedural-violations spoliation |
Did the Arlington Circuit Court's handling of spoliation allegations and procedural violations, including denial of access to court records, violate t… |
| 23-6815 |
Martin Akerman v. Virginia State Corporation Commission, et al. |
Virginia |
2024-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-implications constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment fraud jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge state-corporation-commission |
Does the Supreme Court of Virginia's refusal to review the State Corporation Commission's (SCC) alleged introduction of fraudulent evidence and its pr… |
| 23-6818 |
Romeo Kevante Pride v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by denying Mr. Pride's argument that the District Court committed reversible error by imposing a 110… |
| 23A772 |
Jorge Galindo v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2024-02-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-sentencing death-penalty eddings-standard eighth-amendment mitigating-circumstances youthful-offender |
Whether a trial court's refusal to consider a defendant's youthful age as a mitigating circumstance in a capital sentencing proceeding violates the Ei… |
| 23A771 |
Boston Parent Coalition for Academic Excellence Corp. v. The School Committee for the City of Boston, et al. |
First Circuit |
2024-02-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights equal-protection fourteenth-amendment race-discrimination school-admissions section-1983 |
Whether race-conscious admissions policies in K-12 public schools violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 23-906 |
April D. Gallop v. Cameron Bay Homeowner's Association |
Virginia |
2024-02-22 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment due-process fourteenth-amendment fraud judicial-consistency judicial-integrity procedural-fairness subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment |
Can a state court constitutionally deny a Motion to Set Aside/Vacate a judgment acquired through fraud and a court lacking subject matter jurisdiction… |
| 23-6791 |
Thomas Eugene Creech v. Idaho |
Idaho |
2024-02-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment evolving-standards judicial-sentencing post-conviction state-court |
Whether it comports with due process for a state court to reject as untimely an evolving-standards claim on a theory that would never allow for such a… |
| 23A761 |
Thomas Eugene Creech v. Idaho |
Idaho |
2024-02-21 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-proportionality cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment execution mental-illness |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of an individual with a demonstrated history of severe mental illness under the Eighth Amendment'… |
| 23-6783 |
Kevin F. Jackson v. Applied Materials Corporation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-reporter due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jameson-vs-desta mandatory-arbitration pro-se-plaintiff |
Is a United States citizen considered to have received due process of law in a court ordered mandatory arbitration hearing if the Pro Se plaintiff is … |
| 23-6775 |
Jesse Dean Redfearn v. William "Chris" Rankins, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-02-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment |
Did the United States District Court and Court of Appeals properly apply clearly established constitutional law, [Hemphill v. New York, 142 S.Ct. 681,… |
| 23-6747 |
Michael L. Miller v. Jeffery Norman |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-02-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-review legal-procedure reproductive-rights scotus statutory-interpretation |
Does the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization violate the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause … |
| 23-6767 |
Michael Samuel Hudson, Jr. v. Melissa Andrewjeski, Superintendent, Coyote Ridge Corrections Center |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bill-of-rights citizenship due-process fourteenth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-clause hurtado-v-california incorporation-doctrine privileges-and-immunities privileges-immunities |
Does the Fourteenth Amendment protect rights against state intrusion? |
| 23-6732 |
Seth Conner Wells v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-02-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-challenge cost-of-incarceration due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fine fourteenth-amendment incarceration-cost statutory-interpretation timbs-v-indiana united-states-v-bajakajian |
Whether the imposition of a $401,500 cost of incarceration is an unconstitutionally excessive fine |
| 23-6723 |
Brandon Keith Owensby v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-02-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-865 |
Dale Wendall Laue v. State Bar of California |
California |
2024-02-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights diversity-equity-inclusion due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest licensing moral-character standing state-bar-admission |
Whether admission to a State Bar constitutes a liberty interest |
| 23-857 |
Owolabi M. Salis v. Attorney Grievance Committee for the First Judicial Department |
New York |
2024-02-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct judicial-procedure new-york-court-of-appeals referee referee-report |
Whether the New York Court of Appeals can adopt a Referee report that was clearly based on violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amend… |
| 23A740 |
Elbert Walker, Jr. v. Dismas Charities, Inc., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
bivens-remedy constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment first-amendment home-confinement |
Whether a private contractor overseeing a federal prisoner's home confinement can be held liable under Bivens for alleged constitutional violations du… |
| 23-6695 |
Douglas W. Curtis v. Brian Eller, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa appellate-review due-process fourteenth-amendment novel-state-procedural-default plea-offer procedural-default standard-of-review state-procedural-default |
Whether Petitioner was denied his Fourteenth Amendment right to the Due Process of Law |
| 23-844 |
Phillip Truesdell, et al. v. Eric Friedlander, in His Official Capacity as Secretary of the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-02-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment occupation occupation-rights privileges-or-immunities slaughter-house-cases |
Whether the right to enter a common and lawful occupation is a privilege or immunity protected by the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 23-6655 |
Ralph Hall v. Anthony J. Annucci, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-action constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment federal-law habeas-corpus intellectual-disability judicial-review legal-procedure |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a prisoner who has been found to be intellectual… |
| 23A719 |
Dennis Ray Davis, Jr. v. Caddo Department of Public Works, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-05 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights constitutional-violation demolition due-process fourteenth-amendment property-rights |
Whether a state official's actions in demolishing a business property constitute a violation of the property owner's due process rights under the Four… |
| 23-830 |
Lonnie Allen Bassett v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2024-02-02 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) |
criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana sentencing-discretion |
Whether the Eighth Amendment permits a juvenile to be sentenced to life without parole under a system that did not afford the sentencing court discret… |
| 23-6646 |
Dana Albrecht v. Katherine Albrecht |
New Hampshire |
2024-02-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-custody civil-procedure civil-rights domestic-violence due-process equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment parental-rights |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment requires a timely hearing on the enforcement of a child custody decree |
| 23-6627 |
In Re Reginald Bernard Hatton |
|
2024-01-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sentencing time-served unconstitutional |
Whether the petitioner has been deprived of his constitutional rights under the 8th and 14th Amendment |
| 23-6611 |
Morice Ervin v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2024-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process expert-testimony expert-witness-testimony fair-trial favorable-evidence fourteenth-amendment lack-of-evidence post-autopsy prejudicial-questioning |
whether-petitioner's-due-process-rights-were-violated |
| 23-6622 |
Miguel Jaimes-Luviano v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-01-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial felony fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-size jury-trial sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a twelve-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-6590 |
Johnny Eugene Holton v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2024-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction mandatory-minimum res-judicata sentencing statutory-interpretation void-sentence |
Did the Georgia Court of Appeals err in vacating the petitioner's void sentence and barring him by res judicata from attacking the void sentence in an… |
| 23-6610 |
Wendell C. Helfrick v. Russell L. Rabb, III, Deputy Commonwealth's Attorney of Culpeper County |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-01-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
cases-and-controversies civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process forensic-evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus prisoner-rights standing state-court-review |
Does the state's deprivation of an individual's right to due process violate the established guarantees protected by the Fourteenth Amendment? |
| 23-817 |
Michael Donatelli, et al. v. Town of Old Orchard Beach, Maine, et al. |
Maine |
2024-01-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment motion-for-reconsideration motion-for-sanctions spoliation-of-evidence summary-judgment |
Did the court err in passing on properly disposing of the plaintiffs' filing of a motion for sanctions due to spoliation of evidence mis-styled as a m… |
| 23-6597 |
Abraham Fagot Mejia v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-01-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-6562 |
Kenneth Eugene Smith v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-01-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection execution-protocol nitrogen-hypoxia preliminary-injunction ptsd-trauma standing |
Did the Eleventh Circuit deviate from established precedent when it affirmed the denial of a motion for a preliminary injunction on the ground that hi… |
| 23A688 |
Kenneth Eugene Smith v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-01-25 |
Denied |
|
cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment equal-protection execution-method fourteenth-amendment nitrogen-hypoxia |
Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit a state from executing an inmate using an untested nitrogen hypoxia method that poses a substant… |
| 23-6558 |
Freddie Quinn v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-01-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-6540 |
Jennifer Agnes Lopez v. California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-immunity state-actors statute-of-limitations |
Whether the State actors can deprive the individual of a fair treatment which violates the guarantees of the Fifth Fourteenth Amendment |
| 23-6549 |
Delon Scott v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment motion-to-withdraw penson-v-ohio right-to-counsel standing |
Whether the petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated when the United States Court of Appeals granted counsel's motion for leave to withd… |
| 23-781 |
Sammie Todd Moser v. Halifax County Board of Supervisors, et al. |
Virginia |
2024-01-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeals-limitation due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fifth-amendment forfeiture retirement-benefits |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's Excessive Fines clause was violated in the forfeiture of Petitioner's vested retirement benefits |
| 23-789 |
Larisa Dirkzwager v. Archer-Daniels-Midland Company |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal civil-procedure constitutional-review deadline due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-error jurisdiction procedural-deadline standing |
Whether the Judge's error in miscalculation of the Plaintiff's Response deadline negates his dispositive Order and thereby logically and legally rende… |
| 23-6527 |
Jermaine Anderson, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-01-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition sixth-amendment trial-by-jury |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23A674 |
Tasha Mercedez Shelby v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2024-01-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-expert-testimony newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief shaken-baby-syndrome |
Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires a state court to consider newly discovered evidence of medical misdiagnosis that p… |
| 23A664 |
Kenneth Eugene Smith v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2024-01-19 |
Denied |
|
cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-attempt iv-access lethal-injection |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits a state from executing a condemned prisoner after multiple failed execution attempts involving repeated difficu… |
| 23-6517 |
Kenneth Eugene Smith v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2024-01-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment lethal-injection method-of-execution nitrogen-hypoxia posttraumatic-stress-disorder |
Does a second attempt to execute a condemned person following a single, cruelly willful attempt to execute that same person violate the prohibition ag… |
| 23-6512 |
Douglas Wayne Sokell v. David Pedro, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-review life-sentence prisoner-detention recidivism sentencing three-strikes-law |
Was it constitutional to be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole or release, using recidivism (3 strikes) as a main fact, whe… |
| 23-784 |
Kenneth James Rosellini v. New Jersey Office of Attorney Ethics |
New Jersey |
2024-01-18 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech legal-ethics res-judicata |
Can an attorney be sanctioned for failure to obey tribunal rules when asserting unconstitutionality under the First and Fourteenth Amendments? |
| 23-775 |
Erica Davis, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Andrew Dale Davis, Deceased, and Minor Children, JC, Minor Child, SD, Minor Child, et al. v. Cranfield Aerospace Solutions, Limited |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure continuing-relationship contract-relationship due-process forum-selection fourteenth-amendment in-forum-company personal-jurisdiction product-development purposeful-availment |
Whether an out-of-forum defendant purposefully avails itself of the forum for personal-jurisdiction |
| 23A654 |
Isaiah Glenndell Tryon v. Christe Quick, Acting Warden, Oklahoma State Penitentiary |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-01-16 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-case constitutional-error death-penalty eighth-amendment fair-trial sentencing-review |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the imposition of a death sentence that may involve constitutional error warranting further judicial review |
| 23-746 |
Dmitry Nikolenko v. Luiza Nikolenko |
Texas |
2024-01-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment immigration international-comity personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the Texas court violated the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause and international comity |
| 23A627 |
Byron James Shepard v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2024-01-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
continuing-threat death-penalty eighth-amendment fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sentencing-hearing |
Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments permit the imposition of a death sentence based on vague and overly broad continuing threat testimony tha… |
| 23A614 |
Azariah M. Ellington, et al. v. Mary Thornton House, Judge, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appeal-of-right certiorari due-process en-banc fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's due process protections are violated when a federal appellate court improperly denies a litigant's appeal of right … |
| 23A618 |
Azariah M. Ellington v. Department of Veterans Affairs |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appeal-of-right certiorari due-process en-banc fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's due process protections are violated when a federal appellate court improperly denies a litigant's appeal of right … |
| 23A602 |
Jeanna Norris, et al. v. Samuel L. Stanley, Jr., in His Official Capacity as President of Michigan State University, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-01-02 |
Presumed Complete |
|
bodily-autonomy covid-vaccine-mandate due-process fourteenth-amendment jacobson-precedent rational-basis-review |
Whether the Supreme Court's precedent in Jacobson v. Massachusetts remains valid for evaluating vaccine mandates in light of subsequent due process ju… |
| 23A599 |
William Phillip Neidinger v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-02 |
Presumed Complete |
|
cruel-and-unusual due-process eighth-amendment federal-sentencing identity-preservation judicial-discretion |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits imposing a federal prison sentence that effectively destroys a defendant's identity and constitutes cruel and u… |
| 23A603 |
Angela Germaine Spencer, By and Through Next Friend and Mother of A.S., a Minor v. The County of Harrison, Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-02 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment individualized-assessment juvenile-shackling |
Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments require an individualized assessment of need before shackling a juvenile defendant during pre-trial or non… |
| 23-6379 |
Terrence LaFaive v. Records Custodian, Waukesha County District Attorney |
Wisconsin |
2023-12-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-work-product civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment plea-negotiations public-records standing |
Does the Common-Law exception recognized in State ex rel. Richards v. Foust abridge the First and Fourteenth Amendment rights of a litigant? |
| 23-6383 |
Guillermo Octavio Arbelaez v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
2023-12-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-v-virginia constitutional-law death-penalty eighth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability medical-standards retroactivity teague-rule teague-v-lane |
Whether Hall's holding that the 3-pronged test for assessing intellectual disability must be informed by prevailing medical practice and standards ann… |
| 23-6393 |
Jeremy Jermaine Brooks v. James M. LeBlanc, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-proportionality due-process eighth-amendment fair-notice juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-montgomery-rule mootness-doctrine proportionate-sentencing |
Whether Louisiana murder statutes satisfy the holdings announced in Miller/Montgomery |
| 23-696 |
Colorado Republican State Central Committee v. Norma Anderson, et al. |
Colorado |
2023-12-28 |
Dismissed |
Amici (3)Response Waived |
14th-amendment disqualification-clause due-process election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment insurrection political-parties presidential-eligibility section-3 state-authority |
Whether the President falls within the list of officials subject to the disqualification provision of Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment? |
| 23-688 |
Travis Scott King, By and Through His Guardian ad Litem, Breanna Raymundo, et al. v. DeMichael Dews, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bodily-harm civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment excessive-force hudson-v-mcmillian prisoner-rights qualified-immunity |
Can the doctrine of qualified immunity ever apply when force is used maliciously and sadistically for the very purpose of causing harm in violation of… |
| 23-692 |
Zachariah Minix v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2023-12-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment parole-eligibility plea-agreement plea-withdrawal |
Were the Petitioner's federal due-process rights violated when the Adair County Circuit Court denied the Petitioner's request to withdraw his plea of … |
| 23-695 |
Samantha Taczak, et al. v. Nicolette Cremeans, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-12-27 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment qualified-immunity section-1983 state-court state-court-precedent u.s-constitution |
What sources of law constitute 'controlling authority' for the purposes of clearly establishing a right when analyzing Section 1983 qualified immunity… |
| 23-6363 |
Matthew Reid Hinson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
competent-counsel due-process equal-protection fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Does an attorney's failure to investigate, interview witnesses, and discuss defenses before advising a guilty plea violate the Sixth Amendment's right… |
| 23-6349 |
Derrick Martin King v. Budget Car Mart, LLC |
Ohio |
2023-12-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights covid-19 due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pandemic remote-depositions |
Whether the Supreme Court of Ohio's administrative orders necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic regarding the use of remote depositions violates a civ… |
| 23-6322 |
Ohio, ex rel. Ricardo Dodson v. Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, et al. |
Ohio |
2023-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
dna-testing due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment parole parole-hearing paternity paternity-determination rape |
Whether petitioner was denied his Fourteenth Amendment due process right to a fair parole hearing |
| 23A574 |
Wayne Resper v. Yescare Corp., fka Corizon Health, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-care prisoner-rights pro-se |
Whether a pro se prisoner's civil rights complaint alleging inadequate medical care by prison healthcare providers states a cognizable claim under the… |
| 23A572 |
Darrell Wayne Frederick v. Christe Quick, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-12-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-case constitutional-error death-penalty eighth-amendment fair-sentencing habeas-corpus |
Whether the Eighth Amendment permits the imposition of a death sentence in a manner that potentially violates fundamental principles of fair and relia… |
| 23-6301 |
Delbert Leroy Oldham v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2023-12-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-error cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines res-judicata sentencing |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred by applying the doctrine of res-judicata,whether the District Court exceeded its authority,whether the trial court … |
| 23-6302 |
Robert Lee Crawford v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 2nd-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-claim due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus legal-procedure preliminary-review prisoner-rights |
Is the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment violated when a prisoner's 28 USC §2255 habeas corpus raising Second and Sixth Amendment claims … |
| 23-6304 |
Onterrious V. Tillman v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-12-19 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-6281 |
Laquince T. Hogan v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Arkansas |
2023-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus oral-amendment sixth-amendment uncharged-offense |
Whether the Arkansas Supreme Court denied Mr. Hogan due process of law under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 23-6289 |
Wisben Sanon v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-12-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition sixth-amendment trial-by-jury |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-6249 |
Flenoid Greer v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2023-12-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-review due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest post-conviction post-conviction-relief sentencing-guidelines successive-motion |
Can a State's collateral review procedures deny a person from having an invalid sentence vacated, without violating the right to petition |
| 23-6254 |
William Graves, III v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
access-to-courts appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigants |
Whether the state of Florida has created rules of criminal and appellate procedure that arbitrarily and unreasonably encroaches upon the personal righ… |
| 23-6255 |
David Alexander Hunter v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa direct-appeal direct-review due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan suspension-clause |
Is the AEDPA's one-year limitation period for state prisoners to raise claims of ineffective assistance of counsel triggered by conclusion of 'direct … |
| 23-639 |
Thomas Dale Ferguson v. John Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-13 |
Denied |
|
adaptive-functioning capital-punishment circuit-split eighth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-test iq-testing moore-v-texas |
Whether a court may disregard a valid IQ test with a range under 70 simply because not all tests show such a range, or must proceed to evaluate adapti… |
| 23-6229 |
Arnold A. Cary v. Dean Williams, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-12-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-materials medical-care prisoner-rights toxic-exposure toxic-water |
Did CDOC violate Cary's due-process, equal-protection, 8th-amendment, toxic-water, medical-care, legal-materials |
| 23A535 |
Nicholas Harding v. Google LLC |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
arbitration-appeal article-three corporate-citizenship diversity-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's 'state wherein they reside' clause limits federal courts' diversity jurisdiction over corporate parties based on th… |
| 23A524 |
835 Hinesburg Road, LLC v. City of South Burlington, Vermont, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-12-11 |
Presumed Complete |
|
as-applied-claim fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment land-use regulatory-takings ripeness |
Whether a government's land use decision constitutes a final decision sufficient to render an as-applied regulatory takings claim ripe for federal cou… |
| 23-6227 |
Jose Antonio Cortez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus reasonable-time rule-60b6 sixth-amendment unanimous-jury-verdict |
Whether the court of appeals side-stepped the requirements of a Certificate of Appealability |
| 23-6204 |
Angel Anthony Sanchez v. California |
California |
2023-12-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence-code fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment prior-acts-instructions sixth-amendment trial-procedure |
whether-petitioner-was-denied-his-fifth-sixth-and-fourteenth-amendment-rights-to-due-process-and-fair-trial |
| 23A522 |
Gary Wayne Warner v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-12-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pro-se-litigant sixth-amendment |
Whether Texas's systemic failure to provide an adequate procedural vehicle for raising ineffective assistance of counsel claims violates a criminal de… |
| 23-6188 |
Otis Blaxton v. Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment equitable-tolling false-imprisonment fourteenth-amendment post-conviction-relief sovereign-immunity |
Has the State of Florida waived immunity from suits under its own statute, Florida Statute § 768.28 and the Florida Constitution Art. X, § 13? |
| 23-610 |
Frander Salguero v. California |
California |
2023-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedures material-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
Whether the effect on due process remains unchanged as to Brady's holding |
| 23A515 |
Jonathan Douglas Richardson v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2023-12-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
batson-challenge equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenge racial-discrimination |
Whether the use of a peremptory challenge to remove a Black woman from a jury panel violates the Equal Protection Clause under Batson v. Kentucky and … |
| 23-598 |
Chester Noel Abing, et al. v. James F. Evers, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights civil-rights-laws discrimination due-process eleventh-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment property-rights sovereign-immunity |
Does the Fourteenth Amendment amend the Eleventh Amendment? |
| 23-602 |
William Shupp v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2023-12-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process evitts-v-lucey fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel louisiana-supreme-court out-of-time-appeal writ-of-certiorari |
Whether Louisiana's denial of Shupp's request to file an out-of-time application for writ of certiorari to the Louisiana Supreme Court, despite the in… |
| 23-6154 |
Jennifer Lynn Dees v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2023-12-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct jury-tampering sixth-amendment trial-integrity |
Whether a trial's verdict validity is impacted by a judge's jury tampering |
| 23-584 |
Robert R. Snyder v. California |
California |
2023-12-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
arbitrary-enforcement armed-intent constitutional-vagueness due-process eighth-amendment legislative-intent penal-code rosemond-substantive-holding second-amendment sentencing-enhancement standardless-legislation vagueness |
Should California Penal Code § 12022.53 be struck down and voided as vague and standardless legislation? |
| 23-6143 |
Howard Nelson Bartee, III v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-12-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (6)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition sixth-amendment trial-by-jury |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-6144 |
Susanne Aspley v. Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 civil-rights color-of-law covid-pandemic due-process emergency-orders fourteenth-amendment nursing-home-deaths right-to-life section-1983 |
Whether the 14th Amendment right to life was violated by the Minnesota Governor and Health Department Commissioner's actions that resulted in the deat… |
| 23A488 |
Dana Albrecht v. Katherine Albrecht |
New Hampshire |
2023-11-29 |
Presumed Complete |
|
domestic-violence fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct liberty-interests parental-rights restraining-order |
Whether a civil domestic violence restraining order issued without objective standards violates a parent's fundamental liberty interests under the Fou… |
| 23A475 |
Lonnie Allen Bassett v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2023-11-28 |
Presumed Complete |
|
eighth-amendment juvenile-offender life-without-parole miller-retroactivity post-conviction-relief sentencing-discretion |
Whether the Eighth Amendment requires resentencing or individualized review for juvenile offenders sentenced to mandatory life without the possibility… |
| 23-573 |
Tina Bastian Veneskey v. Michael Keith Sulier |
North Carolina |
2023-11-28 |
Denied |
|
custody custody-determination due-process error-of-law fourteenth-amendment full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction jurisdictional-determination legal-error state-jurisdiction |
Whether the Full Faith and Credit Clause precludes the enforcement of a State's jurisdictional determination when that very determination is based upo… |
| 23-6088 |
Alpheus Elite Hamilton v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process false-evidence fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment miller-v-pate prosecutorial-misconduct |
Did the State of Arizona violate the Due Process Clause when its prosecutor presented knowing use of false evidence to the jury as in Miller v. Pate, … |
| 23-6090 |
In Re Kurt A. Benshoof |
|
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-violations due-process family-court fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jurisdiction justiciable-controversy religious-freedom subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether family court proceeded in absence of jurisdiction and absent a justiciable controversy, thereby violating the Due Process Clause of the Fourte… |
| 23-544 |
Teresa Marie Gaffney v. The Florida Bar |
Florida |
2023-11-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment bar-license due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment homestead-property impartial-tribunal notice opportunity-to-be-heard sexual-harassment |
Whether it is a denial of due process, (1) notice; (2) an opportunity to be heard; and (3) an impartial tribunal, to not allow the Petitioner to condu… |
| 23-6078 |
Timothy Ray Jones, Jr. v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2023-11-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment insanity-defense jury jury-instructions not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity voir-dire |
Whether the Due Process Clause and the Eighth Amendment require that a jury, as the sentencer in a capital case, be told the truth about the effect of… |
| 23-6084 |
Joe Stephens v. Alaska Division of Elections |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
ballot-access constitutional-rights due-process election-law equal-protection federalism first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech |
Whether a candidate's right to have their full legal name on the ballot |
| 23A463 |
LaTausha Simmons v. City of Detroit, Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights digital-access due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment indigent-rights |
Whether an indigent plaintiff's inability to access digital technology constitutes a violation of First Amendment free speech and Fourteenth Amendment… |
| 23-6064 |
Anthony Kimbrough v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2023-11-20 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-bias dna-testing due-process fourteenth-amendment material-false-testimony oklahoma-criminal-procedure post-conviction-dna-testing post-conviction-relief retroactive-application sixth-amendment |
whether-escobar-vs-texas-applies-retroactively |
| 23-526 |
Charles Nichols v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-17 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process firearms-rights fourteenth-amendment second-amendment self-defense standing |
Does the Second Amendment protect the keeping and bearing of loaded and unloaded rifles, shotguns, and handguns, in case of confrontation, for the pur… |
| 23-6046 |
Antonio Lebaron Melton v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-11-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
age-of-culpability age-of-offender criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment roper-v-simmons scientific-evidence |
Does the Eighth Amendment prohibit the death penalty for individuals whose crimes occurred at age 18 years and 25 days? |
| 23-6049 |
Jimmie Jerome Manning, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-11-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (8)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial felony fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-size jury-trial sixth-amendment williams-v-florida |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23A448 |
Dmitry Nikolenko v. Luiza Nikolenko |
Texas |
2023-11-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
due-process equal-protection foreign-marriage fourteenth-amendment judicial-comity subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether a state court can assert subject matter jurisdiction over a foreign marriage dissolution that has already been validly dissolved by a court in… |
| 23A444 |
David Santiago Renteria v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-11-16 |
Denied |
|
cruel-and-unusual degraded-drugs due-process eighth-amendment execution-protocol lethal-injection |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the use of degraded, unstable lethal injection drugs that pose a substantial risk of causing severe pain during… |
| 23-521 |
Denise Fisher v. Jodi M. Moore, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment qualified-immunity state-action state-created-danger |
Whether the Due Process Clause prohibits state officials from knowingly placing a person at unjustifiably high risk of harm |
| 23A436 |
Guillermo Octavio Arbelaez v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
2023-11-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment postconviction-relief sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit the imposition of a death sentence that fails to comply with evolving standards of decen… |
| 23A440 |
David Santiago Renteria v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-15 |
Denied |
|
capital-punishment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-review prosecutorial-discretion removal-statute |
Whether the Equal Protection Clause permits disparate treatment of capital defendants by state prosecutors in seeking execution dates without a meanin… |
| 23A429 |
Casey A. McWhorter v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2023-11-14 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-challenge death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-stay irreparable-harm supreme-court-alabama |
Whether the Eighth Amendment permits the execution of a death row inmate where there are substantial legal challenges to the method of execution or un… |
| 23-510 |
Dan Caulkins, et al. v. Jay Robert Pritzker, in His Official Capacity as Governor of the State of Illinois, et al. |
Illinois |
2023-11-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
campaign-contributions caperton-v-massey due-process equal-protection fair-hearing fourteenth-amendment guarantees-clause judicial-independence judicial-recusal second-amendment |
Does a self-evaluative review by a state court justice challenged for disqualification deny the due process right to a fair hearing under the Fourteen… |
| 23-6001 |
Kenric Lavaughn Jackson, Sr. v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence capital-murder constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sufficiency-of-evidence texas-law |
Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals erred in denying petitioner's application for a writ of habeas corpus, where the evidence presented at tri… |
| 23-5980 |
Edgar Arellano v. California |
California |
2023-11-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial senate-bill-567 sentencing sentencing-disposition sixth-amendment |
Whether the California courts were correct in stating that the petitioner's case was final, because the California Senate Bill 1393 resentencing dispo… |
| 23-5984 |
Lawrence F. Curtin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 23-484 |
Jose Trevino, et al. v. Susan Soto Palmer, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-07 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
fourteenth-amendment hispanic-voting-power judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction legislative-redistricting racial-gerrymandering section-2 section-2-claim three-judge-panel voting-rights-act |
May a single-judge district court's ruling on a Section 2 claim divest a 3-judge panel of jurisdiction to decide a Fourteenth Amendment claim? |
| 23-5965 |
Cody Enrriquez v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-11-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (9)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-5968 |
Richard Langston v. Connecticut |
Connecticut |
2023-11-07 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy fourteenth-amendment jury-acquittal jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States prohibit a state court from basing a criminal defendant's sentenc… |
| 23-5969 |
Semaan Makdissi v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
compulsory-process confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence false-accusation fourteenth-amendment motive sixth-amendment |
Whether the Petitioner's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated |
| 23-477 |
United States v. Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter for Tennessee, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-06 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (92)Relisted (13) |
constitutional-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment gender-identity medical-treatment minor-rights sex-based-classification sex-classification transgender-rights |
Whether Tennessee Senate Bill 1 (SB1) violates the Equal Protection Clause |
| 23-471 |
Casey A. McWhorter v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2023-11-03 |
Denied |
|
8th-amendment age-discrimination capital-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection jury-selection juvenile-justice |
Does Alabama's exclusion of 18-year-olds from jury service, coupled with its permitting them to be tried as adults, deny 18-year-old defendants their … |
| 23A402 |
Casey A. McWhorter v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2023-11-03 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-challenge death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-stay irreparable-harm supreme-court-alabama |
Whether the Eighth Amendment permits the execution of a death row inmate where there are substantial legal challenges to the method of execution or un… |
| 23-462 |
Glen Wilkofsky v. American Federation of Musicians, Local 45, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-11-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-claim fourteenth-amendment governmental-purpose judicial-deference legislative-determination public-employer public-entity state-action statutory-designation |
When applying the Fourteenth Amendment's requirement of 'state action' as a predicate for constitutional claims, should federal courts defer to a stat… |
| 23-5922 |
Maxwell Chibueze Ezenwa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct statute-of-limitations warrantless-arrest |
Whether the warrantless arrest, statute of limitation, double jeopardy, Eighth Amendment violation, and Fourteenth Amendment violation were properly a… |
| 23-445 |
Christy Williams v. American Honda Motor Company, Incorporated |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-27 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 7th-amendment civil-rights due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment jury-trial product-liability seventh-amendment summary-judgment |
Whether Petitioner has been deprived of the right of trial by jury as protected by the Seventh Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment |
| 23-428 |
Chinonyerem Osuagwu v. Home Point Financial Corporation, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-10-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction form-1099 fourteenth-amendment power-of-attorney property-rights standing |
Did the State Court violate the petitioner's Fourteenth-Amendment-right when it empowered one of the respondents to sign his (the petitioner's) name a… |
| 23-439 |
Jim Boydston, et al. v. Shirley N. Weber, California Secretary of State, et al. |
California |
2023-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment party-nomination political-association political-parties primary-election state-elections voter-participation |
Whether a State may require registered voters to formally associate with a political party to participate in the State-administered presidential prima… |
| 23-440 |
S. B., on Behalf of Her Minor Daughter, S. B. v. Jefferson Parish School Board, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-scrutiny corporal-punishment due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment section-1983 |
Is unconstitutionally excessive corporal punishment by a public-school employee cognizable under § 1983? |
| 23-5877 |
Sarah Nathreen Nakanwagi v. City of Flagstaff, Arizona |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment interests-of-justice judicial-subpoena judicial-system national-origin race |
Is the current judicial system's determination of justice determined by one's race or national origin? |
| 23-5890 |
Jerry Smith v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2023-10-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
ake-v-oklahoma capital-punishment capital-trials due-process fourteenth-amendment indigent-defendants indigent-defense jury-selection mitigation-experts racial-discrimination |
Whether Ake v. Oklahoma and the Fourteenth Amendment's due process guarantee require courts to provide funds for prison mitigation experts to indigent… |
| 23-5874 |
In Re L. E. Pauli Coffey |
|
2023-10-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourteenth-amendment mandamus sovereign-immunity standing timely-response |
Do the Federal Laws of Civil Procedure (Fed R. Civ. P 12) and the Federal Laws of Appellate Procedure (31) set a time limit for a respondent to respon… |
| 23-5851 |
Hector Sanchez-Torres v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-10-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing culpability death-penalty eighth-amendment equal-protection mitigation-evidence |
Whether sentencing a 19-year-old codefendant to death violates the Eighth Amendment or Equal Protection Clause when his similarly culpable 17-year-old… |
| 23-409 |
Henri N. Beaulieu, Jr. v. Samuel Powell, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a State Trooper for the State of Alabama, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-10-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourteenth-amendment pleading-requirements pleading-standards section-1983 shotgun-pleading twombly-iqbal |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's application of the 'shotgun pleading' standard conflicts with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Supreme Court pr… |
| 23-5807 |
Fares Mustafa v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington witness-translation |
Whether the State Court's ruling on Petitioner's claim that Trial Counsel was ineffective for failing to move to suppress Petitioner's inculpatory sta… |
| 23-5831 |
Roberto Carlos Mendives, Individually and On Behalf of His Four Minor Children, R. C. M., II, M. A. M., G. L. M., and E. F. M. v. Bexar County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-custody civil-rights due-process family-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment parens-patriae parental-rights standing strict-scrutiny |
Whether this court should overrule the fact that the state court has separated a fit parent from his/her minor children without an adjudication hearin… |
| 23-5833 |
Sean William Roulo v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2023-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
6th-amendment double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection fair-notice fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Was the prosecutor's deliberate refusal to communicate with petitioner after filing formal charges, including withholding the court's summons and the … |
| 23-5811 |
Valery LaTouche v. Harold D. Graham, Superintendent, Auburn Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2023-10-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rule-60(b) rule-60b self-incrimination |
whether-new-york-cpl-440.10(2)(c)-statutes-being-amended |
| 23-5816 |
Henry Jo Ward v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2023-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-presumption fourteenth-amendment official-capacity |
Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibit this presumption of facts against an accused? |
| 23-5820 |
William H. Cornelius v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment due-process federal-jurisdiction first-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions non-delegation-doctrine separation-of-powers sixth-amendment state-courts |
Whether the U.S. Supreme Court is obligated to resolve a dispute between Florida citizens and the state judiciary regarding the legislature's authorit… |
| 23-5823 |
Ramiro Felix Gonzales v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-10-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-claim death-penalty eighth-amendment expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness recantation texas-code-criminal-procedure |
Whether a state court errs in refusing to entertain a cognizable Eighth or Fourteenth Amendment claim based on a state expert's recantation of trial t… |
| 23-5825 |
Robert Robinson v. Savvy Ventures, LLC, c/o Gregory Real Estate, Inc., dba Gregory Property Management |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitution constitutional-rebellion due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment government-officials standing supreme-court-precedent |
Does the third section of Amendment XIV guarantee citizens of the United States freedom from government officials who rebel against the Constitution o… |
| 23-5792 |
Kevin Chandler v. Ron Neal, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
administrative-hearing delayed-appeal due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment impartial-decision-maker prisoner-rights retaliation |
Whether the defendant violated the plaintiff's rights under the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses |
| 23-5794 |
Joseph Aiken v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-10-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9)IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure felony felony-charges fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-5801 |
Jeffery Ducote v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-testify sixth-amendment |
Whether Mr. Ducote's 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendment rights were violated when his right to testify was taken from him |
| 23-5803 |
Robert K. Decker v. Edwin Baez, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force failure-to-protect federal-question shackling spoliation |
Did the United States District Court, Magistrate Judge err in the decision to have the Plaintiff, Robert K. Decker be hand cuffed, (left wrist) and sh… |
| 23-394 |
Thurayyah Z. Richardson v. The Procter and Gamble Company, et al. |
New York |
2023-10-13 |
Denied |
|
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion material-facts summary-judgment |
Where a trial court resolving summary judgment denies due process |
| 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… |
| 23-388 |
Richard W. Como v. Pennsylvania Public School Employees' Retirement Board |
Pennsylvania |
2023-10-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process excessive-fines excessive-punishment fourteenth-amendment pension pension-forfeiture public-employee retirement-law |
Did the Commonwealth Court and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court err in forfeiting Mr. Como's entire pension due to criminal convictions as Superintenden… |
| 23-5753 |
Ben J. Latham v. Alaska |
Alaska |
2023-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment punishment punitive-law retroactivity right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the retroactive application of a punitive ex post facto law is prohibited under the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 23-5760 |
Mattie T. Lomax v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2023-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-investigation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial legal-definition seventh-amendment |
Whether the State violated the Due Process clause where without a jury trial incorrect legal definition of 'knowingly' relieved the state of its requi… |
| 23-375 |
Brigetta D'Olivio v. Hilary Thompson Hutson |
Texas |
2023-10-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment property-rights subject-matter-jurisdiction texas-constitution texas-estates-code texas-government-code trial-de-novo |
Did the lower court violate Petitioner's right to due process and equal protection |
| 23A316 |
Jedidiah Isaac Murphy v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-10-10 |
Denied |
|
cruel-and-unusual-punishment drug-safety due-process eighth-amendment execution-method lethal-injection |
Whether the Eighth Amendment and state-created liberty interests prohibit executing a prisoner with lethal injection drugs that were exposed to extrem… |
| 23A303 |
Daryl Anthony Green v. Prince George's County Office of Child Support, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-10-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
bankruptcy clearly-erroneous due-process fourteenth-amendment real-estate-fraud writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Fourth Circuit violated due process and the Fourteenth Amendment by affirming dismissal of bankruptcy proceedings without addressing mater… |
| 23-5730 |
Blaise Caroleo v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-10-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment sentencing sentencing-scheme statutory-interpretation waiver-of-rights |
Whether a waiver of the Eighth Amendment protections against cruel and unusual punishment is valid |
| 23-5724 |
Taylor Scott Meece v. Wyoming |
Wyoming |
2023-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment supreme-court-procedure |
Did the Wyoming Supreme Court abuse its discretion in affirming the conviction and sentence? |
| 23-350 |
Brigetta D'Olivio, aka Brigetta Alix Anderson, aka Alix Brigetta v. Hilary Thompson Hutson |
Texas |
2023-10-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure discovery due-process equal-protection forcible-detainer fourteenth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction summary-judgment |
Whether the lower court violated the petitioner's due process and equal protection rights under the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 23-5700 |
Paul Gray v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2023-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-economy montgomery-v-louisiana nonunanimous-verdict sixth-amendment |
Does the State of Louisiana have the right to invoke 'judicial economy' as a ruse for violations of constitutional guarantees? |
| 23-5708 |
In Re Michael Stansell |
|
2023-10-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fifth-amendment life-sentence void-sentence |
Whether the infliction of a life sentence upon a prisoner where the life tail is not applicable to his offense of conviction constitutes cruel and unu… |
| 23-336 |
Keith Allen Kiefer v. Isanti County, Minnesota |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-09-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment mens-rea postconviction-incarceration section-1983 unreasonable-seizure |
Whether the analytical home for § 1983 unreasonable seizure claims involving only postconviction incarceration for 'violating' an inapplicable law is … |
| 23-329 |
Chong Yim, et al. v. City of Seattle, Washington |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-09-28 |
Denied |
Amici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-penalties criminal-history due-process fourteenth-amendment housing-ordinance landlord-tenant property-rights public-housing tenant-screening |
Does Seattle's restriction on private owners' right to exclude potentially dangerous tenants from their property violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Du… |
| 23A272 |
Jessie Dotson v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2023-09-28 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-post-conviction death-penalty due-process expert-assistance fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus |
Whether a state violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by denying a capital post-conviction petitioner necessary expert assistanc… |
| 23A275 |
Timothy Ray Jones, Jr. v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2023-09-28 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-case due-process eighth-amendment fourth-amendment illegal-roadblock insanity-verdict |
Whether the Eighth Amendment and Due Process Clause require a trial court in a capital case to instruct the jury on the effect of a not guilty by reas… |
| 23A271 |
Atif Ahmad Rafay v. Eric Jackson |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-09-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
AEDPA coerced-confession fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment involuntary-statements undercover-police-techniques |
Whether a state court violates the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act by applying a legal standard different from that required by the Fift… |
| 23-318 |
Nicolas A. Salomon v. Kroenke Sports & Entertainment, LLC, et al. |
California |
2023-09-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration arbitration-proceedings california-law due-process federal-arbitration-act fourteenth-amendment preemption right-to-counsel |
Does the Federal Arbitration Act preempt California law on the right to counsel in an arbitration proceeding? |
| 23-5656 |
Stephen M. Cooke, Jr. v. Allen Gang, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment involuntary-statements post-indictment-statements right-to-counsel sixth-amendment undercover-agent |
Was Cooke's Sixth Amendment right to counsel violated? |
| 23-5661 |
Arnaldo Martinez v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-09-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mis-charging prosecutorial-misconduct standing |
Did the Respondent, State of Florida, deny the petitioner of his Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment right to Due Process |
| 23-300 |
ATM Shafiqul Khalid v. Microsoft Corporation |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-09-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 42-usc-1985 congressional-power constitutional-rights copyright-clause exclusive-right fourteenth-amendment inventor-protection patent-clause patent-ownership sherman-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether the exclusive Right in inventions as written in the Constitution is a fundamental Right or Constitutional privilege separate from common law e… |
| 23-5647 |
Eddie Savage v. Chae Harris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights conviction-relief due-process equal-protection exculpatory-evidence forfeiture fourteenth-amendment photographic-evidence post-conviction-relief |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause is violated when the State presents evidence at trial that is later discovered to be false or mi… |
| 23-5653 |
Michael Duane Zack, III v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-09-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-exemption atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment eighth-amendment fetal-alcohol-syndrome fourteenth-amendment intellectual-developmental-disorder medical-consensus witherspoon-v-illinois |
Does the Eighth or Fourteenth Amendment bar the execution of a defendant with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome who was not sentenced to death by a unanimous jur… |
| 23A262 |
Michael Duane Zack, III v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-09-26 |
Denied |
|
atkins-exemption death-penalty eighth-amendment fetal-alcohol-syndrome intellectual-developmental-disability unanimous-jury-requirement |
Whether Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, recognized by the medical community as functionally identical to Intellectual Developmental Disability, categorically … |
| 23-279 |
Couy Griffin v. New Mexico, ex rel. Marco White, et al. |
New Mexico |
2023-09-22 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
14th-amendment civil-rights congress congressional-power constitutional-interpretation due-process enforcement first-amendment fourteenth-amendment insurrection judicial-authority standing |
Whether Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment exclusively reserves the power to enforce the Fourteenth Amendment to Congress |
| 23-5630 |
Jack R. Sliney v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-09-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment age-of-defendant death-penalty death-sentence due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment juvenile-offenders |
Whether Florida may impose a death sentence upon an individual under 21 |
| 23A257 |
In Re Gregory Mercer |
|
2023-09-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment separate-sovereigns |
Whether a state appellate court violates the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments by dismissing federal constitutional claims on procedural grounds without… |
| 23A255 |
Denise Fisher v. Jodi M. Moore, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-20 |
Presumed Complete |
|
clearly-established-law deliberate-indifference fourteenth-amendment qualified-immunity section-1983 state-created-danger-doctrine |
Whether the state-created danger doctrine, unanimously recognized by ten federal circuits, constitutes a clearly established right under the Fourteent… |
| 23-270 |
County of Tulare, California, et al. v. Jose Murguia, Individually and on Behalf of the Estates of Mason and Maddox Murguia, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-09-20 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
deliberate-indifference due-process fourteenth-amendment private-violence shocks-the-conscience state-action state-created-danger substantive-due-process |
Whether a State's failure to protect an individual who is not in state custody from violence by a private person constitutes a violation of the Due Pr… |
| 23-5609 |
Eric G. Banks, Sr. v. Anthony Brown, Attorney General of Maryland, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment court-error due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-counsel liberty prosecution-misconduct sixth-amendment |
Did the U.S. District Court violate the Petitioners 5th Amendment Constitutional Right |
| 23A251 |
Obaida Abdulky, et al. v. Lubin & Meyer, P.C., et al. |
Massachusetts |
2023-09-19 |
Presumed Complete |
|
access-to-courts attorney-malpractice due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment summary-judgment |
Whether a state appellate court violates the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause and the constitutional right of access to courts by establishin… |
| 23-259 |
Lewis County, Kentucky, et al. v. Julie Helphenstine, Administratrix of the Estate of Christopher Dale Helphenstine and Guardian of B. D. H., the Minor Son of Christopher Dale Helphenstine |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-09-18 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment objective-knowledge pretrial-detainee prison-officials qualified-immunity separation-of-powers |
Whether a pretrial detainee alleging deliberate-indifference must prove the defendant actually-knew of a significant-risk-of-harm, or instead must pro… |
| 23-260 |
Daniel Erwin v. Karla Howell, as Administratrix of the Estate of Cornelius Pierre Howell |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-09-18 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-standard deliberate-indifference due-process farmer-v-brennan fourteenth-amendment kingsley-v-hendrickson medical-need pretrial-detainee section-1983 |
Whether Kingsley v. Hendrickson applies to deliberate-indifference claims by pretrial-detainees |
| 23-263 |
Barry J. Smith, Sr. v. United States Congress, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-court-review civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-authority rule-60(b)(4) standing subject-matter-jurisdiction thirteenth-amendment void-judgment |
Is there a time limit to file a Rule 60(b)(4) motion to vacate a judgment order as void for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction |
| 23-255 |
Cooper D. Johnson v. Malia M. Cohen, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as State Controller of California, et al. |
California |
2023-09-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment property-rights takings takings-clause unclaimed-property |
Whether the Controller's actions under the California Unclaimed Property Law violate the Due Process Clause and Takings Clause |
| 23-5597 |
Rodolfo Alvarez Medrano v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-09-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (11)IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights confession-coercion custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment interrogation miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona state-court-review |
Whether the introduction of Petitioner's statement violated his Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights under Miranda v. Arizona |
| 23A247 |
Clark D. Thomas v. McKendley Newton, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-09-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
adequate-staffing deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment farmer-v-brennan habeas-corpus-filing-deadline prison-conditions |
Whether prison officials' deliberate indifference to systemic staffing deficiencies that substantially increase the risk of serious harm to inmates vi… |
| 23A244 |
John Doe v. Bill Crouch, in His Official Capacity as Cabinet Secretary of West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-09-14 |
Presumed Complete |
|
birth-certificates equal-protection fourteenth-amendment gestational-surrogacy parental-rights sex-discrimination |
Whether a state statute that presumes maternity based solely on gestation and refuses to recognize biological mothers as legal mothers when children a… |
| 23-5579 |
Fitzroy C. Morton v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-09-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (18)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-5588 |
Roger A. Libby v. Robert Legran, Warden, et al. |
Nevada |
2023-09-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-cases criminal-law due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactive-application state-law substantive-due-process substantive-rule |
Whether the due process and equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment render Nevada state laws unconstitutional |
| 23-5565 |
William E. Wells, III v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-09-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-sentencing death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment mental-illness proportionality-review |
Whether Florida's capital sentencing scheme violates the Eighth Amendment |
| 23-5567 |
Carlos Gilbert Arellano-Ramirez v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-09-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (18)IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure felony felony-charges fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-5570 |
Scottie Andrea Jackson v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-09-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (18)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-5575 |
Andrew Sposato v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-09-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (18)IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-charge fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-231 |
Linda A. Porter v. Kennard Law PC, dba Kennard Richard PC, et al. |
Texas |
2023-09-12 |
Denied |
|
appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se pro-se-litigant standing |
Whether the appellate court violated Porter's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment Constitutional Rights |
| 23-5547 |
Timothy James Hahn v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment sentencing |
Whether a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on a defendant who was under the age of twenty-five at the time of the offen… |
| 23-5549 |
Hope White v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2023-09-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence dna-testing due-process forensic-evidence fourteenth-amendment post-conviction post-conviction-dna-testing procedural-due-process state-created-right |
Does barring a petitioner's access to biological and forensic evidence that can be submitted for DNA testing to prove innocence—when a state-created r… |
| 23-5526 |
Adelfo Rodriguez-Mendez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-standard constitutional-violation criminal-procedure drug-attribution evidence fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment post-conviction-sentencing sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether attributing drugs post-conviction in an amount greater than what is charged in an indictment and greater than what the jury found is in violat… |
| 23-203 |
Missouri Department of Corrections v. Jean Finney |
Missouri |
2023-09-05 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (9) |
batson-challenge civil-rights equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection religious-beliefs religious-discrimination structural-error voir-dire |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits relying on stereotypes about religious views to strike jurors |
| 23-5505 |
Jacques Lamar Walker v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2023-08-31 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
bank-robbery criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment trial-court witness-identification |
Whether the Supreme Court of Virginia erred in refusing to reverse petitioner Jacques Lamar Walker's convictions |
| 23-5485 |
Paul M. Poupart v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2023-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court statute-validity |
Whether LSA-R.S. 15:529.1 is unconstitutional |
| 23-5466 |
Toddell Alexander v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment non-physical-harm prisoner-treatment sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Whether Ohio's Domestic Violence Statute is categorically a violent felony in light of Samuel Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015) |
| 23-184 |
Karen M. Suber v. VVP Services, LLC, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-08-28 |
Denied |
|
articulable-nexus civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment inconsistent-application jurisdiction long-arm-statute personal-jurisdiction standard-of-review substantial-relationship |
Whether the courts sitting in New York have inconsistently interpreted and applied the standard for the 'arising from' prong of the New York Long-Arm … |
| 23-5455 |
John A. Crane v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-08-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (18)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-charge fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-5460 |
Clinton D. Johnson, Jr., aka Kayzon Ru v. Sgt. Johnson, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment 8th-amendment antiterrorism-act civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement |
Was excessive force used during an arrest and detention at a detention center? |
| 23A182 |
Bruce R. Sands, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-28 |
Presumed Complete |
|
circuit-split conditions-of-confinement deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment habeas-corpus section-2241 |
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2241 habeas corpus jurisdiction extends to allow federal courts to adjudicate an inmate's claims challenging the constitutionality… |
| 23-175 |
City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Gloria Johnson, et al., on Behalf of Themselves and All Others Similarly Situated |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-25 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (109)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
8th-amendment circuit-split civil-citations constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment homeless-rights homelessness public-camping |
Does the enforcement of generally applicable laws regulating camping on public property constitute 'cruel and unusual punishment' prohibited by the Ei… |
| 23-176 |
Robert Cox, et al. v. Helena Chemical Company |
Texas |
2023-08-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process evidence evidence-exclusion expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment legal-standards property-rights state-court |
Whether the Due Process Clause prohibits a state court from depriving petitioners of property protected by the Fourteenth Amendment without allowing t… |
| 23-5441 |
Mika 'ya Ali Shakur v. Sergeant Thompson |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights covid-19 deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment federal-rules-of-civil-procedure prison-healthcare serious-medical-need |
Whether the plaintiff's allegation of denial of Eighth Amendment right to serious medical need for COVID-19 vaccine fails to satisfy Fed. R. Civ. P. 8… |
| 23-5446 |
Elizabeth Richert v. Kathleen White Murphy, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-08-25 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings property-rights takings takings-clause |
Whether the District Court's April 21, 2022 post-trial order amount to an unconstitutional taking without due process, equal protection, and just comp… |
| 23-172 |
Cynthia L. Pollick v. Anthony P. Trozzolillo |
Pennsylvania |
2023-08-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech judicial-record-sealing judicial-records judicial-transparency speech-restraint standing |
Whether the complete sealing of a judicial record violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 23-5405 |
David Petersen v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights court-errors due-process fourteenth-amendment integrity-of-judicial-process judicial-discretion judicial-process material-errors securities-fraud |
Is it a violation of due process when any court makes no effort to address or remedy material abuses of discretion and material errors on the record? |
| 23-167 |
John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections v. Joseph Clifton Smith |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-21 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Relisted (30) |
atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment eighth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability iq-test iq-testing standard-error-of-measurement |
Whether courts must deem the Atkins prong satisfied when an offender's lowest IQ score, decreased by one standard error of measurement, is 70 or below |
| 23-161 |
Megan Kathryn Sullivan v. Amanda Marie Seaton |
Georgia |
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment adoption child-custody due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment judicial-review parental-rights step-parent-adoption termination-of-rights |
Does a State violate a fit mother's 14th Amendment due process rights? |
| 23-5383 |
Ramham Dupriest v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech minor mistake-of-age obscene-material obscenity scienter |
Does it violate First Amendment free speech protections to convict a person for conduct involving distributing obscene material to a minor without hav… |
| 23-5393 |
Shaun N. Taylor v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ake-v-oklahoma criminal-procedure due-process expert-appointment expert-witness fourteenth-amendment indigent-defendant insanity-expert mental-competency mental-health right-to-counsel |
Do this Court's decisions in Ake v. Oklahoma and McWilliams v. Dunn require the appointment of a second insanity expert for an indigent defendant wher… |
| 23-5394 |
In Re Justin Lewis |
|
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment federal-court fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review legal-procedure |
Whether the denial of a defendant's motion to dismiss on double jeopardy grounds constitutes a constitutional violation |
| 23-5400 |
Nathan Leon Branham v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
compulsory-process curriculum-vitae defense-expert due-process expert-witness fourteenth-amendment right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment |
When can a defense expert be excluded for failure to timely file curriculum vitae? |
| 23A149 |
Andrew J. J. Wolf v. Josh Tewalt, Director, Idaho Department of Correction, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-18 |
Presumed Complete |
|
access-to-courts due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment intentional-obstruction prison-officials |
Whether prison officials' intentional obstruction of an inmate's access to personal legal papers and court materials, implemented through standard ope… |
| 23A152 |
Michael Lajeunesse v. Kris Karberg, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-08-18 |
Presumed Complete |
|
fourteenth-amendment physician-patient-privilege prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver-of-privilege |
Whether a state prosecutor may compel a defendant to waive physician-patient privilege without adequate constitutional safeguards protecting the defen… |
| 23A139 |
Siddhanth Sharma v. Damon Circosta, Chair, North Carolina State Board of Elections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-16 |
Presumed Complete |
|
ballot-access elections-clause felon-disqualification first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-party-affiliation |
Whether state ballot access requirements—including voter registration, political party affiliation for a specified period, and felon disqualification—… |
| 23A135 |
Richard Langston v. Connecticut |
Connecticut |
2023-08-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
acquitted-conduct-sentencing due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether a state sentencing judge's explicit consideration of conduct for which a defendant was acquitted violates the defendant's rights under the Six… |
| 23-5343 |
Scott Lindsay Halfhill v. Washington |
Washington |
2023-08-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
alternative-suspect circumstantial-evidence criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment |
Should this Court grant Certiorari when Halfhill was convicted of killing a man with intent upon nothing more than being one of many people in the vic… |
| 23-128 |
Curtis Jason Wendt-West v. Hawaii Department of Education, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abrogation civil-rights civil-rights-act eleventh-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigation sovereign-immunity title-vii |
Whether the States retain their Eleventh Amendment sovereign immunity in private Title VII suits |
| 23-5319 |
Antoine L. Riggins v. Ken Hollibaugh, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brecht-exception brecht-v-abrahamson co-defendant-confession fair-trial fourteenth-amendment joint-trial sixth-amendment |
Is there an urgent need to further discuss the exception mentioned in Brecht v. Abrahamson 507 U.S. 619 (1993) where defendant's Sixth and Fourteenth … |
| 23-5298 |
Edgar Sandoval Catarino v. California |
California |
2023-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial mandatory-minimum sentencing sixth-amendment |
Do the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments confer a right to a jury trial with respect to a fact that has the dual effect of (1) increasing the mandatory … |
| 23-5289 |
Willie Seth Crain, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance pleadings sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence |
Is it a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment right to Due Process to allow a conviction to stand where some of the elements of the crime were not est… |
| 23-5270 |
Justin Lewis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment good-faith-appeal motion-to-dismiss |
Whether a court can verbally deny a motion to dismiss on Double Jeopardy grounds without a full record |
| 23-105 |
Joe Thorpe v. Township of Salisbury, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-08-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
absolute-immunity civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment fourteenth-amendment harris-v-harvey immunity judicial-immunity prosecutorial-immunity |
Did the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals violate the rule announced in Harris v. Harvey, 605 F.2d 330 (7th Cir.… |
| 23-5259 |
Ryan Lewis Hilyard v. Wyoming |
Wyoming |
2023-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review conflict-of-interest due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-evidence fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-decisions |
Did the Wyoming Supreme Court apply and follow Federal Rules of Evidence correctly? |
| 23-91 |
Nolan Marcus Forness, II v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2023-08-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
body-cameras compulsory-process confrontation-clause due-process evidence-preservation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment |
Defendant's right to access law enforcement recordings |
| 23A93 |
Johnny Johnson v. David Vandergriff, Warden |
Missouri |
2023-07-31 |
Denied |
|
death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus mental-illness panetti-competency |
Whether the Eighth Amendment and Due Process Clause prohibit executing a prisoner who, due to severe mental illness, lacks rational understanding of t… |
| 23-5243 |
Johnny Johnson v. David Vandergriff, Warden |
Missouri |
2023-07-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing ford-v-wainwright habeas-corpus mental-competency panetti-v-quarterman procedural-fairness |
Whether a report from a qualified neuropsychiatrist that a condemned prisoner is incompetent for execution that is not contradicted by any qualified e… |
| 23-5246 |
Aaron Abadi v. Caesars Entertainment, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts circuit-court-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion pro-se-litigants pro-se-litigation standing |
Can the Circuit Courts of Appeals treat indigent pro se litigants differently than they treat litigants who can afford attorneys, by just dismissing t… |
| 23-81 |
Douglas D. McCall v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-07-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-defendant-rights extrinsic-evidence fourteenth-amendment minor-victim prior-inconsistent-statement sixth-amendment |
Whether a state evidentiary rule prohibiting the introduction of extrinsic evidence of an alleged minor victim's prior inconsistent statement must yie… |
| 23-83 |
Martine Bernard v. Christopher Hodyl |
Colorado |
2023-07-27 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment contract-coercion court-ordered court-ordered-visitation due-process fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-contract procedural-due-process state-court visiting-supervisor |
Whether a state court's denial of the freedom of contract violates the 14th Amendment |
| 23-5192 |
Phiet The Doan v. California |
California |
2023-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equal-protection excessive-fine fourteenth-amendment jury-trial restitution sixth-amendment victim-restitution |
Did Mr. Doan have a Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment right to a jury trial on whether he owed almost $64,000 in victim restitution? |
| 23A68 |
Mark Barinholtz v. HomeAdvisor, Inc., et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-07-25 |
Presumed Complete |
|
attorney-conduct due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-sanctions prior-restraint |
Whether sanctions imposed by a federal district court against an attorney for criticism of judicial conduct violate the First Amendment and Due Proces… |
| 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… |
| 23A64 |
D'Andre M. Johnson v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2023-07-24 |
Presumed Complete |
|
cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment military-confinement sentence-appropriateness uniform-code-of-military-justice |
Whether military officials may constitutionally subject a service member to confinement conditions that constitute cruel and unusual punishment in vio… |
| 23A65 |
Jacob Hilbert v. Missouri |
Missouri |
2023-07-24 |
Presumed Complete |
|
bench-trial criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial-waiver sixth-amendment valid-waiver |
Whether the Sixth Amendment requires that a waiver of the right to a jury trial in a criminal proceeding must be made personally by the defendant, or … |
| 23-65 |
Alfredo J. Molina, et al. v. BMO Harris Bank, et al. |
Arizona |
2023-07-24 |
Denied |
|
arizona-judicial-system common-law common-law-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-contract property-rights ratification-doctrine |
Were Petitioners deprived of due process under the Fourteenth Amendment? |
| 23-5167 |
Jose Suarez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accessorial-liability accessorial-participation criminal-culpability criminal-record cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders life-sentence life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing sentencing-proportionality |
Does a mandatory life sentence without parole for an individual who was twenty at the time of the offense, who was without a criminal record, who had … |
| 23-5171 |
Natoya Cunningham v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-07-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (19)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition sixth-amendment trial-by-jury |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-5173 |
Jose Luis Guzman v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-07-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (18)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-5145 |
James Edward Barber v. Kay Ivey, Governor of Alabama, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-07-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment emotional-anguish execution execution-protocol lethal-injection medical-suffering physical-suffering |
Did the Eleventh Circuit correctly hold that no amount of physical suffering and emotional anguish imposed by allowing hours-long and countless attemp… |
| 23-5157 |
In Re Tracy Whitaker |
|
2023-07-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights district-attorney due-process exceptional-circumstances fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice prosecutorial-authority |
Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in declining to grant Mr. Whitaker authorization to file a second habeas corpus petition when his incarce… |
| 23-5158 |
Martice Deshawn Wallace v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus suppression-of-evidence witness-testimony |
Whether the suppression of a witness' testimony violates the defendant's due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 23-5129 |
Earl Lionell Ward v. Ramsey County, Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2023-07-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-commitment civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights liberty-interest liberty-interests sex-offender statutory-criteria |
Whether Minnesota's indefinite sex offender civil commitment scheme violates Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment's due process rights |
| 23A37 |
Patrick Bowie v. William Lee, Superintendent, Greenhaven Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2023-07-14 |
Presumed Complete |
|
confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington |
Whether the admission of an unproduced witness's statements without the defendant's opportunity to confront the witness violates the Sixth Amendment C… |
| 23-5074 |
Juan Carlos Valles, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons federal-prosecution fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment selective-enforcement selective-prosecution statutory-obligations |
Is the Federal Bureau of Prisons a statutory corporation governed by federal laws, and are federal prosecutors obligated to prosecute all federal inma… |
| 23-28 |
Claude Townsend, Jr. v. New Jersey Transit |
Third Circuit |
2023-07-10 |
Denied |
|
collateral-estoppel constitutional-law dismissed-case due-process fourteenth-amendment new-evidence res-judicata social-security |
Can Res judicata and Collateral estoppel interfere with the Fourteenth Amendment's constitutional due process when new evidence is presented to a dism… |
| 23-5039 |
Thomas E. Creech v. Tim Richardson, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-05 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
capital-sentencing death-row eighth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel psychopathy sixth-amendment |
Whether evidence of or reference to psychopathy should be treated as potentially mitigating or as categorically aggravating in capital sentencings |
| 23-5040 |
Brala Beverly v. Newport Beach Police Department, et al. |
California |
2023-07-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights demurrer due-process fourteenth-amendment hearsay police-misconduct police-report state-court-procedure |
Is it a violation of due process under the fourteenth amendment of the U.S. Constitution for courts to dismiss a civil rights lawsuit by demurrer base… |
| 23-7 |
Lynn Hamlet v. Officer Hoxie |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-07-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
42-usc-1983 8th-amendment civil-rights conditions-of-confinement cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment prison-conditions procunier-v-navarette qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Whether the Eighth Amendment bars a prison official from forcing a person with diabetes and open wounds to endure prolonged and unnecessary exposure t… |
| 23-5002 |
Joseph Hauschild v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole meaningful-opportunity meaningful-opportunity-for-release roper-v-simmons sentencing-guidelines term-of-years-sentence |
Whether, for a juvenile offender who committed multiple offenses during a single course of conduct, none of them homicide, the Eighth Amendment forbid… |
| 22-7891 |
Ronald James Littlefield v. California |
California |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness judicial-notice pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process state-court |
Can a state tribunal deprive litigants to that tribunal equal protection of the law and even handed justice based upon a commitment offense? |
| 22-7897 |
In Re Frank Walls |
|
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2244 eighth-amendment federal-petition habeas-corpus intellectual-disability retroactivity substantive-rule teague-v-lane |
Was Hall v. Florida necessarily 'made retroactive' for purposes of authorizing a successive federal habeas petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(2)(A)? |
| 22-1250 |
Peter Chien, et al. v. Scott E. Jarrett, et al. |
Maine |
2023-06-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure court-order due-process enforceability entry-of-appearance federal-law fourteenth-amendment legal-compliance triggering-date |
Does the filing of an entry of appearance within 21 days of opening the mail containing a court order missing a triggering date for the 21 day deadlin… |
| 22-1241 |
Jocelyn M. Murphy, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-06-27 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
broker-registration due-process eighth-amendment fair-notice securities-exchange-act-1934 securities-law securities-laws securities-violations seventh-amendment statutory-penalty statutory-penalty-caps |
Whether the courts below exceeded the statutory penalty caps established by Congress 'for each violation' of the securities laws, depriving Petitioner… |
| 22-7866 |
Frank A. Walls v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-06-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process eighth-amendment federal-authorization finality-of-mandate intellectual-disability mandate-reversal retroactivity supreme-court |
Must-Hall-v.-Florida-be-applied-retroactively |
| 22-7834 |
Marshall Henry Ellis v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2023-06-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights discovery due-process evidentiary-hearings fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment prejudicial-hearsay sixth-amendment supremacy-clause |
Has the State of Oklahoma denied my rights under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments? |
| 22-1227 |
Nejla K. Lane v. Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission |
Illinois |
2023-06-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-disciplinary-proceedings attorney-discipline constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech illinois-constitution professional-conduct |
Whether the Hearing Board's and the Review Board's Recommendation and Report violated Petitioner's due-process rights |
| 22-1228 |
Josephine Tripodi, et al. v. North Coventry Township, Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2023-06-21 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment civil-contempt compelled-sale due-process fourteenth-amendment property-rights real-property state-court |
Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment limit the power of a state court to order the compelled sale of a private person's real proper… |
| 22-1208 |
Ursula Newell-Davis, et al. v. Courtney N. Phillips, in Her Official Capacity as Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-14 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response Waived |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment occupation-rights privileges-or-immunities rational-basis regulatory-burden right-to-occupation slaughter-house-cases |
Whether the state may deny equal protection of the laws and exclude people from a trade for the sole purpose of easing its regulatory burden, or wheth… |
| 22-1204 |
William Muhr v. Dawna Braswell |
Colorado |
2023-06-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
child-custody conflict-of-interest due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-assignment judicial-bias judicial-disqualification parental-rights |
Whether Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment rights to due-process,equal-protection were violated when Colorado allowed disqualified,prejudiced Chief Jud… |
| 22-1205 |
Brian D. Skattum v. Devan Collomy |
Maine |
2023-06-13 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 5th-amendment child-custody civil-rights criminal-case criminal-procedure divorce-proceeding due-process family-law fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment self-incrimination |
Can a parent be penalized in a divorce/custody case for exercising 5th/14th Amendment rights in a related criminal case? |
| 22-7769 |
Tyrone Desante Morant v. Bill Stange, Warden |
Missouri |
2023-06-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment consecutive-sentences constitutional-rights eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing mandatory-life-sentence miller-v-alabama sentencing-discretion |
Mandatory-life-without-parole-for-juvenile-offenders |
| 22-7782 |
Stephanie Morgan v. Prime Wimbledon SPE, LLC, et al. |
Oregon |
2023-06-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
covid-19 covid-19-shutdowns disability-discrimination fourteenth-amendment housing-protections mental-health-disability privacy privacy-rights reasonable-accommodation reasonable-accommodations |
Whether COVID-19 shutdowns, along with proof of a Mental Health Disability and Reasonable Accommodations on file with the landlord, allow the tenant p… |
| 22-7753 |
Jane Doe, Female Juvenile v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-06-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment federal-juvenile-act juvenile-justice juvenile-transfer miller-v-alabama ripeness transfer-to-adult-proceedings |
When a juvenile is charged with first-degree murder, does the transfer to adult proceedings violate the juvenile's Eighth Amendment rights because the… |
| 22-7764 |
Duane E. Owen v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-06-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
competency competency-to-be-executed criminal-procedure death-penalty dementia due-process eighth-amendment insanity legal-insanity rational-understanding |
Whether the State of Florida's perfunctory evaluation of Owen's claim that he is legally insane and incompetent to be executed violated the Eighth Ame… |
| 22-7749 |
Alen Dean O'Bryant v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2023-06-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-ethics prosecutor prosecutorial-misconduct recusal trial-judge |
Did former Judge Henderson's secret extramarital affair create an unconstitutional potential for bias? |
| 22-7724 |
Juan Andrade-Moreno, aka Juan A. Moreno v. Isaac Kwarting, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence ada-coverage civil-rights constitutional-rights disability dna-testing due-process fourteenth-amendment physical-injury post-conviction reasonable-accommodation standing |
Whether the petitioner's physical injury and resulting disability are covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) |
| 22-1182 |
Robert Walker, et al. v. U.S. Bank N.A., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-07 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-procedure circuit-court civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion judicial-overreach local-rules statutory-interpretation |
Whether the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals Mandate infringes on the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 22-1183 |
Robert Walker, et al. v. K. Drake Ozment, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-07 |
Denied |
|
bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-procedure circuit-court civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion judicial-overreach local-court-rules standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals Mandate infringes on the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 22-7719 |
Joseph J. Buttercase v. James Martin Davis, et al. |
Nebraska |
2023-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence attorney-fees attorney-misconduct breach-of-contract civil-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process ex-parte-communication fourteenth-amendment legal-malpractice standing |
Whether it is unconstitutional to require a criminal defendant to prove actual innocence to recover funds paid to his former defense attorney who neve… |
| 22-1171 |
James LeBlanc, et al. v. Jessie Crittindon, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment overdetention prisoner-rights qualified-immunity section-1983 state-officials supervisory-liability |
Do high-ranking state prison officials violate a prisoner's constitutional rights by failing to promulgate policies cajoling independent, locally-elec… |
| 22-7680 |
Adonne A. Horton v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2023-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
article-i-section-10 constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment life-sentence police-pursuit statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Lower Court's Application of an Ex Post Facto Law to Affirm Petitioner's Life Sentence for Running From the Police Violated Article I, Sec… |
| 22-7681 |
Jason Harriman v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment |
whether-the-government-violated-constitutional-rights |
| 22-7686 |
Daniel Dorado v. California |
California |
2023-06-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment miranda-rights rape-cases sentencing sixth-amendment |
Question not identified |
| 22-7651 |
Lily Cassandra Alphonsis v. Joel Garnica, Deputy, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force hijab-ban prison-administration religious-accommodation religious-freedom rluipa |
Whether a jail facility's ban on the hijab or religious head scarf worn for religious reasons was the least restrictive means of ensuring effective pr… |
| 22-7642 |
Julio Angel Torrez, Jr. v. California |
California |
2023-05-25 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
doyle-v-ohio due-process estelle-v-mcguire evidence-admission fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial people-v-medina right-to-silence sixth-amendment |
Whether the rule of Doyle v. Ohio applies to private conversations and selective silence |
| 22-7624 |
Gregory P. Smith v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2023-05-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-violation due-process fourteenth-amendment judge judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct penal-statute prosecuting-attorney sexual-relationship substantive-due-process |
When was Mr. Smith's substantive due process right(s) or XIV Amendment violated? |
| 22-7625 |
Michael Tisius v. David Vandergriff, Warden |
Missouri |
2023-05-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
brain-development criminal-responsibility cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders mental-impairment |
Do executions of persons who committed their crimes when they were under the age of 21, or, at the least, the execution of a 19-year-old offender who … |
| 22-1145 |
David Sosa v. Martin County, Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-05-24 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment legal-detention overdetention search-and-seizure warrant-validity |
Does Baker's right against overdetention require a reasonable analysis or only protect against mistaken overdetention for longer than three days? |
| 22-7618 |
Dennis Dewayne Jackson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-05-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment first-time-offender non-violent-offense non-violent-offenses procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines |
whether-the-sentence-of-138-months'-imprisonment-imposed-on-a-first-time-offender-violated-the-eighth-amendment-prohibition-against-cruel-and-unusual-… |
| 22-1132 |
Derek Sine v. Kathryn Kosmides |
New York |
2023-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment appellate-review attorney-fees due-process evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment order-of-protection willfulness |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in denying Petitioner's motion for leave to appeal |
| 22-1129 |
Faraz Fadavi Akhavan Bonab v. Samuel Ginn |
California |
2023-05-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
business-relationship due-process forum-state fourteenth-amendment personal-jurisdiction purposeful-contacts specific-jurisdiction |
Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits a state court to exercise specific jurisdiction over a defendant when the plaintiff… |
| 22-7586 |
Mark Ringland v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment privileges-and-immunities procedural-protections standing state-procedure |
Whether the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment provide that no state shall make or enforce any law which shall abrid… |
| 22-7563 |
Joseph I. Wilkes v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2023-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-rights constitutional-rights delayed-appeal due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plain-language trial-court-jurisdiction |
Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution were violated when a request for delayed appeal was denied |
| 22-7564 |
Victor Wilson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-05-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
11th-circuit 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment speedy-trial |
Can a 11th Circuit Court sua sponte deny a defendant's or petitioner's constitutional right to a public speedy trial |
| 22-7545 |
Maude Laroche-St. Fleur v. Board of Bar Overseers of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2023-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
attorney-discipline constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-proceedings fourteenth-amendment judicial-immunity state-court state-court-jurisdiction |
Whether a State court is permitted to issue decisions in conflict with Supreme Court precedents and violate fundamental rights under the Fourteenth Am… |
| 22-7547 |
Carl Lee Ashley v. Mary Boayue, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment judicial-review legal-standard objective-prong prison-conditions standing |
Whether the court of appeals erred in finding that petitioner could not establish the objective prong of his Eighth Amendment claims |
| 22-7548 |
Vickie Leavitt Duran v. Nevada Division of Parole and Probation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence conspiracy due-process false-evidence fourteenth-amendment procedural-protections wrongful-conviction wrongful-convictions |
Is Due Process under the Fourteenth Amendment considered not denied where state actors purposefully fail to provide procedural protections and falsify… |
| 22-1114 |
James Harris, Jr. v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-05-15 |
Denied |
|
death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance intellectual-disability medically-accepted-standards moore-v-texas strickland-v-washington |
Whether the TCCA contravened the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, and this Court's precedents, when it evaluated petitioner's intellectual-disability… |
| 22-1094 |
Mandy Mobley Li v. Chao Li |
Georgia |
2023-05-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-support child-support-modification due-process equal-protection exclusive-jurisdiction federal-preemption fourteenth-amendment full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction preemption |
Whether Georgia law has been pre-empted by the FFCCSOA |
| 22-7492 |
Cedric Winston O'Neal v. Craig Hughes, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-justice mandatory-penalty mandatory-transfer miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana |
Are Mandatory Transfer Schemes also apart of SCOTUS' 8th Amendment ban of mandatory penalty schemes against children? |
| 22-7504 |
Xingfei Luo v. Tomas Czodor |
California |
2023-05-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
content-based-restraint domestic-violence due-process evidence family-code first-amendment fourteenth-amendment prior-restraint restraining-order |
Are a restrained party's due process rights under Fourteenth Amendment violated by a restraining order under Domestic Violence Prevention Act when no … |
| 22-7487 |
Travis Carter v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2023-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-economy montgomery-precedent montgomery-v-louisiana sixth-amendment standing state-v-reddick takings |
Does the State of Louisiana have the right to invoke 'judicial-economy' as a defense for constitutional-violations |
| 22-7493 |
Glen Thomas Dotson v. Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment federal-bureau-of-prisons first-amendment medical-treatment retaliation standing |
Was Petitioner's First Amendment Right violated when he was retaliated by Federal Bureau of Prisons staff for exercising his right to pursue his lawsu… |
| 22-7472 |
Raj K. Patel v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2023-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment big-tucker-act bounty-clause civil-rights contract-law due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion patel-v-united-states poindexter-v-greenhow religious-liberty |
whether-the-judiciary-must-reverse-and-allow-trial-of-bounty-clause-contract |
| 22-7463 |
Lexter Kennon Kossie v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-05-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fourteenth-amendment good-conduct-time liberty-interest overdetention prisoner-rights systemic-overdetention |
Whether Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCI) violates the Fourteenth Amendment by confining its prisoners past the dates when they are legally … |
| 22-1070 |
Stanford James Stelle, III v. California |
California |
2023-05-04 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
competency competency-hearing criminal-defendant criminal-procedure drope-v-missouri due-process fourteenth-amendment mental-competency mental-incompetence pate-v-robinson successive-review |
Does California's heightened standard for a successive competency hearing violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment? |
| 22-1073 |
Team Resources Incorporated, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-penalty disgorgement due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing federal-court securities-and-exchange-commission securities-law |
Whether a federal court may grant a disgorgement request from the Securities and Exchange Commission without granting a defendant's request for a live… |
| 22-7438 |
Frank Nellom v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2023-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
court-order criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process expungement fourteenth-amendment judicial-interpretation jury-finding jury-instructions rape-conviction |
Did the honorable Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge Joan A. Brown find the Commonwealth v. Frank Nellom, 565 A.2d 770 (Pa. Super.1989) Court Or… |
| 22-1063 |
Tennessee v. Tyshon Booker |
Tennessee |
2023-05-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama sentencing-guidelines term-of-years-sentences |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits term-of-years sentences that effectively deny juvenile offenders a meaningful opportunity for release |
| 22-1054 |
Robert E. Bennett, et ux. v. City of Kingman, Arizona |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment property-rights regulatory-takings section-1983-claim takings takings-clause vested-rights |
Did the Arizona District Court and the Ninth Circuit Court err in their analysis of the takings claim? |
| 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 |
| 22-7424 |
Darryl Bryan Barwick v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-05-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
age-of-culpability cognitive-deficits cognitive-impairment cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment mental-age neuropsychological-disorder state-constitutional-law |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of individuals with severe neuropsychological disorders, lifelong cognitive deficits, and low men… |
| 22-7432 |
Willie Glover, Jr. v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2023-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment executive-order human-rights recidivism sentencing-guidelines standing |
Whether the D.C. Court of Appeals erred in treating the case as subject to harmless error analysis when the error was structural in nature |
| 22-7400 |
Maurice Morrison v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2023-04-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause confrontation-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-protection jury-deliberations jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-evidence |
Whether a juror's communication to the jury during deliberations of highly prejudicial specialized factual information that was based on his professio… |
| 22-7402 |
Nathan Alvarado v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2023-04-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment gideon-v-wainwright habeas-corpus public-importance state-court |
Did the State Court proceedings afford Due Process and Equal Protection of Laws under the Fifth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment? |
| 22-7406 |
Shawn Henry v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-04-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial false-evidence fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct state-action state-court-discrimination |
Whether petitioner was denied substantial equality and fair process |
| 22-1047 |
Rhonda J. Leaf, nka Rhonda J. Ring v. Brian E. Leaf |
Delaware |
2023-04-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment impartial-tribunal pro-se property-rights standing |
Was Rhonda J. Leaf (nka-Ring)'s 14th amendment right violated along with her due process in the law? Was there an impartial tribunal? |
| 22-7382 |
Tarus Vandell Sales v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-04-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment enmund-v-florida fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus law-of-parties sixth-amendment tison-v-arizona |
Whether Mr. Sales's death sentence violates the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 22-1035 |
Shoman Kasbekar, et al. v. Ivy Station Community Association, Inc., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-04-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction pleading rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court state-court-jurisdiction |
Whether a state court acts with jurisdiction and in a manner consistent with Fourteenth Amendment Due Process when it enters judgment on a pleading ex… |
| 22-7342 |
Dupree Penn v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-04-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause |
| 22-7305 |
Stacey Johnson, et al. v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-04-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment execution-challenge method-of-execution prisoner-rights scientific-consensus severe-pain standing |
Whether the Eighth Amendment requires a prisoner challenging the method of his execution to show a scientific consensus that the method is sure or ver… |
| 22-7311 |
Randal Thomas Rosado v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-04-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-act double-jeopardy fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment multiple-prosecutions multiple-punishments negotiated-plea plea-bargaining same-offense sixth-amendment |
Does a ten-count conviction under the same statute for a single act of filing one document violate the double jeopardy clause of the Fifth Amendment p… |
| 22-1009 |
Barbara Kolkowski v. Ashtabula Area Teacher's Association, et al. |
Ohio |
2023-04-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights collective-bargaining due-process fourteenth-amendment free-speech grievance-process individual-rights labor-law liberty-interest public-employment statutory-interpretation |
Whether a public employee in Ohio under a collective bargaining agreement providing for binding arbitration has the Constitutional right either fundam… |
| 22-7271 |
Gregg Haden v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review supreme-court-precedent texas-procedure |
Whether Texas's procedure for failing to apply the Bullcoming standard and violating the 6th Amendment right to confrontation that is incorporated aga… |
| 22-996 |
Tawanda Hall, et al. v. Andrew Meisner, Oakland County Treasurer, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-04-13 |
Denied |
|
civil-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-punishment constitutional-law due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause property-forfeiture takings tax-foreclosure |
Whether the forfeiture of property worth far more than needed to satisfy a debt plus interest, penalties, and costs is a fine within the meaning of th… |
| 22-7256 |
Mickey Wahl v. Kris Mayes, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit sixth-amendment uncertified-issues |
Whether Mr. Wahl was denied his right to effective assistance of counsel in violation of the Sixth & Fourteenth Amendments? |
| 22-980 |
Neil Paul Noble v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-04-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-right harmless-error indictment-notice notice sixth-amendment state-courts |
Is the Sixth Amendment right to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation a fundamental federal constitutional right that should be made a… |
| 22-7236 |
Louis Gaskin v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-04-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment espinosa-v-florida fourteenth-amendment post-conviction-relief procedural-due-process procedural-rules sixth-amendment |
Whether Mr. Gaskin's execution violates the US Constitution due to a malfunctioned process |
| 22-7198 |
Richard Roy Blake v. Liliane Hong, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-04-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-assembly free-speech municipal-ordinance section-1983 void-for-vagueness |
Did the City of Northglenn, Colorado police department violate Petitioner's First Amendment rights to free-speech, free-assembly, 42-usc-1983 |
| 22-7211 |
Marco Antonio Aguilar-Medina v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-procedure statute-of-limitations |
Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals violated Petitioner's constitutional due process rights, as protected by the Fifth Amendment, by (1) denyin… |
| 22-7172 |
Henry A. Harmon v. Kayla Noel-Emsweller, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-04-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment en-banc-review equal-protection good-time judicial-review sentencing time-served |
Did petitioner have a complete fair denovo review of his legal findings |
| 22-7174 |
James R. Householder, Jr. v. Michael Zaken, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-04-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
cross-examination due-process Fair-trial Fourteenth-Amendment Impeachment Inconsistent-testimony ineffective-assistance Ineffective-counsel Sixth-Amendment witness-testimony |
Due-process |
| 22-7180 |
Tyshon Booker v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2023-04-03 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment juvenile-court juvenile-transfer probable-cause reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment transfer-hearing |
Did it violate the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments for the increase in the range of potential punishment to be based on findings made by a judge under… |
| 22-7184 |
Darrell Kelly Middlekauff v. Sue Washburn, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution |
Oregon |
2023-04-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
capital-sentencing death-penalty fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial jury-trial-waiver post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment |
Is trial counsel ineffective for failing to advise client of death penalty factors prior to waiving jury? |
| 22-7153 |
Tamar Devell Harvey v. Frederick Russell, Assistant Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-03-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bodily-harm civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment inmate-safety prison-official prison-officials risk-of-serious-harm substantial-risk |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing the plaintiff's claim for failure to state a claim |
| 22-7135 |
Victoria Michelle Drain v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2023-03-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment capital-punishment capital-sentencing defense-counsel eddings-v-oklahoma eighth-amendment mitigating-evidence ohio-supreme-court sentencing-review strategic-choice |
Whether defense counsel has discretion to present mitigating evidence in a capital case |
| 22-7140 |
George Cerron v. Personal Investment Inc. |
Florida |
2023-03-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure counsel-disqualification due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment nonfinal-appeal nonfinal-order standing state-law |
Does a nonfinal appeal qualify to be dismissed by the court, claiming it is dismissed as being from a nonappealable nonfinal order? |
| 22-7141 |
Donald McDonald v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-03-29 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habitual-criminal-act life-sentence non-violent-felony proportionate-penalties proportionate-penalties-clause sentencing solem-v-helm |
Whether the decision of the First District Appellate court of Illinois denying Petitioner's proportionate penalty clause claim conflicts with the deci… |
| 22-7127 |
William Michael Meyer v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment habeas-corpus proportionality state-court-adjudication term-of-years-sentences |
Whether the state court adjudicated the petitioner's Eighth Amendment claim on the merits |
| 22-7134 |
Christopher L. Whitaker v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2023-03-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-defendant capital-punishment eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mitigation-evidence self-incrimination sixth-amendment |
Is a capital defendant's offer to plead guilty and waive all post-trial procedures in exchange for a life sentence admissible as mitigating evidence? |
| 22-7113 |
Atdom Mikels Patsalis v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aggregate-length-of-sentences cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment habeas-corpus proportionality term-of-years-sentences |
Whether a state court's express refusal to consider a petitioner's constitutional claim constitutes an adjudication on the merits under 28 U.S.C. § 22… |
| 22-7118 |
Scott David Creech v. Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ada americans-with-disabilities-act disability-accommodation disability-rights due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment prisoner-accommodation reasonable-accommodation |
Did the Ohio Department of Rehabilitations and Corrections know that Petitioner was disabled and thereafter deny him a reasonable accommodation to a k… |
| 22-7087 |
Michael James Hoffman v. United States District Court for the District of Arizona |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence-manipulation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-misconduct trial-misconduct |
Did the State violate the Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to counsel and due process? |
| 22-7091 |
David Lee Hering v. Iowa |
Iowa |
2023-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-authority personal-jurisdiction speedy-trial void-judgement |
Whether a criminal prosecution and judgement therefrom is void where the trial court lost personal jurisdiction over the defendant prior to the start … |
| 22-936 |
Martine Bernard v. Christopher Hodyl |
Colorado |
2023-03-24 |
Denied |
|
autonomy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment liberty liberty-rights monetary-sanctions psychotherapist-patient-privilege psychotherapist-privilege therapy-disclosure |
Whether statutory psychotherapist-patient privilege and due-process bar state court from forcing petitioner to use court-appointed therapist or face s… |
| 22-922 |
Ryan J. Welter v. Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine |
Massachusetts |
2023-03-22 |
Denied |
|
administrative-discretion capacity-to-deceive career-ending-sanctions due-process fourteenth-amendment intent-materiality-harm misleading-statements occupational-licensing |
When can a licensing board impose career-ending sanctions based on truthful statements with potential to mislead? |
| 22-7049 |
Robert A. Martinez, Jr. v. Lucas County Jail |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-03-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights constitutional-rights disability-rights due-process eighth-amendment inmate-healthcare medical-treatment |
Is it legal to refuse prescribed medication to a Disabled person while incarcerated? |
| 22-901 |
Richard E. Gardiner v. Nels Anderson |
Utah |
2023-03-17 |
Denied |
|
attorney-fees civil-procedure contract court-of-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-theory utah-supreme-court waiver |
Whether the Utah Supreme Court denied Petitioner his Fourteenth Amendment right to due process |
| 22-7027 |
Lester Barnett v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2023-03-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
10th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment pre-trial-detention sentencing state-prisoner |
Was it unconstitutional for them to convict petitioner for a safecracking that happened while petitioner was confined at Mecklenburg County Jail on th… |
| 22-898 |
Ronald I. Paul v. South Carolina Department of Transportation, et al. |
South Carolina |
2023-03-16 |
Denied |
|
declaratory-relief eminent-domain fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment just-compensation property-rights settlement-agreement |
Whether a settlement agreement in an eminent domain case violates the just compensation clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 22-7009 |
Davion Smith v. California |
California |
2023-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adult-sentence criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial juvenile-adjudication juvenile-delinquent sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Does a state violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when it denies the right to a jury trial to a juvenile delinquent on the groun… |
| 22-7002 |
J. T. v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2023-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abandonment-neglect-abuse child-welfare due-process fourteenth-amendment incarceration parental-rights statutory-interpretation termination-of-parental-rights vagueness |
Does Maryland's 'best interest of the child' standard conflict with the 'clear and convincing evidence' standard that protects liberty interests throu… |
| 22-864 |
Ohio v. D. R. |
Ohio |
2023-03-10 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
court-discretion discretionary-hearings due-process fourteenth-amendment juvenile-offenders sex-offenders statutory-obligations |
Does the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause entitle juvenile sex offenders to hearings at which courts have discretion to lift statutorily mand… |
| 22-860 |
Chene Devonne Manley v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
certificate-of-appealability chiari-malformation due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence sentencing-determination |
Does the Due Process Clause of the Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment entitle an applicant to a certificate of appealability regarding a state prison… |
| 22-6960 |
James Jonathan Mitchell v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus mental-competency |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a prisoner who is incompetent to understand the … |
| 22-6964 |
Arthur Brown, Jr. v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-03-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment eighth-amendment intellectual-disability moore-precedent moore-v-texas procedural-bar texas-criminal-code-article-11.071-section-5(a)(1) |
Is Mr. Brown entitled to a merits review of his Atkins claim under federal law, Moore I and Moore II, and was the procedural bar asserted by the Texas… |
| 22-6969 |
Christopher Ashley Shetskie v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2023-03-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law due-process fourteenth-amendment mens-rea mental-state murder murder-statute sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth Amendment' jury-trial guarantee, taken together with the Fourteenth Amendments' right to due process require that the legislative si… |
| 22-6972 |
Deandre Earp v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourth-circuit judicial-interpretation mental-illness sentencing |
Whether a criminal defendant who is found guilty but mentally ill can be punished as harshly as a defendant found guilty and sane |
| 22-848 |
James Douglas Fox v. Mark Campbell, et ux. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-03-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
county-of-sacramento-v-lewis excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment graham-v-connor law-enforcement qualified-immunity seizure self-defense unreasonable-force |
Whether the Fourth Amendment standard for evaluating unreasonable force claims or the Fourteenth Amendment standard applies when law enforcement shoot… |
| 22-6937 |
Robert L. Davis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-03-06 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 28-usc-1915 access-to-courts civil-rights court-access cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment first-amendment pro-se-litigant redress |
Does a lifetime ban to courts under 28 U.S.C. §1915(g) unless one pays in full deny due process violating the 14th amendment right to seek redress? |
| 22-6944 |
Paige C. Sullivan, nka Paige C. Auer v. Jacob James Culwell |
Florida |
2023-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-protection custody custody-dispute de-facto-parenthood due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest parental-rights standing |
Whether a natural parent has a fundamental liberty interest in the care, custody, and management of her child |
| 22-6928 |
Logan Dyjak v. Jo-An Lynn, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-03-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process failure-to-protect first-amendment fourteenth-amendment litigation-reform mental-health sexual-abuse sexual-acts |
Which constitutional claims can an individual, such as Paul, who was committed for mental health treatment, bring against state officials for failure … |
| 22-6903 |
William Landry, Jr. v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2023-03-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights due-process faretta-v-california fourteenth-amendment indigent-defense sixth-amendment speedy-trial state-constitution statutory-interpretation |
Whether Oklahoma's State Constitution Article II § 20 violates the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments by failing to contain the language of the Speedy Tr… |
| 22-6901 |
Brandon L. Johnson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment illinois-constitution ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions knowingly-standard seventh-amendment |
Whether the State violated the Due Process clause |
| 22-825 |
James K. Collins v. D.R. Horton-Texas Limited |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
due-process federal-courts federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment personal-jurisdiction res-judicata rule-60 supremacy-clause takings |
Can a judgment of a court that lacked personal jurisdiction be the basis for taking property? |
| 22-6876 |
Haroun Bacchus v. Misty Thomson, et al. |
California |
2023-02-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fraud-allegations litigation-process procedural-due-process standing united-states-constitution |
Whether the civil procedures performed in both cases violate the requirements of procedural due process of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United Stat… |
| 22-6888 |
Samantha D. Rajapakse v. Seyfarth Shaw, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-02-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights credit-reporting credit-reporting-agency due-process fair-credit-reporting-act first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigation standing |
Can a law firm retained by a credit reporting agency carry out the duties of and services of credit reporting agency business? |
| 22-6891 |
Joseph Dingler v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-02-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment free-speech indigent-defendant post-conviction-relief standing takings trial-transcript voting |
Question not identified |
| 22-820 |
Lori D. McLaughlin v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights doj-policy due-process fourteenth-amendment giglio-determination giglio-policy law-enforcement standing |
Are law enforcement officers entitled to due process rights prior to a Giglio determination? |
| 22-6868 |
Billy Leon Kearse v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-02-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
counsel-performance due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-strategy sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's analysis of ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claims fails to protect the Sixth-Amendment-right-to-effective-assistance… |
| 22-6869 |
Daniel Earl Genson, III v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2023-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-principles criminal-law criminal-punishment due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights mens-rea strict-liability |
Whether the absence of mens rea from a felony offense that criminalizes passive, otherwise innocent conduct without proof of notice while subjecting i… |
| 22-6862 |
Benjamin Young v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2023-02-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-trial character-evidence criminal-procedure culpability-phase dawson-v-delaware first-amendment fourteenth-amendment gang-membership sentencing-phase |
Whether the First and Fourteenth Amendment prohibit the introduction of gang membership evidence in the culpability phase of a capital trial |
| 22-802 |
Murco Wall Products, Inc. v. Michael D. Galier |
Oklahoma |
2023-02-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process fair-play-and-substantial-justice forum-contacts fourteenth-amendment minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction |
Whether the 'minimum contacts' requirement for specific jurisdiction is satisfied whenever a defendant has made limited sales of products to customers… |
| 22-6828 |
Luis Espinoza v. Tammy Foss, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-testimony |
Were Mr. Espinoza's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights violated? |
| 22-6831 |
Will Lee Carter v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2023-02-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-religion self-incrimination sexually-violent-predator substantive-due-process |
Is Virginia's Sexually Violent Predator Law Unconstitutional? |
| 22-6819 |
Donald Dillbeck v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
2023-02-20 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
atkins-v-florida eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability jury-unanimity medical-community medical-consensus neurobehavioral-disorder prenatal-alcohol-exposure |
Whether a state court's refusal to consider a defendant's claim that he is exempt from execution under Atkins v. Virginia due to Neurobehavioral Disor… |
| 22-782 |
Carol Pulliam v. University of Southern California |
California |
2023-02-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-ethics recusal standing takings |
Do state court trial judges, court of appeal justices and supreme court justices 'war against the (United States) Constitution' by denying state litig… |
| 22-766 |
Edward Pinkney v. Berrien County, Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-15 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights criminal-proceedings due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause section-1983 unlawful-prosecution |
Whether Petitioner's § 1983 claim based on his prosecution, pretrial-criminal-proceedings, trial, conviction, and incarceration for an act the law doe… |
| 22-6776 |
J. Doe v. Design Review Board of the Town of Sullivan's Island, et al. |
South Carolina |
2023-02-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
amendment-violation appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure meaningful-review procedural-due-process seventh-amendment |
Whether review should be granted where no other review was available and whether the lower appellate court denied meaningful review and other substant… |
| 22-6762 |
Ryan Galal Van Dyck v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2023-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment child-pornography cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment life-sentence mandatory-sentencing proportionality sentencing |
Does a mandatory de facto life sentence for mere possession of child pornography images, when the person has never directly abused or attempted to abu… |
| 22-6753 |
Andrew Mark Lamar v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2023-02-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment juror-misconduct mistrial sixth-amendment |
Whether petitioner's right to a fair and impartial trial was violated due to juror misconduct |
| 22-752 |
Bi Rite Auto Transport, Inc., et al. v. Russell Dilday, et al. |
California |
2023-02-10 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment appeal appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment procedural-due-process standing state-court-rules state-law |
Is California's procedural due process satisfactory? |
| 22-6735 |
Echo Dixon v. New York |
New York |
2023-02-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud-on-the-court free-exercise habeas-corpus misnomer |
Whether the People of the State of New York interfered with Petitioner's first and fourteenth amendment free exercise rights |
| 22-6737 |
John Edward Butler v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2023-02-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-justice due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection parole sentencing |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights under the Due Process Clause, Equal Protection Clause, and Eighth Amendment were violated by North Caro… |
| 22-6739 |
Harry Franklin Phillips v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-02-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-punishment certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-law due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability retroactivity |
Whether the denial of a Certificate of Appealability (COA) on the denial of a motion that seeks to amend a habeas petition pending on appeal violates … |
| 22-6740 |
Lisa Antoine v. Delancy LLC, dba Vital Medical Staffing |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-02-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-discrimination civil-rights constitutional-rights discovery-withholding due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech retaliation whistleblower-protection whistleblowing |
Did the District court and the Court of Appeal erred in denying the Petitioner her legal rights within her legal capacity from the facts in her case a… |
| 22-6725 |
Michael A. Gordon v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-02-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment proportionality-review pulley-v-harris |
Has the Florida Supreme Court by abandoning comparative proportionality review in death penalty appeals while dismantling other safeguards, and in vie… |
| 22-6706 |
Darin M. Ogden v. Idaho |
Idaho |
2023-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquittal criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-acquittal lewd-conduct sentencing united-states-v-watts |
Whether the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits a state court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a … |
| 22-6713 |
Leonard Taylor v. David Vandergriff, Superintendent, Potosi Correctional Center |
Missouri |
2023-02-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus scientific-evidence |
Whether a freestanding claim of actual innocence presents a cognizable constitutional claim under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 22-6670 |
Jimmy Ray Lacy, Jr. v. Chandler Cheeks |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jailhouse-informant prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
Was Jimmy Ray Lacy Jr. denied a fair trial under the fourteenth amendment |
| 22-6677 |
Philip J. Vonville v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2023-02-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mistrial pennsylvania state-court-procedure state-courts |
Did state courts in Pennsylvania fail to address both Fifth and Fourteenth amendment (Due Process) violations of court record after a second trial end… |
| 22-6645 |
Kimberlee Szewczyk v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Does the standard for assessing ineffective assistance of counsel claims, announced in Strickland v. Washington, fail to protect the Sixth Amendment r… |
| 22-6649 |
Dee Walter Mitchell, Jr. v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
coerced-confession coerced-testimony due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-interrogation juvenile-rights miranda-rights police-interrogation |
Where police interrogation of a juvenile murder suspect violates due process |
| 22-6650 |
Antonio Rooks-Byrd, aka Abdur-Rashid Muhammad v. Court of Appeals of Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2023-01-27 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-court civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure jurisdiction standing state-appellate-court |
whether-the-fourteenth-amendment-prohibits-a-state-appellate-court-from-adjudicating-an-application-or-motion-in-complete-absence-of-all-jurisdiction |
| 22-6654 |
Roland Cummings v. Maine |
Maine |
2023-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-review prejudice sixth-amendment sua-sponte |
Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial and Fourteenth Amendment right to due process are satisfied by an appellate court's summary conclusi… |
| 22-693 |
Michael Johnson v. Susan Prentice, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-01-25 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) |
circuit-split civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment exercise-deprivation prisoner-rights solitary-confinement |
Whether punitively depriving a prisoner in solitary confinement of virtually all exercise for three years notwithstanding the absence of a security ju… |
| 22-6618 |
Josiah E. v. Arizona Department of Child Safety, et al. |
Arizona |
2023-01-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights covid-19-impact due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-rights pretrial-detainee standing statutory-interpretation termination-proceeding |
Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Ruloyed Cases 995.3 and A |
| 22-6606 |
Henry Zabala-Zorilla v. Joseph Terra, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
allen-charge civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction reversible-error supplemental-instruction |
Does the Fourteenth Amendment equal protection laws require a state judge be found to commit reversible error to give a supplemental charge or an 'All… |
| 22-6609 |
James D. Thomas v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 brady-violation due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment |
Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals violate petitioner's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment right by denying petitioners 28 USC § 2255 motion to vacate… |
| 22-6574 |
Eddie Turner v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-law fourteenth-amendment judicial-conflict standing statute-of-limitations void-judgment void-ruling |
Can a void ruling legally be challenged at any time and in any court? |
| 22-6576 |
Phillip Tarver v. Keisha Fisher, Administrator, South Woods State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-01-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment trial-by-jury |
Was the petitioner deprived of due process and the right to trial by jury, and is the right not to be put in jeopardy twice for the same crime charged… |
| 22-6579 |
Jaime Hoyos v. Ronald Davis, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
batson-challenge due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination standard-of-review voir-dire |
Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals violate petitioner's rights under the Fourteenth Amendment? |
| 22-661 |
David Frank Campeau, Jr., et ux. v. Edward Sandercock, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Wayne County, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-01-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
10th-amendment 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 9th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights federalism-powers fourteenth-amendment marriage-law ninth-amendment state-statute tenth-amendment |
Whether the Ninth and Tenth Amendments reserve the right to marry to the people of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania |
| 22-6538 |
Tremane Wood v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2023-01-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-successor-statute collateral-review due-process eighth-amendment federal-constitutional-claims fourteenth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence postconviction-review sixth-amendment state-prisoners successor-postconviction |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment requires states to afford state prisoners some adequate corrective process for the hearing and determination of claim… |
| 22-6544 |
Bradley B. Miller v. Andrea Plumlee, Judge, District Court of Texas, Dallas County |
Texas |
2023-01-17 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-procedure due-process federal-removal fourteenth-amendment judicial-immunity jurisdiction res-judicata standing state-court-jurisdiction statute-of-limitations |
Whether state court jurisdiction halts during the pendency of a federal removal |
| 22-6534 |
Terry Lynn King v. Tony Mays, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-01-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-trial constitutional-error cruel-and-unusual-punishment cumulative-error due-process federal-courts fourteenth-amendment harmless-error judicial-review |
Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires that courts consider the aggregate effect of multiple legal errors |
| 22-6541 |
Garrett Statler v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process fourteenth-amendment mens-rea sexual-battery state-court-conflict statutory-interpretation |
Whether Florida's sexual battery statute for acts applicable to adults with no physical force or violence violates the Fourteenth Amendment because it… |
| 22-643 |
Jason Devon Lenoir v. Lynn Guyer, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
certificate-of-appealability faretta-hearing fourteenth-amendment pro-se-representation psychological-evaluation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver-of-counsel |
Is a criminal defendant entitled to a COA when he has demonstrated and made a substantial showing that his rights were denied under the Sixth and Four… |
| 22-6512 |
Frank L. Perry v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2023-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
direct-review due-process equal-protection finality finality-date fourteenth-amendment lamb-v-state montgomery-v-state state-court |
Whether the lower Florida state court's error in failing to correctly calculate the date that petitioner's direct review of his case became 'final' de… |
| 22-6516 |
Abraham A. Augustin v. Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security |
Tennessee |
2023-01-11 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-forfeiture constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment procedural-protections property-rights takings united-states-constitution |
Whether the forfeiture of Augustin's property comported with the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 22-6524 |
Barry L. Brookins v. Rajendra Dwivedi |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment medical-procedure state-law |
Whether the plaintiff's 8th Amendment right against cruel and unusual punishment has been violated through an unlawful surgery performed without the p… |
| 22-6515 |
Christopher Raiche v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentence eighth-amendment first-time-offender grossly-disproportionate life-sentence non-violent-crime sentencing |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against grossly disproportionate prison sentences was triggered by the imposition of a de facto life senten… |
| 22-624 |
Zafar Iqbal v. Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs, State Board of Medicine |
Pennsylvania |
2023-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
coerced-confession constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment material-witness perjury right-to-due-process testimony |
Did the ruling(s), by disregarding testimony of material witness, proven to lie under oath violated petitioner's right to due process enshrined in fou… |
| 22-6484 |
Courtney Saunders v. Kyle Thies, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights discriminatory-intent discriminatory-policing driving-while-black equal-protection fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement racial-discrimination racial-profiling traffic-stop |
Whether an Equal Protection claim under the Fourteenth Amendment, based on an incident of discriminatory policing, requires a plaintiff to establish t… |
| 22-6492 |
Zoe Ajjahnon v. Sandler Holdings, LLC |
Florida |
2023-01-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process eviction-proceedings federal-constitution fourteenth-amendment judicial-review procedural-deficiency property-rights state-constitution |
Whether Florida's Orange County trial court's final judgment, Florida's Fifth District Court of Appeals' deliberate denial of due process, and Florida… |
| 22-6495 |
Genero Javon Zuniga v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2023-01-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
colorado constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment retroactivity substantive-law zuniga |
Did the State of Colorado violate Mr. Zuniga's Fourteenth Amendment due process protections when it failed to apply a new rule of substantive law retr… |
| 22-621 |
Linda Matarese, Personal Representative of the Estate of Hilda Duld Bauman, Deceased v. Virginia Hospital Center Arlington Health System, dba Virginia Hospital Center, et al. |
Virginia |
2023-01-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment haines-v-kerner motion-to-strike pro-se-litigant reasonable-accommodation |
Did the Supreme Court of Virginia violate Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment due process rights? |
| 22-614 |
Troy Chrisman, et al. v. Estate of Seth Michael Zakora, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-01-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
civil-rights constitutional-protection corrections corrections-liability criminal-law drug-contraband due-process eighth-amendment institutional-supervision prisoner-rights |
Whether a prisoner's criminal act of voluntarily ingesting an illegal drug banned within the prison can give rise to that prisoner's federal constitut… |
| 22-610 |
Warren Adam Taylor v. Augusta-Richmond County Consolidated Commissioners, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-01-04 |
Denied |
|
case-controversy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss public-interest qualified-immunity standing statute-of-limitations |
Question not identified |
| 22-6445 |
Juan Villa Ramirez v. California |
California |
2023-01-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstances constitutional-rights death-penalty fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-finding ring-v-arizona sixth-amendment |
Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement that every fact, other than a prior conviction, that serves to increase the statutory m… |
| 22-6454 |
Christine Chang v. Ezery Beauchamp, Captain and Commander for California Highway Patrol, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 abuse-of-discretion civil-rights dismissal dismissal-with-prejudice due-process fourteenth-amendment ninth-circuit pro-se section-1983 |
Whether the Ninth Circuit violates Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment due process rights |
| 22-6440 |
Damian Thomas v. Delaware |
Delaware |
2023-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment perjured-testimony post-conviction post-conviction-relief procedural-bar prosecutorial-misconduct |
Was petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment right to due process of law violated when his conviction was obtained through the use of perjured testimony and … |
| 22-603 |
Jevarreo Kelley-Lomax v. City of Chicago, Illinois |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-12-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bailee-duty bailment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment pre-trial-detention property-rights property-seizure |
Whether the refusal to return lawfully seized property implicates the Fourth Amendment |
| 22-6430 |
Alex Bugno v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2022-12-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment good-faith-exception particularity search-warrant seizure |
Are search warrants that fail to include command sections authorizing the seizure of particular items facially and fatally defective, requiring suppre… |
| 22-6431 |
Philip Johnson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-12-30 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights eighth-amendment guilty-plea juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing miller-factors miller-v-alabama plea-bargaining proportionate-penalties sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Whether a pre-Miller guilty plea bars a post-Miller sentencing challenge under the Eighth Amendment |
| 22-6435 |
Willie Tyrone Shipley v. D. Holbrook |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights confrontation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-discretion sixth-amendment witness-testimony |
Whether the defendant was deprived of his right to confrontation and due process under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments when the district attorney … |
| 22-6396 |
John Edward Sansing v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review clearly-established-law criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment federal-habeas mitigating-evidence mitigating-factors sentencing-procedure victim-impact |
Did the appellate court err in affirming the denial of Sansing's petition on this meritorious claim? |
| 22-580 |
John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections v. Kenneth Eugene Smith |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-12-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (9) |
alternative-method comity death-penalty eighth-amendment feasibility finality method-of-execution nitrogen-hypoxia |
Whether an alternative method of execution is feasible and readily implemented merely because the executing State has statutorily authorized the metho… |
| 22-6373 |
Alicja Z. Herriott v. Paul Barrett Herriott |
California |
2022-12-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-redress petition-clause right-to-petition vexatious-litigant |
Whether the California Vexatious Litigant Statutory Law violates the due process rights of pro se litigants by denying them access to the courts |
| 22-6384 |
Peter Gakuba v. Larry Henderson, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment administrative-remedies civil-rights constitutional-violations deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment kosher-meal-requirements prisoner-rights |
Whether the Eighth Amendment requires prison officials to accommodate a prisoner's serious medical needs, including a life-threatening food allergy, a… |
| 22-576 |
Cindy Ellen Ochoa v. Public Consulting Group, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-21 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 compelled-speech constitutional-violation due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment public-employee-rights public-sector-unions section-1983 union-dues |
Does a challenge to a statutory system alleging failure to provide due process under the Fourteenth Amendment and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 require an injured … |
| 22-577 |
Jodee Wright v. Service Employees International Union Local 503, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-21 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
civil-rights collective-bargaining due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech labor-law public-sector union-dues |
Do the constitutional guarantees of Freedom of Speech and Due Process of law create an affirmative duty for government employers to ensure employees' … |
| 22-6368 |
Christopher J. Cox v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence fabricated-evidence fair-trial false-witnesses fourteenth-amendment procedural-due-process state-circuit-court |
Whether a defendant's procedural due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment have been violated |
| 22-6369 |
In Re Tiyon T. Brown-Bey |
|
2022-12-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-disenfranchisement due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus racial-discrimination sovereign-immunity standing |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional and unlawful claims regarding the status of 'Moors' or 'Blacks' as 'non-citizens' or 'slaves' should be addres… |
| 22-557 |
Peter Kleidman v. RFF Family Partnership, LP |
California |
2022-12-19 |
Denied |
|
attorney-fees civil-procedure contract-law contractual-claims due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial summary-adjudication |
Does California's legal framework for adjudicating prevailing parties' claims for contractual attorney's fees violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal… |
| 22-6330 |
Billy Ray Jackson v. Bryan Daniel, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-review civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment individual-capacity liberty property section-1983 sovereign-immunity state-action unemployment-benefits |
Whether petitioner Billy Ray Jackson's 42 U.S.C. 1983 complaint states a claim against the respondent state officials under color of state law |
| 22-6333 |
N. P. v. Vermont, et al. |
Vermont |
2022-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
best-interests child-welfare due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment parental-rights santosky-standard unfitness |
Whether Vermont's parental rights termination standards violate the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 22-6339 |
Derek James Jones v. State Bar of California |
California |
2022-12-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-discipline brady-v-maryland due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment giglio-v-united-states presumption-of-innocence state-bar-court willner-v-committee-on-character-and-fitness |
Whether the State of California violated Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment guarantees of due process |
| 22-6320 |
Mausean Carter v. Corizon Health, Inc. |
Maryland |
2022-12-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence burden-of-proof civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment evidence gross-negligence habeas-corpus medical-evidence medical-treatment successive-petition |
Whether the lower courts erred in holding that the petitioner did not meet the burden of establishing the respondents' deliberate indifference in viol… |
| 22-6311 |
Massey L. Allen, Jr. v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2022-12-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment jackson-v-virginia miranda-rights post-miranda-silence reasonable-doubt standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether there was sufficient evidence to convict under Jackson-v-Virginia |
| 22-6297 |
Kevin W. Malone v. Nebraska, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-ethics sixth-amendment trial-bias |
Does the trial counsel's fraudulent behavior and conflict of interest violate the Petitioner's 6th & 14th Amendment right to conflict free counsel? |
| 22-528 |
Gilbert Rodriguez, IV v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-12-08 |
Denied |
|
criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights sixth-amendment |
Whether the 1838rd district court for Harris County, Texas erred in denying Petitioner Rodriguez's writ of Habeas Corpus |
| 22-6255 |
Deonte Courtez Gates v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
blakely-v-washington circuit-court-conflict constitutional-interpretation eighth-amendment federal-law juvenile-defendant relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the relevant conduct sentencing guideline is unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment as applied to conduct committed by a juvenile defenda… |
| 22-6257 |
Kenneth Ray Borders v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court compassionate-release criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment health-conditions judicial-misconduct procedural-error standing |
Should this court grant the writ where the lower court erred in violation of the eighth-amendment in denying compassionate-release when the lower cour… |
| 22-6260 |
Paula Williams v. Conduent Human Services LLC |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-12-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discriminatory-practices due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-conduct judicial-disability standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Question not identified |
| 22-526 |
Pulak Barua v. Texas Commission on Environmental Quality |
Texas |
2022-12-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-hearing administrative-law default-judgment due-process fourteenth-amendment notice notice-requirement service-of-process state-administrative-agency takings |
Whether the notice given to Petitioner violated his Due Process rights |
| 22-6231 |
William Dustin Poole v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment life-without-parole non-homicide-offense sentencing |
Whether a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on an eighteen-year-old defendant convicted of a non-homicide offense violat… |
| 22-521 |
Jack Pidgeon, et al. v. Sylvester Turner, Mayor of the City of Houston, Texas, et al. |
Texas |
2022-12-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection family-code fourteenth-amendment marriage-recognition same-sex-marriage texas-constitution |
Whether Texas Constitution article I, § 32 and Texas Family Code § 6.204 violate the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendm… |
| 22-513 |
Hyrum James Geddes v. Weber County, Utah, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-12-02 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights detention-facility due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment objective-reasonableness section-1983 |
Whether the test of objective reasonableness for excessive force claims under the Fourteenth Amendment is the same as the test under the Fourth Amendm… |
| 22-6191 |
John L. Lotter v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2022-12-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment collateral-review constitutional-law eighth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability moore-v-texas retroactivity substantive-rules |
Did Hall and Moore I announce new substantive rules of federal constitutional law that apply retroactively to cases on collateral review? |
| 22-6193 |
Marie Assa'ad-Faltas v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2022-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights contempt-power contempt-powers due-process eighth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-trial prison-overcrowding |
Whether incarceration for up to six months for alleged indirect contempt without trial by jury is always per se cruel and unusual |
| 22-6200 |
In Re Terry Lopez |
|
2022-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-asset-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus innocent-owner-doctrine standing supreme-court-jurisdiction takings |
Whether the abuse of discretion and mistake of law perpetuated by The Fifth Circuit runs afoul of the Supreme Court's holding in Timbs v. Indiana, Feb… |
| 22-6181 |
Willie Speed v. Douglas Fender, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-conflict conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment |
whether-an-attorney's-conflict-of-interest-deprived-petitioner-of-his-rights-under-the-sixth-and-fourteenth-amendments-to-effective-assistance-and-due… |
| 22-501 |
Tom Alonzo, et al. v. Scott Schwab, Kansas Secretary of State, et al. |
Kansas |
2022-11-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights equal-protection fourteenth-amendment gingles-prong-one minority-voting-rights racial-discrimination redistricting single-member-district standing |
Does the Fourteenth Amendment prohibit intentional racial discrimination in redistricting where the minority voters discriminated against are not suff… |
| 22-496 |
Jheshua Daniel Jackson v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2022-11-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment in-absentia-trial right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-in-absentia |
Do the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution permit a court to deny a criminal defendant his request for appointment of co… |
| 22-6156 |
Peter Ivan McNeal v. Dean Borders, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel memory-expert taint-expert trial-counsel |
Whether the prosecution presented sufficient evidence to sustain the conviction |
| 22-6149 |
Edgar Arellano v. California |
California |
2022-11-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
assistance-of-counsel constitutional-rights criminal-justice-reform effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment mitigating-evidence senate-bill-1333 sentencing sentencing-hearing sixth-amendment |
Whether a re-sentencing hearing under the new First Step Act entitles a defendant to the right to effective assistance of counsel under the Sixth and … |
| 22-6142 |
Taj Collier v. Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aedpa constitutional-rights criminal-appeals criminal-appeals-reform-act fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-standard |
Whether the Florida courts of appeals provide for evidentiary hearings to determine Strickland's mixed question of law and fact |
| 22-6114 |
Phillip Scott Grigalanz v. Kristi Lynn Grigalanz |
Indiana |
2022-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy due-process felony fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment standing |
Should respondent benefit from a conspiracy to commit a felony crime? |
| 22-468 |
Daniel James Altstatt v. City of Sacramento, California |
California |
2022-11-18 |
Denied |
|
bajakajian-factors civil-penalty civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine united-states-v-bajakajian |
Whether a state court erred by failing to apply the factors set out in United States v. Bajakajian in evaluating whether a civil penalty is unconstitu… |
| 22-475 |
Binyamin I. Efreom, et al. v. Daniel McKee, Governor of Rhode Island, et al. |
First Circuit |
2022-11-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights contract-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment pension-reform procedural-due-process rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 taking-without-compensation takings |
Whether Petitioners' procedural due-process, takings, contract-rights were violated by deprivation of federal-remedy |
| 22-6086 |
Dale McCoy v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights covid-19 covid-19-quarantine due-process equitable-tolling federal-bureau-of-prisons fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment section-2255 |
Whether the unforeseen and unexpected quarantining of the Petitioner, by the Federal Bureau of Prisons due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, justifies 'Equita… |
| 22-460 |
Joshua C. Plumb, et al. v. U.S. Bank National Association, et al. |
Washington |
2022-11-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
adverse-parties civil-procedure due-process foreclosure fourteenth-amendment judicial-foreclosure judicial-power pro-se-defendants standing |
Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment limits the judicial power of state courts to issuing judgments deciding those justiciable m… |
| 22-466 |
Herederos de Roberto Gomez Cabrera, LLC v. Teck Resources Limited |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process extraterritorial-statute federal-court federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment foreign-defendant fourteenth-amendment international-law personal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Fifth Amendment imposes the same restrictions as the Fourteenth Amendment on the exercise of personal jurisdiction by a federal court unde… |
| 22-6073 |
Lindsey Chow v. Ma Leyba, et al. |
California |
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bodily-rights civil-rights due-process equal-protection euthanasia fourteenth-amendment medical-autonomy medicare survivorship-rights |
Did the Supreme Court of California violate murder victim Henry Chow's and his children's Fourteenth Amendment rights |
| 22-6074 |
Terry Eugene Sears v. Vernia Roberts, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion prisoner-litigation prisoner-rights security-measures |
Whether the procedures required to institute unusual security measures apply in civil cases brought by prisoner plaintiffs? |
| 22-449 |
Christopher E. Larson, et ux. v. Snohomish County, Washington, et al. |
Washington |
2022-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-standard due-process financial-disclosure fourteenth-amendment judicial-neutrality judicial-partiality judicial-recusal objective-standard recusal |
Whether judges must address judicial partiality claims |
| 22-454 |
Garey Webb v. U.S. Bank National Association, As Trustee for CRMSI REMIC Series 2006-03 REMIC Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-03 |
Oklahoma |
2022-11-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment foreclosure fourteenth-amendment fraud fraud-on-court property-rights |
Whether the Oklahoma Supreme Court violated the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments by failing to address fraud and permitting a foreclosure judgment thro… |
| 22-6049 |
Kenneth Eugene Smith v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2022-11-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-determination jury-override state-federal-practice |
Does executing a condemned person contrary to a capital sentencing jury's determination that he should be sentenced to life imprisonment without the p… |
| 22-442 |
Tatana Spicakova Romero, et vir v. Li-Chuan Shih, et al. |
California |
2022-11-10 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process eminent-domain fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment land-use private-property property-rights takings |
Whether a court order that excludes land owners from their real property and allows other private parties to physically invade and occupy the owners' … |
| 22-6041 |
David Williams, III v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 congressional-intent conviction-review eighth-amendment equitable-tolling fifth-amendment government-misconduct section-2255 |
whether-defendant's-conviction-and-sentence-for-nonexistent-crimes-violates-constitution |
| 22-6044 |
Jerlard Derek Rembert v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1983 8th-amendment civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment federal-jurisdiction heck-doctrine section-1983 statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the plaintiff's 1983 civil-rights complaint for failure to show cause as to why the court should not dismi… |
| 22-6023 |
Tonatihu Aguilar v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing miller-v-alabama parole-abolition sentencing-reform |
When a state abolishes its parole system, does it create a mandatory life-without-parole sentence that, when imposed on a juvenile homicide offender, … |
| 22-6027 |
Cedric Joseph Rue, Jr. v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-interpretation juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing parole-abolition sentencing-discretion |
Whether the abolition of parole in Arizona creates a mandatory life-without-parole sentence that violates the Eighth Amendment when imposed on a juven… |
| 22-427 |
William Verrinder v. City of Lewiston, Maine |
Maine |
2022-11-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment due-process fourteenth-amendment hearing-fee municipal-law notice-of-violation property-rights property-seizure statutory-fines |
Whether the City of Lewiston, Maine can require the Petitioner to pay a fee to buy a hearing or defend himself |
| 22-428 |
Deborah Walton v. First Merchants Bank |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-11-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
billing-errors dispute-letters due-process fair-credit-billing-act first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process statute-of-limitations |
Whether a Creditor must follow the requirements specified in 1974 by the Fair Credit Billing Act |
| 22-6006 |
Justin Richard Testani v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography criminal-history cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment mental-capacity sentencing sentencing-disparity |
Whether a 720-month sentence violates the Eighth Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual sentences |
| 22-421 |
D. A.. v. Portage County, Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2022-11-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment children-in-need-of-protection civil-rights cross-examination due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment standing witness-testimony |
Whether a natural father is entitled to basic Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment Due Process during Wisconsin Children in Need of Protection or Services p… |
| 22-5969 |
Thomas Deptula v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law-conflict chesser-v-state civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court-appeal due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-brief sexual-predator sexual-predator-designation torres-v-oquinn |
Whether the Florida Second District Court of Appeal erred in denying the petitioner's request for removal of the sexual predator designation |
| 22-412 |
Roy Harness, et al. v. Michael Watson, Mississippi Secretary of State |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-02 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (17) |
civil-rights constitutional-law en-banc-review equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legislative-intent racial-discrimination voting-rights |
Whether any amendment to a law originally adopted for an impermissible racially discriminatory purpose, no matter how minor the amendment and no matte… |
| 22-414 |
Timothy R. Bonner, et al. v. Leigh Chapman, in Her Official Capacity as Acting Secretary of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2022-11-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-i-section-4 constitutional-interpretation election-procedure elections-clause federal-elections fourteenth-amendment mail-in-voting pennsylvania-law standing state-regulation voting-rights |
Does Pennsylvania's Act 77 no-excuse mail-in voting law violate Article I § 4 of the United States Constitution? |
| 22-415 |
Mark Elliott Stuart v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2022-11-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-law due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech municipal-code statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether Scottsdale Revised Code 19-13 is overbroad and violates the First Amendment |
| 22-5936 |
Demetrius Troy Bradley v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2022-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
acquitted-conduct constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-trial-rights sentencing sentencing-discretion sixth-amendment |
Do the jury-trial and due process guarantees of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit judges from considering, at sentencing in a criminal case… |
| 22-5947 |
Kevin Johnson v. Missouri |
Missouri |
2022-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-trial death-penalty eighth-amendment juror-misconduct juvenile-justice mental-health mental-impairment racial-bias |
Whether the retrial and death sentence of a 19-year-old offender with mental impairments remedied the constitutional violation from the first trial wi… |
| 22-5942 |
David G. Wiggins v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process felony-murder fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Felony Murder Statute as applied to the Petitioner is unconstitutional, denying his rights under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 22-5943 |
Isaiah Tyler v. Kentucky Department of Corrections |
Kentucky |
2022-10-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest violent-offender-statute |
Do Kentucky's violent offender statute create a liberty interest protected by due process? |
| 22-5926 |
Charles Chitat Ng v. California |
California |
2022-10-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation-clause due-process extradition-hearing fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment self-representation sixth-amendment stun-belt |
Was petitioner deprived of due-process, self-representation, fair-trial, confrontation |
| 22-5908 |
Giles McGhee v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment in-re-winship ineffective-assistance jackson-v-virginia reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment |
Did the State fail to meet its burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr. McGhee was guilty of two Counts of First Degree Murder? |
| 22-5901 |
William Paul Burch v. Areya Holder Aurzada |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-25 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure bankruptcy-transparency corruption due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud judicial-ethics salaried-employees transparency |
Should a bankruptcy judge be obligated to grant due process to a debtor? |
| 22-5906 |
William Lee Thompson v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-10-25 |
Rehearing |
Relisted (2)IFP |
death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-test iq-testing retroactivity standard-error teague-rule |
Whether Hall v. Florida announced a new rule of constitutional law or was simply an application of Atkins v. Virginia |
| 22-5907 |
Ronald J. Brooking v. Daniel Moloney |
Maryland |
2022-10-25 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-rights fairness fourteenth-amendment judicial-decision maryland-rules privileges-or-immunities procedural-due-process state-action |
Did the Circuit Court, Court of Special Appeals, and the Court of Appeals err in violations against the Petitioner's rights in the 14th Amendment to t… |
| 22-5909 |
Timmy Doucet v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-material criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-v-virginia reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment |
Insufficient evidence to convict beyond reasonable doubt |
| 22-387 |
James Edward White v. Michigan State University Unemployment Compensation Division |
Michigan |
2022-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment 9th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-rules justice legal-counsel ninth-amendment right-to-petition |
Does the Ninth Amendment guarantee certain rights? |
| 22-5889 |
Michael Paul Jessup v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing parole-abolition sentencing |
When a state abolishes its parole system, does it create a mandatory life-without-parole sentence that, when imposed on a juvenile homicide offender, … |
| 22-5881 |
Trencie V. Oliver v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law due-process eighth-amendment proportionality sentencing |
Whether Tirencie Oliver's sentence imposed is disproportionate to the offense and violates due process or the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitutio… |
| 22-5872 |
In Re Benjamin Cole |
|
2022-10-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
competency death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment execution-protocol fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus mental-competency mental-illness original-jurisdiction |
Whether a prisoner who is incompetent to be executed can be executed under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 22-372 |
Skatemore, Inc., dba Roll Haven Skating Center, et al. v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-10-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process eleventh-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment just-compensation sovereign-immunity takings-clause |
Does the Fifth Amendment's requirement of 'just compensation' waive Eleventh Amendment Sovereign Immunity for a takings claim in federal court against… |
| 22-5845 |
Skiboky Stora v. New York State Board of Elections |
New York |
2022-10-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-communication civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment free-speech judicial-communication judicial-conduct standing |
Did the communications between Respondents' Attorneys and the Chief Sweeny on the Judge's Personal Cell Phone violate the Due Process Clause of the Fo… |
| 22-5848 |
Benjamin Robert Cole v. Jim Farris, Warden |
Oklahoma |
2022-10-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-row disputed-issues-of-fact eighth-amendment execution-competency ford-v-wainwright fourteenth-amendment panetti-v-quarterman procedural-safeguards state-court warden-gatekeeper |
Whether it violates the Eighth Amendment and this Court's decisions in Ford v. Wainwright and Panetti v. Quarterman, for a state court to bypass proce… |
| 22-5842 |
Lex Lugard Eugene v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-10-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-sentencing first-amendment fourteenth-amendment habitual-felony-offender-statute sixth-amendment unsubstantiated-allegations |
Whether unsubstantiated allegations of misconduct introduced in a criminal sentencing proceeding violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 22-5814 |
Christopher Allan Allred v. Washington |
Washington |
2022-10-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure critical-stage cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment execution mental-illness rational-understanding right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a prisoner who has a severe mental illness that … |
| 22-5818 |
In Re Errol Victor, Sr. |
|
2022-10-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-privileges criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-selection racial-discrimination speedy-trial trial-rights |
Whether the Louisiana Supreme Court violated the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses by denying petitioner's request for a… |
| 22-334 |
Alice Guan v. Gary Bell, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-10-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment notice-of-appeal petition-government |
Whether Fourth Circuit affirming district court's decision based on altered Notice of Appeal without performing any review on the merit of the appeal … |
| 22-342 |
Mary Corner v. Martin J. Walsh, Secretary of Labor |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-10-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-record civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment labor-law labor-management-reporting-and-disclosure-act procedural-due-process secretary-of-labor standing union-member-rights |
Whether my rights to procedural due process was violated under the XIV Amendment |
| 22-329 |
Lu Tuan Nguyen v. David Ribal, et al. |
California |
2022-10-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bias conservatee-estate constitutional-rights deception demurrer due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias |
Whether the sustaining of the respondent's demurrer violates the Due Process Clause |
| 22-5786 |
Foroud Foladpour v. City of Upland, California |
California |
2022-10-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment government-liability judicial-discretion negligence standing trial-court-procedure |
Judicial discretion is not a matter of right |
| 22-5783 |
Kofi Kyei v. Oregon |
Oregon |
2022-10-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment oral-argument oregon-state-courts precedent statutory-mandate utcr-5.050(1) zehr-v-haugen |
Whether the Oregon State courts violated pro se Petitioner's federal due process and equal protection rights under the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 22-5752 |
Ricardo M. Suggs, Jr. v. Warden, FCI Loretto |
Third Circuit |
2022-10-04 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-review concurrent-sentence-doctrine due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the concurrent sentence doctrine can be applied to a petitioner with solely consecutive sentences |
| 22-5735 |
Thomas A. Scott v. Lonnie Oliver, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-10-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-integrity judicial-review manifest-injustice sixth-amendment |
Does the judgement of sentence represent a manifest injustice warranting the supervisory powers of this honorable court as it shakes societys confiden… |
| 22-5738 |
Vernon J. Mills v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2022-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment actual-innocence civil-rights compulsory-process due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment |
Whether the appellate court erred in possessing the legal significance of the exculpatory material of the three sworn affidavits tending to exonerate … |
| 22-311 |
Michael Vechery v. Florence Cottet-Moine |
Virginia |
2022-10-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
child-abuse child-custody child-neglect child-visitation due-process family-court fourteenth-amendment parental-rights protective-order |
Does the Due Process Clause require a finding of child abuse or unfitness to terminate all parent-child contact? |
| 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… |
| 22-5696 |
Matt Nasuti v. Adrian Holm, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law administrative-tribunals civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-accountability secret-proceedings veterans-rights |
Can Secret Trials Ever Be Constitutional? |
| 22-5684 |
Victor Gavillan Martinez v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-09-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment warrantless-search |
Whether Petitioner's Fourth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment Rights to the United States Constitution Require this Court to vacate Petitioner's convic… |
| 22-5686 |
Curtis Lee Henderson, Sr. v. California |
California |
2022-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest parole parole-denial youth-offender |
Was it cruel and unusual punishment to change Henderson's sentence from 45-to-life plus years to life, without parole, without a court hearing after s… |
| 22-287 |
Gail Lewis Hicks, et al. v. American Family Mutual Insurance Company, S.I. |
Indiana |
2022-09-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
court-of-appeals due-process fifth-amendment fifth-and-fourteenth-amendments fourteenth-amendment indiana-court-of-appeals indiana-supreme-court judgment-on-the-pleadings judicial-procedure summary-judgment |
Whether the Indiana Supreme Court decided an issue without determining the effect of the Indiana Court of Appeals granting Respondent a summary judgme… |
| 22-290 |
Anne-Marie Mendible v. Special Proceedings Department of the Wake County Court, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-09-27 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment pro-se pro-se-litigant res-judicata standing subject-matter-jurisdiction truth-in-lending-act |
Whether the due process constitutional right of the petitioner is infringed and the Federal Court has jurisdiction to entertain it |
| 22-282 |
Randall Pavlock, et al. v. Eric J. Holcomb, Governor of Indiana, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-09-26 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response Waived |
fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment injunctive-relief judicial-taking property-rights standing state-court-decision takings |
Whether a 'judicial taking' under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments is a cognizable cause of action |
| 22-5681 |
Towaki Komatsu v. City of New York, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equitable-estoppel first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech judicial-bias judicial-misconduct procedural-infirmity standing |
Whether the Second Circuit and U.S. District Judge Lorna Schofield prejudicially and biasedly ignored key facts, violating the petitioner's First and … |
| 22-279 |
Norine Cave v. Suvidha Sachdeva, et al. |
Georgia |
2022-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment daubert daubert-standard directed-verdict discovery discovery-requirements due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment |
Whether a litigant's fundamental right to a fair trial is unjustly deprived by a directed verdict preceding discovery and Daubert requirements |
| 22-271 |
M. N. v. A. A., et al. |
Kentucky |
2022-09-22 |
Denied |
|
abandonment dobbs-precedent dobbs-v-jackson due-process evidentiary-standard fourteenth-amendment kentucky parental-rights vagueness |
whether-ky-rev-stat-ann-§-199.502-violates-the-fourteenth-amendment's-due-process-clause |
| 22-5644 |
Kevin Griffin v. Thomas P. DiNapoli, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-09-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment appeal appointed-counsel constitutional-rights disability-claims due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence |
Was petitioner's appeal erroneously dismissed even though newly discovered evidence supports petitioner's disability claims. U.S. Const. Amend. XIV? |
| 22-5616 |
In Re Deonte Jenkins |
|
2022-09-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
13th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-claim political-hostage sovereign-rights treaty-rights |
Whether the petitioner's claims of unconstitutional and unlawful detention by the Commonwealth of Virginia violate his constitutional rights under the… |
| 22-5584 |
Emru Kebede v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2022-09-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment age-discrimination due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences roper-v-simmons |
Do the decisions of this Court in Roper v. Simmons and Miller v. Alabama establish a fundamental right for offenders under 18 years of age as it relat… |
| 22-5585 |
Mark Marvin v. Martha Peldunas, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment social-security statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause |
Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that the state agency can require future social-security recipients to prematurely apply for reduced ben… |
| 22-5591 |
Robert Lopez-Parker v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-09-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
americans-with-disabilities-act criminal-enhancement criminal-law disability disability-classification due-process equal-protection federal-standard fourteenth-amendment state-law |
When is an individual regarded as having or perceived to have, impairment within the meaning of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)? |
| 22-248 |
Larry Tawney, Jr. v. Portage County, Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-09-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights eighth-amendment intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress monell-claim section-1983 summary-judgment |
Whether a trial court properly dismisses a plaintiff's complaint seeking compensation under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for Eighth Amendment violations, a Monell… |
| 22-237 |
Sandra K. Nieveen v. TAX 106, et al. |
Nebraska |
2022-09-13 |
GVR |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines government-seizure just-compensation property-rights takings-clause tax-sale |
Does the government violate the Takings Clause when it confiscates property worth more than the debt owed by the owner? |
| 22-5579 |
William Baham v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance state-action supremacy-clause |
Whether the 14th Amendment imposes upon the States of Louisiana the obligation to refrain from systemic, purposeful deprivations of substantive federa… |
| 22-5552 |
Robert Budwilowitz v. Marc Nichols Associates, et al. |
New York |
2022-09-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment extraordinary-circumstances judicial-efficiency motion-for-leave new-york-procedure ross-factors standing |
Is the dismissal of the motion for leave to appeal by the New York State Court of Appeals inconsistent? |
| 22-5559 |
Patricio Estrada v. Troy Nehls, Sheriff, Fort Bend County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference disciplinary-isolation due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection medical-treatment prison-conditions |
Whether Estrada's due process rights were violated by being placed in disciplinary isolation prior to any hearing |
| 22-5563 |
Noel Brown v. Pennsylvania, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2022-09-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus plea-bargaining retroactivity right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Right to counsel |
| 22-5546 |
Jhon Albert Carrizales Pretell v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-09-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-right criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-offense fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-procedure |
Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a twelve-person jury to try a criminal defendant accused of a felony offense |
| 22-5510 |
Ronald Lebed, Sr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth District Court of Appeal violated the petitioner's Fourth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights |
| 22-5498 |
Aaron Striz v. Bryan Collier, Executive Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-segregation administrative-state constitutional-minima due-process eighth-amendment equality-under-the-law prisoners-rights solitary-confinement |
Does extended, indefinite solitary confinement of an atypical duration, under some circumstances, violate the Eighth Amendment? |
| 22-199 |
Barry J. Smith v. Community Care Inc., et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-09-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
citizenship civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-authority standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Is the district court required to determine subject-matter jurisdiction before reaching the merits? |
| 22-5472 |
Aaron Michael Shamo v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anti-drug-abuse-act chemical-compound chemical-compounds controlled-substance counsel-waiver cruel-and-unusual-punishment drug-distribution drug-sentencing eighth-amendment essential-elements fentanyl statutory-interpretation |
Whether Petitioner's counsel's actions constituted a waiver or forfeiture of the argument that the government failed to prove Petitioner distributed t… |
| 22-5458 |
Kenneth Lainell Davis v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-08-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-defendant criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process eighth-amendment felony jury jury-composition juvenile-sentencing mandatory-minimum sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a twelve-person jury to try a criminal defendant accused of a felony offense |
| 22-177 |
Monica Toth v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-08-29 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (5) |
bank-secrecy-act civil-penalties civil-penalty deterrence deterrent-penalty eighth-amendment excessive-fines-clause fbar foreign-bank-accounts |
Whether civil penalties imposed under 31 U.S.C. § 5321(a)(5) that are avowedly deterrent and noncompensatory are subject to the Eighth Amendment's Exc… |
| 22-5438 |
Winfred Scott Simpson v. North Carolina Department of Public Safety |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-08-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
and ineffective assistance of counsel unlawful detention compulsory-process due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jencks-act miranda-rights right-to-present-defense self-defense sixth-amendment |
Violation of Petitioner's 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendment rights regarding suppressed evidence |
| 22-166 |
Geraldine Tyler v. Hennepin County, Minnesota, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-08-23 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (44)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
civil-forfeiture constitutional-law due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fine excessive-fines government-forfeiture property-rights takings-clause tax-debt |
Whether the government's retention of surplus proceeds from the sale of a home to satisfy a tax debt violates the Takings Clause |
| 22-5405 |
Perry Sawano v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2022-08-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment aggregate-sentence constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment proportionality-analysis proportionality-review sentencing sentencing-review |
Does the Eighth Amendment require a sentencing court to consider a defendant's overall/aggregate sentence when conducting a proportionality review? |
| 22-5362 |
Agustin Garcia v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2022-08-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment complete-defense constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction-relief right-to-counsel sixth-amendment technological-advances |
Whether the petitioner was deprived of the right to a fair trial and present a complete defense |
| 22-5329 |
Chadrick Fulks v. T. J. Watson, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-08-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
28-U.S.C-2241 28-U.S.C-2255 collateral-review death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability section-2241 section-2255 |
Is an intellectually disabled and death-sentenced prisoner entitled to review under 28-U.S.C-2241 because diligent counsel could not have raised this … |
| 22-5330 |
Demetrius J. Wade v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-08-10 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering fifth-amendment forensic-evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel |
Was petitioner's 5th and 14th Amendment rights violated when police tampered with evidence and removed bullet fragments recovered from the victim at h… |
| 22-5331 |
Mark Anthony Williams v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2022-08-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-sexual-conduct cross-examination cumulative-error due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Insufficient-evidence-to-support-conviction |
| 22-132 |
Carlos Ruben Ruiz v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2022-08-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure demeanor-evidence due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions |
Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments forbid judges (or prosecutors) from instructing (or inviting) the jury to take into account a non-testifyi… |
| 22-125 |
Scott Fenstermaker v. Stephen Fenstermaker, et al. |
Connecticut |
2022-08-09 |
Denied |
|
due-process estate-administration fourteenth-amendment intestate-distributees probate probate-law property-rights small-estate |
Whether Section 45a-273 of the Connecticut General Statutes violates the Fourteenth Amendment due-process rights of intestate-distributees |
| 22-5261 |
Yusuf O. Bush v. David J. Ebbert |
District of Columbia |
2022-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment federal-courts habeas-corpus standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the AEDPA of 1996 violates the Constitution of the United States as to the 1st Amendment and 5th Amendment |
| 22-5304 |
Nuelito Morel-Vargas v. Connecticut |
Connecticut |
2022-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment waiver waiver-doctrine |
Whether the Constitution requires a canvass on the right to testify |
| 22-5297 |
Jean Max Darbouze v. California |
California |
2022-08-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment helling-v-mckinney state-application |
Whether the respondent violated the petitioner's 8th Amendment constitutional rights, as applied to the State of California via the 14th Amendment |
| 22-109 |
Paula Steven v. Federal Way School District |
Washington |
2022-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment public-education racial-discrimination school-segregation |
Whether a Black mother and her Black child/student who walks through the main entrance of the public school doors every every morning as does the non-… |
| 22-101 |
Martin Cowen, et al. v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-08-02 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
ballot-access congressional-district equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment signature-requirements third-party third-party-candidates |
Does a State violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments when its ballot-access restrictions on third-party candidates for United States Representativ… |
| 22-5192 |
Jose Manuel Hernandez-Miranda v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release court-review covid-19 criminal-justice due-process eighth-amendment extraordinary-reasons judicial-discretion petitioner-rights sentencing sentencing-relief |
Whether the Petitioner should receive compassionate release based on the stated extraordinary and compelling reasons |
| 22-5229 |
Gwendolyn Wilson v. Hillsborough Township Construction/Building Department, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-07-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights equal-protection fair-housing fourteenth-amendment municipal-services property-assessments racial-discrimination retaliation |
Whether the Equal Protection Clause is implicated by allegations of racial discrimination in municipal services and policies |
| 22-87 |
Arthur O. Armstrong v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-07-29 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment standing |
Whether respondents acted in a conspiracy to deprive the appellant of liberty and property without due process |
| 22-5216 |
Ray Salazar v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigation mental-competency sixth-amendment |
Did the trial counsel's failure to timely and adequately conduct an investigation into Salazar's known mental health issues constitute ineffective ass… |
| 22-5218 |
Reginald Dexter Carr, Jr. v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2022-07-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment automatic-reversal due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment harmless-error sixth-amendment structural-error |
Was the denial of Reginald Carr's Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to testify structural constitutional error requiring automatic reversal… |
| 22-5152 |
In Re Jerry N. Alfred |
|
2022-07-22 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection false-evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is violated when a state knowingly uses false evidence to… |
| 22-5146 |
Dawud Canaan Sturrup Gabriel v. Melton Truck Lines |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-07-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings standing tenth-circuit-review |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit departed from the accepted judicial proceedings |
| 22-5151 |
James Tyrell Drane v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2022-07-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment retroactive-law statute-of-limitations |
Whether the State of Michigan's interpretation of its statute of limitations to revive an expired offense violated the petitioner's 14th Amendment due… |
| 22-52 |
Ariyan Incorporated, dba Discount Corner, et al. v. Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-20 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process eminent-domain fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-taking inverse-condemnation just-compensation property-rights takings |
May the government, consistent with the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments' self-executing command of Just Compensation for takings of private property, … |
| 22-5131 |
Terry Gillard v. California |
California |
2022-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment witness-impeachment |
Whether the California court's refusal to allow a witness to be impeached with his federal bank robbery conviction violated petitioner's clearly estab… |
| 22-47 |
Kerry Benninghoff, Individually and as Majority Leader of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives v. 2021 Legislative Reapportionment Commission, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2022-07-18 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
civil-rights district-drawing equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legislative-redistricting racial-gerrymandering redistricting voting-rights-act |
Whether districts drawn for transparently racial reasons, without a VRA-compliance justification, satisfy the Fourteenth Amendment merely because the … |
| 22-44 |
Westley Devone Harris v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2022-07-15 |
Denied |
|
criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury juror-misconduct jury-selection sixth-amendment voir-dire |
Whether a criminal defendant is deprived of his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to an impartial jury when a jury member gives dishonest and inco… |
| 22-5114 |
Jasmaine H. v. Arizona Department of Child Safety, et al. |
Arizona |
2022-07-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-welfare civil-rights clear-and-convincing-evidence due-process fair-trial family-law fourteenth-amendment parental-rights |
Did the Arizona Department of Child Safety violate Mother's Fourteenth Amendment right to Due Process and deprive her of her fundamental right to pare… |
| 22-5115 |
Michael Kennedy v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-07-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
consent constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-consent due-process fourteenth-amendment right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel |
Does the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments require that before a trial counsel can concede a defendant's guilt, trial counsel must first consult with th… |
| 22-42 |
Dipendra Tiwari, et al. v. Eric Friedlander, Secretary, Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-07-14 |
Denied |
Amici (7) |
civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process economic-liberty fourteenth-amendment individual-liberty meaningful-review occupation-rights occupational-licensing rational-basis-review substantive-due-process |
Does the Fourteenth Amendment require meaningful review of restrictions on the right to engage in a common occupation? |
| 22-5083 |
William Wellington Hooper, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial fourth-amendment search-and-seizure sentencing |
Were Mr. Hooper's cell phones seized in violation of his Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable search and seizure? |
| 22-5087 |
Dawud Canaan Sturrup Gabriel v. Melton Truck Lines |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review petition-for-redress tenth-circuit |
whether-the-us-court-of-appeals-for-the-tenth-circuit-departed-from-the-accepted-course-of-judicial-proceedings |
| 22-5088 |
Norman Blake McKenzie v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment |
Whether the failure to require the jury, and the jury alone, to find that the aggravating factors outweighed the mitigating factors, beyond and to the… |
| 22-5093 |
Jerry Leon Haliburton v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof capital-punishment clear-and-convincing-evidence death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability state-law |
Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments permit States to impose on a capital defendant the burden of proving intellectual disability by clear and… |
| 22-5071 |
Daniel Toney v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-07-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment circumstantial-evidence due-process evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment habitual-offender ineffective-assistance montgomery sixth-amendment |
Whether Petitioner's 6th and 14th Amendment rights to due process are being violated by denying claims based on assumption and not facts |
| 22-4 |
Donald G. Karr, Jr. v. Mark R. Sevier, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-06-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights counsel-rights davis-hatton-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment |
Whether the Davis-Hatton Procedure is unconstitutional as-applied |
| 21-8262 |
Antonio Jones v. Frank Vanihel, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause cross-examination due-process fourteenth-amendment police-investigation right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence witness-credibility |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments were violated |
| 21-8279 |
Randy William Gay v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-defendant capital-punishment effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-jury fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection sixth-amendment voir-dire |
Whether a capital defendant's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments rights to a fair and impartial jury and to the effective assistance of counsel are viola… |
| 21-1610 |
Paula Steven v. Federal Way School District |
Washington |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment parental-rights racial-discrimination school-access school-segregation truancy-law |
Whether a Black mother of a public school student has a Fourteenth Amendment right to walk her student through the main entrance and not receive truan… |
| 21-8235 |
Joshua Dicks v. Natasha Davis |
Arkansas |
2022-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
attorney-diligence civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment indigent-litigants parental-rights pro-se pro-se-litigant waiver-of-appeal |
Whether the Arkansas Court's application of 'attorney diligence' waiver of right to appeal rules to pro se litigants in private termination of parenta… |
| 21-8232 |
Stephon Ellis v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing eighth-amendment judicial-discretion mitigating-factors mitigation-factors proportionality proportionality-principle sentencing-guidelines traumatic-background traumatic-childhood |
Whether the 90-month sentence imposed on Mr. Ellis was 'greater than necessary' considering his extraordinarily traumatic childhood |
| 21-1588 |
Susan Spell v. Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services |
California |
2022-06-24 |
Denied |
|
child-custody civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fraud racial-discrimination writ-of-error-coram-vobis |
Does a trial court violate the Equal Protection clause when it bases a child custody order on a racially discriminatory theory? |
| 21-1590 |
Rosemarie Austin v. Nationstar Mortgage LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure discovery discovery-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion pro-se |
Whether a litigant in pro se can be denied their right to due process under the 5th and 14th Amendments solely based on the court's assumption that th… |
| 21-8205 |
Bobby Charles Byrd v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-flight constitutional-rights due-process false-evidence fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel-of-choice sixth-amendment |
whether-mr-byrd-was-denied-effective-assistance-of-appellate-counsel |
| 21-8219 |
Dante Danil Carter v. California |
California |
2022-06-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure doyle-v-ohio due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment miranda miranda-rights post-miranda-silence self-incrimination |
Whether the California trial court deprived Carter of his 5th and 14th Amendment rights by permitting the prosecution to impermissibly use his post-Mi… |
| 21-1581 |
Tong Park v. California |
California |
2022-06-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
access-to-courts civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment extrinsic-fraud fair-trial faretta-rights in-personam-jurisdiction prima-facie-guilt subject-matter-jurisdiction writ-of-error-coram-nobis |
whether-the-court-should-intervene-to-bring-lower-state-courts-in-line-with-established-us-constitutional-laws |
| 21-8177 |
Marlin Larice Joseph v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-06-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-safeguards cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourth-amendment geographic-arbitrariness sixth-amendment standards-of-decency |
Does the death penalty violate the Eighth Amendment? |
| 21-8155 |
Chad M. Vice v. City of Fort Madison, Iowa, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-06-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause |
| 21-8156 |
Demetrius Antwon Wilson v. Jeffrey Alvarez, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment medical-treatment prisoner-rights |
Whether prison officials are deliberately indifferent when they delay or intentionally interfere with medical treatment |
| 21-8166 |
Ricky Vincent Pendleton v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation coram-nobis due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct |
Did the presentation of gruesome photographs to each grand juror violate the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments? |
| 21-1568 |
Austin Roger Carter v. Genesis Alkali LLC, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-06-16 |
Denied |
|
appeal appeal-procedure attorney-client attorney-client-privilege civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment professional-conduct standing |
Whether Petitioner's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments rights were violated |
| 21-8144 |
Tavares J. Wright v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment due-process eighth-amendment flynn-effect fourteenth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability iq-testing moore-v-texas |
Whether failing to apply the Flynn effect to a capital defendant's intelligence quotient scores violates the Eighth Amendment |
| 21-1562 |
Jermel Leon Reed v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Virginia |
2022-06-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-indictment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment |
Was Reed's right to a grand jury indictment secured by the Fourteenth and Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution violated when Reed was not… |
| 21-1553 |
Ramin Khorrami v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2022-06-10 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (5) |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process felony fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury jury-trial original-public-meaning precedent sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony |
| 21-8119 |
Waymon J. Stepherson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment brady-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-against-self-incrimination self-incrimination voir-dire |
Whether the lower court erred and abused its discretion in not finding petitioner was deprived of his 5th and 14th amendment rights |
| 21-8123 |
Terry Malone v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2022-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof controlled-substance criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment mandatory-presumption patterson-v-new-york rebuttable-presumption |
Did the superior court violate the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment and the dictates of this court in 'Patterson v. New York', 432 U.S. … |
| 21-8098 |
Rocky Christian v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
anders-review appellate-procedure appellate-review fourteenth-amendment jury-instruction plain-error self-defense self-defense-instruction sixth-amendment |
Did the Fifth District Court of Appeal for the State of Florida conduct an adequate review of the record pursuant to Anders v. California 386 U.S. 738… |
| 21-8071 |
Brala Beverly v. Riverside County Public Administrator, et al. |
California |
2022-06-07 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial probate-court property-seizure seventh-amendment standing |
Did the California Riverside County Superior Court and Fourth Appellate District Division Two in California violate the seventh amendment of the U.S. … |
| 21-8081 |
Moses Clark v. California |
California |
2022-06-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus plea-agreement preliminary-hearing prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the state court violated the defendant's Fourth Amendment rights by bringing the defendant before the magistrate within 48 hours after arrest |
| 21-8083 |
In Re Frank Jarvis Atwood |
|
2022-06-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-murder death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment prior-conviction state-ground statutory-elements |
Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit the death penalty for a murder that does not fall within the narrow class of murders designated … |
| 21-8084 |
Frank Jarvis Atwood v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-07 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
as-applied-challenge comity constitutional-challenge eighth-amendment execution-protocol federal-courts federalism inmate-standing method-of-execution standing |
Whether federal courts may direct specific alterations to a state's execution protocol in an as-applied challenge under the Eighth Amendment |
| 21-8067 |
Juan Gomez v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-sexual-abuse criminal-procedure culpability due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability sixth-amendment |
Whether the petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated when his trial counsel failed to investigate and presen… |
| 21-1530 |
Martine Bernard v. Christopher Hodyl |
Colorado |
2022-06-06 |
Denied |
|
article-iii-standing civil-rights court-ordered-therapy due-process fourteenth-amendment personal-autonomy privilege professional-ethics standing therapist-privilege therapy-requirement |
Whether the federally and state recognized privilege in Jaffee v. Redmond and personal autonomy under the Fourteenth Amendment preclude a state distri… |
| 21-8046 |
Joseph Martin Danks v. California |
California |
2022-06-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment criminal-culpability cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment inmate-rights mental-health state-liability state-responsibility |
Does the Eighth Amendment preclude the execution of a seriously mentally ill inmate whose homicidal behavior was the reasonably known, foreseeable, an… |
| 21-8006 |
Charles A. Inko-Tariah v. Federal Medical Center Butner, NC, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment medical-malpractice unreasonable-search-and-seizure |
Was the U.S Court of Appeals For The Fourth Circuit correct in affirming the dismissal of a lawsuit against Federal Medical Center, Butner, North Caro… |
| 21-8023 |
Xingfei Luo v. California |
California |
2022-06-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
content-based-restriction content-based-restrictions dating-relationship effective-assistance-of-counsel first-amendment fourteenth-amendment nude-photography nudity privacy privacy-expectation |
Where an individual does not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in an image, the State's interest in protecting the individual's privacy interes… |
| 21-1504 |
Jason Wayne Carlile v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-06-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
adversarial-testing criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether a defense attorney's complete failure to subject the State's case to adversarial testing during a trial deprives a criminal defendant of the e… |
| 21-1489 |
Andrew Ioannidis v. Tom Wolf, Governor of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2022-05-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-remedy due-process election-law electoral-count-act first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech mootness standing state-law-preemption |
Whether there is any remedy for violation(s) of the First and Fourteenth Amendment(s) to the United States Constitution |
| 21-7983 |
Allen James Harrison v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2022-05-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain sixth-amendment |
Whether Petitioner was denied due process under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments when retained counsel admitted fault concerning a plea bargain, co… |
| 21-7986 |
Stephen Gosch v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-05-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-disclosure fourteenth-amendment jury-instruction jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct state-court |
Did the state court violate the petitioner's right to due process of law as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment? |
| 21-7995 |
Joseph Kurz v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ex-post-facto fifth-circuit fourteenth-amendment reasonable-jurists sixth-amendment |
Whether reasonable jurists would determine there was sufficient evidence to support convictions |
| 21-7977 |
Jason Albert Halda v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2022-05-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-resentencing criminal-sentencing disproportionality eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing miller-montgomery-rule miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana proportionality-review sentencing-guidelines |
Is Jason Halda entitled to a resentencing? |
| 21-7956 |
Timothy McClendon v. Chris Brewer, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment interrogation-technique miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona missouri-v-seibert sixth-amendment |
Whether jurists of reason could debate the district court's conclusion that the detectives' actions were not a coordinated two-step interrogation tech… |
| 21-7948 |
Femi Isijola v. Elizabeth A. Bielecki, Director, New Hampshire Division of Motor Vehicles |
New Hampshire |
2022-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment driver's-license due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment motor-vehicle-registration pre-suspension-hearing |
Whether NH. Revised Statute Ann. 260:10 violates the Due Process Clause |
| 21-1477 |
Sylwia Ewelina Madej Manchanda, et vir v. Andrea Lewis, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-05-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-authority judicial-bias judicial-proceedings organized-crime systemic-bias |
Does the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and Catherine O'Hagan Wolfe routinely and arbitrarily exercise authority beyond the proposed function and jur… |
| 21-1467 |
Archie McCoy v. Hawaii Department of Human Services, et al. |
Hawaii |
2022-05-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
constructive-service due-process fourteenth-amendment indigent-representation legal-notice parental-rights service-of-process termination-proceedings |
Does the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause require further efforts by the government to locate an absent father before permitting constructive… |
| 21-1469 |
Samuel Armstrong v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment due-process emergency-powers executive-order fourteenth-amendment jacobson-v-massachusetts judicial-review public-health roman-cath-diocese-v-cuomo |
Did Governor Newsom's Executive Order N-33-20 violate the Due Process Clause? |
| 21-7929 |
Johnny Joe Avalos v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
capital-murder cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment intellectual-disability life-without-parole mitigating-circumstances sentencing texas-penal-code |
Whether an ALWOP sentence on an intellectually disabled adult convicted of capital murder as provided by Texas Penal Code Section 12.31(a)(2) a statut… |
| 21-7908 |
Jose Mejia v. New York |
New York |
2022-05-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactive-application retroactivity sixth-amendment |
Does the failure to apply the amendment retroactively deprive a defendant of his fundamental rights under the Sixth and Fourteenth amendments where he… |
| 21-7913 |
William Earl Sweet v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-05-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection faretta-standard fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus harmless-error self-representation timeliness |
Right-to-self-representation |
| 21-1464 |
Emond S. Gulley v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2022-05-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama sentencing-discretion term-of-years-sentence |
whether-mandatory-term-of-years-sentence-equivalent-to-life-without-parole-for-juvenile-offenders |
| 21-7901 |
Richard Coleman v. North Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-05-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
anti-pro-se-bias civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech judicial-overreach obstruction-of-justice pro-se-bias seventh-amendment |
Whether judges judging judges in cases in which one party is not represented results in pro se litigants being victims of judicial criminal acts |
| 21-7894 |
Dana Albrecht v. Katherine Albrecht |
New Hampshire |
2022-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
domestic-violence due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment objective-standards orders-of-protection protective-order supreme-court |
Whether the Due Process or Equal Protection Clause require objective standards for the issuance or extension of a domestic violence order of protectio… |
| 21-7855 |
James Wells Horsey v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2022-05-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
blockburger-test constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment first-amendment juvenile-pornography same-evidence-test sixth-amendment |
Can possession of juvenile pornography be considered child or adult pornography? |
| 21-7869 |
Timothy Thibodeaux v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause confrontation-right constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment pro-se-petition sixth-amendment |
whether-mr-thibodeaux's-conviction-was-obtained-in-violation-of-the-sixth-and-fourteenth-amendments |
| 21-1440 |
Mark T. McCloskey v. Missouri Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel |
Missouri |
2022-05-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
2nd-amendment due-process fourteenth-amendment moral-turpitude pardon professional-misconduct right-to-bear-arms second-amendment self-defense |
Whether the Second Amendment and Due Process Clause permit attorney sanctions for professional misconduct based on a finding of 'moral turpitude' wher… |
| 21-7829 |
Clarence Wayne Dixon v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment competency-to-be-executed eighth-amendment execution-standard mental-competency mental-illness non-bizarre-delusions panetti-precedent panetti-v-quarterman schizophrenia |
Does Panetti v. Quarterman foreclose a schizophrenic prisoner from demonstrating that non-bizarre delusions obstruct his rational understanding of the… |
| 21-7823 |
Robert L. Allum v. Montana |
Montana |
2022-05-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge due-process executive-branch financial-gain fourteenth-amendment judicial-integrity judicial-pool res-judicata state-constitution workers-compensation |
Whether a 46-year history of a state court violating due-process rights constitutes sufficient injury to the judicial system |
| 21-7825 |
Charles Wycuff v. Ed Sheldon, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-amendments due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default sixth-amendment |
Whether the procedural default creates a miscarriage of justice that denies Petitioner his fundamental rights |
| 21-7802 |
In Re Jaime Rodriguez, aka Jay, et al. |
|
2022-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment second-circuit uncontested-factual-circumstances united-states-court-of-appeals united-states-v-heymond united-states-v-merced writ-of-mandamus |
Whether a Writ of Mandamus should issue |
| 21-7809 |
Urshawn Eric Miller v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2022-05-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrary-and-capricious arbitrary-capricious capital-punishment comparative-proportionality-review death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment proportionality-review sentencing-review |
Whether Tennessee's comparative proportionality review satisfies the Eighth Amendment |
| 21-7768 |
Jowell Travis LeGendre v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2022-05-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel inquiry pre-trial |
Were my rights to due process prejudiced when the court failed to conduct inquiry concerning pre-trial claims of ineffective counsel? |
| 21-7778 |
Lester Ochoa v. Ron Davis, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment cullen-v-pinholster eighth-amendment family-sympathy jury-instructions mitigation mitigation-evidence |
Whether a State court may prohibit jurors from considering sympathy for a defendant's family in the penalty phase of a capital case as mitigation |
| 21-1401 |
John Doe v. Colonel Gary T. Settle, Superintendent, Virginia Department of State Police |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-05-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment punishment punishment-analysis sex-offender-registry smith-v-doe state-restrictions |
Whether a state sex offender registry that imposes restrictions on individuals beyond mere registration with state or local law enforcement constitute… |
| 21-1394 |
John Fitisemanu, et al. v. United States, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-04-29 |
Denied |
Amici (9)Relisted (2) |
14th-amendment birthright-citizenship citizenship-clause constitutional-interpretation due-process fourteenth-amendment insular-cases territorial-status territories |
Whether persons born in United States Territories are entitled to birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment's Citizenship Clause, includin… |
| 21-7739 |
Kendall Whitaker v. Patricia A. Coyne-Fague, Warden |
First Circuit |
2022-04-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment aiding-and-abetting civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-instructions sixth-amendment |
Whether the petitioner was denied effective assistance of counsel due to failure to object and preserve for appeal jury instructions on the elements o… |
| 21-7743 |
Matthew J. Kidder v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2022-04-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights counsel criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sentencing sixth-amendment state-court-jurisdiction |
Is the State Court required to hear and make a determination on the Petitioner's U.S. Constitutional Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment right to effective… |
| 21-7730 |
Justin L. Martin v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process false-testimony fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment strickland-standard |
Was Defense Counsel ineffective for failing to object to the states known use of false testimony in Petitioners trial, violating his Constitutional Du… |
| 21-7713 |
William Neely v. Superior Court of California, Sacramento County |
California |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-tampering due-process fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest post-trial-discovery |
Do the safegards provided by the 14th Amendment apply to the state's unreasonable denial of post-trial criminal discovery where Petitioner, with newly… |
| 21-1383 |
Alejandro Asbun v. North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services |
North Carolina |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment government-activities property-interest state-courts state-created-property sua-sponte whistleblower-protection whistleblower-protections |
Whether the Due Process Clause protects a state-created property interest in whistleblower protections |
| 21-7689 |
Deverick Scott v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-04-25 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights discovery due-process eighth-amendment failure-to-protect prisoner-rights retaliation screening-process section-1983 |
Did Defendants violate Scott's right to be protected from assault by another inmate? |
| 21-7676 |
Robert Christopher Jones v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-04-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-justice eighth-amendment juvenile-justice mandatory-sentencing miller-factors miller-v-alabama plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-challenge |
Whether a pre-Miller guilty plea bars a post-Miller sentencing challenge under the Eighth Amendment |
| 21-7663 |
Guy Adam Rook v. Donald Holbrook |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment federal-constitutional-law gross-disproportionality habeas-corpus harmelin-v-michigan lockyer-v-andrade state-constitutional-law supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a state constitutional test that is less protective than the federal constitutional test fails to 'adjudicate[ ... ] the merits' of the federa… |
| 21-1360 |
Mike Kowall, et al. v. Jocelyn Benson, Michigan Secretary of State |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-04-19 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
candidate-qualifications civil-rights due-process electoral-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment legislative-restrictions political-participation standing term-limits |
Whether candidate qualifications should be subjected to heightened scrutiny |
| 21-7642 |
Brandon J. Weathers v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2022-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel state-court-conviction |
Whether the petitioner was denied counsel in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 21-7607 |
Devunaire Damorea Sims v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2022-04-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-counsel due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-hearing sixth-amendment |
Did the Michigan Supreme Court err in denying this issue when Petitioner was denied his Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel w… |
| 21-7592 |
Detrick Deroven v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-04-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus Napue-v-Illinois napue-violation schlup-claim Schlup-v-Delo substantive-claim XIV-Amendment |
Whether the Petitioner made a substantive claim of actual innocence to sustain a Schlup v. Delo or Napue v. Illinois violation under the XIV Amendment… |
| 21-7602 |
Karyn Kelley v. Mary Feeney |
New Hampshire |
2022-04-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment state-court supreme-court-review tribunal-judgment |
Whether the State of New Hampshire Supreme Court erred in affirming the tribunal court's judgment that violated the requirement for Due Process under … |
| 21-7577 |
Nicholas N. Kerr v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-04-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
automobile-exception carroll collins-v-virginia constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment search-and-seizure |
Whether Petitioner's Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment Rights to the United States Constitution Require this Court to vacate Petitioner's convic… |
| 21-7580 |
Amos Lamar Burch v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process fourteenth-amendment free-speech post-conviction-relief qualified-immunity standing |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims |
| 21-1337 |
Patrick Gillis v. David Gillis |
Oregon |
2022-04-08 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment court-procedure cross-examination due-process fourteenth-amendment notice notice-requirement opportunity-to-be-heard probate-law standing |
Whether state courts are directly responsible for notifying parties with standing about hearings in cases before them, ensuring all parties have an op… |
| 21-1330 |
Arthur O. Armstrong v. City of Conyers, Georgia |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-04-06 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause false-reports fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment official-discrimination racial-profiling search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Whether respondent violated the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 21-7564 |
Armstead Kieffer v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-vagueness due-process federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech patent sixth-amendment standing takings |
Whether the unconstitutionally vague language, struck down by the Court in 185 OG, violates 35 USC 112(b) |
| 21-7568 |
Jimmy Stephens v. Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2022-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause |
| 21-7533 |
Ion Stanciu v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process expert-witness fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance medical-evidence state-misconduct |
When a state together with state's expert witness change the original version of medical evidence into a new complete different version, to link the a… |
| 21-7538 |
Clyde Otis Alston, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment sentencing |
Whether the Court below erred in denying relief upon the substantially unreasonable sentence |
| 21-7547 |
Gabriel Gonzalez v. John P. Yates, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights covid-19 cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment imprisonment prison-conditions sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Does continued imprisonment under unconstrained exposure to a lethal contagion violate Eighth Amendment rights? |
| 21-7551 |
In Re Mark Jendrzejewski |
|
2022-04-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation due-process evidence-withholding false-testimony fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-testimony |
Due-process-violation-by-prosecutor |
| 21-7501 |
Helen Tyne Mayfield v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-03-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus right-to-confrontation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-in-abstentia |
Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals abused its discretion in not reviewing a petition for discretionary review and writ of habeas corpus for m… |
| 21-7512 |
Kevin E. Herriott v. Major Parrish, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-03-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment disciplinary-action due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force good-faith good-faith-effort law-enforcement |
Whether petitioner given defendants' notice of what the claims are and the grounds upon which it rests? |
| 21-1308 |
J. Martin Robertson v. Larkspur Courts, et al. |
California |
2022-03-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment medicaid medicare medicare-reporting privacy settlement-disclosure social-security social-security-privacy |
Whether Section 111 of the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007 requires settlement or judgment debtors to report the Social Security n… |
| 21-7485 |
Terrell Staton v. Ned Lamont |
Second Circuit |
2022-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights disciplinary-report due-process eighth-amendment grievance-procedure judicial-discretion legal-access malicious-interference procedural-restrictions retaliation |
Did Gam E cE | ~ NoTKE expose the plaintiff to dangerous living conditions by his reluctance and insubordination to wear his mask appropriately? |
| 21-7457 |
Gregory Wynn v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2022-03-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-rehabilitation cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders life-sentence life-without-parole rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-proportionality |
Whether the sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for a childhood offense is grossly disproportionate, in violation of the E… |
| 21-7461 |
Antonio D. Rooks-Byrd v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2022-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment-violation constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-procedure plea-agreement sixth-amendment speedy-trial |
Do the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment's under the U.S. Constitution apply for Sixth Month Speedy Trial violation? |
| 21-1285 |
M & N Financing Corporation, et al. v. Department of Fair Employment and Housing |
California |
2022-03-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights civil-rights-statute constitutional-excessiveness eighth-amendment excessive-fines gender-discrimination penalty-damages small-business small-business-liability state-statute |
Is an award of more than $6 million in penalty damages against a small business and its owner unconstitutionally excessive, as a violation of the Eigh… |
| 21-1288 |
Libertarian Party of Alabama v. John Harold Merrill, Alabama Secretary of State |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-23 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-parties voter-registration |
Does it violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments for a State to discriminate against minor political parties by providing voter-registration-lists … |
| 21-7418 |
James Roland L'Heureux v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2022-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
contract-law contractual-breach due-process fourteenth-amendment mabry-v-johnson plea-agreement pre-sentence-investigation sentencing sentencing-arguments |
Whether the prosecution's conduct in making sentencing arguments outside the pre-sentence investigation report constitutes a breach of the plea agreem… |
| 21-7423 |
Delbert Keyes v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2022-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus sentencing |
Whether the petitioner's conviction and sentence violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment |
| 21-7416 |
Trevor Dawson Ewers v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2022-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights concerted-action constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment pretextual-stop reasonable-suspicion seizure traffic-stop |
Where officers work together in concerted action to 'produce' reasonable suspicion when there is none to affect a traffic stop with the sole purpose o… |
| 21-1268 |
Joe Clarence Smith, Jr. v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-18 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty death-row eighth-amendment habeas-relief method-of-execution section-1983 |
Whether Mr. Smith's method-of-execution challenge is cognizable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 |
| 21-1260 |
Kendi Narmer PakeyBey v. Luminant Mining Company, LLC |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-17 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights denial-of-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-protections procedural-due-process procedural-protections standing |
Whether the Petitioners' 5th and 14th Amendment rights were violated under its procedural due process clause by being denied procedural protections |
| 21-7400 |
Derrick U. Stricklin v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2022-03-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
alibi-evidence capital-case capital-punishment criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial-tactics |
Whether the failure of defense counsel to file a notice of alibi and present ample alibi evidence when instructed to do so by the defendant in a capit… |
| 21-7401 |
Harold Edwards v. Nevada, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habitual-sentence liberty-interest sixth-amendment state-court state-procedure |
Did the state district court judge's failure to abide by Nevada's state procedural laws violate my constitutionally protected liberty interest, Fourte… |
| 21-7409 |
Jory Russell Strizich v. Montana |
Montana |
2022-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-defense due-process evidentiary-ruling evidentiary-rulings flight-evidence fourteenth-amendment holmes-precedent holmes-v-south-carolina sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment right to defend in a criminal case can be denied on unique state evidentiary rulings? |
| 21-7397 |
Mario Derrell Jones v. Great Southern National Bank, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 administrative-decision administrative-law civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment section-1983 |
whether-the-united-states-court-of-appeals-for-the-fifth-circuit-has-decided-an-important-federal-question-in-a-way-that-conflicts-with-relevant-decis… |
| 21-1254 |
Allen Bregman v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-03-16 |
Denied |
|
burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence due-process ex-post-facto fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment pre-indictment-delay sixth-amendment tactical-advantage united-states-v-lovasco |
Whether United States v. Gouveia departed from the two-tier test for determining a due-process violation |
| 21-7371 |
Sherman Collins v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2022-03-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-trial cause-challenge civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment juror-bias jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-relationship standing |
Does a trial court's erroneous failure to remove for cause jurors with personal and professional relationships with a prosecuting attorney violate the… |
| 21-7378 |
Andrew Long v. Oregon State Bar |
Oregon |
2022-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-discipline bribery disbarment due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment indefinite-suspension state-attorney-discipline state-bar-misconduct witness-bribery |
Did the Oregon Supreme Court violate Long's Fourteenth Amendment right to due process prior to deprivation of his property interest |
| 21-7345 |
David Wayne Aring v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography circuit-split due-process eighth-amendment first-time-offender judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Whether lifetime supervised release is appropriate for a first-time, non-violent offender convicted of receiving and watching child pornography |
| 21-7348 |
Andrew Prescott v. Appellate Court of Illinois, Fourth District |
Illinois |
2022-03-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment due-process ex-parte-communication fair-hearing fourteenth-amendment impartial-tribunal self-representation sixth-amendment |
Do the 6th Amendment; Section1 and Section 5 of the 14th Amendment; 28 U.S. Code § 1654, and state laws or provisions, grant individuals the right to … |
| 21-1233 |
Mark R. Joubert v. Todd Miley |
Massachusetts |
2022-03-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-client-relationship collateral-estoppel due-process fourteenth-amendment individual-liberty legal-restriction liberty-interest non-legal-business occupational-freedom standard-of-review state-court |
May a state court establish an attorney-client relationship that will restrict an individual's liberty under the Fourteenth Amendment to pursue a long… |
| 21-1224 |
Laura Cozza v. PNC Bank, National Association |
Washington |
2022-03-09 |
Denied |
|
due-process equity-jurisdiction foreclosure-proceedings fourteenth-amendment judicial-officer judicial-partiality judicial-power judicial-recusal state-statute |
Did judicial officer, the Honorable Robert E. Olson, legitimately exercise the judicial power of the Superior Court for Whatcom County, Washington as … |
| 21-1221 |
S. U. v. C. J. |
West Virginia |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
biological-parenthood civil-rights due-process equal-protection family-law family-separation fourteenth-amendment gestational-surrogacy maternity-presumption reproductive-rights standing surrogacy |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment requires equal protection of biological parents, and their resulting children, who utilize gestational surrogacy to p… |
| 21-7303 |
Edward Pinchon v. Raymond Byrd, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment mandatory-sentencing miller-precedent |
Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in concluding that the Miller v. Alabama holding applies only to sentences expressly articulated as life without the p… |
| 21-7308 |
Deon D. Colvin v. Howard University |
District of Columbia |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment issue-preclusion pleadings pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process standing |
Whether the D.C. Court of Appeals violated the petitioner's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to due process by failing to consider all of the pet… |
| 21-7288 |
Rolandis Larenzo Chatmon v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force inmate-treatment prison prison-policy standing |
Has the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit created a harmful precedent that would establish that an officer/prison guard could give a citize… |
| 21-7282 |
Joshua Davis Bland v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
censorship compelling-interest equal-protection fourteenth-amendment least-restrictive-means r-l-u-i-p-a religious-freedom religious-practice rluipa |
Does a state prison have the right to void an inmate's religious practice? |
| 21-7263 |
Michael Halford v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2022-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equal-protection fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment self-incrimination spousal-privilege |
Whether the denial of Petitioner's Spousal Privilege to exclude testimony at trial violated his rights against self-incrimination, due process, equal … |
| 21-7271 |
Matthew Moore v. Thomas Mackie, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-sexual-conduct due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment |
Was denied effective assistance of counsel and unconstitutionally coerced into taking a paternity blood test |
| 21-1200 |
Sherif A. Philips v. Pitt County Memorial Hospital, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-03 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights diversity-jurisdiction due-process equal-protection federal-question-jurisdiction fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud-upon-the-court personal-jurisdiction |
Whether the unrecognized transfer of a case from the Guam Superior Court to the Guam District Court, despite a lack of jurisdiction, led to a default … |
| 21-7246 |
In Re Isaiah S. Harris, Sr. |
|
2022-03-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech mandamus standing ultra-vires |
Whether the willful disobedience or adoption of a deliberate policy in open defiance of the federal rules has allowed U.S. Supreme Court Case Analyst … |
| 21-7250 |
Michael Ray Fortuna v. Robert Hudgins, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment disability-accommodations due-process eighth-amendment inmate-safety isolation-conditions medical-neglect prison-conditions prisoner-rights |
Whether an inmate's placement on a top bunk after suffering injuries from a previous fall constitutes a constitutional violation |
| 21-7257 |
Jimmy Dale Stone v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2022-03-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
Criminal-Jurisdiction Due-Process Fourteenth-Amendment Indian-Status native-american-rights post-conviction-relief Public-Law-83-280 Treaty-Provisions |
Did the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals violate Mr. Stone's Fourteenth-Amendment-right-to-Due-Process |
| 21-7232 |
Lance Reberger v. Michael Koehn, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-protections cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment medical-care medical-treatment prison prison-medical-care prisoner-rights qualified-immunity |
Whether the Nevada Department of Corrections officials violated the Eighth Amendment by failing to provide adequate medical care to a prisoner during … |
| 21-7223 |
Angel DeLara v. California |
California |
2022-02-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-determination jury-trial penal-code sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Whether California's Determinate Sentencing Law violates the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 21-1184 |
Joyce D. Hutton, et al. v. Hyundai Motor America, et al. |
Mississippi |
2022-02-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-verdict standard-of-review state-court-review supreme-court trial-court |
Did the Mississippi Supreme Court violate the due process rights of the Petitioners under the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United S… |
| 21-7193 |
Jose Yeyille v. Justin Cole Speigel |
Florida |
2022-02-25 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics privileges-and-immunities recusal |
Whether a state trial court judge should be disqualified on Fourteenth Amendment due process, equal protection, and privileges and immunities grounds … |
| 21-7182 |
Ernest Judge Smith, III v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-02-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process exigent-circumstances fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment knock-and-announce law-enforcement-tactics probable-cause search-and-seizure unreasonable-search warrantless-arrest |
Isn't the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments violated when exigent circumstances are created through police officers use of unreasonable law enforcement… |
| 21-7201 |
Michael Dewayne Jones v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2022-02-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure federal-enclave fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment state-jurisdiction |
Did the State of Oklahoma violate Petitioner's Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights when they prosecuted this Petitioner's crime which happened on a… |
| 21-1173 |
Joe Elton Nixon v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-02-24 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
and whether Florida's burden of proof for intelle atkins-v-virginia burden-of-proof capital-punishment constitutional-law eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability teague-rule teague-v-lane |
whether-the-decision-in-hail-v-florida-announced-a-new-rule-of-constitutional-law |
| 21-1168 |
Robert Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co. |
Pennsylvania |
2022-02-23 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (21)Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure corporate-consent due-process fourteenth-amendment international-shoe personal-jurisdiction registration-statute |
Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits a state from requiring a corporation to consent to personal jurisdiction to do bu… |
| 21-7185 |
Brian Arthur Tate v. Lawrence J. Hogan, Jr., Governor of Maryland, et al. |
Maryland |
2022-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders liberty-interest parole parole-hearing sentencing-procedure |
Whether the Eighth Amendment extends to governmental release systems for juvenile offenders |
| 21-1151 |
Arthur O. Armstrong v. School District of Philadelphia |
Third Circuit |
2022-02-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-rights collective-bargaining constitutional-rights due-process employment-termination fourteenth-amendment procedural-fairness property reinstatement |
Whether Respondent School District of Philadelphia discharged appellant without due process |
| 21-1136 |
M. S. v. J. B. |
Massachusetts |
2022-02-17 |
Denied |
|
due-process equal-protection ex-parte-order ex-parte-restraining-orders false-impression-of-dangerousness fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment records-expungement restraining-order vacated-orders |
due-process |
| 21-7144 |
Robert James Grass v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2022-02-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
cherokee-status criminal-jurisdiction due-process fourteenth-amendment indian-status post-conviction-relief state-courts treaty-provisions |
Did the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals violate Mr. Grass' Fourteenth Amendment right to Due Process? |
| 21-7127 |
Ngozika J. Nwaneri v. Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP |
District of Columbia |
2022-02-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals bill-of-rights civil-procedure due-process equal-justice fourteenth-amendment judicial-error legal-procedure pro-se pro-se-representation standing |
Whether the state court erred in omnibus order and subpoena order |
| 21-7132 |
Dominique C. Swopes v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2022-02-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-case discovery-order due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment interlocutory-appeal scientific-evidence state-created-right trial-court-discretion |
Whether a defendant in a capital case has a Fourteenth Amendment due process right to take an interlocutory appeal of a trial court's discovery order … |
| 21-7138 |
Roy Franklin Echols, Jr. v. CSX Transportation, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-02-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure covid-19 due-process federal-employers-liability-act fela fourteenth-amendment standing summons-service |
Did the United States District Court err in denying the initial request to expedite process? |
| 21-1103 |
Raul A. Pelaez, as Limited Guardian of the Person and Property of John Poul Pelaez, Ward v. Government Employees Insurance Company |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-10 |
Denied |
|
appeal circuit-court civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-impartiality procedural-fairness |
whether-due-process-warrants-judicial-disqualification |
| 21-7082 |
William Speer v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing double-edged-evidence eighth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's resolution of the prejudice prong under Strickland v. Washington contravenes settled Sixth and Eighth Amendment precedent … |
| 21-7088 |
Selbourne Waite v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-02-09 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c aiding-and-abetting attempted-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-procedure eighth-amendment hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement |
Whether attempted Hobbs Act robbery and aiding and abetting Hobbs Act robbery are crimes of violence |
| 21-7066 |
Kevin Brewer v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arkansas-sex-offender-registration-act certificate-of-innocence constitutional-claim due-process fourteenth-amendment lambert-v-california notice scienter sex-offender-registration |
Can petitioner be liable for constituting any offense, in which the scienter requirements of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment has no… |
| 21-7046 |
Makeda Haile v. Abdul Conteh |
Virginia |
2022-02-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment human-rights judicial-discretion privileges-or-immunities standing takings |
Whether this court is willing to stop the violation of the Fourteenth Amendment right |
| 21-7052 |
Lewis Taylor, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing meaningful-opportunity parole parole-eligibility rehabilitation-consideration sentencing solem-v-helm |
Whether a 129-year sentence for a non-homicide offense committed as a juvenile violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punish… |
| 21-1074 |
Mark A. Di Carlo v. James R. Swartz, Jr., et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-02-03 |
Denied |
|
attorneys-fees civil-procedure defamation due-process federal-removal fourteenth-amendment ohio-law rule-54 |
Can a federal district court judge grant attorneys fees in federal district court in a federal removal proceeding from Ohio state courts for defamatio… |
| 21-1075 |
Mandy England, in Her Individual Capacity v. Annissa Colson |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-02-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights correctional-officer due-process eighth-amendment inmate-treatment medical-determination medical-treatment qualified-immunity |
Whether a correctional officer violated a constitutional right of an inmate for not requesting further treatment for a injury to the inmate's knee whe… |
| 21-1076 |
Sivagnanam Thamilselvan v. Vijayalakshmi Thamilselvan |
Michigan |
2022-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
comity comity-doctrine divorce first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise no-fault-divorce religious-freedom subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the petitioners' First and Fourteenth Amendment rights are violated |
| 21-1073 |
Kourosh Kenneth Hamidi, et al. v. Service Employees International Union, Local 1000 |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-02-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights employee-protections first-amendment fourteenth-amendment good-faith state-action union-rights waiver |
Whether a labor union acting in concert with state officials may seize payments for union political speech from an employee absent clear and compellin… |
| 21-1065 |
Dennis Wayne Hope v. Todd Harris, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
constitutional-protections cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment judicial-review mental-health physical-health prison-conditions prisoner-rights review-procedures solitary-confinement |
Whether decades of solitary confinement can violate the Eighth Amendment |
| 21-7023 |
Toni Marie Rambo v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment sentencing |
Does the sentence imposed on Mrs. Rambo constitute cruel and unusual punishment in violation of her Eighth Amendment rights? |
| 21-7039 |
Andrew Sasser v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
28-usc-2244 adaptive-skills circuit-split death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability remand second-or-successive second-or-successive-application |
Whether amending a petition for writ of habeas corpus after a remand by an appellate court makes it a second-or-successive application under 28 U.S.C.… |
| 21-6997 |
Luke Waine Caines, Jr. v. M. Interian |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-of-appeals deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-needs prisoner-rights substantial-injury substantial-risk substantial-risk-of-harm wood-v-housewright |
Whether deliberate indifference should be analyzed under the balancing framework of the substantial risk of harm test announced by this Court rather t… |
| 21-7005 |
Adam M. DeVore v. Kenneth Black, Warden |
Ohio |
2022-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-indictment due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction jurisdictional-change location-modification ohio-supreme-court venue |
Whether the location of an alleged offense can be changed post-appeal and whether such a change violates due process |
| 21-6979 |
Andrew J. Johnston v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause |
| 21-6965 |
Lawtis Donald Rhoden v. Brandon Price, Executive Director of Coalinga State Hospital |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-commitment civil-rights dangerousness due-process fourteenth-amendment involuntary-commitment mental-disorder mental-health sexually-violent-predator state-hospitals unconditional-discharge |
Whether the current version of the California SVP law violates the due process clause |
| 21-6935 |
Richard Roy Blake v. City of Northglenn, Colorado |
Colorado |
2022-01-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-assembly free-speech municipal-code vagueness |
Did the City of Northglenn, Colorado police department violate Petitioner's First Amendment rights to free-speech, free-assembly on January 4, 2020 wh… |
| 21-6878 |
Ronald Cox v. Benjie Nobles, Deputy Warden, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-01-18 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment prea-regulations prison-rape-elimination-act qualified-immunity transgender transgender-vulnerability |
Should the requirements of the Prison Rape Elimination Act be followed to protect the vulnerability of the transgender Petitioner in determining wheth… |
| 21-6867 |
Gwendolyn Thorpe v. OneMain Financial |
Virginia |
2022-01-14 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment attorney-misconduct case-reversal civil-procedure disbarment disciplinary-action due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment procedural-irregularity rule-8 rule-8-violation |
Question not identified |
| 21-1004 |
Leon Cody, et ux. v. Superior Court of California, Trinity County, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment fair-trial fourteenth-amendment injunctive-relief section-1983 state-law |
Whether a State has an Eleventh Amendment right to arbitrarily enforce or not enforce a State Law having significant interest to federal Fourteenth Am… |
| 21-6830 |
Huy-Ying Chen v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, et al. |
Washington |
2022-01-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-judgment civil-procedure due-process foreign-judgment fourteenth-amendment legal-standing standing statute-of-limitations supreme-court-review |
Whether the Supreme Court of Washington's denial of the petition for review is contrary to established precedent |
| 21-6841 |
Ada Maria Benson v. Hemet Police Department |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-violation color-of-law due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment police-misconduct probable-cause |
Whether 42 USC 1983 can protect a law-abiding educated senior-citizen with disabilities from abduction (arrest) without probable-cause or warrant by a… |
| 21-6843 |
In Re Kevin Brewer |
|
2022-01-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-innocence constitutional-claim due-process federal-circuit fourteenth-amendment lambert-v-california scienter |
Whether the petitioner is liable for constituting any offense in which the scienter requirements of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment… |
| 21-6827 |
Ryan Thomas Pick v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2022-01-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment electronic-surveillance fifth-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech miranda-rights search-and-seizure sixth-amendment standing |
4th-amendment-rights,electronic-communication-privacy-act,5th-amendment-rights,6th-amendment-rights,8th-amendment-rights,sex-offender-registration |
| 21-6816 |
N'Neka L. Crews v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2022-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accident-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federalism fourteenth-amendment mens-rea public-welfare-offense strict-liability |
Whether Colorado's interpretation of a criminal leaving the scene of an accident law conflicts with Supreme Court precedent |
| 21-6818 |
Arron Lawson v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2022-01-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-offenses competency competency-evaluation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment state-court-proceedings |
Does a state Court proceeding resulting in a death sentence violate the Fifth and Eighth Amendments when the court fails to ensure the defendant's com… |
| 21-6801 |
In re Johnny McMahon |
|
2022-01-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing extrinsic-fraud fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-fair-trial |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying a second or successive petition on the petitioner's claims of due-process, equal-protection, ineffective-as… |
| 21-6776 |
Wesley R. Carey v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance michigan-v-mosley post-conviction-relief self-incrimination state-court-decision |
Has the State of Illinois altered a decision in conflict with the decision in United States Supreme Court case, Michigan v. Mosley, thereby, violating… |
| 21-6780 |
In Re Lori Sklar |
|
2022-01-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-disqualification due-process fourteenth-amendment impartial-tribunal judicial-misconduct mandamus-relief retroactive-disqualification |
Whether the California Supreme Court should be ordered to grant an appellate review do-over when due-process compels a permanently-removed-judge's ret… |
| 21-6771 |
Charles Reddicks v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2022-01-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-records equal-protection fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury jury-selection race-neutral racial-discrimination sixth-amendment |
Whether permitting the Government to run criminal records for potential jurors, then use the records of the record check to strike jurors of color, vi… |
| 21-957 |
Marci M. Webber v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-12-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights confinement due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment mental-health mental-health-detention ngri not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity |
Whether a State's indefinite confinement of an NGRI acquittee, who is no longer psychotic, mentally ill, a danger to herself or others, or in need of … |
| 21-939 |
Peter Beasley v. Society of Information Management, Dallas Area Chapter, et al. |
Texas |
2021-12-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment race-discrimination racial-discrimination standing vexatious-litigant |
Whether Texas courts may discriminate against Black people in violation of Due Process and Equal Protection guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment thr… |
| 21-944 |
Josephine Tripodi, et al. v. North Coventry Township, Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2021-12-27 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-liability mold-remediation property-rights state-court takings |
Does the Due Process Clause prohibit a state court from compelling a real property owner to pay for mold inspection and remediation without legal duty… |
| 21-934 |
Lana Weinbach v. The Boeing Company, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
amendment-interpretation capable-of-ascertainment constitutional-rights due-process eighth-circuit escheat-laws fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment legal-scrutiny ninth-amendment |
Whether the Eighth Circuit exceeded its scope in determining a capable-of-ascertainment criterion, and in so doing, infringed upon constitutional-righ… |
| 21-6719 |
N. R. v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2021-12-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment ex-post-facto juvenile-adjudication juvenile-justice retroactive-application retroactive-law sex-offender-registration |
Do the Ex Post Facto Clause and Eighth Amendment permit a retroactive imposition of registration obligations on a person adjudicated of a sex offense … |
| 21-6726 |
Mark Jason Davis v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-12-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment drug-detection fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment k9-sniff police-dog private-property probable-cause search search-and-seizure search-warrant |
Whether an open-air sniff conducted by a police K9 on private property without a warrant or probable cause constitutes a search |
| 21-6700 |
Tremaine Rashon Wray v. Dennis Bush, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel expert-witness forensic-evidence fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-review sixth-amendment |
whether Petitioner was denied his Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel and Fourteenth Amendment Due Process right to a fair trial |
| 21-926 |
Cooper Tire & Rubber Company v. Tyrance McCall |
Georgia |
2021-12-22 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (4) |
consent corporate-registration due-process forum-contacts fourteenth-amendment general-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction state-sovereignty |
Whether the Due Process Clause permits a state to assert personal jurisdiction over an out-of-state corporation for claims not arising from the forum … |
| 21-927 |
Donald Clinton Crabtree v. Christine Crabtree |
South Carolina |
2021-12-22 |
Denied |
|
1st-amendment due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-expression gender-bias gender-discrimination judicial-misconduct religious-expression |
Did Judge Monet Pincus violate the 1st Amendment protection of freedom of expression and generally condemn religious expression of men? |
| 21-897 |
Brian Benson, et al. v. Ann Kemske, et vir |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-12-17 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigation res-judicata standing |
Whether pro se litigants are entitled to liberal construction of pleadings |
| 21-6649 |
Paul J. Hultman v. Daniel Paramo, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance juror-misconduct presumption-of-prejudice sixth-amendment |
Were the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments violated when a juror admitted viewing unadmitted evidence during deliberations and stated that her verdict w… |
| 21-6632 |
Charles Dalton Shoemake v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2021-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment exemplary-prison-record juvenile-sentencing life-with-parole proportionality rehabilitation |
Whether Charles Dalton Shoemake's life-with-parole sentence imposed for a crime he committed at the age of seventeen is disproportionate under the Eig… |
| 21-886 |
Ismet Islami v. Kemper Independence Insurance Company |
Wisconsin |
2021-12-15 |
Denied |
|
civil-dissolution due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise legal-separation marital-property religious-freedom religious-rights statutory-entitlement |
Whether the Wisconsin Supreme Court's decision deprives persons domiciled in Wisconsin of their fundamental liberty right to exercise their statutory … |
| 21-874 |
Arthur O. Armstrong v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-12-14 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause false-reports fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment official-discrimination search-and-seizure |
Whether respondents acted in a conspiracy to violate petitioner's constitutional rights |
| 21-6574 |
Robert Tracy Warterfield v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-procedure contracts-clause due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment interlocutory-appeal plea-agreements right-to-petition |
Can a lawfully perfected interlocutory appeal be mooted prior to resolution |
| 21-6566 |
Steven Craig Bethea v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion constitutional-review criminal-sentencing discretion eighth-amendment judicial-abuse sentencing sentencing-discretion substantive-reasonableness upward-variance |
Whether the district court erred in sentencing the appellant to a greater sentence than necessary |
| 21-6567 |
Dion Brown v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-12-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-defense fourteenth-amendment home-invasion ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-inconsistent-statement reasonable-doubt reasonable-investigation sixth-amendment |
Whether the Petitioner's trial attorney was ineffective |
| 21-859 |
The Montana State Legislature, et al. v. Beth McLaughlin |
Montana |
2021-12-09 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-independence judicial-recusal legislative-investigation legislative-oversight recusal separation-of-powers |
Whether the refusal by the Justices of the Montana Supreme Court to recuse from a case in which they harbored direct, substantial, and admittedly disq… |
| 21-860 |
Jane Doe v. Timothy White, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-09 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
due-process fourteenth-amendment goss-standard goss-v-lopez higher-education liberty-interest procedural-due-process property-interest qualified-immunity |
Whether students at public colleges and universities have a liberty and property interest when facing suspension or expulsion |
| 21-834 |
Libertarian Party of Minnesota, et al. v. Steve Simon, Minnesota Secretary of State |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-12-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process election-law elections first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech petition-rights political-parties political-party |
Whether a government can threaten criminal prosecution against voters who sign petitions supporting minor political party candidates without notice th… |
| 21-6500 |
Jermaine Neal v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2021-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constructive-amendment criminal-investigation due-process false-confession fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment perjury self-incrimination sixth-amendment |
When a citizen of the United States becomes a suspect in a criminal investigation for homicide and is induced to give false statements, does the due-p… |
| 21-6504 |
Edward JoRodge Gladney v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-review civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment precedent-interpretation prison-conditions prison-safety prisoner-rights sexual-assault |
Did the Circuit Court err by contradicting this Court's precedent in Farmer v. Brennan by ruling Petitioner was obliged to show an individualized risk… |
| 21-6473 |
Michael Stumph v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-12-02 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP |
Appellate-Review Cruel-and-Unusual-Punishment Due-Process eighth-amendment Equal-Protection fourteenth-amendment Procedural-Due-Process sentencing-discretion |
Whether Ohio Revised Code § 2953.08(D)(3) violates the Eighth-Amendment |
| 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? |
| 21-6485 |
R. S. C. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services |
Texas |
2021-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge due-process facial-challenge fourteenth-amendment procedural-rights section-262.201(0) statutory-interpretation texas-family-code |
Does Texas Family Code, Section 262.201(0) violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 21-6437 |
J. S. v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2021-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal constitutional-rights due-process effective-counsel fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance right-to-appeal sixth-amendment |
Did J.S. have a Fourteenth Amendment right to be advised by the Court of his right to appeal? |
| 21-793 |
Pennsylvania v. William Henry Cosby, Jr. |
Pennsylvania |
2021-11-30 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment criminal-charges criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment immunity immunity-promise press-release prosecutorial-discretion |
Whether a public press release grants a defendant transactional immunity |
| 21-794 |
Pamela Reilly, Personal Representative of the Estate of Rosemarie Reilly v. Ottawa County, Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-11-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment civil-rights deshaney-test deshaney-v-winnebago domestic-violence due-process fourteenth-amendment state-actors state-created-danger substantive-due-process third-party-harm |
Whether an abused woman has pled a substantive due process violation under the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 21-6435 |
James Worley v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-11-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-conviction capital-punishment constitutional-rights fair-jury fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-selection sixth-amendment voir-dire |
Is a capital conviction and sentence invalid and imposed in violation of the capital defendant's constitutional rights to a fair jury under the Fifth,… |
| 21-6424 |
Elijah Dwayne Joubert v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process false-testimony fourteenth-amendment napue-v-illinois prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-likelihood |
Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permit a prosecutor's knowing use of false testimony unless the defendant proves by a preponde… |
| 21-6429 |
Randall T. Deviney v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-sentencing criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment functional-elements hurst-v-florida ring-v-arizona |
Whether the Due Process Clause requires additional determinations under Florida's capital sentencing scheme to be made beyond a reasonable doubt |
| 21-782 |
Rodney Renia Young v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
burden-of-proof capital-punishment constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability state-law |
Does requiring a capital defendant to prove his intellectual disability beyond a reasonable doubt violate the Due Process Clause and the Eighth Amendm… |
| 21-765 |
In Re Kelaco Corporation, dba Kelaco Construction Company |
|
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
access-to-courts appellate-review due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment |
Where a Florida state appellate court finds enough merit to an appeal such that it holds an oral argument but, after the oral argument, refuses to iss… |
| 21-6377 |
Anthony Harris v. J. Philip Morgan, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Whether the court violated the petitioner's Fourth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment rights under the U.S. Constitution when the court denied the pet… |
| 21-6387 |
Richard Barry Randolph v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-sentencing constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment retroactive-law statutory-construction |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's decision in Hurst v. State constitutes statutory construction of substantive law, and if so, whether the Due Proce… |
| 21-6393 |
Michael Lawrence Woodbury v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
competency-standard due-process fourteenth-amendment indiana-v-edwards mental-illness self-representation sixth-amendment |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court correctly held that the trial court's inquiry and determination under the lower standard of competency to waive coun… |
| 21-758 |
James P. Tatten v. LSF9 Master Participation Trust |
Colorado |
2021-11-22 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment due-process equal-protection foreclosure fourteenth-amendment nonjudicial-foreclosure nonjudicial-hearing property-rights real-property state-court-procedure |
Whether the district court orders that authorized and approved a public trustee sale and transfer of the homeowner's real property, violated the due p… |
| 21-753 |
Trina L. Janura v. John J. Janura, Jr. |
West Virginia |
2021-11-19 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-conduct judicial-discipline judicial-ethics judicial-investigation judicial-misconduct recusal |
Did the non-disclosure and non-recusal from either the circuit court or the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals both violate the petitioner's right… |
| 21-6340 |
Troy Wayne Harmon v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure evidence evidence-rules fourteenth-amendment inconsistent-opinion informant-privilege material-witness sixth-amendment |
Whether the trial court's refusal to allow the petitioner to call a material witness violated the petitioner's Sixth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendmen… |
| 21-6341 |
Donald D. Foltz, Jr. v. Wyoming Department of Corrections, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment implied-bias jury-bias jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment |
Was the seating of juror who should have been dismissed for cause requires reversal because implied biased applies to Juror foreman, 1301, married to … |
| 21-6356 |
Felipe Nieves-Perez v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment indictment life-sentence motion-to-quash right-to-due-process trial-court |
Did the trial court violate Mr. Nieves-Perez's right to due process by denying his motion to quash the indictment? |
| 21-6328 |
Scottie D. Allen v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-11-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-sentencing criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing standard-of-proof |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's rejection of Petitioner's claim of error based on the jury being affirmatively misinformed about its role in the s… |
| 21-6336 |
Darrin Lashaon Betts v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 21-usc-841(a)(1)-(b)(1)(a) amendment-782 criminal-procedure fed-r-crim-p-11(c)(1)(c) fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines statutory-law type-c-agreement |
Whether a defendant is eligible for 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(2) relief |
| 21-6307 |
Donald James Smith v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-11-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-case capital-punishment criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial penalty-phase prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment victim-impact |
Was petitioner's right to a fair 'penalty phase' trial violated when the prosecutor told the jurors, during closing arguments in the guilt phase, that… |
| 21-735 |
Jim Olive Photography, dba Photolive, Inc. v. University of Houston System |
Texas |
2021-11-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
cedar-point-nursery copyright-infringement fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-appropriation right-to-exclude takings-clause |
Whether the government's appropriation of a copyright owner's right to exclude constitutes a per se taking under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments i… |
| 21-6293 |
Roy Bolinger v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-attack cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel victim-allocution |
Did the court of appeals violate Bolinger's right to due process by forcing him to raise his claim on collateral attack without the benefit of counsel… |
| 21-6301 |
Travis Wayne Bentley v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing expert-witnesses fourteenth-amendment indian-federal-law indigenous-rights indigent-legal-counsel post-conviction-relief tribal-jurisdiction |
Did the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals violate Mr. Bentley's Fourteenth Amendment right to Due Process? |
| 21-6304 |
Neng Por Yang v. Ann Marie Holland |
Minnesota |
2021-11-16 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment harassment-restraining-order judicial-jurisdiction pro-se |
Whether the Minnesota Court of Appeals decision to continue the enforcement of a fraudulent and pretentious state harassment restraining order to an i… |
| 21-6271 |
Austin Myers v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-11-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts criminal-procedure death-penalty discovery due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction postconviction-relief summary-dismissal |
Whether the Ohio state courts deny a death-sentenced postconviction petitioner's rights to due process, access to the Ohio courts, and an adequate cor… |
| 21-6279 |
Jquan Leearthur McInnis v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2021-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama roper-v-simmons sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Whether sentencing a juvenile to two consecutive homicide sentences of life-with-the after thirty years, the functional equivalent of a natural life s… |
| 21-6257 |
Jevon Dion Jackson v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2021-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
as-applied-challenge eddings-v-oklahoma eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-rule miller-v-alabama proportionality proportionality-review youth-mitigation |
Whether a sentencing court adequately considers the mitigating aspects of youth |
| 21-695 |
Bennie Anderson v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2021-11-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-scrutiny eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause national-importance pension-seizure public-pensions punitive-forfeiture punitive-forfeitures state-action |
Can a state insulate its punitive forfeitures from federal constitutional scrutiny by limiting the definition of what constitutes a 'fine' for purpose… |
| 21-6235 |
Brandon Marquis Jennings v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process eighth-amendment life-sentence miller-v-alabama presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the appellate review for reasonableness of a life sentence lacks sufficient scrutiny |
| 21-6195 |
Ronald C. Fairchild v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2021-11-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment martinez-claim martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment |
Did the Kentucky Court of Appeals allow Mr. Fairchild's rights under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, as… |
| 21-6196 |
I. A. v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2021-11-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance legal-representation right-to-appeal standing |
Did I.A. have a Fourteenth Amendment right to be informed of his right to appeal? |
| 21-6204 |
Antonio A. Tankes v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment free-speech retroactive-application sentencing-enhancement standing |
Whether the petitioner should be prohibited from filing pro se pleadings |
| 21-6206 |
Joel Barcelona v. Sergeant Parish, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-threatening life-without-parole medical-treatment refusal-of-care |
Whether the Respondents, Nurse J.M. Chunnu and Nurse M.M. Kelly, exhibited deliberate indifference to Petitioner's life-threatening medical condition … |
| 21-664 |
Patrick J. Downey v. City of Toledo, Ohio |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-11-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights declaratory-judgment due-process federalism fourteenth-amendment home-rule municipal-ordinance police-powers statutory-interpretation |
Do federal courts have authority to alter the plain meaning of a state or municipal law? |
| 21-655 |
Max Ray Butler v. S. Porter, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
adequate-medical-care bivens bivens-remedy civil-rights constitutional-rights eighth-amendment federal-courts federal-prisoner federal-prisoners medical-care |
Whether Bivens remedies are categorically unavailable to federal prisoners in any other context |
| 21-6149 |
Domingo Palma v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2021-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment mistrial prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
Are the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments violated by a trial court's refusal to grant a mistrial where a prosecution witness injects groundless, irrele… |
| 21-6153 |
Suran Wije v. David A. Burns, et al. |
Texas |
2021-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-liberties due-process equal-protection equal-rights fourteenth-amendment immunity leave-to-amend liberty nondisclosure qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity |
Do the interests of 'justice so require' a leave to amend, when purposeful obfuscation, legal trickery, and nondisclosed affirmative defenses like imm… |
| 21-649 |
Walder Vacuflo, Inc. v. Illinois Human Rights Commission, et al. |
Illinois |
2021-11-02 |
Denied |
|
access-to-courts circuit-split civil-rights discrimination due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech human-rights-commission religious-freedom standing |
Whether the Illinois Supreme Court and Appellate Court's refusal to consider this matter violates the First and Fourteenth Amendment rights of Petitio… |
| 21-6143 |
Stephen Cameron Zyszkiewicz v. California |
California |
2021-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights controlled-substances-act equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment freedom-of-religion marijuana-prohibition religious-freedom state-federal-conflict |
Whether there is a conflict of state and federal law with regards to marijuana/hashish and/or mescaline |
| 21-639 |
Mark R. Smith v. Kate Bieker, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
dues-seizure employee-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment johnson-v-zerbst state-action union-speech waiver waiver-of-rights |
May a State, consistent with the First and Fourteenth Amendments, seize for union speech payments from an employee who has notified the State that he … |
| 21-6112 |
Manuel DeJesus Rosas v. California |
California |
2021-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-street-gang discovery due-process fourteenth-amendment informant-activities lanzetta-v-new-jersey street-gang vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the California criminal street gang laws are unconstitutionally vague |
| 21-621 |
Vince Flaherty, et al. v. Holly Hill Investments, LLC |
California |
2021-10-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
california-law civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judgment-adequacy notice-of-judgment service-of-notice service-of-process state-law |
Whether California's no-evidence-allowed rule concerning the adequacy of service of notice of judgment is consistent with the Due Process Clause of th… |
| 21-6085 |
Robert George Knecht, Jr. v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Florida |
2021-10-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
1st-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment standing |
Whether the State Court of Appeals erred and departed from the essential requirements of the law and federal constitutional claims |
| 21-6093 |
Jeffrey D. Leiser v. Karl Hoffmann, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-10-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment inmate-rights medical-treatment summary-judgment wanton-suffering |
Did the District Court and Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied the legal presidents that 46 days of severe 'unnecessary inflict of wanton pain… |
| 21-6108 |
Paradise L. v. Arizona Department of Child Safety, et al. |
Arizona |
2021-10-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-general clear-and-convincing-evidence constitutional-rights due-process evidence-standard fourteenth-amendment parental-rights termination-of-rights witness-exclusion |
Whether the termination of mother's parental rights was supported by clear and convincing evidence as required by the due process clause |
| 21-603 |
Ohio v. George Brinkman |
Ohio |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
automatic-reversal boykin-advisement boykin-v-alabama constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea plea-review presumption-of-prejudice standard-of-review |
Does the Due Process Clause prohibit review of the entire record to determine whether a guilty plea was knowingly, intelligently and voluntarily enter… |
| 21-6065 |
Michael Belcher v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-murder due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial fourteenth-amendment post-mortem-photographs prejudice-analysis prejudicial-evidence |
Whether the admission, without an analysis of the risk of prejudice, of over 40 gruesome photographs of the victim's body, depicting post-mortem decom… |
| 21-6058 |
David James Lola v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-10-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process federal-judiciary fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-review legislative-review separation-of-powers sixth-amendment state-sovereignty |
Does due process pursuant to the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments dictate that a state court clerk may assign a criminal case to a judge who ex… |
| 21-6059 |
Terry Jonathan Phillips v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-right criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-offense fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-procedure |
Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a twelve-person jury to try a criminal defendant accused of a felony offense |
| 21-6061 |
John Rodney Johnson v. Donnie Ames, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-10-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury prosecutorial-misconduct racial-bias sixth-amendment |
Does a Prosecutor's conduct to interject race comments into a State trial as an appeal to a racial prejudice based on the fact the trial having the in… |
| 21-6022 |
In Re Robert L. Hedrick |
|
2021-10-21 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
access-to-courts bureau-of-prisons civil-procedure deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment frivolous plausible-claim rule-8 standing |
Did the Court Error in ruling that the complaint failed to comply with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8(a)? |
| 21-579 |
Kenneth Eugene Smith v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-20 |
Denied |
|
accomplice-liability burden-of-proof capital-sentencing constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions jury-trial sixth-amendment specific-intent |
Under Waddington v. Sarausad, does a general jury instruction on accomplice liability relieve the State of its burden to prove specific intent beyond … |
| 21-6025 |
Stewart Hines v. Gwendolen Cleopha Nelson |
South Dakota |
2021-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure constitutional-due-process court-access due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se-representation standing trust trust-law |
Whether a sole Beneficiary and Trustee can represent that Trust pro se |
| 21-563 |
Warren M. Lent, et al. v. California Coastal Commission, et al. |
California |
2021-10-18 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
administrative-law administrative-penalty administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment property-rights takings |
Whether administrative agency can permanently deprive person of millions in fines using summary hearing process |
| 21-564 |
Diane Scott Haddock v. Tarrant County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
association-rights constitutional-rights elrod-branti-test first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-association freedom-of-petition government-employment pickering-connick-test strict-scrutiny |
Where public employees allege violations of First Amendment rights by their government employers |
| 21-5995 |
Christopher Emory Cramer v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure conference-in-chambers due-process eighth-amendment federal-rule federal-rule-of-appellate-procedure-10(c) federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure-43 fifth-amendment judicial-proceeding record-completion record-on-appeal sixth-amendment |
whether-an-unrecorded-conference-is-a-hearing-or-trial-under-federal-rule-of-appellate-procedure-10(c) |
| 21-555 |
Benjamin A. Appleby v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2021-10-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
alleyne due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-trial legislative-directive liberty-interest procedural-due-process resentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of procedural due process is violated |
| 21-550 |
Tyrone Christopher Thompson v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2021-10-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment affirmative-defense complete-defense due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment meaningful-opportunity-to-present-defense mental-disease mental-disease-or-defect pre-trial-hearing |
Does precluding a defendant from presenting any evidence of an affirmative defense of mental disease or defect to a jury based solely on conflicting e… |
| 21-537 |
Adir International, LLC, et al. v. Starr Indemnity and Liability Company |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-13 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment insurance insurance-proceeds legal-defense standing state-action state-litigation |
Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits a State to prohibit private parties from using untainted funds, such as otherwise l… |
| 21-542 |
Michael Zito, et ux. v. North Carolina Coastal Resources Commission |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-10-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment due-process federal-claims federal-takings-claims fourteenth-amendment just-compensation just-compensation-clause sovereign-immunity state-immunity state-sovereign-immunity takings takings-clause |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's incorporation of the 'self-executing' Just Compensation Clause abrogates state sovereign immunity from federal taki… |
| 21-5944 |
Casey Ray Culp v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-justice cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment reform sentencing |
Whether a guideline sentence of seventy-five months imprisonment violates the Eighth Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment |
| 21-525 |
Hemant Bhimnathwala v. New Jersey State Judiciary, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-10-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
child-custody disparate-impact due-process equal-custody equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment obergefell-v-hodges statute-of-limitations |
Does the Fourteenth Amendment require a presumption of equal, joint custody of children in child custody proceedings? |
| 21-529 |
Bataski Bailey v. Fair & Walker Unit Owners Association, Inc., et al. |
Georgia |
2021-10-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
5th-amendment attorney-misconduct civil-rights defamation due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceeding judicial-proceedings legal-ethics |
Do intentional false statements by an attorney violate opposing party's rights? |
| 21-5912 |
Mark Wayne Gray v. Dean Borders, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-client-privilege due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment self-incrimination sixth-amendment |
Whether the 5th Amendment (right to be free from self-incrimination) and 6th (denial of assistance of counsel) and 14th amendments were violated |
| 21-514 |
Robert Bello v. Rockland County, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-10-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process firearm-surrender fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment handgun-ownership mental-health property-rights |
Whether the Fourth Amendment is implicated where law enforcement refuses to release firearms surrendered for mental health reasons to a nonprohibited … |
| 21-504 |
Joshua Eric Hawk Clark, aka Joshua Clark v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2021-10-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment judicial-reliability murder-conviction scientific-evidence scientific-reliability second-degree-murder shaken-baby-syndrome |
Does the Due Process Clause prohibit a conviction based on unreliable expert testimony? |
| 21-5860 |
Antonio Franklin v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-10-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-process cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection final-judgment-rule fourteenth-amendment ineffective-counsel judicial-dereliction |
Whether the Eighth or Fourteenth Amendments protect inmates from an allegedly faulty appellate process due to ineffective counsel |
| 21-5900 |
Justin Anderson v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2021-10-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment capital-case constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment prior-offense resentencing sentencing victim-impact victim-impact-evidence |
Whether the Eighth Amendment permits a State to present victim-impact evidence arising from a crime other than the murder for which the defendant is b… |
| 21-5901 |
Shawn R. Erpelding v. Scott Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa aedpa-limitations civil-judgment due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief postconviction-relief pro-se pro-se-application state-criminal-judgment |
Whether pro se applications to vacate and set aside a state criminal judgment toll the limitation period under the 'properly filed' clause of 28 U.S.C… |
| 21-5854 |
Ernest Johnson v. Paul Blair, Warden |
Missouri |
2021-10-04 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
adaptive-deficits atkins-v-virginia causal-connection eighth-amendment intellectual-disability moore-v-texas |
Whether a state can add a causal connection requirement to the definition of intellectual disability, ignoring Atkins and its progeny |
| 21-5864 |
Deloris Phillips v. Columbia Luxar |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights court-system due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion sanctions vexatious-litigant |
Whether it is unconstitutional to label a litigant as vexatious without due process |
| 21-5882 |
Jessica W. v. Administration for Children's Services |
New York |
2021-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment child-custody constitutional-rights due-process evidence family-court fourteenth-amendment parental-rights procedural-error |
Did the New York County Family Court meet due process and evidence standards in their determinations against the petitioner in disposition of two conj… |
| 21-493 |
Susan Chen v. Darren Migita, et al. |
Washington |
2021-10-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure court-dismissal due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdictional-challenge legal-representation notice personal-jurisdiction procedural-ambiguity standing unrepresented-minor |
Whether a state court's dismissal order, absent clear languages about the legal effects, and its further refusal to clarify — which has led to four ye… |
| 21-498 |
James Conerly, et al. v. John Patrick Winn, Judge, Superior Court of California, Sacramento County, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appellate-review bias civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias recusal sealing-records standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the Appellate Court erred in dismissing the case for lack of subject matter jurisdiction |
| 21-5853 |
Noah Gaston v. Maine |
Maine |
2021-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-culpability due-process fourteenth-amendment general-intent intent mens-rea murder murder-statute specific-intent |
Does Maine's murder statute violate the Fourteenth Amendment because it does not require the state to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Noah Gaston… |
| 21-5825 |
Raqib Abdul Al-Amin v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2021-09-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
compulsory-process constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment drug-offense due-process eighth-amendment evidence expert-witness mandatory-minimum sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the South Carolina Supreme Court erred in concluding that the trial court's decision to exclude the testimony of the defendant's expert witnes… |
| 21-5784 |
Joe Vonzo Readon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause |
| 21-5792 |
Karl Roye v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment 8th-amendment-violation constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mandatory-life-without-parole miller-v-alabama sentencing |
Whether the Second Circuit erred, in violation of the Eighth Amendment, when it concluded that Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460 (2012) condoned the imp… |
| 21-466 |
Eric DeWayne Cathey v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-09-28 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability medical-criteria medical-standards precedent supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals contravened the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments and this Court's precedents in rejecting a trial court's … |
| 21-5759 |
Kevin Hall v. Kul Sood, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-09-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-treatment prison-healthcare supervisory-power wexford-health-sources |
Did prison medical professionals and the prison's healthcare contractor violate the Eighth Amendment? |
| 21-5713 |
Kirk Johnson, aka Qabail Hizbullah-Ankh-Amon v. New York |
New York |
2021-09-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment federal-constitutional-law functional-equivalent-life-sentence juvenile-sentencing miller-standard retroactive-effect retroactivity state-collateral-review teague-framework |
Does the Court have the power to review a State Collateral Review Court's failure to give Retroactive Effect to new substantive rules of Federal Const… |
| 21-5736 |
Brandon Joshua Bailey v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-09-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment gps gps-tracking location-records probable-cause search search-and-seizure vehicle warrant-requirement |
Whether the government conducts a search under the Fourth Amendment when it accesses a vehicle's historical GPS location records |
| 21-431 |
Grant Lloyd Greenwood v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2021-09-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment jury-instruction jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
Whether a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of appellate counsel, and Fourteenth Amendment right to due process, are violated |
| 21-436 |
In Re Kevin D. Loggins, Sr. |
|
2021-09-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion obstruction-of-justice unlawful-incarceration void-judgment |
Whether the U.S./Kansas has held petitioner illegally in prison contrary to the U.S. Constitution |
| 21-5689 |
Harold V. Hoskins v. Kevin Kauffman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-09-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Was the petitioner denied his Sixth Amendment right to be represented by counsel? |
| 21-5668 |
Freddy Angel Trujillo v. Raymond Madden, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment gang-evidence joinder joinder-of-charges prejudicial-evidence summary-reversal |
Did the Ninth Circuit's finding that Trujillo's Due Process rights were not violated by the joinder of unrelated charges so clearly misapply the law a… |
| 21-399 |
Chester Lee Reneau v. Mary Cardinas, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-09-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-negligence prisoner-rights serious-medical-needs seventh-amendment summary-judgment |
Can prison doctors violate the Eighth Amendment by exposing prisoner's to the 'unnecessary and wanton' infliction of pain? |
| 21-5645 |
In Re Donald Mack |
|
2021-09-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus mental-incompetence pate-v-robinson procedural-rules |
Can a mentally incompetent defendant challenge his conviction under the Fourteenth Amendment despite procedural rules? |
| 21-361 |
Guangcun Huang v. Tim Hui-Ming Huang, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
|
academic-freedom eleventh-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment standing state-immunity title-vi title-vii |
Whether SCOTUS decisions on Eleventh Amendment, Title VII, Title VI, First Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment, standing, Texas Tort Claims Act, and acade… |
| 21-356 |
Jermain V. Richards v. Connecticut |
Connecticut |
2021-09-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hung-jury mistrial perez-v-united-states richardson-v-united-states |
Whether the Fifth Amendment's Double Jeopardy Clause bars a criminal defendant's retrial after the government has had a fair opportunity to prove its … |
| 21-5577 |
Terry Darnell Anderson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-split circuit-split cumulative-error cumulative-error-doctrine fair-trial federal-habeas-corpus fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment |
Does the cumulative error doctrine apply to ineffective assistance of counsel claims? |
| 21-343 |
Michelle J. Smith v. Nicholas French, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Martin D. French, Deceased |
Massachusetts |
2021-09-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-malice child-athletes defamation first-amendment fourteenth-amendment libel preemption public-figure sports-governance |
Whether the standard of proof in a State Defamation/Libel case arising from a parental complaint to a National Governing Body of Sport, should automat… |
| 21-346 |
Yvonne Reignat-Vodi v. Motor Vehicle Administration |
Maryland |
2021-09-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment administrative-law agency-records civil-rights dismissal driver-license due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment procedural-due-process witnesses |
Did the courts follow the Procedural Due Process subject to the 14th Amendment due process protection? |
| 21-329 |
Rosemary Garity v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial make-whole-remedy pro-se sanctions standing summary-judgment |
Did the Ninth Circuit err in upholding sanctions against pro se, denial of damages and right to a jury trial, when admitting not supported by the reco… |
| 21-331 |
Alice Jin-Yue Guan v. Bing Ran |
Virginia |
2021-09-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment property-rights takings |
Whether state courts violated Petitioner's federal rights by removing her own property without notice and due process |
| 21-5549 |
William D. Lauga v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2021-09-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-federalism privilege-and-immunities privileges-and-immunities procedural-bar racial-discrimination sixth-amendment |
Is the state of Louisiana violating the due process clause of the Sixth Amendment by not addressing claims raised by petitioner on a law that is based… |
| 21-5552 |
Brian Green v. Clinton Perry, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-violation fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-selection procedural-default sixth-amendment warrantless-search warrantless-search-and-seizure |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in holding that no constitutional violations in Green's trial |
| 21-5556 |
Bret Davis v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-09-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-bias media-influence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment unbiased-jury |
Were my Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to a fair trial by an unbiased jury and due process of the law violated? |
| 21-5561 |
Tyrone Cade v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-09-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-habeas capital-punishment competent-counsel due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment state-responsibilities |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires a State to provide capital habeas petitioners one opportunity to present Sixth Amendmen… |
| 21-5538 |
Michael Joseph Edmondson v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus self-representation sixth-amendment waiver-of-counsel |
Whether the trial Judge fulfilled his duty of determining whether there was an intelligent and competent waiver of accused's right to assistance of co… |
| 21-308 |
Tim Sundy v. Friendship Pavilion Acquisition Company, LLC, et al. |
Georgia |
2021-08-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights court-record custody due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment |
Whether the willful refusal and/or failure of a court of record to maintain a complete record is a form of custody, depriving a litigant of due proces… |
| 21-5500 |
John Richard Smith v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether the 5th Circuit Court of Appeal errored in denying petitioner's request for a (C.0.A.) claiming Petitioner failed to state a Constitutional vi… |
| 21-5513 |
Christopher Seckington v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
chapman-v-united-states constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment drug-trafficking eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment urine-testing |
Question not identified |
| 21-5517 |
Lonzie Wayne McQuirter v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2021-08-30 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
44th-amendment constitutional-violation due-process evidence-preservation fair-trial fourteenth-amendment innocence miscarriage-of-justice new-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
whether-petitioner's-claims-should-be-heard-on-the-merits |
| 21-5535 |
Timothy Marcus Mayberry v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2021-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compulsory-process cronic due-process expert-testimony fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment |
Is the Indiana state appellate court's opinion that its trial court did not abuse its discretion when, over multiple objections, it permitted surprise… |
| 21-5498 |
Raymond Concepcion v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2021-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure eighth-amendment intellectual-disability juvenile-court juvenile-justice mandatory-sentencing miller-v-alabama proportionality youth youth-culpability |
Whether the mandatory exclusion of murder defendants between the ages of 14 and 18 from Juvenile Court precludes individualized consideration of their… |
| 21-5509 |
Luther McKiver v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-08-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process eleventh-circuit fourteenth-amendment judicial-precedent legal-interpretation precedent |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit entered a decision that misapplies the precedent of this Court and as a result, violates the Due Process Clause of the Fo… |
| 21-283 |
In Re Roland N. Patterson |
|
2021-08-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-discipline bar-admission civil-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause fourteenth-amendment procedural-due-process reinstatement separation-of-powers substantive-due-process |
Whether Petitioner suffered the violation of his Constitutional Rights to Procedural Due Process |
| 21-5491 |
Alton Alexander Nolen v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2021-08-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability mental-retardation |
Whether Oklahoma's procedure for litigating the issue of intellectual disability comports with the Eighth Amendment |
| 21-5495 |
José Yeyille v. Armandina Acosta-Leon, et al. |
Florida |
2021-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts certiorari discretionary-review due-process equal-protection first-amendment florida-constitution fourteenth-amendment indigent-rights |
Whether Florida Constitution Article V, Section 3(b)(3) and Jenkins v. State, 385 So. 2d 1356 (1980) intentionally bar discretionary review for Petiti… |
| 21-5496 |
José Yeyille v. Armandina Acosta-Leon, et al. |
Florida |
2021-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts discretionary-review due-process equal-protection first-amendment florida-constitution fourteenth-amendment petition-clause |
Whether Florida Constitution Article V, Section 3(b)(3) and Jenkins v. State, 385 So. 2d 1356 (1980) intentionally bar discretionary review for Petiti… |
| 21-5497 |
José Yeyille v. Armandina Acosta-Leon, et al. |
Florida |
2021-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts constitutional-review due-process equal-protection first-amendment first-amendment-petition-clause fourteenth-amendment indigent-rights petition-clause pro-se-litigant |
Whether Florida Constitution Article V, Sections 3(b)(3), 3(b)(7), and 3(b)(8), Jenkins v. State, 385 So. 2d 1356 (1980), and Grate v. State, 750 So. … |
| 21-5476 |
In Re William Barret Slade, II |
|
2021-08-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-relief procedural-default sixth-amendment |
Whether the Alabama state courts and the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in refusing to apply the Supreme Court's rule in Martinez v. Ryan |
| 21-5429 |
Pedro Reyes v. Jeff Jensen, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment notice notice-requirement standing state-action |
Whether State action is implied by the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) anomalous codification |
| 21-263 |
Kimbro Stephens Insurance Trust, et al. v. James E. Smith, Jr., et al. |
Arkansas |
2021-08-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-termination bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure client-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment lawyer-discharge legal-malpractice standing |
Whether a client has a right to discharge a lawyer at any time |
| 21-264 |
San Diego County, California, et al. v. Ana Sandoval, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-24 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established-rights deliberate-indifference due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-care medical-needs pretrial-detainee qualified-immunity |
Whether a pretrial detainee must show subjective awareness of medical needs or only objective unreasonableness |
| 21-5427 |
Kushawn Miles-El v. Connie Horton, Warden |
Michigan |
2021-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment capital-case civil-rights competency competency-hearing due-process fourteenth-amendment right-to-be-present right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether the state court has denied petitioner any right, privilege or immunity |
| 21-5444 |
In Re Calvin James |
|
2021-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 21-5424 |
Victor H. Canales v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence civil-procedure criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings legal-counsel post-conviction-relief standing |
Question not identified |
| 21-235 |
Gary Heidel, et al. v. Anthony Mazzola, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-08-17 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process failure-to-enforce fourteenth-amendment kingsley-standard medical-treatment predictable-consequence pretrial-detainee recklessness suicide-prevention |
Whether jail officials violate a pretrial detainee's Fourteenth Amendment right to medical treatment by being reckless to, without actually knowing of… |
| 21-5377 |
Alexander Ascencio v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jackson-v-virginia sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence watson-v-state |
Whether the lower court denied petitioner due process |
| 21-5378 |
Anthony Kirkland v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-08-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-counsel appellate-procedure capital-punishment constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct |
Is a capital sentence invalid when the prosecutor leads the jury to believe the judge has already decided the defendant should be sentenced to death? |
| 21-5384 |
William A. Masters v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process executive-taking fourteenth-amendment property-rights property-seizure standing state-remedies takings |
Must a Citizen exhaust his State's remedies before filing in the Federal Court for a decision upon a Constitutional issue? |
| 21-5366 |
Abram K. Sollman v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2021-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hearsay-evidence witness-testimony |
whether-the-nebraska-courts-reliance-on-witness-statements-induced-erroneous-or-prejudicial-hearsay-evidence |
| 21-5356 |
Joel Dale Wright v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-08-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment procedural-law retroactivity statutory-construction substantive-law |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's statutory construction in Hurst v. State constitutes substantive law, and if so, whether the Due Process Clause of… |
| 21-5347 |
Damantae Graham v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-08-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection racial-bias racial-prejudice sixth-amendment voir-dire |
Is capital appellate counsel ineffective under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments when they do not raise that both the trial court and trial defense … |
| 21-197 |
Yvonne Reignat-Vodi v. Motor Vehicle Administration |
Maryland |
2021-08-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment pro-se-petitioner procedural-due-process sixth-amendment writ-of-certiorari |
Did the courts follow the Procedural Due Process subject to the 14th Amendment due process protection? |
| 21-189 |
Patrick Okey v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2021-08-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
and Fourteenth Amendments and whether the Commonw Eighth constitutional-challenge due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment laches laches-doctrine sixth-amendment speedy-trial |
Whether the Speedy Trial Rule (600) is protected by the Due Process Clause of the Sixth Amendment, Eighth Amendment, and Fourteenth Amendment, and whe… |
| 21-5336 |
Theodore Howard v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-08-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c)(1)(A) 924(c)(1)(C) constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process firearm-use fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether Mr. Theodore Howard was denied due-process rights, to fair notice of indictment charges |
| 21-5338 |
Michael Vincent Moore v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights dna-evidence due-process evidence-admissibility fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment mistrial probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure |
Whether the prosecutor's submission of an affidavit for probable cause listing a tan animal hair found in a wicker trunk, when the DNA report received… |
| 21-5321 |
Jerome Kieffer v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phone-privacy civil-rights constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech government-seizure standing |
Whether the unconstitutionally vague language of 18 USC 1001 applies to 18 USC 1343(a)(1) |
| 21-5305 |
Alejandro Rosales-Gonzalez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-08-05 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
ability-to-pay circuit-split constitutional-consideration constitutional-law criminal-fines eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause fine-assessment indigent-defendant judicial-discretion |
Whether a defendant's ability to pay a fine is a relevant consideration when determining if a fine is excessive under the Eighth Amendment |
| 21-166 |
Leonel Cervantes-Meraz v. Oregon |
Oregon |
2021-08-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-defense criminal-plea fourteenth-amendment immigration immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance padilla padilla-precedent sixth-amendment |
Did the State of Oregon violate the Petitioner's right to effective assistance of counsel guaranteed him by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment of the … |
| 21-154 |
Nagui Mankaruse v. Raytheon Company, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-08-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
bill-of-rights civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment |
Whether the Honorable United States Supreme Court must defend our Great United States Constitution? |
| 21-5299 |
John Johnson, Jr. v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-08-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause factfinder-discretion fourteenth-amendment non-unanimous-verdict penal-code statutory-interpretation |
Does Texas Penal Code §21.02 discriminate who is and is not protected under the Equal Protection Clause under the Fourteenth Amendment by allowing fac… |
| 21-5268 |
Ambus Ray Davis, III v. Nick Ludwick, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-07-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rule criminal-procedure direct-review due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retrospective-application united-states-constitution |
Whether newly declared constitutional rule of criminal procedure apply retrospectively |
| 21-127 |
Adolfo Gutierrez Avila Jr. v. Vicki Janssen, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-07-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
a person of color violate his fundamental-federal-rights 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct systemic-racism |
Where judicial misconduct targeted Petitioner |
| 21-5232 |
Duane Allen Short v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-07-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
caldwell-v-mississippi capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-decency due-process eighth-amendment evolving-standards-of-decency jury-recommendation jury-trial sixth-amendment |
Is Ohio's capital sentencing scheme, which permits telling the jury that their decision is only a mere recommendation, unconstitutional under Hurst v.… |
| 21-5209 |
Cynthia E. Collie v. South Carolina Commission on Lawyer Conduct |
South Carolina |
2021-07-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure standing |
Whether this Court should grant writ of certiorari to address the state court of last resort's unsupported, arbitrary, and/or capricious order |
| 21-5214 |
Ademola O. Adebayo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment frap-36 |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit entered a decision that strengthens the circuit split created by Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 36, which allows a m… |
| 21-95 |
David W. Foley, et ux. v. Orange County, Florida, et al. |
Florida |
2021-07-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 colore-officii fourteenth-amendment legal-remedy public-servant-immunity state-court-discretion statutory-interpretation virtute-officii |
Is a state court free under the Fourteenth Amendment to deprive a plaintiff of a remedy in 42 USC §1983 by granting a public servant immunity from sui… |
| 21-88 |
Christina Paylan v. Darrell Dirks, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
accountability civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-accountability judicial-bias judicial-recusal standing |
Whether the standard for judicial recusal requires a strict uniform criteria |
| 21-5149 |
Leobardo Barraza v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
eighth-amendment irreparable-corruption juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama plain-error sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a federal court commits plain error by anchoring a sentence for a juvenile's crime resulting in death to a Sentencing Guidelines that recommen… |
| 21-71 |
Washington County, Utah v. Martin Crowson |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-07-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment inmate-medical-care municipal-liability section-1983 supreme-court-precedents |
Whether a municipal government can be liable under the Eighth Amendment for denial of inmate medical care under § 1983 |
| 21-76 |
Linda B. Vacchino v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC |
Florida |
2021-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appeal constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment foreclosure fourteenth-amendment fraud judicial-fraud mortgage-crisis property-rights |
Whether the constitutional rights guaranteed under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments are violated when foreclosures and subsequent sale of primary r… |
| 21-64 |
Danny James McLaughlin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review bajakajian-factors criminal-fine criminal-fines eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-challenge excessive-fine judicial-review proportionality united-states-v-bajakajian |
Whether a reviewing court may consider factors beyond those identified in United States v. Bajakajian when determining if a criminal fine is dispropor… |
| 21-59 |
Carl Gordon v. Regents of the University of California, et al. |
California |
2021-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-procedure-act administrative-record california-public-records-act california-state-law daca due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fraud-upon-the-court preemption |
Does the de facto nullification of California state law [Cal. Gov. Code §§ 6258 and 6259] (resulting in fraud upon the court) by the Regents of the Un… |
| 21-50 |
D. R. S. v. D. P. H. L., et al. |
Florida |
2021-07-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-welfare civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment government-overreach interstate-commerce parental-rights |
Should the Government have the sole and final say on the Frankensteining of the American Family? |
| 21-5101 |
Giuseppe Viola, aka Joseph John Viola v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
cares-act conditions-of-confinement criminal-law eighth-amendment federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus restitution section-2241 supervised-release |
Whether jurisdiction exists for presentation of grounds for relief from all custody under § 2241, challenging conditions of confinement |
| 21-5108 |
Victor Willis v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-07-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a prisoner who has been determined to be intelle… |
| 21-24 |
Curt Daniels, et al. v. John Holtz, et al. |
Iowa |
2021-07-09 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-sale property-rights res-judicata |
What are the parameters of constitutionally acceptable dismissal and dismissal that rises to unconstitutional violation of due-process? |
| 21-25 |
Richard Janusz v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-07-09 |
Denied |
|
arraignment arraignment-delay constitutional-rights criminal-procedure delay due-process fourteenth-amendment speedy-trial |
Whether a defendant is denied due process of the fourteenth amendment where his arraignment is delayed for 630 days after arrest |
| 21-28 |
Wayne A. Jones, Ed.D. v. Virginia State University, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-07-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment academic-freedom civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment property-interest public-university tenure-review |
Whether a non-tenured, but tenure-eligible, professor at a public university has a minimal property interest in a fair tenure review process under the… |
| 21-32 |
Elizabeth C. v. Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services |
California |
2021-07-09 |
Denied |
|
child-custody clear-and-convincing-evidence due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-rights santosky-v-kramer state-intervention termination-of-parental-rights |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment due process requirement articulated in Santosky v Kramer requires a finding of parental unfitness by clear and convin… |
| 21-5050 |
Kristopher Love v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-07-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (12)IFP |
court-of-criminal-appeals death-penalty due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-selection racial-bias sixth-amendment |
Whether Texas' Court of Criminal Appeals has decided an important federal question concerning a racially biased juror being allowed on a capital death… |
| 21-5061 |
Henry Johnson Lucas, Jr. v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2021-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-court fourteenth-amendment legal-interpretation standing supreme-court-rules virginia-law |
Whether the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires the Commonwealth of Virginia to provide a criminal defendant with a meaningful opp… |
| 21-5066 |
Aquabeus Moore v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment 924(c)-enhancement crime-of-violence eighth-amendment equal-protection first-step-act fourteenth-amendment hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery |
Whether Petitioner's conviction of Hobbs Act Robbery constitutes a 'crime of violence' considering new case law and the passage of the First Step Act? |
| 21-21 |
Caroline Ross v. Judson Independent School District |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-08 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law cross-examination due-process fourteenth-amendment hearsay-evidence non-renewal procedural-rules school-board school-board-non-renewal state-law-violation |
Due-process-violation |
| 21-23 |
Brenda Cook v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2021-07-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury jury-impartiality sixth-amendment voir-dire |
Has the Petitioner's Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment right to an impartial jury been violated? |
| 21-5041 |
Kosoul Chanthakoummane v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-07-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial-procedure |
Whether Mr. Chanthakoummane is entitled to a new trial because trial counsel ignored his unequivocal direction to challenge his guilt during the culpa… |
| 21-5048 |
Wesley Lynn Ruiz v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing certificate-of-appealability due-process eighth-amendment expert-testimony expert-witness false-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct |
Should the prosecution be held responsible for presenting false expert testimony at a capital sentencing trial? |
| 21-5021 |
Michael Ray Senn v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-07-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-status sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Does a criminal law which provides for increased punishment based solely on an offender's status as married violate his or her right to equal protecti… |
| 20-8450 |
Ronald Anthony Gomez v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
apodaca-v-oregon criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-unanimity schad-v-arizona sixth-amendment |
Does a state trial court's failure to give a unanimity instruction to a jury in a criminal trial raise a debatable valid claim of the denial of a cons… |
| 20-1821 |
Anton Shifchik, et al. v. Wyndham Worldwide Corporation, et al. |
New Jersey |
2021-06-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
corporate-contacts due-process ford-motor-co-v-montana fourteenth-amendment general-jurisdiction international-shoe internet-commerce personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction |
Whether internet commerce determines personal jurisdiction of foreign corporations |
| 20-8437 |
Jan G. v. Scott Semple, et al. |
Connecticut |
2021-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-association state-courts supremacy-clause |
Whether the Connecticut Department of Correction violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments by denying the plaintiff and his infirm mother visits wi… |
| 20-8435 |
Vladimir Eugene v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment confrontation-clause due-process equal-protection evidence fair-trial fourteenth-amendment hearsay ineffective-assistance non-hearsay-purpose |
Whether otherwise inadmissible nontestimonial hearsay admitted for non-hearsay purpose and thereafter used for their truth as substantive evidence vio… |
| 20-8429 |
Christopher Forman v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2021-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment burglary conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment sentencing |
Did the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania defy the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by permitting a conviction and unlawful sentence on an of… |
| 20-8403 |
Daniel Jacob Craven, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-06-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment due-process elements-of-offense fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-determinations statutory-maximum unanimous-verdict |
Whether a defendant's right to due process are violated when jury instructions do not require all determinations required by state statute for a sente… |
| 20-1773 |
Pasadena Republican Club v. Western Justice Center, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 42-usc-1985 civil-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment property-management state-action state-actor viewpoint-discrimination |
Whether the Western Justice Center is a state actor for purposes of the First and Fourteenth Amendments and 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1985(3) |
| 20-1785 |
Ronald W. Ogle, et al. v. Sevier County Regional Planning Commission, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-06-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitrary-and-capricious board-of-regents-v-roth due-process entitlement-test fourteenth-amendment land-development property-interest regional-planning substantive-due-process |
Whether initial approval in a land development scheme creates a legitimate claim of entitlement for the purpose of establishing a property interest th… |
| 20-8375 |
Luisa M. Liberto, et al. v. Geisinger Hospital, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment discrimination eighth-amendment harassment title-vii viii-amendment wrongful-termination |
Did Geisinger Hospital discriminate, harass, and inflict cruel and unusual punishment on Jeffrey Liberto and Luisa Liberto in violation of Title VII a… |
| 20-8366 |
Larry Dean Garrett, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
coercion confrontation-clause criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule false-statements fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment jury-bias plea-negotiation search-and-seizure sixth-amendment |
Did the district court err by suppressing evidence illegally seized with a warrant obtained by the use of false statements violating Petitioners' Four… |
| 20-8333 |
Carman Deck v. Paul Blair, Warden, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-06-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
delay eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mitigation resentencing sixth-amendment |
Does this Court's Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment precedent protect a defendant's right to present mitigation when a delay occasioned by the St… |
| 20-8341 |
Jonathan Huey Lawrence v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-06-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment proffitt-v-florida proportionality-review pulley-v-harris |
Whether eliminating proportionality review from Florida's capital sentencing scheme contravenes this Court's Eighth Amendment jurisprudence |
| 20-1752 |
Devar Hurd v. Stacey Fredenburgh |
Second Circuit |
2021-06-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
civil-rights constitutional-deprivation due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest prolonged-incarceration qualified-immunity |
Whether prolonged incarceration past a release date is an objectively serious deprivation under clearly established Eighth Amendment law |
| 20-1756 |
Ethan Fullerton, et al. v. LG Chem, Ltd. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
corporate-defendant domestic-corporations due-process fifth-amendment foreign-corporations fourteenth-amendment jurisdictional-limits longarm-statute personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Should international corporate defendants with worldwide reach be granted jurisdictional protection not afforded domestic corporations? |
| 20-8323 |
Clint Raymond Webb v. Michael Pacheco, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-06-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest speedy-trial state-created statutory-interpretation |
Whether a state-created liberty interest in a speedy trial is prohibited from being applied to the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 20-8324 |
Ricardo Valdez v. Walker, C.O., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-right due-process exceptional-circumstances final-judgment fourteenth-amendment klapprott-v-us liberty-interest procedural-mechanism relief speedy-trial Whether a state-created liberty interest in a spee |
Can Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b) be used for the purpose of obtaining relief from the operation of a subsisting, final judgment, when exceptional circumstanc… |
| 20-8303 |
Dong Sheng Huang v. Jalea Joechelle Hill, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights false-imprisonment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution section-1983 warrantless-arrest |
Whether fourth amendment and fourteenth amendment claims were dismissed wrongly at Rule 12(b)(6) motion stage |
| 20-1723 |
Jane Doe v. James T. DeWees, et al. |
Maryland |
2021-06-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
access-to-courts civil-rights common-law-name constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment homelessness privileges-and-immunities standing |
Do homeless people known by their common-law names and without home addresses have a constitutional right to sue in state courts for remedy of injurie… |
| 20-1728 |
Rico Sanders v. Dylon Radtke, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-06-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing juvenile-status life-sentence mitigating-factor parole sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether this Court's Eighth Amendment precedent clearly establishes that a sentencing court must consider a defendant's juvenile status as a mitigatin… |
| 20-1722 |
Damian Cruz v. Glenda I. Lebron Vazquez |
Puerto Rico |
2021-06-11 |
Denied |
|
administrative-agency civil-procedure default-judgment due-process fourteenth-amendment in-personam-jurisdiction interstate-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the Puerto Rico Court of Appeal departed so far from the due process in direct conflict with the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of t… |
| 20-8278 |
L. Powers v. Arthur J. Morburger |
Florida |
2021-06-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court property-rights |
Can the Double Jeopardy Clause Apply To Innocent Persons Thrust in 'Criminal' Courts Rendering False Judgments albeit in Civil Court? When There's no … |
| 20-1697 |
Alice Kimble v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2021-06-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
8th-amendment eighth-amendment excessive-fine fbar foreign-bank-account-report statutory-interpretation tax-evasion tax-penalty willful-violation willfulness |
Did the Court err in holding that Alice acted willfully, despite the lack of proof either that she had knowledge of the requirement to file an FBAR or… |
| 20-8239 |
Jeffrey S. Whitaker v. Mike Parris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-06-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
breach-of-contract contract-law due-process fourteenth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence plea-agreement statute-of-limitations substantive-due-process |
When the opposing party breaches the terms of the plea agreement under the law of contracts, does the one-year statute of limitations begin to run whe… |
| 20-8248 |
Richard W. Williams v. Sherie Korneman, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-06-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance fourteenth-amendment further-proceedings ineffective-assistance public-defender sixth-amendment |
Does having biased jurors on a jury panel, one of which stated during voir dire questioning, 'murder is murder. I don't believe there's a defense for … |
| 20-8253 |
Blaine Keith Milam v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2244 8th-amendment constitutional-interpretation due-process eighth-amendment federal-review habeas-corpus intellectual-disability statutory-limitation suspension-clause |
Can 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b) be constitutionally interpreted to bar first-time federal habeas corpus merits review of an Eighth Amendment claim of intellec… |
| 20-8236 |
Brady Lee Ray v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2021-06-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process first-degree-robbery fourteenth-amendment kentucky-supreme-court sentencing-errors supreme-court-rule uscs-supreme-court-rule-10 wanton-endangerment |
Did Kentucky Supreme Court Violate Section C of USCS of Supreme Court Rule 10 and therefore the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution |
| 20-1684 |
Sean Hartranft v. Midland Funding, LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-04 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure debt-collection due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intervention standing telephone-consumer-protection-act |
Whether the Court of Appeals committed reversible error when it denied Petitioner's Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 24(a) motion to intervene as a ma… |
| 20-8219 |
Clark D. Young v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conflict-of-interest counsel-failure criminal-history due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Whether the defendant was deprived of his Sixth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights when counsel failed to investigate his criminal history |
| 20-8220 |
Patrick Alan Vercruysse v. Bryan Morrison, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process evidence-insufficiency first-degree-murder fourteenth-amendment police-testimony strangulation sufficiency-of-evidence suffocation |
Should petitioner's conviction be vacated due to insufficiency of the evidence that he caused the death of doctor thompson by strangulation or suffoca… |
| 20-8208 |
Ashanti Lusby v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-factors miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing-hearing |
How to determine when a juvenile sentenced to life in prison without parole or its functional equivalent prior to Miller v. Alabama is entitled to a n… |
| 20-8175 |
Timothy Alan Marr v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
violating Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment Right constitutional-rights due-process federal-question fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus petition statutory-interpretation untimely-filing |
Whether the courts below decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions of this Honorable Court |
| 20-1661 |
Arthur O. Armstrong v. School District of Philadelphia |
Third Circuit |
2021-05-28 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment collective-bargaining due-process employment employment-law fourteenth-amendment grievance-procedure official-discrimination procedural-rights property-rights |
Whether petitioner was discharged from teaching position without due process |
| 20-1649 |
Ronald Jeremy Hyatt v. California |
California |
2021-05-26 |
Denied |
|
confrontation-clause due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment preliminary-hearing sixth-amendment witness-disclosure |
Whether the prosecution may refuse to disclose the names and address of the 23 victims and additional witnesses it intends to call at petitioner's pre… |
| 20-8124 |
Lance Mitchell Owens v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Arkansas |
2021-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment plea-agreement plea-agreements sentencing sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation |
Are courts violating the Equal Protection Clause by excluding defendants in plea agreements from mandatory sentencing procedures? |
| 20-8099 |
Joseph Reinwand v. Susan Novak, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause confrontation-rights due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment testimonial-statements |
Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals failed to apply the law on deceased out-of-court testimonial statements by a non-testifying witness, ther… |
| 20-1633 |
Frank Salazar v. Anthony Anderson, et al. |
Colorado |
2021-05-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection Fourteenth-Amendment motor-vehicle-seizure notice-of-dismissal standing substantive-and-procedural-due-process |
Whether a Fourteenth Amendment violation and deprivation of substantive-and-procedural-due-process, equal-protection, civil-rights, standing, civil-pr… |
| 20-8083 |
Derrick Baer v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation franks-hearing law-enforcement-delay search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the decision of the Third Circuit denying petitioner's request for a Franks hearing conflicts with the United States Supreme Court's decision … |
| 20-8086 |
Jack E. Allen v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2021-05-20 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights dna-evidence due-process exoneration fair-trial false-imprisonment federal-crimes fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment wrongful-conviction |
Does the petitioner deserve another trial based upon constitutional rights violations? |
| 20-8089 |
Emem Ufot Udoh v. Minnesota Department of Human Services, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-05-20 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights davis-v-monroe-county-board due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment haines-v-kerner municipal-liability pro-se-litigation qualified-immunity standing |
Whether pro-se-litigants are held to the same legal standards as counseled-litigants |
| 20-8054 |
Joseph Reinwand v. Susan Novak, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause confrontation-rights due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment |
Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals failed to apply the law on deceased out-of-court testimonial statements by a non-testifying witness |
| 20-8062 |
Erold Martin Panopio v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-justice criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing sentencing sentencing-reform supervised-release youthful-offender youthful-offenders |
Whether a near twenty year prison sentence followed by a fifteen year term of supervised release for a youthful offender such as Panopio violates the … |
| 20-8037 |
Quintin Phillippe Jones v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-05-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-v-virginia constitutional-law death-penalty due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability retroactive-rule retroactivity |
Does Moore v. Texas establish a new retroactive rule of constitutional law? |
| 20-8039 |
Matthew J. O'Neal v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
child-pornography criminal-law eighth-amendment mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-enhancement sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Sixth Circuit erred by expanding the scope of the 'relating to' language in 18 U.S.C. §2252A(b)(2) to include conduct under a state statut… |
| 20-8043 |
Carl Wayne Buntion v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrary capital-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty deterrence eighth-amendment retribution |
Whether carrying out the execution of a man who has spent thirty years under a sentence of death would violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition agai… |
| 20-1588 |
Michael Konowicz, aka Michael Phillips, et al. v. Jonathan P. Carr, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-05-17 |
Denied |
|
actual-malice commercial-speech constitutional-interpretation defamation first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech lanham-act |
Whether the Court should revisit the 'actual malice' doctrine of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan |
| 20-8035 |
James W. Moore v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-05-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment burden-of-proof castle-doctrine due-process duty-to-retreat effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions self-defense |
Is Ohio's Castle Doctrine unconstitutional? |
| 20-7980 |
Takiese Naceer Bethea v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2021-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
co-defendants criminal-procedure equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-fairness prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination sentencing |
Does the unequal treatment of African-American co-defendants violate the equal protection clause? |
| 20-8015 |
Noel Brown v. Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2021-05-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment intentional-discrimination prima-facie prima-facie-case title-vii |
Was decisions under Title VII also recognize that a person claiming that he has been the victim of intentional discrimination may make out a prima fac… |
| 20-8024 |
Lisa Biron v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
non-promulgated procedural process 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-appellate-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus procedural-due-process |
When there is no requirement to file a notice of appeal when applying for a certificate of appealability, is the COA seeker's Fifth Amendment right to… |
| 20-8005 |
Philip Steven Matwyuk v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigative-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel right-to-self-representation sixth-amendment |
Question not identified |
| 20-7971 |
Derek A. Rivera v. Connie Horton, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-05-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure directed-verdict due-process expert-testimony fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions murder-conviction sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the defendant was denied a fair trial due to improper other-acts evidence |
| 20-7988 |
Robert Allen Poyson v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2021-05-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors capital-sentencing causal-nexus constitutional-review death-penalty eighth-amendment individualized-sentencing mitigation-evidence non-statutory-mitigation |
Is the individualized capital sentencing requirement guaranteed by the Eighth Amendment violated when a State predetermines that in all cases only min… |
| 20-7992 |
Noah Drake Primeaux v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2021-05-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions non-unanimous-jury prosecutorial-misconduct ramos-v-louisiana sixth-amendment |
Whether reasonable jurists would determine that the holding in Ramos v. Louisiana applies to persons on direct appeal concerning the non-unanimous jur… |
| 20-7978 |
Todd Alan Winkler v. California |
California |
2021-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-trial due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness inflammatory-propensity propensity-evidence |
Did the California Court of Appeal err in concluding that inflammatory-propensity-evidence,pervasively-used,erroneously-admitted did not render the tr… |
| 20-1551 |
Arthur O. Armstrong v. North Carolina, et al. |
North Carolina |
2021-05-10 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights conspiracy due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment land-encroachment land-use property-rights takings |
Whether respondents transgressed the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 20-7955 |
Alton D. Pelichet v. Wayne Circuit Court Judge, et al. |
Michigan |
2021-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment actual-innocence due-process equal-protection felony-murder fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether Petitioner was denied his right to a fair trial, due process and equal protection |
| 20-7945 |
Troy Arnaud v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Louisiana |
2021-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment non-unanimous-jury ramos-retroactivity ramos-v-louisiana retroactivity sixth-amendment teague-framework teague-v-lane watershed-rule |
Whether Ramos v. Louisiana applies to cases on State collateral review |
| 20-7913 |
Dallas Jerome Wims v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance-act eighth-amendment first-step-act sentencing serious-drug-offense |
Whether the First Step Act's amendment redefining 'serious drug offense' applies to the ACCA |
| 20-7926 |
Sadat El-Amin v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2021-05-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-review criminal-procedure Fourteenth-Amendment non-unanimous-jury ramos-retroactivity Ramos-v-Louisiana retroactivity Sixth-Amendment teague-framework Teague-v-Lane |
Whether Ramos v. Louisiana applies to cases on State collateral review |
| 20-7882 |
Taurean Potter v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering fair-trial false-testimony fourteenth-amendment government-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment right to a fair trial and due process was violated when the government failed to correct false testimony… |
| 20-7864 |
James E. Mason, Jr. v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2021-04-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment non-unanimous-jury ramos-retroactivity retroactivity sixth-amendment teague-framework teague-v-lane watershed-rule |
Whether Ramos v. Louisiana applies to cases on state collateral review |
| 20-7876 |
Darrell Tillery v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Louisiana |
2021-04-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-review criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment non-unanimous-jury Ramos-v-Louisiana retroactivity Sixth-Amendment Teague-v-Lane |
Whether Ramos v. Louisiana applies to cases on State collateral review |
| 20-1504 |
J. L., a Child v. Kate Halamay, et al. |
Washington |
2021-04-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
americans-with-disabilities-act attorney-representation civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment informed-consent legal-representation mental-disability |
Did the courts violate the ADA by refusing to allow an attorney to represent a mentally disabled person? |
| 20-1509 |
Pamela Timbes v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Indenture Trustee |
Georgia |
2021-04-28 |
Dismissed |
|
article-iii-standing collateral-estoppel discretionary-appeal due-process fourteenth-amendment georgia-rico mortgage-fraud property-rights res-judicata standing |
Whether the stated claims for relief of this Case arising directly under the due-process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Const… |
| 20-1512 |
Gregory C. Dacanay v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-04-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury impartiality jury-selection law-enforcement sixth-amendment structural-error |
Whether law enforcement officers can be fair and impartial jury members in a criminal trial |
| 20-1491 |
Wael Lasheen v. Supreme Court of Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-04-26 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judges-and-attorneys judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality organizational-conflict recusal recusal-standard standing state-supreme-court |
Is being a stakeholder in an organization which solicits donations and memberships from Judges and Attorneys a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment a… |
| 20-7840 |
Thomas Robert Lane v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2021-04-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-case constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment expert-testimony fair-trial reliable-conviction reliable-sentence |
In a capital case, does the admission of expert testimony from a witness regarding a subject outside his area of expertise violate a defendant's Fifth… |
| 20-7844 |
Paul Patrick Jolivette, Jr. v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion sovereign-immunity |
Did the United States Court of Appeals For The Ninth Circuit Order in 'DENIAL' of a writ of mandate to enforce a judgment Registeered and entered in t… |
| 20-7846 |
Angel Ortiz v. Dennis Breslin, Superintendent, Queensboro Correctional Facility, et al. |
New York |
2021-04-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (14)IFP |
due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment homelessness housing-restrictions incarceration indigence liberty parole |
Does the Fourteenth Amendment prohibit prison authorities from indefinitely detaining supervisees based on an assumption that a municipality will not … |
| 20-7821 |
In Re John A. Toth |
|
2021-04-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel standing unlawful-detention |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging violations of their constitutional rights |
| 20-7825 |
Carlon McGinn v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2021-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-vagueness criminal-history criminal-sentencing due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-determination jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Whether the subsection-specific definition of 'PERSON FELONY' in Kansas Statutes is unconstitutionally vague |
| 20-7827 |
Glen D. Plourde v. Stephen C. Bellavia |
Maine |
2021-04-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fifth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-bias police-misconduct torture |
Whether the petitioner's Fifth Amendment rights to substantive and procedural due process were infringed upon due to the father-son relationship betwe… |
| 20-1465 |
Chang Wang, et al. v. Terilyn Carter-Garrett, et al. |
California |
2021-04-20 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias |
Whether the Due Process Clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments were violated to deny Petitioners a fair trial due to the bias of the presiding… |
| 20-7803 |
Jonathan S. Hall v. Delaware |
Delaware |
2021-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines standing supreme-court-review takings |
Whether the federal and state laws predicated on the Constitutionally-questionable Gun Control Act of 1968 are unconstitutional or illegal, and whethe… |
| 20-7791 |
Shalamar Carmon v. Eric Armel, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-04-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-homicide due-process fourteenth-amendment procedural-defect sixth-amendment specific-offense vague-statement |
Was Petitioner denied due process of law |
| 20-7768 |
Byron L. Hagans v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment |
Whether the petitioner's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment constitutional rights were violated when he was tried in absentia without being informed of th… |
| 20-7769 |
James Hightower v. Ladonna H. Thompson, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights dna-testing due-process fourteenth-amendment free-speech post-conviction-relief standing takings |
Whether the Sixth Circuit's decision violates the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment |
| 20-1436 |
Marty D. Foust v. Lawrence Brothers, Inc., et al. |
Virginia |
2021-04-14 |
Denied |
|
amendment-rights bill-of-rights civil-rights constitutional-rights court-documentation due-process eleventh-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct postal-delay |
Should an official of the Virginia Supreme Court tell the truth about information that they read in document sent by the Petitioner? |
| 20-1434 |
Leslie Rutledge, Attorney General of Arkansas, et al. v. Little Rock Family Planning Services, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-04-13 |
GVR |
Amici (8)Relisted (2) |
abortion abortion-rights civil-rights disability down-syndrome due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment medical-ethics prenatal-diagnosis selective-abortion state-prohibition |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment bars States from prohibiting abortions that are sought solely because of a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome |
| 20-7718 |
Deidre Antoinette Pierre v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2021-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adolescent-brain-science constitutional-rights cruel-punishment eighth-amendment life-without-parole miller-mandate rs-15-574-4-d sentencing-discretion |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits excessive or cruel punishment |
| 20-7724 |
John K. Wilson v. Rosemary Ndoh, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-standard de-novo-review due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea no-contest-plea plea-bargaining standard-of-review state-court-proceedings |
Whether a defendant is entitled to de novo review of a claim that his guilty plea was involuntary under the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 20-7725 |
Todd Glenn Dean v. F. Entzel, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-exhaustion bivens-claims civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-violation due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection fourteenth-amendment |
Whether the district and appeals courts erred in overlooking constitutional and civil rights violations |
| 20-7687 |
Ronald James Hamilton, Jr. v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-04-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-murder cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment exculpatory-evidence fingerprint-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct punishment-trial witness-testimony |
Did the trial prosecutors deny Mr. Hamilton Due Process by failing to disclose exculpatory fingerprint comparison results relevant to an extraneous ca… |
| 20-1409 |
Graham B. Spanier v. Chad Libby, Director, Dauphin County Probation Services, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-04-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-liability criminal-statute due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment jury-instruction retroactive-application retroactivity |
May a state prosecute a defendant for violating a statute enacted after the defendant's conduct, without violating the Ex Post Facto Clause, merely be… |
| 20-1401 |
James Dennis v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2021-04-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
confrontation-clause constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process false-evidence fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment prosecutor prosecutorial-misconduct |
Does any Court have the authority to extinguish a defendant's due process rights via the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment by allowing the prosecutor to … |
| 20-7648 |
Kesner V. Joaseus, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age constitutional-law criminal-justice culpability due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-sentencing retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing |
whether-the-proportionality-principle-&-the-eighth-amendment-has-been-violated |
| 20-7644 |
Skip Hansen v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2021-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-exclusion fourteenth-amendment right-to-defense right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment witness-testimony |
Did the Kentucky Court of Appeals allow Mr. Hansen's right to present a full and complete defense, which is protected by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amen… |
| 20-1381 |
Matthew Fox, et al. v. Charles A. Summers |
Ohio |
2021-04-01 |
Denied |
Amici (6) |
compelling-state-interest constitutional-protection crime-victim due-process fourteenth-amendment government-dissemination informational-privacy public-officials |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process right to informational privacy protects information of a personal, sexual nature related to one's victimi… |
| 20-1372 |
John Chambers v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-03-31 |
Denied |
|
burden-of-proof due-process fourteenth-amendment governmental-record statutory-defense tampering-statute texas-tampering-with-governmental-record unforeseeable-judicial-expansion |
Whether the Court of Appeals violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 20-7615 |
Duane Eugene Owen v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-03-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-case constitutional-claims criminal-procedure death-penalty equal-protection florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus penalty-phase procedural-history retroactivity supreme-court-review |
Whether Petitioner was denied equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution when the Florida Supreme Court decline… |
| 20-7619 |
Thomas Powers v. Greg Scott |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-03-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-delay due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus mental-health sexual-offender sexual-violent-persons-act sixth-amendment speedy-trial |
Whether the courts should have conducted a Barker-v-Wingo analysis on the 8-year delay for civil commitment hearing |
| 20-7623 |
Michael Eric Drake v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2021-03-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-bad-acts sixth-amendment trial-counsel |
Did the Pennsylvania Superior Court ignore the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments when it found no issue with trial counsel's failure to protect his clie… |
| 20-7600 |
Antonio Navarro v. California |
California |
2021-03-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment translation-evidence witness-testimony |
Whether the admission of a translation of a witness's statement made in anticipation of litigation without calling the translator at trial for cross-e… |
| 20-7606 |
Zoe Ajjahnon v. St. Joseph's University Medical Center, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-03-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-claims-act fera-2009 fourteenth-amendment fraud-enforcement-and-recovery-act government-damages non-government-claim standing |
Whether the False Claims Act claim is viable for recovery of plaintiff's individual damages under 31 U.S.C. §3729(b)(2)(A)(ii) and whether the due pro… |
| 20-7592 |
Alan Eugene Miller v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factor aggravating-factors caldwell-v-mississippi capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment jury-instructions jury-verdict sixth-amendment |
Whether the Eighth Amendment allows a jury's non-unanimous advisory verdict to serve as the predicate for a death sentence, when the jurors were told … |
| 20-7582 |
Lonzell Green v. California |
California |
2021-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial federal-review fourteenth-amendment procedural-challenge standing state-court writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified |
| 20-1358 |
Arthur O. Armstrong v. United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-26 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-violation deprivation-of-liberty detention due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment |
Whether appellees acted in a conspiracy to deprive appellant of liberty or property without due process of law |
| 20-7557 |
Wendy Alison Nora v. Office of Lawyer Regulation |
Wisconsin |
2021-03-25 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceeding lawyer-discipline mortgage-foreclosure petition standing |
Whether Petitioner was denied procedural due process in the lawyer disciplinary proceeding |
| 20-7561 |
Melissa Pocopanni v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-responsibility cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment intent-to-commit-murder juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment second-degree-murder |
Whether a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on a nineteen-year-old defendant convicted as a principal to second-degree m… |
| 20-7564 |
Emem Ufot Udoh v. United States District Court for the District of Minnesota |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-violation due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief recantation witness-recantation |
Whether Honorable District Judge Paul A. Magnuson Failed To Consider Petitioner's Habeas Claim |
| 20-7552 |
Hugo Rufino Alvarez-Reyes v. Brad Cain, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection expert-testimony first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment standing witness-credibility |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging violations of the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause |
| 20-1333 |
Roy Sheridan v. DLJ Mortgage Capital, Inc. |
Third Circuit |
2021-03-24 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judgment-on-partial-findings procedural-fairness united-states-v-james-daniel-good-real-property |
Does Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 52(c) violate the Due Process clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 20-1335 |
A. P. v. Vermont |
Vermont |
2021-03-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fourteenth-amendment sexual-conduct split-of-authority state-statute |
Whether Vermont's criminalization of lewd and lascivious conduct violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 20-7536 |
Timothy L. Coleman v. Margaret Bradshaw, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation capital-habeas capital-punishment confessed-murderer due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel penalty-phase right-to-appeal right-to-due-process |
Whether a federal appellate court violates a capital habeas petitioner's rights by refusing to consider additional arguments and authorities in suppor… |
| 20-7516 |
Josue Portillo v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment incorrigibility juvenile-justice juvenile-offenders miller-rule miller-v-alabama proportionality sentencing |
Whether, absent proof of incorrigibility, a district court can sentence a defendant to fifty-five years imprisonment without parole for participating … |
| 20-1298 |
Demetreus A. Keahey v. Dave Marquis, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment clearly established federal law regarding a defen criminal-procedure jury-trial or is an unreasonable application of self-defense due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-trial self-defense sixth-amendment |
Whether the failure to give a self-defense jury instruction contradicts |
| 20-1310 |
Genet McCann v. Douglas J. Wold, et al. |
Montana |
2021-03-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment civil-rights collusion due-process estate-proceeding fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct probate-rights recusal |
Is the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment violated |
| 20-7495 |
Angel Santiago-Gonzalez v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-03-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-determinations statutory-maximum unanimous-verdict |
Whether a defendant's right to due process are violated when jury instructions do not require all determinations required by state statute for sentenc… |
| 20-7504 |
Ray A. Gough v. Daniel Q. Sullivan, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-03-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sexually-dangerous-persons-act sixth-amendment speedy-trial supreme-court-precedent unreasonable-determination-of-facts |
Whether proceedings under the Illinois Sexually Dangerous Persons Act are 'criminal prosecutions' under the Sixth Amendment |
| 20-7505 |
Olin Matice Gaskins v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2021-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal constitutional-rights direct-appeal due-process equal-protection federal-law fourteenth-amendment legal-procedure retroactivity state-court supreme-court |
Did the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia violate clearly established federal law and petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment rights when it failed … |
| 20-7507 |
Christopher Faella v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2259 appellate-rights eighth-amendment plea-agreement restitution sentencing sentencing-appeal statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum waiver |
Whether a defendant's waiver in his plea agreement of the right to appeal his sentence precludes him from appealing an order of restitution that excee… |
| 20-7462 |
Anthony Kirkland v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-03-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-defendant death-penalty fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment |
Are a capital defendant's rights to a fair trial by an impartial jury denied when a juror believes the death penalty should be used in all cases of mu… |
| 20-7478 |
Paul Eric Lewis v. Southern Connecticut State University, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-03-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure pro-bono-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether the plaintiff's right to counsel was violated, resulting in a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's due process clause and the Sixth Amendme… |
| 20-7479 |
Benjamin Velayo v. Cheryl Fox, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-03-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment mental-illness rational-understanding reasons-for-execution |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a prisoner who has a severe mental illness that … |
| 20-7485 |
Wilbern Woodrow Cooper v. Willis Chapman, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-sufficiency fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest standing state-agents state-deference sufficiency-of-evidence |
Due-Process-Clause-Violation |
| 20-7451 |
David K. Jenner v. Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. |
Colorado |
2021-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
colorado-revised-statute colorado-statute constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment johnson-v-us unconstitutional |
Is Colorado Revised Statute § 17-22.5-403(2)-(3.5) unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment due process protections? |
| 20-7410 |
Edward McCain v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
case-remand certiorari concurrent-sentences criminal-procedure eighth-amendment fourth-circuit-judgment jones-v-mississippi judicial-review juvenile-offenders plain-error sentencing supreme-court-procedure |
Whether an invalid conviction affects a criminal defendant's substantial rights and must be vacated on plain error review |
| 20-7425 |
Cornelius Kenyatta Craig v. Andre Matevousian, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment reasonable-doubt sixth-circuit |
Whether the 'same evidence' standard for double jeopardy under the Fifth Amendment is unconstitutional as applied to the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Pr… |
| 20-1259 |
Protect Our Parks, Inc., et al. v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-iii-standing civil-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment lujan-standard standing takings takings-clause |
Whether the Plaintiffs possess Article III standing to bring their takings and due process claims |
| 20-1253 |
Charles L. Stringer v. Storesonline, Inc., et al. |
Mississippi |
2021-03-10 |
Denied |
|
chancery-court civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment motion-to-strike pro-se-representation sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Did the Mississippi Supreme Court break state law when it would not apply the mandatory language in the use of the word 'shall' in Mississippi Code of… |
| 20-1244 |
Barbara Tully, et al. v. Paul Okeson, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
absentee-voting age-discrimination equal-protection fourteenth-amendment twenty-sixth-amendment voting-rights |
Whether Indiana violates the Twenty-Sixth Amendment by giving voters age 65 and older the right to cast an absentee ballot by mail while requiring oth… |
| 20-7391 |
Marcus A. Turner v. David W. Gray, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process felony-murder fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard |
Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause bars a second prosecution and punishment for Felony-murder and Felonious-assault following an acquittal on Aggravat… |
| 20-7397 |
William Randolph King v. Thomas Winn, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment brady-violation criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-testing due-process eighth-amendment evidence-suppression prosecutorial-disclosure prosecutorial-misconduct |
Could reasonable jurists debate whether the prosecution committed a Brady violation when it failed to disclose the prior victim's pubic hair found dur… |
| 20-7361 |
Robert Eugene Ayers v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2021-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-commitment civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine jury-trial mental-health seventh-amendment sexual-predator sexually-violent-predator |
Was Petitioner entitled by the Incorporation of the Seventh Amendment's Jury Trial Clause into the Fourteenth Amendment to Trial By Jury in a State Ci… |
| 20-7368 |
Antonio Dewayne Hooks v. Kayodi Atoki, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-03-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process excessive-force failure-to-protect fourteenth-amendment medical-needs objective-reasonableness pretrial-detainee |
Whether Kingsley v. Hendrickson's objective-reasonableness standard applies to pretrial detainees' deliberate-indifference claims |
| 20-1236 |
Jason Avery Anderson v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Virginia |
2021-03-08 |
Denied |
|
as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment va-code-18.2-361 va-code-18.2-366 |
Is Anderson being subjected to cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment because Va. Code Sections 18.2-361 and 18.2-366 are u… |
| 20-7329 |
Justin L. Knight v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2021-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-conviction criminal-procedure evidence-suppression fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment investigative-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop |
Whether the police had reasonable suspicion for an investigative stop |
| 20-7338 |
Foster Lee Tarver v. Josh Shapiro, Attorney General of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment judicial-abuse-of-discretion juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama statutory-construction |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in upholding the illegal mandatory maximum life sentence imposed upon the Petitioner |
| 20-7342 |
In Re Christopher Vigliotti |
|
2021-03-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment covid-19 covid-19-risk cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus prison-conditions |
Should the court issue an emergency writ of habeas corpus requiring respondent's to release petitioner due to the fact COVID-19 and its variants prese… |
| 20-7350 |
Adam DeVore v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-03-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment government-misconduct indictment-misconduct manifest-miscarriage-of-justice sixth-amendment waiver-of-indictment |
Whether the service of a fake indictment and threats to foster a child constitutes a due process violation |
| 20-1213 |
Marsha W. Mignott, et al. v. Brian Gardiner |
Georgia |
2021-03-05 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment attorney-fees civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment georgia-court-of-appeals legal-procedure non-party non-party-corporation |
Whether the Georgia Court of Appeals erred in ordering a non-party corporation and attorney to pay attorney's fees without due process |
| 20-7279 |
Ong Vue v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2021-03-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence criminal-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment laches procedural-bar state-criminal-appeals |
Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals application of a state procedural bar and laches to Petitioner's actual innocence claims is contrary to… |
| 20-7288 |
Nazari Vasilich Cam v. Oregon |
Oregon |
2021-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment halbert-v-michigan indigent-defendant right-to-counsel sua-sponte-appointment swenson-v-bosler |
Whether a state appellate court must appoint counsel sua sponte for an indigent criminal defendant who represents himself at trial, files a notice of … |
| 20-1192 |
Fred Lohr Fouse, et ux. v. Saratoga Partners L.P., et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2021-02-26 |
Denied |
|
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment municipal-tax-sale property-rights redemption-rights |
Does Pennsylvania law violate the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment? |
| 20-1176 |
Trustees of the Thomas E. Proctor Heirs Trust v. Keta Gas & Oil Company, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process fourteenth-amendment internet-age mullane-standard mullane-v-central-hanover notice notice-requirements property-rights tax-sale |
Does the Pennsylvania court's refusal to apply 'preconceived notions of what is reasonable in the age of the Internet,' in the context of a tax sale w… |
| 20-1184 |
Kee Food, Inc., et al. v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
|
civil-forfeiture due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment meaningful-hearing property-rights state-seizure |
Whether the meaningful hearing aspect of due process is satisfied when a party faced with state seizure and retention of property under civil forfeitu… |
| 20-7228 |
Leroy Pooler v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-state state-v-poole statutory-construction substantive-law |
Does the Florida Supreme Court's statutory construction in Hurst v. State constitute substantive law and, if so, does the Due Process Clause of the Fo… |
| 20-7249 |
Derrick Miles v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-appeal due-process eyewitness-identification fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial-procedure witness-identification |
Whether the State of Illinois Appellate Court ruling denying petitioner's claim |
| 20-7226 |
John R. Scannell v. Washington State Bar Association, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
disciplinary-proceedings first-amendment fourteenth-amendment investigation judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction obstruction res-judicata rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court unlawful-practice |
Did the Washington State Supreme Court have jurisdiction to conduct original disciplinary proceedings against Scannell? |
| 20-7238 |
Alberto Julio Garcia v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2021-02-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
competency cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process dusky-standard eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-competency pretrial-proceedings restorative-treatment |
Does Mississippi's 'presumption of competency' violate the Fourteenth Amendment, and/or the Eighth Amendment, when that presumption is expanded to all… |
| 20-1166 |
Jorel Shophar, et ux. v. United States, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-02-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment child-welfare child-welfare-act constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment seizure state-seizures |
Is the 1974 Child Welfare Act of Child Protective Services violating U.S. Citizens Constitutional Rights |
| 20-1152 |
Guillermo Luna, et ux. v. U.S. Bank N.A. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-02-23 |
Denied |
|
due-process foreclosure fourteenth-amendment notice power-of-sale property-rights |
Whether the notice of the foreclosure sale of the property of the petitioners under the power of sale in the deed of trust is subject to notice requir… |
| 20-1155 |
Jonas David Nelson v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2021-02-23 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
cognitive-deficits cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-sentence life-without-parole mental-illness proportionality proportionality-review |
Whether the Eighth Amendment right to narrow proportionality review of sentences of life without release entails a right to a hearing at which evidenc… |
| 20-7215 |
Sunni Askari Newell v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment eighth-circuit federal-sentencing firearms firearms-possession sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eighth Circuit has misconstrued U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(b)(6)(B), contrary to every other circuit, resulting in defendants convicted of firearms … |
| 20-7219 |
Cedric C. Westbrook v. California |
California |
2021-02-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrary-action arbitrary-classification civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-classification procedural-hurdles standing state-court |
Does the State Court have an arbitrary right to re-classify a legal document into a specific classification of filings that the State knows has surimo… |
| 20-7205 |
Leonardo Franqui v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-02-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-defendant capital-punishment constitutional-interpretation due-process eighth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability jury-sentencing statutory-construction |
Is the Florida Supreme Court's understanding of the proper holistic evaluation to assess a capital defendant's intellectual disability consistent with… |
| 20-1147 |
Thomas Jefferson Smallwood v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-22 |
Denied |
|
certificate-of-appealability compulsory-process confrontation confrontation-clause fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-review |
Should a certificate of appealability issue |
| 20-1127 |
Joseph Louis Paduano v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2021-02-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury incorporation state-courts state-criminal-proceedings |
Should Hurtado v. California be overruled? |
| 20-7157 |
David Smith-Garcia v. Paula Burke |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment bivens civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment medical-care medical-need prison-healthcare probation |
Does an Eighth Amendment claim for deliberate indifference to a serious medical need against a U.S. Probation officer present a valid Bivens claim in … |
| 20-7160 |
Emmett Garrison, IV v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2021-02-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole presumption sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Whether the Eighth Amendment forbids a sentencing court from applying a presumption in favor of life without parole for a juvenile offender |
| 20-7161 |
Tyrell E. Artis v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-02-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights domestic-violence due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal res-judicata sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Can a plea deal consisting of two (2) misdemeanor domestic violence charges be withdrew post sentence, when; (1) no direct appeal was taken; (2) said … |
| 20-7133 |
Anthony Reed v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment grand-jury habeas-corpus prosecutorial-discretion structural-defects |
Whether the Arkansas Constitutional Amendment No. 21 violates the Fourteenth Amendment's due process clause by allowing prosecution by information rat… |
| 20-7143 |
Heyangjing Shi, et al. v. Jim J. Mash |
New York |
2021-02-12 |
Rehearing |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights contract contract-law due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-standing standing unauthorized-use void-judgment |
Whether it violates the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution |
| 20-7144 |
Xue Jie He v. Hairong Xue |
New York |
2021-02-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment landlord-tenant security-deposit statutory-interpretation |
Whether it violates the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution |
| 20-7125 |
Rashan Williams v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2021-02-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
collateral-review criminal-procedure Fourteenth-Amendment non-unanimous-jury retroactivity Sixth-Amendment Teague-v-Lane |
Whether Ramos v. Louisiana applies to cases on State collateral review |
| 20-7127 |
Clyde Pontefract v. United States, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bivens bivens-action civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment federal-prisoner federal-prisons injunctive-relief municipal-liability standing |
Does Ziglar V Abbasi apply to Eighth Amendment claims by federal prisoners? |
| 20-7103 |
Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. North Carolina, et al. |
North Carolina |
2021-02-10 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech grievance-mechanism petition-clause prisoner-rights standing |
Whether the petitioner retains the right to petition the government for redress of grievances and whether this is denied in violation of the Equal Pro… |
| 20-7108 |
Jan Gawlik v. Scott Semple, et al. |
Connecticut |
2021-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-association freedom-of-expression freedom-of-speech religious-rights |
Where the Connecticut Department of Correction violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments, denying used books from publishers without inspection, de… |
| 20-1095 |
Darius Wayne Haws v. Idaho |
Idaho |
2021-02-10 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appeal-waiver appellate-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea plea-agreement |
Whether a criminal defendant's purported waiver of the right to appeal is knowing, intelligent, and voluntary |
| 20-7084 |
Mindy Hill v. Google LLC, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights closed-captioning digital-content due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech standing terms-of-service youtube-terms-of-service |
Whether the court should resolve the issues regarding Google's YouTube terms of service, safety concerns, and violation of Ms. Hill's first amendment … |
| 20-7051 |
Tomas Zavalidroga v. United States District Court for the Northern District of New York |
Second Circuit |
2021-02-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech iccpr pro-se-litigant standing vexatious-litigant |
Whether the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) pro… |
| 20-7053 |
Hector Manuel Torres v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-02-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance plea-bargain retroactivity sixth-amendment strickland-standard |
Whether the ruling in Ghaidez V United States deprives certain people of the right to equal protection by allowing defense counsel to withhold a vital… |
| 20-7055 |
Bernard F. Verrett v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-defense defense-expert due-process expert-witness fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intent intent-element sixth-amendment strickland-standard |
Whether Strickland requires counsel to procure an adequate defense expert to negate or mitigate the intent element of the crime when that was the only… |
| 20-7064 |
Justin Lee Perry v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2021-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-amendment due-process felony felony-charge fourteenth-amendment grand-jury indictment sixth-amendment trial-modification |
Does the N.C. Supreme Court decision conflict with Plye# v. Doe, Ex-Parte Bain v. U.S., U.S. v. Gaudin and the fifth, sixth, and fourteenth amendment … |
| 20-7044 |
Gregory Bartunek v. Hall County, Nebraska, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause pretrial-detainee pretrial-detainees religious-freedom |
Whether failing to provide consistent and reliable opportunities for pretrial detainees to exercise their religious freedoms is a violation of the Fir… |
| 20-1062 |
Chad Bennett v. Washington |
Washington |
2021-02-04 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment aggravating-factors constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-finding jury-findings sentencing-guidelines vagueness |
Whether defendants may challenge aggravating factors as vague under the Due Process Clause |
| 20-1065 |
Christopher Hudler v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2021-02-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process extradition fourteenth-amendment in-absentia in-absentia-trial sixth-amendment |
Whether petitioner's judgment of conviction was rendered in violation of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, where … |
| 20-1068 |
Jorel Shophar v. Johnson County, Kansas, et al. |
Kansas |
2021-02-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-protective-services civil-rights county-judges due-process eleventh-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-immunity parental-rights pro-se-litigation standing |
Is the enjoyment of the Eleventh Amendment Immunity for County judge's contradictory to Fourteenth Amendment for U.S. Citizens, when County Judges int… |
| 20-1055 |
Anthony Tricoli v. Rob Watts, et al. |
Georgia |
2021-02-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech government-corruption government-retaliation retaliation sanctions sovereign-immunity |
May the State of Georgia impose punitive sanctions against an attorney petitioning the courts and speaking out in public to expose and redress state g… |
| 20-1059 |
Roy H. Murry v. Washington |
Washington |
2021-02-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anders-brief court-of-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment pro-se pro-se-briefing right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Was Mr. Murry denied his Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel and Fourteenth Amendment Due Process? |
| 20-7009 |
Mark Rudolph Arsenio Reed v. Robert Toole, Warden, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-02-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment indigent-defendant motion-in-arrest sixth-amendment standing |
Whether an indigent defendant has standing to claim a deprivation of the First Amendment right to petition the court |
| 20-1049 |
City of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, et al. v. Calvin McCraw, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-02-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights content-neutral-regulation due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech government-interest narrow-tailoring pedestrian-rights public-safety |
Does the risk of death or serious bodily injury to a pedestrian on a median constitute a significant government interest? |
| 20-1038 |
Darrell Wayne Brown v. Kevin Michael Comstock |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause |
| 20-6999 |
Kannha Bounchanh v. Washington State Health Care Authority, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
ada ada-adaa civil-rights due-process equal-protection evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-discrimination |
Whether the panel of judges at the Ninth Circuit court have violated the petitioner's due-process, equal-protection, ada, civil-rights |
| 20-6965 |
Bradley B. Miller v. Virginia T. Dunn |
Texas |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights contempt court-fine court-fines due-process fourteenth-amendment indigent-party judicial-discretion jurisdiction removal |
Whether the levying of a court fine against an indigent party represents a violation of constitutional Due Process |
| 20-1015 |
Alexi Ortiz v. Alfred D. Walsh, Jr. |
Maryland |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure constitutional-claims due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review property-rights standing tax-sale |
Did the State court's reliance on Quillens v. Moore (requiring an individual to pay taxes, interest, and tax sale purchaser costs prior to any court r… |
| 20-1005 |
Sara Dees v. San Diego County, California |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 child-seizure civil-rights due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment liberty-interest parental-rights section-1983 |
Is a parent's Fourteenth Amendment liberty interest in the care, custody, control, and management of their child violated when government authorities … |
| 20-6940 |
Ellery Dennis Thomas v. Raymond Madden, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus prisoner-rights remittitur sentencing standing |
Whether the 5th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution provides an opportunity for a full and fair litigation of an unconstitutional state law that is nev… |
| 20-990 |
Thomas J. Dart, Sheriff, Cook County, Illinois v. Anthony Mays, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
bell-v-wolfish civil-rights conditions-of-confinement due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment pretrial-detainee pretrial-detainees |
Whether Kingsley v. Hendrickson abrogated or modified the standard for evaluating pretrial detainees' claims challenging their conditions of confineme… |
| 20-6926 |
Nestor Alegria Hernandez v. California |
California |
2021-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment intoxicated-driving involuntary-manslaughter jury-instructions lesser-included-offense |
Whether California law violates the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause by requiring its courts to instruct on involuntary manslaughter as … |
| 20-6902 |
Layw Thomas v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2021-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
disproportionate-sentencing eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hammer-clause juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing-discretion |
Did Kentucky violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments when it allowed a youth who was 17 when his crimes occurred to be sentenced to life in priso… |
| 20-6915 |
Scott Lee Peterson v. California |
California |
2021-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
capital-murder death-penalty eighth-amendment jury-selection sixth-amendment voir-dire witherspoon-challenge witherspoon-v-illinois |
Whether the Eighth Amendment permits a verdict of guilt returned by a jury from which all prospective jurors opposed to the death penalty have been im… |
| 20-6896 |
Phillip A. Benjamin v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-selection sixth-amendment witness-testimony |
Did the Trial Court err when limiting the testimonies of the defense witness from testifying of vital information, therefore, hindering the Defendant … |
| 20-6900 |
John Reints v. Janet Sayler, et al. |
South Dakota |
2021-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process economic-benefit fourteenth-amendment goldberg-v-kelly pre-deprivation-hearing pre-deprivation-notice procedural-rights statutory-benefits |
Are the Fourteenth Amendment procedural due process rights of a recipient of the need-based, statutory economic benefit at issue here violated when he… |
| 20-974 |
Emil Svrcina, et al. v. Scott T. Nago, Chief Election Officer of the State of Hawaii, et al. |
Hawaii |
2021-01-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights due-process election-contest election-law elections first-amendment fourteenth-amendment hawaii-supreme-court state-legislature vote-by-mail |
Did the Hawaii Supreme Court violate due process by dismissing a complaint with prejudice? |
| 20-6879 |
John D. Freeman v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process eighth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability montgomery-v-louisiana postconviction-procedure retroactive-application retroactivity substantive-rule |
Whether Florida's postconviction procedures governing intellectual-disability claims fail to vindicate defendants' substantive Eighth-Amendment rights… |
| 20-6887 |
Harry Franklin Phillips v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment collateral-review eighth-amendment ex-post-facto intellectual-disability montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity supremacy-clause |
Whether a state court must give retroactive effect on collateral review to the rule announced in Hall v. Florida |
| 20-6892 |
Vashaun Williams v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment compelled-testimony constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions self-incrimination sixth-amendment |
Whether the State violated the Petitioner's rights under the 5th and 6th Amendments by compelling the testimony of a witness who invoked the 5th Amend… |
| 20-6872 |
Scott Hildreth v. Kim Butler, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment grievance-process medical-neglect medical-treatment medication-refill policy prisoner-rights |
Is it right that the defendant Wexford health service, (Menard CC ) have returned to their same old song and dance and have been not properly or timel… |
| 20-6873 |
Joshua Harrell v. California |
California |
2021-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment seizure unreasonable-search unreasonable-seizure |
Whether the unreasonable search and seizure prejudicially violated the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution? |
| 20-941 |
Gregory Atkins, et al. v. Kenneth Williams, Medical Director, Tennessee Department of Correction |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-01-13 |
Denied |
|
8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment injunctive-relief lack-of-funds official-capacity prison-conditions subjective-component |
Does the unavailability of funds or other resources negate the subjective component of a deliberate indifference claim under the Eighth Amendment? |
| 20-939 |
Colette Marie Wilcox v. Nathan H. Lyons, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
circuit-conflict civil-rights constitutional-provisions discrimination equal-protection fourteenth-amendment invidious-discrimination retaliation standing |
Whether the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits retaliation against a person who has complained about invidious discriminati… |
| 20-6821 |
Matthew Jamal Jackson v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-01-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment prejudice pretrial-incarceration public-trial sixth-amendment speedy-trial |
Whether petitioner was denied his Constitutional right to a Speedy Public Trial pursuant to the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 20-6846 |
Tyrone Campbell v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-01-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment standing supreme-court |
Whether the arbitrariness of a death sentence under Bucklew v. Precythe, 139 S. Ct. 1112 (2019), entitles the petitioner to relief |
| 20-6824 |
Raymond Bright v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-01-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment due-process elements-of-offense fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-determinations statutory-maximum unanimous-verdict |
Whether a defendant's right to due process are violated when jury instructions do not require all determinations required by state statute for sentenc… |
| 20-6829 |
Joseph J. Buttercase v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2021-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment actual-innocence due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment nebraska postconviction-relief pro-se |
Whether there is a federal constitutional right for a prisoner to be released upon proof of actual innocence? |
| 20-6815 |
Robert Munoz v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-due-process double-jeopardy due-process false-testimony fourteenth-amendment indictment jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct statute-of-limitations |
Is it written in the U.S. Constitution that a person may be indicted, reindicted 3-times with same cause number: broaden, abandon, and bring abandoned… |
| 20-6797 |
Kevin Sembrat v. Heather Stanton, fka Heather Sembrat |
New Jersey |
2021-01-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-conduct judicial-impartiality property-rights section-1983 |
Whether Petitioner was unconstitutionally deprived of property without due process |
| 20-6769 |
Juan David Rodriguez v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability medical-consensus scientific-authority |
Whether the disregard of medical and scientific consensus and well-established clinical authority when evaluating a claim of intellectual disability c… |
| 20-6775 |
Dantazias Raines v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2021-01-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure eighth-amendment jury-trial juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole montgomery-v-louisiana permanent-incorrigibility sixth-amendment |
Does a juvenile have a Sixth Amendment right to have a jury decide whether he is permanently incorrigible, and thus eligible to be sentenced to life w… |
| 20-904 |
Deborah Holter v. City of Mandan, North Dakota |
North Dakota |
2021-01-05 |
Denied |
|
abuse-of-discretion due-process fourteenth-amendment governmental-action judicial-discretion property-rights special-assessment special-assessments takings village-of-norwood-v-baker |
Whether a governmental entity properly considers the special benefits accruing to an assessed property when paying a nominal portion of the total cost… |
| 20-882 |
Donald J. Trump, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, et al. |
Wisconsin |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
absentee-ballot article-ii constitutional-interpretation election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review laches legislative-intent state-courts voter-fraud wisconsin-legislature |
Whether it violates Article II of the Constitution, as well as the First and Fourteenth Amendments, for state courts to invoke the non-statutory, judg… |
| 20-6763 |
Arnold Maurice Mathis v. Zulaika Zoe Vizcarrondo |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compensatory-damages false-arrest fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment qualified-immunity statute-of-limitations warrantless-search |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit correctly dismissed Petitioners Counts ILand IIL of the Original Complaint for false arrest on t… |
| 20-6735 |
Frank A. McClung, Jr., et ux. v. Elia E. Estevez |
Florida |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights default-judgment due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction jury-trial service-of-process seventh-amendment standing |
Seventh Amendment right to jury trial |
| 20-6746 |
Jonathan Loyd v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment age-of-offender constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment mandatory-life-sentence sentencing |
Whether a mandatory term of life imprisonment imposed upon an offender under the age of 18 is per se lawful under the Eighth Amendment? |
| 20-878 |
Michael Edwards v. Indiana University |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection fourteenth-amendment public-employment state-action workplace-termination |
Was my 14th Amendment United States Constitutional Rights violated when I was fired by Indiana University? |
| 20-6709 |
Lance Hundley v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2020-12-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-defendant capital-sentencing constitutional-review death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-determination mental-health self-representation sixth-amendment |
Do the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments forbid a trial court from allowing a capital defendant with questionable mental health to represent himself? |
| 20-6701 |
Benjamin Pedraza, III v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2020-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phone-data constitutional-rights criminal-procedure eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure privacy-expectation search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Whether a third party has expectation of privacy in cell-phone data obtained without a warrant |
| 20-6708 |
Tony Decloues v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confession confession-voluntariness due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment strickland-standard |
Whether the court of appeal should have granted COA where the district court employed a constitutionally impermissible standard in evaluating the volu… |
| 20-844 |
Barbara Murray v. Elizabeth A. Fry, as Executrix of the Estate of James E. Fry, et al. |
Connecticut |
2020-12-23 |
Denied |
|
7th-amendment civil-eviction civil-rights due-process equal-protection eviction false-factual-finding fourteenth-amendment national-health-crisis seventh-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Does the Seventh Amendment require a jury trial in a civil eviction case? |
| 20-838 |
Kim Blandino v. Nevada, et al. |
Nevada |
2020-12-22 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise impartial-judge judicial-impartiality structural-error |
Whether a criminal defendant's right to an impartial judge under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments requires correction before trial or conviction |
| 20-839 |
Kenneth Greenway v. Southern Health Partners, Inc., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-22 |
Denied |
|
credibility-of-statements deliberate-indifference fourteenth-amendment inmate-rights jail-officials medical-needs serious-medical-needs summary-judgment tolan-v-cotton |
Should the Eleventh Circuit's reinvention of the Fourteenth Amendment standard for deliberate indifference to serious medical needs be permitted? |
| 20-830 |
Washington v. Said Omer Ali |
Washington |
2020-12-21 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
8th-amendment criminal-procedure eighth-amendment graham-v-florida individual-proportionality juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama proportionality-determination sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Graham and Miller require an individual proportionality determination before imposing any sentence on a juvenile offender convicted in adult c… |
| 20-831 |
Washington v. Endy Domingo-Cornelio |
Washington |
2020-12-21 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment graham-v-florida individual-proportionality juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama proportionality-review sentencing-guidelines |
Whether Graham and Miller require an individual proportionality determination before imposing any sentence on a juvenile offender convicted in adult c… |
| 20-6679 |
Larry Dortley v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-12-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
civil-rights competency criminal-procedure drope-v-missouri due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-competency trial-rights |
Whether the Equal Protection and Due Process of Law Clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, and the United S… |
| 20-821 |
Mountainlands Conservancy, LLC, et al. v. California Coastal Commission, et al. |
California |
2020-12-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
coastal-regulation due-process fourteenth-amendment land-use procedural-due-process property-rights substantive-due-process takings zoning zoning-law |
When the California Coastal Commission's certification of the County of Los Angeles' local coastal program imposed a complete ban on the establishment… |
| 20-6644 |
David Santiago Renteria v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-sentencing certificate-of-appealability due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus investigative-funds sentencing |
Did the Court of Appeals deny petitioner a full appeal of the district court's denial of funding under 18 U.S.C. § 3599(f), and this Court's decision … |
| 20-802 |
Virginia Ann Kurschinske v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2020-12-15 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment final-order-of-acquittal fourteenth-amendment state-law |
Are Pennsylvania state laws constitutional? |
| 20-809 |
Kelli Ward v. Constance Jackson, et al. |
Arizona |
2020-12-15 |
Denied |
|
ballot-inspection civil-rights due-process election electoral-college electoral-count-act fourteenth-amendment presidential-electors standing state-courts voting-rights |
Does the Electoral Count Act impose unconstitutional deadlines on state courts' final determination of disputes over presidential electors? |
| 20-810 |
Mike Kelly, United States Congressman, et al. v. Pennsylvania, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2020-12-15 |
Denied |
Amici (11)Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process election-law elections elections-clause first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech laches laches-doctrine standing |
Do the First and Fourteenth Amendments permit Pennsylvania to bar equitable relief for constitutional challenges to election laws? |
| 20-801 |
Frank DeLucia v. Greenbuild, LLC, et al. |
New York |
2020-12-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-rights contempt due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment subpoena witness-appearance |
Is it a violation of the Due Process clauses of the United State Constitution, 5s Amendment and 14th Amendment to punish a party by dismissing his pro… |
| 20-6613 |
C. D. Pickle, Jr., aka Clanton D. Pickle, Jr. v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2020-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review legal-procedure petition supreme-court takings-clause writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the construction of the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution violates the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses o… |
| 20-785 |
Eboni Nicole Baldwin v. Latoisha Dorsey |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment medical-care medical-care-delay pre-gerstein-arrestee state-actor-liability |
How many hours of delayed mental health care is reasonable before a state actor can be held liable for deliberately indifferent or objectively unreaso… |
| 20-787 |
Preserve Responsible Shoreline Management, et al. v. City of Bainbridge Island, Washington, et al. |
Washington |
2020-12-09 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
14th-amendment administrative-law administrative-procedure constitutional-claims due-process evidence evidence-limitation fourteenth-amendment judicial-review standing |
Does it violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause for a state's judicial review statute to bar the introduction of evidence outside the ad… |
| 20-6542 |
Alfonso Percy Pew v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2020-12-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
1st-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment federal-religious-land-use-institutionalized-perso federal-settlement-agreement first-amendment pro-se-litigant religious-land-use standing |
Whether the Pennsylvania state court judicial system has created a hands-off doctrine for pro se litigant's 42 U.S.C. §1983 civil-rights complaint all… |
| 20-6546 |
John C. Nimmer v. Michael G. Heavican, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Nebraska, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
attorney-discipline civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment privileges-and-immunities rooker-feldman separation-of-powers standing |
Does the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bar a 42 USC 1983 claim when a facial challenge is pled? |
| 20-775 |
Clifford Williams v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2020-12-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment right-to-present-defense self-defense sixth-amendment |
Whether a state court's arbitrary decision to deny a defendant the ability to present his self-defense case amounts to a denial of the fundamental con… |
| 20-6523 |
Jason Lamont Brooks v. Scott Jordan, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa aedpa-time-bar civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection habeas-corpus juvenile-offender lwop-sentence meaningful-opportunity montgomery-miller-precedent standing |
Does the AEDPA time-bar apply to a 'protected-class-of-citizen's' claim for relief? |
| 20-6533 |
Grover B. Reed v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-12-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-state retroactive-law retroactivity statutory-construction |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's statutory construction in Hurst v. State constitutes substantive law, and if so, whether under the Due Process Cla… |
| 20-6534 |
Deverick Scott v. Rory Griffin, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment grievances inmate-rights medical-malpractice medical-treatment policy |
Is A.D.C.'s Correct Care Solutions Medical policy unconstitutional when it denies Scott's tooth restoration? |
| 20-6515 |
Anthony Ponticelli v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-12-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-state jury-unanimity retroactivity statutory-construction substantive-law |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's statutory construction in Hurst v. State constitutes substantive law, and if so, whether the Due Process Clause of… |
| 20-6528 |
Ecclesiastical Denzel Washington v. Benjamin Brooke, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-12-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment failure-to-protect prison-conditions prison-safety summary-judgment |
Whether the district court improperly decided factual issues in granting summary judgment |
| 20-765 |
M. S. Willman v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
8th-amendment constitutional-rights declaratory-relief eighth-amendment federal-registry full-faith-and-credit res-judicata sex-offender-registration sorna sorna-compliance |
Whether state sex offenders are only required to register with their jurisdiction or if SORNA imposes an independent federal registration obligation |
| 20-6498 |
Tony Barksdale v. Jefferson Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing certificate-of-appealability due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-amendment eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent |
Did the Eleventh Circuit misconstrue this Court's guidance in Buck v. Davis when it denied Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability? |
| 20-6501 |
Shannon Riley v. Carrie Kathleen Meehan |
South Carolina |
2020-12-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction due-process fourteenth-amendment full-faith-and-credit original-jurisdiction public-interest writ-of-mandamus |
Has the 'public interest' requirement been met under the Full Faith and Credit Clause to entertain review of a petition for a Writ of Mandamus? |
| 20-756 |
Christopher Gary Baylor v. Ayano Eto, fka Ayano Eto Baylor |
Minnesota |
2020-12-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-status parent-child-relationship parental-rights standing state-court |
May a state court terminate the rights of a parent without notice or due process of service? |
| 20-6483 |
Adrien John Matuck v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-proportionality criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole sentencing-discretion speedy-trial statute-of-limitations |
Did District Court violate Matuck's Due Process right when it held a trial over seven years after his arrest? |
| 20-751 |
Ashley Ann Krapacs v. The Florida Bar |
Florida |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
abstract-idea administrative-law bar-discipline civil-rights disbarment due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech free-speech
20-7519" integrated-bar intellectual-property judicial-corruption patent-law political-speech professional-conduct state-action supreme-court-precedent Whether the Supreme Court will address alleged jud |
Whether the state action of disbarment violates the First Amendment as applied to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 20-6419 |
Romell Broom v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-24 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
clearly-established-law constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment execution-attempt habeas-corpus robinson-v-california section-2254 sentencing supreme-court-precedent trop-v-dulles |
Is Louisiana ex rel. Francis v. Resweber, 329 U.S. 459 (1947) the clearly established United States Supreme Court precedent, for purposes of 28 U.S.C.… |
| 20-710 |
John Grove v. Stephen A. Groome, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-11-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-fees civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment property-interest right-to-appeal small-claims-court takings |
Does Grove have a protected property interest under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments such that he has a civil-rights-claim and takings-claim agains… |
| 20-6393 |
Todd C. Hughes v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment post-conviction postconviction-motion sexual-predator |
Did the Florida Second District Court of Appeal and the Florida Sixth Judicial Circuit violate the Petitioner's and like situated inmates, rights unde… |
| 20-6396 |
Michael John Bever v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2020-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-review jury-finding juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether a judge's decision to sentence a juvenile offender to consecutive terms is exempt from Eighth Amendment review |
| 20-6398 |
Richard Wesley Allen v. Marcus A. Pollard, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection First-Amendment Fourteenth-Amendment free-speech parole prisoner-rights religious-freedom |
Does it violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments when a state requires a prisoner to change his or her religion, or to commit acts that are against… |
| 20-701 |
James Calvert v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-11-20 |
Denied |
Relisted (6) |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment mental-competency right-to-counsel structural-error |
Whether the Constitution prevents a State from allowing a defendant to represent himself in a capital case when the defendant is mentally competent to… |
| 20-6371 |
Antoine Moseley v. Daniel Clarke |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause due-process fact-finding fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment insufficient-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-elements |
Double Jeopardy |
| 20-6383 |
Vincent McFadden v. Missouri |
Missouri |
2020-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-evidence prejudice-assessment rompilla sixth-amendment strickland-standard wiggins williams |
Whether the Missouri Supreme Court's application of Strickland violated the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 20-691 |
Lih Bin Shih v. Nathan Brooks Parnell |
California |
2020-11-18 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights clean-hands-doctrine due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech government-petition petition-clause police-reports retaliation |
Whether the Court may deny Petitioner's First Amendment right to petition the Government for a redress of grievances |
| 20-6357 |
Paul Cook v. Appellate Division of the Superior Court of California, Los Angeles |
California |
2020-11-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-prosecution due-process fifth-amendment for-profit-law-firm fourteenth-amendment impartiality private-law-firm prosecutorial-impartiality |
Can a for-profit law firm be contracted to criminally prosecute someone and still be impartial under the Due Process clauses? |
| 20-676 |
J. P., By and Through His Guardian Ad Litem, Shannon Villanueva v. Alameda County, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-17 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process emotional-harm fair-notice first-amendment foster-care fourteenth-amendment qualified-immunity |
Whether emotional harm alone triggers 42 U.S.C. §1983 liability |
| 20-677 |
John T. Laettner v. California Commission on Judicial Performance |
California |
2020-11-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech judicial-discipline judicial-performance notice rebuttal-evidence right-to-be-heard speech-restraint |
Whether it is constitutional under the 1st, 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendments for a judicial disciplinary commission to remove a judge based on the manner… |
| 20-672 |
Thomas Gilewicz v. Brylin Hospital, et al. |
New York |
2020-11-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights court-proceedings due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-procedure standing state-court statutory-interpretation |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions |
| 20-6302 |
Nguyen Vu v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2020-11-13 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-bias perjured-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the petitioner was deprived of due process and equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment due to a prosecution based on perjured testimon… |
| 20-6303 |
Lamar Whatley v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors constitutional-challenge de-novo eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion mitigating-factors sentencing sentencing-discretion separation-of-powers sixth-amendment |
Whether the separation of powers clause allows the legislature to limit the scope of judicial discretion in sentencing by deeming certain aggravating … |
| 20-6308 |
John Patrick Wallace v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appellability civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit-precedent fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus procedural-bar standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Does the state lack subject matter jurisdiction under the Fourteenth Amendment? |
| 20-6317 |
Robert Petty v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review closing-arguments constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment trial-procedure |
Whether the Indiana Courts erred in denying Appellant effective assistance of trial counsel during closing arguments and sentencing, violating the Fif… |
| 20-6325 |
Krystal Megan Delima v. Walmart Stores Arkansas, LLC |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct motion-for-new-trial preponderance-of-evidence transcript-irregularities |
Whether a Motion for a New Trial, FRCP Rule 59, should had been granted? |
| 20-6262 |
Daniel Twian Brown v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-11-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-counsel warrantless-arrest |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability |
| 20-6245 |
Jovon C. Davis v. Willis Chapman, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-selection sixth-amendment trial-counsel |
Denial of Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights |
| 20-6218 |
Terance Valentine v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-waiver criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-fact-finding jury-unanimity ring-v-arizona |
Whether a waiver to an advisory, non-unanimous jury verdict lacking in any fact finding requirement under a death penalty scheme later determined to b… |
| 20-6231 |
Mark Zavala v. Kim Holland, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment gang-enhancement sentence-enhancement street-terrorism-act unitary-proceeding |
Does the trial of a sentence enhancement allegation under California's Street Terrorism Enforcement and Prevention Act in a unitary proceeding with th… |
| 20-6236 |
Fuad Ndibalema v. Mark A. Levine |
Vermont |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adequate-remedy civil-procedure constitutional-law declaratory-relief due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment legal-remedy property-rights |
Whether the Existence of another Adequate Remedy does preclude a Judgment for Declaratory Relief |
| 20-612 |
Roque "Rocky" De La Fuente, et al. v. Steve Simon, Minnesota Secretary of State |
Minnesota |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
ballot-access equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-parties political-party-rights primary-election primary-elections |
Whether Minnesota's taxpayer-funded, state-administered, and binding presidential nomination primary election statutes are repugnant to the First and … |
| 20-582 |
Shadreck Kifayatuthelezi v. South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights compensation eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment incarceration qualified-immunity release-date seventh-amendment state-law |
Whether the Eighth Amendment, the Fourteenth Amendment, and/or state law provide a source of compensation when an inmate is incarcerated past his lawf… |
| 20-6206 |
Travis Johnson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing eighth-amendment proportionality proportionate-penalties sentencing solem-v-helm state-courts supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Illinois Appellant Courts must be required to follow the United States Supreme Court's opinion in Solem v. Helm, 463 U.S. 277 (1983), when ana… |
| 20-6173 |
In Re Tommie H. Telfair |
|
2020-10-30 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment standing |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment's due process and equal protection clauses |
| 20-6164 |
In Re Theresa S. Romain |
|
2020-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1st-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud-upon-the-court full-faith-and-credit petition-clause race-discrimination |
Can a State encourage discrimination on the basis of race theory? |
| 20-6144 |
David Allen Kuntz v. California |
California |
2020-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure coercion confession constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment miranda-rights personal-autonomy psychological-evaluation trial-counsel |
Whether appellant's waiver of his rights under Miranda v. Arizona and the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments was not knowing, intelligent, and voluntary |
| 20-6146 |
Douglas Harrie Stewart v. Cathleen Stoddard, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa antiterrorism-and-death-penalty-act-of-1996 clearly-established-law due-process estelle-v-mcguire evidence-prejudice fourteenth-amendment lisenba-v-people-of-state-of-california payne-v-tennessee trial-fairness |
Whether the rule of law espoused by Payne v. Tennessee, Lisenba v. People of State of California, and Estelle v. McGuire qualifies as 'clearly establi… |
| 20-554 |
Craig Eugene Smith v. James McKinney, Warden, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-10-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
atypical-and-significant-hardship atypical-hardship courts-of-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review liberty-interest prison-conditions wilkinson-v-austin |
Whether a court determining if a prisoner has suffered an 'atypical and significant' hardship must consider factors such as the duration of and justif… |
| 20-545 |
Barbara D. Terrell v. John Lewis Renner, II |
West Virginia |
2020-10-26 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure civil-rights domestic-relations-exception due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-assets notice privileges-immunities property |
Whether the domestic-relations-exception applies to property rights under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 20-6134 |
Adam Alfredo Flores v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment criminal-history cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentence eighth-amendment felon-in-possession sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
Was a maximum ten year sentence above the guidelines of 70 to 87 months' imprisonment for Felon in Possession of a Firearm substantively unreasonable,… |
| 20-6116 |
Terry Joseph Wernicke, Jr. v. Court of Appeal of California, Third Appellate District, et al. |
California |
2020-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment felony-murder juvenile-offender life-sentence parole |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the imposition of a life sentence without the possibility of paro… |
| 20-515 |
Philadelphia Indemnity Insurance Company v. Gateway Hospitality Group Inc., et al. |
Montana |
2020-10-20 |
Denied |
|
arbitration-clause civil-procedure due-process fair-play-and-substantial-justice forum-selection fourteenth-amendment insurance insurance-contract personal-jurisdiction |
Whether the nationwide territory of coverage clause in the insurance policy obligated the insurer to submit to personal jurisdiction in a Montana cour… |
| 20-6085 |
Celso Yanez v. California |
California |
2020-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment first-time-offender mandatory-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines sexual-abuse |
Whether a mandatory sentence of 45 years to life, imposed on a 56-year-old first-time offender in a sexual abuse case involving no violence, no force,… |
| 20-6060 |
Benjamin Davis Smiley, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-10-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-determination mitigating-circumstances sentencing |
Does the decision of the Florida Supreme Court in Smiley v. State, 295 So.3d 156 (2020), violate the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishm… |
| 20-6043 |
Robin Lee Archer v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-10-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-role retroactivity statutory-construction substantive-criminal-law substantive-law |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's statutory construction in Hurst v. State constitutes substantive law |
| 20-6021 |
William Allen v. Candice Batts, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
alexander-v-louisiana constitutional-violation de-novo-review due-process fourteenth-amendment grand-jury-discrimination habeas-corpus jefferson-v-morgan systematic-exclusion |
Whether Petitioner is entitled to habeas corpus relief |
| 20-6023 |
Carlos Anderson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2020-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-review eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-sentencing life-sentence procedural-bar state-court-decisional-law state-court-law |
Can the Florida Supreme Court use state court decisional law to procedurally bar a non-homicide juvenile defendant from seeking relief from an illegal… |
| 20-6031 |
Durwyn Talley v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-10-15 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights court-access due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction first-amendment fourteenth-amendment prison-litigation-reform-act |
Whether the United States Court of appeals, 7th Circuit decision denying Petitioner access to the Court and his right to file any motions against such… |
| 20-6032 |
Timothy Nolan v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2020-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment human-trafficking jurisdictional-error notice notice-requirement standing statutory-interpretation |
Is it possible to sustain a prosecution for human trafficking when no one is trafficked? |
| 20-6005 |
Victor Brancaccio v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-10-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-claims federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-precedent supremacy-clause virginia-v-leblanc |
Whether Florida courts are refusing to consider Eighth Amendment claims in violation of the Supremacy Clause by treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. C… |
| 20-6010 |
Cezary Wojcik v. Cook County, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-10-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment ada ada-statute civil-rights constitutional-rights disabled-persons disabled-prisoners-rights eighth-amendment estelle-v-gamble fourteenth-amendment medical-care |
Did cook county defendants violate disabled Cezary Wojcik Constitutional Rights |
| 20-473 |
Ammar I. v. Connecticut |
Connecticut |
2020-10-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
child-welfare civil-rights due-process family-law foster-care fourteenth-amendment parental-rights religious-freedom |
Whether prolonged 'temporary' foster placement violated federal law and the Petitioner's constitutional rights |
| 20-5981 |
Javier Garza v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-characteristics constitutional-provisions court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure de-facto-life-sentence eighth-amendment judicial-review juvenile-sentencing legal-interpretation miller-v-louisiana statutory-provisions youth-characteristics |
Whether mandatory life sentences, natural or de facto, for juveniles are unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment regardless of whether the trial c… |
| 20-5996 |
Jamaal Howard v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-health-evaluation miranda-rights sixth-amendment |
Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel |
| 20-5932 |
In Re Maurice Johnson |
|
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment african-american-rights citizenship-status civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-personhood reconstruction slavery slavery-abolition states-rights |
What branch of law authorized the states to apply abolished slaves labels (Negro, Black, Colored or African-American) to any African descent after 186… |
| 20-5954 |
Meryl S. McDonald v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure death-penalty death-sentence due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment post-conviction postconviction-counsel pro-se-filing right-to-counsel |
Whether rule 3.851(b)(6)&(i) of the Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure is unconstitutional and violates the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses … |
| 20-445 |
Matthew Anderson v. John Bonnewell, et al. |
Delaware |
2020-10-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
8th-amendment civil-rights correctional-officers due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force intent prison-conditions qualified-immunity summary-judgment |
Whether a trial court can disregard the Whitley-factors in an Eighth-Amendment-excessive-force case |
| 20-5944 |
In Re Gerald M. Calmese |
|
2020-10-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process effective-counsel evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus identity-theft jurisdiction sixth-amendment |
Whether the evidence presented failed to establish the required element of 'another person,' for which the plaintiff was convicted of taking their ide… |
| 20-438 |
Tatiana Reiter, et al. v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2020-10-06 |
Denied |
|
affordable-housing constitutional-protections constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment marital-property property-rights takings tenancy-by-entirety |
Whether a temporary, notwithstanding extended, absence by one spouse from a marital residence justifies a court ordered termination of a tenancy by th… |
| 20-5892 |
Russell A. Stoddard v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment enhanced-sentence fourteenth-amendment sentencing state-law |
Does the Eighth Amendment protection against cruel and unusual punishment prohibit a state from imposing a prison sentence that exceeds the maximum pr… |
| 20-5893 |
Jonnie Ravon v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment habeas-corpus juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole manifest-injustice sentencing violent-offenses |
Whether the courts below decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions of this Honorable Court |
| 20-5902 |
Larry Burt Sexton v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment hearsay hearsay-evidence parole-consideration sentencing |
Whether the trial court erred in admitting hearsay evidence at the sentencing hearing and in finding the petitioner to be a career offender, resulting… |
| 20-5908 |
Mikel Clotaire v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit-precedent fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mug-shot-admission presumption-of-innocence sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-precedent |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's decision to admit a mug shot in a criminal trial absent a need for the evidence splits with well-established Sixth Circ… |
| 20-5887 |
Charles Kunta Lewis, Jr. v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2020-10-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
age-consideration brain-development constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment individualized-sentencing juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing mandatory-minimum sentencing |
Whether the sentence given to Mr. Lewis was unconstitutional because it violated the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment when his youthfu… |
| 20-5897 |
Demetrice Williams v. Sandy McCain, Warden, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability COA criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution denial effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection federal-district-court fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether the federal district court should not have denied COA based on the substantial showing of the denial of the Sixth Amendment guarantees of the … |
| 20-5846 |
Anthony C. Green v. Kelly Lake, Sheriff, Carlton County, Minnesota, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
8th-circuit civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-standard due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment objective-reasonableness qualified-immunity |
Whether the 8th Circuit's decision is contrary to Kingsley |
| 20-5848 |
Richard Bridgeman Gustafson v. Oregon |
Oregon |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity ramos-v-louisiana sixth-amendment state-trial-procedure |
Whether a criminal trial in the State of Oregon that did not guarantee a unanimous verdict, leading the defendant to choose a bench trial, was unconst… |
| 20-5858 |
Elvert S. Briscoe, Jr. v. Annette Chambers-Smith, Director, Ohio Rehabilitation and Correction, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights disciplinary-hearing due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection first-amendment liberty-interest sandin-v-connor |
Can an action by a prison disciplinary hearing that is a violation of the First Amendment, Eighth Amendment, or Equal Protection Clause give a liberty… |
| 20-5874 |
Jerry Lard v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
categorical-prohibition death-penalty eighth-amendment execution intellectual-disability ripeness waiver |
Whether a death-sentenced inmate is permitted to waive a viable claim for an Eighth Amendment categorical probation against the execution of persons w… |
| 20-413 |
Jozlyn Thomas v. James Scott Blevins |
California |
2020-09-30 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 5th-amendment beneficiary-rights civil-procedure constitutional-due-process due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment notice notice-requirements trust trust-administration |
Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments void a trial court order approving a trust account and distribution between trustee and beneficiary withou… |
| 20-5835 |
Joseph Belarde Garcia v. California |
California |
2020-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus parole parole-board prisoner-rights victim-impact-statement |
Can a state parole board commit a fatal error by the refusal to entertain favorable evidence of the state prisoner for his suitability to be released … |
| 20-403 |
Jose Edward Valentin, et al. v. California |
California |
2020-09-28 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment municipal-code vagueness zoning zoning-ordinance |
Whether Santa Monica Municipal Code Section 9.51.020 (A)(1)(e) is unconstitutional |
| 20-5803 |
Raymond Brown v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2020-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federalism fourteenth-amendment petition-for-review standing state-court supreme-court-rules |
Did the Pennsylvania Supreme Court decide on a constitutional question that conflicts with a decision of another state court and the Supreme Court Rul… |
| 20-5786 |
William Earl Sweet v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-09-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-violations eighth-amendment giglio-claim habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-proceedings suspension-clause |
Whether the Eighth Amendment and the Suspension Clause require that an individual have a fair opportunity to show actual-innocence in state-court and … |
| 20-5801 |
James Rogers v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-09-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-claims federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-corpus legal-precedent state-court-decisions supremacy-clause virginia-v-leblanc |
Whether Florida courts are refusing to consider Eighth Amendment claims in violation of the Supremacy Clause by treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. C… |
| 20-5813 |
Glenn Young v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment jury-conviction jury-trial non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment |
Is the State's evidence sufficient to sustain Young's nonunanimous conviction? |
| 20-5795 |
Donald Mitchell Tedford v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2020-09-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
discoverable-information due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pennsylvania-law post-conviction-relief post-conviction-relief-act |
Whether the Post-Conviction Relief Act procedures of Pennsylvania law were applied to Petitioner in violation of his Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment ri… |
| 20-5780 |
D. W. v. California |
California |
2020-09-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
amendment criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment juvenile-court notice petition-amendment prosecutorial-discretion trial-procedure |
Did The Juvenile Court Violate A Minor's Right To Due Process Under The Fourteenth Amendment When It Granted The Prosecutor's Request To Amend A Petit… |
| 20-5732 |
Ernest Seadin v. Dean Williams, Director, Colorado Department of Corrections |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment constitutional-rights eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment new-evidence no-escape-conviction plea-agreement sentence-expiration sentencing-violation |
Is the State of Colorado subjecting Petitioner to a death in prison sentence |
| 20-361 |
James Courtney, et al. v. David Danner, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-17 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause fourteenth-amendment interstate-commerce navigable-waters privileges-immunities privileges-or-immunities-clause slaughter-house-cases state-government state-power |
Is the 'right to use the navigable waters of the United States' limited solely to uses involving interstate or foreign commerce? |
| 20-5748 |
Dacarius Holliday v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2020-09-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-error criminal-intent criminal-negligence due-process eighth-amendment jury-instructions jury-sentencing specific-intent standard-of-proof trial-court |
Can convictions for crimes requiring specific intent create constitutional error where the trial court has ruled that the evidence supports criminal n… |
| 20-350 |
Daniel Flores v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment confession-coercion confidential-informant due-process false-confession fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mexican-mafia |
Are a defendant's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment due process rights violated by the placement of a paid confidential informant in an adjacent cell who… |
| 20-5722 |
Stanley J. Carter v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest speedy-trial state-law |
Does a Criminal defendant have a Fourteenth Amendment Constitutional Protection against the arbitrary deprivation by a state of one's State created li… |
| 20-5697 |
Heather P. Hogrobrooks Harris v. Jimmie L. Smith |
Tennessee |
2020-09-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1981 civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct recusal recusal-standard |
Whether a judge who lied about her reasons for not hearing from the Petitioner during a hearing and subsequently lied in her Order denying to recusal … |
| 20-5685 |
Ruben Sanchez v. Steven Silva, et al. |
First Circuit |
2020-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenge pretext racial-discrimination standard-of-review |
Whether the prosecutor's peremptory challenge of Hispanic prospective jurors was justified |
| 20-5688 |
Joseph L. Berry v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2020-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment gender-discrimination jury-selection race-discrimination |
Does discrimination in jury selection at the intersection of race and gender violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Un… |
| 20-5662 |
Hazhar A. Sayed v. Dean Williams, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections |
Colorado |
2020-09-11 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedies civil-procedure civil-rights colorado-corrections due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion prisoner-civil-rights prisoner-rights sex-offender-treatment standing |
Whether the Colorado Court of Appeals abused its discretion in dismissing Mr. Sayed's 42-U.S.C.-§1983-complaint |
| 20-311 |
Deborah Walton v. First Merchant's Bank |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-procedure attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction |
Whether the Appellants' 14th Amendment rights were violated when she was not afforded the right to respond to the Appellee's motion for Attorney fees |
| 20-5629 |
Lester Waller v. Vance Laughlin, Warden |
Georgia |
2020-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process expert-witness-testimony fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-court-error waiver-of-counsel |
Did the Trial Court err when it determined Defendant's waiver of counsel was valid thus , violating his Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel and his Fourt… |
| 20-5630 |
Mark Anthony Thacker v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2020-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment indiana-law jail-time-credit judicial-discretion miscarriage-of-justice sentencing sentencing-credit |
Whether Petitioner, Mark A. Thacker, has suffer a miscarriage of justice and has been denied the equal protection and due process of laws as guarantee… |
| 20-300 |
James Alan Clark v. Wendy Kristine Clark |
Washington |
2020-09-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-support due-process equal-custody equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fundamental-liberty-interests residential-credit shared-custody strict-scrutiny |
Whether strict scrutiny protections apply to child-support-orders |
| 20-5619 |
James Allen Minyard v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2020-09-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
competency-hearing due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment harmless-error prejudice structural-error trial-rights |
Whether the trial court violated the petitioner's due process right to a fair trial by failing to hold a competency hearing despite a bona fide doubt … |
| 20-287 |
Ernest Johnson v. Anne L. Precythe, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-09-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (12) |
alternative-method bucklew-v-precythe constitutional-claim eighth-amendment legitimate-penological-justification method-of-execution penological-justification summary-judgment |
Whether Bucklew established a categorical rule for dismissing Eighth Amendment method-of-execution claims |
| 20-290 |
Charles Meyers, et al. v. City of New York, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-09-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
assembly civil-rights constitutional-review due-process fair-notice first-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-permission |
How individualized must government permission be to raise fair notice protection under the due process component of the Fourteenth Amendment? |
| 20-5528 |
Miguel Romero v. California |
California |
2020-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fourteenth-amendment jury-trial juvenile-adjudication prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments preclude a trial court from using a prior juvenile adjudication to increase a defendant's maximum sentence… |
| 20-281 |
Waseem Daker v. Clinton Perry, Jr., Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-03 |
Denied |
|
8th-amendment circuit-split conditions-of-confinement due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus prisoner-rights solitary-confinement |
Whether a prisoner may file a habeas corpus petition to challenge his placement on segregated/solitary confinement |
| 20-285 |
Herman Tracy Clark v. Jerold Braggs, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-09-03 |
Denied |
|
aedpa-restriction commutation due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus impartiality liberty-interest pardon pardon-and-parole parole statutory-interpretation |
Whether the word 'shall' binds the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board decision |
| 20-5562 |
Jeffrey Hessler v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2020-09-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstances constitutional-amendments death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida judicial-panel jury-determination post-conviction-relief ring-v-arizona sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, as well as Ring and Hurst, are violated when eligibility for the death penalty is asserted to be … |
| 20-5569 |
Carlos Garcia-Toro v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2020-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conflict-of-interest criminal-defense criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment homicide ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Does the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment of the federal Constitution guarantee the right to conflict free counsel if defense counsel represents multipl… |
| 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… |
| 20-265 |
Leon Oscar Ramirez, Jr., et al. v. ConocoPhillips Company, et al. |
Texas |
2020-09-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
common-law constitutional-amendment due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mineral-rights property-rights takings takings-clause |
Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit common law courts from eliminating property ownership by changing or disregarding their common la… |
| 20-272 |
Maryland, et al. v. Jimmie Rogers |
Maryland |
2020-09-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment sentencing sex-offender-registration sixth-amendment |
Did the Court of Appeals of Maryland depart from this Court's decisions in Smith v. Doe and Apprendi v. New Jersey |
| 20-277 |
Christopher Adams, et al. v. Tony Parker, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-09-02 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment food-safety professional-standards sanitation |
Whether prisoners have a right protected by the Eighth Amendment to have their food prepared and served in a sanitary manner |
| 20-5559 |
Tim Sundy v. Friendship Pavilion Acquisition Company, LLC, et al. |
Georgia |
2020-09-02 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
constitutional-rights court-record-tampering criminal-immunity due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-immunity judicial-remedy |
Whether the refusal of Georgia courts to provide a Georgia litigant any 'plain, speedy, and efficient' remedy to officers of the Georgia courts tamper… |
| 20-5572 |
Michael Aaron Witkin v. Mariana Lotersztain, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment expert-testimony medical-care prison-conditions summary-judgment |
Whether expert medical testimony is necessary to survive summary judgment in an Eighth Amendment deliberate indifference claim |
| 20-250 |
Mark Anthony Poole v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-09-01 |
Denied |
|
aggravating-circumstances capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment hurst-precedent hurst-v-florida jury-recommendation mitigating-circumstances sixth-amendment |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in reinstating a capital sentence issued under Florida's pre-2016 scheme |
| 20-259 |
Minhnga Nguyen v. The Boeing Company |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
5th-amendment discrimination disparate-treatment due-process employment-discrimination fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment public-safety public-safety-reporting retaliation whistleblower wrongful-termination |
Did Boeing violate the Fifth Amendment and public safety when it punished Plaintiff for Plaintiff's saving hundreds of human lives from potential airp… |
| 20-5508 |
David P. Moran v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment motion-preservation preservation-of-issues statutory-interpretation trial-procedure |
Is Fla. Stat. 924.051(1)(b) unconstitutional due to conflict with the due process clause of the 14th Amendment? |
| 20-5531 |
Cynthia Holmes v. James Y. Becker, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-08-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 7th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech seventh-amendment |
Whether the revised South Carolina Frivolous Proceedings Act (FPA), S.C. Code § 15-36-10, is unconstitutional |
| 20-5505 |
Keith O. Johnson v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
competency competency-hearing constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fundamental-error mental-health |
Whether a defendant can be proceeded against in a criminal proceeding where a question of the defendant's competency has been raised and recognized by… |
| 20-5521 |
Wilbert Williams, aka Serenity Izabel Williams v. Beverly Kelly, Assistant Warden, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment gender-dysphoria medical-treatment prisoners-rights transgender transgender-rights |
Whether gender dysphoria is a serious medical condition and whether there is a conflict between the 5th Circuit and other U.S. Courts of Appeals |
| 20-5523 |
Brian Jury v. David W. Gray, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus standing statutory-procedure |
Whether the district court's assessment of the petitioner's constitutional claims was debatable or wrong, and whether the habeas corpus petition claim… |
| 20-5485 |
Maurice Moss v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-08-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-interpretation eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-issue federal-habeas-review federal-review florida-courts habeas-corpus judicial-precedent supremacy-clause virginia-v-leblanc |
Whether Florida courts are refusing to consider Eighth Amendment claims in violation of the Supremacy Clause |
| 20-5486 |
Spencer E. Miles v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-08-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-interpretation eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-issue federal-habeas-review federal-review florida-courts habeas-corpus judicial-precedent supremacy-clause virginia-v-leblanc |
Whether Florida courts are refusing to consider Eighth Amendment claims in violation of the Supremacy Clause |
| 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… |
| 20-5491 |
M. C. v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2020-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment delinquent-acts due-process eighth-amendment imprisonment juvenile-detention juvenile-justice punishment |
Is a child imprisoned for delinquent acts 'punished' within the meaning of the Eighth Amendment? |
| 20-206 |
Wanda Albritten v. California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, et al. |
California |
2020-08-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 7th-amendment civil-jury-trial civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination fourteenth-amendment incorporation incorporation-doctrine jury-trial seventh-amendment summary-judgment |
Is the Seventh Amendment right to a civil jury trial incorporated by the Fourteenth Amendment? |
| 20-5440 |
Jose Tejada v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2020-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ethnic-bias fourteenth-amendment jury-selection sixth-amendment |
whether-the-right-to-a-fair-trial-requires-questioning-prospective-jurors-on-bias-against-hispanics |
| 20-5450 |
Darnell Perkins Washington v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment florida-constitution relief standing |
Does a defendant deserve relief from an Mega Sestece that constitutes Cruel and Unusual punishment under Article I, Section 17 of the Florida Constitu… |
| 20-5408 |
Robert Richard Jodoin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process eighth-amendment federal-sentencing military-veteran non-violent-offense reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines veteran-status |
Whether a 130-month prison sentence for a non-violent, drug dealing, 50-year-old, military veteran is unreasonable |
| 20-5416 |
Roosevelt Cure, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-08-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-interpretation eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-issue federal-habeas-review federal-review florida-courts habeas-corpus judicial-precedent supremacy-clause virginia-v-leblanc |
Whether Florida courts are refusing to consider Eighth Amendment claims in violation of the Supremacy Clause |
| 20-5417 |
Rasheed Lamar Robinson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment federal-habeas-corpus felony-convictions national-importance retroactive-sentencing |
Whether the retroactive erasure of felony convictions violates due process and the denial of a Certificate of Appealability reflects a breakdown in th… |
| 20-177 |
Ally Financial Inc. v. Alberta Haskins, et al. |
Missouri |
2020-08-18 |
Granted |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
class-action due-process forum-contacts fourteenth-amendment nationwide-class out-of-state-defendant personal-jurisdiction state-court |
Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits a state court to exercise specific personal jurisdiction over claims against an out… |
| 20-5381 |
Lawrence F. Curtin v. Kimberly Cortez |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
eighth-amendment fifth-amendment first-amendment florida fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-qualification-commission petition redress-of-grievances sixth-amendment state-court-judge |
First Amendment right to petition Florida's Judicial Qualification Commission, the government, in writing, for a redress of grievances about state cou… |
| 20-165 |
Angela L. Carroll v. Timothy W. Miller |
Wisconsin |
2020-08-14 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment due-process fourteenth-amendment impartiality judicial-ethics recusal social-media standing |
Was the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment violated by a judge and party being Facebook 'friends'? |
| 20-5362 |
David Wayne Allen v. Betty Mitchell, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
biased-juror death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus juror-bias ohio-supreme-court sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent |
Did the trial court's refusal to dismiss a biased juror from a Death Penalty Panel, deprive Petitioner Allen of protection under the Sixth and Fourtee… |
| 20-149 |
Cheryl D. Uzamere v. New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-08-13 |
Denied |
|
antitrust civil-rights court-corruption due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech genocide hobbs-act new-york-state-law |
Whether New York State Law S2942—A is unconstitutional |
| 20-5330 |
Layne Aucoin v. Andrew Cupil, Lieutenant, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights eighth-amendment excessive-force muhammad-v-close prison-discipline prisoner-rights sixth-amendment |
Do the Sixth Amendment and this Court's decision in Muhammad v. Close, 540 U.S. 749 (2004), foreclose a federal court from dismissing an inmate 8th Am… |
| 20-5333 |
Norman Paul Blanco v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law california-penal-code civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment felony-convictions judicial-review legal-procedure sentencing-enhancements statutory-interpretation |
Whether California's sentencing enhancement scheme for certain felony convictions violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual pun… |
| 20-5326 |
Jose Alonso Garcia v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-08-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment career-offender categorical-approach due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Were Mr. Garcia's Due Process Rights violated under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment |
| 20-5335 |
Dustin Johnson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment methamphetamine methamphetamine-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the District Court erred in sentencing the Defendant based on ice (\'actual\' methamphetamine) rather than a mixture and substance containing … |
| 20-5321 |
Michael Wayne Wadena v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights controlled-substance criminal-history due-process eighth-amendment firearm-possession related-cases sentencing sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals have jurisdiction to hear a certificate of appealability |
| 20-5311 |
Richard Hollihan, Jr. v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2020-08-10 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection extraordinary-relief fourteenth-amendment legal-precedent precedent precedential-decision state-court-jurisdiction supreme-court |
Did the Pennsylvania Supreme Court violate the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution when it Denied Petitioner's Application For Extraordin… |
| 20-5294 |
Byron Becton v. Shawn Phillips, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination |
Did the prosecutor's misconduct deprive the petitioner of a fair trial that violated petitioner's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights against self-i… |
| 20-5281 |
Steven Robinson, aka Michael Moore v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2020-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech self-incrimination sixth-amendment standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause |
| 20-124 |
Robert Fusco v. Tony Mays, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment standing |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause and Equal Protection Clause |
| 20-5263 |
Patrick W. Schroeder v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2020-08-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mitigation mitigation-evidence pro-se pro-se-representation proportionality sentencing |
Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments are violated when a capital sentencing panel issues a death sentence despite the defendant's refusal to i… |
| 20-5243 |
Warren K. Henness v. Mike DeWine, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-03 |
Denied |
Amici (3)IFP |
alternative-methods cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment lethal-injection medical-aid-in-dying |
Whether the Eighth Amendment categorically permits the degree of pain caused by hanging |
| 20-112 |
Sherry Hernandez v. PNMAC Mortgage Opportunity Fund Investors, LLC, et al. |
California |
2020-08-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
due-process fourteenth-amendment fraudulent-documents judicial-notice law-of-case law-of-the-case mers-system notice wrongful-foreclosure |
Did the California Superior Court and the Court of Appeal deprive Petitioner of her right to Due Process guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment, by Re… |
| 20-5193 |
Mollee M. McWhorter v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment free-speech juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole standing takings |
Whether the court below erred in dismissing petitioner's claims challenging the constitutionality of certain federal statutes and government actions |
| 20-5196 |
David McConnell v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-07-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
cooperation-with-state criminal-investigation criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel murder murder-prosecution prosecutorial-conflict sixth-amendment |
Does counsel under the Fourteenth and Sixth Amendment have an obligation to effectively assist a defendant's cooperation with the State in a murder pr… |
| 20-93 |
Jane Doe, a Minor Child Who is Unborn, By and Through Her Father and Next Friend, John Doe v. Mike Hunter, Attorney General of Oklahoma, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-07-29 |
Denied |
|
abortion due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-precedent levy-v-louisiana roe-v-wade standing traceability unborn-children |
Whether the government that adopted a discriminatory law is absolved of traceability for standing purposes when the law is based on judicial precedent |
| 20-79 |
Cedric L. Daniels v. Dave Davey, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
confrontation-clause due-process evidence-admission fourteenth-amendment hearsay impeachment-evidence jury-instructions sixth-amendment three-strikes-law |
Denial of Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses and Fourteenth Amendment due process |
| 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… |
| 20-5183 |
Keith Hoglund v. Ron Neal, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-amendments constitutional-rights due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment harmless-error hearsay-evidence procedural-rights sixth-amendment |
Whether the lower court(s) violated Keith Hoglund's substantive and procedural due process rights |
| 20-5163 |
Lonnie Kade Welsh v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-07-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence civil-commitment criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment insanity-defense mens-rea mental-capacity |
Would the State of Texas cause a fundamental miscarriage of justice violating the United States Fourteenth Amendment by refusing to overturn the crimi… |
| 20-5164 |
Lonnie Kade Welsh v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-07-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-commitment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment insanity-defense mens-rea mental-capacity |
Would the State of Texas cause a fundamental miscarriage of justice violating the United States Fourteenth Amendment by refusing to overturn the crimi… |
| 20-5165 |
Lonnie Kade Welsh v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-07-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-commitment criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment insanity-defense mens-rea mental-capacity sanity |
Whether the State of Texas caused a fundamental miscarriage of justice by refusing to overturn a criminal sentence despite evidence of lack of mental … |
| 20-5169 |
Randy A. Thomas v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2020-07-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
developmental-delay fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel low-iq mental-capacity self-defense sixth-amendment social-security |
Is counsel ineffective under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments when no investigation is conducted pre-trial concerning the client's developmental-de… |
| 20-5171 |
Cedric Watkins v. Kenneth D. Hutchison, Warden, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-07-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights credibility-of-witnesses due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence-sufficiency fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jackson-v-virginia sixth-amendment witness-credibility |
Whether the lower courts properly applied Supreme Court precedent and enforced the U.S. Constitution |
| 20-5176 |
Nicholas Harris v. California |
California |
2020-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment penal-consequences resentencing serious-felony three-strikes-law witness-dissuasion |
Does California's Three Strikes Reform Act of 2012 violate the Ex Post Facto Clause and/or the Due Process Clause? |
| 20-61 |
Joan Orie Melvin v. Stephen D. Zappala, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-07-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment state-crimes workplace-rule workplace-rules |
Whether a defendant's Fifth Amendment rights are violated when charged with state crimes based on alleged deviation from an internal workplace rule ra… |
| 20-51 |
Pedro Pete Benevides v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-forfeiture eighth-amendment excessive-fine forfeiture ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the forfeiture of over $44 million constitutes an excessive fine under the Eighth Amendment |
| 20-5146 |
Douglas Harry Warenback v. Dwight W. Neven, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment access-to-courts case-law certificate-of-appealability court-access due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review |
Has the Circuit Court violated my first Amendment right to access the courts by failing to provide any evidence that my request for certificate of app… |
| 20-5119 |
Wayne Powell v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2020-07-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment expert-funding hurst-v-florida indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-relief sixth-amendment |
Does Ohio's postconviction process allow indigent defendants a substantive opportunity to develop claims that comport with Ohio's collateral review re… |
| 20-5123 |
Cardell A. Hayes v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2020-07-21 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal-pipeline criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment non-unanimous-verdict pipeline ramos-relief ramos-v-louisiana retroactivity sixth-amendment |
Whether Cardell Hayes is entitled to the relief provided by Ramos v. Louisiana because his case is in the appeal pipeline |
| 20-5129 |
David Aziel Sheer v. Patrick Warren, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
Whether this Court should issue a writ of certiorari |
| 20-5071 |
David P. Moran v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-07-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment motion-preservation preservation-of-error standing trial-procedure |
Is Fla. Stat. 924.051(1)(b) unconstitutional due to conflict with 14th Amendment due-process |
| 20-5101 |
Timothy Visage v. R. E. Woodall, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment arbitrary-action arbitrary-and-abusive-conduct civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process fourteenth-amendment government-liability government-policy state-created-danger state-custody |
Whether the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment imposes upon the State an affirmative duty of care and protection to connected persons in S… |
| 20-5102 |
Makeda Haile v. Abdul Conteh |
Virginia |
2020-07-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct title-vii |
Whether the Supreme Court will address violations of civil rights and due process |
| 20-5103 |
Makeda Haile v. Kaiser Permanente Tysons Corner |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct title-vii |
Whether the Supreme Court will address violations of civil rights and due process |
| 20-5105 |
David Scott Temple v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea louisiana-constitution plea-bargaining sixth-amendment standard-of-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Was Mr. Temple denied effective assistance of counsel? |
| 20-31 |
Prince McCoy, Sr. v. Tajudeen Alamu |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-16 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
8th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights eighth-amendment excessive-force hudson-factors prison-conditions prisoner-rights qualified-immunity |
Whether a prison official is entitled to qualified immunity for an unprovoked assault on a prisoner even when not every Hudson factor favors the plain… |
| 20-5082 |
Robert Deane Schwartz v. Raymond Madden, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
affirmative-defense certificate-of-appealability due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas habeas-corpus jury-instruction jury-instructions |
Did the Ninth Circuit err for failing to grant a certificate of appealability pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2) on petitioner's claim that the state … |
| 20-12 |
Sheri Speer v. Seaport Capital Partners, LLC |
Connecticut |
2020-07-13 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-rights counsel court-access due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hearing injunctive-relief liberty-interest property-interest |
Did the Trial Court improperly deny the Petitioner due process of law? |
| 20-5003 |
Richard B. Woods v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2020-07-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-error constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial non-unanimous-verdict remand sixth-amendment |
Whether petitioner's conviction based upon a non-unanimous verdict violated the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution? |
| 20-5010 |
Danny Lee Warner, Jr. v. Montana |
Montana |
2020-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-client-privilege due-process evidentiary-hearing eyewitness-identification fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Is purposeful intrusion into attorney-client privilege per se prejudicial? |
| 20-5015 |
James Latron Sumter v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment first-step-act guilty-plea mandatory-minimum plea-bargaining sentencing |
Whether the appellate court erred in affirming the district court's ruling not allowing Sumter to withdraw his guilty plea |
| 19-8927 |
Alfred Brian Mitchell v. Tommy Sharp, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
age-of-culpability cognitive-science constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment sentencing-aggravator standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether Oklahoma's application of the 'heinous, atrocious, or cruel' death-penalty aggravator is unconstitutionally vague |
| 19-1470 |
Samuel A. Gurrola v. Walgreen Company |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-08 |
Rehearing |
Relisted (2) |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment monopoly monopoly-power obstruction-of-justice property-rights res-judicata |
Can the world's largest pharmacy chain influence a State to fabricate evidence to achieve its monopoly goals, abridge plaintiffs rights and steal plai… |
| 19-1478 |
John Kristoffer Larsgard v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
adequate-appeal appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel omitted-issues procedural-safeguards smith-v-robbins |
Whether the process of review implemented by Arizona in claims of ineffective assistance of counsel satisfy Fourteenth Amendment protections |
| 19-1428 |
Tina L. Morin v. Montana Office of Disciplinary Counsel |
Montana |
2020-07-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights disciplinary-counsel disciplinary-proceedings due-process Fourteenth-Amendment guardianship legal-ethics legal-representation professional-conduct right-to-counsel |
Did the COP violate Morin's due-process rights under the Fourteenth-Amendment when the COP ordered Morin suspended from practice for allegedly violati… |
| 19-8848 |
Curtis Phillips v. Derek Oberlander, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-07-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause |
| 19-8849 |
Linda Pedroza v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing parole proportionality second-degree-homicide sentencing sentencing-disparity |
Where a juvenile offender is sentenced to a term of 40 years in prison for a second degree homicide, and that sentence places her in a worse position … |
| 19-8883 |
Nathan E. Gundy v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial judicial-discretion standing trial-rights |
Whether the 8th Amendment of the United States Constitution bars are guaranteed to a fair trial in all criminal prosecutions or just when a judge deem… |
| 19-8872 |
James Henry Simpson v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 19-8873 |
Efrain Diaz, Jr. and Justin Smith v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2020-07-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
criminal-defendant criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment justiciability party-presentation procedural-due-process standing-doctrine |
Does the requirement in Lujan v. Defs. of Wildlife apply to a motion filed by a defendant in a criminal case? |
| 19-8875 |
David Gerard Jones v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2020-07-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial non-unanimous-verdict remand sixth-amendment |
Whether petitioner's conviction based upon a non-unanimous verdict violated the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 19-8879 |
Gurminder Sekhon v. California |
California |
2020-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines judicial-process standing trial-transcript |
Did the courts violate the petitioner's due process rights by rejecting a defense under the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines? |
| 19-8861 |
Fikri Aptiliasimov v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2020-06-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal recusal |
Whether the trial court judge's, a former prosecutor of appellant's prior criminal trial, refusal to recuse himself and his subsequent judicial partic… |
| 19-8845 |
Charles Grover Brant v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fact-finding fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-trial jury-unanimity jury-waiver |
Whether a waiver to an advisory, non-unanimous jury verdict lacking in any fact finding requirement under a death penalty scheme later determined to b… |
| 19-1433 |
Autumn Stavely v. Jeffery G. Norman, et al. |
Utah |
2020-06-29 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment appellate-review change-of-venue due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-sanctions Question not identified. sanctions venue-change |
Did the Supreme Court of Utah violate Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment due process rights when it sanctioned her and her counsel for seeking appellat… |
| 19-1431 |
David E. Olson, et al. v. Mark O'Brien, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment administrative-hearing administrative-law bias due-process ex-parte ex-parte-communication ex-parte-communications fourteenth-amendment notice-and-hearing state-agency |
Whether the Due Process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits biased, ex parte communications between state agency officials which reverse an adm… |
| 19-8804 |
A. M. v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2020-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment counsel-representation due-process fair-proceedings fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-delinquency liberty-interest right-to-counsel |
Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment provide children a right to counsel at all proceedings where their liberty is at stake? |
| 19-8806 |
David Lawrence Dixon v. Donnie Ames, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex |
West Virginia |
2020-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
biological-evidence destruction-of-evidence due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment re-testing state-destruction trial |
Was Appellant denied his Fourteenth Amendment right to due process when the biological evidence used in his trial was destroyed before Appellant could… |
| 19-8807 |
Cassandra Cean v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-liability eighth-amendment intervening-cause mandatory-victims-restitution-act proximate-cause sixth-amendment |
Whether proximate causation under the MVRA must be analyzed by the use of the 'middle road approach' or the 'created circumstance approach' |
| 19-8772 |
Mario Torres v. Mike Hansen, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 brady-violations civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment discovery discovery-deprivation due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial |
Whether Contra Costa County California's blanket policy of depriving a criminal defendant the facts and the evidence (exculpatory or otherwise), surro… |
| 19-1403 |
Michael H. Vartanian v. State Bar of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ada-anti-retaliation ada-retaliation civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-profession reasonable-mistake reasonable-mistake-of-law standing |
Is opposition to a violation of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) that turns upon a reasonable mistake of law protected conduct under the stat… |
| 19-8775 |
Kirby Gardner v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-06-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure parole petition-timing sentencing statute-of-limitations statutory-maximum |
Whether Pete Tia was deprived of due process of law |
| 19-8778 |
John Michael Allen v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2020-06-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
accomplice capital-punishment criminal-sentencing eighth-amendment felony innocent-life nontriggerman |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits capital punishment for a 'nontriggerman' accomplice to a felony that is not likely to result in the loss of inn… |
| 19-8764 |
James William Burney v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-06-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-provision due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-law state-constitution voter-intent |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process and Equal Protection protections requires enactment legislation for a state constitutional provision to b… |
| 19-8740 |
Anthony J. Williams v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2020-06-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment |
Whether petitioner's conviction based upon a non-unanimous verdict violated the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution? |
| 19-8742 |
Harold Wayne Nichols v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2020-06-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrary-and-capricious death-penalty death-sentence eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-override prior-felony-aggravator settlement-agreement vagueness-doctrine |
Does the judicial override of a life sentence settlement agreement result in an arbitrary and capricious death sentence in violation of the Eighth and… |
| 19-1391 |
Larry Alan Whitely v. Sharon McCoy, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-06-18 |
Denied |
|
compulsory-process due-process fourteenth-amendment right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment trial-by-jury webb-v-texas witness-coercion |
Whether the Compulsory Process Clause of the Sixth Amendment and the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment were violated |
| 19-1385 |
Kristina Box, Commissioner, Indiana Department of Health v. Ashlee Henderson, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-06-17 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
biological-parentage biology-based birth-certificate birth-certificates due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-status parentage presumption rebuttable-presumption |
May a State, consistent with the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses, adopt a biology-based birth-certificate system that in… |
| 19-8728 |
Joshua Harrell v. California |
California |
2020-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus mental-illness rational-understanding |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a prisoner who has a severe mental illness that … |
| 19-8721 |
Vincent A. Argentino v. Ruanne Stamps, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-standard deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment estelle-v-gamble legal-precedent medical-evidence prisoner-rights summary-record |
Whether the Precedent of Placing Nesifyire, medical evidence in the Summary Record 5 Showing Oo * aeke' mental ef Peck' Places an Unrealis-hic exfecta… |
| 19-8711 |
Willie Dunn v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2020-06-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment state-courts |
Whether petitioner's conviction based upon a non-unanimous verdict violated the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution? |
| 19-8712 |
Billy Joe Wardlow v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-06-15 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
age-of-offender brain-development death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness neuroscience roper-v-simmons |
Whether Texas may continue to impose, and carry out previously imposed, death sentences for which future dangerousness is or was used to determine dea… |
| 19-1357 |
Robert Angel Perez v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2020-06-11 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
criminal-defendant criminal-procedure discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment mental-health-records privilege sixth-amendment state-privilege |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee a criminal defendant the right to discover potentially exculpatory mental health records held by… |
| 19-8651 |
Kevin Remillard v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2020-06-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress personal-papers probable-cause search-warrant warrantless-search welfare-check |
Does the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment require a search warrant or probable cause to seize and search personal papers during a welfare check? |
| 19-8644 |
Michael L. King v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-06-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-case capital-cases due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment impartial-tribunal judicial-bias |
When a court shows partiality and bias by adopting nearly verbatim the prevailing party's brief as its order or opinion, particularly in capital cases… |
| 19-1350 |
Darius Ishun Green v. Bradley Hooks, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-06-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment inmate personal-characteristics prison prisoner-rights risk-of-harm summary-judgment |
Under Farmer v. Brennan, is a court precluded from granting summary judgment to defendants where there is evidence of an obvious, substantial risk of … |
| 19-1344 |
Lahkwinder Singh v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split criminal-forfeiture deprivation-of-livelihood eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause livelihood-deprivation proportionality-analysis sentencing |
Whether the 'deprivation of livelihood' should be included in the proportionality analysis when determining whether a forfeiture meets the constitutio… |
| 19-8614 |
Edward Leon Fields, Jr. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-06-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
caldwell-v-mississippi capital-sentencing constitutional-review donnelly-v-dechristoforo due-process eighth-amendment jury-responsibility prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether Donnelly and Caldwell remain good law and, if so, whether the Tenth Circuit erred in applying a fundamental-fairness analysis to reject Petiti… |
| 19-8618 |
Kareem Daniels v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2020-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process false-evidence false-testimony fourteenth-amendment misleading-testimony perjury prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the Constitution permits a prosecutor to knowingly use false or misleading testimony, as long as it does not constitute perjurious testimony |
| 19-8624 |
Miguel DeFreitas v. Jaifa Callado, Superintendent, Shawangunk Correctional Facility |
New York |
2020-06-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights corrective-remedy due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction |
Did the New York State Appellate and Supreme courts' dismissal of Petitioner's habeas corpus petition, which left Petitioner with no corrective remedy… |
| 19-8598 |
Gerald Ross Pizzuto, Jr. v. Keith Yordy, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
adaptive-functioning adaptive-skills atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia clinical-standards eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability iq-scores standard-error-of-measurement |
Whether Atkins and the Eighth Amendment mandated the use of clinical standards for the determination of subaverage intelligence as measured by intelli… |
| 19-8593 |
Damon Christopher Crim v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2020-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea ineffective-assistance misunderstanding plea-bargain sixth-amendment |
When a criminal defendant misunderstands a key element of a plea bargain, is his guilty plea void? |
| 19-8571 |
Derrick Martin King v. Ohio Department of Job and Family Services |
Ohio |
2020-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
budgetary-reasons constitutional-right constitutional-rights disability-benefits due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment state-assistance state-constitutions |
Does the U.S. Constitution recognize a constitutional right of safety? |
| 19-8551 |
Londro Emanuel Patterson, III v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2020-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-sentence parole sentencing |
Does a life sentence without parole for a 19-year-old violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment? |
| 19-8541 |
Haider Salah Abdulrazzak v. South Dakota Board of Pardons and Paroles |
South Dakota |
2020-05-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-filing fed-r-app-p-4c1 federal-regulations first-amendment fourteenth-amendment inmate-filing inmates-rights supremacy-clause |
Whether under the Supremacy Clause, the First and Fourteenth Amendment rights, states are permitted to dissociate themselves from Federal regulations … |
| 19-8522 |
Richard Felton v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2020-05-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
common-law due-process fourteenth-amendment procedural-waiver retroactive-application rogers-v-tennessee structural-error |
Did the Massachusetts Appeals Court deny a defendant due process of law in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 19-8497 |
Christopher Lyman v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2020-05-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-defendant due-process expert-testimony first-amendment fourteenth-amendment medical-expert religious-discrimination sixth-amendment |
Whether a court can deny a criminal defendant his medical expert, who's expert testimony is critical to a material fact in dispute, and base this deni… |
| 19-1297 |
James K. Collins, et ux. v. D.R. Horton-Texas, Ltd. |
Texas |
2020-05-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment due-process federal-judgment fourteenth-amendment personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity state-rights takings tenth-amendment void-judgment |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment allows a state to enforce a void federal judgment obtained without personal jurisdiction over and notice to the defen… |
| 19-8460 |
Nexis Rene Gomez v. D. Braun, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-05-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-needs prison-conditions prisoner-treatment summary-judgment |
Did the Court of Appeals Erred In Affirming Summary Judgment In Respondents' Favor When There is Evidence in Petitioner's Medical Record Demonstrating… |
| 19-8442 |
Erica J. Walker v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-05-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
competency criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-proceeding fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance insanity mental-health mental-health-evaluation |
Was the petitioner's right to a fair proceeding, effective assistance of counsel and due process violated? |
| 19-8450 |
Scott Leslie Carmell v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-05-12 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-circuit habeas-corpus procedural-due-process sentencing-procedure standing |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred by denying a certificate of appealability regarding the United States District Court issuing … |
| 19-1280 |
Idaho Department of Correction, et al. v. Adree Edmo, aka Mason Edmo |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-05-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
advocacy-organization-guidelines circuit-split constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment estelle-v-gamble gender-dysphoria inmate-medical-care medical-care prison-healthcare |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in concluding that the guidelines set by an advocacy organization constitute the constitutional minima for inmate medi… |
| 19-8429 |
Tariq Maqbool v. Marcus O. Hicks, Commissioner, New Jersey Department of Corrections, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-05-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance miranda-rights sixth-amendment |
Whether the denial of Petitioner's ineffective assistance claim violated constitutional rights |
| 19-8433 |
Anthony Paul John v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-05-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief postconviction-relief right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether the courts below decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions of this Honorable Court |
| 19-1275 |
Angel Luis Thomas, Sr. v. Tyree C. Blocker, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-05-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process federal-mandate federal-state-relations fourteenth-amendment sex-offender-registration state-jurisdiction |
Does the Commerce Clause empower Congress to impose 'Registry requirements for sex offenders,' 34 U.S.C. § 20918, directly upon an individual convicte… |
| 19-1265 |
Friends of Danny DeVito, et al. v. Tom Wolf, Governor of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2020-05-05 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
assembly constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech police-powers takings |
Whether the Order exceeded the Governor's permissible scope of his police powers and as such violated Petitioners' rights guaranteed by the U.S. Const… |
| 19-8396 |
Robert R. Hill v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-05-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment prosecutor prosecutorial-misconduct trial-judge |
Whether the district court and the third circuit erred in refusing to issue a certificate of appealability |
| 19-8382 |
Christopher Ewing, aka Alex Christopher Ewing v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2020-04-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process extradition extradition-hearing fourteenth-amendment indigent-defendant right-to-counsel sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Uniform Criminal Extradition Act's guarantee of the right to 'demand and procure counsel' requires state courts to appoint counsel for ind… |
| 19-1261 |
Trent Michael Taylor v. Robert Riojas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-04-30 |
GVR |
Amici (2)Relisted (4) |
42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment government-officials obvious-violation prisoner-rights qualified-immunity section-1983 standing |
Whether the unconstitutionality of government officials' conduct is clearly established even absent binding precedent directly on point |
| 19-1251 |
Arthur O. Armstrong v. School District of Philadelphia, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-04-28 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment access-to-courts appeal appeals civil-rights constitutional-violation discrimination due-process employment equal-protection equal-protection-clause fourteenth-amendment official-discrimination school-district |
Whether School District of Philadelphia discharged the petitioner from his teaching position without due process of law |
| 19-8368 |
Jamaal Gittens v. Transforce, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-04-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment standing |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause and Equal Protection Clause |
| 19-8356 |
Henry Logan, et ux. v. Peggy Logan |
Texas |
2020-04-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
best-interest-standard child-custody disability-rights due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment parental-rights third-party-custody |
Are grandparents counted as a third party? |
| 19-8365 |
Arthur Lopez v. California |
California |
2020-04-27 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment free-speech habeas-corpus judicial-review standing |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights under the First, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments were violated by the state court's denial of his peti… |
| 19-8367 |
Brandon Blake Coleman v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-04-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
adjudication constitutional-rights due-process federal-claims fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment merits-review standing |
Whether the State of Texas has violated Petitioner's right to Due Process protections under the Fifth & Fourteenth amendments, U.S. Constitution |
| 19-8351 |
In Re Vinodh Raghubir |
|
2020-04-24 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause |
| 19-8338 |
Charles P. Mayeux, Jr. v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2020-04-22 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-amendments criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jackson-v-virginia jury-trial non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment |
Whether a conviction based upon a non-unanimous verdict violates the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution? |
| 19-1243 |
Arthur O. Armstrong v. Wilson County, North Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-04-22 |
Denied |
|
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process equal-protection federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment frivolous-complaint official-discrimination standing |
Whether trial court deprived petitioner of constitutional rights |
| 19-8320 |
Quintez Talley v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-04-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines federal-claims pleading-standards prisoner-rights pro-se-plaintiff state-law-claims supplemental-jurisdiction |
Whether the party seeking to raise the possessory evidence privilege has an absolute evidentiary privilege |
| 19-8321 |
Charlie Ray Carney v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2020-04-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights court-records due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sentencing state-courts |
Whether a state prisoner's right to due process requires the state trial court to ensure correct and accurate information is relied upon when sentenci… |
| 19-1235 |
Brian Hampton Clark v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2020-04-20 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-rights contempt-of-court due-process federal-courts fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal state-courts writ-of-prohibition |
Whether the fact that the contempt charge was brought in response to Brian Clark's petition for a writ of prohibition required Judge Williams to recus… |
| 19-8286 |
Edward Tiger v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-04-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
competency criminal-competency criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction jurisdictional-prerequisite |
Whether a finding that a criminal defendant is presently competent to proceed is a jurisdictional prerequisite to a court's authority to deprive an ac… |
| 19-8278 |
In Re Levar Lee Anthony Spence |
|
2020-04-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment sixth-amendment spoliation spoliation-of-evidence writ-of-mandamus |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit properly refused review and hearing of Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment,… |
| 19-1224 |
Jeremiah F. Manning v. Lucy J. Kim |
California |
2020-04-16 |
Denied |
|
campaign-contribution campaign-contributions disclosure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-ethics recusal |
Whether Judge Greenberg's refusal to recuse herself and failure to timely and accurately disclose campaign contributions violated the Due Process and … |
| 19-1216 |
Loredana Elizabeth Botofan-Miller v. Brett Robert Miller |
Oregon |
2020-04-15 |
Denied |
|
birth-mother child-custody civil-rights custody due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-custody parental-rights state-courts state-intervention |
Did the State of Oregon courts violate the fourteenth amendment rights of the full legal custodial parent, who was the birth mother, to make decisions… |
| 19-8254 |
Samuel Dowell v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-rights consumer-rights due-process eighth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment personal-property religious-freedom stream-of-commerce takings |
Can Congress regulate the private and personal property of the ultimate consumer for eternity through the Commerce Clause simply because that item at … |
| 19-8216 |
Scott Winfield Davis v. Shay Hatcher, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-04-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment arizona-v-youngblood bad-faith circuit-split due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment youngblood-standard |
Whether the opinion of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit is a precedent-setting error in interpreting the requirements for 'bad faith… |
| 19-8229 |
Donnie L. Harris, Jr. v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2020-04-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
Does Oklahoma's strict application of its statutory requirement that all newly discovered evidence in capital cases must be presented within one year … |
| 19-8226 |
Randy Phipps v. Rick Raemisch, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-04-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-claims due-process fair-presentation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-petition |
Whether federal constitutional claims were fairly presented under federal law |
| 19-8200 |
Don Farley v. Carl Parson |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-04-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence evidence-exclusion first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech witness-testimony |
Was Farley denied his First Amendment Right of Free Speech and Fourteenth Amendment of due process? |
| 19-8206 |
Zaryl G. Bush v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2020-04-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment procedural-bar sixth-amendment |
Should state courts be allowed to hide behind procedural bars when the record indicates the accused was denied constitutional rights? |
| 19-8185 |
Floyd Dewaine Scott v. California |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-04-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
Did the California State Superior Court violate the Petitioner's Due Process, Sixth Amendment, and Eighth Amendment rights |
| 19-1199 |
Don Higginson v. Xavier Becerra, Attorney General of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-04-06 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response Waived |
at-large-voting california-voting-rights-act civil-rights equal-protection fourteenth-amendment municipal-elections racial-polarization voting-rights voting-rights-act |
Whether the California Voting Rights Act violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 19-1192 |
Missouri, ex rel. Key Insurance Company v. Marco A. Roldan, Judge, Circuit Court of Missouri, Jackson County, et al. |
Missouri |
2020-04-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process forum-state fourteenth-amendment liability-insurer long-arm-statute motor-vehicle-accident personal-jurisdiction |
Whether a court's exercise of specific personal jurisdiction over a nonresident liability insurer violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Am… |
| 19-1193 |
Kristin D. Wilkinson v. Commission for Lawyer Discipline of the State Bar of Texas |
Texas |
2020-04-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment attorney-discipline confidentiality confidentiality-statutes disciplinary-proceedings due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment in-re-ruffalo professional-rights property-rights |
Does the standard for assessing the protection of Due Process Clause rights of lawyers in disciplinary proceedings announced in Jn re Ruffalo, fail to… |
| 19-1191 |
Ohio v. Shawn Ford |
Ohio |
2020-04-01 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability standing state-standards supreme-court-jurisdiction supreme-court-precedent |
What is the test for determining whether someone is 'intellectually disabled' for purposes of the Eighth Amendment? |
| 19-8153 |
Keith Clayton Brooks, Jr. v. Celia Schwartz, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-04-01 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-rights conditions-of-confinement due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment post-traumatic-stress-disorder prisoner-rights section-1915g suicidal-impulses |
Will conditions of confinement that demonstrate a pattern of misconduct under the First and Fourteenth Amendments leading to suicidal impulses or urge… |
| 19-8139 |
Douglas Duran Cerritos v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing mandatory-life-sentence miller-v-alabama psychiatric-evaluation section-2255-motion |
Did the Fourth Circuit commit error by not granting Mr. Cerritos a COA under 28 U.S.C. §2253(c)(2), after the denial of his 28 U.S.C. §2255 motion whe… |
| 19-8141 |
Eric Jeffrey Cowan v. Josie Gastelo, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights Constitutional-Challenge constitutional-law due-process equal-protection Fourteenth-Amendment Judicial-Review jurisdiction Legal-Interpretation Petitioner-Rights standing |
Should Petitioner receive relief under United States Constitution Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection |
| 19-8145 |
Santiago Cruz v. C. Betancourt |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-grievance administrative-remedies civil-rights eighth-amendment exhaustion-of-remedies grievance-process prisoner-litigation procedural-error procedural-errors waiver |
Whether the district court erred in finding that the petitioner failed to exhaust administrative remedies for his Eighth Amendment claim |
| 19-8147 |
Romulo Murillo-Morales v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-03-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement |
Whether the petitioner's conviction is valid given the warrantless search and seizure in violation of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments? |
| 19-8120 |
Jarvis Rodrick Thomas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equal-protection false-statements fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment liberty-interest |
Was it unreasonable to be seized in violation of the Fourth Amendment and re-arrested for the same offense to deprive the Petitioner of his Fourteenth… |
| 19-8108 |
Dana Albrecht v. Katherine Albrecht |
New Hampshire |
2020-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review child-custody due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment parental-rights uccjea |
Whether the State of New Hampshire's discretionary appellate process is unlawful or unconstitutional, and whether the State has unlawfully infringed u… |
| 19-1175 |
John Fritz, et ux. v. Washoe County, Nevada |
Nevada |
2020-03-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
economic-impact economic-impairment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-regulation loretto-v-teleprompter physical-invasion physical-taking property-rights regulatory-takings takings |
To constitute a taking under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, must a physical invasion also destroy or substantially impair an owner's economicall… |
| 19-1168 |
Mirek Machala v. Libuse Kral, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2020-03-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion procedural-due-process standing summary-judgment |
Whether Petitioner's due process right was violated |
| 19-1164 |
Jocelyn A. Johnson v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, et al. |
California |
2020-03-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure disability-rating due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-evidence senate-bill-31 statute-of-limitations workers-compensation |
Does the Workers' Compensation Judge relying on medical reports according to Senate Bill 31 guidelines and not the permanent disability rating schedul… |
| 19-8086 |
Randy Dale Jackson v. Tommy Taylor, Interim Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment access-to-courts appellate-sanctions civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction-challenges criminal-conviction due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment |
Whether Petitioner's First, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights are violated by the imposition of monetary sanctions and threat restr… |
| 19-8057 |
Aaron Moran Brown v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment de-facto-life-sentence eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing miller-rule miller-v-alabama montgomery-precedent montgomery-v-louisiana parole parole-system |
Does the substantive rule of Miller v. Alabama apply to de facto life sentences for juveniles? |
| 19-8058 |
Maurice Brack, aka Maurice Barrack, aka Maurice Black, aka Maurice L. Brack, aka Socca Bopum, aka Socka Bopa v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment adolescent-development constitutional-retroactivity criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment family-court juvenile-justice juvenile-waiver retroactivity |
Whether New Jersey's revised juvenile waiver statute (N.J.S.A. 2A:4A-26.1(c)) which prohibits the Family Court from waiving its jurisdiction over any … |
| 19-8060 |
John Doe v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights court-disclosure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment harassment medical-history medical-privacy prisoner-rights privacy |
Should a Convicted Felon be Subject to Additional Harassment Above and Beyond Their Prison Sentence Due to a Court's Disclosure of Their Medical Histo… |
| 19-8062 |
Troy Anthony LeBouef v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict |
Was LeBouef entitled to a unanimous jury verdict under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution? |
| 19-8076 |
Alfredo Galindo v. Brad Cain, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment federal-procedure habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-requirement |
Whether petitioner's claim that his 300-month sentence violates his Eighth Amendment right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment meets the stat… |
| 19-8084 |
Christopher Young v. Rehka Halligan |
Third Circuit |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-care medical-treatment standing |
whether-continuous-ineffective-treatment-violates-8th-amendment |
| 19-1160 |
Robert J. Murphy v. Office of Disciplinary Counsel |
Pennsylvania |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech judicial-code pennsylvania-rules-of-professional-conduct pennsylvania-workers-compensation-act retroactive-application workers-compensation |
Whether petitioner had fair warning of disciplinary proceedings |
| 19-1150 |
Gary Kirchhoff v. United States, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process federal-suit fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech military-medical-privileges statute-of-limitations whistleblower whistleblower-rights |
Whether the court erred in affirming the lower court's decision that the statute of limitations was past for Gary Kirchhoff, M.D. to file a federal su… |
| 19-8042 |
Lewis Taylor Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa constitutional-claim constitutional-claims eighth-amendment federal-habeas federal-habeas-review merits-decision state-court-decision state-court-decisions state-court-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. Ct. 1726 (2017) (per curiam), a case arising under federal habeas revi… |
| 19-8045 |
Raymond Mata, Jr. v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2020-03-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment legislative-veto nebraska nebraska-legislature referendum referendum-power standing veto |
Whether the citizens of Nebraska through improper use of their referendum power, or the trial court or Nebraska Supreme Court through erroneous approv… |
| 19-8035 |
Manuel de Jesus Valencia v. California |
California |
2020-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confession-extraction constitutional-rights custodial-interrogation edwards edwards-rule fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement-deception miranda miranda-rights self-incrimination undercover-operations |
Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments permit a deceptive ploy in which uniformed and undercover officers work together to extract a confession f… |
| 19-8037 |
Shlomit Ruttkamp v. Bank of New York Mellon, fka The Bank of New York |
Connecticut |
2020-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process foreclosure foreclosure-litigation fourteenth-amendment fraud fraud-allegations jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the court of Connecticut has acted unreasonably and in clear abuse of its discretion when it violated the Fourteenth Amendment to due process … |
| 19-8039 |
Jeffrey Clark v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2020-03-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
counsel-conflict criminal-trial death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment faretta-waiver jury-trial right-to-counsel right-to-self-representation self-representation sixth-amendment |
Whether a defendant's waiver of counsel is not knowing, intelligent and voluntary when the defendant's only other option was to proceed to trial with … |
| 19-1138 |
DeWayne D. Knight v. Thomas Grossman, Jr. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-03-18 |
Denied |
|
balancing-test circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law deliberate-indifference due-process fourteenth-amendment informed-consent medical-treatment prisoner-rights |
Whether a claim for violation of a prisoner-patient's Fourteenth Amendment right to informed consent requires a showing of deliberate indifference and… |
| 19-1136 |
Chong Yim, et al. v. City of Seattle, Washington |
Washington |
2020-03-17 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process first-in-time fourteenth-amendment landlord-tenant legislative-act property-rights regulatory-taking regulatory-takings substantive-due-process takings tenant-selection undue-oppression |
Whether the destruction of a fundamental attribute of property ownership constitutes a taking without the need to prove diminished value or interferen… |
| 19-8021 |
Henry L. Jackson v. Utah, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
destruction-of-evidence due-process equal-protection evidence evidence-destruction fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenge vehicle |
Whether the state violated petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment right to due process and a fair trial when it released petitioner's vehicle to the lienho… |
| 19-7994 |
David Armondo Butler v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adversarial-conflict Confrontation-Clause criminal-procedure Due-Process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence-preservation Evidentiary-Issues Fourteenth-Amendment ineffective-assistance prior-acts-of-violence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel strategic-decision video-footage |
Was court-appointed counsel's decision not to seek video footage of alleged victim's prior acts of violence a violation of the Sixth Amendment right t… |
| 19-8008 |
Jeremy Fontanez v. J. Coakley, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights due-process federal-prisoner first-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus legal-materials prison-policy prisoner-rights |
Does the policy in 6.0.8 violate a federal prisoner's First Amendment right to reasonable access to the courts, where the policy allows only one hour … |
| 19-8011 |
James Anderson Dellinger v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
atkins-v-virginia constitutional-mandate death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability judicial-abdication legislative-inaction procedural-vehicle |
May Tennessee evade the constitutional mandate of Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002) via legislative inaction and judicial abdication? |
| 19-7968 |
Akube Wuromoni Ndoromo v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2020-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment jury-trial seventh-amendment standing takings |
Does the Fourth Amendment protect the right of the people to be secure therein? |
| 19-7961 |
Randall Duane Throneberry v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2020-03-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process fourteenth-amendment oklahoma-law oklahoma-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether Petitioner's enhanced sentence under Oklahoma Statute Title 21, § 51.1A is invalid |
| 19-7937 |
Michelle Stopyra Yaney and Peter DeBellis v. Rebecca Mason, et al. |
California |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
association civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination discrimination-claim due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment free-speech freedom-of-expression religious-neutrality state-power |
Did the California Supreme Court have a duty to protect petitioners' individual constitutional rights for a claim of discrimination on how the associa… |
| 19-7951 |
Rashad Taylor v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence miller-v-alabama |
Whether the imposition of a mandatory 40-year sentence on a juvenile convicted of homicide violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments' prohibition … |
| 19-7899 |
Paul Nigl v. Jon Litscher, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-03-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment marriage marriage-rights prison-administration prison-regulations prisoner-rights summary-judgment turner-v-safley |
Whether prison officials may prohibit a former prison employee and a prisoner from marrying |
| 19-7880 |
Nathaniel Woods v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrary-and-capricious arbitrary-discrimination arbitrary-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection execution-method nitrogen-hypoxia suppressed-information |
Does the Eighth Amendment apply only to imposition of a death sentence, or may a petitioner challenge how a death sentence is carried out? |
| 19-7858 |
Todd Darrell Ballard v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief post-sentencing procedural-rights sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation substantive-rights waiver waiver-doctrine |
Whether the Act of the General Assembly [42 Pa.C.S. § 9543 and 9544] is in violation of Appellant's substantive and procedural rights; and whether sai… |
| 19-7860 |
Robert Rowles v. GEO Group, Inc., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment circuit-court civil-rights cost-cutting deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment inmate inmate-rights judicial-discretion medical-treatment prison standing |
Did the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal abuse its discretion in denying relief on the lack of medical diagnosis and treatment |
| 19-7849 |
Siva Black v. Edward Dolan, Commissioner of Probation Department |
First Circuit |
2020-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa arbitrary-power due-process fourteenth-amendment parens-patriae pretrial-custody state-power |
What is Arbitrary power—restricted by the Fourteenth Amendment Due process clause—if it isn't the state's unestablished parens patriae power, used to … |
| 19-7862 |
Wesley Paul Coonce, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-03-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment confrontation-clause eighth-amendment equal-protection fifth-amendment intellectual-disability moral-culpability sentencing-hearing |
Whether the execution of a defendant with intellectual disability that arose after age 18 violates the Eighth and Fifth Amendments |
| 19-7816 |
Terry Gay v. Shawn Foster, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-review constitutional-entitlement due-process evidentiary-development fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-v-ryan state-courts |
Under the standards set by this Court in Martinez v. Ryan, must a U.S. District Court allow evidentiary development of a fact-based claim of ineffecti… |
| 19-7794 |
Jeremy Shane Fogleman v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2020-02-27 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Does the Supreme Court of the State of Mississippi's 5-4 decision violate the petitioner's rights under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments of the Uni… |
| 19-7799 |
Desmond Baker v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-02-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-sentence life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing parole sentencing-review |
Do the Eighth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibit mandatory sentencing laws which require sentencing every j… |
| 19-7807 |
Christopher Young v. Jose Boggio, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-02-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-claim deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment ineffective-treatment intentional-mistreatment medical-care medical-need prisoner-rights serious-medical-need treatment |
Whether the contention that an Eighth Amendment deliberate indifference to serious medical need claim fails simply because the Plaintiff received some… |
| 19-7789 |
Steven Klein v. California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof cage-v-louisiana criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions reasonable-doubt structural-error sullivan-v-louisiana |
Whether the trial court erred by overruling Klein's objection to prosecution's misstated of the burden of proof during closing arguments |
| 19-7791 |
Jermaine Michael Jackson v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2020-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alibi-defense civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presumption-of-prejudice right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Was trial counsel's abandonment of a readily available alibi defense a violation of petitioner's Sixth Amendment right? |
| 19-7761 |
Jose Osvaldo Arteaga v. Ken Clark, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alibi-defense certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel misidentification sixth-amendment |
Did the Ninth Circuit's order denying a COA violate this Court's mandate that a circuit court must issue a COA if a habeas petition makes 'a substanti… |
| 19-1054 |
Christa Gail Pike v. Gloria Gross, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-25 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
cumulative-evidence death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-evidence prejudice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether a defendant who asserts that trial counsel failed to present key evidence is precluded from showing prejudice under Strickland v. Washington |
| 19-7744 |
Partha A. Rai Chowdhuri v. SGT, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment-request civil-rights common-law due-process employment-discrimination fair-proceedings fourteenth-amendment fourth-circuit-review material-adverse-action prima-facie-case record-amendment seventh-amendment temporal-proximity |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in denying Petitioner's request to amend records and assert rights under the Seventh and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 19-7751 |
Christopher Michael Thrasher v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2020-02-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-rule miller-v-alabama montgomery-precedent montgomery-v-louisiana procedural-hearing |
Whether the Eighth Amendment requires a factual finding as to which class a juvenile homicide offender belongs before sentencing the juvenile to life … |
| 19-7717 |
Tarvis M. Wilson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2020-02-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
bail certiorari-petition civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process excessive-bail federal-statute fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge lower-court-conflict pretrial-detention standing supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Whether the constitutional prohibition on excessive bail, as incorporated through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause, requires a state cour… |
| 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? |
| 19-7689 |
Nicholas Todd Sutton v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2020-02-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment retroactivity vagueness 5th-amendment capital-punishment due-process fair-notice fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment johnson-v-united-states retroactivity vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether Tennessee's facially-vague prior violent felony aggravating circumstance provided fair notice as required under Johnson v. United States and t… |
| 19-7696 |
In Re Nicholas Todd Sutton |
|
2020-02-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment capital-sentencing constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus physical-restraints visible-jury |
Whether the Court should exercise its authority to issue an original writ of habeas corpus and hold that Mr. Sutton's conviction and death sentence sh… |
| 19-7676 |
Robert Jackson v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
eighth-amendment graham-v-florida graham-vs-florida juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment mandatory-sentencing miller-graham-rule miller-v-alabama miller-vs-alabama national-consensus parole scientific-evidence |
Whether Eighth Amendment's protection established in Graham and Miller should be expanded beyond age cutoff at eighteen to prohibit mandatory life imp… |
| 19-7624 |
Jerome Shaw v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-02-12 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause fatico-hearing sentencing |
Whether the District Court violated Petitioner's Due Process Rights |
| 19-7626 |
Lonnie Rarden v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2020-02-12 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentences due-process eighth-amendment non-violent-offense non-violent-offenses proportionality-review sentencing sentencing-disparity |
Is sentencing a defendant to a de facto life sentence for non-violent offenses a violation of the Eighth Amendment right against cruel and unusual pun… |
| 19-7633 |
Anthony Allen v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment intent-element jury-instruction jury-instructions presumption-of-intent reasonable-doubt |
Whether the jury instruction that 'the law presumes that a person intends the ordinary consequences of his voluntary acts' violates the Fourteenth Ame… |
| 19-7649 |
Socorro Susan Caro v. California |
California |
2020-02-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstances constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding jury-trial mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment |
Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact, other than a prior c… |
| 19-7650 |
D. W. v. Washington State Department of Children, Youth & Families |
Washington |
2020-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-appointed-counsel due-process ex-parte-investigation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-conduct parental-rights record-on-appeal recusal termination-of-parental-rights |
Whether the State violated the Due Process Clause by failing to provide a court-ordered domestic violence/anger management evaluation and treatment to… |
| 19-998 |
Vickie Cook, Individually and as Natural Mother to Deanna Cook, et al. v. Tonyita Hopkins, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment state-created-danger summary-judgment |
Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly applied a 'deemed credible' approach to viewing a movant's credibility and arbitrarily excluded admissions of dis… |
| 19-7591 |
Leo Lionel Payne v. Jessica Mangum |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-deprivation due-process failure-to-defend fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction right-to-travel standing state-action travel |
When Ms. Mangum acting under color of state law deprived petitioner of constitutional right to travel by the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States… |
| 19-7594 |
Felix Lopez-Cabrera v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment age-of-culpability age-of-majority criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-sentence life-sentences national-consensus neuroscience |
Whether Supreme Court jurisprudence finding mandatory life sentences for juveniles cruel and unusual under the Eight Amendment, and non-mandatory life… |
| 19-994 |
Jeffrey Lance Hill, Sr. v. Leandra G. Johnson, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process eighth-amendment judicial-review rooker-feldman-doctrine standing state-agency-action state-agency-actions state-court-judgments |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit violated the Due Process Clause when applying the Rooker-Feldman Doctrine |
| 19-7551 |
Donald Arthur Herrington v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1st-Amendment case-management case-management-system civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech public-trial separation-of-powers sixth-amendment |
Was Petitioner's conviction a result of a procedure that violates 1st-Amendment, civil-rights, free-speech, public-trial, due-process |
| 19-7565 |
Tyree Wright v. S. Alvarez, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference diagnostic-imaging due-process eighth-amendment inmate-rights medical-care medical-records prison-healthcare qualified-immunity |
When an inmate notifies medical of his prior head injury/medical history & asks them to retrieve his medical records, is that adequate to his medical … |
| 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,… |
| 19-7537 |
Donald Alexander Spice v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal court-access due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment indigent-defendant indigent-defendants transcript transcript-access transcripts |
Whether MOR 5.433(c)(3) is unconstitutional as it violates the Equal Protection and Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and the mandates of… |
| 19-7541 |
Richard Hurles v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-ethics recusal right-to-fair-trial |
Are the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments violated where a judge who has personally litigated against a defendant in the same case presides over his tr… |
| 19-967 |
Craig M. Wood v. Missouri |
Missouri |
2020-02-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment jury-determination jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Constitution requires that a jury, rather than a judge, weigh the aggravating and mitigating circumstances to determine whether a defendan… |
| 19-7500 |
William Sim Spencer v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2020-01-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-protections criminal-procedure due-process finality-rule fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sex-offender-registration sixth-amendment |
Does the omission of an exception to the finality rule in Michigan's sex offender registration act allow the prosecution to build its case against cri… |
| 19-7508 |
Jeffrey D. Leiser v. Karen Kloth, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-01-30 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
by triggering PTSD symptoms rise to a level that is cognizable under the Eigh that caused psychological harm civil-rights correctional-officer correctional-officer-duties due-process eighth-amendment emotional-distress inmate-rights intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress psychological-harm ptsd qualified-immunity |
Does the intentional infliction of severe emotional distress, by triggering PTSD symptoms, that caused psychological harm, rise to a level that is cog… |
| 19-7488 |
Donnie Cleveland Lance v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Georgia |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-selection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
Was petitioner denied his rights under the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments when he was sentenced to death following his indictment by a non-r… |
| 19-948 |
Gene Rechtzigel v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment first-amendment fourth-amendment government-action petition-clause sixth-amendment standing |
Did the Government deprive Petitioner the First Amendment Right to petition the Government for a redress of grievances? |
| 19-7429 |
Louis Mitchell, Jr. v. California |
California |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment aggravating-circumstances aggravating-mitigating-circumstances constitutional-rights death-penalty fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-determination jury-trial mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment |
Does the mandatory weighing of aggravating and mitigating circumstances under the California death penalty statute—a factfinding determination that se… |
| 19-7447 |
Konstantin Rudenko v. Raymond Shanley, Superintendent, Coxsackie Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts fourteenth-amendment legal-procedure standing state-courts |
Did the New York state courts deny the petitioner his fundamental Fourteenth Amendment right to due process of law? |
| 19-7455 |
Ronson Kyle Bush v. Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act certificate-of-appealability clearly-established-federal-law constitutional-standards death-penalty eighth-amendment federal-law fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus habeas-review state-court-decisions state-court-review unreasonableness |
Whether the 'clearly established Federal law' provision of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act renders state court decisions categorical… |
| 19-7456 |
Taurus Carroll v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia brumfield-v-cain capital-punishment current-medical-standards eighth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability medical-standards moore-v-texas supreme-court-review |
Does the Alabama Supreme Court's continued reliance upon evidence that fails to adhere to current medical standards in rejecting Mr. Carroll's claim o… |
| 19-7418 |
Jody Gifford v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-sentence parole proportionality resentencing |
Whether the courts below decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions of this Honorable Court when they d… |
| 19-7424 |
Christine Ham v. Superior Court of California, Santa Clara County, et al. |
California |
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment impartiality judicial-bias judicial-disclosure judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics judicial-independence judicial-recusal public-confidence |
Does an intolerable conflict exist when the Supreme Court of California and the Ninth Circuit squarely address whether the appearance of partiality su… |
| 19-7442 |
Andrew Lee Williams v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-article-38.41 due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment indefiniteness sixth-amendment vagueness |
Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' recent holdings regarding the construction and application of Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Article 38… |
| 19-925 |
Kebreab Zere v. District of Columbia |
District of Columbia |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
compensation constitutional-rights due-process eminent-domain fourteenth-amendment prescriptive-easement public-prescriptive-easement taking-clause takings tax-sale |
Whether the due process law of the Fourteenth Amendment was violated |
| 19-928 |
Kenneth Fernandez Johnson, Jr. v. Sadie Darnell, Sheriff, Alachua County, Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights-statute due-process false-arrest false-imprisonment favorable-termination fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution probable-cause |
Whether the Fourth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated due to false arrest, false imprisonment, and malicious prosecution under 42… |
| 19-922 |
Donnie Cleveland Lance v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2020-01-23 |
Denied |
|
capital-punishment dna-testing due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection extraordinary-motion fourteenth-amendment innocence-claim new-trial |
Was petitioner denied due process and equal protection |
| 19-910 |
K. G. S., Individually and as Guardian and Next Friend of Baby Doe, a Minor Child v. Facebook, Inc. |
Alabama |
2020-01-22 |
Denied |
|
calder-effects-test calder-v-jones due-process effects-based-test fourteenth-amendment online-activity personal-jurisdiction reputational-harm virtual-contacts walden-v-fiore |
Whether virtual contacts can establish specific personal jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant under the effects-based test of Calder v. Jones |
| 19-911 |
Ivon Castro v. Dina Simon, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as Deputy Commissioner, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-01-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-service civil-service-law disciplinary-proceeding due-process employment-termination fourteenth-amendment probationary-period |
Whether the Second Circuit's holding that Ms. Castro's termination was based entirely on allegations of job-related misconduct is consistent with the … |
| 19-7369 |
David Keen v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2020-01-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
atkins-ruling atkins-v-virginia constitutional-mandate cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability judicial-abdication legislative-inaction standing |
Does the Constitution permit Tennessee to evade the mandate of Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002) by legislative inaction and judicial abdication… |
| 19-7373 |
Sanjay Tyagi v. Marc D. Smith, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-abuse-registry child-seizure due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment interrogation medical-self-defense parental-rights privacy search-and-seizure |
Does seizure, physical examination, privacy and interrogation of minor children at public school without parental consent, exigency, or court order vi… |
| 19-7379 |
Lee Samuel Capers v. California |
California |
2020-01-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-requirement criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-maximum |
Whether California's death penalty scheme violates the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact other than a prior… |
| 19-7380 |
Dino Constance v. United States District Court for the Western District of Washington |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-court circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection extraordinary-circumstances fourteenth-amendment mandamus mandamus-relief ninth-circuit post-conviction-review tenth-circuit |
Did the Ninth Circuit's unique five-part test for Mandamus relief cause a Fourteenth Amendment 'Equal Protection' violation? |
| 19-7340 |
Junior Vazquez-Suarez v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure disclosure due-process fourteenth-amendment impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance police-misconduct |
Whether police officer's failure to disclose impeachment evidence to the defense prior to trial violated the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause u… |
| 19-7278 |
Terrance Cobb v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confession criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief |
Whether Mr. Cobb's right to due-process was violated by the Florida courts in denying him post-conviction-relief based on newly-discovered-evidence |
| 19-7318 |
John Henry Yablonsky v. California |
California |
2020-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
adversarial-challenge civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process evidence-manipulation evidence-tampering fiduciary-duty fourteenth-amendment historical-accuracy prosecutorial-misconduct trial-integrity |
How can the Supreme Court of the United States uphold constitutional laws if the court allows state territories to plunder the cornerstones of those l… |
| 19-885 |
Jamie Swartz, et ux. v. Heartland Equine Rescue, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-01-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment livestock livestock-seizure post-seizure-hearing pre-seizure-hearing rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 seizure subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Did the 7th Circuit err by finding the Rooker-Feldman doctrine applied? |
| 19-874 |
William Alan Pesnell, et al. v. Jill Sessions, et al. |
Louisiana |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-access criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights public-access public-records sixth-amendment trial-recording |
Whether La. R.S. 44:4(47) and the local rule of the 26 Judicial District Court in and for Bossier Parish can bar public access to the digital recordin… |
| 19-7270 |
Hazhar A. Sayed v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
dna-evidence due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-due-process sexual-assault |
Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment provide Mr. Sayed with a procedural due process to have exculpatory (DNA) evidence tested |
| 19-7273 |
Pablo Rodriguez-Palomino v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-sexual-assault due-process essential-elements fourteenth-amendment jackson-v-virginia rational-trier-of-fact reasonable-doubt standard-of-review state-evidence sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the standard to be applied by state courts when a defendant claims that the evidence is insufficient to convict is whether any rational trier … |
| 19-7277 |
Dora Moreira v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fine ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct question-not-identified section-2255 sixth-amendment |
Whether the Court of Appeals created an irreconcilable conflict with precedential decisions by denying a certificate of appealability on a motion to v… |
| 19-7281 |
Clifton A. Grant v. MTGLQ Investors, L.P. |
District of Columbia |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 1st-amendment access-to-courts due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review pro-se pro-se-litigant right-to-petition |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia denial of Petitioner's timely and duly filed Appeal, without any lawful judicial reasoning o… |
| 19-7287 |
Joey Banks v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-procedure |
Whether Banks was denied his constitutional right to the effective assistance of counsel |
| 19-7299 |
John Joseph Barrera v. Noah Nagy, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process false-information fourteenth-amendment habeas habeas-corpus sentencing sentencing-accuracy sixth-amendment townsend-v-burke |
Where a state criminal defendant has been sentenced on the basis of inaccurate/false information used by the sentencer to increase his punishment, fol… |
| 19-7275 |
Cecil Boyett v. New Mexico |
New Mexico |
2020-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-rights discovery-rules due-process exculpatory-evidence expert-witness fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment state-court state-prosecution |
Whether petitioner Boyett's constitutional rights were violated by the Thirteenth Judicial District Court of New Mexico under the Due Process Clause o… |
| 19-7284 |
Bobby Y. Wallace, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-14 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa aedpa-deference certificate-of-appealability criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment federalism gross-disproportionality habitual-offender insufficient-evidence jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia judicial-review no-evidence proportionality-review sentencing state-court-decisions |
Could reasonable jurists debate whether the state court decision to affirm Petitioner's sentence is contrary to or an unreasonable application of the … |
| 19-7243 |
Joshua Wolf v. Cindy Griffith, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment juvenile-offenders mandatory-life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing resentencing sentencing-procedures sixth-amendment |
Whether Missouri's decision to order resentencing for juvenile homicide offenders with mandatory 50-year sentences but not for Joshua, a juvenile homi… |
| 19-7222 |
Timothy Richardson v. Edward Thomas, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-v-virginia death-penalty eighth-amendment federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus intellectual-disability rule-60(b) rule-60b state-law |
Whether the execution of an intellectually disabled defendant whose death sentence stands due to a federal court's misinterpretation of state law gove… |
| 19-7202 |
Terence C. Powell v. Lab Corporation, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 7th-amendment chain-conspiracy civil-procedure civil-rights civil-trial due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-right jury-trial privileges-and-immunities seventh-amendment |
Whether the Court of Appeals correctly affirmed the District Court's granting the defendant's Motions to Dismiss violates the protections of the Seven… |
| 19-7214 |
Gregory Brown v. Ellen Mace-Liebson, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment bivens bivens-action civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment intra-circuit-conflict medical-care medical-treatment pro-se summary-judgment |
Whether the sitting panel for the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's entry of summary judgment on petitioner's pro… |
| 19-7218 |
Oscar Amezcua Cabrera v. California |
California |
2020-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-principles crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington due-process dying-declaration-exception fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hearsay hearsay-exception hearsay-rule prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment testimonial-hearsay |
whether-dying-declaration-exception-overrides-crawford-v-washington |
| 19-7191 |
Janice Baker v. Macy's Florida Stores, LLC |
Florida |
2020-01-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federalism fourteenth-amendment same-sex-marriage standing takings |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires States to recognize same-sex marriages validly performed in other States |
| 19-7194 |
Juan Carlos Vazquez v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2020-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea language-barrier sixth-amendment voluntary-plea |
Does the evidence in the record that petitioner does not understand English plainly show that any admission at the guilty plea hearing could not relia… |
| 19-7175 |
Curry Robinson v. Barry Smith, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-01-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment alibi alibi-claim federal-review fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance procedural-bar sixth-amendment |
Whether the federal question of ineffective assistance of trial counsel as the preserved claim of an alibi was vague and/or unexhausted thereby proced… |
| 19-844 |
Sabrina Graham v. Thomas S. Wininger |
Indiana |
2020-01-06 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review bias due-process findings-and-conclusions fourteenth-amendment procedural-due-process quantum-meruit quantum-meruit-unjust-enrichment rule-52 substantial-rights unbiased-tribunal |
whether-graham's-rights-were-violated |
| 19-846 |
George Artem v. King County Department of Adult & Juvenile Detention, et al. |
Washington |
2020-01-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights disability-law due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-health procedural-due-process solitary-confinement |
Whether clearly established Eighth-and-Fourteenth-Amendment-and-Federal-Disability-Law-permits-jail-officials-to-sanction-inmates-with-mental-health-d… |
| 19-7168 |
Tracy Eugene Johnson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-01-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
burglary constitutional-rights Direct-appeal due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel Failure-to-prove-essential-elements-of-offense fourteenth-amendment Fourteenth-Amendment-due-process Post-trial-motion reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Sixth-Amendment-right-to-effective-assistance-of-c |
Whether petitioner was denied his Sixth Amendment constitutional right to the effective assistance of appellate counsel |
| 19-7099 |
Paul David Storey v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-violation death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intentional-concealment prosecutorial-misconduct state-court-review state-habeas |
Whether it violates due process for a state court to deny substantive review of a constitutional violation in a death penalty case |
| 19-7120 |
Gilbert Sanchez v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey blakely-v-washington criminal-appeals criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus in-re-winship jury-trial right-to-trial-by-jury sixth-amendment texas-constitution |
Is the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution violated when the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denies an Applicant habeas relief base… |
| 19-826 |
The Estate of Swannie Her, et al. v. Craig Hoeppner, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment civil-rights culpable-intent due-process fourteenth-amendment intent liability life-liberty-property reasonable-protection state-created-danger |
Whether the state-created danger doctrine provides a due process claim |
| 19-817 |
Annette Shands v. Lakeland Central School District, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-12-30 |
Denied |
|
age age-discrimination civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination fourteenth-amendment gender intentional-obstruction race race-discrimination school-district-liability |
Whether the guarantee of the Fourteenth Amendment applicable against Lakeland Central School District in Shrub Oak, New York, and its Assistant Superi… |
| 19-7100 |
Damon Jones v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-12-30 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof constitutional-presumption evidentiary-presumption fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions sixth-amendment specific-intent transferred-intent |
Are the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments violated where in a case tried and presented under the transferred intent theory the jury is not instructed on… |
| 19-816 |
Kristina Box, et al. v. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, Inc. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-27 |
GVR |
Amici (3)Relisted (2) |
abortion abortion-rights civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bypass minor-consent minors parental-consent parental-notification standing third-party-standing |
Whether an abortion clinic may assert third-party standing on behalf of its hypothetical minor patients to challenge a statute requiring parental noti… |
| 19-7058 |
In Re Ramsey Randall |
|
2019-12-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 1st-amendment 35-usc-101 civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech patent-eligibility standing |
Whether the 35 U.S.C. 101 patent eligibility restrictions unconstitutionally violate the First and Fourteenth Amendment rights of the petitioner |
| 19-7063 |
Leeton Jahwanza Thomas v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-12-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment |
Were Petitioner's rights under the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution violated by a Pennsylvania statutory sch… |
| 19-797 |
City of St. Louis, Missouri, et al. v. Mary R. Meier |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-23 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment municipal-liability probable-cause section-1983 seizure wanted-bulletin warrantless-seizure |
Whether a municipality can be held liable under 42 U.S.C. §1983 for a warrantless seizure of an automobile based on probable cause |
| 19-7027 |
Patrick T. Hughes v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accomplice-liability confrontation-clause criminal-conspiracy criminal-homicide due-process eighth-amendment evidence reasonable-doubt |
Whether the evidence was sufficient to sustain a conviction of criminal homicide, criminal conspiracy to commit homicide |
| 19-7034 |
Charley Joe, Jr. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constitutional-vagueness eighth-amendment sentencing-guidelines unusual-vulnerability vagueness victim-exploitation victim-vulnerability vulnerable-victim |
Does the vulnerable victim enhancement apply when the defendant did not exploit the victim's unusual vulnerability? |
| 19-6991 |
Lei Ke v. Drexel University |
Pennsylvania |
2019-12-18 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
contract-clause dual-proceedings-waiver due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment government-power res-judicata |
Did the Superior Court of Pennsylvania violate the due process and equal protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment by refusing to recognize the d… |
| 19-6993 |
In Re Augustus Larry Lundy |
|
2019-12-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
constructive-denial-of-counsel due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus personal-jurisdiction sixth-amendment |
Did the trial court divest itself of personal jurisdiction of Lundy when it administered the law in an improper and unconstitutional manner? |
| 19-7000 |
David Constance v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crawford-v-washington fair-trial fourteenth-amendment hearsay-testimony impartial-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence sixth-amendment |
Whether Mr. Constance was denied a fair and impartial trial due to the State Courts' denial of hearsay testimony |
| 19-7005 |
Johnnie Lewis Wood v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2019-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment-due-process 6th-amendment-rights conviction fair-trial false-testimony fourteenth-amendment indictment jury-verdict material-misrepresentation sixth-amendment |
Was Petitioner's Sixth-Amendment-rights,Fourteenth-Amendment-rights,false-testimony,fair-trial,jury-verdict,conviction violated |
| 19-6982 |
Ernest Collins v. Barnes & Thornburg LLP, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
1983-civil-rights-act case-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment incorporation judicial-discretion qualified-immunity section-1691 standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states under the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause |
| 19-6955 |
Shondell J. Paul v. New York |
New York |
2019-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-question due-process federal-constitutional-law fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel precedent stare-decisis state-court state-court-precedent state-court-procedure |
Does the Fourteenth Amendment place an obligation on the New York Court of Appeals to address a federal constitutional question when its prior precede… |
| 19-6957 |
Venise Metayer v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-12-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-hearing |
Did the trial/lower court create a manifest injustice when it allowed the petitioner to plea to charges that violated double-jeopardy laws, when the t… |
| 19-6959 |
Jasmine F. v. Department of Child Safety, et al. |
Arizona |
2019-12-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure clear-and-convincing-evidence constitutional-deficiency court-appointed-counsel due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-rights termination-of-parental-rights |
Whether the State of Arizona failed to terminate mother's parental rights by at least clear & convincing evidence as required by the due process claus… |
| 19-6960 |
Ulriste Tulin v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury indictment jury-instruction |
Does an inaccurate Jury Instruction on the content of the indictment violate due process of law? |
| 19-6922 |
Charles Edward Bates v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-punishment forfeiture sentencing |
Whether the lower courts erred in their interpretation of the Eighth Amendment prohibition on excessive fines and punishments as the forfeiture amount… |
| 19-6911 |
Father v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services |
Texas |
2019-12-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment appeal appellate-review burden-of-proof due-process evidence evidence-standard fourteenth-amendment texas-constitution |
Does Article V, Section 6 of the Texas Constitution violate Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution when its distincti… |
| 19-6927 |
Tony Egbuna Ford v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-12-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrary-state-action criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus merits-consideration state-action state-created-right state-created-rights statutory-criteria subsequent-application subsequent-habeas-application |
Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' unexplained dismissal of claims raised in a subsequent application for writ of habeas corpus violated the… |
| 19-750 |
In Re The Law Offices of Nina Ringgold, et al. |
|
2019-12-12 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure-28-usc-1446 civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1866 civil-rights-act-of-1886 due-process federal-jurisdiction first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-immunity recusal-requirement removal-procedure removal-statute state-court-procedure supremacy-clause |
Whether in conflict with the clear authority of this court California local rules of court may defeat the command of 28 U.S.C. § 1446 (d) that a state… |
| 19-753 |
Michael Hunter, et al. v. Randy Cole, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-12 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7) |
civil-rights clearly-established-law deadly-force deadly-weapon due-process dynamic-encounter excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment police-use-of-force qualified-immunity shooting-encounter use-of-force |
Whether police officers can use deadly force when a person armed with a firearm moves the weapon toward the officer, even if the officer has not shout… |
| 19-6916 |
Sherri Jefferson v. Supreme Court of Georgia |
Georgia |
2019-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
attorney-discipline disbarment due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-precedent professional-responsibility self-incrimination |
Does this Court's opinion in Spevack v. Klein, 385 U.S. 511 (1967), In re Ruffalo, 390 U.S. 544 (1968), and North Carolina Board of Dental Examiners v… |
| 19-743 |
Curtis T. Hill, Jr., Attorney General of Indiana, et al. v. Whole Woman's Health Alliance, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-11 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
14th-amendment abortion abortion-clinic-licensing civil-rights due-process federal-injunction fourteenth-amendment hypothetical-patient-rights licensing rooker-feldman sovereign-immunity standing state-agency-review third-party-standing undue-burden |
May a corporation that has been denied a state license to open a new abortion clinic assert the Fourteenth Amendment rights of hypothetical future pat… |
| 19-746 |
Oliver Ray Carbutt v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2019-12-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea plea-bargaining presentence-investigation self-incrimination sentencing sex-offense sex-offenses |
When a court is required to advise a defendant of the privilege against self-incrimination during a presentence investigation for a sex offense? |
| 19-6895 |
John William Williams v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-bias due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-elections judicial-independence separation-of-powers state-judicial-elections state-judiciary supremacy-clause |
Has the external influence of state judicial election politics upon the state judiciary come to represent a constitutionally intolerable risk of bias … |
| 19-6898 |
Demicko Billie Thomas v. Maggie Miller-Stout, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment musacchio-precedent musacchio-v-united-states ninth-circuit reasonable-doubt supreme-court-review washington-state-supreme-court |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment requires each and every element of a charged offense to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt |
| 19-719 |
Dami Hospitality, LLC v. Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, Division of Workers' Compensation |
Colorado |
2019-12-06 |
Denied |
|
ability-to-pay civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-fines criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause proportionality sentencing |
Whether an offender's ability to pay is relevant in determining whether a fine is unconstitutional under the Excessive Fines Clause of the Eighth Amen… |
| 19-720 |
United States v. Riley Briones, Jr. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-06 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure discretionary-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment life-without-parole parole sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Whether Miller v. Alabama entitles respondent to invalidation of a discretionary life-without-parole sentence |
| 19-6862 |
Dalton Betsinger v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law eighth-amendment eighth-circuit fifth-circuit lowest-level-of-conduct state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the 'lowest level of conduct' as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach, an… |
| 19-6868 |
Leigh Laz LePon v. Iowa |
Iowa |
2019-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
claims-processing due-process fair-and-impartial-tribunal fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-impartiality partisan-advocacy privileges-and-immunities subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the state district-court judge violated the Fourteenth Amendment's privileges and immunities clause as well as the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendm… |
| 19-6835 |
Dennis David Antwine v. Branch Circuit Judge |
Michigan |
2019-12-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights deprivation due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure liberty-interest state-court state-law |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment was violated when the state court deprived petitioner of his liberty interest created by state law? |
| 19-6805 |
Hajes Rabaia v. Gubir Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-review sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent |
Does the holding of Brady v. Maryland apply to the petitioner? |
| 19-6808 |
Phillip E. Smith v. Collins, First Name Unknown, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability cumulative-error due-process fourteenth-amendment insufficient-evidence miller-el-v-cockrell ninth-circuit severance sixth-amendment slack-v-mcdaniel trial-severance video-evidence |
Did the Ninth Circuit err in denying a certificate of appealability? |
| 19-6811 |
Lamont Bernard Heard v. Rick Snyder, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-rule developmental-characteristics eighth-amendment fixed-character life-without-parole mature-adults mitigating-factor national-census transitional-stage youth-offenders youthful-offender |
Should this Court afford Eighth Amendment protection to youthful offenders based on this Court's own precedent and national census that youth is a mit… |
| 19-6813 |
Lenore Luann Albert v. State Bar of California |
California |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-fines legal-costs license license-suspension reinstatement state-bar state-bar-costs |
Whether the California State Bar's conditional suspension that conditions the time suspended to payment of State Bar costs and other amounts ordered d… |
| 19-6821 |
Tim Sundy v. Friendship Pavilion Acquisition Co., et al. |
Georgia |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 1st-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment takings |
Whether Petitioner Tim Sundy, without a meaningful remedy, has immunity, as provided by the due process clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments … |
| 19-696 |
Dan Haendel v. Anne Reed, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
alford-plea due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment heck-v-humphrey interception-act law-enforcement suppression-motion virginia virginia-interception-act |
Does Heck v. Humphrey bar Appellant's federal court review of the constitutionality of actions by local Virginia investigative and law enforcement off… |
| 19-697 |
James Dwight Pavatt v. Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
aggravating-factor aggravating-factors arbitrary-application capital-punishment capital-punishment-sentencing capital-sentence cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus procedural-bar procedural-ruling |
Whether a State's application of an aggravating factor to justify the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments when it makes punish… |
| 19-674 |
James L. Martin v. National General Assurance Company |
Delaware |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-litigation civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal standing state-court |
Does the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause guarantee a civil litigant, in a state court, an appellate justice who did not oversee the same issue… |
| 19-6751 |
DeAngelo Pantalion Williams v. California |
California |
2019-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-court arbitrary-denial constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactive-application state-appellate-court state-law |
Whether a state appellate court's arbitrary denial of a defendant's request for the retroactive application of a new state law constitutes a violation… |
| 19-6710 |
Thomas Franklin Bowling v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review case-mootness due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders mootness munsingwear-doctrine parole parole-board vacatur |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in denying petitioner's unopposed motion to vacate its published opinion after respondent's unilateral action rendere… |
| 19-650 |
Melissa L. Barnette v. PROF-2013-M4 Legal Title, by U.S. Bank National Association, as Legal Title Trustee |
District of Columbia |
2019-11-20 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process equal-protection foreclosure fourteenth-amendment fraud judicial-procedure property-rights standing |
Whether the District of Columbia Court of Appeals erred in affirming the Superior Court's denial of Petitioner's motion to vacate the order granting s… |
| 19-6688 |
Robert Joseph Fisher v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split eighth-amendment eighth-circuit fifth-circuit lowest-level-of-conduct rule-of-lenity state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the 'lowest level of conduct' as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach, an… |
| 19-6701 |
Carl Labat v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
exhaustion-of-state-remedies fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment state-remedies strickland-standard strickland-v-washington supervisory-writs |
Whether Mr. Labat was denied effective assistance of counsel on appeal due to: (a) Failure to Exhaust State Remedies; (b) failure to seek Supervisory … |
| 19-646 |
Alaina Adkins, et al. v. Jesse Michael Collens |
Alaska |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
|
bmw-v-gore civil-damages civil-procedure civil-rights due-process excessive-judgment fourteenth-amendment punitive-damages state-farm-v-campbell statutory-damages treble-damages |
Whether the factors identified by BMW of North America, Inc. v. Gore should be used to analyze excessive statutory civil damages |
| 19-6677 |
Justin Scott Vasey v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing eighth-amendment eighth-circuit legal-interpretation lowest-level-of-conduct state-law statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the 'lowest level of conduct' as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach, an… |
| 19-6679 |
Horatio Johnson v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-11-19 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial nonunanimous-verdict sixth-amendment state-court state-criminal-procedure |
Does the right to a jury trial guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment, as applied to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment, allow a state-court crimi… |
| 19-641 |
Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, Division of Workers' Compensation v. Dami Hospitality, LLC |
Colorado |
2019-11-18 |
Denied |
|
8th-amendment ability-to-pay civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation corporate-liability corporations due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines regulatory-enforcement state-law takings workers-compensation |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's Excessive Fines Clause applies to corporations as it does individuals and, if so, whether and to what extent it require… |
| 19-6594 |
David Ingraham v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
violate the principals of due-process constitutional-fairness due-process eight-amendment eighth-amendment judicial-integrity juvenile-offenders parole stare-decisis supreme-court-precedent |
Does the decision of the Florida Supreme Court in overturning its previous decision violate due-process,judicial-integrity |
| 19-6595 |
Raymond Tavelle Holmes v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
cell-phone civil-procedure civil-procedure-28-usc-636 due-process fair-trial florida-statute-934.23 fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-counsel inevitable-discovery magistrate-judge objection procedural-error report-and-recommendation search-and-seizure severance similar-fact-evidence sixth-amendment standing third-party warrantless-search Whether the failure to sever counts deprived the P Whether the warrantless search and seizure of text williams-rule |
Whether the Magistrate Judge failed to file a report and recommendation as required, depriving the Petitioner the opportunity to file a written object… |
| 19-6598 |
Robert Hercenberger v. Gary A. Martin |
Oregon |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment government-policy legal-equality state-government state-jurisdiction |
Where Equal Protection of the laws definition apply for all |
| 19-6605 |
Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-infirmity due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment post-conviction-relief short-sentence standing state-courts statutory-construction |
Are the following Pennsylvania statutes constitutionally infirm? |
| 19-6628 |
Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-infirmity due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-relief short-sentence statutory-construction |
Whether the Pennsylvania statutes 42 Pa.C.S. §9542, 42 Pa.C.S. §9543(a)(1)(ii), 42 Pa.C.S. §9545(a), 42 Pa.C.S. §9545(b)(1), and 18 Pa.C.S. §2709(a)(4… |
| 19-6629 |
Jacqueline M. King v. District of Columbia, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-11-13 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-charges driver's-license drivers-license due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment notice notice-requirement parking-tickets suspension |
Whether the District of Columbia violated Petitioner's due process rights under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 19-6574 |
Marco Gonzalez v. Panda Restaurant Group, Inc. |
California |
2019-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights conflicting-rulings constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-procedure res-judicata standing vexatious-litigant |
Why doesn't there exist Vexatious Litigant laws or procedure that addresses Multiplicity of California's §391 Motion with Conflicting Rulings based on… |
| 19-6583 |
Patrick Killen, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment eleventh-circuit graham-v-florida gross-disproportionality proportionality sentencing statutory-limits |
Whether the proper analysis to determine a threshold showing of gross disproportionality on an Eighth Amendment claim |
| 19-6523 |
Pasqual Andres McMurry v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation standing takings |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause |
| 19-6539 |
Dwayne Dumont Haizlip v. Joseph Valliere |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process fourteenth-amendment habitual-felon-law habitual-offender mandatory-sentencing sentencing |
Whether the federal court erred in upholding the petitioner's mandatory sentence for a drug-trafficking conviction under North Carolina General Statut… |
| 19-6531 |
Demetrius Frazier v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2244 capital-sentencing capital-sentencing-scheme certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus second-or-successive-petition sixth-amendment |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit should have issued a certificate of appealability |
| 19-6535 |
Clarence Fry v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-right criminal-defendant due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment right-to-testify rock-v-arkansas self-representation sixth-amendment trial-counsel |
Is it unconstitutional for any Court to deny the Constitutional right to testify in one's own defense by placing the burden of making such desire know… |
| 19-588 |
Lori Madden-Grammer v. Industrial Claim Appeals Office, et al. |
Colorado |
2019-11-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure administrative-review colorado-revised-statutes due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-utilization-review property-interest statutory-rights workers-compensation |
Whether Colorado's Medical Utilization Review process deprives claimants of their statutorily-created property interest without due process |
| 19-580 |
Jun Xiao v. Regents of the University of Minnesota, et al. |
Minnesota |
2019-11-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process Fourteenth Amendment equal-protection qualified-immunity civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment property-rights qualified-immunity section-1983 standing takings |
Whether the state district court erred in dismissing Petitioner's 42 U.S.C. § 1983, Fourteenth Amendment equal protection claim for failure to state a… |
| 19-6463 |
Michael A. Albert v. New York |
New York |
2019-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment outrageous-conduct police-agent right-to-present-defense sexual-inducement voluntariness |
Whether the promise and delivery of sex by a police agent is sufficient inducement to trigger 5th and/or 14th Amendment protections |
| 19-6479 |
In Re Charles Russell Rhines |
|
2019-11-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus juror-bias sexual-orientation |
Should this Court exercise its original habeas jurisdiction to transfer this petition to the district court for a hearing regarding Petitioner's subst… |
| 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… |
| 19-6457 |
D. B. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services |
Texas |
2019-10-31 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
child-welfare civil-rights civil-rights-discrimination due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment parental-rights religious-freedom |
Whether the Texas district court violated the Petitioner's Federal Civil Rights |
| 19-6469 |
Kenneth N. McFall v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2019-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
and sole defense witness to testify at trial for appeal evidence sixth-amendment state-court-decision testimony abuse-of-discretion accomplice-testimony constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-seizure fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment sixth-amendment state-bypass-sixth-amendment |
Whether the trial court's abuse of discretion in not allowing an alleged accomplice to testify violated the petitioner's due process and Sixth Amendme… |
| 19-554 |
50 Murray Street Acquisition LLC v. John Kuzmich, et al. |
New York |
2019-10-30 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-takings lower-manhattan-revitalization-plan property-rights rent-stabilization section-421-g takings-clause |
Whether courts can eliminate established property rights without just compensation |
| 19-6425 |
Andres Santana v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. |
California |
2019-10-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment discovery due-process fourteenth-amendment innocence liberty-interest post-conviction post-conviction-discovery procedural-rights substantive-rights |
What amount of due process is owed to a Defendant who is seeking post-conviction discovery to prove himself innocent of the charges a jury found him G… |
| 19-6380 |
Emerson L. Beverly v. Sherry L. Burt, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial fair-trial-14th-amendment fair-trial-6th-amendment fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct red-herring sentencing-review sixth-amendment |
Did the prosecutor's repeated reference to petitioner's defense as a 'red hearing' constitute misconduct thereby denying petitioner a fair trial in vi… |
| 19-6390 |
Edward L. Collins v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial miranda-rights self-incrimination sixth-amendment |
Was the Petitioner's right to due process and freedom from self-incrimination violated? |
| 19-6349 |
Jarvas Jovon Brinkley v. Randee Rewerts, Warden |
Michigan |
2019-10-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper michigan-law sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Does the decisions below conflict with the decisions of other U.S. circuit courts of appeals and state appellate courts, and misapply this court's dec… |
| 19-6329 |
Jackie Lee Boyd v. Carol Monroe, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-treatment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment incarceration medical-care prison-conditions |
Is a constitutional right to be free of the wanton infliction of sei pain rendered void upon incarceration? |
| 19-514 |
Nikko A. Jenkins v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2019-10-21 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (3) |
capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-health mental-illness mitigating-evidence sixth-amendment solitary-confinement |
Whether the sentencing court violated the requirement of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment that capital sentencers give meaningful consideration and… |
| 19-6247 |
In Re Donald Lee McDonald |
|
2019-10-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-sexual-assault due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habitual-criminal-act habitual-criminal-statute pro-se sentencing seventh-circuit vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
Whether Petitioner is being held unlawfully in state custody in violation of the Constitution |
| 19-6254 |
Christopher T. Shanahan v. Idaho |
Idaho |
2019-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection juvenile-sentencing life-sentence mitigating-factors parole parole-eligibility |
Does a juvenile life sentence with parole eligibility after a lengthy term violate the Eighth Amendment? |
| 19-6261 |
Jeremiah Marion v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment due-process evidence-rule evidentiary-provision first-time-offender fourteenth-amendment life-without-parole petition-for-grievances sexual-battery uncorroborated-accusations |
Does the evidentiary provision of Florida's sexual battery statute violate the Fourteenth Amendment? |
| 19-6250 |
Father v. Maternal Grandparents |
Ohio |
2019-10-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
adoption adoption-consent civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment incarceration parental-rights statutory-interpretation statutory-law |
Whether incarcerated parents have a due-process right to consent to adoption of their children under the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 19-471 |
Frederick Collins Fermin v. Priest of Saint Mary-Marfa, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-10 |
Denied |
|
baptism civil-rights constitutional-law due-process evidence exodus fourteenth-amendment jesus-christ religious-freedom standing |
Were petitioner's civil rights violated upon being baptized illegally? |
| 19-6214 |
Luis Fuquen v. Trina Everitt |
Maryland |
2019-10-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
best-interest-of-the-child child-custody divorce due-process family-privacy family-privacy-rights family-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech freedom-of-association freedom-of-religion parent-child-rights parental-rights |
Whether Luis and his children are entitled to due process protections for their individual intimate and expressive, close family, parent-child speech,… |
| 19-6223 |
Kermit B. Harris v. Charmaine Bracy, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment charging-offense constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custody-without-charge due-process equal-protection finality finality-of-sentence fourteenth-amendment police-officer police-shooting |
Can a state trial court disregard a defendant's constitutional right to due process of law under the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution,… |
| 19-6204 |
James Michael Biela v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2019-10-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-counsel appellate-procedure constitutional-amendments due-process fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-impartiality jury-selection sixth-amendment standard-of-review |
Whether the Nevada Supreme Court committed error when it applied the wrong standard in failing to grant Mr. Biela relief based upon an unfair and impa… |
| 19-6175 |
K. S. v. Contra Costa County Children & Family Services Bureau |
California |
2019-10-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
california-welfare-and-institution-code civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federalism fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment santosky-v-kramer sixth-amendment standing supreme-court-precedent welfare-code |
Whether the application of California Welfare and Institution Code violated petitioner's constitutional rights under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth A… |
| 19-458 |
John Schickel, et al. v. George C. Troutman, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-07 |
Denied |
|
campaign-finance campaign-speech civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech legislative-ethics standing strict-scrutiny |
Whether incumbents and candidates for political office have standing to assert First and Fourteenth Amendment claims |
| 19-6174 |
David Anthony Lee v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-law fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-rights state-court-proceedings |
Whether Mr. Lee's conviction was obtained in violation of his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights |
| 19-6130 |
George W. Fisher v. John Gregory Mermelstein, et al |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
1st-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment disability due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection free-speech media-access medical-treatment prison prisoner-rights state-liability |
Whether the denial of media treatment at a state prison violates the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of the press |
| 19-6148 |
Cornelius Lorenzo Wilson v. Dennis Grimes, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment medical-care monell-doctrine monell-liability municipal-jail municipal-liability prison-conditions prisoner-rights serious-medical-need systemic-underfunding |
Does systemic underfunding and understaffing of a municipal jail that knowingly causes significant delays for prisoners receiving access to outside me… |
| 19-6160 |
Reggie D. Caswell v. New York |
New York |
2019-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law appellate-counsel civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment pro-se-appeal sixth-amendment standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted |
| 19-443 |
Charles G. Kinney v. Philip S. Gutierrez, Judge, United States District Court for the Central District of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
access-to-courts bivens bivens-claim cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines obstruction-of-justice vexatious-litigant |
Whether the use of vexatious litigant laws to punish an individual and preclude access to the courts, resulting in excessive fines and cruel and unusu… |
| 19-436 |
T. R. C. v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2019-10-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process familial-integrity fourteenth-amendment guardian-ad-litem parental-rights strict-scrutiny termination-of-parental-rights |
Is Wis. Stat. §48.415 unconstitutional as applied when it was used to terminate the Fourteenth Amendment fundamental right of familial integrity of a … |
| 19-6136 |
Thomas A. Bias v. Jimmy Martin, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-10-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-sentencing juvenile-sentencing,eighth-amendment,fourteenth-am life-imprisonment miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana supreme-court-precedent |
Is the state of Oklahoma unconstitutionally imposing continued imprisonment on juvenile's sentenced to life, in disregard of the United States Supreme… |
| 19-6092 |
Jonothan E. Prather v. Robert Gilmore, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana petition-timeliness retroactivity timeliness |
Whether the lower courts erred in dismissing the Petitioner's petition as untimely and in finding that the newly recognized constitutional right set f… |
| 19-424 |
Joel Howard James v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2019-09-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
class-of-one criminal-investigation due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause fourteenth-amendment nonresident-tolling nonresident-tolling-provision privileges-and-immunities Privileges-and-Immunities-Clause Rational-Basis statute-of-limitations |
Whether the nonresident tolling provision of MCL 767.24(10) violates the Equal Protection Clause and Privileges and Immunities Clause of the Fourteent… |
| 19-6071 |
Demetrius Desean Morgan v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2019-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-association impartial-jury ineffective-assistance insufficient-evidence physical-characteristics reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment surveillance-video video-surveillance |
Was the evidence of Petitioner's identity as the shooter sufficient to sustain the first-degree murder conviction? |
| 19-6074 |
Gerald Nelson v. Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1181-1061, AFL-CIO, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights complete-preemption due-process federal-claim federal-jurisdiction federal-statute fourteenth-amendment labor-management-relations preemption removal removal-procedure state-common-law subject-matter-jurisdiction well-pleaded-complaint-rule |
Whether the United States Court of Appeal and District Federal Court can sua sponte a case when plaintiff has not had a chance to file a complaint and… |
| 19-6077 |
Ruben Moreno Herrera v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights compulsory-process conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process evidence-exclusion evidentiary-exclusion fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether the exclusion of all reliable and relevant material evidence, including the testimony of the defendant's first-hand witness, violated the defe… |
| 19-6043 |
Larry Craig Cash v. Vance Laughlin, Warden |
Georgia |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process effective-assistance fourteenth-amendment jury-selection murder-trial racial-discrimination standing state-action trial-duty |
Whether the rights of a defendant under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment were properly utilized by the State of Georgia |
| 19-6046 |
Steven Gary Sanders v. William Beck, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
1st-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure vehicle-seizure |
Issues being raised |
| 19-6061 |
Phillip Jones v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-case capital-punishment due-process eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-investigation sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington |
Whether trial counsel is ineffective in a capital case when counsel conducts their mitigation investigation after the trial begins, does not allow the… |
| 19-6051 |
Hezekiah Whitfield v. Deanna Brookhart, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
corroborative-evidence criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence evidence-restriction fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment |
Whether Petitioner Made A Substantial Showing Of The Denial Of His Sixth And Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Rights |
| 19-375 |
Lawrence T. Newman v. Robert W. York, as Personal Representative, et al. |
Indiana |
2019-09-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-expense administrative-expenses administrative-law appeal appeal-on-merits civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights due-process estate-administration fourteenth-amendment standing trial-court |
Whether the refusal of the trial court to hear Newman's administrative expense motions violates the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause and othe… |
| 19-364 |
Dwayne Lamar Williams, Sr. v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2019-09-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury incorporation jurisdiction state-criminal-procedure state-indictment |
Does the Fifth Amendment grand jury right apply to state indictments via the Fourteenth Amendment? |
| 19-366 |
Walter C. Lange v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process eighth-amendment excise fifth-amendment first-amendment income-tax indirect-tax tax-code title-26 vagueness |
Whether the income tax under Title 26 of the U.S. Code is an indirect tax and therefore exclusively an excise, duty or impost arising from the exercis… |
| 19-6006 |
Nicholas Wilkerson v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2019-09-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-hearing |
Does the Eighth Amendment require a factual finding to determine to which class a given juvenile belongs? |
| 19-5989 |
Errol Victor, Sr. v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-09-18 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
13th-amendment 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-provision direct-review due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity retroactivity state-constitutional-law thirteenth-amendment verdict-retroactivity |
Whether it denies defendant's Fourteenth and Thirteenth Amendment Rights while on direct review not to retroactively vacate a non-unanimous jury verdi… |
| 19-5993 |
Mabon Demetric James v. Marcus Pollard, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment insufficient-evidence robbery standing takings |
Was Mabon James convicted of the robbery of Marta Parfeta in violation of his Fourteenth Amendment due process rights despite constitutionally insuffi… |
| 19-5996 |
Michael J. W. Potter v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment life-imprisonment mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing sentencing |
Whether entry of a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment violated Appellant's rights under the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution |
| 19-362 |
Patrick Kent Lindsey Jones v. Allen Jones |
Louisiana |
2019-09-18 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment appeal civil-procedure contested-funds due-process equal-protection finality-of-judgment fourteenth-amendment interlocutory-judgment right-to-appeal standing state-court state-court-jurisdiction |
Under the 14th Amendment, Section 1, how can a state court deny the right to appeal, by deeming a judgment which distributes contested funds to be a n… |
| 19-363 |
Jim R. Nash v. Norma Nash, et al. |
Arkansas |
2019-09-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts fourteenth-amendment full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction state-court state-courts substitution |
Whether a judgment without jurisdiction of the decedent violates the petitioner's right to due process under the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 19-5955 |
Dennis R. Heilman v. Randy Blades, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-assault due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-instructions rape variance |
Does a variance between the Information charging aggravated assault and rape, and (a) a conviction on non-conforming evidence submitted at trial, and … |
| 19-5967 |
Cameron Thomas v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-amendments due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness sixth-amendment trial-court-narrative |
Whether the Nevada Supreme Court committed error when it failed to address Thomas' contention that his right to fundamental fairness was violated when… |
| 19-5975 |
Juan Jose Tull-Abreu v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-identity-theft compulsory-process confrontation-clause conspiracy controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment health-care-fraud identity-theft sixth-amendment |
Whether the petitioner participated in a conspiracy to commit health care fraud |
| 19-5977 |
Kerry Lyn Dalton v. California |
California |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-requirement criminal-sentencing death-penalty fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment statutory-maximum |
Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact other than a prior con… |
| 19-5978 |
Terence S. Chancellor v. Select Portfolio Servicing, Inc., et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 7th-circuit-court-of-appeals appeal-denial bias civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias perjury standing |
Whether Petitioner Terence S Chancellor's Constitutional right to due-process was violated during court proceedings by the 7th-Circuit-Court-of-Appeal… |
| 19-5927 |
Cuitlahuac Tahua Rivera v. California |
California |
2019-09-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-requirement criminal-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fact-finding fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment |
Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact that serves to… |
| 19-5932 |
Chavez Myers v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights comprehensive-youth-justice-amendment-act criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana standing youth-reform-act |
Whether the District of Columbia Court of Appeals erred in denying Chavez Myers' § 23-110 motion |
| 19-5933 |
Julian Alejandro Mendez v. California |
California |
2019-09-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors constitutional-amendments criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment trier-of-fact |
Whether the California death penalty scheme violates the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments by permitting the trier of fact to impose a sentence o… |
| 19-5919 |
Marlon Romaine Carter v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constructive-possession criminal-conviction due-process felon-in-possession fourteenth-amendment jackson-v-virginia sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the State of Louisiana misapplied Jackson v. Virginia sufficiency of evidence test |
| 19-335 |
Jaideep S. Chawla v. Appeals Court of Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2019-09-12 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-panel notice panel-composition property-rights recusal |
Whether a state appeals court violates the Fourteenth Amendment by changing the composition of an appellate panel during the rehearing phase without n… |
| 19-5904 |
Travis Dennis v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review batson-challenge constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-due-process due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-verdict sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether Mr. Dennis' conviction was obtained with insufficient evidence |
| 19-5881 |
Arthur O. Armstrong v. Virginia, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-09-10 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60-b-6 constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment liberty property rule-60 |
Whether Petitioner is entitled to relief, pursuant to Rule 60(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or any relief |
| 19-5886 |
Arthur O. Armstrong v. North Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-09-10 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60-b-6 conspiracy constitutional-rights due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment liberty probable-cause property rule-60 |
Whether Petitioner is entitled to relief, pursuant to Rule 60 (b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure |
| 19-5887 |
Arthur O. Armstrong v. John Doe |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-09-10 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60-b-6 conspiracy constitutional-rights disclosure-of-corporate-affiliation due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment liberty probable-cause property rule-60 standing |
Whether Petitioner is entitled to relief, pursuant to Rule 60 (b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure |
| 19-5892 |
Charles Titus, et ux. v. Mohammed Alaeddin, et al. |
Illinois |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias pro-se pro-se-parties procedural-due-process standing trial-proceedings |
Whether the trial court's actions amounted to a violation of the Due Process Clause |
| 19-5894 |
Damon Bentley v. Connie Horton, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure clerical-error constitutional-claims due-process federal-review fourteenth-amendment fraud habeas-corpus state-prisoner statute-of-limitations |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause is violated when a State prisoner is not given a complete and fair hearing in the district court w… |
| 19-325 |
Columbian Financial Corporation v. Tim Kemp, Bank Commissioner of Kansas, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment administrative-law constitutional-violations due-process fourteenth-amendment notice opportunity-to-be-heard preclusion property-rights res-judicata state-action |
Whether Petitioner's due process rights were violated when the lower federal courts barred Petitioner's claim by applying preclusive effect to the ver… |
| 19-5864 |
Brandon Jones v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-09-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment free-speech incorporation standing takings |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause |
| 19-5870 |
Shakeem Heratio Crawford v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender civil-rights criminal-justice criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment ex-post-facto first-step-act parole retroactivity sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Did the judge abuse discretion by categorically denying career offenders benefits under the First Step Act? |
| 19-5877 |
Damion D. Faulkner v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment judicial-discretion proportionality proportionality-review sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness sex-offense sex-offenses substantive-due-process |
is-it-substantively-unreasonable-to-impose-an-effective-sentence-of-life |
| 19-5841 |
Shahram Shakouri v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause masterpiece-cakeshop religious-discrimination religious-hostility religious-neutrality scriptural-interpretation thirteenth-amendment |
Whether district court's lack of religious neutrality violated Petitioner's right to the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment or Free Exercise Cla… |
| 19-5842 |
William Sim Spencer v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2019-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actus-reus counsel-effectiveness due-process fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel irrebuttable-presumption sex-offender-registration sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations |
Where it can be shown that the order to register as a sex offender is not limited in scope to stand on a valid guilty plea supported by the effective … |
| 19-5847 |
Dennis White v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2019-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment due-process fourteenth-amendment hospital-records ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel material-evidence pre-indictment-delay reasonable-probability sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Was the State Appellate court decision contrary to, or involved an unreasonable application of, clearly established federal law, Strickland-v-Washingt… |
| 19-5859 |
Edward Wesby v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment miller-standard miller-v-alabama parole parole-eligibility |
Whether Florida's current parole system provides a meaningful opportunity for release to juvenile offenders sentenced to life imprisonment with eligib… |
| 19-315 |
Endre Glenn v. Brennan H. Moss, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-09-06 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights docketing due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial seventh-amendment summary-judgment |
Whether U.S. District Court violated client's right to jury trial under U.S. Const. Amend VII, and XIV due process, equal protection of the laws |
| 19-302 |
Michael Bornemann v. Tamae M. Kekona, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Benjamin Paul Kekona, Deceased |
Hawaii |
2019-09-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment double-penalty due-process due-process,punitive-damages,14th-amendment,excess fourteenth-amendment hrs-657-5 judicial-review legal-appeals punitive-damages statutory-interest |
Whether the Hawaii Court gravely erred when it upheld a grossly excessive punitive damages award |
| 19-305 |
Lisa Wilkins, et al. v. James Soler, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process forum-state fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement personal-jurisdiction third-party-interactions |
Whether a court can, consistent with the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, exert personal jurisdiction over an out of state law enforcem… |
| 19-5809 |
Lloyde Dubry v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2019-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-history descamps-v-united-states discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sixth-amendment state-v-wetrich |
Whether the petitioner was denied his remedy by due course of law due to disparate conclusions by Kansas courts on the retroactive application of Stat… |
| 19-5831 |
Lorenzo Davis, Jr. v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus illinois-constitution. 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus illinois-constitution legal-procedure state-detention |
Whether it is unconstitutional to hold a person in prison without a valid court order or due process of law |
| 19-5839 |
Randall Wayne Mays v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-09-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
competency cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty delusions due-process eighth-amendment ford-hearing junk-science lay-stereotypes mental-competency mental-illness panetti-v-quarterman |
Whether a state court may rely on junk science and lay stereotypes of the severely mentally ill to adjudicate a Ford claim |
| 19-5807 |
Thedrick Edwards v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-04 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (20)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment state-law |
Whether Louisiana's non-unanimous jury requirement for crimes requiring life sentences violates the Sixth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment of the Un… |
| 19-5817 |
Kendrick Taylor v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
apodaca-v-oregon criminal-procedure criminal-trial fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine johnson-v-louisiana jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent unanimous-verdict |
Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial requires an unanimous jury verdict and, if so, would that unanimity requirement be required in state… |
| 19-289 |
County of San Diego, California, et al. v. James Soler |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
arrest arrest-procedure civil-rights due-process extradition-warrant fourteenth-amendment jail-staff mistaken-identity procedural-due-process qualified-immunity |
When a prisoner is held under authority of a facially valid warrant, do individual jail staff members have a duty under the Fourteenth Amendment to in… |
| 19-298 |
Fernando Juarez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
|
criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment de-facto-life-without-parole eighth-amendment ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama sentencing-hearing sentencing-law |
Does an automatic life-without-parole sentence for juveniles violate the Eighth Amendment? |
| 19-5780 |
Marvin Robinson v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether Petitioner's trial counsel was constitutionally ineffective under the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution? |
| 19-279 |
Shirley Johnson v. New Destiny Christian Center Church, Inc., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
|
advice-of-counsel civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence evidence-alteration evidence-tampering fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct malicious-prosecution probable-cause |
whether-due-process-clause-permits-judgment-to-stand-when-court-altered-evidence |
| 19-281 |
Capital Associated Industries, Inc. v. Josh Stein, Attorney General of North Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights content-based-restriction content-based-speech first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-association legal-assistance legal-services non-profit non-profit-organizations professional-licensing strict-scrutiny |
Do the North Carolina statutes prohibiting the Association's attorneys from providing legal assistance to its members violate the freedom of associati… |
| 19-5776 |
Benjamin R. Schwarz v. Erwin Meinberg, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affidavit assets bivens-claim civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment federal-inmate financial-disclosure free-speech in-forma-pauperis liabilities prison-conditions standing takings ziglar-precedent |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in dismissing petitioner's civil rights claims for lack of standing |
| 19-5783 |
Monica Nicole Townsend v. Erik Allen Vasquez |
Texas |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection family-code fourteenth-amendment free-speech parties proceeding standing |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the First Amendment's free speech protections |
| 19-5792 |
Randall Turner v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
bias-adjudicator capital-adversary-procedures conflict-of-interest due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations structural-defect term-1 term-2 term-3 term-4 term-5 term-6 |
Whether the appellate court appeal process was fundamentally unfair and a denial of due process of law under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment |
| 19-5794 |
Dazzle Young v. Francisco J. Quintana, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-tampering fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sentencing |
Whether Mr. Young's conviction violated due process and his Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights due to the use of tampered evidence |
| 19-5762 |
Stevrick Tavah Jackson v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-08-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment habeas-corpus life-sentence parole sentencing twenty-one |
Whether the courts below decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions of this Honorable Court when they d… |
| 19-5770 |
Danny Lee Banks v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment johnson-precedent residual-clause sentencing sixth-amendment unconstitutional unconstitutional-sentencing |
Did the appeals court and district court violate bank's fifth, sixth and fourteenth amendment rights by upholding a sentence that was based on the unc… |
| 19-264 |
Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary v. Lydell Marcus White |
Oregon |
2019-08-29 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedRelisted (4) |
8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing mandatory-sentences miller-v-alabama non-mandatory-sentence non-mandatory-sentences |
Does the Eighth Amendment, under Miller v. Alabama, require invalidation of respondent's sentence? |
| 19-265 |
Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary v. Laycelle Tornee White |
Oregon |
2019-08-29 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedRelisted (4) |
8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing mandatory-sentences miller-v-alabama non-mandatory-sentence non-mandatory-sentences sentencing |
Does the Eighth Amendment, under Miller v. Alabama, require invalidation of respondent's sentence? |
| 19-5752 |
Jimmie Kyle Anderson v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment apprendi-rule cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentences eighth-amendment public-safety sentencing sex-offender-law sex-offenders |
Does the public safety interest in incapacitating and deterring certain types of sex offenders with extremely long sentences run afoul of the 8th Amen… |
| 19-5723 |
Melvin Bernard Thompson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
Almendarez-Torres Apprendi-v-New-Jersey criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment stare-decisis |
Can a Florida Law permit a judicial discretion-upward-departure sentence beyond sentencing-guidelines without violating Sixth-Amendment Fourteenth-Ame… |
| 19-247 |
City of Boise, Idaho v. Robert Martin, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-26 |
Denied |
Amici (20)Relisted (2) |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment homeless-rights homelessness local-government-powers local-government-regulation public-camping public-health-and-safety |
Does the enforcement of generally applicable laws regulating public camping and sleeping constitute 'cruel and unusual punishment' prohibited by the E… |
| 19-250 |
Oklahoma v. Jesse Allen Johnson |
Oklahoma |
2019-08-26 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment jury-factfinding jury-trial juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana sixth-amendment |
Does the Sixth Amendment require that the individualized sentencing proceeding necessary to impose a life-without-parole sentence upon a juvenile homi… |
| 19-5712 |
Ivan Lee Vasquez v. California |
California |
2019-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-rights content-based-messaging fair-trial fourteenth-amendment inherently-prejudicial sixth-amendment trial-spectator-conduct |
May trial spectator conduct, in the form of content-based messaging, be 'so inherently prejudicial as to pose an unacceptable threat' to the fair-tria… |
| 19-5605 |
Stephen Alan Macomber v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2019-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment burden-of-proof civil-liberties constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment state-action use-of-force |
Did the trial courts fail to give a specific use-of-force presumption, thereby lowering the burden of proof for the state and violating the defendant'… |
| 19-5693 |
Harlow Hutchinson v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-08-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict |
Whether Petitioner was constitutionally entitled to a unanimous jury under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constituti… |
| 19-5695 |
Riodejuonerol Hudson v. Charles Bradley, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa aedpa-deference appellate-counsel appellate-procedure complete-defense due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction sixth-amendment standard-of-review |
Does the denial of an 'application' alone constitute a decision 'on the merits' that warrants AEDPA deference? |
| 19-5704 |
In Re James Larry |
|
2019-08-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment due-process federal-law fourteenth-amendment mental-disease mental-disease-defect post-conviction rule-32 standard-of-review |
Does the Alabama State standard of review in Rule 32 Ala.R.Crim.P. post-conviction proceedings regarding the mental disease/defect issue as presented … |
| 19-235 |
Richard Jordan, et al. v. Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-22 |
Denied |
|
burden-of-proof civil-rights corrections-department death-penalty discovery discovery-rights due-process eighth-amendment glossip-standard glossip-v-gross lethal-injection method-of-execution section-1983 standing |
Whether the burden of proof demanded by Glossip in method-of-execution challenges requires commensurately broad discovery rights to provide plaintiffs… |
| 19-5672 |
Gary Ray Bowles v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2244 capital-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability procedural-obstacles |
Whether a capital defendant's claim that the Eighth Amendment forbids his execution as he is intellectually disabled becomes viable upon the issuance … |
| 19-5677 |
In Re Alonzo May |
|
2019-08-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest sovereign-power |
Whether the State of Texas lawfully overrode the petitioner's final judgment and order of commitment, in violation of the Ex Post Facto Clause, Double… |
| 19-230 |
Douglas Prade v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2019-08-21 |
Denied |
|
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence state-courts state-criminal-procedure trial-rights |
Does Ohio's uniquely elevated burden of proof for new trials based on newly discovered evidence violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause? |
| 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… |
| 19-5649 |
Terry Lee O'Brien v. Carla Hacker-Agnew, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment medical-negligence national-uniformity obstruction-of-justice prison-conditions standing statutory-interpretation |
What degree of interpretation of a constitution, statute, or authority of law is a question of law where there is a crisis case? |
| 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… |
| 19-210 |
Lizette Olaechea, aka Lizette Simmonds v. Grace Olaechea |
Florida |
2019-08-20 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment inconsistent-decisions indispensable-party personal-jurisdiction void-judgment |
Whether the lower Courts disregarded the Fourteenth Amendment and erred by not declaring a judgment void, wherein the Court lacked personal jurisdicti… |
| 19-5650 |
James Michael Williams v. Daniel Paramo, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-20 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
brady-violations certificate-of-appealability due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel preliminary-hearing prosecutorial-misconduct second-jury-trial |
Whether the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals erred in denying Certificate of Appealability to Petitioner |
| 19-212 |
Hanh Thai Williams v. Succession of Fred Langford Houston |
Louisiana |
2019-08-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-witness campaign-contributions civil-procedure conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-conduct judicial-ethics procedural-fairness recusal standing |
Whether Armand Roos' participation as Plaintiff's attorney and primary witness was procedurally and evidentiary concern a violation of Due Process |
| 19-5617 |
Gary Ray Bowles v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
2019-08-16 |
Denied |
Amici (2)IFP |
death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-prohibition execution-risk florida-supreme-court intellectual-disability procedural-bar standing state-procedural-bar state-procedure unacceptable-risk |
Can a state procedural bar override the Eighth Amendment prohibition against executing the intellectually disabled? |
| 19-5591 |
Kirk Saintcalle v. Jeffrey A. Uttecht, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-selection peremptory-challenge racial-discrimination |
Did the Ninth Circuit err in affirming the district court's denial of Kirk Saintcalle's petition for a writ of habeas corpus on the grounds that the s… |
| 19-5599 |
Lisa J. Gillard v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-08-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federalism fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine judicial-review jurisdiction state-courts |
Does the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution apply in the Illinois State Courts? |
| 19-193 |
Rodney Hogen, et al. v. Steven C. Hogen |
North Dakota |
2019-08-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure north-dakota personal-representative property-rights supreme-court |
Does the decision of the Supreme Court of North Dakota deprive the Petitioners of established property rights in violation of the Due Process and Equa… |
| 19-194 |
Daniel Delacruz, Sr. v. State Bar of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bankruptcy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment noerr-pennington noerr-pennington-doctrine racial-discrimination rooker-feldman-doctrine |
Does a dismissal of claims based on the Rooker-Feldman doctrine and First Amendment rights under the Noerr-Pennington doctrine violate the equal prote… |
| 19-195 |
Robert Ryan Snyder v. California |
California |
2019-08-14 |
Denied |
|
8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deprivation-of-necessities due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-deference lockdown lockdown-procedures prison-conditions retaliation |
Has California's justice system forgotten what was taught by this Court's holding in Wilson v. Seiter |
| 19-5566 |
Reilies Wayne Miller v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
chapman-v-california closing-arguments darden-v-wainwright due-process expert-witness fourteenth-amendment harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions self-defense sixth-amendment |
Consistent with the Fourteenth Amendment and Chapman v. California, could the harmless error analysis applied by the State as to the self-defense jury… |
| 19-5567 |
Delores Neely v. Georgia Department of Human Resources |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 amendment-xiv-section-5 civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1871 congressional-power constitutional-immunity constitutional-provisions eleventh-amendment federal-courts fourteenth-amendment sovereign-immunity state-sovereignty |
Can Congress abrogate a State's immunity from being sued in Federal court without its consent, under authority granted to Congress by the Fourteenth A… |
| 19-5558 |
Frank Stephon Johnson v. Correct Care Solutions, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment medical-care medical-conditions punishment |
Whether the defendants' deliberate indifference to the petitioner's serious medical needs violated the Eighth Amendment |
| 19-5560 |
Cecil McDonald Davis v. United States, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment bivens bivens-action bivens-claim certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment medical-claim |
Whether the District Court in denying the Petitioner's medical claim under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Fed. Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 38… |
| 19-5561 |
Stephen Michael West v. Tony Parker, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Correction, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment bucklew-standard bucklew-v-precythe civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment lethal-injection method-of-execution res-judicata section-1983 standing |
When an inmate's § 1983 challenge to a state's method of execution meets the timeliness and pleading requirements of this Court's decision in Bucklew,… |
| 19-5540 |
Thomas Edward Wright v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process eighth-amendment judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines special-assessment standing statutory-interpretation |
Did the Fourth Circuit err in dismissing petitioner's constitutional, statutory, and other legal claims? |
| 19-5507 |
David Fennell v. Charles Munger, et al. |
California |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
1st-amendment assembly civil-rights due-process election-interference first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech freedom-of-assembly petition-for-redress political-speech |
Does arresting Republican opponents and banning Republicans from running for office or attending Republican political events for life in California vi… |
| 19-5508 |
Carlin U. Powell v. Medical Department Cuyahoga County Correctional Center, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment ableism ambleism cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment interstate-agreement-on-detainers medical-neglect |
Did the Medical Department of Cuyahoga County Correctional Center et al. violate Carlin U. Powell's 8th and 14th Amendment rights by acting with delib… |
| 19-5525 |
Erika Jacobs v. Atlanta Police Department, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-offense cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment homeless-rights judicial-conspiracy malice police-misconduct standing state-law |
Is there an issue of judicial conspiracy and malice to overtly conceal offenses of police officers against honest citizens fit the description, for th… |
| 19-5528 |
Robert Anthony Chester v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
co-defendant co-defendants constitutional-proportionality criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment disparate-sentencing disproportionate-sentencing eighth-amendment equal-protection first-degree-robbery sentencing sentencing-disparity |
Was Petitioner's One Hundred Eighty Year Sentence For His Conviction Of Two Counts Of First Degree Robbery Disparate To The Twenty Year Sentence Impos… |
| 19-172 |
Edina Harsay v. University of Kansas |
Kansas |
2019-08-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
academic-deference academic-freedom civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings judicial-review |
Whether a rule-like application of federal case law that accords a nearly-insurmountable level of deference to academic administrators in breach-of-co… |
| 19-173 |
Jonathan Quinn, Individually and as Guardian ad Litem for H. Q., a Minor Child, et al. v. Truck Insurance Exchange, et al. |
South Dakota |
2019-08-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation term-1 term-2 term-3 term-4 term-5 term-6 |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause |
| 19-5487 |
Martin Anthony Nino v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-07 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
violate due-process|civil-rights|8th-amendment|ba without an individualized determination of necess bail-reform-act civil-rights competency-restoration confinement due-process eighth-amendment mental-health |
Does automatic confinement for competency restoration, without an individualized determination of whether confinement is necessary, violate due-proces… |
| 19-5493 |
David Ray Taylor v. Oregon |
Oregon |
2019-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment execution-moratorium extrajudicial-information juror-misconduct jury-instructions moratorium standing state-action voir-dire |
Whether a trial court may impose a death sentence during a statewide moratorium on executions |
| 19-5475 |
Mitchell Taebel v. Maricopa County Attorney's Office, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity standing unreasonable-seizure |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated |
| 19-5488 |
Loretta Jackson v. Joseph Barla, et al. |
Delaware |
2019-08-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment animal-rights civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment property-rights state-action state-actor |
Whether The Supreme Court of the State of Delaware deprived Loretta Jackson of her Due Process rights under the 4th and 14th Amendment of the United S… |
| 19-167 |
Galen J. Suppes v. Curators of the University of Missouri |
Missouri |
2019-08-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment invention-rights Jurisdiction Patent-Law patent-misuse standing takings university-ownership |
Was the Judgment's demand of perpetual (no limit in time or geography) and unconditional payment of remunerations of sixteen years of Defendant Suppes… |
| 19-160 |
Heather Singleton, et al. v. Mary Fairhurst, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Washington, et al. |
Washington |
2019-08-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-power pro-tem-judge supremacy-clause washington-state |
Whether the Chief Justice of the Washington Supreme Court can authorize a pro tem judge to exercise judicial power consistent with the Supremacy Claus… |
| 19-5424 |
Terry James Sullivan v. City of Missoula, Montana |
Montana |
2019-08-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conviction disorderly-conduct due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech |
Does Petitioner's conviction for disorderly conduct by allegedly uttering the word 'effing' violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments? |
| 19-5431 |
DeAndre Cherry v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-amendment exclusionary-rule fifth-amendment fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation probable-cause search search-and-seizure vehicle-search |
Was the petitioner's Fourth Amendment right infringed upon when the officers conducted an illegal search of his vehicle absent probable cause? |
| 19-5409 |
Brady Daniel v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-31 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment texas-code-of-criminal-procedure texas-constitution warrantless-search |
Whether the actions of Nawis County Sheriff's Department violate the constitutional and statutory rights of petitioner Brady A. Daniel under the Fourt… |
| 19-5420 |
Kendrick Terrell v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error prior-charges sentence-enhancement sentencing sentencing-calculation sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether the Petitioner's Sixth Amendment Rights were violated |
| 19-142 |
Timothy C. Harry, et al. v. American Brokers Conduit, et al. |
First Circuit |
2019-07-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights document-fabrication due-process fifth-amendment foreclosure fourteenth-amendment lending-transaction property-rights standing takings |
Whether the First Circuit Court of Appeals was correct in denying Petitioners' Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments rights to Substantive and Procedural Du… |
| 19-5394 |
Michael Leon Bell v. California |
California |
2019-07-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstances capital-punishment constitutional-procedure death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-fact-finding jury-trial mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-standards sixth-amendment |
Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement that every fact, other than a prior conviction, that serves to increase the statutory m… |
| 19-5402 |
Tatyana Ivanovna Mason v. John Arthur Mason |
Washington |
2019-07-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment immigration-status indigent-parents indigent-status language-interpreter limited-english-proficiency parental-rights trial-language-interpreter |
Whether the State violated the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 19-5371 |
In Re Mary Capri |
|
2019-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice restitution supervised-release |
Can the District Court Deny to Abide with the Supreme Court rulings on Restitution? |
| 19-5356 |
Rashad Washington v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
black-codes class-v-united-states equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jim-crow procedural-default racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause territorial-application |
Was Mr. Washington convicted under a statute that is void on its face? |
| 19-5364 |
In Re Carl A. Courtright, III |
|
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Abuse-of-discretion access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights court-access due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines first-amendment judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-litigant sanctions |
Did the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals abuse its discretion in ordering a $500 sanction against a pro se indigent petitioner? |
| 19-5295 |
In Re Larry Charles |
|
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
due-process exceptional-circumstances fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandamus right-to-appeal sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent writ-of-mandamus |
Do exceptional circumstances exist in the Petitioner's case that justify granting his Petition seeking a Writ of Mandamus when he has demonstrated a c… |
| 19-5313 |
Thomas Arthur Kahlow v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment capital-punishment constitutional-limits due-process excessive-punishment federal-statutes fourteenth-amendment indefinite-imprisonment life-imprisonment state-constitutional-law state-governments |
Whether the right to due process of law is denied by Florida's imposition of a capital life imprisonment sentence |
| 19-112 |
S. Bruce Hiran, et al. v. Jelinis, LLC |
Texas |
2019-07-23 |
Denied |
|
appellate-court appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-of-texas temporary-injunction |
Whether Petitioners' Constitutional Rights of Due Process and Equal Protection of Laws are violated |
| 19-5266 |
Clarence E. Scott, Jr. v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-07-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the district court ruling that Petitioner was not denied his right to the effective assistance of counsel, due process of the law and right to… |
| 19-5292 |
Franky Joseph v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-07-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-review due-process eighth-amendment federal-constitutional-claim judicial-integrity leblanc leblanc-v-virginia merits-adjudication state-v-michel state-vs-michel supreme-court-interpretation |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's decision infringes on the petitioner's constitutional right to meaningful review of their federal constitutional c… |
| 19-5244 |
Larry David Davis v. Brian Daniel, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights confession-admissibility constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection evidence-tampering habeas-corpus sentencing standing trial-fairness |
Whether the petitioner's conviction and sentence violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment |
| 19-5239 |
Kenneth Traylor v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2019-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction post-conviction-relief |
Whether the petitioner's substantive claim should be heard on the merits as it could not have been raised in earlier proceedings |
| 19-91 |
Michele Buckner, Warden v. Robert W. Allen |
Missouri |
2019-07-18 |
Denied |
|
consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment habeas-corpus habeas-relief juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole parole-eligibility |
Whether a State may sentence a juvenile offender convicted of multiple crimes to multiple consecutive terms of years in prison under which the offende… |
| 19-85 |
LC v. MG |
Hawaii |
2019-07-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-parentage consent-rebuttal due-process equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment marital-status marriage-equality parentage parental-presumption presumption-of-paternity spousal-rights |
Does the Fourteenth Amendment require that a spouse, who is presumed to be the parent of a child because she is married to the child's natural mother,… |
| 19-89 |
Lawrence T. Newman v. Robert W. York |
Indiana |
2019-07-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-fees constitutional-provisions due-process fourteenth-amendment indiana-court-of-appeals indiana-supreme-court legal-jurisdiction |
Whether the impositions of appellate attorney-fees by the Indiana Court of Appeals and Indiana Supreme Court violate the Fourteenth-Amendment's Due-Pr… |
| 19-5213 |
Arthur O. Armstrong v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2019-07-17 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60-b-6 constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment liberty property rule-60b6 |
Whether Petitioner is entitled to relief, pursuant to Rule 60(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or any relief |
| 19-5179 |
Susan E. Pattishall v. Vinton G. Cerf, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-religion freedom-of-speech intellectual-property statute-of-limitations takings |
Whether intellectual property should be treated differently from physical property under a statute of limitations |
| 19-80 |
Shreveport Chapter #237 of the United Daughters of the Confederacy v. Caddo Parish Commission |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment monument-preservation standing treaty-rights |
Does the Court's ruling in The American Legion v. American Humanist Association afford the owner of a monument to have standing under 42 U.S.C. § 1983… |
| 19-81 |
Vivian L. Rader, et vir v. Citibank, N.A., et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process equal-protection foreclosure-procedure fourteenth-amendment non-judicial-foreclosure property-rights standing takings |
Is Colorado's system of non-judicial foreclosure unconstitutional under the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses? |
| 19-64 |
Heidi C. Lilley, Kia Sinclair, and Ginger M. Pierro v. New Hampshire |
New Hampshire |
2019-07-12 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment free-speech gender-discrimination intermediate-scrutiny public-exposure public-nudity |
Does an ordinance expressly punishing only women, but not men, for identical conduct—being topless in public, classify on the basis of gender? |
| 19-5163 |
Michael A. Kelley, Jr. v. Phillip W. Gerth |
Ohio |
2019-07-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-client attorney-client-relationship civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-malpractice statute-of-limitations summary-judgment |
Whether the termination of attorney-client relationship for purposes of R.C. 2305.11 Legal Malpractice is dependent upon the filing of motion to withd… |
| 19-5108 |
Donald Covington v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines special-assessments standing statutory-claims |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err in denying the Petitioner the ability to have his substantive constitutional, statut… |
| 19-5112 |
Rafael Jacob Stoffel v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-victim mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines sexual-assault sexual-offense sexual-offenses |
Whether a minimum mandatory sentence of twenty-five years' imprisonment imposed for the offense of touching a minor's breast violates the prohibition … |
| 19-57 |
Donald Dewees v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-fines international-tax international-taxation streamlined-filing-compliance-procedures tax-assessment tax-collection tax-compliance tax-convention tax-penalties |
Did the lack of a meaningful review of the assessment and collection of a tax under the Convention violate Dewees' right to due-process? |
| 19-40 |
Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc. v. J. W., a Minor |
California |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
|
church-governance civil-liability clergy-privilege first-amendment fourteenth-amendment intra-faith-communications religious-doctrine religious-freedom religious-practice |
Did California violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments when it held the former national offices of Jehovah's Witnesses (Watchtower) responsible fo… |
| 19-37 |
Matthew Freeman v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
|
acquittal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment judgment-of-acquittal successive-prosecution successive-prosecutions |
Whether placing the Petitioner in a position to be twice tried for the same offense after a judgment of acquittal violates Petitioner's constitutional… |
| 19-5039 |
Carlos Ortiz v. Delaware |
Delaware |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
whether-the-lower-court-erred-in-its-interpretation-of-the-relevant-statute |
| 19-5059 |
Paul A. Viera v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process excessive-punishment federal-statutes florida florida-constitution fourteenth-amendment indefinite-imprisonment life-imprisonment state-sentencing |
Whether the right to due process of law guaranteed by the United States Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment is denied by Florida's imposition of a nat… |
| 19-5062 |
Henry Lee Jones v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment confrontation-clause due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment Hearsay sixth-amendment witness-testimony |
Did depriving the Petitioner of his ability to confront and cross-examination the key evidence at his capital trial violate the Sixth, Eighth, and Fou… |
| 19-5068 |
Willie J. Trimble, Jr. v. Mathew Hansen, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244 due-process federal-holidays fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus implicit-conclusion mailbox-rule party-presentation time-limitation |
Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeal(s) decision was in contrary with U.S. Supreme Court precedent |
| 19-26 |
Darlene Collins, et al. v. Charles W. Daniels, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
bail-reform constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment judicial-immunity legislative-immunity new-mexico-constitution sovereign-immunity |
Was the application of legislative immunity to actions of the New Mexico Courts to legislate policy outside of the authorities granted to them by the … |
| 19-5042 |
Charles Edward Jones, Sr. v. Josephine T. Griffin, Circuit Clerk, Chicot County, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-court access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-civil-procedure first-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-remedy petition-filing standing |
Whether the district court erred in denying petitioner's claim of denying access to the court and equal protection of law and due process under the Fo… |
| 19-14 |
In Re Thomas F. Williams |
|
2019-07-01 |
Denied |
|
due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-bias miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default prosecutor-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-by-jury trial-court-issues |
Whether the federal district & circuit court and the Florida State courts violated the Petitioner's 6th-&-14th-Amendment-rights |
| 19-5030 |
Michael D. Mathew v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2019-07-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment proportionality sentencing |
Whether the twenty-one year sentence imposed by the state trial court violated the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishments? |
| 19-5031 |
Efrain Ismael Conde v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2019-07-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment access-to-court appointment-of-counsel credibility-of-witness due-process due-process-materiality-standard fourteenth-amendment materiality-standard newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief witness-credibility |
Does the Due Process Clause entitle a convicted prisoner to appointment of counsel and opportunity to amend a notice of post-conviction relief asserti… |
| 19-3 |
Ryan Begay v. New Mexico |
New Mexico |
2019-06-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
blockburger-test blockburger-v-united-states constitutional-protection double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment reckless-abuse reckless-child-abuse self-defense |
Whether the 'same elements' test adequately protects against multiple punishments for 'the same offence' |
| 19-5004 |
Ivan Stamps v. Michael Miller |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
biggers-test concerted-action fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment fraud-on-the-court fundamental-fairness governmental-conduct habeas-corpus hearsay-testimony jurisdiction oath-requirement-perjury-fraud-jurisdiction perjury perjury-fraud-jurisdiction verification-affidavit |
Whether State obtained conviction through perjury/fraud |
| 18-9840 |
Kevin Fernandez v. Nevada, et al. |
First Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment interstate-compact interstate-corrections-compact liberty-interest minimum-custody-status pro-se-litigation property-interest settlement-agreement |
Whether a settlement agreement creates a liberty or property interest |
| 18A1369 |
Jaideep S. Chawla v. Court of Appeals of Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2019-06-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-panel due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure jurisdiction recusal |
Whether a state appeals court violates the Fourteenth Amendment by changing an appellate panel without notice or by requiring a judge to sit on a pane… |
| 18-9821 |
Robert Lee Heard, Jr. v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-06-27 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
Apodaca-v-Oregon criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial nonunanimous-jury-verdict nonunanimous-verdict sixth-amendment |
Does the right to a jury trial guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment allow a state-court criminal conviction to stand on a nonunanimous jury verdict? |
| 18-9823 |
Freddie Lee Morris v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
coerced-confession criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus informant involuntary-plea manifest-injustice paid-informant procedural-grounds right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether the state of Florida violated petitioner's sixth amendment right to the assistance of counsel |
| 18-9824 |
Steven G. Patten v. California |
California |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection flight-instruction fourteenth-amendment harmless-error jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination self-defense |
Whether Petitioner can establish a prima facie case of discrimination under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 18-9825 |
Shepell Orr v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 14th-amendment-equal-protection 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-seizure 5th-amendment 5th-amendment-due-process 6th-amendment 6th-amendment-fair-trial 8th-amendment-cruel-punishment circuit-court-conflict fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment sudden-heat |
Whether the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals' decision conflicts with another circuit court decision and a state court decision, and whether the petitione… |
| 18-9828 |
Dylan Magluilo v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review conflicting-decisions constitutional-law due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings judicial-review public-interest reasonable-doubt |
Did Louisiana Courts err in denying Dylan Magluilo right to a fair trial and subsequent review when rejecting claims involving, Conflicting Decisions … |
| 18-9837 |
Ernest Bustos v. Bexar Appraisal District, et al. |
Texas |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment property-code property-tax standing subject-matter-jurisdiction texas-law |
Whether the Court of Appeals was correct in disregarding the clear language of Texas Property Code § 42.08 (d) |
| 18-9838 |
Cedric Floyd v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-case capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fifth-amendment remorse right-to-remain-silent |
Whether the Fifth and Eighth Amendments are violated when the State argues for a death sentence based on the defendant's failure to express remorse in… |
| 18-1585 |
Kassim M. Nagi v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-06-27 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
8th-amendment controlled-substances cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment first-time-offender lockyer-v-andrade money-laundering proportionality proportionality-test racketeering sentencing solem-v-helm |
Whether a 90-year consecutive sentence for a 33-year-old first-time offender violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishme… |
| 18-1586 |
Scott Lynn Gibson, aka Vanessa Lynn v. Brian Collier, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment individualized-medical-evaluation life-threatening-medical-need life-threatening-need medical-treatment new-treatment prison-healthcare prisoner-rights transgender-rights universal-medical-acceptance |
Whether an Eighth Amendment claim for deliberate indifference to a prisoner's life-threatening medical need can be disposed of without any individuali… |
| 18-9809 |
Willie Strong v. New York |
New York |
2019-06-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
automobile-presumption burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions possession reasonable-doubt statutory-interpretation statutory-presumption |
When is evidence sufficient to render the 'Automobile Presumption' N.Y. P.-L. §265.15 (3)(a) inapplicable? |
| 18-9816 |
Kabil Anton Djenasevic, aka Anton Genase, aka Kabil Genase, aka Kabil Kraja v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights conspiracy-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence false-testimony fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-notice sixth-amendment standing |
Whether petitioner was denied his Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights |
| 18-9779 |
Xue Jie He v. Trinity Church, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy defamation discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment personal-injury racial-discrimination standing visa-status |
US visa: 0187, legal short-term stay, Personal Injury, can Petitioner get The Equal Protection Clause Of The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States… |
| 18-9786 |
Luis Francisco, et ux. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services |
Texas |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal-fees appeals civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights indigent indigent-litigant notice parental-rights poverty |
Whether a State may condition appeals from termination of parental rights on a parent's ability to pay appeal fees when the parent's income is half of… |
| 18-9787 |
Jace Crehan v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-06-25 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-jury unanimous-verdict |
Whether Petitioner was constitutionally entitled to a unanimous jury under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constituti… |
| 18-9802 |
Rodney B. Benson v. Utah Labor Commission, et al. |
Utah |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 7th-amendment article-iii article-iii-section-2 article-vi article-vi-paragraph-2 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process executive-branch fourteenth-amendment judicial-branch seventh-amendment utah-constitution workers-compensation |
Does Utah's Executive Branch and/or Judicial Branch have the power to deny constitutional rights |
| 18-1572 |
Matthew D. Priset v. Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment life-sentence mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence mental-illness sentencing |
Does a mandatory minimum life sentence for one convicted under the guilty-but-mentally-ill designation constitute cruel and unusual punishment? |
| 18-1568 |
Cheryl Lynn Hager-Reilly v. Thomas Reilly |
New York |
2019-06-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights custody custody-proceeding due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment natural-parents parental-rights standard-of-proof supervised-visitation visitation-rights |
Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment require a certain quantum of proof before a state court, in a custody proceeding between the t… |
| 18-9774 |
Hsiu Ying Lisa Tseng v. California |
California |
2019-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process estelle-v-mcguire evidence federal-due-process fourteenth-amendment prior-act-evidence propensity-evidence state-trial |
Whether the admission of irrelevant prior act evidence in a state trial that amounts to propensity evidence violates Fourteenth Amendment due process |
| 18-9753 |
Jason Brooks v. Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-access-to-courts,first-amendment,four court-access due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech lewis-v-casey pleading-standard prisoners-rights section-1983 standing |
Whether a federal district court's 30-page limit on unrepresented prisoners' § 1983 complaints violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 18A1349 |
Pennsylvania v. Milton Montalvo |
Pennsylvania |
2019-06-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-recommendation mental-health-mitigation |
Whether a prosecutor's and trial court's statements characterizing a jury's capital sentencing verdict as a mere 'recommendation' constitute a violati… |
| 18-9737 |
Laquan L. Kellam v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-06-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-rights expert-witness-testimony fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-rights fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights procedural-error search-and-seizure sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-rights statutory-interpretation warrantless-arrest |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit abuse its discretionary, broadly-based authority of interpretation, thus, violating petit… |
| 18-9745 |
Marion Wilson, Jr. v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2019-06-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-case capital-punishment dna-testing due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection forensic-evidence procedural-issues procedural-safeguards |
Whether the state court's refusal to provide a hearing mandated by Georgia's DNA statute denied due process |
| 18-9746 |
Marion Wilson, Jr. v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Georgia |
2019-06-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-case criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial intent jury-instructions prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct standing |
Are due process and the Eighth Amendment violated when a prosecutor knowingly argues falsehoods about the defendant's culpable acts in order to incite… |
| 18A1340 |
Manohar Jain, as Trustee, and its Successors or Successor Trustees Under the Manohar Jain Trust Dated July 1, 2000, et ux. v. Bay Hill Property Owners Association, Inc. |
Florida |
2019-06-19 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment pro-se |
Whether a pro se litigant's constitutional rights under the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause are violated when state courts fail to prov… |
| 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… |
| 18-9698 |
Ruben Perez Gomez v. California |
California |
2019-06-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-requirement death-penalty fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding reasonable-doubt sentencing-standard sixth-amendment statutory-maximum statutory-maximum-punishment |
Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact other than a prior co… |
| 18-9714 |
John Stephen Routt v. Latanya Howard, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights conditions-of-confinement constitutional-rights disciplinary-segregation due-process eighth-amendment elder-v-holloway pretrial-detention qualified-immunity standing |
Is a Defendant entitled to qualified immunity when a Petitioner cites the 'squarely governing' case through a quote of a case with similar facts? |
| 18-9693 |
Kevin Sheppard v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-06-17 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict |
Whether Petitioner was constitutionally entitled to a unanimous jury under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constituti… |
| 18-9674 |
Terence Tramaine Andrus v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-06-14 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Relisted (24)IFP |
death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington |
Does the Strickland standard fail to protect Sixth Amendment right to fair trial and Fourteenth Amendment right to due process in death-penalty cases … |
| 18-1544 |
Hallmark Care Services, Inc., et al. v. Superior Court of Washington, Spokane County |
Washington |
2019-06-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-rights court-appointed-guardian due-process ex-parte fourteenth-amendment guardianship predeprivation-rights professional-guardians property-interest property-rights state-action sua-sponte |
Whether a court-appointed professional guardian has a property interest in the business expectation of continued fees, and a pre-deprivation right to … |
| 18-9650 |
Shawn Pinson v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-06-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment standing testimony |
When be Bate Krouingt, used Se benany, a was, bogan be |
| 18-9665 |
Alejandro Hernandez-Delgado v. California |
California |
2019-06-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence-code evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment juror-bias juror-misconduct jury-deliberations racial-bias racial-stereotypes sixth-amendment |
What fact-finding procedures are required by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments when a defendant makes a threshold showing that a juror relied on rac… |
| 18-9666 |
Jose Hernandez v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2019-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment prejudice-standard prosecutorial-disclosure prosecutorial-misconduct witness-impeachment |
Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is violated |
| 18-9615 |
Shawn Russell Sorensen v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal conflict-among-courts-of-appeals drug-felony drug-felony-offenses drug-offenses eighth-amendment first-step-act mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-enhancement simple-possession |
Whether petitioner's prior simple possession drug convictions under Arizona and South Dakota state law qualify as 'prior drug felony offenses' under 2… |
| 18-9598 |
James W. Guy v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2019-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech jury-bias jury-selection prejudice religion religious-discrimination religious-freedom sixth-amendment |
Did the trial court violate a Muslim defendant's Constitutional Rights under the First, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitut… |
| 18-9626 |
In Re Rexford Tweed |
|
2019-06-11 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
capital-punishment constitutional-violation due-process due-process,eighth-amendment,florida-constitution, eighth-amendment habeas-corpus indefinite-sentence life-sentence minimum-mandatory parole parole-eligibility sentencing-statute |
Whether petitioner's Florida capital life prison sentence with a 25-year minimum mandatory followed by eligibility for parole under Florida Statute §7… |
| 18-9584 |
William Earl Miller v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2019-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure due-process fifth-amendment forfeiture fourteenth-amendment statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether Arizona Revised Statutes, section 13-2313, violates the due process clause under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 18-9586 |
Jovan Watkins v. Robert Green, Secretary, Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment medical-care medical-need policy-procedures prison-conditions standing |
Did the court of appeals err in not reviewing the lower court's decision by finding that the petitioner lacked standing to appeal |
| 18-1523 |
Michael Gannon v. City of Eugene, Oregon |
Oregon |
2019-06-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
1st-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment first-amendment free-speech liberty-interest proportionality public-forum public-university |
Do the First Amendment's protections to public streets as the archetype of a traditional public forum extend to city and state public streets and publ… |
| 18-9564 |
Brian Suniga v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-06-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment jury-instructions mitigation-evidence moral-blameworthiness tennard-v-dretke tex-code-crim-proc-art-37-071-section-2-f-4 |
Whether the Texas death penalty statute, which limits the scope of mitigating evidence to that which reduces the defendant's 'moral blameworthiness,' … |
| 18-9565 |
Casey Stoermer v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2019-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consent drug-possession exigent-circumstances fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing-enhancement warrantless-search |
Whether the warrantless search of Stoermer's apartment was justified despite the lack of exigent circumstances |
| 18-9566 |
Jason Brady Sain v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2019-06-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
closing-arguments credibility due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment theory-of-the-case witness-credibility |
Was petitioner's sixth and fourteenth amendment rights to a fair trial violated? |
| 18-9571 |
Willie Carl Jones v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence false-testimony fourteenth-amendment juror-influence search-and-seizure |
Whether the denial of petitioner's motion to suppress bullets conflicts with relevant decisions of this Court in violation of petitioner's Fourteenth … |
| 18-9576 |
Alvin Weekly v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence blockburger-v-united-states cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy eighth-amendment extraordinary-circumstances rule-60(b) rule-60b sentencing-review |
Does the Court of Appeals commit clear error when declining to hear a defendant's claim of serving an unlawful sentence in violation of the Constituti… |
| 18-9535 |
Alexander Ocasio v. William Perez, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-05 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
access-to-courts citizens-arrest constitutional-rights due-process Fifth-Amendment-violation First-Amendment-violation fourteenth-amendment Fourteenth-Amendment-violation fourth-amendment Fourth-Amendment-violation inter-local-agreement judicial-bias jurisdictional-limitations liberty-interest nev-rev-stat-289-350 Ninth-Circuit police-powers property-interest unlawful-arrest warrantless-arrest |
Is it a violation of the Fourth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution where it is clear to every reasonable police officer that … |
| 18-9555 |
Kenneth Thomas v. Robert Marsh, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Benner Township |
Third Circuit |
2019-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
autopsy-report confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington cross-examination fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel melendez-diaz-v-massachusetts sixth-amendment strickland-standard testimonial-evidence |
Whether the introduction of an autopsy report which was presented as substantive evidence but not testified to by its author violates the Sixth and Fo… |
| 18-9558 |
Oladimeji Ayelotan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment jury-selection sentencing shackling |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred |
| 18A1272 |
Charlotte Horst v. Matthew Hagen |
North Dakota |
2019-06-05 |
Presumed Complete |
|
child-marriage constitutional-rights due-process emancipation fourteenth-amendment human-trafficking |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment and federal statutes protect minors from forced marriage and human trafficking through constitutional emancipation ri… |
| 18A1257 |
United States v. Richard D. Collins |
Armed Forces |
2019-06-04 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-prosecution eighth-amendment military-justice rape retroactive-application statute-of-limitations |
Whether a 2006 amendment to the Uniform Code of Military Justice allowing prosecution of rape without a statute of limitations can be applied retroact… |
| 18A1263 |
Keith D. Nelson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-04 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-sentencing certificate-of-appealability constitutional-standards death-penalty eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance |
Whether the Eighth Amendment and standards for ineffective assistance of counsel require a new sentencing hearing when trial counsel's performance fal… |
| 18A1264 |
City of Boise v. Robert Martin, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-04 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-punishment cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment homelessness public-spaces shelter-availability |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits a city from enforcing public camping and sleeping ordinances against homeless individuals when the number of ho… |
| 18-9533 |
Shua Tilahun v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary |
Oregon |
2019-06-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment equitable-tolling fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-counsel post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment successive-post-conviction |
Whether Martinez v. Ryan allows a case to be overturned if the plaintiff can show a high probability of a substantially different outcome at the trial… |
| 18-9545 |
Robert Hercenberger v. Kathy Proctor |
Oregon |
2019-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment government-policy legal-equality state-action state-jurisdiction |
Where Equal Protection of the laws definition apply for all |
| 18-9549 |
Mauricio Lucas-Lopez v. Tony Trierweiler, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentence eighth-amendment federal-court-decisions federal-courts guidance-needed mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence proportionality sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Is petitioner's twenty-five year mandatory minimum sentence disproportionate to the offense committed violating the Eighth Amendment prohibition again… |
| 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? |
| 18A1255 |
Lee Chatfield, et al. v. League of Women Voters of Michigan, et al. |
Michigan |
2019-06-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
first-amendment fourteenth-amendment legislative-districts partisan-gerrymandering political-discrimination voting-rights |
Whether partisan gerrymandering of congressional and state legislative districts violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments by intentionally dilutin… |
| 18-1505 |
C. S. v. L. S. |
New Jersey |
2019-06-03 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment child-custody constitutional-rights custody due-process family-court family-law fourteenth-amendment parental-rights state-court-hearing state-court-procedure visitation |
Where a state family court finds that the father has violated the mother's constitutional right to the care, custody, and management of her children, … |
| 18-1499 |
Umesh Kaushal v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
due-process fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea immigration-consequences jury-trial plea-bargaining reasonable-probability resident-alien sixth-amendment |
When a resident alien pleads guilty to a crime while ignorant of the immigration consequences, then demands a trial before sentencing, does his demand… |
| 18-1500 |
Jonsha Bell v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing life-expectancy nonhomicide-offense sentencing sentencing-proportionality |
Does the Eighth Amendment forbid an aggregate sentence that exceeds the life expectancy of a juvenile nonhomicide offender? |
| 18-9492 |
Valentin Spataru v. Rick Ramsay |
Florida |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment battery civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment detention due-process eighth-amendment intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress law-enforcement-detention |
Whether ~30' transportation to jail in a law-enforcement hyperthermic, 'cooking' car is cruel and unusual punishment |
| 18-9477 |
Arnold Roberts v. DuPage County Circuit Court |
Illinois |
2019-05-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment innocence state-attorney |
Was the Petitioner's Due Process Rights violated under the United States Constitutional 14th Amendment? |
| 18-9484 |
Paris Taylor v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-05-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment state-constitution trial-court |
Whether Petitioner was denied his constitutional rights to due process of law guaranteed by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States C… |
| 18-9486 |
Clifford Abshire v. Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections |
Louisiana |
2019-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest property-interest sandin-v-conner |
Are prison disciplinary hearings considered 'communicative acts,' entitled to the protections of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution… |
| 18A1231 |
Antonio Leonard Brown v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institution Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
eighth-amendment intellectual-disability legal-resources petition-for-certiorari prison-conditions time-extension |
Whether a prisoner with intellectual disabilities and limited access to legal resources can obtain an extension of time to file a petition for certior… |
| 18A1229 |
Sam Newman v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-05-29 |
Presumed Complete |
|
eighth-amendment individualized-sentencing juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama second-degree-murder |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits sentencing a juvenile offender to life without parole for multiple second-degree murder convictions without ind… |
| 18A1238 |
Christopher Lee Price v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Presumed Complete |
|
cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment execution-protocol lethal-injection midazolam pain-and-suffering |
Whether Alabama's lethal injection protocol using midazolam violates the Eighth Amendment by posing a substantial risk of causing severe and excruciat… |
| 18-9440 |
Earl Lee Dixie v. Kenneth Harrington, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intoxication-defense mental-health-defense mental-health-evidence specific-intent strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether Dixie's trial counsel was prejudicially ineffective for failing to present evidence that Dixie suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, which wou… |
| 18-9463 |
Michael Joseph Brooks, Jr. v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-05-29 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict |
Whether Petitioner was constitutionally entitled to a unanimous jury under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constituti… |
| 18-1488 |
John S. Cammalleri v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
confession confession-involuntariness criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment involuntary involuntary-confession law-enforcement leniency |
Whether a 'specific' and 'direct' promise of leniency by a law enforcement official renders a defendant's confession involuntary pursuant to the Fifth… |
| 18-1462 |
Nadejda Rozanova, et vir v. Rafael S. Uribe |
California |
2019-05-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-omission fair-hearing fourteenth-amendment grannis-v-ordean judicial-fairness judicial-procedure legal-procedure omission omission-of-facts omission-of-laws state-court-conflict |
Whether the California courts violated petitioners' due process rights by omitting numerous relevant and probative facts and laws in their decisions, … |
| 18-1472 |
In Re Christopher Hadsell |
|
2019-05-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
access-to-courts civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct jurisdiction mandamus standing unauthorized-practice-law unauthorized-practice-of-law vexatious-litigant vexatious-litigant-statutes |
Whether the trial court's actions violated the petitioner's equal protection rights by entering a judgment without personal jurisdiction, subject matt… |
| 18-9418 |
D. M. Indika Bandara v. Dan Mann, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment cab-companies civil-rights discrimination disparate-treatment due-process equal-protection fort-jackson-base fourteenth-amendment immigrant-owned-businesses standing |
Whether the termination of non-white immigrant-owned small cab companies by the CAE airport based on alleged lack of access to Fort Jackson base, whil… |
| 18-9396 |
Bobby Joe Long v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment lethal-injection res-judicata section-1983 stay |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that Mr. Long was not entitled to a stay because of inexcusable delay in bringing his l… |
| 18-9366 |
Michael T. Rivera v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-05-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-review criminal-statute due-process eighth-amendment judicial-interpretation procedural-rule retroactivity substantive-law |
Whether the Federal Due Process Clause requires a state to apply a new interpretation of a state criminal statute retroactively to cases on collateral… |
| 18-9384 |
In Re Freya Pearson |
|
2019-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel legal-standards mandamus pro-se standing takings writ-of-relief |
Whether the petitioner was denied due process and equal protection under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments when the district court dismissed her hab… |
| 18-9361 |
Jordan Alexander Clemons v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-05-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
affidavit appellate-procedure civil-rights court-access criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-proportionality in-forma-pauperis indigence indigent-status juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing legal-representation life-imprisonment pro-bono |
Whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court erred in rejecting petitioner's claim that his sentence of life imprisonment without parole for a crime committ… |
| 18-9363 |
Michael Lee Robinson v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-05-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-sentencing constitutional-waiver due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection federal-constitutional-rights hurst-rule penalty-jury retroactivity waiver |
Can a defendant waive a federal constitutional right that was unknown and unrecognized at the time? |
| 18-1449 |
Harold Lee Harvey, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-05-21 |
Denied |
|
arbitrary-factors constitutional-rights death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida judicial-decisions retroactive-application retroactivity ring-v-arizona sixth-amendment |
Does the Florida Supreme Court's decision denying retroactive application of the Hurst decisions to Mr. Harvey violate the Eighth or Fourteenth Amendm… |
| 18A1204 |
Usha Jain, et vir v. David Barker, et al. |
Florida |
2019-05-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment pro-se |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause prohibits discriminatory treatment of pro se litigants based on age and ethnic origin in st… |
| 18-1445 |
Theresa Seeberger v. Davenport Civil Rights Commission, et al. |
Iowa |
2019-05-20 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-law civil-rights-ordinance commercial-speech content-discrimination discrimination due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech landlord-tenant viewpoint-discrimination |
Was the imposition of liability for the landlord's speech a violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution? |
| 18-9347 |
Sherrick A Sims v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2019-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-violation conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure jury limine limine-orders prejudicial-testimony violation |
Was Mc. Sims denied due process of law when the District Court and Kansas Supreme Court upheld a conviction obtained by the State's violation of Three… |
| 18-9356 |
Robert Joe Long v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2019-05-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-jurisprudence evolving-standards-of-decency mental-illness |
Whether an individual who suffers from severe mental illness is exempt from execution under the Eighth Amendment and the evolving standards of decency… |
| 18-9358 |
Robert Joe Long v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-05-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process execution-witness fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-due-process first-amendment first-amendment-free-speech fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-equal-protection religious-freedom sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel |
Whether the Florida Department of Correction's restrictions on Mr. Long's execution witness and refusing to allow him to have a non-clergyman as his s… |
| 18-9318 |
Darnell Dunlap v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment griffin-v-illinois indigent-appellant right-to-appeal standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted |
| 18-9324 |
Robert Gordon Johnstone v. Nevada, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-retardation ninth-circuit post-conviction-relief retrial-proceedings standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's due process clause requires a new trial for a mentally retarded criminal defendant whose original trial counsel was… |
| 18-9341 |
Antwon G. Whitten v. William A. Gunter, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment free-speech standing takings |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause |
| 18-1440 |
Marby Hogen, et al. v. Steven C. Hogen, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Arline H. Hogen, Deceased, et al. |
North Dakota |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure north-dakota probate property-rights state-action takings vested-interests |
Does the decision of the Supreme Court of North Dakota deprive the Petitioners of established property rights in violation of the due process and equa… |
| 18-1436 |
Ulric Jones v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-05-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure disbarment due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings judicial-review retained-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment supervisory-power |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit violated the petitioner's Sixth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment rights by disbar… |
| 18-9285 |
Dean A. Schwartzmiller v. California |
California |
2019-05-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment free-speech overbreadth penal-code sixth-amendment vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Is California Penal Code § 288 void for vagueness and overbreadth and contrary to the First, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 18-9252 |
Kevin Foster v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-05-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty death-sentence due-process eighth-amendment first-degree-murder jury-findings jury-unanimity reasonable-doubt unanimous-verdict |
Whether Mr. Foster's death sentence is unconstitutional because it violates the Eighth Amendment and the Due Process Clause |
| 18-9270 |
Manuel Antonio Rodriguez v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-05-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-murder capital-murder-elements-as-sentencing-factors due-process eighth-amendment florida-supreme-court foster-v-state fourteenth-amendment precedent sentencing-factors |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's rationale in Foster v. State mirrors the overruled rationale of Hildwin v. Florida and reveals that Florida contin… |
| 18-9296 |
In Re Allen J. Dannewitz, Jr. |
|
2019-05-15 |
Rehearing |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment ada-violation civil-rights civil-rights-deprivation due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment guardianship guardianship-rights judicial-procedure jurisdiction standing |
Whether ward was ever incapacitated |
| 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… |
| 18-1435 |
Matthew Wayne Minard, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Taylor Police Officer v. Debra Lee Cruise-Gulyas |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights discretion discretionary-action discretionary-enforcement due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech law-enforcement qualified-immunity retaliation retaliatory-arrest traffic-stop |
Whether a police officer can immediately initiate a second traffic stop in response to a driver's offensive speech to change the original discretionar… |
| 18-1422 |
Michael B. v. Tennessee Department of Children's Services |
Tennessee |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment guardian-ad-litem legal-disqualification parental-rights procedural-error witness-disqualification |
Whether the lower court's denial of the Father's motion to disqualify the Guardian Ad Litem, when her actions clearly indicated she had ceased being a… |
| 18-9246 |
Anthony G. Bryant v. Department of Education, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-procedure asset-seizure civil-forfeiture civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-fines first-amendment fourteenth-amendment tenth-amendment |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 18-9250 |
Tatyana Evgenievna Drevaleva v. Alameda Health System, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
13th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment employment employment-retaliation involuntary-servitude retaliation thirteenth-amendment |
Shall the Court of Appeals expedite an Appeal in an employment retaliation case |
| 18-9262 |
David Wood v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment Fourteenth-Amendment-violation habeas-corpus intellectual-disability moore-v-texas |
Do the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments tolerate the execution of a person whose claim of intellectual disability has been expressly decided under an … |
| 18-9267 |
John Loveman Reese v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection jury-trial retroactivity |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection and the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of capricious capital sentencing impose limits… |
| 18-9274 |
William Lee Thompson v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection retroactivity sentencing-procedure teague-v-lane |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection and the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of capricious capital sentencing impose limits… |
| 18-9242 |
Joel Hayden v. Maine |
Maine |
2019-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-challenge constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection ethnicity fourteenth-amendment jury-selection jury-selection-process language-barrier race-discrimination racial-bias racial-discrimination voir-dire |
When a party moves to strike a prospective juror for cause due to a 'language barrier', what record must the court make to ensure the strike is not ba… |
| 18-9238 |
Reshaud Todd Brown v. Washington |
Washington |
2019-05-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment habitual-offender habitual-offender-statute life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing proportionality-review sentencing sentencing-court youthful-adult youthful-offender |
Whether imposition of a mandatory sentence of life without parole under a habitual offender statute violates the Eighth Amendment prohibition against … |
| 18-9191 |
Jerome Allen Bargo v. Raymond Naylor, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
contradictory-evidence cruel-punishment cvsa cvsa-test disciplinary-action due-process eighth-amendment inmate-rights prison-conditions prison-discipline unsupported-evidence |
Did the Eighth Circuit err in holding that Bargo's CVSA tests results constituted 'some evidence' to support disciplinary action, even though the resu… |
| 18-9214 |
Jessie Livell Phillips v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2019-05-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
autopsy-photograph capital-murder capital-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial fourteenth-amendment reliable-conviction reliable-sentence |
Whether the admission of a gruesome and unnecessary internal autopsy photograph, lacking probative value and showing post-crime mutilation by the medi… |
| 18-9216 |
Klark Deziray Hopkins v. California |
California |
2019-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeal-waiver constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance liberty plea-agreement presumption-against-waiver property right-to-appeal |
Do the presumption against waiver of fundamental constitutional rights and the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause's guaranty against deprivations… |
| 18-1410 |
James A. Jackson v. Thomas Lawson |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-09 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona self-incrimination sixth-circuit united-states-v-hale unlawful-detention |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit may condition enforcement of a citizen's right against unlawful detention guaranteed … |
| 18-9179 |
Tony B. Thomas v. C. Blake, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-05-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process eighth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech standing |
Why did the UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT overlook petitioner arguments pertaining to First-Amendment, Fourth-Amendment, Eighth… |
| 18-9186 |
Briand Williams v. California |
California |
2019-05-08 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
ada ada-discrimination cruel-and-unusual-punishment discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment parole parole-consideration proposition-57 retroactive-credits sentencing time-credits |
Did the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) policies and procedures violate the Petitioner's U.S.C.A. 14 Amendment and the … |
| 18-9153 |
Albert Randolph v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-05-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeals constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus legal-review prosecutorial-misconduct standing statutory-provisions supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Court of Criminal Appeals erred in denying Petitioner a new trial? |
| 18-9177 |
Robert Murphy v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation cell-phones criminal-procedure digital-evidence due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights privacy search-and-seizure sixth-amendment |
Whether the government's warrantless search of a person's cell phone violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and seiz… |
| 18-9140 |
Michael Ray Ingram v. Frank Clements, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 8th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment injunctive-relief qualified-immunity standing supervisory-liability |
Whether dismissal of claims for injunctive relief requiring state officials to obey the Eighth Amendment pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §1983 was error? |
| 18-9144 |
Delbert Heard v. John R. Baldwin, Director, Illinois Department of Corrections, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-05-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-protection cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force failure-to-protect inmate-safety prisoner-rights standing substantial-risk |
Whether the risk of inmate-on-inmate assault became sufficiently substantial to trigger 8th Amendment protections under Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 82… |
| 18-9152 |
Gary Reid v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-05-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa constitutional-claims constitutional-question eighth-amendment federal-habeas federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation legal-precedent merits-decision state-court state-court-decisions supreme-court-review |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. Ct. 1726 (2017), as a decision on the merits of the underlying constit… |
| 18-9157 |
Israel Arce v. Chicago Transit Authority |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-05-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
affidavit civil-rights costs court-fees declaration due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines financial-hardship fourteenth-amendment in-forma-pauperis income-limitation incorporation litigation-expenses poverty redress social-security |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause |
| 18-9159 |
Freddy Brown v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-05-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa constitutional-claim constitutional-claims constitutional-question eighth-amendment federal-habeas federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-review legal-interpretation merits-decision merits-determination state-court state-court-decisions supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. Ct. 1726 (2017), a case arising under federal habeas review, as a deci… |
| 18-1396 |
Dereck Pelletier v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al. |
Arkansas |
2019-05-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-law double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment multiplicity retroactivity statutory-construction statutory-interpretation unit-of-prosecution |
Whether a state supreme court can overcome a defendant's multiplicity challenge under the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment by classifying… |
| 18-9067 |
Sharma Ross v. Christopher Miller, Superintendent, Great Meadow Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment standing |
Was petitioner denied his due process rights as enumerated under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments? |
| 18-9097 |
Freddie L. Morris v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
coerced-confession criminal-investigation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus informant involuntary-plea jail-cell right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether the state of Florida violated petitioner's sixth amendment right to the assistance of counsel |
| 18-9114 |
Nolan George v. Noah Nagy, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-commitment contract-law due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-promise plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion statute-of-limitations |
Is it a violation of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to ignore, alter or reinterpret commitments not to charge or prosecute individuals over time? |
| 18-9123 |
Jovan McClenton v. California |
California |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
discretion due-process eighth-amendment miller-v-alabama sentencing de-novo-resentencing discretionary-sentencing eighth-amendment hallmark-features-of-youth juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing miller-factors miller-v-alabama proportionality |
Is de novo resentencing required where lengthy, fully determinate sentences, primarily based on the discretion of the trial court, were imposed on juv… |
| 18-9130 |
Shaun Allen Dick v. Oregon |
Oregon |
2019-05-03 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment incorporation incorporation-doctrine jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-jury-verdict unanimous-verdict |
Does the Fourteenth Amendment fully incorporate the Sixth Amendment guarantee of a unanimous verdict? |
| 18-9088 |
Charles W. Gray v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-counsel constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment indiana-constitution ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether the State of Indiana has erred whether Petitioner received ineffective assistance of counsel |
| 18-9117 |
Scotty Garnell Morrow v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Georgia |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty death-sentence due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida judicial-fact-finding jury-trial jury-unanimity ring-v-arizona sentencing sixth-amendment |
Does a death sentence imposed by a judge who made fact-findings not made unanimously by the jury who recommended a death sentence comport with Hurst a… |
| 18-1378 |
Michael Ledet v. Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections |
Louisiana |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
age-element categorical-approach circumstance-specific-approach constitutional-comparison due-process federal-state-comparison fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment modified-categorical-approach sex-offender-registration sorna |
Whether the constitutional due process requirements that apply to a federal agency or federal court comparing the elements of state and federal offens… |
| 18-1368 |
San Diego Gas & Electric Company v. California Public Utilities Commission |
California |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment inverse-condemnation just-compensation public-utility ratepayers strict-liability takings takings-clause |
Whether it is an uncompensated taking for public use in violation of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments for a State to impose strict liability for in… |
| 18-9052 |
Neil Grenning v. James Key, Superintendent, Airway Heights Corrections Center, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment institutional-lighting prison-conditions prisoner-rights sleep-deprivation writ-of-certiorari |
Should this Court grant writ of certiorari where lower courts have no guidance on what level of 24-hour lighting is appropriate in prisons so as not t… |
| 18-9061 |
Joseph B. v. Nebraska, on Behalf of Brooklyn H. |
Nebraska |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment incarceration parental-rights visitation visitation-rights |
Whether the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits a State from forbidding visitation between a noncustodial p… |
| 18-9078 |
Tina Bradford v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, et al. |
California |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof compromise-and-release cumulative-trauma federal-labor-standards federal-labor-standards-act fourteenth-amendment icd-9 medical-diagnosis qme-ame qme-procedures workers-compensation |
Whether the burden of proof for workers' compensation benefits should be on the plaintiff or defendant, and whether a compromise and release agreement… |
| 18-9080 |
Joseph Carter v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa constitutional-claims constitutional-interpretation eighth-amendment federal-habeas-review federal-review graham-v-florida habeas-corpus habeas-review judicial-interpretation legal-precedent merits-decision miller-v-alabama parole state-court-decisions supreme-court-review |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. Ct. 1726 (2017), as a decision on the merits of the underlying constit… |
| 18-9031 |
In Re Michael Brandon Samra |
|
2019-04-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
brain-development capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment evolving-standards habeas-corpus juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders neurological-development neuroscience |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's evolving standards prohibit the execution of offenders who were 19 years old at the time of their crime |
| 18-9033 |
Michael Brandon Samra v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2019-04-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
brain-development capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment evolving-standards evolving-standards-of-decency juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders neuroscientific-research |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the death penalty against offenders who were under 21 at the time of their crime |
| 18-9034 |
Norman Lee Shillings v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
alias-name civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence fourteenth-amendment identity tampering-with-evidence |
Can the presentation of an (Alias) or Gender specific name used during arrest, booking, and bonding procedures be charged as Tampering with Evidence, … |
| 18-9025 |
Phillip Newton v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
apodaca-v-oregon criminal-trial fourteenth-amendment johnson-v-louisiana jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict |
Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial requires an unanimous jury verdict and, if so, would that unanimity requirement be required in state… |
| 18-1354 |
C. P., et al. v. C. A. |
California |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
|
child-custody custody custody-rights due-process extramarital-affair family-code family-law family-rights fourteenth-amendment fundamental-parental-rights parental-rights third-parent-law third-party-custody |
Does California's Family Code section 7612(c), granting third parties legal and physical custody rights to a minor child as a 'third parent,' regardle… |
| 18-9013 |
Michael P. Crenshaw v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-04-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment coerced-confession constitutional-claim due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review miranda-rights procedural-bar statute-of-limitations substantive-evidence |
Whether the use of a coerced confession as substantive evidence at trial violates due process rights under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 18-8992 |
Charles Lorraine v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2019-04-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment death-penalty death-sentence eighth-amendment judge-sentencing judicial-fact-finding jury-trial jury-verdict sixth-amendment spaziano-v-florida |
Is Ohio's death penalty scheme unconstitutional under Hurst v. Florida? |
| 18-8983 |
Patrick Edwards v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment prohibits the imposition of a sentence for a specific offense that is greater than the maxim… |
| 18-8951 |
Terrance Proctor v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Arkansas |
2019-04-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure discretion due-process eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mitigation proportionality sentencing-mitigation |
Are consecutive, fixed term sentences for juveniles unconstitutional at the outset when they amount to the functional equivalent of life without parol… |
| 18-8955 |
Gregory Butler v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-04-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions other-crimes-evidence sixth-amendment trial-fairness witness-confrontation |
Whether the district court and the third circuit erred in refusing to issue a certificate of appealability |
| 18-8969 |
Ronald Lunsford, Jr. v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2019-04-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea indiana-constitution ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-dismiss sixth-amendment |
Whether the State of Indiana erred in denying Appellant was deprived of effective assistance of counsel in violation of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amend… |
| 18-8973 |
Joshua Mitch Johnson v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Virginia |
2019-04-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process earned-sentence-credits fourteenth-amendment good-time-credits liberty-interest mandatory-language sentence-credits state-law statutory-interpretation wolff-v-mcdonnell |
Has the petitioner been validly sentenced under the Virginia statute on earned sentence credits? |
| 18-8927 |
Lisa J. Gillard v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-04-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
bench-court-relationship brady-v-maryland brady-violation complaining-witnesses constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct state-government |
Under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) standard, is suppressing evidence by the state government on bench court's relationship with two complaini… |
| 18-8939 |
Daisy T. v. Arizona Department of Child Safety, et al. |
Arizona |
2019-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
best-interests best-interests-of-the-child child-welfare clear-and-convincing-evidence due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment parental-rights termination-of-parental-rights |
Whether the State of Arizona failed to terminate mother's parental rights by at least clear & convincing evidence as required by the due process claus… |
| 18-8907 |
In Re Samuel H. Williams |
|
2019-04-19 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
affidavit civil-procedure civil-rights declaration due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment in-forma-pauperis incorporation poverty redress |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 18-8924 |
William Weaver v. Michael Bowersox, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa aedpa-standard batson-claim certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims eighth-amendment eighth-circuit eighth-circuit-review habeas-corpus rule-60(b) rule-60b |
Whether a habeas petitioner can obtain Rule 60(b) relief despite a prior adjudication on the merits |
| 18-8897 |
Corlious C. Dyson, aka Corlious Corall Dyson v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-04-18 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine jury-trial non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment |
Does the right to a jury trial guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment, as applied to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment, allow a criminal convicti… |
| 18-8903 |
Owen W. Barnaby v. Bret Witkowski, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment fraud law-of-the-case res-judicata |
Whether res judicata and collateral estoppel doctrines should bar an independent or original action in federal court when the defendants employed frau… |
| 18-8864 |
Joseph B. v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2019-04-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause fourteenth-amendment incarceration parental-rights visitation visitation-rights |
Whether the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits a State from forbidding visitation between a noncustodial p… |
| 18-8866 |
Winston Grey Brakeall v. Robert Dooley, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-04-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-rights fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-rights parole parole-conditions polygraph polygraph-examination polygraph-examinations self-incrimination sex-offenders |
Whether compelled self-incrimination through the use of polygraph examinations as a requirement of parole violates parolees' Fifth and Fourteenth Amen… |
| 18-1316 |
Beverley R. Nettles v. Cynthia C. Bullington, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment probable-cause protected-class retaliation retaliatory-claim |
Whether the existence of probable cause should be a factor to preclude a retaliatory-claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for a person's prior exercise of the… |
| 18-8844 |
Farris G. Morris v. Tennessee |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
recognized by Tyler-v-Cain to determine what opinions are subject to retroac 28-u.s.c.-2244(b)(3)(e) 28-usc-2244 batson-challenge capital-punishment civil-rights collateral-review due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-discrimination retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-authority tyler-v-cain |
Does the Constitution permit Congress to enact 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(3)(E) to divest this Court of its authority, recognized by Tyler v. Cain, to determ… |
| 18-8854 |
Steve Zinnel v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bankruptcy-fraud bankruptcy-schedules constructive-amendment due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-fact-finding sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment stirone-v-united-states wamu-personal-checking-account |
Whether there was an unconstitutional constructive amendment or prejudicial variance |
| 18-1298 |
Mario Dion Woodward v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
|
arbitrary-and-discriminatory cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-override jury-sentencing repealed-statute sentencing sixth-amendment |
Does the imposition of a death sentence through judicial override under a now-repealed statute violate the constitutional guarantees implemented by th… |
| 18-1300 |
Nevenka Obuskovic v. Kathleen L. Wood, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights civil-rights,due-process,equal-protection,family-l color-of-law divorce due-process equal-protection family-court family-law forced-labor fourteenth-amendment involuntary-servitude peonage pro-se-representation |
Was federal law violated under color of law for violations of Fourteenth Amendment substantive and procedural due process and equal protection when hu… |
| 18-8803 |
Raymond Ramirez v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-violation conviction due-process fourteenth-amendment judgment-of-conviction jurisdiction jurisdictional-rule sentence sentencing state-court |
Whether the State of Florida / State Court violated the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution by enlarging a jurisdictional rule without au… |
| 18-8793 |
Larry Burstein v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-proportionality constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing drug-crimes drug-dealing drug-offense due-process eighth-amendment elderly-defendant elderly-offenders non-violent-crime non-violent-offense sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a forty-eight (48) month prison sentence for a first time non-violent, drug dealing, sixty-nine (69) year old grandfather is unreasonable, vio… |
| 18-8753 |
Carl Devon Powell v. California |
California |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstances constitutional-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-fact-finding mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment |
Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact, other than a prior c… |
| 18-8776 |
Tam Le v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP |
constitutional-rights daubert-standard due-process expert-testimony fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel non-unanimous-jury sixth-amendment |
Whether Mr. Le was convicted by a non-unanimous jury in violation of his rights under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 18-8740 |
Michael Manley v. Delaware |
Delaware |
2019-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment appellate-review due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-creation judicial-overreach life-without-parole mandatory-sentence |
Did the Delaware courts violate Mr. Maniey's due process and Eighth Amendment rights by judicially creating a mandatory life without parole sentence? |
| 18-8748 |
Dajuan A. Alridge v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-04-09 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection jury-selection jury-unanimity juvenile-sentencing non-unanimous-jury prima-facie prima-facie-case racial-discrimination |
Whether statistics alone are sufficient to demonstrate a prima facie case of discrimination in the first step of a Batson analysis? |
| 18-8709 |
Emmanuel Adeyinka v. Harris County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights color-of-law common-law-fraud conspiracy-against-rights due-process failure-to-train fourteenth-amendment fraud standing statute-of-frauds |
Can the United States identify any of nine elements of common and law fraud in this case? |
| 18-8701 |
Arthur O'Derrell Franklin v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa constitutional-claim eighth-amendment graham-v-florida habeas habeas-corpus juvenile-offender parole parole-process rehabilitation |
Whether a state court may resolve a federal constitutional claim by treating an AEDPA habeas decision of the Supreme Court as a ruling on the merits w… |
| 18-8704 |
Brandon Keith Alexander v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-04-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing non-homicide-offense non-homicide-offenses parole parole-eligibility sentencing |
Whether sentencing a juvenile non-homicide offender to 60 years without the possibility of parole violates the 8th Amendment, prohibition against crue… |
| 18-8707 |
Wallace G. Carlyle v. Sherman Campbell, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment history-of-abuse ineffective-assistance mental-retardation plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal right-to-jury-trial sixth-amendment |
Did trial counsel's failure to adequately consider mental-retardation-and-history-of-abuse deprive defendant of effective-assistance-of-counsel,right-… |
| 18-8679 |
John James Bell v. South Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-hearing fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-procedure legal-representation |
Did the petitioner receive equal protection of the law under the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment? |
| 18-8682 |
Sean Carter v. Wanza Jackson-Mitchell, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
ake-v-oklahoma cullen-v-pinholster due-process federal-habeas-corpus federal-habeas-proceedings fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel organic-brain-damage organic-brain-impairment state-court-proceedings state-court-review |
When the state court denies a petitioner's claim that his counsel were ineffective for failing to present his organic brain impairment, without afford… |
| 18-8683 |
James Aren Duckett v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-04-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-law due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection retroactivity |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection and the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of capricious capital sentencing impose limits… |
| 18-1267 |
Angela Rene Leeman v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2019-04-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama non-homicide-offenses parole-eligibility parole-restriction proportionality proportionality-review |
Whether consecutive sentences for non-homicide offenses that effectively result in life without parole for a juvenile offender violate the Eighth Amen… |
| 18-8664 |
Rodney Tyrone Lowe v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-04-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
caldwell-v-mississippi death-penalty eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-violation harmless-error hurst-v-florida jury-instructions |
Does the Florida Supreme Court's exclusive reliance on a unanimous recommendation of death to find harmless error for violations of Hurst v. Florida, … |
| 18-8651 |
Robert Butrim v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-04-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-standard strickland-v-washington sufficiency-of-evidence sufficiency-of-the-evidence |
Whether the District Court's failure to address all the issues presented in the Habeas Corpus Petition deprived the Movant of a full review by the Cir… |
| 18-8652 |
Ammar Asimfaruq Harris v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2019-04-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment capital-case constitutional-error due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment harmless-error jury sixth-amendment |
Whether Mr. Harris' rights under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth amendments to a fair trial by jury were violated |
| 18-8653 |
Tavares J. Wright v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-04-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment adaptive-functioning atkins-v-virginia civil-rights constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability moore-v-texas |
Does the Florida Supreme Court's adaptive functioning analysis of intellectually disabled individuals violate the Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendm… |
| 18A1001 |
Freddy Brown v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-04-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-sentence miller-v-alabama mitigating-factors proportionality |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits a life sentence for a juvenile offender without consideration of the defendant's age and developmental characte… |
| 18A1002 |
Joseph Carter v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-04-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama proportionality sentencing-discretion |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits a lengthy juvenile sentence that effectively constitutes a de facto life sentence without the individualized se… |
| 18A1003 |
Gary Reid v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-04-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-sentence miller-v-alabama proportionality |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits a life sentence for a juvenile offender without meaningful consideration of the defendant's age and development… |
| 18-8608 |
William Ramirez, et ux. v. Court of Appeal of California, Third Appellate District, et al. |
California |
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment precedent pro-se state-court statutes |
Should a pro se petitioner reasonably expect that a state court at the county level follow precedent as a part of due process under the Fourteenth Ame… |
| 18-8623 |
Justin Cole Milam v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing standard-of-review |
Are appeal waivers in federal criminal plea agreements unconstitutional? |
| 18-1259 |
Brett Jones v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2019-03-29 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (14)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole permanent-incorrigibility sentencing-authority |
Whether the Eighth Amendment requires the sentencing authority to make a finding that a juvenile is permanently incorrigible before imposing a sentenc… |
| 18-8606 |
Lester J. Smith v. Greg Dozier, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights constitutional-rights continuing-harm continuing-violation-doctrine due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment medical-care medical-standard standing |
Whether the petitioner's serious medical ailment requires treatment with cure medications in accordance with the professional community standard of me… |
| 18-8583 |
Gilbert Postelle v. Mike Carpenter, Interim Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-03-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment eighth-amendment flynn-effect fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability mitigating-evidence sixth-amendment |
Whether the failure to investigate and present mitigating evidence of intellectual disability based on the Flynn Effect violates the Sixth, Eighth, an… |
| 18-1249 |
Christopher Lee Price v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-27 |
Denied |
|
compounding-pharmacy cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment execution-protocol lethal-injection midazolam pentobarbital |
Whether an Alabama death row inmate has shown that pentobarbital is 'available' to the Alabama Department of Corrections for use in executions |
| 18-8561 |
Jeffery Lee Wood v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
culpability death-penalty death-penalty-eligibility due-process eighth-amendment enmund-v-florida fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness law-of-parties tison-v-arizona |
Whether the petitioner is categorically ineligible for the death penalty because he lacked the requisite minimal culpability under the Eight and Fourt… |
| 18-8574 |
William Burton v. Delaware |
Delaware |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure evidence fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-of-not-guilty prosecutorial-evidence right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Did petitioner's attorney provide ineffective assistance of counsel? |
| 18-8577 |
Gerald W. Long v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-admission fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury sixth-amendment trial trial-procedure |
Did the Trial Court violate Gerald Long's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment right to Due Process and Sixth Amendment right to a trial by an impartial jur… |
| 18-8529 |
Michael Craig Smith v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-03-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance post-conviction sixth-amendment |
Whether counsel on appeal from dismissal of post-conviction petition provided ineffective assistance in violation of Petitioner's Sixth amendment righ… |
| 18-8538 |
Rufus Spearman v. Mary Parson, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation standing takings |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause |
| 18-8488 |
Ronald E. Mitchell v. Anne L. Precythe, Director, Missouri Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-03-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights damages due-process eighth-amendment false-arrest liberty-interest missouri-corrections missouri-statute qualified-immunity wrongful-imprisonment |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claim for wrongful imprisonment despite evidence that the conduct violation was later … |
| 18-1226 |
Clinton County Children and Youth Services v. A. A. R., Natural Mother, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-protective-services child-welfare civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federalism fourteenth-amendment preemption prenatal-injury standing state-law supremacy-clause |
Whether a state violates the constitutional guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment when it denies protections to children who suffer prenatal injury |
| 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… |
| 18-8441 |
Gaetan Dinelle, aka Gates v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-justice cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentence eighth-amendment first-time-offender marijuana-trafficking non-violent-offender non-violent-offense proportionality sentencing |
Whether a life-sentence for a non-violent, first-time offender, who trafficked in marijuana, is unreasonable, disproportionate, and amounts to cruel a… |
| 18-8409 |
Anthony Mungin v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-03-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment death-penalty disparate-treatment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactivity |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's application of only partial retroactivity of Hurst v. State and Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteent… |
| 18-8431 |
David Kelly Brewster v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-03-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof compensation constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-precedent restitution wrongful-incarceration |
Whether the Victims of Wrongful Incarceration Compensation Act, §961.03, Fla. Stat. is unconstitutional as a violation of due process and equal protec… |
| 18-1198 |
Westley A. Albright v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2019-03-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
criminal-defendant criminal-procedure diversion due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment nolo-contendere plea-bargaining sentencing |
Whether the Supreme Court of Tennessee erred when it held, as a matter of first impression, that due process rights under the Fourth and Fourteenth Am… |
| 18-8415 |
John L. Lotter v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2019-03-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
Does Nebraska's capital sentencing scheme requiring a three-judge panel, rather than a jury, to impose a sentence of death violate the Eighth Amendmen… |
| 18-8399 |
Randall Scott Jones v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-03-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment constitutional-law death-penalty eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-due-process hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause supreme-court-precedent |
Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity formula for Hurst v. Florida violations violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments? |
| 18-8343 |
Jose Luis Mattes Baez Carmona Lopez Cordero v. Connecticut Department of Correction, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitution constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection native-american-rights native-rights treaty-rights |
Did the lower court breach any treaties between the native Taino Indian tribe and the Government of the United States of America, pursuant to Article … |
| 18-1168 |
Carolyn J. Florimonte v. Borough of Dalton, Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure continuing-trespass due-process equal-protection equal-protection-14th-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court just-compensation land-taking res-judicata standing takings unconstitutional-government-taking |
When the lower federal courts abandon the imperatives of the Fifth Amendment to provide just compensation and the Fourteenth Amendment to provide equa… |
| 18-1163 |
Richard Hutchings, et al. v. Ameren Transmission Company of Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-03-07 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
administrative-hearing administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process eminent-domain fourteenth-amendment notice property-rights public-use quasi-judicial takings utility-siting |
Lack of notice to affected landowners for power line siting proceedings violating due process |
| 18-8317 |
Robert Gering v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-commitment civil-procedure constitutional-right due-process florida-constitution florida-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial liberty-interest trial-by-jury |
Whether the constitutional right to a trial by jury in a civil commitment case can be circumvented by a Florida rule of civil procedure nullifying the… |
| 18-8319 |
Jason Ray Flick v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-03-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion change-of-venue fair-trial fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury jury-impartiality presumption-of-prejudice pretrial-publicity sixth-amendment |
Was petitioner denied a fair trial due to the trial court's abuse of discretion? |
| 18-8322 |
In Re Richard Madkins |
|
2019-03-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-imprisonment federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jurisdiction sentence-modification sentencing-modification state-jurisdiction unlawful-detention |
Whether it would result in a fundamental miscarriage of justice if failure to entertain petitioner constitutional claims |
| 18-8323 |
Bryan Frederick Jennings v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-03-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty death-penalty-review eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-state jury-recommendation newly-discovered-evidence |
Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments require the law of Hurst v. State to be factored into the analysis of the likelihood of a less severe sen… |
| 18-8331 |
Jeffrey Bowers v. Frank Lawrence, Acting Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-split due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions jury-separation plain-error |
Whether a conflict exists between the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and Appellate Court in case at bar where jury separation after deliberations ha… |
| 18-8335 |
Lamar C. Chapman, III v. Barack Hussein Obama |
District of Columbia |
2019-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
ballot-access civil-procedure civil-rights congressional-districts due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech religious-freedom signature-requirements standing takings voting-rights |
Whether the lower courts erred in violating Appellant's right to the free exercise of religion |
| 18-8295 |
Raymond Lumsden v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
ake ake-v-oklahoma constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cumulative-error-doctrine dna-expert due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington |
Did the Court of Appeals commit err by affirming the trial court's erroneous denial of additional funds for the defense's DNA Expert to testify at tri… |
| 18-8298 |
Jermaine Brazill v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-of-offender cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process due-process-rights eighth-amendment independent-inquiry juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mental-health rehabilitation rehabilitative-potential young-age |
Whether the trial judge violated the Petitioner's due process rights by failing to conduct an independent inquiry into the Petitioner's fitness, and w… |
| 18-8305 |
Nausheen Zainulabeddin v. University of South Florida Board of Trustees |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
commerce-clause disability-discrimination diversity-jurisdiction due-process federal-preemption fourteenth-amendment property-rights regulatory-taking sovereign-immunity |
Did the lower court violate Commerce Clause of the constitution of Article 1, section 8, Clause 3; when it denied principal's interest to maintain uni… |
| 18-1152 |
Elaine Steele, et al. v. Sylvester McCauley, et al. |
Michigan |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
|
breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process estate-law fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias probate probate-court property-rights |
Arbitrary and biased probate court proceedings violating due process |
| 18-1142 |
Casimir M. Toczylowski v. Samantha Giuliano, et vir |
Pennsylvania |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure appellate-procedures appellate-review civil-appeal civil-appeals civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review merits-review property-rights state-appeals state-courts |
Denial of due process in state appellate procedures for civil litigants seeking to vindicate property rights |
| 18-1146 |
Johanna Ong, et al. v. Hudson County Superior Court, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
8th-amendment bodily-harm civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations damages due-process eighth-amendment sovereign-immunity standing statute-of-limitations |
Did the lower courts repeatedly violate the Petitioners' Constitutional protections, including Fifth/Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Rights and Eight… |
| 18-1147 |
Deron Brunson v. L. Douglas Hogan, et al. |
Utah |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure constitutional-disregard due-process equal-protection equitable-maxim fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion object-principle-of-justice precedent precedent-contradiction precedent-interpretation standing |
Whether the United States Supreme Court has set a precedence that contradicts its own precedence's |
| 18-1149 |
George A. Gallenthin, III v. Borough of Paulsboro, et al. |
New Jersey |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process eminent-domain Fifth-Amendment Fourteenth-Amendment just-compensation procedural-due-process property property-rights state-action takings |
Uncompensated takings of private property without procedural due process |
| 18-8289 |
Kwame Asafo-Adjei v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure mandatory-disclosure maryland-rule-4-342(d) maryland-rules plea-bargain plea-bargaining sentencing void-sentence |
Is the failure of the Maryland Court of Appeals to enforce the Maryland Rule 4-342(d) a denial of a citizen's equal protection right under the Fourtee… |
| 18-8253 |
Jamie Kenmont Kerien Brown v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection habeas-corpus intellectual-disability mental-health post-conviction-relief |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a prisoner who was intellectually disabled at th… |
| 18-8208 |
In Re Donivan Diaz |
|
2019-03-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process fair-notice fourteenth-amendment mandamus mandamus-petition professional-conduct state-bar-act |
Whether the California Supreme Court abused its discretion and/or committed plain error by failing to follow the State Bar Act, Rule 3-700(a) and depr… |
| 18-8210 |
Mahogany Taquilla Alexander v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment amendment-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Did trial court abuse discretion by considering nolle prossed charge in sentencing, violating 5th and 14th Amendment rights |
| 18-8222 |
Desi A. Lewis v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2019-03-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction sentencing statutory-interpretation trial-court virginia-code |
Was the trial court in error in finding it lacked jurisdiction to resentence or modify the defendant's sentence based on due process rights? |
| 18-1136 |
Beverly L. Hennager v. Troutman Sanders LLP |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-fees charging-liens civil-procedure civil-rights client-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-ethics legal-fees pro-se-representation standing |
Whether charging liens should be clarified to apply only to judgments obtained with the lawyer's assistance, not client funds, to protect constitution… |
| 18-8173 |
Ruben R. Herrera v. Brandon Price |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
5th-amendment arbitrary-and-capricious civil-rights collateral-estoppel double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plea-agreement pre-trial-detention |
Whether petitioner's pre-trial detention violates his Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights against double jeopardy and due process |
| 18-8174 |
Jack D. Hall v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
brady-violation cheney-v-u.s.district-court due-process equal-protection federal-habeas-corpus fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus magistrate-judge townsend-v-sain writ-of-mandamus written-order |
Should federal habeas corpus rule 8(a) require a written order from a federal district court judge when not appointing a magistrate judge to oversee a… |
| 18-8196 |
Larry R. Tart v. Erik A. Hooks, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection forensic-evaluation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medication medication-consent mental-health pretrial-detention solitary-confinement |
Where the petitioner was unknowingly administered multiple mental health medications while in pre-trial confinement, resulting in incompetence to unde… |
| 18-8203 |
Darryl Burghardt v. Renee Stein-Graham |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-action civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment in-forma-pauperis pro-se service-of-process standing |
Whether a petitioner's First and Fourteenth Amendment constitutional rights are violated if their civil action is dismissed due to the U.S. Marshal's … |
| 18-8147 |
Jerry Allen Horn v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights county-of-riverside-v-mclaughlin due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment gerstein-hearing investigative-delay res-judicata sixth-amendment state-habeas-corpus supremacy-clause warrantless-arrest |
Question not identified |
| 18-8154 |
Deondre D. Romero v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
and whether ineffective assistance of counsel dep due-process fair-trial false-testimony fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment victim-credibility witness-credibility |
Whether Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment right to a fair and impartial trial was violated |
| 18-1119 |
The Richman Group of Florida, Inc. v. Pinellas County, Florida |
Florida |
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment class-of-one comparative-analysis difference-in-treatment due-process equal-protection florida fourteenth-amendment legislative-decision property-rights rational-basis selective-enforcement similarly-situated |
Unequal treatment of similarly situated persons under Florida's equal protection analysis |
| 18-8116 |
Budry Michel v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment,federal-habeas,state-court,merits federal-courts federal-habeas federal-review habeas habeas-corpus juvenile-sentencing merits parole-eligibility plain-language standing state-court state-court-interpretation state-courts |
Whether a state court can treat a federal habeas decision of this Court as a ruling on the merits contrary to the plain language of the decision? |
| 18-8118 |
Alvin Davis, Jr. v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct second-amendment witness-tampering |
Was the Petitioner, Alvin Davis, Jr. denied a fair trial |
| 18-8127 |
Nguyen Vu v. Sandy L.V. Byrd, Judge, Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, First Judicial District, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2019-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights cross-examination due-process evidence-suppression evidence-tampering fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct perjury prosecutorial-misconduct recusal |
Whether Petitioner's constitutional rights to due process under the Fourteenth Amendment were violated |
| 18-8128 |
Cynthia E. Collie v. South Carolina Commission on Lawyer Conduct |
South Carolina |
2019-02-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech frivolous-proceedings seventh-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their First Amendment rights |
| 18-8124 |
Tony Gross v. John Havlin, Warden |
Ohio |
2019-02-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment gideon-v-wainwright judicial-jurisdiction right-to-counsel rothgery-v-gillespie-county sixth-amendment state-jurisdiction zerbst-v-johnson |
Whether states are required to appoint counsel in death penalty cases for all hearings before a judicial officer to sustain a valid conviction |
| 18-8090 |
Edward J. Zakrzewski, II v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-state jury-unanimity retroactive-application retroactivity savings-clause substantive-law |
Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments require retroactive application of the Florida Supreme Court's decision in Hurst v. State to capital defe… |
| 18-8106 |
Benjamin Crump v. Delaware |
Delaware |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification false-testimony fourteenth-amendment wrongful-conviction |
Whether a conviction obtained through the use of false witness testimony that is unreliable to identify the defendant at trial must be vacated under t… |
| 18-8108 |
Michael Bush v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment post-conviction-hearing postconviction postconviction-hearing trial-transcript |
Did the failure of the State of Florida to provide Mr. Bush with a complete copy of his trial transcript to be used in a postconviction evidentary hea… |
| 18-1098 |
Daniel E. Witte v. Jayden H. Huynh, nka Jayden Scacco |
Utah |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment civil-litigation civil-rights constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process faretta-v-california first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech pro-se-representation self-representation strict-scrutiny |
Is a pro se civil litigant's right of self-representation in state court protected as a fundamental federal constitutional right subject to the strict… |
| 18-8041 |
Mark Johnson v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adolescent-culpability age-as-factor age-of-culpability brain-development criminal-procedure de-facto-life-sentence due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana roper-v-simmons |
Whether the Court's rulings regarding when age is a factor in determining culpability apply to those under the age of 25, or is the age lower, but not… |
| 18-8052 |
Michael Duane Zack, III v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-punishment death-penalty death-sentence eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-retroactivity retroactivity |
Does the partial retroactivity formula for Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016) claims designed by the Florida Supreme Court, as applied to a priso… |
| 18-8077 |
Donald Glenn Estes v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
competency-hearing criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment involuntary-confinement mental-competency mental-health-confinement prosecutorial-evidence right-to-remain-silent wainwright-v-greenfield |
Whether this Court's Decisions in Wainwright v. Greenfield, 474 U.S. 284 (1996), and Buchanan v. Kentucky, 483 U.S. 402 (1987), Allow a Prosecutor to … |
| 18-8022 |
Leonicio Arias Coreas v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process fourteenth-amendment fraud ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
Did counsel fail to conduct a proper pre-trial investigation |
| 18-8032 |
Edgar Arellano v. California |
California |
2019-02-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance pre-trial-investigation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Ineffective assistance of counsel |
| 18-8002 |
Brad Hunter Smith v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2019-02-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstance aggravating-circumstances arbitrary-imposition capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mitigating-circumstance mitigating-circumstances |
Whether the Arkansas Supreme Court's holding that a capital-sentencing jury permissibly declined to weigh an existent statutory mitigating circumstanc… |
| 18-7960 |
Andracos Marshall v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-forfeiture due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment honeycutt-v-united-states luis-v-united-states pretrial-restraint pretrial-seizure right-to-counsel sixth-amendment substitute-assets |
Whether the Government's pretrial criminal forfeiture and seizure of petitioner's untainted substitute assets under 853 has been invalidated based on … |
| 18-7962 |
Al-Rashid Muhammad Abdullah v. Plant City Police Department, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 1st-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment liberty-rights property-rights section-1983 takings |
Whether the Due Process Clause requires an opportunity for a post-deprivation hearing for a property right/interest § 1983 claim |
| 18-7972 |
Victor D. Vickers, Jr. v. Missouri |
Missouri |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP |
alibi alibi-evidence criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-discovery-sanctions discovery discovery-violation due-process fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment taylor-v-illinois willful-violation |
Whether the exclusion of alibi evidence that could prove a defendant's innocence, as a sanction for an uncalculated discovery violation, is permitted … |
| 18-7973 |
Jaime Villa v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery burden-of-proof crime-of-violence criminal-evidence criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment federal-rules-of-evidence jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether there was insufficient evidence to prove Villa guilty beyond a reasonable doubt? |
| 18-1068 |
Raja Mittal v. County of Clark, Nevada, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
|
and in the absence of exigent circumstances violate Fourth-and-Fourteenth-Amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment juvenile-court parental-rights rooker-feldman-doctrine standing takings warrantless-removal |
Whether removal of a child from parent's custody without a judicial order or a warrant, and in the absence of exigent circumstances, violate Fourth an… |
| 18-7937 |
Jaques J. Sullivan v. Scott Lewis, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dementia due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-malpractice sixth-amendment standing |
Did the lower courts err in dismissing the petitioner's claim of actual conflict of interest due to trial counsel's dementia, which resulted in ineffe… |
| 18-7903 |
Albert J. Arrington v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure default-judgment due-process ex-parte-communication Fourteenth-Amendment fraud ineffective-assistance judicial-review Jurisdiction procedural-rules Rules-of-civil-procedure |
Did the Supreme Court of Virginia err in finding that the Circuit Court of Henrico did not commit reversible error |
| 18-7904 |
Spassky Alcequiecz v. Kelly A. Ryan, Warden |
First Circuit |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel manslaughter manslaughter-instruction sixth-amendment |
Whether the petitioner was denied his constitutional right to a fair trial, due to ineffective assistance of counsel |
| 18-7911 |
Albert Miklos Kun v. State Bar of California |
California |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
11th-amendment 14th-amendment bankruptcy-clause bankruptcy-discharge bankruptcy-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-preemption federalism fourteenth-amendment sovereign-immunity standing state-bar Whether petitioner's right to protection by the Eq Whether petitioner's rights protected by the Due P Whether the California Supreme Court may order pay |
Whether California waived its sovereign immunity to the Bankruptcy Clause |
| 18-7916 |
Jimmy Lee Wren v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection post-conviction-relief rule-11 rule-11-sanctions sanctions sentencing sentencing-hearing |
Whether the Mississippi Supreme Court erred in denying the petitioner's request to file a successive petition for post-conviction relief based on a ne… |
| 18-7917 |
Najee Sharif Wilkins v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation-clause cross-examination eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole-eligibility witness-testimony |
Does Petitioner's sentence violate the Eighth Amendment? |
| 18-7919 |
Susan Grund v. Julie Murphy, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal civil-procedure civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-need prisoner-rights summary-judgment |
Whether the District Court improperly decided disputed factual issues |
| 18-1053 |
Ashland Specialty Co., Inc. v. Dale W. Steager, West Virginia State Tax Commissioner |
West Virginia |
2019-02-11 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
bajakajian-standard civil-monetary-penalty civil-noncompliance civil-penalty cooper-industries-v-leatherman eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause-8th-amendment gross-disproportionality grossly-disproportionate master-settlement-agreement proportionality regulatory-compliance state-tax united-states-v-bajakajian |
Whether a 500% civil penalty imposed on a small business for inadvertent noncompliance is grossly disproportionate under the Eighth Amendment's Excess… |
| 18-7823 |
Edward Nolan Norwood v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights comity due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection federalism sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether it violates the United States Constitution as well as the principles of comity and federalism to treat a prior state drug conviction that is e… |
| 18-7860 |
Timothy L. Barnes v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-finding mandatory-minimum retroactivity sixth-amendment substantive-rule watershed-rule |
Does the Alleyne rule apply retroactively on collateral review? |
| 18-7789 |
Ashley Richards v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus retroactivity sentencing-enhancement state-jail-felony statutory-enhancement statutory-interpretation texas-court-of-criminal-appeals |
Whether the Eighth Amendment requires retroactive application of a court decision finding a sentencing enhancement inapplicable, thereby decreasing th… |
| 18-7802 |
Michael Hopson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aid-of-racketeering attempted-murder constitutional-claims criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-circuit insufficient-evidence murder pattern-of-racketeering racketeering-conspiracy |
Whether the evidence was insufficient to convict the petitioner of racketeering conspiracy and murder/attempted murder in aid of racketeering |
| 18-7803 |
Dennis Hegstrom v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
eighth-amendment homicide late-adolescent late-adolescent-offender mandatory-life-sentence miller-v-alabama neuroscience-evidence parole parole-eligibility sentencing |
Is it time to extend the Eighth Amendment protections enunciated in Miller v. Alabama to late adolescent homicide offenders? |
| 18-7809 |
James Were v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
buck-v-davis competency-hearing death-penalty death-penalty-eligibility eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-scores racial-bias |
Whether the Supreme Court of Ohio violated the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments by refusing to reopen the petitioner's direct appeal to consider evide… |
| 18-7821 |
Darryl Mixon v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence civil-procedure criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment formal-complaint jurisdiction jurisdiction-over-persons jurisdiction-over-subject-matter procedural-defect sentencing standing subject-matter |
Whether the trial court lacked jurisdiction over the persons and the subject matter of this cause, in absence of a signed formal complaint? |
| 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 |
| 18-7843 |
Patrick K. Gibson v. Jeri Boe, Superintendent, Clallam Bay Corrections Center |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings judicial-review ninth-circuit sixth-amendment |
Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals error in denying a Certificate of Appealability? |
| 18-7845 |
Philip Andra Grigsby v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law contact-restrictions court-of-appeals due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment juvenile-justice minor-children parental-rights |
Has the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution by denying a parent c… |
| 18-7780 |
Joseph Lemoine v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof burden-of-proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt constitutional-rights daubert-standard due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel essential-elements-of-offense expert-witness fourteenth-amendment reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether reasonable jurists could argue that the State failed to meet its burden of proof beyond reasonable doubt |
| 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 |
| 18-1022 |
Julius Jerome Murphy v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-02-05 |
Denied |
|
brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus witness-testimony |
Whether the State's failure to disclose threats and promises made to witnesses violated due process |
| 18-7759 |
Travis Buckner v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
effective-representation fourteenth-amendment motion-to-continue right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-court-discretion trial-procedure |
Whether the Defendant was denied his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to assistance of counsel |
| 18-7767 |
Joshua Sanchez v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-02-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-interpretation court-of-appeals due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-precedents texas-court-of-appeals |
Whether the interpretation of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments by the Texas Court of Appeals is in conflict with preceden… |
| 18-7768 |
Jon M. Strauss v. Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure |
Kentucky |
2019-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment administrative-law constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment hearing-record license-restriction licensing state-agency state-law |
Is it a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment right to due process for an independent state agency, completely dependent on member financing, to restr… |
| 18-7771 |
Tommy Wayne Brotherton v. Jay Cassady, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-02-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment brady-violation due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights motion-to-suppress sixth-amendment suppression-hearing videotaped-statements |
Whether petitioner was denied due process and a fair trial when the state court overruled his motion to suppress statements and allowed videotaped sta… |
| 18-7734 |
Joe Willie Cannon v. Iowa District Court, Des Moines County |
Iowa |
2019-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment |
Did the State of Iowa violate the petitioner's 5th, 6th, & 14th Amendment confrontation and due process rights to be present during a critical stage o… |
| 18-1019 |
Kristina Box, Commissioner, Indiana Department of Health, et al. v. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, Inc. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-02-04 |
GVR |
Amici (9)Relisted (7) |
abortion-regulation abortion-rights circuit-conflict due-process fetal-life fourteenth-amendment informed-consent maternal-health pre-enforcement-challenge ultrasound ultrasound-requirement |
Requiring an ultrasound as part of informed consent for abortion at least 18 hours before the procedure |
| 18-7703 |
Nathan Smith III v. Sherry Pennywell, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
2254(d)(2) cumulative-error de-novo-review deference due-process fact-finding fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment standard-of-review unreasonable-determination |
Did the CCA so stretch the facts in this case so unreasonably that no deference could be possible to its interpretation of what occurred in the taco r… |
| 18-7620 |
Emmanuel Adeyinka v. Harris County Jail, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights competency criminal-conviction cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment eleventh-amendment immunity mental-illness monetary-damages personal-involvement rational-understanding section-1983 standing |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a prisoner who has a severe mental illness that … |
| 18-7696 |
Tony J. Walton v. David Ballard, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
due-process fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury judicial-discretion jury-deliberations jury-impartiality sixth-amendment voir-dire |
Were the Petitioner's due process right to an impartial jury under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution violated when the trial judg… |
| 18-7697 |
Duane Yates v. Iowa |
Iowa |
2019-01-31 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment postconviction prison-discipline self-defense sixth-amendment whether-inmates-who-file-a-postconviction-under-io |
Whether inmates who file a postconviction under lowa Code 822 in the lowa District Court's are denied the equal protection of law under the Sixth and … |
| 18-7705 |
Duane Yates v. Iowa |
Iowa |
2019-01-31 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure dismissal due-process fourteenth-amendment mullane-precedent notice postconviction-action service service-of-process standing state-citizens |
Whether the Iowa Supreme Court has failed to properly apply the Iowa Rules of Civil Procedure |
| 18-996 |
Charles Lavel Stringer v. Storesonline, Inc., et al. |
Mississippi |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
chancery-court civil-procedure civil-procedure-28-usc-1654 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se pro-se-representation sixth-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Did the Mississippi Supreme Court refuse to apply the mandatory language in the use of the word of shall in Mississippi Code of Ann § 11-1-17 in viola… |
| 18-7648 |
William R. Stevenson v. R. Cordova, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights civil-rights-violation-obvious-standard constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference directed-verdict-standard due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-deliberate-indifference judicial-bias perjured-testimony prison-conditions qualified-immunity summary-judgment summary-judgment-qualified-immunity |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in concluding the law was not clearly established as to the conduct of Defendants Espinoza and Williams and in conc… |
| 18-7658 |
Julius Darius Jones v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment juror-bias post-conviction post-conviction-review racial-prejudice sixth-amendment |
Whether newly-discovered evidence establishes that racial prejudice influenced the decision of at least one juror to convict Mr. Jones and sentence hi… |
| 18-7670 |
Thomas Alexander Porter v. David Zook, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment constitutional-claims death-penalty-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness habeas-corpus mitigating-evidence procedural-due-process |
Whether a state rule that excludes as irrelevant evidence that a capital defendant is unlikely to pose a risk of future violence in prison is contrary… |
| 18-7627 |
Tavis Labron Houpe v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence search-and-seizure standing Was the petitioner's Fourteenth(14th) Amendment ri |
Was the petitioner's Fourth(4th) Amendment rights violated due to a search and seizure? |
| 18-7628 |
Anthony Brian Bevan v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment governmental-misconduct ineffective-counsel spoilage-of-evidence stare-decisis usc-242 |
Was the Petitioner denied Due Process, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause, and/or in violation of U.S.C Code # 242, and/or in… |
| 18-7643 |
Billy Leon Kearse v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause |
Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity approach providing for relief pursuant to Hurst v. Florida and Hurst v. State to death-sentence… |
| 18-7591 |
Kofi Kyei v. Tessica L. Swift, et al. |
Oregon |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process due-process,civil-procedure,turner-v-rogers,state- fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment state-statutes state-support-statute turner-v-rogers |
Do state support statutes like the Oregon Statute (ORS) at Chapter 416.440 (8) contravene the 2011 United States Supreme Court rulings in Turner v. Ro… |
| 18-7597 |
Carlos E. Ponce v. D. Baughman, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-circuit-court-of-appeals fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prima-facie-showing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying the issuance of a certificate of appealability based on the decision that the petitioner d… |
| 18-7606 |
Samuel Davis v. Sergeant Florence, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment free-speech incorporation standing takings |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause |
| 18-968 |
Andrew C. Najda v. Nikolaos J. Paterakis |
Massachusetts |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appellate-review due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment manifestly-erroneous meaningful-appeal precedent state-supreme-court |
Does a state supreme court denying appellate review to parties that raise an error of law that is manifestly erroneous state supreme court precedent d… |
| 18-980 |
Bismark Kwaku Torkornoo v. Maryland, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection estoppel fourteenth-amendment fraud res-judicata rooker-feldman |
Whether the District Court's decisions based upon estoppel to dismiss petitioner's civil lawsuit against the State of Maryland violate the Constitutio… |
| 18-7569 |
Paul William Scott v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2019-01-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
codefendant-comparison constitutional-proportionality cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection sentencing-disparity |
Whether Florida's refusal to consider the disparity between the 15-year prison term of his equal or more culpable codefendant and Scott's death senten… |
| 18-7582 |
Ralph Nicholas Canete v. Chuck Keeton, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
compulsory-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment material-evidence sixth-amendment |
Whether the destruction of material evidence by the government violates the right to due process |
| 18-7547 |
Michael Joseph Mulder v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
competency cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty dementia eighth-amendment intellectual-disability memory-loss |
Whether the Eighth Amendment categorically excludes from the death penalty an individual who, because of a stroke that caused dementia, is functionall… |
| 18-7567 |
Ron Collins v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fair-sentencing-act ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the court of appeals erred in denying petitioner's application for a certificate of appealability |
| 18-7526 |
In Re Robert Heffernan |
|
2019-01-23 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
criminal-conviction due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence reasonable-doubt winship-doctrine |
Whether it violates the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment for a state trier of fact to convict petitioners where the evidence cannot fair… |
| 18-7528 |
In Re Keith E. Doyle |
|
2019-01-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
13th-amendment 14th-amendment adversarial-hearing constitutional-intent due-process fourteenth-amendment indictment indictment-by-information information-document intent-of-delegates judicial-procedure montana-constitution preliminary-examination preliminary-hearing void-proceedings |
Did the district court judge violate my right to Due Process of Law, factually loose jurisdiction, and create void proceedings? |
| 18-7529 |
Andre Almond Dennison v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2019-01-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-rights dangerous-crimes dangerous-crimes-against-children due-process enhancement fourteenth-amendment jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing |
Does Arizona's Sentencing Scheme Violate Due Process Clause, & Amendment, And Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct. 2348 (2000) When Petitio… |
| 18-7530 |
Tonya Udoh, et vir v. Minnesota Department of Human Services, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 1983-claims 1985-claims 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights davis-v-monroe-county-board due-process emotional-distress false-arrest fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment haines-v-kerner minor-children miranda-rights monell-liability municipal-liability parental-rights pro-se-litigant qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing unconstitutional-statutes |
Whether pro se litigants are held to the same legal standards as counseled litigants |
| 18-7488 |
Billy R. Lewis v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-01-18 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial nonunanimous-jury nonunanimous-verdict ramos-v-louisiana sixth-amendment |
Does the right to a jury trial guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment, as applied to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment, allow a criminal convicti… |
| 18-7503 |
Abdur Rahim Ambrose v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2019-01-18 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
contemporary-standards-of-decency cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment geographic-arbitrariness racial-arbitrariness |
Does the death penalty violate the Eighth Amendment? |
| 18-937 |
Abelino Manriquez v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
California |
2019-01-18 |
Denied |
|
actual-bias capital-case capital-punishment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus implied-bias juror-bias jury-impartiality life-experiences sixth-amendment |
What test determines whether a juror's life experiences are so similar to facts in the case that the juror must be disqualified for bias under the Six… |
| 18-7467 |
Phillip E. LaPointe v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment atkins-precedent atkins-v-virginia brain-development criminal-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole sentencing |
Does this Court's 8th Amendment protections extend to a just turned eighteen year old who received life without parole, where the evidence shows he wa… |
| 18-7457 |
Charles Edward Case v. California |
California |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment constitutional-amendment criminal-sentencing death-penalty fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury jury-finding reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment |
Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact other than a prior con… |
| 18-7466 |
Glenn Bennett, Jr. v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions sixth-amendment |
Whether the erroneous jury instruction given in Mr. Bennett's case negated his only defense and relieved the State of the burden of proving all elemen… |
| 18-7428 |
Harry Jones v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrary-cutoff capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendm… |
| 18-7391 |
Gadiel Romero v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment kidnapping kidnapping-offense offense-level ransom-demand sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
Is it proper to apply a 6-level increase for a ransom demand in a kidnapping offense when not communicated? |
| 18-7327 |
Trevor Johnson v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-rape Batson-Violation constitutional-rights daubert-standard Denial-of-Motion-to-Suppress expert-testimony first-fourth-fourteenth-amendments fourteenth-amendment insufficient-evidence jury-verdict Non-Unanimous-Verdict reasonable-doubt Unreliable-'Expert'-Testimony unreliable-expert-testimony Violation-of-Telecommunications-Act whether-reasonable-jurists-would-debate-that-the-t whether-reasonable-jurists-would-find-that-the-tri |
Whether reasonable jurist would find that the State failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt, every essential dement of the offense that Mr. Johnson … |
| 18-7297 |
Donnie Howard v. California |
California |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure jury-instructions jury-trial reasonable-doubt burden-of-proof due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions jury-trial reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment |
Did the trial court's statements during jury selection equating being convinced beyond a reasonable doubt with being 'sure' or 'positive' of guilt vio… |
| 18-7353 |
Nathaniel Jackson v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment judge-sentencing judicial-sentencing jury-recommendation jury-sentencing jury-trial sixth-amendment spaziano-v-florida |
Is Ohio's death penalty scheme unconstitutional under Hurst v. Florida? |
| 18-7365 |
Robert Allen DeVore v. Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary |
Oregon |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment consecutive-sentences constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus minimum-sentences sentencing |
Does the combined sentence totaling of 495 years with a 247% year minimum violate the Eighth Amendment against cruel and unusual punishment? |
| 18-7392 |
In Re James Rudnick |
|
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
13th-amendment 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure custody due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus incarceration-authority mittimus thirteenth-amendment |
Whether the Respondent has valid authority to punish the Applicant and keep him incarcerated without a valid conviction |
| 18-7318 |
Jesus Gomez v. California |
California |
2019-01-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
burglary criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment uncharged-burglaries |
Whether admission of evidence of uncharged burglaries violated petitioner's rights to a fair trial and due process |
| 18-7324 |
Roberto Gil v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-01-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
arrest confidential-informant contingent-fee due-process forfeiture fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement testimony |
Whether a confidential informant's contingent fee arrangement with police violates due process rights? |
| 18-7332 |
James Dellinger v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2019-01-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia civil-rights constitutional-prohibition cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability moore-v-texas procedural-vehicle roper-v-simmons |
Whether a state may thwart the constitutional prohibition against execution of the intellectually disabled by failing to provide a procedural vehicle … |
| 18-7339 |
Earl Reyes v. Michael Duggan, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts appointment-of-counsel civil-rights constitutional-amendments court-access due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment intentional-discrimination judicial-discretion seventh-amendment |
Whether the alleged facts that Defendant Duggan intentionally discriminated against Reyes (suspect class) states a claim for violation of the First, F… |
| 18-7344 |
Tony Dickinson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment criminal-defense entrapment fourteenth-amendment government-misconduct ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pre-indictment-delay sixth-amendment structural-error |
Whether the 6th Amendment permits the introduction of a criminal defendant's pre-indictment delay caused by the government as substantive evidence of … |
| 18-884 |
Brenda Jeffrey v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2019-01-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment animal-law animal-seizure civil-forfeiture criminal-proceedings due-process fourteenth-amendment matthews-test property-rights sentell-vs-new-orleans |
whether, under the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause, a state can seize and later permanently deprive a defendant of her property, an animal i… |
| 18-886 |
Lillian M. Jones v. Hawaii Residency Programs, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-09 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment civil-rights corporate-fraud due-process fourteenth-amendment fraud judicial-procedure private-corporation residency-program state-action state-actor technology |
Whether citizens should still be afforded protection under the 14th Amendment against state abuses committed when the State disguises itself as a priv… |
| 18-869 |
Shawn Hall Lecuona v. Mark R. Lecuona |
Texas |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
conscience constitutional-protection due-process fourteenth-amendment liberty-interests marriage marriage-rights no-fault-divorce personal-identity religion texas-family-code |
Does section 6.001 of the Texas Family Code violate Petitioner's fundamental liberty interests protected by the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process cla… |
| 18-876 |
Cynthia N. Almond, et al. v. Singing River Health System, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure class-action class-certification constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment monetary-claims opt-out property-rights rule-23 |
Whether the District Court erred in certifying the class under Rule 23 on the grounds that Petitioners have a constitutional due process right to opt-… |
| 18-7279 |
Christian Thomas v. District Attorney of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-review due-process eighth-amendment federal-question graham grant juvenile-sentencing mental-capacity miller sixth-amendment teague |
Whether a federal question is raised by a claim that a state collateral review erroneously failed to find a Teague, Graham, and Grant case and Miller … |
| 18-7280 |
Michael Wappler v. Wayne Ivey, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights confinement-conditions constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pre-trial-detention pretrial-detention standing three-strikes-rule |
Was petitioner, an indigent pretrial detainee, prevented from challenging pretrial conditions of confinement by the improper assessment of a 'strike' … |
| 18-7295 |
Earnest Barnes v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment miller-v-alabama National-Consensus parole scientific-evidence |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's protection established in Graham and Miller should be expanded beyond age cutoff at eighteen to prohibit mandatory life… |
| 18-7235 |
Jason Eugene Bush v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
brady-doctrine due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment investigative-agencies kyles-v-whitley prosecutorial-disclosure |
Whether Arizona follows the rule of Kyles v. Whitley requiring prosecutors to investigate and disclose exculpatory evidence from all participating inv… |
| 18-7242 |
Dauntorian Lyndel Sanders v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment precedent sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Arizona follows the precedent of Simmons v. South Carolina, 512 U.S. 154 (1994), as set forth in Lynch v. Arizona, 136 S. Ct. 1818 (2016) |
| 18-7250 |
Diane S. Jones v. Samson Resources Corporation, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-proceedings civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment indigenous-landowner indigenous-rights property-rights standing takings |
Whether Petitioner has standing to challenge Respondents' business practices |
| 18-7259 |
Jack E. Allen v. Barry Smith, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale |
Pennsylvania |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
batson-v-kentucky civil-rights due-process false-imprisonment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance innocence reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment |
Did the petitioner give the first opportunity of the state supreme court to resolve such claims, issues, contentions in a state habeas corpus? |
| 18-7275 |
Thomas Powers v. Jennifer Block, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-detainee civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-appointment due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-health mental-health-treatment retaliation standing treatment-program |
Whether the Supreme Court should define the elements of the Constitution's adequate civil detainee treatment program |
| 18-852 |
Anne L. Precythe v. Ernest Johnson |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
GVR |
|
administrative-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-method feasible-alternative glossip-v-gross method-of-execution nitrogen-gas pentobarbital pleading-requirements |
Whether an inmate who demands an alternative method of execution must plead facts detailing the procedure by which his proposed alternative method of … |
| 18-7205 |
In Re Arthur O. Armstrong |
|
2019-01-02 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60 due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment liberty liberty-interest property rule-60 standing |
Whether Petitioner is entitled to relief, pursuant to Rule 60(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure |
| 18-7207 |
In Re Andrew Johnston |
|
2019-01-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation standing takings |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause |
| 18-7191 |
Scott Richard Pendergraft, et ux. v. Network of Neighbors, Inc. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fair-hearing fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure meaningful-opportunity-to-be-heard pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process procedural-fairness standing substantive-due-process |
Whether a pro se litigant's procedural or substantive due process rights are violated when trial and appellate courts willfully refuse to fully and fa… |
| 18-7182 |
Roy Dean Gates v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-12-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-authority jurisdiction texas-court-jurisdiction texas-court-of-criminal-appeals texas-supreme-court united-states-constitution-amendment-fourteen void-order |
Does the Texas court have authority to overrule a state supreme court order? |
| 18-7190 |
Zachary Q. Wicks v. Jon H. Radnothy, et al. |
Florida |
2018-12-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal constitutional-rights due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure medical-malpractice statute-of-limitations testimony trial-court |
Did the trial court deny Petitioner's due-process rights when it refused to allow testimony or review evidence presented in support of Petitioner's as… |
| 18-814 |
Maurice Walker, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. City of Calhoun, Georgia |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-27 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
bail bail-policy civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment indigent-rights misdemeanor poverty pretrial-detention |
Whether heightened scrutiny under the Fourteenth Amendment applies to a government policy that keeps misdemeanor and traffic-offense arrestees in jail… |
| 18-7169 |
Steve L. Wright, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-12-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole meaningful-opportunity-for-release ongoing-offense retroactivity sentencing-mitigation term-of-years term-of-years-sentence |
Whether courts must consider juvenile conduct as a mitigating sentencing factor for an ongoing offense |
| 18-809 |
Curtis T. Lovelace v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2018-12-26 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
acquittal bail-bond bail-bond-forfeiture clerk-of-courts due-process due-process,excessive-fines,equal-protection,bail- equal-protection excessive-fines fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment |
Whether charging a person who was tried and acquitted a $35,000 bail bond forfeiture, not related to individualized costs or compliance with bail bond… |
| 18-7144 |
Rodney Russell v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights criminal-procedure-peremptory-challenges due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-strike powers-v-ohio racial-discrimination standing |
Whether a district court has an obligation to inquire of the prosecution as to the substance behind their stated reasons as to why they used a perempt… |
| 18-784 |
Eldon Bugg v. Marc Honey, et al. |
Missouri |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
|
bankruptcy-jurisdiction bankruptcy-law common-law-torts diversity-jurisdiction due-process fourteenth-amendment national-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction |
Whether respondents' appearance in Missouri state court while the bankruptcy case was still open constituted presence in Missouri for purposes of pers… |
| 18-786 |
Glenn Blair v. Angela McClinton, et al. |
Texas |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
|
child-support civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction plenary-powers standing subject-matter subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether Title IV-D Agency Court had jurisdiction over my daughter and I when they issued a child support order |
| 18-7101 |
John Samuel Ghobrial v. California |
California |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-maximum |
Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact that serves to increa… |
| 18-7110 |
James M. Flinn v. Mike Parris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment indictment indictment-allegations insufficient-evidence jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the Petitioner was convicted upon insufficient evidence in violation of the Due Process Clause |
| 18-7118 |
Richard E. Lynch v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-fact-finding sixth-amendment |
Whether the State of Florida violated Petitioner's rights under the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 18-7062 |
Louis Matthew Clements v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Florida |
2018-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-statute constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment malicious-prosecution state-governmental-immunity |
Does FL.S. § 768.28 first claiming to allow Florida citizens to sue State Governmental Agencies for malicious prosecution and then disallowing it, in … |
| 18-765 |
James H. Brady v. New York, et al. |
New York |
2018-12-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights discretionary-action due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment immunity legal-fees obstruction-of-justice property-rights prosecutorial-immunity prosecutorial-misconduct quid-pro-quo sanctions standing takings |
Did the Appellate Division, First Department err in finding Respondents immune pursuant to Imbler v. Pachtman, 424 U.S. 409 (1976)? |
| 18-7049 |
Joel Marvin Munt v. Nanette Larson, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights dismissal due-process eighth-amendment expert-evaluation jury-trial medical-care mootness prisoner-rights standing summary-judgment |
Was Petitioner unconstitutionally denied his right to have a jury determine the facts of his case? |
| 18-7034 |
Shawn Sadik v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2018-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment culpability death-penalty developmental-disability eighth-amendment intellectual-disability life-without-parole mandatory-life-imprisonment mandatory-sentencing parole |
Does the Eighth Amendment bar individuals with intellectual-and-developmental-disabilities from receiving mandatory-life-imprisonment-without-parole s… |
| 18-760 |
Oberist Lee Saunders v. Wayne Ivey, Sheriff, Brevard County, Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-14 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights conditions-of-confinement constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment hutto-v-finney kingsley-v-hendrickson pretrial-detention qualified-immunity rhodes-v-chapman sanitation-standards |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment conditions-of-confinement claim should be evaluated under an objective or subjective standard |
| 18-7012 |
Anthony Jerome Addison v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims constitutional-rights criminal-history due-process eighth-amendment origination-clause sentencing-guidelines special-assessment standing statutory-claims |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err in granting the government's motion to dismiss by denying the Petitioner the ability… |
| 18-7016 |
Tuad Damonn Washington v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights constitutional-claims discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination sixth-amendment standing |
whether-district-court-assessment-was-debatable |
| 18-7021 |
Juan Thomas v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
admissibility-of-evidence due-process eighth-amendment equitable-tolling fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-charge martinez-v-ryan notice-of-appeal public-defender |
Whether the Circuit Court erred in failing to appropriately consider the 'Equitable Tolling' in conjunction with Ineffective Assistance of the Public … |
| 18-7025 |
Tyree Marquez Burt v. California |
California |
2018-12-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
coercion due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hung-jury judicial-instruction jury-coercion jury-instructions trial-procedure |
Was the trial court's admonition to a deadlocked jury coercive, implicating the petitioner's due process rights to a fair trial? |
| 18-753 |
Robert Stephen Couturier v. Presiding Judge, Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-12 |
Denied |
|
arrest-warrant bench-trial certificate-of-appealability due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury ineffective-assistance judicial-impartiality |
Did the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals error when it denied The Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability? |
| 18-6997 |
T. H. -H. v. Allegheny County Office of Children, Youth and Families, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment involuntary-termination parental-rights right-to-counsel |
May a State, consistent with the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment, condition the statutorily granted right to coun… |
| 18-6970 |
Jose Antonio Jimenez v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-12-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland credibility due-process eighth-amendment exculpatory-evidence giglio-v-united-states giglio-violation lethal-injection materiality police-misconduct strategic-choices |
Whether a defendant's personal knowledge of an exculpatory or favorable fact relieves the State of its duty to disclose evidence |
| 18-736 |
Carl Lawson, et ux. v. Bell Sports USA |
New Jersey |
2018-12-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-action civil-procedure conference court-rules due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hearing state-court witness-testimony |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause prohibits a State court from directly violating one of its own court rules, by failing to provid… |
| 18-727 |
Chene DeVonne Manley v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2018-12-07 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 8th-amendment chiari-malformation due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-condition newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief sentencing-rights |
Does the Due Process Clause entitle a convicted prisoner to appointment of counsel and opportunity to amend a Notice of Post Conviction Relief asserti… |
| 18-730 |
Moses McCormick, et al. v. Kim A. Browne, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 amendment amendment-futility civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process fourteenth-amendment injunctive-relief municipal-liability qualified-immunity section-1983 standing |
Whether leave to amend the plaintiff's complaint should be considered futile if the municipality with no immunity can be added as a defendant and held… |
| 18-6938 |
Jarrod Phillips v. Rusty Washburn, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure boykin-precedent boykin-v-alabama civil-rights constitutional-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause |
| 18-6941 |
John Leslie Chapman v. Robert Lampert, Director, Wyoming Department of Corrections, et al. |
Wyoming |
2018-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion legal-advisement plea-bargaining sentencing void-judgment |
Whether the strictures of Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure Rule 11 and the Fourteenth Amendment due process were met concerning personal advisement… |
| 18-6956 |
Jason Dirk Walton v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
2018-12-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-murder criminal-law due-process eighth-amendment first-degree-murder jury-unanimity resentencing retrospective-application retrospective-law sentencing-elements substantive-criminal-law |
When changes in a state's substantive criminal law apply retrospectively to cases involving homicides committed in 1981 and 1982, but not to cases inv… |
| 18-6925 |
Warren Tarver v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
capital-felony detention due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment noncapital-offense pro-se-claim |
Whether it is a violation of due process under the Fourteenth Amendment for a person to be detained for an offense that is legislatively designated a … |
| 18-6893 |
Joseph C. Garcia v. Carmella Jones, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
clemency clemency-proceeding due-process fourteenth-amendment meaningful-opportunity minimal-guarantees parole-authority state-law texas-law woodard-precedent |
Whether Texas's failure to provide Garcia with a clemency proceeding that comports with Texas law violates the minimal due process rights—including th… |
| 18-6916 |
Troy Lincoln Powell v. California |
California |
2018-12-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-illness sixth-amendment |
Does the imposition of the death penalty on a severely mentally ill defendant violate the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments? |
| 18-6892 |
Joseph C. Garcia v. Bryan Collier, Executive Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts compounding-pharmacy due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment,access-to-courts,preliminary-inju execution-drug preliminary-injunction safety-violations standing |
Whether the State of Texas impeded a condemned prisoner from succeeding on an Eighth Amendment challenge by refusing to provide readily available info… |
| 18-6906 |
David E. Miller v. Tony Parker, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Correction, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
coercion cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment ex-post-facto execution-method lethal-injection waiver waiver-of-rights |
When an inmate alleges that both his original and later-imposed punishments for the same crime violate the Eighth Amendment but the later-imposed puni… |
| 18-6885 |
Stephen Anthony Marquez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
business-records confrontation-clause constitutional-amendments crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-records sixth-amendment |
Does Due Process to cross-examine still apply in all criminal cases? |
| 18-6889 |
Stephen Todd Booker v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-11-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-retroactivity montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity |
Does the partial retroactivity formula for Hurst v. Florida violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments? |
| 18-6890 |
In Re Joseph C. Garcia |
|
2018-11-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence capital-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty death-row eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-due-process psychological-stress |
Whether Joseph Garcia's extended stay on Texas' death row for nearly 16 years has resulted in his suffering additional severe psychological stress tha… |
| 18-6891 |
Joseph C. Garcia v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-11-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment capital-punishment civil-rights criminal-intent cruel-and-unusual-punishment culpability death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intent-to-kill mens-rea non-triggerman state-execution |
Whether the Eighth Amendment now forbids a State from executing a person when there is no evidence that he killed or intended to kill another person |
| 18-6869 |
Mario Andrette McNeill v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2018-11-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-defendant capital-defendant-instructions capital-punishment counsel counsel-decision-making cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment mitigating-evidence right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth Amendment right to counsel and the Eighth Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment allow a state to give binding force … |
| 18-6877 |
Richard Earl Shere, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-11-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial-rights retroactivity |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection and the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of capricious capital sentencing impose limits… |
| 18-6881 |
Jason Alston v. Mississippi Department of Employment Security |
Mississippi |
2018-11-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights conspiracy due-process employment-security fourteenth-amendment fraud judicial-proceedings jurisdiction state-government unemployment-benefits |
Whether the Mississippi Department of Employment Security and/or Mississippi Department of Transportation violated petitioner due process rights under… |
| 18-6834 |
Dexter Johnson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty eighth-amendment federal-death-penalty federal-habeas federal-procedure final-judgment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus rule-58 |
What are the requirements under Rule 58 for a final judgment in district court for a federal death penalty habeas petition under the Eighth and Fourte… |
| 18-6843 |
James Milton Dailey v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-error hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause |
Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity decision violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments? |
| 18-691 |
Lonnie Snelling v. Kevin Segbers, et al. |
Missouri |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
|
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment |
Did the State of Missouri through its Judicial Officials, deny Petitioner, one of its Citizens, and a Citizen of the United States, Rights Guarantees … |
| 18-6808 |
Harlem Suarez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause commerce-clause-power criminal-procedure eighth-amendment first-time-offender hobbs-act interstate-commerce proportionality taylor-v-united-states united-states-v-lopez weapon-of-mass-destruction weapons-of-mass-destruction |
Whether the federal offense of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction, 18 U.S.C. § 2332a, only requires a de minimis effect on interstate comme… |
| 18-6818 |
Ruben Rangel v. California |
California |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-amendments death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment jury-determination jury-trial sentencing |
Does California's death penalty statute violate the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments by failing to meaningfully narrow the class of dea… |
| 18-6823 |
James Douglas Williams, Jr. v. County of Los Angeles, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights civil-rights-act disparate-treatment due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection fourteenth-amendment title-vii |
Was the Plaintiff's Fourteenth Amendment and Title VII civil rights compromised or violated? |
| 18-684 |
Patti Stevens-Rucker, Administrator of the Estate of Jason White, Deceased v. John Frenz, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment arrest-procedure circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-obligations due-process eighth-amendment police-duty-of-care police-use-of-force qualified-immunity tenth-amendment |
Are there circumstances in which police officers are constitutionally obligated to help a person injured during arrest, as the Eighth and Tenth Circui… |
| 18-665 |
James Michael Alvis v. Leland W. Schilling |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-immunity state-court-action state-law |
Whether Respondent, a state court judge, was entitled to judicial immunity when he took action in a child custody matter in contravention of state law |
| 18-6766 |
David Gulbrandson v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-punishment-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus procedural-default procedural-ruling second-in-time-petition statutory-aggravating-factors statutory-aggravator successive-petitions |
Whether reasonable jurists would debate the correctness of the district court's procedural ruling that Gulbrandson's second-in-time § 2254 petition wa… |
| 18-6769 |
Kenneth G. Middleton v. Ronda Pash, Superintendent, Crossroads Correctional Center |
Missouri |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-relief |
Whether the continued incarceration of a state prisoner who has presented a truly persuasive case of actual innocence violates the Eighth and Fourteen… |
| 18-6776 |
Duane Eugene Owen v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection jury-trial retroactivity state-court |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection and the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of capricious capital sentencing impose limits… |
| 18-6777 |
Kenya Ali Hyatt v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-determination juvenile-life-without-parole juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-statute sixth-amendment |
Whether Michigan's Miller statute requires a jury determination and proof beyond a reasonable doubt |
| 18-6782 |
Tia Marie-Mitchell Skinner v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-determination juvenile-life-without-parole juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing-statute sixth-amendment |
Whether Michigan's Miller v. Alabama sentencing statute requires a jury determination and proof beyond a reasonable doubt, under the Sixth and Fourtee… |
| 18-6784 |
In Re Samuel Rivera |
|
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-amendments constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment habeas-corpus jurisdictional-rules standing |
whether-court-judges-uphold-constitution |
| 18-6735 |
Perry Alexander Taylor v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
caldwell-v-mississippi death-penalty eighth-amendment equal-protection flawed-scientific-testimony hurst-retroactivity medical-examiner-testimony non-unanimous-jury retroactivity |
Whether the State of Florida can deny Hurst relief and execute a prisoner because his case became final before June 24, 2002 |
| 18-6752 |
David McGuire v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation brady-violations criminal-procedure discovery-violation discovery-violations due-process evidence-disclosure fair-trial fourteenth-amendment police-misconduct remedies |
When a discovery violation is discovered mid-trial, does a remedy that fails to order the disclosure of the withheld evidence violate the Due Process … |
| 18-643 |
Janette Dunkle v. Jennifer Dale, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment child-seizure circuit-court-precedent circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment qualified-immunity warrantless-seizure |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in applying the narrow approach from Kirkpatrick, and whether Circuit-level opinions stating that an emergency is requ… |
| 18-6728 |
Francisco R. Quintana v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2018-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-claims criminal-procedure defense-evidence due-process evidence exclusion-of-evidence fourteenth-amendment materiality-requirement right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment |
What showing must a defendant make to establish that the erroneous exclusion of defense evidence at trial violated the defendant's Sixth and Fourteent… |
| 18-6730 |
William Ramirez, et ux. v. Superior Court of California, El Dorado County, et al. |
California |
2018-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure default default-judgment due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment merits-based-adjudication pro-se pro-se-litigant relief-from-default state-court state-court-procedure |
Should a pro se petitioner reasonably expect relief from default as a part of due process under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitu… |
| 18-6739 |
David Earl Miller, et al. v. Tony Parker, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Correction, et al. |
Tennessee |
2018-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment alternative-method available-alternative due-process facial-challenge fourteenth-amendment glossip-standard glossip-v-gross lethal-injection |
Whether under Glossip v. Gross, inmates raising a facial challenge to one of two methods contained in a State's lethal injection protocol must present… |
| 18-640 |
Nicholas Bernard Acklin v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2018-11-16 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
attorney-client-relationship conflict-of-interest criminal-defense death-penalty fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment third-party-payment |
Whether a criminal defendant is deprived of his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to conflict-free counsel |
| 18-6726 |
Billy Brantley v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2018-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment burden-of-proof charged-offense constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment jury jury-instructions reasonable-doubt |
Where the State must present 'some' evidence of a particular fact before a jury may find a defendant guilty of a charged offense, does the Due Process… |
| 18-6708 |
Clifford D. Williams v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2018-11-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment judge-sentencing jury-trial jury-verdict sentencing-phase sixth-amendment spaziano-v-florida |
Is Ohio's death penalty scheme unconstitutional under Hurst v. Florida? |
| 18-6709 |
Lawrence Alfred Landrum v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2018-11-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment judge-sentencing judicial-discretion jury-recommendation jury-sentencing jury-trial sixth-amendment spaziano-v-florida |
Is Ohio's death penalty scheme unconstitutional under Hurst v. Florida? |
| 18-6713 |
Donald Anthony Grant v. Mike Carpenter, Interim Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-11-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty eddings-precedent eddings-v-oklahoma eighth-amendment lockett-rule lockett-v-ohio mental-health mental-health-evidence mitigating-evidence moral-culpability |
Whether the Eighth Amendment requires a sentencer to consider mitigating evidence of a capital defendant's mental health and background when determini… |
| 18-6683 |
Cody Sakoman v. California |
California |
2018-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure jury jury-deliberation readback sixth-amendment witness-testimony |
Whether a defendant was denied his rights to a fair trial and to due process of law under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 18-6703 |
David Richard Trimble v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-rape Confrontation-Clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-v-virginia sixth-amendment Statute-of-limitations sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the evidence was insufficient to find David Trimble guilty of four counts of Aggravated Rape beyond a reasonable doubt |
| 18-6651 |
Antonio Cobb v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-11-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness right-to-fair-trial statement-against-interest trial-procedure |
Whether the trial judge denied the petitioner a trial in accord with fundamental standards of due process under the Fourteenth Amendment by preventing… |
| 18-6656 |
Timothy Kyle Prince v. Shane Jackson, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process eyewitness-identification fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment suggestive-identification suggestive-procedures unreliable-identification witness-identification |
Whether petitioner was denied of his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to a fair trial, due process |
| 18-6670 |
Richard Allen Barker v. California |
California |
2018-11-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
accomplice-liability constitutional-law constitutional-proportionate-punishment criminal-procedure eighth-amendment enmund-v-florida in-re-butler in-re-rodriguez individual-culpability proportionate-punishment |
Whether forcing the petitioner to serve an excessive punishment of 45 years incarceration for his individual culpability as an accomplice, when the ac… |
| 18-6673 |
Tracy Lebron Vick v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2018-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
dna-testing due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment plea-bargaining post-conviction post-conviction-review wrongful-conviction |
Whether Tennessee's refusal to extend DNA post-conviction protections to those who pled guilty violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth … |
| 18-6620 |
Joe Louis Armenta v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254 aedpa deck-v-jenkins fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings jury-instructions procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review |
Do prior decisions of this Court compel the conclusion that so long as the jury is properly admonished and instructed, there cannot be a viable claim … |
| 18-6636 |
James Edward Griffin v. Eric Arnold, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process evidence evidence-admission fair-trial fourteenth-amendment gang jury-instructions misconduct motorcycle-gang prosecutorial-misconduct |
Was appellant deprived of a fair trial and due process of law under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution when the trial court al… |
| 18-6595 |
John Smith v. Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal-dismissal due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment in-forma-pauperis mental-incompetence prisoner-rights |
Does treating a dismissed appeal of a mentally incompetent prisoner's case, who in good faith, untimely filed a motion to proceed in forma pauperis, c… |
| 18-595 |
James P. Tatten v. City and County of Denver, Colorado, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights debt-collection due-process fair-debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act foreclosure fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigation rooker-feldman-doctrine standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in creating a special pro se pleading standard for cognitively-disabled litigants |
| 18-6580 |
Wiliiam Scott Fitts v. Barry Goodrich, Warden, et al. |
Georgia |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment Fourteenth-Amendment-due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel normative-legal-issues plea-bargaining right-to-counsel right-to-effective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether the accused's constitutional rights were violated when forced to choose between the Sixth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment in deciding wheth… |
| 18-6544 |
Robert Joe McNemar v. Ralph Terry, Acting Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-11-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment competency competency-evaluation criminal-defendant due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health plea-bargain plea-bargaining sixth-amendment |
Does due process require an express competency determination? |
| 18-6540 |
Maha Z. Rayan v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2018-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
arrest contempt contempt-order criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-appointment municipal-court-jurisdiction municipal-courts probable-cause state-penal-law uniform-traffic-citation |
Whether the use of a municipal traffic citation as an initial accusation for a state penal law non-traffic offense is constitutional |
| 18-6552 |
Thomas A. Woods v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2018-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compelled-testimony constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury self-incrimination self-incrimination-protection |
Do the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit the government from introducing evidence of a defendant's grand jury testimony which was taken when th… |
| 18-6554 |
Walter Collins v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2018-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-sentence mandatory-life-sentence opportunity-for-release reasonable-opportunity-for-release |
Whether a mandatory life sentence for a crime committed by a juvenile that does not allow him a reasonable opportunity for release violates the prohib… |
| 18-6532 |
Austin Myers v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2018-11-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-statute eighth-amendment judge-sentencing judicial-sentencing jury-trial jury-verdict sixth-amendment spaziano-v-florida |
Did Hurst v. Florida render Ohio's death penalty scheme unconstitutional? |
| 18-564 |
Rosemary L. Decosimo v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2018-10-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment forensic-science fourteenth-amendment impartiality law-enforcement sixth-amendment standing |
Whether the right to a fair trial and due process were violated by a Tennessee law awarding the state forensic lab $250 per conviction-related test |
| 18-6513 |
Byron Christopher Chinchilla v. Greg Lewis, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment attempted-murder criminal-gang due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability mental-health sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated when trial counsel failed to investigate and present evidence of the… |
| 18-6527 |
Jedediah C. v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2018-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment home-incarceration pre-trial time-served west-virginia |
Has the Petitioner's Fifth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment Constitutional Rights been violated when the Courts of West Virginia refused to grant cred… |
| 18-6469 |
Tyrone D. Morant v. Jason Lewis, Superintendent, Southeast Correctional Center |
Missouri |
2018-10-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-montgomery miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole parole-hearing resentencing resentencing-proceeding |
Whether the Eighth Amendment requires juvenile defendants who received mandatory life without parole sentences to receive adversarial resentencing pro… |
| 18-6507 |
Alice Brown v. Del Norte County, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-30 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-discrimination dereliction-of-duty due-process equal-protection fraudulent-concealment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment interlocutory-appeal judicial-disqualification jurisdiction magistrate-judge ninth-circuit |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit erred in dismissing the interlocutory appeal for lack of jurisdiction, thereby violat… |
| 18-6475 |
Lewis Wright v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination cross-examination-rights due-process evidence-disclosure fourteenth-amendment parole perjury prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-bias |
Whether the court of common pleas erred in limiting Mr. Stein's ability to establish witness Joseph Farley's bias |
| 18-6488 |
Alonzo Dwayne Coleman v. Michael Hakala, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-medical-care deliberate-deception deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment incarceration medical-evidence medical-treatment prison prison-medical-treatment rare-disease |
Whether there is a constitutional standard of medical care for persons with rare massive polycystic liver disease and are the state's (Missouri) priso… |
| 18-553 |
Juliet Yackel v. South Dakota, et al. |
South Dakota |
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
|
atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia conflict-of-interest counsel-representation death-penalty death-penalty-appeal eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability moore-v-texas |
Whether Rodney Berget was arbitrarily deprived of conflict-free counsel in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment when his counsel determined not to fi… |
| 18-6438 |
Oscar Kenneth Moreno v. Alana Butler |
California |
2018-10-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation-clause dna-evidence dna-testing due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment remand scientific-evidence sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the petitioner's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to confront and cross-examine his accusers were violated |
| 18-6462 |
Juan Carlos Mendez v. California |
California |
2018-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
Whether the prosecution's use of 'were they lying' questions and argument to secure a criminal conviction constitutes prosecutorial misconduct and vio… |
| 18-545 |
First Advantage Background Services Corp. v. Superior Court of California, San Mateo County, et al. |
California |
2018-10-25 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
burden-of-proof class-action due-process fair-credit-reporting-act federal-statute forum-state fourteenth-amendment harm nationwide-class-action non-resident-defendant personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction |
Whether a state court may exercise specific personal jurisdiction over a non-resident defendant in a nationwide class action when the alleged conduct … |
| 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 |
| 18-6418 |
Denver Ivan Wilson v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-due-process sentence-enhancement sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Whether the trial court's denial of petitioner's writ of habeas corpus led to a violation of the petitioner's constitutional rights under the Fourteen… |
| 18-6405 |
Sydney L. Thieszen v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2018-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana tatum-v-arizona |
Whether the Eighth Amendment permits a juvenile convicted of a homicide offense to be sentenced to the functional equivalent of life without parole |
| 18-6378 |
Robert Ira Peede v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrary-cutoff capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity due-process eighth-amendment evolving-standards-of-decency fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendm… |
| 18-6362 |
Edwin Darrell Lett v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2018-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights continuance counsel criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-counsel sixth-amendment state-procedure trial |
Whether the petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial was violated when the Mississippi Supreme Court failed to properly review the trial cou… |
| 18-6364 |
Phap Buth v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2018-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
barnes-v-united-states burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment in-re-winship |
Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment allows reliance on an inference that is at best more likely than not, but not beyond a reas… |
| 18-6367 |
Joel Carter v. Jamie Ayala, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment medical-services medical-treatment precedent prisoner-rights summary-judgment |
Did the lower court err in granting summary judgment in favor of Respondents on Petitioner's Eighth Amendment deliberate indifference claim, by issuin… |
| 18-490 |
Jael Watts v. Michael K. Allen |
Virginia |
2018-10-17 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure court-rules due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights hearing-rights notice procedural-notice state-law state-procedure trial-court virginia-court-rules virginia-supreme-court |
Whether the trial court's failure to provide advance written hearing notices, as required by state procedural rules, constitutes a denial of the Petit… |
| 18-492 |
David Souza v. California |
California |
2018-10-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
berger-standard berger-v-united-states constitutional-rights due-process false-testimony fourteenth-amendment napue-v-illinois napue-violation preliminary-hearing pretrial-proceedings prosecutorial-misconduct |
Does the state prosecutor's failure to acknowledge and correct false/misleading testimony at a preliminary hearing violate due process? |
| 18-484 |
Melvin Charles Pettigrew v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus post-conviction-review state-court substantive-review texas |
Whether the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas violated the Petitioner's right to due process of law as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the … |
| 18-487 |
D. A. v. D. P., II |
Indiana |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
|
caperton-standard caperton-v-a-t-massey-coal-co caperton-v-massey due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias magistrate-ruling williams-v-pennsylvania |
Did the Indiana Court of Appeals decision conflict with the due process standard in Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co.? |
| 18-6315 |
David Ivy v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia constitutional-prohibition cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability moore-v-texas procedural-mechanism roper-v-simmons state-procedure |
Where this Court has declared, States may not execute anyone in the entire category of [intellectually disabled] offenders. Moore v. Texas, 137 S. Ct.… |
| 18-6330 |
Jose Arnaldo Rodrigues v. Ron Davis, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment standing |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment claims of ineffective assistance of counsel were properly denied by the state court without an evidentiary … |
| 18-6337 |
Travis W. Williams v. Missouri |
Missouri |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof child-sex-offense criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-evidence fourteenth-amendment mo-const-art-i-18c presumption-of-innocence propensity-evidence |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause prohibits evidence that the defendant has an unrelated remote prior child sex offense conviction… |
| 18-476 |
Cowlitz County, Washington, et al. v. Jule Crowell, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 8th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-care monell monell-doctrine municipal-liability objective-reasonableness section-1983 serious-medical-needs subjective-intent |
Whether a pretrial detainee alleging Fourteenth Amendment claims of deliberate indifference to serious medical needs must show subjective intent or ob… |
| 18-463 |
Bernard Morello v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-10-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitrary-enforcement civil-rights constitutional-proportionality due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment proportionality state-law state-statute statutory-fines |
Does a properly enacted state statute imposing fines and penalties violate the Eighth Amendment if the state applies the statute arbitrarily and abusi… |
| 18-6309 |
Warren Justin Hardy v. California |
California |
2018-10-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
comparative-analysis equal-protection fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination racial-overtones sixth-amendment |
Whether the California Supreme Court's refusal to conduct a meaningful comparative analysis or infer a likelihood of discriminatory purpose violates t… |
| 18-6296 |
Alexander Robert Jacome v. California |
California |
2018-10-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 9th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law Constitutional-Rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment Fourth-Amendment free-speech ninth-amendment Parole-Conditions |
Will this Court reverse the lower Courts substantial violations of the Fourteenth Amendment's substantive Due Process clause, or allow the unprecedent… |
| 18-451 |
Aloha Bed & Breakfast v. Diane Cervelli, et al. |
Hawaii |
2018-10-11 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
due-process fair-notice first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise intimate-association privacy prohibitory public-accommodation public-accommodations quasi-criminal religious-beliefs religious-liberty stigmatizing |
Whether holding a homeowner liable for refusing to host a same-sex couple violates due process and free exercise rights |
| 18-455 |
Aaron Joseph Emineth v. Oregon |
Oregon |
2018-10-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment photo-radar standard-of-proof state-court-proceedings traffic-enforcement trial-court |
Did the state trial court violate Petitioner's constitutional right to Due Process under the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution by… |
| 18-6272 |
Gregory Steshenko v. Thomas McKay, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
academic-expulsion civil-procedure civil-rights disciplinary-expulsion due-process education employment fourteenth-amendment free-speech mixed-motive mixed-motive-defense protected-speech spoliation-of-evidence standing |
Whether the mixed-motive defense doctrine of Mt. Healthy City Sch. Dist. Bd. of Educ. v. Doyle, 429 U.S. 274, 287 (1977) in employment terminations fo… |
| 18-6233 |
Stephan Schuermann v. Jubilie Anqui |
Florida |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment child-custody civil-procedure due-process equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction relocation |
Whether the Supreme Court erred in not vacating orders granting relocation of a minor child |
| 18-6238 |
Edmund Zagorski v. Tony Parker, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Corrections, et al. |
Tennessee |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment execution-methods execution-protocol feasible-alternative fourteenth-amendment lethal-injection state-secrecy |
Where the credited, credible, and unassailable evidence at trial proves with certainty that a lethal injection protocol will inflict severe pain and m… |
| 18-6262 |
Richard Penunuri v. California |
California |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-requirement criminal-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fact-finding fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment |
Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact that serves to… |
| 18-443 |
Bobby James Moore v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (5) |
capital-punishment clinical-criteria clinical-standards criminal-procedure eighth-amendment intellectual-disability lay-stereotypes medical-standards moore-v-texas |
Whether the Eighth Amendment and this Court's decision in Moore v. Texas, 137 S. Ct. 1039 (2017) prohibit relying on non-clinical criteria and lay ste… |
| 18-6214 |
Ricardo Rene Sanders v. Ron Davis, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-04 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
brady-violation brady-violations california-habeas cullen-v-pinholster death-row eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing federal-habeas habeas-corpus materiality materiality-test ninth-circuit prima-facie-case prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the federal habeas courts should evaluate the summary denial of a California habeas petition based on whether the petitioner failed to allege … |
| 18-6224 |
Lamond Latney v. Anthony Parker |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-fines federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment incorporation standing takings |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause |
| 18-6226 |
Roderick K. Forest v. Jason Lewis, Superintendent, Southeast Correctional Center |
Missouri |
2018-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
eighth-amendment habeas-corpus juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-montgomery miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole-hearing resentencing |
Does the Eighth Amendment require juvenile defendants who received mandatory life without parole sentences to receive adversarial resentencing proceed… |
| 18-6197 |
Juan Francisco Medina Ortiz v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-protections due-process exhaustion fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus labeling state-courts |
Whether a claim made in the habeus corpus petition that is substantially the same and invokes the same constitutional protections, but labeled differe… |
| 18-6201 |
Nicholas DeAngelis v. Bruce Plumley, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection federal-habeas federal-prisoners habeas-corpus procedural-bar procedural-bars time-limits |
whether-federal-prisoners-have-the-same-gateway-for-actual-innocence-as-state-prisoners |
| 18-6207 |
Manuel Ernesto Paiz Guevara v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion capital-crime capital-punishment criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment fourth-circuit-split mandatory-sentencing miller-v-alabama right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in denying the defendant's request for two attorneys in a capital case |
| 18-6167 |
Ronald Wayne Clark, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-case capital-case,eighth-amendment,cruel-and-unusual-pu capital-punishment codefendant-culpability codefendants cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment death-penalty death-sentence eighth-amendment proportionality-review reliability-of-death-sentence |
Whether an assessment of the relative culpability of codefendants in a capital case in Florida is required pursuant to the Eighth Amendment in order t… |
| 18-6176 |
Michael Lucero v. California |
California |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-evidence criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment prior-acts propensity propensity-evidence |
Whether the admission of prior acts of domestic violence to establish the petitioner's propensity to commit such crimes violated his right to due proc… |
| 18-6178 |
Joseph A. Clark v. Eileen Ramey, Superintendent, Jefferson City Correctional Center |
Missouri |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
eighth-amendment habeas-corpus juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-montgomery miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole-hearing resentencing |
Whether the Eighth Amendment requires juvenile defendants who received mandatory life without parole sentences to receive adversarial resentencing pro… |
| 18-409 |
Lewis Y. Liu v. Paul Ryan, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights comity-clause congress constitutional-standing due-process electoral-college equal-protection equal-voting-right equal-voting-rights fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review standing voting-rights |
Whether the Electoral College clause (1787) has violated the Comity clause (1787) and three subsequent amendments, the First (1789), the Fifth (1789) … |
| 18-412 |
Jael Watts v. Michael Allen, et al. |
Virginia |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
|
access-to-courts court-access due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial seventh-amendment state-law tort-immunity |
Whether the Virginia Supreme Court's dismissal of the Petitioner's appeal without reaching the merits of the case violates the Petitioner's fundamenta… |
| 18-407 |
Matthew John Stickle v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2018-10-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure curtilage due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment fourth-amendment,fourteenth-amendment,search-and-s ip-address search-and-seizure threshold warrantless-search |
Was the evidence in this case unlawfully obtained as a result of an unlawful search and seizure in violation of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments? |
| 18-6149 |
Christopher Polk v. Jason Lewis, Superintendent, Southeast Correctional Center |
Missouri |
2018-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-montgomery miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole parole-hearing resentencing resentencing-proceeding |
Whether the Eighth Amendment requires juvenile defendants who received mandatory life without parole sentences to receive adversarial resentencing pro… |
| 18-6155 |
Christian Lemus Cerna, aka Leopardo, aka Bago, aka Vago, aka Gatito, aka Christian Josue Lemus Alfaro v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-evidence-disclosure brady-violation brady-violations court-of-appeals criminal-procedure eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-sentencing evidence-admission false-testimony jury-instructions lesser-included-offenses mandatory-life-sentence severance-of-defendants uncharged-conduct-evidence uncharged-murder-evidence |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's decisions |
| 18-6124 |
Sherman Washington, aka Sherman Lance Washington v. Carmen Denise Palmer, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fair-trial fair-trial-denial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mre-404b other-bad-acts other-bad-acts-testimony res-gestae sixth-amendment |
Whether petitioner was denied a fair trial by the admission of irrelevant other bad acts testimony |
| 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… |
| 18-6135 |
James K. Kahler v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2018-09-28 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (12)Relisted (7)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment insanity-defense legal-history mens-rea mental-health |
Do the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments permit a state to abolish the insanity defense? |
| 18-396 |
Brittan Holland, et al. v. Kelly Rosen, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-09-28 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
bail bail-reform-act criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fourth-amendment monetary-bail new-jersey pretrial-detention pretrial-liberty restrictive-conditions |
Whether New Jersey's law prohibiting courts from considering monetary bail unless no combination of non-monetary conditions will reasonably assure the… |
| 18-6119 |
Gary Long, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-sentencing de-facto-life-sentence due-process eighth-amendment federal-court-split federal-courts life-sentence sentencing-analysis sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent term-of-years |
Whether the district and appellate court failed to conduct the proper analysis of imposing a de facto life sentence on the petitioner? |
| 18-6088 |
Joseph Burris v. Eileen Ramey, Superintendent, Jefferson City Correctional Center |
Missouri |
2018-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-montgomery miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole parole-hearing resentencing resentencing-proceeding |
Whether the Eighth Amendment requires juvenile defendants who received mandatory life without parole sentences to receive adversarial resentencing pro… |
| 18-6093 |
Brian Tate v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2018-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights developmental-capacity diminished-capacity due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea juvenile-defendant juvenile-justice maryland-rule-4-242(c) mental-illness |
Whether the Due Process Clause requires a state court to conduct an inquiry on the record into the effects of a juvenile defendant's age, mental healt… |
| 18-6105 |
John Patrick Wallace v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence exculpatory exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment impartial-tribunal witness witness-rights |
Was the petitioner denied an impartial tribunal under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment? |
| 18-6106 |
James L. Miller v. Amir Kashani, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-forfeiture civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction property-rights standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires the government to provide a hearing before seizing a person's property for civil forfei… |
| 18-6086 |
In Re Daniel Clate Acker |
|
2018-09-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-claims death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment false-evidence habeas-corpus new-evidence state-liability state-repudiation wrongful-conviction |
Whether an original writ of habeas corpus is appropriate in the case of a death-sentenced individual who was convicted and sentenced to death on a the… |
| 18-6050 |
Timothy L. Rodriguez v. DeWayne Burton, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause subject-matter-jurisdiction Void-for-Lack-of-Jurisdiction warrantless-arrest |
Whether the states have reached incongruent results when interpreting this Court's decision due to a radical defect that occurred after the petitioner… |
| 18-6059 |
Cedric Carter v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2018-09-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment judge-sentencing jury-trial jury-verdict sentencing-phase sixth-amendment spaziano-v-florida |
Is Ohio's death penalty scheme unconstitutional under Hurst v. Florida? |
| 18-6044 |
Richard James Beasley v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2018-09-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review attorney-general due-process familial-conflict fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-ethics recusal structural-error williams-v-pennsylvania |
Does the right to due process require a finding of structural error where one member of the reviewing court is the son of the elected attorney general… |
| 18-6023 |
Lamar Atu Blackwell v. Matthew Hansen, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254 due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus postconviction-procedure postconviction-review prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-standard strickland-v-washington swarthout-v-cooke unreasonable-application webb-v-texas |
Whether this Court's opinion in Webb v. Texas applies to prosecutors as well as judges |
| 18-6027 |
Hayden Beaulieu v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2018-09-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment extradition juvenile-justice plea-deal prosecutorial-discretion sentencing transfer-hearing |
Is it permissible under the 8th amendment to impose an adult sentence on a minor for a non-dangerous, non-repetitive offense? |
| 18-5977 |
Syed K. Rafi v. Yale University School of Medicine, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-restraints due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment spending-clause state-action state-actor |
If Government Requires or Induces A Private Party to Engage in Law Enforcement, All Relevant Constitutional Restraints Do Apply? |
| 18-5980 |
Shelton Denoria Jones v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-U.S.C-2254(e)(2) 28-usc-2254 diligence evidentiary-hearing factual-basis fair-trial federal-court federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment state-court state-court-review |
Whether a habeas applicant has 'failed to develop the factual basis' of a claim under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(e)(2) when the state court did not hold an evid… |
| 18-5986 |
Damon L. Caldwell v. Stanley Payne, Superintendent, Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center |
Missouri |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole meaningful-opportunity miller-montgomery miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole parole-hearing realistic-opportunity resentencing resentencing-proceeding |
Whether Missouri's parole laws and procedures violate the Eighth Amendment by failing to provide juvenile offenders a meaningful and realistic opportu… |
| 18-5996 |
Gene Lemay Barris v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing unreasonable-sentence |
Whether the sentencing court erred in imposing an unreasonable sentence on the defendant in violation of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel a… |
| 18-337 |
County of Orange, California, et al. v. Mary Gordon, Individually and as Successor in Interest to Matthew Shawn Gordon, Deceased |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-standard due-process eighth-amendment fourth-amendment medical-care objective-reasonableness pretrial-detainee qualified-immunity section-1983 standard-of-care |
Whether a pretrial detainee's 'inadequate medical care' claim pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 requires a showing of a jail professional's subjective inte… |
| 18-324 |
Douglas Leone, et ux., as Trustees Under That Certain Unrecorded Leone-Perkins Family Trust Dated August 26, 1999, as Amended v. Maui County, Hawaii, et al. |
Hawaii |
2018-09-13 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment economic-benefit economically-beneficial-use fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment investment-use just-compensation land-use lucas-v-south-carolina-coastal-council natural-state property-rights regulatory-taking regulatory-takings takings-clause |
Whether holding undeveloped property as an 'investment' or using it as a 'park' in its natural state constitutes economically beneficial or productive… |
| 18-5948 |
Patrick Henry Murphy v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
conspiracy criminal-conspiracy death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment enmund-v-florida-tison-v-arizona felony felony-murder jury-findings sentencing-requirements sixth-amendment |
Does the Sixth or Eighth Amendment require that before a party may be sentenced to death as a conspirator (rather than a trigger-person), the jury mus… |
| 18-5924 |
Evangelisto Ramos v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2018-09-11 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (12)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9)IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment incorporation incorporation-doctrine racial-discrimination sixth-amendment stare-decisis unanimous-jury unanimous-verdict |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment fully incorporates the Sixth Amendment guarantee of a unanimous verdict? |
| 18-5932 |
Ronald Jones v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus medical-evidence section-2254 sixth-amendment state-conviction |
Whether Petitioner has shown clear and convincing evidence of a credible actual-innocence claim from his State conviction? |
| 18-5937 |
Charles Lee Burton v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2018-09-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors caldwell-v-mississippi capital-sentencing capital-sentencing-scheme constitutional-review death-penalty eighth-amendment evolving-standards-of-decency hurst-v-florida jury-instructions jury-recommendation mitigating-factors |
Whether Alabama's capital sentencing scheme is unconstitutional under Hurst v. Florida and Caldwell v. Mississippi |
| 18-5922 |
Robert Joseph Sarhan v. Federal Bureau of Prisons |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure fraud-on-the-court res-judicata violated-supreme-court-precedent administrative-law civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court manifest-injustice res-judicata void-judgment |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals and other courts acted inconsistently with due process and Supreme Court precedent in affirming the peti… |
| 18-293 |
Janos Farkas v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, L.L.C., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights dispositive-motion due-process federal-court fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment motion-practice standing time-limits time-to-respond |
Does a federal court deprive a party's constitutional due process right when allowing only three days to respond to a dispositive motion? |
| 18-5892 |
Andre Jackson v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2018-09-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment judge-sentencing judicial-sentencing jury-recommendation jury-sentencing jury-trial sixth-amendment |
Is Ohio's death penalty scheme unconstitutional under Hurst v. Florida? |
| 18-5881 |
Vamsidhar Vurimindi v. The Hoopskirt Lofts Condominium Association |
Pennsylvania |
2018-09-05 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights condominium-law constitutional-violations due-process fair-housing-act fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment property-rights racial-discrimination |
Whether the Pennsylvania Uniform Condominium Act violates the First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments and the Fair Housing Act |
| 18-5895 |
Justin Lyle Izatt v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 constitutional-law court-of-appeals due-process eighth-amendment federal-courts federal-habeas-corpus federal-question gross-disproportionality habeas-corpus judicial-review petition-for-writ-of-certiorari post-conviction-relief sentencing |
Whether the Court of Appeals committed error by denying the Petitioner's 28 U.S.C. §2255 petition? |
| 18-283 |
Charles Coleman, et al. v. Campbell County Library Board of Trustees |
Kentucky |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
due-process federal-due-process-rights fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure prospective-only retroactive-relief state-law state-retroactivity-doctrines tax-relief unlawful-taxes |
Whether a state can circumvent the requirements of the Due Process Clause to provide taxpayers retroactive relief from unlawful taxes by making its de… |
| 18-5865 |
Gary L. Pennington v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2018-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
capital-offense constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder fourteenth-amendment state-law substantive-due-process |
Whether petitioner's conviction of first degree murder violated the constitutionally protected state-created liberty interest guaranteed under the Fou… |
| 18-5868 |
William David Cannon v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Virginia |
2018-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights cumulative-prejudice due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard |
Whether the cumulative effect of multiple constitutional violations, including ineffective assistance of counsel, deprived the defendant of a fair tri… |
| 18-5849 |
Jose Soza v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions sixth-amendment state-postconviction |
Whether state trial counsel rendered constitutionally ineffective assistance of counsel |
| 18-5861 |
Danny Lopez Chavez v. Joel Martinez, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment proportionality sentencing |
Whether appellant's sentence is grossly disproportionate to the crimes of conviction |
| 18-263 |
Sheryl Faust v. Illinois Workers Compensation Commission, et al. |
Illinois |
2018-08-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-procedure arbitrary-barriers bodily-integrity due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment redress workers-compensation |
Whether the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment prevent states from using arbitrary barriers to deprive workers of th… |
| 18-253 |
Michael Felix v. New York |
New York |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment adequate-notice appellate-review coram-nobis due-process due-process-14th-amendment errors-of-law fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice notice-and-opportunity notice-of-hearing opportunity-to-be-heard state-constitutional-right-to-appeal unexplained-decision writ-of-error-coram-nobis |
Whether the court of original jurisdiction denied petitioner due process under the United States Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment |
| 18-5753 |
James Pello v. Dushan Zatecky, Superintendent, Pendleton Correctional Facility |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-error due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-jury-verdicts |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, along with the Indiana State Court of last resort, have entered a decision in conf… |
| 18-5761 |
Kourtney Herman v. Crystal Young, et al. |
Illinois |
2018-08-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
best-interests best-interests-standard custody custody-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-responsibilities parental-rights standing |
Whether a state court's application of a 'best interests' standard in custody/parental responsibilities filed by a person other than a parent, violate… |
| 18-5714 |
Jose A. Rivera-Quinones v. Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-process confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment prejudicial-evidence sentencing sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether a trial court can possess subject matter jurisdiction on a criminal offense not charged within the indictment/criminal information |
| 18-5698 |
Devonte Brown v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment irreparable-corruption juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana sentencing |
Whether this Court's precedent requires a trial court's record to reflect specific consideration of irreparable corruption before sentencing the child… |
| 18-5700 |
Jerry Docaj v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-instructions manslaughter miranda-rights passion-provocation sixth-amendment |
Whether the jury instruction on passion/provocation manslaughter misstated the law |
| 18-5708 |
Thomas J. Arnold v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-proceedings due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest manifest-injustice sentencing sentencing-correction state-collateral-proceedings |
Whether petitioner has been denied due-process and equal-protection under the U.S. Constitution Amendment-XIV, in his state collateral-proceedings |
| 18-5710 |
Alejandro Amor v. United States, ex rel. Juan Pena, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
double-jeopardy eighth-amendment election-of-remedies estoppel excessive-fines false-claims-act materiality res-judicata restitution seventh-amendment |
Whether the False Claims Act 31 U.S.C. 3729-33 (FCA), estoppel provision violates the Seventh Amendment of the Constitution |
| 18-226 |
Eric G. Zahnd v. Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel, Supreme Court of Missouri |
Missouri |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
attorney-discipline attorney-ethics criminal-case due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech government-transparency professional-conduct prosecutorial-speech public-record public-records |
Whether an attorney may be disciplined for telling the truth about information in the public record in a news release after a criminal case has been a… |
| 18-5671 |
In Re Kenneth Simpson |
|
2018-08-21 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights conditions-of-release due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus parole sentencing standing supervised-release |
Whether a court can refuse to address a claim that an individual is being incarcerated under an unconstitutional statute, even when the individual has… |
| 18-5648 |
Anthony Lamarca v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-case death-penalty eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-due-process hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity ring-v-arizona |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendm… |
| 18-5652 |
Glen Springer v. Benjamin Dale Caple, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment medical-care medical-needs prison-conditions |
Did Phish Suffer An Eighth Amendment Violation? |
| 18-5669 |
Peter Cruz v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process due-process,fifth-amendment,fourteenth-amendment,s fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment life-without-parole massachusetts-law sentencing |
Whether the petitioner can be punished with life without parole when not charged, tried, or convicted of first-degree murder |
| 18-217 |
Randall Mathena, Warden v. Lee Boyd Malvo |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-20 |
Granted |
Amici (13)Relisted (9) |
collateral-review constitutional-law constitutional-rule criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity substantive-rule supreme-court-precedent teague-v-lane |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in concluding that Montgomery v. Louisiana modified and expanded the rule announced in Miller v. Alabama |
| 18-209 |
Ram Mehta v. California |
California |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
Civil-Procedure Civil-Rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-review search-and-seizure unlawful-arrest unlawful-search Unlawful-Search-and-Seizure |
Were the Petitioner's constitutional rights to be free from unlawful search and seizure under the Fourth Amendment and to due process under the Fourte… |
| 18-5634 |
Kipland Phillip Kinkel v. Garrett Laney, Superintendent, Oregon State Correctional Institution |
Oregon |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mental-illness miller-montgomery-standard miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana procedural-due-process |
Does a treatable, but not curable, mental illness constitute irreparable corruption' under Miller v. Alabama and Montgomery v. Louisiana? |
| 18-5598 |
John J. Moore, Jr. v. Michael Stephan, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-rule evidentiary-rules fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pcr-hearing post-conviction-relief presumption-of-correctness sixth-amendment |
Whether the State Court's determination of factual issues is presumed correct or should have been presumed correct, and whether Petitioner sustained h… |
| 18-5603 |
In Re Mark Kilmartin |
|
2018-08-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct jury-trial sentencing structural-error |
Whether a criminal defendant can be convicted and sentenced to life for a separate, new and distinct crime without a jury trial |
| 18-5621 |
Bismark Kwaku Torkornoo v. Nina Helwig, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fraud fraud-vitiates res-judicata |
Does fraud vitiate every judicial proceeding? |
| 18-203 |
Joey Montrell Chandler, aka Joey M. Chandler, aka Joey Chandler v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2018-08-15 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
8th-amendment criminal-procedure eighth-amendment incorrigible juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole permanent-incorrigibility rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-discretion state-supreme-courts |
Whether the Eighth Amendment requires the sentencing authority to make a finding that a juvenile is permanently incorrigible before imposing a sentenc… |
| 18-5592 |
Oscar Madrid v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process exhaustion exhaustion-of-remedies fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress state-court sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the court erred in finding claims 1-3 were not exhausted to the state's highest court |
| 18-5595 |
Keith L. Williams v. Kul Sood, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion prisoner-rights procedural-error standing summary-judgment |
Whether court of appeals or district court abused its discretion in (8th) amendment violation claim by failing to acknowledge evidence |
| 18-5583 |
Stephen Brian Turner v. Melody Smith, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment absolute-immunity civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment immunity judicial-review parole parole-conditions quasi-judicial-role right-to-marry standing |
Whether parole conditions can prohibit the fundamental right to marry |
| 18-5584 |
Lawrence L. Thompson v. Pete Copeland, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-14 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment 8th-amendment arrest-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force failure-to-supervise fourth-amendment qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Whether Deputy Copeland's arrest of Mr. Thompson was unconstitutional and warranted the denial of qualified immunity |
| 18-5524 |
Farrell Rochelle v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying C.O.A. to trial counsel being ineffective for failing to file a motion for continuance to pr… |
| 18-5553 |
Christopher Williams v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-murder corpus-delicti criminal-procedure due-process extrajudicial-confession fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment |
Did the trial court's failure to submit any instruction to the jury regarding Texas' corpus delicti rule and the subsequent endorsement of that failur… |
| 18-5558 |
Joseph William Atwell v. Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Graterford, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prejudicial-evidence sixth-amendment |
Whether the state deprived petitioner of his guaranteed right to a fair trial |
| 18-5564 |
Travis Colby Curry v. Oregon |
Oregon |
2018-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bad-faith civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-preservation fourteenth-amendment police-misconduct self-defense surveillance-video |
Whether the police act in bad faith in contravenes of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment if they fail to collect and preserve surveill… |
| 18-5546 |
Billie Wayne Coble v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-case capital-sentencing constitutional-rights daubert daubert-standard due-process eighth-amendment expert-testimony future-dangerousness reliability |
Whether the Fifth Circuit and Texas courts improperly applied Barefoot v. Estelle to categorically foreclose claims that unreliable expert testimony o… |
| 18-177 |
Kenneth Jerome Dawson v. Board of County Commissioners of Jefferson County, Colorado, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
|
bond-release constitutional-rights criminal-procedure detention detention-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-liberty fundamental-right judicial-scrutiny liberty-interest reasonably-related strict-scrutiny substantive-due-process |
When does a criminal defendant's right to be released from jail after posting bond implicate a fundamental right of liberty? |
| 18-5525 |
Jonathan E. Jouette v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach charging-instrument constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process enhanced-sentencing felon-in-possession fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sentencing-enhancement taylor-v-united-states |
Whether application of the Taylor rule bars consideration of materials beyond the charging instrument in determining a defendant's qualification for e… |
| 18-5529 |
Dewey Steven Terry v. Phillip Earley, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process employment employment-retaliation first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech Question not identified. question-not-identified retaliation settlement-negotiations |
Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in concluding that the petitioner's First and Fourteenth Amendment rights were not violated during settleme… |
| 18-5531 |
Kelly E. Culver v. Dushan Zatecky, Superintendent, Pendleton Correctional Facility |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-counsel-ineffectiveness cause-and-prejudice due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment strickland-standard |
Whether trial counsel's failure to offer a contemporaneous objection during trial compromised the petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to competent coun… |
| 18-166 |
John M. Probandt, et al. v. Dennis P. Walker |
Nebraska |
2018-08-08 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment civil-rights color-of-law deprivation-of-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment internal-affairs-doctrine negotiable-instrument preemption state-courts uniform-commercial-code |
Is the State Courts' intentional refusal to apply the provisions of the Nebraska Uniform Commercial Code a violation of the U.S. Constitution, Amend. … |
| 18-171 |
Robert R. Snyder v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-08 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 civil-rights color-of-state-law constitutional-rights Cruel-and-unusual-punishment Due-process Eighth-amendment First-amendment immunity law-library-access Preliminary-injunction prisoner-rights retaliation section-1983 |
Does a person or entity have immunity from prosecution under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when rights secured by the U.S. Constitution have been violated by said … |
| 18-5514 |
Robert Allen Wilkins v. Virginia |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure counsel due-process evidence sanctions standing due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
Whether the petitioner's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated by the court's errors, including failure to strike testimony, failure to … |
| 18-5517 |
Mike Peter Gallardo v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2018-08-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-jury capital-punishment citizen-jurors due-process eighth-amendment fair-cross-section fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-composition sixth-amendment |
Whether seating an alien capital juror violated the petitioner's Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights |
| 18-5518 |
Norman Mearle Grim v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-08-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
advisory-jury burden-of-proof caldwell-v-mississippi capital-case death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment harmless-error hurst-v-florida hurst-violation sixth-amendment sullivan-v-louisiana |
Whether a Hurst violation can be ruled harmless based solely on a pre-Hurst advisory jury's unanimous vote to recommend death, where the jurors heard … |
| 18-5495 |
In Re Billy Ray Irick |
|
2018-08-07 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment evolving-standards-of-decency fourteenth-amendment mental-illness personal-culpability sentencing |
Whether the imposition of the death penalty on a person who was severely mentally ill at the time of the offense constitutes cruel and unusual punishm… |
| 18-162 |
Elzie Ball, et al. v. James M. LeBlanc, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-06 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
air-conditioning constitutional-remedies constitutional-remedy eighth-amendment heat-index judicial-relief plra plra-restrictions prison-conditions prospective-relief remedies |
Whether the PLRA's tailoring requirement prohibits a district court from ordering a prison to maintain a maximum heat index to remedy a constitutional… |
| 18-5446 |
Allan Latoi Story v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment speedy-trial |
Whether the state violated the petitioner's constitutional rights under the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 18-5455 |
In Re Deborah Elizabeth Gouch-Onassis |
|
2018-08-06 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
but the text you've provided appears to be incomp fragmented I cannot extract a meaningful question presented I will respond with: 'Question not identified." legible text of a SCOTUS petition for writ of cer or unreadable. Without a clear civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation jurisdiction standing takings |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause |
| 18-5466 |
Lawrence E. Wilson v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2018-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment nunc-pro-tunc open-court right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-requirements sixth-amendment void |
Whether a trial court's failure to comply with statutory requirements when imposing a sentence renders the attempted sentence void |
| 18-5467 |
Virginia Denise Wyche v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
and whether jury instructions misstating self-def 5th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment homicide homicide-statute second-amendment self-defense statutory-interpretation |
Whether the First District's expansion of the scope of Florida's homicide statute could be used to affirm Wyche's conviction and sentence in light of … |
| 18-150 |
Phil Plummer, et al. v. David M. Hopper, Special Administrator of the Estate of Robert Andrew Richardson, Sr. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment civil-rights clearly-established-right deliberate-indifference detainee-rights due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement medical-intervention qualified-immunity |
Whether the Sixth Circuit defined the constitutional rights in question at too high a level of generality contrary to this Court's teachings on qualif… |
| 18-157 |
James H. Brady v. Barbara Underwood, Attorney General of New York |
Second Circuit |
2018-08-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
air-rights attorney-general civil-rights contract contract-enforcement contract-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment Fourteenth-Amendment-equal-protection judicial-misconduct standing takings |
Does the Fourteenth Amendment guarantee of equal protection under the law give Petitioner standing for the protection of his contract by the Attorney … |
| 18-5434 |
Troy Victorino v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-08-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment capital-punishment criminal-punishment death-penalty double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto fifth-amendment florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment jury-sentencing resentencing statutory-interpretation |
Does the automatic-resentencing-to-life provision of Florida Statutes Section 775.082(2) violate due-process, double-jeopardy, ex-post-facto |
| 18-5437 |
Gary Richard Whitton v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-08-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
advisory-jury capital-sentencing capricious due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection equal-protection-clause jury-trial jury-trial-rights retroactivity |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection and the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of capricious capital sentencing impose limits… |
| 18-5442 |
Craig Alan Wall, Sr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-08-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
capital-punishment constitutional-rights crawford-standard crawford-v-washington due-process fifth-amendment forced-appeal fourteenth-amendment hearsay-exception separation-of-powers sixth-amendment unreasonable-determination-of-facts |
Whether Florida Statute § 90.804(2)(f) violates the Sixth Amendment and Due Process rights of defendants, whether a state court can force a defendant … |
| 18-5430 |
James Davis Bennett, et ux. v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment constitutional-defense deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment estelle-vs-gamble federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure medical-care prisoner-rights serious-medical-needs summary-judgment |
Whether the Eighth Amendment allows a court to create a constitutional defense to an admitted Eighth Amendment violation requiring a prisoner plaintif… |
| 18-5402 |
Thomas Dewey Pope v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment caldwell-v-mississippi capital-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection hurst-v-florida hurst-v-state montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity supremacy-clause |
Does the Florida Supreme Court's determination that the jury findings required by Hurst v. Florida and Hurst v. State enhance the reliability of decis… |
| 18-5408 |
Norberto Serna v. California |
California |
2018-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bodily-harm criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection extortion kidnapping sentencing sentencing-disparity |
Whether California violates the Equal Protection Clause and Eighth Amendment by imposing a harsher maximum sentence on kidnapper-extortionists than on… |
| 18-5415 |
Louis B. Gaskin v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-sentence due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection jury-trial retroactivity unconventional-rules |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection and the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of capricious capital sentencing impose limits… |
| 18-5419 |
Kevin Griffin v. Thomas DiNapoli |
Second Circuit |
2018-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment appeal-dismissal appellate-procedure appointment-of-counsel civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-appointment due-process fourteenth-amendment in-forma-pauperis sixth-amendment standing |
Was petitioner erroneously denied in forma pauperis, appointment of counsel, and appeal dismissal? |
| 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 |
| 18-120 |
Leila Hernandez v. Guy Bailey, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-vagueness disciplinary-record due-process equal-protection faculty-employment fourteenth-amendment higher-education tenure tenure-rights tenured-professors unconstitutionally-vague university-merger vagueness |
Denial of due process rights to tenured professors in university merger, equal protection challenge to disciplinary record requirement, vagueness chal… |
| 18-5376 |
Mark Allen Geralds v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrary-cutoff capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendm… |
| 18-5359 |
Ernest D. Suggs v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review caldwell-v-mississippi capital-sentencing death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment hurst-v-florida judicial-responsibility jury-instructions jury-recommendation |
Does a Florida death sentence imposed pursuant to the capital sentencing scheme overruled in Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016), in a case where … |
| 18-5360 |
Curtis L. Clinton v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2018-07-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure eighth-amendment equal-protection fair-trial fourteenth-amendment racial-stereotype racial-stereotypes racial-stereotyping sixth-amendment |
Whether a defendant's rights to the effective assistance of counsel, a fair and impartial jury, to be free from cruel and unusual punishment, and to t… |
| 18-5365 |
Carmencita Bruno v. City of Schenectady, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights companion-animal-rights companion-animals due-process emergency-aid fire-investigation fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment property-rights search-and-seizure |
Whether firefighters and police can unreasonably withhold sustenance and emergency aid to companion dogs after a fire was extinguished, to conduct an … |
| 18-5346 |
Roger Wilson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-bail free-speech pretrial-detention speedy-trial standing |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive bail and cruel and unusual punishment was violated when the petitioner was detained for 10 mon… |
| 18-5352 |
Paul Anthony Brown v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrary-cutoff capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendm… |
| 18-5354 |
Darryl Brian Barwick v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrary-cutoff capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendm… |
| 18-105 |
Modesta R. Sabeniano v. Citibank, N.A., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appeal appeal-dismissal civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-review perjury |
Whether petitioner Sabeniano was denied her constitutional right to due process |
| 18-111 |
Timothy M. Barrett v. Valerie Jill Minor |
Virginia |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment child-custody civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process family-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment parental-rights standing state-law |
Are Virginia's Child Custody Statutes Facially Unconstitutional? |
| 18-5311 |
Jack Reid v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure criminal-forfeiture criminal-procedure drug-forfeiture drug-offenses due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines property-rights property-seizure sentencing standing substantial-connection |
Whether property subject to forfeiture under 21 U.S.C. §853(a)(2) must have a substantial connection to the underlying criminal activity |
| 18-5326 |
Mario Howard Lloyd v. Scott Moats, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights counsel counsel-recruitment district-court-discretion due-process eighth-amendment fundamental-error intercircuit-conflict jury-trial medical-care standing summary-judgment |
Whether the District Court's 'persuasive authority' test order this case to be trial by a jury trial on February 27, 2017, and than less then two mont… |
| 18-5330 |
Gregory Alan Kokal v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-case capital-case,eighth-amendment,cruel-and-unusual-pu capital-punishment codefendant-culpability codefendants cruel-and-unusual-punishment culpability death-sentence eighth-amendment proportionality-review |
Whether an assessment of the relative culpability of codefendants in a capital case in Florida is required pursuant to the Eighth Amendment in order t… |
| 18-100 |
Leonard Maurice Drane v. Eric Sellers, Warden |
Georgia |
2018-07-23 |
Denied |
|
actual-innocence constitutional-review death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment enmund-v-florida fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus proportionality wrongful-conviction |
When a prisoner under a sentence of death has acquired compelling and undisputed evidence of his actual innocence after his trial that the state court… |
| 18-5300 |
Gary Robinson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether a trial attorney can constitutionally stipulate elements of a charged crime over the expressed objections of the defendant under the Fifth, Si… |
| 18-98 |
Jerrard T. Cook, aka Jerrad T. Cook, aka Jerrard Cook aka Jerrard Tramaine Cook, aka J-Fat v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2018-07-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-prohibits juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole montgomery-v-louisiana permanent-incorrigibility sentencing sentencing-authority |
Whether the Eighth Amendment requires the sentencing authority to make a finding that a juvenile is permanently incorrigible in order to impose a sent… |
| 18-5280 |
Patrick Lanier v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal criminal-procedure eighth-amendment fifth-circuit judicial-proceedings judicial-review manifest-miscarriage plain-error plain-error-review restitution rule-52b sentencing sentencing-error |
Whether the plain error standard requires a 'manifest miscarriage of justice' to correct a forfeited error affecting substantial rights |
| 18-5276 |
William Clark v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2018-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-of-majority age-of-maturity brain-development criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection juvenile-justice montgomery-line sentencing sentencing-considerations |
Whether the Montgomery Line of decisions apply to those under 18-years-old? |
| 18-5278 |
Christopher Collings v. Missouri |
Missouri |
2018-07-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment culpability deliberation due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-reliability intoxication jury-instructions mens-rea mental-state |
Whether it violates the Eighth Amendment to instruct a capital jury that they may not consider evidence of the defendant's intoxication at the time of… |
| 18-81 |
Carltez Taylor v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2018-07-19 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-proportionality cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-expectancy life-without-parole miller-v-alabama sentencing-discretion term-of-years |
Whether it is cruel and unusual punishment to sentence a juvenile to a term exceeding their life expectancy for a single offense |
| 18-5231 |
Richard Lloyd Odom v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2018-07-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
but no text of a SCOTUS petition was provided in I cannot generate a question presented or identif please include the full text of the petition. brain-damage capital-case eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence sixth-amendment smith-v-texas strickland-prejudice strickland-v-washington tennard-v-dretke |
Whether the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals violated Petitioner's Sixth Amendment rights and contravened this Court's Strickland v. Washington pre… |
| 18-5240 |
Roy Lee Ward v. Robert E. Carter, Jr., Commissioner, Indiana Department of Correction, et al. |
Indiana |
2018-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
capital-punishment due-process fourteenth-amendment lethal-injection lethal-substances notice prisoner-rights state-execution state-prisoners |
Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment entitles condemned state prisoners to notice of the lethal substances a state will use to e… |
| 18-5246 |
Warren Darrell Rivers v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-07-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-punishment-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment individualized-sentencing sentencing sentencing-determination |
Whether prosecution evidence that a capital defendant has been sentenced to death once before in the same case impermissibly undermines the sentencing… |
| 18-5239 |
Deshawn T. Terrell v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2018-07-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment felony-murder fourteenth-amendment juvenile-sentencing mandatory-minimums mandatory-sentencing miller-graham-precedent |
Does the mandatory sentencing provision for the offense of felony murder under Ohio Revised Code § 2929.02(B)(1) violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Ame… |
| 18-5243 |
Curumulathu Jacob v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2018-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction notice-clause sixth-amendment stare-decisis void-ab-initio |
Can a state maintain a judgment which was entered absent jurisdiction under its own stare decisis ruling and which is a violation of the Sixth Amendme… |
| 18-5228 |
Quawn M. Franklin v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
caldwell-error constitutional-claim death-penalty eighth-amendment harmless-error hurst-v-florida hurst-violation individualized-review jury-recommendation sullivan sullivan-v-louisiana |
Whether the per se harmless-error rule adopted by the Florida Supreme Court violates precedents and the Eighth Amendment |
| 18-5233 |
Edgar Alejandro Radillo, et al. v. Rosemary Ndoh, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
batson-challenge civil-rights due-process equal-protection Fourteenth-Amendment jury-selection minority-jurors non-minority-jurors peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-motivation racial-discrimination Sixth-Amendment |
Batson-challenge |
| 18-5218 |
Allen Robertson, Jr. v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2018-07-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-v-virginia criminal-behavior death-penalty eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability jury-misconduct moore-v-texas racial-bias sixth-amendment |
Whether the Louisiana state courts improperly considered Petitioner's criminal behavior in determining that he is not intellectually disabled, in viol… |
| 18-5211 |
Taylor B. v. California |
California |
2018-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment custodial-interrogation due-process false-evidence fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-justice miranda-rights police-interrogation |
when-child-interrogated-miranda-waiver |
| 18-60 |
Amira Olivia Gunn v. North Dakota |
North Dakota |
2018-07-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech speech-protection |
Whether Gunn was convicted of speech protected by the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment, applicable to the States under the Due Process Clause… |
| 18-56 |
Tim Shoop, Warden v. Danny Hill |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-10 |
GVR |
Relisted (9) |
aedpa antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia clinical-judgment clinical-judgments death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability moore-v-texas |
Did the Sixth Circuit properly use the Moore decision from 2017 to find that an Ohio court unreasonably applied Atkins in 2008, even though the Ohio c… |
| 18-44 |
Julia Kwok, et al. v. Mingo Energy, LLC |
Oklahoma |
2018-07-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment due-process fourteenth-amendment homestead homestead-property judicial-foreclosure mortgage-foreclosure notice notice-requirements oklahoma-law oklahoma-power-of-sale-mortgage-foreclosure-act property-rights |
Whether failure to give proper notice and adhere to the dictates of the Oklahoma Power of Sale Mortgage Foreclosure Act, particularly OKLA. STAT. tit.… |
| 18-49 |
Georgia Plumb, et al. v. U.S. Bank National Association, et al. |
Washington |
2018-07-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process foreclosure fourteenth-amendment note-possession procedural-due-process property-rights residential-mortgage standing summary-judgment |
Whether the Plumbs' procedural due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment were violated |
| 18-5160 |
Michael Anthony Tanzi v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
caldwell-v-mississippi capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment harmless-error hurst-v-florida hurst-violation judicial-procedure per-se-rule supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's application of a per se harmless-error rule to violations of Hurst v. Florida in pre-Hurst cases violates the Eigh… |
| 18-5181 |
Michael Gordon Reynolds v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
caldwell-v-mississippi capital-sentencing death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment hurst-error jury-instructions ring-v-arizona structural-error |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's plurality decision rejecting Mr. Reynolds' Caldwell v. Mississippi, 472 U.S. 320 (1985) claim is error. The jury w… |
| 18-5129 |
Rodolfo Trejo v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-counting due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection immigration sentencing sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness |
Whether Petitioner's Sentence Constitutes Impermissible Double Counting |
| 18-5165 |
Joh-ner Taylor Wilson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation patent standing takings |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause |
| 18-34 |
Pablo San Martin v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
|
capital-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-cutoff-formula ring-v-arizona |
Whether the retroactivity formula created by the Florida Supreme Court pursuant to Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 18-5065 |
Manuel Antonio Rodriguez v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
caldwell-v-mississippi capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment furman-v-georgia hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's per se harmless-error rule for Hurst errors contravenes the Eighth Amendment |
| 18-5122 |
Thomas Overton v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause supreme-court |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity approach for Hurst v. Florida and Hurst v. State violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendmen… |
| 18-5124 |
Norberto Pietri v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection hurst-standard hurst-v-florida hurst-v-state retroactivity supremacy-clause |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's retroactivity analysis for Hurst violations violates due process, the Eighth Amendment, and the Equal Protection C… |
| 18-5132 |
Jonathan Arn Bryant v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment custodial-interrogation due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury right-to-counsel self-incrimination self-incrimination-rights sixth-amendment voir-dire |
Whether the State of Florida's use of Bryant's custodial statements against him violated his Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights |
| 18-5078 |
Bruce Pace v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrary-application capital-sentencing disparate-treatment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactivity |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's application of only partial retroactivity of Hurst v. State and Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteent… |
| 18-5088 |
Emanuel Johnson v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida judicial-review retroactivity sixth-amendment supremacy-clause |
Did the Florida Supreme Court violate the Supremacy Clause and the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments in affirming Emanuel Johnson's judicially-… |
| 18-5096 |
Raymond Tibbetts v. John Kasich, Governor of Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
baze-v-rees baze-vs-rees eighth-amendment execution-protocol glossip-v-gross glossip-vs-gross lethal-injection midazolam prisoner-rights scientific-evidence substantial-risk substantial-risk-of-harm substantial-risk-of-serious-harm |
Whether a prisoner challenging a midazolam three-drug lethal-injection protocol must prove with scientific evidence that the first drug is sure or ver… |
| 18-5101 |
Sean P. Reilly v. Jennifer Davis |
Florida |
2018-07-03 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-violation due-process florida-statutes fourteenth-amendment injunction injunctions standing time-limitation time-limitations |
Whether a Florida court deprived Mr. Reilly of due-process by creating an exception to time-limitations for injunctions under §§ 784.046, 784.0485 Flo… |
| 18-5103 |
Jeffery Day Rieber v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2018-07-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-counsel capital-sentencing eighth-amendment equal-protection ineffective-assistance judicial-override lesser-included-offense mitigating-evidence right-to-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington |
Did Mr. Rieber's trial counsel provide constitutionally ineffective assistance? |
| 18-13 |
Juan Francisco Maldonado v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-07-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
canine-sniff civil-procedure consent-to-search constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop |
Whether the court of appeals erred in applying the incorrect Fourth Amendment standard to Mr. Maldonado's traffic stop, where reasonable suspicion did… |
| 18-5084 |
Daniel Burns v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-review constitutional-amendments constitutional-rights death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-decision hurst-v-florida retroactivity sixth-amendment supremacy-clause |
Did the Florida Supreme Court violate the Supremacy Clause and the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments in affirming Daniel Burns' judicially-dete… |
| 18-5091 |
Kevin Don Foster v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity approach for Hurst relief violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 18-5037 |
Richard Eugene Hamilton v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentence capital-sentencing eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-determination retroactivity supremacy-clause |
Does the Florida Supreme Court's decision limiting the retroactivity of Hurst v. Florida violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments? |
| 18-5040 |
Henry Perry Sireci v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights death-penalty eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment,four eighth-amendment,fourteenth-amendment,death-penalt fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-determination jury-sentencing retroactivity |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity decision that limits the class of death-sentenced individuals entitled to a jury determinati… |
| 18-5042 |
Jack Sliney v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-determination jury-sentencing retroactivity ring-v-arizona |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity decision violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 18-5051 |
Samuel Jason Derrick v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrary-cutoff capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity sentencing |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendm… |
| 18-5054 |
Brandy Bain Jennings v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrary-sentencing capital-punishment capital-sentencing disparate-treatment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactivity |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's application of only partial retroactivity of Hurst v. State and Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteent… |
| 18-5060 |
Konstantinos X. Fotopoulos v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection equal-protection-clause hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona state-court |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection and the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of capricious capital sentencing impose limits… |
| 18-7 |
Choctaw County, Mississippi, et al. v. Jessica Jauch |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (4) |
14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 capias county-liability due-process fourteenth-amendment pretrial-detention procedural-due-process qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Whether a pretrial detainee's procedural due process rights were violated |
| 18-5010 |
Christine Chang v. Robin Andrews |
California |
2018-06-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
affidavit appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights collusion due-process equal-protection evidence-suppression evidence-tampering fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct legal-ethics subpoenaed-evidence |
Does collusion between the superior court judge and lawyer, covering up petitioner's evidence of: (1) subpoenaed surveillance photos and, (2) petition… |
| 18-5012 |
Ian Deco Lightbourne v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-06-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing disparate-treatment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactivity |
Whether Florida's limited retroactive application of its Eighth Amendment decision in Hurst v. State violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 18-5014 |
Marcus Allen v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2255-motion brady-violation certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process due-process,equal-protection,brady-violation,2255- equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-integrity petition-for-rehearing plain-error |
Did lower court violate petitioner's rights under the Fourteenth Amendment of Equal Protection under the law, when petitioner provided evidence the Go… |
| 18-5018 |
Kenneth Darcell Quince v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-06-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-v-virginia death-penalty diagnostic-criteria eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability medical-standards moore-v-texas |
Whether Florida violated Atkins v. Virginia, Hall v. Florida, Moore v. Texas, and the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments by disregarding medical evidenc… |
| 18-5021 |
Paul Alfred Brown v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-06-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-retroactivity hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause supreme-court-review |
Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity formula for Hurst v. Florida violations violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments? |
| 18-5031 |
Jabbar Wallace v. Kevin Kauffman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel murder-conviction self-defense self-defense-right sixth-amendment |
Whether the petitioner's conviction for third-degree murder should be overturned due to self-defense, violation of the Confrontation Clause, and ineff… |
| 18A1200 |
Robert Joe Long v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
|
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-punishment constitutional-violation death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-stay habeas-corpus |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a death row inmate based on claims of constitutional violations during the original capital tr… |
| 18A1202 |
Robert Joe Long v. Florida |
Florida |
|
Presumed Complete |
|
cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment etomidate lethal-injection medical-condition |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the use of etomidate in a lethal injection protocol for an inmate with temporal lobe epilepsy and brain damage |
| 18A1216 |
Bobby Joe Long v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
|
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment federal-review irreparable-harm |
Whether the Eighth Amendment and Due Process Clause prohibit the execution of a death row inmate when substantial constitutional claims remain unresol… |
| 18A1346 |
Marion Wilson, Jr. v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Georgia |
|
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-punishment clemency death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-stay prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a death row inmate based on claims of prosecutorial misconduct and death ineligibility |
| 25A532 |
Bryan Frederick Jennings v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
|
Denied |
|
capital-sentencing death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment postconviction-counsel |
Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit a state from executing a death-sentenced prisoner after systemic failures in postconviction coun… |
| 25A356 |
Victor Tony Jones v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
|
Denied |
|
atkins-v-virginia death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of an intellectually disabled defendant when a state court disregards clearly established Supreme… |
| 25A335 |
In Re Blaine Milam |
|
|
Denied |
|
actual-innocence death-penalty eighth-amendment forensic-evidence intellectual-disability junk-science |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a potentially innocent defendant based on now-discredited forensic evidence and testimony |
| 25A280 |
David Joseph Pittman v. Florida |
Florida |
|
Denied |
|
atkins-claim death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability time-bar |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of an intellectually disabled defendant when state courts have arbitrarily applied time bars that… |
| 25A577 |
Richard Barry Randolph v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
|
Denied |
|
capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment irreparable-harm mental-competency method-of-execution |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a death row inmate when substantial constitutional questions regarding the method of execution… |
| 25A191 |
Kayle Barrington Bates v. Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
|
Denied |
|
constitutional-rights death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-stay fourteenth-amendment legal-review |
Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit the execution of a death row inmate when substantial legal issues remain unresolved |
| 24A771 |
James D. Ford v. Florida |
Florida |
|
Denied |
|
death-penalty developmental-age due-process eighth-amendment mental-impairment roper-exclusion |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of an individual with a mental and developmental age significantly below the age of majority at t… |
| 24A1037 |
Jeffrey Glenn Hutchinson v. Florida |
Florida |
|
Denied |
|
death-penalty diminished-moral-culpability eighth-amendment gulf-war-illness postconviction-relief traumatic-brain-injury |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits a state from executing a defendant whose diminished moral culpability due to service-related traumatic brain in… |
| 24A129 |
Franck William Yao v. Tamara Yao |
Missouri |
|
Presumed Complete |
|
custody-battle due-process family-rights fourteenth-amendment ordered-liberty parental-rights |
Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment protects a parent's fundamental right to custody and companionship of their child when stat… |
| 24A202 |
Loran Cole v. Florida |
Florida |
|
Denied |
|
death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection lethal-injection parkinson's-disease |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a death row inmate with Parkinson's disease using lethal injection procedures that may cause n… |
| 24A284 |
Freddie Owens v. Bryan Stirling, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
|
Denied |
|
capital-punishment competency cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment mental-illness |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a death row inmate with a documented history of severe mental illness that substantially impai… |
| 24A302 |
Garcia Glen White v. Texas |
Texas |
|
Denied |
|
atkins-claim death-penalty dna-evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment requires a state court to provide an evidentiary hearing on claims of intellectual disability and newly discovered sc… |
| 24A308 |
Garcia Glenn White v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
|
Denied |
|
atkins-claim eighth-amendment equitable-tolling ineffective-assistance intellectual-disability successive-habeas |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of an intellectually disabled defendant when his court-appointed counsel failed to timely investi… |
| 24A391 |
Christopher Collings v. David Vandergriff, Warden |
Missouri |
|
Denied |
|
capital-punishment eighth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance intellectual-disability procedural-default |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a capital defendant with credible claims of intellectual disability that were not fully adjudi… |
| 24A498 |
Carey Grayson v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
|
Denied |
|
capital-punishment conscious-suffocation cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment execution-method nitrogen-hypoxia |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits executing a prisoner via nitrogen hypoxia in a manner that potentially causes conscious suffocation and superad… |
| 24A553 |
Annette Chambers-Smith, Director, Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction v. Kayla Jean Ayers |
Sixth Circuit |
|
Presumed Complete |
|
cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment gender-affirmation medical-treatment prison-conditions transgender-rights |
Whether a state corrections department can be compelled to provide gender-affirming medical treatment to an incarcerated transgender individual under … |
| 24A590 |
Kevin Underwood v. Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
|
Denied |
|
clemency-proceedings death-row due-process fourteenth-amendment life-interest state-law |
Whether the Due Process Clause provides constitutional protections for death row inmates in state clemency proceedings that are mandated by state law |
| 24A592 |
Tahina Corcoran, as next friend on behalf of Joseph E. Corcoran v. Ron Neal, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
|
Denied |
|
competency death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-stay mental-illness schizophrenia |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a defendant with severe, untreated paranoid schizophrenia who was deemed incompetent to assist… |
| 25A669 |
Harold Wayne Nichols v. Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General of Tennessee, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
|
Denied |
|
due-process equal-protection execution-protocol fourteenth-amendment lethal-injection method-of-execution |
Question not identified. |
| 25A698 |
Frank Walls v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
|
Denied |
|
cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment lethal-injection medical-vulnerability pulmonary-edema |
Question not identified. |
| 25A693 |
Frank A. Walls v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
|
Denied |
|
atkins-claim constitutional-interpretation death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability |
Question not identified. |
| 25A892 |
Ronald Palmer Heath v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
|
Denied |
|
cruel-and-unusual drug-administration eighth-amendment lethal-injection method-of-execution protocol-violation |
Question not identified. |