| 25A1144 |
Johnny Lee Jacobs v. Florida |
Florida |
2026-04-16 |
Application |
|
florida-criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus pro-se-petitioner substantive-due-process writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 25-1189 |
Rocklin Unified School District v. Public Employment Relations Board, et al. |
California |
2026-04-16 |
Pending |
|
administrative-law due-process fourteenth-amendment gender-identity-policy labor-board-jurisdiction parental-rights |
1. Whether a state labor board's ruling invalidating a school district policy requiring parental notification when a student seeks to socially transit… |
| 25-1182 |
Anton Soloshenko v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2026-04-15 |
Pending |
|
court-martial due-process-clause fourteenth-amendment jury-unanimity sixth-amendment uniform-code-of-military-justice |
In Ramos v. Louisiana, 590 U.S. 83 (2020), this Court held that the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of a "trial . . . by an impartial jury," as incorporat… |
| 25-7206 |
Huong Gilmer Giaccio v. Meredith Lyon, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-04-15 |
Pending |
IFP |
first-amendment-retaliation fourteenth-amendment judicial-immunity prosecutorial-immunity retaliatory-enforcement subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. Whether municipal judges and prosecutors are entitled to absolute judicial or prosecutorial immunity when they act in the clear absence of subject-… |
| 25-1169 |
Shawn Matthew Kearns v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2026-04-14 |
Pending |
|
child-pornography computer-data forensic-evidence fourteenth-amendment gatekeeping sixth-amendment |
The Supreme Court of Virginia and the Virginia Court of Appeals erred by affirming the verdict of the Trial Court and the Trial Court's rulings and co… |
| 25-7188 |
Joseph Wuensch Ray v. Texas |
Texas |
2026-04-14 |
Pending |
IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-unanimity sixth-amendment |
Whether Texas Penal Code 21.02 violates theSSixth and Fourteenth
Amendments right to an unanimous jury verdict and requires a burden
of proof that i… |
| 25-1175 |
Archie Williams v. City of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-04-13 |
Pending |
|
civil-rights-section-1983 due-process fourteenth-amendment pretrial-identification qualified-immunity suggestiveness |
For the purposes of determining "clearly established" law under the qualified immunity analysis, does a Fourteenth Amendment claim alleging deprivatio… |
| 25-7180 |
Edward L. Clark, Jr. v. Deborah L. Clark |
California |
2026-04-13 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-review family-court fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigant subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment |
1. Does a person representing themselves as a prose litigant automatically forfeit his Fourteenth amendment rights to fair and equal protection under … |
| 25-7185 |
Raymond Sipult v. Kerrie Lonard, Kansas Office of the Child Advocate |
Kansas |
2026-04-13 |
Pending |
IFP |
due-process-clause fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion minor-welfare-rights state-official-action writ-of-mandamus |
1. Whether a state supreme court's denial of a writ of mandamus violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when the petitioner demons… |
| 25-7167 |
In Re Eli Angelino |
|
2026-04-09 |
Pending |
IFP |
access-to-courts due-process-clause first-amendment fourteenth-amendment in-forma-pauperis pro-se-litigation |
1. Whether a Clerk of Court violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments by "misconstruing"
an official judicial record —specifically by maintaining … |
| 25A1107 |
Aaron Murray v. Jeanette Miranda, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-04-08 |
Application |
|
administrative-grievance-system bivens-action deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-needs prisoner-rights |
1. This case presents two important questions on the application of this Court's Bivens case law to federal officials' unconstitutional deliberate ind… |
| 25A1105 |
W. R. Thompson v. David Louthan, Warden |
Oklahoma |
2026-04-07 |
Application |
|
due-process finality fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus state-court-judgment subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Question not identified. |
| 25-1156 |
Samsung SDI Company, Limited v. Shawn Peters |
Minnesota |
2026-04-07 |
Pending |
|
due-process-clause forum-contacts fourteenth-amendment personal-jurisdiction product-liability specific-jurisdiction |
Whether, in a product-liability action, the plaintiff's claims relate to the defendant's forum contacts when the defendant manufacturer sells the prod… |
| 25A1090 |
Michael Wayne Andrews v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2026-04-03 |
Denied |
|
destruction-of-evidence due-process-clause field-test-kit fourteenth-amendment suppression-of-evidence traffic-stop |
Question not identified. |
| 25A1086 |
Association for Education Fairness v. Montgomery County Board of Education, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-04-03 |
Application |
|
asian-american-discrimination diversity-in-education equal-protection fourteenth-amendment race-conscious-admissions selective-school-admissions |
Question not identified. |
| 25-1128 |
Ronnie Alexander v. Philip R. Taft Psy D and Associates P.L.L.C., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-03-26 |
Pending |
|
bell-v-wolfish conditions-of-confinement eighth-amendment estelle-v-gamble motion-to-dismiss pretrial-detainee-rights |
1. In Estelle v. Gamble , 429 U. S. 97 (1976), this
Court held that the government has an obligation to
provide care for the serious medical needs of … |
| 25A1050 |
Donna Birks, in her Individual Capacity as Latent Print Examiner v. Clemente Javier Aguirre-Jarquin |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-03-24 |
Application |
|
due-process fabricated-evidence fair-trial fourteenth-amendment materiality section-1983 |
Question not identified. |
| 25-1115 |
Utah v. Morris Thomas Mullins |
Utah |
2026-03-24 |
Pending |
|
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment incorrigibility juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole rehabilitation |
Whether a sentencing court can impose a sentence of life without parole on a juvenile murderer even if the court finds that the juvenile is not perman… |
| 25-7079 |
Nicholas Casavelli, et ux. v. Donna Johanson, et al. |
Arizona |
2026-03-23 |
Pending |
IFP |
civil-jury-trial due-process-clause fourteenth-amendment judicial-integrity pro-se-defendants vexatious-litigant |
Whether a state court violates the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause by conducting a civil jury trial in the absence of pro se defendants, whi… |
| 25-1106 |
James Ethridge v. Samsung SDI Company, Limited |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-03-23 |
Pending |
|
due-process-clause fourteenth-amendment minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction product-liability state-jurisdiction |
When a company directly and regularly sells a product into a state, and that product causes injury in the state to one of the state's residents, does … |
| 25-7087 |
Norman L. Scott, Sr. v. Trina Ragsdale |
New Jersey |
2026-03-23 |
Pending |
IFP |
administrative-delay anti-retroactivity-statute child-support-modification due-process-clause fourteenth-amendment vested-rights |
Whether a state court violates the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause, as interpreted in Logan v. Zimmerman Brush Co., 455 U.S. 422 (1982), by … |
| 25-7069 |
Neal Lee Minton v. Florida |
Florida |
2026-03-19 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
ability-to-pay constitutional-limits-on-punishment criminal-sentencing eighth-amendment excessive-fines-clause proportionality |
1. Whether the state court erred in upholding, contrary to U.S. v. Bajakajian, 524 U.S. 321 (1998), and the Excessive Fines Clause, a mandatory fine p… |
| 25A1030 |
Vlada Neal v. Prime Residential, et al. |
Oregon |
2026-03-19 |
Application |
|
due-process-clause eviction-procedure fourteenth-amendment landlord-tenant opportunity-to-be-heard restitution-judgment |
Question not identified. |
| 25-7060 |
Elizabeth Nelson, et vir v. Robert Scott, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-03-18 |
Pending |
IFP |
citizens-arrest civil-rights conspiracy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment illegal-search-and-seizure section-1983 state-action |
Does pro'se appellant state a cause of action under 4,5,14 th Amendment US Constitution, 42 USC Section 1983 for illegal search and seizure and Due Pr… |
| 25-7059 |
Jeremy Patrick Opie v. Shawn Wead, Warden, et al. |
Montana |
2026-03-18 |
Pending |
IFP |
double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sentencing |
Does a court have the obligation to address the specific argument presented in a petition for writ of habeas corpus in order to preserve the petitione… |
| 25-7057 |
Dianne Michele Carter v. April Maryam Kaiser, et al. |
North Carolina |
2026-03-18 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process-clause fourteenth-amendment judicial-transparency procedural-dismissal right-to-be-heard state-court-jurisdiction |
1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits a
state court to dismiss a litigant 's case on procedural grounds without affor… |
| 25-1096 |
Amika T. Clark v. Tyrus J. Clark |
South Carolina |
2026-03-18 |
Pending |
|
family-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment parental-rights prior-restraint strict-scrutiny |
Whether the First and Fourteenth Amendments permit a family court to impose an indefinite, content-based prior restraint on a parent's speech, based s… |
| 25A1018 |
Bradley Holcom v. Canby Builders Supply, an Oregon Corporation, et al. |
Oregon |
2026-03-17 |
Application |
|
appellate-jurisdiction dismissal-with-prejudice due-process-clause fourteenth-amendment judicial-order state-court-procedure |
Whether a state court violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when a written order contradicts the trial court's oral ruling and d… |
| 25-7036 |
Carlos Londarrius Stephens v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2026-03-13 |
Pending |
IFP |
acquittal double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment same-conduct-prosecution |
DOES THE 5TH AMENDMENT PROTECTION FROM "FORMER JEOPARDY" AS APPLIED TO STATES THROUGH THE 14TH AMENDMENT, UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION FOR THE REPUBLIC … |
| 25-7017 |
In Re Bobby R. Parker |
|
2026-03-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
AEDPA criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
1. Petitioner was Denied Counsel "AT TRIAL " in violation of 6th and 14th Amendments.
2. AEDPA is Unconstitutional as applied to facts of Petitioner … |
| 25-7016 |
Christopher Pullen v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2026-03-12 |
Pending |
IFP |
closing-argument due-process-clause evidentiary-standards fair-trial fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the Virginia Court of Appeals erred in holding that a prosecutor's closing argument- asserting as a "reasonable inference" that the complainin… |
| 25-7018 |
Michael L. King v. Florida |
Florida |
2026-03-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection habeas-corpus lethal-injection |
1. Whether the Florida courts' complete refusal to provide additional FDOC records to King, although he was willing to engage in additional negotiatio… |
| 25-6997 |
Allan M. Leavitt v. United Services Automobile Association, a Texas Department of Insurance Regulated Reciprocal Inter-insurance Exchange and Subsidiary, et al. |
First Circuit |
2026-03-10 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
class-certification compulsory-insurance due-process fourteenth-amendment personal-injury-protection rule-23 |
I. Because Rule 23 is mandatory as held in Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes, Amchem Products, Inc. v. Windsor, et al., were the Class Members' rights of… |
| 25-1066 |
Marian A. v. Corina G. |
California |
2026-03-10 |
Pending |
|
due-process-clause fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment impairment-of-contracts parental-rights witness-tampering |
1. Does the state of California 's sanctuary state policy
disproportionality grant special solicitude to Hispanic
illegal immigrants over and above … |
| 25-6984 |
In Re Billy Marvin Witt, III, et ux. |
|
2026-03-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus strip-search warrantless-arrest |
1. Whether the warrantless arrest and 24-hour detention of Petitioner Billy Marvin Witt III on April 3, 2024, violated his constitutional rights under… |
| 25A982 |
Edward Kang v. Mengxin Wu |
California |
2026-03-06 |
Application |
|
code-of-civil-procedure-section-473 due-process-clause evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment relief-from-default service-of-process |
Question not identified. |
| 25-1056 |
Wade R. Reeves v. Alisha M. Reeves, et al. |
California |
2026-03-06 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
constitutional-validity due-process-clause equal-protection-clause fourteenth-amendment judicial-authority record-suppression |
The Fourteenth Amendment guarantees that no State may deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. This Honorable Cour… |
| 25-6970 |
Andrew W. Bell v. Karli Swift, et al. |
Georgia |
2026-03-06 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction due-process election-contest equal-protection fourteenth-amendment notice-and-service |
1. Whether the Georgia Court of Appeals ' dismissal of an election-contest appeal
as untimely —despite the petitioner 's sworn affidavit of non-recei… |
| 25-6969 |
Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2026-03-06 |
Pending |
IFP |
access-to-courts due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment procedural-due-process sixth-amendment |
Did the Florida Supreme Court wrongly dismiss the Petitioner's appeal after Petitioner was arrested without any legal basis or cause, and the lower co… |
| 25-1055 |
Jessica Sweeney, et al. v. University of Colorado Hospital Authority, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2026-03-05 |
Pending |
Amici (1) |
due-process fourteenth-amendment investigational-drugs public-employees rational-basis-review rule-12(b)(6) |
Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in affirming dismissal under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6) on rational-basis review where the complaint pla… |
| 25-6959 |
Franklin Danuari Calix-Reyes v. Texas |
Texas |
2026-03-04 |
Pending |
IFP |
custodial-interrogation due-process Fifth-Amendment Fourteenth-Amendment Miranda-rights waiver-validity |
Did the 8th Court of Appeals of Texas err by ruling that the Petitioner voluntarily, knowingly and intelligently waived his Miranda rights when the re… |
| 25-6942 |
Albert Whitney Coburn v. Lara Brooke Seefeldt |
Washington |
2026-03-03 |
Pending |
IFP |
ability-to-pay child-support civil-contempt consumer-credit-protection-act fourteenth-amendment garnishment |
1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment permits a state court to impose civil contempt for
nonpayment without making the ability-to-pay findings required… |
| 25-1038 |
Edward Ronny Arnold v. Mountain Laural Assurance Company, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-03-03 |
Pending |
|
attorney-ethics due-process fourteenth-amendment insurance-coverage protective-orders service-of-process |
1. Whether the district court erred in not addressing defendant Deborah Malchow's December 29, 2023 default of service of civil action Edward Ronny Ar… |
| 25-1036 |
Anthony A. Browne v. Kimberly K. Reynolds, in Her Official Capacity as Governor of Iowa, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2026-03-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-conviction felon-disenfranchisement fourteenth-amendment restoration-of-rights right-to-bear-arms second-amendment |
Whether Iowa Code § 914.7 (2026) entitled "[r]ights not restorable " infringes the Petitioner 's right to keep and bear arms enshrined by the Second a… |
| 25-6939 |
Guadalupe Pelayo v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2026-03-03 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
colloquy fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment right-to-testify sixth-amendment structural-error |
I. Does the United States Constitution require a colloquy between the judge and a criminal defendant regarding the accused's decision on whether to te… |
| 25-6935 |
Andre Brian McGriff v. Florida |
Florida |
2026-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
CODIS-database DNA-evidence fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause warrantless-arrest |
Whether Petitioner was deprived of his rights under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments, where he was arrested and taken into custody without a warra… |
| 25-1031 |
Julius Janisse v. Martin Luther King Jr., Los Angeles (MLK-LA) Healthcare Corporation |
California |
2026-03-02 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
appearance-of-bias due-process fourteenth-amendment harmless-error-doctrine judicial-recusal structural-error |
1. Whether a state appellate court may resolve a properly presented federal appearance-of-bias claim exclusively under state-law recusal doctrine with… |
| 25-6926 |
Billy Leon Kearse v. Florida |
Florida |
2026-02-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review capital-punishment due-process-clause eighth-amendment intellectual-disability procedural-bar |
1. Given that the Florida Supreme Court affords a right to appeal to a capital defendant, even in the posture of a successive attempt to seek postconv… |
| 25A960 |
Billy Leon Kearse v. Florida |
Florida |
2026-02-28 |
Denied |
|
atkins-v-virginia capital-postconviction eighth-amendment intellectual-disability jury-bias sixth-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6902 |
Alejandro Ferrer v. Florida |
Florida |
2026-02-25 |
Pending |
IFP |
due-process-clause fourteenth-amendment habitual-felony-offender jury-trial-right sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Whether the Florida Legislature's removal of the jury from the fact finding process that authorized a judge to determine if it was necessary to protec… |
| 25-6907 |
Alicia Marie Richards v. Ryal W. Richards |
California |
2026-02-25 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process-clause equal-protection federal-removal-statute fourteenth-amendment removal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. Whether the California Court of Appeal lacked subject-matter jurisdiction over this removed action and misapplied the federal removal statute, 28 U… |
| 25-6901 |
Michael Baloga v. Brian D. Jacisin, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2026-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-deprivation due-process fourteenth-amendment official-immunity sovereign-immunity witness-tampering |
I. Whether the Pennsylvania court's application of Sovereign immunity conflicts with the Fourteenth amendment and Federal Constitutional Protections o… |
| 25-6873 |
Julius Jarreau Moore v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2026-02-23 |
Pending |
IFP |
capital-punishment exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
1) Whether the State's alleged egregious misconduct in both planting evidence in Petitioner Moore's bed to wrongfully tie him to the homicides, and by… |
| 25-996 |
Robert James McDonald v. Washington |
Washington |
2026-02-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
citizenship-status constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment military-jurisdiction war-powers |
Does Petitioner hold the citizenship status of being a Pre-March 9, 1933, private citizen of the United States secured by Section 1 of the Fourteenth … |
| 25-6864 |
Gregory Scott Person v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2026-02-20 |
Pending |
IFP |
corruption-of-minors criminal-statute first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech vagueness-doctrine |
1. Is the phrase "any act which corrupts or tends to corrupt" the morals of any minor in 18 Pa. C.S.A. § 6301 (a)( 1 )(i) vague and indefinite in viol… |
| 25-6862 |
Martez Abram v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2026-02-20 |
Pending |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstances arson capital-punishment eighth-amendment felony-murder sufficient-evidence |
1. Was the application of Mississippi's felony-murder aggravating factor and circumstance sufficient to meet the mandate of the Eighth Amendment to me… |
| 25A926 |
Melvin Trotter v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
2026-02-19 |
Denied |
|
cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment lethal-injection protocol-violation stay-of-execution |
Question not identified. |
| 25-992 |
Reginald Johnson v. City of Satsuma, Alabama, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-02-19 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights-act equal-protection-clause fourteenth-amendment racial-discrimination state-action |
Whether the City of Satsuma, acting in concert with Maurice Kirk Harless, individually and collectively, under color of law, deprived the plaintiff of… |
| 25-6854 |
Lonny Slade Glover v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2026-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ex-parte-communication fourteenth-amendment pro-se-defendant right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error |
1. Whether an unrecorded ex-parte communication between a trial judge and a deadlocked jury where the physical note of the communication was subsequen… |
| 25-6853 |
Melvin Trotter v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
2026-02-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
baze-glossip-test cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment lethal-injection maladministration method-of-execution |
This Court has determined that the Baze-Glossip test applies to all Eighth Amendment method of execution claims. This test has been expanded to encomp… |
| 25-6849 |
Vincent Terry v. McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC, et al. |
Georgia |
2026-02-18 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process fourteenth-amendment neutral-adjudication rule-36-summary-affirmance structural-due-process |
This case arises from a state-court adjudicative process in which the neutrality of decision making was called into question by sworn testimony descri… |
| 25-6844 |
Shannon Simpson v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2026-02-18 |
Pending |
IFP |
due-process-clause fourteenth-amendment impeachment-silence right-to-fair-trial sixth-amendment witness-disclosure |
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:… |
| 25-967 |
Pennsylvania v. Bette Eakin, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2026-02-17 |
Pending |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
anderson-burdick-test election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment mail-in-ballots voting-rights |
Does Pennsylvania's requirement that mail-in voters provide a handwritten date when signing a preprinted declaration on a ballot return envelope viola… |
| 25-6833 |
Israel Romero v. Charter Communications, Inc., et al. |
South Carolina |
2026-02-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure class-of-one due-process-clause equal-protection-clause fourteenth-amendment summary-judgment |
Whether South Carolina courts erred in applying "double standard" in a "class of one" in violation of the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses of … |
| 25-6832 |
Stanley Donald v. Carol Mici, Individually and as former Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Correction, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2026-02-17 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment habeas-corpus prison-conditions procedural-due-process |
Did the inmate state an actionable claim under the Federal Constitution's 8th Amendment when prison officials deliberately exposed him to COVID-19 and… |
| 25A914 |
Nicole Malliotakis, et al. v. Michael Williams, et al. |
New York |
2026-02-13 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
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 |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
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 |
Response WaivedIFP |
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… |
| 25-952 |
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… |
| 25-955 |
Delmart Ejm Vreeland, III v. Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. |
Colorado |
2026-02-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
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… |
| 25-6763 |
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… |
| 25-6777 |
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 |
Denied |
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… |
| 25-6768 |
In Re Mark Anthony Morris |
|
2026-02-10 |
Denied |
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… |
| 25-6766 |
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… |
| 25-943 |
Antonio M. Smith v. John Kind, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2026-02-09 |
Pending |
Amici (2) |
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 |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
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 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
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… |
| 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. |
| 25-926 |
Alexander Keely v. Pennsylvania Board of Law Examiners |
Pennsylvania |
2026-02-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
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… |
| 25-6717 |
Alaa Elkharwily v. Kaiser Permanente, et al. |
Washington |
2026-02-04 |
Denied |
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… |
| 25A873 |
Patricia Tillman v. Illinois State Board of Elections, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2026-02-04 |
Denied |
|
ballot-access candidate-exclusion election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment irreparable-harm |
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 |
Denied |
|
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… |
| 25-910 |
MEI-GSR Holdings, LLC, et al. v. Second Judicial District Court of Nevada, Washoe County, et al. |
Nevada |
2026-02-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
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 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
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 |
Denied |
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 |
Denied |
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 |
Denied |
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 |
Denied |
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… |
| 25-866 |
Charles Wright v. Monica Marie Wright |
Michigan |
2026-01-21 |
Denied |
|
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 … |
| 25-864 |
Daniel Otu v. Anita Whyte-Otu |
Georgia |
2026-01-21 |
Denied |
|
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… |
| 25-6634 |
Joseph D. Reaves v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2026-01-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
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 … |
| 25-6623 |
Hamed Kian v. Florida |
Florida |
2026-01-20 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse 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 |
Denied |
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… |
| 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. |
| 25-6607 |
Kevin Esaud Perez Rojas v. Florida |
Florida |
2026-01-16 |
Denied |
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… |
| 25-852 |
Kimberly Edelstein v. Eliott Edelstein |
Ohio |
2026-01-16 |
Denied |
|
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 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
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… |
| 25-835 |
Jean-Francois Rigollet v. Le Macaron Development, LLC |
Florida |
2026-01-15 |
Denied |
|
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… |
| 25-836 |
Rockland County, New York, et al. v. New York, et al. |
New York |
2026-01-15 |
Denied |
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… |
| 25-6579 |
Robert Keaton v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-01-14 |
Denied |
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 |
Denied |
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… |
| 25-822 |
Thomas DeCola v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2026-01-12 |
Denied |
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… |
| 25-6552 |
Angeliina Lynn Lawson v. Jonathan David Lawson |
Tenth Circuit |
2026-01-12 |
Denied |
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… |
| 25-6537 |
David T. Everett v. Sarah E. Tharrett, as Successor Trustee of the Roxine Poznich Revocable Trust |
Kansas |
2026-01-09 |
Denied |
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. |
| 25A792 |
Anthony A. Browne v. Kimberly K. 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… |
| 25-805 |
Kerry Kruskal v. Alan Maestas, et al. |
New Mexico |
2026-01-08 |
Denied |
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… |
| 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. |
| 25-798 |
Rick Siegel v. Jude Salazar |
California |
2026-01-07 |
Denied |
Amici (6)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 … |
| 25-6509 |
Charles Bocock v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2026-01-07 |
Denied |
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 |
Denied |
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 … |
| 25-6495 |
Jason Elysse v. Florida |
Florida |
2026-01-06 |
Denied |
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 |
Denied |
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… |
| 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… |
| 25-6476 |
Demond Depree Bluntson v. Texas |
Texas |
2026-01-05 |
Denied |
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 WaivedRelisted (2) |
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 |
Denied |
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 |
Denied |
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… |
| 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. |
| 25-755 |
The Society of Apostolic Church Ministries Bishop, Elizabeth Gardner Corporation Sole and Her Successors v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-29 |
Denied |
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… |
| 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 |
Denied |
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 |
Denied |
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 |
Denied |
|
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 |
Presumed Complete |
|
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 |
Denied |
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… |
| 25-6378 |
Kriston Price v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2025-12-16 |
Denied |
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 |
Presumed Complete |
|
eighth-amendment hirschsprung-disease incontinence medical-indifference medical-treatment prisoner-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 25-6365 |
Timothy Robert Provo v. Geoffrey W. Tenney, Individually and as Judge, Tenth Judicial District, Wright County, Minnesota, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-12-15 |
Rehearing |
Relisted (2)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 |
Denied |
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 |
Presumed Complete |
|
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 |
Denied |
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 |
Denied |
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 |
Denied |
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 |
Denied |
|
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… |
| 25-671 |
In Re Mark Christopher Tracy |
|
2025-12-09 |
Denied |
|
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… |
| 25-6322 |
Jeremy Ian Frieday v. Washington |
Washington |
2025-12-09 |
Denied |
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… |
| 25-6308 |
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… |
| 25-6317 |
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… |
| 25-6291 |
Georgianna Parisi v. Estate of Jackie Jones, et al. |
Ohio |
2025-12-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)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… |
| 25-6305 |
Anthony Darrell Heath v. Kathy Brittain, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Frackville, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-12-05 |
Denied |
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… |
| 25A661 |
Oregon, et al. v. Paul Maney, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-04 |
Presumed Complete |
|
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 |
Presumed Complete |
|
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 |
Denied |
|
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… |
| 25A618 |
Antonio M. Smith v. John Kind, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-11-25 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment excessive-force prison-conditions qualified-immunity |
1. This case presents a significant question of law—namely, what circumstances must exist for the "obvious violation" doctrine to preclude application… |
| 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 … |
| 25-610 |
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… |
| 25-6208 |
Matthew Peckham v. Rhode Island |
Rhode Island |
2025-11-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
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… |
| 25-6164 |
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… |
| 25-6172 |
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 WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
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… |
| 25-6150 |
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… |
| 25-577 |
Chaldean Coalition, Inc. v. San Diego County Independent Redistricting Commission, et al. |
California |
2025-11-14 |
Denied |
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… |
| 25A569 |
Eric Drake v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-11-14 |
Denied |
|
deferred-adjudication due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment probation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. Whether the Court may stay or render void, the entire state deferred probation order entered by a judge who lacked subject-matter jurisdiction, in … |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 25-6120 |
In Re Steven Michael Backstrom |
|
2025-11-14 |
Denied |
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 |
Relisted (7) |
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… |
| 25-6059 |
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… |
| 25-6061 |
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… |
| 25-552 |
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 |
Presumed Complete |
|
batson-violation fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-selection racial-discrimination sixth-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 25-541 |
Benjamin Schoenthal, et al. v. Kwame Raoul, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-11-04 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
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 |
Rehearing |
Relisted (2) |
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 |
Presumed Complete |
|
due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-appointment judicial-integrity jurisdictional-defect state-court-procedure |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 25-6011 |
John De Light v. Laura De Light, et al. |
California |
2025-10-31 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)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… |
| 25-533 |
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… |
| 25-6004 |
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 … |
| 25-5996 |
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 |
When performing a comparative analysis to determine whether an alternative means of execution would significantly reduce a substantial risk of severe … |
| 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 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
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 Court of Criminal Appeals' decision upholding the trial court's denial of Mr. Bluntson's request to represent himself because he allegedly… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 25A406 |
Samuel Lee Smithers v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-10-08 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment execution-stay meaningful-hearing |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 25-5827 |
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 … |
| 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 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
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 |
Relisted (2) |
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 |
Denied |
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… |
| 25-5798 |
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… |
| 25-401 |
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… |
| 25-5789 |
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 (… |
| 25-5780 |
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… |
| 25-5778 |
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… |
| 25-389 |
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… |
| 25-371 |
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… |
| 25-364 |
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… |
| 25-365 |
Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Barbara, et al. |
First Circuit |
2025-09-29 |
Granted |
Amici (68)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… |
| 25-5749 |
Victor Saldano v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-09-29 |
Pending |
Relisted (2)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… |
| 25-5754 |
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… |
| 25-5757 |
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… |
| 25A360 |
Henry B. Berrocal v. San Antonio Police Department-Headquarters, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-29 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights eighth-amendment fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 25-5738 |
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… |
| 25-5732 |
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… |
| 25-5730 |
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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| 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. … |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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.… |
| 25-324 |
Richard William Kleinhammer v. California |
California |
2025-09-18 |
Denied |
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… |
| 25-321 |
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… |
| 25-5662 |
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 |
Denied |
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… |
| 25-5659 |
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, … |
| 25-5642 |
Tonnerrious Jamarcus McGee v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-09-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)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… |
| 25-305 |
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 … |
| 25-301 |
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… |
| 25-5628 |
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 |
1. This case presents an important question of federal law to resolve: in order to overcome qualified immunity and proceed on a claim of deliberate in… |
| 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… |
| 25-5605 |
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… |
| 25-5589 |
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… |
| 25-279 |
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… |
| 25-5583 |
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 |
Denied |
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 … |
| 25-5523 |
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… |
| 25-5525 |
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 '… |
| 25-5511 |
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 … |
| 25-241 |
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… |
| 25-238 |
Cutberto Viramontes, et al. v. Cook County, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-08-29 |
Pending |
Amici (1)Relisted (12) |
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. |
| 25-5498 |
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… |
| 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… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 Ninth Circuit correctly applied the first step of the Egbert v. Boule test by holding that a case involving a federal detention center's r… |
| 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 |
|
bristol-myers-squibb class-action due-process fourteenth-amendment nationwide-class personal-jurisdiction |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5398 |
Ricky L. Miller, Jr. v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-08-19 |
Denied |
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 … |
| 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… |
| 25-5397 |
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… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5378 |
Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Mark H. Slimak |
Florida |
2025-08-15 |
Denied |
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… |
| 25-5371 |
Douglas Manning v. Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney General of New Jersey |
Third Circuit |
2025-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights correctional-facility cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment prisoner-treatment |
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| 25-189 |
Ron J. Waterman v. Robyn B. Waterman |
Massachusetts |
2025-08-15 |
Denied |
|
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, … |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 25-176 |
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… |
| 25-5341 |
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.… |
| 25-5350 |
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… |
| 25A182 |
Morgan Joseph Langan v. Chip Davis, et al. |
Arizona |
2025-08-13 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-protections due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines petition-rights republican-form-of-government |
When a local government, imposes excessive fines in violation of Amendment VIII
to the Constitution; can the right to petition the government for redr… |
| 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 |
|
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… |
| 25-131 |
David C. L. Walton v. Ashley Nehls |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-08-04 |
Denied |
|
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… |
| 25-5264 |
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… |
| 25-5265 |
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 … |
| 25A136 |
Byron Black v. Frank Strada, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Corrections, et al. |
Tennessee |
2025-08-01 |
Denied |
|
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment execution-protocol implanted-cardioverter-defibrillator irreparable-harm lethal-injection |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 25-5239 |
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… |
| 25-5234 |
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… |
| 25-5232 |
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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 25A101 |
John Allen Rubio v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-24 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-murder eighth-amendment false-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 25-96 |
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 … |
| 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 |
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… |
| 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. |
| 25-5175 |
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… |
| 25A69 |
Nicholas Lupo, et al. v. Tre Hargett, Tennessee Secretary of State, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-07-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
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… |
| 25-5129 |
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… |
| 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… |
| 25A65 |
Byron Lewis Black v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2025-07-16 |
Denied |
|
capital-punishment common-law-tradition competency-to-be-executed eighth-amendment evolving-standards-of-decency intellectual-disability |
Question not identified. |
| 25A53 |
Victor Saldano v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-07-14 |
Presumed Complete |
|
atkins-claim competency-to-execute death-penalty eighth-amendment expert-testimony intellectual-disability |
Question not identified. |
| 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 … |
| 25A50 |
Alfonso E. Chavez Ayub v. Alfonso Chavez Pacheco |
Texas |
2025-07-11 |
Presumed Complete |
|
due-process fourteenth-amendment international-law probate-law property-rights treaty-obligations |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5084 |
Douglas Manning v. Administrator, East Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force prisoner-rights |
X claims that bfifendanX action of failure to
Act aMou/Adl 40 a<)eJhVation of AU Planning fi'qhj-
To reasonable Protection Prom aS5ccu.lt aS Proi4ct… |
| 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… |
| 25-5083 |
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 … |
| 25-37 |
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… |
| 25-38 |
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… |
| 25-5079 |
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… |
| 25-5068 |
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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 25-5024 |
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… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 24A1287 |
Kenneth J. Jouppi v. Alaska |
Alaska |
2025-06-26 |
Presumed Complete |
|
alcohol-transportation dry-village eighth-amendment excessive-fines forfeiture mandatory-seizure |
1. In 2019, this Court held that the Eighth Amendment's "[p]rotection against excessive punitive economic sanctions" is both "fundamental to our schem… |
| 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 |
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… |
| 24-7495 |
Jose Mario Lopez Carrillo v. Karin Arnold, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Corrections Center, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment |
1. Whether fail to provide Discover was ineffectice assistance of Counsel ?
2. Whether the indictment of information-was deficient by laking elements… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 24-7491 |
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 |
1. In a method-of-execution challenge based on the Eighth Amendment, does this Court's jurisprudence require lower courts to assess the substantiality… |
| 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, as set forth in Beck v. Alabama, when th… |
| 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 |
1. Whether a state appellate court violates the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause by sua sponte imposing an unargued, heightened evidentiary b… |
| 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 |
Does a trial court violate a defendant's rights under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments when it permits prosecutorial and police vouching for a witn… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
1. Whether Florida abused its discretion in denying Gudinas's demand for public records from the Executive Office of the Governor, in violation of Gud… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits application of the doctrine of issue preclusion to a party who did not participa… |
| 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 |
Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment require explicit notice and an opportunity to be heard when a court delays the imposition of c… |
| 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 |
1. In a civil trial where the trial judge precludes a self-represented plaintiff from offering material evidence, comments that the plaintiff is not a… |
| 24-1273 |
Jonathan Phillips v. California |
California |
2025-06-13 |
Denied |
|
due-process equal-protection felony-false-imprisonment fourteenth-amendment nolo-contendere plea-bargaining |
1. Does a felony false imprisonment conviction obtained by way of a nolo contendere plea violate the due process protections of the Fifth and Fourteen… |
| 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 |
Did the State of Connecticut violate the petitioner's 1st and 14th Amendment rights when it imposed a no contact order (CPO) for speech/conduct that w… |
| 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 |
1. Defense Counsel was ineffective for failing to request a pretrial immunity hearing based on erroneous reasoning that Appellant was not entitled to … |
| 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 |
California Labor Code Sections 2802 and 2804 govern the indemnification of employees for necessary expenditures or losses incurred by the employee in … |
| 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 |
1. ) Whether jurists of reason would find it debatable that a Certificate
of Appealability ("COA") should have been issued under Slack v. McDaniel , … |
| 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 |
1. Whether the state of Kentucky violated the
Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by
enforcing an illegal tax lien, depriving the petitio… |
| 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 |
California's 1928 Constitutional Amendment withdrew au
thority for California Supreme Court (CSC) to adopt appel
late rules, after giving that author… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's persistent and fundamental misapprehension of this Court's holding in Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), an… |
| 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 |
Question (1)
In light of Mitchell v. United States, 526 U.S. 314,119 S.Ct. 1307,
143 L. Ed. 2d 424 (1999) and Erlinger v. United States, 144 S.Ct.
1… |
| 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, consistent with the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, a waiver of the right to a jury trial is intelligent when the record does not show the d… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Tennessee Supreme Court erred in failing to hold that Tennessee Supreme Court Rule 9, the enforcement provision for alleged ethical vio… |
| 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 |
1. Whether a state court may completely remove a parent's constitutionally protected right to the care, custody, and control of their child through a … |
| 24A1175 |
Kevin Salvador Golphin v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2025-06-02 |
Presumed Complete |
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cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment juvenile-offender life-without-parole miller-v-alabama rehabilitation |
Question not identified. |
| 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 … |
| 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 |
1. Whether the District Court Judge Joseph Hardy, Jr., erred when considering the Findings of Fact, Conclusion of law order and Final Judgment.
2. Wh… |
| 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… |
| 24-7252 |
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 |
1. In a challeng e under Ramos v. Louisiana 590 U.S. 83, 140 S. Ct. 1390, 206 L. Ed. 2d 583
(2020), where the record is silent as to the votes on the … |
| 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 |
1. What do the litigant and accused do when the state court and the appellant court says two different things?
2. Whether procedures the United State… |
| 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 |
1. What do the litigant and accused do when the state court and the appellant court says two different things?
2. Whether procedures the United State… |
| 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 |
1. What do the litigant and accused do when the state court and the appellant court says two different things?
2. Whether procedures the United State… |
| 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… |
| 24-1180 |
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. |
| 24-7235 |
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 RADICAL JURISDICTIONAL DEFECT BY NOT FOLLOWING MICHIGAN'S LAW AND STANDARDS SET FORTH BY MCL's, MCR's, AND FOURTH, FIF… |
| 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 |
Q. Whether the courts violated U. S. Const. Ann. art. Ill, § 2, cl. 1.6.1 Overview of Standing, when the courts allowed a fictitious named person, not… |
| 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 |
1. Did the trial court violate Elizabeth Fitzgibbon's due process and equal protection rights under the Fourteenth Amendment by:
• Losing the parties… |
| 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… |
| 24-7172 |
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 sentences which are disproportionate?
If so, is Life Without Parole disproportionate for a capital murder
convict… |
| 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 |
Glen Edward Rogers is currently facing execution in Florida while suffering from the effects of Porphyria disease, a blood disorder. The state courts … |
| 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, given this medical consensus, the original meaning of the Eighth Amendment, and this Court's rulings in Atkins and Roper, a state may constit… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Ninth Circuit's interpretation of
18 U.S.C. § 1595(c) forecloses equitable tolling and
continuing violation principles for trafficking … |
| 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 |
1. ) Does Fed. R. Civ. P. Rule 26 (a)(1)( B)(iv.) deny Initial Disclosure to incarcerated, pro se litigants, simply because they are not represented b… |
| 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 |
1. Does a finding of competency because a petitioner has a "rational understanding of the fact of his pending execution and the reason for it[,]" sole… |
| 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 |
1. As there are conflicting decisions amongst state courts of last resort concerning a constitutional issue, in accordance with Rule X(h), this matter… |
| 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 |
1. As the dissent below highlights, does "due process require [] more" than what has occurred in this death warrant case, including the unnoticed trun… |
| 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 |
1) Whether a Certificate of Appealability should have issued because reasonable jurists would find debatable or wrong the district court's conclusion … |
| 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… |
| 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 |
1. As there are conflicting decisions amongst state courts of last resort concerning a constitutional issue, in accordance with Rule X(b), this matter… |
| 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 |
Joa Fulcher denied his Fundamental right to Due Process as Guaranteed by the 5th and 14th Amendments of the United States Constitution, and Article II… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the district court's dismissal of Petitioner's case without permitting the development of the record deprived Petitioner of a meaningful op… |
| 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 |
IS CERTIORARI APPROPRIATE BECAUSE PETITIONER WAS DENIED HER RIGHT TO PRESENT A DEFENSE IN VIOLATION OF US CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS V, VI AND XIV?
IS… |
| 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 |
Where an incarcerated and indigent parent is in a suit to terminate their parental rights, what circumstances reach the "troublesome points of law," "… |
| 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 affirmed the defendant's convictions … |
| 24A969 |
Judy A. Brannberg, et al. v. Jefferson County Public Schools, et al. |
Colorado |
2025-04-11 |
Denied |
|
charter-schools due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct section-1983 sherman-antitrust-act |
1. Whether this Court should grant an emergency injunction to prevent
Douglas County School District (""DCSD"), Jefferson County Public
Schools ("Jeff… |
| 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 |
1. Reasonable jurists would determined that the trial court committed error in providing an Allen charge to the jury when they advised a deadlock and … |
| 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 |
Regarding [FERPA] 20 U.S.C § 1232g(a)(lXA):
I. Does 20 U.S.C § 1232g(a)(l)(A) use "rights-creating language " to infer that a
student has a right to … |
| 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 |
When a Judge of Compensation Claims (JCC) rules a lack of jurisdiction over an employee's claim of a Fourteenth Amendment violation, does such a deter… |
| 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 |
1. Whether a court must provide notice and an opportunity to be heard under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 56(e)(2) when awarding summary judgment.
… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
1. Whether Florida may limit a penalty phase jury's role under the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments based on Spaziano v. Florida, a case which… |
| 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 TO PROCESS FRAUDULENT APPEALS BY THE ELEVENTH DISTRICT COURT OF APPEALS OF OHIO WARRANTED THE ISSUANCE OF A WR… |
| 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 |
1. ) Did the lower courts erroneously failed to acknowledge and apply the
correct laws and facts surrounding Petitioners circumstances during
his cus… |
| 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 for the Fifth Appellate District's affirmation of the denial of Petitioner's motion to suppress is repugnant to the … |
| 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 |
Faced with a Section 1983 substantive due process claim under a "state-created danger" exception to the general rule that there is no constitutional d… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Oregon Supreme Court's denial of the Petition for Judicial Review, despite acknowledging systemic racism and discrimination, violates t… |
| 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… |
| 24-6894 |
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 establish an improperly high standard for demonstrating "serious deterioration in physical or mental health because of the … |
| 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 |
1. Did the Ninth Circuit err when it disregarded Petitioner Taum's argument that Hudson v. McMillian, 503 U.S. 1 (1992) was wrongly decided and should… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the state Supreme Court's decision, which find a Jandlord-tenant relationship
based on an implied rental agreement without clear evidence o… |
| 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? |
| 24-6880 |
Charles Christopher Wendell v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-03-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-impeachment |
GROUND ONE:
WHETHER THE FAILURE TO ADEQUATELY IMPEACH A WITNESS, IN A WHOLLY
CREDIBILITY CASE, CONSTITUTES A VIOLATION OF THE SIXTH AMENDMENT 'S
GUA… |
| 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 |
1. IS one merits bond appeal exist and are much invalidated by a State Court as review, should Federal Court address one lack KH as a second of Unt co… |
| 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… |
| 24-6847 |
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 … |
| 24-1010 |
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 |
In the professional conduct review concerning Petitioner, Raphael Weitzman, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed, without de novo review, the … |
| 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… |
| 24-1000 |
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 Petitioner's First Amendment right by retaliating (repeatedly) (e.g. arbitrarily doubling Petitioner's bail, denying Pe… |
| 24A898 |
Angela Schuncey Richardson v. Krystle Reed Duncan, Corporal |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-03-18 |
Presumed Complete |
|
corrections-officer cruel-and-unusual-punishment custodial-sexual-abuse eighth-amendment excessive-force prisoner-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 24-993 |
Gabriel Olivier v. City of Brandon, Mississippi |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-18 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (32)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
civil-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment heck-v-humphrey prospective-relief section-1983 |
Gabriel Olivier is a Christian who feels called to share the gospel with his fellow citizens. After being arrested and fined for violating an ordinanc… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
Petitioner Edward Thomas James is scheduled to be executed by the State of Florida on March 20, 2025, based on a non-unanimous jury sentencing verdict… |
| 24-6778 |
Jessie Hoffman v. Gary Westcott, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment execution-method nitrogen-gassing religious-freedom rluipa |
1. Whether a method of execution that superadds psychological suffering—including terror and mental anguish—compared to an available alternative metho… |
| 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 |
Did the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court and The Pennsylvania Supreme Court err, abuse discretion and violate Petitioner's 4th, 6th, and 14th Amendment… |
| 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 U.S. Constitution First Amendment right to freedom of speech and right to petition the court to redress gr… |
| 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 OF THE CONSTITUTION WHEN IT FAILED TO SET ASIDE … |
| 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 any reasoning, and its failure to duly consid… |
| 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… |
| 24-6748 |
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 |
1) Under the ever evolving standards that mark the progress of a maturing society, does the Eighth Amendments prohibition against cruel and unusual pu… |
| 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 |
Petition to review a "constitutional question".
Petitioner contends that the lower court 's decision has
incorrectly interpreted or applied a provis… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
1. Was the exposure to COVID-19 sufficiently serious enough to trigger an
Eighth Amendment protection?
2. Does the permanent loss of the sense of sme… |
| 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 |
Petitioner received a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for felony murder. He was twenty years old at the time… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6673 |
Israel Romero v. Meta Platforms Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-02-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
court-of-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment half-truth judicial-bias procedural-error |
Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteen Amendment requires recusal of a judge when there are multiple instances of bias, including half-truths,… |
| 24-934 |
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 |
Petitioner sued state bar officials after they mishandled his grievances against attorneys who falsely accused him of illegal conduct. His suit allege… |
| 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 |
I. Whether the denial of the Applicant's Suggestion of Reconsideration violates the Eighth Amendment protection against cruel and unusual punishment i… |
| 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 |
1. Whether punishing a common-law infant in violation of a substantive rule of criminal procedure when devoid of the requisite knowledge and guilty me… |
| 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 |
1. Whether section 790.23(1)(b), Florida Statutes, which criminalizes the possession and ownership of a firearm by people under the age of 24 who have… |
| 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 |
Is Petitioner's case moot simply because the 2024 midterms are over and he has expressed a desire to run for the 2026 midterms as the 4th Circuit note… |
| 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 |
1. Did the lower court's failure to ensure timely delivery of judgment and opinion documents violate my due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendm… |
| 24A801 |
Michael Anthony Galluzzo v. Robin K. Edwards, Champaign County Treasurer |
Ohio |
2025-02-19 |
Presumed Complete |
|
arbitrary-government-interference due-process-clause fourteenth-amendment fundamental-liberties jurisdictional-dismissal right-to-be-heard |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
How should courts assess whether the representation of a group is fair and reasonable?
What is necessary to show an underrepresentation is "systemati… |
| 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 |
Does law enforcement's involvement in the arrest
and use of force against Ms. Kynnedi 'Rae Charles
potentially violate fundamental constitutional
prot… |
| 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 |
It is undisputed that a state may not condition participation in its elections on the payment of a fee. In this case, the uncontroverted evidence esta… |
| 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 |
Respondent Moscow, Idaho has an ordinance prohibiting "any notice, sign, announcement, or other advertising matter" in the public square without the p… |
| 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 |
Does law enforcement quasi-legal representations that a truth verification machine is 100% accurate, combined with numerous acts of deception during a… |
| 24-6531 |
Mary Ruffin v. Mark Henry |
Texas |
2025-02-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
court-fees fourteenth-amendment judicial-authority jurisdictional-challenge mandamus-writ procedural-due-process |
Whether the lower court's failure to honor a Statement of Inability to Afford Payment of Court Costs after filing, without any contest, thereby imposi… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
The Eighth Amendment prohibits prison guards from intentionally denying or delaying access to medical care. Respondents failed to immediately start su… |
| 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 |
Did a 17 year unjustified delay in filing a
murder charge violate petitioner's due process rights
under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments andthe cle… |
| 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 |
This case presents one of first impression and of national importance and significance because it conflicts with well-established rules and principles… |
| 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 |
1. Is Rule 10B, Rules Of The Supreme Court Of The
State Of Tennessee (" Rule 10B ") (App. C, No. 6) (App.
pp. 7a-10a) a structural constitutional vi… |
| 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 |
I* Should F\of\Aa's CouvfK coKvHnue 4t) be 4r> _ .
ntuAx) «w+e<i &udS* unJw S^o.^^c)^ FU.SMr.j u,U]<Mhm^
mol«+ef it&uAVps a conun*iH«A fc
of offense.… |
| 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 the lower courts' legal standard as applied to false testimony claims conflicts with this Court's le… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
In Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 388 (1971), the Court recognized an implied cause of action under the C… |
| 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… |
| 24-791 |
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 |
1. Did the bankruptcy judge enter an illegal judgment and violate Petitioner's right to a jury trial in district court on the tort claims?
2. Are the… |
| 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 |
1. Was a State Appellate Courts Finding that the States Prosecutorial Misconduct and Conditioning during Voir Dire was waived by Failure to Raise thes… |
| 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… |
| 24-6356 |
RonAllen Hardy v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2025-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brain-development cognitive-maturity cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing miller-principles |
1. Whether sentencing RonAllen Hardy to life without parole, despite his
being 18 years and 5 months old at the time of the offense and developmental… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 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 |
The OCR quality of this document is too degraded to reliably extract the "Question(s) Presented" section verbatim. While a section labeled "QUESTION(S… |
| 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 |
1. DOES CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTION ARTICLE V, SECTION 8(b) VIOLATE THE U.S. CONSTITUTION'S DUE PROCESS CLAUSE BECAUSE OF THE INTOLERABLE RISK THAT PUBLIC… |
| 24-6320 |
Aaron Abadi v. Eric L. Adams, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights executive-powers first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review vaccine-mandate |
Does the enforcement of COVID-19 vaccine mandates violate individual rights protected under the First and Fourteenth Amendments?
Should the unchecked… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 … |
| 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 evidence that a criminal defendant possesses guns, weapons that are -'totally unrelated to the criminal allegation against him, … |
| 24A688 |
Thomas Creech v. Idaho |
Idaho |
2025-01-14 |
Presumed Complete |
|
botched-execution cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-attempt resweber-precedent |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
The trial court recognized Mr. Gutierrez only spoke Spanish and appointed an interpreter for him —but the interpreter was prohibited from translating … |
| 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 |
First, does a Circuit Court retain jurisdiction to consider the merits of an appeal from an order granting federal habeas relief if a state court vaca… |
| 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 |
The history of U.S. Supreme Court decisions demonstrate that a Court of Appeals should grant a pro se plaintiff IFP status, pursuant to 28 U.S.C, §191… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
1. According to Williams v. Pennsylvania, 579 U.S. 1 (2016) ("Williams"), is Rule 10B of the Rules of Tennessee Supreme Court ("Rule 10B") a structura… |
| 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 |
I. Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals (OCCA) violated Petitioner's statutory rights under the Oklahoma Post-Conviction DNA pursuant to Okl… |
| 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 |
I. Whether Trial Counsel Was Ineffective, Under Strickland . For Failing to Follow Through With Brown's Causation Defense Theory By Failing To Request… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 FO… |
| 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 a court must take into account a person's mental health crisis in assessing the voluntariness of custodial, non-Mirandized statements. |
| 24A638 |
John Paul Gomez v. Judge Dan Favreau, et al. |
Ohio |
2024-12-30 |
Denied |
|
access-to-courts constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment vexatious-litigator |
For my motion to stay, I raise the following questions:
a. Whether the Ohio Supreme Court's denial of my request for leave to file a motion to
stay o… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
Because it is a structural constitutional right, can any litigant for any reason agree, by waiver or can a State for any reason forfeit any litigant's… |
| 24A619 |
Tonia Scott v. Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2024-12-20 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-prosecution due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction native-american tribal-sovereignty |
Question not identified. |
| 24A608 |
Miguel Adan Cayetano v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-12-19 |
Presumed Complete |
|
confrontation-clause due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
Where a state actor sexually assaults and kidnaps a fellow employee "under color of law," does 18 U.S.C. § 242 proscribe as a sentencing option the de… |
| 24A602 |
Zackery Terrell v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-12-18 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-procedure eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance plea-bargain right-to-counsel sentencing-guidelines |
Question not identified. |
| 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 by abandoning comparative proportionality review in death penalty appeals - - while dismantling other safeguards, and in… |
| 24A595 |
Wayne Sellers, IV v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2024-12-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-culpability eighth-amendment felony-murder life-without-parole proportionality youth-sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
1. The Trial Court's error in refusing to give the Virginia
Model Jury Instruction on Circumstantial Evidence
violated the Appellant's 6th and 14th … |
| 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 |
There can be only one correct judicial interpretation of the original intent of the Constitution. Courts have departed from this one correct interpret… |
| 24A576 |
Indiana Green Party, et al. v. Diego Morales, Indiana Secretary of State |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-12-12 |
Denied |
|
ballot-access election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-parties signature-requirements |
Question not identified. |
| 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 Texa s sexual assault statute, which
provides for an increased penalty if the offender was married at the time
of the … |
| 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 |
I. DID THE WYOMING SUPREME COURT APPLY AND FOLLOW FEDERAL RULES OF EVIDENCE CORRECTLY?
II. WAS THE WYOMING SUPREME COURT'S DECISION ARBITRARY, CAPRIC… |
| 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 |
I. WHETHER AN APPELLATE COURT VIOLATES THE DUE PROCESS CLAUSE OF THE FIFTH AMENDMENT BY DISMISSING AN APPEAL BASED SOLELY ON PROCEDURAL DEFICIENCIES, … |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires a State to apply to the resentencing of a criminal defendant, a rule of law defining… |
| 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 |
1. Does South Dakota 's position, in its statutory required appointment of counsel for
indigent prisoners in habeas proceedings (SDCL § 21-27-4) there… |
| 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… |
| 24-6086 |
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 |
Where Supreme Court precedent has been usurped by a United States District Court decision regarding the lasciviousness standard applied in cases of (a… |
| 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 |
1. Did the false information provided by the opposing party to initiate a child support case violate the petitioner's constitutional rights to fair le… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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, in a state court, from eschea… |
| 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 run afoul of Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002), when it ignored an applicant's full range of IQ scores in favor of a single … |
| 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 a State to apply to the resentencing of a criminal defendant, a rule of law defining an… |
| 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 |
In 2022, the Alabama Legislature enacted a categorical ban on the use of certain medical treatments for transgender minors. The ban applies when the t… |
| 24A533 |
Adeena Weiss-Ortiz v. Carolina Weiss, et al. |
Florida |
2024-12-03 |
Denied |
|
due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment independent-judgment proposed-judgment trial-court |
Question not identified. |
| 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 Due Process Clause, equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, and the litigants' right to access justi… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's equal-protection clause requires scrutiny when the state treats men and women differently for purportedly non-pr… |
| 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 |
1. Under the Eighth Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause, Are juvenile offenders entitled to a review of his or her sentence if they are serving … |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 24A523 |
Willie R. Burgess, Jr. v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2024-11-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-murder death-penalty eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing postconviction state-review |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
IS A PETITIONER'S FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT RIGHT OF DUE PROCES VIOLATED WHEN A DISTRICT COURT DOES NOT ALLOW A PETITIONER AN EXTENSION TO OBJECT TO THE RE… |
| 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 |
On his campaign website seeking election to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, a judge provided a link to a news story praising his ruling that Davi… |
| 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 |
1. Does the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments due process of law guarantee apply to the sentencing of a criminal defendant?
2. Where a district court r… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 absence of the right to counsel and access to transcripts in family court proceedings—such as divorce and child custody —constitutes a violation … |
| 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 UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ERRED BY DISMISSING THE APPEAL WHEN PETITIONER HAD IN FACT PROPERLY EXHAUS… |
| 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 |
I. 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 n… |
| 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 |
1. May a state court elect to contravene its own state laws, which explicitly require the award of legal fees and representation of counsel, in violat… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
1. Does the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment bar a method of execution that includes conscious suffocation?
2. Does the… |
| 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 |
1. Mississippi's harsh and unforgiving felony disenfranchisement scheme is a national outlier. Section 241 of the Mississippi Constitution punishes ci… |
| 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 Fourteenth Amendment… |
| 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 both the District Court and Sixth Circuit erred in determining that the District Court was entitled to apply the 10:1 enhancement for methamph… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the FCA's statutory civil penalty must be limited to a single-digit multiplier of the actual damages under the Eighth Amendment, in a non-i… |
| 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 (trial, appellate, and supreme) violating self-represented litigants' constitutional rights to d… |
| 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 |
1. DID THE FRANKLIN COUNTY COURT OF COMMON PLEAS VIOLATE THE PETITIONER'S FOURTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS BY FAILING TO ESTABLISH PROBABLE CAUSE BY REFUSING T… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the termination of parental rights without substantial evidence of unfitness violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
… |
| 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 Mr. Iversen's sentence to life without parole for recidivist public indecency by exposing his genitals constitutes cruel and unusual punishmen… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5930 |
Anthony Tawon Williams v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2024-11-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment merger-errors sentencing |
1. Whether a defendant indicted, tried, and found guilty of multiple counts of felony murder for the death of a single victim and later finds out that… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the right against wrongful detention falls under the Fourth Amendment's proscription against unreasonable seizures, or the Fourteenth Amend… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Petitioner's medical condition which includes brain damage
and dementia that results in impulse control deficits, impaired executive fu… |
| 24-499 |
Nita A. v. A. A. |
Illinois |
2024-11-01 |
Denied |
|
domestic-violence due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment ninth-amendment personal-jurisdiction |
1. Whether the Ilinois Domestic Violence Act,
750 Ill. Comp. Stat. Ann. 60/101 et seq., as applied by
the Illinois Courts, violated Nita's First Amend… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
1. Did The United States District Court Northern District Judge James Wesley Hendrix Cause A Judicial Error By Acknowledging Banks Alleged Enough Fact… |
| 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 |
Should state laws that criminalize the practice of
medicine by imposing felony penalties on physicians —
based on an unworkable legal framework that m… |
| 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… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
A. Did the substantive component of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments ' Due
Process Clauses require the United States Court of Appeals for the Four… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 ERRED WHEN IT VIOLATED THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS DUE PROCESS CLAUSE WHEN IT ENTERED AN ORDER OF DISMISSAL BEFORE THE… |
| 24A399 |
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. v. Wisconsin Elections Commission, et al. |
Wisconsin |
2024-10-23 |
Denied |
|
ballot-access candidate-qualification election-law fourteenth-amendment insurrection-clause state-election-commission |
Question not identified. |
| 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 Petitioner lack's standing to sue a Sheriff's Office or its employees under Linda R.S. for the alleged violation of a First Amendment right to… |
| 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 |
1). The XIV Amendment of the United States Constitution guarantees the due process of law. Can a state appellate court refuse to provide full appellat… |
| 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 |
1. Whether, as the State concedes, the State's suppression of favorable
evidence and presentation of false argument at the penalty phase of a
death pe… |
| 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 |
Petitioners A.M.B. and T.G. have been in a committed relationship for over a decade. Together, they have raised M.M.C, A.M.B.'s biological daughter, a… |
| 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 |
a) The 9th circuit 's insurrection of 47 U.S. Code § 230 (c) (1) subverting the 1
plain text of CPA 230 cl'. This was called "republishing nonsense "… |
| 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 |
Is a lack of an adequate recusal enforcement mechanism, as evidenced by the Georgia Court of Appeal's ignoring the recusal motion and by the Georgia S… |
| 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 |
In Troxel v. Granville, this Court concluded that Washington's Grandparent Visitation Statute unconstitutionally infringed a fit parent's federal cons… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
Does it violate the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution when a State upholds a conviction after ruling it was not obtain… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 24A342 |
Robert Emert v. Andrea Schuck |
California |
2024-10-10 |
Denied |
|
access-to-courts due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigation vexatious-litigant |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
1. Whether the selective reassessment of 380
Claremont Road by Town Assessor Edward Kerwin,
conducted without a district-wide revaluation or the
pr… |
| 24-5713 |
Hector Acosta v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-10-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-sentence due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment national-origin race-discrimination |
1. Whether the State violates the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of
the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution when it invok… |
| 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 right to a jury trial secured by the Seventh Amendment extend to a private citizen in a state court in an action for defamation per se?
Does… |
| 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 PETITIONER'S CRITICAL DUE PROCESS RIGHTS UNDER THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT IS BEING CONTINUOUSLY DENIED/VIOLATED, AND HIS STATUTORY RIGHT ENTITLE… |
| 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 |
Within this context, the question presented is whether Illinois's punishment disability statutes—without time limits—violate the Eighth Amendment's Cr… |
| 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 P.H.'s parental rights on the grounds of P.H.'s mental health issues consistent with P.H.'s fundamental constitut… |
| 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 one or more aggravating facts amount to "substantial… |
| 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 |
1. Does the Fourteenth Amendment confer the right to
effective assistance of first collateral review counsel for
claims of ineffective assistance of… |
| 24-5673 |
Jonathan Eugene Brunson v. John Herring, Superintendent, Maury Correctional Institution |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-claim due-process evidence-review fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus |
Within THE LOW? COVATS OUTRIGHT DENY HABEAS PETITIONERS RiGNT To SHOW ACTVAL INNOCENCE IN
THE DISTRICT COVAT 64 FAILING TO ADJVDICA% THE SCHLUP V, DEL… |
| 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 |
1. Did the Petitioner have the right to have his subject matter jurisdiction claim heard on its merits even though he filed his federal habeas petitio… |
| 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 |
Christeson v. Roper, 574 U.S. 373 (2015), held that a conflict of interest could satisfy the "interests of justice" standard set forth in Martel v. Cl… |
| 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 |
QUESTION 1 - Within the context of SUFFICIENCY of Jackson v. Virginia. 443 U.S. 307, at 317 n.10. When
the defense of self-defense and provocation ha… |
| 24A298 |
James Herard v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-09-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-sentencing constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment jury-unanimity |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 24-342 |
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 |
For the first time in the history of the United States, a State silenced a presidential candidate running for the Office whose message spoke to the in… |
| 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 the exercise of personal jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant lacking any contacts with… |
| 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 |
Denied |
|
civil-punishment cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment mendoza-martinez public-office time-limits |
1. This case presents a substantial and novel question of federal law affecting 70-100 million people, plus their families involving over 44,000 state… |
| 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 Application for a Certificate of
Appealability ("COA ") with the United States Court of Appeals, Circuit
Courts, In R… |
| 24-5617 |
In Re Kesean Calvin Wilson |
|
2024-09-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
bank-robbery constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment state-power |
WAS KESEAN WILSON DENIED HIS FOURTEENTH AMEND. RIGHTS TO EQUAL PROTECTION AND SUBSTANTIVE DUE PROCESS, SINCE HE WAS SIMILARLY SITUATED TO AN INDIVIDUA… |
| 24A285 |
Team Kennedy, et al. v. Henry Berger, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-09-23 |
Denied |
|
ballot-access election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment independent-candidate presidential-qualifications |
Whether New York's requirement that independent presidential candidates establish residency in the state for at least four weeks before the election, … |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
1. Is it Prosecutorial Misconduct and Complicity in Perjury when a
Prosecutor Concedes during closing argument.a; critical material witnesses
testim… |
| 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 denied Petitioner her Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to due process, a fair trial and equal protect… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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, including the absence of any criminal reco… |
| 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 trial by a twelve person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony that requ… |
| 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 |
1. Did the United States District Court for the District of Kansas err when it failed to find in Mr. Stenberg's favor regarding the suppression issue … |
| 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 |
The punishable by life "element " for a life sentence must be instructed to jury and place on
the "Verdict " form.
Here in the Petitioner 's case, the… |
| 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.
Specifically, whether California's disbarment of petitioner fell belo… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
Did the sentence of three hundred months violate the grossly disproportionate protection afforded by the unusual sentence prohibition under the Eighth… |
| 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 violations of the First and Fourteenth Amendments, as demonstrated by informal pressure from police officers such as, alt… |
| 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 |
Ms the use of -bra mmst a handcuffed aod .compliant fftl Terry along with the use of tiqhhny words and dmerak action of fdriathnij evidem ana tods i t… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
(1. Should an appellant have a voice in his or her own appeal? If not, can s/he be procedurally barred for failing to raise it as here?
(2. Where, as… |
| 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… |
| 24-234 |
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 |
States cannot be allowed to prosecute upon altered court recordings. The Michigan Court of Appeals gave Petitioner (Guzall herein) a copy of a court h… |
| 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… |
| 24-225 |
B. S. v. D. S. |
California |
2024-08-29 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-rights domestic-violence-restraining-order due-process evidentiary-standard first-amendment fourteenth-amendment |
1. Does the preponderance of the evidence standard used for the issuance of a DVRO in California comply with the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantees of … |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals erred when it determined that petitioner's Eighth Amendment claim of deliberate indifference against a federal correct… |
| 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 when the trial court failed to continue the trial during… |
| 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 |
Does the reversal of the ORDER of Sept. 1, 2021, [without due process], that granted Lewis Archer and his family the deed to their home of 30 years vi… |
| 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 |
1. Whether Florida courts violated Cole's Fourteenth Amendment Due Process and Equal Protection rights by failing to hold an evidentiary hearing on hi… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the lack of provision of legal aid to pro se litigants in civil cases violates the
equal protection rights guaranteed by the Fourteenth Am… |
| 24A194 |
Hector Acosta v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-08-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-murder death-sentence equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection racial-bias |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
1. Without an existing mandatory supervised release agreement between plaintiff in the Department of Corrections, is a warrant, issued by the departme… |
| 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… |
| 24-184 |
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 |
The Proceeding involves a question of exceptional importance. The denial of Petition for a hearing or rehearing En banc for Proceedings directly on re… |
| 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 in federal court against rank-and-file federal prison officials that violate their Eighth Amendmen… |
| 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 |
1. Whether Florida's rules of appellate procedure which provide for the issuance by the Court of Appeals of a per curiam decision, without an opinion,… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the District Court's adoption of the Magistrate Judge's recommendation, despite the absence of consent from either party, constitutes a vio… |
| 24A185 |
Derek Don Posey v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2024-08-19 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-punishment eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-selection sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
1. Whether the New York State Court of Appeals violated the U.S. Constitution Amendment XIV by dismissing an attorney's appeal based on the summary co… |
| 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 |
The well-established law is that medical experimentation on humans cannot be performed without informed consent, or with any degree of duress or coerc… |
| 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 |
1. State courts of last resort are intractably divided over the admissibility of Child Sexual Abuse Accommodation Syndrome (CSAAS). Should certiorari … |
| 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 |
Does express statutory permission to act in self-defense call down the protections of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constit… |
| 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 |
I. WAS THE LOUISIANA SUPREME COURT IN ERROR, FOR FAILING TO CORRECT THE APPELLATE COURTS FAILURE TO CORRECT A CONFRONTATIONAL VIOLATION THAT TRANSPIRE… |
| 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 |
1. Where an individual plaintiff challenges under the First and Fourteenth Amendments, as applied to him only, the constitutionality of a city charter… |
| 24A159 |
LeGregory Davis v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2024-08-09 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-punishment constitutional-violation death-penalty eighth-amendment lethal-injection procedural-due-process |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5283 |
In Re Kenton G. Findlay |
|
2024-08-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights court-of-appeal due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-relief |
1. Did the Third District Court of Appeal Violate Section (9) in the
Constitution of the State of Florida Due Process-No person shall be deprived
of … |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 for the County of Alameda denied Petitioner… |
| 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 |
1. Litigiousness or Numerosity of Litigations Alone is Insufficient to Support the Determination that a Self-Represented Party is a Vexatious Litigant… |
| 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 |
(I)
Did the U S District courts ,failure to allow relevant evidence
into trial proceeding violate ,Brady Rule of Evidence under
Brad
■Out.iv v Maryl… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the principles of due process prohibit the Ninth Circuit Court's consideration of a new argument raised by the State Defendants' on appeal … |
| 24A132 |
Kyle Trevor Flack v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2024-08-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-punishment eighth-amendment kansas-supreme-court mitigating-factors murder sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
A. Does a conflict exist between the Federal Arbitration Act (9 U.S.C. §§ 1-16) and the Supreme Court decision in Butz u. Economou, 438 U.S. 478 (1978… |
| 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 |
1. Alabama's civil wrongful death statute, codified in 1872, imposes civil liability, including punitive damages, for the "death of a minor child . . … |
| 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 Texas Court of Criminal Appeals violated the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments by dismissing Arthur Lee Burton's subsequent writ of habeas … |
| 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 |
(1.) Does the failure of the Appellate Court to recognize and address a procedural error, especially the entry and subsequent denial of default judgme… |
| 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… |
| 24-5188 |
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 |
1. As there are conflicting decisions amongst state courts of last resort concerning a constitutional issue, in accordance with Rule X(b), this matter… |
| 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 … |
| 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 |
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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
Since birth, Alphonza L. P. Thomas-Bey has been held hostage in an unfair, unjust, social, economic, and legal system. And all questions raised and lo… |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 24A65 |
Tina Peters v. Daniel P. Rubinstein, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-07-19 |
Denied |
|
election-records federal-immunity fourteenth-amendment privileges-or-immunities state-prosecution supremacy-clause |
1. Whether issues related to a claim to immunity from state prosecution under the Supremacy Clause and the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Four… |
| 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 |
1. 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, under 45 CFR § 303.6(c)(4-5), violates substantive due process as well as privileges and immun… |
| 24-38 |
Bradley Little, Governor of Idaho, et al. v. Lindsay Hecox, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-15 |
Granted |
Amici (26)Relisted (3) |
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… |
| 24-31 |
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… |
| 24-5060 |
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 |
After being rebuked for forbidden cruelty by this Court's own landmark 1972 Furman decision, Pennsylvania's sentencing statutes enacted in response to… |
| 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 protections of the Fourteenth Amendment right to due process, where tri… |
| 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 |
(1). Weather the Government violated the
Petitioner's 8th Amendment. Constitutional
Rights (To be free from infliction of Cruel
and Unusual Punishm… |
| 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, harsh and unprecendented, sentence of
fourty years, without benefits, constitute cruel and unusual
punishment, in violation of th… |
| 24-5052 |
In Re Kenton G. Findlay |
|
2024-07-11 |
Denied |
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 |
1. Did the Third District Court of Appeal Violate Section (9) in the
Constitution of the State of Florida Due Process-No person shall be
deprived of l… |
| 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 |
In light of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the Americans with Disabihties Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. § 12101 et seq., which mandate e… |
| 24A15 |
Bobby Tatum v. Correctional Officer Hunter, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-07-09 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-protection cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment injunctive-relief prisoner-rights sexual-assault |
Question not identified. |
| 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 and Due Process Clause rights to allow the prosecution to inform the jury tha… |
| 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, 23 Pa. Stat. and Cons. Stat. Ann. § 5325, permitting a judge to grant to a grandparent, over a fit parent's obj… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 … |
| 23-1366 |
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 |
1. Did the Montana Supreme Court overlook a violation of First and Fourteenth Amendment rights, specifically concerning free speech, petition to redre… |
| 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 |
In the circumstances described in the first paragraph, was the due process violated?
2. In the circumstances described in the second paragraph, was t… |
| 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 |
Petitioners assembled with others in a brief, peaceful march along a historic Texas street. The march took place primarily on the sidewalk, but when n… |
| 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 TRIAL COURT FAILED TO PROVIDE THE PETITIONER WITH THE PROPER TO SIMILAR SITUATION TO DEFENDANT'S WILL AT EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE OF THE FE… |
| 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 |
In Summary, should the Supreme Court issue guidance to state courts on unaddressed, mandatory accommodation to judicial discretion to provide fair hea… |
| 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 |
When a state conditions a capital defendant's eligibility to be sentenced to death on a jury's determination of "future dangerousness," can the state … |
| 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 |
1) Whether the First Circuit Court of Appeals and the
District Court erred in dismissing Mr. Sanchez 's claims of
religious discrimination, harassment… |
| 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 |
Whether the 3 Wardens ' had a, meeting of the minds decided the fate of the Petitioner's issued retaliatory ordered .to their entire WCI Department
a… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 23A1146 |
Ramiro F. Gonzales v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-06-24 |
Denied |
|
capital-murder death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness jury-determination |
When a state conditions a capital defendant's eligibility to be sentenced to death on a jury's determination of "future dangerousness," can the state … |
| 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 |
(1) Does it violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution to execute an individual who does not meet the eligibility … |
| 23A1147 |
In Re Ramiro Felix Gonzales |
|
2024-06-24 |
Denied |
|
death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness habeas-corpus jury-prediction |
Question not identified. |
| 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 Ninth Circuit applied this Court's precedents in Bradshaw v. State and Barclay v. Marchand to exclude a defendant's custodial interrogatio… |
| 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 as guaranteed by the Fift… |
| 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 |
1. Whether Florida courts are refusing to consider that their interpretation of Statute § 39.8155 is unconstitutional as- applied when it contradicts … |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Michigan Courts committed
plain legal error construing and applying
§700.7604(l)(b) by declining to apply the
relevant statutory defi… |
| 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 |
I. WHETHER A PETITIONER SHOULD BE DENIED AN EVIDENTIARY HEARING TO QUESTION A JUROR WHO FAILED TO DISCLOSE INFORMATION BECAUSE STATE COURTS RULED PETI… |
| 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 |
This is a Section 1983 case, based on Eighth Amendment violations stemming from the DeKalb County, Georgia Sheriff's Office's custom and policy of per… |
| 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 |
1) Did the suspension of Ms. Zaorski's fixed jail sentence and fine, conditioned on terms wholly unrelated to the judgment which she was convicted of … |
| 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 |
1. Whether the fact that Respondent, Maverick Tube Corporation, fabricated false
(fraudulent) evidence of a photograph of a truck in the foreground wi… |
| 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 |
1. Should the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals have the same fraud-on-the-court exception to the Rooker-Feldman doctrine as the Sixth Circuit Court o… |
| 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 |
A. QUESTION PRESENTED: Whether there is an ongoing
violation of Fourteenth Amendment due process rights under
the Constitution of the United States, a… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 a plaintiff's liberty interest in pursuing a specific profession is violated only if he has been completely prevented from working in that fie… |
| 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 |
The Tennessee Supreme Court disbarred Brian
Manookian for truthful statements, the majority made
out-of-court and about other attorneys, and further… |
| 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 |
Petitioner sued the cancer doctors who failed to disclose to his mother both the risks of her recommended Hodgkin's lymphoma chemotherapy treatment an… |
| 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 |
I. Does the Texas judicial system's approach to
recusal, in conjunction with judges' collaborative
fundraising and expenditure activities, as viewed… |
| 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 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process eighth-amendment personal-liberty prisoner-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
1. Whether given the unique pattern in Alabama's recent executions, in which Defendants have misrepresented critical facts and prohibited access to co… |
| 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 the Eighth Amendment is violated when a condemned prisoner is restrained to an execution gurney for a prolonged period of time without access … |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
This case presents a crucial opportunity for the
Supreme Court to protect indigent citizens and set a
nationwide precedent for the protection of appea… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
I. 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?
II. Wh… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 this Court's precedents recognize a cause of action for damages under the Eighth Amendment against prison officials who exhibit deliberate ind… |
| 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 |
QUESTION No. 1
WHETHER OR NOT THE PETITIONER WAS DEPRIVED OF HIS CONSTITUTIONAL
RIGHTS TO A FAIR AND IMPARTIAL TRIAL UNDER THE 6TH AND 14TH
AMENDMEN… |
| 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 |
1. Is procedural due process violated regarding the constitutional requirement of a meaningful or effective appeal of right under Evitts, Griffin and … |
| 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 when his trial attorney stipulated to the prosecutio… |
| 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 |
1. Honorable Chief Justice Guerrero, of the California Supreme Court, Case S 283118, and the 3 Judges Panels, of the State of California, Riverside Co… |
| 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 |
1. When a state habeas applicant makes a prima facie case that the state knowingly presented false and material testimony in the punishment phase of h… |
| 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 this Honorable Court should grant Petitioner's Petition for a Writ of Certiorari, where Petitioner has demonstrated that his rights to a fair … |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 ENCROACHES UPON THE PERSONAL RIGH… |
| 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 |
QUESTION 1(A): Whether The Lower Court Erred Denying CO A On The Claim Of
Prosecutorial Misconduct Where The State Pvefused To Reveal Evidence And Fa… |
| 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 |
Courts may not impose punitive sanctions upon attorneys to deter colorable arguments that insulate judicial determinations from legitimate challenges … |
| 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 when the trial court allowed the State to inform the jury… |
| 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 |
1. Does the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause vindicate third-party privacy rights in State class action proceedings and prevent the State, like… |
| 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 |
1. 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 procedu… |
| 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, 1 to apply a 2023, decision (Howell v. State.) 2 case holding, that abolishment of the exception to Mississippi 's proc… |
| 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 |
The case before this Honorable Court concerns the misapplication of the grant of sovereign immunity for elections officials in Georgia that have faile… |
| 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 |
The California Legislature as evidenced in the Insurance Code 11580(b)(2) and the binding caselaw precedent (Moradi-Shalal v. Fireman's Fund Ins. Co.,… |
| 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 |
1). The XIV Amendment of the United States Constitution guarantees the due process of law. Can a retired judge preside over the case without an appoin… |
| 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 |
1). The XIV Amendment of the United States Constitution guarantees the due process of law. Can a retired judge preside over the case without an appoin… |
| 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 |
1. Was the district court's imposition of supervision conditions requiring Mr. Hood to obtain some form of work/employment violated the Eighth Amendme… |
| 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 |
I. The United States Supreme Court has held that a state criminal Appellant has Constitutional Right to a fair trial guaranteed by the Due Process Cla… |
| 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 |
1. Whether Vermont's law allowing courts to terminate parental rights based largely on hearsay violates the Fourteenth Amendment and this Court's hold… |
| 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 |
When a state has a rule that an attorney must be given an opportunity to explain his conduct before being found to have rendered ineffective assistanc… |
| 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 EIGHT AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONS I TUT I ON11S PROHIBITION AGAINST CRUEL/ AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT REQUIRE THE PROTECTION GRANTED U… |
| 23A959 |
Predrag Tosic v. Heather Tosic |
Washington |
2024-04-25 |
Presumed Complete |
|
ada-accommodations disability-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
1. WHETHER THE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT TO
PETITION THE STATE COURTS PURSUANT
TO THE 1ST AND 14THAMENDMENTS OF
OUR UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION UPON
THE ISSUE … |
| 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 of the law and 28 U.S.C. 2254(d) by failing to ho… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
Did the Ninth Circuit contravene Harmelin's plurality and Ewing by essentially exempting all sentences that a district court imposes under 21 U.S.C. §… |
| 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 |
1. Whether Petitioner's conviction and continued incarceration under Nevada Revised Statute 209.730 are facially unconstitutional under the Due Proces… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
1.) WHETHER THE SIXTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS PERMIT
GREATER INCLUDED OFFENSES AND CONDUCT THAT HAS BEEN
ACQUITTED BY A JURY, OR DISMISSED PURSUANT … |
| 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 |
it4 V- VOMisiAHfv / THIS Covet \i$u> that The 6|/th Amendment to the
Vt^TEp STATED C^H6rVrroT\cn , 6/TENDEP To THE STATED £>y wAy OpTUe FoOpTeENTH
A… |
| 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 FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERRONEOUSLY DENY PETITIONERS HABEAS CORPUS PETITION BECAUSE OF PROCEDURAL DEFAULT WITHOUT REVIEWING THE… |
| 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 |
Respondent is a police officer who fabricated evidence used to bring misdemeanor criminal charges against Petitioner, which were subsequently dismisse… |
| 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 |
(1) Does California Penal Code Section 117.95(a)(l)-(3) statute violates
The United States Constitution 14th AmendmentEqual Protection of the law by … |
| 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 |
I. 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? |
| 23A933 |
Kurt Benshoof v. Freya Brier, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-17 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights-act due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment mask-mandate |
1. Whether Respondents must be enjoined from continuing to retaliate
against Applicant for his religious beliefs, and subjecting Applicant to
segregat… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
Does a state appellate court violate a person's due process and equal protection rights under the 14th Amendment when it refuses or fails to comply wi… |
| 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 |
1. WHY WERE MY FIFTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS VIOLATED BY BOTH THE DISTRICT
AND 10TH CIRCUIT COURTS?
2. WHY WAS MY REQUEST FOR A JURY TRIAL AN… |
| 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 |
1) Did the United States Appeals Court for the Eighth Circuit violate the Plaintiffs' Constitutional Rights to Due Process and Equal Protection under … |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
1. Did the Louisiana Supreme Court err where it vacated Petitioner's Appeal where the parties and District Court had consented to the appeal and previ… |
| 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"? Eventually causing abstract or ambiguous adjudi… |
| 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, as five circuits ha… |
| 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 TDason Bryan Cass @th $
147Th Amendments Constitutional
rights where 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 23A890 |
Brian J. Dorsey v. David Vandergriff, Warden |
Missouri |
2024-04-07 |
Denied |
|
capital-punishment certiorari-standard death-penalty eighth-amendment penological-goals rehabilitation |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 officers violate the Fourteenth Amendment by transporting an arrestee who denies ingesting drugs, declines medical care, and shows no obvious … |
| 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 |
I. 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
Where jurors were instructed that they may only consider mitigating evidence to be evidence that "reduces the defendant's moral blameworthiness," and … |
| 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 |
When a state court carelessly or negligently enters a cause claim, to enhance a criminal sentence, does it violate a person's due process rights and c… |
| 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 |
1.) 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 lig… |
| 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/ incon sistent/ and discriminatory e… |
| 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 |
1. To meet the fourteenth and fifth amendment requirements of laws such as § 255 Services to the Hearing Impaired and Others with Communication Disabi… |
| 23-7057 |
Sammy Tinnin v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2024-03-22 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment |
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| 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 |
1. Where CPS investigators and Judge Diane Rappleye violate the rules announced in Doe v. Doe, 99 Haw 1, 52 P3d 255 (Haw 2002) by filing and granting … |
| 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 |
1. Proximate causation. This Court has opined that holding possessors of illegal pornography liable for the conduct of many other independent actors m… |
| 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 on Petitioner's claims that:
A) The district court violated Petitioner's D… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Lower Appellate Court departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, and/or sanctioned such a departure by the Te… |
| 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 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias sixth-amendment state-court-of-appeals structural-error systemic-bias |
1. 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 |
Georgia requires persons with intellectual disability to prove their disability 'beyond a reasonable doubt' in order to vindicate their Eighth Amendme… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
L. Whether Florida's capital sentencing scheme violates the Eighth Amendment because the controlling statute does not meaningfully limit the class of … |
| 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, 567 US 460 (2012) should be applied to defendants who are emerging adults- 18 to 20 y… |
| 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 |
Should this Court order, consistent with 42 U.S.C. § 1983, to vacate and make bonds parental interests this a conditions of hospitalization, with mand… |
| 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 |
1) WHy was my 8th amendment denied?
2) Why was my sentence not considered cruel or unusual? |
| 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 |
1. Whether This Court Should Grant This Petition Because The Failure To Exclude The United States District Attorney's Office For the District of Massa… |
| 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 protections under Miller v. Alabama require certain sentencing procedures for defendants convicted of crimes committed … |
| 23A829 |
Joseph Daryll Rued, et al. v. Charlene W. Hatcher, Judge, Hennepin County, Minnesota, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-03-13 |
Denied |
|
child-welfare constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review liberty-interest |
Should emergency writs of injunction pending appeals issue against enforcement of direct Respondents' orders for which due process, already appealed t… |
| 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 |
This case implicates fundamental rights including those related to or for: children's welfare, unlawful confinement, association, natural parents, and… |
| 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 |
1. Where petitioner sought removal in 2010 of unelected administrative Workers' Compensation judges involving their actual or apparent improprieties i… |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
May a State, consistent with the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, refuse to resentence petitioner, who was sentenced to life in prison … |
| 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 |
As there are conflicting decisions amongst state courts of last resort concerning a constitutional Issue, In accordance with Rule X(b), this matter is… |
| 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 |
1. Does the "state wherein they reside" provision of the Fourteenth Amendment define state citizenship for purposes of Article III diversity jurisdict… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
1. Whether the State Appellate Court erred in denying the assertion of equitable estoppel by the petitioner, against a government entity, which, inten… |
| 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 |
1. As there are conflicting decisions amongst state courts of last resort concerning a constitutional issue, in accordance with Rule X(b), this matter… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
Denied |
|
detention due-process expedited-removal fourteenth-amendment immigration judicial-review |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
1. Washington's personal identity petition hon eastern powers Conviction proceedings Who Are loucden & pcoa? a boty Sed +o Nhe. Setidioned oN ise.) Be… |
| 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 |
1. Are unsworn assertions in a response brief sufficient to overcome clear and convincing direct evidence that prosecutor illegally searched and seize… |
| 23A798 |
John Seely v. James Seely, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-02-29 |
Denied |
|
due-process extrinsic-fraud federal-lawsuit fourteenth-amendment rooker-feldman state-court-judgment |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
1. 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 fa… |
| 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 |
1) Can an attorney can be suspended from the practice of law in a state attorney ethics proceeding by the state's highest court for failure to obey th… |
| 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 |
The question presented is whether a claim that a school official has used excessive force against a student that meets the definition of a Fourth Amen… |
| 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 |
Is it a Constitutional Violation to a grade A, naoUTk>iT\
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| 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 |
1. Did the federalcourt's ruling on Mosley's Ineffective
equal protectionAssistance of Counsel claim deny Mosley
where the court had before itan evid… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
1. Can a state court constitutionally deny a Motion to Set Aside/Vacate a judgment acquired through fraud and a court lacking subject matter jurisdict… |
| 23A761 |
Thomas Eugene Creech v. Idaho |
Idaho |
2024-02-21 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-proportionality cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment execution mental-illness |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 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 |
In Jackson vs Applied Materials, Wherein the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has decided an important question of Federal Law that has not been, but shou… |
| 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 |
1. "Did the United States District Court and Court of Appeals properly apply clearly established constitutional law, [Hemphill v. New York, 142 S.Ct. … |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
1. Does the fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause, by means through the Hm% §liuii (which imlyiii the duil=©itiiiniMp elsuii, thi pfivilggii … |
| 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 pursuant to Section 960.293 Florida Statutes is an unconstitutionally excessive fine as app… |
| 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 |
1. Whether admission to a State Bar, or other
state licensing agency, constitutes a liberty interest
under the United States Constitution.
2. Wheth… |
| 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 |
1. 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 Am… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
1) Whether Petitioner was denied his Fourteenth Amendment right to
the Due Process of Law when the Sixth Circuit Appellate Court denied
relief without… |
| 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 |
1. Whether this Court should overrule the Slaughter-House Cases and hold that the right to enter a common and lawful occupation is a privilege or immu… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
A recent New Hampshire Supreme Court precedential Opinion (July 25, 2023) addressed the enforcement of a valid child custody decree in a multi-state d… |
| 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 |
QUESTION No. 1.
WHETHER THE PETITIONER HAS BEEN DEPRIVED OF HIS CONSTITUTIONAL
RIGHTS UNDER THE 8TH AND 14TH AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES
CONSTITU… |
| 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 - 14th Amendment of the Federal Constitution was violated by allowing post autopsy?
Whether petitioner's Due process… |
| 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 |
1) Was Petitioner Deprived of His Due Process Clause of His Fourteenth Amendment fights and Equal Protection of the Law in Violation of His Rights Pro… |
| 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 |
1. Tha. State. state deprives_an_incl lividual from. wtilizing He. right of Due. Process, does this not violate,established guarantees, that are_prote… |
| 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 State of Alabama's planned execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith using nitrogen hypoxia—a method never before attempted by any State or the fe… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the State actors can deprive the individual of a fair treatment which violates the guarantees of the Fifth Fourteenth Amendment;
2. Whethe… |
| 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 PETJTOINERS FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS WERE VIOLATED,
WHEN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS GRANTED COUNSEL'S MOTION
FOR LEAVE TO WIT… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Eighth Amendment's Excessive Fines clause was violated in the forfeiture of Petitioner's vested retirement benefits.
2. Whether the Vi… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Judge's error in miscalculation of the Plaintiffs Response deadline negates his dispositive Order and thereby logically and legally ren… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 23A664 |
Kenneth Eugene Smith v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2024-01-19 |
Denied |
|
cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-attempt iv-access lethal-injection |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
1) Can an attorney can be sanctioned in an ethics proceeding for failure to obey the rules of a tribunal when he is openly asserting that no valid obl… |
| 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 that establishes a continuing relationship with an in-forum company by contracting to help the in-forum company deve… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
1) Whether the Texas court violated the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause and interna-tional comity when it exercised subject matter jurisdictio… |
| 23A627 |
Byron James Shepard v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2024-01-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
continuing-threat death-penalty eighth-amendment fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sentencing-hearing |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
Jurisdiction Question: Must litigants wait for the Circuit Court's response to the impending en banc request, before certiorari may be filed? As the P… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 23A599 |
William Phillip Neidinger v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-02 |
Denied |
|
cruel-and-unusual due-process eighth-amendment federal-sentencing identity-preservation judicial-discretion |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
1. Does the Common-Law exception recognized in State ex rel. Richards v. Foust
- that doesn't require a response from a Records Custodian to a public… |
| 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 |
In Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002), this Court held that the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments preclude the execution of individuals with intel… |
| 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 |
This case raises pressing issues of significant importance: whether Louisiana murder statutes satisfy the holdings announced in Miller/Montgomery inva… |
| 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 |
The Supreme Court of Colorado held that states possess authority, regardless of the lack of congressional authorization, to determine that a president… |
| 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 ADVISING HIS CLIENT TO ENTER A GUILTY PLEA WITHOUT
FIRST INVESTIGATING THE CASE AND/OR INTERVIEWING WITNESSES THEN
DISCUSSING VIABLE … |
| 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 |
This case arises out of the use of force for seven minutes on Petitioner Travis King by three correc-tional officers that ultimately resulted in King'… |
| 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 |
Petitioner, Zachariah M. Minix (Minix), appeals as a matter of right from an Adair County Circuit Court Judgment and Sentence on Plea of Guilty that i… |
| 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 |
This case arises from a question this Court has repeatedly declined to answer over the last four decades: what sources of law constitute "controlling … |
| 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 |
1. WHETHER PETITION WAS DENIED HIS FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT DUE PROCESS RIGHT TO A FAIR PAROLE HEARING WHERE THE PAROLE BOARD, DURING PAROLE CONSIDERATION… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
(1). Whether the Court of Appeals erred by applying the doctrine of res judicata to "Petition In Error" because Petitioner raised Constitutional error… |
| 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 by the lower courts when a prisoner petitioner's 28 USC §2255 habeas corpus raising Sec… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Arkansas Supreme Court denied Mr. Hogan due process of law under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, in acknowledging that Mr. … |
| 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.
Whether Pe… |
| 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 |
This case implicates two persistent conflicts of authority with regard to how courts are to determine whether a person suffers from an intellectual di… |
| 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 A constitutional federal question: 1.
due process and equal protection, provided in the Fourteenth and
Eighth Amendments, rega… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 under Title 28 U.S.C., Section 2253(c)(2) when the court … |
| 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 right to due process and fair trial because of the court's use of prior acts … |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
1. Whether the effect on due process remains unchanged as to Brady's holding, "suppression by the prosecution of evidence favorable to an accused upon… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 (1868) amend the Eleventh Amendment (1798)? (If so, then the Eleventh Amendment cannot provide "sovereign immunity " fro… |
| 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 get impacted if a judge engages in jury tampering as defined under C.R.S. § 18-6-609 violating defendants Sixth and… |
| 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? Does petitioner's conviction serve as an ex… |
| 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 |
In March, 2020, during the height of the COvid Pandemic, MN Governor Tim Walz and Minnesota Health Department (MDH) Commissioner egregiously created t… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 23-573 |
Tina Bastian Veneskey v. Michael Keith Sulier |
North Carolina |
2023-11-28 |
Denied |
|
custody custody-determination due-process error-of-law fourteenth-amendment full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction jurisdictional-determination legal-error state-jurisdiction |
1. Whether the Full Faith and Credit Clause precludes the enforcement of a State's jurisdictional determination when that very determination is based … |
| 23-6088 |
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… |
| 23-6078 |
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 |
1. 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… |
| 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 this Court will allow the People of the State of Alaska to determine if a certified candidate is allowed the name Joe Trump AKA Not Murkowski … |
| 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 |
1. 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 co… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
1. Whether Escobar vs. Texas, 143 S.ct 557 (January 9th 2023] The use of "material false testimony" to jurors by its States forensic fingerprint exper… |
| 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 |
1. Does this Court's holding in Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551
(2005), that the death penalty is unconstitutionally cruel and
unusual punishment for i… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
1. Does the Second Amendment protect the keeping
and bearing of loaded and unloaded rifles, shotguns,
and handguns, in case of confrontation, for th… |
| 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 Court should hold that it was clearly established by November 2019 that the Due Process Clause prohibits state officials from knowingly pl… |
| 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 Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' rejection of petitioner's Eighth Amendment and Due Process Clause claims—based on uncontested evidence th… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 23A429 |
Casey A. McWhorter v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2023-11-14 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-challenge death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-stay irreparable-harm supreme-court-alabama |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Right to Fair Hearing and Guarantees Clause, Article IV, Sec. 4:
1. Does a self-evaluative review applying no object… |
| 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 |
The Court Should Grant A Review To Settle The Weather The California Courts Were Correct.
Question: In Stating That The Petitioner's Case Was Finally… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 when the trial court prohibited the defense from placing before the jury … |
| 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 |
Alongside Defendant State of Washington, Intervenor Defendant-Petitioners ("Soto Palmer Intervenors") defended against a Voting Rights Act ("VRA") Sec… |
| 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), which prohibits all medical treatments intended to allow "a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported ide… |
| 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 |
Petitioner seeks this Court's review of the Alabama Supreme Court's denial of Petitioner's habeas petition, which presents important issues concerning… |
| 23A402 |
Casey A. McWhorter v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2023-11-03 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-challenge death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-stay irreparable-harm supreme-court-alabama |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
1. When applying the Fourteenth Amendment's requirement of "state action" as a predicate for constitutional claims, should federal courts defer to a s… |
| 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 |
07/06/2016, altered to 07/07/2016 by A warrantless arrest made on a Harris County Sheriff Sergeant who issued a "Pocket Warrant", trespassed movant's … |
| 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 |
As the first and only sanction ever ordered — or even considered — by the District Court below, that court struck Petitioner Christy Williams' liabili… |
| 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 |
1. Is unconstitutionally excessive corporal punishment by a public-school employee cognizable under § 1983 (as nine circuits hold), or is it not (as o… |
| 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 |
1. Where, under State law, the selection of a
political party's presidential nominee is governed by
internal party rules and procedures and not by the… |
| 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… |
| 23-5877 |
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 Currency of obtaining a Justice determined by one's race, ethnicity, and nothing to do on one's merits? Are First Amendment and Fourteenth Amen… |
| 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, 470 U.S. 68 (1985), and the Fourteenth Amendment's due process guarantee of fundamental fairness require courts to provide fu… |
| 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 |
Question 1.) 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 respond… |
| 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 |
1. In a case in which the victim died from a single gunshot wound and the
factfinder did not find that the death-sentenced codefendant fired the fatal… |
| 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 |
1) Whether the State Court's ruling on Petitioner's claim that Trial Counsel was ineffective for failing to move to suppress Petitioner's inculpatory … |
| 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 |
1. Whether this court should overrule the fact that the state court has separated a fit parent from his/her minor children without an adjudication hea… |
| 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 |
1. Was the prosecutor's deliberate refusal to communicate with petitioner after filing formal charges, including withholding the court's summons and t… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's application of the "shotgun pleading" standard to affirm the dismissal of the Petitioner's complaint for violations … |
| 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, TO NEW YORK C.P.L 440.10(2)(C) STATUTES BEING AMENDED PURSUANT RULE 60(b)(5)(6) RECONSIDERATION IS WARRANTED AS TO THE LOWER COURT ERROR IN D… |
| 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 |
The West Virginia Supreme Court interpreted a statute to create an unconstitutional evidentiary presumption. Specifically, the West Virginia Supreme C… |
| 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 |
1.) IN LIGHT OF ALEXANDER HAMILTON'S ASSERTIONS IN "THE FEDERALIST PAPERS" NO. 80, IS IT THE OBLIGATION OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT TO RESOLVE … |
| 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 |
Where a State conditions a death sentence on a jury's unanimous finding beyond a reasonable doubt that "there is a probability that the defendant woul… |
| 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 |
No. 1: Does the third section of Amendment XIV guarantee citizens of the United States freedom from government officials who rebel against the Constit… |
| 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… |
| 23-5792 |
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 |
1. Whether the defendant violated the plaintiffs rights under the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the-Fourteenth Amendment, as well as I.D… |
| 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 |
1. Mr. Ducote's 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendment rights of the United States Constitution were violated when his right to testify was taken from him.
2. … |
| 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 |
1. Where a trial court deciding summary judgment resolves genuine issues of disputed material fact adversely to Plaintiff instead of ruling on the law… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
1) Did the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania err and did the Pennsylvania Supreme Court err
in not granting Allocatur when the Public-School Employee… |
| 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 |
1. Is AS 12 72 020CK BMA) Punitive EV Pest forp,
2. IS AS 12 72 626(W@ Punitive E¥ Post Lavy Prok- bi ted Stylo te
2. Wes Lottan dened of the Swovin… |
| 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 |
Plaintiff Mattie Lomax brought this action under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1985, alleging that the Defendants violated her constitutional rights during a … |
| 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 |
1. Did the lower court violate Petitioner's right to due process and equal protection of the law under the Fourteenth Amendment by:
a. Hearing and dec… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
1. Whether a waiver of the protections against cruel and unusual punishment afforded to a defendant under the Eighth Amendment is valid and enforceabl… |
| 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 |
1. Did the Wyoming Supreme Court abuse its description in allowing only one opinion of the justice in affirming the conviction and sentence set forth?… |
| 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 |
1. Did the lower court violate Petitioner's right to due process and equal protection of the law under the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constituti… |
| 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 |
1. Does the State of Louisiana have the express right to invoke the defense of
"judicial economy " as a ruse for plausible deniability; especially wh… |
| 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 |
I. 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 … |
| 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 |
After a criminal trial under a county's civil solid waste ordinance specific to solid-waste management opera-tions, the county incarcerated the petiti… |
| 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… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the South Carolina Supreme Court erred by holding it was not error to refuse to instruct the jury of the effect of a not guilty by reason o… |
| 23A272 |
Jessie Dotson v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2023-09-28 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-post-conviction death-penalty due-process expert-assistance fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus |
Question not identified. |
| 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 applies law "contrary to" this Court's precedents under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 when it resolv… |
| 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 |
1. Was Cooke's Sixth Amendment right to counsel violated when the state introduced at trial Cooke's post-indictment statements and actions that were i… |
| 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?
Does the Due Process Clause of the Four… |
| 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 when it first, moved to prosecute… |
| 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 |
1. Whether "the exclusive Right" in inventions as written in the Constitution is a fundamental Right or Constitutional privilege separate from common … |
| 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 |
1. In light of the medical community's recent consensus that Fetal Alcohol
Syndrome is not only functionally similar to Intellectual Developmental Dis… |
| 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 |
when the accuse discovers that a photograph and its contents are now not what they were once purported to be at trial, is the fourteenth amendment, eq… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
I. Whether Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution exclusively reserves the power to enforce the Fourteenth Amendment,… |
| 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 under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution, Florida may impose a death sentence upon an individual who was under the age o… |
| 23A257 |
In Re Gregory Mercer |
|
2023-09-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment separate-sovereigns |
Question not identified. |
| 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 was "clearly established" when ten circuits unanimously recognized the doctrine, and whether the doctrine sh… |
| 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, and under what circumstances, a State's failure to protect an individual who is not in state custody from violence by a private person consti… |
| 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 |
1. ) Did the U.S. District Court violate the Petitioners 5th Amendment Constitutional Right by allowing the lower court to allow the Petitioner to tes… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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, as six circuits hav… |
| 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, 576 U.S. 389, 135 S.Ct. 2466 (2015), applies to claims for deliberate indifference to a serious medical need brought … |
| 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 |
1. 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; after the trial co… |
| 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 |
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… |
| 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 |
II. Whether under all the circumstances, including an officer's knowing and
deliberate deployment of Petitioner's wife to elicit statements from
Petit… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
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| 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? |
| 23-5570 |
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? |
| 23-5567 |
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? |
| 23-5565 |
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 |
L. Whether Florida's capital sentencing scheme violates the Eighth Amendment because the controlling statute does not meaningfully limit the class of … |
| 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 |
1. Whether the appellate court violated Porter 's Fifth
and Fourteenth Amendment Constitutional Rights,
by denying her right of appeal and due proce… |
| 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 |
1. Does barring a petitioner's access to biological and forensic evidence that can be submitted for DNA testing to prove innocence—when a state-create… |
| 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… |
| 23-5526 |
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 |
1. 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… |
| 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 |
During voir dire in an employment-discrimination suit involving a lesbian plaintiff, plaintiffs attorney asked several questions about whether 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 Because The Trial Court Violated The … |
| 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 to the rule of law. Whether the State of Louisiana and its legislative and judicial branch created and/… |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Due Process Clause prohibits a state court from depriving petitioners of property protected by the Fourteenth Amendment without allowin… |
| 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… |
| 23-5441 |
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 |
1. On February 1, 2021, PLAINTIFF an inmate in the custody of VADOC, was denied his eigth amendment right to a "serious medical need" in of recieving … |
| 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 |
1. The Fifth Amendment guarantees that private property shall not be taken
for public use without due process, nor shall it be taken for pubhc use wit… |
| 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 since it restrains speech and conflicts with precedent … |
| 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 |
Question 1. Is it a violation of due process when any court, upon becoming formally aware of multiple material abuses of discretion and material error… |
| 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 |
According to Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2003), the Eighth Amendment exempts intellectually disabled offenders from capital punishment. The Cour… |
| 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 |
I. Does it violate First Amendment free speech protections to convict a person for conduct involving distributing obscene material to a minor without … |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
I. 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 w… |
| 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 |
ISSUES RAISED BY DEFENDANT IN pro per ON DIRECT APPEAL ::
WHEN THE PROSECUTION IS HIGHLY FAMILIAR WITH AN EXPERT, WAS IT A
DRASTIC SANCTION FROM THE… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 23A152 |
Michael Lajeunesse v. Kris Karberg, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
|
fourteenth-amendment physician-patient-privilege prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver-of-privilege |
Question not identified. |
| 23A139 |
Siddhanth Sharma v. Damon Circosta, Chair, North Carolina State Board of Elections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-16 |
Denied |
|
ballot-access elections-clause felon-disqualification first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-party-affiliation |
1.) Does Appellee's (NC Board of Elections) extra requirements of 3 additional requisites of 1.) Being a Registered Voter 2.) Being part of a Politica… |
| 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 acquitted conduct, standing alone, violates a defendant's rights under the Sixth and Four… |
| 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 |
(1) Should this Court grant Certiorari when Halfhill was convicted of killing a man with intent upon nothing more than being 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 |
1. Whether the States, in private suits involving
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as
amended, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq., retain their
El… |
| 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 |
1. IS THERE AN URGENT NEED TO FURTHER DISCUSS THE EXCEPTION MENTIONED IN BRECHT V. ABRAHAMS ON 507 U.S. 619 (1993). WHERE DEFENDANT'S SIXTH AND FOURTE… |
| 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 |
1. 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 mandato… |
| 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 |
1. Is it a violation of the Fourteen th Amendment right to Due Process to allow a conviction to stand where some of the elements of the crime were not… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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?
II. IS THE WYOMING SUPREME COURTS DECISION ARBITRARY, CAPRICIOUS,… |
| 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 |
Issue 1. Given the current extensive of use by law enforcement of modern technology such as automobile and body cameras, a defendant's right under the… |
| 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 |
1) The Ninth Circuit developed an automated system, where it dismisses almost ALL indigent pro se claims without an opportunity to review; 414 cases s… |
| 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 |
1. Whether a report from a qualified neuropsychiatrist that a condemned prisoner is incompetent for execution that is not contradicted by any qualifie… |
| 23A93 |
Johnny Johnson v. David Vandergriff, Warden |
Missouri |
2023-07-31 |
Denied |
|
death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus mental-illness panetti-competency |
Question not identified. |
| 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 statements/recanta… |
| 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 |
1. Whether a state court's denial of the right to freely negotiate the terms of a visiting supervisor's contract on the grounds that the supervised vi… |
| 23A68 |
Mark Barinholtz v. HomeAdvisor, Inc., et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-07-25 |
Denied |
|
attorney-conduct due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-sanctions prior-restraint |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
This is an application for an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari, not a petition for certiorari itself. The document does not… |
| 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 |
1. Did Mr. Doan have a Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment right to a jury trial on whether he owed almost $64,000 in victim restitution?
2. Did the resti… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 23A65 |
Jacob Hilbert v. Missouri |
Missouri |
2023-07-24 |
Presumed Complete |
|
bench-trial criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial-waiver sixth-amendment valid-waiver |
Question not identified. |
| 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 of law
under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United
States Constitution when the Arizona judicial system
deni… |
| 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? |
| 23-5171 |
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? |
| 23-5167 |
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 … |
| 23-5158 |
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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
Mr. Whitaker alleges the County of Dealware, Pennsylvania, District Attorney's Office violated the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause to the Un… |
| 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 |
1. Did the Eleventh Circuit correctly hold that no amount of physical suffering and emotional anguish imposed by allowing hours-long and countless att… |
| 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 |
The question presented is whether Minnesota's indefinite sex offender civil commitment scheme violates Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment's due process… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
I, Petitioner Juan Carlos Valles, Jr., state that this petition presents an issue of great public importance, addressed to the policy of Federal Prose… |
| 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 |
1) Can Res judicata and Collateral estoppel interfere with the Fourteenth Amendment's constitutional due process when new evidence is presented to a d… |
| 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 |
1. 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 b… |
| 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 |
1. Whether, for purposes of measuring claims arising from capital sentencings, evidence of or reference to psychopathy should be treated as potential… |
| 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 |
I. Whether it is "clearly established" for purposes of qualified immunity that the Eighth Amendment bars a prison official from forcing a person with … |
| 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 |
In the landmark decision of Graham v. Florida, 560 U.S. 48 (2010), this Court held that, for a juvenile offender who did not commit homicide, the Eigh… |
| 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?
DOES THE… |
| 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 |
1. Was Hall v. Florida, 572 U.S. 701 (2014) necessarily "made retroactive," for purposes of authorizing a successive federal habeas petition under 28 … |
| 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 |
The Securities Exchange Act of 1934 empowers Respondent Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") to seek, and district courts to impose, putatively … |
| 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 |
1. Must Hall v. Florida, 572 U.S. 701 (2014), be applied retroactively by state courts because it substantively expanded the class of individuals who … |
| 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 |
1. Has the State of Oklahoma denied my rights under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments by refusing to furnish requested discovery, refusing ev… |
| 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 |
1. In an attorney disciplinary matter in which charges against an attorney must be proven by clear and convincing evidence, and without any substantiv… |
| 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 prope… |
| 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 |
1. 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 wh… |
| 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 |
Question 1. Whether Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment rights to due process and equal protection were violated when Colorado allowed disqualified, pre… |
| 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 |
Question I:
Can the Maine courts penalize a father in a
divorce and child custody proceeding, while he is also
a defendant in a Criminal case, for e… |
| 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 |
Like millions of other Americans, petitioner's normal daily living activities were interrupted and
upended when COVID-19 shutdowns spread across the n… |
| 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 |
Missouri's former first-degree murder statute, Section 565.020, RSMo, mandated a sentence of life without parole for any offender who committed the of… |
| 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 |
1. 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 … |
| 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 by Juvenile Information with First Degree Murder pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §§ 2, 1(a), 1151 & 1153, and the government files a … |
| 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 |
1. Did former Judge Henderson 's secret extramarital affair with a prosecutor in the
same county in which he presided as judge create an "unconstitut… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 infringe on the Fourteenth Amendment and imposes restrictions as to U.S. Code: Title 11, SUBCHAPTER … |
| 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 infringe on the Fourteenth Amendment and imposes restrictions as to U.S. Code: Title 11, SUBCHAPTER … |
| 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 |
(1) Do high-ranking state prison officials violate a prisoner's constitutional rights by failing to promulgate policies cajoling independent, locally-… |
| 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 |
For the Court's consideration and determination regarding issues involved in my criminal case, and consideration for adults in rape cases:
1. That th… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Government violated Mr. Harriman's Sixth and Eighth Amendment Constitution al Eights and suppress evidentiary material of exculpatory v… |
| 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… |
| 22-7651 |
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 |
a) Whether a jail facility's ban on the hijab or religious head scarf worn for religious reasons, was the least restrictive means of ensuring effectiv… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 "former" Oklahoma County District Judge Timothy Henderson entered in a sexual relationship with the prosecuting attorney, was Mr. Smith's substan… |
| 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 |
1. Does Baker's right against overdetention require courts to apply a reasonable, totality-of-the-circumstances analysis, or does the case only protec… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals of the State of New York ("Court of Appeals") erred in denying Petitioner's motion for leave to appeal the decision of… |
| 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 this requirement is met when the defendant forms a business relationship with the plaintiff in the forum state, where both reside, the parties… |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
Question I:
Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment Constitution were violated whento the United States request for delayed appeal was denied for a… |
| 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 |
(1) Can a 11th Circuit Court sua sponte deny a defendant's or petitioner's constitutional right to a public speedy trial 3.191 (P)(3). (2) Does the Pe… |
| 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 |
1. Whether, when dealing with its citizens, a State court is permitted to issue decisions that are in direct conflict with this Court's precedents, an… |
| 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 |
DID WE ' OOURT OF APPEALS ERR 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 |
1) Is Due Process under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, under Section 1.5.1 (Overview of Procedural Due Process) considere… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the TCCA contravened the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, and this Court's precedents, when it evaluated petitioner's intellectual disabil… |
| 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 |
The Full Faith and Credit for Child Support Orders Act (FFCCSOA) grants continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to a court of a State to modify its child s… |
| 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?
Did the United States Supreme C… |
| 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 of the United States Constitution violated by the issuance of a restraining ord… |
| 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 |
1. Does the State of Louisiana have the express right to invoke the defense of
"judicial economy " as a ruse for plausible deniability; especially whe… |
| 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 |
I. Whether the judiciary, via the United States Court of Federal Claims or the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, must de novo re… |
| 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 |
1) Whether Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDC3) violates
the Fourteenth Amendment by confining its prisoners past the
dates uhen they are lega… |
| 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… |
| 22-1070 |
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? |
| 22-7438 |
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 |
A. 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) Cour… |
| 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 this Court should extend Graham and Miller to term-of-years prison sentences that permit a juvenile offender's release after a lengthy period … |
| 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 when they Cited Penn Central v. New York City and failed to address Lucas v. South Caro… |
| 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 |
1. Does a state constitutional provision which prohibits any consideration of evolving standards of decency violate the Eighth Amendment?
2. In light… |
| 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 where the district court in a motion for compassi… |
| 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 |
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| 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 WHERE STATE COURT ARBITRARILY DISCRIMINATED BETWEEN PERSONS APPLYING FOR RELIEF IN… |
| 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 |
1. Did the State Court proceedings afford Due Process and Equal Protection of Laws under the Fifth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment of the United St… |
| 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 |
A person accused of a crime is entitled to have his guilt or innocence determined solely on the basis of evidence introduced at trial. Taylor v. Kentu… |
| 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 |
I. Per U.S.C. Arndt. 14.S1.5.1, U.S.C. Arndt 14.Si.5.2, U.S.C Arndt 14.S1.5.3 U.S.C. Arndt 14.SI.3, Was Rhonda J. Leaf (nka-Ring) 's 14th amendment ri… |
| 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 |
1. Whether Mr. Sales's death sentence violates the Sixth, Eighth, and
Fourteenth Amendments, where the jury did not and could not find, based on the
e… |
| 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 |
After holding that the Rooker-Feldman doctrine jurisdictionally barred it from determining whether a state court judgment is void ab initio and subjec… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
1. Whether the Eighth Amendment requires a prisoner challenging the method of his execution to show a scientific consensus that the method is sure or … |
| 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 |
Ohio has a public employee statutory scheme for collective bargaining. In this statutory scheme, the Ohio Legislature took care to create an individua… |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
I. Whether Mr. Wahl Was Denied His Right To Effective Assistance Of Counsel In Violation Of The Guarantees Of The Sixth & Fourteenth Amendments?
II. … |
| 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 |
A. Indictment
A(l). Notice Is a Fundamental
Federal Constitutional Right
Is the Sixth Amendment right to be informed of the na
ture and cause of the … |
| 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 |
1. Whether evolving standards of decency have rendered Mr. Gaskin's death violative of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of cruel and unusual punishm… |
| 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 |
1.) Did the City of Northglenn, Colorado police department violate Petitioner's First Amendment rights to free speech and assembly on January 4, 2020 … |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
1. In a post-conviction relief case based on an aggravated murder conviction in which the defendant faced the death penalty, is trial counsel ineffect… |
| 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 |
The defendant in this case was sixteen when the alleged crime was committed. He was initially charged in Juvenile Court. He was transferred from Juven… |
| 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 |
1. Was I deprived of my (14th) Fourteenth Amendment of due process of a fair trial, when I pleaded with my trial attorney and the Judge Meagan Bilik-D… |
| 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 that Kayla Noel- Emsweller, et.al., and defendants deny him his constitutional… |
| 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 |
How can the district court say I failed to state a Claim against Conner when suit never said that suit personally handed my grievance to Conner said t… |
| 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 |
Taking into account that the nonfinal order issued by the lower civil court in case 2017CA004797 is an order that denied the Defendants' Motion to Dis… |
| 22-7141 |
Donald McDonald v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-03-29 |
Denied |
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 clausd claim conflicts with the deci… |
| 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 |
Counsel and capital defendant s frequently clash over whether and what mitigating evidence to present in support of a sentence less than deat h. In Oh… |
| 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 |
By compelling the Petitioner to undergo a pretrial psychological evaluation to rebut a mitigation claim it knew he was not making, and prohibiting him… |
| 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 |
In 2015, Mr. Meyer was sentenced to a total of 230 years in prison after a jury convicted him of 23 counts of possession of child pornography. This wa… |
| 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 |
1.) Did the Ohio Department of Rehabilitations and Corrections know that Petitioner was disabled and thereafter deny him a reasonable accommodation to… |
| 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 |
1. When a state court expressly refuses to consider a petitioner's constitutional claim, has that court nevertheless adjudicated that claim "on the me… |
| 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 |
1. Whether a criminal prosecution and judgement therefrom is void where the trial court lost personal jurisdiction over the defendant prior to the sta… |
| 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 |
1. Whether statutory psychotherapist patient privilege and the right to liberty or autonomy provided in the due process clause of the United States Co… |
| 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 |
1. To secure its 2011 and 2012 false indictments, did the State violate Petitioner's Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel and Due Process when it circumve… |
| 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 a Legislature delegates authority to an
occupational licensing board to prohibit "misleading"
statements and conduct with "the capacity to deceiv… |
| 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 |
1. Is it legal to refuse prescribed medication to a Disabled person while incarcerated?
2. Why is Suboxone given to inmates in some State, but not al… |
| 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 when it failed to reverse a decision of the Utah Court … |
| 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 with three parties and two of the parties agreed to a settlement between them, that did not i… |
| 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 |
The OCR text provided is too degraded and illegible to accurately extract the "Question(s) Presented" section verbatim. While a "QUESTION(S) PRESENTED… |
| 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 |
I. 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 gr… |
| 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 |
1. Does Maryland's adoption of "the best interest of the child" standard
when adjudicating termination of parental rights cases conflict with the fir… |
| 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… |
| 22-848 |
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 |
Petitioner James Fox performed a welfare check at the home of Respondents Mark Campbell and Sherrie Campbell. Mark stated through the closed front doo… |
| 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 General Act violating the Constitution of the United States presents a "question" within the meaning of the Judiciary Act.
Whether the peti… |
| 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 |
Question I: Whether the Sixth Amendment ' jury-trial guarantee, taken together with the Fourteenth
Amendments ' right to due process require that 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) |
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 Te… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6937 |
Robert L. Davis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-03-06 |
Denied |
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 |
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| 22-6944 |
Paige C. Sullivan, nka Paige C. Auer v. Jacob James Culwell |
Florida |
2023-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-protection custody custody-dispute de-facto-parenthood due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest parental-rights standing |
Whether a natural parent has a fundamental liberty interest, guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment, in the care, custody, and management of her child… |
| 22-6928 |
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 |
In an action in which an individual is committed for mental health treatment, does a state's failure to protect that individual against other inmates … |
| 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 |
"The Petitioner respectfully ask '* When the [Fjramers of the Oklahoma State Constitution, created and enacted Article I. £ 3. [Unappropriatedpublic l… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the State violated the Due Process clause where it induced jurors with an incorrect legal definition of "knowingly", in such a way that rel… |
| 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 |
The Fourteenth Amendment protects citizens against takings of property without due process. Due process includes, at a minimum, personal jurisdiction,… |
| 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?
Does the DOJ Giglio Policy violate the Due Process
Cla… |
| 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. |
| 22-6888 |
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 |
Question#1: Can a law firm retained by any credit reporting agency carry out the duties of and services of credit reporting agency business?
Question… |
| 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… |
| 22-6869 |
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… |
| 22-6868 |
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… |
| 22-6862 |
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, as in the sentencing phase of a capital trial under Dawson v. Delaware, 503 U.S. 159 (1992), the First and Fourteenth Amendment prohibit the … |
| 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 |
1. Whether the "minimum contacts" requirement for specific jurisdiction is satisfied whenever a defendant has made limited sales of products to custom… |
| 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 by: (1) the jury's viewing a witness's refusal to testify; (2) the prosecutor askin… |
| 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 |
This Court has ruled that a variation of mental commitment known in several states as a "sexually violent predator" commitment proceeding can be const… |
| 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 |
1. In light of the medical community's recent consensus that
Neurobehavioral Disorder Associated with Prenatal Alcohol Exposure is not only
functional… |
| 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 |
Petitioner was charged, subjected to pretrial proceedings, tried, convicted, and incarcerated for an act that the law does not make criminal. Petition… |
| 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 |
I. Whether review should be granted where no other review was available and whether the lower appellate court denied meaningful review and other subst… |
| 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 |
On direct-collateral review:
WHETHER PETITIONER'S RIGHT TO A FAIR AND
IMPARTIAL TRIAL WAS VIOLATED DUE TO JUROR
MISCONDUCT. U.S. CONST. AMENDS. VI, XI… |
| 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 |
1. Is California's scheme of procedural due process in its Code of Civil Procedure and Civil Rules of Court satisfactory of constitutionally protected… |
| 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 |
1. The standard of review for error #1 - Dosen't the EEOC has Federal Investigators who do investigations when a complaint comes in their office and h… |
| 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 |
1. 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 – whic… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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, while investigating child
abuse and neglect and crime, interfered with Petitioner 's first and fourteent… |
| 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… |
| 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 |
In light of the foregoing facts, this petition presents the following questions:
1. Whether a freestanding claim of actual innocence presents a cogni… |
| 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 |
1. Did state courts in Pennsylvania fail to address both Fifth and Fourteenth
amendment (Due Process) violations of court record after a second trial… |
| 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 |
1. Was Jimmy Ray Lacy Jr. denied a fair trial under the fourteenth
amendment when a key state witness misled the jury as to the
benefits received an… |
| 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… |
| 22-6654 |
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 |
Where a post-conviction review of a murder trial leading to a sentence of life imprisonment finds that there was ineffective assistance of counsel but… |
| 22-6650 |
Antonio Rooks-Byrd, aka Abdur-Rashid Muhammad v. Court of Appeals of Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2023-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-court civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure jurisdiction standing state-appellate-court |
1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits a state appellate court from adjudicating an application or motion in … |
| 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 |
1. Where police interrogators induce an unwilling 15-year-old murder suspect to
incriminate another by (1) omitting to advise him of his Miranda righ… |
| 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 |
Did the Arizona Court of Appeals Division One Err by affirming the Termination of Paternal Parental rights over his two biological Children in a Maric… |
| 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 |
1) DID THE SIXTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS VIOLATE PETITIONER'S
FIFTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT RIGHT BY DENYING PETITIONERS
28 USC § 2255 MOTION TO V… |
| 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 "A… |
| 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 |
In accord with the Tenth Amendment, how is it determined whether a power is reserved to the people or to the State?
Whether the Ninth and Tenth Amend… |
| 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 BY ITS FAILURE TO APPLY THIS COURT'S
STANDAR D SET F… |
| 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 |
UNDER THE FIFTH, SIXTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS WAS THE PETITIONER DEPRIVED OF HIS DUE PROCESS RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY AND HIS RIGHT NOT TO BE PUT IN … |
| 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 |
1) Petitioner respectfully petitions for a writ of certiorari to review a judgment of the United States Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit, which d… |
| 22-6544 |
Bradley B. Miller v. Andrea Plumlee, Judge, District Court of Texas, Dallas County |
Texas |
2023-01-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure due-process federal-removal fourteenth-amendment judicial-immunity jurisdiction res-judicata standing state-court-jurisdiction statute-of-limitations |
1) Whether state court jurisdiction halts during the pendency of a federal removal.
2) Whether any state court proceedings conducted during the pende… |
| 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 |
1. When states open their postconviction forums to federal claims raised in a successor posture based on newly-discovered evidence, do they have to ad… |
| 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 |
1. Whether Florida's sexual battery statute for acts applicable to adults with no physical force or violence violates the Fourteenth Amendment because… |
| 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 |
(1) Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
requires that courts consider the aggregate effect of multiple legal errors, as the Fir… |
| 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 |
1. THE PLAINTIFF 8TH AMENDMENT CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT UNDER A DELIBERATE INDIFFERENCE HAS BEEN VIOLATED THROUGH AN UNLAWFUL SURGERY PERFORMED WITHOUT TH… |
| 22-6516 |
Abraham A. Augustin v. Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security |
Tennessee |
2023-01-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-forfeiture constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment procedural-protections property-rights takings united-states-constitution |
I. WHETHER THE FORFEITURE OF AUGUSTIN'S PROPERTY COMPORTED WITH THE DUE PROCESS CLAUSE OF THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION?
… |
| 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" IN… |
| 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… |
| 22-6515 |
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 |
1. Did the ruling(s), by disregarding testimony of material witness, proven to lie
under oath violated petitioner 's right to due process enshrined i… |
| 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 |
1. Whether an Equal Protection claim under the Fourteenth Amendment, based on an incident of discriminatory policing, requires a plaintiff to establis… |
| 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 rule of substantive law retroactiv… |
| 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 |
Florida 's adoption of the Federal Constitution Fourteenth Amendment at section 9 of its
constitution reads, "No person shall be deprived of life, li… |
| 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 |
1. Did the Supreme Court of Virginia in affirming the Arlington County Circuit court violate Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment due process rights by f… |
| 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 |
1. Whether a prisoner's criminal act of voluntarily ingesting an illegal drug banned within the prison can give rise to that prisoner's federal consti… |
| 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 when it decides in a civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. Secti… |
| 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, which permits the trier of fact to impose a sentence of death without finding beyond a reasonable doubt the ex… |
| 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 |
1. Does Congress give this Court the authority under 28 U.S.C. 1292(e) to review the Fourteenth Amendment mandates under the case or controversy juris… |
| 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 … |
| 22-6435 |
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 |
1.)
Is a defendant deprived of his right to
Confrontation and
due Process within
the meaning of the Sixth, and Fourteenth
Amendments Whea the District… |
| 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 |
(1) Whether a pre-Miller guilty plea bars a post-Miller sentencing challenge under the Eighth Amendment.
(2) Whether the sentencing process mandated … |
| 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 |
(I)
Are Search warrants that fail to include command
sections authorizing the seizure of particular items
facially and fatally defective, requiring su… |
| 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 |
May a municipality, consistent with the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments, sell or destroy property seized for safekeeping from an arrestee, merely bec… |
| 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 |
John Edward Sansing pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and other felonies with no agreements offered by the state. During the sentencing proceeding… |
| 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 |
InBe&K Constr. Co. v. NLRB (2002) 536 U.S. 516, 53, this Court held that "The First Amendment provides, in relevant part, that "Congress shall make no… |
| 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 |
Gakuba exhausted all his available administrative remedies when grieving Vienna prison staffers' deliberate ignorance to Gakuba's seafood allergy, and… |
| 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 |
In an Eighth Amendment method-of-execution case, is an alternative method of execution feasible and readily implemented merely because the executing S… |
| 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 |
1. Whether a defendant's procedural due process rights under the
Fourteenth Amendment have been violated when he was denied his
right to a fair trial … |
| 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 |
Should this court use its power to grant A writ of habeas Corpus to A Moorish American Sovereign Man who has No Available Forum to raise his compellin… |
| 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 allegations in his 42 U.S.C. 1983 complaint brought against the respondent(s) state official(s) of the Texas Wo… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the State of California violated Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment guarantees of due process in an attorney discipline proceeding resulting… |
| 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 |
This case concerns the constitutionality of Vermont law governing the termination of parental rights, specifically, whether it is a violation of the F… |
| 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 |
Question 1. Does California's legal framework — whereby prevailing parties' claims for contractual attorney's fees are adjudicated summarily as claims… |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
1. Whether there was sufficient evidence adduced at trial to convict
Petitioner of the offense beyond a reasonable doubt under this Court's holding
… |
| 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 |
I. Does the trial counsel's fraudulent behavior and conflict of interest violate the Petitioner's 6" & 14" Amendment right to conflict free counsel?
… |
| 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 |
1. Does the district court have subject matter jurisdiction over this case?
2. Do the actions and conduct of the district court in this specific indi… |
| 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 |
I. SHOULD THIS COURT GRANT THE WRIT WHERE THE LOWER
COURT ERRED IN VIOLATION OF THE EIGHTH AMENDMENT
IN DENYING COMPASSIONATE RELEASE WHEN THE LOWER… |
| 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 |
L. Whether the relevant conduct sentencing guideline is unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment as applied to conduct committed by a juvenile defe… |
| 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 183rd district court for Harris County, Texas erred in denying Petitioner Rodriguez's writ of Habeas Corpus when Petitioner's trial and ap… |
| 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 |
The administrative law judge entered a
default judgment against Petitioner, who had
not received notice of the hearing. The notice of
the hearing was … |
| 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 |
1. Whether Texas Constitution article I, § 32 prohibiting the state or political subdivision of the state from creating or recognizing any legal statu… |
| 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 |
I.
Is the test of objective reasonableness applicable to a claim of excessive force enunciated by this court in Kingsley v. Hendrickson, 576 U.S. 389 … |
| 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 direction and mistake of Law perpetuated by The Fifth Circuit Runs afoul of the Supreme court honing in Timbs v. Indiana, Februar… |
| 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 |
After Poundersv. Watson, 521 U.S. 982 (1997) (with Justices Stevens and Breyer dissenting),
South Carolina 's Supreme Court ("SC S Ct"), in conflict … |
| 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? |
| 22-6181 |
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 |
1. WHETHER AN ATTORNEY'S CONFLICT OF INTEREST DEPRIVED PETITIONER OF HIS RIGHTS UNDER THE SIXTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS TO EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE AND … |
| 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 |
1. Do the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the
United States Constitution permit a court to deny a
criminal defendant his request for appointment of… |
| 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 California courts' unreasonable refusal to hold an evidentiary hearing on petitioner's claims of ineffective assistance of counsel, combin… |
| 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 |
WEATHER A Re - SeuJTEAICIAI^ HEARING^ .UNDER THE MEVJ . ..
LaVJ SeMaTE 2mL\_ - 13^3, JbMT.TLES ft DEFENDANT __
The Hi^hT. _io _effective
S-ixth — AMD-… |
| 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 THIS COURT SHOULD EXERCISE ITS CERTIORARI JURISDICTION IN ORDER TO REVIEW A CLAIM THAT FLORIDA COURTS OF APPEALS DO NOT PROVIDE FOR EVIDENTIAR… |
| 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?
DOES THE CONDUCT OF THE INDIANA COURTS VIOLATE PETITIONER'S FIFTH AND FOURTEENT… |
| 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 Peti-
oner, by the Federal Bureau of Prisons; due to the COVID
-19 Pandemic, justifies "Eq… |
| 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 |
Following the Court's ruling in Timbs v. Indiana, 139 S. Ct. 682 (2019), which held that the Excessive Fines Clause of the Eighth Amendment is incorpo… |
| 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 |
1.) Whether Petitioners' procedural due process right and rights to sue for a taking without just compensation under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendmen… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment limits the judicial power of state courts to issuing judgments deciding those justiciabl… |
| 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… |
| 22-6074 |
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 |
1. WHETHER THE PROCEDURES REQUIRED TO INSTITUTE UNUSUAL SECURITY MEASURES APPLY IN CIVIL CASES BROUGHT BY PRISONER - PLAINTIFFS?
2. WHETHER DISTRICT … |
| 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 |
1. Did the Supreme Court of California violate murder victim Henry Chow 's and
his children their Fourteenth Amendment rights of "life, liberty, and … |
| 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 |
1. Whether judges in Washington State must specifically address the judicial partiality claims actually asserted by the parties against judicial offic… |
| 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 of the U.S. Constitution by failing to address clear evidence of fraud… |
| 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… |
| 22-6044 |
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 |
Where the Lower Court held a de novo determination that the 1983 complaint at issue, claiming constitutional violations, was plaintiffs failing to sho… |
| 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 |
1. Whether a court order that excludes land owners from their real property and allows other private parties to physically invade and occupy the owner… |
| 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 a defendant's conviction and sentence for nonexistent crimes: (1) violates the Fifth And Eighth Amendments, (2) constitute extraordinary and e… |
| 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 |
When a state abolishes its parole system, does it create a mandatory life-without-parole sentence that, when imposed on a juvenile homicide offender, … |
| 22-427 |
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, in violation of
the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth
Amendment to the Constitution of the United States
of Am… |
| 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 |
I. Whether a Creditor must follow the
requirements specified in 1974 by the Fair Credit
Billing Act, Pub. L. 93-495, Tit. Ill, 88 Stat. 1511, for
t… |
| 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 |
1. Whether a 720-month sentence violates the Eighth Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual sentences when Mr. Testani never had physical contact w… |
| 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… |
| 22-412 |
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 by allowing mail-in voting from anywhe… |
| 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 |
(1) Whether Scottsdale Revised Code 19-13 is overbroad and violates the First Amendment?
(2) Whether Scottsdale Revised Code 19-13 is unconstitutiona… |
| 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 BY DENYING THE PETITIONER'S INITIAL BRIEFS REQUEST FOR THE REMOVAL OF THE SEXUAL PREDATOR DE… |
| 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 |
1. Do the jury-trial and due process guarantees of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit judges from considering, at sentencing in a criminal c… |
| 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 |
1. In light of a court's duty to issue a remedy that "neutralize[s] the taint of a constitutional violation" while avoiding the grant of "a windfall t… |
| 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 |
As reasonable jurors would have disagreed that the Felony Murder Statute as applied to this Petitioner is unconstitutional, denying this Petitioner hi… |
| 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 |
1. Do Kentucky's violent offender statute create a liberty interest protected by due process?
2. Is the Kentucky Department of Corrections in constan… |
| 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 |
I. WAS PETITIONER DEPRIVED OF DUE PROCESS AND HIS RIGHT OF SELF REPRESENTATION UNDER THE FIFTH, SIXTH, AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS BY THE TRIAL COURT'S … |
| 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 |
1. Reasonable jurists would determine that Mr. McGhee was denied his right to Due Process of Law under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to t… |
| 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 |
1. Does the Ninth Amendment of the United States Constitution guarantee rights to:
a. Correction of mistakes as expeditiously as practical after disco… |
| 22-5901 |
William Paul Burch v. Areya Holder Aurzada |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure bankruptcy-transparency corruption due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud judicial-ethics salaried-employees transparency |
1. Should a final report of a chapter 7 bankruptcy case be divided into five parts thus depriving the debtor of transparency so as to prevent errors, … |
| 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 |
1. In Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002), this Court held that the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments preclude the execution of defendants with int… |
| 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 |
1. 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 … |
| 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 |
1. Reasonable jurists would determine that the evidence presented during trial was insufficient to convict Doucet of Aggravated Rape beyond a reasonab… |
| 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 Trencie Oliver's sentence imposed as to his offenses is disproportionate to the offense and violates due process or the Eighth Amendment of th… |
| 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," as incorporated by the Fourteenth Amendment, waive Eleventh Amendment Sovereign Immunit… |
| 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 the State of Oklahoma may execute Benjamin Cole while he is incompetent to be executed, in violation of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments t… |
| 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 Communication s between Respondents Attorneys
oilnd TIE OCtef Siveeney ON the. Todge Persona) Lei) Pbene
the ty Pafde. comm UNitawch cb Pade … |
| 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 |
1. Whether it violates the Eighth Amendment and this Court's decisions in Ford v. Wainwright, 477 U.S. 399 (1986), and Panetti v. Quarterman, 551 U.S.… |
| 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 |
I. WHETHER UNSUBSTANTIATED ALLEGATIONS OF MISCONDUCT
INTRODUCED IN A CRIMINAL SENTENCING PROCEEDING VIOLATES
THE FIRST AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS TO … |
| 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 |
1. Whether my rights to procedural due process was violated under the XIV Amendment when I was denied my right to submit a Reply Brief in 7th Circuit … |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 due process and equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution and relevant civil rights laws prohibit a st… |
| 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 |
1. Whether Fourth Circuit affirming district court's decision based on altered Notice of Appeal without performing any review on the merit of the appe… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the sustaining of the respondent's demurrer is in violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment and the Fourteenth Amendment t… |
| 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
Rearview on a writ of certiorari is not a matter of right Is judicial discretion
discretion is abused power of official to act th… |
| 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 of the Uni… |
| 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 |
1) Whether the Court of Appeals for Third Circuit incorrectly
determined that the concurrent sentence doctrine can be used
on a petitioner with solely… |
| 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 |
1. DOES THE JUDGEMENT OF SENTENCE REPRESENT A MAINIFEST INJUSTICE WARRANTING THE SUPERVISORY POWERS OF THIS HONORABLE COURT AS IT SHAKES SOCIETIES CON… |
| 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 |
Did the appellate court err in assessing the legal significance of the sworn Affidavits tending to exonerate the petitioner, and deny the petitioner h… |
| 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 |
1. Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth
Amendment require, in a child custody and
visitation proceeding, that a state family court may
not i… |
| 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 |
1. Does the Virginia Freedom of Information Act afford the citizens of Virginia with a statutorily created liberty interest for Fourteenth Amendment p… |
| 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?
May Federal Agencies Adjudicate Violent Behavior Cases in Secret "Star Chamber" Tribunals, and Then Bar the… |
| 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 TO CONDEMN HENDERSON'S AMBLE FROM 25-TO-LIFE PLUS FIFTEEN, TO LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE WITHOUT A COURT HEARING, AFTER SERVING 30 Y… |
| 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 or not the Indiana Supreme Court decided an issue without determining the effect of the In-diana Court of Appeals granting Respondent American… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the due process constitutional right of the petitioner is infringed and the Federal Court has jurisdiction to entertain it.
2. Whether the… |
| 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 |
1. Whether a "judicial taking" under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments is a cognizable cause of action.
2. Whether a property owner who is deprived… |
| 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 |
1. After the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ("Second Circuit") confirmed in
United States v. Lumumba, 794 F.2d 806 (2d Cir. 1986) that p… |
| 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 |
1. Whether a litigant's fundamental right to a fair trial, under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution,… |
| 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 |
(1) whether K Y. REV. STAT. ANN. § 199.502 violates the Fourt eenth Amendment's Due Process Clause because it fails to articulate a clear and convinci… |
| 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 this Court under its power to grant a Writ of Habeas Corpus can aid an American Sovereign man, if he has no available forum to raise his claim… |
| 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 |
1.) 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 R… |
| 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 WHEN IT HELD THAT THE STATE AGENCY CAN REQUIRE THAT FUTURE SOCIAL SECURITY RECIPIENTS PREMATURELY APPLY FOR REDUCED… |
| 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 percieved to have, impairment within the meaning of the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA"). 42 U.S.C.… |
| 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, as a matter of law, pursuant to Rule 56(c), F.R.C.P., a plaintiff's complaint wherein the plaintiff seeks co… |
| 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 |
Under Nebraska's tax sale scheme, the state stole the full value of Sandra K. Nieveen's home by allowing a private investor to take title after paying… |
| 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 14% 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 (see 2022 NYSlip Op 60107) inconsistent?
• Is N.Y. Comp. … |
| 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 |
2) Can ya ackless Ho cbflerences in Duc Mecess. tights 40.adlhn. Segegahion, veties discyplinaty iSolatoty:asas Esttadhs £eual Astechon dad Lue lace a… |
| 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 |
In Persuasive Authority Leading Case on Point Hamilton V. Alabama 368 U,S.52,(1961). The Supreme Court of the United States Reversed. In an opinion by… |
| 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 |
1. 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 Amendments Rights By Denying The Claim Of Ineffectiv… |
| 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, as at least five circu… |
| 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 |
1. Is the first question to be answered by both the
district courts and the courts of appeals, when a civil
complaint is presented to them, whether … |
| 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 |
In 1986, Congress passed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act, which provided for a mandatory life without parole sentence for drug offenders who distributed very … |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a twelve-person jury to try a criminal defendant accused of a felony offense.
2. Whether the imposition of a … |
| 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 |
The Bank Secrecy Act and implementing regulations require U.S. persons to file an annual report—called an FBAR—if they have foreign bank accounts cont… |
| 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 of due process and the right to present an effective defense regarding suppressed eviden… |
| 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 |
Hennepin County confiscated 93-year-old Geraldine Tyler's former home as payment for approximately $15,000 in property taxes, penalties, interest, and… |
| 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 |
1) Does the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits
the imposition of cruel and unusual punishment require that a sentencing
court… |
| 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 |
1. WHETHER THE STATE COURT'S OCT. 13, 2021 ORDER (App. P-2) DEPRIVED PETITIONER OF THE FUNDAMENTAL CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO FAIR TRIAL, E.G., A MEANING… |
| 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 condemned to be executed in violation of the Eighth Amendment because he was found not to b… |
| 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 |
(1). Was petitioner's 5th and 14th Amendment Rights violated when police tampered with evidence and removed bullet fragments recovered from the victim… |
| 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 |
I. THE EVIDENCE PRESENTED AT TRIAL WAS INSUFFICIENT TO SUPPORT THE CONVICTION OF CSC 1st DEGREE WHERE THERE WAS NO PROOF OF PENETRATION AS REQUIRED BY… |
| 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 |
In a criminal trial, "[d]ue process means a jury capable and willing to decide the case solely on the evidence before it, and a trial judge ever watch… |
| 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, C.G.S. §45a-273 ("Section 273"), which permits the no-notice administration of a decedent… |
| 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 |
3., Do&S "fye Aw£i>PA 6-f N/ibloAe- 4*V\C Ce>n5454i£>in
0-f 4~ln£- l)n\4ed Skk^ i5^ a/\J 6^&wevoJoi-evv4- 'J
Sp^C\§i c\\j fV^£, Ist Ostno^.^ ime/it Ju… |
| 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 |
1. Do the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments require a canvass of the defendant prior to a constitutionally valid waiver of the fundamental, pers… |
| 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 |
Amendment Constitutional ^The^R^spondent violated the Petitioner 8th
Rights.ALso applied tothe State California Via 14th Amendment
to the U.S.Constit… |
| 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 |
I. Whether a Black mother and her Black
child/student who walks through the main entrance
of the public school doors 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 |
1. Does a State violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments when its ballot-access restrictions on third-party candidates for United States Representa… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
(1) Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the United States District Court, New Jersey erred in concluding that the Equ… |
| 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 Milton F. Fitch, Jr., Ownes Chads, E., Calvin Woodard, Jr., Robert A. Evans, Roland Loftin, Donald W. Stephen, Colon Willoughby, C… |
| 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 |
1. The question is: Did al Counsel ably Commabonal chan Assistance of Counsel Undertee SAM Htodeiont in tveir Guraveess of SelaZavs Mortal Heal isues … |
| 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 |
1. Was the denial of Reginald Carr's Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to testify structural constitutional error requiring automatic rever… |
| 22-5152 |
In Re Jerry N. Alfred |
|
2022-07-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection false-evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
WHETHER A TEMPORARY EXCEPTION EXISTS TO CITE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT'S UPLE HOLDING THAT A CRIMINAL CONVICTION USING USE OF FALSE EVIDENCE "MUST F… |
| 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 |
1. Whether or not the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth (10th) Circuit, departed far from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, as … |
| 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 |
THE U.S. SUPREME COURT HAS HELD.THAT A STATE LAW'S REVIVAL OF AN EXPIRED LIMITATION
PERIOD UNDER ITS STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS VIOLATES THE EX POST FACT… |
| 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 |
A fundamental element of just compensation is "certain payment of the compensation without unreasonable delay." Bragg v. Weaver, 251 U.S. 57, 62 (1919… |
| 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 |
Pennsylvania's Legislative Reapportionment Commission admittedly made extensive use of race in constructing up to 14 state legislative districts. 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 |
1. Whether a criminal defendant is deprived of his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to an impartial jury when a jury member gives dishonest and i… |
| 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 |
1. Does the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments require that before a trial counsel can conceded defendant's guilt, trial counsel must first consult with … |
| 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 |
1. Were Mr. Hooper's cell phones seized in violation of his Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable search and seizure?
2. Did the District Court… |
| 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 |
I. Whether or not the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth (10th) Circuit, departed far from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, as … |
| 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 |
Mr. McKenzie had a right to a jury finding for each fact that subjected him to the enhanced penalty of death. This proof was required to be "beyond a … |
| 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 |
In Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002), this Court held that the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments preclude the execution of defendants with intell… |
| 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 |
Question One: If the record reflects similar if not more egregious ineffective assistance by trial counsel. The claim was not refuted at evidentiary h… |
| 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 |
Whethe r the Davis- Hatton P rocedure is unconstitutional as-applied to Mr. Karr 's case and whether the Indiana State Courts and United States Distri… |
| 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 |
1. Whether a Black mother of a public school student who walks her young Black, student into school every morning through the main entrance and not th… |
| 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, as constructed in Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004), Dutton v. Evans, 400 U.S. 74 (1970) and Bru… |
| 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 |
1. Whether a capital defendant's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments rights to a fair and impartial jury and to the effective assistance of counsel are vi… |
| 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. |
| 21-1590 |
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 |
The District Court disallowed Austin discovery of an undisclosed witness based on the premise that she would be unable to conduct discovery in a prope… |
| 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 |
1)
Does a trial court violate the requirements of the
Equal Protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when it bases a permanent child custody orde… |
| 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, 6TH OR 14TH AMENDMENTS PERMITTING THE PROSECUTION TO IMPERMISSIBLY USE HIS POST-MIRANDA… |
| 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 |
PCR ISSUES
I. Whether Mr. Byrd was denied his right to effective assistance of appellate counsel when counsel failed to litigate non-frivolous issues… |
| 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 |
1) Although unpublished, because the Court of Appeal's opinion departed from a long line of well-established and published opinions of both this Court… |
| 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 in and of itself violate the Eighth Amendment in light of contemporary standards of decency and the geographic and other arbitr… |
| 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 |
A federal ex-prisoner, has the right to present a "fundamental error" byway of a writ of coram nobis, involving newly discovered evidence, pursuing wi… |
| 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 |
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deny, delay, … |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 of the Constitution and related rights of Due Process were violated by the Wyoming Tenth Circuit … |
| 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 in cases where the scores were formulated from tests t… |
| 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 |
A. Was Reed's right to a grand jury indictment secured by the Fourteenth and Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution was violated when Reed … |
| 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. |
| 21-8123 |
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 FOUR TEENTH AMENDMENT (in its fullest context) AND THE DICTATES OF THIS COURT IN "PATTERS… |
| 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 Or Not The Lower Court Erred And Abused Its Discretion In NOT Finding Petitioner Was Deprived Of His 5th And 14th Amendment Rights When The Tr… |
| 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… |
| 21-8084 |
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 |
1. Ifa state's established method of execution would violate the Eighth Amendment as applied to that inmate, may federal courts direct specific altera… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
1. Review should be granted, beause the state court failed to bring
the defendant before the magistrate within 48-hours after arrest, violating
The Fo… |
| 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. … |
| 21-8067 |
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 Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of habeas corpus relief based on ineffective assistance of counsel claims. |
| 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
psychotherapist-patient privilege in Jaffee v.
Redmond and personal autonomy under the
Fourteenth Amendment… |
| 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 |
1. Does the Eighth Amendment preclude the execution of a seriously mentally ill inmate whose homicidal behavior was the reasonably known, foreseeable,… |
| 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… |
| 21-8006 |
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 |
1) Was the U.S Court of Appeals For The Fourth Circuit, Richmond, Virginia correct in affirming the decision of the U.S District Court, EDNC, Raleigh,… |
| 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 |
1. May a defense attorney completely fail to subject the State's case to adversarial testing during a trial, without thereby depriving a criminal defe… |
| 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.
Whether Pennsylvania Law sup… |
| 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 the due process of law under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution, when retained counsel admitted the… |
| 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 |
1. Did the state court violate the petitioner's right to due process of law as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment where the prosecution failed to … |
| 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 |
(1) Whether the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana properly conclude … |
| 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 |
1. Is Jason Halda entitled to a resentencing because the judge imposed sentences long before
the Court's rulings in Miller and Montgomery. Therefore,… |
| 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 CORRDINATED TWO-STEP INTERROGATION TECHN… |
| 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 |
1 Whether NH. Revised Statute Ann. 260:10, violates the Due Process Clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution by … |
| 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 |
1. Does the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and Catherine O'Hagan Wolfe, routinely, and arbitrarily exercise authority beyond the proposed function an… |
| 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,
mandating that Californians "stay home" to prevent
the spread of COVID-19, violate the rights of petiti… |
| 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 |
1. In proceedings to terminate parental rights, before a court permits constructive service by publication does the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process… |
| 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 stat… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Petitioner's right to self-representation was violated when the trial court denied the Petitioner's request to proceed pro se and the F… |
| 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 |
On October 25, 2021, N.Y. Crim. Proc. § 440.10(2)(b) and (c) were amended to remove the procedural bar precluding a defendant from raising a collatera… |
| 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 |
In Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460 (2012), the Court held that the Eighth Amendment bars the mandatory imposition of life in prison without parole for… |
| 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 - tho… |
| 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 |
Petitioner alleges that New Hampshire does not provide equal protection under the law to its citizens when deciding whether to issue domestic violence… |
| 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 |
Under the Blockburger Test and same evidence test, can possession of juvenile pornography be considered child pornography or adult pornography since t… |
| 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 |
1: Reasonable Jurists would determined that Mr. Thibodeaux's conviction was obtained in violation of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United… |
| 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 of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United
States Constitution permit an attorney to be sanctioned … |
| 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 |
(1) Does Panetti v. Quarterman, 551 U.S. 930 (2007) foreclose a schizophrenic prisoner from demonstrating that non-bizarre delusions obstruct his rati… |
| 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 to due process as guaranteed by the Fift… |
| 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 |
QUESTION I
Whether or not a 46 year history, of a state court of last resort, through
judicial fiat, violating the due process rights of the Fourteen… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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, the state's chosen safeguard against arbitrary and capricious imposition of the death penalty,… |
| 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, consistent with the Right Against Cruel and Unusual Punishment guaranteed by the Eighth Amendment, prohibit jurors from con… |
| 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 of law under the Fifth Amendment and Section 1 of the Eighth Amendment prejudiced when the Circuit Court for the City … |
| 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 |
I. The Petitioner seeks review of the denial of a certificate of appealability by the First Circuit which review of the decision of U.S. District Cour… |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
1. Was Defense Counsel ineffective for failing to object to the states known use of false testimony in Petitioners trial. Violating his Constitutional… |
| 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 U.S. Const, amend. XIV, § 1 "Due Process Clause," affords litigants the right to due process of law and the equal protection of the laws, … |
| 21-7689 |
Deverick Scott v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-04-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights discovery due-process eighth-amendment failure-to-protect prisoner-rights retaliation screening-process section-1983 |
1. On 4/24/18, 4/25/18 Did Defendants Malone, Sexton, Burchfield violate Scott s clearly establish right to be protected by Assault from other 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 |
(1) Whether a pre- Miller guilty plea bars a post- Miller sentencing challenge
under the Eighth Amendment.
(2) Whether the sentencing process mandat… |
| 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 |
1) Whether a demonstration that a state constitutional test is less protective than the federal constitutional test means that an adjudication of the … |
| 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 |
1. Whether candidate qualifications should be subjected merely to rational-basis review, as the Sixth Circuit concluded below, or some heightened leve… |
| 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 |
Is the Petitioner, on retake, prisoner entitled to an evidentiary hearing in a State District Court habeas corpus proceeding, where the petitioner has… |
| 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 |
I. Did the Michigan Supreme Court err in denying this issue when Petitioner was denied his Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counse… |
| 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 when affirming the tribunal court's judgment that violated the requirement for Due Process unde… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
In accordance with the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, are state courts directly responsible for not… |
| 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 on July 5, 2002, transgressed the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States when respondent acted w… |
| 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 |
(1) Does the Unconstitutionally Vague language, Struck down by the Court in 185 O.G.), apply to 18USC F22¢gyG)?
(2) May a Stipulation Suffice To Conv… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
I. Does continued imprisonment under unconstrained exposure to a lethal contagion, such as COVID-19, violate his Eighth Amendment right to be free fro… |
| 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 |
ONE
IS FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT DUE PROCESS VIOLATED WHEN
PROSECUTOR WITHHOLDS BIOLOGICAL AND RELATED EVIDENCE LAYING
IN WAIT UNTIL PETITIONER MOVES HAB… |
| 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 |
1. WHEN PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW IS DISCRETIONARY BY THE
TEXAS COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS, DID THE COURT ABUSE ITS
DISCRETION IN NOT REVIEWI… |
| 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 |
1) WHETHER PETITIONER GIVE DEFENDANTS PATQ OTICE OF WHAT THE CLAIMS ARE AND THE GROUND UPON WHICH IT RESTS?
2) WHERE OFFICERS VIOLATE THE RULE ANNOUN… |
| 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 |
1. Whether Section 111 of the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007 as amended by Section 204 of the Medicare IVIG Access and Strengthen… |
| 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 |
1. DID C.C.T. NOTHE EXPOSE THE PLAINTIFF TO DANGEROUS LIVINE HIS MASK APPROPRIATELY ? AS WELL AS MULTIPLE DEFENDANTS).
2. DID C.C.T. NOTHE ABUSE HIS … |
| 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, in light of the uncontroverted evidence of Gregory Wynn's potential for maturity and positive change as an adult, his sentence of life impris… |
| 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 |
1) Do the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment's
under the U.S. Constitution apply for Sixth Month Speedy
Trial violation?
2) Do the Sixth… |
| 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 to the United States Constitution for a State to discriminate against minor political parties by p… |
| 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 |
In an action for alleged gender discrimination in violation of a state civil rights statute, is an award of more than $6 million in penalty damages ag… |
| 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 |
Under Mabry v. Johnson, the prosecution may not breach a term of a plea agreement that can be said to have induced a plea, although jurisdictions are … |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
1. Whether Mr. Smith's method-of-execution challenge is cognizable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.
2. Whether a method of execution involving 44 years of mos… |
| 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 |
I. 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 … |
| 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 |
1. Did The State/ District Court Judge's Failure To Abide By Nevada's State Procedural Law Violate My Constitutionally Protected Liberty Interest Unde… |
| 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? Stated another way, d… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with relevant de… |
| 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 |
1. Whether United States v. Gouveia, 467 U.S. 180 (1984) departed from the two-tier test for determining a due process violation established by United… |
| 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 |
In a capital trial, does a trial court's erroneous failure to remove for cause jurors that have personal and professional relationships with a prosecu… |
| 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 where its order of… |
| 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 |
QUESTION ONE
Whether in the exercise of its supervisory jurisdiction over the United States
Courts, this Court should correct the correctable injustic… |
| 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; Section 1 and Section 5 of the 14th Amendment; 28 U.S. Code § 1654, and state laws or provisions, grant individuals not only the… |
| 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 |
I. May a state court establish an attorney-client relationship that will restrict an individual's liberty under the Fourteenth Amendment to pursue a l… |
| 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 |
West Virginia identified unmarried biological stranger gestational surrogate C.J. as the legal mother of S.U.'s children against S.U.'s wishes and in … |
| 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 |
At age 17, Edward Pinchon was convicted of first-degree murder for the killing of a middle-aged man who was sexually abusing him. Tennessee law mandat… |
| 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 |
1. Was the D.C. Court of Appeals obligated to consider all of my allegations —including allegations pled in my Opposition to Howard 's Motion to Dismi… |
| 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 |
1.) 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 c… |
| 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 |
1) Does a state prison have the right to void an inmate's religious practice if the state prison refuses to recognize the inmate's religion, and claim… |
| 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 DEFENDANT-PETITIONER DENIED EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL AND UNCONSTITUTIONALLY COERCED INTO TAKING A PATERNITY BLOOD TEST IN JUVENILE COURT TH… |
| 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 |
Unrecognized Transfer The Case From Guam Superior Court To Guam District Court , even with lack of Jurisdiction lead To Default Judgement And Levi on … |
| 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 |
Harris' case presents exceptional circumstances that warrant exercise of this Court's discretionary power. Because of the willful disobedience or adop… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
1) Did the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals violate Mr. Stone's Fourteenth Amendment right to Due Process by:
a) affirming the district court's Deni… |
| 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 |
Are all U.S. prison officials required to provide all prisoners with healing spiritual medication for epilepsy, to prevent seizures that cause death?
… |
| 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, by permitting sentencing Judges to impose enhanced sentences based on their determination of facts no… |
| 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 |
Denied |
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 |
1. Isn 't the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments violated when exigent circumstances are created through police officers use of unreasonable law enforce… |
| 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 |
1) Did the State of OKlahome violate
Petitionus Fourth and
Fourtenth Amenmnt ss when they Poscuted this Ptits
Crime Which happened on a fidud enclave … |
| 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 |
1. In Atkins v. Virginia , 536 U.S. 304 (2002), this Court held that the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments preclude the execution of defendants with in… |
| 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 of the United States Constitution, applicable to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment, extends beyond a juvenile o… |
| 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 |
1. Whether Respondent School District of Philadelphia, on August 25,1992,
discharged appellant Arthur O. Armstrong, without just cause, without a hear… |
| 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 |
Does Mass. G.L. c. 209A(l)b prima facie infringe a defendant's 5th and 14th Amendment rights to due process and equal protection, with no remedy, by m… |
| 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 |
1) Did the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals violate Mr. Grass' Fourteenth Amendment
right to Due Process by:
a) affirming the district court's Denia… |
| 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 |
a). Whether the state court erred in omnibus order and subpoena order granted Quinn Emanuel on October 20, 2021 and in 5th January, 2022 order denying… |
| 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 |
When a trial court's discovery order regarding scientific testing of evidence will result in the total consumption of the evidence and thus preclude a… |
| 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 |
1. Did the United States District Court Error by denying the January 13,2020, initial No.1 CSX Transportation Corporate Headquarters Address -ho exped… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and more particularly, Circuit Judge Edward Carnes, who prepared the opinion f… |
| 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 |
In federal habeas proceedings, Petitioner William Speer presented a claim of
ineffective assistance of trial counsel for failure to investigate and pr… |
| 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, which may be completed through an
attempted threat alone, see 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a), and aiding and abetting a Hobb… |
| 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 |
1. Can petitioner be liable for constituting any offense, in which the scienter requirements of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment has… |
| 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 ".No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the… |
| 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, given the rarity of the grant of parole in Florida and Florida's failure to take a juvenile offender's maturity and rehabilitation adequately… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the petitioners ' First and Fourteenth Amendment rights are violated, when Michigan Supreme Court, Michigan Court of Appeals and Trial Cour… |
| 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 |
1. Whether a correctional officer violated a constitutional right of an inmate for not requesting further treatment for a non-life-threatening injury … |
| 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 |
1. CAN A FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT JUDGE GRANT ATTORNEYS FEES IN FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT IN A FEDERAL REMOVAL PROCEEDING FROM OHIO STATE COURTS FOR DEFAMA… |
| 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 |
1. May a labor union acting in concert with State officials, consistent with the First and Fourteenth Amendments, seize for union political speech pay… |
| 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, under some circumstances, violate the Eighth Amendment, as at least five circuits have held, or whether s… |
| 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 HIS 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 |
1. 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… |
| 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 |
1). WHETHER DELIBERATE INDIFFERENCE SHOULD BE ANALYZED UNDER THE BALANCING FRAME WORK
3F THE SUBSTANTIAL RISK OF HARM TEST ANNOUNCED BY THIS COURT RA… |
| 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 |
If an indictment alleges an offense occurring at the county of Ashland
in the State of Ohio, can jurisdiction over the offense be lost if the loca
ti… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
I.
Whether The Current Version of the California SVP Law Violates the Due Process Clause under the Fourteenth Amendment because it does not offer a Me… |
| 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 |
1.) Did the City of Northglenn, Colorado police department violate Petitioner's First Amendment rights to free speech and assembly on January 4, 2020 … |
| 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, 34 U.S.C. §§ 30301 et seq. and PREA regulations be followed to protect the vulnerability o… |
| 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 |
1. Can a judge reverse a case no: to a different case no: or can the judge oversee the plaintiff motion to dismiss the counter claim with the same cas… |
| 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 |
1. Whether a State has an Eleventh Amendment right to arbitrarily enforce or not enforce a State Law having significant interest to federal Fourteenth… |
| 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 |
(i) Whether the Supreme Court of Washington's denial of the petition for review is contrary to established precedent.
(ii) Whether the inequitable na… |
| 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 the 42 USC 1983 (4th, 14th Amendment) can protect a law abiding educated senior disable that has been abducted (arrested) after physical assau… |
| 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 |
The entire panel of active judges in 8th Circuit Court Of Appeals have evaded, refused and failed to address the merits of a constitutional claim with… |
| 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 |
1. Are citizen's Fourth Amendment rights impinged and Electronic Communication and Privacy Act statutes violated when police intercept private electro… |
| 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 |
I. Whether the Colorado Supreme Court's interpretation, that a criminal leaving the scene of an accident law without a stated mens rea meant that it w… |
| 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 sentence of death violate the Fifth and Eighth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States when t… |
| 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 |
Petitioner, Johnny E. McMahon, has been collaterally attacking subject-matter jurisdiction since 2011. However, this is the first time this Honorable … |
| 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 entered a decision in conflict with the decision in a United States Supreme Court case, Michigan v. Mosley, thereby, Violati… |
| 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 directed to order an appellate review do-over when due process compels a permanently removed judge's re… |
| 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 |
Petitioner has been detained in a state mental health center since her bench trial in June 2012, which adjudicated her Not Guilty by Reason of Insanit… |
| 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 |
1) Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth
Amendment prohibit a state court from compelling
a real property owner to pay thousands of dollars
fo… |
| 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… |
| 21-934 |
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, without meaningful analysis and substantive evidence, the Eighth Circuit exceeded its scope in determining a capable of ascertainment criteri… |
| 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 |
1. Do the Ex Post Facto Clause and Eighth Amendment permit a state to retroactively impose registration obligations on a person who was adjudicated of… |
| 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 (DOG) TRAINED IN DRUG DETECTION, ON PRIVATE PROPERTY, WITHOUT A SEARCH WARRANT OR PROBABLE CAUSE, C… |
| 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 at the PCR hearing, by trial Counsel's failure to object to… |
| 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?
II. Did the S… |
| 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 of the Fourteenth Amendment permits a state to assert personal jurisdiction over an out-of-state corporation, for claim… |
| 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 |
1. Whether pro se litigants in civil cases in fed
eral court are entitled under the due process clause
to have their pleadings liberally construed by… |
| 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 |
I
Were the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments violated when
a juror admitted viewing unadmitted evidence during deliberations and stated that her verdic… |
| 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 |
Given his exemplary prison record and demonstrated rehabilitation, whether Charles Dalton Shoemake's life-with-parole sentence imposed for a crime he … |
| 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 |
Introductory Statement
This is a liberty based "due process" case. Enactment by the Wisconsin legislature of the Wisconsin Marital Property Act in 19… |
| 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 |
1. Whether respondents, Quentin T. Sumner, Calvin Woodard, Keith Stone and magistrate Kenneth Barnes, acted in a conspiracy when appellee Calvin Wooda… |
| 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 pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §1292(a)(1) that has been fully briefed and pending in the United States Court of … |
| 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 STEVEN BETHEA TO A GREATER SENTENCE THAN NECESSARY AS THE COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION BY … |
| 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 for failing to conduct a reasonable investigation into a potential defense witness, which led … |
| 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 |
When State actors threaten to deprive individuals of liberty or property, the Fourteenth Amendment requires procedural protections that comport with m… |
| 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… |
| 21-834 |
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 during the election process, without violating the First and Fourteenth Amendments, can threaten criminal prosecution against vot… |
| 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 |
1. WHEN A CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES BECOMES A SUSPECT IN A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION FOR HOMICIDE, AND FIRST, AS A RESULT OF BADGERING AND PESTERING F… |
| 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 |
(1) Did the Circuit Court err by contradicting this Court's precedent in Farmer v. Brennan by ruling Petitioner was obliged to show an individualized … |
| 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 prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment to the United State… |
| 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(o) violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution because it is unconstit… |
| 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 |
1. Did J.S. have a Fourteenth Amendment right to be advised by the Court of his right to appeal?
2. Did J.S. have a right to appeal out of time, beca… |
| 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 |
1. Whether an abused woman who faces increased danger from her abuser because State Actors have emboldened and condoned the abuser's violently escalat… |
| 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 |
When a prosecutor publicly announces that he will not file criminal charges based on lack of evidence, does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth A… |
| 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 in valid 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 |
I. The Due Process Clause requires the existence of an element of a crime to be determined beyond a reasonable doubt. See Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 … |
| 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 |
Georgia requires persons with intellectual disability to prove their disability 'beyond a reasonable doubt' in order to vindicate their Eighth Amendme… |
| 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 |
1. Did the Us. District Court crrad in ruling
that the stato
court violated petitioner's Fourth, Sixth, and Fourtewth.
Amendruts of the Unitad States … |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's decision in Hurst v. State constitutes statutory construction of substantive law, and if so, whether the Due Pr… |
| 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, rather than applying a heightened standard for competency to represent oneself for defendants with severe mental il… |
| 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 |
In Obduskey v. McCarthy, this Court observed: "Colorado's 'nonjudicial' foreclosure process is something of a hybrid, though no party claims these fea… |
| 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 |
1. 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 ri… |
| 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 |
1. The trial court refused to allow Petitioner to call a material
witness that could significantly aid in his defense -and complied
with the Rules O… |
| 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 |
1. Was the seating of juror who should have been dismissed for cause requires reversal because implied biased applies to Juror foreman, 1301, married … |
| 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 |
I. DID THE TRIAL COURT VIOLATE MR. NIEVES-PEREZ'S RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS BY DENYING HIS MOTION TO QUASH THE INDICTMENT?
II. DOES THE LIFE SENTENCE IMPO… |
| 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 |
I. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's rejection of Petitioner's claim of error based on the jury being affirmatively misinformed about its role in th… |
| 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
pursuant Amendment 782 where the district court adopted a Type-C plea agreement
… |
| 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 |
In the decision below, the Supreme Court of Texas rejected the argument that copyright infringement by a government entity appropriates "the right to … |
| 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 |
1. Bolinger raised an ineffective assistance of counsel claim
on direct appeal. The Texas court of appeals concluded that,
without counsel's explain… |
| 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 |
1) Did the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals violate Mr. Bentley's Fourteenth Amendment right to Due Process by affirming the district court's Denial… |
| 21-6304 |
Neng Por Yang v. Ann Marie Holland |
Minnesota |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment harassment-restraining-order judicial-jurisdiction pro-se |
1. Whether the Minnesota Court of Appeals decision to continue the enforcement of a fraudulent and pretentious state harassment restraining order to a… |
| 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 |
I. Do the Ohio state courts deny a death-sentenced postconviction petitioner's rights to due process, access to the Ohio courts, and an adequate corre… |
| 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 possibility-of-release after thirty years, the functional equival… |
| 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 |
1. Whether a sentencing court adequately considers the mitigating aspects of youth where it considers at least some of those aspects to be aggravating… |
| 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. THE CIRCUIT COURT'S APPLICATION OF PRESUMED REASONABLENE… |
| 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 right 's under the
Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution,… |
| 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 |
1. Did I.A. have a Fourteenth Amendment Right to have a District Court Judge inform him of his right to appeal?
2. Was I.A.'s trial attorney, Scott W… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 legal authority to alter or amend the plain meaning of a lawfully-enacted statute of a sovereign state or a lawfully-enacted or… |
| 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 |
In Carlson v. Green, 446 U.S. 14 (1980), the Court recognized a remedy under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Illinois Supreme Court and Appel late Court's refusal to consider this matter violates the First and Fourteenth Amend ment rights of Pe… |
| 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 |
Despite the freedoms and privileges of U.S. citizenship, for over 17 years, petitioner has been imprisoned within an illiberal democracy 1, having los… |
| 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 |
Petitioner sold marijuana ostensibly as part of a California state legal nonprofit cannabis collective and possessed mescaline, ostensibly as a member… |
| 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 |
In Janus v. AFSCME, Council 31, this Court held that public employees have a right to refuse to subsidize union speech, that "States and public-sector… |
| 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 |
1. The California criminal street gang laws contained in section 186.22 of the California Penal Code are unconstitutional for being vague, indefinite … |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 State Of Arizona Failed To Terminate Mother's Parental Rights By At Least Clear & Convincing Evidence As Required By The Due Process Claus… |
| 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 |
1. Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth
Amendment to the United States Constitution
prohibit review of the entire record to determine
whether… |
| 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 |
In a capital case, does the admission, without an analysis of the risk of prejudice, of over 40 gruesome photographs of the victim's body, depicting p… |
| 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 Fourteenth Amendment protect an individual's right to express lawful speech free from state action and deliberate ind… |
| 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 |
1. 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 |
Denied |
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)?
2. Did the Court Error in ruling that t… |
| 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 |
1. Under Waddington v. Sar ausad, 555 U.S. 179 (2009), when a conviction requires that the State prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant ha… |
| 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.
Whether SDCL 15-6-24(a) (Fed.R.Civ.24(a)) would have automatically substitute… |
| 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 |
In 2002, Petitioners Warren and Henny Lent bought a beachfront home in Malibu, California. Along the house's east side, prior owners had long ago inst… |
| 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 |
If multiple and distinct First or Fourteenth Amendment rights are involved—
either collectively or as alternative factual theories—is each right analy… |
| 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 |
I. Whether an unrecorded conference in chambers is a "hearing or trial," or "proceeding," under Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 10(c) such that a … |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of procedural due process is violated when a State supreme court refuses to enforce its legislature's … |
| 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 |
1. Whether a guideline sentence of seventy-five months imprisonment violates the Eighth Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment in the c… |
| 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 |
1. Does the Fourteenth Amendment require a presumption of equal, joint custody of children in child custody proceedings? Is this presumption a logical… |
| 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 |
1. Do intentional false statements made by an attorney in a judicial proceeding violate the opposing party's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights?
2… |
| 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 |
Should CERTIORARI be granted to review two unreasonable and unconstitutional decisions of the state court:
1) Whether the 5th Amendment (right to be … |
| 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 |
In New York State, when a handgun licensee becomes the subject of a mental health report made pursuant to Mental Hygiene Law § 9.46, the state's handg… |
| 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 of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibit a State from convicting a person of murder based almost exclusively on an expert opin… |
| 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 |
1. Though completely forsaken by the protections of the Sixth Amendment by the time
ive at the federal appellate courts, does either the Eighth or sta… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Eighth Amendment permits a State to present victim-impact evidence arising from a crime other than the murder for which the defendant i… |
| 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 |
1. Whether pro se applications to vacate and set aside a state criminal nonsupport judgment and its direct counterpart civil judgment tolls the limita… |
| 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 |
The State of Missouri is set to execute an individual whom every evaluating expert following clinical diagnostic requirements has concluded meets the … |
| 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 |
1) Whether it is unconstitutional, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment-
Equal Protection Clause, for any litigant alleging discrimination in the… |
| 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 |
1. Did the New York County Family Court meet due process and evidence
standards in their determinations against the petitioner in disposition of two … |
| 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 |
1. 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… |
| 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 |
1.) Whether the Appellate Court erred by affirming the District Court's dismissal of Plaintiffs' action on grounds that District Court lacked subject … |
| 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 |
1. Does Maine's murder statute violate the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution because it does not require the state to prove beyon… |
| 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 error to akfirm the trial Coust's suling where the trial Court was convinced by the Sthte's 'thired-party gui… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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, in rejecting the detailed factfindings and legal conclusions of a state habeas trial court, disregarding medically accepted standards, and de… |
| 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, Wexford Health Sources Inc., through a course of easier and less "effecaciou… |
| 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 |
Jurisdiction and- the-Teague-Standard: 1 .
Does the Court have t*fie power to review a State Collateral Review
Court 's failure to give Retroactive E… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the government conducts a search under the Fourth Amendment when it accesses a vehicle's historical GPS location records, which provide a c… |
| 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 |
HAS FOR GOING ON 25 YEARS HELD PET- WHETHER THE U.S./ KANSAS ,
ITIONER ILLEGALLY IN PRISON CONTRARY TO THE FUNDAMENTAL LAW OF THEI.
UNITED STATES CONS… |
| 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 |
The question presented by this petition is whether
a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of appellate counsel, and Fourteenth Am… |
| 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 AS MEANT BY THE SIXTH AMENDMENT
AND
DID THE ACTIONS OF "ALL" COUNSE… |
| 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 |
Trujillo's trial was rendered fundamentally unfair due to the joint trial of unrelated charges and the admission of highly prejudicial gang evidence r… |
| 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? And, does the Constitution … |
| 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 |
The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits states from trying or convicting a defendant who is mentally incompetent. See Pate v. Rob… |
| 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 |
1. Whether this Court's decisions interpreting the Eleventh Amendment, see e.g. Fitzpatrick v. Bitzer; Port Authority Trans-Hudson Corp. v. Feeney, ba… |
| 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 |
After Ramos v. Louisiana required unanimous juries to convict criminal defendants, only Oregon preserved nonunanimous jury verdicts in criminal cases,… |
| 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 |
1. Does the cumulative error doctrine in the context of an ineffective assistance of counsel claim apply whereby individual errors, insufficient to ne… |
| 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 |
In Gertz v. Robert Welch Inc 418 US 323(1974), Justice Powell, • t
in reference to Defamation/Libel claims of a private individual
concerning an issue… |
| 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 (i)
Amendment due process protection?
Did the courts follow the Civil Due Proces… |
| 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 |
The questions presented show conflict with Precedent of this Court and all Circuit Courts. The significant practical consequence is promotion of discr… |
| 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 |
1. Whether state courts violated Petitioner's federal rights by removing her own property of 2% company ownership and $2.3M cash without notice and du… |
| 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 |
1. 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
… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the eleventh circuit erred in holding that no
constitutional violations in Green's trial /When the police officer
who investigated Greens … |
| 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 by the Prosecuting State'… |
| 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 |
In this case, the United States Court of Appeals per curiam affirmed denial of
Petitioner's appeal for habeas corpus relief. Petitioner contends that … |
| 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.O.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 1:
What must a Defendant show in order to demonstrate an Eighth Amendment violation where
Petitioner was sentenced to in essence life for pos… |
| 21-5517 |
Lonzie Wayne McQuirter v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2021-08-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
44th-amendment constitutional-violation due-process evidence-preservation fair-trial fourteenth-amendment innocence miscarriage-of-justice new-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
I. WHETHER PETITIONER'S CLAIMS SHOULD BE HEARD ON THE MERITS UNDER THE DUE PROCESS CLAUSE OF THE 14TH AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION TO A… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the mandatory exclusion of murder defendants between the ages of 14 and 18 from Juvenile Court precludes individualized consideration of th… |
| 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 |
1. 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… |
| 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 |
A) Whether Petitioner suffered the violation of his Constitutional Rights to Procedural Due Process when he was denied Reinstatement in 2012, without … |
| 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 whether a capital defendant suffers from an intellectual disability that would disqualify him… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the judiciary of the State of Florida, whose Declaratory Judgment Statutes §§86.011 through 86.111 are appropriate for the occasion, may le… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the judiciary of the State of Florida, whose Declaratory Judgment Statutes §§86.011 through 86.111 are appropriate for the occasion, may le… |
| 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 or not during evaluations, decisions, and judgments, the Alabama Trial, State Courts, are in complete contradiction to this United States Supr… |
| 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 |
1. Whether State action is implied by the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) anomalous codification of C.R.S. § 34-32.5-112 (9) (c) into the Division o… |
| 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 |
1. Whether a client has a right to discharge a lawyer at any time, whether in Arkansas state court or in Federal Court, with or without cause, subject… |
| 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 |
Under the Fourteenth Amendment, must a pretrial detainee alleging deliberate indifference to medical needs prove that the defendant was subjectively a… |
| 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 |
I. WHETHER THE STATE COURT HAS DENIED PETITIONER KUSHAWN MILES-EL ANY RIGHT, PRIVILEGE OR IMMUNITY GUARANTEED HIM BY THE CONSTITUTION AND LAWS OF THE … |
| 21-5444 |
In Re Calvin James |
|
2021-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
Whether prosecutors, courts, and state officials violated the Fourteenth Amendment and state law by conducting proceedings following arrests and charg… |
| 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 |
1. Whether pursuant to Kingsley v. Hendrickson, 135 S.Ct. 2466 (2015), jail officials violate a pretrial detainee's Fourteenth Amendment right to medi… |
| 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, WHEN THE COURT DID NOT CONSIDERED THE SUFFICIENCY OF THE EVIDENCE ON THIS CASE WHICH WAS A CRUC… |
| 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 |
I. Is a capital sentence invalid, and imposed in violation of the capital defendant's constitutional rights, when during the final closing argument ad… |
| 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 |
A. Must a Citizen exhaust his State's remedies before filing in the Federal Court for a decision upon a Constitutional issue?
B. When a State makes a… |
| 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 |
I.
WHETHER OR NOT THE NEBRASKA COURTS RELIANCE ON A WITNESS
STATEMENTS (Sean Nowling) INDUCED THE STATE'S (Respondent)
CASE-IN-CHIEF VIA ERRONEOUS OR … |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's statutory construction in Hurst v. State constitutes substantive law, and if so, whether the Due Process Clause… |
| 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 |
This Court recently cautioned trial courts to be especially vigilant against "particularly noxious strain[s] of racial prejudice," Buck v. Davis, 137 … |
| 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 (i)
Amendment due process protection?
Did the courts violate the rule and the ri… |
| 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 |
1. Whether Speedy trial Rule( 600) is protected by due
of law of the Sixth Amendment; Eighth Amendment
Fourtheeth Amendment:-section 1, of the United… |
| 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 |
1. Whether Mr. Theodore Howard/ was denied his United States Constitutional fourteenth/ and Sixth amendment due-process rights/ to fair notice of the … |
| 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 |
PETTIONER'S INTERNET FALEBOOK PAGE AND SEEING HIS TAN AND WHITE OG WHEN THE PROSECUTOR RECEIVED THE DNA REPORT ON H/D/AOL ONE WEEK BEFORE FILING AFFID… |
| 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 |
(1) Does the unconstitutionally vague language, stack down, as by the Court in USC 10@) Apply to 18 USC 72a¢g)(L)?
(2) May a Stipulation Suffice to C… |
| 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 |
Anyone can go to prison, but not everyone can pay a fine. The district court here imposed a $4,000 fine against Mr. Rosales-Gonzalez, an indigent, non… |
| 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 |
(I) Did the State of Oregon violate the Petitioner's right to effective assistance of counsel guaranteed him by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment of … |
| 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 |
I. Whether the Honorable United States Supreme Court must defend our Great United States Constitution?
II. Whether the Honorable United States Suprem… |
| 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 desciminate who is an<d.who is not protected under the Equal Protection Clause under the Fourteenth Amendment by allowing… |
| 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 |
1. WHETHER ALL NEWLY DECLARED CONSTITUTIONAL RULE OF
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE APPLY RETROSPECTIVELY TO
JUDGMENTS OF CONVICTIONS NOT YET FINAL AND PENDING … |
| 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 |
1. Where judicial misconduct targeted Petitioner, a person of color, violate his Fundamental Federal Rights guaranteed him by the Due Process Clause i… |
| 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 |
1. Whether this Court should grant writ of certiorari where no other review is available with stay pending review to address the state court of last r… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit entered a decision that strengthens the circuit split created by Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 86, which allows … |
| 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 second look with establishment of a strict uniform criteria whereby the largely relied upon discr… |
| 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 |
In view of the foregoing, this petition presents this issue:
Whether a federal court commits plain error by anchoring a sentence for a juvenile's cri… |
| 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 of the United States Constitution for a denial of inmate medical care under § … |
| 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 |
Petitioner, Linda B. Vacchino for Herself And on Behalf of Unnamed, Countless Others Impacted by the 2007 Mortgage Crisis and Those To Be Impacted by … |
| 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 |
When deciding whether a criminal fine is disproportionate to the gravity of a defendant's crime, and thereby unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendme… |
| 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 |
After twice being ordered to and agreeing to do so, the Regents of the University of California (UC Regents) caused intrinsic and extrinsic fraud upon… |
| 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 |
1) Whether jurisdiction exists for presentation of grounds for relief from all custody under § 2241, challenging conditions of confinement, where conc… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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, with assistance of family courts, have the sole and final say on the Frankensteining of the American Family? Does this deny bas… |
| 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 |
1. Whether a defendant is denied due process of the fourteenth amendment to United States Constitution where his arraignment is delayed, for no appare… |
| 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 |
1. Whether a non-tenured, but tenure-eligible,
professor at a public university has a minimal property
interest in a fair tenure review process under … |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment due process requirement articulated in Santosky v Kramer, 455 U.S. 745 (1982) that parental rights only be termina… |
| 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 |
1. What are the parameters of constitutionally acceptable dismissal and dismissal that rises to unconstitutional violation of due process?
2. Is a fi… |
| 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 |
I. Whether Texas' Court of Criminal Appeals, the only court of last resort reviewing direct appeals in death penalty cases has decided an important fe… |
| 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 |
I. The quEstiON pResENtEd is WhEthEr thE VA. SUPREME COUt VIDLAtEDpEtitiONER'S DUE PROCESS OF LAWINVIOATION OF AMEND. 14 oF thE UNitED StAtESCONstitut… |
| 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?… |
| 21-5041 |
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 |
Under the Due Process clause, and the Eighth Amendment, should the prosecution be held responsible for the presentation of false expert testimony on a… |
| 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 |
1. Petitioner was deprived of due process when the tribunals below materially misapprehended the record. They held that there was no objection to admi… |
| 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 |
I. Has the Petitioner's Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment right to an impartial jury been violated when the court erred in allowing juror, Victor… |
| 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 |
I. 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 … |
| 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 |
1. Whether it is consistent with the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment for a state to exercise personal jurisdiction over a foreign corpo… |
| 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 |
WHERE THE CONNECTICUT DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION VIOLATES THE FIRST
AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS ,DENYING THE PLAINTIFF AND HIS INFIRM MOTHER
DENIED VISIT… |
| 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 |
I. WHETHER OTHERWISE INADMISSIBLE NONTESTIMONIAL HEARSAY, WHICH FALLS WITHIN NO STATUTORY HEARSAY EXCEPTION, ADMITTED FOR NON-HEARSAY PURPOSE AND THER… |
| 20-8429 |
Christopher Forman v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2021-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment burglary conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment sentencing |
1. Did the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania defy the due process clause of the Fourteenth amendment to the United States Constitution by permitting a conv… |
| 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 as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment through requiring that every element of any offense to be proven … |
| 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 |
While it is managing the city-owned property, is the Western Justice Center a State Actor for purposes of the First and Fourteenth Amendments and 42 U… |
| 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 |
Due to his intellectual disabilities, Jeffrey Liberto was banned from his volunteering
position at Geisinger Hospital, without explanation, and preve… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
This Court is familiar with Mr. Deck, having reversed his second death sentences due to state action that occurred over Mr. Deck's objection. Three ye… |
| 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 |
In the decision below, the Florida Supreme Court held that maintaining conformity with this Court's Eighth Amendment jurisprudence required eliminatin… |
| 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 |
1. Whether prolonged incarceration past a statutorily-mandated release date is an objectively serious deprivation under clearly established Eighth Ame… |
| 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 |
1. Should international corporate defendants with worldwide reach be granted jurisdictional protection not afforded domestic corporations?
2. Does a … |
| 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 |
If a state creates a liberty interest by providing a procedural mechanism to enforce and ensure a defendant's constitutional right to a speedy trial, … |
| 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 |
I.) Can FedRule. Civ. Proc Go(bl) be Use For The Purpose of obTaining Relie
From The operation Judsement, when Exceptional Circumstances existed such
… |
| 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 |
After warrantless arrest by officers, petitioner filed 42 U.S.C section 1983 fourth amendment and fourteenth amendment claims, false imprisonment and … |
| 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 |
The fundamental right of all persons to seek remedy for injury via the courts has been variously grounded in Article IV's privileges and immunities cl… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Puerto Rico Court of Appeal departed so far from the due process in direct conflict with the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution o… |
| 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 '… |
| 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 |
1. 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… |
| 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 |
I. 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 … |
| 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 |
1) TOir S™ r?„!SK 'ed'JUr0 SS °3 a ^ P31"51' one °f-«Mch stated during
d^nse ' Sixth 'ancHFourteent^Amendment
2)Does being deprived of conflict-free … |
| 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 |
1. 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 intel… |
| 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 USC S of Supreme Ct. R. 10
and therefore the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution w… |
| 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 |
1. 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… |
| 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 |
(1) WAS the defendant deprived of his sixth, Fifth, and Fourteenth amendments , when Counsel fAiled to investigate his. Criminal history?
(2) was the… |
| 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 SUFFI… |
| 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 |
In Jones v. Mississippi, No. 18-1259, __U.S.__, 141 S.Ct. 1307, 1314-15 (2021), this Court reaffirmed, when reviewing a post-Miller sentencing hearing… |
| 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 decisions of this Honorable Court when the lower 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 |
1. Whether School District of Philadelphia, on August 25.1992. discharged the petitioner from his
teaching position, without due process of law, with… |
| 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 |
1. Are courts violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution by excluding defendants who enter pl… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Failed to Apply the Law on Deceased out-of-court testimonial Statements by a Non-testifying Witness. T… |
| 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 |
This case is important because it involves lower court decisions that flout this Court's binding precedent, and, denies the fundamental constitutional… |
| 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 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights dna-evidence due-process exoneration fair-trial false-imprisonment federal-crimes fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment wrongful-conviction |
I) DOES THE PETITIONER DESERVE ANOTHER TRIAL BASED UPON CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS VIOLATIONS?
2) DOES THE PETITIONER CLAIM HIS TOTAL INNOCENCE BASED UPON… |
| 20-8089 |
Emem Ufot Udoh v. Minnesota Department of Human Services, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-05-20 |
Denied |
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 |
Question One: In the (a) Denial of Plaintiffs Motions, Whether "Pro Se Litigants " are Held to the Same Legal Standards as "Counseled Litigants " in l… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Failed to apply the Law Deceased out-of-court testimonial Statements by a Non-testifying Witness. Ther… |
| 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 |
I. WHETHER A NEAR TWENTY YEAR PRISON SENTENCE FOLLOWED BY A FIFTEEN YEAR TERM OF SUPERVISED RELEASE FOR A YOUTHFUL OFFENDER SUCH AS PANOPIO VIOLATES T… |
| 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 |
1. Does Moore v. Texas, 137 S.Ct. 1039 (2017) establish a new retroactive rule of constitutional law that Petitioner is eligible for but could not pre… |
| 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 |
If neither of the two purposes this Court has deemed to be a legitimate purpose for the death penalty —i.e. , retribution and deterrence— would be ser… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Court should revisit the fifty-year old "actual malice" doctrine of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan and its progeny to determine if the … |
| 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 |
(1) Is Ohio's Castle Doctrine unconstitutional as it does not include one's entire property as the residence while a person acting in self-defense is … |
| 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 it violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when the African-American co-defendants in a case receive vastly less favorabl… |
| 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 |
1. WAS DECISIONS UNDER TITLE VII ALSO RECOGNIZE THAT A PERSON CLAIMING
THAT HE HAS BEEN THE VICTIM OF INTENTIONAL DISCRIMINATION MAY MAKE GUT A
PRIMA … |
| 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 ho requirement to file a notice of
appeal when applying for a certificate of appealability
("cot") from the circuitcourt and no process … |
| 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 |
1. Was Matwyuks Due Process and Equal Protection and Constitutional Rights violated when trial counsel failed to investigate exculpatory evidence. I.E… |
| 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 |
RIVERA WAS DENIED A FAIR TRIAL BY OTHER-ACTS EVIDENCE THAT HAD NO PROPER PURPOSE AND THUS ENCOURAGED THE JURY TO CONVICT HIM ON AN IMPROPER CHARACTER-… |
| 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 |
1. Is the individualized capital sentencing requirement guaranteed by the
Eighth Amendment violated when a State—whether by statute or court-
imposed … |
| 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 |
1. Reasonable jurists would determine that the holding in Ramos v. Louisiana would apply to persons on Direct Appeal concerning the non-unanlmous jury… |
| 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 when it concluded that inflammatory propensity evidence, pervasively used and erroneously admitted in the petit… |
| 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 |
1. Whether respondents transgressed the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments to the
Constitution of the United States when appellees on or about December … |
| 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 |
I.
Whether Petitioner was denied his right to a fair trial, due process and equal protection of the law, guaranteed by the 6th and 14th Amendments to … |
| 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 |
1. Whether this Court's decision in Ramos v. Louisiana, 140 S.Ct. 1390 (2020), applies to cases on State collateral review, where the State follows th… |
| 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 |
1. WHETHER THE FIRST STEP ACT'S AMENDMENT REDEFINING "SERIOUS DRUG OFFENSE" FOR PURPOSES OF AN ENHANCEMENT FOR VIOLATIONS OF THE CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE … |
| 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 |
1. Whether this Court's decision in Ramos v. Louisiana, 140 S.Ct. 1390 (2020), applies to cases on State collateral review, where the State follows th… |
| 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 Government's use of and failure to correct the false and misleading testimony of one of their witnesses violated Petitioner's Constitution… |
| 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 |
1. Whether this Court's decision in Ramos v. Louisiana, 140 S.Ct. 1390 (2020), applies to cases on state collateral review, where the state follows th… |
| 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 |
1. Whether this Court's decision in Ramos v. Louisiana, 140 S.Ct. 1390 (2020), applies to cases on State collateral review, where the State follows th… |
| 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 |
1. Did the Washington Supreme Court and the Washington Court of Appeals violate the Americans with Disabilities Act by refusing to allow an attorney t… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the stated claims for relief of this Case arising directly under the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Co… |
| 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, despite their answers to voir dire questions, can be fair and impartial jury members in a criminal trial in order to… |
| 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 |
A- Is being a stakeholder, not just a member, of an organization which
solicits donations and memberships from Judges and Attorneys a
violation of the… |
| 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… |
| 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 |
1) Does the Fourteenth Amendment prohibit prison authorities from indefinitely detaining supervisees based on an assumption that a municipality will n… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
Petitioner's 'OUT OF STATE' crime 'IS NOT' Defined under Kansas State Statutes and used to Enhance
His Sentence based on the Determinations of a Judge… |
| 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 |
1. Opposing Counsel in this case was the law firm of Jabar, Laliberty, and Dubord, LLC, and lead counsel for that law firm is George Jabar, son of Jus… |
| 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 to the United States Constitution were violated to deny Petitioners a fair tria… |
| 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 |
All Federal and State laws are predicated on the Constitution. If laws are unconstitutional or illegal they are void. If sentenced under said law is s… |
| 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 |
(1) Was Petitioner denied due process of law, in violation of the 6th amend. of the U.S.Const., on the grounds that the information he was confronted … |
| 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 |
Does it violate a defendant's Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment constitutional rights to be present at trial when he is not informed of the consti… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
1. Should an official of the Virginia Supreme Court make false statements?
2. Should an official of the Virginia Supreme Court tell the truth about i… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution and Article I, Section 20, of the Louisiana Constitution prohibits the imposition of… |
| 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 |
Is a state court's ruling that a criminal defendant's guilty plea was "voluntary" a constitutional question under the Fourteenth Amendment, subject to… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
I. Did the trial prosecutors deny Mr. Hamilton Due Process by failing to disclose exculpatory fingerprint comparison results relevant to an extraneous… |
| 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 |
1. May a state prosecute a defendant for violating a statute enacted after the defendant's conduct, without violating the Ex Post Facto Clause, merely… |
| 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 |
A. Does any Court have the authority to extinguish a defendant's due process rights via the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment by allowing the prosecutor … |
| 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 of the U.S. Constitution has been violated by the sentencing court's failure to take into… |
| 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 Ame… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by making an unforeseeable and retroactive judicial expans… |
| 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 |
A. WHETHER THE THE COURTS SHOULD HAVE CONDUCTED A UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT ANALYSIS UNDER MBARKER VS WINGO"407 US 532,92 SCt.2182 ON THE "EIGHT YEA… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
This matter concerns an action brought under False Claims Act (FCA) provisions of S. 386, Pub. L. 111-21(2009) - Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act (F… |
| 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 |
After petitioner Alan Miller was convicted of murder, the trial judge instructed the jurors that their penalty-phase verdict was merely an advisory re… |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
1. Whether appellees acted in a conspiracy to deprive appellant of liberty or property without due process of law in violation of the Fourth and Fourt… |
| 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.
Whether Petitioner is being denied due process in the law… |
| 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 Titled Or Styled As:
Ground Four - Argued as Ground Tw… |
| 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 |
1. Where petitioner is actually innocent and being held in violation of the 8th and 14th Amendments to the United States Constitution, where such peti… |
| 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 to the United States Constitution, a… |
| 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 |
1. Whether Vermont's criminalization of lewd and lascivious conduct violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States C… |
| 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 |
1. Does a federal appellate court violate a capital habeas petitioner's rights to a meaningful appeal and habeas review of a federal constitutional cl… |
| 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 |
Absent proof of incorrigibility, can a district court sentence a defendant to fifty-five years imprisonment without parole for participating in a exec… |
| 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, or is an unreasonable application of, clearly established federal law regardi… |
| 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 |
1. Is the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment violated where a judge persisted in non-disclosure and presided over the final 2019 hearing —… |
| 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 as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment through requiring that every element of any offense to be proven … |
| 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 |
(1) Whether proceedings under the Illinois Sexually Dangerous
Persons Act, which may result in incarceration for an indeterminate and
possibly lifel… |
| 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 -- unless it exceeds the statutory maximum penalty or violated … |
| 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 |
I. Are a capital defendant's rights to a fair trial by an impartial jury, as guaranteed by the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments, denied when on… |
| 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 |
Where a plaintiff who was granted pro bono counsel, specifically for the purpose "to write the preliminary pleadings sufficiently to allow a jury tria… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
Would the Supreme Court of the United States disregard a Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment violation that the sixth circui.t court had re… |
| 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 |
In light of this Court's decision in Johnson v. U.S., 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), is Colorado Revised Statute § 17-22.5403(2)-(3.5) unconstitutional in tha… |
| 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 |
I. Whether an invalid conviction affects a criminal defendant's substantial rights and must be vacated on plain error review, irrespective of whether … |
| 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 |
1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit pronouncement on the some evidence standard has departed from accepted and usual c… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Plaintiffs possess Article III standing to bring their takings and due process claims in light of the Seventh Circuit's application of … |
| 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 |
1
DID THE MISSISSIPPI SUPRME COURT BREAK STATE LAW
WHEN IT WOULD NOT APPLY THE MANDATORY
LANGUAGE IN THE USE OF THE WORD OF SHALL IN
MISSISSIPPI CO… |
| 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 |
Indiana's absentee voting laws expressly distinguish between voters based on age by giving all voters age 65 or older an entitlement to cast an absent… |
| 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 |
(1.) Does the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment bar a second prosecution and punishment for the crimes of Felony-murder and Felonious assa… |
| 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 |
In Kingsley v. Hendrickson, 576 U.S. 389 (2015), this Court held that "pretrial detainees (unlike convicted prisoners) cannot be punished at all, much… |
| 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 |
A. Is Anderson is being subjected to cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution because Va. C… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Georgia Court of Appeals erred by affirming the trial court's
March 30, 2018 Order; which ordered The Mignott Law Group, LLC, a nonpart… |
| 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, under the totality-of-the circumstances test, the police officers in this case had reasonable suspicion that justified 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 ' Judgment, that affirmed an illegal
mandatory maximum life sentence imposed upon the Petitioner by the ar… |
| 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 |
The following questions presented involves a post-sentence withdraw of plea for government misconduct:
1) Is the service of a fake indictment ("warra… |
| 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 to the United States Constitution by denying ho… |
| 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 |
Is the meaningful hearing aspect of due process satisfied when a party — faced with state seizure and retention of property under civil forfeiture sta… |
| 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 |
1. 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… |
| 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 |
1). Whether the State of Illinois Appellate Court ruling denying petitioner's claim, where his murder conviction must be reversed, where his convictio… |
| 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 |
1. Did the Washington State Supreme Court have jurisdiction conduct original disciplinary proceedings against Scanned for obstruction into an investig… |
| 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 |
1. Is the 1974 Child Welfare Act of Child Protective Services violating U.S. Citizens Constitutional Rights of the Fourth Amendment, Fourteenth Amendm… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Eighth Amendment right to narrow proportionality review of sentences of life without release entails a right to a hearing at which evid… |
| 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 surmou… |
| 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 |
1. Is the Florida Supreme Court's understanding of the proper holistic evaluation to be conducted in order to assess a capital defendant's intellectua… |
| 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 to determine if defense counsel was ineffective in not making an objection to the exclusion of testimony f… |
| 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 |
A. Should Hurtado v. California be overruled?
B. Does the right to a grand jury indictment conferred by the Fifth Amendment to the United States Cons… |
| 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… |
| 20-7160 |
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 |
If the Eighth Amendment forbids automatic life without parole sentences for juvenile offenders, does a sentencing court have the discretion to impose … |
| 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 |
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| 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,
1. The petitioner does not owe the statement an… |
| 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,
1. There is no one plaintiff in the contract , … |
| 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 |
1. Authority to File
The Arkansas Constitutional Amendment No. 21 States:
Section 1. Prosecution by indictment or Information - all offenses
heretofo… |
| 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 |
1. Does Ziglar V Abbasi, 582 US_
137 S Ct
198 L Ed 2d
290 (2017) in deciding a private right of action under
Bivens, apply to a Federal Prisoner held … |
| 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 |
1. Whether this Court's decision in Ramos v. Louisiana, 140 S.Ct. 1390 (2020), applies to cases on State collateral review, where the State follows th… |
| 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 RELIGIOUS/NON-RELIGIOUS BOOKS FROM PUBLISHER… |
| 20-7103 |
Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. North Carolina, et al. |
North Carolina |
2021-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech grievance-mechanism petition-clause prisoner-rights standing |
THE JUDGMENTCS) IN THE NATTER OF CASE
NO. 42SPIQ-2 DiRECTIY iNVOLUES A SUbSTANTIAL
EUINO
STATES PURSUONT TO N.C.G.S.7A-BOCI).
HENCE, THE Said juDGNEUT… |
| 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 in a plea agreement is knowing, intelligent, and voluntary—as required by the D… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the court should resolve the following for which the state courts are dominated by Google's financial endeavors, and further use of TikTok … |
| 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 |
1. Since the N.C. Constitution guarantees indictment by a grand jury for felony charges, does the N.C. Supreme Court decision conflict with Plveiff. D… |
| 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 |
In Ghaidez V United kStages. 56B U . S . 342( 2023 ) this court decided that
Padilla V Kentucky , dis not apply retroactive and announced a new
rule… |
| 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 |
QUESTION 1: Whether Strickland requires counsel to procure an adequate defense expert to negate or mitigate the intent element of the crime when that … |
| 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 |
In a state with mandatory sentencing guidelines, where a judge may not sentence a defendant above the guidelines range unless the jury finds an aggrav… |
| 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 |
1. Is the enjoyment of the Eleventh Amendment
Immunity for County judge 's contradictory to
Fourteenth Amendment for U.S. Citizens, when
County Jud… |
| 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 |
1. May the State of Georgia impose punitive sanctions, against an attorney petitioning the courts and speaking out in public to expose and redress sta… |
| 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? [When his pro se briefing brought to the Court of Appe… |
| 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 |
Georgia state law O.C.G.A. 17-9-61 provides the following: (a) When a judgement has been rendered, either party may move in arrest thereof for any def… |
| 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 |
For the purposes of protecting the health and safety of pedestrians on medians from encroaching traffic, and drivers from distractions caused by pedes… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 panel of judges at the Ninth Circuit court have violated my Due Process and Equal Justice process and the Equal Protection Clause under the Fo… |
| 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.
Whether a finding of contempt aga… |
| 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 it necessary, in order to prove a claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for violation of the Fourteenth Amendment concerning a parent's liberty interest in … |
| 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 |
Under the amendment of the U.S. Constitution, if there is a search seizure by prosecutor never mentioning it to the defendant and it was never mention… |
| 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 |
In 2015, this Court decided Kingsley v. Hendrickson, 135 S. Ct. 2566 (2015), announcing for the first time that Fourteenth Amendment due process claim… |
| 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 |
I. CALIFORNIA LAW VIOLATES THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT'S EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE BY REQUIRING ITS COURTS TO INSTRUCT ON INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER AS A LES… |
| 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 |
Petitioner was charged with capital murder. During voir dire, and based solely on answers to jury questionnaires, the state trial court systematically… |
| 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… |
| 20-6900 |
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… |
| 20-6896 |
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 |
1. Did the Trial Court err when limiting the testimonies of the defense witness from testifying of vital information, therefore, hindering the Defenda… |
| 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 |
Article II of the Constitution provides that "Each State shall appoint [electors for
President and Vice President] in such Manner as the Legislature … |
| 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 |
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| 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 because the Supremacy Clause, as held in Montgom… |
| 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 |
1. Whether Florida's postconviction procedures governing intellectual disability claims fail to vindicate defendants' substantive Eighth Amendment rig… |
| 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 pnd seizure pig judicially viol? ted
the fourth pnd fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution ?
Whethe… |
| 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 C C )
have returned to their same old song and dance and have been not properly
or tim… |
| 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 |
The Eighth Amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishments, including deliberate indifference to a convicted prisoner's serious medical needs and ot… |
| 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… |
| 20-6846 |
Tyrone Campbell v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-01-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment standing supreme-court |
Question not identified. |
| 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 Trial Pursuant to the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments. Gonzales v. State, 435 S.W.3… |
| 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 as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment through requiring that every element of any offense to be proven … |
| 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 |
1. Whether there is a federal constitutional right for a prisoner to be released upon proof of actual innocence?
2. Whether the state-law procedures … |
| 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 ABANDONE… |
| 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 |
1. Whether, in violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as well as The Civil Rights Act of 1871 "Sect… |
| 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 |
Dantazias Raines was sentenced to life without parole for a botched robbery that ended in a death when he was seventeen years old. After the Supreme C… |
| 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… |
| 20-904 |
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 |
1. By paying a nominal portion of the total costs of an improvement for which the remaining costs will be specially assessed against private propertie… |
| 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 |
1. Whether it violates Article II of the Constitution, as well as the First and Fourteenth Amendments, for state courts, on review of a post-election … |
| 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 II2 and II4 of the Original Complaint "For false arrest" … |
| 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? |
| 20-6735 |
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 |
THE SEVENTH AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES PROTECTS THE RIGHT TO JURY TRIAL, DENIED BY THE TRIAL COURT'S ENTRY OF THE JULY 24, 201… |
| 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 |
1.Do the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to
the U.S. Constitution forbid a trial court from
allowing a capital defendant with a
questionable mental he… |
| 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 or not a third party, Appellant, has an expectation of privacy, in terms of cell-phone data that a police officer or detective obtains, howeve… |
| 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 |
Question No. 1: Whether The Court Of Appeal Should Have Granted Coa Where The District Court Employed A Constitutionally Impermissible Standard In Eva… |
| 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 |
1. Does the Seventh Amendment to the U.S. Con
stitution require a jury trial in a civil eviction case,
which is based on equity to an elderly petitio… |
| 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 |
1. Should the Eleventh Circuit be permitted to reinvent the Fourteenth Amendment standard for deliberate indifference to serious medical needs by ruli… |
| 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 |
(1) Whether this Court's decision in Rippo v. Baker, 137 S. Ct. 905 (2017) which concerns a structural error of the Constitutional denial of an impart… |
| 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 |
Petitioner, Larry Dortley, was declared incompetent to proceed to trial by the Third Judicial Circuit Court, Columbia County, Florida, and was involun… |
| 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… |
| 20-821 |
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 |
1. When the California Coastal Commission's certification of the County of Los Angeles' local coastal program imposed a complete ban on the establishm… |
| 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 |
1. Did the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit deny petitioner a full appeal of the district court's denial of funding under 18 U.S.C. § 3599(f), a… |
| 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 |
1. Are Pennsylvania state LAWS constitutional? If the answer is yes, are they being applied and are they applied equally?
2. Is the double jeopardy c… |
| 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 |
I. Does the Electoral Count Act (inclusive of 3 U.S.C. § 5, the "safe harbor" statute) impose unconstitutional deadlines on state courts' final determ… |
| 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 |
1. Do the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution permit Pennsylvania to rely on the laches doctrine to bar all forms of equ… |
| 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, 5th Amendment and 14th Amendment to punish a party by dismissing his pr… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
1. How many hours of delayed mental health care is reasonable before a state actor can be held liable for deliberately indifferent or objectively unre… |
| 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… |
| 20-775 |
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 |
Clifford Williams was convicted of murder in New Orleans, Louisiana, after the trial court denied him the right to introduce evidence showing he was r… |
| 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 |
1. WHETHER THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COURT JUDICIAL SYSTEM IN ITS COMMON PLEAS COURT, COMMONWEALTH COURT AND STATE SUPREME COURT HAS CREATED A HANDS OFF … |
| 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 |
The questions presented are
1. Does Rooker-Feldman* doctrine bar Petitioner's 42 USC 1983 US District Court claim where Petitioner pled a facial as o… |
| 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 |
1. Is "A.D.C. ", Correct Care Solutions Medical policy unconstitutional to Scott, and all other inmates in A.D.C. when Dr. Dove refuse to refill and r… |
| 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 |
1. Does the AEDPA time-bar apply to a "protected class of citizen's" claim for relief?
2. Does the Eighth Amendment prohibit a "de jure"/"de facto" L… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's statutory construction in Hurst v. State constitutes substantive law, and if so, whether under the Due Process … |
| 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 |
1. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT IN GRANTING SUMMARY JUDGMENT IMPROPERLY
DECIDED FACTUAL ISSIES
WHETHER THE PLAINTIFF FACTUAL ALLATIONS ON AN UNPROVOKED … |
| 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 |
1.Whether the Florida Supreme Court's statutory
construction in Hurst v. State constitutes substantive law, and
if so, whether the Due Process Clause … |
| 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 |
If a State sex offender is not legally required 34 U.S.C. §20921 to be on their Jurisdiction's registry, then they will not appear in the Federal offe… |
| 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?
May a state court deny an indigent person relief based o… |
| 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 |
1. Did the Eleventh Circuit misconstrue this Court's guidance in, inter alia, Buck v. Davis, 580 U.S. ___, 137 S. Ct. 759 (2017), when it denied Petit… |
| 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 |
(1) Has the "public interest" requirement
pursuant to South Carolina Appellate Court
Rules (SCACR) 245(a) been met under the
Full Faith and Credit Cla… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
The Florida Bar, an integrated Bar system under the jurisdiction of the Florida Supreme Court, has disbarred an attorney who has posted what amounts t… |
| 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 an interest in his property which is protected by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments such that he has a civil rights claim and taking… |
| 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 OF THE U.S. CONSTITUTION, WHEN A STATE THAT OFFERS PAROLE TO PRISONERS, DENIES PAROLE TO A PRISONE… |
| 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 |
1. Whether a judge's decision to sentence a juvenile offender to consecutive terms is exempt from Eighth Amendment review.
2. Whether a judge's decis… |
| 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… |
| 20-701 |
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 |
1. Whether the Constitution prevents a State from allowing a defendant to represent himself in a capital case when the defendant is mentally competent… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Missouri Supreme Court's total deference to counsel's "deliberate decisions" without considering their actual reasonableness amounts 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 |
Whether there were post-acquittal fact-finding proceedings going to guilt or innocence of count 3 and count 4 that shared identical statutory elements… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Court may deny Petitioner's First Amendment right to petition the Government for a redress of grievances? In particular when the Govern… |
| 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 |
I.
Emotional harm alone triggers 42 U.S.C. §1983 liability. The Ninth
Circuit granted qualified immunity on J.P.s First and Fourteenth
Amendment claim… |
| 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 |
This Writ seeks review of a Decision by the California Commission on Judicial Performance to remove Judge John T. Laettner from service on the Contra … |
| 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 |
1. Can a for-profit law firm, without supervision from the public prosecutor, be contracted out to criminally prosecute someone and still be impartial… |
| 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 |
Did the state court procedure in petitioner's case violate his right to due process of law under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constit… |
| 20-6302 |
Nguyen Vu v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-bias perjured-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct |
Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution states, in part,
nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or … |
| 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 |
1, The seperation of powers clause,as legislature has power to fix sentences.for mr.whatley crime and limit the scope of the judicial decsrition to im… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Indiana Courts erred denying Appellant was deprived effective assistance of trial counsel during closing arguments and sentencing viola… |
| 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 |
1. Whether a Motion for a New Trial, FRCP Rule 59, should had been granted?
2. Whether Jury 's Verdict, went against Preponderance of Evidence due th… |
| 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 |
1.Does The State Lack Subject Matter Jurisdiction Under The Fourteenth Amendment Of The United States Constitution?
2.Can The Petitioner Demonstrate … |
| 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 |
1.) Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability on His Claim that Warrantless Arrest was not… |
| 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 |
T. WHERE PETITIONER'S SIXTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS GUARANTEED UNDER THE U.S. CONSTITUTION AS WELL AS MICHIGAN CONSTITUTION OF 1963, ART.I, §2… |
| 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 |
1) Whether the Existence of another Adequate Remedy does
preclude a Judgment for Declaratory Relief given the Facts
and Law on the Record, whether t… |
| 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… |
| 20-6218 |
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… |
| 20-612 |
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 |
In the context of Minnesota's taxpayer-funded, state-administered, and binding presidential nomination primary election, are Minnesota Statues repugna… |
| 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 |
1. IS Solem v. Helm, 463 U.S. 277 (1983) binding Case Law?
2. Must Illinois Appellant Courts be required to Follow the United States Supreme Court's … |
| 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 |
I. Whether the Eighth Amendment, the Fourteenth Amendment, and/or state law provide a source of compensation when an inmate is incarcerated past his l… |
| 20-6173 |
In Re Tommie H. Telfair |
|
2020-10-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment standing |
I. WHETHER CUMULATIVE VIOLATIONS AND FUNDAMENTAL ERRORS AS A "SOURCE" OF "
CONSTITUTIONAL INFRINGEMENT DEPRIVED PETITIONER OF THE 1ST, 5TH, 6TH, 13TH,… |
| 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 |
1. Can a State encourages discrimination on the basis of the race theory?
2. Does the petition clause (1st Amendment) automatically disqualifies a pe… |
| 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, 501 U.S. 808 (1991), Lisenba v. People of State of California, 314 U.S. 219 (1941), and Estell… |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
1) Whether the customarily recognized domestic relations exception for federal and state jurisdiction applies where a state appellate court of last re… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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,… |
| 20-515 |
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 Philadelphia sold to Gateway in Ohio obligated Philadelphia to submit to p… |
| 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 |
1. 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 pun… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's statutory construction in Hurst v. State constitutes substantive law, and if so, whether the Due Process Clause… |
| 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 |
The requirement to provide notice of what conduct is considered to be human trafficking I.
will forever be changed by the answer to the question: Is i… |
| 20-6031 |
Durwyn Talley v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-10-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights court-access due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction first-amendment fourteenth-amendment prison-litigation-reform-act |
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| 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… |
| 20-6021 |
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 |
1. Whether Petitioner is entitled to habeas corpus relief where he was indicted by a grand jury from which African-Americans were systematically exclu… |
| 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 |
1. Did cook county defendants violate disabled Cezary Wojcik Constitutional Rights to provide disable person proper medical care-treatment with medica… |
| 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… |
| 20-5996 |
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 |
1. Did the Fifth Circuit err in considering the totality of three different trials , and excusing the District Court' s erroneous conclusion regardin … |
| 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 |
1- Whether the State's prolonged 'temporary' foster placement (in excess of 40 months) of children on a plan of reunification, violated federal law, i… |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
I. What branch of law Authorized the STATES to apply Abolished Slaves labels (Negro, Black , Colored or African-American), To any person of AFRICAN de… |
| 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 |
The question presented in this case is whether rule 3.851(b)(6)&(i) found in the Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure is unconstitutional and violates … |
| 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 |
1. Whether a trial court can disregard the five factors set forth in Whitley v. Albers, 475 U.S. 312 (1986), in an Eighth Amendment excessive force ca… |
| 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 |
1. Was the Eidere tresrs toblishThe "Anoter Person. in RDiRn Ent of Pantiff which The LAS COnUCED of Lakno thie I 2
2. Ds the cot betore which the Pe… |
| 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 |
As a result of a state court proceeding, the Township of East Hanover was granted a tenancy in common interest with Wyeczeslav Rayter, one of the defe… |
| 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 |
1. DOES THE EIGHT AMENDMENT PROTECTION AGAINST CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT PROHIBIT A STATE FROM IMPOSING A PRISON SENTENCE THAT EXCEEDS THE MAXIMUM … |
| 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 when they d… |
| 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 |
Error by the trial court in admitting hearsay evidence at the sentencing hearing and by finding that the petitioner was a career offender and sentenci… |
| 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 |
I. The Constitution prohibits punishments that are cruel and unusual. In addition to the crime committed, the juvenile offender's age must also be tak… |
| 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 |
A. WHETHER THE FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT SHOULD NOT HAVE DENIED COA BASED ON THE SUBSTANTIAL SHOWING OF THE DENIAL OF THE SIXTH AMENDMENT GUARANTEES OF T… |
| 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 |
The question presented is whether the 8th Circuits ' decision is contrary to this Court 's decision in 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 |
If a criminal trial in the State of Oregon did not guarantee a unanimous verdict, leading defendant to choose a bench trial, was this unconstitutional… |
| 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 |
Liberty Interest
Can an action by a prison disciplinary hearing that is a violation of the First Amendment, Eighth Amendment, or Equal Protection Clau… |
| 20-5874 |
Jerry Lard v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
categorical-prohibition death-penalty eighth-amendment execution intellectual-disability ripeness waiver |
1. Whether a death-sentenced inmate is permitted to waive a viable claim for an Eighth Amendment categorical probation against the execution of person… |
| 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 to the United States Constitution serves to void the Order of the trial court which approved and settled t… |
| 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 |
1. Whether Santa Monica Municipal Code Section 9.51.020 (A)(1)(e), which prohibits Group Residential use, is unconstitutional under the Fifth and Four… |
| 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 State Courts of Pennsylvania violate petitioner's due process under the United States Constitution where they quash Petitioner's appeal? |
| 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 |
1. Whether it amounts to a suspension of the writ of habeas corpus for the state courts to fail to consider claims from an individual with compelling … |
| 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 non-unanimous conviction?
Was Young entitled to a unanimous jury verdict under the Sixth and Fo… |
| 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 |
1. Is the State of Colorado, the Colorado Courts, both State and
Federal, subjecting Petitioner to a death in prison sentence by not
giving him relief… |
| 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 |
1. Is the "right to use the navigable waters of the
United States," which was recognized by this Court
in the Slaughter-House Cases, 83 U.S. (16 Wall.… |
| 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 |
1. Can convictions for crimes requiring specific intent create constitutional error where the trial court has ruled that the evidence supports crimina… |
| 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 |
1. Are a defendant's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment due process rights violated by the placement of a paid confidential informant in an adjacent cell … |
| 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 |
1. Does a Criminal defendant have a Fourteenth Amendment Constitutional Protection against the arbitrary deprivation by a state of one's State created… |
| 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 |
(1) Whether, in an analysis under Batson v Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), the prosecutor's peremptory challenge of Hispanic prospective jurors was just… |
| 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 |
Denied |
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 |
1) Whether the Colorado Court of Appeals abused its discretion when it summarily dismissed Mr. Saved's 42 U.S.C. §1983 Prisoner's Civil Rights Complai… |
| 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 Fourtee… |
| 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 |
1.) If the interest of parents in the care, custody, and control of their children is one of the oldest of the fundamental liberty interests recognize… |
| 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 |
There was a bona fide doubt as to Petitioner's competence to be tried, due to him becoming stuporous and non-responsive in the second day of his two-d… |
| 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 |
In Bucklew v. Precythe, 139 S. Ct. 1112 (2019), this Court held, at the summary judgment stage and on the record in that case, that the State had a le… |
| 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 |
A. How individualized must government permission be to raise fair notice protection under the due process component of the Fourteenth Amendment?
B. I… |
| 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 |
I. Whether a prisoner may file a habeas corpus petition to challenge his placement on segregated/solitary confinement.
II. If so, whether a court con… |
| 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 that must be pursued in the ordinary mode prescribed by law, to
be ada… |
| 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 |
Are the Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, as well as Ring and Hurst, violated when eligibility for the death penalty is asserted to be decided … |
| 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 |
In Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Department of Environmental Protection, 560 U.S. 702 (2010), the Court was unable to resolve whether … |
| 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 in holding, contrary to the decisio… |
| 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 |
1. Whether prisoners have a right protected by the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution to have their food prepared and served in a sani… |
| 20-5559 |
Tim Sundy v. Friendship Pavilion Acquisition Company, LLC, et al. |
Georgia |
2020-09-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights court-record-tampering criminal-immunity due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-immunity judicial-remedy |
1) Given that Art. I, Sec. II, Par. I, of the Constitution of Georgia of 1983 states, (a)
"Public officers are the trustees and servants of the people… |
| 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 |
The Eighth Amendment prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain. Prison officials violate the… |
| 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 |
I. Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in
reinstating a capital sentence issued under Florida's
pre-2016 scheme, in contravention of this Court's
… |
| 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 |
1. Is Fla. Stat. 924.05l(l)(b) unconstitutional on it's face due to it's conflict with the due process clause of the U.S. Const. 14th Amend.?
2. Shou… |
| 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 on its face or as applied in violation o… |
| 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 |
CAN, a Defendant pursuant to Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure § 3.210
be proceeded against in a criminal proceeding where a question of Defendant '… |
| 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 |
1) Whether this court "Decide Whether Gender dysphoria IS A SERIOUS MEDICAL CONDITION, AND, IF SO, TO ENTER A DECISION FOR THE COMPANY that THE 5TH CI… |
| 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 |
1) Would reasonable jurors find the district court's assessment of this petitioner's constitutional claims to be debatable or wrong, or whether his ha… |
| 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 by treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. C… |
| 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 by treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. C… |
| 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 |
1. 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 time ripe for the Seventh Amendment right to a civil jury trial to be incorporated by the Fourteen Amendment to the states?
Should government … |
| 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 |
1. Whether the right to a fair trial by an impartial jury under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments requires a trial judge, during jury selection and … |
| 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 |
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| 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 ONE HUNDRED THIRTY MONTH PRISON SENTENCE FOR A NON-VIOLENT, DRUG DEALING, FIFTY (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 by treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. C… |
| 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 Petitioner's enhanced sentence based on a retroactively erased felony violates Due Process of Law, and the denial of a Certificate of Appealab… |
| 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 |
DO I HAVE A FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHT TO PETITION FLORIDA'S JUDBCIIAL QUALIFICATION COMMISSION, TOE GOVERNMENT, HIM WRITING, FOSS A REDRESS OF GRIEVANCES … |
| 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… |
| 20-165 |
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"? |
| 20-149 |
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:
a) Federal Courts find that New York State Law S2942 —A is unconstitutional.
b) New York Stat… |
| 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 |
Aunder parole consideration arficle under I vection 32 of california prparition fonmater whnvilenfe constitution sentence
ner th p atn ith febny atte… |
| 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 Due Process Rights violated under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment when he was:
A.) Incorrectly sentenced under U.S.S.G. 4Bl-2(c) Te… |
| 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 |
Issue I
Whether the District Court erred in sentencing the Defendant based on ice ("actual" methamphetamine) rather than a mixture and substance cont… |
| 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 |
Does 924(e)'s "serious drug offense" mandate that courts consider both statutes when sentencing
Could hypothetical aggravating sentencing factors be … |
| 20-5311 |
Richard Hollihan, Jr. v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2020-08-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection extraordinary-relief fourteenth-amendment legal-precedent precedent precedential-decision state-court-jurisdiction supreme-court |
1. Did the Pennsylvania Supreme Court violate the
14th Amendment to the United States Constitution
when it Denied Petitioner's Application For
Extraor… |
| 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 |
I. WAS PETITIONER'S FIFTH AMENDMENT COMPULSORY SELF INCRIMINATION WAS VIOLATED
BECAUSE THE PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS GLENN KIRSCHNER AND NIHAR MOHANTY TH… |
| 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 |
1) Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution are violated when a capital sentencing panel issues a death sentence… |
| 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 |
1) Whether the District court erred by dismissing
Potitoners $2254 as Untimely (dee Wo. Lad 2) Which conklicts
with decisions of other appellate court… |
| 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… |
| 20-5243 |
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 |
1. Whether the Eighth Amendment categorically permits the degree of pain caused by hanging—including sensations of drowning and suffocation—or whether… |
| 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 |
I WISH THE US SUPREME COURT TO REVIEW THE UNCONSTITUATIONALITY OF CANNABIS LAWS AS IT RELATES TO MY FEDERAL CASE AND HOW IT IS APPLICABLE TO MILLIONS … |
| 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 |
1. Does counsel under the Fourteenth and Sixth Amendment have an obligation
to effectively assist a defendants cooperation with the State in a murder… |
| 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 |
Classed by law as a 'less-than,' and treated for some purposes as property rather than a person, Petitioner Baby Jane seeks constitutional equality un… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the separation of powers doctrine prohibits the legislative and executive branches from forcing a district court judge to impose a minimum … |
| 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 |
Issue I: Whether the lower court(s) violated Keith Hoglund 's substantive and
procedural due process rights by their holding(s) that there was no rea… |
| 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 |
Could a jurist of reason find that petitioner was denied his Sixth Amendment right to confront and cross-examine witnesses and Fourteenth Amendment ri… |
| 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 |
1. Would the State of Texas cause a fundamental miscarriage of justice violating the United States Fourteenth Amendment by refusing to overturn the cr… |
| 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 |
1. Would the State of Texas cause a fundamental miscarriage of justice violating the United States Fourteenth Amendment by refusing to overturn the cr… |
| 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 |
1. Would the State of Texas cause a fundamental miscarriage of justice violating the United States Fourteenth Amendment by refusing to overturn the cr… |
| 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 |
Ohio places the burden of proof and persuasion in a self defense case on the person asserting self defense. A person's state of mind is relevant in a … |
| 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 |
This case presents two important nationwide issues. The first issue concerns an inappropriate application of a U.S. Supreme Court precedent and whethe… |
| 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 ("the Reform Act"), as interpreted by California's Supreme Court, violate the Ex Post Facto 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 |
The question presented is whether a defendant's rights under the Fifth Amendment as incorporated by the Fourteenth Amendment are violated when she is … |
| 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 |
1. Does the forfeiture of over $44 million constitute an excessive fine under the Eighth Amendment, where the forfeiture amount is more than 44 times … |
| 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 |
1. Does Ohio's postconviction process allow indigent defendants a substantive opportunity to develop claims that comport with Ohio's collateral review… |
| 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 |
Because Cardell Hayes's non-unanimous verdict is unconstitutional, Ramos v. Louisiana, — S.Ct. —, 2020 WL 1906545 (2020), is he entitled to the relief… |
| 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 |
I.
WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD ISSUE A WRIT OF CERTIORARI IN ORDER TO CORRECT THE SIXTH CIRCUITS DECISION IN DENYING PETITIONER A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALA… |
| 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 |
1. Is Fla. Stat. 924.05l(l)(b) unconstitutional on it's face due to it's conflict with the due process clause of the U.S. Const. 14th Amend.?
2. Shou… |
| 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 confined persons held … |
| 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 Of The United States and Department Of Justice are going to discard the evidences, and ignore the violations, while corrupte… |
| 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 Of The United States and Department Of Justice are going to discard the evidences, and ignore the violations, while corrupte… |
| 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 |
1. Reasonable jurists would determine that Mr. Temple was denied effective assistance of counsel as guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment to the United St… |
| 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 |
Respondent is a prison guard who attacked an asthmatic prisoner in the face with a can of mace "for no reason at all." The Fifth Circuit held that Res… |
| 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 |
The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments protect Americans from being having their liberty and property interests stripped from them unless they are afford… |
| 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?
Wh… |
| 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 |
1. Petitioner filed a timely Motion for that prosecutors listened to privileged phone call's before trial .trial after discovering new and during The … |
| 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 |
1. WHETHER THE APPELLATE COURT ERRED IN AFFIRMING THE
DISTRICT COURT'S RULING NOT ALLOWING SUMTER TO WITHDRAW
HIS GUILTY PLEA?
2. WHETHER THE APPELLA… |
| 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 |
1. Given this Court's prior ruling that the text of Oklahoma's "heinous, atrocious, or cruel" death-penalty aggravator is unconstitutionally vague, is… |
| 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 where the… |
| 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 |
1. Can the world's largest pharmacy chain influence a State to fabricate evidence to achieve its monopoly goals, abridge plaintiffs rights and steal p… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
1. Whether The 6X Amendment of The United States
Constitution Bids are Guaranteed TO O Farr Thlah
TA alk erimwale ProsecahAs or Gust wheal a Sudge
dee… |
| 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 |
Does 28 U.S.C § 2254 (b)(1) permit a petitioner to waive the state exhaustion requirement if circumstances exist that make the state corrective proces… |
| 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 |
1. Does the requirement in Lujan v. Defs. of Wildlife , 504 U.S. 555, 560 (1992), that a litigant have suffered an "actual or imminent" injury apply t… |
| 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 to the United States Constitution?
Wh… |
| 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 TRIAL COURT VIOUATE PETITIONER'S RIGHT TO PRESENT A DEFENSE UNDER BOTH STATE ANJ FEDERAL CONSTiTUTIONS?
IN LIGHT OF JACKSON v. VIRGINA, WAS T… |
| 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 PART… |
| 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 Autumn Stavely's and her counsel's Fourteenth Amendment's due process rights when it sanctioned both … |
| 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 |
1. Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment provide children a right to counsel at all proceedings where their liberty is at stake?
2.… |
| 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 |
Even after Robers v. United States, 134 S.Ct. 1854 (2014), the circuits remain dangerously divided over what method to apply when determining proximat… |
| 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), surr… |
| 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 |
1. Is opposition to a violation of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) that turns upon a reasonable mistake of law, such as belief that an attem… |
| 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 PETITIONER WAS DEPRIVED DUE PROCESS OF LAW GUARANTEED BY THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT. |
| 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?
Wh… |
| 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 |
The death sentence in this case is supported by only one aggravating circumstance, Tennessee's prior violent felony conviction aggravator. The elected… |
| 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 |
Webb v. Texas prohibits the government from making gratuitous threats that preclude defense witnesses from freely and voluntarily choosing to testify.… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8721 |
Vincent A. Argentino v. Ruanne Stamps, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-06-16 |
Granted |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-standard deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment estelle-v-gamble legal-precedent medical-evidence prisoner-rights summary-record |
1. Whether the Precedent of Placing Nesiifying, medical evidence in the Summary Record Showing O * aeke' mental ef Peck" Places an Unrealis-hic exfect… |
| 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?
Wh… |
| 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, under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, Texas may continue to impose, and carry out previously imposed, death sentences for which future … |
| 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, and to what extent, the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee a criminal defendant the right to discover potentially exculpatory mental h… |
| 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 |
The Police entered Mr. Remillard's locked home and bedroom without a search warrant.
The Police had reason to believe Mr. Remillard may have committed… |
| 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 |
1. Under Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825 (1994), is a court precluded from granting summary judgment to defendants where there is evidence of an obvio… |
| 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 this Court should resolve the conflict between the
circuits regarding whether the 'deprivation of livelihood'
should be included in the prop… |
| 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 |
In Donnelly v. DeChristoforo, 416 U.S. 637 (1974), this Court identified two distinct standards of review applicable to claims of prosecutorial miscon… |
| 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 |
Under the Fourteenth Amendment, prosecutors may not knowingly secure convictions using false or misleading evidence. This Court has never limited the … |
| 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 |
1. In determining intellectual disability, at the time of the pertinent state court decision in 2008, whether Atkins and the Eighth Amendment mandated… |
| 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 |
I. When the record reveals that a criminal defendant misunderstands a key element of a plea bargain is his guilty plea void?
II. When defense counsel… |
| 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 as enumerated in several state constitutions?
Does the elimination of a state d… |
| 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 right to parole, upon a Ninteen year old for killing committed by another cruel and unusual punishment, in violation of… |
| 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 |
1. Whether under the Supremacy Clause, the First and Fourteenth Amendment rights, states are permitted to dissociate themselves from Federal regulatio… |
| 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, when it retroactively applied two de… |
| 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… |
| 19-8450 |
Scott Leslie Carmell v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-05-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-circuit habeas-corpus procedural-due-process sentencing-procedure standing |
1. whether the Court of Appeals forthe Fifth Cireuit erred by denying a certificate of appealability regarding the united States District court issuin… |
| 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 |
I. Was the Petitioner's right to a fair proceeding, effective assistance of counsel and Due Process of law violated when trial counsel LeRonnie Mason … |
| 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 |
The Ninth Circuit became the first circuit in the nation to conclude that the Eighth Amendment mandates the provision of sex reassignment surgery when… |
| 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 WHEN THEY D… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, the District
Court, and the New Jersey state courts' ruling, denying
Petitioner's ineffective assistanc… |
| 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 |
1. Does the Commerce Clause empower Congress to impose "Registry requirements for sex offenders," 34 U.S.C. § 20918, directly upon an individual convi… |
| 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 when it determined the Conflict of Interest… |
| 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 that defendants have the right to "demand and procure counsel" requires state courts to appoi… |
| 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 |
Respondents are prison officials who deliberately left Petitioner Trent Taylor naked for six days in two filthy cells; the first cell was covered from… |
| 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 when respondent denied the pet… |
| 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 |
Does the Rooker- Feldman doctrine bar district court subject matter jurisdiction from independent claims |
| 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 |
l.Do parents have the right to direct the upbringing of there children?
2. Can parents rights over-rule grandparent's rights.
. Are grandparents cou… |
| 19-8365 |
Arthur Lopez v. California |
California |
2020-04-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment free-speech habeas-corpus judicial-review standing |
Question not identified. |
| 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, Constitution whereas, p… |
| 19-8351 |
In Re Vinodh Raghubir |
|
2020-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation |
Question not identified. |
| 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?
Whethe… |
| 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 |
1. Did trial court deprive the petitioner of his constitutional rights when he denied petitioner total access to the court when he denied the petition… |
| 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 |
1. Is a Parties right to raise an absolute a/identiam. PYimleae tontaent UP0Y1 Whether bY evidence ?
2. bots -the. doctrine thaba district Court must… |
| 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, SECURED BY THE FIFTH AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, AND MADE OBLIGATORY TO THE STATES T… |
| 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 |
The petitioner, Brian Hampton Clark ("Brian Clark") seeks reversal of a conviction of contempt of court entered by the Honorable David V. Williams, ch… |
| 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 a "Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendm… |
| 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 |
I. The public record shows that Judge Susan Greenberg of the California Superior Court of San Mateo County accepted campaign contributions from Respon… |
| 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 |
1) Can Congress Regulate the private and personal
property of the ultimate consumer for eturnity through
The Commerce Clause simply because that ite… |
| 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 … |
| 19-8216 |
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 |
This is the case for the Court to critically re-examine lost evidence and "bad faith" under Arizona v. Youngblood, 488 U.S. 51 (1988) because in appli… |
| 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 |
If a laymen criminal defendant has presented the general and operative facts supporting Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment claims in the United S… |
| 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 |
I. Should the State Courts be allowed to hide behind an alleged procedural bar when clearly the record of the case and the Petitioner's prima facie cl… |
| 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 |
1. Was Farley denied his First Amendment Right of Free Speech and Fourteenth Amendment of due process?
2. Did the U.S. District Court fail to exercis… |
| 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 |
1] Did the California State Superior Court,Los Angeles County,
Compton Branch violate the Petitioner's Due Process ,Sixth
Amendment Rights,and Eighth… |
| 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 |
In Thornburg v. Gingles, 478 U.S. 30 (1986), this Court held that a municipality's at-large voting system does not violate Section 2 of the Voting Rig… |
| 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 In re Ruffalo, fail to… |
| 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… |
| 19-1191 |
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 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights conditions-of-confinement due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment post-traumatic-stress-disorder prisoner-rights section-1915g suicidal-impulses |
PETITIONER IS A STATE PRISONER ALLEGING FIRST AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT VIOLATIONS FOR RETALIATION AND DUE PROCESS VIOLATIONS AGAINST PRISON STAFF. PET… |
| 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 |
The district caurt erred in finding Cruzfailed to exhaust administrative remedies for his Eighth Amendment claim. The district court failed to recogni… |
| 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. |
| 19-8139 |
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 errror by not granting Mr. 1.
Cerritos a COA under 28 tKS.C... §2253 (c)(2), after the denial of
his 28 U.S.C. §2255 mot… |
| 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 PETITIONER'S conviction is constitutional, where the search and seizure of the petitioner was without a warrant and probable cause in violatio… |
| 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 |
1. 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 … |
| 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 |
This is a diversity of citizenship family law case. Petitioner is a resident of New Hampshire and Respondent is a resident of California. The care, cu… |
| 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 |
1. Whether Petitioner's due process right was
violated when the District of Columbia Court of
Appeals denied his petition for rehearing within
no t… |
| 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 |
1. Does the Workers ' Compensation Judge relying on
medical reports according to Senate Bill 31
guidelines and not the permanent disability rating
,… |
| 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, Fighthand Fourteenth Amendment's Right's Are Violated BJ The Imposing of Monetar Sanctions and Threat Restri… |
| 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 |
1. Whether continuous persistence in a course of treatment known to be
ineffective through a petitioner's complaints, while knowing or should've
kno… |
| 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… |
| 19-8062 |
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? |
| 19-8060 |
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 |
1. Should a Convicted Felon be Subject to Additional Harassment
Above and Beyond Their Prison-Sentence Due to a Court's
Disclosure of Their Medical H… |
| 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, due to the overwhelingly objective indicis of national consensus that surrounds the advaned research on adblescent brain developmont wholly d… |
| 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 |
1. Does the substantive rule of Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460 (2012), apply to de facto life sentences for juveniles, as the solid majority of juris… |
| 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 |
1. Whether petitioner, Robert Murphy, had fair warning as to reach of disciplinary proceedings and precise nature of charges that petitioner's adminis… |
| 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… |
| 19-8045 |
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… |
| 19-8042 |
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… |
| 19-8039 |
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 |
Mr. Clark represented himself at trial because his lawyer planned to concede his guilt of second-degree murder. The Louisiana Supreme Court held the 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 |
The Second Circuit Court Justice should reminisce whether in the 21st Century the rules of law and the books of law should be compromised and violated… |
| 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… |
| 19-1138 |
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 prisonerpatient'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 |
Based on its interpretation of federal law, the Washington Supreme Court overruled 68 regulatory takings and due process cases —130 years of jurisprud… |
| 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 |
Issue 1: DESTRUCTION of EVIDENCE
Whether the state violated petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment right to due process and a fair trial when it released p… |
| 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 |
Did court-appointed counsel deprive Petitioner of the Sixth Amendment guarantee obtain the video footage were being made create an adversarial conflic… |
| 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 B.O.P. Policy 1315.007 "Legal Activities, Inmates," violate a Federal prisoner's First Amendment Right to reasonable access to the state court, w… |
| 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 |
Mr. Dellinger has a full-scale I.Q. of 69; he never could read, write, figure out which restroom to use, buy bread, or measure a board. His adaptive d… |
| 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 Fourth (VI) Amendment protect the right of the people to be secure therein?
Does the Fifth Amendment (V) can't allowed accuser to defend himself… |
| 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 |
1. Whether under the clear language of Oklahoma Statute Title 21, § 1123, Petitioner's enhanced sentence under Oklahoma Statute Title 21, § 51.1A is i… |
| 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 |
This case is about an association between a Catholic priest, Peter DeBellis, and a single woman, Michelle Stopyra Yaney. This petition spans several y… |
| 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 |
1. Does imposition of a mandatory sentence of forty years on a juvenile convicted of a homicide -a sentence imposed pursuant to a statutory scheme tha… |
| 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 |
1. Whether prison officials may, consistent with the Fourteenth Amendment, prohibit a former prison employee and a prisoner from marrying where prison… |
| 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 |
1. Does the Eighth Amendment apply only to imposition of a death sentence, as the Eleventh Circuit held, or may a petitioner challenge, as arbitrary a… |
| 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
IS FAILING TO TREAT A … |
| 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… |
| 19-7849 |
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 t… |
| 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 |
1. Because the age at which a capital defendant became intellectually disabled does not bear on his moral culpability, did the Court of Appeals err in… |
| 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 |
1) Under the standards set by this Court in Martinez v. Ryan, 132 S.Ct. 1309
(2012), must a U.S. District Court allow evidentiary development of a fac… |
| 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 |
1.) Whether the contention that an Eighth Amendment deliberate indifference
to serious medical need claim fails simply because the Plaintiff received… |
| 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 juvenile homicide offender, who has certain nonhomicide felony convictions, to s… |
| 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 |
1) Does the SUPREME COURT of the STATE of MISSISSIPPI'S DECISION REVERSING the COURT Of APPEALS of the STATE Of MISSISSIPPI'S, 9-0 UNANIMOUS DECISION … |
| 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 |
1. DID THE SUPERIOR COURT FAIL TO ANALYSIS PETITIONER CLAIM UNDER THE PRESUMPTION OF PREJUDICE STANDARD UNDER CRONIC?
2. WAS TRIAL COUNSEL ABANDONMEN… |
| 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 when he instr… |
| 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 |
This non-capital habeas case arises from petitioner-appellant Jose Osvaldo Arteaga's 2003 California state conviction fo r an attempted murder that to… |
| 19-1054 |
Christa Gail Pike v. Gloria Gross, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-25 |
Granted |
Amici (1) |
cumulative-evidence death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-evidence prejudice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
1. Whether a defendant who asserts that trial counsel failed to present key evidence is precluded from showing prejudice under Strickland v. Washingto… |
| 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 |
1) Whether the Fourth Circuit erred and disregarded this Court's precedents when it denied Petitioner's request to amend significantly incorrect recor… |
| 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 |
Following Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460 (2012), juvenile homicide offenders have been divided into two classes: (1) those who may not be sentenced t… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
1. Did the Minnesota District Court's division of
petitioner's military retired pay violate the Uniformed
Services Former Spouses' Protection Act?
2.… |
| 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 |
In Deck v. Missouri, 544 U.S. 622, 629 (2005), this Court held that "the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit the use of physical restraints visib… |
| 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 |
Did Tennessee decisions applying the facially-vague prior violent felony aggravating circumstance, not handed down until after Sutton committed his ca… |
| 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 when it erroneously found that the Government had
sustained its burden of proof … |
| 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 |
In a termination of parental rights proceeding in a state that provides appeals as a matter of right from decisions terminating parental rights, does … |
| 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, which permits the trier of fact to impose a sentence of death without finding beyond a reasonable doubt (1) th… |
| 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 |
I. In an action in which the sole claim is whether,in a case in which
intent is an element of the crime convicted of,the jury instruction,
"the law … |
| 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 fall within a violation of the eight amendment right of cruel and unusu… |
| 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 |
After making dozens of 911 calls concerning her abusive ex-husband during 2009-2012, and being promised assistance by police, in August 2012, Deanna C… |
| 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 to bar t… |
| 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
CONSTiTUTiONAL RiGHT TO TRAVEL BY THE
FOuateenth Amendment Of the United
STATES CO… |
| 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… |
| 19-7565 |
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 |
1. While you are incarcerated in the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC), how are you supposed to notify Medical of your prior medical history/he… |
| 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 |
In Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460 (2012), and Montgomery v. Louisiana, 136 S. Ct. 718 (2016), this Court held that sentencing a juvenile defendant (i… |
| 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 |
1. "Was Petitioner 's conviction a result of a procedure, §17.1-293.1 that violates 1st
Amendment U.S. Constitutional Civil Rights to access correct … |
| 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 |
QUESTION I
WHETHER ICR S.433(C) <3) IS UNCONSTTIOTTONAL AS IT VIOLATES THE EQUAL PROTECTION
M© DUE PROCESS CLAUSE OP THE FOURTEENTH AMENDME3ST AND T… |
| 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 |
1. Are the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments violated where a judge who has personally litigated against a defendant in the same case presides over his… |
| 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 ("SORA") ALLOW THE PROSECUTION TO BUILD ITS CASE AG… |
| 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 |
1. Does the intentional infliction of severe emotional distress, by triggering
PTSD symptoms, that caused psychological harm, rise to a level that is… |
| 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 |
I. Did the Government deprive Petitioner the First Amendment Right "to petition the Government for a redress of grievances?"
II. Did the Government d… |
| 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
PETITIONER HIS FUNDAMENTAL FOURTEEN
AMENDMENT RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS OF LAW IN
VIOLATION OF THE UNITED STATES
CONSTIT… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the "clearly established Federal law" provision of the Antiterrorism
and Effective Death Penalty Act renders state court decisions categori… |
| 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… |
| 19-7429 |
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… |
| 19-7418 |
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 |
1. Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' recent holdings
in ANDREW LEE WILLIAMS v. STATE, No. PD-1199-17 (Tx.Crim.App.-
October 9, 2019), regar… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the due process law of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution was violated when the District invoked D.C. Code § 47-1382(a)3 for… |
| 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 |
1. Review whether my Fourth Amendment right to
be free from unreasonable searches and seizures
was violated after I was falsely arrested, falsely
i… |
| 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 |
1. Was petitioner denied due process and equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment by the state courts' imposition of extra-statutory requiremen… |
| 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, under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, virtual contacts can establish specific personal … |
| 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 |
New York State Courts have consistently annulled determinations of administrative agencies that terminated the employment of competitive class civil s… |
| 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 |
This case raises important issues of public interest and circuit splits that require guidance of Supreme Court of United States.
1. Does seizure, phy… |
| 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 |
Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact other than a prior con… |
| 19-7380 |
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 |
I. Did the Ninth Circuit's unique five-part test for Mandamus relief cause a Fourteenth Amendment 'Equal Protection' violation? Are Equal Protection v… |
| 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, the Florida Courts have violated Mr. Cobb's right to Due Process, under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, in denying him post-conviction r… |
| 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 |
1. HOW CAN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES UPHOLD CONSTITUTIONAL LAWS IF THE COURT ALLOWS STATE TERRITORIES TO PLUNDER THE CORNERSTONES OF THOS… |
| 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 when the complained of and appealed violation was a seizure of livestock on fal… |
| 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 |
1. Whether La. R.S. 44:4(47) and the local rule of the 26th Judicial District Court in and for Bossier Parish can bar public access to the digital rec… |
| 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 |
1) Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment provide Mr. Saved with a procedural due process to have exculpatory (DNA) evidence teste… |
| 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 evidence that is insufficient to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a defendant is guilty of crimes, and inadequate when judged under the st… |
| 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 |
1-) IN A DEPARTURE FROM THE DUE PROCESS REQUIREMENT OF THE FIFTH AMENDMENT AND THE COMPULSORY PROCESS PROTECTION OF THE SIX AMENDMENT, 'DID THE UNITED… |
| 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 |
1) Whether the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia denial of Petitioner's timely and duly filed Appeal, without any lawful judicial reasonin… |
| 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.
Whether Banks's trial was adversely affected in violation o… |
| 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 |
xnHbthet l PeTiTfotjGk Bol^btt S CoHsjimTONAL PH&hts \siezjg v/W)7£-o /3y
THE tHiHteeht H Judicial b<37&CT Cjduat orN&n./Dexivd und&l the
Dub Proces… |
| 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 |
The Supreme Court of Louisiana has a demonstrable, decades-long history of substituting in word and deed a "no evidence" standard for the "insufficien… |
| 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 |
Joshua Wolf has been serving an unconstitutional sentence since he was sentenced to mandatory life without parole for a homicide offense committed whe… |
| 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 |
Timothy Richardson's death penalty case raises a significant issue of national importance: whether our criminal justice system tolerates the execution… |
| 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, PER-. CURIAM OPINION, AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S ENTRY OF SUMMARY JUDGMENT. ON P… |
| 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 |
1. In the context of the dying declaration exception of the hearsay rule, where that declaration is otherwise testimonial hearsay within the ambit of … |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Appendix A has discretionary jurisdiction to review A decision expressly and directly conflicts with a decision of the Appendix B on th… |
| 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 SHOWS THAT ANY ADMISSION AT THE
GUILTY PLEA HEARING COULD NOT RE… |
| 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 |
I- WHETHER THE FEDERAL QUESTION OF INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF TRIAL COUNSEL AS
THETPEESERVED CLAIM OF AN ALIBI WAS VAGUE?AND/OR UNEXHAUSTED THEREBY
P… |
| 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 |
1) Whether Graham's substantial rights and right to procedural due process and fundamental fairness guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment were violat… |
| 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 … |
| 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 |
1.) WHEATHER PETITIONER WAS DENIED HIS SIXTH AMENDMENT CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO THE EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF APPELLATE COUSEL FAILURE TO RAISE THE VALID… |
| 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, when the state hab… |
| 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 |
1. Is the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution violated when the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denies an Applicant habeas relief b… |
| 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 |
This petition poses two questions: first, whether the state-created danger doctrine provides a due process claim; and second, what level of culpable i… |
| 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 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof constitutional-presumption evidentiary-presumption fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions sixth-amendment specific-intent transferred-intent |
In Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 309 (1979), this Court held "(t]he Constitution prohibits the criminal conviction of any person except upon proo… |
| 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 |
For decades Indiana has permitted a minor to have an abortion so long as she has parental consent or a bypass order from a juvenile court based on eit… |
| 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 |
Does the petitioner's arrest violate the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution's freedom of petition AND Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process and Equ… |
| 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 |
Every year, thousands of automobiles are identified in law enforcement databases as stolen or wanted in connection with crimes. Warrants for seizure o… |
| 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 |
I. Whether the evidence was sufficient to [sustain] a conviction of criminal homicide, criminal conspiracy to commit homicide where the Commonwealth f… |
| 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 |
Section 3A1.1(b) of the Sentencing Guidelines provides for a two-level increase where, "the defendant knew or should have known that a victim of the o… |
| 19-6991 |
Lei Ke v. Drexel University |
Pennsylvania |
2019-12-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
contract-clause dual-proceedings-waiver due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment government-power res-judicata |
1. Asa legal doctrine, the dual proceedings waiver is an important component of due process and
equal protection of the laws and is there to ward off… |
| 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 itseld of personal jurisdiction of Lundy when it Administered the Law in an improper and unconstitutional manner?
Was Lund… |
| 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 |
Reasonable jurists would determine that Mr. Constance was denied a fair and impartial trial with the State Courts denial concerning 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 And Fourteenth Amendment rights violated when the state and state witnesses presented false testimony and prevented a fair subm… |
| 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 |
DOES THE DISCRETIONARY FUNCTIONS EXCEPTIONS IN 28 U.S.C. 2680(a) APPLY WHEN THE ALLEGED RIGHTS
DOES THE "COMMITTED TO AGENCY DISCRETION" EXCEPTION IN… |
| 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 |
1. Whether The State Of Arizona Failed To Terminate Mother's Parental Rights By At Least Clear & Convincing Evidence As Required By The Due Process Cl… |
| 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 |
The Fifth Amendment of the Constitution requires a person to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, only if he is presented or indicted by… |
| 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 |
1) Did the lower courts err in their interpretation even as Chuck Bates' offense did not result in substantial forfeiture? Courts interpretation Cond … |
| 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 it s distinct… |
| 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 Tex as Court of Criminal Appeals' unex plained dismissal of claims raised in
a subsequent application for writ of habeas corpus, where the… |
| 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 |
I. If the barrel of a gun is not yet pointed directly at an officer, does clearly established federal law prohibit police officers from firing to stop… |
| 19-750 |
In Re The Law Offices of Nina Ringgold, et al. |
|
2019-12-12 |
Denied |
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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 |
1. 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 st… |
| 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 |
I. When a court is in the process of accepting a guilty plea for a sex offense that will require an intrusive presentence investigation including ques… |
| 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 |
When Respondent Whole Woman's Health applied for a license to open a new abortion clinic in South Bend but refused to supply documentation of past com… |
| 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 |
1. 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 Examiner… |
| 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 |
1. Based upon the claims and supporting evidence presented in Petitioner's state post-conviction habeas corpus petition to the Pennsylvania Supreme Co… |
| 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 WASHINGTON STATE SUPREME COURT'S
DISAPPROVING OF THIS COURT'S DECISION IN
MUSACCHIO V. UNITED STATES,
136 S.Ct. 709 (2016), IS BINDING ON … |
| 19-719 |
Dami Hospitality, LLC v. Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, Division of Workers' Compensation |
Colorado |
2019-12-06 |
Denied |
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ability-to-pay civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-fines criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause proportionality sentencing |
How is an offender's ability to pay relevant in determining whether a fine is unconstitutional under Excessive Fines Clause of the Eighth Amendment? |
| 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, which "h[e]ld that the Eighth Amendment forbids a sentencing scheme that mandates life in prison without possibility of par… |
| 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 |
(1) Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the "lowest level of conduct" as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach… |
| 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 |
I. WHETHER THE STATE DISTRICT-COURT JUDGE VIOLATED
THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT 'S PRIVILEGES AND
IMMUNITIES CLAUSE AS WELL AS THE FIFTH AND
FOURTEENTH… |
| 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 TO THE
UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION WAS VIOLATED
WHEN THE STATE COURT DEPRIVED PETITIONER
OF HIS "LIBERTY INTEREST" … |
| 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 |
Under the fifth, sixth, and fourteenth amendment, Does the holding of Brady v. Maryland apply to the petitioner?
1.
2. Were the decisions rendered b… |
| 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 to a petitioner who raised four substantial claims that his conviction was unconst… |
| 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 |
1. Should this Court afford Eighth Amendment protection to youthful
offenders based on this Coprt's own precedent and national
census that youth is … |
| 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 |
1. Does Heck v. Humphrey bar Appellant's federal court review of the constitutionality of actions by local Virginia investigative and law enforcement … |
| 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 |
A divided panel of the Tenth Circuit, sitting en banc, vacated a panel opinion that reversed a capital sentence on the ground that the sentence rested… |
| 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 |
1. Whether a state appellate court's arbitrary denial of a defendant's request for the retroactive application of a new state law constitutes a violat… |
| 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 |
This Court has consistently recognized that when a prevailing party's unilateral action renders a case moot before appellate review concludes, the pro… |
| 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 |
On August 21, 2019, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals (alternatively, "DCCA"), affirmed the Superior Court's August 27, 2018 order denying Pet… |
| 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 |
1. Reasonable jurists would determine that Mr. Labat was denied effective assistance of counsel on Appeal for: (a) Failure to Exhaust State Remedies; … |
| 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 |
A Superior Court Judge in Alaska, presiding without a jury in a bench trial, imposed a $20 million judgment (principally based on treble damages under… |
| 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 |
(1). Does the decision of the Florida Supreme Court in overturning its previous
decision deciding a Federal Constitutional question, violate the prin… |
| 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 |
(1). Whether this Court should exercise its discretionary certiorari jurisdiction and grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand the case… |
| 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:
A phrase in the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
requiring that st… |
| 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 |
Q1. ARE THE FOLLOWING PENNSYLVANIA STATUTES CONSTITUTIONALLY
18 Pa. C.S. §2709(a)(4);
42 Pa C,S. §9542;
42 Pa. C.S. §9543(a)(l)(i);
42 Pa. C.S. §9545(… |
| 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 |
Q1. ARE THE FOLLOWING INFIRM? 18 Pa. C.S. §2709(a)(4):
42 Pa G.S. §0542;
42. Pa. C.S. §9543(a)(l)(i);
42 Pa. C.S. §9545 (b)(4);
42 Pa. C.S. §9545(a);… |
| 19-6629 |
Jacqueline M. King v. District of Columbia, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
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 Petitioners due process rights under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution by suspend… |
| 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 |
1) Why doesn't there exist Vexatious Litigant laws or procedure that addresses Multiplicity of California's §391 Motion with Conflicting Rulings based… |
| 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 |
I. What is the proper analysis to determine whether there is a threshold showing of an inference of gross disproportionality on an Eighth Amendment cl… |
| 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 |
Why was Counsel for the Petitioner allowed to withdraw prematurely when a request to the filing advocate for a Writ of Justiciare was made? |
| 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 |
I. The Federal Court, Question Presented is whether a Sentential Mandatory Sentence + Drug Trafficking Conviction; Sentence Versus N.C. Gen. Stat. 90-… |
| 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 because reasonable jurists could disagree over the district court's res… |
| 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 set forth in Section 8-43-501, et seq. of the Colorado Revised Statutes deprives claimants of th… |
| 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 |
Question 1: In the Appellate Division, Fourth Department's order, both the decent and majority agreed that Ms. Sheritta Jefferson was an agent of the … |
| 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 |
This Petition presents an issue of fundamental importance to all defendants facing criminal prosecution in California: whether the Sixth and Fourteent… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Texas district court violated the Petitioner 's Federal Civil Rights
under Section 1983 by discriminating against the Petitioner 's Re… |
| 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 trial courts abuse of discretion in not allowing an alleged accomplice, and sole defense witness to testify at trial for the defense violated … |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit courts, like other branches of government, from eliminating established property rights withou… |
| 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 |
1. 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 hi… |
| 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 |
I. DID THE PROSECUTOR 'S REPEATED REFERENCE TO PETITIONER 'S
DEFENSE AS A "RED HEARING " CONSTITUTE MISCONDUCT THEREBY
DENYING PETITIONER A FAIR TRI… |
| 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 under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments and right to a jury trial under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment… |
| 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 |
DECISIONS BELOW CONFLICT WITH THE DECISIONS OF OTHER U.S. CIRCUIT COURTS OF APPEALS AND STATE APPELLATE COURTS, AND MISAPPLY THIS COURT'S DECISIONS IN… |
| 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 |
(1) Is a constitutional right to be free of the wanton infliction of
sei pain rendered void upon incarceration?
(2) Is the denial of life sustaining … |
| 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 |
(1) Whether the sentencing court violated the requirement of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment that capital sentencers give meaningful consideration… |
| 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 of the United States where his natural life sentence und… |
| 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 |
1. Does a juvenile life sentence, with parole eligibility after a lengthy term for years, in a state with no guarantee that the mitigating qualities o… |
| 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?
AND/OR
CAN A STATE LAW MANDATE LIFE WITHOUT PARO… |
| 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 |
Under Ohio law, incarcerated parents who have actively sought to maintain a connection with their children cannot lose their children to adoption with… |
| 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 pursuant to the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution and Exodu… |
| 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 |
1.CAN A STATE TRIAL COURT DISREGARD A DEFENDANT'S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS OF LAW UNDER THE lAthuAMENDMENT OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTIO… |
| 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 |
1. 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 i… |
| 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, in this case, violated petitioner's constitutional rights under the Fifth, Sixth 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 |
1. Whether incumbents and candidates for political office have standing to assert First and Fourteenth Amendment claims regarding: i) pure campaign sp… |
| 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 |
1. Whether Mr. Lee's conviction was obtained in violation of his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights of the United States Constitution.
2. Whether … |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
1. Does systemic underfunding and understaffing of a municipal jail that knowingly causes significant delays for prisoners receiving access to outside… |
| 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 |
POINT I
WAS APPELLANT DEPRIVED OF THE RIGHT TO APPELLATE COUNSEL
WHEN
THERE WAS NO KNOWINGLY, INTELLIGENTLY AND VOLUNTARY
WAIVER OF THE RIGHT TO ASSIG… |
| 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 |
A Bivens case allows a private individual to seek damages from an individual federal officer for unconstitutional conduct (e.g. 8th Amendment). Ziglar… |
| 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 |
1. Is Wis. Stat. §48.415 unconstitutional as applied when it was used to terminate the Fourteenth Amendment fundamental right of familial integrity of… |
| 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 SUPREM… |
| 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 |
I - The lower courts and the respondents claim that the Petitioner's petition is
untimely and should be dismissed as such.
II - The lower courts and … |
| 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 |
1. Based on a "class of one" analysis, does the
Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth
Amendment to the United States Constitution bar application … |
| 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 |
1. Was the evidence of Petitioner's identity as the shooter sufficient to sustain the first-degree murder conviction where that evidence consisted of … |
| 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 |
1. Complete-Preemption Doctrine refers to a rule that a federal statue's preemptive force may be so extraordinary and all-encompassing that it convert… |
| 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 |
Fs c
on my be half, as the relevant testimont of my First EYewitness of the facts of my case,Ruhen Machado
R. x
of te BNA R
wasSu RTN S R Ma
SAN
884… |
| 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 |
1. Were The Rights Of A Defendant Under The Due Process Clause Of The Fourteenth Amendment Of The United States Constitution Properly Observed When Th… |
| 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 |
1) Ds tt not a vislehen of the RehKenev's 4 Ste BF and 1h Amendment rights then!
a SEI Unknown officec/oPicers search ancl setee
lis vehicle by enteri… |
| 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, pursuant to Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984) and its progeny, trial counsel is ineffective in a capital case when counsel conduc… |
| 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 Peririoner Made A Substantial Showing
Of The Denial Of His Sixth And Fourteenth
Amendmenr Due Process Rights Where Pericioner
Was Restricted F… |
| 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… |
| 19-366 |
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… |
| 19-364 |
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 |
A. Does the right to a grand jury indictment conferred by the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution apply to state indictments via the Fou… |
| 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 |
The Eighth Amendment prohibits life-without-parole sentences for all but the rarest juvenile s who exhibit a lack of rehabilitative potential due thei… |
| 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 |
1.
Whether it denies defendant's Fourteenth and Thirteenth Amendment Rights while on
direct review not to retroactively vacate a non-unanimous jury ve… |
| 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. |
| 19-363 |
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 |
1) If several states following close versions of Rule 25
(FRCP) have held that judgments without jurisdiction
of the decedent are a nullity, and tho… |
| 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… |
| 19-5955 |
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 1)
conviction on non-conforming evidence submitted at trial, a… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Nevada Supreme Court committed error when it failed to address Thomas' contention that his right to fundamental fairness was violated w… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the petitioner participated in a conspiracy to commit health care fraud , in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1349 . Count One of the Indictment.
… |
| 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 |
1. Whether Petitioner Terence S Chancellor 's Constitutional right to due process protected by the 14 Amendment, violated during court proceedings by … |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
I. Whether the State of Louisiana misapplied Jackson v. Virginia sufficiency of evidence test when holding, to the contrary, the evidence was sufficie… |
| 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 to the U.S. Constitution by changing the composition of an appellate panel during the … |
| 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 |
Reasonable jurists could find that the Courts have abused their discretion in accepting the Jury's verdict even though the Record supports that Ronald… |
| 19-5881 |
Arthur O. Armstrong v. Virginia, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
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.
Whether Petitioner was dep… |
| 19-5886 |
Arthur O. Armstrong v. North Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
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.
Whether petitioner was deprived of libe… |
| 19-5887 |
Arthur O. Armstrong v. John Doe |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
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.
Whether petitioner was deprived of libe… |
| 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 - rushing petitioners straight into trial proceedings without affording them with the mandatory procedural due proce… |
| 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 |
Petitioner Bentley's murder conviction rests on a clerical error committed by the Wayne County Clerk Office which denoted the wrong filing date to his… |
| 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 |
1) Whether Petitioner's due process rights were violated when the lower federal courts barred Petitioner's claim — alleging due process violations on … |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 his Discrection under He sth Amendment Due procecc clause by Cotegorically Dening all career orfenders when he stated that career … |
| 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 on a 30-year-old defendant who committed a "reprehensible" sex offense that c… |
| 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 THATTHE 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. Washing… |
| 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 when … |
| 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 |
A. Whether the Hawaii Court gravely erred when it upheld a grossly excessive punitive damages award against Bornemann in violation of the Due Process … |
| 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 |
1. Whether the petitioner, Lloyde Dubry, was denied his remedy by due course of law -- in violation of the Sixth or Fourteenth Amendment to the United… |
| 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 |
Prison on Counts that wee"Dismissed" did the Leave do file a Petitien for Weitot state Habess Cocpus? In which Retitioneris showiag that his Aeticle S… |
| 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 |
1. May a state court rely on junk science and lay stereotypes of the severely mentally ill to adjudicate a Ford claim ?
2. If an inmate acknowledges … |
| 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? and Whether Petitione… |
| 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 |
The issue presented is whether the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial requires an unanimous jury verdict and, if so, would that unanimity requireme… |
| 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 |
In the context of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d), which allows a n application for a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of a person in custody under a state -court … |
| 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 |
After a two-day Bench Trial in a malicious prosecution action, the District Court altered video evidence, and ignored other "smoking gun" evidence. A… |
| 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 |
1. Do the North Carolina statutes prohibiting the Association's attorneys from providing legal assistance to its members violate the freedom of associ… |
| 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 |
1. Is there a federal right, under the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Fed. Bureau of Narcotics, 4… |
| 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 |
1. Did the State of Texas contravene the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses by ignoring T… |
| 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 |
(1) Whether the appellate court appeal process was fundamentally unfair and a denial of due process of law under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amend… |
| 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 |
evidence in violation of due process and violation of his Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments Rights.
(2) Could Mr. Young be sentenced over the maximum 1… |
| 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 |
1) DID THE APPEALS COURT AND DISTRICT COURT VIOLATE BANKAS
FIFTH, SIXTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS BY UPHOLDING
A SENTENCE THAT WAS BASED ON TH… |
| 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 |
1. Does the public safety interest in incapacitating and deter
ring certain types of sex offenders with extremely long
sentences run afoul of the 8t… |
| 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 |
Respondent received a 67-year non-mandatory sentence 25 years ago, when he was 15 years old, for the murder of an elderly couple.
Does the Eighth Ame… |
| 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 |
Respondent received a 67-year non-mandatory sentence 25 years ago, when he was 15 years old, for the murder of an elderly couple.
Does the Eighth Ame… |
| 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 |
1. Can a Florida Law permit a trial court to exercise judicial discretion to make
new findings of fact of an escalating pattern of criminal conduct b… |
| 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 |
1. May trial spectator conduct, in the form of content-based messaging, be "'so inherently prejudicial as to pose an unacceptable threat'" to the fair… |
| 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 |
Like many cities and towns across the country, the City of Boise, Idaho regulates camping and sleeping in public spaces to ensure that these areas rem… |
| 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… |
| 19-5605 |
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 |
1. 'Olb'THE COURTS, "Tb fe'DE '
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X^stb'Actic^ lower Ttt^ l5u£D£b or orocF
TOR "YHE STf^S /Fb \… |
| 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 |
I. Ohio has a two step procedure under Ohio App R 26 when one claims the ineffective assistance of appellate counsel. First, there must be a timely "a… |
| 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 |
ISSUE I Does the Alabama State standard of review in Rule 32 Ala.R.Crim.P. post-conviction proceedings regarding the mental disease/defect issue as pr… |
| 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 |
Gary Ray Bowles is an intellectually disabled man on Florida's death row. Despite this Court's holding in Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304, 321 (2002)… |
| 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 |
1. By what authority did you base your actions on when having the Petitioner
confined at Texas Civil Commitment Center?
2. What evidence was relied u… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the burden of proof demanded by Glossip in method-of-execution challenges requires commensurately broad discovery rights to provide plainti… |
| 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 |
With a single exception, criminal defendants in the
United States seeking a new trial based on newly
discovered evidence are required to establish onl… |
| 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 |
Despite lower court COA denial, should this Court consider, or remand for consideration, habeas claims: a. Does judicial confession in this case, with… |
| 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 |
To what degree for interpretation of a constitution, statute, rule and regulation is a question of law for consideration by the Supreme Court is neces… |
| 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 |
1. When a state habeas court denies a petitioner relief on a federal constitutional claim his claim by imposing a higher burden than is required by fe… |
| 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 |
1.) Whether the Minth Circuit U.S. Court Of Appeals erred
in denying Certificate of Appealability to Petitioner,
on the Ground Of Error concerning t… |
| 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 Four
teenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and erred
by not declaring a judgment void, wherein the Court
… |
| 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 |
1. Whether Armand Roos ' participation as Plaintiff 's
attorney and primary witness was procedurally
and evidentiary concern a violation of Due Pro
… |
| 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 |
1. Can a state procedural bar override the Eighth Amendment prohibition against executing the intellectually disabled?
2. Does the Rodriguez procedur… |
| 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 |
1. 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 th… |
| 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 |
1. Does the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution apply in the Illinois State Courts? |
| 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 |
1. Has California 's justice system forgotten what
was taught by this Court 's holding in Wilson v. Seiter
[501 U.S. 294 (1991)]. (Regarding 8th Ame… |
| 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 |
1. Does the decision of the Supreme Court of North Dakota deprive the Petitioners of established property rights in violation of the Due Process and E… |
| 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 |
1. Consistent with the Fourteenth Amendment and Chanman v. California . 386 U.S. 18, 87 S.Ct. 824, 17 L.Ed.2d 705 (1967) could the harmless error anal… |
| 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 |
1. Can Congress abrogate a State 's immunity from being sued in Federal
court without its consent, under authority granted to Congress by the
Fourte… |
| 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 |
was the defendonts conduct de\ therately ,Pucposely Knowing nd cbjecluely yu intera' in Respect to Vv ialating Johnson rcHottonal Vio S Fourteen 1 Ame… |
| 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 |
1.) Whether the District Court in denying the Petitioner medical claim under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Fed. Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. … |
| 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 United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err in granting the government's motion to dismiss by denying the Petitioner the ability… |
| 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 |
As part of the #Resist movement, the California Attorney General instituted a policy of arresting his Republican political opponents and banning them … |
| 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 |
(I) Did the Medical Department of Cuyahoga County
Correctional Center et al., violate Plaintiff-Appellant
Carlin U. Powell 's VIII, XIV Amendments to … |
| 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 this case presenting issues of importance beyond the particuler falts and parties inudved? well does a case of judicia consinyad malie o overt Hhe … |
| 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… |
| 19-5487 |
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 |
(1) Does automatic confinement for competency restoration, without an individualized determination of whether confinement is necessary, violate due pr… |
| 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 |
First Question Presented: The Eighth Amendment bars a jury from imposing a death sentence if it "has been led to believe that the responsibility for d… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 19-5475 |
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 a Defendant has a primary Right of Self Representation and to Disclosure, by ithe Sat also Farottav California, Usi975)
whther plainif ha all… |
| 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 |
1. Was the Judgment's demand of perpetual (no
limit in time or geography) and unconditional
payment of remunerations of sixteen years of
Defendant … |
| 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 in order to ensure "maximum efficiency" of
Washington courts pursuant to Wash. Rev. Code
2.5… |
| 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 |
(1)- WAS THE PETITIONER 'S FOURTH AMENEDMENT RIGHT INFRINGED
UPON WHEN THE OFFICIERS CONDUCTED AN ILLEGAL SEARCH
OF HIS VEHICLE ABSENT PROBABLE CAUS… |
| 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 |
(1) Did THE Actions of Miss County sheriffs Department violate the Constitutional and statutes RIGHTS of Lindsey the Fourth / Fifth/Sixth and Fourteen… |
| 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 by plain error made in calculating Petitioner's sentence, and the numerous ways that Pet… |
| 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, which permits the trier of fact to impose a sentence of death without finding beyond a reasonable doubt (1) th… |
| 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 in the previous trial court proceedings, by ignoring the 2016 findings i… |
| 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… |
| 19-5371 |
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 |
Under this Court's precedent in Mary Capri Vs. US Attorney Financial Litigation Unit. The Petitioner was Released from Probation in 4/2016 WITHOUT Vio… |
| 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, Neb Rev. Stat. § 28-1212.04 that is void on its face by using territorial definitions of application tha… |
| 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 |
1) Absent statutory authority nor provision in the Federal
Rules, Did the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals clearly
abuse its discretion when it ORDE… |
| 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 GUARANTEED BY THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION'S FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT IS DENIED BY FLORIDA'S IMPOSITION OF A CAP… |
| 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 |
1. 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… |
| 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 |
Does the Florida Supreme Court's contrary and broad reading of LeBlanc infringe upon Petitioner's Constitutional right to have a meaningful review of … |
| 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 while the Appellate Court reversed the Temporary I… |
| 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 |
Does the Prosecutor assessment of Probable cause Standing alone meet the requirements of the Fourth Amendment and is it enough to Justify Pending tria… |
| 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 |
I. The Petitioner's Substantive Claim Should Be
Heard on the Merits, as the Claim Could Not
Have Been Raised in an Earlier Proceedings.
II. The Petit… |
| 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 |
Under the Eighth Amendment, may a State sentence a juvenile offender convicted of multiple crimes to multiple consecutive terms of years in prison und… |
| 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 |
While LC—a U.S. Navy officer —was deployed overseas, her wife MG became pregnant by assisted reproduction . MG had not sought LC's consent to having a… |
| 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 twice by the Indiana Court of Appeals and a third time by the Indiana Supreme Court without any sta… |
| 19-5213 |
Arthur O. Armstrong v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2019-07-17 |
Denied |
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.
Whether Petitioner was dep… |
| 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 |
The Plaintiff-Appellee does not find the value of the Virginia statutory limitation law Va. Code § 8.01-243(B) holds true for intellectual property. I… |
| 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 (Co. Rev. Stat. §38-38-101 (2016) in conjunction with Rule 120) unconstitutional under the Due Proces… |
| 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 |
In a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action, the Petitioner Shreve port Chapter #237 of the United Daughters of the Confederacy ("UDC") filed its lawsuit in response… |
| 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 |
1. Does an ordinance expressly punishing only women, but not men, for identical conduct—being topless in public—classify on the basis of gender?
2. D… |
| 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 |
# (1) The sole issue presented in this petition is whether the termination of attorney-client relationship for purposes of R.C. 2305.11 Legal Malpract… |
| 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 |
1. Did the lack of a meaningful review of the assessment and collection of a tax under the Convention violate Dewees' right to due process?
2. Did th… |
| 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 … |
| 19-5108 |
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 granting the government's motion to dismiss by denying the Petitioner the ability… |
| 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 |
For decades this Court has safeguarded the First Amendment rights of freedom of religion, speech, and press from state infringement. Jehovah's Witness… |
| 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… |
| 19-5039 |
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 |
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| 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 |
In this capital case, the Tennessee courts permitted the State to introduce a transcript of prior testimony of its "primary witness" rather than prese… |
| 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 |
I.
WHETHER THE TENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEAL(S) DECISION WAS
IN
CONTRARY WITH U.S.
SUPREME COURT PRECEDENT, BY FAILING TO
LIBERALLY CONSTRUE THE
MAILB… |
| 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… |
| 19-26 |
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 |
Well before New Mexico's history as a territory and a state, wherein money bail or bail by sufficient sureties was the primary and for a long period t… |
| 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 |
IF THE ORDER FROM THE DISTRICT COURT DOCUMENT SEVENTEEN ALLOWED PETITIONER TO PROCEEDED WITH HIS COLORABLE CAUSE OF ACTION OF ACCESS TO THE COURT WHEN… |
| 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 |
Question one: Whether the federal district & circuit court and the
Florida State courts violated the Petitioner 's 6th & 14th Amendment rights —when
t… |
| 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 |
(1) Does the Due Process Clause of the Federal Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment entitle a convicted prisoner serving a 25-to-life sentence with add… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the "same elements" test articulated in Blockburger v. United States, 284 U.S. 299 (1932), adequately protects in dividuals from multiple p… |
| 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
Whether Outrageous Governmental Conduct claim may carry a custody simpliciter of: oath requir… |
| 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 an opportunity to be heard contrary t… |
| 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 |
1. Whether a settlement agreement entered into by an inmate and
a State, which incorporates the mandatory language of the Interstate
Corrections Comp… |
| 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 |
1. In a capital case in which the defendant exercises his right not to testify, are the Fifth and Eighth Amendments violated when the State argues in … |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals was correct in disregarding the clear language of Texas Property Code § 42.08 (d).
2. Whether Court of Appeals was co… |
| 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 … |
| 18-9825 |
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 |
1) Whether or not the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has entered a decision (May
08, 2019) in conflict with another decision previously made in the Unit… |
| 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 |
1. Whether Petitioner can establish a prima facie case of discrimination
under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when the pro- … |
| 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, WHEN POLICE INSERTED A PAID INFORMANT IN PETITI… |
| 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, as applied to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment, allow a state-court crimi… |
| 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 |
1. A sentence, even within range, is excessive when it imposes punishment grossly disproportionate to the severity of the evidence, or constitutes not… |
| 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 |
1. Whether an Eighth Amendment claim for deliberate indifference to a prisoner's lifethreatening medical need can be disposed of without any individua… |
| 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 |
1)- WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DENIED HIS FOURTH, FIFTH, SIXTH, AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS RIGHT'S SECURED BY THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, AND DUE PROCE… |
| 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 Presumtion" N.Y. P.L. §265.15 (3)(a) inapplicable?
Does the N.Y.P.L. §265.15 (3)(a), violates t… |
| 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 |
1. US visa : 0187, legal short-term stay , Personal Injury , can Petitioner get The Equal Protection Clause Of The Fourteenth Amendment to the United … |
| 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 |
In a State that provides appeals as a matter of right from adverse lower court decisions terminating parental rights, may the States, consistent with … |
| 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 (including rights guaranteed by: U.S. Constitution's … |
| 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… |
| 18-1572 |
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 who is 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 this Court should finally decide that the admission of
irrelevant prior act evidence in a state trial that amounts to nothing more
than propen… |
| 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 |
(1) Whether a federal district court's adoption of a Department of Corrections Administrative Regulation and implementing it in D.C.COLO. L. Civ. Rule… |
| 18A1349 |
Pennsylvania v. Milton Montalvo |
Pennsylvania |
2019-06-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-recommendation mental-health-mitigation |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
Whether a prosecutor may secure a death sentence by presenting knowingly false and/or misleading argument to the jury that argues falsehoods about the… |
| 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 |
1. Was Petitioner denied due process by the state court's refusal to provide a hearing that was mandated by Georgia's DNA statute, particularly given … |
| 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 |
1. DID THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT ABUSE ITS DISCRETIONARY, BROADLY-BASED AUTHORITY OF INTERPRETATION, THUS, VIOLATING PE… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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, 243 U.S. 46, 50-51 (… |
| 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 |
QUESTION 1
Is a Defendant entitled to qualified immunity when a Petitioner cites the "squarely governing '
case through a quote of a case with simila… |
| 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… |
| 18-9693 |
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 standard for assessing ineffective assistance of counsel claims, announced in Strickland v. Washington, fail to protect the Sixth Amendment r… |
| 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 |
The Superior Court of Washington for Spokane County, initiated, sua sponte, and selfprosecuted an action against the Petitioners, who are professional… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is violated where, in reviewing a defendant's a Fourteenth Amendment Due Process violati… |
| 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… |
| 18-9650 |
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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
THIS COURT SHOULD GRANT MR. SORENSEN's PETITION FOR CERTIORARI TO RESOLVE A CONFLICT AMONG THE UNITED STATES COURTS OF APPEALS AS TO WHETHER PETITIONE… |
| 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 |
Denied |
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 |
IS PETITIONER'S FLORIDA CAPITAL LIFE PRISON SENTENCE WITH A 25 YEAR MINIMUM MANDATORY FOLLOWWED BY ELIGIBILITY FOR PAROLE UNDER FLORIDA STATUTE §775.0… |
| 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 APPEOLS ERTED IN NOT REVIEWING
by holD Me to a hiqhad
THE /OWER COURT DECESSIOS
8SFAMdARD OF A SRD SE
SAMdAR OF LAW ThEN THE
PlAilTif… |
| 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 of the United States Cons… |
| 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 |
1) Do the First Amendment's protections to public
streets as the archetype of a traditional public forumextend to city and state public streets and pu… |
| 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 Motion To Suppress Bullets Conflicts With relevant decisions of This Court in Violation of Petitioner Fourteenth Amen… |
| 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 |
1. WAS PETITIONER'S SIXTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS TO A FAIR TRIAL VIOLATED WHEN THE PROSECUTOR COMMITTED PLAIN AND OBVIOUS CONSTITUTIONAL ERRO… |
| 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 |
Casey Stoermer lived in a separate apartment connected to the home of Aaron Smith. On the morning of June 21, 2016, law enforcement officers went to S… |
| 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 |
1) Tennard v. Dretke, 542 U.S. 274 (2004) disavowed any requirement of a nexus between evidence introduced in mitigation of sentence in a death penalt… |
| 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 |
1. 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 Constit… |
| 18-9535 |
Alexander Ocasio v. William Perez, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-05 |
Denied |
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 THIS COURT SHOULD CONSIDER IF THE INTRODUCTION OF AN AUTOPSY REPORT WHICH WAS PRESENTED AS SUBSTANTIVE EVIDENCE BUT NOT TESTIFIED TO BY ITS AU… |
| 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 by allowing Petitioner to be shackled in the courtroom during his trial; allowi… |
| 18A1272 |
Charlotte Horst v. Matthew Hagen |
North Dakota |
2019-06-05 |
Presumed Complete |
|
child-marriage constitutional-rights due-process emancipation fourteenth-amendment human-trafficking |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
If Martinez V. Ryan, 566 U.S. 1, 132 S Ct 1309, allows for a case to be over-turned if the Plaintiff can show, had it not been for ineffective assista… |
| 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:
A phrase in the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
requiring that s… |
| 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 |
A. IS PETITIONER'S TWENTY-FIVE YEAR MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCE DISPROPORTIONATE TO THE OFFENSE COMMITTED VIOLATING THE EIGHTH AMENDMENT OF THE UNITED … |
| 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 |
(1). A Petitioner Rights to have a Witness in his favor is protected by the "Due Process of Law Clause" and the Fifth ,Sixth, Fourteenth, amendment. S… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
1. When a resident alien pleads guilty to a crime,
while ignorant of the immigration consequences, then
discovers those consequences and demands a tri… |
| 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 which the U.S. Const. Amend. VIII … |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 18-9477 |
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 Constiutional 14th Amendment?
Was the Petitioner's Due Process Rights violat… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 18A1238 |
Christopher Lee Price v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
|
cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment execution-protocol lethal-injection midazolam pain-and-suffering |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
Dixie was convicted of evading pursuing police officers based on an incident where he fled from police during a high speed vehicle chase. At trial, Di… |
| 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 |
Pursuant to Rule 10(c):" a state court... .has decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with relevant decisions of this Court." I… |
| 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 |
In contrast to appellate-jurisdiction cases normally presented to this Court, the courts below provided no trial, and permitted no appellate review. T… |
| 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 |
The questions are presented to be review based on the violation of the 14th amendment under equal protection. The CAE airport has terminated non-white… |
| 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… |
| 18-9384 |
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 |
1. Whether the Petitioner's Direct Appeal, warrants the issuance of a Writ of Mandamus to compel action by the Court.
2. Whether the Petitioner shoul… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Federal Due Process Clause requires a state to apply a new interpretation of a state criminal statute retroactively to cases on collate… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
1. Can a defendant in a state capital sentencing proceeding voluntarily, knowingly, and
intelligently waive a federal constitutional right that was bo… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 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 |
1. Was the imposition of liability for the landlord's speech a violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendment s to the United States Constitution ?
… |
| 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 |
1. Whether an individual who suffers from severe mental illness is exempt from execution under the Eighth Amendment and the evolving standards of dece… |
| 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 Mr. 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… |
| 18-9358 |
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 EXECTUION WITNESS AND REFUSING TO ALLOW HIM TO HAVE A NON-CLERGYMAN AS HIS S… |
| 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 18 M.S.C.§1732 was admissible and reliable for proof and fact of untimely filed Motion for spoliation?
Whether the admission of the Emergency… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
I. WHETHER THE STATE COURTS REFUSAL TO PROVIDE INDIGENT APPELLANTS WITH A COMPLETE COPY OF THE RECORD/TRANSCRIPTS FROM ALL PRE CONVICTION PROCEEDINGS … |
| 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 |
1. Does the decision of the Supreme Court of North Dakota deprive the Petitioners of established property rights in violation of the due process and e… |
| 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 has so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings as t… |
| 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 over-breadth and contrary to the First, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Con… |
| 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.
Whether ward was served with paperwork when guardianship was ordered.
Whether ward was provided with opportunit… |
| 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 |
1. Whether Mr. Foster's death sentence is unconstitutional because it violates the Eighth Amendment and the Due Process Clause where the jury did not … |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's rationale in Foster v. State, 258 So. 3d 1248 (Fla. 2018), mirrors the overruled rationale of Hildwin v. Florid… |
| 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 |
I. Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals define the "clearly established" constitutional rights at issue in this qualified immunity case at too high … |
| 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… |
| 18-9274 |
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 |
In Hurst v. Florida this Court struck down Florida's longstanding capital sentencing procedures because they authorized a judge, rather than a jury, t… |
| 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 if the Plaintiff is suffering for many years (over five and a half yea… |
| 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 |
Petitioner cites Errors by US Court of Appeals for the Fourth District clear of Eighth Amendment regarding excessive fines Tyson Timbs v State of Indi… |
| 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 |
In Hurst v. Florida this Court struck down Florida's longstanding capital sentencing procedures because they authorized a judge, rather than a jury, t… |
| 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 BECAUSE OF A 'LANGUAGE BARRIER' WHAT SORT OF RECORD MUST THE COURT MAKE IN ORDER TO ENSURE… |
| 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 |
In a capital case, does the admission of a gruesome and completely unnecessary internal autopsy photograph, lacking any probative value, and showing t… |
| 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 |
1. Do the presumption against waiver of fundamental constitutional rights and the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause's guaranty against deprivati… |
| 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 |
Denied |
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 |
The Court of Criminal Appeals erred, denying Petitioner a new trial?
Distric+ Attorney (prosccution)violated +he Due Process Clause , Fourteenth Amen… |
| 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 Murphy's Fifth, Sixth, Fourteenth Amendment rights and his Miranda were violated.
Whether the court of Appeals violated Murphy's due process … |
| 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?
Wheth… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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), a case arising under federal habeas review, as a deci… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
A citizen of another state received a three-hundred-year sentence for sending, in one transaction, a single computer file containing thirty (30) image… |
| 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 |
PETITIONER DENIED HIS DUE PROCESS RIGHTS AS ENUMERATED UNDER WAS
THE
FIFTH, SIXTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS OF THE U.S.
WHICH WERE
WERE ADMITTED… |
| 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, WHEN POLICE INSERTED A PAID INFORMANT IN
PETITI… |
| 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 THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION FOR STATE OR FEDERAL COURTS AND PROSECUTORS TO IGNORE, ALTE… |
| 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 in violation of his the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourtee… |
| 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 |
"The Sixth Amendment requires a jury, not a judge, to find each fact necessary to impose a sentence of death." Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616, 619 (… |
| 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 |
In 2006, Congress passed the Sex Offender Registry and Notification Act (SORNA) to make the federal and state systems more uniform and effective. SORN… |
| 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 |
The Question has to do with The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board of the State of California and all states, Healthcare and the Burden of Proof in d… |
| 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), a case arising under federal habeas review, as a deci… |
| 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 |
In Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551, 578 (2005), this Court held that the Eighth Amendment forbids the imposition of the death penalty on offenders who … |
| 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 |
In Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551, 578 (2005), this Court held that the Eighth Amendment forbids the imposition of the death penalty on offenders who … |
| 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 ias Tampering with Eviden… |
| 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 |
The issue presented is whether the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial requires an unanimous jury verdict and, if so, would that unanimity requireme… |
| 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 |
1) wher Extrating aN INvoluNtary CoNtessioN by Police threat's andlor promises when te. delectues Can Never be Harmless Error Rex vs- Teeples, 753 u5,… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
1. Are consecutive, fixed term sentences for juveniles unconstitutional at the outset when they amount functional equivalent of life w/out parole?
Ap… |
| 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 when it determined the admission of the oth… |
| 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 §53.1-202.2 Code of Virginia, therefore being encompassed by this statute?
Is the Petitioner one of "… |
| 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 |
1. Under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) standard, is suppressing evidence by the state government on bench court's relationship with two compla… |
| 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 |
1. Whether The State Of Arizona Failed To Terminate Mother's Parental Rights
By At Least Clear & Convincing Evidence As Required By The Due Process
Cl… |
| 18-8907 |
In Re Samuel H. Williams |
|
2019-04-19 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
affidavit civil-procedure civil-rights declaration due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment in-forma-pauperis incorporation poverty redress |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
1. Does this Court's decision in Gonzalez v. Crosby completely foreclose a habeas petitioner from obtaining Rule 60(b) relief arising from a demonstra… |
| 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 |
Should Res judicata and Collateral, Estoppel Doctrines be able to
Barr an Independent or an Original Action in Federal Court when;
the Defendants Witt… |
| 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 |
This Court has never upheld the findings in United States v. Von Behren, 822 F.3d 1139 (10th Cir. 2016), in which the Court of Appeals held that compe… |
| 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 |
1. 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 det… |
| 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 that tainted all counts, caused by the confluence of the governnn… |
| 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 |
Pursuant to Ala. C. § 13-A-5-47(e)(1975), Alabama previously allowed trial judges to override a jury's vote for a life sentence and, based on new evid… |
| 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 Under … |
| 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 United States Constitution by enlarging a jurisdictional rule without author… |
| 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, VI… |
| 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, which permits the trier of fact to impose a sentence of death without finding beyond a reasonable doubt (1) th… |
| 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 |
Reasonable jurors would determined that Mr. Le was convicted by a non-unanimous jury in violation of his rights under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth… |
| 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 |
1. Whether statistics alone are sufficient to demonstrate a prima facie case of discrimination in the first step of a Batson analysis?
2. Whether lif… |
| 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 |
I. Can the United States identify any of nine elements of common and law fraud in this case?
Is there a pattern or practice is there discriminatory a… |
| 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 |
1. May a state court resolve a federal constitutional claim by treating an AEDPA habeas decision of this Court as a ruling on the merits when this Cou… |
| 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 cruet… |
| 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 MR. CARLYLE'S MENTAL RETARDATION AND HISTORY OF ABUSE, AND OTHER VARIOUS ACTS, DEPRIVE DEFENDANT OF… |
| 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 |
1-ID PETTIONER RECEIVE EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAW ACCORDING TO THE"DUE PROCESS"ELEMENT OF THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION?… |
| 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 |
The evidence in the state court record suggested that Sean Carter suffers from organic brain damage. Carter's trial attorneys performed deficiently, t… |
| 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 |
1. Whether Graham v. Florida, 560 U.S. 48 (2010), applies with the equal force to consecutive sentences for non-homicide offenses that work in the agg… |
| 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 |
I. Does the Florida Supreme Court's exclusive reliance on a unanimous recommendation of death to find harmless error for violations of Hurst v. Florid… |
| 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 when the Nevada Supreme Court incorr… |
| 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, which requires post-conviction defendants to pr… |
| 18A1002 |
Joseph Carter v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-04-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama proportionality sentencing-discretion |
Question not identified. |
| 18A1003 |
Gary Reid v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-04-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-sentence miller-v-alabama proportionality |
Question not identified. |
| 18A1001 |
Freddy Brown v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-04-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-sentence miller-v-alabama mitigating-factors proportionality |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 18-8608 |
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 |
I.
Are appeal waivers presented in federal criminal plea agreements an
unconstitutional overreach by the Government preventing review of
constitutiona… |
| 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 |
1) ES HCV © Serious medical ailment that requires treatin pettioner with Cure. Medianes, 1A accord +0 the Pfs ssene! Community Standard at Medical Car… |
| 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 |
1. Whether it violates the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments for a state to defeat a post-conviction claim of ineffective assistance of counsel… |
| 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 |
(1) Has an Alabama death row inmate shown that pentobarbital is "available" to the ADOC where he proves that pentobarbital is easily made by any compo… |
| 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 |
Jeffery Wood is on death row in Texas despite the fact that he did not kill anyone. Mr. Wood was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death un… |
| 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 that violated petitioner's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to a fair trial a… |
| 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 |
I. Did the Trial Court err when it concluded that Gerald Long's Fourth Amendment right proscribing unreasonable searches and seizures was not violated… |
| 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 a prisoner's sincere religious belief that he should not be psychologically evaluated, involuntarily placed on psychiatric medication and prog… |
| 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 |
I was arrested and put in the jail (hole) on Oct. 25, 2016, for an altered ink pen with the APPERANCE OF DRUG RESIDUE, that was found on the top bunk,… |
| 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 |
1. Whether a state violates the constitutional guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution when it denies the protections… |
| 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 |
Nelson v. Colorado, 581 U.S.__, 137 S. Ct. 1249 (2017) tore down the wall Colorado had built to prevent persons from receiving their valid returns of … |
| 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 |
1. Does Nebraska's capital sentencing scheme requiring a three-judge panel, rather than a jury, to impose a sentence of death violate the Eighth Amend… |
| 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 |
1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity formula, designed to limit the class of condemned prisoners obtaining a life-or-death jury d… |
| 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 |
Where an evidentiary hearing to evaluate specified criteria under a power line siting statute results in orders approving a specific route for a line,… |
| 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 |
THE CONTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN A CIVIL COMMITMENT CASE CANNOT BE CIRCUMVENTED BY A FLORIDA RULE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE NULLIFYING THE INVIO… |
| 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 |
I) Was petitioner denied a fair trial by trial courts abuse of discretion?
II) Was petitioner denied effective assistance of counsel when counsel fai… |
| 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;
1.That the State of Tenness… |
| 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 |
1. 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 … |
| 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 holding of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and Appellate Court in case at bar where jury separation after d… |
| 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 |
DID THE LOWER COUETS AUD JUDGES
VIOLATE APPELANT RISHT TOBE PRCES??
BOTH THE LOWE DISTRICT AUD CeCUT COUETS INOUTOUALLY MECGRED
PELAT'S BIVEUS - TYPE,… |
| 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 trialcourt's erroneous denial of additional funds for the defenses DNA Expert to testify at trial… |
| 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 |
Was it a violation of due process for the trial judge to rely purely on an opinion conducting any independent inquiry into the Petitioner's fitness.
… |
| 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 |
WHETHER THE ARBITRARY, BIASED AND CORRUPT PROCEEDINGS CONDUCTED BY THE WAYNE COUNTY PROBATE COURT IN A SIMPLE AND UNCONTESTED BREACH OF CONTRACT ACTIO… |
| 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 |
1. When a state has by statute or constitutional
provision granted civil litigants the right to an appeal,
must the state's appellate procedures provi… |
| 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 |
1. Did the lower courts repeatedly violate the
Petitioners' Constitutional protections, including Fifth/
Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Rights and E… |
| 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 |
5. Whether the United States Supreme Court has set a precedence, under the doctrine of equitable maxim, that contradicts its own precedence's by freel… |
| 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 |
What protection do citizens of the United States enjoy under the Fifth Amendment's just compensation requirement in conjunction with the Fourteenth Am… |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
1.) THE PETITIONER HEREBY AVENS THAT THE CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION AND/OR COMMITS PLAIN ERROR IN FLOUTING THE STATE BAR ACT, RULE… |
| 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 |
1. DID TRIAL COURT ABUSE ITS DISCRETION BY CONSIDERING A NOLLE PROSSED CHARGE OF FIRST DEGREE MURDER IN SENTENCING PETITIONER TO THE 20-YEAR PLEA CAP,… |
| 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 Trail Court in error when the Court therefore find that it is without jurisdiction to conduct a resentencing or modify the Defendant's sentenc… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the rules and laws governing how charging liens are imposed and executed in Federal District Courts should be clarified so as to uniformly … |
| 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 |
CLAIMS FOR RELIEF
A. CLAIM ONE: PETITIONER'S PRE-TRIAL DETENTION AGAINST HIS FIFTH AND AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT RIGHT AGAINS DOUBLE JEOPARDY.
Becaus… |
| 18-8174 |
Jack D. Hall v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
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 this Supreme Court Grant Certiorari, to determine this question of first impression "Dose the specific langauge of Federal Habeas Corpus Rule 8… |
| 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 in pre trial confinement Petitioner was unknowingly
admnistered3 three different mental health psychologica
"twenty nine
medication's and not hi… |
| 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 |
Is anincarcerated prose Petitioner's First & Fourteenth Amendment U.S. Constitutional rights violated if they're under In Forma Pauperis (IFP) status … |
| 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 |
Under the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, as codified by County of Riverside v. McLaughlin, 500 U.S. 44 (1991), may law enforcemen… |
| 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 Foujteenth Amendment. right to a. fair and impartial trial was violated 'then the proseatftr elicited false testimony from the vi… |
| 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 |
Does Florida's failure to consider the "difference in treatment" between a plaintiff and its similarly situated comparators conflict with this Court's… |
| 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, by violations and conflict of state and federal law, Batson v Kentucky, Brady v Maryland, an… |
| 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 |
1. The Florida Supreme Court held, contrary to the plain language of this
Court, and contrary to the holdings of the high courts of other states, that… |
| 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 to the United States Constitution were violated when Judge Sa… |
| 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 |
I. Whether the revised South Carolina Frivolous Proceedings Act (SCFPA), S.C. Code § 15-36-10, is unconstitutional on its face and as applied and is a… |
| 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 |
Might the states and especially Ohio be required to accept and enforce the 6th and 14th amendment mandates of Gideon vWainwright, 772 U.S. 335, (196),… |
| 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… |
| 18-8106 |
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 evidence by a material state witness - the only state witness to reliably identify the defendan… |
| 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 Florida Supreme Court's decision in Hurst v. State, 202 So. 3d 40 (Fla. 2016), which retroactively changed the elements necessary for impo… |
| 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 |
In Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806, 829-32, 830
n.39, 833-34, 834 n.46 (1975), this Court held that state
courts may not compel pro se litigants i… |
| 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 |
1. 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 … |
| 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 u. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016), claims designed by the Florida Supreme Court, as applied to a pris… |
| 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 |
This Court has issued at least four decision finding that adolescents are less culpable than adults. Dr. Laurence Steinberg has determined that the li… |
| 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 |
PETITIONER'S COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE IN FAILING TO CONDUCT A REASONABLE PRE-TRIAL INVESTIGATION. THIS VIOLATED PETITIONER'S RIGHT TO COUNSEL, AS GUARA… |
| 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 of the case, including discovery of the case, to discover that Commonwealth Attorney and … |
| 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… |
| 18-7973 |
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 |
I.
Whether There Was Insufficient Evidence To Prove Villa Guilty Beyond A
Reasonable Doubt?
II.
Whether Armed Bank Robbery Constitutes A Crime Of Vio… |
| 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 … |
| 18-7962 |
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 of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments require that prior to the final termination of a property right/interest § 1983 … |
| 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 |
I. This court has previously addressed the constitutionality of pretrial restraints and seizures of untainted substitute assets, holding that the unta… |
| 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 |
1) 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… |
| 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 |
Thfl the Lower courts erred in judgment by dismissing Petitioner 'Actual Conflict in dual-representation" when trial counsel's dementia was cause for … |
| 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.
Whether the California Supreme Court may order payment of a debt that has … |
| 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 by continuously granting the Attorn… |
| 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
COUNSEL'S ABANDONEMENT ON A MANSLAUGHTER
OF … |
| 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 a state court has the right to bar a litigant of having access to the courts?
Whether due process violations toll the state's statute of limi… |
| 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 |
Petitioner was sentenced to 45-100 years concurrent to 10-40 years for second-degree murder and perjury committed when he was under the age of 18 whic… |
| 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 Courtin granting summary judgment improperly decided disputed factual issues
which the appeal court affirmed.
Whether the Peti… |
| 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 |
A State punished a small business's inadvertent civil noncompliance by automatically applying a civil monetary penalty at the maximum percentage rate … |
| 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 new rule of constitutional law announced in Alleyne v. United States, 570 U.S. 99 (2013), that any fact that increases the mandatory minimum … |
| 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 |
A. Resolving the issue explicitly left open by this Court in McNeil v. United States, 563 U.S. 816 (2011): Whether it violates the United States Const… |
| 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 |
1. Did the Supreme Court of Ohio violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments when it refused to reopen Petitioner's direct appeal to consider evidenc… |
| 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 |
When a statutory punishment enhancement is found inapplicable to a class of offenses, thereby decreasing the punishment range from 2-10 years to 180 d… |
| 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 at trial was insufficient to convict Petitioner of the racketeering conspiracy where the United States failed to prove Petitioner… |
| 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 Like Hegstrom (i.e., 18 to… |
| 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?
WHETHER M… |
| 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 when Mr. Mark was subject to custodial interrogation without Miranda warning having… |
| 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, where petitioner presented clear factual evidence, supported b… |
| 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 a reasonable doubt, every essential element of the off… |
| 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 by restraining free market trade and competition withou… |
| 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 |
I. Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
misapplied established federal law when it held that
the State's failure to disclose threats and promis… |
| 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 |
1. Whether (for any one and or all reasons stated herein) petitioner was denied his rights to due process and a fair trial under the Sixth and Fourtee… |
| 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 res… |
| 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… |
| 18-7759 |
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 |
1. Whether the Defendant was denied his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment
Rights to assistance of counsel by the denial of his Motion to Continue his
tri… |
| 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 |
I. DID THE STATE OF IOWA VIOLATE THE PETITIONERS 5th, 6th, & 14th AMENDMENT'S CONFRONTATION AND DUE PROCESS RIGHTS TO BE PRESENT DURING A CRITICAL STA… |
| 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 |
May a State, consistent with the Fourteenth Amendment, require an ultrasound as part of informed consent at least eighteen hours before an abortion? |
| 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 |
1)
DID THE CCA SO STRETCH THE FACTS IN THIS CASE SO
UNREASONABLY THAT NO DEFERENCE COULD BE POSSIBLE
TO ITS INTERPETATION OF WHAT OCCURRED IN THE TACO… |
| 18-7697 |
Duane Yates v. Iowa |
Iowa |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
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 Iowa Code 822 in the Iowa District Court's are denied the equal protection of law under the Sixth and … |
| 18-7705 |
Duane Yates v. Iowa |
Iowa |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
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 through the Fourteenth Amendment on Due Process of Law a… |
| 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… |
| 18-7620 |
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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 VIOL… |
| 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… |
| 18-7670 |
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 |
1. 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 contr… |
| 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 |
1. Whether newly-discovered evidence establishes that racial prejudice influenced the decision of at least one juror to convict Mr. Jones and sentence… |
| 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, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016) and Hurst v. … |
| 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.0 Code # 242. and/or in… |
| 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 Fourth(4th) Amendment rights violated due to a search and seizures?
Was the petitioner Fourteenth(14th) Amendment rights violated … |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
THE NINTH CIRCUIT CCURT OF APPEALS DENIED THE 1SSUANCE OF A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY BASED UPON THEIR DECISION THAT PETITIONER DIDNT HAVE SUBSTANT… |
| 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 |
1. Do state support statutes like the Oregon Statute (ORS) at Chapter 416.440 (3), which is essentially the same today as it was in 2009, contravene t… |
| 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 |
When a state affords a right of appeal, does a state supreme court denying appellate review, before it, to parties that raise an error of law that is … |
| 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… |
| 18-7582 |
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 |
MAY THE DESTRUCTION OF MATERIAL EVIDENCE BY THE GOVERNMENT VIOLATE PETITIONERS RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS GUARANTEED BY THE FIFTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS,… |
| 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… |
| 18-7567 |
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 |
I.
Whether the court of appeals erred in denying petitioner's application for a certificate
of appealability to appeal the district court's denial of … |
| 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… |
| 18-7526 |
In Re Robert Heffernan |
|
2019-01-23 |
Denied |
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 |
A. Re: The State District Court Judge
Did the district court judge violate my right to Due Process of Law, factually loose jurisdiction, and create v… |
| 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, 6th Amendment, And Apprendi v New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct. 2348 (2000) When Petiti… |
| 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 |
Question One: In the (a) Denial of Plaintiffs Motion to Amend the Complaint; (b) Dismissal of Plaintiffs Claims With and Without Prejudices; and (c) G… |
| 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 |
I. Does the death penalty in and of itself violate the Eighth Amendment in light of contemporary standards of decency and the geographic and racial ar… |
| 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… |
| 18-7466 |
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 |
This petition presents the questions of whether reasonable jurists can debate the following issues:
1. Whether the erroneous jury instruction given i… |
| 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… |
| 18-7428 |
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 |
1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, which is based on an arbitrary cutoff… |
| 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 |
I. Is it proper for a sentencing court to apply the substantial 6-level increase to a defendant's offense level contemplated in Section 2A4.1(b)(1) of… |
| 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 element 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 |
1. Did the trial court's statements during jury selection equating being convinced beyond a reasonable doubt with being "sure" or "positive" of guilt … |
| 18-7392 |
In Re James Rudnick |
|
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
13th-amendment 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure custody due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus incarceration-authority mittimus thirteenth-amendment |
1 Whether the Respondent [Warden Hansen] - employee of the Colorado Department of Corrections] has valid authority (in accord with the thirteenth and … |
| 18-7365 |
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 |
1. Does the combined sentence totaling of 495 years with a 247½/ year minimum violate the Eight Amendment against cruel and unusual punishment?
2. Do… |
| 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? |
| 18-7332 |
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 |
Where a petitioner establishes uncontested proof that despite effort he never progressed beyond the first grade level and dropped out of third grade a… |
| 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) whereby impeding the timely filing of his pe… |
| 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 |
I. Whether this Court Should Resolve the longstanding Conflict among Federal Courts over whether the Fifth Amendment Delay caused by the government as… |
| 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 - earning twenty percent only in the event of arrest, forfeiture, and favora… |
| 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 of law under the Fifth and Fourteen… |
| 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 |
1. Does section 6.001 of the Texas Family Code, commonly known as "no-fault divorce", when applied to Petitioner, violate her fundamental liberty inte… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the District Court erred in certifying the class under Rule 23 on the grounds that Petitioners have a constitutional due process right to o… |
| 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 EIGHTH AMENDMENT'S PROTECTION ESTABLISHED IN GRAHAM AND MILLER SHOULD BE EXPANDED BEYOND AGE CUTOFF AT EIGHTEEN TO PROHIBIT MANDATORY LIFE IMP… |
| 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 |
Is a federal question raised by a claim that a state collateral review erroneously failed to find a Teague, Graham, and Grant case and Miller exceptio… |
| 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 UN… |
| 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 |
1. WHETHER THE MOST HONORABLE COURT OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT WILL DEFINE THE ELEMENTS OF THE CONSTITUTIONS' ADEQUATE CIVIL DETAINEE TREATMEN… |
| 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 1ISSUES,CONTENTIONS IN A STATE HABEAS CORPUS?.
DID TH… |
| 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, an indigenous landowner and a United States citizen has standing to challenge whether Respondents, Samson Resources Corporations' … |
| 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). |
| 18-7235 |
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… |
| 18-852 |
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 |
Inmates who wish to challenge a method of execution under the Eighth Amendment must plead and prove an alternative method that is "feasible, readily i… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 18-7205 |
In Re Arthur O. Armstrong |
|
2019-01-02 |
Denied |
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.
Whether Petitioner was deprived of liber… |
| 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… |
| 18-7190 |
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 |
1. Did the trial court deny Petitioner's due process rights, guaranteed under the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States and un… |
| 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 OF CRIMINAL APPEALS HAVE THE AUTHORITY OR THE JURISDICTION TO OVERRULE AN ORDER BY THE TEXAS SUPREME COURT?
IS THE RULING AND OR… |
| 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 |
1. Whether heightened scrutiny under the Fourteenth Amendment applies to a government policy that keeps misdemeanor and traffic-offense arrestees in j… |
| 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, in imposing sentence for an ongoing offense, courts must consider juvenile conduct as a mitigating sentencing factor?
Whether, in imposing s… |
| 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… |
| 18-786 |
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, both personal, subject matter, and plenary powers over my daughter and I when they issued a child su… |
| 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 |
Under bankruptcy law, in personam jurisdiction is national. In re Federal Fountain, 165 F.3d 600,601, (8 Cir. 1999)(en bane)). ". . . physical presenc… |
| 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 |
I. 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 pere… |
| 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 |
(1) Whether the Petitioner was convicted upon insufficient evidence in violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when, pursuant … |
| 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… |
| 18-7118 |
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 to the United States Constitution by deny… |
| 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 dis- allowing it, i… |
| 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?
Can the State escape their Eighth Amendment Duty … |
| 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 |
As the New York State Attorney General and Manhattan District Attorney were not acting as advocates for the people when they permitted Petitioner's co… |
| 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 |
(1) Whether, consistent with Kingsley v. Hendrickson, 135 S. Ct. 2466 (2015), a Fourteenth Amendment conditions-of-confinement claim brought by a pret… |
| 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 mandatory life without parole sentences? |
| 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 |
Under long standing precedent from this Court, although a trial judge may instruct a deadlocked jury about its duty to deliberate, it cannot coerce a … |
| 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 … |
| 18-7016 |
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 |
1. Would jurists of reason find the district courts assesment of Washington's constitutional claims debatable or wrong; or that the petition should ha… |
| 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… |
| 18-753 |
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?
Is a Defendant denied the right to a fair tr… |
| 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 |
1. May a State, consistent with the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment, condition the statutorily granted right to c… |
| 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 |
1.Whether a defendant's personal knowledge of an
exculpatory or favorable fact relieves the State of its duty to
disclose evidence in its possession p… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause prohibits a State court from directly violating one of its own court rules, by failing to pro… |
| 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 |
In light of this Court's recognition in Owen v. City of Independence, 445 U.S. 635-658 (1980), "A Municipality has no immunity from liability under 19… |
| 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 of the Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment entitle a convicted prisoner serving a natural life sentence to (1) appointment… |
| 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 lower courts denial is contrary to this Honorable Supreme Court's holding in Boykin v. Alabama in the Plea matter.
Whether the lower cour… |
| 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 |
I. Whether or not the strictures of Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure Rule 1 1 and
the Fourteenth Amendment due process were met concerning persona… |
| 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 |
1. When changes in a state's substantive criminal set out the elements of capital murder which the prosecution must prove to the satisfaction of a una… |
| 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 FOURTHEENTH AMENDMENT FOR A PERSON TO BE DETAINED FOR AN OFFENSE THAT IS LEGISLATIVELY DESIGNATED A… |
| 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 |
1) DOES THE IMPOSITION OF THE DEATH PENALTY ON A SEVERELY MENTALLY ILL DEFENDANT VIOLATE THE FIFTH, SIXTH, EIGHTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS? |
| 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 |
1. Whether Texas's failure to provide Garcia with a clemency proceeding that comports with Texas law violates the minimal due process rights —includin… |
| 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 |
(1) When an inmate alleges that both his original and later-imposed punishments for the same crime violate the Eighth Amendment but the later-imposed … |
| 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 |
1. Whether the denial of the motion for preliminary injunction was improper where the State of Texas impeded a condemned prisoner from succeeding on a… |
| 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 |
With the decision to classify testimonial or non-testimonial statements per Crawford v. Washington 124 S.t 1354 as to whether Confrontation clause app… |
| 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 |
1. 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 p… |
| 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 |
1. Whether Joseph Garcia's extended stay on Texas' death row for nearly 16 years has resulted in his suffering additional severe psychological stress … |
| 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. |
| 18-6881 |
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 unde… |
| 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 |
In Hurst v. Florida this Court struck down Florida's longstanding capital-sentencing procedures because they authorized a judge, rather than a jury, t… |
| 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 … |
| 18-691 |
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 … |
| 18-6843 |
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 |
1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retro activity decision, which lim its the class of deathsentenced individuals entitled to a jury de termi… |
| 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… |
| 18-684 |
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… |
| 18-6823 |
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, under The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the Constitution, and The Fair Employment and Housing Act and The Civil Rights Ac… |
| 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 |
1.
Does California's death penalty statute violate the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth
Amendments to the United States Constitution by failing to… |
| 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 |
I. In United States v. Lopez, 514 U.S. 549 (1995), this Court held that Congress had the authority under the Commerce Clause to regulate three broad c… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the continued incarceration of a state prisoner who has presented a truly persuasive case of actual innocence violates the Eighth and Fourt… |
| 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 |
In Hurst v. Florida this Court struck down Florida's
longstanding capital-sentencing procedures because they authorized
a judge, rather than a jury, t… |
| 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 |
I. Whether Michigan's Miller v. Alabama sentencing statute requires a jury determination and proof beyond a reasonable doubt, under the Sixth and Four… |
| 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 |
I. Whether Michigan's Miller v. Alabama sentencing statute requires a jury determination and proof beyond a reasonable doubt, under the Sixth and Four… |
| 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 ... RESPECT JUDGMENT OF THE COURT JUDGE'S
- - WHOSE MEMBERS TAKE THE SAME OATH AS THE U.S. CONGRESS THAT UPHOLD THE U.S. CONSTITUTION UNDER 28… |
| 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 |
(1) Whether reasonable jurists would debate the correctness of the district
court's procedural ruling that Gulbrandson's second-in-time § 2254 petitio… |
| 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 |
1. Whether Respondent, a state court judge, was entitled to judicial immunity when he took action in a child custody matter in contravention of state … |
| 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 … |
| 18-6735 |
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 |
Perry Alexander Taylor was denied relief under Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016) in the State of Florida because his case was one of many that b… |
| 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 |
This Court has deliberately left open whether a
U.S Supreme Court decision (as opposed to a Circuit
Court decision) is required to "clearly establish"… |
| 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 |
I. Whether under Glossip v. Gross, 135 S. Ct. 2726 (2015), inmates raising a facial challenge to one of two methods contained in a State's lethal inje… |
| 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… |
| 18-640 |
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 when his lawyer is paid by a third part… |
| 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 |
In Hurst u. Florida, _ U.S. _, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016), this Court: (a) overruled
(1989), (b) invalidated Florida's capital punishment statute, and (c) … |
| 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 Oklahoma's "moral culpability" jury instruction, which restricts consideration of mitigating evidence of a defendant's mental health and backg… |
| 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? |
| 18-6703 |
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 |
Reasonable jurists would find it debatable whether the evidence was insufficient to find David Trimble guilty of four counts of Aggravated Rape beyond… |
| 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 when the trial co… |
| 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, AS HERE, TENNESSEE'S REFUSAL TO EXTEND DNA POSTCONVICTION PROTECTIONS TO THOSE WHO PLED GUILTY VIOLATES THE EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAW AS PR… |
| 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 |
UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION - EIGHTH AMENDMENT
CONSTITUTIONAL PROPORTIONATE PUNISHMENT - INDIVIDUAL CULPABILITY
IF, IN 1978, THE CALIFORNIA PAROLE AUT… |
| 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, WHERE BOTH GREGORY AND BRENDA RUSHLOW'S IN-CO… |
| 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 FLORIDA ERRONEOUSLY DECIDED
THAT THE TRIAL JUDGE DID NOT DENY
PETITIONER A TRIAL IN ACCORD WITH
FUNDAMENTAL STANDARDS OF DUE
PROCESS, GUARANTE… |
| 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 |
(1) 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 cl… |
| 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 |
1.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 … |
| 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… |
| 18-6580 |
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 |
1. The constitution requires special consideration in assessing the accuseds conduct in guilty pleas especially when parole consequences is adetermina… |
| 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 this Court's decision in Haines v. Kerner permits a United States Court of Appeals to create a special and unique pro se pleading standard for… |
| 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 under the Constitution's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments require a State trial court to make an EXPRESS independent competency determ… |
| 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… |
| 18-6552 |
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… |
| 18-6540 |
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 |
The questions presented by this petition is Under The Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments rules is one of great concern, gravity, and public importance a… |
| 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? |
| 18-6513 |
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 Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of habeas relief based on ineffective assistance of counsel claims. |
| 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… |
| 18-564 |
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 guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment and right to due process under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United S… |
| 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 |
THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT DECIDED IN BERGER THE JUDGE TO RETIRE FROM THE CASE WHEN THE AFFIANT BELIEVES THAT THE JUDGE HAS A PERSONAL BIAS OR PR… |
| 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 |
1. Does the Eighth Amendment, as interpreted in Miller and Montgomery, require juvenile defendants, who had previously been illegally sentenced to man… |
| 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 |
WEATHER THERE is A CONSTITUTIONAL STANDARD OF MEDICAL CARE FOR PERSONS WITH RARE MASSIVE POLYCYSTIC LIVER DISEASE AND ARE THE STATE'S (MISSOURI PRISIO… |
| 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. STEEN ABILITY TO ESTABLISH WITNESS JOSEPH FARLEY'S BIAS WHERE MR. STEIN WAS PREVENTED FROM INQ… |
| 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 |
1. Was Rodney Berget arbitrarily deprived of his entitlement to conflict free counsel in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment when his counsel determ… |
| 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 |
In a child molestation case, the defendant took the stand and denied that any abuse had occurred. The prosecutor then cross-examined him at length reg… |
| 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 |
Question 1.
The
Trial Presentation Violated My Sixth
and fourteenth Amendment Rights to Confront
and Cross-Examine His Accussers.
Scientific Evidence … |
| 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 |
Under the Fourteenth Amendment, a state court may not exercise specific personal jurisdiction over a non-resident defendant unless the conduct giving … |
| 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.
Whether the … |
| 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 Courts denial of Petitioners Writ of Habeas Corpus Filed Pursuant to florida Rules of Court 3.850 (m) alleging that Petitioner Could… |
| 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 to the United States Constitution and Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460, 132 S.Ct 2455 (2012), Montgomery v. Louisiana, 577… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, which is based on an arbitrary cutoff… |
| 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 |
I. Did the lower court err in granting summary judgment in favor of Respondents on Petitioner's Eighth Amendment deliberate indifference claim, by iss… |
| 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… |
| 18-6362 |
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 MISSISSIPPI SUPREME COURT'S DECISIONS AND JUDGMENTS ARE FINAL UNDER 28 U.S.C. SECTION 1257.
WHETHER CONSTRUCTIVE AMENDMENT OF THE INDICTM… |
| 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 it violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, the holding in Berger v. United States, 295 U.S.… |
| 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 |
1. Did the Indiana Court of Appeals decision in this matter conflict with the due process standard which was declared in Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal … |
| 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… |
| 18-6330 |
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 federal habeas review of a silent state court denial of
competency-related habeas claims must consider the state court's
appellate opinion on … |
| 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. … |
| 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 |
1. Whether a pretrial de tainee alleging Fourteenth Amendment claims of deliberate indifference to serious medical needs under 42 U.S. C. § 1983 must … |
| 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 of the
United States Constitution if the state applies… |
| 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, in a case with racial overtones, the California Supreme Court's refusal to conduct a meaningful comparative analysis, or infer a likelihood o… |
| 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 Fourth Amendment's substantive due process clause, or allow the respondent's co… |
| 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 |
Phyllis Young, a retiree, rents three bedrooms in her family home using the name Aloha Bed & Breakfast to make ends meet. She welcomes everyone as gue… |
| 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 |
1. Did the state trial court violate Petitioner's constitutional right to Due Process under the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution… |
| 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… |
| 18-6262 |
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… |
| 18-6238 |
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 |
1. Where the credited, credible, and unassailable evidence at trial proves with certainty that a lethal injection protocol will inflict severe pain an… |
| 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 |
1. 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 … |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Supreme Court of Florida erred in not vacating Judge Michael Flowers Orders Granting the Respondent's Verified Petition to "wrongfully … |
| 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 |
1. Whether this Court should clarify that under Harrington v. Richter, 562 U.S. 86, 98 (2011), when the federal habeas courts evaluate the summary den… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
1. Does the Eighth Amendment, as interpreted in Miller and Montgomery, require juvenile defendants, who had previously been illegally sentenced to man… |
| 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 |
1. Whether a claim made in th e habeus corpus petition that is substantially the same and invoke s the same constitutional protections, but labeled di… |
| 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 |
The criteria in 28 U.S.C.S. §2244(d)(1) is identical to 28 U.S.C.S. §2255(f). The former per this courts holding in MóQuiggin v. Perkins, 569 U.S. 383… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Fourth Circuit erroneously held - in conflict with the plain language of 18 U.S.C. § 3005 and in conflict with a 45-year split between … |
| 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 |
1. Whether an assessment of the relative culpability of codefendants in a capital case in Florida is required pursuant to the Eighth Amendment in orde… |
| 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 |
This case presents the question this Court acknowledged was "left open" in Estelle v. McGuire, 502 U.S. 62, 75, fn. 5 (1991): "whether a state law wou… |
| 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 |
1. Does the Eighth Amendment, as interpreted in Miller and Montgomery, require juvenile defendants, who had previously been illegally sentenced to man… |
| 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 Petitioner has the standing to "invoke a right to constitutional protection when he or she is harmed... even if the legislature refuses to act… |
| 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 appal, without reaching the merits of the case, violates the Petitioner's fundament… |
| 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 |
I. Was the evidence in this case unlawfully obtained as a result of an unlawful search and seizure in violation of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment… |
| 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 |
1. Does the Eighth Amendment, as interpreted in Miller and Montgomery, require juvenile defendants, who had previously been illegally sentenced to man… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's decision to deny the renewed motion for a new trial and in refusing to conduct… |
| 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; THE EVIDENCE WAS NOT ADMISSIBLE UNDER EITHER MRE 4… |
| 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 |
I- WHETHER THE U.S DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEVADA AND THE U.S COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT INCORRECTLY TREATED PETITIONER'S Fed.R… |
| 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, which authorizes monetary bail, but affirmatively requires courts to exhaust more restrictive non-monetary conditions before even … |
| 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?
Whether the ci… |
| 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 |
1. Does the Eighth Amendment, as interpreted in Miller and Montgomery, require juvenile defendants, who had previously been illegally sentenced to man… |
| 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 of the Fifth Amendment, applicable to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment, and MARYLAND RULE 4-242(c), requires… |
| 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 |
Doc's The State Create A Dibertr Interest Under The fourteenth Amendment Cluause of The United Statei's Constitution Br Dioluting It's Own State leew … |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 guaranteed by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, and upheld by the precedent of Williams v. Pennsylvania, 136 S.Ct 189… |
| 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, 409 U.S. 95, 93 S. Ct. 351, 34 L. Ed. 2d 330 (1972) applies to prosecutors as well as judges;
Whether t… |
| 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 of the Constitution to impose an adult sentence upon a minor who has been convicted of a non-dangerous, non-… |
| 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 |
1 If Government Requires or Induces A Private Party to Engage in Law Enforcement, All Relevant Constitutional Restraints Do Apply?
Does The Federal G… |
| 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 |
(1) In a federal habeas corpus proceeding where the state court did not hold a hearing or receive evidence to adjudicate facts on a claim, has the hab… |
| 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 |
1. Does the Eighth Amendment, as interpreted in Miller and Montgomery, require juvenile defendants who had previously been illegally sentenced to mand… |
| 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 |
1.How ion a sentencing Coust sentenct a defeadent cutside of the
Gui delines orainally out lindd in Tue defendents pka @gret moat. Dots
2. Hou Or can… |
| 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 (8)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 Peti -tioner has shown clear and convincin evidence of
a credible actual inno cence claim - from his State conviction?
Whether the withheld … |
| 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 |
1. Under Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016), and Caldwell v. Mississippi , 472 U.S. 320 (1985), is Alabama's capital sentencing scheme constituti… |
| 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 involved acted in a manner inconsistent with due process and violated the U.S. Supreme… |
| 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 |
Denied |
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 enables racially motivated majority members of a condominium association to purge a minority member o… |
| 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 |
1. 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 |
1) Whether a state can circumvent the requirements of the Due Process Clause to provide taxpayers retroactive relief from unlawful taxes by making its… |
| 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 |
When a reviewing court on collateral appeal #1 dismisses as "non-cognizable under law" a Cumulative Effect/Aggregate Prejudice claim, asserting multip… |
| 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 |
Q. (1): Whether state trial counsel rendered constitutionally ineffective assistance of counsel when he failed to present evidence that the alleged cr… |
| 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 |
(1) Whether appellant's sentence is grossly disproportionate to the crimes of conviction in violation of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cr… |
| 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 |
I. Whether the court of original jurisdiction denied petitioner due process under the United States Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment? Whether a cou… |
| 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 |
(1) Whether a state court's application of a "best interests" standard in custody/parental responsibilities filed by a person other than a parent, vio… |
| 18-5714 |
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 |
Under Our United States Constitution, Amendment VI., Can A Trial Court Posess Subject Matter . Jurisdiction On A Criminal Offense Not Charged Within. … |
| 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 |
Mr. Docaj seeks leave to appeal the following issues:
1) Whether the jury instruction on passion/provocation manslaughter misstated the law, unconsti… |
| 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 AMENDMEN XIV, IN HIS STATE COLLATERAL PROCEEDINGS OF R… |
| 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.
Whether as a result of t… |
| 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 |
After the conclusion of a child sexual abuse criminal case, the Prosecuting Attorney of Platte County, Missouri, Eric G. Zahnd, issued a news release … |
| 18-5671 |
In Re Kenneth Simpson |
|
2018-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights conditions-of-release due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus parole sentencing standing supervised-release |
which is unconstitutional for any reason, can a Court refuse to address that claim under conditions available at revocation hearings under Johnson v U… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, which is based on an arbitrary cutoff… |
| 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 |
1. Did Plaintif SufferA EighthAmendment Violation?
Medical Needs?
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When
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| 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, pursuant to the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, the petitioner can be punished with a sentence of life wit… |
| 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 |
Did the Fourth Circuit err in concluding—in direct conflict with Virginia's highest court and other courts—that a decision of this Court (Montgomery) … |
| 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 do due process under the Fou… |
| 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?
Do Graham … |
| 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 or should have been presumed correct. And whether Petitioner sustained his burden of over… |
| 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 WITH WHICH HE HAD
NOT BEEN ON TRIAL FOR AND… |
| 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 vitiates every judicial proceedings, if so, did the Fourth Circuit Court's decision [at App. 1] affirming the district court's reasons base… |
| 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 |
Question 1: Whether The Court Erred Finding Claim One - Three where not Exhausted To The State's Highest Court In Violation Of The Fourteenth
Questio… |
| 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 it's descretion:
In (8)th amendment violation claim: by failing to.ackiiowledge evidence,
that dis… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Eighth Amendment requires the sentencing authority to make a finding that a juvenile is permanently incorrigible before imposing a sent… |
| 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 |
1. Whether, despite federal laws stemming from the Fourteenth Amendment which grant prisoners the right to marry, it is constitutionally permissible t… |
| 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 in (2011).. Nine years after Robinson v. Solano cty., 248 F. 3d 1007(9th Cir. 2002) was unconstitutio… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying C.O.A. to trial counsel being ineffective for filing to file a motion for continuance to … |
| 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 |
Texas has adopted a corpus delicti rule requiring that an extra-judicial confession have a quantum of corroboration before a conviction can be had bas… |
| 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 WHEN IT PERMITTED THE PROSECUTION TO INTRODUCE TO THE TRIAL JURY A BUNCH… |
| 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 |
1. Have the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals improperly applied Barefoot v. Estelle to cat… |
| 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 rule pronounced in Taylor v. United States, 495 U.S. 575, 598, 110 S.Ct. 2143, 109 L.Ed.2d 607 (1990), barring the sentenci… |
| 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 'error' when the court concluded that Petitioner's First & Fourteenth Amendment Right was not violated during t… |
| 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 |
The questions presented are whether trial counsel's failure to offer a contemporaneous objection during trial compromised Culver's Sixth Amendment rig… |
| 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 a criminal defendant has posted bond and is entitled to be released from jail subject only to administrative processing, does the defendant's rig… |
| 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 ("Neb. UCC") (a preemptive and uniform Code w… |
| 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 that have been secured by the United States Constitution hav… |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
Almost a decade ago, this Court unanimously held that, "If a defendant is tried before a qualified jury composed of individuals not challengeable for … |
| 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 |
1. Can a violation of Hurst v. Florida , 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016), be ruled harmless beyond a reasonable doubt, based solely on a pre-Hurst "advisory " j… |
| 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 |
Does the imposition of the death penalty on a person who was severely mentally ill at the time of the offense constitute cruel and unusual punishment … |
| 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 Story's Fourth, and Fourteenth, Amendment Constitutional rights, When the Waco Police lied on a Affidavit for Arrest Warran… |
| 18-5455 |
In Re Deborah Elizabeth Gouch-Onassis |
|
2018-08-06 |
Denied |
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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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.?
WHETHER THE TRIA… |
| 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 |
1. 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 … |
| 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 |
The Question Presented is whether the PLRA's tailoring requirement prohibits a district court from ordering a prison to maintain a maximum heat index … |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Sixth Circuit defined the constitutional rights in question at too high a level of generality contrary to this Court's teachings on qua… |
| 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 |
1. Does the Florida Supreme Court ruling that the automatic-resentencing-tolife provision of Florida Statutes Section 775.082(2) applies only if death… |
| 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 |
1. whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection and the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of capricious capital sentencing impose lim… |
| 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 |
-CAPITAL CASE- REQUEST TO CERTIFY CONSTITUTIONAL QUESTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH 28 U.S.C. § 2403(b): How is Florida Statute § 90.804(2)(f) (2012) "Hearsa… |
| 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 |
1. The Question before the Court is Whether the Eight Amendment under Estelle vs Gamble allows a Court to create a Constitutional Defense to an admitt… |
| 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 |
1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's determination that the jury findings required by Hurst v. Florida and Hurst v. State enhance the reliability of de… |
| 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 |
I. Whether California violates the Equal Protection Clause by imposing a harsher maximum sentence on kidnapper-extortionists—who harm their victims an… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection and the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of capricious capital sentencing impose lim… |
| 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 even though granted by the state courts and the Northern District Court.
Was petitioner erroneous… |
| 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 for… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, which is based on an arbitrary cutoff… |
| 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 |
I. Whether Fourteenth Amendment due process rights should be denied to tenured professors when two universities (The University of Texas-Pan American … |
| 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 |
1. 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 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 Michigan v Tyler, 436 US 499, Michigan v. Clifford, 464 US 287 (1984) authorizes firefighters and police to unreasonably withhold sustenance a… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, which is based on an arbitrary cutoff… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, which is based on an arbitrary cutoff… |
| 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 |
Under 21 U.S.C. §853 (a)(2), a person convicted of violating a federal drug law must forfeit to the government "any of the person's property used, or … |
| 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 |
(1) Whether the District Court's "persuasive authority" test order this case to be trial by a jury trial on February 211 2017, and than less then rwo … |
| 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 |
1. Whether an assessment of the relative culpability of codefendants in a capital case in Florida is required pursuant to the Eighth Amendment in orde… |
| 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 when the Court of Appeals dismissed her appeal without giving her the … |
| 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 |
I. Are Virginia's Child Custody Statutes Facially Unconstitutional?
II. Are the Parties' 2006, 2010 and 2012 Child Custody Orders Unconstitutional as… |
| 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 |
1. When a prisoner under a sentence of death has acquired compelling and undisputed evidence of his actual innocence after his trial that the state co… |
| 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 |
The Critical question in this case is Whether a trial Attorney Can Constitutionally Stipulate Elements of a charged Crime over the expressed objection… |
| 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 |
The Court stated in Montgomery v. Louisiana that the Eighth Amendment prohibits life without parole sentences "for all but the rarest of juvenile offe… |
| 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 |
1. In Puckett v. United States, 556 US 129, 135 (2009) this Court held that under the fourth prong of plain error review, "[t]he Court of Appeals shou… |
| 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?
Whether the Equal Protection clause is violated where other courts have a… |
| 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 th e Eighth Amendment to instruct a capital jury that they may not consider evidence of the defendant's intoxication at the time o… |
| 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 even when the sentenc… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 to the United States Constitution entitles condemned state prisoners to notice of the letha… |
| 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, pursuant to which violations of Hurst v. Florida, 136 S.Ct. 616 (2016) ar… |
| 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 |
1. In a case where the prosecutor has exercised peremptory challenges against minority panelists citing traits shared by non-minority panelists who we… |
| 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 |
I. Whether it violates the Eighth Amendment and this Court's decisions in Moore v. Texas, 137 S. Ct 1039 (2017), Hall v. Florida, 134 S. Ct. 1986 (201… |
| 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 |
1) When the subject of a police custodial interrogation is a child, should investigating officers be required to obtain an express waiver of Miranda b… |
| 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 |
The question presented for review is whether failure to give proper notice and adhere to the dictates of the Oklahoma Power of Sale Mortgage Foreclosu… |
| 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 by the state when final summary judgment and judgment o… |
| 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 |
1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's application of a per se harmless–error rule to violations of Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016), in every pre… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's plurality decision rejecting Mr. Reynolds' Caldwell v. Mississippi, 472 U.S. 320 (1985) claim is error. The jur… |
| 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 |
I.- Whether Petitioner's Sentence Constitutes Impermissible Double Counting.
Whether Petitioner's Sentence is Substantively Unreasonable Under the th… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
Does the retroactivity formula created by the Florida Supreme Court pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, 136 S.Ct. 616 (2016) violate the Eighth and Fourteen… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's per se harmless-error rule, which deems Hurst errors harmless in every case in which the defendant's pre-Hurst … |
| 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 |
1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity approach providing for relief pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016) and Hurst … |
| 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 |
1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's determination that the jury findings required by Hurst v. Florida and Hurst v. State enhance the reliability of de… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the State of Florida's use of Bryant's custodial statements against him at trial violated Bryant's Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment r… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's application of only partial retroactivity of Hurst v. State and Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourte… |
| 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 |
1. Whether a prisoner challenging a midazolam three-drug lethal-injection protocol must, as the Sixth Circuit requires, "prove" with "scientific evide… |
| 18-5101 |
Sean P. Reilly v. Jennifer Davis |
Florida |
2018-07-03 |
Denied |
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 of law in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution by creati… |
| 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 |
1. Did Mr. Rieber's trial counsel provide constitutionally ineffective assistance by failing to pursue a lesser included alternative defense and faili… |
| 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 |
The Court of Appeals erred in applying the incorrect Fourth Amendment standard to Mr. Maldonado's traffic stop. Once the purpose of the traffic stop c… |
| 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 |
1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity approach providing
for relief pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016) and Hurst … |
| 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, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016), to convictions final after the date o… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity decision that limits the class of death-sentenced individuals entitled to a jury determin… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity decision, which limits the class
of death-sentenced individuals entitled to a jury determ… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, which is based on an arbitrary cutoff… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's application of only partial retroactivity of Hurst v. State and Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourte… |
| 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 |
In Hurst v. Florida this Court struck down Florida's longstanding capital-sentencing procedures because they authorized a judge, rather than a jury, t… |
| 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 |
The Sheriff's Department detained Respondent
for ninety-six days pursuant to a capias issued by the
state circuit court following a grand jury's indic… |
| 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 bec… |
| 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 |
Did Florida violate Atkins v. Virginia, Hall v. Florida, Moore v. Texas, and the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution wh… |
| 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 |
1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity formula, designed to limit the
class of condemned prisoners obtaining a life-or-death jury d… |
| 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 |
THE PETITIONER IN THIS CASE ACTED IN SELF, DEFENSE WHEN ATTACKED BY THE DECEDENT AND HIS FRIENDS WHILE IN THE RESTROOM. THE PETITIONER WAS IN DANGER O… |
| 18A1346 |
Marion Wilson, Jr. v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Georgia |
|
Denied |
|
capital-punishment clemency death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-stay prosecutorial-misconduct |
Question not identified. |
| 18A1200 |
Robert Joe Long v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
|
Denied |
|
capital-punishment constitutional-violation death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-stay habeas-corpus |
Question not identified. |
| 18A1202 |
Robert Joe Long v. Florida |
Florida |
|
Denied |
|
cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment etomidate lethal-injection medical-condition |
Question not identified. |
| 18A1216 |
Bobby Joe Long v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
|
Denied |
|
constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment federal-review irreparable-harm |
Question not identified. |
| 24A1044 |
Jeffrey G. Hutchinson v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
|
Denied |
|
capital-punishment death-warrant due-process-clause eighth-amendment notice-and-opportunity-to-be-heard stay-of-execution |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court violated Mr. Hutchinson's due process rights by failing to provide adequate notice of his death warrant, truncating … |
| 24A1037 |
Jeffrey Glenn Hutchinson v. Florida |
Florida |
|
Denied |
|
death-penalty diminished-moral-culpability eighth-amendment gulf-war-illness postconviction-relief traumatic-brain-injury |
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. |
| 25A1022 |
Scott Edward Palmer v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
|
Denied |
|
due-process-clause fourteenth-amendment good-time-credits habeas-corpus mandatory-release unlawful-rescission |
Question not identified. |
| 25A1000 |
Michael L. King v. Florida |
Florida |
|
Denied |
|
death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection execution-protocol lethal-injection |
Question not identified. |
| 25A577 |
Richard Barry Randolph v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
|
Denied |
|
capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment irreparable-harm mental-competency method-of-execution |
Question not identified. |
| 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. |
| 25A532 |
Bryan Frederick Jennings v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
|
Denied |
|
capital-sentencing death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment postconviction-counsel |
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. |
| 25A280 |
David Joseph Pittman v. Florida |
Florida |
|
Denied |
|
atkins-claim death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability time-bar |
Question not identified. |
| 25A356 |
Victor Tony Jones v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
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Denied |
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atkins-v-virginia death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability supreme-court-precedent |
Question not identified. |
| 25A335 |
In Re Blaine Milam |
|
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Denied |
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actual-innocence death-penalty eighth-amendment forensic-evidence intellectual-disability junk-science |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 24A202 |
Loran Cole v. Florida |
Florida |
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Denied |
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death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection lethal-injection parkinson's-disease |
Question not identified. |
| 24A129 |
Franck William Yao v. Tamara Yao |
Missouri |
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Denied |
|
custody-battle due-process family-rights fourteenth-amendment ordered-liberty parental-rights |
1. The Due Process Clause of The Fourteenth Amendment guarantees parental rights.
2. Petitioner's dual citizenship was used against him to strip away… |
| 24A284 |
Freddie Owens v. Bryan Stirling, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
|
Denied |
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capital-punishment competency cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment mental-illness |
Question not identified. |
| 24A391 |
Christopher Collings v. David Vandergriff, Warden |
Missouri |
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Denied |
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capital-punishment eighth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance intellectual-disability procedural-default |
Question not identified. |
| 24A308 |
Garcia Glenn White v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
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Denied |
|
atkins-claim eighth-amendment equitable-tolling ineffective-assistance intellectual-disability successive-habeas |
Question not identified. |
| 24A302 |
Garcia Glen White v. Texas |
Texas |
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Denied |
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atkins-claim death-penalty dna-evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability |
Question not identified. |
| 24A553 |
Annette Chambers-Smith, Director, Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction v. Kayla Jean Ayers |
Sixth Circuit |
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Denied |
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cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment gender-affirmation medical-treatment prison-conditions transgender-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 24A498 |
Carey Grayson v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
|
Denied |
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capital-punishment conscious-suffocation cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment execution-method nitrogen-hypoxia |
Question not identified. |
| 24A590 |
Kevin Underwood v. Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
|
Denied |
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clemency-proceedings death-row due-process fourteenth-amendment life-interest state-law |
Whether the due process clause provides any protection for petitioners in state clemency proceedings that are explicitly required by state law. |
| 24A592 |
Tahina Corcoran, as next friend on behalf of Joseph E. Corcoran v. Ron Neal, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
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Denied |
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competency death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-stay mental-illness schizophrenia |
Question not identified. |
| 24A771 |
James D. Ford v. Florida |
Florida |
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Denied |
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death-penalty developmental-age due-process eighth-amendment mental-impairment roper-exclusion |
Question not identified. |