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25A914 Nicole Malliotakis, et al. v. Michael Williams, et al. New York 2026-02-13 Application congressional-redistricting due-process elections-clause equal-protection fourteenth-amendment racial-gerrymandering Question not identified.
25-960 Oregon, et al. v. Paul Maney, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-02-13 Pending corrections-leadership covid-19-response cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment public-health-emergency qualified-immunity 1. Whether the Eighth Amendment requires state corrections leadership to implement an overall "reasonable" statewide response to a public-health emerg…
25-6792 Daniel Smalls v. South Carolina Department of Social Services, et al. South Carolina 2026-02-12 Pending IFP child-support due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction paternity personal-service 1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause permits a state court to assert jurisdiction and impose child support obligations on a nonres…
25-955 Delmart Ejm Vreeland, III v. Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Colorado 2026-02-11 Pending constitutional-review due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdictional-defect merits-review procedural-bar Whether a State violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when it limits a defendant's ability to raise all meritorious claims on di…
25-952 Brij Mohan, et al. v. Jordan Watkins Seventh Circuit 2026-02-11 Pending bivens-claim constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment inmate-rights pretrial-detention In Carlson v. Green, 446 U.S. 14 (1980), this Court recognized a cause of action under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcoti…
25-6781 Stacy Gene Hall v. Buddy Myotte, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-02-11 Pending IFP due-process evidence-suppression fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction rule-60b section-1983 1. Procedural Due Process I Rule 60(b) Jurisdiction Whether the Due Process Clause pennits a lower court to refuse to consider a Rule 60(b) motion be…
25-6768 In Re Mark Anthony Morris 2026-02-10 Pending IFP actual-innocence constitutional-violation due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus state-interference 1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibit Mark Morris' continued imprisonment after establishing that constitutional viol…
25-6777 Olda Rachel Guardiola v. Maricela Rodriguez Texas 2026-02-10 Pending IFP due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-jurisdiction nunc-pro-tunc procedural-change state-court 1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment permits a state court —after its plenary jurisdiction has expired —to use a nunc pro tunc order to retroactively…
25-6773 Devern Clemons, III v. Florida Florida 2026-02-10 Pending IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial serious-felony sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner was derived of his right, under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged w…
25-6766 Eric Joshua Mapes v. United States District Court for the Western District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2026-02-10 Pending IFP arrest-warrant due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-oversight probable-cause 1. Police Complaint as Arrest Warrant Whether a notarized police-authored criminal complaint, executed without judicial oversight and misrepresented a…
25-6763 Frederick Pina v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company California 2026-02-10 Pending IFP appellate-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-taking property-rights vexatious-litigant 1. Whether a state appellate court effects a deprivation of property without due process of law, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment, when it dis…
25-943 Antonio M. Smith v. John Kind, et al. Seventh Circuit 2026-02-09 Pending clearly-established-law constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment government-official qualified-immunity When a government official acts in an obviously unconstitutional manner, is that sufficient for the violation to be clearly established, as this Court…
25-939 James Garfield Broadnax v. Texas Texas 2026-02-06 Pending confrontation-clause due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment 1. Whether the State's use in a capital sentencing proceeding of rap lyrics composed by a Black defendant to argue to a nearly all-White jury that the…
25-931 BAS, LLC v. Tommy Land, in His Official Capacity as Commissioner of State Lands for the State of Arkansas Arkansas 2026-02-06 Pending fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment just-compensation property-rights sovereign-immunity takings-clause Does a state's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment obligation to pay just compensation waive sovereign immunity when it takes private property?
25-6746 Ronald Palmer Heath v. Florida, et al. Florida 2026-02-06 Denied IFP eighth-amendment lethal-injection maladministration method-of-execution pleading-requirements severe-harm 1. Is a narrowly tailored Eighth Amendment claim based on a State's documented, repeated maladministration of its chosen method of execution subject t…
25-926 Alexander Keely v. Pennsylvania Board of Law Examiners Pennsylvania 2026-02-05 Pending due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment law-school-accreditation professional-licensing racial-discrimination Shortly after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, when most American Bar Association (ABA) law schools had not yet admitted Black students or minorities, Pe…
25A887 Arron Benedetti, et al. v. Marin County, California, et al. California 2026-02-05 Application fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment land-use-exaction nollan-test property-rights residential-development Question not identified.
25A876 Jernice Hamilton, aka Garnaris Hamilton v. United States Federal Circuit 2026-02-04 Application disability-retirement fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment military-records pro-se subject-matter-jurisdiction Question not identified.
25A874 Huong Giaccio v. Meredith Lyon, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-02-04 Application constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment municipal-immunity retaliatory-arrest 1. Whether absolute judicial and prosecutorial immunity applies when municipal officials act without jurisdiction and in coordination with retaliatory…
25A873 Patricia Tillman v. Illinois State Board of Elections, et al. Seventh Circuit 2026-02-04 Application ballot-access candidate-exclusion election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment irreparable-harm Question not identified.
25-6717 Alaa Elkharwily v. Kaiser Permanente, et al. Washington 2026-02-04 Pending Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-limits due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-sanctions pro-se-litigation 1- UNCONSTITUTIONALLY BIASED ADJUDICATION (RULE OF NECESSITY/ SELF-INTEREST): Did the state appellate court violate the Due Process Clause of the Fo…
25-910 MEI-GSR Holdings, LLC, et al. v. Second Judicial District Court of Nevada, Washoe County, et al. Nevada 2026-02-03 Pending civil-contempt contempt criminal-contempt due-process fourteenth-amendment receiver-restitution 1. This Court has been grappling with the contempt due process requirements when a contemnor removes property from a receiver's control without author…
25-903 Sandra J. Bezanson, as Executor of the Estate of Dennis G. Bezanson v. Exeter Hospital, Inc. New Hampshire 2026-02-02 Pending administrative-error court-system due-process electronic-filing fourteenth-amendment procedural-due-process 1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits a state supreme court to forfeit a litigant's rights based on an administrative …
25A856 James Daryl West v. Sabrina Schultz, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-30 Application constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment monell-claim prison-medical-services supervisory-liability Question not identified.
25-899 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. O. Doe, et al. First Circuit 2026-01-30 Pending citizenship-clause constitutional-interpretation executive-order fourteenth-amendment immigration-law statutory-construction Whether President Trump's Executive Order No. 14,160, 90 Fed. Reg. 8449 (Jan. 29, 2025), which identifies circumstances in which a person born in the …
25-6678 Isaac Ramirez Rodriguez v. Virginia Virginia 2026-01-30 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment mandatory-minimum proportionality sentencing Are the mandatory minimum life sentence provisions of Virginia Code §§ 18.2-61(B)(2) and 18.2-67.2(B)(2) unconstitutional as constituting Cruel and Un…
25-6676 Vincent Terry v. Teresa Bailey, et al. Georgia 2026-01-29 Pending IFP attorney-immunity constitutional-claims due-process federal-review fourteenth-amendment summary-affirmance 1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is violated when a state appellate court resolves federal constitutional claims through …
25-883 James Thomas Ford v. Florida Florida 2026-01-23 Pending Response Waived due-process fourteenth-amendment human-trafficking jury-trial prosecutorial-discretion vindictive-prosecution Does a prosecutor engage in vindictive prosecution in violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment where she amends the criminal ch…
25-880 In Re Roy Dixon, et ux. 2026-01-22 Pending Response Waived civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment foreclosure fourteenth-amendment mandamus Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the 15th Judicial Circuit Court in West Palm Beach, Florida, to perform its ministerial duty to vaca…
25-6642 Jimmy ONeal Spencer v. Alabama Alabama 2026-01-22 Pending IFP due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-selection pretrial-publicity sixth-amendment venue-change In a capital case where the pretrial publicity was extensive, gruesome, and negative, including statements by the current Attorney General that the Ji…
25-6634 Joseph D. Reaves v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2026-01-21 Pending Response WaivedIFP due-process fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea newly-discovered-evidence pcra-petition psychiatric-medical-history 1. Does the Due Process Clause of the Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment entitle an Petitioner in a PCRA Petition, Notice of Appeal and Allowance of …
25-864 Daniel Otu v. Anita Whyte-Otu Georgia 2026-01-21 Pending constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment protective-order void-for-vagueness 1. Does a court of law violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause when the issuance of a permanent protective order relies on the Petitione…
25-866 Charles Wright v. Monica Marie Wright Michigan 2026-01-21 Pending brady-violation constitutional-claims due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct 1. Whether a state court's destruction and suppression of exculpatory evidence used to enforce MCL § 552.27 support obligations violates a litigant's …
25-6623 Hamed Kian v. Florida Florida 2026-01-20 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial serious-felony sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner was derived of his right, under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged w…
25-6628 Elhadj Alpha Mahmoud Souare v. Court of Common Pleas of Ohio, Summit County, et al. Ohio 2026-01-20 Pending IFP administrative-law custody-order due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure procedural-requirements 1. Whether a magistrate's issuance of a dispositive custody and support order—adopted the same day by an administrative judge without a hearing—violat…
25-6607 Kevin Esaud Perez Rojas v. Florida Florida 2026-01-16 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial serious-felony sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner was derived of his right, under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged w…
25A823 Brij Mohan, et al. v. Jordan Watkins Seventh Circuit 2026-01-16 Application bivens-remedy due-process eighth-amendment federal-tort-claims-act medical-negligence prisoner-rights Question not identified.
25A821 Taylor Rene Parker v. Texas Texas 2026-01-16 Application capital-punishment criminal-culpability death-penalty eighth-amendment intellectual-disability mental-capacity Question not identified.
25-852 Kimberly Edelstein v. Eliott Edelstein Ohio 2026-01-16 Pending civil-rights fourteenth-amendment judicial-notice property-interest state-law supremacy-clause 1. Did the state court err and violate the Supremacy Clause and Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment rights in reclassifying a federal civil rights ver…
25-6593 Jason Jones v. Florida Florida 2026-01-15 Pending IFP criminal-fines eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment immunities-clause incarceration-costs Whether the Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment must restrict government from imposing costs of incarceration and criminal fines that are gr…
25-836 Rockland County, New York, et al. v. New York, et al. New York 2026-01-15 Pending Response Waived county-administration due-process election-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment voting-rights This petition presents federal constitutional questions concerning Equal Protection and voting-rights limits on a state's authority to selectively res…
25-835 Jean-Francois Rigollet v. Le Macaron Development, LLC Florida 2026-01-15 Pending appellate-review due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-contradiction procedural-exclusion summary-judgment The circumstances following the presented questions, creates two constitutional questions under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment: 1…
25-6579 Robert Keaton v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-14 Pending Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus takings-clause Whether an accused's right under the Due Process Clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment is offended when a United States Court of Appeals denies…
25A815 Natural Lands, LLC v. City of Boca Raton, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-13 Application 42-usc-1983 due-process federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment property-rights state-remedies Question not identified.
25-6571 Maxo Casseus v. Florida Florida 2026-01-13 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial serious-felony sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner was derived of his right, under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged w…
25-6552 Angeliina Lynn Lawson v. Jonathan David Lawson Tenth Circuit 2026-01-12 Pending Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights equal-protection fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigant removal-jurisdiction 1 Whether 28 U.S.C. §1443(1) permits removal to federal court when a pro se litigant with disabilities alleges systemic discrimination, retaliation, a…
25-822 Thomas DeCola v. Indiana Indiana 2026-01-12 Pending Response Waived bill-of-rights constitutional-claims fourteenth-amendment legal-estoppel section-1983 state-liability Whether 42 U.S.C. § 1983 is the congressional consent for asserting individual God-granted rights that are acknowledged within the U.S. Bill of Rights…
25-6537 David T. Everett v. Sarah E. Tharrett, as Successor Trustee of the Roxine Poznich Revocable Trust Kansas 2026-01-09 Pending IFP due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdictional-error meaningful-hearing supremacy-clause trust-law I. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause is satisfied when state courts at three successive levels either ignore or refuse to rule on…
25A788 Kriston Price v. Ohio Ohio 2026-01-08 Application fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment home-invasion self-defense sixth-amendment voluntary-manslaughter Question not identified.
25-805 Kerry Kruskal v. Alan Maestas, et al. New Mexico 2026-01-08 Pending Response Waived access-to-courts civil-claims due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review procedural-fairness 1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is violated when a state court affirms the dismissal of civil claims without findings of…
25A792 Anthony A. Browne v. Kimberly Reynolds, in Her Official Capacity as Governor of Iowa, et al. Eighth Circuit 2026-01-08 Application clemency felony-conviction firearm-rights fourteenth-amendment restoration-of-rights second-amendment 1. Iowa Code § 914.7 (2025) entitled "Rights not restorable" infringes the Petitioner's right to keep and bear arms enshrined by the Second and Fourte…
25-798 Rick Siegel v. Jude Salazar California 2026-01-07 Pending Response Waived administrative-authority constitutional-claims contract-law due-process fourteenth-amendment state-procedural-rules 1) "Whether state procedural rules are 'adequate' under the Fourteenth Amendment when, in combination (limited-case misclassification, jurisdictional …
25A787 Jacquelyn Miller v. Dylan Farris, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-07 Application constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review procedural-safeguards Question not identified.
25-6509 Charles Bocock v. Illinois Illinois 2026-01-07 Pending Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction digital-evidence due-process forensic-attribution fourteenth-amendment substantive-proof 1 Due Process —Sufficiency of the Evidence / Digital Possession. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause permits affirmance of a convic…
25-6508 In Re Angeliina L. Lawson 2026-01-07 Pending IFP ada-protections due-process federal-removal fourteenth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction supervisory-power 1. Whether the Supreme Court should exercise its supervisory power under Rule 20 and the All Writs Act to restrain a state judge who continues to act …
25A782 Société Générale De Banque Au Liban, S.A.L. v. Ester Lelchook, as Personal Representative of the Estate of David Martin Lelchook, et al. Second Circuit 2026-01-06 Application asset-purchase due-process fourteenth-amendment personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction successor-liability Whether the Fourteenth Amendment permits the exercise of personal jurisdiction over: (i) a foreign-based non-culpable asset-and-liability purchaser wh…
25-6495 Jason Elysse v. Florida Florida 2026-01-06 Pending IFP appellate-review constitutional-claim discretionary-jurisdiction fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment First, whether a State Appellate Court violates a Defendant's Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights when it affirms a trial Court's denial of a…
25-6484 Donald N. S. Mortvedt v. Charles E. Clawson, III, et al. Eighth Circuit 2026-01-06 Pending IFP due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-liberty pro-se section-1983 sua-sponte 1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment excludes equity from jurisdiction over deprivations of liberty, including parental liber…
25-6476 Demond Depree Bluntson v. Texas Texas 2026-01-05 Pending IFP faretta-standard fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion mental-illness self-representation sixth-amendment This case presents important issues concerning the Sixth Amendment right to represent oneself in a criminal proceeding and the fair administration of …
25-775 Westforth Sports, Inc. v. City of Chicago, Illinois Illinois 2026-01-02 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived due-process fourteenth-amendment non-resident-seller personal-jurisdiction product-transportation specific-jurisdiction Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution allow a state to exercise specific personal jurisdiction ove…
25-6447 Torrence Belcher v. Joshua Wallen, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-12-30 Pending Response WaivedIFP cruel-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment inmate-rights physical-injury prison-safety 1. How isn't an official being responsible for an inmate 's death not a basis for suing them?? 2. If it is possible to hypothesize a set of facts cons…
25-6444 Rashid Muhammad Abdullah v. City of Plant City, Florida, et al. Florida 2025-12-30 Pending IFP collateral-estoppel double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment warrantless-seizure The doctrine of collateral estoppel or the Double Jeopardy Clause precludes a municipality from re-litigating factual determinations resolved in the p…
25-755 The Society of Apostolic Church Ministries Bishop, Elizabeth Gardner Corporation Sole and Her Successors v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-12-29 Pending Response Waived church-autonomy church-property first-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-interference ministerial-exemption property-seizure religious-freedom-restoration-act I. Whether the Ninth Circuit permitted the government to violate the First Amendment of the Constitution, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, the Estab…
25A752 Charles Don Flores v. Texas Texas 2025-12-29 Application actual-innocence death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus state-court-review Question not identified.
25-6437 Sean Blaine James v. Oregon Oregon 2025-12-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury-clause incorporation-doctrine sentence-enhancement Whether the Fourteenth Amendment fully incorporates the Grand Jury Clause of the Fifth Amendment?
25-745 Bobby MacBryan Green v. Michael John May, et al. Tennessee 2025-12-23 Pending Response Waived appellate-review due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-system property-interests subject-matter-jurisdiction The trial court has been placed in an untenable position by aberrant appellate rulings. First, the intermediate appellate court issued a judgment and …
25-6409 Krystle Hoffman v. Illinois Illinois 2025-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP absurd-principles-doctrine due-process fourteenth-amendment rule-of-lenity sentencing-statute statutory-construction Whether a defendant's due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment are violated when a court refuses to apply the rule of lenity to an ambiguous …
25A714 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. O. Doe, et al. First Circuit 2025-12-18 Application birthright-citizenship citizenship-clause executive-order fourteenth-amendment preliminary-injunction standing Question not identified.
25-716 ENI S.p.A v. Gulf LNG Energy, LLC, et al. New York 2025-12-18 Pending Response Waived arbitration claim-preclusion corporate-affiliation due-process fourteenth-amendment nonparty-preclusion 1. Whether, consistent with the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution and the Federal Arbitration Act, a state court may extend the…
25-708 Rupert Baptiste v. Fatou Jallow Third Circuit 2025-12-18 Pending due-process fourteenth-amendment haines-v-kerner judicial-act pro-se-rights self-representation The United States Constitution grants certain inalienable rights to its citizens. The purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment is to protect people from be…
25A712 Donald Wayne Read v. Texas Texas 2025-12-17 Application constitutional-claim deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-treatment prisoner-rights pro-se Question not identified.
25-6394 Joshua Abrams v. Richard Isolda New Jersey 2025-12-17 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation due-process fourteenth-amendment immunity-doctrine judicial-sanctions seventh-amendment 1. Whether immunity doctrines eliminate all remedies for constitutional violations. 2. Whether judicial sanctions imposed as penalties require due pr…
25-6382 Frank A. Walls v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-16 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge eighth-amendment federal-review lethal-injection method-of-execution undue-delay 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in denying Mr. Walls review, based solely on undue delay, despite the primary basis for his challenge —records r…
25-6378 Kriston Price v. Ohio Ohio 2025-12-16 Pending IFP aggravated-murder criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-instruction self-defense sixth-amendment 1. Whether sufficient evidence existed to reject the defense of self defense where the defendant was violently attacked, beaten, and through the a mir…
25A699 Larry E. Harrison v. Sharon A. Oliver, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-12-16 Application eighth-amendment hirschsprung-disease incontinence medical-indifference medical-treatment prisoner-rights Question not identified.
25-6365 Timothy Robert Provo v. Geoffrey W. Tenney, Individually and as Judge, Tenth Judicial District, Wright County, Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-12-15 Pending IFP ada-retaliation due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-recusal parental-rights transcript-access 1. Recusal and Void Orders Whether the Due Process Clause and the Supremacy Clause permit a state judge to continue issuing substantive custody, cont…
25-6364 Joshua Luckey v. Louisiana Louisiana 2025-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-right due-process false-allegations fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment trial-evidence Did the trial court violate Luckey's Sixth Amendment right to confrontation and his XIV Amendment right to due process when evidence showing prior fal…
25-6356 Elvert S. Briscoe, Jr. v. Ohio Ohio 2025-12-15 Pending IFP appeal-as-of-right due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment notice-of-judgment pro-se 1. Has a pro se party received due process of notice and redress under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution if the fi…
25A690 United Services Automobile Association, Inc. v. Estate of Sylvia F. Minor, et al. Mississippi 2025-12-12 Application compensatory-damages due-process fourteenth-amendment punitive-damages ratio-test state-farm This case implicates the due process limits on punitive damages when a plaintiff has already recovered substantial compensatory damages. See State Far…
25-6352 Marcus Allen Cooper v. Virginia Virginia 2025-12-12 Pending IFP complete-defense credibility-challenge evidence-exclusion fourteenth-amendment trial-court-discretion witness-fabrication Whether a trial court abridges the defendant's Fourteenth Amendment right to present a complete defense by excluding evidence that the sole inculpator…
25-681 Zhi Wu, et al. v. Superior Court of California, Alameda County, et al. California 2025-12-11 Pending Response Waived civil-procedure discovery-referee disqualification due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-impartiality This petition arises from a California civil action in which a privately compensated discovery referee, whose impartiality was formally questioned, wa…
25-6346 Corey Gaynor v. Ken Hollibaugh, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-instruction sixth-amendment 1. Whether trial counsel was ineffective and the trial court s unconstitutional jury instruction derived from Pennsylvania's consolidated statute 18 P…
25-6340 Robert Knickerbocker v. Michigan Michigan 2025-12-11 Pending IFP constitutional-violation dna-evidence due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct post-conviction-review I. Did A FUNDAMENTAL MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE AND CONSTITUTIONAL DUE PROCESS VIOLATION OCCUR WHEN THE STATE COURT VIOLATED SCHLUP V. DELO, 513 U.S. 29B …
25-678 Louis B. Antonacci v. Renu Brennan, in Her Official Capacity as Bar Counsel for the Virginia State Bar, et al. Virginia 2025-12-10 Pending bar-complaint constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-discretion Whether this Court's decision in Loper Light Enterprises v. Raimondo, 144 S. Ct. 2244 (2024) militates in favor of abrogating the prosecutorial discre…
25-6322 Jeremy Ian Frieday v. Washington Washington 2025-12-09 Pending IFP factual-findings fourteenth-amendment jury-trial-guarantee prior-conviction-exception sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated when he was subject to an increased standard sentence based on the trial cour…
25-671 In Re Mark Christopher Tracy 2025-12-09 Pending constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure ministerial-duty writ-of-execution Whether the California state court violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by failing to issue a writ of execution following entry…
25-669 Timothy Rosin v. Kimberly Hill Fourth Circuit 2025-12-09 Denied Response Waived administrative-transfer collective-bargaining due-process fourteenth-amendment property-interest school-principal 1. Whether Rosin's involuntary transfer was: 1) an administrative transfer, or 2) a punitive/disciplinary demotion? 2. Whether a certified public-sch…
25-6317 Harold Wayne Nichols v. Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General of Tennessee, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-12-08 Denied IFP civil-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment lethal-injection method-of-execution statute-of-limitations 1. Because a method-of-execution-challenge involves a future harm, and not a past harm, lower courts have struggled to determine when the claim accrue…
25-6308 Johnny Joe Figueroa-Mangual v. United States First Circuit 2025-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights eighth-amendment fifth-amendment plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether it was a violation to the Fifth, Sixth and Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the sentencing factors enshrined in 18 U.S.C. 3553 (a) a…
25-6305 Anthony Darrell Heath v. Kathy Brittain, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Frackville, et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-05 Pending IFP constitutional-rights custodial-interrogation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-health miranda-rights 1. Was Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 86 S. Ct. 1602, 16 L. Ed. 2d 694 (1966) decided for that specific class of persons "not mentally ill" that is…
25-6291 Georgianna Parisi v. Estate of Jackie Jones, et al. Ohio 2025-12-05 Pending IFP equal-protection fourteenth-amendment interstate-commerce judicial-oversight probate-court trustee-compensation This case presents a question of exceptional national importance because it implicates the federal constitutional limits on States' authority to regul…
25A661 Oregon, et al. v. Paul Maney, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-04 Application communicable-disease covid-19 deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment prison-conditions qualified-immunity Question not identified.
25A658 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Bette Eakin, et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-04 Application anderson-burdick election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment mail-in-voting voter-rights Question not identified.
25-6279 Steven Matthew Wolf v. Florida Florida 2025-12-03 Denied IFP capital-punishment death-penalty fourteenth-amendment juror-bias jury-selection sixth-amendment Whether Mr. Wolf was deprived of a jury of his peers as guaranteed by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments where the trial court removed a juror who pr…
25-618 Craig Jonathan Warner v. Texas Texas 2025-12-01 Pending constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony fourteenth-amendment witness-testimony 1. At least ten states' courts and four federal circuit courts recognize that a state's unknowing presentation of false testimony denies a defendant d…
25-610 Hansueli Overturf v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District California 2025-11-25 Denied civil-procedure default-judgment due-process fourteenth-amendment hague-service-convention service-of-process 1. Whether entry of default based on defective service of process, which failed to provide defendant with actual notice of the action, violates the Fo…
25A618 Antonio M. Smith v. John Kind, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-11-25 Application constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment excessive-force prison-conditions qualified-immunity Whether the Eighth Amendment precludes qualified immunity for corrections officers who deliberately subject a prisoner to extreme cold conditions with…
25-6230 McKinley Kelly v. Indiana Indiana 2025-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment rehabilitation sentencing-procedure Whether the sentencing procedure mandated by Indiana Code Sec. 35-38-l-7.1(A) and utilized by the state trial court in imposing Kelly 's sentence, whi…
25-611 Delta Air Lines, Inc. v. Oregon Department of Revenue Oregon 2025-11-25 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived administrative-convenience equal-protection fourteenth-amendment intangible-property state-law taxation Whether the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits a state from singling out a few businesses for taxation of their intangible …
25-6208 Matthew Peckham v. Rhode Island Rhode Island 2025-11-24 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP bias-evidence cross-examination fourteenth-amendment juvenile-records sixth-amendment witness-impeachment 1. Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments permit a state court to bar all cross-examination of a key prosecution witness concerning her own juven…
25-6201 Frank Paul Ferrara v. Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-11-21 Denied IFP attorney-general civil-commitment constitutional-law discretionary-action equal-protection fourteenth-amendment Question No. 1: Whether the Commonwealth of Virginia violated the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of equal protection of the laws when the Attorney G…
25-6179 Benny Lee Hodge v. Laura Plappert, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-11-20 Denied IFP capital-sentence cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection habeas-corpus sixth-circuit I. Under its original meaning, the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause of the Eighth Amendment was interpreted as including disproportionate and arbi…
25-593 Gerald Scott v. Boca Landings Homeowners Association, Inc. Florida 2025-11-20 Denied discretionary-review due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigants statute-of-limitations 1. Does a state supreme court's practice of summarily denying discretionary review of Per Curium Affirmance (PCA), involving a Statute of Limitation d…
25-6172 Quantell Williams v. Austin J. Robinson, et al. Florida 2025-11-19 Denied IFP due-process fourteenth-amendment pro-se-filing psychiatric-duress settlement state-court 1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause is violated when a state court enforces a settlement entered over a litigant's explicit objec…
25-6171 Aldo DiBelardino v. Jason S. Miyares, Attorney General of Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury law-enforcement 1. Does the systematic manipulation of our grand jury authority —contrary to its constitutionally intended role as a "protector of citizens [the Peo…
25-6164 Shannon Bernard Jackson v. Texas Texas 2025-11-19 Denied IFP anders-brief appellate-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment pro-se-brief QUESTION No. 1: Is a criminal defendant deprived of his rights under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution to file a pro se brief…
25-6150 Cristina M. Lancranjan v. Superior Court of California, San Diego County, et al. California 2025-11-18 Denied IFP child-custody due-process educational-status-quo first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion 1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is violated when a state court, without a full evidentiary hearing on the child's best …
25-578 Joshua Eric Hawk Clark v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections Fifth Circuit 2025-11-17 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability fourteenth-amendment gatekeeping-function habeas-corpus scientific-evidence shaken-baby-syndrome Did the Court of Appeals erroneously deny Petitioner Joshua Clark a Certificate of Appealability on his Fourteenth Amendment claims even though Petiti…
25A569 Eric Drake v. Texas Texas 2025-11-14 Application deferred-adjudication due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment probation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a state court's deferred probation order violates due process and equal protection when imposed by a judge lacking subject-matter jurisdiction
25A563 Rodney Vance Frith v. Kyle Smith Fourth Circuit 2025-11-14 Application cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment medical-indifference prisoner-rights section-1983 serious-medical-needs Whether a prison's alleged deliberate indifference to a prisoner's serious medical needs constitutes a violation of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition…
25-6130 Eric Drake v. Texas Texas 2025-11-14 Denied IFP deferred-probation due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment second-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the State's refusal to allow out of state travel for life-saving medical treatment to a defendant on deferred probation violates the Eighth an…
25-577 Chaldean Coalition, Inc. v. San Diego County Independent Redistricting Commission, et al. California 2025-11-14 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) district-design equal-protection fourteenth-amendment population-deviation racial-gerrymandering redistricting During the summer of 2020, the term "BIPOC"— "Black, Indigenous, and People of Color"—emerged as the preferred moniker for the theory that all non-wh…
25-6120 In Re Steven Michael Backstrom 2025-11-14 Dismissed IFP cruel-unusual-punishment due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance trial-counsel 1- a) Does a failure by trial counsel to investigate known-to-be material facts and/or witnesses, constitute federally defined ineffective assistanc…
25-6093 Shari Lynn Oliver v. Matthew Warren Oliver Michigan 2025-11-13 Denied IFP due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias procedural-fairness res-judicata void-judgment I. Whether a state court violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by refusing to vacate a facially void judgment that was procured …
25-566 Eddie Grant, Jr., et al. v. Ronnell Higgins, in His Official Capacity as Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Transportation, et al. Second Circuit 2025-11-12 Pending common-use constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment gun-possession second-amendment semiautomatic-rifles Whether the Second and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution guarantee the right to possess semiautomatic rifles that are in common …
25-6074 Olayiwola Adebisi v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas Texas 2025-11-10 Denied IFP child-support-enforcement due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdictional-access pro-se-litigant service-of-process Whether the Texas courts violated clearly established federal precedent protecting jurisdictional access and due process rights of pro se litigants wh…
25-6061 Bryan Fredrick Jennings v. Florida, et al. Florida 2025-11-07 Denied IFP death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment meaningful-access postconviction-counsel state-representation Mr. Jennings was deprived of counsel for three years before his death warrant was signed. On the day his death warrant was signed, the State requested…
25-6059 Cristina M. Lancranjan v. Superior Court of California, San Diego County, et al. California 2025-11-07 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process extrinsic-fraud fourteenth-amendment parental-rights state-court 1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause is violated when a state court, with knowledge of extrinsic fraud that results in void orders…
25-552 Nicholas Lupo, et al. v. Tre Hargett, Tennessee Secretary of State, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-11-06 Denied Response Waived ballot-access elector-candidates electoral-college first-amendment fourteenth-amendment presidential-election Is not States ' premature adjudication of qualifications of Elector Candidates ' Pledged Candidates unconstitutional and violation of the foundational…
25A510 Terrance Carew v. Robert Morton Second Circuit 2025-11-04 Application batson-violation fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-selection racial-discrimination sixth-amendment Whether a criminal defense attorney's failure to demand a remedy for a proven Batson violation constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel when raci…
25-541 Benjamin Schoenthal, et al. v. Kwame Raoul, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-11-04 Pending Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse Waived citizens-rights constitutional-challenge firearms-regulation fourteenth-amendment public-transportation second-amendment Whether Illinois' flat ban on ordinary citizens carrying firearms on public transportation violates the Second and Fourteenth Amendments.
25-537 Raymond H. Pierson, III v. Phyliss M. Rushing California 2025-11-04 Denied constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment insurance-litigation medical-emergency 1a. Isn't it true that under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, that Dr. Pierson, a self-represented party without alternat…
25A503 William Muhr v. Kristin Lee, aka Kristin Ellias Colorado 2025-11-03 Application due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-appointment judicial-integrity jurisdictional-defect state-court-procedure Whether a state court judge's secret, unilateral appointment of a successor judge without public record or independent oversight violates the Due Proc…
25-6015 Timothy Marcus Mayberry v. Aramark, et al. Indiana 2025-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment pro-se I. Whether the Court of Appeals of Indiana denies a litigant due process, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment, when it selects a singular appella…
25-6004 Fillmore Wright v. Louisiana Louisiana 2025-10-31 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment uncorroborated-confession Under the U.S. Constitution Amendment VI's right to a fair trial and the due process clause of U.S. Constitution Amendment XIV, can a conviction rest …
25-533 Minnesota Deer Farmers Association, et al. v. Sarah Strommen, Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, or her successor, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-10-31 Denied Amici (4) demographic-discrimination equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights legal-vocation strict-scrutiny 1. Whether pursuing a legal vocation that is completely prohibited by state law for a demographic group is a fundamental right under the Fourteenth Am…
25-6011 John De Light v. Laura De Light, et al. California 2025-10-31 Denied IFP appellate-review due-process equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment jurisdictional-transfer 1. Automatic Preemptive Rulings and Judicial Overreach Whether a state court violates basic principles of due process by issuing preemptive rulings —s…
25-5996 Jean-Michael Kisi v. Joseph Joyce, Warden Eighth Circuit 2025-10-30 Denied IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-deliberation sixth-amendment I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT EXCLUDING THE PETITIONER FROM THE COURTROOM WHEN PERSONS DISPLAYED THE STATE 'S LAPTOP IN THE DELIBERATION ROOM AND A …
25-5973 Eric Michael Schuster v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review clearly-erroneous-standard due-process fourteenth-amendment mixed-questions-of-law standard-of-review Whether a reviewing court must strictly adhere to the Supreme Court requirement that a district court's fact-findings "must not be set aside unless cl…
25-5971 Jeffrey Rivard v. Vermont Vermont 2025-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-error due-process fourteenth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence pro-se-motion probation-modification I. Whether the Vermont Supreme Court's denial of Petitioner's right to file a pro se motion to vacate and modify probation based on newly discovered e…
25-5949 Matthew Johnson v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-10-24 Denied IFP constitutional-claims due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance 1. Whether the Oklahoma courts ' categorical refusal to grant evidentiary hearings on colorable claims of ineffective assistance of counsel, actual …
25-508 Richard Rynn, et al. v. UHS of Phoenix, LLC, et al. Arizona 2025-10-24 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process ex-parte fourteenth-amendment fraud-on-court jurisdictional-defect 1. Whether due process is violated when state courts rely on a concealed ex parte proceeding and fraudulent allegations —previously adjudicated as l…
25-5940 Stephen Elliot Powers v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-10-22 Denied IFP brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct (1) Whether the State's suppression of exculpatory evidence of an alternate, original suspect with a nexus to the victim deprived Powers of his right …
25-5932 Garland Ray Gregory, Jr. v. South Dakota South Dakota 2025-10-22 Denied IFP choice-of-counsel coram-nobis equal-protection fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment structural-error 1. Is a Sixth Amendment 'erroneous deprivation of choice of counsel ' structural error, an error of the most fundamental character, properly before t…
25A457 Anthony Boyd v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-21 Denied asphyxiation cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment execution-method nitrogen-hypoxia preliminary-injunction Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits execution by nitrogen hypoxia that causes prolonged conscious suffering and asphyxiation when a less painful al…
25-5928 Anthony Boyd v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-21 Denied IFP comparative-analysis cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-method nitrogen-hypoxia When performing a comparative analysis to determine whether an alternative means of execution would significantly reduce a substantial risk of severe …
25-5919 Kevin Griffin v. New York New York 2025-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony fourteenth-amendment search-warrant 1. Did the State Courts error by denying Petitioner 's Fourteenth Amendment 's Due process rights by the State's knowing use of false testimony and th…
25-489 Norman Engel v. Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers' Compensation, et al. Texas 2025-10-20 Denied Response Waived due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment medical-stability property-rights workers-compensation Injured workers in Texas have One Year after their date of injury to make a claim for workers' compensation benefits and a Two Year limit to reach med…
25-485 Alvin E. Williams, et ux. v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2025-10-20 Denied constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fraud-on-court judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct 1. Whether the doctrine of judicial immunity protects judges who engage in and facilitated fraud in violation of constitutional due process rights? 2…
25A438 Demond Depree Bluntson v. Texas Texas 2025-10-16 Presumed Complete capital-murder certiorari death-row due-process eighth-amendment indigent-defendant Whether the Eighth Amendment and due process protections prohibit the imposition of a capital murder conviction and death sentence where there are sub…
25-460 Donata Edwards v. U.S. Bank National Association, Trustee for RMAC Trust, Series 2016-CTT, et al. District of Columbia 2025-10-16 Denied Response Waived covid-19-restrictions equal-protection executive-order foreclosure fourteenth-amendment property-sale 1. Whether the DC Court of Appeals improperly affirmed the decision of its lower court to ratify the sale of Petitioner 's real property and the su…
25A427 Indiana, ex rel. Freddie L. Byers, III v. Superior Court of Indiana, St. Joseph County, et al. Indiana 2025-10-15 Presumed Complete attorney-client due-process fourteenth-amendment motion-to-compel property-rights state-court Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires a state court to provide a full and fair opportunity for a client to litigate a mo…
25-455 Thanh C. Tran v. Liberty Mutual Group Inc., et al. Massachusetts 2025-10-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment petition-clause trial-errors Whether a state appellate court violates the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause by deeming properly preserved trial errors waived without meani…
25A424 Adam Kanuszewski, et al. v. Sandip Shah, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-10-14 Presumed Complete fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment genetic-privacy medical-data newborn-screening parental-autonomy Whether the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit a state from indefinitely storing and using newborn genetic material without parental consent
25A423 Heather Swanson, et al. v. Michael T. Hilgers, Attorney General of Nebraska, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-10-14 Presumed Complete equal-protection fourteenth-amendment home-birth medical-regulation midwifery rational-basis Whether a state law completely prohibiting certified nurse midwives from attending home births violates the Fourteenth Amendment's rational basis revi…
25A421 Delta Air Lines, Inc. v. Oregon Department of Revenue Oregon 2025-10-14 Presumed Complete centrally-assessed discriminatory-tax equal-protection fourteenth-amendment intangible-property taxation Whether the Equal Protection Clause permits a state to impose property taxes on intangible assets of only select businesses while exempting other taxp…
25-5865 Aaron Norman Dunn v. California California 2025-10-10 Denied IFP capital-punishment criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment payne-v-tennessee victim-impact-evidence Whether under Payne v. Tennessee, 501 U.S. 808 (1991), a prosecutor can be permitted to play for the jury during the penalty phase of a capital trial …
25-5859 Wisconsin, ex rel. Paul M. Nigl v. Cheryl Eplett, Warden Wisconsin 2025-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance postconviction-relief wisconsin-statutes 1. Whether the Wisconsin Court of Appeals unfairly blocked Petitioner access to his only remaining avenue for postconviction relief?
25-443 Ted Velleff v. Thomas J. Dart, Sheriff, Cook County, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-10-10 Denied Response Waived due-process fourteenth-amendment governmental-policy property-rights section-1983 state-remedies 1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment forbids the government from depriving individuals of personal property by applying a pol…
25-442 Joseph J. Roybal, Sheriff, El Paso County, Colorado, et al. v. Darlene Griffith Tenth Circuit 2025-10-10 Pending Amici (1) constitutional-scrutiny due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection prison-policies transgender-rights 1. Whether a transgender inmate's challenge to sex-based prison policies is subject to heightened scrutiny under United States v. Virginia, 518 U.S. 5…
25-5852 Amro N. Elkabany v. Louis C. Shapiro, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Judge, Superior Court of New Jersey, Gloucester County, et al. Third Circuit 2025-10-09 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-immunity rooker-feldman-doctrine state-law Part I - Constitutional / Federal Questions Whether judicial immunity bars relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when a judge conducts a secret, off-the-reco…
25-5827 Errol Victor, Sr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2025-10-08 Denied IFP constitutional-violation equal-protection fourteenth-amendment government-oppression racial-discrimination sixth-amendment WHETHER A STATE RACIALLY MOTIVATED PERVASIVE Unconstitutional Statute purposed to deny it's African American Citizens their equal protection of law …
25A406 Samuel Lee Smithers v. Florida Florida 2025-10-08 Denied constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment execution-stay meaningful-hearing Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a death row inmate when substantial constitutional questions remain unresolved and the defenda…
25-5829 Samuel Lee Smithers v. Florida Florida 2025-10-08 Denied IFP constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment elderly-defendant standards-of-decency 1. Does the execution of the elderly violate the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment…
25-427 Walid Abdelaziz, in His Individual Capacity as a Police Officer for the City of Oakland, California, et al. v. Estate of Decedent Lolomania Soakai, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-10-08 Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) due-process fourteenth-amendment police-liability qualified-immunity state-created-danger substantive-due-process 1. Whether bystanders injured when a fleeing criminal suspect lost control of his car and crashed into them have a Fourteenth Amendment substantive du…
25-417 Francis Nielsen v. Kekai Watanabe Ninth Circuit 2025-10-07 Pending alternative-remedies bivens-remedy damages-action eighth-amendment prison-conditions special-factors Whether the Ninth Circuit here erred in recognizing a Bivens cause of action.
25-5809 Anthony Lee Van Durmen v. Bryan Morrison, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-10-06 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal-of-right constitutional-claim due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus state-impediment WHERE PETITIONER'S APPEAL OF RIGHT WAS DELAYED FOR OVER (20) YEARS DUE TO THE STATE'S CREATED IMPEDIMENT WHICH PROHIBITED HIM FROM FILING, RESULTING I…
25-5807 Tamatha Lynn Melom v. Stone County, Mississippi Mississippi 2025-10-06 Denied IFP confrontation-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias sixth-amendment 1. Whether the seizure, destruction, and permanent transfer of a citizen's lawfully owned dogs, based on untested hearsay, without production of polic…
25-411 John Doe v. Illinois Illinois 2025-10-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) criminal-records due-process expungement-rights fourteenth-amendment state-action statutory-interpretation 1. Does the Illinois scheme for the sealing and expungement of criminal records create, confer, or otherwise entail an interest protected under the Fo…
25-401 Alexander Carter, et al. v. Thomas J. Dart, Sheriff, Cook County, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-10-03 Denied Response Waived constitutional-provisions due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment government-seizure property-rights The circuits are divided on whether the Fourth Amendment protects property rights when a person's "papers and effects" remain in government custody af…
25-398 Adeayo O. Turton v. Saks Fifth Avenue, LLC Pennsylvania 2025-10-03 Denied appellate-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-review waiver-doctrine 1. Whether a state may constitutionally guarantee rights to appeal in all cases, then suppress that right by rigidly and/or arbitrarily applying proce…
25-5798 Mikhael Y. Lerman v. Celine E. Lerman California 2025-10-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment thirteenth-amendment 1. Whether California Family Code § 2550, as applied in this case, violates my Equal Protection and Due Process rights. 2. Whether rigid equal divisi…
25-5780 Timothy Marcus Mayberry v. Stacy Hall Indiana 2025-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure court-of-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review state-law I. Whether the Court of Appeals of Indiana deprived me of the secured right to one appeal under state law, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment, w…
25-389 Abolfazl Hosseinzadeh v. Swedish Health Services, et al. Washington 2025-10-02 Denied civil-procedure due-process expert-affidavit fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigant summary-judgment 1. Whether a state court's application of summary judgment standards, by excluding qualified expert affidavits through credibility assessments rathe…
25-5789 Joseph Anthony Barrett v. California California 2025-10-02 Denied IFP criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment implicit-bias juror-bias jury-selection sixth-amendment When a charged crime occurs within prison walls, do the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments require excusal for cause of prospective jurors who are employ…
25-5784 Daniel Raul Santiago Vasquez v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-10-02 Denied IFP capital-punishment criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment mitigation-testimony videoconference-testimony 1. Does the Eighth Amendment allow the State to prevent live mitigation testimony in favor of a capital defendant based upon financial reasons alone (…
25-5778 Ashlie R. Anderson v. Automobile Club of Southern California ("AAA") LLC, et al. California 2025-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP anti-slapp-statute due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment property-rights vehicle-salvage a) Whether a summons and complaint that was filed on February 2, 2022 and was served on the defendants timely on March 19, 2022 and March 21, 2022, wh…
25-364 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-09-29 Pending Relisted (2) birthright-citizenship citizenship-clause constitutional-interpretation executive-order fourteenth-amendment immigration-law The Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment provides that those "born * * * in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof," are…
25A360 Henry B. Berrocal v. San Antonio Police Department-Headquarters, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-09-29 Application civil-rights eighth-amendment fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment Whether the First, Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments permit state actors to engage in repeated retaliatory arrests, physical abuse, and…
25-5757 Kristopher Jacob Freda v. Oregon Oregon 2025-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violations cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment writ-of-mandamus Will SCOTUS order a writ of mandamus to stop the State of Oregon from punishing Freda with cruel and unusual punishment and stop the Constitutional vi…
25-5754 Biobele Georgewill v. Joshua M. Ball, et al. Tennessee 2025-09-29 Denied IFP constitutional-bias due-process fourteenth-amendment impartial-tribunal judicial-recusal professional-relationship I. This case presents a substantial federal due process question. The Fourteenth Amendment requires an impartial tribunal. A judge who maintained a 14…
25-5749 Victor Saldano v. Texas Texas 2025-09-29 Pending IFP atkins-claim due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability procedural-bar state-court-review 1. Does the TCCA's creation of a novel and unforeseeable procedural bar in its interpretation of Article 11.071 Section 5 preclude review of Mr. Salda…
25-371 Clark's Barber Lounge, LLC, et al. v. Destin Health and Fitness, LLC Florida 2025-09-29 Denied Response Waived attorney-representation conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-ethics per-curiam 1. Whether a conflict of interest exists for an attorney who gave advice to one client and then represented another client on the same matter, and whe…
25-365 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Barbara, et al. First Circuit 2025-09-29 Pending Amici (22)Relisted (2) birthright-citizenship citizenship-clause constitutional-interpretation executive-order fourteenth-amendment immigration-law The Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment provides that those "born * * * in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof," are…
25-5744 Anthony Balducci v. Jerry Spatny, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment I. Whether a hearing in which a defendant seeks to withdraw a guilty plea, made at his first opportunity and before sentencing, at which he asserts in…
25-5732 Jeremy Baum v. Missouri Missouri 2025-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-conviction due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial legal-precedent Whether affirming a criminal conviction on a different theory than what was presented to the jury conflicts with this Court's holdings in Cole v. Arka…
25-5738 Mark H. Wilson v. Florida Florida 2025-09-25 Denied IFP appellate-review brown-v-sanders capital-punishment eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment harmless-error Where the trial court in a capital case allows the State to present and argue an invalid aggravating factor to the jury in support of a death sentence…
25-5730 Michael Dean Ross v. Arizona Arizona 2025-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-liberties constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-interpretation supreme-court Was Ross Aerv.ecA Won<AannenAa\ riqVA-Aio Due Process as uararrPeeA bq Abe. SAW arvA \4AW AmerAmerAs oWAWe DniA-eA SAoWes ConsA-AuWan , ancA ArAscAe. …
25A330 John F. Carbin v. Massachusetts Board of State Examiners of Plumbers and Gas Fitters, et al. First Circuit 2025-09-23 Presumed Complete due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights licensing-restrictions property-rights rational-basis Whether the Fourteenth Amendment protects a fundamental right to perform one's own home repairs and plumbing work without state licensing restrictions…
25-5711 Jermal Williams v. Louisiana Louisiana 2025-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circumstantial-evidence constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment standard-of-proof Under the due process clause of the U.S. Constitution Amendment XIV, is La. R.S. 15:438 a higher standard of proof than Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. …
25-330 Eugene Cory Dingle v. James G. McGee, Judge of Dorchester County Family Court, Individually and in His Official Capacity, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-09-19 Denied 42-usc-1983 fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment guardian-ad-litem judicial-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Whether a state judge who acts in the clear absence of subject-matter jurisdiction may nonetheless invoke absolute judicial immunity to bar a 42 U.…
25-321 Jeanette A. Stengel, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Dale E. Stengel v. Heartland Bank Nebraska 2025-09-18 Denied active-concealment discovery-rule due-process fourteenth-amendment fraud-claims probate-rule 1. Whether a state probate rule barring a personal representative from invoking the discovery rule for fraud claims, based on the representative's kno…
25-324 Richard William Kleinhammer v. California California 2025-09-18 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2) actual-innocence due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment self-representation sixth-amendment Self representation for a postconviction collateral appeal was denied applying People v. Scott as a policy which is at loggerheads with actual innocen…
25-5662 Martha Jane Ford v. Bank of New York Mellon, Trustee, for CWABS, Incorporated Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2007-2 Fifth Circuit 2025-09-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-justice attorney-misconduct due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-integrity mediation-agreement 1. Whether the enforcement of a mediation agreement procured through fraud, coercion, and attorney misconduct —despite a prior court order barring for…
25-316 Kerlee Jilla v. Luzabelle Lucas-Jilla Florida 2025-09-17 Rehearing Relisted (2) access-to-justice appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct 1. Whether a state court's denial of meaningful appellate review, based on the absence of a transcript that the court itself suppressed or failed t…
25-5642 Tonnerrious Jamarcus McGee v. Texas Texas 2025-09-16 Denied IFP due-process fourteenth-amendment government-code judicial-appointment misdemeanor-sentencing trial-judge 1. Whether the Trial Court 122nd District Court (Galveston County) Texas use of a visiting trial judge who was not properly appointed nor noted on the…
25-301 Frank Marshall, et ux. v. Wisconsin Elections Commission, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-09-16 Denied Response Waived ballot-access electoral-college first-amendment fourteenth-amendment presidential-qualifications state-election-law For the first time in the history of the United States, a State violated the foundational principles of the Electoral College by removing bona fide Pr…
25-5659 Ohio, ex rel. Ricardo Dodson v. Shelbie Smith, Warden Ohio 2025-09-16 Denied IFP double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-verdict sixth-amendment trial-procedure 1. Can a trial court correct-Amend a jury's verdict that announced the wrong name upon reading the verdict, upon assenting to the verdict on polling, …
25-305 Louise DeBerry v. Chicago Board of Education, et al. Illinois 2025-09-16 Denied Response Waived administrative-hearing due-process evidence-admissibility fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness witness-testimony Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment provide a mechanism for relief in administrative hearings when evidence is introduced that is …
25-5628 Stephen Shapiro, et al. v. Harbor Freight Tools USA, Inc. California 2025-09-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-rights fourteenth-amendment incarcerated-litigants procedural-due-process self-represented-litigants Due process principles are designed to ensure a party is afforded his or her right to be heard during adversarial proceedings: "As the rubric itself i…
25A292 Larce Spikes v. Lesley Wheat, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-09-12 Presumed Complete constitutional-minimum deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-care prisoner-rights qualified-immunity Whether the Eighth Amendment requires a substantive inquiry into the adequacy of medical treatment provided to prisoners, or if the mere provision of …
25-5605 David Joseph Pittman v. Florida Florida 2025-09-11 Denied IFP capital-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection ex-post-facto retroactive-effect 1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's decision in Phillips v. State , 299 So.3d 1013 (Fla. 2020) , denying some capital defendants the retroactive effec…
25-5615 Shahram Shakouri v. Scott Becker, former Judge, 219th Judicial District Court of Texas, Collin County, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-09-11 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process filing-fee fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceeding poverty-exception (1) Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in denying the motion of this poverty-stricken Petitioner for extension of time to pay the filing fee, denied him …
25-5606 Joan Doe v. Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas, in their Official Capacity, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada-title-ii ada-title-v administrative-law due-process fourteenth-amendment university-discipline 1. Whether the Due Process Clause permits a 13-day interim suspension —without notice or an exigency claim —that merged into an eight month suspension…
25-279 Matthew Wood v. New Mexico New Mexico 2025-09-10 Denied Response Waived criminal-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment felony-murder fourteenth-amendment proportionality Where a defendant is not convicted of the predicate offense, does a conviction for first-degree felony murder comport with due process under the Fourt…
25-5589 Shane Stevens v. Colorado Colorado 2025-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea mootness postconviction-relief procedural-default Whether a state postconviction scheme that bars relief for a guilty plea induced by a sentence later declared void ab initio—on the grounds of proced…
25-5583 Anthony E. Ntamere v. Amerihealth Administrators, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-09-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP discrimination-charges due-process eeoc-regulations fourteenth-amendment judicial-review property-interest I. Cause of Action as Property Right Under the Fourteenth Amendment Whether a state-created statutory right to file discrimination charges and receive…
25-5572 Robert Gene Rega v. Lorraine Rega Scottie Fourth Circuit 2025-09-08 Denied IFP administrative-malfeasance appeal-dismissal court-of-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review WHETHER THE PETITIONER'S RIGHT OT DUE PROCESS UNDER THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT WAS VIOLATED WHEN THE CLERK OF COURT FOR THE FOUTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEA…
25-5549 Vladislav Konstantin Aksenov v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment racial-bias trial-procedure Do the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit the government at trial from implicitly evoking stereotypes about a defendant's racial or ethnic backg…
25-5547 Samreen Riaz v. Shazib Riaz California 2025-09-04 Dismissed IFP appellate-review due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias procedural-error property-division Does a state supreme court's summary denial of a petition for review s291778on july 23 25—despite a documented record of procedural due process violat…
25-5534 Carl G. Lindsey v. Ohio Ohio 2025-09-03 Denied IFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fetal-alcohol-spectrum-disorder fourteenth-amendment Does the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishments, and the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantees of Due Process and Equal Prot…
25-5532 James Randall Rogers v. Georgia Georgia 2025-09-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP bitemark-evidence capital-punishment discretionary-appeal eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment scientific-evidence 1. Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments require a remand where the State has conceded that no court ever addressed the impact of Rogers's new …
25-247 Charles L. Payne, II v. Ohio Ohio 2025-09-03 Denied criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-vouching sixth-amendment witness-credibility Under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, a defendant has a right against a prosecutor or law enforcement vouching …
25-5525 Teresa Lynette Bloodman v. Robert Brech, Executive Director, Arkansas Supreme Court Committee on Professional Conduct Arkansas 2025-09-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP attorney-discipline due-process fourteenth-amendment interim-suspension liberty-interest procedural-fairness I. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits a state supreme court to impose a imposes an interim suspension of an attorney '…
25-5523 Mohamed A. Ibrahim v. Allison L. Lynn Maryland 2025-09-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-settlement mental-disability procedural-safeguards 1- Whether a Maryland state courts' failure to recognize and accommodate a documented mental disability who is suffering from: A- Dementia and Alzhei…
25-5511 Matthew Thomas Parkins, By and Through His Guardian ad Litem and Next Friend, Cecil Matt Parkins, et al. v. Henry Dargan McMaster, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process family-rights fourteenth-amendment intellectually-disabled section-1983 state-removal Question I. Whether the state's removal of an intellectually disabled adult from his home and family by application of a standard of proof lower than …
25-238 Cutberto Viramontes, et al. v. Cook County, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-08-29 Pending Amici (1)Relisted (6) constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment gun-rights individual-liberty second-amendment semiautomatic-weapons Whether the Second and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to possess AR-15 platform and similar semiautomatic rifles.
25-241 Jason Arthur Aho v. Florida Florida 2025-08-29 Denied Response Waived evidence-suppression fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-standard I. Whether the trial court's summary denial of Petitioner's facially sufficient ineffective assistance of counsel claim without an evidentiary hear…
25-5498 Jason Strauch v. New Mexico New Mexico 2025-08-28 Denied IFP due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment right-to-appeal writ-of-mandamus 1. Was the New Mexico Supreme Court's denial of Mr. Strauch's State Writ of Mandamus, contrary to the United State Constitution First Amendment, Right…
25-5494 Donald A. Allen v. New Jersey New Jersey 2025-08-28 Denied IFP deportation due-process fourteenth-amendment fugitive-warrant judicial-process sentencing-delay 1. Whether the State of New Jersey violated Petitioner's rights under the Due Process Clause of the Fourtheenth Amendment by sentencing him more tha…
25-5492 Shedrick Givens v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Louisiana 2025-08-28 Denied IFP bill-of-information constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment grand-jury subject-matter-jurisdiction thirteenth-amendment 1. Whether the trial court, in the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jefferson, lacked subject matter jurisdiction where in United States v. Cot…
25-231 Jon Wynn Jarrard, Sr. v. Wilfredo Martell, Warden Fourth Circuit 2025-08-28 Denied Response Waived confrontation-clause due-process false-testimony fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment 1. Was the conviction obtained through the use of what the Solicitor knew, or should have known to be false testimony, and did the Solicitor fail to c…
25A230 Clyde Wendell Smith v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-08-27 Presumed Complete eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus mississippi-supreme-court sixth-amendment successive-postconviction Whether a state court's denial of a successive postconviction motion violates a criminal defendant's constitutional rights under the Sixth, Eighth, an…
25-5483 Z. G. v. M. C. Pennsylvania 2025-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act disability-discrimination due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-recusal The question presented is whether a judge who made a number of troubling statements that appear to have been motivated by stigma and stereotypes assoc…
25-5474 Jacob I. Severson v. Shabnum Gupta, et al. North Dakota 2025-08-27 Denied IFP bodily-integrity due-process expert-affidavit fourteenth-amendment indigent-litigants medical-battery 1. Whether a state 's application of an expert-affidavit requirement to dismiss a claim of extreme and obvious medical battery —where a doctor non-co…
25-224 Bernard Gelb v. Preston Niblack, Individually and as Commissioner of the New York City Department of Finance, et al. Second Circuit 2025-08-26 Denied due-process fourteenth-amendment notice-requirement property-rights takings-clause unclaimed-funds Did the Respondents taking $500 million dollars without sending any notice to the Owners violate the Due Process Clause of the of the Fourteenth Amend…
25-5463 Trent Nelson v. URSA Major Corporation Seventh Circuit 2025-08-25 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process-clause federal-court-procedure fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigation 1. Do a Pro Se litigant have constitutional provision in federal court? Violation of the 5th and 14th Amendments, "Due process clause". Ensures that t…
25-5459 Robert Keith Woodall v. Kentucky Kentucky 2025-08-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability The Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments forbid the execution of persons with intellectual disability. Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304, 321 (2002). Perso…
25-5440 Curtis Windom v. Florida, et al. Florida 2025-08-22 Denied IFP constitutional-protections due-process eighth-amendment litigation-schedule public-conscience sixth-amendment 1. Whether the "evolving standards of decency" test, which has been recognized for Eighth Amendment protections, should be used to analyze other const…
25A208 Francis Nielsen v. Kekai Watanabe Ninth Circuit 2025-08-21 Presumed Complete alternative-remedies bivens-action eighth-amendment federal-detention medical-treatment prisoner-rights Whether the Supreme Court should recognize a Bivens cause of action for a prisoner's medical treatment claim involving non-life-threatening injuries i…
25-5430 Ravon Lovowe Ramsey v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment expert-testimony jury-trial medical-malpractice I'/♦'The 3ezC\s\6vx by -Vke Unl-VeA CoiLf^ of Is skooAA be fe\Aer^eJ P e^iAetoe \a -Hie ftgk-V mo 5 4" -fMovable fo -fae PhWnKK a^A AenteA kVw + |fty…
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 Whether a state court can exercise personal jurisdiction over out-of-state defendants for a nationwide class action involving claims by predominantly …
25-5397 Willie Roy Jenkins v. Texas Texas 2025-08-19 Denied IFP capital-murder due-process false-evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus procedural-bar (1) Was the novel state procedural ground for denying the false evidence claims in the initial habeas application inadequate? (2) Was the state proce…
25-200 Kevin Salvador Golphin v. North Carolina North Carolina 2025-08-19 Denied Response Waived constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole sentencing-discretion Whether North Carolina, in conflict with this Court's precedents and those of other states, has violated the Eighth Amendment by creating a de facto m…
25-5398 Ricky L. Miller, Jr. v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2025-08-19 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment (1) DID THE THIRD CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS IN VIOLATION OF A MYRIAD OF SUPREME COURT SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY PRECEDENTS MISAPPREHEND …
25A186 Charles Brooks, et al. v. Jeremy James Allen Eighth Circuit 2025-08-15 Presumed Complete amended-complaint eighth-amendment interlocutory-review plra-exhaustion prisoner-litigation section-1983 Whether the Prison Litigation Reform Act's exhaustion requirement applies to an amended complaint filed after a prisoner's release when the original c…
25-189 Ron J. Waterman v. Robyn B. Waterman Massachusetts 2025-08-15 Denied due-process federal-law-interpretation fourteenth-amendment judgment-modification state-court-jurisdiction variable-separation-incentive A dozen States' Appellate Courts have issued opinions holding that Variable Separation Incentive (VSI) is a retirement benefit/pension. Subsequently, …
25-5371 Douglas Manning v. Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney General of New Jersey Third Circuit 2025-08-15 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights correctional-facility cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment prisoner-treatment 0 nturioI. clai/M adion or failure, -U dof OrfftouAed 'ta ctdeAi/al 'iofl of 4-o feaSonobte o{\ ffof/} a&fawll 06 rro/tdgj by-^ho Ej'6-M-h A^e/Men\ ■k…
25-5378 Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Mark H. Slimak Florida 2025-08-15 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment procedural-rights stalking-injunction Did the trial court commit reversible error 's dismissing the petition for an injunction to prevent Respondent from stalking? Did the court violate th…
25A185 Kayle B. Bates v. Florida, et al. Florida 2025-08-14 Denied capital-punishment constitutional-protection cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment irreparable-harm Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a death row inmate when the state supreme court has denied constitutional protections that saf…
25-5366 Jane Doe v. Jack Dwosh California 2025-08-14 Denied IFP due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment indigent-party pro-per The Eighth Amendment's Excessive Fines Clause, which protects against excessive punitive economic sanctions, is fundamental to the scheme of ordered l…
25A182 Morgan Joseph Langan v. Chip Davis, et al. Arizona 2025-08-13 Application constitutional-protections due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines petition-rights republican-form-of-government Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits local governments from imposing excessive fines that violate constitutional protections and deny citizens' righ…
25-5354 Michael Joshua Henderson v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General, et al. Second Circuit 2025-08-13 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment first-amendment marijuana-scheduling medical-necessity A. Whether this Court should overrule Gonzales v. Raich, 545 U.S. 4, 125 S.Ct. 2145 (2005) in this present day and time? B. If so, whether in this pr…
25-5350 Monica Curtis v. Justice Court of the North Las Vegas Township, Clark County, Nevada Nevada 2025-08-13 Denied IFP civil-rights employment-discrimination fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment sovereign-immunity If a state asserts sovereign immunity against a civil rights complaint, should the court accept the submission as the state, "Pleading the Fifth," and…
25-5341 Kenneth Jeremy Laird v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing sentencing-discretion supreme-court-precedent In 1994, an Arizona judge sentenced Mr. Laird to death for a murder conviction and a total of 129 years in prison for 13 other nonhomicide crimes. Mr.…
25-176 Tristram Heinz v. City of Philadelphia Bureau of Administrative Adjudication Pennsylvania 2025-08-13 Denied constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment speed-camera 1. Whether Section 3370 of the Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Code, 75 Pa.C.S. § 3370, the Automated Speed Camera Enforcement Program, and an implementing…
25-5287 Andrew W. Bell v. Karli Swift, et al. Georgia 2025-08-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-guarantees due-process election-contest fourteenth-amendment judicial-jurisdiction service-of-process 1. Whether Georgia courts may dismiss election-contest petitions for "failure to perfect service " when O.C.G.A. § 21-2-524(f) places that duty on cle…
25-143 Rebecca Hartzell v. Marana Unified School District, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-08-06 Denied circuit-split constitutional-education fourteenth-amendment government-employee-liability parental-rights school-choice This Court has held for over a century that the Fourteenth Amendment protects the right of parents to control and direct the education of their childr…
25-5279 Evan McCarrick Jerald v. Arizona Arizona 2025-08-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole sentencing-guidelines Under Graham v. Florida, the Eighth Amendment "prohibits the imposition of a life without parole sentence on a juvenile offender who did not commit ho…
25-5278 Reynaldo Alberto Peña v. Texas Texas 2025-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process confrontation-clause due-process fourteenth-amendment polygraph-evidence sixth-amendment If a Trial Court admitted into evidence inculpatory statements made by a defendant during the post-interview portion of a polygraph examination, but e…
25-5265 Jessica M. Graulau Maldonado v. Orange County Public Library System Florida 2025-08-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP due-process fourteenth-amendment material-facts negligence-tort summary-judgment witness-credibility Whether in holding that under federal summary judgment standard there is discretion to dismiss a jury negligence claim after determine credibility of …
25-5264 Craig Alan Sandhaus v. Florida Florida 2025-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-instruction nondeadly-force sixth-amendment trial-counsel Whether the Petitioner's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated when his trial attorneys failed to request a jury instruction on the just…
25-131 David C. L. Walton v. Ashley Nehls Seventh Circuit 2025-08-04 Denied consent constitutional-rights eighth-amendment incarceration prison-official sexual-misconduct Whether the Eighth Amendment, which is interpreted according to "evolving standards of decency," permits a contrary rule that treats an incarcerated p…
25-5261 Byron Black v. Frank Strada, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Corrections, et al. Tennessee 2025-08-01 Denied IFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment execution-method injunctive-relief medical-procedure 1. Where a state government facilitated the implantation of a cardiac defibrillator that has been shown to be very likely to result in severe pain dur…
25-124 Theresa Maria Laws v. Borough of Lansdale, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2025-07-31 Denied Response Waived fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine malicious-prosecution monell-claim probable-cause section-1983 1. Whether lack of probable cause as an element of malicious prosecution under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 is a factual question for the jury? 2. Whether dism…
25-5234 Cathy E. Butler v. Estate of Dana Grace Butler, Deceased, et al. Florida 2025-07-30 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment open-courts probate-administration self-representation 1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause and Fla. Const, art. I, §§ 9 & 21 require meaningful notice, hearing, and written findings be…
25-5239 Robert Largo v. New York New York 2025-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process extrinsic-fraud fourteenth-amendment mandatory-assessment new-york-penal-law victim-surcharge 1. Does imposition of New York Penal Law § 60.35, subdivision 1, as-applied to Petitioner result in State perpetrating extrinsic fraud upon Petitioner…
25-5232 Doina Rosu Almazon v. Town of Oyster Bay, New York Second Circuit 2025-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment municipal-action property-rights Did the Town of Oyster Bay's action in demolishing the plaintiff's nearly completed, rebuilt home violate the due process guarantee under the United S…
25A118 Byron Lewis Black v. Tennessee Tennessee 2025-07-28 Denied atkins-claim death-penalty eighth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-scores medical-standards Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of an individual with intellectual disability when their IQ scores and diagnostic evidence demons…
25-5209 Andrea Nicole Weetly v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2025-07-28 Denied IFP child-support due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-delay modification-motions procedural-compliance 1. Whether a state court's prolonged failure to rule on timely filed child support modification and enforcement motions —despite irrefutable financia…
25-5195 Missouri, ex rel. Steven Albert Martin v. Ann Hansbrough, Presiding Judge, Circuit Court of Platte County, Missouri, et al. Missouri 2025-07-25 Denied IFP declaratory-judgment due-process fiduciary-control fourteenth-amendment judicial-inaction state-court 1. Whether a state court may constitutionally refuse to act on a properly filed Petition for Declaratory Judgment regarding private trusts and fiduci…
25A104 Edward J. Zakrzewski, II v. Florida Florida 2025-07-24 Denied arbitrary-and-capricious cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-override Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit executing a defendant whose death sentences were imposed by bare majority jury votes and judicia…
25A101 John Allen Rubio v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-07-24 Presumed Complete capital-murder eighth-amendment false-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Whether the Eighth Amendment and Sixth Amendment require reversal of a capital murder conviction where trial counsel provided constitutionally ineffec…
25-96 Maryville Baptist Church, et al. v. Andy Beshear, Governor of Kentucky Sixth Circuit 2025-07-24 Denied attorney-fees due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-precedent retroactive-application vested-rights This case presents a classic vehicle for this Court to clarify that a judicial decision which changes legal precedent cannot be applied retroactively …
25-5188 Bethzaeli Safier v. Thelma Woolridge Florida 2025-07-24 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct probate-law 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court 's refusal to review Petitioner 's case permitted a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth A…
25-5175 Rayon Payne v. Eric Parke LaRue, II, et al. Florida 2025-07-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP all-writs-act due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-recusal state-court-procedure supremacy-clause One, whether the Florida Supreme Court's refusal to address federal constitutional issues presented in an original All Writs Petition violates the Sup…
25A93 Kevin Don Foster v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-23 Presumed Complete constitutional-violations death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Question not identified.
25-5182 Ronda Melnychuk-Beselt v. Waldorf=Astoria Management LLC, a Foreign Limited Liability Company, et al. Hawaii 2025-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada-accommodations discovery-sanctions due-process fourteenth-amendment health-information-laws medical-records A. Novel Questions 1. Whether the Court violated foreign Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment rights of the United States Constitution during an attorne…
25A69 Nicholas Lupo, et al. v. Tre Hargett, Tennessee Secretary of State, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-07-17 Presumed Complete ballot-access election-law electoral-college first-amendment fourteenth-amendment presidential-eligibility Question not identified.
25-5136 Christopher Thomas Scamahorn v. Florida Florida 2025-07-17 Denied IFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-offenders meaningful-opportunity rehabilitation Question 1: Whether under the Eighth Amendment as applied to the states via the Fourteenth Amendment, the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause prohibi…
25-59 Joseph Very Sherman, Individually, and as Biological Father, Next Friend, and Natural Guardian of H. M. S., J. C. S., and M. R. S., Minor Children, et al. v. Louis R. Lerner, former Judge, Circuit Court of Virginia, City of Norfolk Virginia 2025-07-16 Denied child-custody due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment liberty-interests parental-rights The trial judge entered an Order (App. 10a-21a) that deprived each of the three child Petitioners of their right to associate with their fit and lovin…
25-5129 Byron Lewis Black v. Tennessee Tennessee 2025-07-16 Denied IFP common-law-prohibition competency-to-execute cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment ford-standard mental-incompetency Whether a state may refuse to provide a process by which a state inmate may prove that he is not competent to be executed because he meets the common …
25-5122 Raheem Brown v. United States Third Circuit 2025-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-testify sixth-amendment Is a criminal defendant's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment right to testify and to receive a fair trial abridged where trial counsel announces to the ju…
25A53 Victor Saldano v. Texas Texas 2025-07-14 Presumed Complete atkins-claim competency-to-execute death-penalty eighth-amendment expert-testimony intellectual-disability Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of an individual with intellectual disability under Atkins v. Virginia when multiple experts, inc…
25-5092 Hussein S. Yousif v. Susan Larson Christensen, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-07-14 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review rule-41 Does Logic disqualify Judicial actions? Statutory provisions Is the first and the fourteenth Amendment meaningless in the Constitution for a Citizen …
25A49 Karyn M. Kelley, Individually and as Trustee of The Karyn M. Kelley Revocable Trust Agreement of July 13, 2016 v. Mary Feeney, et al. New Hampshire 2025-07-11 Presumed Complete due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial probate-court subject-matter-jurisdiction title-dispute Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's due process protections require a jury trial in state probate court proceedings involving title disputes when funda…
25-41 Jan Peters v. Malia M. Cohen, In Her Official Capacity as Chief Fiscal Officer, State Controller of California, and as Trustee of the Unclaimed Property Fund Ninth Circuit 2025-07-11 Denied Amici (3)Response WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment takings-clause unclaimed-property 1. Whether the Controller's actions under color of the California Unclaimed Property Law, Cal. Civ. Proc. Code §§ 1300, et seq. ("UPL"), violate the D…
25-5084 Douglas Manning v. Administrator, East Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2025-07-11 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force prisoner-rights 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…
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 Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause prohibits a state court from rejecting a foreign will that was validly executed and probated in …
25-5083 Michael Bernard Bell v. Florida Florida 2025-07-10 Denied IFP death-penalty eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct witness-recantation Does the Petitioner's execution violate the Eighth and Fourteenth amendments to the United States Constitution when the conduct of the government and …
25-5079 Leon Carter v. Bradley Mlodzik, Warden Seventh Circuit 2025-07-10 Denied IFP counsel-deprivation ex-parte-communication fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-instruction sixth-amendment 1. Should a writ of habeas corpus issue when a bailiff reinstructed the jury in a criminal trial by directing it to continue deliberating until it rea…
25-38 Seth Adam Lilly v. Melissa Ann Lilly Indiana 2025-07-10 Denied contract-clause due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review settlement-agreement state-courts 1. Did the refusal of the Indiana state courts to enforce the Petitioner's rights as unambiguously stated in the Settlement Agreement between the part…
25-37 Theresa England v. Steven R. Siebe, et al. Indiana 2025-07-10 Denied common-law-tort equal-protection fourteenth-amendment joint-employer seventh-amendment third-party-tortfeasor 1. Whether the Indiana courts below violated Petitioner's Fourteenth and Seventh Amendment rights by barring her from pursuing a common law cause of a…
25-5068 Dwayne Anderson v. Ohio Ohio 2025-07-09 Denied IFP bill-of-particulars constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment 1. Was Dwayne Anderson 's right to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation against him violated when the state failed to provide him a …
25-27 Judy A. Brannberg v. Jefferson County Public Schools, et al. Colorado 2025-07-09 Denied Response Waived antitrust charter-school civil-rico due-process fourteenth-amendment rule-55 The questions presented are: Question One: Whether Petitioner is entitled to $2.6 billion in civil RICO default judgment under Rule 55 where Defendan…
25A28 Mica Alexander Martinez v. Christe Quick, Warden Tenth Circuit 2025-07-08 Presumed Complete capital-punishment constitutional-error death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-protocol habeas-corpus Whether the Eighth Amendment permits the imposition and execution of a death sentence in light of systemic delays and potential constitutional errors …
25-5056 Edward Lee Busby, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2025-07-08 Denied IFP atkins-standard cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment expert-testimony intellectual-disability Where the clinical criteria unequivocally establish that a death row inmate is intellectually disabled, and where all the experts -- including the exp…
25-20 Ali Esseily v. Kathy Hochul, Governor of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2025-07-07 Denied appellate-review constitutional-interpretation fourteenth-amendment government-misconduct landlord-fraud legal-procedure 1. Why the second circuit court of appeal misapprehended and misinterpreted the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution as "lacks an arguable basis…
25-5026 C. M. C. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services Texas 2025-07-03 Denied IFP child-protective-services counsel-effectiveness dependency-proceeding due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-rights 1. Did Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment embody Petitioner with the effective assistance of counsel in initial dependency proceeding wher…
25A15 Ali Awad Mahmoud Irsan v. Texas Texas 2025-07-03 Presumed Complete capital-conviction constitutional-review death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment texas-criminal-procedure Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals applied constitutionally adequate standards of review in affirming a capital conviction and death sentence
25-5024 Roy Glenn Reay v. Seth Norris, Warden Wyoming 2025-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof due-process fourteenth-amendment kidnapping-statute sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment The Wyoming Supreme Court has consistently decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the decision of other state courts of la…
24A1287 Kenneth J. Jouppi v. Alaska Alaska 2025-06-26 Presumed Complete alcohol-transportation dry-village eighth-amendment excessive-fines forfeiture mandatory-seizure Whether the Excessive Fines Clause of the Eighth Amendment prohibits the mandatory forfeiture of an aircraft used to transport a small quantity of alc…
24-7491 Richard Jordan v. Mississippi State Executioner, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-06-25 Denied IFP chemical-paralytic constitutional-challenge eighth-amendment lethal-injection method-of-execution prisoner-rights Whether a method-of-execution challenge requires comparing the proposed lethal injection protocol to known alternative methods under the Eighth Amendm…
24-1312 James J. Decoulos v. Board of Registration of Hazardous Waste Site Cleanup Professionals, et al. Massachusetts 2025-06-25 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-deference due-process fourteenth-amendment professional-disciplinary-proceeding statutory-interpretation Whether a state court violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when it defers to a state agency's interpretation of statutes and re…
24-7493 Christopher David Harrell v. Seth Norris, Warden Wyoming 2025-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof due-process fourteenth-amendment kidnapping-statute sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the Wyoming Supreme Court's interpretation of kidnapping statutes unconstitutionally reallocates the burden of proof and violates due process …
24-7495 Jose Mario Lopez Carrillo v. Karin Arnold, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Corrections Center, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-06-25 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Whether ineffective assistance of counsel occurred when discovery was not properly provided and multiple constitutional rights were allegedly violated
24A1279 Richard Jordan v. Mississippi State Executioner, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-06-25 Denied alternative-method chemical-paralytic eighth-amendment execution-protocol lethal-injection midazolam Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the use of a three-drug lethal injection protocol that includes midazolam, a chemical paralytic, and potassium …
24-1300 Andrew John Blount v. Joan Michelle Blount Texas 2025-06-24 Denied community-property due-process evidentiary-burden fourteenth-amendment property-rights sua-sponte Whether a state appellate court violates the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause by sua sponte imposing an unargued, heightened evidentiary burd…
24-7487 Nicholas Noelani D. Smith v. Alabama Alabama 2025-06-24 Denied IFP capital-murder due-process fourteenth-amendment lesser-included-offenses specific-intent voluntary-intoxication Whether a criminal defendant in a capital trial is deprived of his Fourteenth Amendment right to due process when the evidence supports voluntary into…
24A1265 Charles L. Payne, II v. Ohio Ohio 2025-06-23 Presumed Complete due-process fourteenth-amendment harmless-error prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-vouching Whether a trial court violates a defendant's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights by permitting prosecutorial and police vouching for a witness's cre…
24-7457 Thomas Lee Gudinas v. Florida Florida 2025-06-18 Denied IFP constitutional-rights death-penalty eighth-amendment executive-discretion fourteenth-amendment public-records Whether Florida abused its discretion in denying public records and whether the Governor's unbridled discretion in death warrant selection is unconsti…
24A1253 Daniel Raul Santiago Vasquez v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-06-18 Presumed Complete capital-murder death-penalty eighth-amendment extension-of-time post-conviction pro-bono-counsel Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the imposition of a death sentence where the defendant was represented by pro bono counsel during post-convicti…
24-1285 Dongxiao Yue v. Wenbin Yang California 2025-06-17 Denied civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias pro-se-litigant Whether a trial judge's prejudgment, bias, and usurpation of the adversarial role in a civil trial constitutes a violation of due process and equal pr…
24-7442 Patrick L. Booker v. South Carolina South Carolina 2025-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-contempt due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceeding procedural-rights summary-contempt Whether the Due Process Clause requires explicit notice and opportunity to be heard when a court delays criminal contempt punishment by one hour after…
24-7452 Robert Hart v. Beth Mae Hart California 2025-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-estoppel constitutional-principles due-process fourteenth-amendment issue-preclusion judicial-reformation Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits application of the doctrine of issue preclusion to a party who did not participate …
24-1273 Jonathan Phillips v. California California 2025-06-13 Denied due-process equal-protection felony-false-imprisonment fourteenth-amendment nolo-contendere plea-bargaining Does a felony false imprisonment conviction obtained by way of a nolo contendere plea violate due process protections where the defendant was not advi…
24-1269 Jeremiah Curtis-Shanley v. J.G. Connecticut 2025-06-12 Denied constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-speech prior-restraint Whether the State of Connecticut violated the petitioner's First and Fourteenth Amendment rights through a no-contact order that allegedly chilled spe…
24-1263 Jeannine Bedard v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. California 2025-06-11 Denied Response Waived due-process employment-conditions fourteenth-amendment labor-law property-rights vested-rights Did the state courts, including the California Supreme Court, violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by failing to rule on substan…
24-7399 Lake Robinson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment stand-your-ground Whether defense counsel's failure to request a pretrial immunity hearing constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel under the Sixth and Fourteenth …
24-7394 Edwin D. Calligan v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-disqualification procedural-grounds sixth-amendment Whether jurists of reason would find it debatable that a Certificate of Appealability (COA) should have been issued under Slack v. McDaniel after the …
24-1256 Gary Robinson v. Jerry N. Higgins, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-06-09 Denied Response Waived due-process fair-hearing fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure property-rights tax-lien Whether the state of Kentucky violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by enforcing an illegal tax lien, depriving the petitioner o…
24-1250 Art Bullock, et al. v. R-Ranch Property Owners' Association, et al. California 2025-06-06 Denied Response Waived appellate-rules constitutional-authority due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review stare-decisis Whether the California Supreme Court's no-stare-decisis rules violate the Fourteenth Amendment by preventing lower court review of rule constitutional…
24-7360 Daniel David Strader v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-06-05 Denied IFP due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence sentencing Whether a court violates the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments by using a petitioner's silence at sentencing as the sole definitive factor to deny relie…
24-7365 Anthony Floyd Wainwright v. Florida Florida 2025-06-05 Denied IFP brady-violation due-process eighth-amendment mitigating-evidence post-conviction-relief scientific-evidence Whether the Florida Supreme Court's persistent misapprehension of Brady v. Maryland and its progeny deprives Mr. Wainwright of due process rights, and…
24-1235 Suliang Bu v. Missouri Missouri 2025-06-04 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure cross-section-of-community due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial-waiver sixth-amendment Whether the Missouri Court of Appeals erred in holding that a jury trial waiver does not require the record to show the defendant understood all funda…
24-1226 S. G. S. v. S. F. Illinois 2025-06-03 Denied Response Waived child-custody due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure parental-rights Whether a state court may completely remove a parent's constitutionally protected right to the care, custody, and control of their child through a hea…
24-1227 Frank L. Slaughter, Jr. v. Board of Professional Responsibility of the Supreme Court of Tennessee Tennessee 2025-06-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) attorney-licensure disciplinary-proceedings due-process ethical-rules fourteenth-amendment supervisory-authority Whether Tennessee Supreme Court Rule 9 violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by conferring plenary power on a single decision-ma…
24-7343 Christopher Harris v. Officer Lesko, et al. Third Circuit 2025-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-contract kokkonen-rule Where an officer of the court violates the 'Kokkonen rule' by 'enforcing' an on-the-record promise only, who has unambiguously invoked the Fourteenth …
24A1175 Kevin Salvador Golphin v. North Carolina North Carolina 2025-06-02 Presumed Complete cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment juvenile-offender life-without-parole miller-v-alabama rehabilitation Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits sentencing a juvenile offender to life without parole based solely on the nature of the crime without meaningfu…
24-7309 Brandi Abts v. Cynthia Arnold-Abts Nevada 2025-05-28 Denied IFP due-process evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness judicial-misconduct structural-error Whether a District Court Judge committed structural error by abandoning judicial neutrality and violating fundamental fairness during an evidentiary h…
24-1207 Angela Schuncey Richardson v. Krystle Reed Duncan, Corporal Eighth Circuit 2025-05-27 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-split coercion eighth-amendment prison-official-liability prisoner-rights sexual-misconduct Whether a prisoner challenging a prison official's sexual misconduct must plead that the prisoner's participation was coerced in order to state a clai…
24-7246 Tamika Seay v. Lisa James, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-20 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-procedure procedural-fairness Whether procedures by the United States Government satisfy Due Process under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment before depriving Petitioner of life, l…
24-7247 Tamika Seay v. Department of Justice, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plain-error probable-cause substantive-rights Whether the United States Government violated Petitioner's Substantive Rights under the Due Process Clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment, and …
24-7248 Tamika Seay v. Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-procedure procedural-fairness Whether procedures by the United States Government satisfy Due Process under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment before depriving Petitioner of life, l…
24-7252 Issa L. Lamizana, Jr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2025-05-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6)IFP confrontation-clause due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-verdict ramos-unanimity sixth-amendment Whether a non-unanimous verdict can be sustained under Ramos v. Louisiana when the record is silent on jury vote unanimity and what burden of proof ap…
24-1180 Corrine Morgan Thomas, et al. v. Humboldt County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-19 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) civil-rights common-law fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine jury-trial seventh-amendment Whether the Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial in suits at common law is incorporated against the States by the Fourteenth Amendment.
24-7242 Lazarus Casas v. New York New York 2025-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation firearm-possession fourteenth-amendment licensing-regime proper-cause-requirement second-amendment Under the Second and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, may New York punish an individual for failing to comply with the licensing regime…
24-7235 Timmy Orlando Collier v. Michigan Michigan 2025-05-16 Denied IFP due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment jurisdictional-defect Did the district court commit a jurisdictional defect by not following Michigan's law and standards, and did the court of appeals and magistrate judge…
24-7204 Sandra Leigh Tomey v. Bill Howard Property Management, LLC Virginia 2025-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment standing unlawful-detainer Whether the courts violated standing requirements by allowing a fictitious named person to pursue an unlawful detainer action
24-7187 Elizabeth Anne Fitzgibbon v. Adam Paul Fitzgibbon Wisconsin 2025-05-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP divorce-proceedings due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct marital-settlement-agreement Did the trial court violate Elizabeth Fitzgrebon's due process and equal protection rights under the Fourteenth Amendment by losing the parties' final…
24-7172 Erick Alfredo Peralta v. Texas Texas 2025-05-12 Denied IFP capital-murder criminal-sentencing eighth-amendment life-without-parole proportionality texas-penal-code Does the Eighth Amendment prohibit disproportionate sentences, specifically Life Without Parole for capital murder under Texas law when intent is remo…
24-7185 Wayne Johnson v. First District Appellate Project, et al. California 2025-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-fiduciary-duty confidential-communications criminal-defendant fourteenth-amendment public-defender sixth-amendment Whether an attorney appointed at public expense has a fiduciary duty to a criminal defendant to not disclose confidential communications in an environ…
24-7169 Glen Edward Rogers v. Florida Florida 2025-05-09 Denied IFP capital-punishment due-process fourteenth-amendment lethal-injection post-conviction procedural-rules Whether Florida's successive pleading requirements under Rule 3.851(d) violate a capital defendant's due process rights in a post-warrant context and …
24-7151 Zane Michael Floyd v. Jeremy Bean, Warden, et al. Nevada 2025-05-06 Denied IFP atkins-ruling capital-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment intellectual-disability medical-consensus Whether a state may constitutionally execute a defendant who meets the strict medical standard for severe brain damage caused by fetal alcohol exposur…
24-1131 Fei Fei Fan v. Yan Yao Jiang, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-05 Denied circuit-split equitable-tolling fourteenth-amendment thirteenth-amendment trafficking-victims visa-dependency Whether the Ninth Circuit's interpretation of 18 U.S.C. § 1595(c) forecloses equitable tolling and continuing violation principles for trafficking vic…
24-7129 Frank John Richard v. O'Bell T. Winn, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure confrontation-clause equal-protection fourteenth-amendment initial-disclosure pro-se-litigant Does Fed. R. Civ. P. Rule 26(a)(1)(B)(iv) deny Initial Disclosure to incarcerated, pro se litigants, thereby rendering the Confrontation and Equal Pro…
24-7117 Jeffrey Hutchinson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-01 Denied IFP competency-to-execute death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment mental-health panetti-standard Does the Panetti standard for competency to be executed require more than a mere rational understanding of the physical fact of execution, and must it…
24-7087 Jeffrey G. Hutchinson v. Florida, et al. Florida 2025-04-29 Denied IFP constitutional-review criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fundamental-fairness Whether due process requires more than the arbitrary truncation of pending substantive review by an unnoticed death warrant signed midway through acti…
24-7096 Timothy Wayne Calhoun v. Louisiana Louisiana 2025-04-29 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment non-unanimous-jury sixth-amendment Whether non-unanimous jury verdicts violate a criminal defendant's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights
24-1111 Damon Peterson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-04-28 Denied certificate-of-appealability eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-offender life-sentence parole-commission Whether a Certificate of Appealability should have issued for a mandatory life-with-parole sentence for a juvenile offender when the state parole comm…
24-1112 Rolland G. Shoup, II v. Indiana Indiana 2025-04-28 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-foundation fourteenth-amendment officer-testimony Does a state deprive a defendant of their Fourteenth Amendment right to due process of law when it admits adverse evidence not on the basis of a prope…
24-7077 Todd Stephens v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fifth-amendment pro-se-litigant restitution Does imposing a restitution order of $130,220,803.65 derived from speculative calculations and disproportionately exceeding the petitioner's limited n…
24-1107 Jonathan Peoples v. Cook County, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-04-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-behavior overdetention Whether the Eighth Amendment provides the sort of explicit textual source of constitutional protection for 'overdetention' such that the Eighth Amendm…
24-7059 Dennis L. Magee v. Louisiana Louisiana 2025-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-rape constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment non-unanimous-jury sixth-amendment Whether non-unanimous jury verdicts in aggravated rape cases violate a defendant's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights
24-7024 Jesse Scott Fulcher v. Arizona Arizona 2025-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment Whether a state court's failure to disclose material exculpatory evidence violates a criminal defendant's fundamental right to due process as guarante…
24-7009 Leonard Harris v. Nakita Ross, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discovery due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment summary-judgment Whether the district court's dismissal of Petitioner's case without permitting record development deprived Petitioner of a meaningful opportunity to p…
24-6991 Jessica L. Morris v. Jeremy Howard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-04-15 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment Whether certiorari is appropriate due to alleged constitutional violations in criminal proceedings
24-1075 Lecram Omari Sanders v. Virginia Virginia 2025-04-14 Denied Response Waived after-discovered-evidence due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Supreme Court of Virginia erred in affirming the judgment of the Court of Appeals of Virginia, which denied the defendant's motion for a n…
24-6985 R. V., Jr. v. S. V. Texas 2025-04-14 Denied IFP court-appointed-counsel due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness indigent-parent parental-rights Whether an incarcerated and indigent parent in a parental rights termination suit is entitled to court-appointed counsel under the Fourteenth Amendmen…
24-1067 John Wetzel, et al. v. Roy L. Williams Third Circuit 2025-04-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-rights death-row eighth-amendment mental-illness qualified-immunity solitary-confinement Was it clearly established for qualified immunity purposes that long-term solitary confinement for a death-row inmate with a mental illness violated t…
24-6940 Tam Q. Le v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2025-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP allen-charge constitutional-rights fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment non-unanimous-jury sixth-amendment Whether the trial court committed reversible error by providing an Allen charge to a deadlocked jury and whether Mr. Le was convicted by a non-unanimo…
24-6943 Noah Duncan v. The Curators of the University of Missouri, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP disciplinary-procedures due-process ferpa first-amendment fourteenth-amendment student-rights Whether a public university can use a student's disciplinary history from a private institution to impose sanctions, particularly when the history inv…
24-6944 Andrew Isaacs v. Interplex Sunbelt, Inc., et al. Florida 2025-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP fourteenth-amendment judicial-jurisdiction labor-law osha-regulations workers-compensation workplace-safety Whether a Judge of Compensation Claims' jurisdictional ruling over an employee's Fourteenth Amendment claim creates an unconstitutional judicial void …
24-6946 Logan Dyjak v. Stacey Horstman, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-04-08 Denied IFP bodily-movement constitutional-claim due-process fourteenth-amendment procedural-rights summary-judgment Whether the Fourteenth Amendment requires individualized determinations for bodily movement restrictions and whether procedural due process requires a…
24A960 U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for the RMAC Trust, Series 2016-CTT v. Cassandra Fox New York 2025-04-08 Presumed Complete due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mortgage-foreclosure retroactive-legislation takings-clause Whether the retroactive application of New York's Foreclosure Abuse Prevention Act (CPLR § 205-a) to mortgage foreclosure actions filed before its ena…
24-1050 Estate of Te’Juan Johnson v. Amanda Rakes, Administrator of the Estate of Amylyn Slaymaker and Next Friend to the Minor Children G. C. and M. C. Seventh Circuit 2025-04-04 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment police-duty qualified-immunity state-created-danger Whether a theory of liability under the Fourteenth Amendment based on 'state-created danger' is incompatible with the purpose of the Due Process Claus…
24-6927 Bryant Cobb v. Ohio Ohio 2025-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights excessive-bail fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress Whether the Ohio Court of Appeals' affirmation of the denial of Petitioner's motion to suppress violates the Excessive Bail Clause and Fourth Amendmen…
24-6929 Michael James Carson v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-04-04 Denied IFP custodial-interrogation due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment illegal-seizure probable-cause Did the lower courts erroneously fail to acknowledge and apply the correct laws and facts surrounding Petitioner's custodial interrogation, and did po…
24-6931 Ohio, ex rel. David E. Feathers v. Eleventh District Court of Appeals of Ohio, Portage County, et al. Ohio 2025-04-04 Denied IFP custodial-supervision due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection separation-of-powers writ-of-mandamus Whether the use of a sham legal process by the Eleventh District Court of Appeals of Ohio warrants the issuance of a writ of mandamus, prohibition, or…
24-6932 Michael Tanzi v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2025-04-04 Denied IFP death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-recommendation sixth-amendment Whether Florida may limit a jury's penalty phase role under the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments despite the Supreme Court's overruling of Spa…
24-1042 Robert R. Parker, Jr. v. John D. Burnes, et al. Oregon 2025-04-02 Denied Response Waived due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fraudulent-concealment judicial-review systemic-racism Whether the Oregon Supreme Court's denial of the Petition for Judicial Review violates due process and equal protection rights under the Fourteenth Am…
24-1045 City of Los Angeles, California v. Jesus Pimentel, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-04-01 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 burden-of-proof eighth-amendment excessive-fines gross-disproportionality prima-facie-case Does a government defending against an Eighth Amendment excessive fines claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 bear a burden to produce affirmative evidence tha…
24-6893 Jonathan Taum v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment hudson-v-mcmillian prison-guard prisoner-rights Did the Ninth Circuit err when it disregarded Petitioner Taum's argument that Hudson v. McMillian was wrongly decided and should be overruled based on…
24-6894 William J. Wise v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP aging-process compassionate-release district-court eighth-amendment first-step-act medical-conditions Whether the District Court established an improperly high standard for demonstrating 'serious deterioration in physical or mental health because of th…
24-6885 Thomas Creech v. Idaho Idaho 2025-03-28 Denied IFP constitutional-law death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment evolving-standards execution-attempts Should Resweber be overruled?
24-6887 Rufus Rivers, et al. v. James Smith, Jr. South Carolina 2025-03-28 Denied IFP due-process fourteenth-amendment implied-agreement landlord-tenant procedural-rights property-law Whether the state Supreme Court's decision finding a landlord-tenant relationship based on an implied rental agreement violated the Petitioners' due p…
24-6880 Charles Christopher Wendell v. Florida Florida 2025-03-27 Denied IFP due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-impeachment Whether failure to adequately impeach a witness, challenge other crimes evidence, investigate witnesses, request medical examination, and object to pr…
24-6859 Cecil Ray v. Angela Phams, Warden, et al. Georgia 2025-03-26 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment right-to-counsel state-courts Whether the Georgia State Courts violated the petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment due process rights by denying access to case records for direct appeal…
24-6847 Richard Darren Emery v. Missouri Missouri 2025-03-25 Denied IFP death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment impartiality religious-consideration sentencing Does a sentencing court violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when it invokes a defendant's lack of spirituality—while crediting …
24-6855 Eric Rogers v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP curative-instructions due-process fourteenth-amendment pretrial-conduct trial-court witness-identification Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment require a new trial when a witness's in-court identification of the defendant is tainted by su…
24-1010 Raphael Weitzman v. Committee on Grievances for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Second Circuit 2025-03-21 Denied Response Waived attorney-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment professional-conduct Whether the lower Court violated attorney's rights as to Due Process under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments and Equal Protection under the Fourteen…
24-1000 In Re Michael Prete 2025-03-20 Denied Relisted (2) due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment first-amendment fourth-amendment sixth-amendment Did the R.I. Judiciary violate multiple constitutional rights through retaliatory actions, improper evidence handling, and procedural misconduct?
24-6806 Torrey-Tyree Lewis v. Wilmington Savings Fund Society Pennsylvania 2025-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure procedural-due-process property-seizure replevin Does the seizure of all the Petitioners' belongings, without providing notice or obtaining consent, and based on a writ that wasn't addressed to the P…
24-993 Gabriel Olivier v. City of Brandon, Mississippi, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-03-18 Granted Amici (32)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) civil-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment heck-v-humphrey prospective-relief section-1983 Whether Heck v. Humphrey bars § 1983 claims seeking purely prospective relief where the plaintiff has been punished under a law challenged as unconsti…
24A274 Marcellus Williams v. Missouri, ex rel. Michael L. Parson, Governor of Missouri, et al. Missouri 2025-03-18 Denied actual-innocence capital-punishment clemency death-penalty eighth-amendment post-conviction-relief Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a death row inmate who has presented substantial new evidence of actual innocence after his or…
24-6775 Edward Thomas James v. Florida Florida 2025-03-17 Denied IFP constitutional-error death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment evolving-standards-of-decency non-unanimous-jury Whether a state law prohibiting Florida courts from considering evolving standards of decency may preclude a death row inmate from challenging a non-u…
24-6778 Jessie Hoffman v. Gary Westcott, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-03-16 Dismissed IFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment execution-method nitrogen-gassing religious-freedom rluipa Whether a method of execution that superadds psychological suffering violates the Eighth Amendment's bar on cruel and unusual punishment; Whether exec…
24-6769 Maylois Bacot, aka Maylois Conerly Price, aka Maylois Conerly, aka Maylois Price v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Ameriquest Mortgage Securities, Inc., Asset-Backed Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2005-R4 Louisiana 2025-03-14 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-speech right-to-petition Whether the court violated the Petitioner's First Amendment right to freedom of speech and right to petition the court, and whether the court's proced…
24-6773 Jerry Jeron Daniels v. Pennsylvania Parole Board Pennsylvania 2025-03-14 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment parole-board sixth-amendment Whether the Pennsylvania courts erred in denying the petitioner's appeal of the Pennsylvania Parole Board's decision and violating his constitutional …
24-6757 Caed Brawner v. Florida Florida 2025-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole Whether a sentence of mandatory life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on a teenager violates the prohibition of cruel and unusual punish…
24-973 Justin Savage v. Henry County School District Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-12 Denied civil-rights due-process eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment petition-for-rehearing Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals' dismissal of the petition for rehearing without providing reasoning violates the petitioner's due proce…
24-978 Kristopher Paul Hochendoner v. Michael J. King, Executor of the Estate of James E. King Pennsylvania 2025-03-12 Denied default-notice due-process fourteenth-amendment property-rights sheriff-sale subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by failing to set aside a sheriff's sale due to …
24-6748 Clifford Charles Galley, II v. Colorado Colorado 2025-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP consecutive-sentences constitutional-proportionality cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment life-without-parole sentencing Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment requires consideration of aggregate, consecutive sentences amounting t…
24-6711 Kris Chapter Jackson v. Soave Automotive Group, Inc., et al. Kansas 2025-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review vexatious-litigant Whether a lower court's vexatious litigant order violates due process rights and is immediately appealable
24A850 Dieudruch Emmanuel v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-04 Presumed Complete controlled-substance-distribution fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment sixth-amendment spousal-privilege Whether the admission of privileged spousal communications and erroneous role-in-offense determinations in a drug distribution prosecution violated th…
24-941 Wayne Sellers, IV v. Colorado Colorado 2025-03-03 Denied Response Waived diminished-culpability eighth-amendment felony-murder life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing penological-goals Whether a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for felony murder, imposed on a defendant who did not kill or inte…
24-6685 Rodney Douglas Eaves v. Ms. Kory, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-03-03 Denied IFP covid-19 eighth-amendment injunctive-relief mootness prisoner-rights pro-se-complaint Whether COVID-19 exposure in prison constitutes an Eighth Amendment violation and whether transfer between state institutions moots injunctive relief
24-6673 Israel Romero v. Meta Platforms Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-02-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP court-of-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment half-truth judicial-bias procedural-error Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteen Amendment requires recusal of a judge when there are multiple instances of bias, including half-truths,…
24A836 Cedric Allen Ricks v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-02-28 Presumed Complete capital-case certificate-of-appealability federal-habeas-corpus fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth Circuit properly denied a Certificate of Appealability in a capital habeas corpus proceeding involving alleged Fifth, Sixth, and Fou…
24-934 Edward Turnbull, IV v. Board of Directors of the State Bar of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-02-27 Denied Response Waived administrative-proceedings civil-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment injunctive-relief standing Whether private citizens have standing to seek injunctive relief against local and state officials to compel them to conduct administrative proceeding…
24-928 Zackery Terrell v. Texas Texas 2025-02-26 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment suggestion-of-reconsideration Whether the denial of the Applicant's Suggestion of Reconsideration violates the Eighth Amendment protection against cruel and unusual punishment and …
24-6639 Mario Ayala Alfaro v. California California 2025-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP common-law-infant criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment jurisdictional-defect mens-rea Whether punishing a common-law infant without requisite knowledge and mens rea violates the Eighth Amendment and due process rights when the defendant…
24-6646 Randy Allen Herman, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insanity-defense involuntary-act sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner was deprived of effective assistance of counsel in violation of his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constituti…
24-6628 Adrin Smack v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, et al. Third Circuit 2025-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof disputed-facts due-process fourteenth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence sentencing Was Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment due process right violated when a Delaware State Sentencing Court applied a minimal indicia of reliability burde…
24-6608 Felix Pusey v. Florida Florida 2025-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP eighth-amendment firearm-possession juvenile-offender mandatory-minimum second-amendment sixth-amendment Whether a Florida statute criminalizing firearm possession for individuals under 24 with prior juvenile felony adjudications violates the Second Amend…
24-6602 Amia Young-Trezvant v. Lone Star College System Fifth Circuit 2025-02-20 Denied IFP court-documents due-process equal-access fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure notification-systems Did the lower court's failure to ensure timely delivery of judgment and opinion documents violate due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment, a…
24-6604 Siddhanth Sharma v. Alan Hirsch, Chairman of North Carolina State Board of Elections, in His Official Capacity, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-02-20 Denied IFP ballot-access candidate-qualifications election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment voter-privacy Whether a North Carolina law requiring felony disclosure for congressional candidates and displaying voter addresses violates constitutional rights an…
24-6578 Donald Lee Billings v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2025-02-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights equal-protection fair-cross-section fourteenth-amendment jury-selection systematic-exclusion Whether courts can establish a clear methodology for assessing fair representation of distinctive groups in jury selection and what constitutes system…
24-6548 Kynnedi'Rae Joan Charles v. Officer Gary Wayne Chambers, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-12 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement Whether law enforcement's involvement in a private vehicle repossession potentially violates constitutional protections under the Fourth and Fourteent…
24-853 Rory Douglas Wilson v. Idaho Idaho 2025-02-11 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-liberties constitutional-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech municipal-ordinance Whether Moscow's ordinance or prosecution of Wilson violates the First or Fourteenth Amendments
24-854 Mark Miller, et al. v. Jane Nelson, Texas Secretary of State, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-02-11 Denied Response Waived anderson-burdick-test ballot-access election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-party-rights Whether a statutory scheme compelling candidates and political parties to spend substantial funds to qualify for the ballot violates the First and Fou…
24-6514 Phillip Jason Garrett v. Kansas Kansas 2025-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP confession-voluntariness fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment interrogation-deception law-enforcement-tactics miranda-warnings Whether law enforcement quasi-legal representations about a truth verification machine's accuracy, combined with deceptive interrogation tactics and m…
24-6531 Mary Ruffin v. Mark Henry Texas 2025-02-10 Dismissed IFP court-fees fourteenth-amendment judicial-authority jurisdictional-challenge mandamus-writ procedural-due-process Whether multiple procedural due process violations occurred in a case involving jurisdictional challenges, court fees, and judicial authority under th…
24-6510 James D. Ford v. Florida Florida 2025-02-08 Denied IFP death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment evolving-standards fourteenth-amendment post-conviction-relief Whether Florida's use of the 'conformity clause' in the Florida constitution improperly violates Ford's Fourteenth Amendment Due Process rights and hi…
24A767 Jacob Brown v. Tennessee Tennessee 2025-02-07 Presumed Complete constitutional-relief eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole post-conviction Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments require resentencing or the possibility of parole for juveniles convicted of first-degree murder
24-831 Eddie Lee Evans v. James Hill, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-02-05 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment murder-charge supreme-court-precedent Whether a 17-year unjustified delay in filing a murder charge violated petitioner's due process rights under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments
24-837 Anne Francisco, et al. v. Jason England, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-02-05 Denied Response Waived corrections-staff deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment mental-health qualified-immunity suicide-watch Whether evidence of violations of suicide intervention procedures constitutes deliberate indifference under the Eighth Amendment for denying prompt me…
24-824 Bernice M. Rutland v. Regions Bank, as Trustee of the William Hunter Rutland Family Trust Mississippi 2025-02-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) chancery-court due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-notice rule-56 summary-judgment Whether a Chancery Judge has jurisdiction to modify a final divorce order thirteen years after the original ruling, without a Rule 59 motion or appeal…
24-6449 Belinda Jones v. Jeremy Howard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-02-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP due-process false-testimony fourteenth-amendment legal-conflict napue-standard trial-fairness Whether the Fourteenth Amendment is violated when lower courts' legal standard for false testimony claims conflicts with the Supreme Court's standard …
24-6450 Jason Orlando Rios v. Florida Florida 2025-02-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment florida-law post-conviction-relief sexual-battery Whether a Florida court's denial of post-conviction relief for a sexual battery conviction violates the petitioner's constitutional rights under the E…
24-819 Larry E. Parrish v. Supreme Court of Tennessee Tennessee 2025-02-03 Denied due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias recusal structural-error subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether Rule 10B of the Tennessee Supreme Court Rules constitutes a structural constitutional violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clau…
24-809 Howard Goldey, Associate Warden, et al. v. Andrew Fields, III, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-01-30 Judgment Issued Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) bivens-action constitutional-damages eighth-amendment excessive-force federal-officers judicial-remedy Whether an implied cause of action exists for Eighth Amendment excessive force claims against federal officers and whether the Court should reconsider…
24A747 Corrine Morgan Thomas, et al. v. County of Humboldt, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-30 Presumed Complete civil-penalties due-process fourteenth-amendment incorporation jury-trial seventh-amendment Whether the Fourteenth Amendment incorporates the Seventh Amendment's right to a jury trial against the states in civil proceedings involving substant…
24-6408 Clinton Folkes v. South Carolina, et al. South Carolina 2025-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-preservation retroactivity state-court Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection is violated when a state court conditions the retroactivity of a new rule of criminal…
24-6383 Christian Ricker v. Indiana Indiana 2025-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance post-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the state appellate court's ruling on a criminal defendant's post-conviction claims of prosecutorial misconduct and ineffective assistance of …
24-791 Barry J. Byrnes v. Sylvia Marie Byrnes Tenth Circuit 2025-01-24 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy-procedure constitutional-rights district-court-review eighth-amendment judicial-sanctions jury-trial-right Did the bankruptcy judge enter an illegal judgment and violate Petitioner's right to a jury trial in district court on the tort claims?
24-6356 RonAllen Hardy v. Tennessee Tennessee 2025-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP brain-development cognitive-maturity cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing miller-principles Whether sentencing a young adult to life without parole violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment when the offe…
24-774 Reginald Keith Clark v. Colorado Colorado 2025-01-22 Denied Amici (2)Response WaivedRelisted (2) for-cause-challenge fourteenth-amendment jury-selection racial-bias sixth-amendment trial-court-discretion Whether a trial court violates a defendant's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights when it erroneously denies a for-cause challenge to a racially bias…
24-6342 A. B. v. Florida Department of Children and Families Florida 2025-01-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-review due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights judicial-procedure Whether the lower court's de novo review of constitutional claims violated the petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment due process rights and right to a fai…
24-773 Joshua Wade v. University of Michigan Michigan 2025-01-21 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) campus-carry constitutional-rights firearm-possession fourteenth-amendment second-amendment sensitive-places Whether the Second and Fourteenth Amendments allow a criminal ordinance that prohibits mere possession of firearms on an entire poorly-delineated univ…
24A718 Kai D. Ingram v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, et al. Third Circuit 2025-01-21 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus parole-revocation preliminary-hearing Whether a state parole board's failure to provide a preliminary hearing within fourteen days of a parole revocation arrest violates a parolee's proced…
24-6337 Sirhan B. Sirhan v. California California 2025-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment governor-discretion parole-review youth-offender-protections Does California Constitution Article V, Section 8(b) violate the U.S. Constitution's Due Process Clause by allowing a publicly elected Governor to rev…
24-6320 Aaron Abadi v. Eric L. Adams, et al. Second Circuit 2025-01-16 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights executive-powers first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review vaccine-mandate Whether COVID-19 vaccine mandates violate individual constitutional rights and the scope of executive emergency powers
24-6317 James Anthony Gray v. Kentucky Kentucky 2025-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP alternative-perpetrator due-process fourteenth-amendment kentucky-constitution structural-error supreme-court-rule Did the failure by the Kentucky Supreme Court to adjudicate the claims of error challenging the two murder convictions deny Anthony of his right to a …
24A698 Randy W. Duck v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2025-01-15 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment method-of-execution prisoner-rights Whether a state corrections director's denial of a prisoner's request for a specific method of execution violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition o…
24-6313 Eric St. George v. Jason Lengerich, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-01-15 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admission fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness propensity-evidence Does the admission of unrelated weapons evidence render a criminal trial fundamentally unfair under the Fourteenth Amendment, notwithstanding prior pr…
24-6300 Pablo Gutierrez v. Florida Florida 2025-01-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment interpreter-rights sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner was deprived of his rights to due process and confrontation under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, where the interpreter was pr…
24A688 Thomas Creech v. Idaho Idaho 2025-01-14 Presumed Complete botched-execution cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-attempt resweber-precedent Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits a second execution attempt after a botched first attempt that poses a substantial risk of serious harm or cruel…
24-6278 In Re Sherly Cadet 2025-01-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights contract-enforcement fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigant racial-discrimination section-1981 Whether the Second Circuit erred in dismissing a pro se litigant's appeal challenging the interpretation of 42 U.S.C. §1981 and the right to be heard
24A680 Katie Garding v. Montana Department of Corrections Ninth Circuit 2025-01-13 Presumed Complete circuit-split federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment strickland-standard Whether a federal appellate court retains jurisdiction to review a habeas petition when the underlying state criminal conviction has been vacated and …
24-6263 William S. Hurt, III v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-01-10 Denied IFP due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment oklahoma-court-of-criminal-appeals post-conviction-dna statutory-rights Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals violated the petitioner's statutory rights under the Oklahoma Post-Conviction DNA testing statute and F…
24-722 Larry E. Parrish, P.C. v. Nancy Strong, et al. Tennessee 2025-01-10 Denied Response Waived due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-recusal structural-constitutional-right subject-matter-jurisdiction williams-precedent Whether Rule 10B of the Rules of Tennessee Supreme Court constitutes a structural constitutional violation under the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Proces…
24A675 Jermaine Alexander Foster v. Florida Florida 2025-01-10 Presumed Complete capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment intellectual-disability postconviction-relief supreme-court-review Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a death-sentenced inmate with an intellectual disability claim that was rejected by the Florid…
24-6248 Kenneth Brown v. Robert Adams, Jr., Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-01-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-homicide due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance proximate-causation sixth-amendment Whether trial counsel was ineffective for failing to request a jury instruction on proximate causation in a criminal homicide case and whether conflic…
24-6231 Emmanuel Zleh Totaye, Jr. v. Iowa Iowa 2025-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fair-trial fourteenth-amendment inconsistent-verdict reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Does an inconsistent verdict in a criminal case violate a defendant's right to a fair trial under the Sixth Amendment and their right to be found guil…
24A659 Karl Douglas Roberts v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2025-01-02 Presumed Complete certiorari circuit-court death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus time-extension Whether the Eighth Amendment permits the execution of a death row inmate after a significant delay in seeking federal habeas review
24-6209 Edvin Santiagomazariegos v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent Whether trial counsel's performance deprived Petitioner of his Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel as made applicable by the Four…
24A637 Davone Unique Anderson v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-12-30 Presumed Complete capital-punishment criminal-culpability death-penalty eighth-amendment intellectual-disability supreme-court-review Whether the Eighth Amendment permits the imposition of a death sentence where the defendant's intellectual disability substantially impairs his capaci…
24A638 John Paul Gomez v. Judge Dan Favreau, et al. Ohio 2024-12-30 Presumed Complete access-to-courts constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment vexatious-litigator Whether a state court's vexatious litigator designation violates a pro se litigant's constitutional rights to access the courts and seek judicial redr…
24A626 Larry E. Parrish v. Supreme Court of Tennessee Tennessee 2024-12-26 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment impartial-judge judicial-recusal structural-right Whether a state supreme court rule requiring timely judicial recusal motions violates a litigant's structural due process right to an impartial judge …
24A627 United States v. Steven Zorn, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-12-26 Presumed Complete civil-penalty eighth-amendment excessive-fines false-claims-act medicaid-fraud qui-tam Whether the Excessive Fines Clause of the Eighth Amendment limits the civil penalty amount in qui tam False Claims Act cases where the government decl…
24A619 Tonia Scott v. Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2024-12-20 Presumed Complete criminal-prosecution due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction native-american tribal-sovereignty Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's due process protections are violated when a state court fails to properly consider tribal jurisdiction and sovereig…
24-6178 Michael Harvel v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-12-19 Denied IFP civil-rights color-of-law eighth-amendment kidnapping sexual-assault statute-of-limitations Whether 18 U.S.C. § 242 allows the death penalty for state actor sexual assault and kidnapping under color of law, triggering an unlimited statute of …
24A608 Miguel Adan Cayetano v. Texas Texas 2024-12-19 Presumed Complete confrontation-clause due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause and Sixth Amendment Right of Confrontation were violated by alleged collusion between a District…
24-6172 Tyrone T. Johnson v. Florida Florida 2024-12-18 Denied IFP arbitrary-capricious capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment proportionality-review Has the Florida Supreme Court misapplied Pulley v. Harris and rendered Florida's capital sentencing scheme unconstitutional by abandoning comparative …
24A602 Zackery Terrell v. Texas Texas 2024-12-18 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance plea-bargain right-to-counsel sentencing-guidelines Whether ineffective assistance of counsel occurs when a criminal defense attorney provides misinformation about plea bargains, fails to appeal the suf…
24A595 Wayne Sellers, IV v. Colorado Colorado 2024-12-17 Presumed Complete criminal-culpability eighth-amendment felony-murder life-without-parole proportionality youth-sentencing Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits a mandatory life sentence without parole for a felony murder defendant who did not kill or intend to kill and w…
24-650 Robert Lee Webb v. Virginia Virginia 2024-12-16 Denied circumstantial-evidence fourteenth-amendment jury-instruction meaningful-defense sixth-amendment trial-court-error Whether the trial court's refusal to give a Virginia Model Jury Instruction on Circumstantial Evidence violated the appellant's Sixth and Fourteenth A…
24-6142 Warren Lee Weisman v. Charles E. Clark Washington 2024-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias linguistic-drift Whether courts have deviated from the original constitutional intent through linguistic drift and bias, undermining due process and the self-correctin…
24A576 Indiana Green Party, et al. v. Diego Morales, Indiana Secretary of State Seventh Circuit 2024-12-12 Presumed Complete ballot-access election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-parties signature-requirements Whether Indiana's ballot access statutory scheme imposing substantial financial burdens on new political parties violates the First and Fourteenth Ame…
24-6123 Michael Ray Senn v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-status penalty-enhancement sexual-assault Does a penalty provision of the Texas sexual assault statute that increases penalties based on marital status violate the Equal Protection Clause of t…
24-6105 Ryan Lewis Hilyard v. Wyoming Wyoming 2024-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection federal-rules-of-evidence fourteenth-amendment procedural-default strickland-standard Did the Wyoming Supreme Court apply federal rules of evidence correctly and deny Mr. Hilyard's Fourteenth Amendment right to effective assistance of c…
24-6108 Sixto Jorge Diaz-Colon v. United States First Circuit 2024-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment procedural-rules sixth-amendment Whether an appellate court violates due process by dismissing an appeal based solely on procedural deficiencies without addressing substantial constit…
24-6093 Garland Ray Gregory, Jr. v. South Dakota South Dakota 2024-12-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-client-relationship due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel Whether South Dakota's statutory appointment of counsel for indigent prisoners in habeas proceedings violates the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protect…
24-6098 Timothy R. Brown v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2024-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-resentencing double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment reasonable-doubt Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires retroactive application of a new rule of law in criminal resentencing, and whether cons…
24-6086 Curtis James McGarvey v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lasciviousness-standard sexual-exploitation sixth-amendment Whether the application of the Dost factors is appropriate in determining the lasciviousness standard for attempted sexual exploitation of a minor und…
24-625 Elana Thibault v. State Bar of California California 2024-12-06 Denied Response Waived attorney-discipline due-process fourteenth-amendment professional-misconduct property-interest state-bar Does the suspension from practice of law and imposition of monetary sanctions by methods that deviate from the prescribed means and offend the sense o…
24-6075 Lamar Williams v. Alyeska Seafoods, Inc. Alaska 2024-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violations fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment government-funding labor-law Whether the plaintiff seeks judicial review of potential constitutional and labor law violations by Alyeska Seafood company and government agencies
24-6076 Reginald Wright v. Virginia Department of Child Support Enforcement, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-support constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction legal-proceedings Did the false information and improper jurisdiction in a child support case violate the petitioner's constitutional due process and civil rights?
24-6058 Blaine Keith Milam v. Texas Texas 2024-12-04 Denied Amici (1)IFP adaptive-behavior atkins-standard clinical-assessment eighth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-testing Did the state court violate Atkins v. Virginia by improperly assessing intellectual disability through a single IQ score and incomplete adaptive behav…
24-609 James L. Martin v. David H. Nixon Delaware 2024-12-04 Denied civil-judgment due-process-clause escheat fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment takings-clause Do the Fifth Amendment Takings Clause and the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause protect a civil judgment creditor from escheat when the judgment…
24-612 Paul A. Eknes-Tucker, et al. v. Steven T. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-04 Dismissed due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment medical-treatment parental-rights transgender-rights Whether Alabama's Treatment Ban triggers heightened scrutiny under the Equal Protection Clause and Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment for …
24A540 Timothy R. Brown v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2024-12-04 Presumed Complete constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-resentencing due-process fourteenth-amendment retroactive-rule Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires retroactive application of a new rule of law defining a criminal offense element when t…
24-6057 Luis Alfredo Aparicio v. Texas Texas 2024-12-03 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8)IFP constitutional-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment gender-classification non-discrimination scrutiny-standard Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's equal-protection clause requires heightened scrutiny for gender-based classifications that claim non-prejudiced rat…
24-607 Zhi Wu, et al. v. Superior Court of California, Alameda County, et al. California 2024-12-03 Denied access-to-justice civil-procedure discovery-referee due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment Whether the appointment of a discovery referee without considering financial hardship and using an unfair selection process violates due process, equa…
24A533 Adeena Weiss-Ortiz v. Carolina Weiss, et al. Florida 2024-12-03 Presumed Complete due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment independent-judgment proposed-judgment trial-court Whether a trial court's verbatim adoption of a proposed judgment submitted by one party, without independent analysis or addressing contrary evidence,…
24-6050 Lolita Barthel v. Florida Florida 2024-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection juvenile-offender sentence-review Whether juvenile offenders are entitled to sentence review under the Eighth Amendment and Equal Protection Clause when serving consecutive sentences
24A525 Mark Miller, et al. v. Jane Nelson, Texas Secretary of State, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-12-02 Presumed Complete ballot-access constitutional-burden election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-parties Whether a state's ballot access requirements that impose substantial financial burdens on minor political parties violate the First and Fourteenth Ame…
24-6045 Shawn M. Berila v. Tom Watson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP district-court due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure procedural-rights report-and-recommendation Whether a petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment due process rights are violated when a district court does not allow an extension to object to a report an…
24A523 Willie R. Burgess, Jr. v. Alabama Alabama 2024-11-27 Presumed Complete capital-murder death-penalty eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing postconviction state-review Whether the Eighth Amendment permits the imposition of a death sentence following a capital murder conviction where the defendant was denied an eviden…
24-6034 David Lee Hering v. Iowa District Court, Muscatine County Iowa 2024-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legislative-mandate Does the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments' due process of law guarantee apply to criminal sentencing when a district court refuses to impose a legislat…
24-6042 David Leonard Wood v. Texas Texas 2024-11-26 Denied IFP atkins-standard criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics Whether the Due Process Clause requires judicial disqualification when a judge presides over a case after publicly commenting on a prior ruling in the…
24-6026 Ana Ortiz, aka Ana Lopez v. Circuit Court of Illinois, Lake County Illinois 2024-11-25 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process family-court fourteenth-amendment legal-representation sixth-amendment Does the absence of counsel and transcripts in family court proceedings violate constitutional due process rights under the Fourteenth and Sixth Amend…
24-6027 In Re Pierre Haobsh 2024-11-25 Denied Relisted (3)IFP constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus search-and-seizure Whether the State of California violated the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights of the petitioner through unconstitutional search and seizure prac…
24-572 Reginald Pittman, By and Through His Guardian and Next Friend, Robin M. Hamilton, v. Madison County, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-11-22 Denied due-process evidence-exclusion fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-instruction pre-trial-detainee Did the Circuit Court improperly impair the plaintiff's due process right to a fair trial by sustaining the jury's verdict and failing to order a new …
24-6017 Hanoi Hormachea v. Haridas Bhadja, in His Official Capacity as Chief Medical Officer at Okeechobee Correctional Institution Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-exhaustion civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment section-1983 Whether the Eleventh Circuit improperly dismissed an appeal when the petitioner had exhausted administrative remedies under Florida administrative reg…
24-565 Linnea W. v. Matthew P. New York 2024-11-20 Denied constitutional-rights counsel-representation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-fees state-court-procedure May a state court contravene its own state laws requiring legal fees and counsel representation, potentially violating the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendm…
24A503 Latausha Simmons v. City of Southfield, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-11-20 Presumed Complete civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment indigent-litigant property-deprivation section-1983 Whether the Fourteenth Amendment permits dismissal of a pro se civil rights action based on procedural deficiencies when the plaintiff is an indigent …
24-560 Dennis Hopkins, et al. v. Michael Watson, Mississippi Secretary of State Fifth Circuit 2024-11-19 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) constitutional-law eighth-amendment equal-protection felony-disenfranchisement fourteenth-amendment voting-rights Does Mississippi's lifetime felony disenfranchisement scheme violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishments?
24-5993 Carey Grayson v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-19 Denied IFP conscious-suffocation cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment execution-method nitrogen-hypoxia superadded-terror Does the Eighth Amendment prohibit a method of execution involving conscious suffocation or superadded terror?
24-5994 David Rodriguez v. Texas Texas 2024-11-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion due-process fourteenth-amendment right-to-counsel right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment Did the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas err in holding that the trial court did not abuse its discretion and violate Rodriguez's Fourteenth Amendme…
24-549 Stephen B. Grant, on Behalf of the United States and the State of Iowa v. Steven Zorn, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-11-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) civil-penalty eighth-amendment excessive-fines-clause false-claims-act qui-tam statutory-damages Whether the False Claims Act's statutory civil penalty must be limited to a single-digit multiplier of actual damages under the Eighth Amendment's Exc…
24-5980 Vernell Moore v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP district-court-discretion eighth-amendment methamphetamine-enhancement proportionality-of-punishment sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines Whether the District Court and Sixth Circuit erred in applying the 10:1 methamphetamine enhancement under U.S.S.G. §2D1.1 given potential constitution…
24-5952 M. C. v. Washington State Department of Children, Youth & Families Washington 2024-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-welfare constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-rights procedural-deficiencies Whether the termination of parental rights without substantial evidence of unfitness violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
24-5960 Christopher Patrick McGowan v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-11-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment grand-jury preliminary-hearing probable-cause Did the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas violate the petitioner's Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights through improper judicial proced…
24-5967 Robert Emert v. Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division One, et al. California 2024-11-13 Denied IFP access-to-justice due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment vexatious-litigant-statute Are the State of California courts at multiple levels violating self-represented litigants' constitutional rights to due process and equal protection …
24-5950 Terry Eugene Iversen v. David Pedro, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2024-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment life-sentence public-indecency recidivist Whether a life sentence without parole for recidivist public indecency violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment
24A464 Daniel O. Conahan, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-08 Presumed Complete brady-violation certificate-of-appealability eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments require a new trial or resentencing where the prosecution withheld material exculpatory evidence …
24-521 Bethany Farber v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-11-07 Denied Response Waived fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment section-1983 substantive-due-process unreasonable-seizures wrongful-detention Whether the right against wrongful detention falls under the Fourth Amendment's proscription against unreasonable seizures or the Fourteenth Amendment…
24-5930 Anthony Tawon Williams v. Georgia Georgia 2024-11-07 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment merger-errors sentencing Whether a criminal defendant's sentence violates the Fourteenth Amendment's due process rights when the trial court refuses to correct merger errors a…
24A448 Christopher Michael Montoya v. Arizona Arizona 2024-11-05 Presumed Complete capital-case for-cause-strike fourteenth-amendment jury-selection sixth-amendment witherspoon-standard Whether the Arizona Supreme Court improperly applied precedent in denying a for-cause challenge to a biased juror in a capital case, thereby violating…
24-5904 Allen Ward Cox v. Florida Florida 2024-11-04 Denied IFP brain-damage cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment evolving-standards medical-condition mental-impairment Whether the Petitioner's medical condition involving brain damage and dementia constitutes cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment bas…
24-499 Nita A. v. A. A. Illinois 2024-11-01 Denied domestic-violence due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment ninth-amendment personal-jurisdiction Whether the Illinois Domestic Violence Act violated Nita's First, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights by interfering with her parent-child relation…
24A438 Montana, et al. v. Planned Parenthood of Montana, et al. Montana 2024-11-01 Presumed Complete abortion due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-decision-making minor-rights parental-consent Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause protects parents' fundamental right to make healthcare decisions for their minor children by all…
24-488 Fadi Georges Ghanem v. Texas Texas 2024-10-31 Denied Response Waived due-process felony-penalties fourteenth-amendment legal-framework medical-practice state-courts Whether state laws criminalizing medical practice through felony penalties that create an unworkable legal framework violate the Due Process Clause of…
24-5877 Holston Banks, III v. John H. Spence Fifth Circuit 2024-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights district-court eighth-amendment judicial-error legal-framing pleading-rules Did the district court commit judicial error by dismissing a complaint based on legal framing when the factual allegations supported an Eighth Amendme…
24-5839 Jordan Powell v. JBG Smith Properties, LP First Residences, et al. District of Columbia 2024-10-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights-removal fourteenth-amendment remand-review statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction thirteenth-amendment Whether the civil rights removal statute 28 U.S.C. Section 1443 permits removal remand review according to the text thereof where Subsection 1447(d) d…
24-5833 Douglas Fauconier v. Virginia Fourth Circuit 2024-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment parole-eligibility section-1983 strict-scrutiny Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments' Due Process Clauses require strict scrutiny review of a state statute amendment affecting parole eligibil…
24A411 Donald Sherman v. William Gittere, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-28 Presumed Complete capital-punishment eighth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit writ-of-certiorari Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a capital defendant whose underlying conviction or sentence may have been tainted by ineffecti…
24A406 Deshawn Drumgo v. Sergeant William Kuschel Third Circuit 2024-10-25 Presumed Complete civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment prison-conditions punitive-damages sexual-assault Whether the Eighth Amendment permits a substantial punitive damages award for an inmate's sexual assault claim where the jury found no compensable phy…
24-5816 Terrance A. Burlison v. Jerry W. Benefield, dba Green Oaks Manor Mobile Home Park Florida 2024-10-24 Denied IFP appellate-procedure dismissal due-process florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment procedural-rules Whether the Florida Supreme Court violated the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause by entering an order of dismissal before the time prescribed …
24A399 Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. v. Wisconsin Elections Commission, et al. Wisconsin 2024-10-23 Presumed Complete ballot-access candidate-qualification election-law fourteenth-amendment insurrection-clause state-election-commission Whether a state election commission can constitutionally remove a presidential candidate from a primary ballot based on alleged insurrection-related d…
24-448 Oskana Marinaro v. Parks Ziegler, PLLC Virginia 2024-10-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review attorney-fees due-process fourteenth-amendment pro-se-representation state-law Whether a state appellate court can refuse full appellate review without a transcript when state law requires review based on written pleadings
24-5796 Deandre Arnold v. Chad Chronister, Sheriff, Hillsborough County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-22 Denied IFP constitutional-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias prosecutorial-immunity standing Whether a petitioner lacks standing to sue a Sheriff's Office for alleged First and Fourteenth Amendment rights violations and whether a conspiracy to…
24-441 A. M. B., et al. v. Kelly J. McKnight, Presiding Judge, Circuit Court of Wisconsin, Ashland County Wisconsin 2024-10-21 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) adoption-rights constitutional-rights equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment second-parent-adoption Whether a State's categorical disqualification of unmarried people from adopting the children of their partners violates the Equal Protection Clause o…
24-5791 Paul David Storey v. Texas Texas 2024-10-21 Denied Amici (2)IFP brady-violation death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the State's suppression of favorable evidence and presentation of false arguments at a death penalty case's penalty phase violates due process…
24-5787 Taiming Zhang v. X Corp., fka Twitter, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment immunity-doctrine section-230 Whether the Supreme Court will review the 9th Circuit's interpretation of 47 U.S. Code § 230 and its potential constitutional implications
24-431 Danny Ray Dunn v. Caryn Alissa Dunn Georgia 2024-10-17 Denied appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-ethics recusal-motion Whether the lack of an adequate recusal enforcement mechanism in Georgia state courts violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
24-425 Jesse Rehbein, et al. v. Annette Rehbein, et al. Montana 2024-10-16 Denied Amici (1) best-interest-standard child-custody due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-rights parenting-plan Whether a state statute allowing court-ordered parental interest without finding parental unfitness violates due process rights under the Fourteenth A…
24A352 Coleman County, Texas v. Patsy K. Cope, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-10-15 Presumed Complete 42-usc-1983 conditions-of-confinement eighth-amendment municipal-liability pre-trial-detainee suicide-prevention Whether a county jail can be held liable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for a pre-trial detainee's suicide when the jail's suicide prevention policies were no…
24A354 Jessie J. Barnes v. Donald Uhler, Superintendent, Upstate Correctional Facility, et al. Second Circuit 2024-10-15 Presumed Complete conditions-of-confinement cruel-and-unusual deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-care prisoner-rights Whether a prison's conditions of confinement and alleged deliberate indifference to a prisoner's medical needs constitute a violation of the Eighth Am…
24-5747 Elmer Dean Baker v. Indiana Indiana 2024-10-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights equal-protection-clause fourteenth-amendment harmless-error non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment Whether a State violates the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments by upholding a criminal conviction obtained through non-unanimous jury verdicts and claim…
24A347 Blaine Keith Milam v. Texas Texas 2024-10-11 Presumed Complete atkins-v-virginia capital-case death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the imposition of the death penalty for a defendant with an intellectual disability
24A342 Robert Emert v. Andrea Schuck California 2024-10-10 Presumed Complete access-to-courts due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigation vexatious-litigant Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's due process and equal protection clauses prohibit a state court from designating a pro se litigant as vexatious wit…
24-393 George Arsenis, et al. v. Borough of Bernardsville, New Jersey, et al. New Jersey 2024-10-09 Denied discriminatory-taxation equal-protection fourteenth-amendment property-assessment spot-assessment taxation-uniformity Whether a selective property reassessment by a town assessor violates the Equal Protection Clause through discriminatory taxation practices
24-5713 Hector Acosta v. Texas Texas 2024-10-07 Denied IFP death-sentence due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment national-origin race-discrimination Whether the State's invocation of a defendant's nationality and ethnicity to obtain a death sentence violates the Equal Protection and Due Process Cla…
24-5704 Lori M. Moody v. Edward W. Horan Florida 2024-10-04 Denied IFP absolute-privilege defamation-per-se due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial seventh-amendment Does the Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial extend to a state court defamation per se action, and does absolute privilege protect a lawyer who fa…
24-379 Larry D. Sapp v. Kimberly Foxx, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as State's Attorney of Cook County, Illinois Seventh Circuit 2024-10-03 Denied Response Waived citizenship-forfeiture civil-death cruel-and-unusual-clause eighth-amendment punishment-disability res-judicata Whether Illinois's punishment disability statutes without time limits violate the Eighth Amendment's Cruel and Unusual Clause constituting a 'civil de…
24-5698 Tony Moore, Jr. v. South Carolina South Carolina 2024-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment grand-jury jurisdictional-challenge wrongful-imprisonment Whether the state court violated the petitioner's due process rights by refusing to hear jurisdictional challenges and improperly constituting the gra…
24-371 Troy Thomas York v. Arizona Arizona 2024-10-02 Denied Response Waived collateral-review constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance trial-counsel Does the Fourteenth Amendment confer the right to effective assistance of first collateral review counsel for ineffective assistance of trial counsel …
24-376 Brennaris Marquis Johnson v. Washington Washington 2024-10-02 Denied fourteenth-amendment jury-finding reasonable-doubt sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment upward-departure Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments require a jury to find beyond a reasonable doubt that aggravating facts amount to 'substantial and compell…
24-5680 P. H., Mother v. Cumberland County Children and Youth Services, et al. Pennsylvania 2024-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment mental-health parental-rights state-court-action Was the state court's termination of parental rights based on mental health issues a violation of the fundamental constitutional right to parent under…
24-5673 Jonathan Eugene Brunson v. John Herring, Superintendent, Maury Correctional Institution Fourth Circuit 2024-10-01 Dismissed IFP actual-innocence constitutional-claim due-process evidence-review fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus Whether the lower courts violated the Fourteenth Amendment by denying Petitioner's claim of actual innocence and right to review evidence supporting h…
24-5676 Henry Altamirano v. Nethanjah Breitenbach, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-01 Denied IFP antiterrorism-act due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus limitation-period subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the Petitioner have the right to have his subject matter jurisdiction claim heard on its merits despite filing a federal habeas petition after the…
24-5671 Garcia Glenn White v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-09-30 Denied IFP aedpa cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-row Does the Eighth Amendment prohibition against crue eighth-amendment intellectual-disability time-limitation Whether the Fifth Circuit's resolution of counsel substitution replicates the Christeson error and fails to address a potential conflict of interest i…
24-5652 Tiffany Smith v. Shannon Olds, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-09-27 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-discretion provocation self-defense Whether the appellate court violated due process by affirming a conviction without properly considering uncontradicted evidence of self-defense and pr…
24A298 James Herard v. Florida Florida 2024-09-27 Presumed Complete capital-sentencing constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment jury-unanimity Whether the Eighth Amendment requires jury unanimity in capital sentencing decisions and whether a judge may impose a death sentence after a non-unani…
24-342 Shiva Ayyadurai v. New Jersey Democratic State Committee, et al. New Jersey 2024-09-26 Denied Response Waived ballot-access citizenship-clause equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment presidential-qualifications Whether states can unilaterally remove a presidential candidate from the ballot based on 'natural born' citizenship requirements without congressional…
24-5647 David Rashaun Hamil, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2024-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment social-science Whether Petitioner was derived of his right, under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, to a trial by a 12 person jury when the defendant is charged w…
24-335 Vivendi S.E., et al. v. EPAC Technologies Ltd. New York 2024-09-25 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived contract-law due-process forum-selection-clause fourteenth-amendment nonresident-defendant personal-jurisdiction Does the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause permit personal jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant with no forum contacts based solely on a …
24A295 Larry D. Sapp v. Kimberly Foxx, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as State's Attorney of Cook County, Illinois Seventh Circuit 2024-09-25 Presumed Complete civil-punishment cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment mendoza-martinez public-office time-limits Whether civil punishment statutes that permanently restrict an individual's right to hold public office without time limits violate the Eighth Amendme…
24-5617 In Re Kesean Calvin Wilson 2024-09-24 Denied IFP bank-robbery constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment state-power Whether Kesean Wilson was denied Fourteenth Amendment equal protection and substantive due process rights when punished for bank robbery without ratio…
24-5619 Francisco Tineo-Santos v. Lynn Lilley, Superintendent, Eastern Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2024-09-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus pro-se rule-60-motion Whether the denial of a pro se Certificate of Appealability (COA) by the United States Court of Appeals constitutes a merits denial of civil habeas co…
24A285 Team Kennedy, et al. v. Henry Berger, et al. Second Circuit 2024-09-23 Presumed Complete ballot-access election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment independent-candidate presidential-qualifications Whether a state's ballot residency requirement for independent presidential candidates violates the First and Fourteenth Amendment rights of ballot ac…
24A290 Prosecuting Attorney, 21st Judicial Circuit, ex rel. Marcellus Williams v. Missouri Missouri 2024-09-23 Denied Amici (1) capital-crime death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-stay innocence-project new-evidence Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a death row inmate who has presented new evidence potentially exculpating him from the underly…
24-5589 In Re Joseph G. Aulisio 2024-09-20 Denied IFP cause-and-prejudice confrontation-clause due-process eighth-amendment false-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct Whether prosecutorial misconduct, false testimony, and failure to correct known false evidence constitute a violation of due process and grounds for o…
24A282 Linnea W. v. Matthew P. New York 2024-09-19 Presumed Complete custody-trial due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-fees state-court Whether the New York State Court of Appeals violated a parent's constitutional due process rights by arbitrarily denying legal fees and counsel in a c…
24-305 Justin Savage v. Georgia Office of Administrative Hearings Georgia 2024-09-18 Denied Relisted (2) commission-review constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment material-evidence Whether the failure of the Commission and subsequent courts to duly consider and address material evidence constitutes a violation of the Petitioner's…
24A277 Dennis Hopkins, et al. v. Michael Watson, Mississippi Secretary of State Fifth Circuit 2024-09-18 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge eighth-amendment equal-protection felony-disenfranchisement mississippi-constitution voting-rights Whether Mississippi's lifetime felony disenfranchisement law violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment when it perma…
24-5547 Clifton Bean v. Florida Florida 2024-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-composition life-sentence sixth-amendment Does the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a twelve-person jury in felony cases with potential life without parole sentences?
24-5538 John Ross Stenberg v. Don Langford, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-counsel self-incrimination Whether the District Court erred in denying suppression of statements and finding ineffective assistance of counsel claims without merit when constitu…
24-5521 Vernon Carter v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2024-09-11 Denied IFP constitutional-rights eighth-amendment fifth-amendment jury-instructions sixth-amendment verdict-form Whether the trial court's jury instructions and verdict form violated the Petitioner's Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Amendment rights by failing to specify…
24-5498 Lenore Luann Albert v. State Bar of California California 2024-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-discipline disbarment due-process federal-court-practice fourteenth-amendment state-bar-regulation Whether California State Bar can regulate the practice of law in federal court and impose disbarment without due process
24A251 Darryl Carter, et al. v. James E. Stewart, Sr., in his Official Capacity as District Attorney of Caddo Parish, Louisiana Fifth Circuit 2024-09-10 Presumed Complete civil-rights fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination summary-judgment Whether the Fourteenth Amendment permits civil rights lawsuits by prospective jurors challenging racially-motivated peremptory challenges when statist…
24-5481 Cody Mercure v. United States First Circuit 2024-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure eighth-amendment federal-sentencing judicial-review proportionality sentencing-guidelines Whether a 300-month sentence for a federal offense violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on grossly disproportionate sentences due to potential …
24-5463 Ashley Wilkerson v. City of Houston, Texas Fifth Circuit 2024-09-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 constitutional-violations due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment police-interference Do the government's repeated First and Fourteenth Amendment violations, including police interference and intimidation, constitute actionable constitu…
24-5466 Jarell Davis Terry v. William Straughn, Deputy Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force pro-se-prisoner Whether the use of force against a handcuffed and compliant individual violates constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment
24A231 OCA-Greater Houston, et al. v. Kim Ogg Fifth Circuit 2024-09-04 Presumed Complete election-law ex-parte-young first-amendment fourteenth-amendment sovereign-immunity voting-rights Whether a local district attorney can be sued under Ex Parte Young for prospective injunctive relief challenging the constitutionality of state electi…
24A233 Sandra A. Zikry v. Hernie David Vann, Jr., et al. Florida 2024-09-04 Presumed Complete civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment informed-consent medical-consent Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause and First Amendment's Free Exercise Clause protect a patient from medical procedure consent viol…
24A234 Sandra A. Zikry v. Exodus Women's Center, Inc., et al. Florida 2024-09-04 Presumed Complete civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment informed-consent medical-consent Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause and First Amendment's Free Exercise Clause protect a patient from medical procedure consent viol…
24-5436 David Fink v. California California 2024-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-of-appeal Should an appellant have a voice in their own appeal when the Court of Appeal appoints counsel who fails to raise substantial constitutional claims?
24-234 Raymond Guzall III v. Grievance Administrator, Attorney Grievance Commission of Michigan Michigan 2024-08-30 Denied Response Waived court-manipulation due-process evidence-concealment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias legal-procedure Can a state prosecute upon manipulated court records or withhold original court recordings that potentially exonerate a defendant?
24-5431 Jacob Valle v. Florida Florida 2024-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment social-science unanimous-verdict Whether Petitioner was derived of his right, under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged w…
24-225 B. S. v. D. S. California 2024-08-29 Denied constitutional-rights domestic-violence-restraining-order due-process evidentiary-standard first-amendment fourteenth-amendment Does the preponderance of the evidence standard for Domestic Violence Restraining Orders in California violate due process under the Fourteenth Amendm…
24-5420 Jerry E. Russell, Sr. v. Indiana Indiana 2024-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP atkins-v-virginia criminal-punishment eighth-amendment intellectual-disability life-without-parole sentencing Should the Eighth Amendment prohibition, against sentencing intellectually disabled individuals to death, announced in Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 30…
24-5407 Darnell Anderson v. Aaron Fuson, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP bivens-doctrine constitutional-claim deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment federal-corrections summary-judgment Whether the Court of Appeals correctly applied the Bivens doctrine in evaluating an Eighth Amendment deliberate indifference claim against a federal c…
24-212 Lewis Archer v. America's First Federal Credit Union, et al. Alabama 2024-08-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure property-rights state-court-jurisdiction Whether the Alabama Supreme Court's reversal of a lower court's order granting a deed to the Archers violates their constitutional rights to due proce…
24-213 Willis Franklin v. California California 2024-08-27 Denied Response Waived client-autonomy counsel-of-choice fourteenth-amendment mccoy-v-louisiana sixth-amendment trial-continuance Was petitioner denied his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to retained counsel of choice and client autonomy when the trial court failed to conti…
24-5389 Loran Cole v. Florida Florida 2024-08-26 Denied IFP baze-glossip-test due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment lethal-injection parkinson's-disease Whether Florida courts violated Cole's Fourteenth Amendment Due Process and Equal Protection rights by failing to hold an evidentiary hearing on his a…
24-5367 Khadijah A. Muhammad Kebe v. Washington Township School District, et al. Third Circuit 2024-08-23 Denied IFP civil-rights equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-aid pro-se-litigant systemic-disadvantage Whether the lack of legal aid for pro se litigants in civil cases violates equal protection rights under the Fourteenth Amendment
24-199 Aldo Ortega v. Tanya Ford, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-08-22 Denied due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourth-amendment psychological-detention warrant-clause Whether a warrant issued by the Department of Corrections for allegedly violating a non-existent mandatory supervised release agreement violates the F…
24A194 Hector Acosta v. Texas Texas 2024-08-22 Presumed Complete capital-murder death-sentence equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection racial-bias Whether racial bias in the jury selection process violated the defendant's Fourteenth Amendment right to equal protection in a capital murder case
24-177 Alison Gershenson v. Elizabet Da Silva Florida 2024-08-20 Denied appellate-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment per-curiam-decision summary-judgment Whether Florida's appellate procedure of issuing per curiam decisions without opinion on summary judgment appeals violates due process and equal prote…
24-182 Roy Sargeant v. Aracelie Barfield Seventh Circuit 2024-08-20 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment federal-inmates inmate-rights prison-violence Whether federal inmates may bring a cause of action against prison officials for deliberate indifference to inmate-on-inmate violence under the Eighth…
24-184 Xuejie He v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2024-08-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights due-process en-banc-review equal-protection fourteenth-amendment immigration-law Whether the denial of a petition for rehearing en banc violated Xuejie He's Fourteenth Amendment due process and equal protection rights
24-5347 Devin Allen Bennett v. Mississippi Mississippi 2024-08-20 Denied IFP death-penalty eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance mitigation-evidence sixth-amendment strickland-standard Whether trial counsel's failure to investigate, uncover, and present evidence of defendant's reduced moral culpability may be categorically discounted…
24-5352 Spencer Farwell v. Fountains at Tidwell Limited, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure court-access due-process fourteenth-amendment indigent-litigant judicial-recommendation Whether the District Court's adoption of the Magistrate Judge's recommendation without party consent violates due process rights, and whether denial o…
24A185 Derek Don Posey v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-08-19 Presumed Complete capital-punishment eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-selection sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments were violated by the improper dismissal of prospective jurors and whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendm…
24-173 Malcolm Johnson, et al. v. Tina Kotek, Governor of Oregon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-16 Denied Amici (4)Response WaivedRelisted (2) due-process emergency-use-authorization experimental-vaccine fourteenth-amendment informed-consent qualified-immunity What is the proper standard of review for a Fourteenth Amendment Due Process challenge to a State official's order mandating experimental vaccine inje…
24-174 Jack Jordan v. Attorney Grievance Committee for the First Judicial Department New York 2024-08-16 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights disbarment due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech Whether the New York State Court of Appeals violated the Fourteenth Amendment by dismissing an attorney's appeal without addressing substantial consti…
24-167 Tim Makoto Nukida v. California California 2024-08-15 Denied criminal-procedure cruel-unusual-punishment csaas-testimony due-process eighth-amendment expert-witness Whether state courts are divided on the admissibility of Child Sexual Abuse Accommodation Syndrome (CSAAS) and if such testimony violates due process …
24-5320 Ahkemon J. Bardell v. Louisiana Louisiana 2024-08-14 Denied IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-defense due-process fourteenth-amendment trial-procedure Whether the trial court violated the petitioner's constitutional rights by failing to detect and prevent a potential confrontational violation during …
24A174 Omnisun Azali v. Ohio Ohio 2024-08-14 Presumed Complete burden-of-proof criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment self-defense sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments require the State to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a defendant was not acting in lawful self-defens…
24-155 James R. Fouts v. The Warren City Council, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-08-13 Denied Response Waived due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-expression term-limits Whether a city charter provision barring a specific individual from the ballot through a lesser term limit violates First and Fourteenth Amendment rig…
24A159 LeGregory Davis v. Louisiana Louisiana 2024-08-09 Presumed Complete capital-punishment constitutional-violation death-penalty eighth-amendment lethal-injection procedural-due-process Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a death row inmate based on claims of procedural irregularities or constitutional violations i…
24-5283 In Re Kenton G. Findlay 2024-08-08 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights court-of-appeal due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-relief Did the Third District Court of Appeal violate due process rights under the Florida Constitution and the 5th and 14th Amendments of the U.S. Constitut…
24-139 Lei Jiang, et al. v. Kevin Chu, et al. California 2024-08-07 Denied business-records deposition-subpoena due-process fourteenth-amendment motion-to-compel real-estate-fraud Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment was violated when the California Superior Court denied Petitioners' Motion to Compel third-…
24-140 Raymond H. Pierson, III v. Northern California Collection Service, Inc., et al. California 2024-08-07 Denied access-to-courts due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment separation-of-powers vexatious-litigant Whether the California Vexatious Litigant Statute unconstitutionally violates due process and separation of powers by restricting pro se litigants' ac…
24A140 Christopher Harry West v. Mark Emig, et al. Third Circuit 2024-08-07 Presumed Complete cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment mattress-removal mental-health prisoner-rights qualified-immunity Whether the Eighth Amendment permits the removal of a prisoner's mattress as a mental health intervention without violating constitutional protections…
24A132 Kyle Trevor Flack v. Kansas Kansas 2024-08-06 Presumed Complete capital-punishment eighth-amendment kansas-supreme-court mitigating-factors murder sentencing Whether the Eighth Amendment permits the imposition of a capital sentence under circumstances involving multiple murder victims and potential mitigati…
24-5244 Justin G. Reedy v. California Department of Social Services, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-hearing due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment goldberg-v-kelly mathews-v-eldridge public-benefits state-regulation substantive-due-process title-ix Whether the principles of due process prohibit the Ninth Circuit Court's consideration of a new argument raised by the State Defendants' on appeal tha…
24-5247 Eric Cruz v. Officer Domingo Cervantez Fifth Circuit 2024-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment brady-rule brady-rule-of-evidence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment evidence evidence-exclusion qualified-immunity safe-prison-act Did the U.S. District courts' failure to allow relevant evidence into trial proceedings violate the Brady Rule of Evidence under Brady v. Maryland, 37…
24-127 The Center For Reproductive Medicine, P.C., et al. v. Felicia Burdick-Aysenne, et vir, in Their Individual Capacities and as Parents and Next Friends of Baby Aysenne, Deceased Embryo/Minor Alabama 2024-08-05 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process fair-notice fourteenth-amendment punitive-damages standing statutory-interpretation due-process-clause-14th-amendment
24-128 Caf Dowlah v. American Arbitration Association, et al. New York 2024-08-05 Denied Response Waived arbitral-immunity butz-v-economou civil-rights collateral-estoppel due-process federal-arbitration-act fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct res-judicata Does a conflict exist between the Federal Arbitration Act and Butz v. Economou regarding arbitral immunity?
24A124 Arthur Lee Burton v. Texas Texas 2024-08-04 Denied atkins-claim death-penalty eighth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-testing moore-v-texas Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a death-row inmate with intellectual disability when new clinical evidence demonstrates he mee…
24-102 Manuel Adams, Jr. v. City of Harahan, Louisiana Fifth Circuit 2024-07-31 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived career-advancement circuit-split civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment government-interference liberty-interest occupational-liberty professional-rights standard-of-review Whether a plaintiff must plead that the government 'effected [a] prohibition' of his ability to pursue his career to state a claim for a violation of …
24-5188 Patrick Wilson v. Louisiana Louisiana 2024-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trials non-unanimous-jury second-degree-murder sixth-amendment state-courts Whether non-unanimous jury verdicts in state criminal trials violate the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution
24-5192 Matthew Nicholson v. Ohio Ohio 2024-07-31 Denied IFP arbitrariness constitutional-proportionality county-geography criminal-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment equal-protection geographic-disparity gregg-v-georgia sentencing-disparities Is Ohio's death penalty being arbitrarily applied in violation of Gregg v. Georgia, when geography dictates whether a defendant will be subject to the…
24-5193 James E. Clifford v. Carla Walker, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-07-31 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights default-judgment due-process fair-adjudication fourteenth-amendment procedural-error racial-discrimination Does the failure of the Appellate Court to recognize and address a procedural error, especially the entry and subsequent denial of default judgment ou…
24-74 In Re Alphonza Leonard Phillip Thomas Bey 2024-07-25 Denied Relisted (2) 14th-amendment 8th-amendment black-negro-colored-persons constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment jurisdiction property state-court Question not identified.
24A88 Michael Collins Iheme v. Minnesota Minnesota 2024-07-25 Presumed Complete due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-bias postconviction-relief sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments require reversal of a criminal conviction due to ineffective assistance of counsel, judicial bias, and all…
24A92 Christine A. Arakelian v. City of Falls Church, Virginia, et al. Virginia 2024-07-25 Presumed Complete board-of-equalization due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment property-tax section-1983 Whether a local government's Board of Equalization can systematically deny due process rights to property owners through procedural rules that allow u…
24A76 Jonathan Andrew Arias, Christopher Lee McLeod, Thomas James Odom, Felipe Petrone-Cabanas, and Charles Vincent Wagner v. Arizona Arizona 2024-07-23 Presumed Complete eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing miller-v-alabama youth-mitigation Whether the Eighth Amendment requires resentencing for juvenile offenders who were previously sentenced to mandatory life without parole under Arizona…
24-5123 Angel Sanchez v. Teresa Cisneros, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-07-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP calcrim-375 constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment prior-acts sixth-amendment Whether petitioner was denied his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment right to due process and fair trial
24-5125 Corvin J. Young v. Spartanburg County Detention Facility, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-07-23 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment federal-custody habeas-corpus medical-treatment pretrial-detention prison-conditions prisoner-rights Question not identified
24A65 Tina Peters v. Daniel P. Rubinstein, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-07-19 Presumed Complete election-records federal-immunity fourteenth-amendment privileges-or-immunities state-prosecution supremacy-clause Whether a state official can claim immunity from state prosecution for actions taken in good faith to preserve federal election records under federal …
24-55 Montana v. Robert Murray Gibbons Montana 2024-07-18 Denied eighth-amendment excessive-fines-clause financial-burden financial-circumstances mandatory-fine mandatory-fines proportionality proportionality-factors sentencing sentencing-discretion Whether the Excessive Fines Clause requires the sentencing judge to consider a defendant's personal financial circumstances and the nature of the burd…
24-5113 Steven Alexander Mantecon v. Florida Florida 2024-07-18 Denied IFP constitutional-right criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-offense fourteenth-amendment jury jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-procedure Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a twelve-person jury to try a criminal defendant accused of a felony offense
24-5095 Moises Gamboa v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution Did the lower courts improperly interpret United States Sentencing Guideline § 4C1.1 that violated the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause of the Eigh…
24-5084 Terrence E. Gilchrist v. Simone Craig Ohio 2024-07-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP child-support due-process equal-protection equitable-relief fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights privileges-and-immunities procedural-protections social-security-act takings-clause turner-v-rogers Whether non-adherence to Turner procedural protections violates substantive-due-process-and-privileges-and-immunities,takings-clause,due-process-and-e…
24-38 Bradley Little, Governor of Idaho, et al. v. Lindsay Hecox, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-15 Granted Amici (26)Relisted (4) biological-differences biological-sex equal-protection fourteenth-amendment sex-discrimination sports-participation transgender transgender-rights women's-sports Whether laws that seek to protect women's and girls' sports by limiting participation to women and girls based on sex violate the Equal Protection Cla…
24-5071 Dennis German v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance eighth-amendment fifth-amendment relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the government violated the petitioner's 8th Amendment and 5th Amendment constitutional rights by using separate incidents as relevant conduct…
24-5065 Damon John Broussard v. Lousiana Louisiana 2024-07-12 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment proportionality sentencing Does Petitioner's sentence constitute cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment?
24-5063 Bruce Rowan v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2024-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP bail-conditions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment lower-court trial-court Does a conviction for breach of bail conditions-set by lower court-violate the Fourteenth Amendment right to due process, where trial court set bail c…
24-5060 Bert Hudson v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole Pennsylvania 2024-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment eighth-amendment furman-v-georgia mandatory-minimum parole parole-review second-degree-murder sentencing-guidelines sentencing-statutes Whether Pennsylvania's sentencing statutes for second-degree murder, which provide for a mandatory maximum sentence of life imprisonment with a requir…
24-31 Michael J. Libman, et al. v. Antwon Jones, et al. California 2024-07-12 Denied ability-to-pay attorney-fees disgorgement eighth-amendment excessive-fines professional-conduct proportionality-test Does the court-ordered disgorgement of attorney fees for violation of state rules of professional conduct fall under the 'excessive fines' clause of t…
24-5049 Irena Shie v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-07-11 Denied IFP americans-with-disabilities-act communication-disability deprivation-of-constitutional-rights-under-color-o equal-protection fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-speech judicial-procedure meaningful-participation-in-justice-system petition-government-for-redress-of-grievances reasonable-accommodation reasonable-accommodations equal-protection-under-law
24-5052 In Re Kenton G. Findlay 2024-07-11 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-violation court-of-appeal criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus legal-relief Due process-violation
24A15 Bobby Tatum v. Correctional Officer Hunter, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-07-09 Presumed Complete constitutional-protection cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment injunctive-relief prisoner-rights sexual-assault Whether the district court's failure to issue an injunction protecting a prisoner from alleged sexual assault violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibit…
24-5029 Jurgen Marku v. Florida Florida 2024-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP Bruton-v-United-States Codefendant confrontation-clause criminal-prosecution Cross-Examination Due-Process felony-murder fourteenth-amendment Guilty-Plea sixth-amendment Whether it is a violation of a criminal defendant's Confrontation-Clause
24-22 Lauren N. Stone v. Theodore Worner, et al. Pennsylvania 2024-07-09 Denied Response Waived child-custody due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights grandparent-visitation harm-to-child parental-rights strict-scrutiny Does Pennsylvania's Child Custody Act violate a fit parent's due-process-rights,
24A3 Darnell Anderson v. Aaron Fuson, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-07-03 Presumed Complete Bivens eighth-amendment excessive-force federal-tort prisoner-rights qualified-immunity Whether the Supreme Court should extend the Bivens remedy to allow a federal prisoner to bring a monetary damages claim for alleged Eighth Amendment e…
23-1369 John Rust v. Diego Morales, Indiana Secretary of State, et al. Indiana 2024-07-02 Denied Response Waived election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-association primary-election primary-elections state-election-laws voter-registration voting-rights Whether the Affiliation Statute violates Indiana citizens' right to freely associate with the political party of their choosing pursuant to the First …
23-1368 Luis S. Arana, aka Luis S. Arana Santiago v. Luis Tapia Maldonado, et al. Puerto Rico 2024-07-02 Denied Relisted (2) administrative-hearing administrative-procedure cross-examination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment notice-requirement public-employment tenure-rights Due-process-violation
23-1366 Jenny Jing, et al. v. Joseph Womack, et al. Montana 2024-07-02 Denied adversary-rights constitutional-rights domestic-partner first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech petition-to-redress-grievances privacy probate-court unauthorized-practice-of-law Did the Montana Supreme Court overlook a violation of First and Fourteenth Amendment rights, specifically concerning free-speech, petition-to-redress-…
23-1351 Torrey Lynne Henderson, Amara Jana Ridge, and Justin Royce Thompson v. Texas Texas 2024-06-27 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived criminal-conviction first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech obstruction-of-passageway obstruction-statute peaceful-assembly peaceful-protest public-forum public-sidewalks Do the First and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit the government from convicting individuals for obstructing a passageway based solely on their particip…
23-7822 Nukarri Williams v. Florida Florida 2024-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law due-process equal-protection equal-treatment federal-code fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction petition relief state-court writ Whether the state court's failure to provide the petitioner with the relief provided to similarly situated defendants violates the Equal Protection Cl…
23-1342 David W. Foley, Jr., et ux. v. Orange County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-26 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment administrative-injunction constitutional-provision due-process federal-courts fourteenth-amendment judicial-determination state-courts state-law Whether the Due Process Clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments require federal and state courts to answer the question of state law that the c…
23-1336 Noel West Lane, III v. Matthew Curtis Witt, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-06-25 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure due-process fair-hearing fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion manifest-fraud pro-se-litigants pro-se-litigation procedural-error Should the Supreme Court provide guidance on mandatory accommodation of judicial discretion to ensure fair hearings for pro se litigants and clarify i…
23-7792 In Re Ramiro Felix Gonzales 2024-06-24 Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-review death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness post-conviction-review state-law Does it violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to execute an individual who does not meet the eligibility criteria for a sentence of death under…
23-7791 Ramiro F. Gonzales v. Texas Texas 2024-06-24 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-punishment-eligibility death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness jury-determination post-conviction-review Can a state refuse to recognize challenges to the accuracy of a jury's determination of 'future dangerousness' as cognizable grounds for postconvictio…
23A1147 In Re Ramiro Felix Gonzales 2024-06-24 Denied death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness habeas-corpus jury-prediction Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit the execution of a prisoner whose demonstrated character and rehabilitation fundamentally challe…
23A1146 Ramiro F. Gonzales v. Texas Texas 2024-06-24 Denied capital-murder death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness jury-determination Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit executing a capital defendant who may not meet state-law eligibility criteria for the death pena…
23A1143 George Cleveland, III, et al. v. South Carolina Department of Social Services South Carolina 2024-06-24 Presumed Complete child-welfare due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-rights procedural-protections termination-of-rights Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires meaningful procedural protections for parents facing potential termination of pare…
23-7785 Jared Pierce Sanchez v. Brown University, et al. First Circuit 2024-06-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP academic-exclusion civil-rights covid-19-mandate equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise public-hospitals religious-discrimination Whether the First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment rights of the plaintiff were violated due to religious discrimination, harassment, and academic e…
23-7784 Cornell Smith v. Nicholas Sanchez Seventh Circuit 2024-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-power civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment ministerial-acts retaliation Retaliation-against-civil-rights-lawsuit
23-7766 Charles Edward Luckett v. Robert Neuschmid, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process evidence exclusionary-rule fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment witness Whether the exclusion of evidence related to Luckett's brother's detention inside the crime scene perimeter violated Luckett's Sixth and Fourteenth Am…
23-7740 William H. Baker v. Angela Hunsinger-Stuff, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-06-18 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default sixth-amendment Whether the procedural default creates a miscarriage of justice that denies Petitioner his fundamental rights to due-process
23-1319 B. B. v. Florida Department of Children and Families, et al. Florida 2024-06-18 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-interpretation due-process fourteenth-amendment standing statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause Whether Florida courts are refusing to consider that their interpretation of Statute § 39.8155 is unconstitutional as applied when it contradicts the …
23-1306 Linda Smith, et al. v. David R. Heilman, Trustee of the Ralph A. Siddell Living Trust, et al. Michigan 2024-06-17 Denied Response Waived beneficiary-rights estates-and-trusts fourteenth-amendment limitations-period notice-requirements statutory-interpretation trust-validity trust-validity-challenges trustee-duties trustee-duty Whether the Michigan Courts committed plain legal error construing and applying §700.7604(1)(b) by declining to apply the relevant statutory definitio…
23-7724 In Re Shomas T. Winston 2024-06-14 Denied IFP evidentiary-hearing fair-trial fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury juror-misconduct jury-selection sixth-amendment voir-dire Whether a petitioner should be denied an evidentiary hearing to question a juror who failed to disclose information
23-1302 Kevin Hardaway v. Dwight Hamilton, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-13 Denied 42-usc-1983 eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-rights eleventh-amendment-immunity monell-claim monell-v-department-of-social-services official-capacity section-1983 use-of-force Whether existing Eleventh Circuit precedent of Manders v. Lee, 338 F.3d 1304 (11th Cir. 2003), holding that a Georgia sheriff is an 'arm of the state'…
23-1295 Linnzi Zaorski v. Nicholas Usner Louisiana 2024-06-12 Denied child-custody civil-contempt civil-procedure contempt-of-court criminal-contempt criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence purge-clause reasonable-doubt suspended-sentence suspension-of-sentence Due-process-clause-violation
23-7702 Stevie Whitehorn v. Maverick Tube Corporation, fka Tenaris Hickman Eighth Circuit 2024-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection fourteenth-amendment pretext-evidence racial-discrimination standard-of-review summary-judgment Whether the fabrication of false evidence by the respondent is evidence of pretext to discharge the petitioner
23-7703 Walter Taylor, III v. Vermont Vermont 2024-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP defense-theory due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions jury-trial sixth-amendment voluntary-intoxication Is a criminal defendant denied his right to a jury trial under the Sixth Amendment and due process under the Fourteenth Amendment when the trial court…
23-7684 Andrew W. Bell v. Brad Raffensberger, Georgia Secretary of State, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP ballot-access constitutional-rights due-process election-law first-amendment first-amendment-rights fourteenth-amendment independent-candidates rooker-feldman-doctrine signature-verification Should-the-Rooker-Feldman-doctrine-apply-to-moot-decisions-by-state-courts
23-7685 Edwin K. Davis v. Florida Florida 2024-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial ramos-v-louisiana sixth-amendment williams-v-florida Whether Petitioner was derived of his right, under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged w…
23-7657 Leslie Willis v. PNC Financial Services Group Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2024-06-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP due-process due-process,14th-amendment,judicial-misconduct,bia equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-disqualification judicial-misconduct lgbtq-rights Ongoing violation of Fourteenth Amendment due process rights,judicial-misconduct,bias-and-prejudice,disqualification,perpetuation-of-evidence,trust-do…
23-7665 Kenneth Oteng Duodu v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2024-06-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP article-vi confrontation-clause constitutional-rights consular-notification criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus international-obligations vienna-convention Whether the failure of the Fairfax County Police Department to notify the Consulate of Ghana in contravention of the petitioner's established consular…
23-7671 James Chamblin v. Ohio Ohio 2024-06-07 Denied IFP amendment constitutional-rights due-process due-process-clause equal-protection fourteenth-amendment indictment indictment-amendment pleading-recasting recasting-of-pleadings state-appellate-court Does a State Appellate Court violate a Petitioner's right to Due Process under the United States Constitution, when a court recast a litigants pleadin…
23A1095 Manuel Adams, Jr. v. City of Harahan, Louisiana Fifth Circuit 2024-06-07 Presumed Complete brady-list civil-service-protections due-process fourteenth-amendment occupational-liberty professional-employment Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment protects an individual's liberty interest in pursuing a chosen profession when government a…
23-1274 Brian Philip Manookian v. Board of Professional Responsibility of the Supreme Court of Tennessee Tennessee 2024-06-05 Denied Response Waived attorney-discipline disbarment due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech notice retaliation Does the disbarment of an attorney for truthful out-of-court statements about other attorneys violate the First Amendment?
23-1266 Tonya Parks v. Affiliated Bank, et al. Texas 2024-06-04 Denied campaign-finance constitutional-fairness due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-integrity judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal recusal Does the Texas judicial system's approach to recusal, in conjunction with judges' collaborative fundraising and expenditure activities, violate the Fo…
23-1267 David W. Murphy, Individually and as Personal Representative for the Estate of Kathleen J. Murphy v. Medical Oncology Associates, P.S., et al. Washington 2024-06-04 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-selection medical-negligence patient-relationship patient-treatment standing voir-dire Whether the plaintiffs Fourteenth Amendment right to due process was violated by seating a juror whose brother had been successfully treated by, and w…
23-7598 Arnaud Paris v. Heidi M. Brown Oregon 2024-05-31 Denied IFP custody-dispute due-process equal-protection family-law federal-statutes fourteenth-amendment international-custody international-law national-origin state-statutes uccjea Does a state court's decisions and actions violating both Federal Statutes (UCCJEA) and State Statues in a custody dispute, which appears to favor an …
23A1072 Anthony Tyrone Brown v. James Corrigan, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-05-31 Presumed Complete civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process eighth-amendment personal-liberty prisoner-rights Whether a state prisoner's civil rights have been violated such that emergency relief or release is warranted based on alleged constitutional deprivat…
23-7588 Ruben Mendezsales v. Florida Florida 2024-05-29 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure felony felony-charges fourteenth-amendment jury-trial overrule sixth-amendment williams-v-florida Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-7591 Jamie Mills v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-29 Denied IFP access-to-counsel access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment due-process eighth-amendment execution-procedure prisoner-rights Whether Alabama's execution process violates the Eighth Amendment
23A1065 Jamie Mills v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-29 Denied constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-gurney prolonged-restraint Whether prolonged restraint on an execution gurney without access to counsel constitutes a violation of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel an…
23-7570 Leonard Blackstock, Jr. v. Tennessee Tennessee 2024-05-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-duty physical-harm statutory-interpretation Whether a legal authority is required to help the escape from physical harm by Section 1 for 15 U.S. Code s. 1116 to provide equal protection of the F…
23A1052 Richard E. Glossip v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-05-24 Presumed Complete certiorari criminal-appeals death-penalty eighth-amendment execution supreme-court Whether the Eighth Amendment permits the execution of a death row inmate who challenges the constitutionality of the state's method of execution
23-7534 Charles Feick v. The Brutsche Family Revocable Trust, et al. Washington 2024-05-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ability-to-pay constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment indigent-rights Whether the Equal Protection Clause and Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment require the state to demonstrate a rational basis for treating …
23A1044 Michael J. Libman, et al. v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2024-05-22 Presumed Complete attorney-fees disgorgement eighth-amendment ex-post-facto excessive-fines professional-conduct Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits a state court from disgorging an attorney's fees without finding harm to clients or assessing the attorney's ab…
23-7520 Toran Peterson v. Esmaeili Emami, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-05-21 Denied IFP administrative-remedies civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment exhaustion juvenile-sentencing mandatory-life-sentence mental-health prison Whether Michigan's involuntary mental health treatment hearings comply with the mandatory language of the statute and prison policy directive, and whe…
23-7521 Keith Lamar Rodgers v. Florida Florida 2024-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-7503 Christopher Michael Bullins Croce v. Florida Florida 2024-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony first-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment stalking-statute Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-7505 Daniel Lynn Goering-Runyan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-provisions criminal-justice cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment judicial-review legal-petition parole procedural-document sentencing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Whether the Supervised Release Statute/probation for life violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment for misdemeanor …
23A1024 Roy Sargeant v. Aracelie Barfield Seventh Circuit 2024-05-17 Presumed Complete bivens-remedy constitutional-claim deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment federal-prison inmate-violence Whether the Eighth Amendment permits a Bivens damages remedy for deliberate indifference to the risk of inmate-on-inmate violence in federal prisons
23-7488 Jose Eliso Zavala v. Texas Texas 2024-05-15 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment actual-bias constitutional-rights fair-trial fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury juror-bias prejudice sixth-amendment structural-error Whether the petitioner was deprived of his constitutional rights to a fair and impartial trial
23-7472 Torrie Chermaine Austin v. Florida Florida 2024-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-7479 Ronald Lee Howard v. Texas Texas 2024-05-14 Denied IFP appeal appellate-procedure constitutional-rights discretionary-review douglas due-process evitts fourteenth-amendment griffin state-court texas-court-of-criminal-appeals Is procedural due process violated regarding the constitutional requirement of a meaningful or effective appeal of right under Evitts, Griffin and Dou…
23-7460 William Burton v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2024-05-13 Denied IFP criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-stipulation fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mccoy-v-louisiana plea-rights sixth-amendment strickland-standard Was Petitioner's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel violated?
23-7466 Beatrice M. Uwamariya v. Enias Baganizi California 2024-05-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-interpretation due-process extradition federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment judicial-authority standing state-officers supreme-court-orders unauthorized-practice-of-law Whether state court judges can defy orders of the U.S. Supreme Court
23-7448 Gabriel Paul Hall v. Texas Texas 2024-05-10 Denied IFP capital-murder due-process fair-trial false-testimony fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel When a state habeas applicant makes a prima facie case that the state knowingly presented false and material testimony in the punishment phase of his …
23-7427 Alton Pelichet v. Fredeane Artis, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process equal-protection fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment Whether the petitioner's rights to a fair trial, due process, and equal protection were violated
23A999 Thomas E. Creech v. Tim Richardson, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-05-09 Presumed Complete capital-punishment constitutional-challenge death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus judge-sentencing Whether judge-sentencing in death-penalty trials violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment
23-7417 Nersius Adonliel Artisani, aka Roger Joseph Hoffert, Jr. v. Iowa, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-05-08 Denied IFP civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment heat-exposure prison-conditions Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment protects prisoners from being subjected to extreme heat and inadequate cool…
23-7387 Justin Luis Sanchez v. Florida Florida 2024-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition sixth-amendment trial-by-jury Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-7389 Brad Evans v. Florida Florida 2024-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigants Whether the State of Florida has created rules of criminal and appellate procedure that arbitrarily and unreasonably encroach upon the personal rights…
23-7391 Markeith D. Loyd v. Florida Florida 2024-05-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment individual-responsibility jury-instructions sentencing-phase Where the court in a capital case allows the State to argue that the jury should, or must, try its best to reach a unanimous penalty phase verdict, is…
23-7379 Michael Hebert v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2024-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation constitutional-violations due-process evidence evidence-contamination fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether the lower court erred in denying COA on the claim of prosecutorial misconduct
23-1192 Christine Mire v. University Hospital & Clinics, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-05-03 Denied Response Waived attorney-conduct civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment estoppel excessive-fines first-amendment free-speech punitive-sanctions subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the lower courts' imposition of punitive sanctions violates Petitioner's rights under the First and/or Eighth Amendments
23-1183 California Herbal Remedies, Inc. v. Sara Perez California 2024-05-02 Denied attorney-client-confidentiality cannabis-employees cannabis-employment class-action controlled-substances discovery-sanctions due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-integrity privacy privacy-rights Does the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause vindicate third-party privacy rights in State class action proceedings?
23-1186 Rodney Thomas Ternovsky v. Florida Florida 2024-05-02 Denied Response Waived consent due-process evidence-admissibility fair-trial Fourteenth-Amendment irrelevant-evidence jury-prejudice prejudicial-evidence trial-procedure Whether the Petitioner's Fourteenth-Amendment-due-process-right-to-a-fair-trial-was-violated
23-7367 John E. Garrett v. Richard Clouse Seventh Circuit 2024-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP bail bail-revocation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment judicial-proceedings liberty liberty-interest standing Is notice and a hearing required, prior to depriving one of his liberty pending trial and does said liberty qualify as a substantive and/or procedural…
23-7358 Eric LaQuinne Brown v. Mississippi Mississippi 2024-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP brown-v-state constitutional-error due-process fourteenth-amendment howell-v-state mississippi post-conviction-relief procedural-rule retroactive-application upccra Is it a Due Process violation, to apply a 2023 decision (Howell v. State.) case holding, that abolishment of the exception to Mississippi's procedural…
23-1165 Raymond H. Pierson, III v. CSAA Insurance Services, Inc., et al. California 2024-05-01 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process duty-to-settle fourteenth-amendment good-faith-dealing insurance insurance-law public-interest standing third-party-liability tort Whether injured third parties can directly sue an insurer for breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, even without obtaining a …
23-1172 Kristen Lovell, et al. v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State, et al. Georgia 2024-05-01 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived constitutional-rights critical-infrastructure election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment georgia-constitution ninth-amendment official-immunity official-misconduct sovereign-immunity voting-rights Whether the granting of the defense of sovereign or official immunity for employees or officials that are acting outside of the authority of their off…
23-7346 Oksana Marinaro v. Zimmer & Lewis, Attorneys & Counselor at Law Virginia 2024-04-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-appointment judicial-appointments judicial-authority judicial-procedure procedural-rights separation-of-powers state-statutes Can a retired judge preside over a case without an appointment required by a state statute?
23-7348 Oksana Marinaro v. Cheryl Eddy Benn, PC Virginia 2024-04-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP case-mootness civil-procedure court-order due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-appointment procedural-notice retirement standing state-statute Can a retired judge preside over a case without an appointment required by a state statute?
23-7328 Leslie Hood v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment employment probation-requirements sentencing sentencing-discretion supervision supervision-conditions Was the district court's imposition of supervision conditions requiring Mr. Hood to obtain some form of work/employment violated the Eighth Amendment …
23-7329 Alrick Brown v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel premeditated-murder self-defense sixth-amendment whether-a-state-criminal-appellant-has-constitutional-right-to-fair-trial
23-7314 S. C. v. Vermont Vermont 2024-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-welfare clear-and-convincing due-process fourteenth-amendment hearsay hearsay-evidence parental-rights parental-unfitness santosky-standard santosky-v-kramer Whether Vermont's law allowing courts to terminate parental rights based on hearsay violates the Fourteenth Amendment
23-7322 Gabriel Paul Hall v. Texas Texas 2024-04-26 Denied IFP attorney-conduct capital-appointments capital-punishment due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pecuniary-incentive sixth-amendment state-statute Whether a state statute that makes an attorney ineligible for future capital appointments if found to be ineffective creates a pecuniary incentive for…
23-7303 Demetriaus L. Blaylock v. Illinois Illinois 2024-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-justice cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment emerging-adults juvenile-justice miller-v-alabama sentencing Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment requires the protections granted under Miller v. Alabama to be extende…
23A959 Predrag Tosic v. Heather Tosic Washington 2024-04-25 Presumed Complete ada-accommodations disability-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se Whether the First and Fourteenth Amendments require courts to provide reasonable accommodations and due process protections for pro se litigants with …
23-1160 Derrick Williams v. Mississippi Mississippi 2024-04-25 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-evidence first-amendment fourteenth-amendment petition-clause right-to-counsel Whether the fundamental right to petition the state courts is restricted by any timeframe for appealing the denial or deprivation of counsel on direct…
23-7302 In Re Michael A. Farrell 2024-04-24 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254d due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment full-and-fair-hearing reasonable-doubt state-court Did the U.S. District Court violate petitioners XIV Amendment right to due-process, equal-protection, 28-usc-2254d
23A951 Keyvon Sellers v. Jerry Nelson, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Eddie Lee Nelson, Jr., Deceased, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-23 Presumed Complete deliberate-indifference fourteenth-amendment inmate-safety jail-intake qualified-immunity racial-animus Whether a jail intake officer can be held liable under the Fourteenth Amendment for deliberate indifference when aware of potential racial animus that…
23-7283 Hector Manuel Gomez Rodriguez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-04-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 21-usc-841 constitutional-scrutiny criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences non-capital-sentences proportionality-review sentencing Whether the Ninth Circuit contravened Harmelin's plurality and Ewing by exempting all sentences imposed under 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(A)(vii) from Eight…
23-7260 Mark R. Zana v. Nevada Nevada 2024-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ninth-circuit post-conviction retroactivity statutory-interpretation Whether Petitioner's conviction and continued incarceration under Nevada Revised Statute 207.010 violates the due process clause of the Federal Consti…
23-7261 Geary Wayne Walton v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment execution mental-illness rational-understanding Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a prisoner who has a severe mental illness that …
23-7265 Nicholas Stewart Hines v. South Dakota South Dakota 2024-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-considerations sixth-amendment Whether acquitted conduct or dismissed conduct pursuant to a plea can be argued and considered at sentencing
23-7266 Nathaniel O. Robinson v. Louisiana Louisiana 2024-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure direct-review fourteenth-amendment griffin-v-kentucky jury-unanimity ramos-v-louisiana sixth-amendment state-proceedings Whether a conviction can be obtained, in light of Ramos v. Louisiana holding that the Sixth Amendment requires a unanimous jury to convict, when the r…
23-7272 Matthew Michael Albritton v. Florida Florida 2024-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-7276 Robert Dwayne Smith v. Amy Robey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment sixth-circuit Did the court of appeals erroneously deny petitioner's habeas corpus petition due to procedural default without reviewing the record and basing its de…
23-7256 John Pedelahore v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process eighth-amendment federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness supervised-release Whether the district court erred by ordering Mr. Pedelahore to serve 30 months in prison for nonviolent supervised release violations when the recomme…
23-1131 Marcus Traylor v. Gideon Yorka Fifth Circuit 2024-04-18 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-fabrication fabrication-of-evidence felony fourteenth-amendment misdemeanor qualified-immunity Whether fabrication of evidence for misdemeanor charges violates due process
23-7241 Michael Allen v. Fidencio N. Guzman, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-04-17 Denied IFP 14th-amendment aider-and-abettor constitutional-law criminal-law due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment mens-rea statutory-interpretation Does California Penal Code Section 117.95(a)(1)-(3) statute violate the United States Constitution 14th Amendment Equal Protection of the Law by not i…
23-7244 Clarence F. Stephenson v. Florida Florida 2024-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial life-felony sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a twelve-person jury when the defendant is charged with a life felony?
23-7245 Dustin Jay Harpel v. Florida Florida 2024-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-7246 Harold Stewart v. Florida Florida 2024-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-charge fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-7248 Hector Negron-Espada v. Florida Florida 2024-04-17 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-charges fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23A928 John C. Baer v. Larry Trent Roberts, et al. Third Circuit 2024-04-17 Presumed Complete absolute-immunity civil-rights fourteenth-amendment investigative-function prosecutorial-immunity witness-interview Whether a prosecutor's pre-trial witness interview and identification constitutes an investigative function precluding absolute prosecutorial immunity…
23A933 Kurt Benshoof v. Freya Brier, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-17 Presumed Complete civil-rights-act due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment mask-mandate Whether the First, Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments protect an individual from retaliatory, discriminatory prosecution for refusing to wear a…
23-7239 Bertrand Laidler, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2024-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-charges fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-by-jury Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23A920 Gatewood A. Walden v. The Disciplinary Board of the Alabama State Bar Alabama 2024-04-15 Presumed Complete binding-precedent due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-review precedent Whether a state appellate court violates a litigant's due process and equal protection rights under the Fourteenth Amendment when it refuses to follow…
23-7218 Leslie Shannon v. Cherry Creek School District, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discrimination due-process employment-discrimination employment-law equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment retaliation summary-judgment Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated
23-7197 Michael David Logering, et al. v. Morrison County Sheriff's Office, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-04-11 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-rules fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-error standing Did the United States Appeals Court for the Eighth Circuit violate the Plaintiffs' Constitutional Rights to Due Process and Equal Protection under the…
23A910 Chen Chen Hsu v. Superior Court of California, Alameda County, et al. California 2024-04-11 Presumed Complete certiorari due-process fourteenth-amendment mental-illness pro-se supreme-court-rules Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari for a pro se litigan…
23-1108 Daril Foose, et al. v. Sherelle Thomas, Administrator of the Estate of Terelle Thomas, et al. Third Circuit 2024-04-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) civil-rights constitutional-violation custody drug-toxicity due-process fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement law-enforcement-custody medical-care qualified-immunity Whether the police officers' decision to transport a detainee who they suspected had ingested drugs to a nearby prison where he was evaluated by the p…
23-7171 Darryl Puderer v. Louisiana Louisiana 2024-04-10 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jurisdictional-claims out-of-time-appeal pleadings standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted
23-7186 Anthony Roland v. Department of Justice Seventh Circuit 2024-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourteenth-amendment in-camera-review judicial-system legal-proceeding meet-and-confer preliminary-injunction summary-judgment Whether permitted by Due Process shall a ruling and proceeding take place without a 'Meet and Confer'?
23-1097 J. D. Hartman, Individually and in his Official Capacity as Sheriff of Davie County, North Carolina, et al. v. Charles Willis Short, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Victoria Christine Short Fourth Circuit 2024-04-09 Denied Amici (1) 8th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment objective-knowledge pretrial-detainee pretrial-detention prison-officials Whether a pretrial detainee alleging deliberate-indifference must prove the defendant actually-knew of a significant-risk-of-harm or instead must prov…
23-7162 James Hodge v. Florida Florida 2024-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-7164 Jason Bryan Cass v. California California 2024-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection federal-courts jurisdiction standing violent-circumstances Was the petitioner's constitutional rights violated?
23A891 Vicki Baker v. City of McKinney, Texas Fifth Circuit 2024-04-08 Presumed Complete civil-rights constitutional-rights equal-protection fourteenth-amendment municipal-liability police-conduct Whether a municipality can be held liable under the Fourteenth Amendment for a police officer's alleged violation of a citizen's constitutional rights…
23A890 Brian J. Dorsey v. David Vandergriff, Warden Missouri 2024-04-07 Denied capital-punishment certiorari-standard death-penalty eighth-amendment penological-goals rehabilitation Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a death-sentenced individual who has demonstrated full rehabilitation and for whom the penolog…
23-7153 Brian J. Dorsey v. David Vandergriff, Warden Missouri 2024-04-07 Denied IFP capital-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-row deterrence eighth-amendment penological-goals rehabilitation retribution When a death-sentenced person has demonstrated that he has been rehabilitated, does the Eighth Amendment prohibit his execution because the penologica…
23A889 Walter Taylor, III v. Vermont Vermont 2024-04-05 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights criminal-defense fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury jury-instruction sixth-amendment Whether a criminal defendant is entitled to a jury instruction on a valid defense theory when there is sufficient evidence to support such an instruct…
23A882 Daniel Kinsinger v. Sherelle Thomas, as Administrator of the Estate of Terelle Thomas, et al. Third Circuit 2024-04-04 Presumed Complete deliberate-indifference drug-toxicity fourteenth-amendment medical-care qualified-immunity section-1983 Whether a law enforcement officer's decision to transport a potentially drug-intoxicated arrestee to a jail medical facility instead of a hospital con…
23-7124 Naftali Dominguez Zenon v. Florida Florida 2024-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial life-felony life-without-parole sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a twelve-person jury when the defendant is charged with a life felony?
23A873 Jose Luis Garcia v. Kyeong Park Ninth Circuit 2024-04-01 Presumed Complete deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-needs prison-conditions section-1983 summary-judgment Whether a prison official's medical treatment of an inmate's foot condition constitutes deliberate indifference to serious medical needs under the Eig…
23-7091 Brandon De McCall v. Texas Texas 2024-03-28 Denied IFP 8th-amendment capital-punishment culpability due-process eighth-amendment jury-instruction jury-instructions mitigating-evidence moral-blameworthiness Whether the 'moral blameworthiness' jury instruction prevented the consideration of constitutionally relevant mitigating evidence
23-7093 Jeremy J. Quinn, Jr. v. Ohio Ohio 2024-03-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment sentencing sentencing-statute state-courts Whether a state court's imposition of a criminal sentence that violates the defendant's due process rights and constitutes cruel and unusual punishmen…
23-7099 Keatron Walls v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law due-process eighth-amendment mental-health sentencing sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent variance-argument Whether the Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that 18 U.S.C. § 2261A(1) is not an unconstitutional expansion of the Commerce Clause in light o…
23-7084 Gregory S. Kudla v. Kenneth Black, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure arbitrary-enforcement constitutional-vagueness discriminatory-enforcement due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment vagueness Is the undefined, non-specific, ambiguous language used in Ohio's App-R.26(B)(2)(c) that results in arbitrary, inconsistent, and discriminatory enforc…
23-7080 Curtis Dwayne Vaughn v. Sean M. Flannery, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment rehabilitation-act rule-15d standing standing-defects supplemental-pleading Whether the court agrees to resolve the circuit split on Rule 15(d) supplemental pleading to cure standing defects and provide reasonable accommodatio…
23-7057 Sammy Tinnin v. Indiana Indiana 2024-03-22 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment Whether the admission of evidence that is not supported by the record deprives a defendant of their Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment right to a fair tri…
23-7059 Alissa Peterson v. Jackson County Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Michigan 2024-03-22 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process edwards-v-arizona fair-trial fourteenth-amendment gideon-v-wainwright res-judicata screws-v-united-states sixth-amendment Where CPS investigators and Judge Diane Rappleye violate the rules announced in Doe v. Doe, where Prosecution and Appointed legal counsel of Ms Peters…
23-7061 Cody Dillon Hogan v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 8th-amendment child-pornography civil-rights criminal-law due-process eighth-amendment mandatory-minimum restitution statutory-interpretation Proximate causation, due process, conflicting interpretation, statutory interpretation, substantive due process
23-7062 Clark D. Thomas v. McKendley Newton, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability discovery-and-counsel-denial double-jeopardy due-process equitable-tolling fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in denying a certificate of appealability
23-1049 John-Henry Ayanbadejo v. Chanel Goosby, et al. Texas 2024-03-22 Denied appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings seventh-amendment supreme-court-procedure Whether the Lower Appellate Court departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, and/or sanctioned such a departure by the Texas…
23-7050 David Phillip Ryan v. Florida Florida 2024-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment standing Whether the jury guaranteed by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments is a 12-person jury?
23-7051 Loren J. Larson, Jr. v. Joe Schmidt, Commissioner, Alaska Department of Corrections, et al. Alaska 2024-03-21 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appellate-review due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias sixth-amendment state-court-of-appeals structural-error systemic-bias Does a systemic appearance of bias from a State court of appeals create structural error to a defendant's Sixth Amendment guarantee to a fair trial?
23-7042 Willie James Pye v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Georgia 2024-03-20 Denied IFP atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia burden-of-proof capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability Can the State under Atkins v. Virginia execute a person who is intellectually disabled by all clinical standards?
23A856 Willie James Pye v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Georgia 2024-03-20 Denied adaptive-deficits death-penalty eighth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-testing woodard-precedent Whether the Eighth Amendment categorically bars the execution of an intellectually disabled defendant whose IQ scores and adaptive deficits demonstrat…
23-7024 Thomas Bevel v. Florida Florida 2024-03-19 Denied IFP aggravating-factors arbitrary-sentencing capital-sentencing death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment proportionality-review reasonable-doubt Whether Florida's capital sentencing scheme violates the Eighth Amendment
23-7028 Hunter Thomas Boesch v. Florida Florida 2024-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP brain-development cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment emerging-adults late-adolescent-brain-development mandatory-life-without-parole miller-v-alabama sentencing-protections youth Whether the sentencing protections afforded in Miller v Alabama should be applied to defendants who are emerging adults 18 to 20 years old
23-7029 Byron James Shepard v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-03-19 Denied IFP aggravating-circumstance aggravating-factors capital-punishment capital-sentencing criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-discretion Does Oklahoma's continuing threat aggravating circumstance violate this Court's capital sentencing jurisprudence and the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendme…
23-7030 Logan Dyjak v. Joseph Harper, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-03-19 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection forced-medication fourteenth-amendment judicial-review mental-health petition-denial vitek-v-jones writ-of-certiorari Whether the conditions of hospitalization, including forced medication, violate the petitioner's constitutional rights under the Fourteenth Amendment …
23-7033 Donte Taylor v. California California 2024-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus sentencing Why was my 8th amendment denied?
23-6980 Matthew Murphy v. United States First Circuit 2024-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP bias constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea prosecutorial-bias recusal sixth-amendment structural-error whether-this-court-should-grant-this-petition
23-6988 Anthony Shief v. Illinois Illinois 2024-03-14 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mitigating-factors sentencing sentencing-procedure Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment requires Miller protections for juvenile offenders who receive de facto lif…
23A829 Joseph Daryll Rued, et al. v. Charlene W. Hatcher, Judge, Hennepin County, Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-03-13 Presumed Complete child-welfare constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review liberty-interest Whether due process protections are violated when state child welfare investigations rely on admittedly falsified conclusions to deprive parents of fu…
23-6963 James Deon Bryant, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2024-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-charges fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-6968 Raymond Vincent v. Florida Florida 2024-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-charges fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-986 Joseph Daryll Rued, et al. v. Charlene W. Hatcher, Judge, Hennepin County, Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-03-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) access-to-venue association child-welfare children's-welfare civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment natural-parents rooker-feldman unlawful-confinement Did the Eighth Circuit err in affirming the District Court's Order and denying Petitioners' petition for rehearing en banc?
23-6956 David Wilbanks v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-03-11 Denied IFP collateral-order-doctrine confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing due-process final-judgment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review jurisdiction sixth-amendment statutory-construction Did the Court of Appeals have jurisdiction over the collateral order doctrine when the district judge failed to issue a COA for the final judgment und…
23-6960 Tasha Mercedez Shelby v. Mississippi Mississippi 2024-03-11 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment cause-of-death death-certificate due-process fourteenth-amendment homicide-conviction medical-examiner recantation resentencing shaken-baby-syndrome Does the Due Process Clause require resentencing when the principal evidence supporting a conviction is later recanted?
23-989 Robert J. Murphy v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2024-03-11 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process ex-parte-communications first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-code sixth-amendment workers-compensation Where petitioner sought removal of unelected administrative Workers' Compensation judges involving their actual or apparent improprieties involving ad…
23-6931 Darrell Tillery v. Tim Hooper, Warden Louisiana 2024-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-rape constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial non-unanimous-jury sexual-battery sixth-amendment Whether non-unanimous jury verdicts violate the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments
23-6937 Mahmoud Almuhtaseb v. Florida Florida 2024-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-983 Nicholas Harding v. Google LLC Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-08 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure article-iii civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction equal-protection federalism fourteenth-amendment standing state-citizenship Does the 'state wherein they reside' provision of the Fourteenth Amendment define state citizenship for purposes of Article III diversity jurisdiction…
23A828 Benedict C. Ogbodiegwu v. Bryan Daniel, et al. Texas 2024-03-08 Presumed Complete administrative-hearing due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fraud-on-court judicial-review Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's due process and equal protection clauses require judicial review when state administrative proceedings involve alle…
23A823 Paul Siladi v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company Connecticut 2024-03-07 Presumed Complete due-process fifth-amendment foreclosure fourteenth-amendment standing summary-judgment Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments require a state court to conduct an evidentiary hearing and allow discovery before granting summary judgme…
23-6918 A. S., a Minor v. Palmdale School District California 2024-03-07 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equitable-estoppel fourteenth-amendment government-entity intentional-deception standing Whether the State Appellate Court erred in denying the assertion of equitable-estoppel by the petitioner, against a government-entity, which, intentio…
23-6925 Sadat El-Amin v. Louisiana Louisiana 2024-03-07 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection forcible-rape fourteenth-amendment jury-trial non-unanimous-jury sixth-amendment Whether non-unanimous jury verdicts for felony convictions violate the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments
23A822 Dennis O'Connor v. Rachel Eubanks, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-03-06 Presumed Complete fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment just-compensation pre-deprivation-process property-rights unclaimed-property Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments require state governments to compensate property owners for interest earned on unclaimed funds held by the…
23-6891 Joshua Terrel Brown v. Florida Florida 2024-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-trial felony fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-size sixth-amendment trial-by-jury williams-v-florida Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a twelve-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-6901 Joshua Lane Tansil v. Florida Florida 2024-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23A815 Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, et al. v. Steven McCraw, Director, Texas Department of Public Safety, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-03-04 Presumed Complete detention due-process expedited-removal fourteenth-amendment immigration judicial-review Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires individualized hearings for detained immigrants facing expedited removal without meanin…
23-6879 Christopher Sean Burrus v. Washington Washington 2024-03-01 Denied IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment drug-offense due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-requirements ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum mental-health sentencing-law Questions Presented
23-6838 Danny Lee Warner, Jr. v. Montana Montana 2024-02-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-privilege due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment presumption-of-prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment warrantless-search Are unsworn assertions sufficient to overcome clear and convincing evidence of illegal search and seizure?
23A798 John Seely v. James Seely, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-02-29 Presumed Complete due-process extrinsic-fraud federal-lawsuit fourteenth-amendment rooker-feldman state-court-judgment Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine permits a federal lawsuit seeking damages for alleged extrinsic fraud that resulted in an adverse state court judg…
23-6843 Joseph A. Crenshaw v. Florida Florida 2024-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process expert-witness fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance post-conviction sixth-amendment trial-procedure Does a trial court's 'tender and accept' procedure of an expert witness in front of a jury violative of a Defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a fair …
23-940 Kenneth James Rosellini v. New Jersey Office of Attorney Ethics New Jersey 2024-02-28 Denied attorney-ethics due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud fraud-upon-court professional-misconduct res-judicata Can an attorney be suspended from the practice of law for failure to obey tribunal rules when asserting the orders are unconstitutional?
23-931 J. W., et al. v. Elvin Paley Fifth Circuit 2024-02-27 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment school-official school-seizure seizure student-rights Whether a claim that a school official has used excessive force against a student that meets the definition of a Fourth Amendment seizure should be ev…
23-6824 Jeremiah James Lynch v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-02-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment parole proportionality sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the application of a 'grade A' violation for a local crime, which resulted in the peti…
23-6830 Thomas E. Creech v. Josh Tewalt, Director, Idaho Department of Correction, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-26 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment execution-secrecy lethal-injection Whether it comports with due process for a state to refuse to provide a condemned inmate information about his method of execution that would enable h…
23-6810 Larry D. Mosley v. Phillip A. White, Warden Fourth Circuit 2024-02-23 Denied IFP Abuse-of-Discretion Equal-Protection Fourteenth-Amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance Police-Misconduct Prosecutorial-Misconduct Sixth-Amendment trial-court-discretion Ineffective-Assistance-of-Counsel
23-6814 Martin Akerman v. Court of Appeals of Virginia, et al. Virginia 2024-02-23 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-records due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-mismanagement procedural-violations spoliation Did the Arlington Circuit Court's handling of spoliation allegations and procedural violations, including denial of access to court records, violate t…
23-6815 Martin Akerman v. Virginia State Corporation Commission, et al. Virginia 2024-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-implications constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment fraud jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge state-corporation-commission Does the Supreme Court of Virginia's refusal to review the State Corporation Commission's (SCC) alleged introduction of fraudulent evidence and its pr…
23-6818 Romeo Kevante Pride v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment sentencing-guidelines Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by denying Mr. Pride's argument that the District Court committed reversible error by imposing a 110…
23A772 Jorge Galindo v. Nebraska Nebraska 2024-02-23 Presumed Complete capital-sentencing death-penalty eddings-standard eighth-amendment mitigating-circumstances youthful-offender Whether a trial court's refusal to consider a defendant's youthful age as a mitigating circumstance in a capital sentencing proceeding violates the Ei…
23A771 Boston Parent Coalition for Academic Excellence Corp. v. The School Committee for the City of Boston, et al. First Circuit 2024-02-23 Presumed Complete civil-rights equal-protection fourteenth-amendment race-discrimination school-admissions section-1983 Whether race-conscious admissions policies in K-12 public schools violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
23-906 April D. Gallop v. Cameron Bay Homeowner's Association Virginia 2024-02-22 Denied 14th-amendment due-process fourteenth-amendment fraud judicial-consistency judicial-integrity procedural-fairness subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment Can a state court constitutionally deny a Motion to Set Aside/Vacate a judgment acquired through fraud and a court lacking subject matter jurisdiction…
23-6791 Thomas Eugene Creech v. Idaho Idaho 2024-02-21 Denied IFP capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment evolving-standards judicial-sentencing post-conviction state-court Whether it comports with due process for a state court to reject as untimely an evolving-standards claim on a theory that would never allow for such a…
23A761 Thomas Eugene Creech v. Idaho Idaho 2024-02-21 Denied constitutional-proportionality cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment execution mental-illness Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of an individual with a demonstrated history of severe mental illness under the Eighth Amendment'…
23-6783 Kevin F. Jackson v. Applied Materials Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-reporter due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jameson-vs-desta mandatory-arbitration pro-se-plaintiff Is a United States citizen considered to have received due process of law in a court ordered mandatory arbitration hearing if the Pro Se plaintiff is …
23-6775 Jesse Dean Redfearn v. William "Chris" Rankins, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-02-16 Denied IFP constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment Did the United States District Court and Court of Appeals properly apply clearly established constitutional law, [Hemphill v. New York, 142 S.Ct. 681,…
23-6747 Michael L. Miller v. Jeffery Norman Eighth Circuit 2024-02-15 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-review legal-procedure reproductive-rights scotus statutory-interpretation Does the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization violate the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause …
23-6767 Michael Samuel Hudson, Jr. v. Melissa Andrewjeski, Superintendent, Coyote Ridge Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2024-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP bill-of-rights citizenship due-process fourteenth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-clause hurtado-v-california incorporation-doctrine privileges-and-immunities privileges-immunities Does the Fourteenth Amendment protect rights against state intrusion?
23-6732 Seth Conner Wells v. Florida Florida 2024-02-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-challenge cost-of-incarceration due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fine fourteenth-amendment incarceration-cost statutory-interpretation timbs-v-indiana united-states-v-bajakajian Whether the imposition of a $401,500 cost of incarceration is an unconstitutionally excessive fine
23-6723 Brandon Keith Owensby v. Florida Florida 2024-02-12 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-865 Dale Wendall Laue v. State Bar of California California 2024-02-12 Denied Response Waived civil-rights diversity-equity-inclusion due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest licensing moral-character standing state-bar-admission Whether admission to a State Bar constitutes a liberty interest
23-857 Owolabi M. Salis v. Attorney Grievance Committee for the First Judicial Department New York 2024-02-08 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct judicial-procedure new-york-court-of-appeals referee referee-report Whether the New York Court of Appeals can adopt a Referee report that was clearly based on violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amend…
23A740 Elbert Walker, Jr. v. Dismas Charities, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-08 Presumed Complete bivens-remedy constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment first-amendment home-confinement Whether a private contractor overseeing a federal prisoner's home confinement can be held liable under Bivens for alleged constitutional violations du…
23-6695 Douglas W. Curtis v. Brian Eller, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa appellate-review due-process fourteenth-amendment novel-state-procedural-default plea-offer procedural-default standard-of-review state-procedural-default Whether Petitioner was denied his Fourteenth Amendment right to the Due Process of Law
23-844 Phillip Truesdell, et al. v. Eric Friedlander, in His Official Capacity as Secretary of the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-02-06 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment occupation occupation-rights privileges-or-immunities slaughter-house-cases Whether the right to enter a common and lawful occupation is a privilege or immunity protected by the Fourteenth Amendment
23-6655 Ralph Hall v. Anthony J. Annucci, et al. Second Circuit 2024-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-action constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment federal-law habeas-corpus intellectual-disability judicial-review legal-procedure Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a prisoner who has been found to be intellectual…
23A719 Dennis Ray Davis, Jr. v. Caddo Department of Public Works, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-02-05 Presumed Complete civil-rights constitutional-violation demolition due-process fourteenth-amendment property-rights Whether a state official's actions in demolishing a business property constitute a violation of the property owner's due process rights under the Four…
23-830 Lonnie Allen Bassett v. Arizona Arizona 2024-02-02 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana sentencing-discretion Whether the Eighth Amendment permits a juvenile to be sentenced to life without parole under a system that did not afford the sentencing court discret…
23-6646 Dana Albrecht v. Katherine Albrecht New Hampshire 2024-02-01 Denied IFP child-custody civil-procedure civil-rights domestic-violence due-process equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment parental-rights Whether the Fourteenth Amendment requires a timely hearing on the enforcement of a child custody decree
23-6627 In Re Reginald Bernard Hatton 2024-01-31 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sentencing time-served unconstitutional Whether the petitioner has been deprived of his constitutional rights under the 8th and 14th Amendment
23-6611 Morice Ervin v. Indiana Indiana 2024-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process expert-testimony expert-witness-testimony fair-trial favorable-evidence fourteenth-amendment lack-of-evidence post-autopsy prejudicial-questioning whether-petitioner's-due-process-rights-were-violated
23-6622 Miguel Jaimes-Luviano v. Florida Florida 2024-01-30 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial felony fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-size jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a twelve-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-6590 Johnny Eugene Holton v. Georgia Georgia 2024-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction mandatory-minimum res-judicata sentencing statutory-interpretation void-sentence Did the Georgia Court of Appeals err in vacating the petitioner's void sentence and barring him by res judicata from attacking the void sentence in an…
23-6610 Wendell C. Helfrick v. Russell L. Rabb, III, Deputy Commonwealth's Attorney of Culpeper County Fourth Circuit 2024-01-29 Denied IFP cases-and-controversies civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process forensic-evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus prisoner-rights standing state-court-review Does the state's deprivation of an individual's right to due process violate the established guarantees protected by the Fourteenth Amendment?
23-817 Michael Donatelli, et al. v. Town of Old Orchard Beach, Maine, et al. Maine 2024-01-29 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment motion-for-reconsideration motion-for-sanctions spoliation-of-evidence summary-judgment Did the court err in passing on properly disposing of the plaintiffs' filing of a motion for sanctions due to spoliation of evidence mis-styled as a m…
23-6597 Abraham Fagot Mejia v. Florida Florida 2024-01-26 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-6562 Kenneth Eugene Smith v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-25 Denied IFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection execution-protocol nitrogen-hypoxia preliminary-injunction ptsd-trauma standing Did the Eleventh Circuit deviate from established precedent when it affirmed the denial of a motion for a preliminary injunction on the ground that hi…
23A688 Kenneth Eugene Smith v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-25 Denied cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment equal-protection execution-method fourteenth-amendment nitrogen-hypoxia Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit a state from executing an inmate using an untested nitrogen hypoxia method that poses a substant…
23-6558 Freddie Quinn v. Florida Florida 2024-01-24 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-6540 Jennifer Agnes Lopez v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-immunity state-actors statute-of-limitations Whether the State actors can deprive the individual of a fair treatment which violates the guarantees of the Fifth Fourteenth Amendment
23-6549 Delon Scott v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment motion-to-withdraw penson-v-ohio right-to-counsel standing Whether the petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated when the United States Court of Appeals granted counsel's motion for leave to withd…
23-781 Sammie Todd Moser v. Halifax County Board of Supervisors, et al. Virginia 2024-01-23 Denied Response Waived appeals-limitation due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fifth-amendment forfeiture retirement-benefits Whether the Eighth Amendment's Excessive Fines clause was violated in the forfeiture of Petitioner's vested retirement benefits
23-789 Larisa Dirkzwager v. Archer-Daniels-Midland Company Eighth Circuit 2024-01-23 Denied Response Waived appeal civil-procedure constitutional-review deadline due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-error jurisdiction procedural-deadline standing Whether the Judge's error in miscalculation of the Plaintiff's Response deadline negates his dispositive Order and thereby logically and legally rende…
23-6527 Jermaine Anderson, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2024-01-22 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition sixth-amendment trial-by-jury Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23A674 Tasha Mercedez Shelby v. Mississippi Mississippi 2024-01-22 Presumed Complete due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-expert-testimony newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief shaken-baby-syndrome Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires a state court to consider newly discovered evidence of medical misdiagnosis that p…
23A664 Kenneth Eugene Smith v. Alabama Alabama 2024-01-19 Denied cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-attempt iv-access lethal-injection Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits a state from executing a condemned prisoner after multiple failed execution attempts involving repeated difficu…
23-6517 Kenneth Eugene Smith v. Alabama Alabama 2024-01-19 Denied IFP constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment lethal-injection method-of-execution nitrogen-hypoxia posttraumatic-stress-disorder Does a second attempt to execute a condemned person following a single, cruelly willful attempt to execute that same person violate the prohibition ag…
23-6512 Douglas Wayne Sokell v. David Pedro, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2024-01-18 Denied IFP constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-review life-sentence prisoner-detention recidivism sentencing three-strikes-law Was it constitutional to be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole or release, using recidivism (3 strikes) as a main fact, whe…
23-784 Kenneth James Rosellini v. New Jersey Office of Attorney Ethics New Jersey 2024-01-18 Denied civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech legal-ethics res-judicata Can an attorney be sanctioned for failure to obey tribunal rules when asserting unconstitutionality under the First and Fourteenth Amendments?
23-775 Erica Davis, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Andrew Dale Davis, Deceased, and Minor Children, JC, Minor Child, SD, Minor Child, et al. v. Cranfield Aerospace Solutions, Limited Ninth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure continuing-relationship contract-relationship due-process forum-selection fourteenth-amendment in-forum-company personal-jurisdiction product-development purposeful-availment Whether an out-of-forum defendant purposefully avails itself of the forum for personal-jurisdiction
23A654 Isaiah Glenndell Tryon v. Christe Quick, Acting Warden, Oklahoma State Penitentiary Tenth Circuit 2024-01-16 Presumed Complete capital-case constitutional-error death-penalty eighth-amendment fair-trial sentencing-review Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the imposition of a death sentence that may involve constitutional error warranting further judicial review
23-746 Dmitry Nikolenko v. Luiza Nikolenko Texas 2024-01-10 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment immigration international-comity personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Texas court violated the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause and international comity
23A627 Byron James Shepard v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-01-08 Presumed Complete continuing-threat death-penalty eighth-amendment fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sentencing-hearing Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments permit the imposition of a death sentence based on vague and overly broad continuing threat testimony tha…
23A614 Azariah M. Ellington, et al. v. Mary Thornton House, Judge, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-03 Presumed Complete appeal-of-right certiorari due-process en-banc fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's due process protections are violated when a federal appellate court improperly denies a litigant's appeal of right …
23A618 Azariah M. Ellington v. Department of Veterans Affairs Ninth Circuit 2024-01-03 Presumed Complete appeal-of-right certiorari due-process en-banc fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's due process protections are violated when a federal appellate court improperly denies a litigant's appeal of right …
23A602 Jeanna Norris, et al. v. Samuel L. Stanley, Jr., in His Official Capacity as President of Michigan State University, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-01-02 Presumed Complete bodily-autonomy covid-vaccine-mandate due-process fourteenth-amendment jacobson-precedent rational-basis-review Whether the Supreme Court's precedent in Jacobson v. Massachusetts remains valid for evaluating vaccine mandates in light of subsequent due process ju…
23A599 William Phillip Neidinger v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-01-02 Presumed Complete cruel-and-unusual due-process eighth-amendment federal-sentencing identity-preservation judicial-discretion Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits imposing a federal prison sentence that effectively destroys a defendant's identity and constitutes cruel and u…
23A603 Angela Germaine Spencer, By and Through Next Friend and Mother of A.S., a Minor v. The County of Harrison, Texas Fifth Circuit 2024-01-02 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment individualized-assessment juvenile-shackling Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments require an individualized assessment of need before shackling a juvenile defendant during pre-trial or non…
23-6379 Terrence LaFaive v. Records Custodian, Waukesha County District Attorney Wisconsin 2023-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-work-product civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment plea-negotiations public-records standing Does the Common-Law exception recognized in State ex rel. Richards v. Foust abridge the First and Fourteenth Amendment rights of a litigant?
23-6383 Guillermo Octavio Arbelaez v. Florida, et al. Florida 2023-12-28 Denied IFP atkins-v-virginia constitutional-law death-penalty eighth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability medical-standards retroactivity teague-rule teague-v-lane Whether Hall's holding that the 3-pronged test for assessing intellectual disability must be informed by prevailing medical practice and standards ann…
23-6393 Jeremy Jermaine Brooks v. James M. LeBlanc, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections Fifth Circuit 2023-12-28 Denied IFP constitutional-proportionality due-process eighth-amendment fair-notice juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-montgomery-rule mootness-doctrine proportionate-sentencing Whether Louisiana murder statutes satisfy the holdings announced in Miller/Montgomery
23-696 Colorado Republican State Central Committee v. Norma Anderson, et al. Colorado 2023-12-28 Dismissed Amici (3)Response Waived 14th-amendment disqualification-clause due-process election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment insurrection political-parties presidential-eligibility section-3 state-authority Whether the President falls within the list of officials subject to the disqualification provision of Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment?
23-688 Travis Scott King, By and Through His Guardian ad Litem, Breanna Raymundo, et al. v. DeMichael Dews, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-12-27 Denied Response Waived bodily-harm civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment excessive-force hudson-v-mcmillian prisoner-rights qualified-immunity Can the doctrine of qualified immunity ever apply when force is used maliciously and sadistically for the very purpose of causing harm in violation of…
23-692 Zachariah Minix v. Kentucky Kentucky 2023-12-27 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment parole-eligibility plea-agreement plea-withdrawal Were the Petitioner's federal due-process rights violated when the Adair County Circuit Court denied the Petitioner's request to withdraw his plea of …
23-695 Samantha Taczak, et al. v. Nicolette Cremeans, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-12-27 Denied civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment qualified-immunity section-1983 state-court state-court-precedent u.s-constitution What sources of law constitute 'controlling authority' for the purposes of clearly establishing a right when analyzing Section 1983 qualified immunity…
23-6363 Matthew Reid Hinson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP competent-counsel due-process equal-protection fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Does an attorney's failure to investigate, interview witnesses, and discuss defenses before advising a guilty plea violate the Sixth Amendment's right…
23-6349 Derrick Martin King v. Budget Car Mart, LLC Ohio 2023-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights covid-19 due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pandemic remote-depositions Whether the Supreme Court of Ohio's administrative orders necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic regarding the use of remote depositions violates a civ…
23-6322 Ohio, ex rel. Ricardo Dodson v. Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, et al. Ohio 2023-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP dna-testing due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment parole parole-hearing paternity paternity-determination rape Whether petitioner was denied his Fourteenth Amendment due process right to a fair parole hearing
23A574 Wayne Resper v. Yescare Corp., fka Corizon Health, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-12-21 Presumed Complete civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-care prisoner-rights pro-se Whether a pro se prisoner's civil rights complaint alleging inadequate medical care by prison healthcare providers states a cognizable claim under the…
23A572 Darrell Wayne Frederick v. Christe Quick, Warden Tenth Circuit 2023-12-21 Presumed Complete capital-case constitutional-error death-penalty eighth-amendment fair-sentencing habeas-corpus Whether the Eighth Amendment permits the imposition of a death sentence in a manner that potentially violates fundamental principles of fair and relia…
23-6301 Delbert Leroy Oldham v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-12-19 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-error cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines res-judicata sentencing Whether the Court of Appeals erred by applying the doctrine of res-judicata,whether the District Court exceeded its authority,whether the trial court …
23-6302 Robert Lee Crawford v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 2nd-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-claim due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus legal-procedure preliminary-review prisoner-rights Is the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment violated when a prisoner's 28 USC §2255 habeas corpus raising Second and Sixth Amendment claims …
23-6304 Onterrious V. Tillman v. Florida Florida 2023-12-19 Denied Relisted (5)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-6281 Laquince T. Hogan v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Arkansas 2023-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus oral-amendment sixth-amendment uncharged-offense Whether the Arkansas Supreme Court denied Mr. Hogan due process of law under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments
23-6289 Wisben Sanon v. Florida Florida 2023-12-18 Denied Relisted (5)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition sixth-amendment trial-by-jury Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-6249 Flenoid Greer v. Michigan Michigan 2023-12-13 Denied IFP collateral-review due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest post-conviction post-conviction-relief sentencing-guidelines successive-motion Can a State's collateral review procedures deny a person from having an invalid sentence vacated, without violating the right to petition
23-6254 William Graves, III v. Florida Florida 2023-12-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigants Whether the state of Florida has created rules of criminal and appellate procedure that arbitrarily and unreasonably encroaches upon the personal righ…
23-6255 David Alexander Hunter v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-12-13 Denied IFP aedpa direct-appeal direct-review due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan suspension-clause Is the AEDPA's one-year limitation period for state prisoners to raise claims of ineffective assistance of counsel triggered by conclusion of 'direct …
23-639 Thomas Dale Ferguson v. John Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-13 Denied adaptive-functioning capital-punishment circuit-split eighth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-test iq-testing moore-v-texas Whether a court may disregard a valid IQ test with a range under 70 simply because not all tests show such a range, or must proceed to evaluate adapti…
23-6229 Arnold A. Cary v. Dean Williams, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-12-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 8th-amendment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-materials medical-care prisoner-rights toxic-exposure toxic-water Did CDOC violate Cary's due-process, equal-protection, 8th-amendment, toxic-water, medical-care, legal-materials
23A535 Nicholas Harding v. Google LLC Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-12 Presumed Complete arbitration-appeal article-three corporate-citizenship diversity-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's 'state wherein they reside' clause limits federal courts' diversity jurisdiction over corporate parties based on th…
23A524 835 Hinesburg Road, LLC v. City of South Burlington, Vermont, et al. Second Circuit 2023-12-11 Presumed Complete as-applied-claim fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment land-use regulatory-takings ripeness Whether a government's land use decision constitutes a final decision sufficient to render an as-applied regulatory takings claim ripe for federal cou…
23-6227 Jose Antonio Cortez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-12-11 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus reasonable-time rule-60b6 sixth-amendment unanimous-jury-verdict Whether the court of appeals side-stepped the requirements of a Certificate of Appealability
23-6204 Angel Anthony Sanchez v. California California 2023-12-08 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence-code fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment prior-acts-instructions sixth-amendment trial-procedure whether-petitioner-was-denied-his-fifth-sixth-and-fourteenth-amendment-rights-to-due-process-and-fair-trial
23A522 Gary Wayne Warner v. Texas Texas 2023-12-08 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pro-se-litigant sixth-amendment Whether Texas's systemic failure to provide an adequate procedural vehicle for raising ineffective assistance of counsel claims violates a criminal de…
23-6188 Otis Blaxton v. Florida Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment equitable-tolling false-imprisonment fourteenth-amendment post-conviction-relief sovereign-immunity Has the State of Florida waived immunity from suits under its own statute, Florida Statute § 768.28 and the Florida Constitution Art. X, § 13?
23-610 Frander Salguero v. California California 2023-12-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedures material-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether the effect on due process remains unchanged as to Brady's holding
23A515 Jonathan Douglas Richardson v. North Carolina North Carolina 2023-12-06 Presumed Complete batson-challenge equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenge racial-discrimination Whether the use of a peremptory challenge to remove a Black woman from a jury panel violates the Equal Protection Clause under Batson v. Kentucky and …
23-598 Chester Noel Abing, et al. v. James F. Evers, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-12-05 Denied Response Waived civil-rights civil-rights-laws discrimination due-process eleventh-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment property-rights sovereign-immunity Does the Fourteenth Amendment amend the Eleventh Amendment?
23-602 William Shupp v. Louisiana Louisiana 2023-12-05 Denied Response Waived appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process evitts-v-lucey fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel louisiana-supreme-court out-of-time-appeal writ-of-certiorari Whether Louisiana's denial of Shupp's request to file an out-of-time application for writ of certiorari to the Louisiana Supreme Court, despite the in…
23-6154 Jennifer Lynn Dees v. Colorado Colorado 2023-12-04 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct jury-tampering sixth-amendment trial-integrity Whether a trial's verdict validity is impacted by a judge's jury tampering
23-584 Robert R. Snyder v. California California 2023-12-01 Denied Relisted (2) arbitrary-enforcement armed-intent constitutional-vagueness due-process eighth-amendment legislative-intent penal-code rosemond-substantive-holding second-amendment sentencing-enhancement standardless-legislation vagueness Should California Penal Code § 12022.53 be struck down and voided as vague and standardless legislation?
23-6143 Howard Nelson Bartee, III v. Florida Florida 2023-12-01 Denied Relisted (6)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition sixth-amendment trial-by-jury Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-6144 Susanne Aspley v. Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 civil-rights color-of-law covid-pandemic due-process emergency-orders fourteenth-amendment nursing-home-deaths right-to-life section-1983 Whether the 14th Amendment right to life was violated by the Minnesota Governor and Health Department Commissioner's actions that resulted in the deat…
23A488 Dana Albrecht v. Katherine Albrecht New Hampshire 2023-11-29 Presumed Complete domestic-violence fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct liberty-interests parental-rights restraining-order Whether a civil domestic violence restraining order issued without objective standards violates a parent's fundamental liberty interests under the Fou…
23A475 Lonnie Allen Bassett v. Arizona Arizona 2023-11-28 Presumed Complete eighth-amendment juvenile-offender life-without-parole miller-retroactivity post-conviction-relief sentencing-discretion Whether the Eighth Amendment requires resentencing or individualized review for juvenile offenders sentenced to mandatory life without the possibility…
23-573 Tina Bastian Veneskey v. Michael Keith Sulier North Carolina 2023-11-28 Denied custody custody-determination due-process error-of-law fourteenth-amendment full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction jurisdictional-determination legal-error state-jurisdiction Whether the Full Faith and Credit Clause precludes the enforcement of a State's jurisdictional determination when that very determination is based upo…
23-6088 Alpheus Elite Hamilton v. Arizona Arizona 2023-11-22 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process false-evidence fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment miller-v-pate prosecutorial-misconduct Did the State of Arizona violate the Due Process Clause when its prosecutor presented knowing use of false evidence to the jury as in Miller v. Pate, …
23-6090 In Re Kurt A. Benshoof 2023-11-22 Denied IFP constitutional-violations due-process family-court fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jurisdiction justiciable-controversy religious-freedom subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether family court proceeded in absence of jurisdiction and absent a justiciable controversy, thereby violating the Due Process Clause of the Fourte…
23-544 Teresa Marie Gaffney v. The Florida Bar Florida 2023-11-21 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment bar-license due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment homestead-property impartial-tribunal notice opportunity-to-be-heard sexual-harassment Whether it is a denial of due process, (1) notice; (2) an opportunity to be heard; and (3) an impartial tribunal, to not allow the Petitioner to condu…
23-6078 Timothy Ray Jones, Jr. v. South Carolina South Carolina 2023-11-21 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment insanity-defense jury jury-instructions not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity voir-dire Whether the Due Process Clause and the Eighth Amendment require that a jury, as the sentencer in a capital case, be told the truth about the effect of…
23-6084 Joe Stephens v. Alaska Division of Elections Ninth Circuit 2023-11-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ballot-access constitutional-rights due-process election-law equal-protection federalism first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech Whether a candidate's right to have their full legal name on the ballot
23A463 LaTausha Simmons v. City of Detroit, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-11-21 Presumed Complete civil-rights digital-access due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment indigent-rights Whether an indigent plaintiff's inability to access digital technology constitutes a violation of First Amendment free speech and Fourteenth Amendment…
23-6064 Anthony Kimbrough v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-11-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-bias dna-testing due-process fourteenth-amendment material-false-testimony oklahoma-criminal-procedure post-conviction-dna-testing post-conviction-relief retroactive-application sixth-amendment whether-escobar-vs-texas-applies-retroactively
23-526 Charles Nichols v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-11-17 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process firearms-rights fourteenth-amendment second-amendment self-defense standing Does the Second Amendment protect the keeping and bearing of loaded and unloaded rifles, shotguns, and handguns, in case of confrontation, for the pur…
23-6046 Antonio Lebaron Melton v. Florida Florida 2023-11-17 Denied IFP age-of-culpability age-of-offender criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment roper-v-simmons scientific-evidence Does the Eighth Amendment prohibit the death penalty for individuals whose crimes occurred at age 18 years and 25 days?
23-6049 Jimmie Jerome Manning, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2023-11-17 Denied Relisted (8)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial felony fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-size jury-trial sixth-amendment williams-v-florida Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23A448 Dmitry Nikolenko v. Luiza Nikolenko Texas 2023-11-17 Presumed Complete due-process equal-protection foreign-marriage fourteenth-amendment judicial-comity subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a state court can assert subject matter jurisdiction over a foreign marriage dissolution that has already been validly dissolved by a court in…
23A444 David Santiago Renteria v. Texas Texas 2023-11-16 Denied cruel-and-unusual degraded-drugs due-process eighth-amendment execution-protocol lethal-injection Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the use of degraded, unstable lethal injection drugs that pose a substantial risk of causing severe pain during…
23-521 Denise Fisher v. Jodi M. Moore, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-11-16 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment qualified-immunity state-action state-created-danger Whether the Due Process Clause prohibits state officials from knowingly placing a person at unjustifiably high risk of harm
23A436 Guillermo Octavio Arbelaez v. Florida, et al. Florida 2023-11-15 Presumed Complete capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment postconviction-relief sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit the imposition of a death sentence that fails to comply with evolving standards of decen…
23A440 David Santiago Renteria v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-11-15 Denied capital-punishment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-review prosecutorial-discretion removal-statute Whether the Equal Protection Clause permits disparate treatment of capital defendants by state prosecutors in seeking execution dates without a meanin…
23A429 Casey A. McWhorter v. Alabama Alabama 2023-11-14 Denied constitutional-challenge death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-stay irreparable-harm supreme-court-alabama Whether the Eighth Amendment permits the execution of a death row inmate where there are substantial legal challenges to the method of execution or un…
23-510 Dan Caulkins, et al. v. Jay Robert Pritzker, in His Official Capacity as Governor of the State of Illinois, et al. Illinois 2023-11-14 Denied Response Waived campaign-contributions caperton-v-massey due-process equal-protection fair-hearing fourteenth-amendment guarantees-clause judicial-independence judicial-recusal second-amendment Does a self-evaluative review by a state court justice challenged for disqualification deny the due process right to a fair hearing under the Fourteen…
23-6001 Kenric Lavaughn Jackson, Sr. v. Texas Texas 2023-11-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence capital-murder constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sufficiency-of-evidence texas-law Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals erred in denying petitioner's application for a writ of habeas corpus, where the evidence presented at tri…
23-5980 Edgar Arellano v. California California 2023-11-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial senate-bill-567 sentencing sentencing-disposition sixth-amendment Whether the California courts were correct in stating that the petitioner's case was final, because the California Senate Bill 1393 resentencing dispo…
23-5984 Lawrence F. Curtin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment
23-484 Jose Trevino, et al. v. Susan Soto Palmer, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-11-07 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) fourteenth-amendment hispanic-voting-power judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction legislative-redistricting racial-gerrymandering section-2 section-2-claim three-judge-panel voting-rights-act May a single-judge district court's ruling on a Section 2 claim divest a 3-judge panel of jurisdiction to decide a Fourteenth Amendment claim?
23-5965 Cody Enrriquez v. Florida Florida 2023-11-07 Denied Relisted (9)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-5968 Richard Langston v. Connecticut Connecticut 2023-11-07 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy fourteenth-amendment jury-acquittal jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States prohibit a state court from basing a criminal defendant's sentenc…
23-5969 Semaan Makdissi v. Florida Florida 2023-11-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP compulsory-process confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence false-accusation fourteenth-amendment motive sixth-amendment Whether the Petitioner's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated
23-477 United States v. Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter for Tennessee, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-11-06 Judgment Issued Amici (92)Relisted (13) constitutional-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment gender-identity medical-treatment minor-rights sex-based-classification sex-classification transgender-rights Whether Tennessee Senate Bill 1 (SB1) violates the Equal Protection Clause
23-471 Casey A. McWhorter v. Alabama Alabama 2023-11-03 Denied 8th-amendment age-discrimination capital-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection jury-selection juvenile-justice Does Alabama's exclusion of 18-year-olds from jury service, coupled with its permitting them to be tried as adults, deny 18-year-old defendants their …
23A402 Casey A. McWhorter v. Alabama Alabama 2023-11-03 Denied constitutional-challenge death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-stay irreparable-harm supreme-court-alabama Whether the Eighth Amendment permits the execution of a death row inmate where there are substantial legal challenges to the method of execution or un…
23-462 Glen Wilkofsky v. American Federation of Musicians, Local 45, et al. Third Circuit 2023-11-01 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-claim fourteenth-amendment governmental-purpose judicial-deference legislative-determination public-employer public-entity state-action statutory-designation When applying the Fourteenth Amendment's requirement of 'state action' as a predicate for constitutional claims, should federal courts defer to a stat…
23-5922 Maxwell Chibueze Ezenwa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct statute-of-limitations warrantless-arrest Whether the warrantless arrest, statute of limitation, double jeopardy, Eighth Amendment violation, and Fourteenth Amendment violation were properly a…
23-445 Christy Williams v. American Honda Motor Company, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2023-10-27 Denied 14th-amendment 7th-amendment civil-rights due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment jury-trial product-liability seventh-amendment summary-judgment Whether Petitioner has been deprived of the right of trial by jury as protected by the Seventh Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment
23-428 Chinonyerem Osuagwu v. Home Point Financial Corporation, et al. Second Circuit 2023-10-26 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction form-1099 fourteenth-amendment power-of-attorney property-rights standing Did the State Court violate the petitioner's Fourteenth-Amendment-right when it empowered one of the respondents to sign his (the petitioner's) name a…
23-439 Jim Boydston, et al. v. Shirley N. Weber, California Secretary of State, et al. California 2023-10-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment party-nomination political-association political-parties primary-election state-elections voter-participation Whether a State may require registered voters to formally associate with a political party to participate in the State-administered presidential prima…
23-440 S. B., on Behalf of Her Minor Daughter, S. B. v. Jefferson Parish School Board, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-10-26 Denied Amici (1) 14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-scrutiny corporal-punishment due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment section-1983 Is unconstitutionally excessive corporal punishment by a public-school employee cognizable under § 1983?
23-5877 Sarah Nathreen Nakanwagi v. City of Flagstaff, Arizona Ninth Circuit 2023-10-26 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment interests-of-justice judicial-subpoena judicial-system national-origin race Is the current judicial system's determination of justice determined by one's race or national origin?
23-5890 Jerry Smith v. Alabama Alabama 2023-10-26 Denied IFP ake-v-oklahoma capital-punishment capital-trials due-process fourteenth-amendment indigent-defendants indigent-defense jury-selection mitigation-experts racial-discrimination Whether Ake v. Oklahoma and the Fourteenth Amendment's due process guarantee require courts to provide funds for prison mitigation experts to indigent…
23-5874 In Re L. E. Pauli Coffey 2023-10-25 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourteenth-amendment mandamus sovereign-immunity standing timely-response Do the Federal Laws of Civil Procedure (Fed R. Civ. P 12) and the Federal Laws of Appellate Procedure (31) set a time limit for a respondent to respon…
23-5851 Hector Sanchez-Torres v. Florida Florida 2023-10-20 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-sentencing culpability death-penalty eighth-amendment equal-protection mitigation-evidence Whether sentencing a 19-year-old codefendant to death violates the Eighth Amendment or Equal Protection Clause when his similarly culpable 17-year-old…
23-409 Henri N. Beaulieu, Jr. v. Samuel Powell, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a State Trooper for the State of Alabama, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-18 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourteenth-amendment pleading-requirements pleading-standards section-1983 shotgun-pleading twombly-iqbal Whether the Eleventh Circuit's application of the 'shotgun pleading' standard conflicts with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Supreme Court pr…
23-5807 Fares Mustafa v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington witness-translation Whether the State Court's ruling on Petitioner's claim that Trial Counsel was ineffective for failing to move to suppress Petitioner's inculpatory sta…
23-5831 Roberto Carlos Mendives, Individually and On Behalf of His Four Minor Children, R. C. M., II, M. A. M., G. L. M., and E. F. M. v. Bexar County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-custody civil-rights due-process family-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment parens-patriae parental-rights standing strict-scrutiny Whether this court should overrule the fact that the state court has separated a fit parent from his/her minor children without an adjudication hearin…
23-5833 Sean William Roulo v. Minnesota Minnesota 2023-10-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection fair-notice fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Was the prosecutor's deliberate refusal to communicate with petitioner after filing formal charges, including withholding the court's summons and the …
23-5811 Valery LaTouche v. Harold D. Graham, Superintendent, Auburn Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2023-10-17 Denied IFP due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rule-60(b) rule-60b self-incrimination whether-new-york-cpl-440.10(2)(c)-statutes-being-amended
23-5816 Henry Jo Ward v. West Virginia West Virginia 2023-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-presumption fourteenth-amendment official-capacity Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibit this presumption of facts against an accused?
23-5820 William H. Cornelius v. Florida Florida 2023-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment due-process federal-jurisdiction first-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions non-delegation-doctrine separation-of-powers sixth-amendment state-courts Whether the U.S. Supreme Court is obligated to resolve a dispute between Florida citizens and the state judiciary regarding the legislature's authorit…
23-5823 Ramiro Felix Gonzales v. Texas Texas 2023-10-17 Denied IFP constitutional-claim death-penalty eighth-amendment expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness recantation texas-code-criminal-procedure Whether a state court errs in refusing to entertain a cognizable Eighth or Fourteenth Amendment claim based on a state expert's recantation of trial t…
23-5825 Robert Robinson v. Savvy Ventures, LLC, c/o Gregory Real Estate, Inc., dba Gregory Property Management Fifth Circuit 2023-10-17 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitution constitutional-rebellion due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment government-officials standing supreme-court-precedent Does the third section of Amendment XIV guarantee citizens of the United States freedom from government officials who rebel against the Constitution o…
23-5792 Kevin Chandler v. Ron Neal, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-10-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP administrative-hearing delayed-appeal due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment impartial-decision-maker prisoner-rights retaliation Whether the defendant violated the plaintiff's rights under the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses
23-5794 Joseph Aiken v. Florida Florida 2023-10-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure felony felony-charges fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-5801 Jeffery Ducote v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2023-10-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-testify sixth-amendment Whether Mr. Ducote's 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendment rights were violated when his right to testify was taken from him
23-5803 Robert K. Decker v. Edwin Baez, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force failure-to-protect federal-question shackling spoliation Did the United States District Court, Magistrate Judge err in the decision to have the Plaintiff, Robert K. Decker be hand cuffed, (left wrist) and sh…
23-394 Thurayyah Z. Richardson v. The Procter and Gamble Company, et al. New York 2023-10-13 Denied abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion material-facts summary-judgment Where a trial court resolving summary judgment denies due process
23A335 Simeon Bozic v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2023-10-13 Presumed Complete due-process-clause evidence-of-innocence fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-counsel post-conviction-relief shinn-v-ramirez Whether a state court conviction violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when photographic evidence of innocence was not presented…
23-388 Richard W. Como v. Pennsylvania Public School Employees' Retirement Board Pennsylvania 2023-10-12 Denied Response Waived civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process excessive-fines excessive-punishment fourteenth-amendment pension pension-forfeiture public-employee retirement-law Did the Commonwealth Court and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court err in forfeiting Mr. Como's entire pension due to criminal convictions as Superintenden…
23-5753 Ben J. Latham v. Alaska Alaska 2023-10-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment punishment punitive-law retroactivity right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the retroactive application of a punitive ex post facto law is prohibited under the Fourteenth Amendment
23-5760 Mattie T. Lomax v. United States Federal Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-investigation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial legal-definition seventh-amendment Whether the State violated the Due Process clause where without a jury trial incorrect legal definition of 'knowingly' relieved the state of its requi…
23-375 Brigetta D'Olivio v. Hilary Thompson Hutson Texas 2023-10-10 Denied Response Waived due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment property-rights subject-matter-jurisdiction texas-constitution texas-estates-code texas-government-code trial-de-novo Did the lower court violate Petitioner's right to due process and equal protection
23A316 Jedidiah Isaac Murphy v. Texas Texas 2023-10-10 Denied cruel-and-unusual-punishment drug-safety due-process eighth-amendment execution-method lethal-injection Whether the Eighth Amendment and state-created liberty interests prohibit executing a prisoner with lethal injection drugs that were exposed to extrem…
23A303 Daryl Anthony Green v. Prince George's County Office of Child Support, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-10-06 Presumed Complete bankruptcy clearly-erroneous due-process fourteenth-amendment real-estate-fraud writ-of-certiorari Whether the Fourth Circuit violated due process and the Fourteenth Amendment by affirming dismissal of bankruptcy proceedings without addressing mater…
23-5730 Blaise Caroleo v. United States Second Circuit 2023-10-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment sentencing sentencing-scheme statutory-interpretation waiver-of-rights Whether a waiver of the Eighth Amendment protections against cruel and unusual punishment is valid
23-5724 Taylor Scott Meece v. Wyoming Wyoming 2023-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment supreme-court-procedure Did the Wyoming Supreme Court abuse its discretion in affirming the conviction and sentence?
23-350 Brigetta D'Olivio, aka Brigetta Alix Anderson, aka Alix Brigetta v. Hilary Thompson Hutson Texas 2023-10-03 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure discovery due-process equal-protection forcible-detainer fourteenth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction summary-judgment Whether the lower court violated the petitioner's due process and equal protection rights under the Fourteenth Amendment
23-5700 Paul Gray v. Louisiana Louisiana 2023-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-economy montgomery-v-louisiana nonunanimous-verdict sixth-amendment Does the State of Louisiana have the right to invoke 'judicial economy' as a ruse for violations of constitutional guarantees?
23-5708 In Re Michael Stansell 2023-10-03 Denied IFP constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fifth-amendment life-sentence void-sentence Whether the infliction of a life sentence upon a prisoner where the life tail is not applicable to his offense of conviction constitutes cruel and unu…
23-336 Keith Allen Kiefer v. Isanti County, Minnesota Eighth Circuit 2023-09-29 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment mens-rea postconviction-incarceration section-1983 unreasonable-seizure Whether the analytical home for § 1983 unreasonable seizure claims involving only postconviction incarceration for 'violating' an inapplicable law is …
23-329 Chong Yim, et al. v. City of Seattle, Washington Ninth Circuit 2023-09-28 Denied Amici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-penalties criminal-history due-process fourteenth-amendment housing-ordinance landlord-tenant property-rights public-housing tenant-screening Does Seattle's restriction on private owners' right to exclude potentially dangerous tenants from their property violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Du…
23A272 Jessie Dotson v. Tennessee Tennessee 2023-09-28 Presumed Complete capital-post-conviction death-penalty due-process expert-assistance fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus Whether a state violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by denying a capital post-conviction petitioner necessary expert assistanc…
23A275 Timothy Ray Jones, Jr. v. South Carolina South Carolina 2023-09-28 Presumed Complete capital-case due-process eighth-amendment fourth-amendment illegal-roadblock insanity-verdict Whether the Eighth Amendment and Due Process Clause require a trial court in a capital case to instruct the jury on the effect of a not guilty by reas…
23A271 Atif Ahmad Rafay v. Eric Jackson Ninth Circuit 2023-09-27 Presumed Complete AEDPA coerced-confession fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment involuntary-statements undercover-police-techniques Whether a state court violates the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act by applying a legal standard different from that required by the Fift…
23-318 Nicolas A. Salomon v. Kroenke Sports & Entertainment, LLC, et al. California 2023-09-27 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-proceedings california-law due-process federal-arbitration-act fourteenth-amendment preemption right-to-counsel Does the Federal Arbitration Act preempt California law on the right to counsel in an arbitration proceeding?
23-5656 Stephen M. Cooke, Jr. v. Allen Gang, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment involuntary-statements post-indictment-statements right-to-counsel sixth-amendment undercover-agent Was Cooke's Sixth Amendment right to counsel violated?
23-5661 Arnaldo Martinez v. Florida Florida 2023-09-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mis-charging prosecutorial-misconduct standing Did the Respondent, State of Florida, deny the petitioner of his Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment right to Due Process
23-300 ATM Shafiqul Khalid v. Microsoft Corporation Ninth Circuit 2023-09-26 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1985 congressional-power constitutional-rights copyright-clause exclusive-right fourteenth-amendment inventor-protection patent-clause patent-ownership sherman-act statutory-interpretation Whether the exclusive Right in inventions as written in the Constitution is a fundamental Right or Constitutional privilege separate from common law e…
23-5647 Eddie Savage v. Chae Harris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights conviction-relief due-process equal-protection exculpatory-evidence forfeiture fourteenth-amendment photographic-evidence post-conviction-relief Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause is violated when the State presents evidence at trial that is later discovered to be false or mi…
23-5653 Michael Duane Zack, III v. Florida Florida 2023-09-26 Denied IFP atkins-exemption atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment eighth-amendment fetal-alcohol-syndrome fourteenth-amendment intellectual-developmental-disorder medical-consensus witherspoon-v-illinois Does the Eighth or Fourteenth Amendment bar the execution of a defendant with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome who was not sentenced to death by a unanimous jur…
23A262 Michael Duane Zack, III v. Florida Florida 2023-09-26 Denied atkins-exemption death-penalty eighth-amendment fetal-alcohol-syndrome intellectual-developmental-disability unanimous-jury-requirement Whether Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, recognized by the medical community as functionally identical to Intellectual Developmental Disability, categorically …
23-279 Couy Griffin v. New Mexico, ex rel. Marco White, et al. New Mexico 2023-09-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 14th-amendment civil-rights congress congressional-power constitutional-interpretation due-process enforcement first-amendment fourteenth-amendment insurrection judicial-authority standing Whether Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment exclusively reserves the power to enforce the Fourteenth Amendment to Congress
23-5630 Jack R. Sliney v. Florida Florida 2023-09-21 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment age-of-defendant death-penalty death-sentence due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment juvenile-offenders Whether Florida may impose a death sentence upon an individual under 21
23A257 In Re Gregory Mercer 2023-09-21 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment separate-sovereigns Whether a state appellate court violates the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments by dismissing federal constitutional claims on procedural grounds without…
23A255 Denise Fisher v. Jodi M. Moore, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-09-20 Presumed Complete clearly-established-law deliberate-indifference fourteenth-amendment qualified-immunity section-1983 state-created-danger-doctrine Whether the state-created danger doctrine, unanimously recognized by ten federal circuits, constitutes a clearly established right under the Fourteent…
23-270 County of Tulare, California, et al. v. Jose Murguia, Individually and on Behalf of the Estates of Mason and Maddox Murguia, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-20 Denied Amici (3) deliberate-indifference due-process fourteenth-amendment private-violence shocks-the-conscience state-action state-created-danger substantive-due-process Whether a State's failure to protect an individual who is not in state custody from violence by a private person constitutes a violation of the Due Pr…
23-5609 Eric G. Banks, Sr. v. Anthony Brown, Attorney General of Maryland, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment court-error due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-counsel liberty prosecution-misconduct sixth-amendment Did the U.S. District Court violate the Petitioners 5th Amendment Constitutional Right
23A251 Obaida Abdulky, et al. v. Lubin & Meyer, P.C., et al. Massachusetts 2023-09-19 Presumed Complete access-to-courts attorney-malpractice due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment summary-judgment Whether a state appellate court violates the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause and the constitutional right of access to courts by establishin…
23-259 Lewis County, Kentucky, et al. v. Julie Helphenstine, Administratrix of the Estate of Christopher Dale Helphenstine and Guardian of B. D. H., the Minor Son of Christopher Dale Helphenstine Sixth Circuit 2023-09-18 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment objective-knowledge pretrial-detainee prison-officials qualified-immunity separation-of-powers Whether a pretrial detainee alleging deliberate-indifference must prove the defendant actually-knew of a significant-risk-of-harm, or instead must pro…
23-260 Daniel Erwin v. Karla Howell, as Administratrix of the Estate of Cornelius Pierre Howell Sixth Circuit 2023-09-18 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-standard deliberate-indifference due-process farmer-v-brennan fourteenth-amendment kingsley-v-hendrickson medical-need pretrial-detainee section-1983 Whether Kingsley v. Hendrickson applies to deliberate-indifference claims by pretrial-detainees
23-263 Barry J. Smith, Sr. v. United States Congress, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-09-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-court-review civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-authority rule-60(b)(4) standing subject-matter-jurisdiction thirteenth-amendment void-judgment Is there a time limit to file a Rule 60(b)(4) motion to vacate a judgment order as void for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction
23-255 Cooper D. Johnson v. Malia M. Cohen, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as State Controller of California, et al. California 2023-09-15 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment property-rights takings takings-clause unclaimed-property Whether the Controller's actions under the California Unclaimed Property Law violate the Due Process Clause and Takings Clause
23-5597 Rodolfo Alvarez Medrano v. Texas Texas 2023-09-15 Denied Relisted (11)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights confession-coercion custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment interrogation miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona state-court-review Whether the introduction of Petitioner's statement violated his Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights under Miranda v. Arizona
23A247 Clark D. Thomas v. McKendley Newton, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-09-15 Presumed Complete adequate-staffing deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment farmer-v-brennan habeas-corpus-filing-deadline prison-conditions Whether prison officials' deliberate indifference to systemic staffing deficiencies that substantially increase the risk of serious harm to inmates vi…
23A244 John Doe v. Bill Crouch, in His Official Capacity as Cabinet Secretary of West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-09-14 Presumed Complete birth-certificates equal-protection fourteenth-amendment gestational-surrogacy parental-rights sex-discrimination Whether a state statute that presumes maternity based solely on gestation and refuses to recognize biological mothers as legal mothers when children a…
23-5579 Fitzroy C. Morton v. Florida Florida 2023-09-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (18)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-5588 Roger A. Libby v. Robert Legran, Warden, et al. Nevada 2023-09-14 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-cases criminal-law due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactive-application state-law substantive-due-process substantive-rule Whether the due process and equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment render Nevada state laws unconstitutional
23-5565 William E. Wells, III v. Florida Florida 2023-09-13 Denied IFP aggravating-factors apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-sentencing death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment mental-illness proportionality-review Whether Florida's capital sentencing scheme violates the Eighth Amendment
23-5567 Carlos Gilbert Arellano-Ramirez v. Florida Florida 2023-09-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (18)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure felony felony-charges fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-5570 Scottie Andrea Jackson v. Florida Florida 2023-09-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (18)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-5575 Andrew Sposato v. Florida Florida 2023-09-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (18)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-charge fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-231 Linda A. Porter v. Kennard Law PC, dba Kennard Richard PC, et al. Texas 2023-09-12 Denied appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se pro-se-litigant standing Whether the appellate court violated Porter's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment Constitutional Rights
23-5547 Timothy James Hahn v. Florida Florida 2023-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment sentencing Whether a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on a defendant who was under the age of twenty-five at the time of the offen…
23-5549 Hope White v. Kentucky Kentucky 2023-09-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence dna-testing due-process forensic-evidence fourteenth-amendment post-conviction post-conviction-dna-testing procedural-due-process state-created-right Does barring a petitioner's access to biological and forensic evidence that can be submitted for DNA testing to prove innocence—when a state-created r…
23-5526 Adelfo Rodriguez-Mendez v. United States Third Circuit 2023-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-standard constitutional-violation criminal-procedure drug-attribution evidence fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment post-conviction-sentencing sentencing sixth-amendment Whether attributing drugs post-conviction in an amount greater than what is charged in an indictment and greater than what the jury found is in violat…
23-203 Missouri Department of Corrections v. Jean Finney Missouri 2023-09-05 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (9) batson-challenge civil-rights equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection religious-beliefs religious-discrimination structural-error voir-dire Whether the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits relying on stereotypes about religious views to strike jurors
23-5505 Jacques Lamar Walker v. Virginia Virginia 2023-08-31 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP bank-robbery criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment trial-court witness-identification Whether the Supreme Court of Virginia erred in refusing to reverse petitioner Jacques Lamar Walker's convictions
23-5485 Paul M. Poupart v. Louisiana Louisiana 2023-08-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court statute-validity Whether LSA-R.S. 15:529.1 is unconstitutional
23-5466 Toddell Alexander v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment non-physical-harm prisoner-treatment sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court Whether Ohio's Domestic Violence Statute is categorically a violent felony in light of Samuel Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015)
23-184 Karen M. Suber v. VVP Services, LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2023-08-28 Denied articulable-nexus civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment inconsistent-application jurisdiction long-arm-statute personal-jurisdiction standard-of-review substantial-relationship Whether the courts sitting in New York have inconsistently interpreted and applied the standard for the 'arising from' prong of the New York Long-Arm …
23-5455 John A. Crane v. Florida Florida 2023-08-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (18)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-charge fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-5460 Clinton D. Johnson, Jr., aka Kayzon Ru v. Sgt. Johnson, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 8th-amendment antiterrorism-act civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement Was excessive force used during an arrest and detention at a detention center?
23A182 Bruce R. Sands, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-08-28 Presumed Complete circuit-split conditions-of-confinement deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment habeas-corpus section-2241 Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2241 habeas corpus jurisdiction extends to allow federal courts to adjudicate an inmate's claims challenging the constitutionality…
23-175 City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Gloria Johnson, et al., on Behalf of Themselves and All Others Similarly Situated Ninth Circuit 2023-08-25 Judgment Issued Amici (109)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 8th-amendment circuit-split civil-citations constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment homeless-rights homelessness public-camping Does the enforcement of generally applicable laws regulating camping on public property constitute 'cruel and unusual punishment' prohibited by the Ei…
23-176 Robert Cox, et al. v. Helena Chemical Company Texas 2023-08-25 Denied Response Waived due-process evidence evidence-exclusion expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment legal-standards property-rights state-court Whether the Due Process Clause prohibits a state court from depriving petitioners of property protected by the Fourteenth Amendment without allowing t…
23-5441 Mika 'ya Ali Shakur v. Sergeant Thompson Fourth Circuit 2023-08-25 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights covid-19 deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment federal-rules-of-civil-procedure prison-healthcare serious-medical-need Whether the plaintiff's allegation of denial of Eighth Amendment right to serious medical need for COVID-19 vaccine fails to satisfy Fed. R. Civ. P. 8…
23-5446 Elizabeth Richert v. Kathleen White Murphy, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-08-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings property-rights takings takings-clause Whether the District Court's April 21, 2022 post-trial order amount to an unconstitutional taking without due process, equal protection, and just comp…
23-172 Cynthia L. Pollick v. Anthony P. Trozzolillo Pennsylvania 2023-08-24 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech judicial-record-sealing judicial-records judicial-transparency speech-restraint standing Whether the complete sealing of a judicial record violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments
23-5405 David Petersen v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights court-errors due-process fourteenth-amendment integrity-of-judicial-process judicial-discretion judicial-process material-errors securities-fraud Is it a violation of due process when any court makes no effort to address or remedy material abuses of discretion and material errors on the record?
23-167 John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections v. Joseph Clifton Smith Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-21 GVR Amici (1)Relisted (30) atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment eighth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability iq-test iq-testing standard-error-of-measurement Whether courts must deem the Atkins prong satisfied when an offender's lowest IQ score, decreased by one standard error of measurement, is 70 or below
23-161 Megan Kathryn Sullivan v. Amanda Marie Seaton Georgia 2023-08-18 Denied 14th-amendment adoption child-custody due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment judicial-review parental-rights step-parent-adoption termination-of-rights Does a State violate a fit mother's 14th Amendment due process rights?
23-5383 Ramham Dupriest v. New Jersey New Jersey 2023-08-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech minor mistake-of-age obscene-material obscenity scienter Does it violate First Amendment free speech protections to convict a person for conduct involving distributing obscene material to a minor without hav…
23-5393 Shaun N. Taylor v. Illinois Illinois 2023-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP ake-v-oklahoma criminal-procedure due-process expert-appointment expert-witness fourteenth-amendment indigent-defendant insanity-expert mental-competency mental-health right-to-counsel Do this Court's decisions in Ake v. Oklahoma and McWilliams v. Dunn require the appointment of a second insanity expert for an indigent defendant wher…
23-5394 In Re Justin Lewis 2023-08-18 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment federal-court fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review legal-procedure Whether the denial of a defendant's motion to dismiss on double jeopardy grounds constitutes a constitutional violation
23-5400 Nathan Leon Branham v. Michigan Michigan 2023-08-18 Denied IFP compulsory-process curriculum-vitae defense-expert due-process expert-witness fourteenth-amendment right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment When can a defense expert be excluded for failure to timely file curriculum vitae?
23A149 Andrew J. J. Wolf v. Josh Tewalt, Director, Idaho Department of Correction, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-08-18 Presumed Complete access-to-courts due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment intentional-obstruction prison-officials Whether prison officials' intentional obstruction of an inmate's access to personal legal papers and court materials, implemented through standard ope…
23A152 Michael Lajeunesse v. Kris Karberg, Warden Eighth Circuit 2023-08-18 Presumed Complete fourteenth-amendment physician-patient-privilege prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver-of-privilege Whether a state prosecutor may compel a defendant to waive physician-patient privilege without adequate constitutional safeguards protecting the defen…
23A139 Siddhanth Sharma v. Damon Circosta, Chair, North Carolina State Board of Elections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-08-16 Presumed Complete ballot-access elections-clause felon-disqualification first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-party-affiliation Whether state ballot access requirements—including voter registration, political party affiliation for a specified period, and felon disqualification—…
23A135 Richard Langston v. Connecticut Connecticut 2023-08-15 Presumed Complete acquitted-conduct-sentencing due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment Whether a state sentencing judge's explicit consideration of conduct for which a defendant was acquitted violates the defendant's rights under the Six…
23-5343 Scott Lindsay Halfhill v. Washington Washington 2023-08-11 Denied IFP alternative-suspect circumstantial-evidence criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Should this Court grant Certiorari when Halfhill was convicted of killing a man with intent upon nothing more than being one of many people in the vic…
23-128 Curtis Jason Wendt-West v. Hawaii Department of Education, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-08-10 Denied Response Waived abrogation civil-rights civil-rights-act eleventh-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigation sovereign-immunity title-vii Whether the States retain their Eleventh Amendment sovereign immunity in private Title VII suits
23-5319 Antoine L. Riggins v. Ken Hollibaugh, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. Third Circuit 2023-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP brecht-exception brecht-v-abrahamson co-defendant-confession fair-trial fourteenth-amendment joint-trial sixth-amendment Is there an urgent need to further discuss the exception mentioned in Brecht v. Abrahamson 507 U.S. 619 (1993) where defendant's Sixth and Fourteenth …
23-5298 Edgar Sandoval Catarino v. California California 2023-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial mandatory-minimum sentencing sixth-amendment Do the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments confer a right to a jury trial with respect to a fact that has the dual effect of (1) increasing the mandatory …
23-5289 Willie Seth Crain, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-04 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance pleadings sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence Is it a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment right to Due Process to allow a conviction to stand where some of the elements of the crime were not est…
23-5270 Justin Lewis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment good-faith-appeal motion-to-dismiss Whether a court can verbally deny a motion to dismiss on Double Jeopardy grounds without a full record
23-105 Joe Thorpe v. Township of Salisbury, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2023-08-03 Denied Response Waived absolute-immunity civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment fourteenth-amendment harris-v-harvey immunity judicial-immunity prosecutorial-immunity Did the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals violate the rule announced in Harris v. Harvey, 605 F.2d 330 (7th Cir.…
23-5259 Ryan Lewis Hilyard v. Wyoming Wyoming 2023-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review conflict-of-interest due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-evidence fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-decisions Did the Wyoming Supreme Court apply and follow Federal Rules of Evidence correctly?
23-91 Nolan Marcus Forness, II v. Virginia Virginia 2023-08-01 Denied Response Waived body-cameras compulsory-process confrontation-clause due-process evidence-preservation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment Defendant's right to access law enforcement recordings
23A93 Johnny Johnson v. David Vandergriff, Warden Missouri 2023-07-31 Denied death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus mental-illness panetti-competency Whether the Eighth Amendment and Due Process Clause prohibit executing a prisoner who, due to severe mental illness, lacks rational understanding of t…
23-5243 Johnny Johnson v. David Vandergriff, Warden Missouri 2023-07-31 Denied IFP capital-punishment due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing ford-v-wainwright habeas-corpus mental-competency panetti-v-quarterman procedural-fairness Whether a report from a qualified neuropsychiatrist that a condemned prisoner is incompetent for execution that is not contradicted by any qualified e…
23-5246 Aaron Abadi v. Caesars Entertainment, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts circuit-court-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion pro-se-litigants pro-se-litigation standing Can the Circuit Courts of Appeals treat indigent pro se litigants differently than they treat litigants who can afford attorneys, by just dismissing t…
23-81 Douglas D. McCall v. Florida Florida 2023-07-27 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-defendant-rights extrinsic-evidence fourteenth-amendment minor-victim prior-inconsistent-statement sixth-amendment Whether a state evidentiary rule prohibiting the introduction of extrinsic evidence of an alleged minor victim's prior inconsistent statement must yie…
23-83 Martine Bernard v. Christopher Hodyl Colorado 2023-07-27 Denied 14th-amendment contract-coercion court-ordered court-ordered-visitation due-process fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-contract procedural-due-process state-court visiting-supervisor Whether a state court's denial of the freedom of contract violates the 14th Amendment
23-5192 Phiet The Doan v. California California 2023-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection excessive-fine fourteenth-amendment jury-trial restitution sixth-amendment victim-restitution Did Mr. Doan have a Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment right to a jury trial on whether he owed almost $64,000 in victim restitution?
23A68 Mark Barinholtz v. HomeAdvisor, Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-07-25 Presumed Complete attorney-conduct due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-sanctions prior-restraint Whether sanctions imposed by a federal district court against an attorney for criticism of judicial conduct violate the First Amendment and Due Proces…
23A70 Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, et al. v. Texas Texas 2023-07-25 Presumed Complete due-process-clause foreign-manufacturer fourteenth-amendment nationwide-market nicastro personal-jurisdiction Whether a foreign manufacturer's conduct directed to the United States market as a whole, rather than to a particular state, provides a sufficient bas…
23A64 D'Andre M. Johnson v. United States Armed Forces 2023-07-24 Presumed Complete cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment military-confinement sentence-appropriateness uniform-code-of-military-justice Whether military officials may constitutionally subject a service member to confinement conditions that constitute cruel and unusual punishment in vio…
23A65 Jacob Hilbert v. Missouri Missouri 2023-07-24 Presumed Complete bench-trial criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial-waiver sixth-amendment valid-waiver Whether the Sixth Amendment requires that a waiver of the right to a jury trial in a criminal proceeding must be made personally by the defendant, or …
23-65 Alfredo J. Molina, et al. v. BMO Harris Bank, et al. Arizona 2023-07-24 Denied arizona-judicial-system common-law common-law-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-contract property-rights ratification-doctrine Were Petitioners deprived of due process under the Fourteenth Amendment?
23-5167 Jose Suarez v. United States Second Circuit 2023-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP accessorial-liability accessorial-participation criminal-culpability criminal-record cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders life-sentence life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing sentencing-proportionality Does a mandatory life sentence without parole for an individual who was twenty at the time of the offense, who was without a criminal record, who had …
23-5171 Natoya Cunningham v. Florida Florida 2023-07-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (19)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition sixth-amendment trial-by-jury Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-5173 Jose Luis Guzman v. Florida Florida 2023-07-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (18)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-5145 James Edward Barber v. Kay Ivey, Governor of Alabama, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-20 Denied IFP constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment emotional-anguish execution execution-protocol lethal-injection medical-suffering physical-suffering Did the Eleventh Circuit correctly hold that no amount of physical suffering and emotional anguish imposed by allowing hours-long and countless attemp…
23-5157 In Re Tracy Whitaker 2023-07-20 Denied IFP constitutional-rights district-attorney due-process exceptional-circumstances fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice prosecutorial-authority Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in declining to grant Mr. Whitaker authorization to file a second habeas corpus petition when his incarce…
23-5158 Martice Deshawn Wallace v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus suppression-of-evidence witness-testimony Whether the suppression of a witness' testimony violates the defendant's due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment
23-5129 Earl Lionell Ward v. Ramsey County, Minnesota Minnesota 2023-07-18 Denied IFP civil-commitment civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights liberty-interest liberty-interests sex-offender statutory-criteria Whether Minnesota's indefinite sex offender civil commitment scheme violates Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment's due process rights
23A37 Patrick Bowie v. William Lee, Superintendent, Greenhaven Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2023-07-14 Presumed Complete confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Whether the admission of an unproduced witness's statements without the defendant's opportunity to confront the witness violates the Sixth Amendment C…
23-5074 Juan Carlos Valles, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP bureau-of-prisons federal-prosecution fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment selective-enforcement selective-prosecution statutory-obligations Is the Federal Bureau of Prisons a statutory corporation governed by federal laws, and are federal prosecutors obligated to prosecute all federal inma…
23-28 Claude Townsend, Jr. v. New Jersey Transit Third Circuit 2023-07-10 Denied collateral-estoppel constitutional-law dismissed-case due-process fourteenth-amendment new-evidence res-judicata social-security Can Res judicata and Collateral estoppel interfere with the Fourteenth Amendment's constitutional due process when new evidence is presented to a dism…
23-5039 Thomas E. Creech v. Tim Richardson, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-07-05 Denied Amici (1)IFP capital-sentencing death-row eighth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel psychopathy sixth-amendment Whether evidence of or reference to psychopathy should be treated as potentially mitigating or as categorically aggravating in capital sentencings
23-5040 Brala Beverly v. Newport Beach Police Department, et al. California 2023-07-05 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights demurrer due-process fourteenth-amendment hearsay police-misconduct police-report state-court-procedure Is it a violation of due process under the fourteenth amendment of the U.S. Constitution for courts to dismiss a civil rights lawsuit by demurrer base…
23-7 Lynn Hamlet v. Officer Hoxie Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 42-usc-1983 8th-amendment civil-rights conditions-of-confinement cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment prison-conditions procunier-v-navarette qualified-immunity section-1983 Whether the Eighth Amendment bars a prison official from forcing a person with diabetes and open wounds to endure prolonged and unnecessary exposure t…
23-5002 Joseph Hauschild v. Illinois Illinois 2023-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole meaningful-opportunity meaningful-opportunity-for-release roper-v-simmons sentencing-guidelines term-of-years-sentence Whether, for a juvenile offender who committed multiple offenses during a single course of conduct, none of them homicide, the Eighth Amendment forbid…
22-7891 Ronald James Littlefield v. California California 2023-06-29 Denied IFP access-to-courts due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness judicial-notice pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process state-court Can a state tribunal deprive litigants to that tribunal equal protection of the law and even handed justice based upon a commitment offense?
22-7897 In Re Frank Walls 2023-06-29 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 eighth-amendment federal-petition habeas-corpus intellectual-disability retroactivity substantive-rule teague-v-lane Was Hall v. Florida necessarily 'made retroactive' for purposes of authorizing a successive federal habeas petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(2)(A)?
22-1250 Peter Chien, et al. v. Scott E. Jarrett, et al. Maine 2023-06-28 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure court-order due-process enforceability entry-of-appearance federal-law fourteenth-amendment legal-compliance triggering-date Does the filing of an entry of appearance within 21 days of opening the mail containing a court order missing a triggering date for the 21 day deadlin…
22-1241 Jocelyn M. Murphy, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission Ninth Circuit 2023-06-27 Denied Amici (2) broker-registration due-process eighth-amendment fair-notice securities-exchange-act-1934 securities-law securities-laws securities-violations seventh-amendment statutory-penalty statutory-penalty-caps Whether the courts below exceeded the statutory penalty caps established by Congress 'for each violation' of the securities laws, depriving Petitioner…
22-7866 Frank A. Walls v. Florida Florida 2023-06-26 Denied IFP due-process eighth-amendment federal-authorization finality-of-mandate intellectual-disability mandate-reversal retroactivity supreme-court Must-Hall-v.-Florida-be-applied-retroactively
22-7834 Marshall Henry Ellis v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-06-21 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights discovery due-process evidentiary-hearings fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment prejudicial-hearsay sixth-amendment supremacy-clause Has the State of Oklahoma denied my rights under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments?
22-1227 Nejla K. Lane v. Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission Illinois 2023-06-21 Denied Response Waived attorney-disciplinary-proceedings attorney-discipline constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech illinois-constitution professional-conduct Whether the Hearing Board's and the Review Board's Recommendation and Report violated Petitioner's due-process rights
22-1228 Josephine Tripodi, et al. v. North Coventry Township, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2023-06-21 Denied 14th-amendment civil-contempt compelled-sale due-process fourteenth-amendment property-rights real-property state-court Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment limit the power of a state court to order the compelled sale of a private person's real proper…
22-1208 Ursula Newell-Davis, et al. v. Courtney N. Phillips, in Her Official Capacity as Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-06-14 Denied Amici (5)Response Waived due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment occupation-rights privileges-or-immunities rational-basis regulatory-burden right-to-occupation slaughter-house-cases Whether the state may deny equal protection of the laws and exclude people from a trade for the sole purpose of easing its regulatory burden, or wheth…
22-1204 William Muhr v. Dawna Braswell Colorado 2023-06-13 Denied Relisted (2) child-custody conflict-of-interest due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-assignment judicial-bias judicial-disqualification parental-rights Whether Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment rights to due-process,equal-protection were violated when Colorado allowed disqualified,prejudiced Chief Jud…
22-1205 Brian D. Skattum v. Devan Collomy Maine 2023-06-13 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment child-custody civil-rights criminal-case criminal-procedure divorce-proceeding due-process family-law fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment self-incrimination Can a parent be penalized in a divorce/custody case for exercising 5th/14th Amendment rights in a related criminal case?
22-7769 Tyrone Desante Morant v. Bill Stange, Warden Missouri 2023-06-13 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment consecutive-sentences constitutional-rights eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing mandatory-life-sentence miller-v-alabama sentencing-discretion Mandatory-life-without-parole-for-juvenile-offenders
22-7782 Stephanie Morgan v. Prime Wimbledon SPE, LLC, et al. Oregon 2023-06-13 Denied Relisted (3)IFP covid-19 covid-19-shutdowns disability-discrimination fourteenth-amendment housing-protections mental-health-disability privacy privacy-rights reasonable-accommodation reasonable-accommodations Whether COVID-19 shutdowns, along with proof of a Mental Health Disability and Reasonable Accommodations on file with the landlord, allow the tenant p…
22-7753 Jane Doe, Female Juvenile v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-06-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment federal-juvenile-act juvenile-justice juvenile-transfer miller-v-alabama ripeness transfer-to-adult-proceedings When a juvenile is charged with first-degree murder, does the transfer to adult proceedings violate the juvenile's Eighth Amendment rights because the…
22-7764 Duane E. Owen v. Florida Florida 2023-06-12 Denied IFP competency competency-to-be-executed criminal-procedure death-penalty dementia due-process eighth-amendment insanity legal-insanity rational-understanding Whether the State of Florida's perfunctory evaluation of Owen's claim that he is legally insane and incompetent to be executed violated the Eighth Ame…
22-7749 Alen Dean O'Bryant v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-06-09 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-ethics prosecutor prosecutorial-misconduct recusal trial-judge Did former Judge Henderson's secret extramarital affair create an unconstitutional potential for bias?
22-7724 Juan Andrade-Moreno, aka Juan A. Moreno v. Isaac Kwarting, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-06-07 Denied IFP actual-innocence ada-coverage civil-rights constitutional-rights disability dna-testing due-process fourteenth-amendment physical-injury post-conviction reasonable-accommodation standing Whether the petitioner's physical injury and resulting disability are covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
22-1182 Robert Walker, et al. v. U.S. Bank N.A., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-07 Denied administrative-law bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-procedure circuit-court civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion judicial-overreach local-rules statutory-interpretation Whether the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals Mandate infringes on the Fourteenth Amendment
22-1183 Robert Walker, et al. v. K. Drake Ozment, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-07 Denied bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-procedure circuit-court civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion judicial-overreach local-court-rules standing statutory-interpretation Whether the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals Mandate infringes on the Fourteenth Amendment
22-7719 Joseph J. Buttercase v. James Martin Davis, et al. Nebraska 2023-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence attorney-fees attorney-misconduct breach-of-contract civil-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process ex-parte-communication fourteenth-amendment legal-malpractice standing Whether it is unconstitutional to require a criminal defendant to prove actual innocence to recover funds paid to his former defense attorney who neve…
22-1171 James LeBlanc, et al. v. Jessie Crittindon, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-06-05 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment overdetention prisoner-rights qualified-immunity section-1983 state-officials supervisory-liability Do high-ranking state prison officials violate a prisoner's constitutional rights by failing to promulgate policies cajoling independent, locally-elec…
22-7680 Adonne A. Horton v. West Virginia West Virginia 2023-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-i-section-10 constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment life-sentence police-pursuit statutory-interpretation Whether the Lower Court's Application of an Ex Post Facto Law to Affirm Petitioner's Life Sentence for Running From the Police Violated Article I, Sec…
22-7681 Jason Harriman v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment whether-the-government-violated-constitutional-rights
22-7686 Daniel Dorado v. California California 2023-06-01 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment miranda-rights rape-cases sentencing sixth-amendment Question not identified
22-7651 Lily Cassandra Alphonsis v. Joel Garnica, Deputy, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-05-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force hijab-ban prison-administration religious-accommodation religious-freedom rluipa Whether a jail facility's ban on the hijab or religious head scarf worn for religious reasons was the least restrictive means of ensuring effective pr…
22-7642 Julio Angel Torrez, Jr. v. California California 2023-05-25 Denied Relisted (3)IFP doyle-v-ohio due-process estelle-v-mcguire evidence-admission fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial people-v-medina right-to-silence sixth-amendment Whether the rule of Doyle v. Ohio applies to private conversations and selective silence
22-7624 Gregory P. Smith v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-05-24 Denied IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-violation due-process fourteenth-amendment judge judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct penal-statute prosecuting-attorney sexual-relationship substantive-due-process When was Mr. Smith's substantive due process right(s) or XIV Amendment violated?
22-7625 Michael Tisius v. David Vandergriff, Warden Missouri 2023-05-24 Denied IFP brain-development criminal-responsibility cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders mental-impairment Do executions of persons who committed their crimes when they were under the age of 21, or, at the least, the execution of a 19-year-old offender who …
22-1145 David Sosa v. Martin County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-24 Denied Amici (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment legal-detention overdetention search-and-seizure warrant-validity Does Baker's right against overdetention require a reasonable analysis or only protect against mistaken overdetention for longer than three days?
22-7618 Dennis Dewayne Jackson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment first-time-offender non-violent-offense non-violent-offenses procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines whether-the-sentence-of-138-months'-imprisonment-imposed-on-a-first-time-offender-violated-the-eighth-amendment-prohibition-against-cruel-and-unusual-…
22-1132 Derek Sine v. Kathryn Kosmides New York 2023-05-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment appellate-review attorney-fees due-process evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment order-of-protection willfulness Whether the Court of Appeals erred in denying Petitioner's motion for leave to appeal
22-1129 Faraz Fadavi Akhavan Bonab v. Samuel Ginn California 2023-05-19 Denied Response Waived business-relationship due-process forum-state fourteenth-amendment personal-jurisdiction purposeful-contacts specific-jurisdiction Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits a state court to exercise specific jurisdiction over a defendant when the plaintiff…
22-7586 Mark Ringland v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment privileges-and-immunities procedural-protections standing state-procedure Whether the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment provide that no state shall make or enforce any law which shall abrid…
22-7563 Joseph I. Wilkes v. Ohio Ohio 2023-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-rights constitutional-rights delayed-appeal due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plain-language trial-court-jurisdiction Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution were violated when a request for delayed appeal was denied
22-7564 Victor Wilson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 11th-circuit 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment speedy-trial Can a 11th Circuit Court sua sponte deny a defendant's or petitioner's constitutional right to a public speedy trial
22-7545 Maude Laroche-St. Fleur v. Board of Bar Overseers of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, et al. Massachusetts 2023-05-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-discipline constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-proceedings fourteenth-amendment judicial-immunity state-court state-court-jurisdiction Whether a State court is permitted to issue decisions in conflict with Supreme Court precedents and violate fundamental rights under the Fourteenth Am…
22-7547 Carl Lee Ashley v. Mary Boayue, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment judicial-review legal-standard objective-prong prison-conditions standing Whether the court of appeals erred in finding that petitioner could not establish the objective prong of his Eighth Amendment claims
22-7548 Vickie Leavitt Duran v. Nevada Division of Parole and Probation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence conspiracy due-process false-evidence fourteenth-amendment procedural-protections wrongful-conviction wrongful-convictions Is Due Process under the Fourteenth Amendment considered not denied where state actors purposefully fail to provide procedural protections and falsify…
22-1114 James Harris, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2023-05-15 Denied death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance intellectual-disability medically-accepted-standards moore-v-texas strickland-v-washington Whether the TCCA contravened the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, and this Court's precedents, when it evaluated petitioner's intellectual-disability…
22-1094 Mandy Mobley Li v. Chao Li Georgia 2023-05-10 Denied Response Waived child-support child-support-modification due-process equal-protection exclusive-jurisdiction federal-preemption fourteenth-amendment full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction preemption Whether Georgia law has been pre-empted by the FFCCSOA
22-7492 Cedric Winston O'Neal v. Craig Hughes, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-justice mandatory-penalty mandatory-transfer miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana Are Mandatory Transfer Schemes also apart of SCOTUS' 8th Amendment ban of mandatory penalty schemes against children?
22-7504 Xingfei Luo v. Tomas Czodor California 2023-05-10 Denied IFP content-based-restraint domestic-violence due-process evidence family-code first-amendment fourteenth-amendment prior-restraint restraining-order Are a restrained party's due process rights under Fourteenth Amendment violated by a restraining order under Domestic Violence Prevention Act when no …
22-7487 Travis Carter v. Louisiana Louisiana 2023-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-economy montgomery-precedent montgomery-v-louisiana sixth-amendment standing state-v-reddick takings Does the State of Louisiana have the right to invoke 'judicial-economy' as a defense for constitutional-violations
22-7493 Glen Thomas Dotson v. Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment federal-bureau-of-prisons first-amendment medical-treatment retaliation standing Was Petitioner's First Amendment Right violated when he was retaliated by Federal Bureau of Prisons staff for exercising his right to pursue his lawsu…
22-7472 Raj K. Patel v. United States Federal Circuit 2023-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment big-tucker-act bounty-clause civil-rights contract-law due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion patel-v-united-states poindexter-v-greenhow religious-liberty whether-the-judiciary-must-reverse-and-allow-trial-of-bounty-clause-contract
22-7463 Lexter Kennon Kossie v. Texas Texas 2023-05-04 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fourteenth-amendment good-conduct-time liberty-interest overdetention prisoner-rights systemic-overdetention Whether Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCI) violates the Fourteenth Amendment by confining its prisoners past the dates when they are legally …
22-1070 Stanford James Stelle, III v. California California 2023-05-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) competency competency-hearing criminal-defendant criminal-procedure drope-v-missouri due-process fourteenth-amendment mental-competency mental-incompetence pate-v-robinson successive-review Does California's heightened standard for a successive competency hearing violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment?
22-1073 Team Resources Incorporated, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission Fifth Circuit 2023-05-04 Denied Response Waived civil-penalty disgorgement due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing federal-court securities-and-exchange-commission securities-law Whether a federal court may grant a disgorgement request from the Securities and Exchange Commission without granting a defendant's request for a live…
22-7438 Frank Nellom v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2023-05-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP court-order criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process expungement fourteenth-amendment judicial-interpretation jury-finding jury-instructions rape-conviction Did the honorable Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge Joan A. Brown find the Commonwealth v. Frank Nellom, 565 A.2d 770 (Pa. Super.1989) Court Or…
22-1063 Tennessee v. Tyshon Booker Tennessee 2023-05-02 Denied Response Waived 8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama sentencing-guidelines term-of-years-sentences Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits term-of-years sentences that effectively deny juvenile offenders a meaningful opportunity for release
22-1054 Robert E. Bennett, et ux. v. City of Kingman, Arizona Ninth Circuit 2023-05-01 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment property-rights regulatory-takings section-1983-claim takings takings-clause vested-rights Did the Arizona District Court and the Ninth Circuit Court err in their analysis of the takings claim?
22-7417 Keanan Dequez Bond v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP compassionate-release criminal-procedure district-court due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment plea-agreement sentencing Whether the court of appeals violated the defendant's Fourteenth Amendment right to equal protection
22-7424 Darryl Bryan Barwick v. Florida Florida 2023-05-01 Denied IFP age-of-culpability cognitive-deficits cognitive-impairment cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment mental-age neuropsychological-disorder state-constitutional-law Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of individuals with severe neuropsychological disorders, lifelong cognitive deficits, and low men…
22-7432 Willie Glover, Jr. v. United States District of Columbia 2023-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment executive-order human-rights recidivism sentencing-guidelines standing Whether the D.C. Court of Appeals erred in treating the case as subject to harmless error analysis when the error was structural in nature
22-7400 Maurice Morrison v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2023-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause confrontation-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-protection jury-deliberations jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-evidence Whether a juror's communication to the jury during deliberations of highly prejudicial specialized factual information that was based on his professio…
22-7402 Nathan Alvarado v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2023-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment gideon-v-wainwright habeas-corpus public-importance state-court Did the State Court proceedings afford Due Process and Equal Protection of Laws under the Fifth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment?
22-7406 Shawn Henry v. Florida Florida 2023-04-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial false-evidence fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct state-action state-court-discrimination Whether petitioner was denied substantial equality and fair process
22-1047 Rhonda J. Leaf, nka Rhonda J. Ring v. Brian E. Leaf Delaware 2023-04-27 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment impartial-tribunal pro-se property-rights standing Was Rhonda J. Leaf (nka-Ring)'s 14th amendment right violated along with her due process in the law? Was there an impartial tribunal?
22-7382 Tarus Vandell Sales v. Texas Texas 2023-04-26 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment enmund-v-florida fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus law-of-parties sixth-amendment tison-v-arizona Whether Mr. Sales's death sentence violates the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments
22-1035 Shoman Kasbekar, et al. v. Ivy Station Community Association, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-25 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction pleading rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court state-court-jurisdiction Whether a state court acts with jurisdiction and in a manner consistent with Fourteenth Amendment Due Process when it enters judgment on a pleading ex…
22-7342 Dupree Penn v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause
22-7305 Stacey Johnson, et al. v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-04-17 Denied IFP 8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment execution-challenge method-of-execution prisoner-rights scientific-consensus severe-pain standing Whether the Eighth Amendment requires a prisoner challenging the method of his execution to show a scientific consensus that the method is sure or ver…
22-7311 Randal Thomas Rosado v. Florida Florida 2023-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-act double-jeopardy fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment multiple-prosecutions multiple-punishments negotiated-plea plea-bargaining same-offense sixth-amendment Does a ten-count conviction under the same statute for a single act of filing one document violate the double jeopardy clause of the Fifth Amendment p…
22-1009 Barbara Kolkowski v. Ashtabula Area Teacher's Association, et al. Ohio 2023-04-17 Denied Response Waived civil-rights collective-bargaining due-process fourteenth-amendment free-speech grievance-process individual-rights labor-law liberty-interest public-employment statutory-interpretation Whether a public employee in Ohio under a collective bargaining agreement providing for binding arbitration has the Constitutional right either fundam…
22-7271 Gregg Haden v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-04-13 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review supreme-court-precedent texas-procedure Whether Texas's procedure for failing to apply the Bullcoming standard and violating the 6th Amendment right to confrontation that is incorporated aga…
22-996 Tawanda Hall, et al. v. Andrew Meisner, Oakland County Treasurer, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-04-13 Denied civil-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-punishment constitutional-law due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause property-forfeiture takings tax-foreclosure Whether the forfeiture of property worth far more than needed to satisfy a debt plus interest, penalties, and costs is a fine within the meaning of th…
22-7256 Mickey Wahl v. Kris Mayes, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-11 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit sixth-amendment uncertified-issues Whether Mr. Wahl was denied his right to effective assistance of counsel in violation of the Sixth & Fourteenth Amendments?
22-980 Neil Paul Noble v. Texas Texas 2023-04-10 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-right harmless-error indictment-notice notice sixth-amendment state-courts Is the Sixth Amendment right to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation a fundamental federal constitutional right that should be made a…
22-7236 Louis Gaskin v. Florida Florida 2023-04-06 Denied IFP constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment espinosa-v-florida fourteenth-amendment post-conviction-relief procedural-due-process procedural-rules sixth-amendment Whether Mr. Gaskin's execution violates the US Constitution due to a malfunctioned process
22-7198 Richard Roy Blake v. Liliane Hong, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-04-04 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-assembly free-speech municipal-ordinance section-1983 void-for-vagueness Did the City of Northglenn, Colorado police department violate Petitioner's First Amendment rights to free-speech, free-assembly, 42-usc-1983
22-7211 Marco Antonio Aguilar-Medina v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-procedure statute-of-limitations Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals violated Petitioner's constitutional due process rights, as protected by the Fifth Amendment, by (1) denyin…
22-7172 Henry A. Harmon v. Kayla Noel-Emsweller, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment en-banc-review equal-protection good-time judicial-review sentencing time-served Did petitioner have a complete fair denovo review of his legal findings
22-7174 James R. Householder, Jr. v. Michael Zaken, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. Third Circuit 2023-04-03 Denied IFP cross-examination due-process Fair-trial Fourteenth-Amendment Impeachment Inconsistent-testimony ineffective-assistance Ineffective-counsel Sixth-Amendment witness-testimony Due-process
22-7180 Tyshon Booker v. Tennessee Tennessee 2023-04-03 Dismissed IFP apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment juvenile-court juvenile-transfer probable-cause reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment transfer-hearing Did it violate the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments for the increase in the range of potential punishment to be based on findings made by a judge under…
22-7184 Darrell Kelly Middlekauff v. Sue Washburn, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution Oregon 2023-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-sentencing death-penalty fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial jury-trial-waiver post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment Is trial counsel ineffective for failing to advise client of death penalty factors prior to waiving jury?
22-7153 Tamar Devell Harvey v. Frederick Russell, Assistant Warden Fourth Circuit 2023-03-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP bodily-harm civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment inmate-safety prison-official prison-officials risk-of-serious-harm substantial-risk Whether the district court erred in dismissing the plaintiff's claim for failure to state a claim
22-7135 Victoria Michelle Drain v. Ohio Ohio 2023-03-29 Denied IFP 8th-amendment capital-punishment capital-sentencing defense-counsel eddings-v-oklahoma eighth-amendment mitigating-evidence ohio-supreme-court sentencing-review strategic-choice Whether defense counsel has discretion to present mitigating evidence in a capital case
22-7140 George Cerron v. Personal Investment Inc. Florida 2023-03-29 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure counsel-disqualification due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment nonfinal-appeal nonfinal-order standing state-law Does a nonfinal appeal qualify to be dismissed by the court, claiming it is dismissed as being from a nonappealable nonfinal order?
22-7141 Donald McDonald v. Illinois Illinois 2023-03-29 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habitual-criminal-act life-sentence non-violent-felony proportionate-penalties proportionate-penalties-clause sentencing solem-v-helm Whether the decision of the First District Appellate court of Illinois denying Petitioner's proportionate penalty clause claim conflicts with the deci…
22-7127 William Michael Meyer v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment habeas-corpus proportionality state-court-adjudication term-of-years-sentences Whether the state court adjudicated the petitioner's Eighth Amendment claim on the merits
22-7134 Christopher L. Whitaker v. Ohio Ohio 2023-03-28 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-defendant capital-punishment eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mitigation-evidence self-incrimination sixth-amendment Is a capital defendant's offer to plead guilty and waive all post-trial procedures in exchange for a life sentence admissible as mitigating evidence?
22-7113 Atdom Mikels Patsalis v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-03-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aggregate-length-of-sentences cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment habeas-corpus proportionality term-of-years-sentences Whether a state court's express refusal to consider a petitioner's constitutional claim constitutes an adjudication on the merits under 28 U.S.C. § 22…
22-7118 Scott David Creech v. Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction Sixth Circuit 2023-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada americans-with-disabilities-act disability-accommodation disability-rights due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment prisoner-accommodation reasonable-accommodation Did the Ohio Department of Rehabilitations and Corrections know that Petitioner was disabled and thereafter deny him a reasonable accommodation to a k…
22-7087 Michael James Hoffman v. United States District Court for the District of Arizona Ninth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence-manipulation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-misconduct trial-misconduct Did the State violate the Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to counsel and due process?
22-7091 David Lee Hering v. Iowa Iowa 2023-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-authority personal-jurisdiction speedy-trial void-judgement Whether a criminal prosecution and judgement therefrom is void where the trial court lost personal jurisdiction over the defendant prior to the start …
22-936 Martine Bernard v. Christopher Hodyl Colorado 2023-03-24 Denied autonomy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment liberty liberty-rights monetary-sanctions psychotherapist-patient-privilege psychotherapist-privilege therapy-disclosure Whether statutory psychotherapist-patient privilege and due-process bar state court from forcing petitioner to use court-appointed therapist or face s…
22-922 Ryan J. Welter v. Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine Massachusetts 2023-03-22 Denied administrative-discretion capacity-to-deceive career-ending-sanctions due-process fourteenth-amendment intent-materiality-harm misleading-statements occupational-licensing When can a licensing board impose career-ending sanctions based on truthful statements with potential to mislead?
22-7049 Robert A. Martinez, Jr. v. Lucas County Jail Sixth Circuit 2023-03-21 Denied IFP 8th-amendment americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights constitutional-rights disability-rights due-process eighth-amendment inmate-healthcare medical-treatment Is it legal to refuse prescribed medication to a Disabled person while incarcerated?
22-901 Richard E. Gardiner v. Nels Anderson Utah 2023-03-17 Denied attorney-fees civil-procedure contract court-of-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-theory utah-supreme-court waiver Whether the Utah Supreme Court denied Petitioner his Fourteenth Amendment right to due process
22-7027 Lester Barnett v. North Carolina North Carolina 2023-03-16 Denied IFP 10th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment pre-trial-detention sentencing state-prisoner Was it unconstitutional for them to convict petitioner for a safecracking that happened while petitioner was confined at Mecklenburg County Jail on th…
22-898 Ronald I. Paul v. South Carolina Department of Transportation, et al. South Carolina 2023-03-16 Denied declaratory-relief eminent-domain fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment just-compensation property-rights settlement-agreement Whether a settlement agreement in an eminent domain case violates the just compensation clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments
22-7009 Davion Smith v. California California 2023-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP adult-sentence criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial juvenile-adjudication juvenile-delinquent sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Does a state violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when it denies the right to a jury trial to a juvenile delinquent on the groun…
22-7002 J. T. v. Maryland Maryland 2023-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP abandonment-neglect-abuse child-welfare due-process fourteenth-amendment incarceration parental-rights statutory-interpretation termination-of-parental-rights vagueness Does Maryland's 'best interest of the child' standard conflict with the 'clear and convincing evidence' standard that protects liberty interests throu…
22-864 Ohio v. D. R. Ohio 2023-03-10 Denied Amici (1) court-discretion discretionary-hearings due-process fourteenth-amendment juvenile-offenders sex-offenders statutory-obligations Does the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause entitle juvenile sex offenders to hearings at which courts have discretion to lift statutorily mand…
22-860 Chene Devonne Manley v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-03-09 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability chiari-malformation due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence sentencing-determination Does the Due Process Clause of the Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment entitle an applicant to a certificate of appealability regarding a state prison…
22-6960 James Jonathan Mitchell v. Florida Florida 2023-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus mental-competency Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a prisoner who is incompetent to understand the …
22-6964 Arthur Brown, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2023-03-08 Denied IFP atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment eighth-amendment intellectual-disability moore-precedent moore-v-texas procedural-bar texas-criminal-code-article-11.071-section-5(a)(1) Is Mr. Brown entitled to a merits review of his Atkins claim under federal law, Moore I and Moore II, and was the procedural bar asserted by the Texas…
22-6969 Christopher Ashley Shetskie v. Colorado Colorado 2023-03-08 Denied IFP criminal-law due-process fourteenth-amendment mens-rea mental-state murder murder-statute sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment' jury-trial guarantee, taken together with the Fourteenth Amendments' right to due process require that the legislative si…
22-6972 Deandre Earp v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourth-circuit judicial-interpretation mental-illness sentencing Whether a criminal defendant who is found guilty but mentally ill can be punished as harshly as a defendant found guilty and sane
22-848 James Douglas Fox v. Mark Campbell, et ux. Sixth Circuit 2023-03-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) county-of-sacramento-v-lewis excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment graham-v-connor law-enforcement qualified-immunity seizure self-defense unreasonable-force Whether the Fourth Amendment standard for evaluating unreasonable force claims or the Fourteenth Amendment standard applies when law enforcement shoot…
22-6937 Robert L. Davis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-06 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 28-usc-1915 access-to-courts civil-rights court-access cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment first-amendment pro-se-litigant redress Does a lifetime ban to courts under 28 U.S.C. §1915(g) unless one pays in full deny due process violating the 14th amendment right to seek redress?
22-6944 Paige C. Sullivan, nka Paige C. Auer v. Jacob James Culwell Florida 2023-03-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-law constitutional-protection custody custody-dispute de-facto-parenthood due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest parental-rights standing Whether a natural parent has a fundamental liberty interest in the care, custody, and management of her child
22-6928 Logan Dyjak v. Jo-An Lynn, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-03-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process failure-to-protect first-amendment fourteenth-amendment litigation-reform mental-health sexual-abuse sexual-acts Which constitutional claims can an individual, such as Paul, who was committed for mental health treatment, bring against state officials for failure …
22-6903 William Landry, Jr. v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-03-02 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights due-process faretta-v-california fourteenth-amendment indigent-defense sixth-amendment speedy-trial state-constitution statutory-interpretation Whether Oklahoma's State Constitution Article II § 20 violates the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments by failing to contain the language of the Speedy Tr…
22-6901 Brandon L. Johnson v. Illinois Illinois 2023-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment illinois-constitution ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions knowingly-standard seventh-amendment Whether the State violated the Due Process clause
22-825 James K. Collins v. D.R. Horton-Texas Limited Fifth Circuit 2023-03-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) due-process federal-courts federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment personal-jurisdiction res-judicata rule-60 supremacy-clause takings Can a judgment of a court that lacked personal jurisdiction be the basis for taking property?
22-6876 Haroun Bacchus v. Misty Thomson, et al. California 2023-02-28 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fraud-allegations litigation-process procedural-due-process standing united-states-constitution Whether the civil procedures performed in both cases violate the requirements of procedural due process of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United Stat…
22-6888 Samantha D. Rajapakse v. Seyfarth Shaw, et al. Second Circuit 2023-02-28 Denied IFP civil-rights credit-reporting credit-reporting-agency due-process fair-credit-reporting-act first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigation standing Can a law firm retained by a credit reporting agency carry out the duties of and services of credit reporting agency business?
22-6891 Joseph Dingler v. Texas Texas 2023-02-28 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment free-speech indigent-defendant post-conviction-relief standing takings trial-transcript voting Question not identified
22-820 Lori D. McLaughlin v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Fourth Circuit 2023-02-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights doj-policy due-process fourteenth-amendment giglio-determination giglio-policy law-enforcement standing Are law enforcement officers entitled to due process rights prior to a Giglio determination?
22-6868 Billy Leon Kearse v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-27 Denied IFP counsel-performance due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-strategy sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Eleventh Circuit's analysis of ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claims fails to protect the Sixth-Amendment-right-to-effective-assistance…
22-6869 Daniel Earl Genson, III v. Kansas Kansas 2023-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-principles criminal-law criminal-punishment due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights mens-rea strict-liability Whether the absence of mens rea from a felony offense that criminalizes passive, otherwise innocent conduct without proof of notice while subjecting i…
22-6862 Benjamin Young v. Alabama Alabama 2023-02-24 Denied IFP capital-trial character-evidence criminal-procedure culpability-phase dawson-v-delaware first-amendment fourteenth-amendment gang-membership sentencing-phase Whether the First and Fourteenth Amendment prohibit the introduction of gang membership evidence in the culpability phase of a capital trial
22-802 Murco Wall Products, Inc. v. Michael D. Galier Oklahoma 2023-02-24 Denied Response Waived due-process fair-play-and-substantial-justice forum-contacts fourteenth-amendment minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction Whether the 'minimum contacts' requirement for specific jurisdiction is satisfied whenever a defendant has made limited sales of products to customers…
22-6828 Luis Espinoza v. Tammy Foss, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-testimony Were Mr. Espinoza's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights violated?
22-6831 Will Lee Carter v. Virginia Virginia 2023-02-22 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-religion self-incrimination sexually-violent-predator substantive-due-process Is Virginia's Sexually Violent Predator Law Unconstitutional?
22-6819 Donald Dillbeck v. Florida, et al. Florida 2023-02-20 Denied Amici (1)IFP atkins-v-florida eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability jury-unanimity medical-community medical-consensus neurobehavioral-disorder prenatal-alcohol-exposure Whether a state court's refusal to consider a defendant's claim that he is exempt from execution under Atkins v. Virginia due to Neurobehavioral Disor…
22-782 Carol Pulliam v. University of Southern California California 2023-02-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-ethics recusal standing takings Do state court trial judges, court of appeal justices and supreme court justices 'war against the (United States) Constitution' by denying state litig…
22-766 Edward Pinkney v. Berrien County, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-02-15 Denied civil-rights criminal-proceedings due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause section-1983 unlawful-prosecution Whether Petitioner's § 1983 claim based on his prosecution, pretrial-criminal-proceedings, trial, conviction, and incarceration for an act the law doe…
22-6776 J. Doe v. Design Review Board of the Town of Sullivan's Island, et al. South Carolina 2023-02-14 Denied IFP amendment-violation appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure meaningful-review procedural-due-process seventh-amendment Whether review should be granted where no other review was available and whether the lower appellate court denied meaningful review and other substant…
22-6762 Ryan Galal Van Dyck v. Arizona Arizona 2023-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment child-pornography cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment life-sentence mandatory-sentencing proportionality sentencing Does a mandatory de facto life sentence for mere possession of child pornography images, when the person has never directly abused or attempted to abu…
22-6753 Andrew Mark Lamar v. Colorado Colorado 2023-02-10 Denied IFP constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment juror-misconduct mistrial sixth-amendment Whether petitioner's right to a fair and impartial trial was violated due to juror misconduct
22-752 Bi Rite Auto Transport, Inc., et al. v. Russell Dilday, et al. California 2023-02-10 Denied 14th-amendment appeal appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment procedural-due-process standing state-court-rules state-law Is California's procedural due process satisfactory?
22-6735 Echo Dixon v. New York New York 2023-02-09 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud-on-the-court free-exercise habeas-corpus misnomer Whether the People of the State of New York interfered with Petitioner's first and fourteenth amendment free exercise rights
22-6737 John Edward Butler v. North Carolina North Carolina 2023-02-09 Denied IFP criminal-justice due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection parole sentencing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights under the Due Process Clause, Equal Protection Clause, and Eighth Amendment were violated by North Caro…
22-6739 Harry Franklin Phillips v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-09 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-punishment certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-law due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability retroactivity Whether the denial of a Certificate of Appealability (COA) on the denial of a motion that seeks to amend a habeas petition pending on appeal violates …
22-6740 Lisa Antoine v. Delancy LLC, dba Vital Medical Staffing Fourth Circuit 2023-02-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-discrimination civil-rights constitutional-rights discovery-withholding due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech retaliation whistleblower-protection whistleblowing Did the District court and the Court of Appeal erred in denying the Petitioner her legal rights within her legal capacity from the facts in her case a…
22-6725 Michael A. Gordon v. Florida Florida 2023-02-08 Denied IFP capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment proportionality-review pulley-v-harris Has the Florida Supreme Court by abandoning comparative proportionality review in death penalty appeals while dismantling other safeguards, and in vie…
22-6706 Darin M. Ogden v. Idaho Idaho 2023-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquittal criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-acquittal lewd-conduct sentencing united-states-v-watts Whether the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits a state court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a …
22-6713 Leonard Taylor v. David Vandergriff, Superintendent, Potosi Correctional Center Missouri 2023-02-06 Denied IFP actual-innocence death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus scientific-evidence Whether a freestanding claim of actual innocence presents a cognizable constitutional claim under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments
22-6670 Jimmy Ray Lacy, Jr. v. Chandler Cheeks Sixth Circuit 2023-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jailhouse-informant prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Was Jimmy Ray Lacy Jr. denied a fair trial under the fourteenth amendment
22-6677 Philip J. Vonville v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2023-02-01 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mistrial pennsylvania state-court-procedure state-courts Did state courts in Pennsylvania fail to address both Fifth and Fourteenth amendment (Due Process) violations of court record after a second trial end…
22-6645 Kimberlee Szewczyk v. Florida Florida 2023-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Does the standard for assessing ineffective assistance of counsel claims, announced in Strickland v. Washington, fail to protect the Sixth Amendment r…
22-6649 Dee Walter Mitchell, Jr. v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP coerced-confession coerced-testimony due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-interrogation juvenile-rights miranda-rights police-interrogation Where police interrogation of a juvenile murder suspect violates due process
22-6650 Antonio Rooks-Byrd, aka Abdur-Rashid Muhammad v. Court of Appeals of Nebraska Nebraska 2023-01-27 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appellate-court civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure jurisdiction standing state-appellate-court whether-the-fourteenth-amendment-prohibits-a-state-appellate-court-from-adjudicating-an-application-or-motion-in-complete-absence-of-all-jurisdiction
22-6654 Roland Cummings v. Maine Maine 2023-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-review prejudice sixth-amendment sua-sponte Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial and Fourteenth Amendment right to due process are satisfied by an appellate court's summary conclusi…
22-693 Michael Johnson v. Susan Prentice, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-01-25 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) circuit-split civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment exercise-deprivation prisoner-rights solitary-confinement Whether punitively depriving a prisoner in solitary confinement of virtually all exercise for three years notwithstanding the absence of a security ju…
22-6618 Josiah E. v. Arizona Department of Child Safety, et al. Arizona 2023-01-24 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights covid-19-impact due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-rights pretrial-detainee standing statutory-interpretation termination-proceeding Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Ruloyed Cases 995.3 and A
22-6606 Henry Zabala-Zorilla v. Joseph Terra, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, et al. Third Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP allen-charge civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction reversible-error supplemental-instruction Does the Fourteenth Amendment equal protection laws require a state judge be found to commit reversible error to give a supplemental charge or an 'All…
22-6609 James D. Thomas v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 brady-violation due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals violate petitioner's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment right by denying petitioners 28 USC § 2255 motion to vacate…
22-6574 Eddie Turner v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-01-19 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-law fourteenth-amendment judicial-conflict standing statute-of-limitations void-judgment void-ruling Can a void ruling legally be challenged at any time and in any court?
22-6576 Phillip Tarver v. Keisha Fisher, Administrator, South Woods State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2023-01-19 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment trial-by-jury Was the petitioner deprived of due process and the right to trial by jury, and is the right not to be put in jeopardy twice for the same crime charged…
22-6579 Jaime Hoyos v. Ronald Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-01-19 Denied IFP batson-challenge due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination standard-of-review voir-dire Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals violate petitioner's rights under the Fourteenth Amendment?
22-661 David Frank Campeau, Jr., et ux. v. Edward Sandercock, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Wayne County, et al. Third Circuit 2023-01-19 Denied Response Waived 10th-amendment 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 9th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights federalism-powers fourteenth-amendment marriage-law ninth-amendment state-statute tenth-amendment Whether the Ninth and Tenth Amendments reserve the right to marry to the people of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
22-6538 Tremane Wood v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-01-17 Denied IFP capital-successor-statute collateral-review due-process eighth-amendment federal-constitutional-claims fourteenth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence postconviction-review sixth-amendment state-prisoners successor-postconviction Whether the Fourteenth Amendment requires states to afford state prisoners some adequate corrective process for the hearing and determination of claim…
22-6544 Bradley B. Miller v. Andrea Plumlee, Judge, District Court of Texas, Dallas County Texas 2023-01-17 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure due-process federal-removal fourteenth-amendment judicial-immunity jurisdiction res-judicata standing state-court-jurisdiction statute-of-limitations Whether state court jurisdiction halts during the pendency of a federal removal
22-6534 Terry Lynn King v. Tony Mays, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-01-13 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-trial constitutional-error cruel-and-unusual-punishment cumulative-error due-process federal-courts fourteenth-amendment harmless-error judicial-review Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires that courts consider the aggregate effect of multiple legal errors
22-6541 Garrett Statler v. Florida Florida 2023-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law due-process fourteenth-amendment mens-rea sexual-battery state-court-conflict statutory-interpretation Whether Florida's sexual battery statute for acts applicable to adults with no physical force or violence violates the Fourteenth Amendment because it…
22-643 Jason Devon Lenoir v. Lynn Guyer, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-01-11 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability faretta-hearing fourteenth-amendment pro-se-representation psychological-evaluation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver-of-counsel Is a criminal defendant entitled to a COA when he has demonstrated and made a substantial showing that his rights were denied under the Sixth and Four…
22-6512 Frank L. Perry v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2023-01-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP direct-review due-process equal-protection finality finality-date fourteenth-amendment lamb-v-state montgomery-v-state state-court Whether the lower Florida state court's error in failing to correctly calculate the date that petitioner's direct review of his case became 'final' de…
22-6516 Abraham A. Augustin v. Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security Tennessee 2023-01-11 Dismissed IFP civil-forfeiture constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment procedural-protections property-rights takings united-states-constitution Whether the forfeiture of Augustin's property comported with the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
22-6524 Barry L. Brookins v. Rajendra Dwivedi Ninth Circuit 2023-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment medical-procedure state-law Whether the plaintiff's 8th Amendment right against cruel and unusual punishment has been violated through an unlawful surgery performed without the p…
22-6515 Christopher Raiche v. United States First Circuit 2023-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentence eighth-amendment first-time-offender grossly-disproportionate life-sentence non-violent-crime sentencing Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against grossly disproportionate prison sentences was triggered by the imposition of a de facto life senten…
22-624 Zafar Iqbal v. Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs, State Board of Medicine Pennsylvania 2023-01-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) coerced-confession constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment material-witness perjury right-to-due-process testimony Did the ruling(s), by disregarding testimony of material witness, proven to lie under oath violated petitioner's right to due process enshrined in fou…
22-6484 Courtney Saunders v. Kyle Thies, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-01-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights discriminatory-intent discriminatory-policing driving-while-black equal-protection fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement racial-discrimination racial-profiling traffic-stop Whether an Equal Protection claim under the Fourteenth Amendment, based on an incident of discriminatory policing, requires a plaintiff to establish t…
22-6492 Zoe Ajjahnon v. Sandler Holdings, LLC Florida 2023-01-09 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process eviction-proceedings federal-constitution fourteenth-amendment judicial-review procedural-deficiency property-rights state-constitution Whether Florida's Orange County trial court's final judgment, Florida's Fifth District Court of Appeals' deliberate denial of due process, and Florida…
22-6495 Genero Javon Zuniga v. Colorado Colorado 2023-01-09 Denied IFP colorado constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment retroactivity substantive-law zuniga Did the State of Colorado violate Mr. Zuniga's Fourteenth Amendment due process protections when it failed to apply a new rule of substantive law retr…
22-621 Linda Matarese, Personal Representative of the Estate of Hilda Duld Bauman, Deceased v. Virginia Hospital Center Arlington Health System, dba Virginia Hospital Center, et al. Virginia 2023-01-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment haines-v-kerner motion-to-strike pro-se-litigant reasonable-accommodation Did the Supreme Court of Virginia violate Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment due process rights?
22-614 Troy Chrisman, et al. v. Estate of Seth Michael Zakora, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-01-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) civil-rights constitutional-protection corrections corrections-liability criminal-law drug-contraband due-process eighth-amendment institutional-supervision prisoner-rights Whether a prisoner's criminal act of voluntarily ingesting an illegal drug banned within the prison can give rise to that prisoner's federal constitut…
22-610 Warren Adam Taylor v. Augusta-Richmond County Consolidated Commissioners, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-04 Denied case-controversy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss public-interest qualified-immunity standing statute-of-limitations Question not identified
22-6445 Juan Villa Ramirez v. California California 2023-01-04 Denied IFP aggravating-circumstances constitutional-rights death-penalty fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-finding ring-v-arizona sixth-amendment Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement that every fact, other than a prior conviction, that serves to increase the statutory m…
22-6454 Christine Chang v. Ezery Beauchamp, Captain and Commander for California Highway Patrol, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 abuse-of-discretion civil-rights dismissal dismissal-with-prejudice due-process fourteenth-amendment ninth-circuit pro-se section-1983 Whether the Ninth Circuit violates Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment due process rights
22-6440 Damian Thomas v. Delaware Delaware 2023-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment perjured-testimony post-conviction post-conviction-relief procedural-bar prosecutorial-misconduct Was petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment right to due process of law violated when his conviction was obtained through the use of perjured testimony and …
22-603 Jevarreo Kelley-Lomax v. City of Chicago, Illinois Seventh Circuit 2022-12-30 Denied Response Waived bailee-duty bailment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment pre-trial-detention property-rights property-seizure Whether the refusal to return lawfully seized property implicates the Fourth Amendment
22-6430 Alex Bugno v. Ohio Ohio 2022-12-30 Denied IFP evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment good-faith-exception particularity search-warrant seizure Are search warrants that fail to include command sections authorizing the seizure of particular items facially and fatally defective, requiring suppre…
22-6431 Philip Johnson v. Illinois Illinois 2022-12-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights eighth-amendment guilty-plea juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing miller-factors miller-v-alabama plea-bargaining proportionate-penalties sentencing sentencing-discretion Whether a pre-Miller guilty plea bars a post-Miller sentencing challenge under the Eighth Amendment
22-6435 Willie Tyrone Shipley v. D. Holbrook Ninth Circuit 2022-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights confrontation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-discretion sixth-amendment witness-testimony Whether the defendant was deprived of his right to confrontation and due process under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments when the district attorney …
22-6396 John Edward Sansing v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-12-27 Denied IFP appellate-review clearly-established-law criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment federal-habeas mitigating-evidence mitigating-factors sentencing-procedure victim-impact Did the appellate court err in affirming the denial of Sansing's petition on this meritorious claim?
22-580 John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections v. Kenneth Eugene Smith Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-22 Denied Relisted (9) alternative-method comity death-penalty eighth-amendment feasibility finality method-of-execution nitrogen-hypoxia Whether an alternative method of execution is feasible and readily implemented merely because the executing State has statutorily authorized the metho…
22-6373 Alicja Z. Herriott v. Paul Barrett Herriott California 2022-12-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-redress petition-clause right-to-petition vexatious-litigant Whether the California Vexatious Litigant Statutory Law violates the due process rights of pro se litigants by denying them access to the courts
22-6384 Peter Gakuba v. Larry Henderson, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment administrative-remedies civil-rights constitutional-violations deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment kosher-meal-requirements prisoner-rights Whether the Eighth Amendment requires prison officials to accommodate a prisoner's serious medical needs, including a life-threatening food allergy, a…
22-576 Cindy Ellen Ochoa v. Public Consulting Group, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-12-21 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 42-usc-1983 compelled-speech constitutional-violation due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment public-employee-rights public-sector-unions section-1983 union-dues Does a challenge to a statutory system alleging failure to provide due process under the Fourteenth Amendment and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 require an injured …
22-577 Jodee Wright v. Service Employees International Union Local 503, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-12-21 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived civil-rights collective-bargaining due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech labor-law public-sector union-dues Do the constitutional guarantees of Freedom of Speech and Due Process of law create an affirmative duty for government employers to ensure employees' …
22-6368 Christopher J. Cox v. Illinois Illinois 2022-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence fabricated-evidence fair-trial false-witnesses fourteenth-amendment procedural-due-process state-circuit-court Whether a defendant's procedural due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment have been violated
22-6369 In Re Tiyon T. Brown-Bey 2022-12-21 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-disenfranchisement due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus racial-discrimination sovereign-immunity standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional and unlawful claims regarding the status of 'Moors' or 'Blacks' as 'non-citizens' or 'slaves' should be addres…
22-557 Peter Kleidman v. RFF Family Partnership, LP California 2022-12-19 Denied attorney-fees civil-procedure contract-law contractual-claims due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial summary-adjudication Does California's legal framework for adjudicating prevailing parties' claims for contractual attorney's fees violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal…
22-6330 Billy Ray Jackson v. Bryan Daniel, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-review civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment individual-capacity liberty property section-1983 sovereign-immunity state-action unemployment-benefits Whether petitioner Billy Ray Jackson's 42 U.S.C. 1983 complaint states a claim against the respondent state officials under color of state law
22-6333 N. P. v. Vermont, et al. Vermont 2022-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP best-interests child-welfare due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment parental-rights santosky-standard unfitness Whether Vermont's parental rights termination standards violate the Fourteenth Amendment
22-6339 Derek James Jones v. State Bar of California California 2022-12-19 Denied IFP attorney-discipline brady-v-maryland due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment giglio-v-united-states presumption-of-innocence state-bar-court willner-v-committee-on-character-and-fitness Whether the State of California violated Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment guarantees of due process
22-6320 Mausean Carter v. Corizon Health, Inc. Maryland 2022-12-16 Denied IFP actual-innocence burden-of-proof civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment evidence gross-negligence habeas-corpus medical-evidence medical-treatment successive-petition Whether the lower courts erred in holding that the petitioner did not meet the burden of establishing the respondents' deliberate indifference in viol…
22-6311 Massey L. Allen, Jr. v. Nebraska Nebraska 2022-12-15 Denied IFP criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment jackson-v-virginia miranda-rights post-miranda-silence reasonable-doubt standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether there was sufficient evidence to convict under Jackson-v-Virginia
22-6297 Kevin W. Malone v. Nebraska, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-ethics sixth-amendment trial-bias Does the trial counsel's fraudulent behavior and conflict of interest violate the Petitioner's 6th & 14th Amendment right to conflict free counsel?
22-528 Gilbert Rodriguez, IV v. Texas Texas 2022-12-08 Denied criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights sixth-amendment Whether the 1838rd district court for Harris County, Texas erred in denying Petitioner Rodriguez's writ of Habeas Corpus
22-6255 Deonte Courtez Gates v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP blakely-v-washington circuit-court-conflict constitutional-interpretation eighth-amendment federal-law juvenile-defendant relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines Whether the relevant conduct sentencing guideline is unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment as applied to conduct committed by a juvenile defenda…
22-6257 Kenneth Ray Borders v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court compassionate-release criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment health-conditions judicial-misconduct procedural-error standing Should this court grant the writ where the lower court erred in violation of the eighth-amendment in denying compassionate-release when the lower cour…
22-6260 Paula Williams v. Conduent Human Services LLC Seventh Circuit 2022-12-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discriminatory-practices due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-conduct judicial-disability standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Question not identified
22-526 Pulak Barua v. Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Texas 2022-12-07 Denied Response Waived administrative-hearing administrative-law default-judgment due-process fourteenth-amendment notice notice-requirement service-of-process state-administrative-agency takings Whether the notice given to Petitioner violated his Due Process rights
22-6231 William Dustin Poole v. Florida Florida 2022-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment life-without-parole non-homicide-offense sentencing Whether a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on an eighteen-year-old defendant convicted of a non-homicide offense violat…
22-521 Jack Pidgeon, et al. v. Sylvester Turner, Mayor of the City of Houston, Texas, et al. Texas 2022-12-05 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection family-code fourteenth-amendment marriage-recognition same-sex-marriage texas-constitution Whether Texas Constitution article I, § 32 and Texas Family Code § 6.204 violate the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendm…
22-513 Hyrum James Geddes v. Weber County, Utah, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-12-02 Denied civil-rights detention-facility due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment objective-reasonableness section-1983 Whether the test of objective reasonableness for excessive force claims under the Fourteenth Amendment is the same as the test under the Fourth Amendm…
22-6191 John L. Lotter v. Nebraska Nebraska 2022-12-01 Denied IFP atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment collateral-review constitutional-law eighth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability moore-v-texas retroactivity substantive-rules Did Hall and Moore I announce new substantive rules of federal constitutional law that apply retroactively to cases on collateral review?
22-6193 Marie Assa'ad-Faltas v. South Carolina South Carolina 2022-12-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights contempt-power contempt-powers due-process eighth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-trial prison-overcrowding Whether incarceration for up to six months for alleged indirect contempt without trial by jury is always per se cruel and unusual
22-6200 In Re Terry Lopez 2022-12-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-asset-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus innocent-owner-doctrine standing supreme-court-jurisdiction takings Whether the abuse of discretion and mistake of law perpetuated by The Fifth Circuit runs afoul of the Supreme Court's holding in Timbs v. Indiana, Feb…
22-6181 Willie Speed v. Douglas Fender, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-conflict conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment whether-an-attorney's-conflict-of-interest-deprived-petitioner-of-his-rights-under-the-sixth-and-fourteenth-amendments-to-effective-assistance-and-due…
22-501 Tom Alonzo, et al. v. Scott Schwab, Kansas Secretary of State, et al. Kansas 2022-11-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights equal-protection fourteenth-amendment gingles-prong-one minority-voting-rights racial-discrimination redistricting single-member-district standing Does the Fourteenth Amendment prohibit intentional racial discrimination in redistricting where the minority voters discriminated against are not suff…
22-496 Jheshua Daniel Jackson v. Colorado Colorado 2022-11-28 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment in-absentia-trial right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-in-absentia Do the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution permit a court to deny a criminal defendant his request for appointment of co…
22-6156 Peter Ivan McNeal v. Dean Borders, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel memory-expert taint-expert trial-counsel Whether the prosecution presented sufficient evidence to sustain the conviction
22-6149 Edgar Arellano v. California California 2022-11-23 Denied IFP assistance-of-counsel constitutional-rights criminal-justice-reform effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment mitigating-evidence senate-bill-1333 sentencing sentencing-hearing sixth-amendment Whether a re-sentencing hearing under the new First Step Act entitles a defendant to the right to effective assistance of counsel under the Sixth and …
22-6142 Taj Collier v. Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa constitutional-rights criminal-appeals criminal-appeals-reform-act fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-standard Whether the Florida courts of appeals provide for evidentiary hearings to determine Strickland's mixed question of law and fact
22-6114 Phillip Scott Grigalanz v. Kristi Lynn Grigalanz Indiana 2022-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy due-process felony fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment standing Should respondent benefit from a conspiracy to commit a felony crime?
22-468 Daniel James Altstatt v. City of Sacramento, California California 2022-11-18 Denied bajakajian-factors civil-penalty civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine united-states-v-bajakajian Whether a state court erred by failing to apply the factors set out in United States v. Bajakajian in evaluating whether a civil penalty is unconstitu…
22-475 Binyamin I. Efreom, et al. v. Daniel McKee, Governor of Rhode Island, et al. First Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied Response Waived civil-rights contract-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment pension-reform procedural-due-process rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 taking-without-compensation takings Whether Petitioners' procedural due-process, takings, contract-rights were violated by deprivation of federal-remedy
22-6086 Dale McCoy v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights covid-19 covid-19-quarantine due-process equitable-tolling federal-bureau-of-prisons fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment section-2255 Whether the unforeseen and unexpected quarantining of the Petitioner, by the Federal Bureau of Prisons due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, justifies 'Equita…
22-460 Joshua C. Plumb, et al. v. U.S. Bank National Association, et al. Washington 2022-11-17 Denied Relisted (2) adverse-parties civil-procedure due-process foreclosure fourteenth-amendment judicial-foreclosure judicial-power pro-se-defendants standing Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment limits the judicial power of state courts to issuing judgments deciding those justiciable m…
22-466 Herederos de Roberto Gomez Cabrera, LLC v. Teck Resources Limited Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied civil-rights due-process extraterritorial-statute federal-court federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment foreign-defendant fourteenth-amendment international-law personal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Whether the Fifth Amendment imposes the same restrictions as the Fourteenth Amendment on the exercise of personal jurisdiction by a federal court unde…
22-6073 Lindsey Chow v. Ma Leyba, et al. California 2022-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP bodily-rights civil-rights due-process equal-protection euthanasia fourteenth-amendment medical-autonomy medicare survivorship-rights Did the Supreme Court of California violate murder victim Henry Chow's and his children's Fourteenth Amendment rights
22-6074 Terry Eugene Sears v. Vernia Roberts, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion prisoner-litigation prisoner-rights security-measures Whether the procedures required to institute unusual security measures apply in civil cases brought by prisoner plaintiffs?
22-449 Christopher E. Larson, et ux. v. Snohomish County, Washington, et al. Washington 2022-11-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-standard due-process financial-disclosure fourteenth-amendment judicial-neutrality judicial-partiality judicial-recusal objective-standard recusal Whether judges must address judicial partiality claims
22-454 Garey Webb v. U.S. Bank National Association, As Trustee for CRMSI REMIC Series 2006-03 REMIC Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-03 Oklahoma 2022-11-15 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment foreclosure fourteenth-amendment fraud fraud-on-court property-rights Whether the Oklahoma Supreme Court violated the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments by failing to address fraud and permitting a foreclosure judgment thro…
22-6049 Kenneth Eugene Smith v. Alabama Alabama 2022-11-14 Denied IFP capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-determination jury-override state-federal-practice Does executing a condemned person contrary to a capital sentencing jury's determination that he should be sentenced to life imprisonment without the p…
22-442 Tatana Spicakova Romero, et vir v. Li-Chuan Shih, et al. California 2022-11-10 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process eminent-domain fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment land-use private-property property-rights takings Whether a court order that excludes land owners from their real property and allows other private parties to physically invade and occupy the owners' …
22-6041 David Williams, III v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 congressional-intent conviction-review eighth-amendment equitable-tolling fifth-amendment government-misconduct section-2255 whether-defendant's-conviction-and-sentence-for-nonexistent-crimes-violates-constitution
22-6044 Jerlard Derek Rembert v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1983 8th-amendment civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment federal-jurisdiction heck-doctrine section-1983 statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the plaintiff's 1983 civil-rights complaint for failure to show cause as to why the court should not dismi…
22-6023 Tonatihu Aguilar v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-11-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing miller-v-alabama parole-abolition sentencing-reform When a state abolishes its parole system, does it create a mandatory life-without-parole sentence that, when imposed on a juvenile homicide offender, …
22-6027 Cedric Joseph Rue, Jr. v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2022-11-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-interpretation juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing parole-abolition sentencing-discretion Whether the abolition of parole in Arizona creates a mandatory life-without-parole sentence that violates the Eighth Amendment when imposed on a juven…
22-427 William Verrinder v. City of Lewiston, Maine Maine 2022-11-07 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment due-process fourteenth-amendment hearing-fee municipal-law notice-of-violation property-rights property-seizure statutory-fines Whether the City of Lewiston, Maine can require the Petitioner to pay a fee to buy a hearing or defend himself
22-428 Deborah Walton v. First Merchants Bank Seventh Circuit 2022-11-07 Denied Response Waived billing-errors dispute-letters due-process fair-credit-billing-act first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process statute-of-limitations Whether a Creditor must follow the requirements specified in 1974 by the Fair Credit Billing Act
22-6006 Justin Richard Testani v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography criminal-history cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment mental-capacity sentencing sentencing-disparity Whether a 720-month sentence violates the Eighth Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual sentences
22-421 D. A.. v. Portage County, Wisconsin Wisconsin 2022-11-04 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 6th-amendment children-in-need-of-protection civil-rights cross-examination due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment standing witness-testimony Whether a natural father is entitled to basic Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment Due Process during Wisconsin Children in Need of Protection or Services p…
22-5969 Thomas Deptula v. Florida Florida 2022-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law-conflict chesser-v-state civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court-appeal due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-brief sexual-predator sexual-predator-designation torres-v-oquinn Whether the Florida Second District Court of Appeal erred in denying the petitioner's request for removal of the sexual predator designation
22-412 Roy Harness, et al. v. Michael Watson, Mississippi Secretary of State Fifth Circuit 2022-11-02 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (17) civil-rights constitutional-law en-banc-review equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legislative-intent racial-discrimination voting-rights Whether any amendment to a law originally adopted for an impermissible racially discriminatory purpose, no matter how minor the amendment and no matte…
22-414 Timothy R. Bonner, et al. v. Leigh Chapman, in Her Official Capacity as Acting Secretary of Pennsylvania, et al. Pennsylvania 2022-11-02 Denied Response Waived article-i-section-4 constitutional-interpretation election-procedure elections-clause federal-elections fourteenth-amendment mail-in-voting pennsylvania-law standing state-regulation voting-rights Does Pennsylvania's Act 77 no-excuse mail-in voting law violate Article I § 4 of the United States Constitution?
22-415 Mark Elliott Stuart v. Arizona Arizona 2022-11-02 Denied Response Waived civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-law due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech municipal-code statutory-interpretation vagueness Whether Scottsdale Revised Code 19-13 is overbroad and violates the First Amendment
22-5936 Demetrius Troy Bradley v. Michigan Michigan 2022-10-31 Denied IFP acquitted-conduct constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-trial-rights sentencing sentencing-discretion sixth-amendment Do the jury-trial and due process guarantees of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit judges from considering, at sentencing in a criminal case…
22-5947 Kevin Johnson v. Missouri Missouri 2022-10-31 Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial death-penalty eighth-amendment juror-misconduct juvenile-justice mental-health mental-impairment racial-bias Whether the retrial and death sentence of a 19-year-old offender with mental impairments remedied the constitutional violation from the first trial wi…
22-5942 David G. Wiggins v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process felony-murder fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether the Felony Murder Statute as applied to the Petitioner is unconstitutional, denying his rights under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments
22-5943 Isaiah Tyler v. Kentucky Department of Corrections Kentucky 2022-10-28 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest violent-offender-statute Do Kentucky's violent offender statute create a liberty interest protected by due process?
22-5926 Charles Chitat Ng v. California California 2022-10-27 Denied IFP confrontation-clause due-process extradition-hearing fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment self-representation sixth-amendment stun-belt Was petitioner deprived of due-process, self-representation, fair-trial, confrontation
22-5908 Giles McGhee v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment in-re-winship ineffective-assistance jackson-v-virginia reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Did the State fail to meet its burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr. McGhee was guilty of two Counts of First Degree Murder?
22-5901 William Paul Burch v. Areya Holder Aurzada Fifth Circuit 2022-10-25 Dismissed IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure bankruptcy-transparency corruption due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud judicial-ethics salaried-employees transparency Should a bankruptcy judge be obligated to grant due process to a debtor?
22-5906 William Lee Thompson v. Florida Florida 2022-10-25 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-test iq-testing retroactivity standard-error teague-rule Whether Hall v. Florida announced a new rule of constitutional law or was simply an application of Atkins v. Virginia
22-5907 Ronald J. Brooking v. Daniel Moloney Maryland 2022-10-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-rights fairness fourteenth-amendment judicial-decision maryland-rules privileges-or-immunities procedural-due-process state-action Did the Circuit Court, Court of Special Appeals, and the Court of Appeals err in violations against the Petitioner's rights in the 14th Amendment to t…
22-5909 Timmy Doucet v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-material criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-v-virginia reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Insufficient evidence to convict beyond reasonable doubt
22-387 James Edward White v. Michigan State University Unemployment Compensation Division Michigan 2022-10-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 9th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-rules justice legal-counsel ninth-amendment right-to-petition Does the Ninth Amendment guarantee certain rights?
22-5889 Michael Paul Jessup v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-10-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing parole-abolition sentencing When a state abolishes its parole system, does it create a mandatory life-without-parole sentence that, when imposed on a juvenile homicide offender, …
22-5881 Trencie V. Oliver v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2022-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-law due-process eighth-amendment proportionality sentencing Whether Tirencie Oliver's sentence imposed is disproportionate to the offense and violates due process or the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitutio…
22-5872 In Re Benjamin Cole 2022-10-20 Denied IFP competency death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment execution-protocol fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus mental-competency mental-illness original-jurisdiction Whether a prisoner who is incompetent to be executed can be executed under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments
22-372 Skatemore, Inc., dba Roll Haven Skating Center, et al. v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-10-20 Denied Response Waived due-process eleventh-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment just-compensation sovereign-immunity takings-clause Does the Fifth Amendment's requirement of 'just compensation' waive Eleventh Amendment Sovereign Immunity for a takings claim in federal court against…
22-5845 Skiboky Stora v. New York State Board of Elections New York 2022-10-17 Denied IFP attorney-communication civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment free-speech judicial-communication judicial-conduct standing Did the communications between Respondents' Attorneys and the Chief Sweeny on the Judge's Personal Cell Phone violate the Due Process Clause of the Fo…
22-5848 Benjamin Robert Cole v. Jim Farris, Warden Oklahoma 2022-10-17 Denied IFP death-row disputed-issues-of-fact eighth-amendment execution-competency ford-v-wainwright fourteenth-amendment panetti-v-quarterman procedural-safeguards state-court warden-gatekeeper Whether it violates the Eighth Amendment and this Court's decisions in Ford v. Wainwright and Panetti v. Quarterman, for a state court to bypass proce…
22-5842 Lex Lugard Eugene v. Florida Florida 2022-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-sentencing first-amendment fourteenth-amendment habitual-felony-offender-statute sixth-amendment unsubstantiated-allegations Whether unsubstantiated allegations of misconduct introduced in a criminal sentencing proceeding violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments
22-5814 Christopher Allan Allred v. Washington Washington 2022-10-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure critical-stage cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment execution mental-illness rational-understanding right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a prisoner who has a severe mental illness that …
22-5818 In Re Errol Victor, Sr. 2022-10-12 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-privileges criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-selection racial-discrimination speedy-trial trial-rights Whether the Louisiana Supreme Court violated the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses by denying petitioner's request for a…
22-334 Alice Guan v. Gary Bell, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-10-12 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment notice-of-appeal petition-government Whether Fourth Circuit affirming district court's decision based on altered Notice of Appeal without performing any review on the merit of the appeal …
22-342 Mary Corner v. Martin J. Walsh, Secretary of Labor Seventh Circuit 2022-10-12 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-record civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment labor-law labor-management-reporting-and-disclosure-act procedural-due-process secretary-of-labor standing union-member-rights Whether my rights to procedural due process was violated under the XIV Amendment
22-329 Lu Tuan Nguyen v. David Ribal, et al. California 2022-10-07 Denied Response Waived bias conservatee-estate constitutional-rights deception demurrer due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias Whether the sustaining of the respondent's demurrer violates the Due Process Clause
22-5786 Foroud Foladpour v. City of Upland, California California 2022-10-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment government-liability judicial-discretion negligence standing trial-court-procedure Judicial discretion is not a matter of right
22-5783 Kofi Kyei v. Oregon Oregon 2022-10-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment oral-argument oregon-state-courts precedent statutory-mandate utcr-5.050(1) zehr-v-haugen Whether the Oregon State courts violated pro se Petitioner's federal due process and equal protection rights under the Fourteenth Amendment
22-5752 Ricardo M. Suggs, Jr. v. Warden, FCI Loretto Third Circuit 2022-10-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-review concurrent-sentence-doctrine due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment supreme-court-precedent Whether the concurrent sentence doctrine can be applied to a petitioner with solely consecutive sentences
22-5735 Thomas A. Scott v. Lonnie Oliver, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2022-10-03 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-integrity judicial-review manifest-injustice sixth-amendment Does the judgement of sentence represent a manifest injustice warranting the supervisory powers of this honorable court as it shakes societys confiden…
22-5738 Vernon J. Mills v. Virginia Virginia 2022-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment actual-innocence civil-rights compulsory-process due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment Whether the appellate court erred in possessing the legal significance of the exculpatory material of the three sworn affidavits tending to exonerate …
22-311 Michael Vechery v. Florence Cottet-Moine Virginia 2022-10-03 Denied Relisted (2) child-abuse child-custody child-neglect child-visitation due-process family-court fourteenth-amendment parental-rights protective-order Does the Due Process Clause require a finding of child abuse or unfitness to terminate all parent-child contact?
22-308 Ramin Seddiq v. Virginia Indigent Defense Commission, et al. Virginia 2022-09-29 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process due-process-clause fourteenth-amendment judicial-conflict liberty-interest statutory-disclosure statutory-entitlement virginia-freedom-of-information-act Does the Virginia Freedom of Information Act afford the citizens of Virginia with a statutorily created liberty interest for Fourteenth Amendment purp…
22-5696 Matt Nasuti v. Adrian Holm, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-tribunals civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-accountability secret-proceedings veterans-rights Can Secret Trials Ever Be Constitutional?
22-5684 Victor Gavillan Martinez v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-27 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment warrantless-search Whether Petitioner's Fourth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment Rights to the United States Constitution Require this Court to vacate Petitioner's convic…
22-5686 Curtis Lee Henderson, Sr. v. California California 2022-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest parole parole-denial youth-offender Was it cruel and unusual punishment to change Henderson's sentence from 45-to-life plus years to life, without parole, without a court hearing after s…
22-287 Gail Lewis Hicks, et al. v. American Family Mutual Insurance Company, S.I. Indiana 2022-09-27 Denied Response Waived court-of-appeals due-process fifth-amendment fifth-and-fourteenth-amendments fourteenth-amendment indiana-court-of-appeals indiana-supreme-court judgment-on-the-pleadings judicial-procedure summary-judgment Whether the Indiana Supreme Court decided an issue without determining the effect of the Indiana Court of Appeals granting Respondent a summary judgme…
22-290 Anne-Marie Mendible v. Special Proceedings Department of the Wake County Court, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-09-27 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment pro-se pro-se-litigant res-judicata standing subject-matter-jurisdiction truth-in-lending-act Whether the due process constitutional right of the petitioner is infringed and the Federal Court has jurisdiction to entertain it
22-282 Randall Pavlock, et al. v. Eric J. Holcomb, Governor of Indiana, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-09-26 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment injunctive-relief judicial-taking property-rights standing state-court-decision takings Whether a 'judicial taking' under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments is a cognizable cause of action
22-5681 Towaki Komatsu v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2022-09-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equitable-estoppel first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech judicial-bias judicial-misconduct procedural-infirmity standing Whether the Second Circuit and U.S. District Judge Lorna Schofield prejudicially and biasedly ignored key facts, violating the petitioner's First and …
22-279 Norine Cave v. Suvidha Sachdeva, et al. Georgia 2022-09-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment daubert daubert-standard directed-verdict discovery discovery-requirements due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment Whether a litigant's fundamental right to a fair trial is unjustly deprived by a directed verdict preceding discovery and Daubert requirements
22-271 M. N. v. A. A., et al. Kentucky 2022-09-22 Denied abandonment dobbs-precedent dobbs-v-jackson due-process evidentiary-standard fourteenth-amendment kentucky parental-rights vagueness whether-ky-rev-stat-ann-§-199.502-violates-the-fourteenth-amendment's-due-process-clause
22-5644 Kevin Griffin v. Thomas P. DiNapoli, et al. Second Circuit 2022-09-22 Denied IFP 14th-amendment appeal appointed-counsel constitutional-rights disability-claims due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence Was petitioner's appeal erroneously dismissed even though newly discovered evidence supports petitioner's disability claims. U.S. Const. Amend. XIV?
22-5616 In Re Deonte Jenkins 2022-09-20 Denied IFP 13th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-claim political-hostage sovereign-rights treaty-rights Whether the petitioner's claims of unconstitutional and unlawful detention by the Commonwealth of Virginia violate his constitutional rights under the…
22-5584 Emru Kebede v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2022-09-15 Denied IFP 8th-amendment age-discrimination due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences roper-v-simmons Do the decisions of this Court in Roper v. Simmons and Miller v. Alabama establish a fundamental right for offenders under 18 years of age as it relat…
22-5585 Mark Marvin v. Martha Peldunas, et al. Second Circuit 2022-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment social-security statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that the state agency can require future social-security recipients to prematurely apply for reduced ben…
22-5591 Robert Lopez-Parker v. Texas Texas 2022-09-15 Denied IFP americans-with-disabilities-act criminal-enhancement criminal-law disability disability-classification due-process equal-protection federal-standard fourteenth-amendment state-law When is an individual regarded as having or perceived to have, impairment within the meaning of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
22-248 Larry Tawney, Jr. v. Portage County, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-09-15 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights eighth-amendment intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress monell-claim section-1983 summary-judgment Whether a trial court properly dismisses a plaintiff's complaint seeking compensation under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for Eighth Amendment violations, a Monell…
22-237 Sandra K. Nieveen v. TAX 106, et al. Nebraska 2022-09-13 GVR Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines government-seizure just-compensation property-rights takings-clause tax-sale Does the government violate the Takings Clause when it confiscates property worth more than the debt owed by the owner?
22-5579 William Baham v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance state-action supremacy-clause Whether the 14th Amendment imposes upon the States of Louisiana the obligation to refrain from systemic, purposeful deprivations of substantive federa…
22-5552 Robert Budwilowitz v. Marc Nichols Associates, et al. New York 2022-09-12 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment extraordinary-circumstances judicial-efficiency motion-for-leave new-york-procedure ross-factors standing Is the dismissal of the motion for leave to appeal by the New York State Court of Appeals inconsistent?
22-5559 Patricio Estrada v. Troy Nehls, Sheriff, Fort Bend County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference disciplinary-isolation due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection medical-treatment prison-conditions Whether Estrada's due process rights were violated by being placed in disciplinary isolation prior to any hearing
22-5563 Noel Brown v. Pennsylvania, et al. Pennsylvania 2022-09-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus plea-bargaining retroactivity right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Right to counsel
22-5546 Jhon Albert Carrizales Pretell v. Florida Florida 2022-09-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-right criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-offense fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-procedure Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a twelve-person jury to try a criminal defendant accused of a felony offense
22-5510 Ronald Lebed, Sr. v. Florida Florida 2022-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth District Court of Appeal violated the petitioner's Fourth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights
22-5498 Aaron Striz v. Bryan Collier, Executive Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-09-02 Denied IFP administrative-segregation administrative-state constitutional-minima due-process eighth-amendment equality-under-the-law prisoners-rights solitary-confinement Does extended, indefinite solitary confinement of an atypical duration, under some circumstances, violate the Eighth Amendment?
22-199 Barry J. Smith v. Community Care Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-09-02 Denied Response Waived citizenship civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-authority standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Is the district court required to determine subject-matter jurisdiction before reaching the merits?
22-5472 Aaron Michael Shamo v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP anti-drug-abuse-act chemical-compound chemical-compounds controlled-substance counsel-waiver cruel-and-unusual-punishment drug-distribution drug-sentencing eighth-amendment essential-elements fentanyl statutory-interpretation Whether Petitioner's counsel's actions constituted a waiver or forfeiture of the argument that the government failed to prove Petitioner distributed t…
22-5458 Kenneth Lainell Davis v. Florida Florida 2022-08-29 Denied IFP criminal-defendant criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process eighth-amendment felony jury jury-composition juvenile-sentencing mandatory-minimum sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a twelve-person jury to try a criminal defendant accused of a felony offense
22-177 Monica Toth v. United States First Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (5) bank-secrecy-act civil-penalties civil-penalty deterrence deterrent-penalty eighth-amendment excessive-fines-clause fbar foreign-bank-accounts Whether civil penalties imposed under 31 U.S.C. § 5321(a)(5) that are avowedly deterrent and noncompensatory are subject to the Eighth Amendment's Exc…
22-5438 Winfred Scott Simpson v. North Carolina Department of Public Safety Fourth Circuit 2022-08-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP and ineffective assistance of counsel unlawful detention compulsory-process due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jencks-act miranda-rights right-to-present-defense self-defense sixth-amendment Violation of Petitioner's 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendment rights regarding suppressed evidence
22-166 Geraldine Tyler v. Hennepin County, Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-08-23 Judgment Issued Amici (44)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) civil-forfeiture constitutional-law due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fine excessive-fines government-forfeiture property-rights takings-clause tax-debt Whether the government's retention of surplus proceeds from the sale of a home to satisfy a tax debt violates the Takings Clause
22-5405 Perry Sawano v. Colorado Colorado 2022-08-19 Denied IFP 8th-amendment aggregate-sentence constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment proportionality-analysis proportionality-review sentencing sentencing-review Does the Eighth Amendment require a sentencing court to consider a defendant's overall/aggregate sentence when conducting a proportionality review?
22-5362 Agustin Garcia v. New Jersey New Jersey 2022-08-16 Denied IFP 6th-amendment complete-defense constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction-relief right-to-counsel sixth-amendment technological-advances Whether the petitioner was deprived of the right to a fair trial and present a complete defense
22-5329 Chadrick Fulks v. T. J. Watson, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-08-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-U.S.C-2241 28-U.S.C-2255 collateral-review death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability section-2241 section-2255 Is an intellectually disabled and death-sentenced prisoner entitled to review under 28-U.S.C-2241 because diligent counsel could not have raised this …
22-5330 Demetrius J. Wade v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2022-08-10 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering fifth-amendment forensic-evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Was petitioner's 5th and 14th Amendment rights violated when police tampered with evidence and removed bullet fragments recovered from the victim at h…
22-5331 Mark Anthony Williams v. Michigan Michigan 2022-08-10 Denied IFP confrontation-clause criminal-sexual-conduct cross-examination cumulative-error due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Insufficient-evidence-to-support-conviction
22-132 Carlos Ruben Ruiz v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2022-08-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure demeanor-evidence due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments forbid judges (or prosecutors) from instructing (or inviting) the jury to take into account a non-testifyi…
22-125 Scott Fenstermaker v. Stephen Fenstermaker, et al. Connecticut 2022-08-09 Denied due-process estate-administration fourteenth-amendment intestate-distributees probate probate-law property-rights small-estate Whether Section 45a-273 of the Connecticut General Statutes violates the Fourteenth Amendment due-process rights of intestate-distributees
22-5261 Yusuf O. Bush v. David J. Ebbert District of Columbia 2022-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment federal-courts habeas-corpus standing statutory-interpretation Whether the AEDPA of 1996 violates the Constitution of the United States as to the 1st Amendment and 5th Amendment
22-5304 Nuelito Morel-Vargas v. Connecticut Connecticut 2022-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment waiver waiver-doctrine Whether the Constitution requires a canvass on the right to testify
22-5297 Jean Max Darbouze v. California California 2022-08-05 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment helling-v-mckinney state-application Whether the respondent violated the petitioner's 8th Amendment constitutional rights, as applied to the State of California via the 14th Amendment
22-109 Paula Steven v. Federal Way School District Washington 2022-08-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment public-education racial-discrimination school-segregation Whether a Black mother and her Black child/student who walks through the main entrance of the public school doors every every morning as does the non-…
22-101 Martin Cowen, et al. v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State Eleventh Circuit 2022-08-02 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived ballot-access congressional-district equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment signature-requirements third-party third-party-candidates Does a State violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments when its ballot-access restrictions on third-party candidates for United States Representativ…
22-5192 Jose Manuel Hernandez-Miranda v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP compassionate-release court-review covid-19 criminal-justice due-process eighth-amendment extraordinary-reasons judicial-discretion petitioner-rights sentencing sentencing-relief Whether the Petitioner should receive compassionate release based on the stated extraordinary and compelling reasons
22-5229 Gwendolyn Wilson v. Hillsborough Township Construction/Building Department, et al. Third Circuit 2022-07-29 Denied IFP civil-rights equal-protection fair-housing fourteenth-amendment municipal-services property-assessments racial-discrimination retaliation Whether the Equal Protection Clause is implicated by allegations of racial discrimination in municipal services and policies
22-87 Arthur O. Armstrong v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2022-07-29 Denied 14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment standing Whether respondents acted in a conspiracy to deprive the appellant of liberty and property without due process
22-5216 Ray Salazar v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-07-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigation mental-competency sixth-amendment Did the trial counsel's failure to timely and adequately conduct an investigation into Salazar's known mental health issues constitute ineffective ass…
22-5218 Reginald Dexter Carr, Jr. v. Kansas Kansas 2022-07-28 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment automatic-reversal due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment harmless-error sixth-amendment structural-error Was the denial of Reginald Carr's Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to testify structural constitutional error requiring automatic reversal…
22-5152 In Re Jerry N. Alfred 2022-07-22 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection false-evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is violated when a state knowingly uses false evidence to…
22-5146 Dawud Canaan Sturrup Gabriel v. Melton Truck Lines Tenth Circuit 2022-07-21 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings standing tenth-circuit-review Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit departed from the accepted judicial proceedings
22-5151 James Tyrell Drane v. Michigan Michigan 2022-07-21 Denied IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment retroactive-law statute-of-limitations Whether the State of Michigan's interpretation of its statute of limitations to revive an expired offense violated the petitioner's 14th Amendment due…
22-52 Ariyan Incorporated, dba Discount Corner, et al. v. Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-07-20 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process eminent-domain fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-taking inverse-condemnation just-compensation property-rights takings May the government, consistent with the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments' self-executing command of Just Compensation for takings of private property, …
22-5131 Terry Gillard v. California California 2022-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment witness-impeachment Whether the California court's refusal to allow a witness to be impeached with his federal bank robbery conviction violated petitioner's clearly estab…
22-47 Kerry Benninghoff, Individually and as Majority Leader of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives v. 2021 Legislative Reapportionment Commission, et al. Pennsylvania 2022-07-18 Denied Amici (1) civil-rights district-drawing equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legislative-redistricting racial-gerrymandering redistricting voting-rights-act Whether districts drawn for transparently racial reasons, without a VRA-compliance justification, satisfy the Fourteenth Amendment merely because the …
22-44 Westley Devone Harris v. Alabama Alabama 2022-07-15 Denied criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury juror-misconduct jury-selection sixth-amendment voir-dire Whether a criminal defendant is deprived of his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to an impartial jury when a jury member gives dishonest and inco…
22-5114 Jasmaine H. v. Arizona Department of Child Safety, et al. Arizona 2022-07-15 Denied IFP child-welfare civil-rights clear-and-convincing-evidence due-process fair-trial family-law fourteenth-amendment parental-rights Did the Arizona Department of Child Safety violate Mother's Fourteenth Amendment right to Due Process and deprive her of her fundamental right to pare…
22-5115 Michael Kennedy v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-15 Denied IFP consent constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-consent due-process fourteenth-amendment right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel Does the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments require that before a trial counsel can concede a defendant's guilt, trial counsel must first consult with th…
22-42 Dipendra Tiwari, et al. v. Eric Friedlander, Secretary, Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-07-14 Denied Amici (7) civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process economic-liberty fourteenth-amendment individual-liberty meaningful-review occupation-rights occupational-licensing rational-basis-review substantive-due-process Does the Fourteenth Amendment require meaningful review of restrictions on the right to engage in a common occupation?
22-5083 William Wellington Hooper, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial fourth-amendment search-and-seizure sentencing Were Mr. Hooper's cell phones seized in violation of his Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable search and seizure?
22-5087 Dawud Canaan Sturrup Gabriel v. Melton Truck Lines Tenth Circuit 2022-07-13 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review petition-for-redress tenth-circuit whether-the-us-court-of-appeals-for-the-tenth-circuit-departed-from-the-accepted-course-of-judicial-proceedings
22-5088 Norman Blake McKenzie v. Florida Florida 2022-07-13 Denied IFP aggravating-factors constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Whether the failure to require the jury, and the jury alone, to find that the aggravating factors outweighed the mitigating factors, beyond and to the…
22-5093 Jerry Leon Haliburton v. Florida Florida 2022-07-13 Denied IFP burden-of-proof capital-punishment clear-and-convincing-evidence death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability state-law Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments permit States to impose on a capital defendant the burden of proving intellectual disability by clear and…
22-5071 Daniel Toney v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-12 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment circumstantial-evidence due-process evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment habitual-offender ineffective-assistance montgomery sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner's 6th and 14th Amendment rights to due process are being violated by denying claims based on assumption and not facts
22-4 Donald G. Karr, Jr. v. Mark R. Sevier, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-06-30 Denied Response Waived civil-rights counsel-rights davis-hatton-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment Whether the Davis-Hatton Procedure is unconstitutional as-applied
21-8262 Antonio Jones v. Frank Vanihel, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause cross-examination due-process fourteenth-amendment police-investigation right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence witness-credibility Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments were violated
21-8279 Randy William Gay v. Arkansas Arkansas 2022-06-29 Denied IFP capital-defendant capital-punishment effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-jury fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection sixth-amendment voir-dire Whether a capital defendant's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments rights to a fair and impartial jury and to the effective assistance of counsel are viola…
21-1610 Paula Steven v. Federal Way School District Washington 2022-06-29 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment parental-rights racial-discrimination school-access school-segregation truancy-law Whether a Black mother of a public school student has a Fourteenth Amendment right to walk her student through the main entrance and not receive truan…
21-8235 Joshua Dicks v. Natasha Davis Arkansas 2022-06-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-diligence civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment indigent-litigants parental-rights pro-se pro-se-litigant waiver-of-appeal Whether the Arkansas Court's application of 'attorney diligence' waiver of right to appeal rules to pro se litigants in private termination of parenta…
21-8232 Stephon Ellis v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing eighth-amendment judicial-discretion mitigating-factors mitigation-factors proportionality proportionality-principle sentencing-guidelines traumatic-background traumatic-childhood Whether the 90-month sentence imposed on Mr. Ellis was 'greater than necessary' considering his extraordinarily traumatic childhood
21-1588 Susan Spell v. Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services California 2022-06-24 Denied child-custody civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fraud racial-discrimination writ-of-error-coram-vobis Does a trial court violate the Equal Protection clause when it bases a child custody order on a racially discriminatory theory?
21-1590 Rosemarie Austin v. Nationstar Mortgage LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-06-24 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure discovery discovery-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion pro-se Whether a litigant in pro se can be denied their right to due process under the 5th and 14th Amendments solely based on the court's assumption that th…
21-8205 Bobby Charles Byrd v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-flight constitutional-rights due-process false-evidence fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel-of-choice sixth-amendment whether-mr-byrd-was-denied-effective-assistance-of-appellate-counsel
21-8219 Dante Danil Carter v. California California 2022-06-23 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure doyle-v-ohio due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment miranda miranda-rights post-miranda-silence self-incrimination Whether the California trial court deprived Carter of his 5th and 14th Amendment rights by permitting the prosecution to impermissibly use his post-Mi…
21-1581 Tong Park v. California California 2022-06-22 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment extrinsic-fraud fair-trial faretta-rights in-personam-jurisdiction prima-facie-guilt subject-matter-jurisdiction writ-of-error-coram-nobis whether-the-court-should-intervene-to-bring-lower-state-courts-in-line-with-established-us-constitutional-laws
21-8177 Marlin Larice Joseph v. Florida Florida 2022-06-17 Denied IFP constitutional-safeguards cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourth-amendment geographic-arbitrariness sixth-amendment standards-of-decency Does the death penalty violate the Eighth Amendment?
21-8155 Chad M. Vice v. City of Fort Madison, Iowa, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-06-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause
21-8156 Demetrius Antwon Wilson v. Jeffrey Alvarez, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-06-16 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment medical-treatment prisoner-rights Whether prison officials are deliberately indifferent when they delay or intentionally interfere with medical treatment
21-8166 Ricky Vincent Pendleton v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation coram-nobis due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct Did the presentation of gruesome photographs to each grand juror violate the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments?
21-1568 Austin Roger Carter v. Genesis Alkali LLC, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-06-16 Denied appeal appeal-procedure attorney-client attorney-client-privilege civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment professional-conduct standing Whether Petitioner's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments rights were violated
21-8144 Tavares J. Wright v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-15 Denied IFP atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment due-process eighth-amendment flynn-effect fourteenth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability iq-testing moore-v-texas Whether failing to apply the Flynn effect to a capital defendant's intelligence quotient scores violates the Eighth Amendment
21-1562 Jermel Leon Reed v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2022-06-14 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-indictment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Was Reed's right to a grand jury indictment secured by the Fourteenth and Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution violated when Reed was not…
21-1553 Ramin Khorrami v. Arizona Arizona 2022-06-10 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (5) 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process felony fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury jury-trial original-public-meaning precedent sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony
21-8119 Waymon J. Stepherson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-06-10 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment brady-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-against-self-incrimination self-incrimination voir-dire Whether the lower court erred and abused its discretion in not finding petitioner was deprived of his 5th and 14th amendment rights
21-8123 Terry Malone v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2022-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof controlled-substance criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment mandatory-presumption patterson-v-new-york rebuttable-presumption Did the superior court violate the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment and the dictates of this court in 'Patterson v. New York', 432 U.S. …
21-8098 Rocky Christian v. Florida Florida 2022-06-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP anders-review appellate-procedure appellate-review fourteenth-amendment jury-instruction plain-error self-defense self-defense-instruction sixth-amendment Did the Fifth District Court of Appeal for the State of Florida conduct an adequate review of the record pursuant to Anders v. California 386 U.S. 738…
21-8071 Brala Beverly v. Riverside County Public Administrator, et al. California 2022-06-07 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial probate-court property-seizure seventh-amendment standing Did the California Riverside County Superior Court and Fourth Appellate District Division Two in California violate the seventh amendment of the U.S. …
21-8081 Moses Clark v. California California 2022-06-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus plea-agreement preliminary-hearing prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the state court violated the defendant's Fourth Amendment rights by bringing the defendant before the magistrate within 48 hours after arrest
21-8083 In Re Frank Jarvis Atwood 2022-06-07 Denied IFP capital-murder death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment prior-conviction state-ground statutory-elements Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit the death penalty for a murder that does not fall within the narrow class of murders designated …
21-8084 Frank Jarvis Atwood v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-06-07 Denied Amici (1)IFP as-applied-challenge comity constitutional-challenge eighth-amendment execution-protocol federal-courts federalism inmate-standing method-of-execution standing Whether federal courts may direct specific alterations to a state's execution protocol in an as-applied challenge under the Eighth Amendment
21-8067 Juan Gomez v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-06-06 Denied IFP child-sexual-abuse criminal-procedure culpability due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability sixth-amendment Whether the petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated when his trial counsel failed to investigate and presen…
21-1530 Martine Bernard v. Christopher Hodyl Colorado 2022-06-06 Denied article-iii-standing civil-rights court-ordered-therapy due-process fourteenth-amendment personal-autonomy privilege professional-ethics standing therapist-privilege therapy-requirement Whether the federally and state recognized privilege in Jaffee v. Redmond and personal autonomy under the Fourteenth Amendment preclude a state distri…
21-8046 Joseph Martin Danks v. California California 2022-06-03 Denied IFP capital-punishment criminal-culpability cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment inmate-rights mental-health state-liability state-responsibility Does the Eighth Amendment preclude the execution of a seriously mentally ill inmate whose homicidal behavior was the reasonably known, foreseeable, an…
21-8006 Charles A. Inko-Tariah v. Federal Medical Center Butner, NC, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment medical-malpractice unreasonable-search-and-seizure Was the U.S Court of Appeals For The Fourth Circuit correct in affirming the dismissal of a lawsuit against Federal Medical Center, Butner, North Caro…
21-8023 Xingfei Luo v. California California 2022-06-01 Denied IFP content-based-restriction content-based-restrictions dating-relationship effective-assistance-of-counsel first-amendment fourteenth-amendment nude-photography nudity privacy privacy-expectation Where an individual does not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in an image, the State's interest in protecting the individual's privacy interes…
21-1504 Jason Wayne Carlile v. Texas Texas 2022-06-01 Denied Response Waived adversarial-testing criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether a defense attorney's complete failure to subject the State's case to adversarial testing during a trial deprives a criminal defendant of the e…
21-1489 Andrew Ioannidis v. Tom Wolf, Governor of Pennsylvania, et al. Pennsylvania 2022-05-27 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-remedy due-process election-law electoral-count-act first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech mootness standing state-law-preemption Whether there is any remedy for violation(s) of the First and Fourteenth Amendment(s) to the United States Constitution
21-7983 Allen James Harrison v. Louisiana Louisiana 2022-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner was denied due process under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments when retained counsel admitted fault concerning a plea bargain, co…
21-7986 Stephen Gosch v. Florida Florida 2022-05-27 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-disclosure fourteenth-amendment jury-instruction jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct state-court Did the state court violate the petitioner's right to due process of law as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment?
21-7995 Joseph Kurz v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ex-post-facto fifth-circuit fourteenth-amendment reasonable-jurists sixth-amendment Whether reasonable jurists would determine there was sufficient evidence to support convictions
21-7977 Jason Albert Halda v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2022-05-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-resentencing criminal-sentencing disproportionality eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing miller-montgomery-rule miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana proportionality-review sentencing-guidelines Is Jason Halda entitled to a resentencing?
21-7956 Timothy McClendon v. Chris Brewer, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment interrogation-technique miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona missouri-v-seibert sixth-amendment Whether jurists of reason could debate the district court's conclusion that the detectives' actions were not a coordinated two-step interrogation tech…
21-7948 Femi Isijola v. Elizabeth A. Bielecki, Director, New Hampshire Division of Motor Vehicles New Hampshire 2022-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment driver's-license due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment motor-vehicle-registration pre-suspension-hearing Whether NH. Revised Statute Ann. 260:10 violates the Due Process Clause
21-1477 Sylwia Ewelina Madej Manchanda, et vir v. Andrea Lewis, et al. Second Circuit 2022-05-24 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-authority judicial-bias judicial-proceedings organized-crime systemic-bias Does the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and Catherine O'Hagan Wolfe routinely and arbitrarily exercise authority beyond the proposed function and jur…
21-1467 Archie McCoy v. Hawaii Department of Human Services, et al. Hawaii 2022-05-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) constructive-service due-process fourteenth-amendment indigent-representation legal-notice parental-rights service-of-process termination-proceedings Does the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause require further efforts by the government to locate an absent father before permitting constructive…
21-1469 Samuel Armstrong v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-05-23 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment due-process emergency-powers executive-order fourteenth-amendment jacobson-v-massachusetts judicial-review public-health roman-cath-diocese-v-cuomo Did Governor Newsom's Executive Order N-33-20 violate the Due Process Clause?
21-7929 Johnny Joe Avalos v. Texas Texas 2022-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-murder cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment intellectual-disability life-without-parole mitigating-circumstances sentencing texas-penal-code Whether an ALWOP sentence on an intellectually disabled adult convicted of capital murder as provided by Texas Penal Code Section 12.31(a)(2) a statut…
21-7908 Jose Mejia v. New York New York 2022-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactive-application retroactivity sixth-amendment Does the failure to apply the amendment retroactively deprive a defendant of his fundamental rights under the Sixth and Fourteenth amendments where he…
21-7913 William Earl Sweet v. Florida Florida 2022-05-19 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection faretta-standard fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus harmless-error self-representation timeliness Right-to-self-representation
21-1464 Emond S. Gulley v. Kansas Kansas 2022-05-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama sentencing-discretion term-of-years-sentence whether-mandatory-term-of-years-sentence-equivalent-to-life-without-parole-for-juvenile-offenders
21-7901 Richard Coleman v. North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-05-18 Denied IFP anti-pro-se-bias civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech judicial-overreach obstruction-of-justice pro-se-bias seventh-amendment Whether judges judging judges in cases in which one party is not represented results in pro se litigants being victims of judicial criminal acts
21-7894 Dana Albrecht v. Katherine Albrecht New Hampshire 2022-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP domestic-violence due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment objective-standards orders-of-protection protective-order supreme-court Whether the Due Process or Equal Protection Clause require objective standards for the issuance or extension of a domestic violence order of protectio…
21-7855 James Wells Horsey v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-05-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP blockburger-test constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment first-amendment juvenile-pornography same-evidence-test sixth-amendment Can possession of juvenile pornography be considered child or adult pornography?
21-7869 Timothy Thibodeaux v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause confrontation-right constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment pro-se-petition sixth-amendment whether-mr-thibodeaux's-conviction-was-obtained-in-violation-of-the-sixth-and-fourteenth-amendments
21-1440 Mark T. McCloskey v. Missouri Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel Missouri 2022-05-13 Denied Response Waived 2nd-amendment due-process fourteenth-amendment moral-turpitude pardon professional-misconduct right-to-bear-arms second-amendment self-defense Whether the Second Amendment and Due Process Clause permit attorney sanctions for professional misconduct based on a finding of 'moral turpitude' wher…
21-7829 Clarence Wayne Dixon v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2022-05-11 Denied IFP 8th-amendment competency-to-be-executed eighth-amendment execution-standard mental-competency mental-illness non-bizarre-delusions panetti-precedent panetti-v-quarterman schizophrenia Does Panetti v. Quarterman foreclose a schizophrenic prisoner from demonstrating that non-bizarre delusions obstruct his rational understanding of the…
21-7823 Robert L. Allum v. Montana Montana 2022-05-10 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge due-process executive-branch financial-gain fourteenth-amendment judicial-integrity judicial-pool res-judicata state-constitution workers-compensation Whether a 46-year history of a state court violating due-process rights constitutes sufficient injury to the judicial system
21-7825 Charles Wycuff v. Ed Sheldon, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-amendments due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default sixth-amendment Whether the procedural default creates a miscarriage of justice that denies Petitioner his fundamental rights
21-7802 In Re Jaime Rodriguez, aka Jay, et al. 2022-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment second-circuit uncontested-factual-circumstances united-states-court-of-appeals united-states-v-heymond united-states-v-merced writ-of-mandamus Whether a Writ of Mandamus should issue
21-7809 Urshawn Eric Miller v. Tennessee Tennessee 2022-05-09 Denied IFP arbitrary-and-capricious arbitrary-capricious capital-punishment comparative-proportionality-review death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment proportionality-review sentencing-review Whether Tennessee's comparative proportionality review satisfies the Eighth Amendment
21-7768 Jowell Travis LeGendre v. Virginia Virginia 2022-05-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel inquiry pre-trial Were my rights to due process prejudiced when the court failed to conduct inquiry concerning pre-trial claims of ineffective counsel?
21-7778 Lester Ochoa v. Ron Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-05-04 Denied IFP capital-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment cullen-v-pinholster eighth-amendment family-sympathy jury-instructions mitigation mitigation-evidence Whether a State court may prohibit jurors from considering sympathy for a defendant's family in the penalty phase of a capital case as mitigation
21-1401 John Doe v. Colonel Gary T. Settle, Superintendent, Virginia Department of State Police Fourth Circuit 2022-05-02 Denied Response Waived 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment punishment punishment-analysis sex-offender-registry smith-v-doe state-restrictions Whether a state sex offender registry that imposes restrictions on individuals beyond mere registration with state or local law enforcement constitute…
21-1394 John Fitisemanu, et al. v. United States, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-04-29 Denied Amici (9)Relisted (2) 14th-amendment birthright-citizenship citizenship-clause constitutional-interpretation due-process fourteenth-amendment insular-cases territorial-status territories Whether persons born in United States Territories are entitled to birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment's Citizenship Clause, includin…
21-7739 Kendall Whitaker v. Patricia A. Coyne-Fague, Warden First Circuit 2022-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment aiding-and-abetting civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-instructions sixth-amendment Whether the petitioner was denied effective assistance of counsel due to failure to object and preserve for appeal jury instructions on the elements o…
21-7743 Matthew J. Kidder v. Nebraska Nebraska 2022-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights counsel criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sentencing sixth-amendment state-court-jurisdiction Is the State Court required to hear and make a determination on the Petitioner's U.S. Constitutional Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment right to effective…
21-7730 Justin L. Martin v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process false-testimony fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment strickland-standard Was Defense Counsel ineffective for failing to object to the states known use of false testimony in Petitioners trial, violating his Constitutional Du…
21-7713 William Neely v. Superior Court of California, Sacramento County California 2022-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-tampering due-process fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest post-trial-discovery Do the safegards provided by the 14th Amendment apply to the state's unreasonable denial of post-trial criminal discovery where Petitioner, with newly…
21-1383 Alejandro Asbun v. North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services North Carolina 2022-04-26 Denied Response Waived due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment government-activities property-interest state-courts state-created-property sua-sponte whistleblower-protection whistleblower-protections Whether the Due Process Clause protects a state-created property interest in whistleblower protections
21-7689 Deverick Scott v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-04-25 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discovery due-process eighth-amendment failure-to-protect prisoner-rights retaliation screening-process section-1983 Did Defendants violate Scott's right to be protected from assault by another inmate?
21-7676 Robert Christopher Jones v. Illinois Illinois 2022-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-justice eighth-amendment juvenile-justice mandatory-sentencing miller-factors miller-v-alabama plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-challenge Whether a pre-Miller guilty plea bars a post-Miller sentencing challenge under the Eighth Amendment
21-7663 Guy Adam Rook v. Donald Holbrook Ninth Circuit 2022-04-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment federal-constitutional-law gross-disproportionality habeas-corpus harmelin-v-michigan lockyer-v-andrade state-constitutional-law supreme-court-precedent Whether a state constitutional test that is less protective than the federal constitutional test fails to 'adjudicate[ ... ] the merits' of the federa…
21-1360 Mike Kowall, et al. v. Jocelyn Benson, Michigan Secretary of State Sixth Circuit 2022-04-19 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) candidate-qualifications civil-rights due-process electoral-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment legislative-restrictions political-participation standing term-limits Whether candidate qualifications should be subjected to heightened scrutiny
21-7642 Brandon J. Weathers v. Nebraska Nebraska 2022-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel state-court-conviction Whether the petitioner was denied counsel in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment
21-7607 Devunaire Damorea Sims v. Michigan Michigan 2022-04-13 Denied IFP appellate-counsel due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-hearing sixth-amendment Did the Michigan Supreme Court err in denying this issue when Petitioner was denied his Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel w…
21-7592 Detrick Deroven v. Texas Texas 2022-04-12 Denied IFP actual-innocence due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus Napue-v-Illinois napue-violation schlup-claim Schlup-v-Delo substantive-claim XIV-Amendment Whether the Petitioner made a substantive claim of actual innocence to sustain a Schlup v. Delo or Napue v. Illinois violation under the XIV Amendment…
21-7602 Karyn Kelley v. Mary Feeney New Hampshire 2022-04-12 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment state-court supreme-court-review tribunal-judgment Whether the State of New Hampshire Supreme Court erred in affirming the tribunal court's judgment that violated the requirement for Due Process under …
21-7577 Nicholas N. Kerr v. Florida Florida 2022-04-08 Denied IFP automobile-exception carroll collins-v-virginia constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment search-and-seizure Whether Petitioner's Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment Rights to the United States Constitution Require this Court to vacate Petitioner's convic…
21-7580 Amos Lamar Burch v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process fourteenth-amendment free-speech post-conviction-relief qualified-immunity standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
21-1337 Patrick Gillis v. David Gillis Oregon 2022-04-08 Denied 14th-amendment court-procedure cross-examination due-process fourteenth-amendment notice notice-requirement opportunity-to-be-heard probate-law standing Whether state courts are directly responsible for notifying parties with standing about hearings in cases before them, ensuring all parties have an op…
21-1330 Arthur O. Armstrong v. City of Conyers, Georgia Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-06 Denied civil-rights due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause false-reports fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment official-discrimination racial-profiling search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether respondent violated the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments
21-7564 Armstead Kieffer v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-vagueness due-process federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech patent sixth-amendment standing takings Whether the unconstitutionally vague language, struck down by the Court in 185 OG, violates 35 USC 112(b)
21-7568 Jimmy Stephens v. Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2022-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause
21-7533 Ion Stanciu v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied IFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process expert-witness fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance medical-evidence state-misconduct When a state together with state's expert witness change the original version of medical evidence into a new complete different version, to link the a…
21-7538 Clyde Otis Alston, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment sentencing Whether the Court below erred in denying relief upon the substantially unreasonable sentence
21-7547 Gabriel Gonzalez v. John P. Yates, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights covid-19 cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment imprisonment prison-conditions sentencing sentencing-guidelines Does continued imprisonment under unconstrained exposure to a lethal contagion violate Eighth Amendment rights?
21-7551 In Re Mark Jendrzejewski 2022-04-05 Denied IFP brady-violation due-process evidence-withholding false-testimony fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-testimony Due-process-violation-by-prosecutor
21-7501 Helen Tyne Mayfield v. Texas Texas 2022-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus right-to-confrontation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-in-abstentia Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals abused its discretion in not reviewing a petition for discretionary review and writ of habeas corpus for m…
21-7512 Kevin E. Herriott v. Major Parrish, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-03-31 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment disciplinary-action due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force good-faith good-faith-effort law-enforcement Whether petitioner given defendants' notice of what the claims are and the grounds upon which it rests?
21-1308 J. Martin Robertson v. Larkspur Courts, et al. California 2022-03-31 Denied Response Waived due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment medicaid medicare medicare-reporting privacy settlement-disclosure social-security social-security-privacy Whether Section 111 of the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007 requires settlement or judgment debtors to report the Social Security n…
21-7485 Terrell Staton v. Ned Lamont Second Circuit 2022-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights disciplinary-report due-process eighth-amendment grievance-procedure judicial-discretion legal-access malicious-interference procedural-restrictions retaliation Did Gam E cE | ~ NoTKE expose the plaintiff to dangerous living conditions by his reluctance and insubordination to wear his mask appropriately?
21-7457 Gregory Wynn v. Alabama Alabama 2022-03-24 Denied IFP criminal-rehabilitation cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders life-sentence life-without-parole rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-proportionality Whether the sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for a childhood offense is grossly disproportionate, in violation of the E…
21-7461 Antonio D. Rooks-Byrd v. Nebraska Nebraska 2022-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment-violation constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-procedure plea-agreement sixth-amendment speedy-trial Do the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment's under the U.S. Constitution apply for Sixth Month Speedy Trial violation?
21-1285 M & N Financing Corporation, et al. v. Department of Fair Employment and Housing California 2022-03-23 Denied Response Waived civil-rights civil-rights-statute constitutional-excessiveness eighth-amendment excessive-fines gender-discrimination penalty-damages small-business small-business-liability state-statute Is an award of more than $6 million in penalty damages against a small business and its owner unconstitutionally excessive, as a violation of the Eigh…
21-1288 Libertarian Party of Alabama v. John Harold Merrill, Alabama Secretary of State Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-23 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-parties voter-registration Does it violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments for a State to discriminate against minor political parties by providing voter-registration-lists …
21-7418 James Roland L'Heureux v. West Virginia West Virginia 2022-03-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP contract-law contractual-breach due-process fourteenth-amendment mabry-v-johnson plea-agreement pre-sentence-investigation sentencing sentencing-arguments Whether the prosecution's conduct in making sentencing arguments outside the pre-sentence investigation report constitutes a breach of the plea agreem…
21-7423 Delbert Keyes v. Mississippi Mississippi 2022-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus sentencing Whether the petitioner's conviction and sentence violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment
21-7416 Trevor Dawson Ewers v. Virginia Virginia 2022-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights concerted-action constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment pretextual-stop reasonable-suspicion seizure traffic-stop Where officers work together in concerted action to 'produce' reasonable suspicion when there is none to affect a traffic stop with the sole purpose o…
21-1268 Joe Clarence Smith, Jr. v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-18 Denied 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty death-row eighth-amendment habeas-relief method-of-execution section-1983 Whether Mr. Smith's method-of-execution challenge is cognizable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983
21-1260 Kendi Narmer PakeyBey v. Luminant Mining Company, LLC Fifth Circuit 2022-03-17 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights denial-of-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-protections procedural-due-process procedural-protections standing Whether the Petitioners' 5th and 14th Amendment rights were violated under its procedural due process clause by being denied procedural protections
21-7400 Derrick U. Stricklin v. Nebraska Nebraska 2022-03-17 Denied IFP alibi-evidence capital-case capital-punishment criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial-tactics Whether the failure of defense counsel to file a notice of alibi and present ample alibi evidence when instructed to do so by the defendant in a capit…
21-7401 Harold Edwards v. Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habitual-sentence liberty-interest sixth-amendment state-court state-procedure Did the state district court judge's failure to abide by Nevada's state procedural laws violate my constitutionally protected liberty interest, Fourte…
21-7409 Jory Russell Strizich v. Montana Montana 2022-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-defense due-process evidentiary-ruling evidentiary-rulings flight-evidence fourteenth-amendment holmes-precedent holmes-v-south-carolina sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment right to defend in a criminal case can be denied on unique state evidentiary rulings?
21-7397 Mario Derrell Jones v. Great Southern National Bank, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 administrative-decision administrative-law civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment section-1983 whether-the-united-states-court-of-appeals-for-the-fifth-circuit-has-decided-an-important-federal-question-in-a-way-that-conflicts-with-relevant-decis…
21-1254 Allen Bregman v. Florida Florida 2022-03-16 Denied burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence due-process ex-post-facto fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment pre-indictment-delay sixth-amendment tactical-advantage united-states-v-lovasco Whether United States v. Gouveia departed from the two-tier test for determining a due-process violation
21-7371 Sherman Collins v. Alabama Alabama 2022-03-15 Denied IFP capital-trial cause-challenge civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment juror-bias jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-relationship standing Does a trial court's erroneous failure to remove for cause jurors with personal and professional relationships with a prosecuting attorney violate the…
21-7378 Andrew Long v. Oregon State Bar Oregon 2022-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-discipline bribery disbarment due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment indefinite-suspension state-attorney-discipline state-bar-misconduct witness-bribery Did the Oregon Supreme Court violate Long's Fourteenth Amendment right to due process prior to deprivation of his property interest
21-7345 David Wayne Aring v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography circuit-split due-process eighth-amendment first-time-offender judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release Whether lifetime supervised release is appropriate for a first-time, non-violent offender convicted of receiving and watching child pornography
21-7348 Andrew Prescott v. Appellate Court of Illinois, Fourth District Illinois 2022-03-11 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment due-process ex-parte-communication fair-hearing fourteenth-amendment impartial-tribunal self-representation sixth-amendment Do the 6th Amendment; Section1 and Section 5 of the 14th Amendment; 28 U.S. Code § 1654, and state laws or provisions, grant individuals the right to …
21-1233 Mark R. Joubert v. Todd Miley Massachusetts 2022-03-10 Denied Response Waived attorney-client-relationship collateral-estoppel due-process fourteenth-amendment individual-liberty legal-restriction liberty-interest non-legal-business occupational-freedom standard-of-review state-court May a state court establish an attorney-client relationship that will restrict an individual's liberty under the Fourteenth Amendment to pursue a long…
21-1224 Laura Cozza v. PNC Bank, National Association Washington 2022-03-09 Denied due-process equity-jurisdiction foreclosure-proceedings fourteenth-amendment judicial-officer judicial-partiality judicial-power judicial-recusal state-statute Did judicial officer, the Honorable Robert E. Olson, legitimately exercise the judicial power of the Superior Court for Whatcom County, Washington as …
21-1221 S. U. v. C. J. West Virginia 2022-03-08 Denied Response Waived biological-parenthood civil-rights due-process equal-protection family-law family-separation fourteenth-amendment gestational-surrogacy maternity-presumption reproductive-rights standing surrogacy Whether the Fourteenth Amendment requires equal protection of biological parents, and their resulting children, who utilize gestational surrogacy to p…
21-7303 Edward Pinchon v. Raymond Byrd, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment mandatory-sentencing miller-precedent Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in concluding that the Miller v. Alabama holding applies only to sentences expressly articulated as life without the p…
21-7308 Deon D. Colvin v. Howard University District of Columbia 2022-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment issue-preclusion pleadings pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process standing Whether the D.C. Court of Appeals violated the petitioner's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to due process by failing to consider all of the pet…
21-7288 Rolandis Larenzo Chatmon v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force inmate-treatment prison prison-policy standing Has the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit created a harmful precedent that would establish that an officer/prison guard could give a citize…
21-7282 Joshua Davis Bland v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-04 Denied IFP censorship compelling-interest equal-protection fourteenth-amendment least-restrictive-means r-l-u-i-p-a religious-freedom religious-practice rluipa Does a state prison have the right to void an inmate's religious practice?
21-7263 Michael Halford v. Louisiana Louisiana 2022-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment self-incrimination spousal-privilege Whether the denial of Petitioner's Spousal Privilege to exclude testimony at trial violated his rights against self-incrimination, due process, equal …
21-7271 Matthew Moore v. Thomas Mackie, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-sexual-conduct due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Was denied effective assistance of counsel and unconstitutionally coerced into taking a paternity blood test
21-1200 Sherif A. Philips v. Pitt County Memorial Hospital, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-03 Denied civil-rights diversity-jurisdiction due-process equal-protection federal-question-jurisdiction fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud-upon-the-court personal-jurisdiction Whether the unrecognized transfer of a case from the Guam Superior Court to the Guam District Court, despite a lack of jurisdiction, led to a default …
21-7246 In Re Isaiah S. Harris, Sr. 2022-03-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech mandamus standing ultra-vires Whether the willful disobedience or adoption of a deliberate policy in open defiance of the federal rules has allowed U.S. Supreme Court Case Analyst …
21-7250 Michael Ray Fortuna v. Robert Hudgins, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment disability-accommodations due-process eighth-amendment inmate-safety isolation-conditions medical-neglect prison-conditions prisoner-rights Whether an inmate's placement on a top bunk after suffering injuries from a previous fall constitutes a constitutional violation
21-7257 Jimmy Dale Stone v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-03-02 Denied IFP Criminal-Jurisdiction Due-Process Fourteenth-Amendment Indian-Status native-american-rights post-conviction-relief Public-Law-83-280 Treaty-Provisions Did the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals violate Mr. Stone's Fourteenth-Amendment-right-to-Due-Process
21-7232 Lance Reberger v. Michael Koehn, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-01 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-protections cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment medical-care medical-treatment prison prison-medical-care prisoner-rights qualified-immunity Whether the Nevada Department of Corrections officials violated the Eighth Amendment by failing to provide adequate medical care to a prisoner during …
21-7223 Angel DeLara v. California California 2022-02-28 Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-determination jury-trial penal-code sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether California's Determinate Sentencing Law violates the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments
21-1184 Joyce D. Hutton, et al. v. Hyundai Motor America, et al. Mississippi 2022-02-28 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-verdict standard-of-review state-court-review supreme-court trial-court Did the Mississippi Supreme Court violate the due process rights of the Petitioners under the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United S…
21-7193 Jose Yeyille v. Justin Cole Speigel Florida 2022-02-25 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics privileges-and-immunities recusal Whether a state trial court judge should be disqualified on Fourteenth Amendment due process, equal protection, and privileges and immunities grounds …
21-7182 Ernest Judge Smith, III v. Florida Florida 2022-02-24 Denied IFP due-process exigent-circumstances fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment knock-and-announce law-enforcement-tactics probable-cause search-and-seizure unreasonable-search warrantless-arrest Isn't the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments violated when exigent circumstances are created through police officers use of unreasonable law enforcement…
21-7201 Michael Dewayne Jones v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-02-24 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure federal-enclave fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment state-jurisdiction Did the State of Oklahoma violate Petitioner's Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights when they prosecuted this Petitioner's crime which happened on a…
21-1173 Joe Elton Nixon v. Florida Florida 2022-02-24 Denied Amici (1) and whether Florida's burden of proof for intelle atkins-v-virginia burden-of-proof capital-punishment constitutional-law eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability teague-rule teague-v-lane whether-the-decision-in-hail-v-florida-announced-a-new-rule-of-constitutional-law
21-1168 Robert Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co. Pennsylvania 2022-02-23 Judgment Issued Amici (21)Relisted (2) civil-procedure corporate-consent due-process fourteenth-amendment international-shoe personal-jurisdiction registration-statute Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits a state from requiring a corporation to consent to personal jurisdiction to do bu…
21-7185 Brian Arthur Tate v. Lawrence J. Hogan, Jr., Governor of Maryland, et al. Maryland 2022-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders liberty-interest parole parole-hearing sentencing-procedure Whether the Eighth Amendment extends to governmental release systems for juvenile offenders
21-1151 Arthur O. Armstrong v. School District of Philadelphia Third Circuit 2022-02-22 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights collective-bargaining constitutional-rights due-process employment-termination fourteenth-amendment procedural-fairness property reinstatement Whether Respondent School District of Philadelphia discharged appellant without due process
21-1136 M. S. v. J. B. Massachusetts 2022-02-17 Denied due-process equal-protection ex-parte-order ex-parte-restraining-orders false-impression-of-dangerousness fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment records-expungement restraining-order vacated-orders due-process
21-7144 Robert James Grass v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-02-17 Denied IFP cherokee-status criminal-jurisdiction due-process fourteenth-amendment indian-status post-conviction-relief state-courts treaty-provisions Did the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals violate Mr. Grass' Fourteenth Amendment right to Due Process?
21-7127 Ngozika J. Nwaneri v. Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP District of Columbia 2022-02-16 Denied IFP appeals bill-of-rights civil-procedure due-process equal-justice fourteenth-amendment judicial-error legal-procedure pro-se pro-se-representation standing Whether the state court erred in omnibus order and subpoena order
21-7132 Dominique C. Swopes v. Ohio Ohio 2022-02-16 Denied IFP capital-case discovery-order due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment interlocutory-appeal scientific-evidence state-created-right trial-court-discretion Whether a defendant in a capital case has a Fourteenth Amendment due process right to take an interlocutory appeal of a trial court's discovery order …
21-7138 Roy Franklin Echols, Jr. v. CSX Transportation, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2022-02-16 Denied IFP access-to-courts americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure covid-19 due-process federal-employers-liability-act fela fourteenth-amendment standing summons-service Did the United States District Court err in denying the initial request to expedite process?
21-1103 Raul A. Pelaez, as Limited Guardian of the Person and Property of John Poul Pelaez, Ward v. Government Employees Insurance Company Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-10 Denied appeal circuit-court civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-impartiality procedural-fairness whether-due-process-warrants-judicial-disqualification
21-7082 William Speer v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-02-09 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing double-edged-evidence eighth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Fifth Circuit's resolution of the prejudice prong under Strickland v. Washington contravenes settled Sixth and Eighth Amendment precedent …
21-7088 Selbourne Waite v. United States Second Circuit 2022-02-09 GVR Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924c aiding-and-abetting attempted-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-procedure eighth-amendment hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement Whether attempted Hobbs Act robbery and aiding and abetting Hobbs Act robbery are crimes of violence
21-7066 Kevin Brewer v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP arkansas-sex-offender-registration-act certificate-of-innocence constitutional-claim due-process fourteenth-amendment lambert-v-california notice scienter sex-offender-registration Can petitioner be liable for constituting any offense, in which the scienter requirements of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment has no…
21-7046 Makeda Haile v. Abdul Conteh Virginia 2022-02-03 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment human-rights judicial-discretion privileges-or-immunities standing takings Whether this court is willing to stop the violation of the Fourteenth Amendment right
21-7052 Lewis Taylor, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing meaningful-opportunity parole parole-eligibility rehabilitation-consideration sentencing solem-v-helm Whether a 129-year sentence for a non-homicide offense committed as a juvenile violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punish…
21-1074 Mark A. Di Carlo v. James R. Swartz, Jr., et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-02-03 Denied attorneys-fees civil-procedure defamation due-process federal-removal fourteenth-amendment ohio-law rule-54 Can a federal district court judge grant attorneys fees in federal district court in a federal removal proceeding from Ohio state courts for defamatio…
21-1075 Mandy England, in Her Individual Capacity v. Annissa Colson Sixth Circuit 2022-02-03 Denied Response Waived civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights correctional-officer due-process eighth-amendment inmate-treatment medical-determination medical-treatment qualified-immunity Whether a correctional officer violated a constitutional right of an inmate for not requesting further treatment for a injury to the inmate's knee whe…
21-1076 Sivagnanam Thamilselvan v. Vijayalakshmi Thamilselvan Michigan 2022-02-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) comity comity-doctrine divorce first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise no-fault-divorce religious-freedom subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the petitioners' First and Fourteenth Amendment rights are violated
21-1073 Kourosh Kenneth Hamidi, et al. v. Service Employees International Union, Local 1000 Ninth Circuit 2022-02-02 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights employee-protections first-amendment fourteenth-amendment good-faith state-action union-rights waiver Whether a labor union acting in concert with state officials may seize payments for union political speech from an employee absent clear and compellin…
21-1065 Dennis Wayne Hope v. Todd Harris, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-02-01 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) constitutional-protections cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment judicial-review mental-health physical-health prison-conditions prisoner-rights review-procedures solitary-confinement Whether decades of solitary confinement can violate the Eighth Amendment
21-7023 Toni Marie Rambo v. Texas Texas 2022-02-01 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment sentencing Does the sentence imposed on Mrs. Rambo constitute cruel and unusual punishment in violation of her Eighth Amendment rights?
21-7039 Andrew Sasser v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2022-02-01 Denied Relisted (3)IFP 28-usc-2244 adaptive-skills circuit-split death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability remand second-or-successive second-or-successive-application Whether amending a petition for writ of habeas corpus after a remand by an appellate court makes it a second-or-successive application under 28 U.S.C.…
21-6997 Luke Waine Caines, Jr. v. M. Interian Ninth Circuit 2022-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-of-appeals deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-needs prisoner-rights substantial-injury substantial-risk substantial-risk-of-harm wood-v-housewright Whether deliberate indifference should be analyzed under the balancing framework of the substantial risk of harm test announced by this Court rather t…
21-7005 Adam M. DeVore v. Kenneth Black, Warden Ohio 2022-01-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-indictment due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction jurisdictional-change location-modification ohio-supreme-court venue Whether the location of an alleged offense can be changed post-appeal and whether such a change violates due process
21-6979 Andrew J. Johnston v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-01-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause
21-6965 Lawtis Donald Rhoden v. Brandon Price, Executive Director of Coalinga State Hospital Ninth Circuit 2022-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-commitment civil-rights dangerousness due-process fourteenth-amendment involuntary-commitment mental-disorder mental-health sexually-violent-predator state-hospitals unconditional-discharge Whether the current version of the California SVP law violates the due process clause
21-6935 Richard Roy Blake v. City of Northglenn, Colorado Colorado 2022-01-21 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-assembly free-speech municipal-code vagueness Did the City of Northglenn, Colorado police department violate Petitioner's First Amendment rights to free-speech, free-assembly on January 4, 2020 wh…
21-6878 Ronald Cox v. Benjie Nobles, Deputy Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-18 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment prea-regulations prison-rape-elimination-act qualified-immunity transgender transgender-vulnerability Should the requirements of the Prison Rape Elimination Act be followed to protect the vulnerability of the transgender Petitioner in determining wheth…
21-6867 Gwendolyn Thorpe v. OneMain Financial Virginia 2022-01-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment attorney-misconduct case-reversal civil-procedure disbarment disciplinary-action due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment procedural-irregularity rule-8 rule-8-violation Question not identified
21-1004 Leon Cody, et ux. v. Superior Court of California, Trinity County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-14 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment fair-trial fourteenth-amendment injunctive-relief section-1983 state-law Whether a State has an Eleventh Amendment right to arbitrarily enforce or not enforce a State Law having significant interest to federal Fourteenth Am…
21-6830 Huy-Ying Chen v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, et al. Washington 2022-01-13 Denied IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-judgment civil-procedure due-process foreign-judgment fourteenth-amendment legal-standing standing statute-of-limitations supreme-court-review Whether the Supreme Court of Washington's denial of the petition for review is contrary to established precedent
21-6841 Ada Maria Benson v. Hemet Police Department Ninth Circuit 2022-01-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-violation color-of-law due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment police-misconduct probable-cause Whether 42 USC 1983 can protect a law-abiding educated senior-citizen with disabilities from abduction (arrest) without probable-cause or warrant by a…
21-6843 In Re Kevin Brewer 2022-01-13 Denied IFP certificate-of-innocence constitutional-claim due-process federal-circuit fourteenth-amendment lambert-v-california scienter Whether the petitioner is liable for constituting any offense in which the scienter requirements of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment…
21-6827 Ryan Thomas Pick v. Virginia Virginia 2022-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment electronic-surveillance fifth-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech miranda-rights search-and-seizure sixth-amendment standing 4th-amendment-rights,electronic-communication-privacy-act,5th-amendment-rights,6th-amendment-rights,8th-amendment-rights,sex-offender-registration
21-6816 N'Neka L. Crews v. Colorado Colorado 2022-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP accident-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federalism fourteenth-amendment mens-rea public-welfare-offense strict-liability Whether Colorado's interpretation of a criminal leaving the scene of an accident law conflicts with Supreme Court precedent
21-6818 Arron Lawson v. Ohio Ohio 2022-01-11 Denied IFP 5th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-offenses competency competency-evaluation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment state-court-proceedings Does a state Court proceeding resulting in a death sentence violate the Fifth and Eighth Amendments when the court fails to ensure the defendant's com…
21-6801 In re Johnny McMahon 2022-01-10 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing extrinsic-fraud fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-fair-trial Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying a second or successive petition on the petitioner's claims of due-process, equal-protection, ineffective-as…
21-6776 Wesley R. Carey v. Illinois Illinois 2022-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance michigan-v-mosley post-conviction-relief self-incrimination state-court-decision Has the State of Illinois altered a decision in conflict with the decision in United States Supreme Court case, Michigan v. Mosley, thereby, violating…
21-6780 In Re Lori Sklar 2022-01-07 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-disqualification due-process fourteenth-amendment impartial-tribunal judicial-misconduct mandamus-relief retroactive-disqualification Whether the California Supreme Court should be ordered to grant an appellate review do-over when due-process compels a permanently-removed-judge's ret…
21-6771 Charles Reddicks v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2022-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-records equal-protection fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury jury-selection race-neutral racial-discrimination sixth-amendment Whether permitting the Government to run criminal records for potential jurors, then use the records of the record check to strike jurors of color, vi…
21-957 Marci M. Webber v. Illinois Illinois 2021-12-30 Denied Response Waived civil-rights confinement due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment mental-health mental-health-detention ngri not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity Whether a State's indefinite confinement of an NGRI acquittee, who is no longer psychotic, mentally ill, a danger to herself or others, or in need of …
21-939 Peter Beasley v. Society of Information Management, Dallas Area Chapter, et al. Texas 2021-12-27 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment race-discrimination racial-discrimination standing vexatious-litigant Whether Texas courts may discriminate against Black people in violation of Due Process and Equal Protection guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment thr…
21-944 Josephine Tripodi, et al. v. North Coventry Township, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-12-27 Denied 14th-amendment civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-liability mold-remediation property-rights state-court takings Does the Due Process Clause prohibit a state court from compelling a real property owner to pay for mold inspection and remediation without legal duty…
21-934 Lana Weinbach v. The Boeing Company, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-12-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) amendment-interpretation capable-of-ascertainment constitutional-rights due-process eighth-circuit escheat-laws fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment legal-scrutiny ninth-amendment Whether the Eighth Circuit exceeded its scope in determining a capable-of-ascertainment criterion, and in so doing, infringed upon constitutional-righ…
21-6719 N. R. v. Kansas Kansas 2021-12-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment ex-post-facto juvenile-adjudication juvenile-justice retroactive-application retroactive-law sex-offender-registration Do the Ex Post Facto Clause and Eighth Amendment permit a retroactive imposition of registration obligations on a person adjudicated of a sex offense …
21-6726 Mark Jason Davis v. Florida Florida 2021-12-23 Denied IFP 4th-amendment drug-detection fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment k9-sniff police-dog private-property probable-cause search search-and-seizure search-warrant Whether an open-air sniff conducted by a police K9 on private property without a warrant or probable cause constitutes a search
21-6700 Tremaine Rashon Wray v. Dennis Bush, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel expert-witness forensic-evidence fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-review sixth-amendment whether Petitioner was denied his Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel and Fourteenth Amendment Due Process right to a fair trial
21-926 Cooper Tire & Rubber Company v. Tyrance McCall Georgia 2021-12-22 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (4) consent corporate-registration due-process forum-contacts fourteenth-amendment general-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction state-sovereignty Whether the Due Process Clause permits a state to assert personal jurisdiction over an out-of-state corporation for claims not arising from the forum …
21-927 Donald Clinton Crabtree v. Christine Crabtree South Carolina 2021-12-22 Denied 1st-amendment due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-expression gender-bias gender-discrimination judicial-misconduct religious-expression Did Judge Monet Pincus violate the 1st Amendment protection of freedom of expression and generally condemn religious expression of men?
21-897 Brian Benson, et al. v. Ann Kemske, et vir Eighth Circuit 2021-12-17 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigation res-judicata standing Whether pro se litigants are entitled to liberal construction of pleadings
21-6649 Paul J. Hultman v. Daniel Paramo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance juror-misconduct presumption-of-prejudice sixth-amendment Were the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments violated when a juror admitted viewing unadmitted evidence during deliberations and stated that her verdict w…
21-6632 Charles Dalton Shoemake v. Mississippi Mississippi 2021-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment exemplary-prison-record juvenile-sentencing life-with-parole proportionality rehabilitation Whether Charles Dalton Shoemake's life-with-parole sentence imposed for a crime he committed at the age of seventeen is disproportionate under the Eig…
21-886 Ismet Islami v. Kemper Independence Insurance Company Wisconsin 2021-12-15 Denied civil-dissolution due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise legal-separation marital-property religious-freedom religious-rights statutory-entitlement Whether the Wisconsin Supreme Court's decision deprives persons domiciled in Wisconsin of their fundamental liberty right to exercise their statutory …
21-874 Arthur O. Armstrong v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2021-12-14 Denied 14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause false-reports fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment official-discrimination search-and-seizure Whether respondents acted in a conspiracy to violate petitioner's constitutional rights
21-6574 Robert Tracy Warterfield v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-12-10 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-procedure contracts-clause due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment interlocutory-appeal plea-agreements right-to-petition Can a lawfully perfected interlocutory appeal be mooted prior to resolution
21-6566 Steven Craig Bethea v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-review criminal-sentencing discretion eighth-amendment judicial-abuse sentencing sentencing-discretion substantive-reasonableness upward-variance Whether the district court erred in sentencing the appellant to a greater sentence than necessary
21-6567 Dion Brown v. Illinois Illinois 2021-12-09 Denied IFP criminal-defense fourteenth-amendment home-invasion ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-inconsistent-statement reasonable-doubt reasonable-investigation sixth-amendment Whether the Petitioner's trial attorney was ineffective
21-859 The Montana State Legislature, et al. v. Beth McLaughlin Montana 2021-12-09 Denied Amici (1) conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-independence judicial-recusal legislative-investigation legislative-oversight recusal separation-of-powers Whether the refusal by the Justices of the Montana Supreme Court to recuse from a case in which they harbored direct, substantial, and admittedly disq…
21-860 Jane Doe v. Timothy White, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-09 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) due-process fourteenth-amendment goss-standard goss-v-lopez higher-education liberty-interest procedural-due-process property-interest qualified-immunity Whether students at public colleges and universities have a liberty and property interest when facing suspension or expulsion
21-834 Libertarian Party of Minnesota, et al. v. Steve Simon, Minnesota Secretary of State Eighth Circuit 2021-12-06 Denied Response Waived civil-rights criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process election-law elections first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech petition-rights political-parties political-party Whether a government can threaten criminal prosecution against voters who sign petitions supporting minor political party candidates without notice th…
21-6500 Jermaine Neal v. Mississippi Mississippi 2021-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constructive-amendment criminal-investigation due-process false-confession fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment perjury self-incrimination sixth-amendment When a citizen of the United States becomes a suspect in a criminal investigation for homicide and is induced to give false statements, does the due-p…
21-6504 Edward JoRodge Gladney v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-review civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment precedent-interpretation prison-conditions prison-safety prisoner-rights sexual-assault Did the Circuit Court err by contradicting this Court's precedent in Farmer v. Brennan by ruling Petitioner was obliged to show an individualized risk…
21-6473 Michael Stumph v. Ohio Ohio 2021-12-02 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP Appellate-Review Cruel-and-Unusual-Punishment Due-Process eighth-amendment Equal-Protection fourteenth-amendment Procedural-Due-Process sentencing-discretion Whether Ohio Revised Code § 2953.08(D)(3) violates the Eighth-Amendment
21-6455 Anthony Pretty On Top v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment-violation appellate-review constitutional-rights district-court due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-standard Whether the court erred in affirming the district court's decision that petitioner's Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights were not violated?
21-6485 R. S. C. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services Texas 2021-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge due-process facial-challenge fourteenth-amendment procedural-rights section-262.201(0) statutory-interpretation texas-family-code Does Texas Family Code, Section 262.201(0) violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
21-6437 J. S. v. Kansas Kansas 2021-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal constitutional-rights due-process effective-counsel fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance right-to-appeal sixth-amendment Did J.S. have a Fourteenth Amendment right to be advised by the Court of his right to appeal?
21-793 Pennsylvania v. William Henry Cosby, Jr. Pennsylvania 2021-11-30 Denied 14th-amendment criminal-charges criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment immunity immunity-promise press-release prosecutorial-discretion Whether a public press release grants a defendant transactional immunity
21-794 Pamela Reilly, Personal Representative of the Estate of Rosemarie Reilly v. Ottawa County, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-11-30 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment civil-rights deshaney-test deshaney-v-winnebago domestic-violence due-process fourteenth-amendment state-actors state-created-danger substantive-due-process third-party-harm Whether an abused woman has pled a substantive due process violation under the Fourteenth Amendment
21-6435 James Worley v. Ohio Ohio 2021-11-29 Denied IFP capital-conviction capital-punishment constitutional-rights fair-jury fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-selection sixth-amendment voir-dire Is a capital conviction and sentence invalid and imposed in violation of the capital defendant's constitutional rights to a fair jury under the Fifth,…
21-6424 Elijah Dwayne Joubert v. Texas Texas 2021-11-24 Denied IFP due-process false-testimony fourteenth-amendment napue-v-illinois prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-likelihood Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permit a prosecutor's knowing use of false testimony unless the defendant proves by a preponde…
21-6429 Randall T. Deviney v. Florida Florida 2021-11-24 Denied IFP aggravating-factors alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-sentencing criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment functional-elements hurst-v-florida ring-v-arizona Whether the Due Process Clause requires additional determinations under Florida's capital sentencing scheme to be made beyond a reasonable doubt
21-782 Rodney Renia Young v. Georgia Georgia 2021-11-24 Denied Amici (4) burden-of-proof capital-punishment constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability state-law Does requiring a capital defendant to prove his intellectual disability beyond a reasonable doubt violate the Due Process Clause and the Eighth Amendm…
21-765 In Re Kelaco Corporation, dba Kelaco Construction Company 2021-11-23 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts appellate-review due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment Where a Florida state appellate court finds enough merit to an appeal such that it holds an oral argument but, after the oral argument, refuses to iss…
21-6377 Anthony Harris v. J. Philip Morgan, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied IFP constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether the court violated the petitioner's Fourth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment rights under the U.S. Constitution when the court denied the pet…
21-6387 Richard Barry Randolph v. Florida Florida 2021-11-23 Denied IFP apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-sentencing constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment retroactive-law statutory-construction Whether the Florida Supreme Court's decision in Hurst v. State constitutes statutory construction of substantive law, and if so, whether the Due Proce…
21-6393 Michael Lawrence Woodbury v. Florida Florida 2021-11-23 Denied IFP competency-standard due-process fourteenth-amendment indiana-v-edwards mental-illness self-representation sixth-amendment Whether the Florida Supreme Court correctly held that the trial court's inquiry and determination under the lower standard of competency to waive coun…
21-758 James P. Tatten v. LSF9 Master Participation Trust Colorado 2021-11-22 Denied 14th-amendment due-process equal-protection foreclosure fourteenth-amendment nonjudicial-foreclosure nonjudicial-hearing property-rights real-property state-court-procedure Whether the district court orders that authorized and approved a public trustee sale and transfer of the homeowner's real property, violated the due p…
21-753 Trina L. Janura v. John J. Janura, Jr. West Virginia 2021-11-19 Denied 14th-amendment conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-conduct judicial-discipline judicial-ethics judicial-investigation judicial-misconduct recusal Did the non-disclosure and non-recusal from either the circuit court or the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals both violate the petitioner's right…
21-6340 Troy Wayne Harmon v. Texas Texas 2021-11-19 Denied IFP constitutional-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure evidence evidence-rules fourteenth-amendment inconsistent-opinion informant-privilege material-witness sixth-amendment Whether the trial court's refusal to allow the petitioner to call a material witness violated the petitioner's Sixth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendmen…
21-6341 Donald D. Foltz, Jr. v. Wyoming Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment implied-bias jury-bias jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Was the seating of juror who should have been dismissed for cause requires reversal because implied biased applies to Juror foreman, 1301, married to …
21-6356 Felipe Nieves-Perez v. Texas Texas 2021-11-19 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment indictment life-sentence motion-to-quash right-to-due-process trial-court Did the trial court violate Mr. Nieves-Perez's right to due process by denying his motion to quash the indictment?
21-6328 Scottie D. Allen v. Florida Florida 2021-11-18 Denied IFP capital-sentencing criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing standard-of-proof Whether the Florida Supreme Court's rejection of Petitioner's claim of error based on the jury being affirmatively misinformed about its role in the s…
21-6336 Darrin Lashaon Betts v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 21-usc-841(a)(1)-(b)(1)(a) amendment-782 criminal-procedure fed-r-crim-p-11(c)(1)(c) fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines statutory-law type-c-agreement Whether a defendant is eligible for 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(2) relief
21-6307 Donald James Smith v. Florida Florida 2021-11-17 Denied IFP capital-case capital-punishment criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial penalty-phase prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment victim-impact Was petitioner's right to a fair 'penalty phase' trial violated when the prosecutor told the jurors, during closing arguments in the guilt phase, that…
21-735 Jim Olive Photography, dba Photolive, Inc. v. University of Houston System Texas 2021-11-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) cedar-point-nursery copyright-infringement fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-appropriation right-to-exclude takings-clause Whether the government's appropriation of a copyright owner's right to exclude constitutes a per se taking under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments i…
21-6293 Roy Bolinger v. Texas Texas 2021-11-16 Denied IFP collateral-attack cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel victim-allocution Did the court of appeals violate Bolinger's right to due process by forcing him to raise his claim on collateral attack without the benefit of counsel…
21-6301 Travis Wayne Bentley v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-11-16 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing expert-witnesses fourteenth-amendment indian-federal-law indigenous-rights indigent-legal-counsel post-conviction-relief tribal-jurisdiction Did the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals violate Mr. Bentley's Fourteenth Amendment right to Due Process?
21-6304 Neng Por Yang v. Ann Marie Holland Minnesota 2021-11-16 Dismissed IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment harassment-restraining-order judicial-jurisdiction pro-se Whether the Minnesota Court of Appeals decision to continue the enforcement of a fraudulent and pretentious state harassment restraining order to an i…
21-6271 Austin Myers v. Ohio Ohio 2021-11-15 Denied IFP access-to-courts criminal-procedure death-penalty discovery due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction postconviction-relief summary-dismissal Whether the Ohio state courts deny a death-sentenced postconviction petitioner's rights to due process, access to the Ohio courts, and an adequate cor…
21-6279 Jquan Leearthur McInnis v. Minnesota Minnesota 2021-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama roper-v-simmons sentencing sentencing-discretion Whether sentencing a juvenile to two consecutive homicide sentences of life-with-the after thirty years, the functional equivalent of a natural life s…
21-6257 Jevon Dion Jackson v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2021-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP as-applied-challenge eddings-v-oklahoma eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-rule miller-v-alabama proportionality proportionality-review youth-mitigation Whether a sentencing court adequately considers the mitigating aspects of youth
21-695 Bennie Anderson v. New Jersey New Jersey 2021-11-12 Denied Response Waived constitutional-scrutiny eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause national-importance pension-seizure public-pensions punitive-forfeiture punitive-forfeitures state-action Can a state insulate its punitive forfeitures from federal constitutional scrutiny by limiting the definition of what constitutes a 'fine' for purpose…
21-6235 Brandon Marquis Jennings v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review due-process eighth-amendment life-sentence miller-v-alabama presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the appellate review for reasonableness of a life sentence lacks sufficient scrutiny
21-6195 Ronald C. Fairchild v. Kentucky Kentucky 2021-11-05 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment martinez-claim martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment Did the Kentucky Court of Appeals allow Mr. Fairchild's rights under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, as…
21-6196 I. A. v. Kansas Kansas 2021-11-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance legal-representation right-to-appeal standing Did I.A. have a Fourteenth Amendment right to be informed of his right to appeal?
21-6204 Antonio A. Tankes v. Florida Florida 2021-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment free-speech retroactive-application sentencing-enhancement standing Whether the petitioner should be prohibited from filing pro se pleadings
21-6206 Joel Barcelona v. Sergeant Parish, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-threatening life-without-parole medical-treatment refusal-of-care Whether the Respondents, Nurse J.M. Chunnu and Nurse M.M. Kelly, exhibited deliberate indifference to Petitioner's life-threatening medical condition …
21-664 Patrick J. Downey v. City of Toledo, Ohio Sixth Circuit 2021-11-04 Denied Response Waived civil-rights declaratory-judgment due-process federalism fourteenth-amendment home-rule municipal-ordinance police-powers statutory-interpretation Do federal courts have authority to alter the plain meaning of a state or municipal law?
21-655 Max Ray Butler v. S. Porter, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-11-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) adequate-medical-care bivens bivens-remedy civil-rights constitutional-rights eighth-amendment federal-courts federal-prisoner federal-prisoners medical-care Whether Bivens remedies are categorically unavailable to federal prisoners in any other context
21-6149 Domingo Palma v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2021-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment mistrial prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Are the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments violated by a trial court's refusal to grant a mistrial where a prosecution witness injects groundless, irrele…
21-6153 Suran Wije v. David A. Burns, et al. Texas 2021-11-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-liberties due-process equal-protection equal-rights fourteenth-amendment immunity leave-to-amend liberty nondisclosure qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity Do the interests of 'justice so require' a leave to amend, when purposeful obfuscation, legal trickery, and nondisclosed affirmative defenses like imm…
21-649 Walder Vacuflo, Inc. v. Illinois Human Rights Commission, et al. Illinois 2021-11-02 Denied access-to-courts circuit-split civil-rights discrimination due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech human-rights-commission religious-freedom standing Whether the Illinois Supreme Court and Appellate Court's refusal to consider this matter violates the First and Fourteenth Amendment rights of Petitio…
21-6143 Stephen Cameron Zyszkiewicz v. California California 2021-11-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights controlled-substances-act equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment freedom-of-religion marijuana-prohibition religious-freedom state-federal-conflict Whether there is a conflict of state and federal law with regards to marijuana/hashish and/or mescaline
21-639 Mark R. Smith v. Kate Bieker, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-01 Denied Response Waived dues-seizure employee-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment johnson-v-zerbst state-action union-speech waiver waiver-of-rights May a State, consistent with the First and Fourteenth Amendments, seize for union speech payments from an employee who has notified the State that he …
21-6112 Manuel DeJesus Rosas v. California California 2021-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-street-gang discovery due-process fourteenth-amendment informant-activities lanzetta-v-new-jersey street-gang vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether the California criminal street gang laws are unconstitutionally vague
21-621 Vince Flaherty, et al. v. Holly Hill Investments, LLC California 2021-10-28 Denied Relisted (2) california-law civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judgment-adequacy notice-of-judgment service-of-notice service-of-process state-law Whether California's no-evidence-allowed rule concerning the adequacy of service of notice of judgment is consistent with the Due Process Clause of th…
21-6085 Robert George Knecht, Jr. v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Florida 2021-10-27 Denied IFP 1st-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment standing Whether the State Court of Appeals erred and departed from the essential requirements of the law and federal constitutional claims
21-6093 Jeffrey D. Leiser v. Karl Hoffmann, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-10-27 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment inmate-rights medical-treatment summary-judgment wanton-suffering Did the District Court and Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied the legal presidents that 46 days of severe 'unnecessary inflict of wanton pain…
21-6108 Paradise L. v. Arizona Department of Child Safety, et al. Arizona 2021-10-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-general clear-and-convincing-evidence constitutional-rights due-process evidence-standard fourteenth-amendment parental-rights termination-of-rights witness-exclusion Whether the termination of mother's parental rights was supported by clear and convincing evidence as required by the due process clause
21-603 Ohio v. George Brinkman Ohio 2021-10-26 Denied Amici (1) automatic-reversal boykin-advisement boykin-v-alabama constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea plea-review presumption-of-prejudice standard-of-review Does the Due Process Clause prohibit review of the entire record to determine whether a guilty plea was knowingly, intelligently and voluntarily enter…
21-6065 Michael Belcher v. Alabama Alabama 2021-10-26 Denied IFP capital-murder due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial fourteenth-amendment post-mortem-photographs prejudice-analysis prejudicial-evidence Whether the admission, without an analysis of the risk of prejudice, of over 40 gruesome photographs of the victim's body, depicting post-mortem decom…
21-6058 David James Lola v. Florida Florida 2021-10-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process federal-judiciary fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-review legislative-review separation-of-powers sixth-amendment state-sovereignty Does due process pursuant to the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments dictate that a state court clerk may assign a criminal case to a judge who ex…
21-6059 Terry Jonathan Phillips v. Florida Florida 2021-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-offense fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-procedure Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a twelve-person jury to try a criminal defendant accused of a felony offense
21-6061 John Rodney Johnson v. Donnie Ames, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex Fourth Circuit 2021-10-22 Denied IFP due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury prosecutorial-misconduct racial-bias sixth-amendment Does a Prosecutor's conduct to interject race comments into a State trial as an appeal to a racial prejudice based on the fact the trial having the in…
21-6022 In Re Robert L. Hedrick 2021-10-21 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts bureau-of-prisons civil-procedure deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment frivolous plausible-claim rule-8 standing Did the Court Error in ruling that the complaint failed to comply with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8(a)?
21-579 Kenneth Eugene Smith v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-20 Denied accomplice-liability burden-of-proof capital-sentencing constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions jury-trial sixth-amendment specific-intent Under Waddington v. Sarausad, does a general jury instruction on accomplice liability relieve the State of its burden to prove specific intent beyond …
21-6025 Stewart Hines v. Gwendolen Cleopha Nelson South Dakota 2021-10-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure constitutional-due-process court-access due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se-representation standing trust trust-law Whether a sole Beneficiary and Trustee can represent that Trust pro se
21-563 Warren M. Lent, et al. v. California Coastal Commission, et al. California 2021-10-18 Denied Amici (4) administrative-law administrative-penalty administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment property-rights takings Whether administrative agency can permanently deprive person of millions in fines using summary hearing process
21-564 Diane Scott Haddock v. Tarrant County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-10-18 Denied Response Waived association-rights constitutional-rights elrod-branti-test first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-association freedom-of-petition government-employment pickering-connick-test strict-scrutiny Where public employees allege violations of First Amendment rights by their government employers
21-5995 Christopher Emory Cramer v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-18 Denied IFP appellate-procedure conference-in-chambers due-process eighth-amendment federal-rule federal-rule-of-appellate-procedure-10(c) federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure-43 fifth-amendment judicial-proceeding record-completion record-on-appeal sixth-amendment whether-an-unrecorded-conference-is-a-hearing-or-trial-under-federal-rule-of-appellate-procedure-10(c)
21-555 Benjamin A. Appleby v. Kansas Kansas 2021-10-15 Denied Response Waived alleyne due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-trial legislative-directive liberty-interest procedural-due-process resentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of procedural due process is violated
21-550 Tyrone Christopher Thompson v. Alabama Alabama 2021-10-14 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment affirmative-defense complete-defense due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment meaningful-opportunity-to-present-defense mental-disease mental-disease-or-defect pre-trial-hearing Does precluding a defendant from presenting any evidence of an affirmative defense of mental disease or defect to a jury based solely on conflicting e…
21-537 Adir International, LLC, et al. v. Starr Indemnity and Liability Company Ninth Circuit 2021-10-13 Denied Amici (2) civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment insurance insurance-proceeds legal-defense standing state-action state-litigation Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits a State to prohibit private parties from using untainted funds, such as otherwise l…
21-542 Michael Zito, et ux. v. North Carolina Coastal Resources Commission Fourth Circuit 2021-10-13 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment due-process federal-claims federal-takings-claims fourteenth-amendment just-compensation just-compensation-clause sovereign-immunity state-immunity state-sovereign-immunity takings takings-clause Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's incorporation of the 'self-executing' Just Compensation Clause abrogates state sovereign immunity from federal taki…
21-5944 Casey Ray Culp v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-justice cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment reform sentencing Whether a guideline sentence of seventy-five months imprisonment violates the Eighth Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment
21-525 Hemant Bhimnathwala v. New Jersey State Judiciary, et al. Third Circuit 2021-10-08 Denied Relisted (2) child-custody disparate-impact due-process equal-custody equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment obergefell-v-hodges statute-of-limitations Does the Fourteenth Amendment require a presumption of equal, joint custody of children in child custody proceedings?
21-529 Bataski Bailey v. Fair & Walker Unit Owners Association, Inc., et al. Georgia 2021-10-08 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment attorney-misconduct civil-rights defamation due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceeding judicial-proceedings legal-ethics Do intentional false statements by an attorney violate opposing party's rights?
21-5912 Mark Wayne Gray v. Dean Borders, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-privilege due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment self-incrimination sixth-amendment Whether the 5th Amendment (right to be free from self-incrimination) and 6th (denial of assistance of counsel) and 14th amendments were violated
21-514 Robert Bello v. Rockland County, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2021-10-06 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process firearm-surrender fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment handgun-ownership mental-health property-rights Whether the Fourth Amendment is implicated where law enforcement refuses to release firearms surrendered for mental health reasons to a nonprohibited …
21-504 Joshua Eric Hawk Clark, aka Joshua Clark v. Mississippi Mississippi 2021-10-05 Denied Response Waived due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment judicial-reliability murder-conviction scientific-evidence scientific-reliability second-degree-murder shaken-baby-syndrome Does the Due Process Clause prohibit a conviction based on unreliable expert testimony?
21-5860 Antonio Franklin v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-10-05 Denied IFP appellate-process cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection final-judgment-rule fourteenth-amendment ineffective-counsel judicial-dereliction Whether the Eighth or Fourteenth Amendments protect inmates from an allegedly faulty appellate process due to ineffective counsel
21-5900 Justin Anderson v. Arkansas Arkansas 2021-10-05 Denied IFP 8th-amendment capital-case constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment prior-offense resentencing sentencing victim-impact victim-impact-evidence Whether the Eighth Amendment permits a State to present victim-impact evidence arising from a crime other than the murder for which the defendant is b…
21-5901 Shawn R. Erpelding v. Scott Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit 2021-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-limitations civil-judgment due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief postconviction-relief pro-se pro-se-application state-criminal-judgment Whether pro se applications to vacate and set aside a state criminal judgment toll the limitation period under the 'properly filed' clause of 28 U.S.C…
21-5854 Ernest Johnson v. Paul Blair, Warden Missouri 2021-10-04 Denied Amici (1)IFP adaptive-deficits atkins-v-virginia causal-connection eighth-amendment intellectual-disability moore-v-texas Whether a state can add a causal connection requirement to the definition of intellectual disability, ignoring Atkins and its progeny
21-5864 Deloris Phillips v. Columbia Luxar Fifth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied IFP civil-rights court-system due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion sanctions vexatious-litigant Whether it is unconstitutional to label a litigant as vexatious without due process
21-5882 Jessica W. v. Administration for Children's Services New York 2021-10-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment child-custody constitutional-rights due-process evidence family-court fourteenth-amendment parental-rights procedural-error Did the New York County Family Court meet due process and evidence standards in their determinations against the petitioner in disposition of two conj…
21-493 Susan Chen v. Darren Migita, et al. Washington 2021-10-04 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure court-dismissal due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdictional-challenge legal-representation notice personal-jurisdiction procedural-ambiguity standing unrepresented-minor Whether a state court's dismissal order, absent clear languages about the legal effects, and its further refusal to clarify — which has led to four ye…
21-498 James Conerly, et al. v. John Patrick Winn, Judge, Superior Court of California, Sacramento County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied Relisted (2) appellate-review bias civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias recusal sealing-records standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Appellate Court erred in dismissing the case for lack of subject matter jurisdiction
21-5853 Noah Gaston v. Maine Maine 2021-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-culpability due-process fourteenth-amendment general-intent intent mens-rea murder murder-statute specific-intent Does Maine's murder statute violate the Fourteenth Amendment because it does not require the state to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Noah Gaston…
21-5825 Raqib Abdul Al-Amin v. South Carolina South Carolina 2021-09-29 Denied IFP compulsory-process constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment drug-offense due-process eighth-amendment evidence expert-witness mandatory-minimum sentencing-guidelines Whether the South Carolina Supreme Court erred in concluding that the trial court's decision to exclude the testimony of the defendant's expert witnes…
21-5784 Joe Vonzo Readon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause
21-5792 Karl Roye v. United States Second Circuit 2021-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment 8th-amendment-violation constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mandatory-life-without-parole miller-v-alabama sentencing Whether the Second Circuit erred, in violation of the Eighth Amendment, when it concluded that Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460 (2012) condoned the imp…
21-466 Eric DeWayne Cathey v. Texas Texas 2021-09-28 Denied Amici (1) capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability medical-criteria medical-standards precedent supreme-court-precedent Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals contravened the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments and this Court's precedents in rejecting a trial court's …
21-5759 Kevin Hall v. Kul Sood, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-09-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-treatment prison-healthcare supervisory-power wexford-health-sources Did prison medical professionals and the prison's healthcare contractor violate the Eighth Amendment?
21-5713 Kirk Johnson, aka Qabail Hizbullah-Ankh-Amon v. New York New York 2021-09-21 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment federal-constitutional-law functional-equivalent-life-sentence juvenile-sentencing miller-standard retroactive-effect retroactivity state-collateral-review teague-framework Does the Court have the power to review a State Collateral Review Court's failure to give Retroactive Effect to new substantive rules of Federal Const…
21-5736 Brandon Joshua Bailey v. Florida Florida 2021-09-21 Denied IFP fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment gps gps-tracking location-records probable-cause search search-and-seizure vehicle warrant-requirement Whether the government conducts a search under the Fourth Amendment when it accesses a vehicle's historical GPS location records
21-431 Grant Lloyd Greenwood v. Minnesota Minnesota 2021-09-21 Denied Response Waived due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment jury-instruction jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of appellate counsel, and Fourteenth Amendment right to due process, are violated
21-436 In Re Kevin D. Loggins, Sr. 2021-09-21 Denied Relisted (2) constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion obstruction-of-justice unlawful-incarceration void-judgment Whether the U.S./Kansas has held petitioner illegally in prison contrary to the U.S. Constitution
21-5689 Harold V. Hoskins v. Kevin Kauffman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. Third Circuit 2021-09-17 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Was the petitioner denied his Sixth Amendment right to be represented by counsel?
21-5668 Freddy Angel Trujillo v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-09-14 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment gang-evidence joinder joinder-of-charges prejudicial-evidence summary-reversal Did the Ninth Circuit's finding that Trujillo's Due Process rights were not violated by the joinder of unrelated charges so clearly misapply the law a…
21-399 Chester Lee Reneau v. Mary Cardinas, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-09-14 Denied Response Waived cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-negligence prisoner-rights serious-medical-needs seventh-amendment summary-judgment Can prison doctors violate the Eighth Amendment by exposing prisoner's to the 'unnecessary and wanton' infliction of pain?
21-5645 In Re Donald Mack 2021-09-10 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus mental-incompetence pate-v-robinson procedural-rules Can a mentally incompetent defendant challenge his conviction under the Fourteenth Amendment despite procedural rules?
21-361 Guangcun Huang v. Tim Hui-Ming Huang, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied academic-freedom eleventh-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment standing state-immunity title-vi title-vii Whether SCOTUS decisions on Eleventh Amendment, Title VII, Title VI, First Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment, standing, Texas Tort Claims Act, and acade…
21-356 Jermain V. Richards v. Connecticut Connecticut 2021-09-07 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hung-jury mistrial perez-v-united-states richardson-v-united-states Whether the Fifth Amendment's Double Jeopardy Clause bars a criminal defendant's retrial after the government has had a fair opportunity to prove its …
21-5577 Terry Darnell Anderson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-split circuit-split cumulative-error cumulative-error-doctrine fair-trial federal-habeas-corpus fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Does the cumulative error doctrine apply to ineffective assistance of counsel claims?
21-343 Michelle J. Smith v. Nicholas French, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Martin D. French, Deceased Massachusetts 2021-09-02 Denied Response Waived actual-malice child-athletes defamation first-amendment fourteenth-amendment libel preemption public-figure sports-governance Whether the standard of proof in a State Defamation/Libel case arising from a parental complaint to a National Governing Body of Sport, should automat…
21-346 Yvonne Reignat-Vodi v. Motor Vehicle Administration Maryland 2021-09-02 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment administrative-law agency-records civil-rights dismissal driver-license due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment procedural-due-process witnesses Did the courts follow the Procedural Due Process subject to the 14th Amendment due process protection?
21-329 Rosemary Garity v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General Ninth Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied Response Waived circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial make-whole-remedy pro-se sanctions standing summary-judgment Did the Ninth Circuit err in upholding sanctions against pro se, denial of damages and right to a jury trial, when admitting not supported by the reco…
21-331 Alice Jin-Yue Guan v. Bing Ran Virginia 2021-09-01 Denied Relisted (2) 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment property-rights takings Whether state courts violated Petitioner's federal rights by removing her own property without notice and due process
21-5549 William D. Lauga v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-federalism privilege-and-immunities privileges-and-immunities procedural-bar racial-discrimination sixth-amendment Is the state of Louisiana violating the due process clause of the Sixth Amendment by not addressing claims raised by petitioner on a law that is based…
21-5552 Brian Green v. Clinton Perry, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied IFP constitutional-violation fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-selection procedural-default sixth-amendment warrantless-search warrantless-search-and-seizure Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in holding that no constitutional violations in Green's trial
21-5556 Bret Davis v. Illinois Illinois 2021-09-01 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-bias media-influence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment unbiased-jury Were my Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to a fair trial by an unbiased jury and due process of the law violated?
21-5561 Tyrone Cade v. Texas Texas 2021-09-01 Denied IFP capital-habeas capital-punishment competent-counsel due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment state-responsibilities Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires a State to provide capital habeas petitioners one opportunity to present Sixth Amendmen…
21-5538 Michael Joseph Edmondson v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus self-representation sixth-amendment waiver-of-counsel Whether the trial Judge fulfilled his duty of determining whether there was an intelligent and competent waiver of accused's right to assistance of co…
21-308 Tim Sundy v. Friendship Pavilion Acquisition Company, LLC, et al. Georgia 2021-08-31 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights court-record custody due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment Whether the willful refusal and/or failure of a court of record to maintain a complete record is a form of custody, depriving a litigant of due proces…
21-5500 John Richard Smith v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-08-30 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the 5th Circuit Court of Appeal errored in denying petitioner's request for a (C.0.A.) claiming Petitioner failed to state a Constitutional vi…
21-5513 Christopher Seckington v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP chapman-v-united-states constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment drug-trafficking eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment urine-testing Question not identified
21-5517 Lonzie Wayne McQuirter v. Michigan Michigan 2021-08-30 Dismissed IFP 44th-amendment constitutional-violation due-process evidence-preservation fair-trial fourteenth-amendment innocence miscarriage-of-justice new-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment whether-petitioner's-claims-should-be-heard-on-the-merits
21-5535 Timothy Marcus Mayberry v. Indiana Indiana 2021-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process cronic due-process expert-testimony fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment Is the Indiana state appellate court's opinion that its trial court did not abuse its discretion when, over multiple objections, it permitted surprise…
21-5498 Raymond Concepcion v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2021-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure eighth-amendment intellectual-disability juvenile-court juvenile-justice mandatory-sentencing miller-v-alabama proportionality youth youth-culpability Whether the mandatory exclusion of murder defendants between the ages of 14 and 18 from Juvenile Court precludes individualized consideration of their…
21-5509 Luther McKiver v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-27 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process eleventh-circuit fourteenth-amendment judicial-precedent legal-interpretation precedent Whether the Eleventh Circuit entered a decision that misapplies the precedent of this Court and as a result, violates the Due Process Clause of the Fo…
21-283 In Re Roland N. Patterson 2021-08-27 Denied Response Waived attorney-discipline bar-admission civil-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause fourteenth-amendment procedural-due-process reinstatement separation-of-powers substantive-due-process Whether Petitioner suffered the violation of his Constitutional Rights to Procedural Due Process
21-5491 Alton Alexander Nolen v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-08-26 Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability mental-retardation Whether Oklahoma's procedure for litigating the issue of intellectual disability comports with the Eighth Amendment
21-5495 José Yeyille v. Armandina Acosta-Leon, et al. Florida 2021-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts certiorari discretionary-review due-process equal-protection first-amendment florida-constitution fourteenth-amendment indigent-rights Whether Florida Constitution Article V, Section 3(b)(3) and Jenkins v. State, 385 So. 2d 1356 (1980) intentionally bar discretionary review for Petiti…
21-5496 José Yeyille v. Armandina Acosta-Leon, et al. Florida 2021-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts discretionary-review due-process equal-protection first-amendment florida-constitution fourteenth-amendment petition-clause Whether Florida Constitution Article V, Section 3(b)(3) and Jenkins v. State, 385 So. 2d 1356 (1980) intentionally bar discretionary review for Petiti…
21-5497 José Yeyille v. Armandina Acosta-Leon, et al. Florida 2021-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts constitutional-review due-process equal-protection first-amendment first-amendment-petition-clause fourteenth-amendment indigent-rights petition-clause pro-se-litigant Whether Florida Constitution Article V, Sections 3(b)(3), 3(b)(7), and 3(b)(8), Jenkins v. State, 385 So. 2d 1356 (1980), and Grate v. State, 750 So. …
21-5476 In Re William Barret Slade, II 2021-08-25 Denied IFP access-to-courts due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-relief procedural-default sixth-amendment Whether the Alabama state courts and the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in refusing to apply the Supreme Court's rule in Martinez v. Ryan
21-5429 Pedro Reyes v. Jeff Jensen, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment notice notice-requirement standing state-action Whether State action is implied by the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) anomalous codification
21-263 Kimbro Stephens Insurance Trust, et al. v. James E. Smith, Jr., et al. Arkansas 2021-08-24 Denied Response Waived attorney-termination bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure client-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment lawyer-discharge legal-malpractice standing Whether a client has a right to discharge a lawyer at any time
21-264 San Diego County, California, et al. v. Ana Sandoval, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied Amici (1) circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established-rights deliberate-indifference due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-care medical-needs pretrial-detainee qualified-immunity Whether a pretrial detainee must show subjective awareness of medical needs or only objective unreasonableness
21-5427 Kushawn Miles-El v. Connie Horton, Warden Michigan 2021-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment capital-case civil-rights competency competency-hearing due-process fourteenth-amendment right-to-be-present right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the state court has denied petitioner any right, privilege or immunity
21-5444 In Re Calvin James 2021-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment
21-5424 Victor H. Canales v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-08-20 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-procedure criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings legal-counsel post-conviction-relief standing Question not identified
21-235 Gary Heidel, et al. v. Anthony Mazzola, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-08-17 Denied civil-rights due-process failure-to-enforce fourteenth-amendment kingsley-standard medical-treatment predictable-consequence pretrial-detainee recklessness suicide-prevention Whether jail officials violate a pretrial detainee's Fourteenth Amendment right to medical treatment by being reckless to, without actually knowing of…
21-5377 Alexander Ascencio v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-08-16 Denied IFP due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jackson-v-virginia sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence watson-v-state Whether the lower court denied petitioner due process
21-5378 Anthony Kirkland v. Ohio Ohio 2021-08-16 Denied IFP appellate-counsel appellate-procedure capital-punishment constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct Is a capital sentence invalid when the prosecutor leads the jury to believe the judge has already decided the defendant should be sentenced to death?
21-5384 William A. Masters v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California Ninth Circuit 2021-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process executive-taking fourteenth-amendment property-rights property-seizure standing state-remedies takings Must a Citizen exhaust his State's remedies before filing in the Federal Court for a decision upon a Constitutional issue?
21-5366 Abram K. Sollman v. Nebraska Nebraska 2021-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hearsay-evidence witness-testimony whether-the-nebraska-courts-reliance-on-witness-statements-induced-erroneous-or-prejudicial-hearsay-evidence
21-5356 Joel Dale Wright v. Florida Florida 2021-08-12 Denied IFP death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment procedural-law retroactivity statutory-construction substantive-law Whether the Florida Supreme Court's statutory construction in Hurst v. State constitutes substantive law, and if so, whether the Due Process Clause of…
21-5347 Damantae Graham v. Ohio Ohio 2021-08-11 Denied IFP capital-punishment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection racial-bias racial-prejudice sixth-amendment voir-dire Is capital appellate counsel ineffective under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments when they do not raise that both the trial court and trial defense …
21-197 Yvonne Reignat-Vodi v. Motor Vehicle Administration Maryland 2021-08-11 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment pro-se-petitioner procedural-due-process sixth-amendment writ-of-certiorari Did the courts follow the Procedural Due Process subject to the 14th Amendment due process protection?
21-189 Patrick Okey v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-08-10 Denied Response Waived and Fourteenth Amendments and whether the Commonw Eighth constitutional-challenge due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment laches laches-doctrine sixth-amendment speedy-trial Whether the Speedy Trial Rule (600) is protected by the Due Process Clause of the Sixth Amendment, Eighth Amendment, and Fourteenth Amendment, and whe…
21-5336 Theodore Howard v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 924(c)(1)(A) 924(c)(1)(C) constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process firearm-use fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether Mr. Theodore Howard was denied due-process rights, to fair notice of indictment charges
21-5338 Michael Vincent Moore v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-08-10 Denied IFP constitutional-rights dna-evidence due-process evidence-admissibility fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment mistrial probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure Whether the prosecutor's submission of an affidavit for probable cause listing a tan animal hair found in a wicker trunk, when the DNA report received…
21-5321 Jerome Kieffer v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-privacy civil-rights constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech government-seizure standing Whether the unconstitutionally vague language of 18 USC 1001 applies to 18 USC 1343(a)(1)
21-5305 Alejandro Rosales-Gonzalez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-05 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ability-to-pay circuit-split constitutional-consideration constitutional-law criminal-fines eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause fine-assessment indigent-defendant judicial-discretion Whether a defendant's ability to pay a fine is a relevant consideration when determining if a fine is excessive under the Eighth Amendment
21-166 Leonel Cervantes-Meraz v. Oregon Oregon 2021-08-05 Denied Response Waived criminal-defense criminal-plea fourteenth-amendment immigration immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance padilla padilla-precedent sixth-amendment Did the State of Oregon violate the Petitioner's right to effective assistance of counsel guaranteed him by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment of the …
21-154 Nagui Mankaruse v. Raytheon Company, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-08-04 Denied Relisted (2) bill-of-rights civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment Whether the Honorable United States Supreme Court must defend our Great United States Constitution?
21-5299 John Johnson, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2021-08-04 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause factfinder-discretion fourteenth-amendment non-unanimous-verdict penal-code statutory-interpretation Does Texas Penal Code §21.02 discriminate who is and is not protected under the Equal Protection Clause under the Fourteenth Amendment by allowing fac…
21-5268 Ambus Ray Davis, III v. Nick Ludwick, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-07-30 Denied IFP constitutional-rule criminal-procedure direct-review due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retrospective-application united-states-constitution Whether newly declared constitutional rule of criminal procedure apply retrospectively
21-127 Adolfo Gutierrez Avila Jr. v. Vicki Janssen, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-07-30 Denied Response Waived a person of color violate his fundamental-federal-rights 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct systemic-racism Where judicial misconduct targeted Petitioner
21-5232 Duane Allen Short v. Ohio Ohio 2021-07-29 Denied IFP caldwell-v-mississippi capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-decency due-process eighth-amendment evolving-standards-of-decency jury-recommendation jury-trial sixth-amendment Is Ohio's capital sentencing scheme, which permits telling the jury that their decision is only a mere recommendation, unconstitutional under Hurst v.…
21-5209 Cynthia E. Collie v. South Carolina Commission on Lawyer Conduct South Carolina 2021-07-26 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure standing Whether this Court should grant writ of certiorari to address the state court of last resort's unsupported, arbitrary, and/or capricious order
21-5214 Ademola O. Adebayo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment frap-36 Whether the Eleventh Circuit entered a decision that strengthens the circuit split created by Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 36, which allows a m…
21-95 David W. Foley, et ux. v. Orange County, Florida, et al. Florida 2021-07-23 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 colore-officii fourteenth-amendment legal-remedy public-servant-immunity state-court-discretion statutory-interpretation virtute-officii Is a state court free under the Fourteenth Amendment to deprive a plaintiff of a remedy in 42 USC §1983 by granting a public servant immunity from sui…
21-88 Christina Paylan v. Darrell Dirks, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied Response Waived accountability civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-accountability judicial-bias judicial-recusal standing Whether the standard for judicial recusal requires a strict uniform criteria
21-5149 Leobardo Barraza v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP eighth-amendment irreparable-corruption juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama plain-error sentencing-guidelines Whether a federal court commits plain error by anchoring a sentence for a juvenile's crime resulting in death to a Sentencing Guidelines that recommen…
21-71 Washington County, Utah v. Martin Crowson Tenth Circuit 2021-07-20 Denied Response Waived deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment inmate-medical-care municipal-liability section-1983 supreme-court-precedents Whether a municipal government can be liable under the Eighth Amendment for denial of inmate medical care under § 1983
21-76 Linda B. Vacchino v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC Florida 2021-07-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appeal constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment foreclosure fourteenth-amendment fraud judicial-fraud mortgage-crisis property-rights Whether the constitutional rights guaranteed under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments are violated when foreclosures and subsequent sale of primary r…
21-64 Danny James McLaughlin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-16 Denied Response Waived appellate-review bajakajian-factors criminal-fine criminal-fines eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-challenge excessive-fine judicial-review proportionality united-states-v-bajakajian Whether a reviewing court may consider factors beyond those identified in United States v. Bajakajian when determining if a criminal fine is dispropor…
21-59 Carl Gordon v. Regents of the University of California, et al. California 2021-07-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure-act administrative-record california-public-records-act california-state-law daca due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fraud-upon-the-court preemption Does the de facto nullification of California state law [Cal. Gov. Code §§ 6258 and 6259] (resulting in fraud upon the court) by the Regents of the Un…
21-50 D. R. S. v. D. P. H. L., et al. Florida 2021-07-14 Denied Response Waived child-welfare civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment government-overreach interstate-commerce parental-rights Should the Government have the sole and final say on the Frankensteining of the American Family?
21-5101 Giuseppe Viola, aka Joseph John Viola v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP cares-act conditions-of-confinement criminal-law eighth-amendment federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus restitution section-2241 supervised-release Whether jurisdiction exists for presentation of grounds for relief from all custody under § 2241, challenging conditions of confinement
21-5108 Victor Willis v. Illinois Illinois 2021-07-14 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a prisoner who has been determined to be intelle…
21-24 Curt Daniels, et al. v. John Holtz, et al. Iowa 2021-07-09 Denied 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-sale property-rights res-judicata What are the parameters of constitutionally acceptable dismissal and dismissal that rises to unconstitutional violation of due-process?
21-25 Richard Janusz v. Illinois Illinois 2021-07-09 Denied arraignment arraignment-delay constitutional-rights criminal-procedure delay due-process fourteenth-amendment speedy-trial Whether a defendant is denied due process of the fourteenth amendment where his arraignment is delayed for 630 days after arrest
21-28 Wayne A. Jones, Ed.D. v. Virginia State University, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-07-09 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment academic-freedom civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment property-interest public-university tenure-review Whether a non-tenured, but tenure-eligible, professor at a public university has a minimal property interest in a fair tenure review process under the…
21-32 Elizabeth C. v. Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services California 2021-07-09 Denied child-custody clear-and-convincing-evidence due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-rights santosky-v-kramer state-intervention termination-of-parental-rights Whether the Fourteenth Amendment due process requirement articulated in Santosky v Kramer requires a finding of parental unfitness by clear and convin…
21-5050 Kristopher Love v. Texas Texas 2021-07-09 Denied Relisted (12)IFP court-of-criminal-appeals death-penalty due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-selection racial-bias sixth-amendment Whether Texas' Court of Criminal Appeals has decided an important federal question concerning a racially biased juror being allowed on a capital death…
21-5061 Henry Johnson Lucas, Jr. v. Virginia Virginia 2021-07-09 Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-court fourteenth-amendment legal-interpretation standing supreme-court-rules virginia-law Whether the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires the Commonwealth of Virginia to provide a criminal defendant with a meaningful opp…
21-5066 Aquabeus Moore v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-07-09 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment 924(c)-enhancement crime-of-violence eighth-amendment equal-protection first-step-act fourteenth-amendment hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery Whether Petitioner's conviction of Hobbs Act Robbery constitutes a 'crime of violence' considering new case law and the passage of the First Step Act?
21-21 Caroline Ross v. Judson Independent School District Fifth Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied administrative-law cross-examination due-process fourteenth-amendment hearsay-evidence non-renewal procedural-rules school-board school-board-non-renewal state-law-violation Due-process-violation
21-23 Brenda Cook v. West Virginia West Virginia 2021-07-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury jury-impartiality sixth-amendment voir-dire Has the Petitioner's Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment right to an impartial jury been violated?
21-5041 Kosoul Chanthakoummane v. Texas Texas 2021-07-08 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial-procedure Whether Mr. Chanthakoummane is entitled to a new trial because trial counsel ignored his unequivocal direction to challenge his guilt during the culpa…
21-5048 Wesley Lynn Ruiz v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing certificate-of-appealability due-process eighth-amendment expert-testimony expert-witness false-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct Should the prosecution be held responsible for presenting false expert testimony at a capital sentencing trial?
21-5021 Michael Ray Senn v. Texas Texas 2021-07-06 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-status sentencing sentencing-enhancement Does a criminal law which provides for increased punishment based solely on an offender's status as married violate his or her right to equal protecti…
20-8450 Ronald Anthony Gomez v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-06-30 Denied IFP apodaca-v-oregon criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-unanimity schad-v-arizona sixth-amendment Does a state trial court's failure to give a unanimity instruction to a jury in a criminal trial raise a debatable valid claim of the denial of a cons…
20-1821 Anton Shifchik, et al. v. Wyndham Worldwide Corporation, et al. New Jersey 2021-06-30 Denied Response Waived corporate-contacts due-process ford-motor-co-v-montana fourteenth-amendment general-jurisdiction international-shoe internet-commerce personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction Whether internet commerce determines personal jurisdiction of foreign corporations
20-8437 Jan G. v. Scott Semple, et al. Connecticut 2021-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-association state-courts supremacy-clause Whether the Connecticut Department of Correction violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments by denying the plaintiff and his infirm mother visits wi…
20-8435 Vladimir Eugene v. Florida Florida 2021-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment confrontation-clause due-process equal-protection evidence fair-trial fourteenth-amendment hearsay ineffective-assistance non-hearsay-purpose Whether otherwise inadmissible nontestimonial hearsay admitted for non-hearsay purpose and thereafter used for their truth as substantive evidence vio…
20-8429 Christopher Forman v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment burglary conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment sentencing Did the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania defy the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by permitting a conviction and unlawful sentence on an of…
20-8403 Daniel Jacob Craven, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2021-06-23 Denied IFP 14th-amendment due-process elements-of-offense fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-determinations statutory-maximum unanimous-verdict Whether a defendant's right to due process are violated when jury instructions do not require all determinations required by state statute for a sente…
20-1773 Pasadena Republican Club v. Western Justice Center, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1985 civil-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment property-management state-action state-actor viewpoint-discrimination Whether the Western Justice Center is a state actor for purposes of the First and Fourteenth Amendments and 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1985(3)
20-1785 Ronald W. Ogle, et al. v. Sevier County Regional Planning Commission, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied Response Waived arbitrary-and-capricious board-of-regents-v-roth due-process entitlement-test fourteenth-amendment land-development property-interest regional-planning substantive-due-process Whether initial approval in a land development scheme creates a legitimate claim of entitlement for the purpose of establishing a property interest th…
20-8375 Luisa M. Liberto, et al. v. Geisinger Hospital, et al. Third Circuit 2021-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment discrimination eighth-amendment harassment title-vii viii-amendment wrongful-termination Did Geisinger Hospital discriminate, harass, and inflict cruel and unusual punishment on Jeffrey Liberto and Luisa Liberto in violation of Title VII a…
20-8366 Larry Dean Garrett, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP coercion confrontation-clause criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule false-statements fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment jury-bias plea-negotiation search-and-seizure sixth-amendment Did the district court err by suppressing evidence illegally seized with a warrant obtained by the use of false statements violating Petitioners' Four…
20-8333 Carman Deck v. Paul Blair, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-06-17 Denied IFP delay eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mitigation resentencing sixth-amendment Does this Court's Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment precedent protect a defendant's right to present mitigation when a delay occasioned by the St…
20-8341 Jonathan Huey Lawrence v. Florida Florida 2021-06-17 Denied IFP capital-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment proffitt-v-florida proportionality-review pulley-v-harris Whether eliminating proportionality review from Florida's capital sentencing scheme contravenes this Court's Eighth Amendment jurisprudence
20-1752 Devar Hurd v. Stacey Fredenburgh Second Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied Amici (1) civil-rights constitutional-deprivation due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest prolonged-incarceration qualified-immunity Whether prolonged incarceration past a release date is an objectively serious deprivation under clearly established Eighth Amendment law
20-1756 Ethan Fullerton, et al. v. LG Chem, Ltd. Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied Response Waived corporate-defendant domestic-corporations due-process fifth-amendment foreign-corporations fourteenth-amendment jurisdictional-limits longarm-statute personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction Should international corporate defendants with worldwide reach be granted jurisdictional protection not afforded domestic corporations?
20-8323 Clint Raymond Webb v. Michael Pacheco, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-06-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest speedy-trial state-created statutory-interpretation Whether a state-created liberty interest in a speedy trial is prohibited from being applied to the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
20-8324 Ricardo Valdez v. Walker, C.O., et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-06-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-right due-process exceptional-circumstances final-judgment fourteenth-amendment klapprott-v-us liberty-interest procedural-mechanism relief speedy-trial Whether a state-created liberty interest in a spee Can Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b) be used for the purpose of obtaining relief from the operation of a subsisting, final judgment, when exceptional circumstanc…
20-8303 Dong Sheng Huang v. Jalea Joechelle Hill, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights false-imprisonment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution section-1983 warrantless-arrest Whether fourth amendment and fourteenth amendment claims were dismissed wrongly at Rule 12(b)(6) motion stage
20-1723 Jane Doe v. James T. DeWees, et al. Maryland 2021-06-14 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts civil-rights common-law-name constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment homelessness privileges-and-immunities standing Do homeless people known by their common-law names and without home addresses have a constitutional right to sue in state courts for remedy of injurie…
20-1728 Rico Sanders v. Dylon Radtke, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-06-14 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing juvenile-status life-sentence mitigating-factor parole sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether this Court's Eighth Amendment precedent clearly establishes that a sentencing court must consider a defendant's juvenile status as a mitigatin…
20-1722 Damian Cruz v. Glenda I. Lebron Vazquez Puerto Rico 2021-06-11 Denied administrative-agency civil-procedure default-judgment due-process fourteenth-amendment in-personam-jurisdiction interstate-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Puerto Rico Court of Appeal departed so far from the due process in direct conflict with the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of t…
20-8278 L. Powers v. Arthur J. Morburger Florida 2021-06-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court property-rights Can the Double Jeopardy Clause Apply To Innocent Persons Thrust in 'Criminal' Courts Rendering False Judgments albeit in Civil Court? When There's no …
20-1697 Alice Kimble v. United States Federal Circuit 2021-06-09 Denied Response Waived 8th-amendment eighth-amendment excessive-fine fbar foreign-bank-account-report statutory-interpretation tax-evasion tax-penalty willful-violation willfulness Did the Court err in holding that Alice acted willfully, despite the lack of proof either that she had knowledge of the requirement to file an FBAR or…
20-8239 Jeffrey S. Whitaker v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP breach-of-contract contract-law due-process fourteenth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence plea-agreement statute-of-limitations substantive-due-process When the opposing party breaches the terms of the plea agreement under the law of contracts, does the one-year statute of limitations begin to run whe…
20-8248 Richard W. Williams v. Sherie Korneman, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance fourteenth-amendment further-proceedings ineffective-assistance public-defender sixth-amendment Does having biased jurors on a jury panel, one of which stated during voir dire questioning, 'murder is murder. I don't believe there's a defense for …
20-8253 Blaine Keith Milam v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 8th-amendment constitutional-interpretation due-process eighth-amendment federal-review habeas-corpus intellectual-disability statutory-limitation suspension-clause Can 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b) be constitutionally interpreted to bar first-time federal habeas corpus merits review of an Eighth Amendment claim of intellec…
20-8236 Brady Lee Ray v. Kentucky Kentucky 2021-06-07 Denied IFP criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process first-degree-robbery fourteenth-amendment kentucky-supreme-court sentencing-errors supreme-court-rule uscs-supreme-court-rule-10 wanton-endangerment Did Kentucky Supreme Court Violate Section C of USCS of Supreme Court Rule 10 and therefore the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution
20-1684 Sean Hartranft v. Midland Funding, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-06-04 Denied civil-procedure debt-collection due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intervention standing telephone-consumer-protection-act Whether the Court of Appeals committed reversible error when it denied Petitioner's Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 24(a) motion to intervene as a ma…
20-8219 Clark D. Young v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest counsel-failure criminal-history due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the defendant was deprived of his Sixth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights when counsel failed to investigate his criminal history
20-8220 Patrick Alan Vercruysse v. Bryan Morrison, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process evidence-insufficiency first-degree-murder fourteenth-amendment police-testimony strangulation sufficiency-of-evidence suffocation Should petitioner's conviction be vacated due to insufficiency of the evidence that he caused the death of doctor thompson by strangulation or suffoca…
20-8208 Ashanti Lusby v. Illinois Illinois 2021-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-factors miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing-hearing How to determine when a juvenile sentenced to life in prison without parole or its functional equivalent prior to Miller v. Alabama is entitled to a n…
20-8175 Timothy Alan Marr v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP violating Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment Right constitutional-rights due-process federal-question fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus petition statutory-interpretation untimely-filing Whether the courts below decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions of this Honorable Court
20-1661 Arthur O. Armstrong v. School District of Philadelphia Third Circuit 2021-05-28 Denied 14th-amendment collective-bargaining due-process employment employment-law fourteenth-amendment grievance-procedure official-discrimination procedural-rights property-rights Whether petitioner was discharged from teaching position without due process
20-1649 Ronald Jeremy Hyatt v. California California 2021-05-26 Denied confrontation-clause due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment preliminary-hearing sixth-amendment witness-disclosure Whether the prosecution may refuse to disclose the names and address of the 23 victims and additional witnesses it intends to call at petitioner's pre…
20-8124 Lance Mitchell Owens v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Arkansas 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment plea-agreement plea-agreements sentencing sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation Are courts violating the Equal Protection Clause by excluding defendants in plea agreements from mandatory sentencing procedures?
20-8099 Joseph Reinwand v. Susan Novak, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause confrontation-rights due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment testimonial-statements Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals failed to apply the law on deceased out-of-court testimonial statements by a non-testifying witness, ther…
20-1633 Frank Salazar v. Anthony Anderson, et al. Colorado 2021-05-24 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection Fourteenth-Amendment motor-vehicle-seizure notice-of-dismissal standing substantive-and-procedural-due-process Whether a Fourteenth Amendment violation and deprivation of substantive-and-procedural-due-process, equal-protection, civil-rights, standing, civil-pr…
20-8083 Derrick Baer v. United States Third Circuit 2021-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation franks-hearing law-enforcement-delay search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent Whether the decision of the Third Circuit denying petitioner's request for a Franks hearing conflicts with the United States Supreme Court's decision …
20-8086 Jack E. Allen v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-05-20 Dismissed IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights dna-evidence due-process exoneration fair-trial false-imprisonment federal-crimes fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment wrongful-conviction Does the petitioner deserve another trial based upon constitutional rights violations?
20-8089 Emem Ufot Udoh v. Minnesota Department of Human Services, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-05-20 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights davis-v-monroe-county-board due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment haines-v-kerner municipal-liability pro-se-litigation qualified-immunity standing Whether pro-se-litigants are held to the same legal standards as counseled-litigants
20-8054 Joseph Reinwand v. Susan Novak, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause confrontation-rights due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals failed to apply the law on deceased out-of-court testimonial statements by a non-testifying witness
20-8062 Erold Martin Panopio v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-justice criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing sentencing sentencing-reform supervised-release youthful-offender youthful-offenders Whether a near twenty year prison sentence followed by a fifteen year term of supervised release for a youthful offender such as Panopio violates the …
20-8037 Quintin Phillippe Jones v. Texas Texas 2021-05-17 Denied IFP atkins-v-virginia constitutional-law death-penalty due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability retroactive-rule retroactivity Does Moore v. Texas establish a new retroactive rule of constitutional law?
20-8039 Matthew J. O'Neal v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-05-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP child-pornography criminal-law eighth-amendment mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-enhancement sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation Whether the Sixth Circuit erred by expanding the scope of the 'relating to' language in 18 U.S.C. §2252A(b)(2) to include conduct under a state statut…
20-8043 Carl Wayne Buntion v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-05-17 Denied IFP arbitrary capital-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty deterrence eighth-amendment retribution Whether carrying out the execution of a man who has spent thirty years under a sentence of death would violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition agai…
20-1588 Michael Konowicz, aka Michael Phillips, et al. v. Jonathan P. Carr, et al. Third Circuit 2021-05-17 Denied actual-malice commercial-speech constitutional-interpretation defamation first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech lanham-act Whether the Court should revisit the 'actual malice' doctrine of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan
20-8035 James W. Moore v. Ohio Ohio 2021-05-14 Denied IFP 14th-amendment burden-of-proof castle-doctrine due-process duty-to-retreat effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions self-defense Is Ohio's Castle Doctrine unconstitutional?
20-7980 Takiese Naceer Bethea v. West Virginia West Virginia 2021-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP co-defendants criminal-procedure equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-fairness prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination sentencing Does the unequal treatment of African-American co-defendants violate the equal protection clause?
20-8015 Noel Brown v. Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2021-05-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment intentional-discrimination prima-facie prima-facie-case title-vii Was decisions under Title VII also recognize that a person claiming that he has been the victim of intentional discrimination may make out a prima fac…
20-8024 Lisa Biron v. United States First Circuit 2021-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP non-promulgated procedural process 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-appellate-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus procedural-due-process When there is no requirement to file a notice of appeal when applying for a certificate of appealability, is the COA seeker's Fifth Amendment right to…
20-8005 Philip Steven Matwyuk v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigative-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel right-to-self-representation sixth-amendment Question not identified
20-7971 Derek A. Rivera v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure directed-verdict due-process expert-testimony fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions murder-conviction sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the defendant was denied a fair trial due to improper other-acts evidence
20-7988 Robert Allen Poyson v. Arizona Arizona 2021-05-11 Denied IFP aggravating-factors capital-sentencing causal-nexus constitutional-review death-penalty eighth-amendment individualized-sentencing mitigation-evidence non-statutory-mitigation Is the individualized capital sentencing requirement guaranteed by the Eighth Amendment violated when a State predetermines that in all cases only min…
20-7992 Noah Drake Primeaux v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions non-unanimous-jury prosecutorial-misconduct ramos-v-louisiana sixth-amendment Whether reasonable jurists would determine that the holding in Ramos v. Louisiana applies to persons on direct appeal concerning the non-unanimous jur…
20-7978 Todd Alan Winkler v. California California 2021-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-trial due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness inflammatory-propensity propensity-evidence Did the California Court of Appeal err in concluding that inflammatory-propensity-evidence,pervasively-used,erroneously-admitted did not render the tr…
20-1551 Arthur O. Armstrong v. North Carolina, et al. North Carolina 2021-05-10 Denied civil-rights conspiracy due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment land-encroachment land-use property-rights takings Whether respondents transgressed the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments
20-7955 Alton D. Pelichet v. Wayne Circuit Court Judge, et al. Michigan 2021-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment actual-innocence due-process equal-protection felony-murder fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner was denied his right to a fair trial, due process and equal protection
20-7945 Troy Arnaud v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Louisiana 2021-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment non-unanimous-jury ramos-retroactivity ramos-v-louisiana retroactivity sixth-amendment teague-framework teague-v-lane watershed-rule Whether Ramos v. Louisiana applies to cases on State collateral review
20-7913 Dallas Jerome Wims v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance-act eighth-amendment first-step-act sentencing serious-drug-offense Whether the First Step Act's amendment redefining 'serious drug offense' applies to the ACCA
20-7926 Sadat El-Amin v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-05-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review criminal-procedure Fourteenth-Amendment non-unanimous-jury ramos-retroactivity Ramos-v-Louisiana retroactivity Sixth-Amendment teague-framework Teague-v-Lane Whether Ramos v. Louisiana applies to cases on State collateral review
20-7882 Taurean Potter v. United States Third Circuit 2021-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering fair-trial false-testimony fourteenth-amendment government-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment right to a fair trial and due process was violated when the government failed to correct false testimony…
20-7864 James E. Mason, Jr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment non-unanimous-jury ramos-retroactivity retroactivity sixth-amendment teague-framework teague-v-lane watershed-rule Whether Ramos v. Louisiana applies to cases on state collateral review
20-7876 Darrell Tillery v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Louisiana 2021-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment non-unanimous-jury Ramos-v-Louisiana retroactivity Sixth-Amendment Teague-v-Lane Whether Ramos v. Louisiana applies to cases on State collateral review
20-1504 J. L., a Child v. Kate Halamay, et al. Washington 2021-04-28 Denied Response Waived americans-with-disabilities-act attorney-representation civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment informed-consent legal-representation mental-disability Did the courts violate the ADA by refusing to allow an attorney to represent a mentally disabled person?
20-1509 Pamela Timbes v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Indenture Trustee Georgia 2021-04-28 Dismissed article-iii-standing collateral-estoppel discretionary-appeal due-process fourteenth-amendment georgia-rico mortgage-fraud property-rights res-judicata standing Whether the stated claims for relief of this Case arising directly under the due-process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Const…
20-1512 Gregory C. Dacanay v. Illinois Illinois 2021-04-28 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury impartiality jury-selection law-enforcement sixth-amendment structural-error Whether law enforcement officers can be fair and impartial jury members in a criminal trial
20-1491 Wael Lasheen v. Supreme Court of Ohio Ohio 2021-04-26 Denied civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judges-and-attorneys judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality organizational-conflict recusal recusal-standard standing state-supreme-court Is being a stakeholder in an organization which solicits donations and memberships from Judges and Attorneys a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment a…
20-7840 Thomas Robert Lane v. Alabama Alabama 2021-04-26 Denied IFP capital-case constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment expert-testimony fair-trial reliable-conviction reliable-sentence In a capital case, does the admission of expert testimony from a witness regarding a subject outside his area of expertise violate a defendant's Fifth…
20-7844 Paul Patrick Jolivette, Jr. v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California Ninth Circuit 2021-04-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion sovereign-immunity Did the United States Court of Appeals For The Ninth Circuit Order in 'DENIAL' of a writ of mandate to enforce a judgment Registeered and entered in t…
20-7846 Angel Ortiz v. Dennis Breslin, Superintendent, Queensboro Correctional Facility, et al. New York 2021-04-26 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (14)IFP due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment homelessness housing-restrictions incarceration indigence liberty parole Does the Fourteenth Amendment prohibit prison authorities from indefinitely detaining supervisees based on an assumption that a municipality will not …
20-7821 In Re John A. Toth 2021-04-22 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel standing unlawful-detention Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging violations of their constitutional rights
20-7825 Carlon McGinn v. Kansas Kansas 2021-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-vagueness criminal-history criminal-sentencing due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-determination jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the subsection-specific definition of 'PERSON FELONY' in Kansas Statutes is unconstitutionally vague
20-7827 Glen D. Plourde v. Stephen C. Bellavia Maine 2021-04-22 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fifth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-bias police-misconduct torture Whether the petitioner's Fifth Amendment rights to substantive and procedural due process were infringed upon due to the father-son relationship betwe…
20-1465 Chang Wang, et al. v. Terilyn Carter-Garrett, et al. California 2021-04-20 Denied civil-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias Whether the Due Process Clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments were violated to deny Petitioners a fair trial due to the bias of the presiding…
20-7803 Jonathan S. Hall v. Delaware Delaware 2021-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines standing supreme-court-review takings Whether the federal and state laws predicated on the Constitutionally-questionable Gun Control Act of 1968 are unconstitutional or illegal, and whethe…
20-7791 Shalamar Carmon v. Eric Armel, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2021-04-16 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-homicide due-process fourteenth-amendment procedural-defect sixth-amendment specific-offense vague-statement Was Petitioner denied due process of law
20-7768 Byron L. Hagans v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-04-15 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment Whether the petitioner's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment constitutional rights were violated when he was tried in absentia without being informed of th…
20-7769 James Hightower v. Ladonna H. Thompson, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-04-15 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights dna-testing due-process fourteenth-amendment free-speech post-conviction-relief standing takings Whether the Sixth Circuit's decision violates the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment
20-1436 Marty D. Foust v. Lawrence Brothers, Inc., et al. Virginia 2021-04-14 Denied amendment-rights bill-of-rights civil-rights constitutional-rights court-documentation due-process eleventh-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct postal-delay Should an official of the Virginia Supreme Court tell the truth about information that they read in document sent by the Petitioner?
20-1434 Leslie Rutledge, Attorney General of Arkansas, et al. v. Little Rock Family Planning Services, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-04-13 GVR Amici (8)Relisted (2) abortion abortion-rights civil-rights disability down-syndrome due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment medical-ethics prenatal-diagnosis selective-abortion state-prohibition Whether the Fourteenth Amendment bars States from prohibiting abortions that are sought solely because of a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome
20-7718 Deidre Antoinette Pierre v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP adolescent-brain-science constitutional-rights cruel-punishment eighth-amendment life-without-parole miller-mandate rs-15-574-4-d sentencing-discretion Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits excessive or cruel punishment
20-7724 John K. Wilson v. Rosemary Ndoh, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-standard de-novo-review due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea no-contest-plea plea-bargaining standard-of-review state-court-proceedings Whether a defendant is entitled to de novo review of a claim that his guilty plea was involuntary under the Fourteenth Amendment
20-7725 Todd Glenn Dean v. F. Entzel, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-exhaustion bivens-claims civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-violation due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection fourteenth-amendment Whether the district and appeals courts erred in overlooking constitutional and civil rights violations
20-7687 Ronald James Hamilton, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2021-04-07 Denied IFP capital-murder cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment exculpatory-evidence fingerprint-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct punishment-trial witness-testimony Did the trial prosecutors deny Mr. Hamilton Due Process by failing to disclose exculpatory fingerprint comparison results relevant to an extraneous ca…
20-1409 Graham B. Spanier v. Chad Libby, Director, Dauphin County Probation Services, et al. Third Circuit 2021-04-07 Denied Response Waived criminal-liability criminal-statute due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment jury-instruction retroactive-application retroactivity May a state prosecute a defendant for violating a statute enacted after the defendant's conduct, without violating the Ex Post Facto Clause, merely be…
20-1401 James Dennis v. Virginia Virginia 2021-04-06 Denied Response Waived confrontation-clause constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process false-evidence fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment prosecutor prosecutorial-misconduct Does any Court have the authority to extinguish a defendant's due process rights via the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment by allowing the prosecutor to …
20-7648 Kesner V. Joaseus, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2021-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP age constitutional-law criminal-justice culpability due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-sentencing retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing whether-the-proportionality-principle-&-the-eighth-amendment-has-been-violated
20-7644 Skip Hansen v. Kentucky Kentucky 2021-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-exclusion fourteenth-amendment right-to-defense right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment witness-testimony Did the Kentucky Court of Appeals allow Mr. Hansen's right to present a full and complete defense, which is protected by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amen…
20-1381 Matthew Fox, et al. v. Charles A. Summers Ohio 2021-04-01 Denied Amici (6) compelling-state-interest constitutional-protection crime-victim due-process fourteenth-amendment government-dissemination informational-privacy public-officials Whether the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process right to informational privacy protects information of a personal, sexual nature related to one's victimi…
20-1372 John Chambers v. Texas Texas 2021-03-31 Denied burden-of-proof due-process fourteenth-amendment governmental-record statutory-defense tampering-statute texas-tampering-with-governmental-record unforeseeable-judicial-expansion Whether the Court of Appeals violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
20-7615 Duane Eugene Owen v. Florida Florida 2021-03-31 Denied IFP capital-case constitutional-claims criminal-procedure death-penalty equal-protection florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus penalty-phase procedural-history retroactivity supreme-court-review Whether Petitioner was denied equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution when the Florida Supreme Court decline…
20-7619 Thomas Powers v. Greg Scott Seventh Circuit 2021-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-delay due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus mental-health sexual-offender sexual-violent-persons-act sixth-amendment speedy-trial Whether the courts should have conducted a Barker-v-Wingo analysis on the 8-year delay for civil commitment hearing
20-7623 Michael Eric Drake v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-bad-acts sixth-amendment trial-counsel Did the Pennsylvania Superior Court ignore the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments when it found no issue with trial counsel's failure to protect his clie…
20-7600 Antonio Navarro v. California California 2021-03-30 Denied IFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment translation-evidence witness-testimony Whether the admission of a translation of a witness's statement made in anticipation of litigation without calling the translator at trial for cross-e…
20-7606 Zoe Ajjahnon v. St. Joseph's University Medical Center, et al. Third Circuit 2021-03-30 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-claims-act fera-2009 fourteenth-amendment fraud-enforcement-and-recovery-act government-damages non-government-claim standing Whether the False Claims Act claim is viable for recovery of plaintiff's individual damages under 31 U.S.C. §3729(b)(2)(A)(ii) and whether the due pro…
20-7592 Alan Eugene Miller v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-29 Denied IFP aggravating-factor aggravating-factors caldwell-v-mississippi capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment jury-instructions jury-verdict sixth-amendment Whether the Eighth Amendment allows a jury's non-unanimous advisory verdict to serve as the predicate for a death sentence, when the jurors were told …
20-7582 Lonzell Green v. California California 2021-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial federal-review fourteenth-amendment procedural-challenge standing state-court writ-of-certiorari Question not identified
20-1358 Arthur O. Armstrong v. United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Fourth Circuit 2021-03-26 Denied 14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-violation deprivation-of-liberty detention due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment Whether appellees acted in a conspiracy to deprive appellant of liberty or property without due process of law
20-7557 Wendy Alison Nora v. Office of Lawyer Regulation Wisconsin 2021-03-25 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceeding lawyer-discipline mortgage-foreclosure petition standing Whether Petitioner was denied procedural due process in the lawyer disciplinary proceeding
20-7561 Melissa Pocopanni v. Florida Florida 2021-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-responsibility cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment intent-to-commit-murder juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment second-degree-murder Whether a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on a nineteen-year-old defendant convicted as a principal to second-degree m…
20-7564 Emem Ufot Udoh v. United States District Court for the District of Minnesota Eighth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-violation due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief recantation witness-recantation Whether Honorable District Judge Paul A. Magnuson Failed To Consider Petitioner's Habeas Claim
20-7552 Hugo Rufino Alvarez-Reyes v. Brad Cain, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2021-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection expert-testimony first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment standing witness-credibility Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging violations of the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause
20-1333 Roy Sheridan v. DLJ Mortgage Capital, Inc. Third Circuit 2021-03-24 Denied civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judgment-on-partial-findings procedural-fairness united-states-v-james-daniel-good-real-property Does Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 52(c) violate the Due Process clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments
20-1335 A. P. v. Vermont Vermont 2021-03-24 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fourteenth-amendment sexual-conduct split-of-authority state-statute Whether Vermont's criminalization of lewd and lascivious conduct violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
20-7536 Timothy L. Coleman v. Margaret Bradshaw, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-03-23 Denied IFP brady-violation capital-habeas capital-punishment confessed-murderer due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel penalty-phase right-to-appeal right-to-due-process Whether a federal appellate court violates a capital habeas petitioner's rights by refusing to consider additional arguments and authorities in suppor…
20-7516 Josue Portillo v. United States Second Circuit 2021-03-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment incorrigibility juvenile-justice juvenile-offenders miller-rule miller-v-alabama proportionality sentencing Whether, absent proof of incorrigibility, a district court can sentence a defendant to fifty-five years imprisonment without parole for participating …
20-1298 Demetreus A. Keahey v. Dave Marquis, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-03-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 6th-amendment clearly established federal law regarding a defen criminal-procedure jury-trial or is an unreasonable application of self-defense due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-trial self-defense sixth-amendment Whether the failure to give a self-defense jury instruction contradicts
20-1310 Genet McCann v. Douglas J. Wold, et al. Montana 2021-03-19 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment civil-rights collusion due-process estate-proceeding fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct probate-rights recusal Is the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment violated
20-7495 Angel Santiago-Gonzalez v. Florida Florida 2021-03-18 Denied IFP 14th-amendment due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-determinations statutory-maximum unanimous-verdict Whether a defendant's right to due process are violated when jury instructions do not require all determinations required by state statute for sentenc…
20-7504 Ray A. Gough v. Daniel Q. Sullivan, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-03-18 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sexually-dangerous-persons-act sixth-amendment speedy-trial supreme-court-precedent unreasonable-determination-of-facts Whether proceedings under the Illinois Sexually Dangerous Persons Act are 'criminal prosecutions' under the Sixth Amendment
20-7505 Olin Matice Gaskins v. West Virginia West Virginia 2021-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal constitutional-rights direct-appeal due-process equal-protection federal-law fourteenth-amendment legal-procedure retroactivity state-court supreme-court Did the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia violate clearly established federal law and petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment rights when it failed …
20-7507 Christopher Faella v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2259 appellate-rights eighth-amendment plea-agreement restitution sentencing sentencing-appeal statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum waiver Whether a defendant's waiver in his plea agreement of the right to appeal his sentence precludes him from appealing an order of restitution that excee…
20-7462 Anthony Kirkland v. Ohio Ohio 2021-03-17 Denied IFP capital-defendant death-penalty fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Are a capital defendant's rights to a fair trial by an impartial jury denied when a juror believes the death penalty should be used in all cases of mu…
20-7478 Paul Eric Lewis v. Southern Connecticut State University, et al. Second Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure pro-bono-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the plaintiff's right to counsel was violated, resulting in a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's due process clause and the Sixth Amendme…
20-7479 Benjamin Velayo v. Cheryl Fox, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied IFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment mental-illness rational-understanding reasons-for-execution Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a prisoner who has a severe mental illness that …
20-7485 Wilbern Woodrow Cooper v. Willis Chapman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-sufficiency fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest standing state-agents state-deference sufficiency-of-evidence Due-Process-Clause-Violation
20-7451 David K. Jenner v. Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Colorado 2021-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP colorado-revised-statute colorado-statute constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment johnson-v-us unconstitutional Is Colorado Revised Statute § 17-22.5-403(2)-(3.5) unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment due process protections?
20-7410 Edward McCain v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP case-remand certiorari concurrent-sentences criminal-procedure eighth-amendment fourth-circuit-judgment jones-v-mississippi judicial-review juvenile-offenders plain-error sentencing supreme-court-procedure Whether an invalid conviction affects a criminal defendant's substantial rights and must be vacated on plain error review
20-7425 Cornelius Kenyatta Craig v. Andre Matevousian, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment reasonable-doubt sixth-circuit Whether the 'same evidence' standard for double jeopardy under the Fifth Amendment is unconstitutional as applied to the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Pr…
20-1259 Protect Our Parks, Inc., et al. v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing civil-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment lujan-standard standing takings takings-clause Whether the Plaintiffs possess Article III standing to bring their takings and due process claims
20-1253 Charles L. Stringer v. Storesonline, Inc., et al. Mississippi 2021-03-10 Denied chancery-court civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment motion-to-strike pro-se-representation sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Did the Mississippi Supreme Court break state law when it would not apply the mandatory language in the use of the word 'shall' in Mississippi Code of…
20-1244 Barbara Tully, et al. v. Paul Okeson, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) absentee-voting age-discrimination equal-protection fourteenth-amendment twenty-sixth-amendment voting-rights Whether Indiana violates the Twenty-Sixth Amendment by giving voters age 65 and older the right to cast an absentee ballot by mail while requiring oth…
20-7391 Marcus A. Turner v. David W. Gray, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied IFP constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process felony-murder fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause bars a second prosecution and punishment for Felony-murder and Felonious-assault following an acquittal on Aggravat…
20-7397 William Randolph King v. Thomas Winn, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied IFP 8th-amendment brady-violation criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-testing due-process eighth-amendment evidence-suppression prosecutorial-disclosure prosecutorial-misconduct Could reasonable jurists debate whether the prosecution committed a Brady violation when it failed to disclose the prior victim's pubic hair found dur…
20-7361 Robert Eugene Ayers v. Virginia Virginia 2021-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-commitment civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine jury-trial mental-health seventh-amendment sexual-predator sexually-violent-predator Was Petitioner entitled by the Incorporation of the Seventh Amendment's Jury Trial Clause into the Fourteenth Amendment to Trial By Jury in a State Ci…
20-7368 Antonio Dewayne Hooks v. Kayodi Atoki, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-03-08 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process excessive-force failure-to-protect fourteenth-amendment medical-needs objective-reasonableness pretrial-detainee Whether Kingsley v. Hendrickson's objective-reasonableness standard applies to pretrial detainees' deliberate-indifference claims
20-1236 Jason Avery Anderson v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2021-03-08 Denied as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment va-code-18.2-361 va-code-18.2-366 Is Anderson being subjected to cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment because Va. Code Sections 18.2-361 and 18.2-366 are u…
20-7329 Justin L. Knight v. Nebraska Nebraska 2021-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure evidence-suppression fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment investigative-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether the police had reasonable suspicion for an investigative stop
20-7338 Foster Lee Tarver v. Josh Shapiro, Attorney General of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment judicial-abuse-of-discretion juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama statutory-construction Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in upholding the illegal mandatory maximum life sentence imposed upon the Petitioner
20-7342 In Re Christopher Vigliotti 2021-03-05 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment covid-19 covid-19-risk cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus prison-conditions Should the court issue an emergency writ of habeas corpus requiring respondent's to release petitioner due to the fact COVID-19 and its variants prese…
20-7350 Adam DeVore v. Ohio Ohio 2021-03-05 Denied IFP due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment government-misconduct indictment-misconduct manifest-miscarriage-of-justice sixth-amendment waiver-of-indictment Whether the service of a fake indictment and threats to foster a child constitutes a due process violation
20-1213 Marsha W. Mignott, et al. v. Brian Gardiner Georgia 2021-03-05 Denied 14th-amendment attorney-fees civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment georgia-court-of-appeals legal-procedure non-party non-party-corporation Whether the Georgia Court of Appeals erred in ordering a non-party corporation and attorney to pay attorney's fees without due process
20-7279 Ong Vue v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-03-01 Denied IFP actual-innocence criminal-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment laches procedural-bar state-criminal-appeals Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals application of a state procedural bar and laches to Petitioner's actual innocence claims is contrary to…
20-7288 Nazari Vasilich Cam v. Oregon Oregon 2021-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment halbert-v-michigan indigent-defendant right-to-counsel sua-sponte-appointment swenson-v-bosler Whether a state appellate court must appoint counsel sua sponte for an indigent criminal defendant who represents himself at trial, files a notice of …
20-1192 Fred Lohr Fouse, et ux. v. Saratoga Partners L.P., et al. Pennsylvania 2021-02-26 Denied due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment municipal-tax-sale property-rights redemption-rights Does Pennsylvania law violate the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment?
20-1176 Trustees of the Thomas E. Proctor Heirs Trust v. Keta Gas & Oil Company, et al. Pennsylvania 2021-02-25 Denied Response Waived due-process fourteenth-amendment internet-age mullane-standard mullane-v-central-hanover notice notice-requirements property-rights tax-sale Does the Pennsylvania court's refusal to apply 'preconceived notions of what is reasonable in the age of the Internet,' in the context of a tax sale w…
20-1184 Kee Food, Inc., et al. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-02-25 Denied civil-forfeiture due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment meaningful-hearing property-rights state-seizure Whether the meaningful hearing aspect of due process is satisfied when a party faced with state seizure and retention of property under civil forfeitu…
20-7228 Leroy Pooler v. Florida Florida 2021-02-25 Denied IFP criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-state state-v-poole statutory-construction substantive-law Does the Florida Supreme Court's statutory construction in Hurst v. State constitute substantive law and, if so, does the Due Process Clause of the Fo…
20-7249 Derrick Miles v. Illinois Illinois 2021-02-25 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-appeal due-process eyewitness-identification fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial-procedure witness-identification Whether the State of Illinois Appellate Court ruling denying petitioner's claim
20-7226 John R. Scannell v. Washington State Bar Association, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP disciplinary-proceedings first-amendment fourteenth-amendment investigation judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction obstruction res-judicata rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court unlawful-practice Did the Washington State Supreme Court have jurisdiction to conduct original disciplinary proceedings against Scannell?
20-7238 Alberto Julio Garcia v. Mississippi Mississippi 2021-02-24 Denied IFP competency cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process dusky-standard eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-competency pretrial-proceedings restorative-treatment Does Mississippi's 'presumption of competency' violate the Fourteenth Amendment, and/or the Eighth Amendment, when that presumption is expanded to all…
20-1166 Jorel Shophar, et ux. v. United States, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-02-24 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 4th-amendment child-welfare child-welfare-act constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment seizure state-seizures Is the 1974 Child Welfare Act of Child Protective Services violating U.S. Citizens Constitutional Rights
20-1152 Guillermo Luna, et ux. v. U.S. Bank N.A. Eighth Circuit 2021-02-23 Denied due-process foreclosure fourteenth-amendment notice power-of-sale property-rights Whether the notice of the foreclosure sale of the property of the petitioners under the power of sale in the deed of trust is subject to notice requir…
20-1155 Jonas David Nelson v. Minnesota Minnesota 2021-02-23 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived cognitive-deficits cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-sentence life-without-parole mental-illness proportionality proportionality-review Whether the Eighth Amendment right to narrow proportionality review of sentences of life without release entails a right to a hearing at which evidenc…
20-7215 Sunni Askari Newell v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment eighth-circuit federal-sentencing firearms firearms-possession sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the Eighth Circuit has misconstrued U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(b)(6)(B), contrary to every other circuit, resulting in defendants convicted of firearms …
20-7219 Cedric C. Westbrook v. California California 2021-02-23 Denied IFP arbitrary-action arbitrary-classification civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-classification procedural-hurdles standing state-court Does the State Court have an arbitrary right to re-classify a legal document into a specific classification of filings that the State knows has surimo…
20-7205 Leonardo Franqui v. Florida Florida 2021-02-22 Denied IFP capital-defendant capital-punishment constitutional-interpretation due-process eighth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability jury-sentencing statutory-construction Is the Florida Supreme Court's understanding of the proper holistic evaluation to assess a capital defendant's intellectual disability consistent with…
20-1147 Thomas Jefferson Smallwood v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied certificate-of-appealability compulsory-process confrontation confrontation-clause fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-review Should a certificate of appealability issue
20-1127 Joseph Louis Paduano v. Virginia Virginia 2021-02-17 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury incorporation state-courts state-criminal-proceedings Should Hurtado v. California be overruled?
20-7157 David Smith-Garcia v. Paula Burke Ninth Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment bivens civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment medical-care medical-need prison-healthcare probation Does an Eighth Amendment claim for deliberate indifference to a serious medical need against a U.S. Probation officer present a valid Bivens claim in …
20-7160 Emmett Garrison, IV v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-02-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole presumption sentencing sentencing-discretion Whether the Eighth Amendment forbids a sentencing court from applying a presumption in favor of life without parole for a juvenile offender
20-7161 Tyrell E. Artis v. Ohio Ohio 2021-02-16 Denied IFP constitutional-rights domestic-violence due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal res-judicata sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Can a plea deal consisting of two (2) misdemeanor domestic violence charges be withdrew post sentence, when; (1) no direct appeal was taken; (2) said …
20-7133 Anthony Reed v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment grand-jury habeas-corpus prosecutorial-discretion structural-defects Whether the Arkansas Constitutional Amendment No. 21 violates the Fourteenth Amendment's due process clause by allowing prosecution by information rat…
20-7143 Heyangjing Shi, et al. v. Jim J. Mash New York 2021-02-12 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights contract contract-law due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-standing standing unauthorized-use void-judgment Whether it violates the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
20-7144 Xue Jie He v. Hairong Xue New York 2021-02-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment landlord-tenant security-deposit statutory-interpretation Whether it violates the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
20-7125 Rashan Williams v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-02-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP collateral-review criminal-procedure Fourteenth-Amendment non-unanimous-jury retroactivity Sixth-Amendment Teague-v-Lane Whether Ramos v. Louisiana applies to cases on State collateral review
20-7127 Clyde Pontefract v. United States, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP bivens bivens-action civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment federal-prisoner federal-prisons injunctive-relief municipal-liability standing Does Ziglar V Abbasi apply to Eighth Amendment claims by federal prisoners?
20-7103 Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. North Carolina, et al. North Carolina 2021-02-10 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech grievance-mechanism petition-clause prisoner-rights standing Whether the petitioner retains the right to petition the government for redress of grievances and whether this is denied in violation of the Equal Pro…
20-7108 Jan Gawlik v. Scott Semple, et al. Connecticut 2021-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-association freedom-of-expression freedom-of-speech religious-rights Where the Connecticut Department of Correction violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments, denying used books from publishers without inspection, de…
20-1095 Darius Wayne Haws v. Idaho Idaho 2021-02-10 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appeal-waiver appellate-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea plea-agreement Whether a criminal defendant's purported waiver of the right to appeal is knowing, intelligent, and voluntary
20-7084 Mindy Hill v. Google LLC, et al. District of Columbia 2021-02-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights closed-captioning digital-content due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech standing terms-of-service youtube-terms-of-service Whether the court should resolve the issues regarding Google's YouTube terms of service, safety concerns, and violation of Ms. Hill's first amendment …
20-7051 Tomas Zavalidroga v. United States District Court for the Northern District of New York Second Circuit 2021-02-05 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech iccpr pro-se-litigant standing vexatious-litigant Whether the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) pro…
20-7053 Hector Manuel Torres v. Texas Texas 2021-02-05 Denied IFP effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance plea-bargain retroactivity sixth-amendment strickland-standard Whether the ruling in Ghaidez V United States deprives certain people of the right to equal protection by allowing defense counsel to withhold a vital…
20-7055 Bernard F. Verrett v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-defense defense-expert due-process expert-witness fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intent intent-element sixth-amendment strickland-standard Whether Strickland requires counsel to procure an adequate defense expert to negate or mitigate the intent element of the crime when that was the only…
20-7064 Justin Lee Perry v. North Carolina North Carolina 2021-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-amendment due-process felony felony-charge fourteenth-amendment grand-jury indictment sixth-amendment trial-modification Does the N.C. Supreme Court decision conflict with Plye# v. Doe, Ex-Parte Bain v. U.S., U.S. v. Gaudin and the fifth, sixth, and fourteenth amendment …
20-7044 Gregory Bartunek v. Hall County, Nebraska, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause pretrial-detainee pretrial-detainees religious-freedom Whether failing to provide consistent and reliable opportunities for pretrial detainees to exercise their religious freedoms is a violation of the Fir…
20-1062 Chad Bennett v. Washington Washington 2021-02-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment aggravating-factors constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-finding jury-findings sentencing-guidelines vagueness Whether defendants may challenge aggravating factors as vague under the Due Process Clause
20-1065 Christopher Hudler v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-02-04 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process extradition fourteenth-amendment in-absentia in-absentia-trial sixth-amendment Whether petitioner's judgment of conviction was rendered in violation of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, where …
20-1068 Jorel Shophar v. Johnson County, Kansas, et al. Kansas 2021-02-04 Denied Response Waived child-protective-services civil-rights county-judges due-process eleventh-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-immunity parental-rights pro-se-litigation standing Is the enjoyment of the Eleventh Amendment Immunity for County judge's contradictory to Fourteenth Amendment for U.S. Citizens, when County Judges int…
20-1055 Anthony Tricoli v. Rob Watts, et al. Georgia 2021-02-03 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech government-corruption government-retaliation retaliation sanctions sovereign-immunity May the State of Georgia impose punitive sanctions against an attorney petitioning the courts and speaking out in public to expose and redress state g…
20-1059 Roy H. Murry v. Washington Washington 2021-02-03 Denied Response Waived anders-brief court-of-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment pro-se pro-se-briefing right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Was Mr. Murry denied his Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel and Fourteenth Amendment Due Process?
20-7009 Mark Rudolph Arsenio Reed v. Robert Toole, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment indigent-defendant motion-in-arrest sixth-amendment standing Whether an indigent defendant has standing to claim a deprivation of the First Amendment right to petition the court
20-1049 City of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, et al. v. Calvin McCraw, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-02-01 Denied Response Waived civil-rights content-neutral-regulation due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech government-interest narrow-tailoring pedestrian-rights public-safety Does the risk of death or serious bodily injury to a pedestrian on a median constitute a significant government interest?
20-1038 Darrell Wayne Brown v. Kevin Michael Comstock Fourth Circuit 2021-01-29 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause
20-6999 Kannha Bounchanh v. Washington State Health Care Authority, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-01-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ada ada-adaa civil-rights due-process equal-protection evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-discrimination Whether the panel of judges at the Ninth Circuit court have violated the petitioner's due-process, equal-protection, ada, civil-rights
20-6965 Bradley B. Miller v. Virginia T. Dunn Texas 2021-01-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights contempt court-fine court-fines due-process fourteenth-amendment indigent-party judicial-discretion jurisdiction removal Whether the levying of a court fine against an indigent party represents a violation of constitutional Due Process
20-1015 Alexi Ortiz v. Alfred D. Walsh, Jr. Maryland 2021-01-28 Denied civil-procedure constitutional-claims due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review property-rights standing tax-sale Did the State court's reliance on Quillens v. Moore (requiring an individual to pay taxes, interest, and tax sale purchaser costs prior to any court r…
20-1005 Sara Dees v. San Diego County, California Ninth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 child-seizure civil-rights due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment liberty-interest parental-rights section-1983 Is a parent's Fourteenth Amendment liberty interest in the care, custody, control, and management of their child violated when government authorities …
20-6940 Ellery Dennis Thomas v. Raymond Madden, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus prisoner-rights remittitur sentencing standing Whether the 5th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution provides an opportunity for a full and fair litigation of an unconstitutional state law that is nev…
20-990 Thomas J. Dart, Sheriff, Cook County, Illinois v. Anthony Mays, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bell-v-wolfish civil-rights conditions-of-confinement due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment pretrial-detainee pretrial-detainees Whether Kingsley v. Hendrickson abrogated or modified the standard for evaluating pretrial detainees' claims challenging their conditions of confineme…
20-6926 Nestor Alegria Hernandez v. California California 2021-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment intoxicated-driving involuntary-manslaughter jury-instructions lesser-included-offense Whether California law violates the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause by requiring its courts to instruct on involuntary manslaughter as …
20-6902 Layw Thomas v. Kentucky Kentucky 2021-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP disproportionate-sentencing eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hammer-clause juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing-discretion Did Kentucky violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments when it allowed a youth who was 17 when his crimes occurred to be sentenced to life in priso…
20-6915 Scott Lee Peterson v. California California 2021-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-murder death-penalty eighth-amendment jury-selection sixth-amendment voir-dire witherspoon-challenge witherspoon-v-illinois Whether the Eighth Amendment permits a verdict of guilt returned by a jury from which all prospective jurors opposed to the death penalty have been im…
20-6896 Phillip A. Benjamin v. Florida Florida 2021-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-selection sixth-amendment witness-testimony Did the Trial Court err when limiting the testimonies of the defense witness from testifying of vital information, therefore, hindering the Defendant …
20-6900 John Reints v. Janet Sayler, et al. South Dakota 2021-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process economic-benefit fourteenth-amendment goldberg-v-kelly pre-deprivation-hearing pre-deprivation-notice procedural-rights statutory-benefits Are the Fourteenth Amendment procedural due process rights of a recipient of the need-based, statutory economic benefit at issue here violated when he…
20-974 Emil Svrcina, et al. v. Scott T. Nago, Chief Election Officer of the State of Hawaii, et al. Hawaii 2021-01-15 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process election-contest election-law elections first-amendment fourteenth-amendment hawaii-supreme-court state-legislature vote-by-mail Did the Hawaii Supreme Court violate due process by dismissing a complaint with prejudice?
20-6879 John D. Freeman v. Florida Florida 2021-01-14 Denied IFP due-process eighth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability montgomery-v-louisiana postconviction-procedure retroactive-application retroactivity substantive-rule Whether Florida's postconviction procedures governing intellectual-disability claims fail to vindicate defendants' substantive Eighth-Amendment rights…
20-6887 Harry Franklin Phillips v. Florida Florida 2021-01-14 Denied Amici (1)IFP atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment collateral-review eighth-amendment ex-post-facto intellectual-disability montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity supremacy-clause Whether a state court must give retroactive effect on collateral review to the rule announced in Hall v. Florida
20-6892 Vashaun Williams v. Illinois Illinois 2021-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment compelled-testimony constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions self-incrimination sixth-amendment Whether the State violated the Petitioner's rights under the 5th and 6th Amendments by compelling the testimony of a witness who invoked the 5th Amend…
20-6872 Scott Hildreth v. Kim Butler, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment grievance-process medical-neglect medical-treatment medication-refill policy prisoner-rights Is it right that the defendant Wexford health service, (Menard CC ) have returned to their same old song and dance and have been not properly or timel…
20-6873 Joshua Harrell v. California California 2021-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment seizure unreasonable-search unreasonable-seizure Whether the unreasonable search and seizure prejudicially violated the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution?
20-941 Gregory Atkins, et al. v. Kenneth Williams, Medical Director, Tennessee Department of Correction Sixth Circuit 2021-01-13 Denied 8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment injunctive-relief lack-of-funds official-capacity prison-conditions subjective-component Does the unavailability of funds or other resources negate the subjective component of a deliberate indifference claim under the Eighth Amendment?
20-939 Colette Marie Wilcox v. Nathan H. Lyons, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-01-12 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-conflict civil-rights constitutional-provisions discrimination equal-protection fourteenth-amendment invidious-discrimination retaliation standing Whether the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits retaliation against a person who has complained about invidious discriminati…
20-6821 Matthew Jamal Jackson v. Texas Texas 2021-01-12 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment prejudice pretrial-incarceration public-trial sixth-amendment speedy-trial Whether petitioner was denied his Constitutional right to a Speedy Public Trial pursuant to the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments
20-6846 Tyrone Campbell v. Florida Florida 2021-01-12 Denied IFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment standing supreme-court Whether the arbitrariness of a death sentence under Bucklew v. Precythe, 139 S. Ct. 1112 (2019), entitles the petitioner to relief
20-6824 Raymond Bright v. Florida Florida 2021-01-11 Denied IFP 14th-amendment due-process elements-of-offense fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-determinations statutory-maximum unanimous-verdict Whether a defendant's right to due process are violated when jury instructions do not require all determinations required by state statute for sentenc…
20-6829 Joseph J. Buttercase v. Nebraska Nebraska 2021-01-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment actual-innocence due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment nebraska postconviction-relief pro-se Whether there is a federal constitutional right for a prisoner to be released upon proof of actual innocence?
20-6815 Robert Munoz v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-due-process double-jeopardy due-process false-testimony fourteenth-amendment indictment jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct statute-of-limitations Is it written in the U.S. Constitution that a person may be indicted, reindicted 3-times with same cause number: broaden, abandon, and bring abandoned…
20-6797 Kevin Sembrat v. Heather Stanton, fka Heather Sembrat New Jersey 2021-01-07 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-conduct judicial-impartiality property-rights section-1983 Whether Petitioner was unconstitutionally deprived of property without due process
20-6769 Juan David Rodriguez v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied IFP atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability medical-consensus scientific-authority Whether the disregard of medical and scientific consensus and well-established clinical authority when evaluating a claim of intellectual disability c…
20-6775 Dantazias Raines v. Georgia Georgia 2021-01-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure eighth-amendment jury-trial juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole montgomery-v-louisiana permanent-incorrigibility sixth-amendment Does a juvenile have a Sixth Amendment right to have a jury decide whether he is permanently incorrigible, and thus eligible to be sentenced to life w…
20-904 Deborah Holter v. City of Mandan, North Dakota North Dakota 2021-01-05 Denied abuse-of-discretion due-process fourteenth-amendment governmental-action judicial-discretion property-rights special-assessment special-assessments takings village-of-norwood-v-baker Whether a governmental entity properly considers the special benefits accruing to an assessed property when paying a nominal portion of the total cost…
20-882 Donald J. Trump, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, et al. Wisconsin 2021-01-04 Denied Response Waived absentee-ballot article-ii constitutional-interpretation election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review laches legislative-intent state-courts voter-fraud wisconsin-legislature Whether it violates Article II of the Constitution, as well as the First and Fourteenth Amendments, for state courts to invoke the non-statutory, judg…
20-6763 Arnold Maurice Mathis v. Zulaika Zoe Vizcarrondo Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP compensatory-damages false-arrest fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment qualified-immunity statute-of-limitations warrantless-search Whether the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit correctly dismissed Petitioners Counts ILand IIL of the Original Complaint for false arrest on t…
20-6735 Frank A. McClung, Jr., et ux. v. Elia E. Estevez Florida 2020-12-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights default-judgment due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction jury-trial service-of-process seventh-amendment standing Seventh Amendment right to jury trial
20-6746 Jonathan Loyd v. Florida Florida 2020-12-31 Denied IFP 8th-amendment age-of-offender constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment mandatory-life-sentence sentencing Whether a mandatory term of life imprisonment imposed upon an offender under the age of 18 is per se lawful under the Eighth Amendment?
20-878 Michael Edwards v. Indiana University Seventh Circuit 2020-12-31 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection fourteenth-amendment public-employment state-action workplace-termination Was my 14th Amendment United States Constitutional Rights violated when I was fired by Indiana University?
20-6709 Lance Hundley v. Ohio Ohio 2020-12-28 Denied IFP capital-defendant capital-sentencing constitutional-review death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-determination mental-health self-representation sixth-amendment Do the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments forbid a trial court from allowing a capital defendant with questionable mental health to represent himself?
20-6701 Benjamin Pedraza, III v. Ohio Ohio 2020-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-data constitutional-rights criminal-procedure eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure privacy-expectation search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether a third party has expectation of privacy in cell-phone data obtained without a warrant
20-6708 Tony Decloues v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP confession confession-voluntariness due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment strickland-standard Whether the court of appeal should have granted COA where the district court employed a constitutionally impermissible standard in evaluating the volu…
20-844 Barbara Murray v. Elizabeth A. Fry, as Executrix of the Estate of James E. Fry, et al. Connecticut 2020-12-23 Denied 7th-amendment civil-eviction civil-rights due-process equal-protection eviction false-factual-finding fourteenth-amendment national-health-crisis seventh-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction Does the Seventh Amendment require a jury trial in a civil eviction case?
20-838 Kim Blandino v. Nevada, et al. Nevada 2020-12-22 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise impartial-judge judicial-impartiality structural-error Whether a criminal defendant's right to an impartial judge under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments requires correction before trial or conviction
20-839 Kenneth Greenway v. Southern Health Partners, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-22 Denied credibility-of-statements deliberate-indifference fourteenth-amendment inmate-rights jail-officials medical-needs serious-medical-needs summary-judgment tolan-v-cotton Should the Eleventh Circuit's reinvention of the Fourteenth Amendment standard for deliberate indifference to serious medical needs be permitted?
20-830 Washington v. Said Omer Ali Washington 2020-12-21 Denied Amici (3) 8th-amendment criminal-procedure eighth-amendment graham-v-florida individual-proportionality juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama proportionality-determination sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent Whether Graham and Miller require an individual proportionality determination before imposing any sentence on a juvenile offender convicted in adult c…
20-831 Washington v. Endy Domingo-Cornelio Washington 2020-12-21 Denied Amici (3) 8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment graham-v-florida individual-proportionality juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama proportionality-review sentencing-guidelines Whether Graham and Miller require an individual proportionality determination before imposing any sentence on a juvenile offender convicted in adult c…
20-6679 Larry Dortley v. Florida Florida 2020-12-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP civil-rights competency criminal-procedure drope-v-missouri due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-competency trial-rights Whether the Equal Protection and Due Process of Law Clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, and the United S…
20-821 Mountainlands Conservancy, LLC, et al. v. California Coastal Commission, et al. California 2020-12-17 Denied Response Waived coastal-regulation due-process fourteenth-amendment land-use procedural-due-process property-rights substantive-due-process takings zoning zoning-law When the California Coastal Commission's certification of the County of Los Angeles' local coastal program imposed a complete ban on the establishment…
20-6644 David Santiago Renteria v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-12-16 Denied IFP capital-sentencing certificate-of-appealability due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus investigative-funds sentencing Did the Court of Appeals deny petitioner a full appeal of the district court's denial of funding under 18 U.S.C. § 3599(f), and this Court's decision …
20-802 Virginia Ann Kurschinske v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-12-15 Denied civil-rights constitutional-interpretation double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment final-order-of-acquittal fourteenth-amendment state-law Are Pennsylvania state laws constitutional?
20-809 Kelli Ward v. Constance Jackson, et al. Arizona 2020-12-15 Denied ballot-inspection civil-rights due-process election electoral-college electoral-count-act fourteenth-amendment presidential-electors standing state-courts voting-rights Does the Electoral Count Act impose unconstitutional deadlines on state courts' final determination of disputes over presidential electors?
20-810 Mike Kelly, United States Congressman, et al. v. Pennsylvania, et al. Pennsylvania 2020-12-15 Denied Amici (11)Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process election-law elections elections-clause first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech laches laches-doctrine standing Do the First and Fourteenth Amendments permit Pennsylvania to bar equitable relief for constitutional challenges to election laws?
20-801 Frank DeLucia v. Greenbuild, LLC, et al. New York 2020-12-14 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-rights contempt due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment subpoena witness-appearance Is it a violation of the Due Process clauses of the United State Constitution, 5s Amendment and 14th Amendment to punish a party by dismissing his pro…
20-6613 C. D. Pickle, Jr., aka Clanton D. Pickle, Jr. v. Mississippi Mississippi 2020-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review legal-procedure petition supreme-court takings-clause writ-of-certiorari Whether the construction of the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution violates the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses o…
20-785 Eboni Nicole Baldwin v. Latoisha Dorsey Fifth Circuit 2020-12-10 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment medical-care medical-care-delay pre-gerstein-arrestee state-actor-liability How many hours of delayed mental health care is reasonable before a state actor can be held liable for deliberately indifferent or objectively unreaso…
20-787 Preserve Responsible Shoreline Management, et al. v. City of Bainbridge Island, Washington, et al. Washington 2020-12-09 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived 14th-amendment administrative-law administrative-procedure constitutional-claims due-process evidence evidence-limitation fourteenth-amendment judicial-review standing Does it violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause for a state's judicial review statute to bar the introduction of evidence outside the ad…
20-6542 Alfonso Percy Pew v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Pennsylvania 2020-12-07 Denied IFP 1st-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment federal-religious-land-use-institutionalized-perso federal-settlement-agreement first-amendment pro-se-litigant religious-land-use standing Whether the Pennsylvania state court judicial system has created a hands-off doctrine for pro se litigant's 42 U.S.C. §1983 civil-rights complaint all…
20-6546 John C. Nimmer v. Michael G. Heavican, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Nebraska, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-12-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-discipline civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment privileges-and-immunities rooker-feldman separation-of-powers standing Does the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bar a 42 USC 1983 claim when a facial challenge is pled?
20-775 Clifford Williams v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-12-07 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment right-to-present-defense self-defense sixth-amendment Whether a state court's arbitrary decision to deny a defendant the ability to present his self-defense case amounts to a denial of the fundamental con…
20-6523 Jason Lamont Brooks v. Scott Jordan, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-time-bar civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection habeas-corpus juvenile-offender lwop-sentence meaningful-opportunity montgomery-miller-precedent standing Does the AEDPA time-bar apply to a 'protected-class-of-citizen's' claim for relief?
20-6533 Grover B. Reed v. Florida Florida 2020-12-04 Denied IFP capital-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-state retroactive-law retroactivity statutory-construction Whether the Florida Supreme Court's statutory construction in Hurst v. State constitutes substantive law, and if so, whether under the Due Process Cla…
20-6534 Deverick Scott v. Rory Griffin, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment grievances inmate-rights medical-malpractice medical-treatment policy Is A.D.C.'s Correct Care Solutions Medical policy unconstitutional when it denies Scott's tooth restoration?
20-6515 Anthony Ponticelli v. Florida Florida 2020-12-03 Denied IFP capital-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-state jury-unanimity retroactivity statutory-construction substantive-law Whether the Florida Supreme Court's statutory construction in Hurst v. State constitutes substantive law, and if so, whether the Due Process Clause of…
20-6528 Ecclesiastical Denzel Washington v. Benjamin Brooke, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-12-03 Denied IFP civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment failure-to-protect prison-conditions prison-safety summary-judgment Whether the district court improperly decided factual issues in granting summary judgment
20-765 M. S. Willman v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Sixth Circuit 2020-12-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 8th-amendment constitutional-rights declaratory-relief eighth-amendment federal-registry full-faith-and-credit res-judicata sex-offender-registration sorna sorna-compliance Whether state sex offenders are only required to register with their jurisdiction or if SORNA imposes an independent federal registration obligation
20-6498 Tony Barksdale v. Jefferson Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-02 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing certificate-of-appealability due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-amendment eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent Did the Eleventh Circuit misconstrue this Court's guidance in Buck v. Davis when it denied Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability?
20-6501 Shannon Riley v. Carrie Kathleen Meehan South Carolina 2020-12-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction due-process fourteenth-amendment full-faith-and-credit original-jurisdiction public-interest writ-of-mandamus Has the 'public interest' requirement been met under the Full Faith and Credit Clause to entertain review of a petition for a Writ of Mandamus?
20-756 Christopher Gary Baylor v. Ayano Eto, fka Ayano Eto Baylor Minnesota 2020-12-02 Denied Relisted (2) 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-status parent-child-relationship parental-rights standing state-court May a state court terminate the rights of a parent without notice or due process of service?
20-6483 Adrien John Matuck v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-12-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-proportionality criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole sentencing-discretion speedy-trial statute-of-limitations Did District Court violate Matuck's Due Process right when it held a trial over seven years after his arrest?
20-751 Ashley Ann Krapacs v. The Florida Bar Florida 2020-12-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) abstract-idea administrative-law bar-discipline civil-rights disbarment due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech free-speech 20-7519" integrated-bar intellectual-property judicial-corruption patent-law political-speech professional-conduct state-action supreme-court-precedent Whether the Supreme Court will address alleged jud Whether the state action of disbarment violates the First Amendment as applied to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment
20-6419 Romell Broom v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-11-24 Dismissed IFP clearly-established-law constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment execution-attempt habeas-corpus robinson-v-california section-2254 sentencing supreme-court-precedent trop-v-dulles Is Louisiana ex rel. Francis v. Resweber, 329 U.S. 459 (1947) the clearly established United States Supreme Court precedent, for purposes of 28 U.S.C.…
20-710 John Grove v. Stephen A. Groome, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-11-23 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment property-interest right-to-appeal small-claims-court takings Does Grove have a protected property interest under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments such that he has a civil-rights-claim and takings-claim agains…
20-6393 Todd C. Hughes v. Florida Florida 2020-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment post-conviction postconviction-motion sexual-predator Did the Florida Second District Court of Appeal and the Florida Sixth Judicial Circuit violate the Petitioner's and like situated inmates, rights unde…
20-6396 Michael John Bever v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2020-11-20 Denied IFP consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-review jury-finding juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing sentencing sixth-amendment Whether a judge's decision to sentence a juvenile offender to consecutive terms is exempt from Eighth Amendment review
20-6398 Richard Wesley Allen v. Marcus A. Pollard, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-11-20 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection First-Amendment Fourteenth-Amendment free-speech parole prisoner-rights religious-freedom Does it violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments when a state requires a prisoner to change his or her religion, or to commit acts that are against…
20-701 James Calvert v. Texas Texas 2020-11-20 Denied Relisted (6) capital-punishment capital-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment mental-competency right-to-counsel structural-error Whether the Constitution prevents a State from allowing a defendant to represent himself in a capital case when the defendant is mentally competent to…
20-6371 Antoine Moseley v. Daniel Clarke Seventh Circuit 2020-11-19 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause due-process fact-finding fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment insufficient-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-elements Double Jeopardy
20-6383 Vincent McFadden v. Missouri Missouri 2020-11-19 Denied IFP fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-evidence prejudice-assessment rompilla sixth-amendment strickland-standard wiggins williams Whether the Missouri Supreme Court's application of Strickland violated the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments
20-691 Lih Bin Shih v. Nathan Brooks Parnell California 2020-11-18 Denied civil-rights clean-hands-doctrine due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech government-petition petition-clause police-reports retaliation Whether the Court may deny Petitioner's First Amendment right to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
20-6357 Paul Cook v. Appellate Division of the Superior Court of California, Los Angeles California 2020-11-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-prosecution due-process fifth-amendment for-profit-law-firm fourteenth-amendment impartiality private-law-firm prosecutorial-impartiality Can a for-profit law firm be contracted to criminally prosecute someone and still be impartial under the Due Process clauses?
20-676 J. P., By and Through His Guardian Ad Litem, Shannon Villanueva v. Alameda County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process emotional-harm fair-notice first-amendment foster-care fourteenth-amendment qualified-immunity Whether emotional harm alone triggers 42 U.S.C. §1983 liability
20-677 John T. Laettner v. California Commission on Judicial Performance California 2020-11-17 Denied Response Waived due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech judicial-discipline judicial-performance notice rebuttal-evidence right-to-be-heard speech-restraint Whether it is constitutional under the 1st, 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendments for a judicial disciplinary commission to remove a judge based on the manner…
20-672 Thomas Gilewicz v. Brylin Hospital, et al. New York 2020-11-16 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights court-proceedings due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-procedure standing state-court statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
20-6302 Nguyen Vu v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-11-13 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-bias perjured-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the petitioner was deprived of due process and equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment due to a prosecution based on perjured testimon…
20-6303 Lamar Whatley v. Illinois Illinois 2020-11-13 Denied IFP aggravating-factors constitutional-challenge de-novo eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion mitigating-factors sentencing sentencing-discretion separation-of-powers sixth-amendment Whether the separation of powers clause allows the legislature to limit the scope of judicial discretion in sentencing by deeming certain aggravating …
20-6308 John Patrick Wallace v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appellability civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit-precedent fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus procedural-bar standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Does the state lack subject matter jurisdiction under the Fourteenth Amendment?
20-6317 Robert Petty v. Indiana Indiana 2020-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review closing-arguments constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment trial-procedure Whether the Indiana Courts erred in denying Appellant effective assistance of trial counsel during closing arguments and sentencing, violating the Fif…
20-6325 Krystal Megan Delima v. Walmart Stores Arkansas, LLC Eighth Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct motion-for-new-trial preponderance-of-evidence transcript-irregularities Whether a Motion for a New Trial, FRCP Rule 59, should had been granted?
20-6262 Daniel Twian Brown v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-counsel warrantless-arrest Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability
20-6245 Jovon C. Davis v. Willis Chapman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-selection sixth-amendment trial-counsel Denial of Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights
20-6218 Terance Valentine v. Florida Florida 2020-11-05 Denied IFP constitutional-waiver criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-fact-finding jury-unanimity ring-v-arizona Whether a waiver to an advisory, non-unanimous jury verdict lacking in any fact finding requirement under a death penalty scheme later determined to b…
20-6231 Mark Zavala v. Kim Holland, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment gang-enhancement sentence-enhancement street-terrorism-act unitary-proceeding Does the trial of a sentence enhancement allegation under California's Street Terrorism Enforcement and Prevention Act in a unitary proceeding with th…
20-6236 Fuad Ndibalema v. Mark A. Levine Vermont 2020-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP adequate-remedy civil-procedure constitutional-law declaratory-relief due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment legal-remedy property-rights Whether the Existence of another Adequate Remedy does preclude a Judgment for Declaratory Relief
20-612 Roque "Rocky" De La Fuente, et al. v. Steve Simon, Minnesota Secretary of State Minnesota 2020-11-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) ballot-access equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-parties political-party-rights primary-election primary-elections Whether Minnesota's taxpayer-funded, state-administered, and binding presidential nomination primary election statutes are repugnant to the First and …
20-582 Shadreck Kifayatuthelezi v. South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-11-03 Denied civil-rights compensation eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment incarceration qualified-immunity release-date seventh-amendment state-law Whether the Eighth Amendment, the Fourteenth Amendment, and/or state law provide a source of compensation when an inmate is incarcerated past his lawf…
20-6206 Travis Johnson v. Illinois Illinois 2020-11-03 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing eighth-amendment proportionality proportionate-penalties sentencing solem-v-helm state-courts supreme-court-precedent Whether Illinois Appellant Courts must be required to follow the United States Supreme Court's opinion in Solem v. Helm, 463 U.S. 277 (1983), when ana…
20-6173 In Re Tommie H. Telfair 2020-10-30 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment standing Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment's due process and equal protection clauses
20-6164 In Re Theresa S. Romain 2020-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud-upon-the-court full-faith-and-credit petition-clause race-discrimination Can a State encourage discrimination on the basis of race theory?
20-6144 David Allen Kuntz v. California California 2020-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure coercion confession constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment miranda-rights personal-autonomy psychological-evaluation trial-counsel Whether appellant's waiver of his rights under Miranda v. Arizona and the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments was not knowing, intelligent, and voluntary
20-6146 Douglas Harrie Stewart v. Cathleen Stoddard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa antiterrorism-and-death-penalty-act-of-1996 clearly-established-law due-process estelle-v-mcguire evidence-prejudice fourteenth-amendment lisenba-v-people-of-state-of-california payne-v-tennessee trial-fairness Whether the rule of law espoused by Payne v. Tennessee, Lisenba v. People of State of California, and Estelle v. McGuire qualifies as 'clearly establi…
20-554 Craig Eugene Smith v. James McKinney, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-10-27 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) atypical-and-significant-hardship atypical-hardship courts-of-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review liberty-interest prison-conditions wilkinson-v-austin Whether a court determining if a prisoner has suffered an 'atypical and significant' hardship must consider factors such as the duration of and justif…
20-545 Barbara D. Terrell v. John Lewis Renner, II West Virginia 2020-10-26 Denied appellate-procedure civil-rights domestic-relations-exception due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-assets notice privileges-immunities property Whether the domestic-relations-exception applies to property rights under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments
20-6134 Adam Alfredo Flores v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment criminal-history cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentence eighth-amendment felon-in-possession sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness Was a maximum ten year sentence above the guidelines of 70 to 87 months' imprisonment for Felon in Possession of a Firearm substantively unreasonable,…
20-6116 Terry Joseph Wernicke, Jr. v. Court of Appeal of California, Third Appellate District, et al. California 2020-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment felony-murder juvenile-offender life-sentence parole Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the imposition of a life sentence without the possibility of paro…
20-515 Philadelphia Indemnity Insurance Company v. Gateway Hospitality Group Inc., et al. Montana 2020-10-20 Denied arbitration-clause civil-procedure due-process fair-play-and-substantial-justice forum-selection fourteenth-amendment insurance insurance-contract personal-jurisdiction Whether the nationwide territory of coverage clause in the insurance policy obligated the insurer to submit to personal jurisdiction in a Montana cour…
20-6085 Celso Yanez v. California California 2020-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment first-time-offender mandatory-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines sexual-abuse Whether a mandatory sentence of 45 years to life, imposed on a 56-year-old first-time offender in a sexual abuse case involving no violence, no force,…
20-6060 Benjamin Davis Smiley, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2020-10-19 Denied IFP aggravating-factors capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-determination mitigating-circumstances sentencing Does the decision of the Florida Supreme Court in Smiley v. State, 295 So.3d 156 (2020), violate the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishm…
20-6043 Robin Lee Archer v. Florida Florida 2020-10-16 Denied IFP criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-role retroactivity statutory-construction substantive-criminal-law substantive-law Whether the Florida Supreme Court's statutory construction in Hurst v. State constitutes substantive law
20-6021 William Allen v. Candice Batts, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP alexander-v-louisiana constitutional-violation de-novo-review due-process fourteenth-amendment grand-jury-discrimination habeas-corpus jefferson-v-morgan systematic-exclusion Whether Petitioner is entitled to habeas corpus relief
20-6023 Carlos Anderson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2020-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-sentencing life-sentence procedural-bar state-court-decisional-law state-court-law Can the Florida Supreme Court use state court decisional law to procedurally bar a non-homicide juvenile defendant from seeking relief from an illegal…
20-6031 Durwyn Talley v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois Seventh Circuit 2020-10-15 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-rights court-access due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction first-amendment fourteenth-amendment prison-litigation-reform-act Whether the United States Court of appeals, 7th Circuit decision denying Petitioner access to the Court and his right to file any motions against such…
20-6032 Timothy Nolan v. Kentucky Kentucky 2020-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment human-trafficking jurisdictional-error notice notice-requirement standing statutory-interpretation Is it possible to sustain a prosecution for human trafficking when no one is trafficked?
20-6005 Victor Brancaccio v. Florida Florida 2020-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-claims federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-precedent supremacy-clause virginia-v-leblanc Whether Florida courts are refusing to consider Eighth Amendment claims in violation of the Supremacy Clause by treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. C…
20-6010 Cezary Wojcik v. Cook County, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-10-14 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment ada ada-statute civil-rights constitutional-rights disabled-persons disabled-prisoners-rights eighth-amendment estelle-v-gamble fourteenth-amendment medical-care Did cook county defendants violate disabled Cezary Wojcik Constitutional Rights
20-473 Ammar I. v. Connecticut Connecticut 2020-10-13 Denied Relisted (2) child-welfare civil-rights due-process family-law foster-care fourteenth-amendment parental-rights religious-freedom Whether prolonged 'temporary' foster placement violated federal law and the Petitioner's constitutional rights
20-5981 Javier Garza v. Illinois Illinois 2020-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-characteristics constitutional-provisions court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure de-facto-life-sentence eighth-amendment judicial-review juvenile-sentencing legal-interpretation miller-v-louisiana statutory-provisions youth-characteristics Whether mandatory life sentences, natural or de facto, for juveniles are unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment regardless of whether the trial c…
20-5996 Jamaal Howard v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-10-13 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-health-evaluation miranda-rights sixth-amendment Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
20-5932 In Re Maurice Johnson 2020-10-08 Denied IFP 14th-amendment african-american-rights citizenship-status civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-personhood reconstruction slavery slavery-abolition states-rights What branch of law authorized the states to apply abolished slaves labels (Negro, Black, Colored or African-American) to any African descent after 186…
20-5954 Meryl S. McDonald v. Florida Florida 2020-10-08 Denied IFP criminal-procedure death-penalty death-sentence due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment post-conviction postconviction-counsel pro-se-filing right-to-counsel Whether rule 3.851(b)(6)&(i) of the Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure is unconstitutional and violates the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses …
20-445 Matthew Anderson v. John Bonnewell, et al. Delaware 2020-10-07 Denied Response Waived 8th-amendment civil-rights correctional-officers due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force intent prison-conditions qualified-immunity summary-judgment Whether a trial court can disregard the Whitley-factors in an Eighth-Amendment-excessive-force case
20-5944 In Re Gerald M. Calmese 2020-10-07 Denied IFP constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process effective-counsel evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus identity-theft jurisdiction sixth-amendment Whether the evidence presented failed to establish the required element of 'another person,' for which the plaintiff was convicted of taking their ide…
20-438 Tatiana Reiter, et al. v. New Jersey New Jersey 2020-10-06 Denied affordable-housing constitutional-protections constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment marital-property property-rights takings tenancy-by-entirety Whether a temporary, notwithstanding extended, absence by one spouse from a marital residence justifies a court ordered termination of a tenancy by th…
20-5892 Russell A. Stoddard v. Florida Florida 2020-10-05 Denied IFP appellate-review cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment enhanced-sentence fourteenth-amendment sentencing state-law Does the Eighth Amendment protection against cruel and unusual punishment prohibit a state from imposing a prison sentence that exceeds the maximum pr…
20-5893 Jonnie Ravon v. Florida Florida 2020-10-05 Denied IFP constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment habeas-corpus juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole manifest-injustice sentencing violent-offenses Whether the courts below decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions of this Honorable Court
20-5902 Larry Burt Sexton v. Tennessee Tennessee 2020-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment hearsay hearsay-evidence parole-consideration sentencing Whether the trial court erred in admitting hearsay evidence at the sentencing hearing and in finding the petitioner to be a career offender, resulting…
20-5908 Mikel Clotaire v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit-precedent fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mug-shot-admission presumption-of-innocence sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-precedent Whether the Eleventh Circuit's decision to admit a mug shot in a criminal trial absent a need for the evidence splits with well-established Sixth Circ…
20-5887 Charles Kunta Lewis, Jr. v. Michigan Michigan 2020-10-02 Denied IFP age-consideration brain-development constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment individualized-sentencing juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing mandatory-minimum sentencing Whether the sentence given to Mr. Lewis was unconstitutional because it violated the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment when his youthfu…
20-5897 Demetrice Williams v. Sandy McCain, Warden, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-10-02 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability COA criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution denial effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection federal-district-court fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the federal district court should not have denied COA based on the substantial showing of the denial of the Sixth Amendment guarantees of the …
20-5846 Anthony C. Green v. Kelly Lake, Sheriff, Carlton County, Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 8th-circuit civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-standard due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment objective-reasonableness qualified-immunity Whether the 8th Circuit's decision is contrary to Kingsley
20-5848 Richard Bridgeman Gustafson v. Oregon Oregon 2020-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity ramos-v-louisiana sixth-amendment state-trial-procedure Whether a criminal trial in the State of Oregon that did not guarantee a unanimous verdict, leading the defendant to choose a bench trial, was unconst…
20-5858 Elvert S. Briscoe, Jr. v. Annette Chambers-Smith, Director, Ohio Rehabilitation and Correction, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied IFP constitutional-rights disciplinary-hearing due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection first-amendment liberty-interest sandin-v-connor Can an action by a prison disciplinary hearing that is a violation of the First Amendment, Eighth Amendment, or Equal Protection Clause give a liberty…
20-5874 Jerry Lard v. Arkansas Arkansas 2020-10-01 Denied IFP categorical-prohibition death-penalty eighth-amendment execution intellectual-disability ripeness waiver Whether a death-sentenced inmate is permitted to waive a viable claim for an Eighth Amendment categorical probation against the execution of persons w…
20-413 Jozlyn Thomas v. James Scott Blevins California 2020-09-30 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment beneficiary-rights civil-procedure constitutional-due-process due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment notice notice-requirements trust trust-administration Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments void a trial court order approving a trust account and distribution between trustee and beneficiary withou…
20-5835 Joseph Belarde Garcia v. California California 2020-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus parole parole-board prisoner-rights victim-impact-statement Can a state parole board commit a fatal error by the refusal to entertain favorable evidence of the state prisoner for his suitability to be released …
20-403 Jose Edward Valentin, et al. v. California California 2020-09-28 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment municipal-code vagueness zoning zoning-ordinance Whether Santa Monica Municipal Code Section 9.51.020 (A)(1)(e) is unconstitutional
20-5803 Raymond Brown v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federalism fourteenth-amendment petition-for-review standing state-court supreme-court-rules Did the Pennsylvania Supreme Court decide on a constitutional question that conflicts with a decision of another state court and the Supreme Court Rul…
20-5786 William Earl Sweet v. Florida Florida 2020-09-25 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-violations eighth-amendment giglio-claim habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-proceedings suspension-clause Whether the Eighth Amendment and the Suspension Clause require that an individual have a fair opportunity to show actual-innocence in state-court and …
20-5801 James Rogers v. Florida Florida 2020-09-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-claims federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-corpus legal-precedent state-court-decisions supremacy-clause virginia-v-leblanc Whether Florida courts are refusing to consider Eighth Amendment claims in violation of the Supremacy Clause by treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. C…
20-5813 Glenn Young v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-09-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment jury-conviction jury-trial non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment Is the State's evidence sufficient to sustain Young's nonunanimous conviction?
20-5795 Donald Mitchell Tedford v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-09-24 Denied IFP discoverable-information due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pennsylvania-law post-conviction-relief post-conviction-relief-act Whether the Post-Conviction Relief Act procedures of Pennsylvania law were applied to Petitioner in violation of his Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment ri…
20-5780 D. W. v. California California 2020-09-23 Denied IFP amendment criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment juvenile-court notice petition-amendment prosecutorial-discretion trial-procedure Did The Juvenile Court Violate A Minor's Right To Due Process Under The Fourteenth Amendment When It Granted The Prosecutor's Request To Amend A Petit…
20-5732 Ernest Seadin v. Dean Williams, Director, Colorado Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2020-09-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 8th-amendment constitutional-rights eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment new-evidence no-escape-conviction plea-agreement sentence-expiration sentencing-violation Is the State of Colorado subjecting Petitioner to a death in prison sentence
20-361 James Courtney, et al. v. David Danner, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause fourteenth-amendment interstate-commerce navigable-waters privileges-immunities privileges-or-immunities-clause slaughter-house-cases state-government state-power Is the 'right to use the navigable waters of the United States' limited solely to uses involving interstate or foreign commerce?
20-5748 Dacarius Holliday v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-09-17 Denied IFP constitutional-error criminal-intent criminal-negligence due-process eighth-amendment jury-instructions jury-sentencing specific-intent standard-of-proof trial-court Can convictions for crimes requiring specific intent create constitutional error where the trial court has ruled that the evidence supports criminal n…
20-350 Daniel Flores v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 5th-amendment confession-coercion confidential-informant due-process false-confession fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mexican-mafia Are a defendant's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment due process rights violated by the placement of a paid confidential informant in an adjacent cell who…
20-5722 Stanley J. Carter v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest speedy-trial state-law Does a Criminal defendant have a Fourteenth Amendment Constitutional Protection against the arbitrary deprivation by a state of one's State created li…
20-5697 Heather P. Hogrobrooks Harris v. Jimmie L. Smith Tennessee 2020-09-15 Denied IFP 42-usc-1981 civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct recusal recusal-standard Whether a judge who lied about her reasons for not hearing from the Petitioner during a hearing and subsequently lied in her Order denying to recusal …
20-5685 Ruben Sanchez v. Steven Silva, et al. First Circuit 2020-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenge pretext racial-discrimination standard-of-review Whether the prosecutor's peremptory challenge of Hispanic prospective jurors was justified
20-5688 Joseph L. Berry v. Ohio Ohio 2020-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment gender-discrimination jury-selection race-discrimination Does discrimination in jury selection at the intersection of race and gender violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Un…
20-5662 Hazhar A. Sayed v. Dean Williams, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections Colorado 2020-09-11 Dismissed IFP administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedies civil-procedure civil-rights colorado-corrections due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion prisoner-civil-rights prisoner-rights sex-offender-treatment standing Whether the Colorado Court of Appeals abused its discretion in dismissing Mr. Sayed's 42-U.S.C.-§1983-complaint
20-311 Deborah Walton v. First Merchant's Bank Seventh Circuit 2020-09-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction Whether the Appellants' 14th Amendment rights were violated when she was not afforded the right to respond to the Appellee's motion for Attorney fees
20-5629 Lester Waller v. Vance Laughlin, Warden Georgia 2020-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process expert-witness-testimony fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-court-error waiver-of-counsel Did the Trial Court err when it determined Defendant's waiver of counsel was valid thus , violating his Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel and his Fourt…
20-5630 Mark Anthony Thacker v. Indiana Indiana 2020-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment indiana-law jail-time-credit judicial-discretion miscarriage-of-justice sentencing sentencing-credit Whether Petitioner, Mark A. Thacker, has suffer a miscarriage of justice and has been denied the equal protection and due process of laws as guarantee…
20-300 James Alan Clark v. Wendy Kristine Clark Washington 2020-09-08 Denied Response Waived child-support due-process equal-custody equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fundamental-liberty-interests residential-credit shared-custody strict-scrutiny Whether strict scrutiny protections apply to child-support-orders
20-5619 James Allen Minyard v. North Carolina North Carolina 2020-09-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP competency-hearing due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment harmless-error prejudice structural-error trial-rights Whether the trial court violated the petitioner's due process right to a fair trial by failing to hold a competency hearing despite a bona fide doubt …
20-287 Ernest Johnson v. Anne L. Precythe, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-09-04 Denied Relisted (12) alternative-method bucklew-v-precythe constitutional-claim eighth-amendment legitimate-penological-justification method-of-execution penological-justification summary-judgment Whether Bucklew established a categorical rule for dismissing Eighth Amendment method-of-execution claims
20-290 Charles Meyers, et al. v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2020-09-04 Denied Response Waived assembly civil-rights constitutional-review due-process fair-notice first-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-permission How individualized must government permission be to raise fair notice protection under the due process component of the Fourteenth Amendment?
20-5528 Miguel Romero v. California California 2020-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP fourteenth-amendment jury-trial juvenile-adjudication prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments preclude a trial court from using a prior juvenile adjudication to increase a defendant's maximum sentence…
20-281 Waseem Daker v. Clinton Perry, Jr., Warden Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-03 Denied 8th-amendment circuit-split conditions-of-confinement due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus prisoner-rights solitary-confinement Whether a prisoner may file a habeas corpus petition to challenge his placement on segregated/solitary confinement
20-285 Herman Tracy Clark v. Jerold Braggs, Warden Tenth Circuit 2020-09-03 Denied aedpa-restriction commutation due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus impartiality liberty-interest pardon pardon-and-parole parole statutory-interpretation Whether the word 'shall' binds the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board decision
20-5562 Jeffrey Hessler v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-09-03 Denied IFP aggravating-circumstances constitutional-amendments death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida judicial-panel jury-determination post-conviction-relief ring-v-arizona sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, as well as Ring and Hurst, are violated when eligibility for the death penalty is asserted to be …
20-5569 Carlos Garcia-Toro v. Ohio Ohio 2020-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest criminal-defense criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment homicide ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Does the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment of the federal Constitution guarantee the right to conflict free counsel if defense counsel represents multipl…
20-5580 Kyle Phillips v. Florida Florida 2020-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process due-process-clause evidence-law evidentiary-rules fourteenth-amendment prior-act-evidence sexual-battery Whether it is a violation of the due process guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment for irrelevant prior-act evidence to be received in a criminal tri…
20-265 Leon Oscar Ramirez, Jr., et al. v. ConocoPhillips Company, et al. Texas 2020-09-02 Denied Response Waived common-law constitutional-amendment due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mineral-rights property-rights takings takings-clause Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit common law courts from eliminating property ownership by changing or disregarding their common la…
20-272 Maryland, et al. v. Jimmie Rogers Maryland 2020-09-02 Denied Response Waived constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment sentencing sex-offender-registration sixth-amendment Did the Court of Appeals of Maryland depart from this Court's decisions in Smith v. Doe and Apprendi v. New Jersey
20-277 Christopher Adams, et al. v. Tony Parker, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-09-02 Denied civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment food-safety professional-standards sanitation Whether prisoners have a right protected by the Eighth Amendment to have their food prepared and served in a sanitary manner
20-5559 Tim Sundy v. Friendship Pavilion Acquisition Company, LLC, et al. Georgia 2020-09-02 Dismissed IFP constitutional-rights court-record-tampering criminal-immunity due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-immunity judicial-remedy Whether the refusal of Georgia courts to provide a Georgia litigant any 'plain, speedy, and efficient' remedy to officers of the Georgia courts tamper…
20-5572 Michael Aaron Witkin v. Mariana Lotersztain, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-09-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment expert-testimony medical-care prison-conditions summary-judgment Whether expert medical testimony is necessary to survive summary judgment in an Eighth Amendment deliberate indifference claim
20-250 Mark Anthony Poole v. Florida Florida 2020-09-01 Denied aggravating-circumstances capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment hurst-precedent hurst-v-florida jury-recommendation mitigating-circumstances sixth-amendment Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in reinstating a capital sentence issued under Florida's pre-2016 scheme
20-259 Minhnga Nguyen v. The Boeing Company Ninth Circuit 2020-09-01 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment discrimination disparate-treatment due-process employment-discrimination fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment public-safety public-safety-reporting retaliation whistleblower wrongful-termination Did Boeing violate the Fifth Amendment and public safety when it punished Plaintiff for Plaintiff's saving hundreds of human lives from potential airp…
20-5508 David P. Moran v. Florida Florida 2020-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment motion-preservation preservation-of-issues statutory-interpretation trial-procedure Is Fla. Stat. 924.051(1)(b) unconstitutional due to conflict with the due process clause of the 14th Amendment?
20-5531 Cynthia Holmes v. James Y. Becker, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-08-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 7th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech seventh-amendment Whether the revised South Carolina Frivolous Proceedings Act (FPA), S.C. Code § 15-36-10, is unconstitutional
20-5505 Keith O. Johnson v. Florida Florida 2020-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency competency-hearing constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fundamental-error mental-health Whether a defendant can be proceeded against in a criminal proceeding where a question of the defendant's competency has been raised and recognized by…
20-5521 Wilbert Williams, aka Serenity Izabel Williams v. Beverly Kelly, Assistant Warden, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-08-26 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment gender-dysphoria medical-treatment prisoners-rights transgender transgender-rights Whether gender dysphoria is a serious medical condition and whether there is a conflict between the 5th Circuit and other U.S. Courts of Appeals
20-5523 Brian Jury v. David W. Gray, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus standing statutory-procedure Whether the district court's assessment of the petitioner's constitutional claims was debatable or wrong, and whether the habeas corpus petition claim…
20-5485 Maurice Moss v. Florida Florida 2020-08-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-interpretation eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-issue federal-habeas-review federal-review florida-courts habeas-corpus judicial-precedent supremacy-clause virginia-v-leblanc Whether Florida courts are refusing to consider Eighth Amendment claims in violation of the Supremacy Clause
20-5486 Spencer E. Miles v. Florida Florida 2020-08-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-interpretation eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-issue federal-habeas-review federal-review florida-courts habeas-corpus judicial-precedent supremacy-clause virginia-v-leblanc Whether Florida courts are refusing to consider Eighth Amendment claims in violation of the Supremacy Clause
20-5487 Jerome Adams v. Illinois Illinois 2020-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process due-process-clause eighth-amendment procedural-bar res-judicata standing Whether the procedural bar of res judicata may serve as the basis for the dismissal of constitutional claims that were previously raised, but with sub…
20-5491 M. C. v. Indiana Indiana 2020-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment delinquent-acts due-process eighth-amendment imprisonment juvenile-detention juvenile-justice punishment Is a child imprisoned for delinquent acts 'punished' within the meaning of the Eighth Amendment?
20-206 Wanda Albritten v. California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, et al. California 2020-08-21 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 7th-amendment civil-jury-trial civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination fourteenth-amendment incorporation incorporation-doctrine jury-trial seventh-amendment summary-judgment Is the Seventh Amendment right to a civil jury trial incorporated by the Fourteenth Amendment?
20-5440 Jose Tejada v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2020-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ethnic-bias fourteenth-amendment jury-selection sixth-amendment whether-the-right-to-a-fair-trial-requires-questioning-prospective-jurors-on-bias-against-hispanics
20-5450 Darnell Perkins Washington v. Florida Florida 2020-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment florida-constitution relief standing Does a defendant deserve relief from an Mega Sestece that constitutes Cruel and Unusual punishment under Article I, Section 17 of the Florida Constitu…
20-5408 Robert Richard Jodoin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process eighth-amendment federal-sentencing military-veteran non-violent-offense reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines veteran-status Whether a 130-month prison sentence for a non-violent, drug dealing, 50-year-old, military veteran is unreasonable
20-5416 Roosevelt Cure, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2020-08-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-interpretation eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-issue federal-habeas-review federal-review florida-courts habeas-corpus judicial-precedent supremacy-clause virginia-v-leblanc Whether Florida courts are refusing to consider Eighth Amendment claims in violation of the Supremacy Clause
20-5417 Rasheed Lamar Robinson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment federal-habeas-corpus felony-convictions national-importance retroactive-sentencing Whether the retroactive erasure of felony convictions violates due process and the denial of a Certificate of Appealability reflects a breakdown in th…
20-177 Ally Financial Inc. v. Alberta Haskins, et al. Missouri 2020-08-18 Granted Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) class-action due-process forum-contacts fourteenth-amendment nationwide-class out-of-state-defendant personal-jurisdiction state-court Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits a state court to exercise specific personal jurisdiction over claims against an out…
20-5381 Lawrence F. Curtin v. Kimberly Cortez Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP eighth-amendment fifth-amendment first-amendment florida fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-qualification-commission petition redress-of-grievances sixth-amendment state-court-judge First Amendment right to petition Florida's Judicial Qualification Commission, the government, in writing, for a redress of grievances about state cou…
20-165 Angela L. Carroll v. Timothy W. Miller Wisconsin 2020-08-14 Denied 14th-amendment due-process fourteenth-amendment impartiality judicial-ethics recusal social-media standing Was the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment violated by a judge and party being Facebook 'friends'?
20-5362 David Wayne Allen v. Betty Mitchell, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-14 Denied IFP biased-juror death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus juror-bias ohio-supreme-court sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent Did the trial court's refusal to dismiss a biased juror from a Death Penalty Panel, deprive Petitioner Allen of protection under the Sixth and Fourtee…
20-149 Cheryl D. Uzamere v. New York, et al. Second Circuit 2020-08-13 Denied antitrust civil-rights court-corruption due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech genocide hobbs-act new-york-state-law Whether New York State Law S2942—A is unconstitutional
20-5330 Layne Aucoin v. Andrew Cupil, Lieutenant, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights eighth-amendment excessive-force muhammad-v-close prison-discipline prisoner-rights sixth-amendment Do the Sixth Amendment and this Court's decision in Muhammad v. Close, 540 U.S. 749 (2004), foreclose a federal court from dismissing an inmate 8th Am…
20-5333 Norman Paul Blanco v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-13 Denied IFP administrative-law california-penal-code civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment felony-convictions judicial-review legal-procedure sentencing-enhancements statutory-interpretation Whether California's sentencing enhancement scheme for certain felony convictions violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual pun…
20-5326 Jose Alonso Garcia v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment career-offender categorical-approach due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines Were Mr. Garcia's Due Process Rights violated under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment
20-5335 Dustin Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment methamphetamine methamphetamine-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the District Court erred in sentencing the Defendant based on ice (\'actual\' methamphetamine) rather than a mixture and substance containing …
20-5321 Michael Wayne Wadena v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights controlled-substance criminal-history due-process eighth-amendment firearm-possession related-cases sentencing sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals have jurisdiction to hear a certificate of appealability
20-5311 Richard Hollihan, Jr. v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-08-10 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection extraordinary-relief fourteenth-amendment legal-precedent precedent precedential-decision state-court-jurisdiction supreme-court Did the Pennsylvania Supreme Court violate the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution when it Denied Petitioner's Application For Extraordin…
20-5294 Byron Becton v. Shawn Phillips, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination Did the prosecutor's misconduct deprive the petitioner of a fair trial that violated petitioner's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights against self-i…
20-5281 Steven Robinson, aka Michael Moore v. United States District of Columbia 2020-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech self-incrimination sixth-amendment standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause
20-124 Robert Fusco v. Tony Mays, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-05 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment standing Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause and Equal Protection Clause
20-5263 Patrick W. Schroeder v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-08-05 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mitigation mitigation-evidence pro-se pro-se-representation proportionality sentencing Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments are violated when a capital sentencing panel issues a death sentence despite the defendant's refusal to i…
20-5243 Warren K. Henness v. Mike DeWine, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-08-03 Denied Amici (3)IFP alternative-methods cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment lethal-injection medical-aid-in-dying Whether the Eighth Amendment categorically permits the degree of pain caused by hanging
20-112 Sherry Hernandez v. PNMAC Mortgage Opportunity Fund Investors, LLC, et al. California 2020-08-03 Denied Relisted (2) due-process fourteenth-amendment fraudulent-documents judicial-notice law-of-case law-of-the-case mers-system notice wrongful-foreclosure Did the California Superior Court and the Court of Appeal deprive Petitioner of her right to Due Process guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment, by Re…
20-5193 Mollee M. McWhorter v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-07-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment free-speech juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole standing takings Whether the court below erred in dismissing petitioner's claims challenging the constitutionality of certain federal statutes and government actions
20-5196 David McConnell v. Florida Florida 2020-07-31 Denied IFP cooperation-with-state criminal-investigation criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel murder murder-prosecution prosecutorial-conflict sixth-amendment Does counsel under the Fourteenth and Sixth Amendment have an obligation to effectively assist a defendant's cooperation with the State in a murder pr…
20-93 Jane Doe, a Minor Child Who is Unborn, By and Through Her Father and Next Friend, John Doe v. Mike Hunter, Attorney General of Oklahoma, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-07-29 Denied abortion due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-precedent levy-v-louisiana roe-v-wade standing traceability unborn-children Whether the government that adopted a discriminatory law is absolved of traceability for standing purposes when the law is based on judicial precedent
20-79 Cedric L. Daniels v. Dave Davey, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-07-27 Denied Response Waived confrontation-clause due-process evidence-admission fourteenth-amendment hearsay impeachment-evidence jury-instructions sixth-amendment three-strikes-law Denial of Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses and Fourteenth Amendment due process
20-5178 Jimmy Fernetus v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment district-court eighth-amendment executive-branch executive-power legislative-branch legislative-power minimum-mandatory-sentence separation-of-powers Whether the separation of powers doctrine prohibits the legislative and executive branches from forcing a district court judge to impose a minimum man…
20-5183 Keith Hoglund v. Ron Neal, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-amendments constitutional-rights due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment harmless-error hearsay-evidence procedural-rights sixth-amendment Whether the lower court(s) violated Keith Hoglund's substantive and procedural due process rights
20-5163 Lonnie Kade Welsh v. Texas Texas 2020-07-24 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-commitment criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment insanity-defense mens-rea mental-capacity Would the State of Texas cause a fundamental miscarriage of justice violating the United States Fourteenth Amendment by refusing to overturn the crimi…
20-5164 Lonnie Kade Welsh v. Texas Texas 2020-07-24 Denied IFP civil-commitment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment insanity-defense mens-rea mental-capacity Would the State of Texas cause a fundamental miscarriage of justice violating the United States Fourteenth Amendment by refusing to overturn the crimi…
20-5165 Lonnie Kade Welsh v. Texas Texas 2020-07-24 Denied IFP civil-commitment criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment insanity-defense mens-rea mental-capacity sanity Whether the State of Texas caused a fundamental miscarriage of justice by refusing to overturn a criminal sentence despite evidence of lack of mental …
20-5169 Randy A. Thomas v. Ohio Ohio 2020-07-24 Denied IFP developmental-delay fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel low-iq mental-capacity self-defense sixth-amendment social-security Is counsel ineffective under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments when no investigation is conducted pre-trial concerning the client's developmental-de…
20-5171 Cedric Watkins v. Kenneth D. Hutchison, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-07-24 Denied IFP constitutional-rights credibility-of-witnesses due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence-sufficiency fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jackson-v-virginia sixth-amendment witness-credibility Whether the lower courts properly applied Supreme Court precedent and enforced the U.S. Constitution
20-5176 Nicholas Harris v. California California 2020-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment penal-consequences resentencing serious-felony three-strikes-law witness-dissuasion Does California's Three Strikes Reform Act of 2012 violate the Ex Post Facto Clause and/or the Due Process Clause?
20-61 Joan Orie Melvin v. Stephen D. Zappala, et al. Third Circuit 2020-07-23 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment state-crimes workplace-rule workplace-rules Whether a defendant's Fifth Amendment rights are violated when charged with state crimes based on alleged deviation from an internal workplace rule ra…
20-51 Pedro Pete Benevides v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-22 Denied Response Waived criminal-forfeiture eighth-amendment excessive-fine forfeiture ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines Whether the forfeiture of over $44 million constitutes an excessive fine under the Eighth Amendment
20-5146 Douglas Harry Warenback v. Dwight W. Neven, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment access-to-courts case-law certificate-of-appealability court-access due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review Has the Circuit Court violated my first Amendment right to access the courts by failing to provide any evidence that my request for certificate of app…
20-5119 Wayne Powell v. Ohio Ohio 2020-07-21 Denied IFP death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment expert-funding hurst-v-florida indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-relief sixth-amendment Does Ohio's postconviction process allow indigent defendants a substantive opportunity to develop claims that comport with Ohio's collateral review re…
20-5123 Cardell A. Hayes v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-07-21 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal-pipeline criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment non-unanimous-verdict pipeline ramos-relief ramos-v-louisiana retroactivity sixth-amendment Whether Cardell Hayes is entitled to the relief provided by Ramos v. Louisiana because his case is in the appeal pipeline
20-5129 David Aziel Sheer v. Patrick Warren, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether this Court should issue a writ of certiorari
20-5071 David P. Moran v. Florida Florida 2020-07-20 Denied IFP 14th-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment motion-preservation preservation-of-error standing trial-procedure Is Fla. Stat. 924.051(1)(b) unconstitutional due to conflict with 14th Amendment due-process
20-5101 Timothy Visage v. R. E. Woodall, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment arbitrary-action arbitrary-and-abusive-conduct civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process fourteenth-amendment government-liability government-policy state-created-danger state-custody Whether the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment imposes upon the State an affirmative duty of care and protection to connected persons in S…
20-5102 Makeda Haile v. Abdul Conteh Virginia 2020-07-17 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct title-vii Whether the Supreme Court will address violations of civil rights and due process
20-5103 Makeda Haile v. Kaiser Permanente Tysons Corner Fourth Circuit 2020-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct title-vii Whether the Supreme Court will address violations of civil rights and due process
20-5105 David Scott Temple v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea louisiana-constitution plea-bargaining sixth-amendment standard-of-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Was Mr. Temple denied effective assistance of counsel?
20-31 Prince McCoy, Sr. v. Tajudeen Alamu Fifth Circuit 2020-07-16 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) 8th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights eighth-amendment excessive-force hudson-factors prison-conditions prisoner-rights qualified-immunity Whether a prison official is entitled to qualified immunity for an unprovoked assault on a prisoner even when not every Hudson factor favors the plain…
20-5082 Robert Deane Schwartz v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-07-15 Denied IFP affirmative-defense certificate-of-appealability due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas habeas-corpus jury-instruction jury-instructions Did the Ninth Circuit err for failing to grant a certificate of appealability pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2) on petitioner's claim that the state …
20-12 Sheri Speer v. Seaport Capital Partners, LLC Connecticut 2020-07-13 Denied constitutional-rights counsel court-access due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hearing injunctive-relief liberty-interest property-interest Did the Trial Court improperly deny the Petitioner due process of law?
20-5003 Richard B. Woods v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-07-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-error constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial non-unanimous-verdict remand sixth-amendment Whether petitioner's conviction based upon a non-unanimous verdict violated the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution?
20-5010 Danny Lee Warner, Jr. v. Montana Montana 2020-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-privilege due-process evidentiary-hearing eyewitness-identification fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Is purposeful intrusion into attorney-client privilege per se prejudicial?
20-5015 James Latron Sumter v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment first-step-act guilty-plea mandatory-minimum plea-bargaining sentencing Whether the appellate court erred in affirming the district court's ruling not allowing Sumter to withdraw his guilty plea
19-8927 Alfred Brian Mitchell v. Tommy Sharp, Warden Tenth Circuit 2020-07-08 Denied IFP age-of-culpability cognitive-science constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment sentencing-aggravator standing statutory-interpretation Whether Oklahoma's application of the 'heinous, atrocious, or cruel' death-penalty aggravator is unconstitutionally vague
19-1470 Samuel A. Gurrola v. Walgreen Company Fifth Circuit 2020-07-08 Rehearing Relisted (2) 14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment monopoly monopoly-power obstruction-of-justice property-rights res-judicata Can the world's largest pharmacy chain influence a State to fabricate evidence to achieve its monopoly goals, abridge plaintiffs rights and steal plai…
19-1478 John Kristoffer Larsgard v. Arizona Arizona 2020-07-08 Denied Response Waived adequate-appeal appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel omitted-issues procedural-safeguards smith-v-robbins Whether the process of review implemented by Arizona in claims of ineffective assistance of counsel satisfy Fourteenth Amendment protections
19-1428 Tina L. Morin v. Montana Office of Disciplinary Counsel Montana 2020-07-02 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights disciplinary-counsel disciplinary-proceedings due-process Fourteenth-Amendment guardianship legal-ethics legal-representation professional-conduct right-to-counsel Did the COP violate Morin's due-process rights under the Fourteenth-Amendment when the COP ordered Morin suspended from practice for allegedly violati…
19-8848 Curtis Phillips v. Derek Oberlander, et al. Third Circuit 2020-07-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause
19-8849 Linda Pedroza v. Florida Florida 2020-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing parole proportionality second-degree-homicide sentencing sentencing-disparity Where a juvenile offender is sentenced to a term of 40 years in prison for a second degree homicide, and that sentence places her in a worse position …
19-8883 Nathan E. Gundy v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial judicial-discretion standing trial-rights Whether the 8th Amendment of the United States Constitution bars are guaranteed to a fair trial in all criminal prosecutions or just when a judge deem…
19-8872 James Henry Simpson v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment
19-8873 Efrain Diaz, Jr. and Justin Smith v. Kentucky Kentucky 2020-07-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP criminal-defendant criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment justiciability party-presentation procedural-due-process standing-doctrine Does the requirement in Lujan v. Defs. of Wildlife apply to a motion filed by a defendant in a criminal case?
19-8875 David Gerard Jones v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-07-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial non-unanimous-verdict remand sixth-amendment Whether petitioner's conviction based upon a non-unanimous verdict violated the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments
19-8879 Gurminder Sekhon v. California California 2020-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines judicial-process standing trial-transcript Did the courts violate the petitioner's due process rights by rejecting a defense under the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines?
19-8861 Fikri Aptiliasimov v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-06-30 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal recusal Whether the trial court judge's, a former prosecutor of appellant's prior criminal trial, refusal to recuse himself and his subsequent judicial partic…
19-8845 Charles Grover Brant v. Florida Florida 2020-06-29 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fact-finding fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-trial jury-unanimity jury-waiver Whether a waiver to an advisory, non-unanimous jury verdict lacking in any fact finding requirement under a death penalty scheme later determined to b…
19-1433 Autumn Stavely v. Jeffery G. Norman, et al. Utah 2020-06-29 Denied 14th-amendment appellate-review change-of-venue due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-sanctions Question not identified. sanctions venue-change Did the Supreme Court of Utah violate Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment due process rights when it sanctioned her and her counsel for seeking appellat…
19-1431 David E. Olson, et al. v. Mark O'Brien, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment administrative-hearing administrative-law bias due-process ex-parte ex-parte-communication ex-parte-communications fourteenth-amendment notice-and-hearing state-agency Whether the Due Process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits biased, ex parte communications between state agency officials which reverse an adm…
19-8804 A. M. v. Indiana Indiana 2020-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment counsel-representation due-process fair-proceedings fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-delinquency liberty-interest right-to-counsel Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment provide children a right to counsel at all proceedings where their liberty is at stake?
19-8806 David Lawrence Dixon v. Donnie Ames, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex West Virginia 2020-06-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP biological-evidence destruction-of-evidence due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment re-testing state-destruction trial Was Appellant denied his Fourteenth Amendment right to due process when the biological evidence used in his trial was destroyed before Appellant could…
19-8807 Cassandra Cean v. United States Second Circuit 2020-06-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP circuit-split criminal-liability eighth-amendment intervening-cause mandatory-victims-restitution-act proximate-cause sixth-amendment Whether proximate causation under the MVRA must be analyzed by the use of the 'middle road approach' or the 'created circumstance approach'
19-8772 Mario Torres v. Mike Hansen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-06-23 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 brady-violations civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment discovery discovery-deprivation due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial Whether Contra Costa County California's blanket policy of depriving a criminal defendant the facts and the evidence (exculpatory or otherwise), surro…
19-1403 Michael H. Vartanian v. State Bar of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-06-23 Denied Response Waived ada-anti-retaliation ada-retaliation civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-profession reasonable-mistake reasonable-mistake-of-law standing Is opposition to a violation of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) that turns upon a reasonable mistake of law protected conduct under the stat…
19-8775 Kirby Gardner v. Texas Texas 2020-06-22 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure parole petition-timing sentencing statute-of-limitations statutory-maximum Whether Pete Tia was deprived of due process of law
19-8778 John Michael Allen v. Arizona Arizona 2020-06-22 Denied IFP accomplice capital-punishment criminal-sentencing eighth-amendment felony innocent-life nontriggerman Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits capital punishment for a 'nontriggerman' accomplice to a felony that is not likely to result in the loss of inn…
19-8764 James William Burney v. Florida Florida 2020-06-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-provision due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-law state-constitution voter-intent Whether the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process and Equal Protection protections requires enactment legislation for a state constitutional provision to b…
19-8740 Anthony J. Williams v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-06-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment Whether petitioner's conviction based upon a non-unanimous verdict violated the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution?
19-8742 Harold Wayne Nichols v. Tennessee Tennessee 2020-06-18 Denied IFP arbitrary-and-capricious death-penalty death-sentence eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-override prior-felony-aggravator settlement-agreement vagueness-doctrine Does the judicial override of a life sentence settlement agreement result in an arbitrary and capricious death sentence in violation of the Eighth and…
19-1391 Larry Alan Whitely v. Sharon McCoy, Warden Tenth Circuit 2020-06-18 Denied compulsory-process due-process fourteenth-amendment right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment trial-by-jury webb-v-texas witness-coercion Whether the Compulsory Process Clause of the Sixth Amendment and the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment were violated
19-1385 Kristina Box, Commissioner, Indiana Department of Health v. Ashlee Henderson, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-06-17 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) biological-parentage biology-based birth-certificate birth-certificates due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-status parentage presumption rebuttable-presumption May a State, consistent with the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses, adopt a biology-based birth-certificate system that in…
19-8728 Joshua Harrell v. California California 2020-06-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus mental-illness rational-understanding Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a prisoner who has a severe mental illness that …
19-8721 Vincent A. Argentino v. Ruanne Stamps, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-standard deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment estelle-v-gamble legal-precedent medical-evidence prisoner-rights summary-record Whether the Precedent of Placing Nesifyire, medical evidence in the Summary Record 5 Showing Oo * aeke' mental ef Peck' Places an Unrealis-hic exfecta…
19-8711 Willie Dunn v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-06-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment state-courts Whether petitioner's conviction based upon a non-unanimous verdict violated the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution?
19-8712 Billy Joe Wardlow v. Texas Texas 2020-06-15 Denied Amici (1)IFP age-of-offender brain-development death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness neuroscience roper-v-simmons Whether Texas may continue to impose, and carry out previously imposed, death sentences for which future dangerousness is or was used to determine dea…
19-1357 Robert Angel Perez v. Colorado Colorado 2020-06-11 Denied Amici (2) criminal-defendant criminal-procedure discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment mental-health-records privilege sixth-amendment state-privilege Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee a criminal defendant the right to discover potentially exculpatory mental health records held by…
19-8651 Kevin Remillard v. Ohio Ohio 2020-06-10 Denied IFP fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress personal-papers probable-cause search-warrant warrantless-search welfare-check Does the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment require a search warrant or probable cause to seize and search personal papers during a welfare check?
19-8644 Michael L. King v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-09 Denied IFP capital-case capital-cases due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment impartial-tribunal judicial-bias When a court shows partiality and bias by adopting nearly verbatim the prevailing party's brief as its order or opinion, particularly in capital cases…
19-1350 Darius Ishun Green v. Bradley Hooks, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-09 Denied Response Waived civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment inmate personal-characteristics prison prisoner-rights risk-of-harm summary-judgment Under Farmer v. Brennan, is a court precluded from granting summary judgment to defendants where there is evidence of an obvious, substantial risk of …
19-1344 Lahkwinder Singh v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-06-05 Denied Response Waived circuit-split criminal-forfeiture deprivation-of-livelihood eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause livelihood-deprivation proportionality-analysis sentencing Whether the 'deprivation of livelihood' should be included in the proportionality analysis when determining whether a forfeiture meets the constitutio…
19-8614 Edward Leon Fields, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-06-05 Denied IFP caldwell-v-mississippi capital-sentencing constitutional-review donnelly-v-dechristoforo due-process eighth-amendment jury-responsibility prosecutorial-misconduct Whether Donnelly and Caldwell remain good law and, if so, whether the Tenth Circuit erred in applying a fundamental-fairness analysis to reject Petiti…
19-8618 Kareem Daniels v. Georgia Georgia 2020-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process false-evidence false-testimony fourteenth-amendment misleading-testimony perjury prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the Constitution permits a prosecutor to knowingly use false or misleading testimony, as long as it does not constitute perjurious testimony
19-8624 Miguel DeFreitas v. Jaifa Callado, Superintendent, Shawangunk Correctional Facility New York 2020-06-05 Denied IFP constitutional-rights corrective-remedy due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction Did the New York State Appellate and Supreme courts' dismissal of Petitioner's habeas corpus petition, which left Petitioner with no corrective remedy…
19-8598 Gerald Ross Pizzuto, Jr. v. Keith Yordy, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-06-04 Denied IFP adaptive-functioning adaptive-skills atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia clinical-standards eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability iq-scores standard-error-of-measurement Whether Atkins and the Eighth Amendment mandated the use of clinical standards for the determination of subaverage intelligence as measured by intelli…
19-8593 Damon Christopher Crim v. Ohio Ohio 2020-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea ineffective-assistance misunderstanding plea-bargain sixth-amendment When a criminal defendant misunderstands a key element of a plea bargain, is his guilty plea void?
19-8571 Derrick Martin King v. Ohio Department of Job and Family Services Ohio 2020-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP budgetary-reasons constitutional-right constitutional-rights disability-benefits due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment state-assistance state-constitutions Does the U.S. Constitution recognize a constitutional right of safety?
19-8551 Londro Emanuel Patterson, III v. Kansas Kansas 2020-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-sentence parole sentencing Does a life sentence without parole for a 19-year-old violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment?
19-8541 Haider Salah Abdulrazzak v. South Dakota Board of Pardons and Paroles South Dakota 2020-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-filing fed-r-app-p-4c1 federal-regulations first-amendment fourteenth-amendment inmate-filing inmates-rights supremacy-clause Whether under the Supremacy Clause, the First and Fourteenth Amendment rights, states are permitted to dissociate themselves from Federal regulations …
19-8522 Richard Felton v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2020-05-22 Denied IFP common-law due-process fourteenth-amendment procedural-waiver retroactive-application rogers-v-tennessee structural-error Did the Massachusetts Appeals Court deny a defendant due process of law in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment
19-8497 Christopher Lyman v. Kansas Kansas 2020-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-defendant due-process expert-testimony first-amendment fourteenth-amendment medical-expert religious-discrimination sixth-amendment Whether a court can deny a criminal defendant his medical expert, who's expert testimony is critical to a material fact in dispute, and base this deni…
19-1297 James K. Collins, et ux. v. D.R. Horton-Texas, Ltd. Texas 2020-05-19 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment due-process federal-judgment fourteenth-amendment personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity state-rights takings tenth-amendment void-judgment Whether the Fourteenth Amendment allows a state to enforce a void federal judgment obtained without personal jurisdiction over and notice to the defen…
19-8460 Nexis Rene Gomez v. D. Braun, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-05-14 Denied IFP civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-needs prison-conditions prisoner-treatment summary-judgment Did the Court of Appeals Erred In Affirming Summary Judgment In Respondents' Favor When There is Evidence in Petitioner's Medical Record Demonstrating…
19-8442 Erica J. Walker v. Florida Florida 2020-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-proceeding fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance insanity mental-health mental-health-evaluation Was the petitioner's right to a fair proceeding, effective assistance of counsel and due process violated?
19-8450 Scott Leslie Carmell v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-05-12 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-circuit habeas-corpus procedural-due-process sentencing-procedure standing Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred by denying a certificate of appealability regarding the United States District Court issuing …
19-1280 Idaho Department of Correction, et al. v. Adree Edmo, aka Mason Edmo Ninth Circuit 2020-05-12 Denied Relisted (2) advocacy-organization-guidelines circuit-split constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment estelle-v-gamble gender-dysphoria inmate-medical-care medical-care prison-healthcare Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in concluding that the guidelines set by an advocacy organization constitute the constitutional minima for inmate medi…
19-8429 Tariq Maqbool v. Marcus O. Hicks, Commissioner, New Jersey Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2020-05-11 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance miranda-rights sixth-amendment Whether the denial of Petitioner's ineffective assistance claim violated constitutional rights
19-8433 Anthony Paul John v. Florida Florida 2020-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief postconviction-relief right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the courts below decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions of this Honorable Court
19-1275 Angel Luis Thomas, Sr. v. Tyree C. Blocker, et al. Third Circuit 2020-05-08 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process federal-mandate federal-state-relations fourteenth-amendment sex-offender-registration state-jurisdiction Does the Commerce Clause empower Congress to impose 'Registry requirements for sex offenders,' 34 U.S.C. § 20918, directly upon an individual convicte…
19-1265 Friends of Danny DeVito, et al. v. Tom Wolf, Governor of Pennsylvania, et al. Pennsylvania 2020-05-05 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) assembly constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech police-powers takings Whether the Order exceeded the Governor's permissible scope of his police powers and as such violated Petitioners' rights guaranteed by the U.S. Const…
19-8396 Robert R. Hill v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2020-05-05 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment prosecutor prosecutorial-misconduct trial-judge Whether the district court and the third circuit erred in refusing to issue a certificate of appealability
19-8382 Christopher Ewing, aka Alex Christopher Ewing v. Nevada Nevada 2020-04-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process extradition extradition-hearing fourteenth-amendment indigent-defendant right-to-counsel sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether the Uniform Criminal Extradition Act's guarantee of the right to 'demand and procure counsel' requires state courts to appoint counsel for ind…
19-1261 Trent Michael Taylor v. Robert Riojas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-04-30 GVR Amici (2)Relisted (4) 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment government-officials obvious-violation prisoner-rights qualified-immunity section-1983 standing Whether the unconstitutionality of government officials' conduct is clearly established even absent binding precedent directly on point
19-1251 Arthur O. Armstrong v. School District of Philadelphia, et al. Third Circuit 2020-04-28 Denied 14th-amendment access-to-courts appeal appeals civil-rights constitutional-violation discrimination due-process employment equal-protection equal-protection-clause fourteenth-amendment official-discrimination school-district Whether School District of Philadelphia discharged the petitioner from his teaching position without due process of law
19-8368 Jamaal Gittens v. Transforce, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2020-04-28 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment standing Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause and Equal Protection Clause
19-8356 Henry Logan, et ux. v. Peggy Logan Texas 2020-04-27 Denied IFP best-interest-standard child-custody disability-rights due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment parental-rights third-party-custody Are grandparents counted as a third party?
19-8365 Arthur Lopez v. California California 2020-04-27 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment free-speech habeas-corpus judicial-review standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights under the First, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments were violated by the state court's denial of his peti…
19-8367 Brandon Blake Coleman v. Texas Texas 2020-04-27 Denied IFP adjudication constitutional-rights due-process federal-claims fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment merits-review standing Whether the State of Texas has violated Petitioner's right to Due Process protections under the Fifth & Fourteenth amendments, U.S. Constitution
19-8351 In Re Vinodh Raghubir 2020-04-24 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause
19-8338 Charles P. Mayeux, Jr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-04-22 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-amendments criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jackson-v-virginia jury-trial non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment Whether a conviction based upon a non-unanimous verdict violates the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution?
19-1243 Arthur O. Armstrong v. Wilson County, North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-04-22 Denied access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process equal-protection federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment frivolous-complaint official-discrimination standing Whether trial court deprived petitioner of constitutional rights
19-8320 Quintez Talley v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2020-04-21 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines federal-claims pleading-standards prisoner-rights pro-se-plaintiff state-law-claims supplemental-jurisdiction Whether the party seeking to raise the possessory evidence privilege has an absolute evidentiary privilege
19-8321 Charlie Ray Carney v. Virginia Virginia 2020-04-21 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights court-records due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sentencing state-courts Whether a state prisoner's right to due process requires the state trial court to ensure correct and accurate information is relied upon when sentenci…
19-1235 Brian Hampton Clark v. Virginia Virginia 2020-04-20 Denied constitutional-rights contempt-of-court due-process federal-courts fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal state-courts writ-of-prohibition Whether the fact that the contempt charge was brought in response to Brian Clark's petition for a writ of prohibition required Judge Williams to recus…
19-8286 Edward Tiger v. Florida Florida 2020-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency criminal-competency criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction jurisdictional-prerequisite Whether a finding that a criminal defendant is presently competent to proceed is a jurisdictional prerequisite to a court's authority to deprive an ac…
19-8278 In Re Levar Lee Anthony Spence 2020-04-16 Denied IFP brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment sixth-amendment spoliation spoliation-of-evidence writ-of-mandamus Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit properly refused review and hearing of Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment,…
19-1224 Jeremiah F. Manning v. Lucy J. Kim California 2020-04-16 Denied campaign-contribution campaign-contributions disclosure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-ethics recusal Whether Judge Greenberg's refusal to recuse herself and failure to timely and accurately disclose campaign contributions violated the Due Process and …
19-1216 Loredana Elizabeth Botofan-Miller v. Brett Robert Miller Oregon 2020-04-15 Denied birth-mother child-custody civil-rights custody due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-custody parental-rights state-courts state-intervention Did the State of Oregon courts violate the fourteenth amendment rights of the full legal custodial parent, who was the birth mother, to make decisions…
19-8254 Samuel Dowell v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause constitutional-rights consumer-rights due-process eighth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment personal-property religious-freedom stream-of-commerce takings Can Congress regulate the private and personal property of the ultimate consumer for eternity through the Commerce Clause simply because that item at …
19-8216 Scott Winfield Davis v. Shay Hatcher, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-09 Denied IFP 14th-amendment arizona-v-youngblood bad-faith circuit-split due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment youngblood-standard Whether the opinion of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit is a precedent-setting error in interpreting the requirements for 'bad faith…
19-8229 Donnie L. Harris, Jr. v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2020-04-09 Denied IFP capital-punishment due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Does Oklahoma's strict application of its statutory requirement that all newly discovered evidence in capital cases must be presented within one year …
19-8226 Randy Phipps v. Rick Raemisch, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-04-08 Denied IFP constitutional-claims due-process fair-presentation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-petition Whether federal constitutional claims were fairly presented under federal law
19-8200 Don Farley v. Carl Parson Tenth Circuit 2020-04-07 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence evidence-exclusion first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech witness-testimony Was Farley denied his First Amendment Right of Free Speech and Fourteenth Amendment of due process?
19-8206 Zaryl G. Bush v. Ohio Ohio 2020-04-07 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment procedural-bar sixth-amendment Should state courts be allowed to hide behind procedural bars when the record indicates the accused was denied constitutional rights?
19-8185 Floyd Dewaine Scott v. California Ninth Circuit 2020-04-06 Denied IFP due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Did the California State Superior Court violate the Petitioner's Due Process, Sixth Amendment, and Eighth Amendment rights
19-1199 Don Higginson v. Xavier Becerra, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-04-06 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived at-large-voting california-voting-rights-act civil-rights equal-protection fourteenth-amendment municipal-elections racial-polarization voting-rights voting-rights-act Whether the California Voting Rights Act violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
19-1192 Missouri, ex rel. Key Insurance Company v. Marco A. Roldan, Judge, Circuit Court of Missouri, Jackson County, et al. Missouri 2020-04-02 Denied Response Waived due-process forum-state fourteenth-amendment liability-insurer long-arm-statute motor-vehicle-accident personal-jurisdiction Whether a court's exercise of specific personal jurisdiction over a nonresident liability insurer violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Am…
19-1193 Kristin D. Wilkinson v. Commission for Lawyer Discipline of the State Bar of Texas Texas 2020-04-02 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment attorney-discipline confidentiality confidentiality-statutes disciplinary-proceedings due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment in-re-ruffalo professional-rights property-rights Does the standard for assessing the protection of Due Process Clause rights of lawyers in disciplinary proceedings announced in Jn re Ruffalo, fail to…
19-1191 Ohio v. Shawn Ford Ohio 2020-04-01 Denied Amici (2) atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability standing state-standards supreme-court-jurisdiction supreme-court-precedent What is the test for determining whether someone is 'intellectually disabled' for purposes of the Eighth Amendment?
19-8153 Keith Clayton Brooks, Jr. v. Celia Schwartz, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-04-01 Dismissed IFP civil-rights conditions-of-confinement due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment post-traumatic-stress-disorder prisoner-rights section-1915g suicidal-impulses Will conditions of confinement that demonstrate a pattern of misconduct under the First and Fourteenth Amendments leading to suicidal impulses or urge…
19-8139 Douglas Duran Cerritos v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-03-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing mandatory-life-sentence miller-v-alabama psychiatric-evaluation section-2255-motion Did the Fourth Circuit commit error by not granting Mr. Cerritos a COA under 28 U.S.C. §2253(c)(2), after the denial of his 28 U.S.C. §2255 motion whe…
19-8141 Eric Jeffrey Cowan v. Josie Gastelo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-03-30 Denied IFP civil-rights Constitutional-Challenge constitutional-law due-process equal-protection Fourteenth-Amendment Judicial-Review jurisdiction Legal-Interpretation Petitioner-Rights standing Should Petitioner receive relief under United States Constitution Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection
19-8145 Santiago Cruz v. C. Betancourt Ninth Circuit 2020-03-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-grievance administrative-remedies civil-rights eighth-amendment exhaustion-of-remedies grievance-process prisoner-litigation procedural-error procedural-errors waiver Whether the district court erred in finding that the petitioner failed to exhaust administrative remedies for his Eighth Amendment claim
19-8147 Romulo Murillo-Morales v. United States Second Circuit 2020-03-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Whether the petitioner's conviction is valid given the warrantless search and seizure in violation of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments?
19-8120 Jarvis Rodrick Thomas v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection false-statements fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment liberty-interest Was it unreasonable to be seized in violation of the Fourth Amendment and re-arrested for the same offense to deprive the Petitioner of his Fourteenth…
19-8108 Dana Albrecht v. Katherine Albrecht New Hampshire 2020-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review child-custody due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment parental-rights uccjea Whether the State of New Hampshire's discretionary appellate process is unlawful or unconstitutional, and whether the State has unlawfully infringed u…
19-1175 John Fritz, et ux. v. Washoe County, Nevada Nevada 2020-03-26 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived economic-impact economic-impairment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-regulation loretto-v-teleprompter physical-invasion physical-taking property-rights regulatory-takings takings To constitute a taking under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, must a physical invasion also destroy or substantially impair an owner's economicall…
19-1168 Mirek Machala v. Libuse Kral, et al. District of Columbia 2020-03-25 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion procedural-due-process standing summary-judgment Whether Petitioner's due process right was violated
19-1164 Jocelyn A. Johnson v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, et al. California 2020-03-24 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure disability-rating due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-evidence senate-bill-31 statute-of-limitations workers-compensation Does the Workers' Compensation Judge relying on medical reports according to Senate Bill 31 guidelines and not the permanent disability rating schedul…
19-8086 Randy Dale Jackson v. Tommy Taylor, Interim Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections Fifth Circuit 2020-03-24 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment access-to-courts appellate-sanctions civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction-challenges criminal-conviction due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment Whether Petitioner's First, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights are violated by the imposition of monetary sanctions and threat restr…
19-8057 Aaron Moran Brown v. Indiana Indiana 2020-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment de-facto-life-sentence eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing miller-rule miller-v-alabama montgomery-precedent montgomery-v-louisiana parole parole-system Does the substantive rule of Miller v. Alabama apply to de facto life sentences for juveniles?
19-8058 Maurice Brack, aka Maurice Barrack, aka Maurice Black, aka Maurice L. Brack, aka Socca Bopum, aka Socka Bopa v. New Jersey New Jersey 2020-03-23 Denied IFP 8th-amendment adolescent-development constitutional-retroactivity criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment family-court juvenile-justice juvenile-waiver retroactivity Whether New Jersey's revised juvenile waiver statute (N.J.S.A. 2A:4A-26.1(c)) which prohibits the Family Court from waiving its jurisdiction over any …
19-8060 John Doe v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights court-disclosure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment harassment medical-history medical-privacy prisoner-rights privacy Should a Convicted Felon be Subject to Additional Harassment Above and Beyond Their Prison Sentence Due to a Court's Disclosure of Their Medical Histo…
19-8062 Troy Anthony LeBouef v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict Was LeBouef entitled to a unanimous jury verdict under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution?
19-8076 Alfredo Galindo v. Brad Cain, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment federal-procedure habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-requirement Whether petitioner's claim that his 300-month sentence violates his Eighth Amendment right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment meets the stat…
19-8084 Christopher Young v. Rehka Halligan Third Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-care medical-treatment standing whether-continuous-ineffective-treatment-violates-8th-amendment
19-1160 Robert J. Murphy v. Office of Disciplinary Counsel Pennsylvania 2020-03-23 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech judicial-code pennsylvania-rules-of-professional-conduct pennsylvania-workers-compensation-act retroactive-application workers-compensation Whether petitioner had fair warning of disciplinary proceedings
19-1150 Gary Kirchhoff v. United States, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-03-20 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process federal-suit fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech military-medical-privileges statute-of-limitations whistleblower whistleblower-rights Whether the court erred in affirming the lower court's decision that the statute of limitations was past for Gary Kirchhoff, M.D. to file a federal su…
19-8042 Lewis Taylor Jr. v. Florida Florida 2020-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa constitutional-claim constitutional-claims eighth-amendment federal-habeas federal-habeas-review merits-decision state-court-decision state-court-decisions state-court-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. Ct. 1726 (2017) (per curiam), a case arising under federal habeas revi…
19-8045 Raymond Mata, Jr. v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-03-19 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment legislative-veto nebraska nebraska-legislature referendum referendum-power standing veto Whether the citizens of Nebraska through improper use of their referendum power, or the trial court or Nebraska Supreme Court through erroneous approv…
19-8035 Manuel de Jesus Valencia v. California California 2020-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP confession-extraction constitutional-rights custodial-interrogation edwards edwards-rule fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement-deception miranda miranda-rights self-incrimination undercover-operations Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments permit a deceptive ploy in which uniformed and undercover officers work together to extract a confession f…
19-8037 Shlomit Ruttkamp v. Bank of New York Mellon, fka The Bank of New York Connecticut 2020-03-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process foreclosure foreclosure-litigation fourteenth-amendment fraud fraud-allegations jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the court of Connecticut has acted unreasonably and in clear abuse of its discretion when it violated the Fourteenth Amendment to due process …
19-8039 Jeffrey Clark v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-03-18 Denied IFP counsel-conflict criminal-trial death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment faretta-waiver jury-trial right-to-counsel right-to-self-representation self-representation sixth-amendment Whether a defendant's waiver of counsel is not knowing, intelligent and voluntary when the defendant's only other option was to proceed to trial with …
19-1138 DeWayne D. Knight v. Thomas Grossman, Jr. Seventh Circuit 2020-03-18 Denied balancing-test circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law deliberate-indifference due-process fourteenth-amendment informed-consent medical-treatment prisoner-rights Whether a claim for violation of a prisoner-patient's Fourteenth Amendment right to informed consent requires a showing of deliberate indifference and…
19-1136 Chong Yim, et al. v. City of Seattle, Washington Washington 2020-03-17 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived civil-rights due-process first-in-time fourteenth-amendment landlord-tenant legislative-act property-rights regulatory-taking regulatory-takings substantive-due-process takings tenant-selection undue-oppression Whether the destruction of a fundamental attribute of property ownership constitutes a taking without the need to prove diminished value or interferen…
19-8021 Henry L. Jackson v. Utah, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP destruction-of-evidence due-process equal-protection evidence evidence-destruction fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenge vehicle Whether the state violated petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment right to due process and a fair trial when it released petitioner's vehicle to the lienho…
19-7994 David Armondo Butler v. Florida Florida 2020-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP adversarial-conflict Confrontation-Clause criminal-procedure Due-Process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence-preservation Evidentiary-Issues Fourteenth-Amendment ineffective-assistance prior-acts-of-violence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel strategic-decision video-footage Was court-appointed counsel's decision not to seek video footage of alleged victim's prior acts of violence a violation of the Sixth Amendment right t…
19-8008 Jeremy Fontanez v. J. Coakley, Warden Fourth Circuit 2020-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights due-process federal-prisoner first-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus legal-materials prison-policy prisoner-rights Does the policy in 6.0.8 violate a federal prisoner's First Amendment right to reasonable access to the courts, where the policy allows only one hour …
19-8011 James Anderson Dellinger v. Tennessee Tennessee 2020-03-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP atkins-v-virginia constitutional-mandate death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability judicial-abdication legislative-inaction procedural-vehicle May Tennessee evade the constitutional mandate of Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002) via legislative inaction and judicial abdication?
19-7968 Akube Wuromoni Ndoromo v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. District of Columbia 2020-03-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment jury-trial seventh-amendment standing takings Does the Fourth Amendment protect the right of the people to be secure therein?
19-7961 Randall Duane Throneberry v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2020-03-11 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process fourteenth-amendment oklahoma-law oklahoma-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether Petitioner's enhanced sentence under Oklahoma Statute Title 21, § 51.1A is invalid
19-7937 Michelle Stopyra Yaney and Peter DeBellis v. Rebecca Mason, et al. California 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP association civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination discrimination-claim due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment free-speech freedom-of-expression religious-neutrality state-power Did the California Supreme Court have a duty to protect petitioners' individual constitutional rights for a claim of discrimination on how the associa…
19-7951 Rashad Taylor v. Florida Florida 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence miller-v-alabama Whether the imposition of a mandatory 40-year sentence on a juvenile convicted of homicide violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments' prohibition …
19-7899 Paul Nigl v. Jon Litscher, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-03-06 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment marriage marriage-rights prison-administration prison-regulations prisoner-rights summary-judgment turner-v-safley Whether prison officials may prohibit a former prison employee and a prisoner from marrying
19-7880 Nathaniel Woods v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-05 Denied IFP arbitrary-and-capricious arbitrary-discrimination arbitrary-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection execution-method nitrogen-hypoxia suppressed-information Does the Eighth Amendment apply only to imposition of a death sentence, or may a petitioner challenge how a death sentence is carried out?
19-7858 Todd Darrell Ballard v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2020-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief post-sentencing procedural-rights sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation substantive-rights waiver waiver-doctrine Whether the Act of the General Assembly [42 Pa.C.S. § 9543 and 9544] is in violation of Appellant's substantive and procedural rights; and whether sai…
19-7860 Robert Rowles v. GEO Group, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-04 Denied IFP 8th-amendment circuit-court civil-rights cost-cutting deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment inmate inmate-rights judicial-discretion medical-treatment prison standing Did the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal abuse its discretion in denying relief on the lack of medical diagnosis and treatment
19-7849 Siva Black v. Edward Dolan, Commissioner of Probation Department First Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa arbitrary-power due-process fourteenth-amendment parens-patriae pretrial-custody state-power What is Arbitrary power—restricted by the Fourteenth Amendment Due process clause—if it isn't the state's unestablished parens patriae power, used to …
19-7862 Wesley Paul Coonce, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied Relisted (4)IFP atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment confrontation-clause eighth-amendment equal-protection fifth-amendment intellectual-disability moral-culpability sentencing-hearing Whether the execution of a defendant with intellectual disability that arose after age 18 violates the Eighth and Fifth Amendments
19-7816 Terry Gay v. Shawn Foster, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review constitutional-entitlement due-process evidentiary-development fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-v-ryan state-courts Under the standards set by this Court in Martinez v. Ryan, must a U.S. District Court allow evidentiary development of a fact-based claim of ineffecti…
19-7794 Jeremy Shane Fogleman v. Mississippi Mississippi 2020-02-27 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Does the Supreme Court of the State of Mississippi's 5-4 decision violate the petitioner's rights under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments of the Uni…
19-7799 Desmond Baker v. Florida Florida 2020-02-27 Denied IFP criminal-procedure eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-sentence life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing parole sentencing-review Do the Eighth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibit mandatory sentencing laws which require sentencing every j…
19-7807 Christopher Young v. Jose Boggio, et al. Third Circuit 2020-02-27 Denied IFP constitutional-claim deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment ineffective-treatment intentional-mistreatment medical-care medical-need prisoner-rights serious-medical-need treatment Whether the contention that an Eighth Amendment deliberate indifference to serious medical need claim fails simply because the Plaintiff received some…
19-7789 Steven Klein v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-26 Denied IFP burden-of-proof cage-v-louisiana criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions reasonable-doubt structural-error sullivan-v-louisiana Whether the trial court erred by overruling Klein's objection to prosecution's misstated of the burden of proof during closing arguments
19-7791 Jermaine Michael Jackson v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP alibi-defense civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presumption-of-prejudice right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Was trial counsel's abandonment of a readily available alibi defense a violation of petitioner's Sixth Amendment right?
19-7761 Jose Osvaldo Arteaga v. Ken Clark, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP alibi-defense certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel misidentification sixth-amendment Did the Ninth Circuit's order denying a COA violate this Court's mandate that a circuit court must issue a COA if a habeas petition makes 'a substanti…
19-1054 Christa Gail Pike v. Gloria Gross, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-02-25 Denied Amici (1) cumulative-evidence death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-evidence prejudice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether a defendant who asserts that trial counsel failed to present key evidence is precluded from showing prejudice under Strickland v. Washington
19-7744 Partha A. Rai Chowdhuri v. SGT, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment-request civil-rights common-law due-process employment-discrimination fair-proceedings fourteenth-amendment fourth-circuit-review material-adverse-action prima-facie-case record-amendment seventh-amendment temporal-proximity Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in denying Petitioner's request to amend records and assert rights under the Seventh and Fourteenth Amendments
19-7751 Christopher Michael Thrasher v. Alabama Alabama 2020-02-24 Denied IFP eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-rule miller-v-alabama montgomery-precedent montgomery-v-louisiana procedural-hearing Whether the Eighth Amendment requires a factual finding as to which class a juvenile homicide offender belongs before sentencing the juvenile to life …
19-7717 Tarvis M. Wilson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2020-02-20 Denied IFP bail certiorari-petition civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process excessive-bail federal-statute fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge lower-court-conflict pretrial-detention standing supreme-court supreme-court-review Whether the constitutional prohibition on excessive bail, as incorporated through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause, requires a state cour…
19-1034 Tami L. Mitchell v. Thomas M. Dillahunt Minnesota 2020-02-19 Denied 14th-amendment district-court due-process enforceability evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment military-retired-pay state-courts uniformed-services-former-spouses-protection-act Did the Minnesota District Court's division of petitioner's military retired pay violate the Uniformed Services Former Spouses' Protection Act?
19-7689 Nicholas Todd Sutton v. Tennessee Tennessee 2020-02-18 Denied IFP capital-punishment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment retroactivity vagueness 5th-amendment capital-punishment due-process fair-notice fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment johnson-v-united-states retroactivity vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether Tennessee's facially-vague prior violent felony aggravating circumstance provided fair notice as required under Johnson v. United States and t…
19-7696 In Re Nicholas Todd Sutton 2020-02-18 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment capital-sentencing constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus physical-restraints visible-jury Whether the Court should exercise its authority to issue an original writ of habeas corpus and hold that Mr. Sutton's conviction and death sentence sh…
19-7676 Robert Jackson v. Florida Florida 2020-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP eighth-amendment graham-v-florida graham-vs-florida juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment mandatory-sentencing miller-graham-rule miller-v-alabama miller-vs-alabama national-consensus parole scientific-evidence Whether Eighth Amendment's protection established in Graham and Miller should be expanded beyond age cutoff at eighteen to prohibit mandatory life imp…
19-7624 Jerome Shaw v. United States Second Circuit 2020-02-12 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP acceptance-of-responsibility burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause fatico-hearing sentencing Whether the District Court violated Petitioner's Due Process Rights
19-7626 Lonnie Rarden v. Ohio Ohio 2020-02-12 Dismissed IFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentences due-process eighth-amendment non-violent-offense non-violent-offenses proportionality-review sentencing sentencing-disparity Is sentencing a defendant to a de facto life sentence for non-violent offenses a violation of the Eighth Amendment right against cruel and unusual pun…
19-7633 Anthony Allen v. Illinois Illinois 2020-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment intent-element jury-instruction jury-instructions presumption-of-intent reasonable-doubt Whether the jury instruction that 'the law presumes that a person intends the ordinary consequences of his voluntary acts' violates the Fourteenth Ame…
19-7649 Socorro Susan Caro v. California California 2020-02-12 Denied IFP aggravating-circumstances constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding jury-trial mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact, other than a prior c…
19-7650 D. W. v. Washington State Department of Children, Youth & Families Washington 2020-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-appointed-counsel due-process ex-parte-investigation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-conduct parental-rights record-on-appeal recusal termination-of-parental-rights Whether the State violated the Due Process Clause by failing to provide a court-ordered domestic violence/anger management evaluation and treatment to…
19-998 Vickie Cook, Individually and as Natural Mother to Deanna Cook, et al. v. Tonyita Hopkins, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-02-10 Denied Response Waived civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment state-created-danger summary-judgment Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly applied a 'deemed credible' approach to viewing a movant's credibility and arbitrarily excluded admissions of dis…
19-7591 Leo Lionel Payne v. Jessica Mangum Fourth Circuit 2020-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-deprivation due-process failure-to-defend fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction right-to-travel standing state-action travel When Ms. Mangum acting under color of state law deprived petitioner of constitutional right to travel by the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States…
19-7594 Felix Lopez-Cabrera v. United States Second Circuit 2020-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment age-of-culpability age-of-majority criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-sentence life-sentences national-consensus neuroscience Whether Supreme Court jurisprudence finding mandatory life sentences for juveniles cruel and unusual under the Eight Amendment, and non-mandatory life…
19-994 Jeffrey Lance Hill, Sr. v. Leandra G. Johnson, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process eighth-amendment judicial-review rooker-feldman-doctrine standing state-agency-action state-agency-actions state-court-judgments Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit violated the Due Process Clause when applying the Rooker-Feldman Doctrine
19-7551 Donald Arthur Herrington v. Virginia Virginia 2020-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-Amendment case-management case-management-system civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech public-trial separation-of-powers sixth-amendment Was Petitioner's conviction a result of a procedure that violates 1st-Amendment, civil-rights, free-speech, public-trial, due-process
19-7565 Tyree Wright v. S. Alvarez, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference diagnostic-imaging due-process eighth-amendment inmate-rights medical-care medical-records prison-healthcare qualified-immunity When an inmate notifies medical of his prior head injury/medical history & asks them to retrieve his medical records, is that adequate to his medical …
19-7574 Luis Beltran v. United States Second Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment brain-development due-process due-process-clause eighth-amendment juvenile-defendants juvenile-sentencing mandatory-life-imprisonment proportionality proportionality-principle sentencing Does the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause provide defendants who were between 18 and 22 an opportunity to demonstrate they are similarly situated,…
19-7537 Donald Alexander Spice v. Michigan Michigan 2020-02-05 Denied IFP appeal court-access due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment indigent-defendant indigent-defendants transcript transcript-access transcripts Whether MOR 5.433(c)(3) is unconstitutional as it violates the Equal Protection and Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and the mandates of…
19-7541 Richard Hurles v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-04 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-ethics recusal right-to-fair-trial Are the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments violated where a judge who has personally litigated against a defendant in the same case presides over his tr…
19-967 Craig M. Wood v. Missouri Missouri 2020-02-03 Denied Relisted (2) capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment jury-determination jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Constitution requires that a jury, rather than a judge, weigh the aggravating and mitigating circumstances to determine whether a defendan…
19-7500 William Sim Spencer v. Michigan Michigan 2020-01-31 Denied IFP constitutional-protections criminal-procedure due-process finality-rule fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sex-offender-registration sixth-amendment Does the omission of an exception to the finality rule in Michigan's sex offender registration act allow the prosecution to build its case against cri…
19-7508 Jeffrey D. Leiser v. Karen Kloth, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-01-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP by triggering PTSD symptoms rise to a level that is cognizable under the Eigh that caused psychological harm civil-rights correctional-officer correctional-officer-duties due-process eighth-amendment emotional-distress inmate-rights intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress psychological-harm ptsd qualified-immunity Does the intentional infliction of severe emotional distress, by triggering PTSD symptoms, that caused psychological harm, rise to a level that is cog…
19-7488 Donnie Cleveland Lance v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Georgia 2020-01-29 Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-selection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Was petitioner denied his rights under the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments when he was sentenced to death following his indictment by a non-r…
19-948 Gene Rechtzigel v. Minnesota Minnesota 2020-01-29 Denied civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment first-amendment fourth-amendment government-action petition-clause sixth-amendment standing Did the Government deprive Petitioner the First Amendment Right to petition the Government for a redress of grievances?
19-7429 Louis Mitchell, Jr. v. California California 2020-01-28 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment aggravating-circumstances aggravating-mitigating-circumstances constitutional-rights death-penalty fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-determination jury-trial mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Does the mandatory weighing of aggravating and mitigating circumstances under the California death penalty statute—a factfinding determination that se…
19-7447 Konstantin Rudenko v. Raymond Shanley, Superintendent, Coxsackie Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts fourteenth-amendment legal-procedure standing state-courts Did the New York state courts deny the petitioner his fundamental Fourteenth Amendment right to due process of law?
19-7455 Ronson Kyle Bush v. Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden Tenth Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied IFP antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act certificate-of-appealability clearly-established-federal-law constitutional-standards death-penalty eighth-amendment federal-law fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus habeas-review state-court-decisions state-court-review unreasonableness Whether the 'clearly established Federal law' provision of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act renders state court decisions categorical…
19-7456 Taurus Carroll v. Alabama Alabama 2020-01-28 Denied IFP atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia brumfield-v-cain capital-punishment current-medical-standards eighth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability medical-standards moore-v-texas supreme-court-review Does the Alabama Supreme Court's continued reliance upon evidence that fails to adhere to current medical standards in rejecting Mr. Carroll's claim o…
19-7418 Jody Gifford v. Florida Florida 2020-01-27 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-sentence parole proportionality resentencing Whether the courts below decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions of this Honorable Court when they d…
19-7424 Christine Ham v. Superior Court of California, Santa Clara County, et al. California 2020-01-27 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment impartiality judicial-bias judicial-disclosure judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics judicial-independence judicial-recusal public-confidence Does an intolerable conflict exist when the Supreme Court of California and the Ninth Circuit squarely address whether the appearance of partiality su…
19-7442 Andrew Lee Williams v. Texas Texas 2020-01-27 Denied IFP confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-article-38.41 due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment indefiniteness sixth-amendment vagueness Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' recent holdings regarding the construction and application of Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Article 38…
19-925 Kebreab Zere v. District of Columbia District of Columbia 2020-01-24 Denied Response Waived compensation constitutional-rights due-process eminent-domain fourteenth-amendment prescriptive-easement public-prescriptive-easement taking-clause takings tax-sale Whether the due process law of the Fourteenth Amendment was violated
19-928 Kenneth Fernandez Johnson, Jr. v. Sadie Darnell, Sheriff, Alachua County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights-statute due-process false-arrest false-imprisonment favorable-termination fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution probable-cause Whether the Fourth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated due to false arrest, false imprisonment, and malicious prosecution under 42…
19-922 Donnie Cleveland Lance v. Georgia Georgia 2020-01-23 Denied capital-punishment dna-testing due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection extraordinary-motion fourteenth-amendment innocence-claim new-trial Was petitioner denied due process and equal protection
19-910 K. G. S., Individually and as Guardian and Next Friend of Baby Doe, a Minor Child v. Facebook, Inc. Alabama 2020-01-22 Denied calder-effects-test calder-v-jones due-process effects-based-test fourteenth-amendment online-activity personal-jurisdiction reputational-harm virtual-contacts walden-v-fiore Whether virtual contacts can establish specific personal jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant under the effects-based test of Calder v. Jones
19-911 Ivon Castro v. Dina Simon, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as Deputy Commissioner, et al. Second Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-service civil-service-law disciplinary-proceeding due-process employment-termination fourteenth-amendment probationary-period Whether the Second Circuit's holding that Ms. Castro's termination was based entirely on allegations of job-related misconduct is consistent with the …
19-7369 David Keen v. Tennessee Tennessee 2020-01-22 Denied Relisted (4)IFP atkins-ruling atkins-v-virginia constitutional-mandate cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability judicial-abdication legislative-inaction standing Does the Constitution permit Tennessee to evade the mandate of Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002) by legislative inaction and judicial abdication…
19-7373 Sanjay Tyagi v. Marc D. Smith, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-abuse-registry child-seizure due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment interrogation medical-self-defense parental-rights privacy search-and-seizure Does seizure, physical examination, privacy and interrogation of minor children at public school without parental consent, exigency, or court order vi…
19-7379 Lee Samuel Capers v. California California 2020-01-22 Denied IFP constitutional-requirement criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-maximum Whether California's death penalty scheme violates the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact other than a prior…
19-7380 Dino Constance v. United States District Court for the Western District of Washington Ninth Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection extraordinary-circumstances fourteenth-amendment mandamus mandamus-relief ninth-circuit post-conviction-review tenth-circuit Did the Ninth Circuit's unique five-part test for Mandamus relief cause a Fourteenth Amendment 'Equal Protection' violation?
19-7340 Junior Vazquez-Suarez v. Florida Florida 2020-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure disclosure due-process fourteenth-amendment impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance police-misconduct Whether police officer's failure to disclose impeachment evidence to the defense prior to trial violated the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause u…
19-7278 Terrance Cobb v. Florida Florida 2020-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP confession criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief Whether Mr. Cobb's right to due-process was violated by the Florida courts in denying him post-conviction-relief based on newly-discovered-evidence
19-7318 John Henry Yablonsky v. California California 2020-01-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP adversarial-challenge civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process evidence-manipulation evidence-tampering fiduciary-duty fourteenth-amendment historical-accuracy prosecutorial-misconduct trial-integrity How can the Supreme Court of the United States uphold constitutional laws if the court allows state territories to plunder the cornerstones of those l…
19-885 Jamie Swartz, et ux. v. Heartland Equine Rescue, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment livestock livestock-seizure post-seizure-hearing pre-seizure-hearing rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 seizure subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the 7th Circuit err by finding the Rooker-Feldman doctrine applied?
19-874 William Alan Pesnell, et al. v. Jill Sessions, et al. Louisiana 2020-01-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-access criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights public-access public-records sixth-amendment trial-recording Whether La. R.S. 44:4(47) and the local rule of the 26 Judicial District Court in and for Bossier Parish can bar public access to the digital recordin…
19-7270 Hazhar A. Sayed v. Colorado Colorado 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP dna-evidence due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-due-process sexual-assault Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment provide Mr. Sayed with a procedural due process to have exculpatory (DNA) evidence tested
19-7273 Pablo Rodriguez-Palomino v. Illinois Illinois 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-sexual-assault due-process essential-elements fourteenth-amendment jackson-v-virginia rational-trier-of-fact reasonable-doubt standard-of-review state-evidence sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the standard to be applied by state courts when a defendant claims that the evidence is insufficient to convict is whether any rational trier …
19-7277 Dora Moreira v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fine ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct question-not-identified section-2255 sixth-amendment Whether the Court of Appeals created an irreconcilable conflict with precedential decisions by denying a certificate of appealability on a motion to v…
19-7281 Clifton A. Grant v. MTGLQ Investors, L.P. District of Columbia 2020-01-15 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment access-to-courts due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review pro-se pro-se-litigant right-to-petition Whether the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia denial of Petitioner's timely and duly filed Appeal, without any lawful judicial reasoning o…
19-7287 Joey Banks v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-procedure Whether Banks was denied his constitutional right to the effective assistance of counsel
19-7299 John Joseph Barrera v. Noah Nagy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process false-information fourteenth-amendment habeas habeas-corpus sentencing sentencing-accuracy sixth-amendment townsend-v-burke Where a state criminal defendant has been sentenced on the basis of inaccurate/false information used by the sentencer to increase his punishment, fol…
19-7275 Cecil Boyett v. New Mexico New Mexico 2020-01-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-rights discovery-rules due-process exculpatory-evidence expert-witness fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment state-court state-prosecution Whether petitioner Boyett's constitutional rights were violated by the Thirteenth Judicial District Court of New Mexico under the Due Process Clause o…
19-7284 Bobby Y. Wallace, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-01-14 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-deference certificate-of-appealability criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment federalism gross-disproportionality habitual-offender insufficient-evidence jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia judicial-review no-evidence proportionality-review sentencing state-court-decisions Could reasonable jurists debate whether the state court decision to affirm Petitioner's sentence is contrary to or an unreasonable application of the …
19-7243 Joshua Wolf v. Cindy Griffith, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment juvenile-offenders mandatory-life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing resentencing sentencing-procedures sixth-amendment Whether Missouri's decision to order resentencing for juvenile homicide offenders with mandatory 50-year sentences but not for Joshua, a juvenile homi…
19-7222 Timothy Richardson v. Edward Thomas, Warden Fourth Circuit 2020-01-09 Denied IFP atkins-v-virginia death-penalty eighth-amendment federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus intellectual-disability rule-60(b) rule-60b state-law Whether the execution of an intellectually disabled defendant whose death sentence stands due to a federal court's misinterpretation of state law gove…
19-7202 Terence C. Powell v. Lab Corporation, et al. Second Circuit 2020-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 7th-amendment chain-conspiracy civil-procedure civil-rights civil-trial due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-right jury-trial privileges-and-immunities seventh-amendment Whether the Court of Appeals correctly affirmed the District Court's granting the defendant's Motions to Dismiss violates the protections of the Seven…
19-7214 Gregory Brown v. Ellen Mace-Liebson, et al. Third Circuit 2020-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment bivens bivens-action civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment intra-circuit-conflict medical-care medical-treatment pro-se summary-judgment Whether the sitting panel for the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's entry of summary judgment on petitioner's pro…
19-7218 Oscar Amezcua Cabrera v. California California 2020-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-principles crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington due-process dying-declaration-exception fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hearsay hearsay-exception hearsay-rule prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment testimonial-hearsay whether-dying-declaration-exception-overrides-crawford-v-washington
19-7191 Janice Baker v. Macy's Florida Stores, LLC Florida 2020-01-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federalism fourteenth-amendment same-sex-marriage standing takings Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires States to recognize same-sex marriages validly performed in other States
19-7194 Juan Carlos Vazquez v. South Carolina South Carolina 2020-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea language-barrier sixth-amendment voluntary-plea Does the evidence in the record that petitioner does not understand English plainly show that any admission at the guilty plea hearing could not relia…
19-7175 Curry Robinson v. Barry Smith, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale, et al. Third Circuit 2020-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment alibi alibi-claim federal-review fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance procedural-bar sixth-amendment Whether the federal question of ineffective assistance of trial counsel as the preserved claim of an alibi was vague and/or unexhausted thereby proced…
19-844 Sabrina Graham v. Thomas S. Wininger Indiana 2020-01-06 Denied appellate-review bias due-process findings-and-conclusions fourteenth-amendment procedural-due-process quantum-meruit quantum-meruit-unjust-enrichment rule-52 substantial-rights unbiased-tribunal whether-graham's-rights-were-violated
19-846 George Artem v. King County Department of Adult & Juvenile Detention, et al. Washington 2020-01-06 Denied Response Waived civil-rights disability-law due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-health procedural-due-process solitary-confinement Whether clearly established Eighth-and-Fourteenth-Amendment-and-Federal-Disability-Law-permits-jail-officials-to-sanction-inmates-with-mental-health-d…
19-7168 Tracy Eugene Johnson v. Illinois Illinois 2020-01-03 Denied IFP burglary constitutional-rights Direct-appeal due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel Failure-to-prove-essential-elements-of-offense fourteenth-amendment Fourteenth-Amendment-due-process Post-trial-motion reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Sixth-Amendment-right-to-effective-assistance-of-c Whether petitioner was denied his Sixth Amendment constitutional right to the effective assistance of appellate counsel
19-7099 Paul David Storey v. Texas Texas 2019-12-31 Denied IFP constitutional-violation death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intentional-concealment prosecutorial-misconduct state-court-review state-habeas Whether it violates due process for a state court to deny substantive review of a constitutional violation in a death penalty case
19-7120 Gilbert Sanchez v. Texas Texas 2019-12-31 Denied IFP apprendi-v-new-jersey blakely-v-washington criminal-appeals criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus in-re-winship jury-trial right-to-trial-by-jury sixth-amendment texas-constitution Is the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution violated when the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denies an Applicant habeas relief base…
19-826 The Estate of Swannie Her, et al. v. Craig Hoeppner, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment civil-rights culpable-intent due-process fourteenth-amendment intent liability life-liberty-property reasonable-protection state-created-danger Whether the state-created danger doctrine provides a due process claim
19-817 Annette Shands v. Lakeland Central School District, et al. Second Circuit 2019-12-30 Denied age age-discrimination civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination fourteenth-amendment gender intentional-obstruction race race-discrimination school-district-liability Whether the guarantee of the Fourteenth Amendment applicable against Lakeland Central School District in Shrub Oak, New York, and its Assistant Superi…
19-7100 Damon Jones v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-30 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-presumption evidentiary-presumption fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions sixth-amendment specific-intent transferred-intent Are the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments violated where in a case tried and presented under the transferred intent theory the jury is not instructed on…
19-816 Kristina Box, et al. v. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2019-12-27 GVR Amici (3)Relisted (2) abortion abortion-rights civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bypass minor-consent minors parental-consent parental-notification standing third-party-standing Whether an abortion clinic may assert third-party standing on behalf of its hypothetical minor patients to challenge a statute requiring parental noti…
19-7058 In Re Ramsey Randall 2019-12-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment 35-usc-101 civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech patent-eligibility standing Whether the 35 U.S.C. 101 patent eligibility restrictions unconstitutionally violate the First and Fourteenth Amendment rights of the petitioner
19-7063 Leeton Jahwanza Thomas v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-12-26 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Were Petitioner's rights under the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution violated by a Pennsylvania statutory sch…
19-797 City of St. Louis, Missouri, et al. v. Mary R. Meier Eighth Circuit 2019-12-23 Denied 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment municipal-liability probable-cause section-1983 seizure wanted-bulletin warrantless-seizure Whether a municipality can be held liable under 42 U.S.C. §1983 for a warrantless seizure of an automobile based on probable cause
19-7027 Patrick T. Hughes v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP accomplice-liability confrontation-clause criminal-conspiracy criminal-homicide due-process eighth-amendment evidence reasonable-doubt Whether the evidence was sufficient to sustain a conviction of criminal homicide, criminal conspiracy to commit homicide
19-7034 Charley Joe, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-vagueness eighth-amendment sentencing-guidelines unusual-vulnerability vagueness victim-exploitation victim-vulnerability vulnerable-victim Does the vulnerable victim enhancement apply when the defendant did not exploit the victim's unusual vulnerability?
19-6991 Lei Ke v. Drexel University Pennsylvania 2019-12-18 Dismissed IFP contract-clause dual-proceedings-waiver due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment government-power res-judicata Did the Superior Court of Pennsylvania violate the due process and equal protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment by refusing to recognize the d…
19-6993 In Re Augustus Larry Lundy 2019-12-18 Denied IFP constructive-denial-of-counsel due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus personal-jurisdiction sixth-amendment Did the trial court divest itself of personal jurisdiction of Lundy when it administered the law in an improper and unconstitutional manner?
19-7000 David Constance v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP crawford-v-washington fair-trial fourteenth-amendment hearsay-testimony impartial-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence sixth-amendment Whether Mr. Constance was denied a fair and impartial trial due to the State Courts' denial of hearsay testimony
19-7005 Johnnie Lewis Wood v. Virginia Virginia 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment-due-process 6th-amendment-rights conviction fair-trial false-testimony fourteenth-amendment indictment jury-verdict material-misrepresentation sixth-amendment Was Petitioner's Sixth-Amendment-rights,Fourteenth-Amendment-rights,false-testimony,fair-trial,jury-verdict,conviction violated
19-6982 Ernest Collins v. Barnes & Thornburg LLP, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-12-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 1983-civil-rights-act case-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment incorporation judicial-discretion qualified-immunity section-1691 standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states under the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause
19-6955 Shondell J. Paul v. New York New York 2019-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-question due-process federal-constitutional-law fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel precedent stare-decisis state-court state-court-precedent state-court-procedure Does the Fourteenth Amendment place an obligation on the New York Court of Appeals to address a federal constitutional question when its prior precede…
19-6957 Venise Metayer v. Florida Florida 2019-12-16 Denied IFP constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-hearing Did the trial/lower court create a manifest injustice when it allowed the petitioner to plea to charges that violated double-jeopardy laws, when the t…
19-6959 Jasmine F. v. Department of Child Safety, et al. Arizona 2019-12-16 Denied IFP civil-procedure clear-and-convincing-evidence constitutional-deficiency court-appointed-counsel due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-rights termination-of-parental-rights Whether the State of Arizona failed to terminate mother's parental rights by at least clear & convincing evidence as required by the due process claus…
19-6960 Ulriste Tulin v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury indictment jury-instruction Does an inaccurate Jury Instruction on the content of the indictment violate due process of law?
19-6922 Charles Edward Bates v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-12-13 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-punishment forfeiture sentencing Whether the lower courts erred in their interpretation of the Eighth Amendment prohibition on excessive fines and punishments as the forfeiture amount…
19-6911 Father v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services Texas 2019-12-12 Denied IFP 14th-amendment appeal appellate-review burden-of-proof due-process evidence evidence-standard fourteenth-amendment texas-constitution Does Article V, Section 6 of the Texas Constitution violate Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution when its distincti…
19-6927 Tony Egbuna Ford v. Texas Texas 2019-12-12 Denied IFP arbitrary-state-action criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus merits-consideration state-action state-created-right state-created-rights statutory-criteria subsequent-application subsequent-habeas-application Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' unexplained dismissal of claims raised in a subsequent application for writ of habeas corpus violated the…
19-750 In Re The Law Offices of Nina Ringgold, et al. 2019-12-12 Denied civil-procedure-28-usc-1446 civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1866 civil-rights-act-of-1886 due-process federal-jurisdiction first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-immunity recusal-requirement removal-procedure removal-statute state-court-procedure supremacy-clause Whether in conflict with the clear authority of this court California local rules of court may defeat the command of 28 U.S.C. § 1446 (d) that a state…
19-753 Michael Hunter, et al. v. Randy Cole, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-12-12 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7) civil-rights clearly-established-law deadly-force deadly-weapon due-process dynamic-encounter excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment police-use-of-force qualified-immunity shooting-encounter use-of-force Whether police officers can use deadly force when a person armed with a firearm moves the weapon toward the officer, even if the officer has not shout…
19-6916 Sherri Jefferson v. Supreme Court of Georgia Georgia 2019-12-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP attorney-discipline disbarment due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-precedent professional-responsibility self-incrimination Does this Court's opinion in Spevack v. Klein, 385 U.S. 511 (1967), In re Ruffalo, 390 U.S. 544 (1968), and North Carolina Board of Dental Examiners v…
19-743 Curtis T. Hill, Jr., Attorney General of Indiana, et al. v. Whole Woman's Health Alliance, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-12-11 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 14th-amendment abortion abortion-clinic-licensing civil-rights due-process federal-injunction fourteenth-amendment hypothetical-patient-rights licensing rooker-feldman sovereign-immunity standing state-agency-review third-party-standing undue-burden May a corporation that has been denied a state license to open a new abortion clinic assert the Fourteenth Amendment rights of hypothetical future pat…
19-746 Oliver Ray Carbutt v. Colorado Colorado 2019-12-11 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea plea-bargaining presentence-investigation self-incrimination sentencing sex-offense sex-offenses When a court is required to advise a defendant of the privilege against self-incrimination during a presentence investigation for a sex offense?
19-6895 John William Williams v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-bias due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-elections judicial-independence separation-of-powers state-judicial-elections state-judiciary supremacy-clause Has the external influence of state judicial election politics upon the state judiciary come to represent a constitutionally intolerable risk of bias …
19-6898 Demicko Billie Thomas v. Maggie Miller-Stout, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment musacchio-precedent musacchio-v-united-states ninth-circuit reasonable-doubt supreme-court-review washington-state-supreme-court Whether the Fourteenth Amendment requires each and every element of a charged offense to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt
19-719 Dami Hospitality, LLC v. Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, Division of Workers' Compensation Colorado 2019-12-06 Denied ability-to-pay civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-fines criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause proportionality sentencing Whether an offender's ability to pay is relevant in determining whether a fine is unconstitutional under the Excessive Fines Clause of the Eighth Amen…
19-720 United States v. Riley Briones, Jr. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-06 GVR Relisted (2) constitutional-law criminal-procedure discretionary-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment life-without-parole parole sentencing sentencing-discretion Whether Miller v. Alabama entitles respondent to invalidation of a discretionary life-without-parole sentence
19-6862 Dalton Betsinger v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-12-05 Denied IFP categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law eighth-amendment eighth-circuit fifth-circuit lowest-level-of-conduct state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the 'lowest level of conduct' as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach, an…
19-6868 Leigh Laz LePon v. Iowa Iowa 2019-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP claims-processing due-process fair-and-impartial-tribunal fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-impartiality partisan-advocacy privileges-and-immunities subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the state district-court judge violated the Fourteenth Amendment's privileges and immunities clause as well as the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendm…
19-6835 Dennis David Antwine v. Branch Circuit Judge Michigan 2019-12-04 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights deprivation due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure liberty-interest state-court state-law Whether the Fourteenth Amendment was violated when the state court deprived petitioner of his liberty interest created by state law?
19-6805 Hajes Rabaia v. Gubir Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied IFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-review sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent Does the holding of Brady v. Maryland apply to the petitioner?
19-6808 Phillip E. Smith v. Collins, First Name Unknown, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability cumulative-error due-process fourteenth-amendment insufficient-evidence miller-el-v-cockrell ninth-circuit severance sixth-amendment slack-v-mcdaniel trial-severance video-evidence Did the Ninth Circuit err in denying a certificate of appealability?
19-6811 Lamont Bernard Heard v. Rick Snyder, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-rule developmental-characteristics eighth-amendment fixed-character life-without-parole mature-adults mitigating-factor national-census transitional-stage youth-offenders youthful-offender Should this Court afford Eighth Amendment protection to youthful offenders based on this Court's own precedent and national census that youth is a mit…
19-6813 Lenore Luann Albert v. State Bar of California California 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-fines legal-costs license license-suspension reinstatement state-bar state-bar-costs Whether the California State Bar's conditional suspension that conditions the time suspended to payment of State Bar costs and other amounts ordered d…
19-6821 Tim Sundy v. Friendship Pavilion Acquisition Co., et al. Georgia 2019-12-03 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment takings Whether Petitioner Tim Sundy, without a meaningful remedy, has immunity, as provided by the due process clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments …
19-696 Dan Haendel v. Anne Reed, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response Waived alford-plea due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment heck-v-humphrey interception-act law-enforcement suppression-motion virginia virginia-interception-act Does Heck v. Humphrey bar Appellant's federal court review of the constitutionality of actions by local Virginia investigative and law enforcement off…
19-697 James Dwight Pavatt v. Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Amici (2) aggravating-factor aggravating-factors arbitrary-application capital-punishment capital-punishment-sentencing capital-sentence cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus procedural-bar procedural-ruling Whether a State's application of an aggravating factor to justify the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments when it makes punish…
19-674 James L. Martin v. National General Assurance Company Delaware 2019-11-26 Denied appellate-review civil-litigation civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal standing state-court Does the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause guarantee a civil litigant, in a state court, an appellate justice who did not oversee the same issue…
19-6751 DeAngelo Pantalion Williams v. California California 2019-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-court arbitrary-denial constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactive-application state-appellate-court state-law Whether a state appellate court's arbitrary denial of a defendant's request for the retroactive application of a new state law constitutes a violation…
19-6710 Thomas Franklin Bowling v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-11-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review case-mootness due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders mootness munsingwear-doctrine parole parole-board vacatur Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in denying petitioner's unopposed motion to vacate its published opinion after respondent's unilateral action rendere…
19-650 Melissa L. Barnette v. PROF-2013-M4 Legal Title, by U.S. Bank National Association, as Legal Title Trustee District of Columbia 2019-11-20 Denied civil-rights due-process equal-protection foreclosure fourteenth-amendment fraud judicial-procedure property-rights standing Whether the District of Columbia Court of Appeals erred in affirming the Superior Court's denial of Petitioner's motion to vacate the order granting s…
19-6688 Robert Joseph Fisher v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-20 Denied IFP categorical-approach circuit-split eighth-amendment eighth-circuit fifth-circuit lowest-level-of-conduct rule-of-lenity state-law statutory-interpretation Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the 'lowest level of conduct' as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach, an…
19-6701 Carl Labat v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-11-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP exhaustion-of-state-remedies fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment state-remedies strickland-standard strickland-v-washington supervisory-writs Whether Mr. Labat was denied effective assistance of counsel on appeal due to: (a) Failure to Exhaust State Remedies; (b) failure to seek Supervisory …
19-646 Alaina Adkins, et al. v. Jesse Michael Collens Alaska 2019-11-19 Denied bmw-v-gore civil-damages civil-procedure civil-rights due-process excessive-judgment fourteenth-amendment punitive-damages state-farm-v-campbell statutory-damages treble-damages Whether the factors identified by BMW of North America, Inc. v. Gore should be used to analyze excessive statutory civil damages
19-6677 Justin Scott Vasey v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-19 Denied IFP categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing eighth-amendment eighth-circuit legal-interpretation lowest-level-of-conduct state-law statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the 'lowest level of conduct' as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach, an…
19-6679 Horatio Johnson v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-11-19 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial nonunanimous-verdict sixth-amendment state-court state-criminal-procedure Does the right to a jury trial guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment, as applied to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment, allow a state-court crimi…
19-641 Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, Division of Workers' Compensation v. Dami Hospitality, LLC Colorado 2019-11-18 Denied 8th-amendment ability-to-pay civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation corporate-liability corporations due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines regulatory-enforcement state-law takings workers-compensation Whether the Eighth Amendment's Excessive Fines Clause applies to corporations as it does individuals and, if so, whether and to what extent it require…
19-6594 David Ingraham v. Florida Florida 2019-11-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP violate the principals of due-process constitutional-fairness due-process eight-amendment eighth-amendment judicial-integrity juvenile-offenders parole stare-decisis supreme-court-precedent Does the decision of the Florida Supreme Court in overturning its previous decision violate due-process,judicial-integrity
19-6595 Raymond Tavelle Holmes v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied IFP cell-phone civil-procedure civil-procedure-28-usc-636 due-process fair-trial florida-statute-934.23 fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-counsel inevitable-discovery magistrate-judge objection procedural-error report-and-recommendation search-and-seizure severance similar-fact-evidence sixth-amendment standing third-party warrantless-search Whether the failure to sever counts deprived the P Whether the warrantless search and seizure of text williams-rule Whether the Magistrate Judge failed to file a report and recommendation as required, depriving the Petitioner the opportunity to file a written object…
19-6598 Robert Hercenberger v. Gary A. Martin Oregon 2019-11-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment government-policy legal-equality state-government state-jurisdiction Where Equal Protection of the laws definition apply for all
19-6605 Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-infirmity due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment post-conviction-relief short-sentence standing state-courts statutory-construction Are the following Pennsylvania statutes constitutionally infirm?
19-6628 Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-infirmity due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-relief short-sentence statutory-construction Whether the Pennsylvania statutes 42 Pa.C.S. §9542, 42 Pa.C.S. §9543(a)(1)(ii), 42 Pa.C.S. §9545(a), 42 Pa.C.S. §9545(b)(1), and 18 Pa.C.S. §2709(a)(4…
19-6629 Jacqueline M. King v. District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia 2019-11-13 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-charges driver's-license drivers-license due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment notice notice-requirement parking-tickets suspension Whether the District of Columbia violated Petitioner's due process rights under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments
19-6574 Marco Gonzalez v. Panda Restaurant Group, Inc. California 2019-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights conflicting-rulings constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-procedure res-judicata standing vexatious-litigant Why doesn't there exist Vexatious Litigant laws or procedure that addresses Multiplicity of California's §391 Motion with Conflicting Rulings based on…
19-6583 Patrick Killen, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment eleventh-circuit graham-v-florida gross-disproportionality proportionality sentencing statutory-limits Whether the proper analysis to determine a threshold showing of gross disproportionality on an Eighth Amendment claim
19-6523 Pasqual Andres McMurry v. Nevada Nevada 2019-11-07 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation standing takings Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause
19-6539 Dwayne Dumont Haizlip v. Joseph Valliere Fourth Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process fourteenth-amendment habitual-felon-law habitual-offender mandatory-sentencing sentencing Whether the federal court erred in upholding the petitioner's mandatory sentence for a drug-trafficking conviction under North Carolina General Statut…
19-6531 Demetrius Frazier v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 capital-sentencing capital-sentencing-scheme certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus second-or-successive-petition sixth-amendment Whether the Eleventh Circuit should have issued a certificate of appealability
19-6535 Clarence Fry v. Ohio Ohio 2019-11-06 Denied IFP constitutional-right criminal-defendant due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment right-to-testify rock-v-arkansas self-representation sixth-amendment trial-counsel Is it unconstitutional for any Court to deny the Constitutional right to testify in one's own defense by placing the burden of making such desire know…
19-588 Lori Madden-Grammer v. Industrial Claim Appeals Office, et al. Colorado 2019-11-05 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure administrative-review colorado-revised-statutes due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-utilization-review property-interest statutory-rights workers-compensation Whether Colorado's Medical Utilization Review process deprives claimants of their statutorily-created property interest without due process
19-580 Jun Xiao v. Regents of the University of Minnesota, et al. Minnesota 2019-11-04 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights due-process Fourteenth Amendment equal-protection qualified-immunity civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment property-rights qualified-immunity section-1983 standing takings Whether the state district court erred in dismissing Petitioner's 42 U.S.C. § 1983, Fourteenth Amendment equal protection claim for failure to state a…
19-6463 Michael A. Albert v. New York New York 2019-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment outrageous-conduct police-agent right-to-present-defense sexual-inducement voluntariness Whether the promise and delivery of sex by a police agent is sufficient inducement to trigger 5th and/or 14th Amendment protections
19-6479 In Re Charles Russell Rhines 2019-11-01 Denied IFP capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus juror-bias sexual-orientation Should this Court exercise its original habeas jurisdiction to transfer this petition to the district court for a hearing regarding Petitioner's subst…
19-6437 Lee E. Peyton v. California California 2019-10-31 Denied IFP confrontation-clause courtroom-protocol criminal-procedure due-process due-process-clause farretta-v-california fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-representation sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments permit a trial court to deny a defendant's request to proceed pro se based on the judge's accusations of t…
19-6457 D. B. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services Texas 2019-10-31 Denied Relisted (2)IFP child-welfare civil-rights civil-rights-discrimination due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment parental-rights religious-freedom Whether the Texas district court violated the Petitioner's Federal Civil Rights
19-6469 Kenneth N. McFall v. Indiana Indiana 2019-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP and sole defense witness to testify at trial for appeal evidence sixth-amendment state-court-decision testimony abuse-of-discretion accomplice-testimony constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-seizure fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment sixth-amendment state-bypass-sixth-amendment Whether the trial court's abuse of discretion in not allowing an alleged accomplice to testify violated the petitioner's due process and Sixth Amendme…
19-554 50 Murray Street Acquisition LLC v. John Kuzmich, et al. New York 2019-10-30 Denied Amici (2) due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-takings lower-manhattan-revitalization-plan property-rights rent-stabilization section-421-g takings-clause Whether courts can eliminate established property rights without just compensation
19-6425 Andres Santana v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2019-10-29 Denied IFP 14th-amendment discovery due-process fourteenth-amendment innocence liberty-interest post-conviction post-conviction-discovery procedural-rights substantive-rights What amount of due process is owed to a Defendant who is seeking post-conviction discovery to prove himself innocent of the charges a jury found him G…
19-6380 Emerson L. Beverly v. Sherry L. Burt, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial fair-trial-14th-amendment fair-trial-6th-amendment fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct red-herring sentencing-review sixth-amendment Did the prosecutor's repeated reference to petitioner's defense as a 'red hearing' constitute misconduct thereby denying petitioner a fair trial in vi…
19-6390 Edward L. Collins v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial miranda-rights self-incrimination sixth-amendment Was the Petitioner's right to due process and freedom from self-incrimination violated?
19-6349 Jarvas Jovon Brinkley v. Randee Rewerts, Warden Michigan 2019-10-23 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper michigan-law sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Does the decisions below conflict with the decisions of other U.S. circuit courts of appeals and state appellate courts, and misapply this court's dec…
19-6329 Jackie Lee Boyd v. Carol Monroe, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-treatment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment incarceration medical-care prison-conditions Is a constitutional right to be free of the wanton infliction of sei pain rendered void upon incarceration?
19-514 Nikko A. Jenkins v. Nebraska Nebraska 2019-10-21 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (3) capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-health mental-illness mitigating-evidence sixth-amendment solitary-confinement Whether the sentencing court violated the requirement of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment that capital sentencers give meaningful consideration and…
19-6247 In Re Donald Lee McDonald 2019-10-11 Denied IFP criminal-sexual-assault due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habitual-criminal-act habitual-criminal-statute pro-se sentencing seventh-circuit vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness Whether Petitioner is being held unlawfully in state custody in violation of the Constitution
19-6254 Christopher T. Shanahan v. Idaho Idaho 2019-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection juvenile-sentencing life-sentence mitigating-factors parole parole-eligibility Does a juvenile life sentence with parole eligibility after a lengthy term violate the Eighth Amendment?
19-6261 Jeremiah Marion v. Florida Florida 2019-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment due-process evidence-rule evidentiary-provision first-time-offender fourteenth-amendment life-without-parole petition-for-grievances sexual-battery uncorroborated-accusations Does the evidentiary provision of Florida's sexual battery statute violate the Fourteenth Amendment?
19-6250 Father v. Maternal Grandparents Ohio 2019-10-10 Denied IFP adoption adoption-consent civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment incarceration parental-rights statutory-interpretation statutory-law Whether incarcerated parents have a due-process right to consent to adoption of their children under the Fourteenth Amendment
19-471 Frederick Collins Fermin v. Priest of Saint Mary-Marfa, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-10-10 Denied baptism civil-rights constitutional-law due-process evidence exodus fourteenth-amendment jesus-christ religious-freedom standing Were petitioner's civil rights violated upon being baptized illegally?
19-6214 Luis Fuquen v. Trina Everitt Maryland 2019-10-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP best-interest-of-the-child child-custody divorce due-process family-privacy family-privacy-rights family-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech freedom-of-association freedom-of-religion parent-child-rights parental-rights Whether Luis and his children are entitled to due process protections for their individual intimate and expressive, close family, parent-child speech,…
19-6223 Kermit B. Harris v. Charmaine Bracy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied IFP 14th-amendment charging-offense constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custody-without-charge due-process equal-protection finality finality-of-sentence fourteenth-amendment police-officer police-shooting Can a state trial court disregard a defendant's constitutional right to due process of law under the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution,…
19-6204 James Michael Biela v. Nevada Nevada 2019-10-08 Denied IFP appellate-counsel appellate-procedure constitutional-amendments due-process fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-impartiality jury-selection sixth-amendment standard-of-review Whether the Nevada Supreme Court committed error when it applied the wrong standard in failing to grant Mr. Biela relief based upon an unfair and impa…
19-6175 K. S. v. Contra Costa County Children & Family Services Bureau California 2019-10-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP california-welfare-and-institution-code civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federalism fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment santosky-v-kramer sixth-amendment standing supreme-court-precedent welfare-code Whether the application of California Welfare and Institution Code violated petitioner's constitutional rights under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth A…
19-458 John Schickel, et al. v. George C. Troutman, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-10-07 Denied campaign-finance campaign-speech civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech legislative-ethics standing strict-scrutiny Whether incumbents and candidates for political office have standing to assert First and Fourteenth Amendment claims
19-6174 David Anthony Lee v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-law fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-rights state-court-proceedings Whether Mr. Lee's conviction was obtained in violation of his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights
19-6130 George W. Fisher v. John Gregory Mermelstein, et al Eighth Circuit 2019-10-03 Denied IFP 1st-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment disability due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection free-speech media-access medical-treatment prison prisoner-rights state-liability Whether the denial of media treatment at a state prison violates the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of the press
19-6148 Cornelius Lorenzo Wilson v. Dennis Grimes, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-10-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment medical-care monell-doctrine monell-liability municipal-jail municipal-liability prison-conditions prisoner-rights serious-medical-need systemic-underfunding Does systemic underfunding and understaffing of a municipal jail that knowingly causes significant delays for prisoners receiving access to outside me…
19-6160 Reggie D. Caswell v. New York New York 2019-10-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law appellate-counsel civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment pro-se-appeal sixth-amendment standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted
19-443 Charles G. Kinney v. Philip S. Gutierrez, Judge, United States District Court for the Central District of California Ninth Circuit 2019-10-03 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts bivens bivens-claim cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines obstruction-of-justice vexatious-litigant Whether the use of vexatious litigant laws to punish an individual and preclude access to the courts, resulting in excessive fines and cruel and unusu…
19-436 T. R. C. v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2019-10-02 Denied Response Waived due-process familial-integrity fourteenth-amendment guardian-ad-litem parental-rights strict-scrutiny termination-of-parental-rights Is Wis. Stat. §48.415 unconstitutional as applied when it was used to terminate the Fourteenth Amendment fundamental right of familial integrity of a …
19-6136 Thomas A. Bias v. Jimmy Martin, Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-sentencing juvenile-sentencing,eighth-amendment,fourteenth-am life-imprisonment miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana supreme-court-precedent Is the state of Oklahoma unconstitutionally imposing continued imprisonment on juvenile's sentenced to life, in disregard of the United States Supreme…
19-6092 Jonothan E. Prather v. Robert Gilmore, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. Third Circuit 2019-10-01 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana petition-timeliness retroactivity timeliness Whether the lower courts erred in dismissing the Petitioner's petition as untimely and in finding that the newly recognized constitutional right set f…
19-424 Joel Howard James v. Michigan Michigan 2019-09-30 Denied Response Waived class-of-one criminal-investigation due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause fourteenth-amendment nonresident-tolling nonresident-tolling-provision privileges-and-immunities Privileges-and-Immunities-Clause Rational-Basis statute-of-limitations Whether the nonresident tolling provision of MCL 767.24(10) violates the Equal Protection Clause and Privileges and Immunities Clause of the Fourteent…
19-6071 Demetrius Desean Morgan v. Michigan Michigan 2019-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-association impartial-jury ineffective-assistance insufficient-evidence physical-characteristics reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment surveillance-video video-surveillance Was the evidence of Petitioner's identity as the shooter sufficient to sustain the first-degree murder conviction?
19-6074 Gerald Nelson v. Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1181-1061, AFL-CIO, et al. Second Circuit 2019-09-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights complete-preemption due-process federal-claim federal-jurisdiction federal-statute fourteenth-amendment labor-management-relations preemption removal removal-procedure state-common-law subject-matter-jurisdiction well-pleaded-complaint-rule Whether the United States Court of Appeal and District Federal Court can sua sponte a case when plaintiff has not had a chance to file a complaint and…
19-6077 Ruben Moreno Herrera v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2019-09-26 Denied IFP civil-rights compulsory-process conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process evidence-exclusion evidentiary-exclusion fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the exclusion of all reliable and relevant material evidence, including the testimony of the defendant's first-hand witness, violated the defe…
19-6043 Larry Craig Cash v. Vance Laughlin, Warden Georgia 2019-09-25 Denied IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process effective-assistance fourteenth-amendment jury-selection murder-trial racial-discrimination standing state-action trial-duty Whether the rights of a defendant under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment were properly utilized by the State of Georgia
19-6046 Steven Gary Sanders v. William Beck, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied IFP 1st-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure vehicle-seizure Issues being raised
19-6061 Phillip Jones v. Ohio Ohio 2019-09-25 Denied IFP capital-case capital-punishment due-process eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-investigation sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Whether trial counsel is ineffective in a capital case when counsel conducts their mitigation investigation after the trial begins, does not allow the…
19-6051 Hezekiah Whitfield v. Deanna Brookhart, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP corroborative-evidence criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence evidence-restriction fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner Made A Substantial Showing Of The Denial Of His Sixth And Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Rights
19-375 Lawrence T. Newman v. Robert W. York, as Personal Representative, et al. Indiana 2019-09-20 Denied Response Waived administrative-expense administrative-expenses administrative-law appeal appeal-on-merits civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights due-process estate-administration fourteenth-amendment standing trial-court Whether the refusal of the trial court to hear Newman's administrative expense motions violates the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause and othe…
19-364 Dwayne Lamar Williams, Sr. v. Virginia Virginia 2019-09-19 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury incorporation jurisdiction state-criminal-procedure state-indictment Does the Fifth Amendment grand jury right apply to state indictments via the Fourteenth Amendment?
19-366 Walter C. Lange v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Fifth Circuit 2019-09-19 Denied Response Waived due-process eighth-amendment excise fifth-amendment first-amendment income-tax indirect-tax tax-code title-26 vagueness Whether the income tax under Title 26 of the U.S. Code is an indirect tax and therefore exclusively an excise, duty or impost arising from the exercis…
19-6006 Nicholas Wilkerson v. Alabama Alabama 2019-09-19 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP 8th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-hearing Does the Eighth Amendment require a factual finding to determine to which class a given juvenile belongs?
19-5989 Errol Victor, Sr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-09-18 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 13th-amendment 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-provision direct-review due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity retroactivity state-constitutional-law thirteenth-amendment verdict-retroactivity Whether it denies defendant's Fourteenth and Thirteenth Amendment Rights while on direct review not to retroactively vacate a non-unanimous jury verdi…
19-5993 Mabon Demetric James v. Marcus Pollard, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment insufficient-evidence robbery standing takings Was Mabon James convicted of the robbery of Marta Parfeta in violation of his Fourteenth Amendment due process rights despite constitutionally insuffi…
19-5996 Michael J. W. Potter v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment life-imprisonment mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing sentencing Whether entry of a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment violated Appellant's rights under the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution
19-362 Patrick Kent Lindsey Jones v. Allen Jones Louisiana 2019-09-18 Denied 14th-amendment appeal civil-procedure contested-funds due-process equal-protection finality-of-judgment fourteenth-amendment interlocutory-judgment right-to-appeal standing state-court state-court-jurisdiction Under the 14th Amendment, Section 1, how can a state court deny the right to appeal, by deeming a judgment which distributes contested funds to be a n…
19-363 Jim R. Nash v. Norma Nash, et al. Arkansas 2019-09-18 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts fourteenth-amendment full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction state-court state-courts substitution Whether a judgment without jurisdiction of the decedent violates the petitioner's right to due process under the Fourteenth Amendment
19-5955 Dennis R. Heilman v. Randy Blades, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-assault due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-instructions rape variance Does a variance between the Information charging aggravated assault and rape, and (a) a conviction on non-conforming evidence submitted at trial, and …
19-5967 Cameron Thomas v. Nevada Nevada 2019-09-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-amendments due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness sixth-amendment trial-court-narrative Whether the Nevada Supreme Court committed error when it failed to address Thomas' contention that his right to fundamental fairness was violated when…
19-5975 Juan Jose Tull-Abreu v. United States First Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-identity-theft compulsory-process confrontation-clause conspiracy controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment health-care-fraud identity-theft sixth-amendment Whether the petitioner participated in a conspiracy to commit health care fraud
19-5977 Kerry Lyn Dalton v. California California 2019-09-17 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-requirement criminal-sentencing death-penalty fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment statutory-maximum Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact other than a prior con…
19-5978 Terence S. Chancellor v. Select Portfolio Servicing, Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 7th-circuit-court-of-appeals appeal-denial bias civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias perjury standing Whether Petitioner Terence S Chancellor's Constitutional right to due-process was violated during court proceedings by the 7th-Circuit-Court-of-Appeal…
19-5927 Cuitlahuac Tahua Rivera v. California California 2019-09-13 Denied IFP constitutional-requirement criminal-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fact-finding fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact that serves to…
19-5932 Chavez Myers v. United States District of Columbia 2019-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights comprehensive-youth-justice-amendment-act criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana standing youth-reform-act Whether the District of Columbia Court of Appeals erred in denying Chavez Myers' § 23-110 motion
19-5933 Julian Alejandro Mendez v. California California 2019-09-13 Denied IFP aggravating-factors constitutional-amendments criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment trier-of-fact Whether the California death penalty scheme violates the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments by permitting the trier of fact to impose a sentence o…
19-5919 Marlon Romaine Carter v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constructive-possession criminal-conviction due-process felon-in-possession fourteenth-amendment jackson-v-virginia sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the State of Louisiana misapplied Jackson v. Virginia sufficiency of evidence test
19-335 Jaideep S. Chawla v. Appeals Court of Massachusetts Massachusetts 2019-09-12 Denied appellate-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-panel notice panel-composition property-rights recusal Whether a state appeals court violates the Fourteenth Amendment by changing the composition of an appellate panel during the rehearing phase without n…
19-5904 Travis Dennis v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review batson-challenge constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-due-process due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-verdict sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence Whether Mr. Dennis' conviction was obtained with insufficient evidence
19-5881 Arthur O. Armstrong v. Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-09-10 Dismissed IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60-b-6 constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment liberty property rule-60 Whether Petitioner is entitled to relief, pursuant to Rule 60(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or any relief
19-5886 Arthur O. Armstrong v. North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-09-10 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60-b-6 conspiracy constitutional-rights due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment liberty probable-cause property rule-60 Whether Petitioner is entitled to relief, pursuant to Rule 60 (b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
19-5887 Arthur O. Armstrong v. John Doe Fourth Circuit 2019-09-10 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60-b-6 conspiracy constitutional-rights disclosure-of-corporate-affiliation due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment liberty probable-cause property rule-60 standing Whether Petitioner is entitled to relief, pursuant to Rule 60 (b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
19-5892 Charles Titus, et ux. v. Mohammed Alaeddin, et al. Illinois 2019-09-10 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias pro-se pro-se-parties procedural-due-process standing trial-proceedings Whether the trial court's actions amounted to a violation of the Due Process Clause
19-5894 Damon Bentley v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure clerical-error constitutional-claims due-process federal-review fourteenth-amendment fraud habeas-corpus state-prisoner statute-of-limitations Whether the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause is violated when a State prisoner is not given a complete and fair hearing in the district court w…
19-325 Columbian Financial Corporation v. Tim Kemp, Bank Commissioner of Kansas, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-09-10 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment administrative-law constitutional-violations due-process fourteenth-amendment notice opportunity-to-be-heard preclusion property-rights res-judicata state-action Whether Petitioner's due process rights were violated when the lower federal courts barred Petitioner's claim by applying preclusive effect to the ver…
19-5864 Brandon Jones v. Illinois Illinois 2019-09-09 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment free-speech incorporation standing takings Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause
19-5870 Shakeem Heratio Crawford v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender civil-rights criminal-justice criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment ex-post-facto first-step-act parole retroactivity sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation Did the judge abuse discretion by categorically denying career offenders benefits under the First Step Act?
19-5877 Damion D. Faulkner v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment judicial-discretion proportionality proportionality-review sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness sex-offense sex-offenses substantive-due-process is-it-substantively-unreasonable-to-impose-an-effective-sentence-of-life
19-5841 Shahram Shakouri v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied IFP due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause masterpiece-cakeshop religious-discrimination religious-hostility religious-neutrality scriptural-interpretation thirteenth-amendment Whether district court's lack of religious neutrality violated Petitioner's right to the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment or Free Exercise Cla…
19-5842 William Sim Spencer v. Michigan Michigan 2019-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP actus-reus counsel-effectiveness due-process fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel irrebuttable-presumption sex-offender-registration sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations Where it can be shown that the order to register as a sex offender is not limited in scope to stand on a valid guilty plea supported by the effective …
19-5847 Dennis White v. Ohio Ohio 2019-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment due-process fourteenth-amendment hospital-records ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel material-evidence pre-indictment-delay reasonable-probability sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Was the State Appellate court decision contrary to, or involved an unreasonable application of, clearly established federal law, Strickland-v-Washingt…
19-5859 Edward Wesby v. Florida Florida 2019-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment miller-standard miller-v-alabama parole parole-eligibility Whether Florida's current parole system provides a meaningful opportunity for release to juvenile offenders sentenced to life imprisonment with eligib…
19-315 Endre Glenn v. Brennan H. Moss, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights docketing due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial seventh-amendment summary-judgment Whether U.S. District Court violated client's right to jury trial under U.S. Const. Amend VII, and XIV due process, equal protection of the laws
19-302 Michael Bornemann v. Tamae M. Kekona, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Benjamin Paul Kekona, Deceased Hawaii 2019-09-05 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment double-penalty due-process due-process,punitive-damages,14th-amendment,excess fourteenth-amendment hrs-657-5 judicial-review legal-appeals punitive-damages statutory-interest Whether the Hawaii Court gravely erred when it upheld a grossly excessive punitive damages award
19-305 Lisa Wilkins, et al. v. James Soler, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-05 Denied Response Waived due-process forum-state fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement personal-jurisdiction third-party-interactions Whether a court can, consistent with the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, exert personal jurisdiction over an out of state law enforcem…
19-5809 Lloyde Dubry v. Kansas Kansas 2019-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-history descamps-v-united-states discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sixth-amendment state-v-wetrich Whether the petitioner was denied his remedy by due course of law due to disparate conclusions by Kansas courts on the retroactive application of Stat…
19-5831 Lorenzo Davis, Jr. v. Illinois Illinois 2019-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus illinois-constitution. 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus illinois-constitution legal-procedure state-detention Whether it is unconstitutional to hold a person in prison without a valid court order or due process of law
19-5839 Randall Wayne Mays v. Texas Texas 2019-09-05 Denied IFP competency cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty delusions due-process eighth-amendment ford-hearing junk-science lay-stereotypes mental-competency mental-illness panetti-v-quarterman Whether a state court may rely on junk science and lay stereotypes of the severely mentally ill to adjudicate a Ford claim
19-5807 Thedrick Edwards v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-09-04 Judgment Issued Amici (20)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment state-law Whether Louisiana's non-unanimous jury requirement for crimes requiring life sentences violates the Sixth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment of the Un…
19-5817 Kendrick Taylor v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-09-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP apodaca-v-oregon criminal-procedure criminal-trial fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine johnson-v-louisiana jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent unanimous-verdict Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial requires an unanimous jury verdict and, if so, would that unanimity requirement be required in state…
19-289 County of San Diego, California, et al. v. James Soler Ninth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arrest arrest-procedure civil-rights due-process extradition-warrant fourteenth-amendment jail-staff mistaken-identity procedural-due-process qualified-immunity When a prisoner is held under authority of a facially valid warrant, do individual jail staff members have a duty under the Fourteenth Amendment to in…
19-298 Fernando Juarez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment de-facto-life-without-parole eighth-amendment ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama sentencing-hearing sentencing-law Does an automatic life-without-parole sentence for juveniles violate the Eighth Amendment?
19-5780 Marvin Robinson v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner's trial counsel was constitutionally ineffective under the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution?
19-279 Shirley Johnson v. New Destiny Christian Center Church, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-03 Denied advice-of-counsel civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence evidence-alteration evidence-tampering fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct malicious-prosecution probable-cause whether-due-process-clause-permits-judgment-to-stand-when-court-altered-evidence
19-281 Capital Associated Industries, Inc. v. Josh Stein, Attorney General of North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-09-03 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights content-based-restriction content-based-speech first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-association legal-assistance legal-services non-profit non-profit-organizations professional-licensing strict-scrutiny Do the North Carolina statutes prohibiting the Association's attorneys from providing legal assistance to its members violate the freedom of associati…
19-5776 Benjamin R. Schwarz v. Erwin Meinberg, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit assets bivens-claim civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment federal-inmate financial-disclosure free-speech in-forma-pauperis liabilities prison-conditions standing takings ziglar-precedent Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in dismissing petitioner's civil rights claims for lack of standing
19-5783 Monica Nicole Townsend v. Erik Allen Vasquez Texas 2019-09-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection family-code fourteenth-amendment free-speech parties proceeding standing Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the First Amendment's free speech protections
19-5792 Randall Turner v. Tennessee Tennessee 2019-09-03 Denied IFP bias-adjudicator capital-adversary-procedures conflict-of-interest due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations structural-defect term-1 term-2 term-3 term-4 term-5 term-6 Whether the appellate court appeal process was fundamentally unfair and a denial of due process of law under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment
19-5794 Dazzle Young v. Francisco J. Quintana, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-tampering fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sentencing Whether Mr. Young's conviction violated due process and his Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights due to the use of tampered evidence
19-5762 Stevrick Tavah Jackson v. Florida Florida 2019-08-30 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment habeas-corpus life-sentence parole sentencing twenty-one Whether the courts below decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions of this Honorable Court when they d…
19-5770 Danny Lee Banks v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment johnson-precedent residual-clause sentencing sixth-amendment unconstitutional unconstitutional-sentencing Did the appeals court and district court violate bank's fifth, sixth and fourteenth amendment rights by upholding a sentence that was based on the unc…
19-264 Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary v. Lydell Marcus White Oregon 2019-08-29 Dismissed Response RequestedRelisted (4) 8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing mandatory-sentences miller-v-alabama non-mandatory-sentence non-mandatory-sentences Does the Eighth Amendment, under Miller v. Alabama, require invalidation of respondent's sentence?
19-265 Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary v. Laycelle Tornee White Oregon 2019-08-29 Dismissed Response RequestedRelisted (4) 8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing mandatory-sentences miller-v-alabama non-mandatory-sentence non-mandatory-sentences sentencing Does the Eighth Amendment, under Miller v. Alabama, require invalidation of respondent's sentence?
19-5752 Jimmie Kyle Anderson v. Texas Texas 2019-08-29 Denied IFP 8th-amendment apprendi-rule cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentences eighth-amendment public-safety sentencing sex-offender-law sex-offenders Does the public safety interest in incapacitating and deterring certain types of sex offenders with extremely long sentences run afoul of the 8th Amen…
19-5723 Melvin Bernard Thompson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-28 Denied IFP Almendarez-Torres Apprendi-v-New-Jersey criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment stare-decisis Can a Florida Law permit a judicial discretion-upward-departure sentence beyond sentencing-guidelines without violating Sixth-Amendment Fourteenth-Ame…
19-247 City of Boise, Idaho v. Robert Martin, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-26 Denied Amici (20)Relisted (2) 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment homeless-rights homelessness local-government-powers local-government-regulation public-camping public-health-and-safety Does the enforcement of generally applicable laws regulating public camping and sleeping constitute 'cruel and unusual punishment' prohibited by the E…
19-250 Oklahoma v. Jesse Allen Johnson Oklahoma 2019-08-26 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment jury-factfinding jury-trial juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana sixth-amendment Does the Sixth Amendment require that the individualized sentencing proceeding necessary to impose a life-without-parole sentence upon a juvenile homi…
19-5712 Ivan Lee Vasquez v. California California 2019-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-rights content-based-messaging fair-trial fourteenth-amendment inherently-prejudicial sixth-amendment trial-spectator-conduct May trial spectator conduct, in the form of content-based messaging, be 'so inherently prejudicial as to pose an unacceptable threat' to the fair-tria…
19-5605 Stephen Alan Macomber v. Kansas Kansas 2019-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment burden-of-proof civil-liberties constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment state-action use-of-force Did the trial courts fail to give a specific use-of-force presumption, thereby lowering the burden of proof for the state and violating the defendant'…
19-5693 Harlow Hutchinson v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-08-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict Whether Petitioner was constitutionally entitled to a unanimous jury under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constituti…
19-5695 Riodejuonerol Hudson v. Charles Bradley, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-deference appellate-counsel appellate-procedure complete-defense due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction sixth-amendment standard-of-review Does the denial of an 'application' alone constitute a decision 'on the merits' that warrants AEDPA deference?
19-5704 In Re James Larry 2019-08-23 Denied IFP 14th-amendment due-process federal-law fourteenth-amendment mental-disease mental-disease-defect post-conviction rule-32 standard-of-review Does the Alabama State standard of review in Rule 32 Ala.R.Crim.P. post-conviction proceedings regarding the mental disease/defect issue as presented …
19-235 Richard Jordan, et al. v. Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied burden-of-proof civil-rights corrections-department death-penalty discovery discovery-rights due-process eighth-amendment glossip-standard glossip-v-gross lethal-injection method-of-execution section-1983 standing Whether the burden of proof demanded by Glossip in method-of-execution challenges requires commensurately broad discovery rights to provide plaintiffs…
19-5672 Gary Ray Bowles v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 capital-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability procedural-obstacles Whether a capital defendant's claim that the Eighth Amendment forbids his execution as he is intellectually disabled becomes viable upon the issuance …
19-5677 In Re Alonzo May 2019-08-22 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest sovereign-power Whether the State of Texas lawfully overrode the petitioner's final judgment and order of commitment, in violation of the Ex Post Facto Clause, Double…
19-230 Douglas Prade v. Ohio Ohio 2019-08-21 Denied burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence state-courts state-criminal-procedure trial-rights Does Ohio's uniquely elevated burden of proof for new trials based on newly discovered evidence violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause?
19-5644 Keith Stuart Cumbee v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-08-21 Denied IFP criminal-procedure does-judicial-confession double-jeopardy due-process due-process-clause fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus indigent-defendant judicial-confession legal-assistance legal-assistance-clause sixth-amendment without-prior-appointment-of-counsel without-waiver Does judicial confession in this case, without a waiver and without prior appointment of counsel for an indigent defendant, violate the Legal Assistan…
19-5649 Terry Lee O'Brien v. Carla Hacker-Agnew, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-21 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment medical-negligence national-uniformity obstruction-of-justice prison-conditions standing statutory-interpretation What degree of interpretation of a constitution, statute, or authority of law is a question of law where there is a crisis case?
19-5653 Edward Lee Busby v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-08-21 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 adjudication-on-the-merits atkins-claim due-process due-process-clause eighth-amendment federal-constitutional-claim federal-law habeas-corpus intellectual-disability standard-of-review state-court state-court-review When a state habeas court denies a petitioner relief on a federal constitutional claim by imposing a higher burden than is required by federal law, sh…
19-210 Lizette Olaechea, aka Lizette Simmonds v. Grace Olaechea Florida 2019-08-20 Denied civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment inconsistent-decisions indispensable-party personal-jurisdiction void-judgment Whether the lower Courts disregarded the Fourteenth Amendment and erred by not declaring a judgment void, wherein the Court lacked personal jurisdicti…
19-5650 James Michael Williams v. Daniel Paramo, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP brady-violations certificate-of-appealability due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel preliminary-hearing prosecutorial-misconduct second-jury-trial Whether the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals erred in denying Certificate of Appealability to Petitioner
19-212 Hanh Thai Williams v. Succession of Fred Langford Houston Louisiana 2019-08-19 Denied Response Waived attorney-witness campaign-contributions civil-procedure conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-conduct judicial-ethics procedural-fairness recusal standing Whether Armand Roos' participation as Plaintiff's attorney and primary witness was procedurally and evidentiary concern a violation of Due Process
19-5617 Gary Ray Bowles v. Florida, et al. Florida 2019-08-16 Denied Amici (2)IFP death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-prohibition execution-risk florida-supreme-court intellectual-disability procedural-bar standing state-procedural-bar state-procedure unacceptable-risk Can a state procedural bar override the Eighth Amendment prohibition against executing the intellectually disabled?
19-5591 Kirk Saintcalle v. Jeffrey A. Uttecht, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-selection peremptory-challenge racial-discrimination Did the Ninth Circuit err in affirming the district court's denial of Kirk Saintcalle's petition for a writ of habeas corpus on the grounds that the s…
19-5599 Lisa J. Gillard v. Illinois Illinois 2019-08-15 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federalism fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine judicial-review jurisdiction state-courts Does the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution apply in the Illinois State Courts?
19-193 Rodney Hogen, et al. v. Steven C. Hogen North Dakota 2019-08-14 Denied Response Waived due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure north-dakota personal-representative property-rights supreme-court Does the decision of the Supreme Court of North Dakota deprive the Petitioners of established property rights in violation of the Due Process and Equa…
19-194 Daniel Delacruz, Sr. v. State Bar of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-14 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment noerr-pennington noerr-pennington-doctrine racial-discrimination rooker-feldman-doctrine Does a dismissal of claims based on the Rooker-Feldman doctrine and First Amendment rights under the Noerr-Pennington doctrine violate the equal prote…
19-195 Robert Ryan Snyder v. California California 2019-08-14 Denied 8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deprivation-of-necessities due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-deference lockdown lockdown-procedures prison-conditions retaliation Has California's justice system forgotten what was taught by this Court's holding in Wilson v. Seiter
19-5566 Reilies Wayne Miller v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP chapman-v-california closing-arguments darden-v-wainwright due-process expert-witness fourteenth-amendment harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions self-defense sixth-amendment Consistent with the Fourteenth Amendment and Chapman v. California, could the harmless error analysis applied by the State as to the self-defense jury…
19-5567 Delores Neely v. Georgia Department of Human Resources Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 amendment-xiv-section-5 civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1871 congressional-power constitutional-immunity constitutional-provisions eleventh-amendment federal-courts fourteenth-amendment sovereign-immunity state-sovereignty Can Congress abrogate a State's immunity from being sued in Federal court without its consent, under authority granted to Congress by the Fourteenth A…
19-5558 Frank Stephon Johnson v. Correct Care Solutions, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment medical-care medical-conditions punishment Whether the defendants' deliberate indifference to the petitioner's serious medical needs violated the Eighth Amendment
19-5560 Cecil McDonald Davis v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment bivens bivens-action bivens-claim certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment medical-claim Whether the District Court in denying the Petitioner's medical claim under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Fed. Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 38…
19-5561 Stephen Michael West v. Tony Parker, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Correction, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-08-12 Denied IFP 8th-amendment bucklew-standard bucklew-v-precythe civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment lethal-injection method-of-execution res-judicata section-1983 standing When an inmate's § 1983 challenge to a state's method of execution meets the timeliness and pleading requirements of this Court's decision in Bucklew,…
19-5540 Thomas Edward Wright v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process eighth-amendment judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines special-assessment standing statutory-interpretation Did the Fourth Circuit err in dismissing petitioner's constitutional, statutory, and other legal claims?
19-5507 David Fennell v. Charles Munger, et al. California 2019-08-08 Denied IFP 1st-amendment assembly civil-rights due-process election-interference first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech freedom-of-assembly petition-for-redress political-speech Does arresting Republican opponents and banning Republicans from running for office or attending Republican political events for life in California vi…
19-5508 Carlin U. Powell v. Medical Department Cuyahoga County Correctional Center, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment ableism ambleism cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment interstate-agreement-on-detainers medical-neglect Did the Medical Department of Cuyahoga County Correctional Center et al. violate Carlin U. Powell's 8th and 14th Amendment rights by acting with delib…
19-5525 Erika Jacobs v. Atlanta Police Department, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-offense cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment homeless-rights judicial-conspiracy malice police-misconduct standing state-law Is there an issue of judicial conspiracy and malice to overtly conceal offenses of police officers against honest citizens fit the description, for th…
19-5528 Robert Anthony Chester v. West Virginia West Virginia 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP co-defendant co-defendants constitutional-proportionality criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment disparate-sentencing disproportionate-sentencing eighth-amendment equal-protection first-degree-robbery sentencing sentencing-disparity Was Petitioner's One Hundred Eighty Year Sentence For His Conviction Of Two Counts Of First Degree Robbery Disparate To The Twenty Year Sentence Impos…
19-172 Edina Harsay v. University of Kansas Kansas 2019-08-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) academic-deference academic-freedom civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings judicial-review Whether a rule-like application of federal case law that accords a nearly-insurmountable level of deference to academic administrators in breach-of-co…
19-173 Jonathan Quinn, Individually and as Guardian ad Litem for H. Q., a Minor Child, et al. v. Truck Insurance Exchange, et al. South Dakota 2019-08-07 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation term-1 term-2 term-3 term-4 term-5 term-6 Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause
19-5487 Martin Anthony Nino v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-07 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP violate due-process|civil-rights|8th-amendment|ba without an individualized determination of necess bail-reform-act civil-rights competency-restoration confinement due-process eighth-amendment mental-health Does automatic confinement for competency restoration, without an individualized determination of whether confinement is necessary, violate due-proces…
19-5493 David Ray Taylor v. Oregon Oregon 2019-08-07 Denied IFP 8th-amendment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment execution-moratorium extrajudicial-information juror-misconduct jury-instructions moratorium standing state-action voir-dire Whether a trial court may impose a death sentence during a statewide moratorium on executions
19-5475 Mitchell Taebel v. Maricopa County Attorney's Office, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity standing unreasonable-seizure Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated
19-5488 Loretta Jackson v. Joseph Barla, et al. Delaware 2019-08-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment animal-rights civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment property-rights state-action state-actor Whether The Supreme Court of the State of Delaware deprived Loretta Jackson of her Due Process rights under the 4th and 14th Amendment of the United S…
19-167 Galen J. Suppes v. Curators of the University of Missouri Missouri 2019-08-05 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment invention-rights Jurisdiction Patent-Law patent-misuse standing takings university-ownership Was the Judgment's demand of perpetual (no limit in time or geography) and unconditional payment of remunerations of sixteen years of Defendant Suppes…
19-160 Heather Singleton, et al. v. Mary Fairhurst, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Washington, et al. Washington 2019-08-02 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-power pro-tem-judge supremacy-clause washington-state Whether the Chief Justice of the Washington Supreme Court can authorize a pro tem judge to exercise judicial power consistent with the Supremacy Claus…
19-5424 Terry James Sullivan v. City of Missoula, Montana Montana 2019-08-01 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conviction disorderly-conduct due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech Does Petitioner's conviction for disorderly conduct by allegedly uttering the word 'effing' violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments?
19-5431 DeAndre Cherry v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-amendment exclusionary-rule fifth-amendment fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation probable-cause search search-and-seizure vehicle-search Was the petitioner's Fourth Amendment right infringed upon when the officers conducted an illegal search of his vehicle absent probable cause?
19-5409 Brady Daniel v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-31 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment texas-code-of-criminal-procedure texas-constitution warrantless-search Whether the actions of Nawis County Sheriff's Department violate the constitutional and statutory rights of petitioner Brady A. Daniel under the Fourt…
19-5420 Kendrick Terrell v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error prior-charges sentence-enhancement sentencing sentencing-calculation sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether the Petitioner's Sixth Amendment Rights were violated
19-142 Timothy C. Harry, et al. v. American Brokers Conduit, et al. First Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights document-fabrication due-process fifth-amendment foreclosure fourteenth-amendment lending-transaction property-rights standing takings Whether the First Circuit Court of Appeals was correct in denying Petitioners' Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments rights to Substantive and Procedural Du…
19-5394 Michael Leon Bell v. California California 2019-07-30 Denied IFP aggravating-circumstances capital-punishment constitutional-procedure death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-fact-finding jury-trial mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-standards sixth-amendment Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement that every fact, other than a prior conviction, that serves to increase the statutory m…
19-5402 Tatyana Ivanovna Mason v. John Arthur Mason Washington 2019-07-30 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment immigration-status indigent-parents indigent-status language-interpreter limited-english-proficiency parental-rights trial-language-interpreter Whether the State violated the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
19-5371 In Re Mary Capri 2019-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice restitution supervised-release Can the District Court Deny to Abide with the Supreme Court rulings on Restitution?
19-5356 Rashad Washington v. Nebraska Nebraska 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP black-codes class-v-united-states equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jim-crow procedural-default racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause territorial-application Was Mr. Washington convicted under a statute that is void on its face?
19-5364 In Re Carl A. Courtright, III 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP Abuse-of-discretion access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights court-access due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines first-amendment judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-litigant sanctions Did the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals abuse its discretion in ordering a $500 sanction against a pro se indigent petitioner?
19-5295 In Re Larry Charles 2019-07-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP due-process exceptional-circumstances fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandamus right-to-appeal sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent writ-of-mandamus Do exceptional circumstances exist in the Petitioner's case that justify granting his Petition seeking a Writ of Mandamus when he has demonstrated a c…
19-5313 Thomas Arthur Kahlow v. Florida Florida 2019-07-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment capital-punishment constitutional-limits due-process excessive-punishment federal-statutes fourteenth-amendment indefinite-imprisonment life-imprisonment state-constitutional-law state-governments Whether the right to due process of law is denied by Florida's imposition of a capital life imprisonment sentence
19-112 S. Bruce Hiran, et al. v. Jelinis, LLC Texas 2019-07-23 Denied appellate-court appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-of-texas temporary-injunction Whether Petitioners' Constitutional Rights of Due Process and Equal Protection of Laws are violated
19-5266 Clarence E. Scott, Jr. v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2019-07-23 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the district court ruling that Petitioner was not denied his right to the effective assistance of counsel, due process of the law and right to…
19-5292 Franky Joseph v. Florida Florida 2019-07-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-review due-process eighth-amendment federal-constitutional-claim judicial-integrity leblanc leblanc-v-virginia merits-adjudication state-v-michel state-vs-michel supreme-court-interpretation Whether the Florida Supreme Court's decision infringes on the petitioner's constitutional right to meaningful review of their federal constitutional c…
19-5244 Larry David Davis v. Brian Daniel, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied IFP civil-rights confession-admissibility constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection evidence-tampering habeas-corpus sentencing standing trial-fairness Whether the petitioner's conviction and sentence violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment
19-5239 Kenneth Traylor v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction post-conviction-relief Whether the petitioner's substantive claim should be heard on the merits as it could not have been raised in earlier proceedings
19-91 Michele Buckner, Warden v. Robert W. Allen Missouri 2019-07-18 Denied consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment habeas-corpus habeas-relief juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole parole-eligibility Whether a State may sentence a juvenile offender convicted of multiple crimes to multiple consecutive terms of years in prison under which the offende…
19-85 LC v. MG Hawaii 2019-07-17 Denied Response Waived child-parentage consent-rebuttal due-process equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment marital-status marriage-equality parentage parental-presumption presumption-of-paternity spousal-rights Does the Fourteenth Amendment require that a spouse, who is presumed to be the parent of a child because she is married to the child's natural mother,…
19-89 Lawrence T. Newman v. Robert W. York Indiana 2019-07-17 Denied Response Waived appellate-fees constitutional-provisions due-process fourteenth-amendment indiana-court-of-appeals indiana-supreme-court legal-jurisdiction Whether the impositions of appellate attorney-fees by the Indiana Court of Appeals and Indiana Supreme Court violate the Fourteenth-Amendment's Due-Pr…
19-5213 Arthur O. Armstrong v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2019-07-17 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60-b-6 constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment liberty property rule-60b6 Whether Petitioner is entitled to relief, pursuant to Rule 60(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or any relief
19-5179 Susan E. Pattishall v. Vinton G. Cerf, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-religion freedom-of-speech intellectual-property statute-of-limitations takings Whether intellectual property should be treated differently from physical property under a statute of limitations
19-80 Shreveport Chapter #237 of the United Daughters of the Confederacy v. Caddo Parish Commission Fifth Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment monument-preservation standing treaty-rights Does the Court's ruling in The American Legion v. American Humanist Association afford the owner of a monument to have standing under 42 U.S.C. § 1983…
19-81 Vivian L. Rader, et vir v. Citibank, N.A., et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied Response Waived due-process equal-protection foreclosure-procedure fourteenth-amendment non-judicial-foreclosure property-rights standing takings Is Colorado's system of non-judicial foreclosure unconstitutional under the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses?
19-64 Heidi C. Lilley, Kia Sinclair, and Ginger M. Pierro v. New Hampshire New Hampshire 2019-07-12 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment free-speech gender-discrimination intermediate-scrutiny public-exposure public-nudity Does an ordinance expressly punishing only women, but not men, for identical conduct—being topless in public, classify on the basis of gender?
19-5163 Michael A. Kelley, Jr. v. Phillip W. Gerth Ohio 2019-07-12 Denied IFP attorney-client attorney-client-relationship civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-malpractice statute-of-limitations summary-judgment Whether the termination of attorney-client relationship for purposes of R.C. 2305.11 Legal Malpractice is dependent upon the filing of motion to withd…
19-5108 Donald Covington v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines special-assessments standing statutory-claims Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err in denying the Petitioner the ability to have his substantive constitutional, statut…
19-5112 Rafael Jacob Stoffel v. Florida Florida 2019-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-victim mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines sexual-assault sexual-offense sexual-offenses Whether a minimum mandatory sentence of twenty-five years' imprisonment imposed for the offense of touching a minor's breast violates the prohibition …
19-57 Donald Dewees v. United States District of Columbia 2019-07-09 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-fines international-tax international-taxation streamlined-filing-compliance-procedures tax-assessment tax-collection tax-compliance tax-convention tax-penalties Did the lack of a meaningful review of the assessment and collection of a tax under the Convention violate Dewees' right to due-process?
19-40 Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc. v. J. W., a Minor California 2019-07-05 Denied church-governance civil-liability clergy-privilege first-amendment fourteenth-amendment intra-faith-communications religious-doctrine religious-freedom religious-practice Did California violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments when it held the former national offices of Jehovah's Witnesses (Watchtower) responsible fo…
19-37 Matthew Freeman v. Texas Texas 2019-07-03 Denied acquittal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment judgment-of-acquittal successive-prosecution successive-prosecutions Whether placing the Petitioner in a position to be twice tried for the same offense after a judgment of acquittal violates Petitioner's constitutional…
19-5039 Carlos Ortiz v. Delaware Delaware 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment standing statutory-interpretation whether-the-lower-court-erred-in-its-interpretation-of-the-relevant-statute
19-5059 Paul A. Viera v. Florida Florida 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process excessive-punishment federal-statutes florida florida-constitution fourteenth-amendment indefinite-imprisonment life-imprisonment state-sentencing Whether the right to due process of law guaranteed by the United States Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment is denied by Florida's imposition of a nat…
19-5062 Henry Lee Jones v. Tennessee Tennessee 2019-07-03 Denied IFP capital-punishment confrontation-clause due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment Hearsay sixth-amendment witness-testimony Did depriving the Petitioner of his ability to confront and cross-examination the key evidence at his capital trial violate the Sixth, Eighth, and Fou…
19-5068 Willie J. Trimble, Jr. v. Mathew Hansen, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 due-process federal-holidays fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus implicit-conclusion mailbox-rule party-presentation time-limitation Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeal(s) decision was in contrary with U.S. Supreme Court precedent
19-26 Darlene Collins, et al. v. Charles W. Daniels, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-07-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) bail-reform constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment judicial-immunity legislative-immunity new-mexico-constitution sovereign-immunity Was the application of legislative immunity to actions of the New Mexico Courts to legislate policy outside of the authorities granted to them by the …
19-5042 Charles Edward Jones, Sr. v. Josephine T. Griffin, Circuit Clerk, Chicot County, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-court access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-civil-procedure first-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-remedy petition-filing standing Whether the district court erred in denying petitioner's claim of denying access to the court and equal protection of law and due process under the Fo…
19-14 In Re Thomas F. Williams 2019-07-01 Denied due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-bias miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default prosecutor-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-by-jury trial-court-issues Whether the federal district & circuit court and the Florida State courts violated the Petitioner's 6th-&-14th-Amendment-rights
19-5030 Michael D. Mathew v. Ohio Ohio 2019-07-01 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment proportionality sentencing Whether the twenty-one year sentence imposed by the state trial court violated the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishments?
19-5031 Efrain Ismael Conde v. Arizona Arizona 2019-07-01 Denied IFP 14th-amendment access-to-court appointment-of-counsel credibility-of-witness due-process due-process-materiality-standard fourteenth-amendment materiality-standard newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief witness-credibility Does the Due Process Clause entitle a convicted prisoner to appointment of counsel and opportunity to amend a notice of post-conviction relief asserti…
19-3 Ryan Begay v. New Mexico New Mexico 2019-06-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) blockburger-test blockburger-v-united-states constitutional-protection double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment reckless-abuse reckless-child-abuse self-defense Whether the 'same elements' test adequately protects against multiple punishments for 'the same offence'
19-5004 Ivan Stamps v. Michael Miller Tenth Circuit 2019-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP biggers-test concerted-action fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment fraud-on-the-court fundamental-fairness governmental-conduct habeas-corpus hearsay-testimony jurisdiction oath-requirement-perjury-fraud-jurisdiction perjury perjury-fraud-jurisdiction verification-affidavit Whether State obtained conviction through perjury/fraud
18-9840 Kevin Fernandez v. Nevada, et al. First Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment interstate-compact interstate-corrections-compact liberty-interest minimum-custody-status pro-se-litigation property-interest settlement-agreement Whether a settlement agreement creates a liberty or property interest
18A1369 Jaideep S. Chawla v. Court of Appeals of Massachusetts Massachusetts 2019-06-27 Presumed Complete appellate-panel due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure jurisdiction recusal Whether a state appeals court violates the Fourteenth Amendment by changing an appellate panel without notice or by requiring a judge to sit on a pane…
18-9821 Robert Lee Heard, Jr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-06-27 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP Apodaca-v-Oregon criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial nonunanimous-jury-verdict nonunanimous-verdict sixth-amendment Does the right to a jury trial guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment allow a state-court criminal conviction to stand on a nonunanimous jury verdict?
18-9823 Freddie Lee Morris v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied IFP coerced-confession criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus informant involuntary-plea manifest-injustice paid-informant procedural-grounds right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the state of Florida violated petitioner's sixth amendment right to the assistance of counsel
18-9824 Steven G. Patten v. California California 2019-06-27 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection flight-instruction fourteenth-amendment harmless-error jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination self-defense Whether Petitioner can establish a prima facie case of discrimination under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
18-9825 Shepell Orr v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison Seventh Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 14th-amendment-equal-protection 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-seizure 5th-amendment 5th-amendment-due-process 6th-amendment 6th-amendment-fair-trial 8th-amendment-cruel-punishment circuit-court-conflict fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment sudden-heat Whether the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals' decision conflicts with another circuit court decision and a state court decision, and whether the petitione…
18-9828 Dylan Magluilo v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review conflicting-decisions constitutional-law due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings judicial-review public-interest reasonable-doubt Did Louisiana Courts err in denying Dylan Magluilo right to a fair trial and subsequent review when rejecting claims involving, Conflicting Decisions …
18-9837 Ernest Bustos v. Bexar Appraisal District, et al. Texas 2019-06-27 Denied IFP civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment property-code property-tax standing subject-matter-jurisdiction texas-law Whether the Court of Appeals was correct in disregarding the clear language of Texas Property Code § 42.08 (d)
18-9838 Cedric Floyd v. Alabama Alabama 2019-06-27 Denied IFP capital-case capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fifth-amendment remorse right-to-remain-silent Whether the Fifth and Eighth Amendments are violated when the State argues for a death sentence based on the defendant's failure to express remorse in…
18-1585 Kassim M. Nagi v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-06-27 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 8th-amendment controlled-substances cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment first-time-offender lockyer-v-andrade money-laundering proportionality proportionality-test racketeering sentencing solem-v-helm Whether a 90-year consecutive sentence for a 33-year-old first-time offender violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishme…
18-1586 Scott Lynn Gibson, aka Vanessa Lynn v. Brian Collier, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment individualized-medical-evaluation life-threatening-medical-need life-threatening-need medical-treatment new-treatment prison-healthcare prisoner-rights transgender-rights universal-medical-acceptance Whether an Eighth Amendment claim for deliberate indifference to a prisoner's life-threatening medical need can be disposed of without any individuali…
18-9809 Willie Strong v. New York New York 2019-06-26 Denied IFP automobile-presumption burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions possession reasonable-doubt statutory-interpretation statutory-presumption When is evidence sufficient to render the 'Automobile Presumption' N.Y. P.-L. §265.15 (3)(a) inapplicable?
18-9816 Kabil Anton Djenasevic, aka Anton Genase, aka Kabil Genase, aka Kabil Kraja v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conspiracy-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence false-testimony fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-notice sixth-amendment standing Whether petitioner was denied his Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights
18-9779 Xue Jie He v. Trinity Church, et al. Second Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy defamation discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment personal-injury racial-discrimination standing visa-status US visa: 0187, legal short-term stay, Personal Injury, can Petitioner get The Equal Protection Clause Of The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States…
18-9786 Luis Francisco, et ux. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services Texas 2019-06-25 Denied IFP appeal-fees appeals civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights indigent indigent-litigant notice parental-rights poverty Whether a State may condition appeals from termination of parental rights on a parent's ability to pay appeal fees when the parent's income is half of…
18-9787 Jace Crehan v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-06-25 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-jury unanimous-verdict Whether Petitioner was constitutionally entitled to a unanimous jury under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constituti…
18-9802 Rodney B. Benson v. Utah Labor Commission, et al. Utah 2019-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 7th-amendment article-iii article-iii-section-2 article-vi article-vi-paragraph-2 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process executive-branch fourteenth-amendment judicial-branch seventh-amendment utah-constitution workers-compensation Does Utah's Executive Branch and/or Judicial Branch have the power to deny constitutional rights
18-1572 Matthew D. Priset v. Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment life-sentence mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence mental-illness sentencing Does a mandatory minimum life sentence for one convicted under the guilty-but-mentally-ill designation constitute cruel and unusual punishment?
18-1568 Cheryl Lynn Hager-Reilly v. Thomas Reilly New York 2019-06-24 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights custody custody-proceeding due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment natural-parents parental-rights standard-of-proof supervised-visitation visitation-rights Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment require a certain quantum of proof before a state court, in a custody proceeding between the t…
18-9774 Hsiu Ying Lisa Tseng v. California California 2019-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process estelle-v-mcguire evidence federal-due-process fourteenth-amendment prior-act-evidence propensity-evidence state-trial Whether the admission of irrelevant prior act evidence in a state trial that amounts to propensity evidence violates Fourteenth Amendment due process
18-9753 Jason Brooks v. Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-access-to-courts,first-amendment,four court-access due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech lewis-v-casey pleading-standard prisoners-rights section-1983 standing Whether a federal district court's 30-page limit on unrepresented prisoners' § 1983 complaints violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments
18A1349 Pennsylvania v. Milton Montalvo Pennsylvania 2019-06-21 Presumed Complete capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-recommendation mental-health-mitigation Whether a prosecutor's and trial court's statements characterizing a jury's capital sentencing verdict as a mere 'recommendation' constitute a violati…
18-9737 Laquan L. Kellam v. United States Third Circuit 2019-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-rights expert-witness-testimony fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-rights fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights procedural-error search-and-seizure sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-rights statutory-interpretation warrantless-arrest Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit abuse its discretionary, broadly-based authority of interpretation, thus, violating petit…
18-9745 Marion Wilson, Jr. v. Georgia Georgia 2019-06-20 Denied IFP capital-case capital-punishment dna-testing due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection forensic-evidence procedural-issues procedural-safeguards Whether the state court's refusal to provide a hearing mandated by Georgia's DNA statute denied due process
18-9746 Marion Wilson, Jr. v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Georgia 2019-06-20 Denied IFP capital-case criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial intent jury-instructions prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct standing Are due process and the Eighth Amendment violated when a prosecutor knowingly argues falsehoods about the defendant's culpable acts in order to incite…
18A1340 Manohar Jain, as Trustee, and its Successors or Successor Trustees Under the Manohar Jain Trust Dated July 1, 2000, et ux. v. Bay Hill Property Owners Association, Inc. Florida 2019-06-19 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment pro-se Whether a pro se litigant's constitutional rights under the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause are violated when state courts fail to prov…
18-1551 Joseph Q. Mirarchi v. Office of Disciplinary Counsel Pennsylvania 2019-06-19 Denied Response Waived attorney-disbarment constitutional-rights disbarment due-process due-process-clause effective-assistance-of-counsel expert-witness-testimony fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-evidence mitigation-evidence neuropsychological-evidence sixth-amendment Whether the state supreme court order for attorney disbarment is inconsistent with the standards set forth in Selling v. Radford and In re Ruffalo, an…
18-9698 Ruben Perez Gomez v. California California 2019-06-18 Denied IFP constitutional-requirement death-penalty fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding reasonable-doubt sentencing-standard sixth-amendment statutory-maximum statutory-maximum-punishment Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact other than a prior co…
18-9714 John Stephen Routt v. Latanya Howard, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights conditions-of-confinement constitutional-rights disciplinary-segregation due-process eighth-amendment elder-v-holloway pretrial-detention qualified-immunity standing Is a Defendant entitled to qualified immunity when a Petitioner cites the 'squarely governing' case through a quote of a case with similar facts?
18-9693 Kevin Sheppard v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-06-17 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict Whether Petitioner was constitutionally entitled to a unanimous jury under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constituti…
18-9674 Terence Tramaine Andrus v. Texas Texas 2019-06-14 GVR Amici (1)Relisted (24)IFP death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Does the Strickland standard fail to protect Sixth Amendment right to fair trial and Fourteenth Amendment right to due process in death-penalty cases …
18-1544 Hallmark Care Services, Inc., et al. v. Superior Court of Washington, Spokane County Washington 2019-06-14 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-rights court-appointed-guardian due-process ex-parte fourteenth-amendment guardianship predeprivation-rights professional-guardians property-interest property-rights state-action sua-sponte Whether a court-appointed professional guardian has a property interest in the business expectation of continued fees, and a pre-deprivation right to …
18-9650 Shawn Pinson v. Texas Texas 2019-06-13 Denied IFP civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment standing testimony When be Bate Krouingt, used Se benany, a was, bogan be
18-9665 Alejandro Hernandez-Delgado v. California California 2019-06-13 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence-code evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment juror-bias juror-misconduct jury-deliberations racial-bias racial-stereotypes sixth-amendment What fact-finding procedures are required by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments when a defendant makes a threshold showing that a juror relied on rac…
18-9666 Jose Hernandez v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2019-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment prejudice-standard prosecutorial-disclosure prosecutorial-misconduct witness-impeachment Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is violated
18-9615 Shawn Russell Sorensen v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal conflict-among-courts-of-appeals drug-felony drug-felony-offenses drug-offenses eighth-amendment first-step-act mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-enhancement simple-possession Whether petitioner's prior simple possession drug convictions under Arizona and South Dakota state law qualify as 'prior drug felony offenses' under 2…
18-9598 James W. Guy v. Ohio Ohio 2019-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech jury-bias jury-selection prejudice religion religious-discrimination religious-freedom sixth-amendment Did the trial court violate a Muslim defendant's Constitutional Rights under the First, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitut…
18-9626 In Re Rexford Tweed 2019-06-11 Dismissed IFP capital-punishment constitutional-violation due-process due-process,eighth-amendment,florida-constitution, eighth-amendment habeas-corpus indefinite-sentence life-sentence minimum-mandatory parole parole-eligibility sentencing-statute Whether petitioner's Florida capital life prison sentence with a 25-year minimum mandatory followed by eligibility for parole under Florida Statute §7…
18-9584 William Earl Miller v. Arizona Arizona 2019-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process fifth-amendment forfeiture fourteenth-amendment statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether Arizona Revised Statutes, section 13-2313, violates the due process clause under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments
18-9586 Jovan Watkins v. Robert Green, Secretary, Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-06-07 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment medical-care medical-need policy-procedures prison-conditions standing Did the court of appeals err in not reviewing the lower court's decision by finding that the petitioner lacked standing to appeal
18-1523 Michael Gannon v. City of Eugene, Oregon Oregon 2019-06-07 Denied Response Waived 1st-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment first-amendment free-speech liberty-interest proportionality public-forum public-university Do the First Amendment's protections to public streets as the archetype of a traditional public forum extend to city and state public streets and publ…
18-9564 Brian Suniga v. Texas Texas 2019-06-06 Denied IFP death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment jury-instructions mitigation-evidence moral-blameworthiness tennard-v-dretke tex-code-crim-proc-art-37-071-section-2-f-4 Whether the Texas death penalty statute, which limits the scope of mitigating evidence to that which reduces the defendant's 'moral blameworthiness,' …
18-9565 Casey Stoermer v. Ohio Ohio 2019-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP consent drug-possession exigent-circumstances fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing-enhancement warrantless-search Whether the warrantless search of Stoermer's apartment was justified despite the lack of exigent circumstances
18-9566 Jason Brady Sain v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2019-06-06 Denied IFP closing-arguments credibility due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment theory-of-the-case witness-credibility Was petitioner's sixth and fourteenth amendment rights to a fair trial violated?
18-9571 Willie Carl Jones v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-06-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence false-testimony fourteenth-amendment juror-influence search-and-seizure Whether the denial of petitioner's motion to suppress bullets conflicts with relevant decisions of this Court in violation of petitioner's Fourteenth …
18-9576 Alvin Weekly v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence blockburger-v-united-states cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy eighth-amendment extraordinary-circumstances rule-60(b) rule-60b sentencing-review Does the Court of Appeals commit clear error when declining to hear a defendant's claim of serving an unlawful sentence in violation of the Constituti…
18-9535 Alexander Ocasio v. William Perez, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-06-05 Dismissed IFP access-to-courts citizens-arrest constitutional-rights due-process Fifth-Amendment-violation First-Amendment-violation fourteenth-amendment Fourteenth-Amendment-violation fourth-amendment Fourth-Amendment-violation inter-local-agreement judicial-bias jurisdictional-limitations liberty-interest nev-rev-stat-289-350 Ninth-Circuit police-powers property-interest unlawful-arrest warrantless-arrest Is it a violation of the Fourth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution where it is clear to every reasonable police officer that …
18-9555 Kenneth Thomas v. Robert Marsh, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Benner Township Third Circuit 2019-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP autopsy-report confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington cross-examination fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel melendez-diaz-v-massachusetts sixth-amendment strickland-standard testimonial-evidence Whether the introduction of an autopsy report which was presented as substantive evidence but not testified to by its author violates the Sixth and Fo…
18-9558 Oladimeji Ayelotan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment jury-selection sentencing shackling Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred
18A1272 Charlotte Horst v. Matthew Hagen North Dakota 2019-06-05 Presumed Complete child-marriage constitutional-rights due-process emancipation fourteenth-amendment human-trafficking Whether the Fourteenth Amendment and federal statutes protect minors from forced marriage and human trafficking through constitutional emancipation ri…
18A1257 United States v. Richard D. Collins Armed Forces 2019-06-04 Presumed Complete criminal-prosecution eighth-amendment military-justice rape retroactive-application statute-of-limitations Whether a 2006 amendment to the Uniform Code of Military Justice allowing prosecution of rape without a statute of limitations can be applied retroact…
18A1263 Keith D. Nelson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-04 Presumed Complete capital-sentencing certificate-of-appealability constitutional-standards death-penalty eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance Whether the Eighth Amendment and standards for ineffective assistance of counsel require a new sentencing hearing when trial counsel's performance fal…
18A1264 City of Boise v. Robert Martin, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-06-04 Presumed Complete criminal-punishment cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment homelessness public-spaces shelter-availability Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits a city from enforcing public camping and sleeping ordinances against homeless individuals when the number of ho…
18-9533 Shua Tilahun v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Oregon 2019-06-04 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment equitable-tolling fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-counsel post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment successive-post-conviction Whether Martinez v. Ryan allows a case to be overturned if the plaintiff can show a high probability of a substantially different outcome at the trial…
18-9545 Robert Hercenberger v. Kathy Proctor Oregon 2019-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment government-policy legal-equality state-action state-jurisdiction Where Equal Protection of the laws definition apply for all
18-9549 Mauricio Lucas-Lopez v. Tony Trierweiler, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentence eighth-amendment federal-court-decisions federal-courts guidance-needed mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence proportionality sentencing sentencing-guidelines Is petitioner's twenty-five year mandatory minimum sentence disproportionate to the offense committed violating the Eighth Amendment prohibition again…
18-9519 Michael Wesley v. New York New York 2019-06-03 Denied IFP alvarez-v-united-states constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process-clause equal-protection fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-witness-perjury griffin-v-united-states petitioner's right to have newly-discovered-eviden sixth-amendment united-states-v-biberfeld washington-v-texas witness witness-perjury Does a petitioner have a right to have a witness in their favor protected by the Due Process Clause and the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments?
18A1255 Lee Chatfield, et al. v. League of Women Voters of Michigan, et al. Michigan 2019-06-03 Presumed Complete first-amendment fourteenth-amendment legislative-districts partisan-gerrymandering political-discrimination voting-rights Whether partisan gerrymandering of congressional and state legislative districts violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments by intentionally dilutin…
18-1505 C. S. v. L. S. New Jersey 2019-06-03 Denied 14th-amendment child-custody constitutional-rights custody due-process family-court family-law fourteenth-amendment parental-rights state-court-hearing state-court-procedure visitation Where a state family court finds that the father has violated the mother's constitutional right to the care, custody, and management of her children, …
18-1499 Umesh Kaushal v. Indiana Indiana 2019-05-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) due-process fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea immigration-consequences jury-trial plea-bargaining reasonable-probability resident-alien sixth-amendment When a resident alien pleads guilty to a crime while ignorant of the immigration consequences, then demands a trial before sentencing, does his demand…
18-1500 Jonsha Bell v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-05-31 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing life-expectancy nonhomicide-offense sentencing sentencing-proportionality Does the Eighth Amendment forbid an aggregate sentence that exceeds the life expectancy of a juvenile nonhomicide offender?
18-9492 Valentin Spataru v. Rick Ramsay Florida 2019-05-31 Denied IFP 8th-amendment battery civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment detention due-process eighth-amendment intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress law-enforcement-detention Whether ~30' transportation to jail in a law-enforcement hyperthermic, 'cooking' car is cruel and unusual punishment
18-9477 Arnold Roberts v. DuPage County Circuit Court Illinois 2019-05-30 Denied IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment innocence state-attorney Was the Petitioner's Due Process Rights violated under the United States Constitutional 14th Amendment?
18-9484 Paris Taylor v. Illinois Illinois 2019-05-30 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment state-constitution trial-court Whether Petitioner was denied his constitutional rights to due process of law guaranteed by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States C…
18-9486 Clifford Abshire v. Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections Louisiana 2019-05-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest property-interest sandin-v-conner Are prison disciplinary hearings considered 'communicative acts,' entitled to the protections of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution…
18A1231 Antonio Leonard Brown v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institution Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-30 Presumed Complete eighth-amendment intellectual-disability legal-resources petition-for-certiorari prison-conditions time-extension Whether a prisoner with intellectual disabilities and limited access to legal resources can obtain an extension of time to file a petition for certior…
18A1229 Sam Newman v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-05-29 Presumed Complete eighth-amendment individualized-sentencing juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama second-degree-murder Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits sentencing a juvenile offender to life without parole for multiple second-degree murder convictions without ind…
18A1238 Christopher Lee Price v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-29 Presumed Complete cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment execution-protocol lethal-injection midazolam pain-and-suffering Whether Alabama's lethal injection protocol using midazolam violates the Eighth Amendment by posing a substantial risk of causing severe and excruciat…
18-9440 Earl Lee Dixie v. Kenneth Harrington, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intoxication-defense mental-health-defense mental-health-evidence specific-intent strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether Dixie's trial counsel was prejudicially ineffective for failing to present evidence that Dixie suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, which wou…
18-9463 Michael Joseph Brooks, Jr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-05-29 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict Whether Petitioner was constitutionally entitled to a unanimous jury under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constituti…
18-1488 John S. Cammalleri v. Florida Florida 2019-05-29 Denied Response Waived confession confession-involuntariness criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment involuntary involuntary-confession law-enforcement leniency Whether a 'specific' and 'direct' promise of leniency by a law enforcement official renders a defendant's confession involuntary pursuant to the Fifth…
18-1462 Nadejda Rozanova, et vir v. Rafael S. Uribe California 2019-05-24 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-omission fair-hearing fourteenth-amendment grannis-v-ordean judicial-fairness judicial-procedure legal-procedure omission omission-of-facts omission-of-laws state-court-conflict Whether the California courts violated petitioners' due process rights by omitting numerous relevant and probative facts and laws in their decisions, …
18-1472 In Re Christopher Hadsell 2019-05-24 Denied Relisted (2) access-to-courts civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct jurisdiction mandamus standing unauthorized-practice-law unauthorized-practice-of-law vexatious-litigant vexatious-litigant-statutes Whether the trial court's actions violated the petitioner's equal protection rights by entering a judgment without personal jurisdiction, subject matt…
18-9418 D. M. Indika Bandara v. Dan Mann, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied IFP 14th-amendment cab-companies civil-rights discrimination disparate-treatment due-process equal-protection fort-jackson-base fourteenth-amendment immigrant-owned-businesses standing Whether the termination of non-white immigrant-owned small cab companies by the CAE airport based on alleged lack of access to Fort Jackson base, whil…
18-9396 Bobby Joe Long v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-23 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment lethal-injection res-judicata section-1983 stay Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that Mr. Long was not entitled to a stay because of inexcusable delay in bringing his l…
18-9366 Michael T. Rivera v. Florida Florida 2019-05-22 Denied IFP collateral-review criminal-statute due-process eighth-amendment judicial-interpretation procedural-rule retroactivity substantive-law Whether the Federal Due Process Clause requires a state to apply a new interpretation of a state criminal statute retroactively to cases on collateral…
18-9384 In Re Freya Pearson 2019-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel legal-standards mandamus pro-se standing takings writ-of-relief Whether the petitioner was denied due process and equal protection under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments when the district court dismissed her hab…
18-9361 Jordan Alexander Clemons v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-05-21 Denied IFP affidavit appellate-procedure civil-rights court-access criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-proportionality in-forma-pauperis indigence indigent-status juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing legal-representation life-imprisonment pro-bono Whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court erred in rejecting petitioner's claim that his sentence of life imprisonment without parole for a crime committ…
18-9363 Michael Lee Robinson v. Florida Florida 2019-05-21 Denied IFP capital-sentencing constitutional-waiver due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection federal-constitutional-rights hurst-rule penalty-jury retroactivity waiver Can a defendant waive a federal constitutional right that was unknown and unrecognized at the time?
18-1449 Harold Lee Harvey, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2019-05-21 Denied arbitrary-factors constitutional-rights death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida judicial-decisions retroactive-application retroactivity ring-v-arizona sixth-amendment Does the Florida Supreme Court's decision denying retroactive application of the Hurst decisions to Mr. Harvey violate the Eighth or Fourteenth Amendm…
18A1204 Usha Jain, et vir v. David Barker, et al. Florida 2019-05-21 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment pro-se Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause prohibits discriminatory treatment of pro se litigants based on age and ethnic origin in st…
18-1445 Theresa Seeberger v. Davenport Civil Rights Commission, et al. Iowa 2019-05-20 Denied Amici (2) civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-law civil-rights-ordinance commercial-speech content-discrimination discrimination due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech landlord-tenant viewpoint-discrimination Was the imposition of liability for the landlord's speech a violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution?
18-9347 Sherrick A Sims v. Kansas Kansas 2019-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-violation conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure jury limine limine-orders prejudicial-testimony violation Was Mc. Sims denied due process of law when the District Court and Kansas Supreme Court upheld a conviction obtained by the State's violation of Three…
18-9356 Robert Joe Long v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2019-05-20 Denied IFP constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-jurisprudence evolving-standards-of-decency mental-illness Whether an individual who suffers from severe mental illness is exempt from execution under the Eighth Amendment and the evolving standards of decency…
18-9358 Robert Joe Long v. Florida Florida 2019-05-20 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process execution-witness fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-due-process first-amendment first-amendment-free-speech fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-equal-protection religious-freedom sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel Whether the Florida Department of Correction's restrictions on Mr. Long's execution witness and refusing to allow him to have a non-clergyman as his s…
18-9318 Darnell Dunlap v. Michigan Michigan 2019-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment griffin-v-illinois indigent-appellant right-to-appeal standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted
18-9324 Robert Gordon Johnstone v. Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-retardation ninth-circuit post-conviction-relief retrial-proceedings standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's due process clause requires a new trial for a mentally retarded criminal defendant whose original trial counsel was…
18-9341 Antwon G. Whitten v. William A. Gunter, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment free-speech standing takings Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause
18-1440 Marby Hogen, et al. v. Steven C. Hogen, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Arline H. Hogen, Deceased, et al. North Dakota 2019-05-17 Denied Response Waived due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure north-dakota probate property-rights state-action takings vested-interests Does the decision of the Supreme Court of North Dakota deprive the Petitioners of established property rights in violation of the due process and equa…
18-1436 Ulric Jones v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-05-16 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure disbarment due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings judicial-review retained-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment supervisory-power Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit violated the petitioner's Sixth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment rights by disbar…
18-9285 Dean A. Schwartzmiller v. California California 2019-05-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment free-speech overbreadth penal-code sixth-amendment vagueness void-for-vagueness Is California Penal Code § 288 void for vagueness and overbreadth and contrary to the First, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments
18-9252 Kevin Foster v. Florida Florida 2019-05-15 Denied IFP capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty death-sentence due-process eighth-amendment first-degree-murder jury-findings jury-unanimity reasonable-doubt unanimous-verdict Whether Mr. Foster's death sentence is unconstitutional because it violates the Eighth Amendment and the Due Process Clause
18-9270 Manuel Antonio Rodriguez v. Florida Florida 2019-05-15 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-murder capital-murder-elements-as-sentencing-factors due-process eighth-amendment florida-supreme-court foster-v-state fourteenth-amendment precedent sentencing-factors Whether the Florida Supreme Court's rationale in Foster v. State mirrors the overruled rationale of Hildwin v. Florida and reveals that Florida contin…
18-9296 In Re Allen J. Dannewitz, Jr. 2019-05-15 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment ada-violation civil-rights civil-rights-deprivation due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment guardianship guardianship-rights judicial-procedure jurisdiction standing Whether ward was ever incapacitated
18-1431 Frank G. v. Renee P.-F., et al. New York 2019-05-15 Denied Amici (8)Response Waived best-interests-of-child best-interests-of-the-child custody custody-determination due-process due-process-clause fourteenth-amendment obergefell-v-hodges parental-rights same-sex-marriage same-sex-partner Whether a state violates a biological parent's rights under the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause when it strips the parent of custody in favo…
18-1435 Matthew Wayne Minard, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Taylor Police Officer v. Debra Lee Cruise-Gulyas Sixth Circuit 2019-05-15 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights discretion discretionary-action discretionary-enforcement due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech law-enforcement qualified-immunity retaliation retaliatory-arrest traffic-stop Whether a police officer can immediately initiate a second traffic stop in response to a driver's offensive speech to change the original discretionar…
18-1422 Michael B. v. Tennessee Department of Children's Services Tennessee 2019-05-14 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment guardian-ad-litem legal-disqualification parental-rights procedural-error witness-disqualification Whether the lower court's denial of the Father's motion to disqualify the Guardian Ad Litem, when her actions clearly indicated she had ceased being a…
18-9246 Anthony G. Bryant v. Department of Education, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-procedure asset-seizure civil-forfeiture civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-fines first-amendment fourteenth-amendment tenth-amendment Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment
18-9250 Tatyana Evgenievna Drevaleva v. Alameda Health System, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 13th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment employment employment-retaliation involuntary-servitude retaliation thirteenth-amendment Shall the Court of Appeals expedite an Appeal in an employment retaliation case
18-9262 David Wood v. Texas Texas 2019-05-14 Denied IFP atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment Fourteenth-Amendment-violation habeas-corpus intellectual-disability moore-v-texas Do the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments tolerate the execution of a person whose claim of intellectual disability has been expressly decided under an …
18-9267 John Loveman Reese v. Florida Florida 2019-05-14 Denied IFP capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection jury-trial retroactivity Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection and the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of capricious capital sentencing impose limits…
18-9274 William Lee Thompson v. Florida Florida 2019-05-14 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection retroactivity sentencing-procedure teague-v-lane Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection and the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of capricious capital sentencing impose limits…
18-9242 Joel Hayden v. Maine Maine 2019-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection ethnicity fourteenth-amendment jury-selection jury-selection-process language-barrier race-discrimination racial-bias racial-discrimination voir-dire When a party moves to strike a prospective juror for cause due to a 'language barrier', what record must the court make to ensure the strike is not ba…
18-9238 Reshaud Todd Brown v. Washington Washington 2019-05-10 Denied IFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment habitual-offender habitual-offender-statute life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing proportionality-review sentencing sentencing-court youthful-adult youthful-offender Whether imposition of a mandatory sentence of life without parole under a habitual offender statute violates the Eighth Amendment prohibition against …
18-9191 Jerome Allen Bargo v. Raymond Naylor, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP contradictory-evidence cruel-punishment cvsa cvsa-test disciplinary-action due-process eighth-amendment inmate-rights prison-conditions prison-discipline unsupported-evidence Did the Eighth Circuit err in holding that Bargo's CVSA tests results constituted 'some evidence' to support disciplinary action, even though the resu…
18-9214 Jessie Livell Phillips v. Alabama Alabama 2019-05-09 Denied IFP autopsy-photograph capital-murder capital-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial fourteenth-amendment reliable-conviction reliable-sentence Whether the admission of a gruesome and unnecessary internal autopsy photograph, lacking probative value and showing post-crime mutilation by the medi…
18-9216 Klark Deziray Hopkins v. California California 2019-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance liberty plea-agreement presumption-against-waiver property right-to-appeal Do the presumption against waiver of fundamental constitutional rights and the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause's guaranty against deprivations…
18-1410 James A. Jackson v. Thomas Lawson Sixth Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona self-incrimination sixth-circuit united-states-v-hale unlawful-detention Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit may condition enforcement of a citizen's right against unlawful detention guaranteed …
18-9179 Tony B. Thomas v. C. Blake, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-05-08 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process eighth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech standing Why did the UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT overlook petitioner arguments pertaining to First-Amendment, Fourth-Amendment, Eighth…
18-9186 Briand Williams v. California California 2019-05-08 Dismissed IFP ada ada-discrimination cruel-and-unusual-punishment discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment parole parole-consideration proposition-57 retroactive-credits sentencing time-credits Did the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) policies and procedures violate the Petitioner's U.S.C.A. 14 Amendment and the …
18-9153 Albert Randolph v. Texas Texas 2019-05-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus legal-review prosecutorial-misconduct standing statutory-provisions supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Whether the Court of Criminal Appeals erred in denying Petitioner a new trial?
18-9177 Robert Murphy v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison Seventh Circuit 2019-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation cell-phones criminal-procedure digital-evidence due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights privacy search-and-seizure sixth-amendment Whether the government's warrantless search of a person's cell phone violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and seiz…
18-9140 Michael Ray Ingram v. Frank Clements, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 8th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment injunctive-relief qualified-immunity standing supervisory-liability Whether dismissal of claims for injunctive relief requiring state officials to obey the Eighth Amendment pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §1983 was error?
18-9144 Delbert Heard v. John R. Baldwin, Director, Illinois Department of Corrections, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-protection cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force failure-to-protect inmate-safety prisoner-rights standing substantial-risk Whether the risk of inmate-on-inmate assault became sufficiently substantial to trigger 8th Amendment protections under Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 82…
18-9152 Gary Reid v. Florida Florida 2019-05-06 Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-claims constitutional-question eighth-amendment federal-habeas federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation legal-precedent merits-decision state-court state-court-decisions supreme-court-review Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. Ct. 1726 (2017), as a decision on the merits of the underlying constit…
18-9157 Israel Arce v. Chicago Transit Authority Seventh Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied IFP affidavit civil-rights costs court-fees declaration due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines financial-hardship fourteenth-amendment in-forma-pauperis income-limitation incorporation litigation-expenses poverty redress social-security Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause
18-9159 Freddy Brown v. Florida Florida 2019-05-06 Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-claim constitutional-claims constitutional-question eighth-amendment federal-habeas federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-review legal-interpretation merits-decision merits-determination state-court state-court-decisions supreme-court-precedent Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. Ct. 1726 (2017), a case arising under federal habeas review, as a deci…
18-1396 Dereck Pelletier v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al. Arkansas 2019-05-06 Denied Response Waived criminal-law double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment multiplicity retroactivity statutory-construction statutory-interpretation unit-of-prosecution Whether a state supreme court can overcome a defendant's multiplicity challenge under the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment by classifying…
18-9067 Sharma Ross v. Christopher Miller, Superintendent, Great Meadow Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment standing Was petitioner denied his due process rights as enumerated under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments?
18-9097 Freddie L. Morris v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP coerced-confession criminal-investigation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus informant involuntary-plea jail-cell right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the state of Florida violated petitioner's sixth amendment right to the assistance of counsel
18-9114 Nolan George v. Noah Nagy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-commitment contract-law due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-promise plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion statute-of-limitations Is it a violation of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to ignore, alter or reinterpret commitments not to charge or prosecute individuals over time?
18-9123 Jovan McClenton v. California California 2019-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP discretion due-process eighth-amendment miller-v-alabama sentencing de-novo-resentencing discretionary-sentencing eighth-amendment hallmark-features-of-youth juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing miller-factors miller-v-alabama proportionality Is de novo resentencing required where lengthy, fully determinate sentences, primarily based on the discretion of the trial court, were imposed on juv…
18-9130 Shaun Allen Dick v. Oregon Oregon 2019-05-03 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment incorporation incorporation-doctrine jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-jury-verdict unanimous-verdict Does the Fourteenth Amendment fully incorporate the Sixth Amendment guarantee of a unanimous verdict?
18-9088 Charles W. Gray v. Indiana Indiana 2019-05-02 Denied IFP appellate-counsel constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment indiana-constitution ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the State of Indiana has erred whether Petitioner received ineffective assistance of counsel
18-9117 Scotty Garnell Morrow v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Georgia 2019-05-02 Denied IFP death-penalty death-sentence due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida judicial-fact-finding jury-trial jury-unanimity ring-v-arizona sentencing sixth-amendment Does a death sentence imposed by a judge who made fact-findings not made unanimously by the jury who recommended a death sentence comport with Hurst a…
18-1378 Michael Ledet v. Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections Louisiana 2019-05-02 Denied Response Waived age-element categorical-approach circumstance-specific-approach constitutional-comparison due-process federal-state-comparison fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment modified-categorical-approach sex-offender-registration sorna Whether the constitutional due process requirements that apply to a federal agency or federal court comparing the elements of state and federal offens…
18-1368 San Diego Gas & Electric Company v. California Public Utilities Commission California 2019-05-01 Denied Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment inverse-condemnation just-compensation public-utility ratepayers strict-liability takings takings-clause Whether it is an uncompensated taking for public use in violation of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments for a State to impose strict liability for in…
18-9052 Neil Grenning v. James Key, Superintendent, Airway Heights Corrections Center, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment institutional-lighting prison-conditions prisoner-rights sleep-deprivation writ-of-certiorari Should this Court grant writ of certiorari where lower courts have no guidance on what level of 24-hour lighting is appropriate in prisons so as not t…
18-9061 Joseph B. v. Nebraska, on Behalf of Brooklyn H. Nebraska 2019-05-01 Denied IFP due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment incarceration parental-rights visitation visitation-rights Whether the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits a State from forbidding visitation between a noncustodial p…
18-9078 Tina Bradford v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, et al. California 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof compromise-and-release cumulative-trauma federal-labor-standards federal-labor-standards-act fourteenth-amendment icd-9 medical-diagnosis qme-ame qme-procedures workers-compensation Whether the burden of proof for workers' compensation benefits should be on the plaintiff or defendant, and whether a compromise and release agreement…
18-9080 Joseph Carter v. Florida Florida 2019-05-01 Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-claims constitutional-interpretation eighth-amendment federal-habeas-review federal-review graham-v-florida habeas-corpus habeas-review judicial-interpretation legal-precedent merits-decision miller-v-alabama parole state-court-decisions supreme-court-review Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. Ct. 1726 (2017), as a decision on the merits of the underlying constit…
18-9031 In Re Michael Brandon Samra 2019-04-30 Denied IFP brain-development capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment evolving-standards habeas-corpus juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders neurological-development neuroscience Whether the Eighth Amendment's evolving standards prohibit the execution of offenders who were 19 years old at the time of their crime
18-9033 Michael Brandon Samra v. Alabama Alabama 2019-04-30 Denied IFP brain-development capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment evolving-standards evolving-standards-of-decency juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders neuroscientific-research Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the death penalty against offenders who were under 21 at the time of their crime
18-9034 Norman Lee Shillings v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-04-30 Denied IFP alias-name civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence fourteenth-amendment identity tampering-with-evidence Can the presentation of an (Alias) or Gender specific name used during arrest, booking, and bonding procedures be charged as Tampering with Evidence, …
18-9025 Phillip Newton v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-04-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP apodaca-v-oregon criminal-trial fourteenth-amendment johnson-v-louisiana jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial requires an unanimous jury verdict and, if so, would that unanimity requirement be required in state…
18-1354 C. P., et al. v. C. A. California 2019-04-29 Denied child-custody custody custody-rights due-process extramarital-affair family-code family-law family-rights fourteenth-amendment fundamental-parental-rights parental-rights third-parent-law third-party-custody Does California's Family Code section 7612(c), granting third parties legal and physical custody rights to a minor child as a 'third parent,' regardle…
18-9013 Michael P. Crenshaw v. Illinois Illinois 2019-04-26 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment coerced-confession constitutional-claim due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review miranda-rights procedural-bar statute-of-limitations substantive-evidence Whether the use of a coerced confession as substantive evidence at trial violates due process rights under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments
18-8992 Charles Lorraine v. Ohio Ohio 2019-04-25 Denied IFP capital-punishment death-penalty death-sentence eighth-amendment judge-sentencing judicial-fact-finding jury-trial jury-verdict sixth-amendment spaziano-v-florida Is Ohio's death penalty scheme unconstitutional under Hurst v. Florida?
18-8983 Patrick Edwards v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-04-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment prohibits the imposition of a sentence for a specific offense that is greater than the maxim…
18-8951 Terrance Proctor v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Arkansas 2019-04-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure discretion due-process eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mitigation proportionality sentencing-mitigation Are consecutive, fixed term sentences for juveniles unconstitutional at the outset when they amount to the functional equivalent of life without parol…
18-8955 Gregory Butler v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions other-crimes-evidence sixth-amendment trial-fairness witness-confrontation Whether the district court and the third circuit erred in refusing to issue a certificate of appealability
18-8969 Ronald Lunsford, Jr. v. Indiana Indiana 2019-04-23 Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea indiana-constitution ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-dismiss sixth-amendment Whether the State of Indiana erred in denying Appellant was deprived of effective assistance of counsel in violation of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amend…
18-8973 Joshua Mitch Johnson v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2019-04-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process earned-sentence-credits fourteenth-amendment good-time-credits liberty-interest mandatory-language sentence-credits state-law statutory-interpretation wolff-v-mcdonnell Has the petitioner been validly sentenced under the Virginia statute on earned sentence credits?
18-8927 Lisa J. Gillard v. Illinois Illinois 2019-04-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP bench-court-relationship brady-v-maryland brady-violation complaining-witnesses constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct state-government Under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) standard, is suppressing evidence by the state government on bench court's relationship with two complaini…
18-8939 Daisy T. v. Arizona Department of Child Safety, et al. Arizona 2019-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP best-interests best-interests-of-the-child child-welfare clear-and-convincing-evidence due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment parental-rights termination-of-parental-rights Whether the State of Arizona failed to terminate mother's parental rights by at least clear & convincing evidence as required by the due process claus…
18-8907 In Re Samuel H. Williams 2019-04-19 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP affidavit civil-procedure civil-rights declaration due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment in-forma-pauperis incorporation poverty redress Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment
18-8924 William Weaver v. Michael Bowersox, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-standard batson-claim certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims eighth-amendment eighth-circuit eighth-circuit-review habeas-corpus rule-60(b) rule-60b Whether a habeas petitioner can obtain Rule 60(b) relief despite a prior adjudication on the merits
18-8897 Corlious C. Dyson, aka Corlious Corall Dyson v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-04-18 GVR Relisted (2)IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine jury-trial non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment Does the right to a jury trial guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment, as applied to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment, allow a criminal convicti…
18-8903 Owen W. Barnaby v. Bret Witkowski, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied IFP civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment fraud law-of-the-case res-judicata Whether res judicata and collateral estoppel doctrines should bar an independent or original action in federal court when the defendants employed frau…
18-8864 Joseph B. v. Nebraska Nebraska 2019-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause fourteenth-amendment incarceration parental-rights visitation visitation-rights Whether the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits a State from forbidding visitation between a noncustodial p…
18-8866 Winston Grey Brakeall v. Robert Dooley, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-rights fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-rights parole parole-conditions polygraph polygraph-examination polygraph-examinations self-incrimination sex-offenders Whether compelled self-incrimination through the use of polygraph examinations as a requirement of parole violates parolees' Fifth and Fourteenth Amen…
18-1316 Beverley R. Nettles v. Cynthia C. Bullington, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment probable-cause protected-class retaliation retaliatory-claim Whether the existence of probable cause should be a factor to preclude a retaliatory-claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for a person's prior exercise of the…
18-8844 Farris G. Morris v. Tennessee Sixth Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied IFP recognized by Tyler-v-Cain to determine what opinions are subject to retroac 28-u.s.c.-2244(b)(3)(e) 28-usc-2244 batson-challenge capital-punishment civil-rights collateral-review due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-discrimination retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-authority tyler-v-cain Does the Constitution permit Congress to enact 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(3)(E) to divest this Court of its authority, recognized by Tyler v. Cain, to determ…
18-8854 Steve Zinnel v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP bankruptcy-fraud bankruptcy-schedules constructive-amendment due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-fact-finding sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment stirone-v-united-states wamu-personal-checking-account Whether there was an unconstitutional constructive amendment or prejudicial variance
18-1298 Mario Dion Woodward v. Alabama Alabama 2019-04-15 Denied arbitrary-and-discriminatory cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-override jury-sentencing repealed-statute sentencing sixth-amendment Does the imposition of a death sentence through judicial override under a now-repealed statute violate the constitutional guarantees implemented by th…
18-1300 Nevenka Obuskovic v. Kathleen L. Wood, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied civil-rights civil-rights,due-process,equal-protection,family-l color-of-law divorce due-process equal-protection family-court family-law forced-labor fourteenth-amendment involuntary-servitude peonage pro-se-representation Was federal law violated under color of law for violations of Fourteenth Amendment substantive and procedural due process and equal protection when hu…
18-8803 Raymond Ramirez v. Florida Florida 2019-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-violation conviction due-process fourteenth-amendment judgment-of-conviction jurisdiction jurisdictional-rule sentence sentencing state-court Whether the State of Florida / State Court violated the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution by enlarging a jurisdictional rule without au…
18-8793 Larry Burstein v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-proportionality constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing drug-crimes drug-dealing drug-offense due-process eighth-amendment elderly-defendant elderly-offenders non-violent-crime non-violent-offense sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent Whether a forty-eight (48) month prison sentence for a first time non-violent, drug dealing, sixty-nine (69) year old grandfather is unreasonable, vio…
18-8753 Carl Devon Powell v. California California 2019-04-10 Denied IFP aggravating-circumstances constitutional-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-fact-finding mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact, other than a prior c…
18-8776 Tam Le v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-04-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP constitutional-rights daubert-standard due-process expert-testimony fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel non-unanimous-jury sixth-amendment Whether Mr. Le was convicted by a non-unanimous jury in violation of his rights under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments
18-8740 Michael Manley v. Delaware Delaware 2019-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment appellate-review due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-creation judicial-overreach life-without-parole mandatory-sentence Did the Delaware courts violate Mr. Maniey's due process and Eighth Amendment rights by judicially creating a mandatory life without parole sentence?
18-8748 Dajuan A. Alridge v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-04-09 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection jury-selection jury-unanimity juvenile-sentencing non-unanimous-jury prima-facie prima-facie-case racial-discrimination Whether statistics alone are sufficient to demonstrate a prima facie case of discrimination in the first step of a Batson analysis?
18-8709 Emmanuel Adeyinka v. Harris County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-04-05 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights color-of-law common-law-fraud conspiracy-against-rights due-process failure-to-train fourteenth-amendment fraud standing statute-of-frauds Can the United States identify any of nine elements of common and law fraud in this case?
18-8701 Arthur O'Derrell Franklin v. Florida Florida 2019-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa constitutional-claim eighth-amendment graham-v-florida habeas habeas-corpus juvenile-offender parole parole-process rehabilitation Whether a state court may resolve a federal constitutional claim by treating an AEDPA habeas decision of the Supreme Court as a ruling on the merits w…
18-8704 Brandon Keith Alexander v. Texas Texas 2019-04-04 Denied IFP 8th-amendment constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing non-homicide-offense non-homicide-offenses parole parole-eligibility sentencing Whether sentencing a juvenile non-homicide offender to 60 years without the possibility of parole violates the 8th Amendment, prohibition against crue…
18-8707 Wallace G. Carlyle v. Sherman Campbell, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-04-04 Denied IFP constitutional-rights effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment history-of-abuse ineffective-assistance mental-retardation plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal right-to-jury-trial sixth-amendment Did trial counsel's failure to adequately consider mental-retardation-and-history-of-abuse deprive defendant of effective-assistance-of-counsel,right-…
18-8679 John James Bell v. South Carolina Fourth Circuit 2019-04-03 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-hearing fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-procedure legal-representation Did the petitioner receive equal protection of the law under the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment?
18-8682 Sean Carter v. Wanza Jackson-Mitchell, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-04-03 Denied IFP ake-v-oklahoma cullen-v-pinholster due-process federal-habeas-corpus federal-habeas-proceedings fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel organic-brain-damage organic-brain-impairment state-court-proceedings state-court-review When the state court denies a petitioner's claim that his counsel were ineffective for failing to present his organic brain impairment, without afford…
18-8683 James Aren Duckett v. Florida Florida 2019-04-03 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-law due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection retroactivity Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection and the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of capricious capital sentencing impose limits…
18-1267 Angela Rene Leeman v. Arizona Arizona 2019-04-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama non-homicide-offenses parole-eligibility parole-restriction proportionality proportionality-review Whether consecutive sentences for non-homicide offenses that effectively result in life without parole for a juvenile offender violate the Eighth Amen…
18-8664 Rodney Tyrone Lowe v. Florida Florida 2019-04-02 Denied IFP caldwell-v-mississippi death-penalty eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-violation harmless-error hurst-v-florida jury-instructions Does the Florida Supreme Court's exclusive reliance on a unanimous recommendation of death to find harmless error for violations of Hurst v. Florida, …
18-8651 Robert Butrim v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-01 Denied IFP actual-innocence due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-standard strickland-v-washington sufficiency-of-evidence sufficiency-of-the-evidence Whether the District Court's failure to address all the issues presented in the Habeas Corpus Petition deprived the Movant of a full review by the Cir…
18-8652 Ammar Asimfaruq Harris v. Nevada Nevada 2019-04-01 Denied IFP 5th-amendment capital-case constitutional-error due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment harmless-error jury sixth-amendment Whether Mr. Harris' rights under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth amendments to a fair trial by jury were violated
18-8653 Tavares J. Wright v. Florida Florida 2019-04-01 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment adaptive-functioning atkins-v-virginia civil-rights constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability moore-v-texas Does the Florida Supreme Court's adaptive functioning analysis of intellectually disabled individuals violate the Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendm…
18A1001 Freddy Brown v. Florida Florida 2019-04-01 Presumed Complete eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-sentence miller-v-alabama mitigating-factors proportionality Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits a life sentence for a juvenile offender without consideration of the defendant's age and developmental characte…
18A1002 Joseph Carter v. Florida Florida 2019-04-01 Presumed Complete cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama proportionality sentencing-discretion Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits a lengthy juvenile sentence that effectively constitutes a de facto life sentence without the individualized se…
18A1003 Gary Reid v. Florida Florida 2019-04-01 Presumed Complete cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-sentence miller-v-alabama proportionality Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits a life sentence for a juvenile offender without meaningful consideration of the defendant's age and development…
18-8608 William Ramirez, et ux. v. Court of Appeal of California, Third Appellate District, et al. California 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment precedent pro-se state-court statutes Should a pro se petitioner reasonably expect that a state court at the county level follow precedent as a part of due process under the Fourteenth Ame…
18-8623 Justin Cole Milam v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing standard-of-review Are appeal waivers in federal criminal plea agreements unconstitutional?
18-1259 Brett Jones v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-03-29 Judgment Issued Amici (14)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole permanent-incorrigibility sentencing-authority Whether the Eighth Amendment requires the sentencing authority to make a finding that a juvenile is permanently incorrigible before imposing a sentenc…
18-8606 Lester J. Smith v. Greg Dozier, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights constitutional-rights continuing-harm continuing-violation-doctrine due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment medical-care medical-standard standing Whether the petitioner's serious medical ailment requires treatment with cure medications in accordance with the professional community standard of me…
18-8583 Gilbert Postelle v. Mike Carpenter, Interim Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied IFP capital-punishment eighth-amendment flynn-effect fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability mitigating-evidence sixth-amendment Whether the failure to investigate and present mitigating evidence of intellectual disability based on the Flynn Effect violates the Sixth, Eighth, an…
18-1249 Christopher Lee Price v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied compounding-pharmacy cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment execution-protocol lethal-injection midazolam pentobarbital Whether an Alabama death row inmate has shown that pentobarbital is 'available' to the Alabama Department of Corrections for use in executions
18-8561 Jeffery Lee Wood v. Texas Texas 2019-03-26 Denied IFP culpability death-penalty death-penalty-eligibility due-process eighth-amendment enmund-v-florida fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness law-of-parties tison-v-arizona Whether the petitioner is categorically ineligible for the death penalty because he lacked the requisite minimal culpability under the Eight and Fourt…
18-8574 William Burton v. Delaware Delaware 2019-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure evidence fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-of-not-guilty prosecutorial-evidence right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Did petitioner's attorney provide ineffective assistance of counsel?
18-8577 Gerald W. Long v. Illinois Illinois 2019-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-admission fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury sixth-amendment trial trial-procedure Did the Trial Court violate Gerald Long's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment right to Due Process and Sixth Amendment right to a trial by an impartial jur…
18-8529 Michael Craig Smith v. Illinois Illinois 2019-03-25 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance post-conviction sixth-amendment Whether counsel on appeal from dismissal of post-conviction petition provided ineffective assistance in violation of Petitioner's Sixth amendment righ…
18-8538 Rufus Spearman v. Mary Parson, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation standing takings Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause
18-8488 Ronald E. Mitchell v. Anne L. Precythe, Director, Missouri Department of Corrections, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights damages due-process eighth-amendment false-arrest liberty-interest missouri-corrections missouri-statute qualified-immunity wrongful-imprisonment Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claim for wrongful imprisonment despite evidence that the conduct violation was later …
18-1226 Clinton County Children and Youth Services v. A. A. R., Natural Mother, et al. Pennsylvania 2019-03-20 Denied Response Waived child-protective-services child-welfare civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federalism fourteenth-amendment preemption prenatal-injury standing state-law supremacy-clause Whether a state violates the constitutional guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment when it denies protections to children who suffer prenatal injury
18-8459 Wayne A. Bisso v. Florida Florida 2019-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment blockburger-test common-law-marriage double-jeopardy due-process due-process-clause estate-inheritance fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-theft property-rights Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment protects a surviving spouse, who is factually and actually innocent, from being convicted a…
18-8441 Gaetan Dinelle, aka Gates v. United States Second Circuit 2019-03-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-justice cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentence eighth-amendment first-time-offender marijuana-trafficking non-violent-offender non-violent-offense proportionality sentencing Whether a life-sentence for a non-violent, first-time offender, who trafficked in marijuana, is unreasonable, disproportionate, and amounts to cruel a…
18-8409 Anthony Mungin v. Florida Florida 2019-03-14 Denied IFP capital-punishment death-penalty disparate-treatment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactivity Whether the Florida Supreme Court's application of only partial retroactivity of Hurst v. State and Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteent…
18-8431 David Kelly Brewster v. Florida Florida 2019-03-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof compensation constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-precedent restitution wrongful-incarceration Whether the Victims of Wrongful Incarceration Compensation Act, §961.03, Fla. Stat. is unconstitutional as a violation of due process and equal protec…
18-1198 Westley A. Albright v. Tennessee Tennessee 2019-03-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) criminal-defendant criminal-procedure diversion due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment nolo-contendere plea-bargaining sentencing Whether the Supreme Court of Tennessee erred when it held, as a matter of first impression, that due process rights under the Fourth and Fourteenth Am…
18-8415 John L. Lotter v. Nebraska Nebraska 2019-03-13 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment Does Nebraska's capital sentencing scheme requiring a three-judge panel, rather than a jury, to impose a sentence of death violate the Eighth Amendmen…
18-8399 Randall Scott Jones v. Florida Florida 2019-03-12 Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-law death-penalty eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-due-process hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause supreme-court-precedent Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity formula for Hurst v. Florida violations violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments?
18-8343 Jose Luis Mattes Baez Carmona Lopez Cordero v. Connecticut Department of Correction, et al. Second Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitution constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection native-american-rights native-rights treaty-rights Did the lower court breach any treaties between the native Taino Indian tribe and the Government of the United States of America, pursuant to Article …
18-1168 Carolyn J. Florimonte v. Borough of Dalton, Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied civil-procedure continuing-trespass due-process equal-protection equal-protection-14th-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court just-compensation land-taking res-judicata standing takings unconstitutional-government-taking When the lower federal courts abandon the imperatives of the Fifth Amendment to provide just compensation and the Fourteenth Amendment to provide equa…
18-1163 Richard Hutchings, et al. v. Ameren Transmission Company of Illinois Illinois 2019-03-07 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived administrative-hearing administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process eminent-domain fourteenth-amendment notice property-rights public-use quasi-judicial takings utility-siting Lack of notice to affected landowners for power line siting proceedings violating due process
18-8317 Robert Gering v. Florida Florida 2019-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-commitment civil-procedure constitutional-right due-process florida-constitution florida-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial liberty-interest trial-by-jury Whether the constitutional right to a trial by jury in a civil commitment case can be circumvented by a Florida rule of civil procedure nullifying the…
18-8319 Jason Ray Flick v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2019-03-07 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion change-of-venue fair-trial fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury jury-impartiality presumption-of-prejudice pretrial-publicity sixth-amendment Was petitioner denied a fair trial due to the trial court's abuse of discretion?
18-8322 In Re Richard Madkins 2019-03-07 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-imprisonment federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jurisdiction sentence-modification sentencing-modification state-jurisdiction unlawful-detention Whether it would result in a fundamental miscarriage of justice if failure to entertain petitioner constitutional claims
18-8323 Bryan Frederick Jennings v. Florida Florida 2019-03-07 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty death-penalty-review eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-state jury-recommendation newly-discovered-evidence Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments require the law of Hurst v. State to be factored into the analysis of the likelihood of a less severe sen…
18-8331 Jeffrey Bowers v. Frank Lawrence, Acting Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-split due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions jury-separation plain-error Whether a conflict exists between the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and Appellate Court in case at bar where jury separation after deliberations ha…
18-8335 Lamar C. Chapman, III v. Barack Hussein Obama District of Columbia 2019-03-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ballot-access civil-procedure civil-rights congressional-districts due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech religious-freedom signature-requirements standing takings voting-rights Whether the lower courts erred in violating Appellant's right to the free exercise of religion
18-8295 Raymond Lumsden v. Texas Texas 2019-03-06 Denied IFP ake ake-v-oklahoma constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cumulative-error-doctrine dna-expert due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Did the Court of Appeals commit err by affirming the trial court's erroneous denial of additional funds for the defense's DNA Expert to testify at tri…
18-8298 Jermaine Brazill v. Illinois Illinois 2019-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-of-offender cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process due-process-rights eighth-amendment independent-inquiry juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mental-health rehabilitation rehabilitative-potential young-age Whether the trial judge violated the Petitioner's due process rights by failing to conduct an independent inquiry into the Petitioner's fitness, and w…
18-8305 Nausheen Zainulabeddin v. University of South Florida Board of Trustees Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied IFP commerce-clause disability-discrimination diversity-jurisdiction due-process federal-preemption fourteenth-amendment property-rights regulatory-taking sovereign-immunity Did the lower court violate Commerce Clause of the constitution of Article 1, section 8, Clause 3; when it denied principal's interest to maintain uni…
18-1152 Elaine Steele, et al. v. Sylvester McCauley, et al. Michigan 2019-03-06 Denied breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process estate-law fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias probate probate-court property-rights Arbitrary and biased probate court proceedings violating due process
18-1142 Casimir M. Toczylowski v. Samantha Giuliano, et vir Pennsylvania 2019-03-05 Denied appellate-procedure appellate-procedures appellate-review civil-appeal civil-appeals civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review merits-review property-rights state-appeals state-courts Denial of due process in state appellate procedures for civil litigants seeking to vindicate property rights
18-1146 Johanna Ong, et al. v. Hudson County Superior Court, et al. Third Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied Response Waived 8th-amendment bodily-harm civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations damages due-process eighth-amendment sovereign-immunity standing statute-of-limitations Did the lower courts repeatedly violate the Petitioners' Constitutional protections, including Fifth/Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Rights and Eight…
18-1147 Deron Brunson v. L. Douglas Hogan, et al. Utah 2019-03-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure constitutional-disregard due-process equal-protection equitable-maxim fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion object-principle-of-justice precedent precedent-contradiction precedent-interpretation standing Whether the United States Supreme Court has set a precedence that contradicts its own precedence's
18-1149 George A. Gallenthin, III v. Borough of Paulsboro, et al. New Jersey 2019-03-05 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process eminent-domain Fifth-Amendment Fourteenth-Amendment just-compensation procedural-due-process property property-rights state-action takings Uncompensated takings of private property without procedural due process
18-8289 Kwame Asafo-Adjei v. Maryland Maryland 2019-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure mandatory-disclosure maryland-rule-4-342(d) maryland-rules plea-bargain plea-bargaining sentencing void-sentence Is the failure of the Maryland Court of Appeals to enforce the Maryland Rule 4-342(d) a denial of a citizen's equal protection right under the Fourtee…
18-8253 Jamie Kenmont Kerien Brown v. Georgia Georgia 2019-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection habeas-corpus intellectual-disability mental-health post-conviction-relief Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a prisoner who was intellectually disabled at th…
18-8208 In Re Donivan Diaz 2019-03-01 Denied IFP civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process fair-notice fourteenth-amendment mandamus mandamus-petition professional-conduct state-bar-act Whether the California Supreme Court abused its discretion and/or committed plain error by failing to follow the State Bar Act, Rule 3-700(a) and depr…
18-8210 Mahogany Taquilla Alexander v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment amendment-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-discretion Did trial court abuse discretion by considering nolle prossed charge in sentencing, violating 5th and 14th Amendment rights
18-8222 Desi A. Lewis v. Virginia Virginia 2019-03-01 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction sentencing statutory-interpretation trial-court virginia-code Was the trial court in error in finding it lacked jurisdiction to resentence or modify the defendant's sentence based on due process rights?
18-1136 Beverly L. Hennager v. Troutman Sanders LLP Fourth Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees charging-liens civil-procedure civil-rights client-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-ethics legal-fees pro-se-representation standing Whether charging liens should be clarified to apply only to judgments obtained with the lawyer's assistance, not client funds, to protect constitution…
18-8173 Ruben R. Herrera v. Brandon Price Ninth Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment arbitrary-and-capricious civil-rights collateral-estoppel double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plea-agreement pre-trial-detention Whether petitioner's pre-trial detention violates his Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights against double jeopardy and due process
18-8174 Jack D. Hall v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan Sixth Circuit 2019-02-28 Dismissed IFP brady-violation cheney-v-u.s.district-court due-process equal-protection federal-habeas-corpus fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus magistrate-judge townsend-v-sain writ-of-mandamus written-order Should federal habeas corpus rule 8(a) require a written order from a federal district court judge when not appointing a magistrate judge to oversee a…
18-8196 Larry R. Tart v. Erik A. Hooks, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety Fourth Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied IFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection forensic-evaluation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medication medication-consent mental-health pretrial-detention solitary-confinement Where the petitioner was unknowingly administered multiple mental health medications while in pre-trial confinement, resulting in incompetence to unde…
18-8203 Darryl Burghardt v. Renee Stein-Graham Ninth Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-action civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment in-forma-pauperis pro-se service-of-process standing Whether a petitioner's First and Fourteenth Amendment constitutional rights are violated if their civil action is dismissed due to the U.S. Marshal's …
18-8147 Jerry Allen Horn v. Kansas Kansas 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights county-of-riverside-v-mclaughlin due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment gerstein-hearing investigative-delay res-judicata sixth-amendment state-habeas-corpus supremacy-clause warrantless-arrest Question not identified
18-8154 Deondre D. Romero v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied IFP and whether ineffective assistance of counsel dep due-process fair-trial false-testimony fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment victim-credibility witness-credibility Whether Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment right to a fair and impartial trial was violated
18-1119 The Richman Group of Florida, Inc. v. Pinellas County, Florida Florida 2019-02-27 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment class-of-one comparative-analysis difference-in-treatment due-process equal-protection florida fourteenth-amendment legislative-decision property-rights rational-basis selective-enforcement similarly-situated Unequal treatment of similarly situated persons under Florida's equal protection analysis
18-8116 Budry Michel v. Florida Florida 2019-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment,federal-habeas,state-court,merits federal-courts federal-habeas federal-review habeas habeas-corpus juvenile-sentencing merits parole-eligibility plain-language standing state-court state-court-interpretation state-courts Whether a state court can treat a federal habeas decision of this Court as a ruling on the merits contrary to the plain language of the decision?
18-8118 Alvin Davis, Jr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-02-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct second-amendment witness-tampering Was the Petitioner, Alvin Davis, Jr. denied a fair trial
18-8127 Nguyen Vu v. Sandy L.V. Byrd, Judge, Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, First Judicial District, et al. Pennsylvania 2019-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights cross-examination due-process evidence-suppression evidence-tampering fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct perjury prosecutorial-misconduct recusal Whether Petitioner's constitutional rights to due process under the Fourteenth Amendment were violated
18-8128 Cynthia E. Collie v. South Carolina Commission on Lawyer Conduct South Carolina 2019-02-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech frivolous-proceedings seventh-amendment standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their First Amendment rights
18-8124 Tony Gross v. John Havlin, Warden Ohio 2019-02-25 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment gideon-v-wainwright judicial-jurisdiction right-to-counsel rothgery-v-gillespie-county sixth-amendment state-jurisdiction zerbst-v-johnson Whether states are required to appoint counsel in death penalty cases for all hearings before a judicial officer to sustain a valid conviction
18-8090 Edward J. Zakrzewski, II v. Florida Florida 2019-02-22 Denied IFP capital-punishment criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-state jury-unanimity retroactive-application retroactivity savings-clause substantive-law Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments require retroactive application of the Florida Supreme Court's decision in Hurst v. State to capital defe…
18-8106 Benjamin Crump v. Delaware Delaware 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification false-testimony fourteenth-amendment wrongful-conviction Whether a conviction obtained through the use of false witness testimony that is unreliable to identify the defendant at trial must be vacated under t…
18-8108 Michael Bush v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment post-conviction-hearing postconviction postconviction-hearing trial-transcript Did the failure of the State of Florida to provide Mr. Bush with a complete copy of his trial transcript to be used in a postconviction evidentary hea…
18-1098 Daniel E. Witte v. Jayden H. Huynh, nka Jayden Scacco Utah 2019-02-22 Denied 14th-amendment civil-litigation civil-rights constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process faretta-v-california first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech pro-se-representation self-representation strict-scrutiny Is a pro se civil litigant's right of self-representation in state court protected as a fundamental federal constitutional right subject to the strict…
18-8041 Mark Johnson v. United States District of Columbia 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP adolescent-culpability age-as-factor age-of-culpability brain-development criminal-procedure de-facto-life-sentence due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana roper-v-simmons Whether the Court's rulings regarding when age is a factor in determining culpability apply to those under the age of 25, or is the age lower, but not…
18-8052 Michael Duane Zack, III v. Florida Florida 2019-02-21 Denied IFP apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-punishment death-penalty death-sentence eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-retroactivity retroactivity Does the partial retroactivity formula for Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016) claims designed by the Florida Supreme Court, as applied to a priso…
18-8077 Donald Glenn Estes v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency-hearing criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment involuntary-confinement mental-competency mental-health-confinement prosecutorial-evidence right-to-remain-silent wainwright-v-greenfield Whether this Court's Decisions in Wainwright v. Greenfield, 474 U.S. 284 (1996), and Buchanan v. Kentucky, 483 U.S. 402 (1987), Allow a Prosecutor to …
18-8022 Leonicio Arias Coreas v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-02-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process fourteenth-amendment fraud ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Did counsel fail to conduct a proper pre-trial investigation
18-8032 Edgar Arellano v. California California 2019-02-20 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance pre-trial-investigation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Ineffective assistance of counsel
18-8002 Brad Hunter Smith v. Arkansas Arkansas 2019-02-15 Denied IFP aggravating-circumstance aggravating-circumstances arbitrary-imposition capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mitigating-circumstance mitigating-circumstances Whether the Arkansas Supreme Court's holding that a capital-sentencing jury permissibly declined to weigh an existent statutory mitigating circumstanc…
18-7960 Andracos Marshall v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-forfeiture due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment honeycutt-v-united-states luis-v-united-states pretrial-restraint pretrial-seizure right-to-counsel sixth-amendment substitute-assets Whether the Government's pretrial criminal forfeiture and seizure of petitioner's untainted substitute assets under 853 has been invalidated based on …
18-7962 Al-Rashid Muhammad Abdullah v. Plant City Police Department, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment liberty-rights property-rights section-1983 takings Whether the Due Process Clause requires an opportunity for a post-deprivation hearing for a property right/interest § 1983 claim
18-7972 Victor D. Vickers, Jr. v. Missouri Missouri 2019-02-14 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP alibi alibi-evidence criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-discovery-sanctions discovery discovery-violation due-process fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment taylor-v-illinois willful-violation Whether the exclusion of alibi evidence that could prove a defendant's innocence, as a sanction for an uncalculated discovery violation, is permitted …
18-7973 Jaime Villa v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-robbery burden-of-proof crime-of-violence criminal-evidence criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment federal-rules-of-evidence jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence Whether there was insufficient evidence to prove Villa guilty beyond a reasonable doubt?
18-1068 Raja Mittal v. County of Clark, Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied and in the absence of exigent circumstances violate Fourth-and-Fourteenth-Amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment juvenile-court parental-rights rooker-feldman-doctrine standing takings warrantless-removal Whether removal of a child from parent's custody without a judicial order or a warrant, and in the absence of exigent circumstances, violate Fourth an…
18-7937 Jaques J. Sullivan v. Scott Lewis, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dementia due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-malpractice sixth-amendment standing Did the lower courts err in dismissing the petitioner's claim of actual conflict of interest due to trial counsel's dementia, which resulted in ineffe…
18-7903 Albert J. Arrington v. Virginia Virginia 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure default-judgment due-process ex-parte-communication Fourteenth-Amendment fraud ineffective-assistance judicial-review Jurisdiction procedural-rules Rules-of-civil-procedure Did the Supreme Court of Virginia err in finding that the Circuit Court of Henrico did not commit reversible error
18-7904 Spassky Alcequiecz v. Kelly A. Ryan, Warden First Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel manslaughter manslaughter-instruction sixth-amendment Whether the petitioner was denied his constitutional right to a fair trial, due to ineffective assistance of counsel
18-7911 Albert Miklos Kun v. State Bar of California California 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 11th-amendment 14th-amendment bankruptcy-clause bankruptcy-discharge bankruptcy-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-preemption federalism fourteenth-amendment sovereign-immunity standing state-bar Whether petitioner's right to protection by the Eq Whether petitioner's rights protected by the Due P Whether the California Supreme Court may order pay Whether California waived its sovereign immunity to the Bankruptcy Clause
18-7916 Jimmy Lee Wren v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection post-conviction-relief rule-11 rule-11-sanctions sanctions sentencing sentencing-hearing Whether the Mississippi Supreme Court erred in denying the petitioner's request to file a successive petition for post-conviction relief based on a ne…
18-7917 Najee Sharif Wilkins v. Michigan Michigan 2019-02-12 Denied IFP confrontation-clause cross-examination eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole-eligibility witness-testimony Does Petitioner's sentence violate the Eighth Amendment?
18-7919 Susan Grund v. Julie Murphy, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied IFP appeal civil-procedure civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-need prisoner-rights summary-judgment Whether the District Court improperly decided disputed factual issues
18-1053 Ashland Specialty Co., Inc. v. Dale W. Steager, West Virginia State Tax Commissioner West Virginia 2019-02-11 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bajakajian-standard civil-monetary-penalty civil-noncompliance civil-penalty cooper-industries-v-leatherman eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause-8th-amendment gross-disproportionality grossly-disproportionate master-settlement-agreement proportionality regulatory-compliance state-tax united-states-v-bajakajian Whether a 500% civil penalty imposed on a small business for inadvertent noncompliance is grossly disproportionate under the Eighth Amendment's Excess…
18-7823 Edward Nolan Norwood v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights comity due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection federalism sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation Whether it violates the United States Constitution as well as the principles of comity and federalism to treat a prior state drug conviction that is e…
18-7860 Timothy L. Barnes v. Michigan Michigan 2019-02-08 Denied IFP collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-finding mandatory-minimum retroactivity sixth-amendment substantive-rule watershed-rule Does the Alleyne rule apply retroactively on collateral review?
18-7789 Ashley Richards v. Texas Texas 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus retroactivity sentencing-enhancement state-jail-felony statutory-enhancement statutory-interpretation texas-court-of-criminal-appeals Whether the Eighth Amendment requires retroactive application of a court decision finding a sentencing enhancement inapplicable, thereby decreasing th…
18-7802 Michael Hopson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP aid-of-racketeering attempted-murder constitutional-claims criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-circuit insufficient-evidence murder pattern-of-racketeering racketeering-conspiracy Whether the evidence was insufficient to convict the petitioner of racketeering conspiracy and murder/attempted murder in aid of racketeering
18-7803 Dennis Hegstrom v. Florida Florida 2019-02-07 Denied IFP eighth-amendment homicide late-adolescent late-adolescent-offender mandatory-life-sentence miller-v-alabama neuroscience-evidence parole parole-eligibility sentencing Is it time to extend the Eighth Amendment protections enunciated in Miller v. Alabama to late adolescent homicide offenders?
18-7809 James Were v. Ohio Ohio 2019-02-07 Denied IFP buck-v-davis competency-hearing death-penalty death-penalty-eligibility eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-scores racial-bias Whether the Supreme Court of Ohio violated the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments by refusing to reopen the petitioner's direct appeal to consider evide…
18-7821 Darryl Mixon v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-procedure criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment formal-complaint jurisdiction jurisdiction-over-persons jurisdiction-over-subject-matter procedural-defect sentencing standing subject-matter Whether the trial court lacked jurisdiction over the persons and the subject matter of this cause, in absence of a signed formal complaint?
18-7829 Joe Homer Mark v. Amy Rabeau Ninth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review civil-procedure counsel-performance custodial-interrogation district-court fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-error miranda-warning procedural-default self-incrimination standing Whether Petitioner Joe Mark's Fifth Amendment Rights were violated
18-7843 Patrick K. Gibson v. Jeri Boe, Superintendent, Clallam Bay Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings judicial-review ninth-circuit sixth-amendment Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals error in denying a Certificate of Appealability?
18-7845 Philip Andra Grigsby v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law contact-restrictions court-of-appeals due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment juvenile-justice minor-children parental-rights Has the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution by denying a parent c…
18-7780 Joseph Lemoine v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof burden-of-proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt constitutional-rights daubert-standard due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel essential-elements-of-offense expert-witness fourteenth-amendment reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence Whether reasonable jurists could argue that the State failed to meet its burden of proof beyond reasonable doubt
18-1026 William Kinney, et ux. v. Anderson Lumber Company, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-02-06 Denied anti-trust antitrust-law-sherman-act concurrent-jurisdiction due-process due-process-clause equal-protection fourteenth-amendment religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act sherman-antitrust-act unlicensed-practice-of-law Whether Tennessee's law for the unlicensed practice of law violates the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
18-1022 Julius Jerome Murphy v. Texas Texas 2019-02-05 Denied brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus witness-testimony Whether the State's failure to disclose threats and promises made to witnesses violated due process
18-7759 Travis Buckner v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP effective-representation fourteenth-amendment motion-to-continue right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-court-discretion trial-procedure Whether the Defendant was denied his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to assistance of counsel
18-7767 Joshua Sanchez v. Texas Texas 2019-02-05 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation court-of-appeals due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-precedents texas-court-of-appeals Whether the interpretation of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments by the Texas Court of Appeals is in conflict with preceden…
18-7768 Jon M. Strauss v. Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure Kentucky 2019-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment administrative-law constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment hearing-record license-restriction licensing state-agency state-law Is it a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment right to due process for an independent state agency, completely dependent on member financing, to restr…
18-7771 Tommy Wayne Brotherton v. Jay Cassady, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-02-05 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment brady-violation due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights motion-to-suppress sixth-amendment suppression-hearing videotaped-statements Whether petitioner was denied due process and a fair trial when the state court overruled his motion to suppress statements and allowed videotaped sta…
18-7734 Joe Willie Cannon v. Iowa District Court, Des Moines County Iowa 2019-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment Did the State of Iowa violate the petitioner's 5th, 6th, & 14th Amendment confrontation and due process rights to be present during a critical stage o…
18-1019 Kristina Box, Commissioner, Indiana Department of Health, et al. v. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2019-02-04 GVR Amici (9)Relisted (7) abortion-regulation abortion-rights circuit-conflict due-process fetal-life fourteenth-amendment informed-consent maternal-health pre-enforcement-challenge ultrasound ultrasound-requirement Requiring an ultrasound as part of informed consent for abortion at least 18 hours before the procedure
18-7703 Nathan Smith III v. Sherry Pennywell, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied IFP 2254(d)(2) cumulative-error de-novo-review deference due-process fact-finding fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment standard-of-review unreasonable-determination Did the CCA so stretch the facts in this case so unreasonably that no deference could be possible to its interpretation of what occurred in the taco r…
18-7620 Emmanuel Adeyinka v. Harris County Jail, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-01-31 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights competency criminal-conviction cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment eleventh-amendment immunity mental-illness monetary-damages personal-involvement rational-understanding section-1983 standing Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a prisoner who has a severe mental illness that …
18-7696 Tony J. Walton v. David Ballard, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-01-31 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP due-process fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury judicial-discretion jury-deliberations jury-impartiality sixth-amendment voir-dire Were the Petitioner's due process right to an impartial jury under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution violated when the trial judg…
18-7697 Duane Yates v. Iowa Iowa 2019-01-31 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment postconviction prison-discipline self-defense sixth-amendment whether-inmates-who-file-a-postconviction-under-io Whether inmates who file a postconviction under lowa Code 822 in the lowa District Court's are denied the equal protection of law under the Sixth and …
18-7705 Duane Yates v. Iowa Iowa 2019-01-31 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure dismissal due-process fourteenth-amendment mullane-precedent notice postconviction-action service service-of-process standing state-citizens Whether the Iowa Supreme Court has failed to properly apply the Iowa Rules of Civil Procedure
18-996 Charles Lavel Stringer v. Storesonline, Inc., et al. Mississippi 2019-01-31 Denied Response Waived chancery-court civil-procedure civil-procedure-28-usc-1654 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se pro-se-representation sixth-amendment standing statutory-interpretation Did the Mississippi Supreme Court refuse to apply the mandatory language in the use of the word of shall in Mississippi Code of Ann § 11-1-17 in viola…
18-7648 William R. Stevenson v. R. Cordova, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied IFP civil-rights civil-rights-violation-obvious-standard constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference directed-verdict-standard due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-deliberate-indifference judicial-bias perjured-testimony prison-conditions qualified-immunity summary-judgment summary-judgment-qualified-immunity Whether the Court of Appeals erred in concluding the law was not clearly established as to the conduct of Defendants Espinoza and Williams and in conc…
18-7658 Julius Darius Jones v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2019-01-30 Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment juror-bias post-conviction post-conviction-review racial-prejudice sixth-amendment Whether newly-discovered evidence establishes that racial prejudice influenced the decision of at least one juror to convict Mr. Jones and sentence hi…
18-7670 Thomas Alexander Porter v. David Zook, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-claims death-penalty-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness habeas-corpus mitigating-evidence procedural-due-process Whether a state rule that excludes as irrelevant evidence that a capital defendant is unlikely to pose a risk of future violence in prison is contrary…
18-7627 Tavis Labron Houpe v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence search-and-seizure standing Was the petitioner's Fourteenth(14th) Amendment ri Was the petitioner's Fourth(4th) Amendment rights violated due to a search and seizure?
18-7628 Anthony Brian Bevan v. Florida Florida 2019-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment governmental-misconduct ineffective-counsel spoilage-of-evidence stare-decisis usc-242 Was the Petitioner denied Due Process, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause, and/or in violation of U.S.C Code # 242, and/or in…
18-7643 Billy Leon Kearse v. Florida Florida 2019-01-29 Denied IFP apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity approach providing for relief pursuant to Hurst v. Florida and Hurst v. State to death-sentence…
18-7591 Kofi Kyei v. Tessica L. Swift, et al. Oregon 2019-01-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process due-process,civil-procedure,turner-v-rogers,state- fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment state-statutes state-support-statute turner-v-rogers Do state support statutes like the Oregon Statute (ORS) at Chapter 416.440 (8) contravene the 2011 United States Supreme Court rulings in Turner v. Ro…
18-7597 Carlos E. Ponce v. D. Baughman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-circuit-court-of-appeals fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prima-facie-showing sixth-amendment Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying the issuance of a certificate of appealability based on the decision that the petitioner d…
18-7606 Samuel Davis v. Sergeant Florence, et al. Second Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment free-speech incorporation standing takings Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause
18-968 Andrew C. Najda v. Nikolaos J. Paterakis Massachusetts 2019-01-28 Denied Relisted (2) appellate-review due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment manifestly-erroneous meaningful-appeal precedent state-supreme-court Does a state supreme court denying appellate review to parties that raise an error of law that is manifestly erroneous state supreme court precedent d…
18-980 Bismark Kwaku Torkornoo v. Maryland, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process equal-protection estoppel fourteenth-amendment fraud res-judicata rooker-feldman Whether the District Court's decisions based upon estoppel to dismiss petitioner's civil lawsuit against the State of Maryland violate the Constitutio…
18-7569 Paul William Scott v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2019-01-25 Denied IFP codefendant-comparison constitutional-proportionality cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection sentencing-disparity Whether Florida's refusal to consider the disparity between the 15-year prison term of his equal or more culpable codefendant and Scott's death senten…
18-7582 Ralph Nicholas Canete v. Chuck Keeton, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-01-25 Denied IFP compulsory-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment material-evidence sixth-amendment Whether the destruction of material evidence by the government violates the right to due process
18-7547 Michael Joseph Mulder v. Nevada Nevada 2019-01-24 Denied IFP competency cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty dementia eighth-amendment intellectual-disability memory-loss Whether the Eighth Amendment categorically excludes from the death penalty an individual who, because of a stroke that caused dementia, is functionall…
18-7567 Ron Collins v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fair-sentencing-act ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the court of appeals erred in denying petitioner's application for a certificate of appealability
18-7526 In Re Robert Heffernan 2019-01-23 Dismissed IFP criminal-conviction due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence reasonable-doubt winship-doctrine Whether it violates the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment for a state trier of fact to convict petitioners where the evidence cannot fair…
18-7528 In Re Keith E. Doyle 2019-01-23 Denied IFP 13th-amendment 14th-amendment adversarial-hearing constitutional-intent due-process fourteenth-amendment indictment indictment-by-information information-document intent-of-delegates judicial-procedure montana-constitution preliminary-examination preliminary-hearing void-proceedings Did the district court judge violate my right to Due Process of Law, factually loose jurisdiction, and create void proceedings?
18-7529 Andre Almond Dennison v. Arizona Arizona 2019-01-23 Denied IFP 6th-amendment apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-rights dangerous-crimes dangerous-crimes-against-children due-process enhancement fourteenth-amendment jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing Does Arizona's Sentencing Scheme Violate Due Process Clause, & Amendment, And Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct. 2348 (2000) When Petitio…
18-7530 Tonya Udoh, et vir v. Minnesota Department of Human Services, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-01-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 1983-claims 1985-claims 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights davis-v-monroe-county-board due-process emotional-distress false-arrest fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment haines-v-kerner minor-children miranda-rights monell-liability municipal-liability parental-rights pro-se-litigant qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing unconstitutional-statutes Whether pro se litigants are held to the same legal standards as counseled litigants
18-7488 Billy R. Lewis v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-01-18 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial nonunanimous-jury nonunanimous-verdict ramos-v-louisiana sixth-amendment Does the right to a jury trial guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment, as applied to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment, allow a criminal convicti…
18-7503 Abdur Rahim Ambrose v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-01-18 Denied Amici (1)IFP contemporary-standards-of-decency cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment geographic-arbitrariness racial-arbitrariness Does the death penalty violate the Eighth Amendment?
18-937 Abelino Manriquez v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation California 2019-01-18 Denied actual-bias capital-case capital-punishment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus implied-bias juror-bias jury-impartiality life-experiences sixth-amendment What test determines whether a juror's life experiences are so similar to facts in the case that the juror must be disqualified for bias under the Six…
18-7467 Phillip E. LaPointe v. Illinois Illinois 2019-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment atkins-precedent atkins-v-virginia brain-development criminal-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole sentencing Does this Court's 8th Amendment protections extend to a just turned eighteen year old who received life without parole, where the evidence shows he wa…
18-7457 Charles Edward Case v. California California 2019-01-16 Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-amendment criminal-sentencing death-penalty fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury jury-finding reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact other than a prior con…
18-7466 Glenn Bennett, Jr. v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions sixth-amendment Whether the erroneous jury instruction given in Mr. Bennett's case negated his only defense and relieved the State of the burden of proving all elemen…
18-7428 Harry Jones v. Florida Florida 2019-01-15 Denied IFP arbitrary-cutoff capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendm…
18-7391 Gadiel Romero v. United States First Circuit 2019-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment kidnapping kidnapping-offense offense-level ransom-demand sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines Is it proper to apply a 6-level increase for a ransom demand in a kidnapping offense when not communicated?
18-7327 Trevor Johnson v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-rape Batson-Violation constitutional-rights daubert-standard Denial-of-Motion-to-Suppress expert-testimony first-fourth-fourteenth-amendments fourteenth-amendment insufficient-evidence jury-verdict Non-Unanimous-Verdict reasonable-doubt Unreliable-'Expert'-Testimony unreliable-expert-testimony Violation-of-Telecommunications-Act whether-reasonable-jurists-would-debate-that-the-t whether-reasonable-jurists-would-find-that-the-tri Whether reasonable jurist would find that the State failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt, every essential dement of the offense that Mr. Johnson …
18-7297 Donnie Howard v. California California 2019-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure jury-instructions jury-trial reasonable-doubt burden-of-proof due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions jury-trial reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Did the trial court's statements during jury selection equating being convinced beyond a reasonable doubt with being 'sure' or 'positive' of guilt vio…
18-7353 Nathaniel Jackson v. Ohio Ohio 2019-01-10 Denied IFP capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment judge-sentencing judicial-sentencing jury-recommendation jury-sentencing jury-trial sixth-amendment spaziano-v-florida Is Ohio's death penalty scheme unconstitutional under Hurst v. Florida?
18-7365 Robert Allen DeVore v. Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Oregon 2019-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment consecutive-sentences constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus minimum-sentences sentencing Does the combined sentence totaling of 495 years with a 247% year minimum violate the Eighth Amendment against cruel and unusual punishment?
18-7392 In Re James Rudnick 2019-01-10 Denied IFP 13th-amendment 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure custody due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus incarceration-authority mittimus thirteenth-amendment Whether the Respondent has valid authority to punish the Applicant and keep him incarcerated without a valid conviction
18-7318 Jesus Gomez v. California California 2019-01-09 Denied IFP burglary criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment uncharged-burglaries Whether admission of evidence of uncharged burglaries violated petitioner's rights to a fair trial and due process
18-7324 Roberto Gil v. Florida Florida 2019-01-09 Denied IFP arrest confidential-informant contingent-fee due-process forfeiture fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement testimony Whether a confidential informant's contingent fee arrangement with police violates due process rights?
18-7332 James Dellinger v. Tennessee Tennessee 2019-01-09 Denied IFP atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia civil-rights constitutional-prohibition cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability moore-v-texas procedural-vehicle roper-v-simmons Whether a state may thwart the constitutional prohibition against execution of the intellectually disabled by failing to provide a procedural vehicle …
18-7339 Earl Reyes v. Michael Duggan, et al. District of Columbia 2019-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appointment-of-counsel civil-rights constitutional-amendments court-access due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment intentional-discrimination judicial-discretion seventh-amendment Whether the alleged facts that Defendant Duggan intentionally discriminated against Reyes (suspect class) states a claim for violation of the First, F…
18-7344 Tony Dickinson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment criminal-defense entrapment fourteenth-amendment government-misconduct ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pre-indictment-delay sixth-amendment structural-error Whether the 6th Amendment permits the introduction of a criminal defendant's pre-indictment delay caused by the government as substantive evidence of …
18-884 Brenda Jeffrey v. West Virginia West Virginia 2019-01-09 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment animal-law animal-seizure civil-forfeiture criminal-proceedings due-process fourteenth-amendment matthews-test property-rights sentell-vs-new-orleans whether, under the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause, a state can seize and later permanently deprive a defendant of her property, an animal i…
18-886 Lillian M. Jones v. Hawaii Residency Programs, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied 14th-amendment civil-rights corporate-fraud due-process fourteenth-amendment fraud judicial-procedure private-corporation residency-program state-action state-actor technology Whether citizens should still be afforded protection under the 14th Amendment against state abuses committed when the State disguises itself as a priv…
18-869 Shawn Hall Lecuona v. Mark R. Lecuona Texas 2019-01-08 Denied Relisted (2) conscience constitutional-protection due-process fourteenth-amendment liberty-interests marriage marriage-rights no-fault-divorce personal-identity religion texas-family-code Does section 6.001 of the Texas Family Code violate Petitioner's fundamental liberty interests protected by the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process cla…
18-876 Cynthia N. Almond, et al. v. Singing River Health System, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure class-action class-certification constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment monetary-claims opt-out property-rights rule-23 Whether the District Court erred in certifying the class under Rule 23 on the grounds that Petitioners have a constitutional due process right to opt-…
18-7279 Christian Thomas v. District Attorney of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-review due-process eighth-amendment federal-question graham grant juvenile-sentencing mental-capacity miller sixth-amendment teague Whether a federal question is raised by a claim that a state collateral review erroneously failed to find a Teague, Graham, and Grant case and Miller …
18-7280 Michael Wappler v. Wayne Ivey, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied IFP civil-rights confinement-conditions constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pre-trial-detention pretrial-detention standing three-strikes-rule Was petitioner, an indigent pretrial detainee, prevented from challenging pretrial conditions of confinement by the improper assessment of a 'strike' …
18-7295 Earnest Barnes v. Florida Florida 2019-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment miller-v-alabama National-Consensus parole scientific-evidence Whether the Eighth Amendment's protection established in Graham and Miller should be expanded beyond age cutoff at eighteen to prohibit mandatory life…
18-7235 Jason Eugene Bush v. Arizona Arizona 2019-01-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP brady-doctrine due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment investigative-agencies kyles-v-whitley prosecutorial-disclosure Whether Arizona follows the rule of Kyles v. Whitley requiring prosecutors to investigate and disclose exculpatory evidence from all participating inv…
18-7242 Dauntorian Lyndel Sanders v. Arizona Arizona 2019-01-07 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment precedent sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent Whether Arizona follows the precedent of Simmons v. South Carolina, 512 U.S. 154 (1994), as set forth in Lynch v. Arizona, 136 S. Ct. 1818 (2016)
18-7250 Diane S. Jones v. Samson Resources Corporation, et al. Third Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-proceedings civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment indigenous-landowner indigenous-rights property-rights standing takings Whether Petitioner has standing to challenge Respondents' business practices
18-7259 Jack E. Allen v. Barry Smith, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale Pennsylvania 2019-01-07 Denied IFP batson-v-kentucky civil-rights due-process false-imprisonment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance innocence reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Did the petitioner give the first opportunity of the state supreme court to resolve such claims, issues, contentions in a state habeas corpus?
18-7275 Thomas Powers v. Jennifer Block, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-detainee civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-appointment due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-health mental-health-treatment retaliation standing treatment-program Whether the Supreme Court should define the elements of the Constitution's adequate civil detainee treatment program
18-852 Anne L. Precythe v. Ernest Johnson Eighth Circuit 2019-01-04 GVR administrative-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-method feasible-alternative glossip-v-gross method-of-execution nitrogen-gas pentobarbital pleading-requirements Whether an inmate who demands an alternative method of execution must plead facts detailing the procedure by which his proposed alternative method of …
18-7205 In Re Arthur O. Armstrong 2019-01-02 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60 due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment liberty liberty-interest property rule-60 standing Whether Petitioner is entitled to relief, pursuant to Rule 60(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
18-7207 In Re Andrew Johnston 2019-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation standing takings Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause
18-7191 Scott Richard Pendergraft, et ux. v. Network of Neighbors, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2018-12-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fair-hearing fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure meaningful-opportunity-to-be-heard pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process procedural-fairness standing substantive-due-process Whether a pro se litigant's procedural or substantive due process rights are violated when trial and appellate courts willfully refuse to fully and fa…
18-7182 Roy Dean Gates v. Texas Texas 2018-12-27 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-authority jurisdiction texas-court-jurisdiction texas-court-of-criminal-appeals texas-supreme-court united-states-constitution-amendment-fourteen void-order Does the Texas court have authority to overrule a state supreme court order?
18-7190 Zachary Q. Wicks v. Jon H. Radnothy, et al. Florida 2018-12-27 Denied IFP appeal constitutional-rights due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure medical-malpractice statute-of-limitations testimony trial-court Did the trial court deny Petitioner's due-process rights when it refused to allow testimony or review evidence presented in support of Petitioner's as…
18-814 Maurice Walker, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. City of Calhoun, Georgia Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-27 Denied Amici (4) bail bail-policy civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment indigent-rights misdemeanor poverty pretrial-detention Whether heightened scrutiny under the Fourteenth Amendment applies to a government policy that keeps misdemeanor and traffic-offense arrestees in jail…
18-7169 Steve L. Wright, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole meaningful-opportunity-for-release ongoing-offense retroactivity sentencing-mitigation term-of-years term-of-years-sentence Whether courts must consider juvenile conduct as a mitigating sentencing factor for an ongoing offense
18-809 Curtis T. Lovelace v. Illinois Illinois 2018-12-26 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) acquittal bail-bond bail-bond-forfeiture clerk-of-courts due-process due-process,excessive-fines,equal-protection,bail- equal-protection excessive-fines fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment Whether charging a person who was tried and acquitted a $35,000 bail bond forfeiture, not related to individualized costs or compliance with bail bond…
18-7144 Rodney Russell v. United States First Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights criminal-procedure-peremptory-challenges due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-strike powers-v-ohio racial-discrimination standing Whether a district court has an obligation to inquire of the prosecution as to the substance behind their stated reasons as to why they used a perempt…
18-784 Eldon Bugg v. Marc Honey, et al. Missouri 2018-12-20 Denied bankruptcy-jurisdiction bankruptcy-law common-law-torts diversity-jurisdiction due-process fourteenth-amendment national-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction Whether respondents' appearance in Missouri state court while the bankruptcy case was still open constituted presence in Missouri for purposes of pers…
18-786 Glenn Blair v. Angela McClinton, et al. Texas 2018-12-20 Denied child-support civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction plenary-powers standing subject-matter subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether Title IV-D Agency Court had jurisdiction over my daughter and I when they issued a child support order
18-7101 John Samuel Ghobrial v. California California 2018-12-19 Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-maximum Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact that serves to increa…
18-7110 James M. Flinn v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment indictment indictment-allegations insufficient-evidence jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Petitioner was convicted upon insufficient evidence in violation of the Due Process Clause
18-7118 Richard E. Lynch v. Florida Florida 2018-12-19 Denied IFP death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-fact-finding sixth-amendment Whether the State of Florida violated Petitioner's rights under the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments
18-7062 Louis Matthew Clements v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Florida 2018-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-statute constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment malicious-prosecution state-governmental-immunity Does FL.S. § 768.28 first claiming to allow Florida citizens to sue State Governmental Agencies for malicious prosecution and then disallowing it, in …
18-765 James H. Brady v. New York, et al. New York 2018-12-17 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights discretionary-action due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment immunity legal-fees obstruction-of-justice property-rights prosecutorial-immunity prosecutorial-misconduct quid-pro-quo sanctions standing takings Did the Appellate Division, First Department err in finding Respondents immune pursuant to Imbler v. Pachtman, 424 U.S. 409 (1976)?
18-7049 Joel Marvin Munt v. Nanette Larson, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights dismissal due-process eighth-amendment expert-evaluation jury-trial medical-care mootness prisoner-rights standing summary-judgment Was Petitioner unconstitutionally denied his right to have a jury determine the facts of his case?
18-7034 Shawn Sadik v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2018-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment culpability death-penalty developmental-disability eighth-amendment intellectual-disability life-without-parole mandatory-life-imprisonment mandatory-sentencing parole Does the Eighth Amendment bar individuals with intellectual-and-developmental-disabilities from receiving mandatory-life-imprisonment-without-parole s…
18-760 Oberist Lee Saunders v. Wayne Ivey, Sheriff, Brevard County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-14 Denied civil-rights conditions-of-confinement constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment hutto-v-finney kingsley-v-hendrickson pretrial-detention qualified-immunity rhodes-v-chapman sanitation-standards Whether the Fourteenth Amendment conditions-of-confinement claim should be evaluated under an objective or subjective standard
18-7012 Anthony Jerome Addison v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims constitutional-rights criminal-history due-process eighth-amendment origination-clause sentencing-guidelines special-assessment standing statutory-claims Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err in granting the government's motion to dismiss by denying the Petitioner the ability…
18-7016 Tuad Damonn Washington v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-12-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights constitutional-claims discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination sixth-amendment standing whether-district-court-assessment-was-debatable
18-7021 Juan Thomas v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2018-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility-of-evidence due-process eighth-amendment equitable-tolling fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-charge martinez-v-ryan notice-of-appeal public-defender Whether the Circuit Court erred in failing to appropriately consider the 'Equitable Tolling' in conjunction with Ineffective Assistance of the Public …
18-7025 Tyree Marquez Burt v. California California 2018-12-13 Denied IFP coercion due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hung-jury judicial-instruction jury-coercion jury-instructions trial-procedure Was the trial court's admonition to a deadlocked jury coercive, implicating the petitioner's due process rights to a fair trial?
18-753 Robert Stephen Couturier v. Presiding Judge, Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-12-12 Denied arrest-warrant bench-trial certificate-of-appealability due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury ineffective-assistance judicial-impartiality Did the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals error when it denied The Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability?
18-6997 T. H. -H. v. Allegheny County Office of Children, Youth and Families, et al. Pennsylvania 2018-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment involuntary-termination parental-rights right-to-counsel May a State, consistent with the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment, condition the statutorily granted right to coun…
18-6970 Jose Antonio Jimenez v. Florida Florida 2018-12-10 Denied IFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland credibility due-process eighth-amendment exculpatory-evidence giglio-v-united-states giglio-violation lethal-injection materiality police-misconduct strategic-choices Whether a defendant's personal knowledge of an exculpatory or favorable fact relieves the State of its duty to disclose evidence
18-736 Carl Lawson, et ux. v. Bell Sports USA New Jersey 2018-12-10 Denied Response Waived civil-action civil-procedure conference court-rules due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hearing state-court witness-testimony Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause prohibits a State court from directly violating one of its own court rules, by failing to provid…
18-727 Chene DeVonne Manley v. Arizona Arizona 2018-12-07 Denied 14th-amendment 8th-amendment chiari-malformation due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-condition newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief sentencing-rights Does the Due Process Clause entitle a convicted prisoner to appointment of counsel and opportunity to amend a Notice of Post Conviction Relief asserti…
18-730 Moses McCormick, et al. v. Kim A. Browne, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 amendment amendment-futility civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process fourteenth-amendment injunctive-relief municipal-liability qualified-immunity section-1983 standing Whether leave to amend the plaintiff's complaint should be considered futile if the municipality with no immunity can be added as a defendant and held…
18-6938 Jarrod Phillips v. Rusty Washburn, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure boykin-precedent boykin-v-alabama civil-rights constitutional-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause
18-6941 John Leslie Chapman v. Robert Lampert, Director, Wyoming Department of Corrections, et al. Wyoming 2018-12-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion legal-advisement plea-bargaining sentencing void-judgment Whether the strictures of Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure Rule 11 and the Fourteenth Amendment due process were met concerning personal advisement…
18-6956 Jason Dirk Walton v. Florida, et al. Florida 2018-12-07 Denied IFP capital-murder criminal-law due-process eighth-amendment first-degree-murder jury-unanimity resentencing retrospective-application retrospective-law sentencing-elements substantive-criminal-law When changes in a state's substantive criminal law apply retrospectively to cases involving homicides committed in 1981 and 1982, but not to cases inv…
18-6925 Warren Tarver v. Florida Florida 2018-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-felony detention due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment noncapital-offense pro-se-claim Whether it is a violation of due process under the Fourteenth Amendment for a person to be detained for an offense that is legislatively designated a …
18-6893 Joseph C. Garcia v. Carmella Jones, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-12-04 Denied IFP clemency clemency-proceeding due-process fourteenth-amendment meaningful-opportunity minimal-guarantees parole-authority state-law texas-law woodard-precedent Whether Texas's failure to provide Garcia with a clemency proceeding that comports with Texas law violates the minimal due process rights—including th…
18-6916 Troy Lincoln Powell v. California California 2018-12-04 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-illness sixth-amendment Does the imposition of the death penalty on a severely mentally ill defendant violate the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments?
18-6892 Joseph C. Garcia v. Bryan Collier, Executive Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-12-03 Denied IFP access-to-courts compounding-pharmacy due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment,access-to-courts,preliminary-inju execution-drug preliminary-injunction safety-violations standing Whether the State of Texas impeded a condemned prisoner from succeeding on an Eighth Amendment challenge by refusing to provide readily available info…
18-6906 David E. Miller v. Tony Parker, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Correction, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-12-03 Denied IFP coercion cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment ex-post-facto execution-method lethal-injection waiver waiver-of-rights When an inmate alleges that both his original and later-imposed punishments for the same crime violate the Eighth Amendment but the later-imposed puni…
18-6885 Stephen Anthony Marquez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-11-30 Denied IFP business-records confrontation-clause constitutional-amendments crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-records sixth-amendment Does Due Process to cross-examine still apply in all criminal cases?
18-6889 Stephen Todd Booker v. Florida Florida 2018-11-30 Denied IFP apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-retroactivity montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity Does the partial retroactivity formula for Hurst v. Florida violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments?
18-6890 In Re Joseph C. Garcia 2018-11-30 Denied IFP actual-innocence capital-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty death-row eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-due-process psychological-stress Whether Joseph Garcia's extended stay on Texas' death row for nearly 16 years has resulted in his suffering additional severe psychological stress tha…
18-6891 Joseph C. Garcia v. Texas Texas 2018-11-30 Denied IFP 8th-amendment capital-punishment civil-rights criminal-intent cruel-and-unusual-punishment culpability death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intent-to-kill mens-rea non-triggerman state-execution Whether the Eighth Amendment now forbids a State from executing a person when there is no evidence that he killed or intended to kill another person
18-6869 Mario Andrette McNeill v. North Carolina North Carolina 2018-11-29 Denied IFP capital-defendant capital-defendant-instructions capital-punishment counsel counsel-decision-making cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment mitigating-evidence right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment right to counsel and the Eighth Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment allow a state to give binding force …
18-6877 Richard Earl Shere, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2018-11-29 Denied IFP capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial-rights retroactivity Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection and the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of capricious capital sentencing impose limits…
18-6881 Jason Alston v. Mississippi Department of Employment Security Mississippi 2018-11-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights conspiracy due-process employment-security fourteenth-amendment fraud judicial-proceedings jurisdiction state-government unemployment-benefits Whether the Mississippi Department of Employment Security and/or Mississippi Department of Transportation violated petitioner due process rights under…
18-6834 Dexter Johnson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-11-27 Denied IFP death-penalty eighth-amendment federal-death-penalty federal-habeas federal-procedure final-judgment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus rule-58 What are the requirements under Rule 58 for a final judgment in district court for a federal death penalty habeas petition under the Eighth and Fourte…
18-6843 James Milton Dailey v. Florida Florida 2018-11-27 Denied IFP capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-error hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity decision violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments?
18-691 Lonnie Snelling v. Kevin Segbers, et al. Missouri 2018-11-27 Denied access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment Did the State of Missouri through its Judicial Officials, deny Petitioner, one of its Citizens, and a Citizen of the United States, Rights Guarantees …
18-6808 Harlem Suarez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause commerce-clause-power criminal-procedure eighth-amendment first-time-offender hobbs-act interstate-commerce proportionality taylor-v-united-states united-states-v-lopez weapon-of-mass-destruction weapons-of-mass-destruction Whether the federal offense of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction, 18 U.S.C. § 2332a, only requires a de minimis effect on interstate comme…
18-6818 Ruben Rangel v. California California 2018-11-26 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-amendments death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment jury-determination jury-trial sentencing Does California's death penalty statute violate the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments by failing to meaningfully narrow the class of dea…
18-6823 James Douglas Williams, Jr. v. County of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights civil-rights-act disparate-treatment due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection fourteenth-amendment title-vii Was the Plaintiff's Fourteenth Amendment and Title VII civil rights compromised or violated?
18-684 Patti Stevens-Rucker, Administrator of the Estate of Jason White, Deceased v. John Frenz, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 8th-amendment arrest-procedure circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-obligations due-process eighth-amendment police-duty-of-care police-use-of-force qualified-immunity tenth-amendment Are there circumstances in which police officers are constitutionally obligated to help a person injured during arrest, as the Eighth and Tenth Circui…
18-665 James Michael Alvis v. Leland W. Schilling Tenth Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied 14th-amendment child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-immunity state-court-action state-law Whether Respondent, a state court judge, was entitled to judicial immunity when he took action in a child custody matter in contravention of state law
18-6766 David Gulbrandson v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections Ninth Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-punishment-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus procedural-default procedural-ruling second-in-time-petition statutory-aggravating-factors statutory-aggravator successive-petitions Whether reasonable jurists would debate the correctness of the district court's procedural ruling that Gulbrandson's second-in-time § 2254 petition wa…
18-6769 Kenneth G. Middleton v. Ronda Pash, Superintendent, Crossroads Correctional Center Missouri 2018-11-21 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-relief Whether the continued incarceration of a state prisoner who has presented a truly persuasive case of actual innocence violates the Eighth and Fourteen…
18-6776 Duane Eugene Owen v. Florida Florida 2018-11-21 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection jury-trial retroactivity state-court Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection and the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of capricious capital sentencing impose limits…
18-6777 Kenya Ali Hyatt v. Michigan Michigan 2018-11-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-determination juvenile-life-without-parole juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-statute sixth-amendment Whether Michigan's Miller statute requires a jury determination and proof beyond a reasonable doubt
18-6782 Tia Marie-Mitchell Skinner v. Michigan Michigan 2018-11-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-determination juvenile-life-without-parole juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing-statute sixth-amendment Whether Michigan's Miller v. Alabama sentencing statute requires a jury determination and proof beyond a reasonable doubt, under the Sixth and Fourtee…
18-6784 In Re Samuel Rivera 2018-11-21 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-amendments constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment habeas-corpus jurisdictional-rules standing whether-court-judges-uphold-constitution
18-6735 Perry Alexander Taylor v. Florida Florida 2018-11-20 Denied IFP caldwell-v-mississippi death-penalty eighth-amendment equal-protection flawed-scientific-testimony hurst-retroactivity medical-examiner-testimony non-unanimous-jury retroactivity Whether the State of Florida can deny Hurst relief and execute a prisoner because his case became final before June 24, 2002
18-6752 David McGuire v. Ohio Ohio 2018-11-20 Denied IFP brady-violation brady-violations criminal-procedure discovery-violation discovery-violations due-process evidence-disclosure fair-trial fourteenth-amendment police-misconduct remedies When a discovery violation is discovered mid-trial, does a remedy that fails to order the disclosure of the withheld evidence violate the Due Process …
18-643 Janette Dunkle v. Jennifer Dale, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-19 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 4th-amendment child-seizure circuit-court-precedent circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment qualified-immunity warrantless-seizure Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in applying the narrow approach from Kirkpatrick, and whether Circuit-level opinions stating that an emergency is requ…
18-6728 Francisco R. Quintana v. Colorado Colorado 2018-11-19 Denied IFP constitutional-claims criminal-procedure defense-evidence due-process evidence exclusion-of-evidence fourteenth-amendment materiality-requirement right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment What showing must a defendant make to establish that the erroneous exclusion of defense evidence at trial violated the defendant's Sixth and Fourteent…
18-6730 William Ramirez, et ux. v. Superior Court of California, El Dorado County, et al. California 2018-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure default default-judgment due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment merits-based-adjudication pro-se pro-se-litigant relief-from-default state-court state-court-procedure Should a pro se petitioner reasonably expect relief from default as a part of due process under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitu…
18-6739 David Earl Miller, et al. v. Tony Parker, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Correction, et al. Tennessee 2018-11-19 Denied IFP 8th-amendment alternative-method available-alternative due-process facial-challenge fourteenth-amendment glossip-standard glossip-v-gross lethal-injection Whether under Glossip v. Gross, inmates raising a facial challenge to one of two methods contained in a State's lethal injection protocol must present…
18-640 Nicholas Bernard Acklin v. Alabama Alabama 2018-11-16 Denied Amici (2) attorney-client-relationship conflict-of-interest criminal-defense death-penalty fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment third-party-payment Whether a criminal defendant is deprived of his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to conflict-free counsel
18-6726 Billy Brantley v. Indiana Indiana 2018-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment burden-of-proof charged-offense constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment jury jury-instructions reasonable-doubt Where the State must present 'some' evidence of a particular fact before a jury may find a defendant guilty of a charged offense, does the Due Process…
18-6708 Clifford D. Williams v. Ohio Ohio 2018-11-15 Denied IFP capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment judge-sentencing jury-trial jury-verdict sentencing-phase sixth-amendment spaziano-v-florida Is Ohio's death penalty scheme unconstitutional under Hurst v. Florida?
18-6709 Lawrence Alfred Landrum v. Ohio Ohio 2018-11-15 Denied IFP capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment judge-sentencing judicial-discretion jury-recommendation jury-sentencing jury-trial sixth-amendment spaziano-v-florida Is Ohio's death penalty scheme unconstitutional under Hurst v. Florida?
18-6713 Donald Anthony Grant v. Mike Carpenter, Interim Warden Tenth Circuit 2018-11-15 Denied IFP 8th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty eddings-precedent eddings-v-oklahoma eighth-amendment lockett-rule lockett-v-ohio mental-health mental-health-evidence mitigating-evidence moral-culpability Whether the Eighth Amendment requires a sentencer to consider mitigating evidence of a capital defendant's mental health and background when determini…
18-6683 Cody Sakoman v. California California 2018-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure jury jury-deliberation readback sixth-amendment witness-testimony Whether a defendant was denied his rights to a fair trial and to due process of law under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments
18-6703 David Richard Trimble v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-rape Confrontation-Clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-v-virginia sixth-amendment Statute-of-limitations sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the evidence was insufficient to find David Trimble guilty of four counts of Aggravated Rape beyond a reasonable doubt
18-6651 Antonio Cobb v. Florida Florida 2018-11-13 Denied IFP criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness right-to-fair-trial statement-against-interest trial-procedure Whether the trial judge denied the petitioner a trial in accord with fundamental standards of due process under the Fourteenth Amendment by preventing…
18-6656 Timothy Kyle Prince v. Shane Jackson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-11-13 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process eyewitness-identification fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment suggestive-identification suggestive-procedures unreliable-identification witness-identification Whether petitioner was denied of his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to a fair trial, due process
18-6670 Richard Allen Barker v. California California 2018-11-13 Denied IFP accomplice-liability constitutional-law constitutional-proportionate-punishment criminal-procedure eighth-amendment enmund-v-florida in-re-butler in-re-rodriguez individual-culpability proportionate-punishment Whether forcing the petitioner to serve an excessive punishment of 45 years incarceration for his individual culpability as an accomplice, when the ac…
18-6673 Tracy Lebron Vick v. Tennessee Tennessee 2018-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP dna-testing due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment plea-bargaining post-conviction post-conviction-review wrongful-conviction Whether Tennessee's refusal to extend DNA post-conviction protections to those who pled guilty violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth …
18-6620 Joe Louis Armenta v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 aedpa deck-v-jenkins fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings jury-instructions procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review Do prior decisions of this Court compel the conclusion that so long as the jury is properly admonished and instructed, there cannot be a viable claim …
18-6636 James Edward Griffin v. Eric Arnold, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied IFP due-process evidence evidence-admission fair-trial fourteenth-amendment gang jury-instructions misconduct motorcycle-gang prosecutorial-misconduct Was appellant deprived of a fair trial and due process of law under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution when the trial court al…
18-6595 John Smith v. Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-07 Denied IFP appeal-dismissal due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment in-forma-pauperis mental-incompetence prisoner-rights Does treating a dismissed appeal of a mentally incompetent prisoner's case, who in good faith, untimely filed a motion to proceed in forma pauperis, c…
18-595 James P. Tatten v. City and County of Denver, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-11-06 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights debt-collection due-process fair-debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act foreclosure fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigation rooker-feldman-doctrine standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in creating a special pro se pleading standard for cognitively-disabled litigants
18-6580 Wiliiam Scott Fitts v. Barry Goodrich, Warden, et al. Georgia 2018-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment Fourteenth-Amendment-due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel normative-legal-issues plea-bargaining right-to-counsel right-to-effective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the accused's constitutional rights were violated when forced to choose between the Sixth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment in deciding wheth…
18-6544 Robert Joe McNemar v. Ralph Terry, Acting Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-11-05 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment competency competency-evaluation criminal-defendant due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health plea-bargain plea-bargaining sixth-amendment Does due process require an express competency determination?
18-6540 Maha Z. Rayan v. Georgia Georgia 2018-11-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP arrest contempt contempt-order criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-appointment municipal-court-jurisdiction municipal-courts probable-cause state-penal-law uniform-traffic-citation Whether the use of a municipal traffic citation as an initial accusation for a state penal law non-traffic offense is constitutional
18-6552 Thomas A. Woods v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2018-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP compelled-testimony constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury self-incrimination self-incrimination-protection Do the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit the government from introducing evidence of a defendant's grand jury testimony which was taken when th…
18-6554 Walter Collins v. Tennessee Tennessee 2018-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-sentence mandatory-life-sentence opportunity-for-release reasonable-opportunity-for-release Whether a mandatory life sentence for a crime committed by a juvenile that does not allow him a reasonable opportunity for release violates the prohib…
18-6532 Austin Myers v. Ohio Ohio 2018-11-01 Denied IFP capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-statute eighth-amendment judge-sentencing judicial-sentencing jury-trial jury-verdict sixth-amendment spaziano-v-florida Did Hurst v. Florida render Ohio's death penalty scheme unconstitutional?
18-564 Rosemary L. Decosimo v. Tennessee Tennessee 2018-10-31 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment forensic-science fourteenth-amendment impartiality law-enforcement sixth-amendment standing Whether the right to a fair trial and due process were violated by a Tennessee law awarding the state forensic lab $250 per conviction-related test
18-6513 Byron Christopher Chinchilla v. Greg Lewis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-10-31 Denied IFP appeal criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment attempted-murder criminal-gang due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability mental-health sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated when trial counsel failed to investigate and present evidence of the…
18-6527 Jedediah C. v. West Virginia West Virginia 2018-10-31 Denied IFP double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment home-incarceration pre-trial time-served west-virginia Has the Petitioner's Fifth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment Constitutional Rights been violated when the Courts of West Virginia refused to grant cred…
18-6469 Tyrone D. Morant v. Jason Lewis, Superintendent, Southeast Correctional Center Missouri 2018-10-30 Denied IFP eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-montgomery miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole parole-hearing resentencing resentencing-proceeding Whether the Eighth Amendment requires juvenile defendants who received mandatory life without parole sentences to receive adversarial resentencing pro…
18-6507 Alice Brown v. Del Norte County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-discrimination dereliction-of-duty due-process equal-protection fraudulent-concealment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment interlocutory-appeal judicial-disqualification jurisdiction magistrate-judge ninth-circuit Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit erred in dismissing the interlocutory appeal for lack of jurisdiction, thereby violat…
18-6475 Lewis Wright v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2018-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination cross-examination-rights due-process evidence-disclosure fourteenth-amendment parole perjury prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-bias Whether the court of common pleas erred in limiting Mr. Stein's ability to establish witness Joseph Farley's bias
18-6488 Alonzo Dwayne Coleman v. Michael Hakala, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-medical-care deliberate-deception deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment incarceration medical-evidence medical-treatment prison prison-medical-treatment rare-disease Whether there is a constitutional standard of medical care for persons with rare massive polycystic liver disease and are the state's (Missouri) priso…
18-553 Juliet Yackel v. South Dakota, et al. South Dakota 2018-10-29 Denied atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia conflict-of-interest counsel-representation death-penalty death-penalty-appeal eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability moore-v-texas Whether Rodney Berget was arbitrarily deprived of conflict-free counsel in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment when his counsel determined not to fi…
18-6438 Oscar Kenneth Moreno v. Alana Butler California 2018-10-26 Denied IFP confrontation-clause dna-evidence dna-testing due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment remand scientific-evidence sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the petitioner's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to confront and cross-examine his accusers were violated
18-6462 Juan Carlos Mendez v. California California 2018-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether the prosecution's use of 'were they lying' questions and argument to secure a criminal conviction constitutes prosecutorial misconduct and vio…
18-545 First Advantage Background Services Corp. v. Superior Court of California, San Mateo County, et al. California 2018-10-25 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) burden-of-proof class-action due-process fair-credit-reporting-act federal-statute forum-state fourteenth-amendment harm nationwide-class-action non-resident-defendant personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction Whether a state court may exercise specific personal jurisdiction over a non-resident defendant in a nationwide class action when the alleged conduct …
18-538 Wendy A. Nora v. Wisconsin Office of Lawyer Regulation Wisconsin 2018-10-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) due-process due-process-clause exculpatory-evidence fair-hearing first-amendment fourteenth-amendment lawyer-discipline petition-for-redress petition-rights procedural-due-process prosecutorial-misconduct Whether a lawyer can be disciplined based on evidence known by the state to be false and when the state suppresses exculpatory evidence
18-6418 Denver Ivan Wilson v. Florida Florida 2018-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-due-process sentence-enhancement sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the trial court's denial of petitioner's writ of habeas corpus led to a violation of the petitioner's constitutional rights under the Fourteen…
18-6405 Sydney L. Thieszen v. Nebraska Nebraska 2018-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana tatum-v-arizona Whether the Eighth Amendment permits a juvenile convicted of a homicide offense to be sentenced to the functional equivalent of life without parole
18-6378 Robert Ira Peede v. Florida Florida 2018-10-18 Denied IFP arbitrary-cutoff capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity due-process eighth-amendment evolving-standards-of-decency fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendm…
18-6362 Edwin Darrell Lett v. Mississippi Mississippi 2018-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights continuance counsel criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-counsel sixth-amendment state-procedure trial Whether the petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial was violated when the Mississippi Supreme Court failed to properly review the trial cou…
18-6364 Phap Buth v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2018-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP barnes-v-united-states burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment in-re-winship Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment allows reliance on an inference that is at best more likely than not, but not beyond a reas…
18-6367 Joel Carter v. Jamie Ayala, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment medical-services medical-treatment precedent prisoner-rights summary-judgment Did the lower court err in granting summary judgment in favor of Respondents on Petitioner's Eighth Amendment deliberate indifference claim, by issuin…
18-490 Jael Watts v. Michael K. Allen Virginia 2018-10-17 Denied civil-procedure court-rules due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights hearing-rights notice procedural-notice state-law state-procedure trial-court virginia-court-rules virginia-supreme-court Whether the trial court's failure to provide advance written hearing notices, as required by state procedural rules, constitutes a denial of the Petit…
18-492 David Souza v. California California 2018-10-17 Denied Response Waived berger-standard berger-v-united-states constitutional-rights due-process false-testimony fourteenth-amendment napue-v-illinois napue-violation preliminary-hearing pretrial-proceedings prosecutorial-misconduct Does the state prosecutor's failure to acknowledge and correct false/misleading testimony at a preliminary hearing violate due process?
18-484 Melvin Charles Pettigrew v. Texas Texas 2018-10-16 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus post-conviction-review state-court substantive-review texas Whether the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas violated the Petitioner's right to due process of law as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the …
18-487 D. A. v. D. P., II Indiana 2018-10-16 Denied caperton-standard caperton-v-a-t-massey-coal-co caperton-v-massey due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias magistrate-ruling williams-v-pennsylvania Did the Indiana Court of Appeals decision conflict with the due process standard in Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co.?
18-6315 David Ivy v. Tennessee Tennessee 2018-10-16 Denied IFP atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia constitutional-prohibition cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability moore-v-texas procedural-mechanism roper-v-simmons state-procedure Where this Court has declared, States may not execute anyone in the entire category of [intellectually disabled] offenders. Moore v. Texas, 137 S. Ct.…
18-6330 Jose Arnaldo Rodrigues v. Ron Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-10-16 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment standing Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment claims of ineffective assistance of counsel were properly denied by the state court without an evidentiary …
18-6337 Travis W. Williams v. Missouri Missouri 2018-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof child-sex-offense criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-evidence fourteenth-amendment mo-const-art-i-18c presumption-of-innocence propensity-evidence Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause prohibits evidence that the defendant has an unrelated remote prior child sex offense conviction…
18-476 Cowlitz County, Washington, et al. v. Jule Crowell, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 8th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-care monell monell-doctrine municipal-liability objective-reasonableness section-1983 serious-medical-needs subjective-intent Whether a pretrial detainee alleging Fourteenth Amendment claims of deliberate indifference to serious medical needs must show subjective intent or ob…
18-463 Bernard Morello v. Texas Texas 2018-10-12 Denied Response Waived arbitrary-enforcement civil-rights constitutional-proportionality due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment proportionality state-law state-statute statutory-fines Does a properly enacted state statute imposing fines and penalties violate the Eighth Amendment if the state applies the statute arbitrarily and abusi…
18-6309 Warren Justin Hardy v. California California 2018-10-12 Denied IFP comparative-analysis equal-protection fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination racial-overtones sixth-amendment Whether the California Supreme Court's refusal to conduct a meaningful comparative analysis or infer a likelihood of discriminatory purpose violates t…
18-6296 Alexander Robert Jacome v. California California 2018-10-11 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 9th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law Constitutional-Rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment Fourth-Amendment free-speech ninth-amendment Parole-Conditions Will this Court reverse the lower Courts substantial violations of the Fourteenth Amendment's substantive Due Process clause, or allow the unprecedent…
18-451 Aloha Bed & Breakfast v. Diane Cervelli, et al. Hawaii 2018-10-11 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) due-process fair-notice first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise intimate-association privacy prohibitory public-accommodation public-accommodations quasi-criminal religious-beliefs religious-liberty stigmatizing Whether holding a homeowner liable for refusing to host a same-sex couple violates due process and free exercise rights
18-455 Aaron Joseph Emineth v. Oregon Oregon 2018-10-11 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment photo-radar standard-of-proof state-court-proceedings traffic-enforcement trial-court Did the state trial court violate Petitioner's constitutional right to Due Process under the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution by…
18-6272 Gregory Steshenko v. Thomas McKay, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP academic-expulsion civil-procedure civil-rights disciplinary-expulsion due-process education employment fourteenth-amendment free-speech mixed-motive mixed-motive-defense protected-speech spoliation-of-evidence standing Whether the mixed-motive defense doctrine of Mt. Healthy City Sch. Dist. Bd. of Educ. v. Doyle, 429 U.S. 274, 287 (1977) in employment terminations fo…
18-6233 Stephan Schuermann v. Jubilie Anqui Florida 2018-10-09 Denied IFP 14th-amendment child-custody civil-procedure due-process equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction relocation Whether the Supreme Court erred in not vacating orders granting relocation of a minor child
18-6238 Edmund Zagorski v. Tony Parker, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Corrections, et al. Tennessee 2018-10-09 Denied IFP constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment execution-methods execution-protocol feasible-alternative fourteenth-amendment lethal-injection state-secrecy Where the credited, credible, and unassailable evidence at trial proves with certainty that a lethal injection protocol will inflict severe pain and m…
18-6262 Richard Penunuri v. California California 2018-10-09 Denied IFP constitutional-requirement criminal-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fact-finding fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact that serves to…
18-443 Bobby James Moore v. Texas Texas 2018-10-09 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (5) capital-punishment clinical-criteria clinical-standards criminal-procedure eighth-amendment intellectual-disability lay-stereotypes medical-standards moore-v-texas Whether the Eighth Amendment and this Court's decision in Moore v. Texas, 137 S. Ct. 1039 (2017) prohibit relying on non-clinical criteria and lay ste…
18-6214 Ricardo Rene Sanders v. Ron Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-10-04 Denied Amici (1)IFP brady-violation brady-violations california-habeas cullen-v-pinholster death-row eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing federal-habeas habeas-corpus materiality materiality-test ninth-circuit prima-facie-case prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the federal habeas courts should evaluate the summary denial of a California habeas petition based on whether the petitioner failed to allege …
18-6224 Lamond Latney v. Anthony Parker Fourth Circuit 2018-10-04 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-fines federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment incorporation standing takings Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause
18-6226 Roderick K. Forest v. Jason Lewis, Superintendent, Southeast Correctional Center Missouri 2018-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP eighth-amendment habeas-corpus juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-montgomery miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole-hearing resentencing Does the Eighth Amendment require juvenile defendants who received mandatory life without parole sentences to receive adversarial resentencing proceed…
18-6197 Juan Francisco Medina Ortiz v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-protections due-process exhaustion fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus labeling state-courts Whether a claim made in the habeus corpus petition that is substantially the same and invokes the same constitutional protections, but labeled differe…
18-6201 Nicholas DeAngelis v. Bruce Plumley, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection federal-habeas federal-prisoners habeas-corpus procedural-bar procedural-bars time-limits whether-federal-prisoners-have-the-same-gateway-for-actual-innocence-as-state-prisoners
18-6207 Manuel Ernesto Paiz Guevara v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion capital-crime capital-punishment criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment fourth-circuit-split mandatory-sentencing miller-v-alabama right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in denying the defendant's request for two attorneys in a capital case
18-6167 Ronald Wayne Clark, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2018-10-02 Denied IFP capital-case capital-case,eighth-amendment,cruel-and-unusual-pu capital-punishment codefendant-culpability codefendants cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment death-penalty death-sentence eighth-amendment proportionality-review reliability-of-death-sentence Whether an assessment of the relative culpability of codefendants in a capital case in Florida is required pursuant to the Eighth Amendment in order t…
18-6176 Michael Lucero v. California California 2018-10-02 Denied IFP 6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-evidence criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment prior-acts propensity propensity-evidence Whether the admission of prior acts of domestic violence to establish the petitioner's propensity to commit such crimes violated his right to due proc…
18-6178 Joseph A. Clark v. Eileen Ramey, Superintendent, Jefferson City Correctional Center Missouri 2018-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP eighth-amendment habeas-corpus juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-montgomery miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole-hearing resentencing Whether the Eighth Amendment requires juvenile defendants who received mandatory life without parole sentences to receive adversarial resentencing pro…
18-409 Lewis Y. Liu v. Paul Ryan, et al. Second Circuit 2018-10-02 Denied Response Waived civil-rights comity-clause congress constitutional-standing due-process electoral-college equal-protection equal-voting-right equal-voting-rights fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review standing voting-rights Whether the Electoral College clause (1787) has violated the Comity clause (1787) and three subsequent amendments, the First (1789), the Fifth (1789) …
18-412 Jael Watts v. Michael Allen, et al. Virginia 2018-10-02 Denied access-to-courts court-access due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial seventh-amendment state-law tort-immunity Whether the Virginia Supreme Court's dismissal of the Petitioner's appeal without reaching the merits of the case violates the Petitioner's fundamenta…
18-407 Matthew John Stickle v. Virginia Virginia 2018-10-01 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure curtilage due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment fourth-amendment,fourteenth-amendment,search-and-s ip-address search-and-seizure threshold warrantless-search Was the evidence in this case unlawfully obtained as a result of an unlawful search and seizure in violation of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments?
18-6149 Christopher Polk v. Jason Lewis, Superintendent, Southeast Correctional Center Missouri 2018-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-montgomery miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole parole-hearing resentencing resentencing-proceeding Whether the Eighth Amendment requires juvenile defendants who received mandatory life without parole sentences to receive adversarial resentencing pro…
18-6155 Christian Lemus Cerna, aka Leopardo, aka Bago, aka Vago, aka Gatito, aka Christian Josue Lemus Alfaro v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-evidence-disclosure brady-violation brady-violations court-of-appeals criminal-procedure eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-sentencing evidence-admission false-testimony jury-instructions lesser-included-offenses mandatory-life-sentence severance-of-defendants uncharged-conduct-evidence uncharged-murder-evidence Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's decisions
18-6124 Sherman Washington, aka Sherman Lance Washington v. Carmen Denise Palmer, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fair-trial fair-trial-denial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mre-404b other-bad-acts other-bad-acts-testimony res-gestae sixth-amendment Whether petitioner was denied a fair trial by the admission of irrelevant other bad acts testimony
18-6126 Sally D. Villaverde v. Greg Smith, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60b constitutional-rights district-court due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ninth-circuit rule-60b standing Whether the U.S. District Court and U.S. Court of Appeals incorrectly treated petitioner's Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b) motion as a second or successive peti…
18-6135 James K. Kahler v. Kansas Kansas 2018-09-28 Judgment Issued Amici (12)Relisted (7)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment insanity-defense legal-history mens-rea mental-health Do the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments permit a state to abolish the insanity defense?
18-396 Brittan Holland, et al. v. Kelly Rosen, et al. Third Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived bail bail-reform-act criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fourth-amendment monetary-bail new-jersey pretrial-detention pretrial-liberty restrictive-conditions Whether New Jersey's law prohibiting courts from considering monetary bail unless no combination of non-monetary conditions will reasonably assure the…
18-6119 Gary Long, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-sentencing de-facto-life-sentence due-process eighth-amendment federal-court-split federal-courts life-sentence sentencing-analysis sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent term-of-years Whether the district and appellate court failed to conduct the proper analysis of imposing a de facto life sentence on the petitioner?
18-6088 Joseph Burris v. Eileen Ramey, Superintendent, Jefferson City Correctional Center Missouri 2018-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-montgomery miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole parole-hearing resentencing resentencing-proceeding Whether the Eighth Amendment requires juvenile defendants who received mandatory life without parole sentences to receive adversarial resentencing pro…
18-6093 Brian Tate v. Maryland Maryland 2018-09-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights developmental-capacity diminished-capacity due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea juvenile-defendant juvenile-justice maryland-rule-4-242(c) mental-illness Whether the Due Process Clause requires a state court to conduct an inquiry on the record into the effects of a juvenile defendant's age, mental healt…
18-6105 John Patrick Wallace v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-09-26 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence exculpatory exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment impartial-tribunal witness witness-rights Was the petitioner denied an impartial tribunal under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment?
18-6106 James L. Miller v. Amir Kashani, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-09-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-forfeiture civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction property-rights standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires the government to provide a hearing before seizing a person's property for civil forfei…
18-6086 In Re Daniel Clate Acker 2018-09-24 Denied IFP 8th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-claims death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment false-evidence habeas-corpus new-evidence state-liability state-repudiation wrongful-conviction Whether an original writ of habeas corpus is appropriate in the case of a death-sentenced individual who was convicted and sentenced to death on a the…
18-6050 Timothy L. Rodriguez v. DeWayne Burton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-09-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause subject-matter-jurisdiction Void-for-Lack-of-Jurisdiction warrantless-arrest Whether the states have reached incongruent results when interpreting this Court's decision due to a radical defect that occurred after the petitioner…
18-6059 Cedric Carter v. Ohio Ohio 2018-09-20 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment judge-sentencing jury-trial jury-verdict sentencing-phase sixth-amendment spaziano-v-florida Is Ohio's death penalty scheme unconstitutional under Hurst v. Florida?
18-6044 Richard James Beasley v. Ohio Ohio 2018-09-19 Denied IFP appellate-review attorney-general due-process familial-conflict fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-ethics recusal structural-error williams-v-pennsylvania Does the right to due process require a finding of structural error where one member of the reviewing court is the son of the elected attorney general…
18-6023 Lamar Atu Blackwell v. Matthew Hansen, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus postconviction-procedure postconviction-review prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-standard strickland-v-washington swarthout-v-cooke unreasonable-application webb-v-texas Whether this Court's opinion in Webb v. Texas applies to prosecutors as well as judges
18-6027 Hayden Beaulieu v. Arizona Arizona 2018-09-18 Denied IFP 8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment extradition juvenile-justice plea-deal prosecutorial-discretion sentencing transfer-hearing Is it permissible under the 8th amendment to impose an adult sentence on a minor for a non-dangerous, non-repetitive offense?
18-5977 Syed K. Rafi v. Yale University School of Medicine, et al. Second Circuit 2018-09-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-restraints due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment spending-clause state-action state-actor If Government Requires or Induces A Private Party to Engage in Law Enforcement, All Relevant Constitutional Restraints Do Apply?
18-5980 Shelton Denoria Jones v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied IFP 28-U.S.C-2254(e)(2) 28-usc-2254 diligence evidentiary-hearing factual-basis fair-trial federal-court federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment state-court state-court-review Whether a habeas applicant has 'failed to develop the factual basis' of a claim under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(e)(2) when the state court did not hold an evid…
18-5986 Damon L. Caldwell v. Stanley Payne, Superintendent, Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center Missouri 2018-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole meaningful-opportunity miller-montgomery miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole parole-hearing realistic-opportunity resentencing resentencing-proceeding Whether Missouri's parole laws and procedures violate the Eighth Amendment by failing to provide juvenile offenders a meaningful and realistic opportu…
18-5996 Gene Lemay Barris v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing unreasonable-sentence Whether the sentencing court erred in imposing an unreasonable sentence on the defendant in violation of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel a…
18-337 County of Orange, California, et al. v. Mary Gordon, Individually and as Successor in Interest to Matthew Shawn Gordon, Deceased Ninth Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied Amici (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-standard due-process eighth-amendment fourth-amendment medical-care objective-reasonableness pretrial-detainee qualified-immunity section-1983 standard-of-care Whether a pretrial detainee's 'inadequate medical care' claim pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 requires a showing of a jail professional's subjective inte…
18-324 Douglas Leone, et ux., as Trustees Under That Certain Unrecorded Leone-Perkins Family Trust Dated August 26, 1999, as Amended v. Maui County, Hawaii, et al. Hawaii 2018-09-13 Denied Amici (3) 14th-amendment 5th-amendment economic-benefit economically-beneficial-use fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment investment-use just-compensation land-use lucas-v-south-carolina-coastal-council natural-state property-rights regulatory-taking regulatory-takings takings-clause Whether holding undeveloped property as an 'investment' or using it as a 'park' in its natural state constitutes economically beneficial or productive…
18-5948 Patrick Henry Murphy v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-09-12 Denied IFP conspiracy criminal-conspiracy death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment enmund-v-florida-tison-v-arizona felony felony-murder jury-findings sentencing-requirements sixth-amendment Does the Sixth or Eighth Amendment require that before a party may be sentenced to death as a conspirator (rather than a trigger-person), the jury mus…
18-5924 Evangelisto Ramos v. Louisiana Louisiana 2018-09-11 Judgment Issued Amici (12)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment incorporation incorporation-doctrine racial-discrimination sixth-amendment stare-decisis unanimous-jury unanimous-verdict Whether the Fourteenth Amendment fully incorporates the Sixth Amendment guarantee of a unanimous verdict?
18-5932 Ronald Jones v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2018-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus medical-evidence section-2254 sixth-amendment state-conviction Whether Petitioner has shown clear and convincing evidence of a credible actual-innocence claim from his State conviction?
18-5937 Charles Lee Burton v. Alabama Alabama 2018-09-11 Denied IFP aggravating-factors caldwell-v-mississippi capital-sentencing capital-sentencing-scheme constitutional-review death-penalty eighth-amendment evolving-standards-of-decency hurst-v-florida jury-instructions jury-recommendation mitigating-factors Whether Alabama's capital sentencing scheme is unconstitutional under Hurst v. Florida and Caldwell v. Mississippi
18-5922 Robert Joseph Sarhan v. Federal Bureau of Prisons Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure fraud-on-the-court res-judicata violated-supreme-court-precedent administrative-law civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court manifest-injustice res-judicata void-judgment Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals and other courts acted inconsistently with due process and Supreme Court precedent in affirming the peti…
18-293 Janos Farkas v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-09-07 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-rights dispositive-motion due-process federal-court fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment motion-practice standing time-limits time-to-respond Does a federal court deprive a party's constitutional due process right when allowing only three days to respond to a dispositive motion?
18-5892 Andre Jackson v. Ohio Ohio 2018-09-06 Denied IFP 6th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment judge-sentencing judicial-sentencing jury-recommendation jury-sentencing jury-trial sixth-amendment Is Ohio's death penalty scheme unconstitutional under Hurst v. Florida?
18-5881 Vamsidhar Vurimindi v. The Hoopskirt Lofts Condominium Association Pennsylvania 2018-09-05 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights condominium-law constitutional-violations due-process fair-housing-act fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment property-rights racial-discrimination Whether the Pennsylvania Uniform Condominium Act violates the First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments and the Fair Housing Act
18-5895 Justin Lyle Izatt v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 constitutional-law court-of-appeals due-process eighth-amendment federal-courts federal-habeas-corpus federal-question gross-disproportionality habeas-corpus judicial-review petition-for-writ-of-certiorari post-conviction-relief sentencing Whether the Court of Appeals committed error by denying the Petitioner's 28 U.S.C. §2255 petition?
18-283 Charles Coleman, et al. v. Campbell County Library Board of Trustees Kentucky 2018-09-05 Denied Amici (2) due-process federal-due-process-rights fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure prospective-only retroactive-relief state-law state-retroactivity-doctrines tax-relief unlawful-taxes Whether a state can circumvent the requirements of the Due Process Clause to provide taxpayers retroactive relief from unlawful taxes by making its de…
18-5865 Gary L. Pennington v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Pennsylvania 2018-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-offense constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder fourteenth-amendment state-law substantive-due-process Whether petitioner's conviction of first degree murder violated the constitutionally protected state-created liberty interest guaranteed under the Fou…
18-5868 William David Cannon v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2018-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights cumulative-prejudice due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard Whether the cumulative effect of multiple constitutional violations, including ineffective assistance of counsel, deprived the defendant of a fair tri…
18-5849 Jose Soza v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions sixth-amendment state-postconviction Whether state trial counsel rendered constitutionally ineffective assistance of counsel
18-5861 Danny Lopez Chavez v. Joel Martinez, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment proportionality sentencing Whether appellant's sentence is grossly disproportionate to the crimes of conviction
18-263 Sheryl Faust v. Illinois Workers Compensation Commission, et al. Illinois 2018-08-30 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure arbitrary-barriers bodily-integrity due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment redress workers-compensation Whether the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment prevent states from using arbitrary barriers to deprive workers of th…
18-253 Michael Felix v. New York New York 2018-08-28 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment adequate-notice appellate-review coram-nobis due-process due-process-14th-amendment errors-of-law fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice notice-and-opportunity notice-of-hearing opportunity-to-be-heard state-constitutional-right-to-appeal unexplained-decision writ-of-error-coram-nobis Whether the court of original jurisdiction denied petitioner due process under the United States Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment
18-5753 James Pello v. Dushan Zatecky, Superintendent, Pendleton Correctional Facility Seventh Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-error due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-jury-verdicts Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, along with the Indiana State Court of last resort, have entered a decision in conf…
18-5761 Kourtney Herman v. Crystal Young, et al. Illinois 2018-08-24 Denied IFP best-interests best-interests-standard custody custody-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-responsibilities parental-rights standing Whether a state court's application of a 'best interests' standard in custody/parental responsibilities filed by a person other than a parent, violate…
18-5714 Jose A. Rivera-Quinones v. Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied IFP abuse-of-process confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment prejudicial-evidence sentencing sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a trial court can possess subject matter jurisdiction on a criminal offense not charged within the indictment/criminal information
18-5698 Devonte Brown v. Ohio Ohio 2018-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment irreparable-corruption juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana sentencing Whether this Court's precedent requires a trial court's record to reflect specific consideration of irreparable corruption before sentencing the child…
18-5700 Jerry Docaj v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied IFP criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-instructions manslaughter miranda-rights passion-provocation sixth-amendment Whether the jury instruction on passion/provocation manslaughter misstated the law
18-5708 Thomas J. Arnold v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2018-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-proceedings due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest manifest-injustice sentencing sentencing-correction state-collateral-proceedings Whether petitioner has been denied due-process and equal-protection under the U.S. Constitution Amendment-XIV, in his state collateral-proceedings
18-5710 Alejandro Amor v. United States, ex rel. Juan Pena, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP double-jeopardy eighth-amendment election-of-remedies estoppel excessive-fines false-claims-act materiality res-judicata restitution seventh-amendment Whether the False Claims Act 31 U.S.C. 3729-33 (FCA), estoppel provision violates the Seventh Amendment of the Constitution
18-226 Eric G. Zahnd v. Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel, Supreme Court of Missouri Missouri 2018-08-22 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived attorney-discipline attorney-ethics criminal-case due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech government-transparency professional-conduct prosecutorial-speech public-record public-records Whether an attorney may be disciplined for telling the truth about information in the public record in a news release after a criminal case has been a…
18-5671 In Re Kenneth Simpson 2018-08-21 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conditions-of-release due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus parole sentencing standing supervised-release Whether a court can refuse to address a claim that an individual is being incarcerated under an unconstitutional statute, even when the individual has…
18-5648 Anthony Lamarca v. Florida Florida 2018-08-20 Denied IFP apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-case death-penalty eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-due-process hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity ring-v-arizona Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendm…
18-5652 Glen Springer v. Benjamin Dale Caple, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-08-20 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment medical-care medical-needs prison-conditions Did Phish Suffer An Eighth Amendment Violation?
18-5669 Peter Cruz v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2018-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process due-process,fifth-amendment,fourteenth-amendment,s fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment life-without-parole massachusetts-law sentencing Whether the petitioner can be punished with life without parole when not charged, tried, or convicted of first-degree murder
18-217 Randall Mathena, Warden v. Lee Boyd Malvo Fourth Circuit 2018-08-20 Granted Amici (13)Relisted (9) collateral-review constitutional-law constitutional-rule criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity substantive-rule supreme-court-precedent teague-v-lane Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in concluding that Montgomery v. Louisiana modified and expanded the rule announced in Miller v. Alabama
18-209 Ram Mehta v. California California 2018-08-17 Denied Relisted (2) Civil-Procedure Civil-Rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-review search-and-seizure unlawful-arrest unlawful-search Unlawful-Search-and-Seizure Were the Petitioner's constitutional rights to be free from unlawful search and seizure under the Fourth Amendment and to due process under the Fourte…
18-5634 Kipland Phillip Kinkel v. Garrett Laney, Superintendent, Oregon State Correctional Institution Oregon 2018-08-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mental-illness miller-montgomery-standard miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana procedural-due-process Does a treatable, but not curable, mental illness constitute irreparable corruption' under Miller v. Alabama and Montgomery v. Louisiana?
18-5598 John J. Moore, Jr. v. Michael Stephan, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-rule evidentiary-rules fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pcr-hearing post-conviction-relief presumption-of-correctness sixth-amendment Whether the State Court's determination of factual issues is presumed correct or should have been presumed correct, and whether Petitioner sustained h…
18-5603 In Re Mark Kilmartin 2018-08-16 Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct jury-trial sentencing structural-error Whether a criminal defendant can be convicted and sentenced to life for a separate, new and distinct crime without a jury trial
18-5621 Bismark Kwaku Torkornoo v. Nina Helwig, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-08-16 Denied Relisted (3)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fraud fraud-vitiates res-judicata Does fraud vitiate every judicial proceeding?
18-203 Joey Montrell Chandler, aka Joey M. Chandler, aka Joey Chandler v. Mississippi Mississippi 2018-08-15 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 8th-amendment criminal-procedure eighth-amendment incorrigible juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole permanent-incorrigibility rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-discretion state-supreme-courts Whether the Eighth Amendment requires the sentencing authority to make a finding that a juvenile is permanently incorrigible before imposing a sentenc…
18-5592 Oscar Madrid v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-08-15 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process exhaustion exhaustion-of-remedies fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress state-court sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the court erred in finding claims 1-3 were not exhausted to the state's highest court
18-5595 Keith L. Williams v. Kul Sood, et al. Seventh Circuit 2018-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion prisoner-rights procedural-error standing summary-judgment Whether court of appeals or district court abused its discretion in (8th) amendment violation claim by failing to acknowledge evidence
18-5583 Stephen Brian Turner v. Melody Smith, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment absolute-immunity civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment immunity judicial-review parole parole-conditions quasi-judicial-role right-to-marry standing Whether parole conditions can prohibit the fundamental right to marry
18-5584 Lawrence L. Thompson v. Pete Copeland, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment 8th-amendment arrest-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force failure-to-supervise fourth-amendment qualified-immunity search-and-seizure Whether Deputy Copeland's arrest of Mr. Thompson was unconstitutional and warranted the denial of qualified immunity
18-5524 Farrell Rochelle v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying C.O.A. to trial counsel being ineffective for failing to file a motion for continuance to pr…
18-5553 Christopher Williams v. Texas Texas 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-murder corpus-delicti criminal-procedure due-process extrajudicial-confession fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment Did the trial court's failure to submit any instruction to the jury regarding Texas' corpus delicti rule and the subsequent endorsement of that failur…
18-5558 Joseph William Atwell v. Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Graterford, et al. Third Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prejudicial-evidence sixth-amendment Whether the state deprived petitioner of his guaranteed right to a fair trial
18-5564 Travis Colby Curry v. Oregon Oregon 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP bad-faith civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-preservation fourteenth-amendment police-misconduct self-defense surveillance-video Whether the police act in bad faith in contravenes of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment if they fail to collect and preserve surveill…
18-5546 Billie Wayne Coble v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-10 Denied IFP capital-case capital-sentencing constitutional-rights daubert daubert-standard due-process eighth-amendment expert-testimony future-dangerousness reliability Whether the Fifth Circuit and Texas courts improperly applied Barefoot v. Estelle to categorically foreclose claims that unreliable expert testimony o…
18-177 Kenneth Jerome Dawson v. Board of County Commissioners of Jefferson County, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied bond-release constitutional-rights criminal-procedure detention detention-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-liberty fundamental-right judicial-scrutiny liberty-interest reasonably-related strict-scrutiny substantive-due-process When does a criminal defendant's right to be released from jail after posting bond implicate a fundamental right of liberty?
18-5525 Jonathan E. Jouette v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach charging-instrument constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process enhanced-sentencing felon-in-possession fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sentencing-enhancement taylor-v-united-states Whether application of the Taylor rule bars consideration of materials beyond the charging instrument in determining a defendant's qualification for e…
18-5529 Dewey Steven Terry v. Phillip Earley, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process employment employment-retaliation first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech Question not identified. question-not-identified retaliation settlement-negotiations Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in concluding that the petitioner's First and Fourteenth Amendment rights were not violated during settleme…
18-5531 Kelly E. Culver v. Dushan Zatecky, Superintendent, Pendleton Correctional Facility Seventh Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied IFP appellate-counsel-ineffectiveness cause-and-prejudice due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment strickland-standard Whether trial counsel's failure to offer a contemporaneous objection during trial compromised the petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to competent coun…
18-166 John M. Probandt, et al. v. Dennis P. Walker Nebraska 2018-08-08 Denied 14th-amendment civil-rights color-of-law deprivation-of-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment internal-affairs-doctrine negotiable-instrument preemption state-courts uniform-commercial-code Is the State Courts' intentional refusal to apply the provisions of the Nebraska Uniform Commercial Code a violation of the U.S. Constitution, Amend. …
18-171 Robert R. Snyder v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights color-of-state-law constitutional-rights Cruel-and-unusual-punishment Due-process Eighth-amendment First-amendment immunity law-library-access Preliminary-injunction prisoner-rights retaliation section-1983 Does a person or entity have immunity from prosecution under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when rights secured by the U.S. Constitution have been violated by said …
18-5514 Robert Allen Wilkins v. Virginia Fourth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied IFP civil-procedure counsel due-process evidence sanctions standing due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether the petitioner's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated by the court's errors, including failure to strike testimony, failure to …
18-5517 Mike Peter Gallardo v. Arizona Arizona 2018-08-08 Denied IFP capital-jury capital-punishment citizen-jurors due-process eighth-amendment fair-cross-section fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-composition sixth-amendment Whether seating an alien capital juror violated the petitioner's Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights
18-5518 Norman Mearle Grim v. Florida Florida 2018-08-08 Denied Relisted (5)IFP advisory-jury burden-of-proof caldwell-v-mississippi capital-case death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment harmless-error hurst-v-florida hurst-violation sixth-amendment sullivan-v-louisiana Whether a Hurst violation can be ruled harmless based solely on a pre-Hurst advisory jury's unanimous vote to recommend death, where the jurors heard …
18-5495 In Re Billy Ray Irick 2018-08-07 Denied Amici (1)IFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment evolving-standards-of-decency fourteenth-amendment mental-illness personal-culpability sentencing Whether the imposition of the death penalty on a person who was severely mentally ill at the time of the offense constitutes cruel and unusual punishm…
18-162 Elzie Ball, et al. v. James M. LeBlanc, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-08-06 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse Waived air-conditioning constitutional-remedies constitutional-remedy eighth-amendment heat-index judicial-relief plra plra-restrictions prison-conditions prospective-relief remedies Whether the PLRA's tailoring requirement prohibits a district court from ordering a prison to maintain a maximum heat index to remedy a constitutional…
18-5446 Allan Latoi Story v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-06 Denied IFP brady-violation civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment speedy-trial Whether the state violated the petitioner's constitutional rights under the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments
18-5455 In Re Deborah Elizabeth Gouch-Onassis 2018-08-06 Dismissed IFP but the text you've provided appears to be incomp fragmented I cannot extract a meaningful question presented I will respond with: 'Question not identified." legible text of a SCOTUS petition for writ of cer or unreadable. Without a clear civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation jurisdiction standing takings Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause
18-5466 Lawrence E. Wilson v. Ohio Ohio 2018-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment nunc-pro-tunc open-court right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-requirements sixth-amendment void Whether a trial court's failure to comply with statutory requirements when imposing a sentence renders the attempted sentence void
18-5467 Virginia Denise Wyche v. Florida Florida 2018-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP and whether jury instructions misstating self-def 5th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment homicide homicide-statute second-amendment self-defense statutory-interpretation Whether the First District's expansion of the scope of Florida's homicide statute could be used to affirm Wyche's conviction and sentence in light of …
18-150 Phil Plummer, et al. v. David M. Hopper, Special Administrator of the Estate of Robert Andrew Richardson, Sr. Sixth Circuit 2018-08-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment civil-rights clearly-established-right deliberate-indifference detainee-rights due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement medical-intervention qualified-immunity Whether the Sixth Circuit defined the constitutional rights in question at too high a level of generality contrary to this Court's teachings on qualif…
18-157 James H. Brady v. Barbara Underwood, Attorney General of New York Second Circuit 2018-08-03 Denied Response Waived air-rights attorney-general civil-rights contract contract-enforcement contract-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment Fourteenth-Amendment-equal-protection judicial-misconduct standing takings Does the Fourteenth Amendment guarantee of equal protection under the law give Petitioner standing for the protection of his contract by the Attorney …
18-5434 Troy Victorino v. Florida Florida 2018-08-02 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment capital-punishment criminal-punishment death-penalty double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto fifth-amendment florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment jury-sentencing resentencing statutory-interpretation Does the automatic-resentencing-to-life provision of Florida Statutes Section 775.082(2) violate due-process, double-jeopardy, ex-post-facto
18-5437 Gary Richard Whitton v. Florida Florida 2018-08-02 Denied IFP advisory-jury capital-sentencing capricious due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection equal-protection-clause jury-trial jury-trial-rights retroactivity Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection and the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of capricious capital sentencing impose limits…
18-5442 Craig Alan Wall, Sr. v. Florida Florida 2018-08-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP capital-punishment constitutional-rights crawford-standard crawford-v-washington due-process fifth-amendment forced-appeal fourteenth-amendment hearsay-exception separation-of-powers sixth-amendment unreasonable-determination-of-facts Whether Florida Statute § 90.804(2)(f) violates the Sixth Amendment and Due Process rights of defendants, whether a state court can force a defendant …
18-5430 James Davis Bennett, et ux. v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment constitutional-defense deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment estelle-vs-gamble federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure medical-care prisoner-rights serious-medical-needs summary-judgment Whether the Eighth Amendment allows a court to create a constitutional defense to an admitted Eighth Amendment violation requiring a prisoner plaintif…
18-5402 Thomas Dewey Pope v. Florida Florida 2018-07-31 Denied IFP 8th-amendment caldwell-v-mississippi capital-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection hurst-v-florida hurst-v-state montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity supremacy-clause Does the Florida Supreme Court's determination that the jury findings required by Hurst v. Florida and Hurst v. State enhance the reliability of decis…
18-5408 Norberto Serna v. California California 2018-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP bodily-harm criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection extortion kidnapping sentencing sentencing-disparity Whether California violates the Equal Protection Clause and Eighth Amendment by imposing a harsher maximum sentence on kidnapper-extortionists than on…
18-5415 Louis B. Gaskin v. Florida Florida 2018-07-31 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-sentence due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection jury-trial retroactivity unconventional-rules Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection and the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of capricious capital sentencing impose limits…
18-5419 Kevin Griffin v. Thomas DiNapoli Second Circuit 2018-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment appeal-dismissal appellate-procedure appointment-of-counsel civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-appointment due-process fourteenth-amendment in-forma-pauperis sixth-amendment standing Was petitioner erroneously denied in forma pauperis, appointment of counsel, and appeal dismissal?
18-5384 Wendell Rivera-Ruperto v. United States First Circuit 2018-07-30 Denied IFP 8th-amendment due-process due-process-clause eighth-amendment government-manipulation mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimum sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements statutory-manipulation sting-operation sting-operations Whether the Eighth Amendment forbids the creation of a de-facto mandatory life without parole sentence through stacking 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) charges
18-120 Leila Hernandez v. Guy Bailey, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-07-27 Denied Response Waived constitutional-vagueness disciplinary-record due-process equal-protection faculty-employment fourteenth-amendment higher-education tenure tenure-rights tenured-professors unconstitutionally-vague university-merger vagueness Denial of due process rights to tenured professors in university merger, equal protection challenge to disciplinary record requirement, vagueness chal…
18-5376 Mark Allen Geralds v. Florida Florida 2018-07-27 Denied IFP arbitrary-cutoff capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendm…
18-5359 Ernest D. Suggs v. Florida Florida 2018-07-26 Denied IFP appellate-review caldwell-v-mississippi capital-sentencing death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment hurst-v-florida judicial-responsibility jury-instructions jury-recommendation Does a Florida death sentence imposed pursuant to the capital sentencing scheme overruled in Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016), in a case where …
18-5360 Curtis L. Clinton v. Ohio Ohio 2018-07-26 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure eighth-amendment equal-protection fair-trial fourteenth-amendment racial-stereotype racial-stereotypes racial-stereotyping sixth-amendment Whether a defendant's rights to the effective assistance of counsel, a fair and impartial jury, to be free from cruel and unusual punishment, and to t…
18-5365 Carmencita Bruno v. City of Schenectady, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2018-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights companion-animal-rights companion-animals due-process emergency-aid fire-investigation fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment property-rights search-and-seizure Whether firefighters and police can unreasonably withhold sustenance and emergency aid to companion dogs after a fire was extinguished, to conduct an …
18-5346 Roger Wilson v. United States Third Circuit 2018-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-bail free-speech pretrial-detention speedy-trial standing Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive bail and cruel and unusual punishment was violated when the petitioner was detained for 10 mon…
18-5352 Paul Anthony Brown v. Florida Florida 2018-07-25 Denied IFP arbitrary-cutoff capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendm…
18-5354 Darryl Brian Barwick v. Florida Florida 2018-07-25 Denied IFP arbitrary-cutoff capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendm…
18-105 Modesta R. Sabeniano v. Citibank, N.A., et al. Second Circuit 2018-07-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appeal appeal-dismissal civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-review perjury Whether petitioner Sabeniano was denied her constitutional right to due process
18-111 Timothy M. Barrett v. Valerie Jill Minor Virginia 2018-07-24 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment child-custody civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process family-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment parental-rights standing state-law Are Virginia's Child Custody Statutes Facially Unconstitutional?
18-5311 Jack Reid v. United States Second Circuit 2018-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure criminal-forfeiture criminal-procedure drug-forfeiture drug-offenses due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines property-rights property-seizure sentencing standing substantial-connection Whether property subject to forfeiture under 21 U.S.C. §853(a)(2) must have a substantial connection to the underlying criminal activity
18-5326 Mario Howard Lloyd v. Scott Moats, et al. Seventh Circuit 2018-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights counsel counsel-recruitment district-court-discretion due-process eighth-amendment fundamental-error intercircuit-conflict jury-trial medical-care standing summary-judgment Whether the District Court's 'persuasive authority' test order this case to be trial by a jury trial on February 27, 2017, and than less then two mont…
18-5330 Gregory Alan Kokal v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2018-07-24 Denied IFP capital-case capital-case,eighth-amendment,cruel-and-unusual-pu capital-punishment codefendant-culpability codefendants cruel-and-unusual-punishment culpability death-sentence eighth-amendment proportionality-review Whether an assessment of the relative culpability of codefendants in a capital case in Florida is required pursuant to the Eighth Amendment in order t…
18-100 Leonard Maurice Drane v. Eric Sellers, Warden Georgia 2018-07-23 Denied actual-innocence constitutional-review death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment enmund-v-florida fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus proportionality wrongful-conviction When a prisoner under a sentence of death has acquired compelling and undisputed evidence of his actual innocence after his trial that the state court…
18-5300 Gary Robinson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether a trial attorney can constitutionally stipulate elements of a charged crime over the expressed objections of the defendant under the Fifth, Si…
18-98 Jerrard T. Cook, aka Jerrad T. Cook, aka Jerrard Cook aka Jerrard Tramaine Cook, aka J-Fat v. Mississippi Mississippi 2018-07-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-rights criminal-procedure eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-prohibits juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole montgomery-v-louisiana permanent-incorrigibility sentencing sentencing-authority Whether the Eighth Amendment requires the sentencing authority to make a finding that a juvenile is permanently incorrigible in order to impose a sent…
18-5280 Patrick Lanier v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal criminal-procedure eighth-amendment fifth-circuit judicial-proceedings judicial-review manifest-miscarriage plain-error plain-error-review restitution rule-52b sentencing sentencing-error Whether the plain error standard requires a 'manifest miscarriage of justice' to correct a forfeited error affecting substantial rights
18-5276 William Clark v. United States District of Columbia 2018-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-of-majority age-of-maturity brain-development criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection juvenile-justice montgomery-line sentencing sentencing-considerations Whether the Montgomery Line of decisions apply to those under 18-years-old?
18-5278 Christopher Collings v. Missouri Missouri 2018-07-19 Denied IFP capital-punishment culpability deliberation due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-reliability intoxication jury-instructions mens-rea mental-state Whether it violates the Eighth Amendment to instruct a capital jury that they may not consider evidence of the defendant's intoxication at the time of…
18-81 Carltez Taylor v. Indiana Indiana 2018-07-19 Denied constitutional-proportionality cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-expectancy life-without-parole miller-v-alabama sentencing-discretion term-of-years Whether it is cruel and unusual punishment to sentence a juvenile to a term exceeding their life expectancy for a single offense
18-5231 Richard Lloyd Odom v. Tennessee Tennessee 2018-07-17 Denied IFP but no text of a SCOTUS petition was provided in I cannot generate a question presented or identif please include the full text of the petition. brain-damage capital-case eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence sixth-amendment smith-v-texas strickland-prejudice strickland-v-washington tennard-v-dretke Whether the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals violated Petitioner's Sixth Amendment rights and contravened this Court's Strickland v. Washington pre…
18-5240 Roy Lee Ward v. Robert E. Carter, Jr., Commissioner, Indiana Department of Correction, et al. Indiana 2018-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-punishment due-process fourteenth-amendment lethal-injection lethal-substances notice prisoner-rights state-execution state-prisoners Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment entitles condemned state prisoners to notice of the lethal substances a state will use to e…
18-5246 Warren Darrell Rivers v. Texas Texas 2018-07-17 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-punishment-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment individualized-sentencing sentencing sentencing-determination Whether prosecution evidence that a capital defendant has been sentenced to death once before in the same case impermissibly undermines the sentencing…
18-5239 Deshawn T. Terrell v. Ohio Ohio 2018-07-16 Denied Amici (1)IFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment felony-murder fourteenth-amendment juvenile-sentencing mandatory-minimums mandatory-sentencing miller-graham-precedent Does the mandatory sentencing provision for the offense of felony murder under Ohio Revised Code § 2929.02(B)(1) violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Ame…
18-5243 Curumulathu Jacob v. Virginia Virginia 2018-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction notice-clause sixth-amendment stare-decisis void-ab-initio Can a state maintain a judgment which was entered absent jurisdiction under its own stare decisis ruling and which is a violation of the Sixth Amendme…
18-5228 Quawn M. Franklin v. Florida Florida 2018-07-13 Denied Relisted (5)IFP caldwell-error constitutional-claim death-penalty eighth-amendment harmless-error hurst-v-florida hurst-violation individualized-review jury-recommendation sullivan sullivan-v-louisiana Whether the per se harmless-error rule adopted by the Florida Supreme Court violates precedents and the Eighth Amendment
18-5233 Edgar Alejandro Radillo, et al. v. Rosemary Ndoh, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-07-13 Denied IFP batson-challenge civil-rights due-process equal-protection Fourteenth-Amendment jury-selection minority-jurors non-minority-jurors peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-motivation racial-discrimination Sixth-Amendment Batson-challenge
18-5218 Allen Robertson, Jr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2018-07-12 Denied IFP atkins-v-virginia criminal-behavior death-penalty eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability jury-misconduct moore-v-texas racial-bias sixth-amendment Whether the Louisiana state courts improperly considered Petitioner's criminal behavior in determining that he is not intellectually disabled, in viol…
18-5211 Taylor B. v. California California 2018-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment custodial-interrogation due-process false-evidence fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-justice miranda-rights police-interrogation when-child-interrogated-miranda-waiver
18-60 Amira Olivia Gunn v. North Dakota North Dakota 2018-07-11 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech speech-protection Whether Gunn was convicted of speech protected by the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment, applicable to the States under the Due Process Clause…
18-56 Tim Shoop, Warden v. Danny Hill Sixth Circuit 2018-07-10 GVR Relisted (9) aedpa antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia clinical-judgment clinical-judgments death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability moore-v-texas Did the Sixth Circuit properly use the Moore decision from 2017 to find that an Ohio court unreasonably applied Atkins in 2008, even though the Ohio c…
18-44 Julia Kwok, et al. v. Mingo Energy, LLC Oklahoma 2018-07-09 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment due-process fourteenth-amendment homestead homestead-property judicial-foreclosure mortgage-foreclosure notice notice-requirements oklahoma-law oklahoma-power-of-sale-mortgage-foreclosure-act property-rights Whether failure to give proper notice and adhere to the dictates of the Oklahoma Power of Sale Mortgage Foreclosure Act, particularly OKLA. STAT. tit.…
18-49 Georgia Plumb, et al. v. U.S. Bank National Association, et al. Washington 2018-07-09 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process foreclosure fourteenth-amendment note-possession procedural-due-process property-rights residential-mortgage standing summary-judgment Whether the Plumbs' procedural due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment were violated
18-5160 Michael Anthony Tanzi v. Florida Florida 2018-07-09 Denied Relisted (5)IFP caldwell-v-mississippi capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment harmless-error hurst-v-florida hurst-violation judicial-procedure per-se-rule supreme-court-precedent Whether the Florida Supreme Court's application of a per se harmless-error rule to violations of Hurst v. Florida in pre-Hurst cases violates the Eigh…
18-5181 Michael Gordon Reynolds v. Florida Florida 2018-07-09 Denied Relisted (4)IFP caldwell-v-mississippi capital-sentencing death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment hurst-error jury-instructions ring-v-arizona structural-error Whether the Florida Supreme Court's plurality decision rejecting Mr. Reynolds' Caldwell v. Mississippi, 472 U.S. 320 (1985) claim is error. The jury w…
18-5129 Rodolfo Trejo v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-counting due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection immigration sentencing sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness Whether Petitioner's Sentence Constitutes Impermissible Double Counting
18-5165 Joh-ner Taylor Wilson v. Illinois Illinois 2018-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation patent standing takings Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause
18-34 Pablo San Martin v. Florida Florida 2018-07-05 Denied capital-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-cutoff-formula ring-v-arizona Whether the retroactivity formula created by the Florida Supreme Court pursuant to Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments
18-5065 Manuel Antonio Rodriguez v. Florida Florida 2018-07-05 Denied IFP caldwell-v-mississippi capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment furman-v-georgia hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause Whether the Florida Supreme Court's per se harmless-error rule for Hurst errors contravenes the Eighth Amendment
18-5122 Thomas Overton v. Florida Florida 2018-07-05 Denied IFP apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause supreme-court Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity approach for Hurst v. Florida and Hurst v. State violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendmen…
18-5124 Norberto Pietri v. Florida Florida 2018-07-05 Denied IFP due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection hurst-standard hurst-v-florida hurst-v-state retroactivity supremacy-clause Whether the Florida Supreme Court's retroactivity analysis for Hurst violations violates due process, the Eighth Amendment, and the Equal Protection C…
18-5132 Jonathan Arn Bryant v. Florida Florida 2018-07-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment custodial-interrogation due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury right-to-counsel self-incrimination self-incrimination-rights sixth-amendment voir-dire Whether the State of Florida's use of Bryant's custodial statements against him violated his Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights
18-5078 Bruce Pace v. Florida Florida 2018-07-03 Denied IFP arbitrary-application capital-sentencing disparate-treatment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactivity Whether the Florida Supreme Court's application of only partial retroactivity of Hurst v. State and Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteent…
18-5088 Emanuel Johnson v. Florida Florida 2018-07-03 Denied IFP death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida judicial-review retroactivity sixth-amendment supremacy-clause Did the Florida Supreme Court violate the Supremacy Clause and the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments in affirming Emanuel Johnson's judicially-…
18-5096 Raymond Tibbetts v. John Kasich, Governor of Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-07-03 Denied IFP baze-v-rees baze-vs-rees eighth-amendment execution-protocol glossip-v-gross glossip-vs-gross lethal-injection midazolam prisoner-rights scientific-evidence substantial-risk substantial-risk-of-harm substantial-risk-of-serious-harm Whether a prisoner challenging a midazolam three-drug lethal-injection protocol must prove with scientific evidence that the first drug is sure or ver…
18-5101 Sean P. Reilly v. Jennifer Davis Florida 2018-07-03 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure constitutional-violation due-process florida-statutes fourteenth-amendment injunction injunctions standing time-limitation time-limitations Whether a Florida court deprived Mr. Reilly of due-process by creating an exception to time-limitations for injunctions under §§ 784.046, 784.0485 Flo…
18-5103 Jeffery Day Rieber v. Alabama Alabama 2018-07-03 Denied IFP appellate-counsel capital-sentencing eighth-amendment equal-protection ineffective-assistance judicial-override lesser-included-offense mitigating-evidence right-to-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Did Mr. Rieber's trial counsel provide constitutionally ineffective assistance?
18-13 Juan Francisco Maldonado v. Texas Texas 2018-07-02 Denied Response Waived canine-sniff civil-procedure consent-to-search constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether the court of appeals erred in applying the incorrect Fourth Amendment standard to Mr. Maldonado's traffic stop, where reasonable suspicion did…
18-5084 Daniel Burns v. Florida Florida 2018-07-02 Denied IFP collateral-review constitutional-amendments constitutional-rights death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-decision hurst-v-florida retroactivity sixth-amendment supremacy-clause Did the Florida Supreme Court violate the Supremacy Clause and the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments in affirming Daniel Burns' judicially-dete…
18-5091 Kevin Don Foster v. Florida Florida 2018-07-02 Denied IFP apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity approach for Hurst relief violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments
18-5037 Richard Eugene Hamilton v. Florida Florida 2018-06-29 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentence capital-sentencing eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-determination retroactivity supremacy-clause Does the Florida Supreme Court's decision limiting the retroactivity of Hurst v. Florida violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments?
18-5040 Henry Perry Sireci v. Florida Florida 2018-06-29 Denied IFP constitutional-rights death-penalty eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment,four eighth-amendment,fourteenth-amendment,death-penalt fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-determination jury-sentencing retroactivity Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity decision that limits the class of death-sentenced individuals entitled to a jury determinati…
18-5042 Jack Sliney v. Florida Florida 2018-06-29 Denied IFP constitutional-rights death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-determination jury-sentencing retroactivity ring-v-arizona Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity decision violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments
18-5051 Samuel Jason Derrick v. Florida Florida 2018-06-29 Denied IFP arbitrary-cutoff capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity sentencing Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendm…
18-5054 Brandy Bain Jennings v. Florida Florida 2018-06-29 Denied IFP arbitrary-sentencing capital-punishment capital-sentencing disparate-treatment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactivity Whether the Florida Supreme Court's application of only partial retroactivity of Hurst v. State and Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteent…
18-5060 Konstantinos X. Fotopoulos v. Florida Florida 2018-06-29 Denied IFP capital-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection equal-protection-clause hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona state-court Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection and the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of capricious capital sentencing impose limits…
18-7 Choctaw County, Mississippi, et al. v. Jessica Jauch Fifth Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (4) 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 capias county-liability due-process fourteenth-amendment pretrial-detention procedural-due-process qualified-immunity section-1983 Whether a pretrial detainee's procedural due process rights were violated
18-5010 Christine Chang v. Robin Andrews California 2018-06-28 Denied IFP affidavit appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights collusion due-process equal-protection evidence-suppression evidence-tampering fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct legal-ethics subpoenaed-evidence Does collusion between the superior court judge and lawyer, covering up petitioner's evidence of: (1) subpoenaed surveillance photos and, (2) petition…
18-5012 Ian Deco Lightbourne v. Florida Florida 2018-06-28 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing disparate-treatment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactivity Whether Florida's limited retroactive application of its Eighth Amendment decision in Hurst v. State violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments
18-5014 Marcus Allen v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion brady-violation certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process due-process,equal-protection,brady-violation,2255- equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-integrity petition-for-rehearing plain-error Did lower court violate petitioner's rights under the Fourteenth Amendment of Equal Protection under the law, when petitioner provided evidence the Go…
18-5018 Kenneth Darcell Quince v. Florida Florida 2018-06-28 Denied IFP atkins-v-virginia death-penalty diagnostic-criteria eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability medical-standards moore-v-texas Whether Florida violated Atkins v. Virginia, Hall v. Florida, Moore v. Texas, and the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments by disregarding medical evidenc…
18-5021 Paul Alfred Brown v. Florida Florida 2018-06-28 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-retroactivity hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause supreme-court-review Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity formula for Hurst v. Florida violations violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments?
18-5031 Jabbar Wallace v. Kevin Kauffman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. Third Circuit 2018-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel murder-conviction self-defense self-defense-right sixth-amendment Whether the petitioner's conviction for third-degree murder should be overturned due to self-defense, violation of the Confrontation Clause, and ineff…
18A1200 Robert Joe Long v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida Presumed Complete capital-punishment constitutional-violation death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-stay habeas-corpus Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a death row inmate based on claims of constitutional violations during the original capital tr…
18A1202 Robert Joe Long v. Florida Florida Presumed Complete cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment etomidate lethal-injection medical-condition Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the use of etomidate in a lethal injection protocol for an inmate with temporal lobe epilepsy and brain damage
18A1216 Bobby Joe Long v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Presumed Complete constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment federal-review irreparable-harm Whether the Eighth Amendment and Due Process Clause prohibit the execution of a death row inmate when substantial constitutional claims remain unresol…
18A1346 Marion Wilson, Jr. v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Georgia Presumed Complete capital-punishment clemency death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-stay prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a death row inmate based on claims of prosecutorial misconduct and death ineligibility
25A532 Bryan Frederick Jennings v. Florida, et al. Florida Denied capital-sentencing death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment postconviction-counsel Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit a state from executing a death-sentenced prisoner after systemic failures in postconviction coun…
25A356 Victor Tony Jones v. Florida, et al. Florida Denied atkins-v-virginia death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability supreme-court-precedent Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of an intellectually disabled defendant when a state court disregards clearly established Supreme…
25A335 In Re Blaine Milam Denied actual-innocence death-penalty eighth-amendment forensic-evidence intellectual-disability junk-science Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a potentially innocent defendant based on now-discredited forensic evidence and testimony
25A280 David Joseph Pittman v. Florida Florida Denied atkins-claim death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability time-bar Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of an intellectually disabled defendant when state courts have arbitrarily applied time bars that…
25A577 Richard Barry Randolph v. Florida, et al. Florida Denied capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment irreparable-harm mental-competency method-of-execution Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a death row inmate when substantial constitutional questions regarding the method of execution…
25A191 Kayle Barrington Bates v. Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida Eleventh Circuit Denied constitutional-rights death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-stay fourteenth-amendment legal-review Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit the execution of a death row inmate when substantial legal issues remain unresolved
24A771 James D. Ford v. Florida Florida Denied death-penalty developmental-age due-process eighth-amendment mental-impairment roper-exclusion Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of an individual with a mental and developmental age significantly below the age of majority at t…
24A1037 Jeffrey Glenn Hutchinson v. Florida Florida Denied death-penalty diminished-moral-culpability eighth-amendment gulf-war-illness postconviction-relief traumatic-brain-injury Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits a state from executing a defendant whose diminished moral culpability due to service-related traumatic brain in…
24A129 Franck William Yao v. Tamara Yao Missouri Presumed Complete custody-battle due-process family-rights fourteenth-amendment ordered-liberty parental-rights Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment protects a parent's fundamental right to custody and companionship of their child when stat…
24A202 Loran Cole v. Florida Florida Denied death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection lethal-injection parkinson's-disease Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a death row inmate with Parkinson's disease using lethal injection procedures that may cause n…
24A284 Freddie Owens v. Bryan Stirling, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied capital-punishment competency cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment mental-illness Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a death row inmate with a documented history of severe mental illness that substantially impai…
24A302 Garcia Glen White v. Texas Texas Denied atkins-claim death-penalty dna-evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability Whether the Fourteenth Amendment requires a state court to provide an evidentiary hearing on claims of intellectual disability and newly discovered sc…
24A308 Garcia Glenn White v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied atkins-claim eighth-amendment equitable-tolling ineffective-assistance intellectual-disability successive-habeas Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of an intellectually disabled defendant when his court-appointed counsel failed to timely investi…
24A391 Christopher Collings v. David Vandergriff, Warden Missouri Denied capital-punishment eighth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance intellectual-disability procedural-default Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a capital defendant with credible claims of intellectual disability that were not fully adjudi…
24A498 Carey Grayson v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied capital-punishment conscious-suffocation cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment execution-method nitrogen-hypoxia Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits executing a prisoner via nitrogen hypoxia in a manner that potentially causes conscious suffocation and superad…
24A553 Annette Chambers-Smith, Director, Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction v. Kayla Jean Ayers Sixth Circuit Presumed Complete cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment gender-affirmation medical-treatment prison-conditions transgender-rights Whether a state corrections department can be compelled to provide gender-affirming medical treatment to an incarcerated transgender individual under …
24A590 Kevin Underwood v. Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied clemency-proceedings death-row due-process fourteenth-amendment life-interest state-law Whether the Due Process Clause provides constitutional protections for death row inmates in state clemency proceedings that are mandated by state law
24A592 Tahina Corcoran, as next friend on behalf of Joseph E. Corcoran v. Ron Neal, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied competency death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-stay mental-illness schizophrenia Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a defendant with severe, untreated paranoid schizophrenia who was deemed incompetent to assist…
25A669 Harold Wayne Nichols v. Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General of Tennessee, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied due-process equal-protection execution-protocol fourteenth-amendment lethal-injection method-of-execution Question not identified.
25A698 Frank Walls v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment lethal-injection medical-vulnerability pulmonary-edema Question not identified.
25A693 Frank A. Walls v. Florida, et al. Florida Denied atkins-claim constitutional-interpretation death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability Question not identified.
25A892 Ronald Palmer Heath v. Florida, et al. Florida Denied cruel-and-unusual drug-administration eighth-amendment lethal-injection method-of-execution protocol-violation Question not identified.