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25-846 Reed Christensen v. Department of Justice, et al. Eighth Circuit 2026-01-15 Pending Response Waived amendment-violations constitutional-rights declaratory-judgment eighth-circuit federal-jurisdiction jan6-misconduct 1. Did the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals err in agreeing that a federal district court does not have jurisdiction to judge unconstitutional actions …
25A695 Anoka Hennepin Education Minnesota, (American Federation of Teachers Local 7007) v. Don Huizenga, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-12-15 Application certiorari eighth-circuit labor-union procedural-rules supreme-court-rules time-extension This application does not contain a "Question(s) Presented" section. The document is an Application for Extension of Time to file a petition for a wri…
25A689 Edward Allen Moore v. Gregory Hancock, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-12-11 Application certificate-of-appealability court-access eighth-circuit habeas-corpus prison-library pro-se-litigation Question not identified.
25A534 Roderick Leshun Rankin v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2025-11-07 Application arkansas constitutional-review death-penalty eighth-circuit habeas-corpus standard-of-review Whether the Eighth Circuit applied the correct standard of review in denying habeas corpus relief for a death-row inmate challenging the constitutiona…
25A475 Aubrey C. Trail v. Nebraska Nebraska 2025-10-24 Application certiorari death-penalty eighth-circuit habeas-corpus post-conviction supreme-court Whether the state of Nebraska provides an adequate post-conviction process for death row inmates consistent with federal constitutional standards
25A434 James Saylor v. Rob Jeffreys, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit 2025-10-15 Presumed Complete americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights eighth-circuit res-judicata serious-mental-illness solitary-confinement Whether res judicata precludes a prisoner with serious mental illness from bringing a new lawsuit challenging prolonged solitary confinement based on …
25-5775 Edward Walton v. Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corporation, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights covid-vaccine due-process eighth-circuit executive-order genetic-information-nondiscrimination-act 1. Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in affirming the dismissal of Petitioner's Due Process claim without remanding for factual development on the COVI…
25A333 Ledale Nathan v. Heather Cofer, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-09-23 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability eighth-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus pro-bono supreme-court-rule Whether the Eighth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability in a federal habeas corpus petition improperly restricted the petitioner's right…
25-5482 Brandon Allen Haynes v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-08-27 Denied Relisted (4)IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-law eighth-circuit felon-rights firearm-possession statutory-interpretation Whether, as the Eighth Circuit held, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) (which prohibits any felon from possessing firearms) is invariably constitutional both faci…
25-5388 Kevin Paul Cantu v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-08-18 Denied Relisted (5)IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-law eighth-circuit felon-rights firearms-possession statutory-interpretation Whether, as the Eighth Circuit held, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) (which prohibits any felon from possessing firearms) is invariably constitutional both faci…
25-5120 Muzammil Ali v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability eighth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-error 1) Was The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in error when it denied the Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability?
25-57 Edward Ronny Arnold v. Allstate Insurance Company Sixth Circuit 2025-07-15 Denied appellate-civil-court authority-exceeding district-court eighth-circuit judicial-district tennessee-constitution 1. Whether the district court erred in not understanding the Eighth Circuit Court of Davidson County, Tennessee Twentieth Judicial District violated T…
25A20 Brandon Allen Haynes v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-07-08 Presumed Complete certiorari eighth-circuit extension jurisdiction petition supreme-court-rule Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the petitioner's conviction and sentence
25A23 Kevin Paul Cantu v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-07-08 Presumed Complete certiorari eighth-circuit extension jurisdiction petition supreme-court-rule Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the petitioner's conviction and sentence
25A1 Bret Healy v. Supreme Court of South Dakota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-07-01 Presumed Complete bad-faith civil-procedure discretionary-power eighth-circuit rule-11-sanctions standard-of-review Whether a federal district court may impose Rule 11 sanctions against a party without individualized findings of bad faith
24A1295 Anthony E. Ntamere v. Amerihealth Administrators, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-06-30 Presumed Complete eighth-circuit employment-discrimination pleading-standards prima-facie-case rule-8 title-vii Whether the Supreme Court should clarify the proper application of pleading standards under Rule 8 and the McDonnell Douglas framework in employment d…
24A1292 Terry Duane Qualls v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-06-27 Presumed Complete criminal-appeal district-court eighth-circuit motion-to-dismiss procedural-dismissal rehearing Whether a criminal defendant's appeal can be dismissed for procedural reasons without addressing the underlying merits of the case
24A1205 Leonard W. Hoffmann, et al. v. WBI Energy Transmission, Inc. Eighth Circuit 2025-06-06 Presumed Complete appellate-review attorney-fees district-court eighth-circuit judicial-discretion legal-standard Whether a federal appellate court may vacate a district court's award of attorney's fees without providing a substantive legal rationale
24-7063 Randy W. Duck v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2025-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP eighth-circuit ineffective-assistance juror-impartiality jury-bias prosecutorial-bias trial-counsel Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in deferring to lower court findings regarding trial counsel's failure to remove a potentially biased juror who serve…
24-6782 Aaron Christopher Lindsey v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-03-17 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-law eighth-circuit felon-rights firearms-possession statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is invariably constitutional both facially and as applied to any defendant, no matter the case-specific circumstances
24-6229 Terrell Jason Armstrong v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims district-court eighth-circuit evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance Whether the district court erred in summarily denying an evidentiary hearing on claims of ineffective assistance of counsel and whether the Eighth Cir…
24A631 Robert Andrew Wolter v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-12-27 Presumed Complete certiorari criminal-conviction eighth-circuit petition-deadline supreme-court-rules writ-of-certiorari Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the petitioner's criminal conviction despite counsel's limited ability to prepare a com…
24-6193 Ronald Robinson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing eighth-circuit rita-presumption section-3553a sentencing-guidelines substantive-unreasonableness Does a presumption of reasonableness of Guidelines sentences under Rita preclude a finding of substantive unreasonableness in a maximum guideline sent…
24A574 Colton Bagola v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-12-12 Presumed Complete criminal-conviction eighth-circuit federal-judiciary legal-procedure petition-for-certiorari time-extension Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the petitioner's criminal conviction despite potential procedural or substantive defect…
24A567 Frank Bibeau v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eighth Circuit 2024-12-11 Presumed Complete certiorari eighth-circuit extension-of-time judicial-review petition tax-court Whether a taxpayer may challenge a U.S. Tax Court judgment through a petition for certiorari after an Eighth Circuit affirmance
24A482 James Timothy Norman v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-11-14 Presumed Complete criminal-conviction eighth-circuit legal-standard procedural-review sufficiency-of-evidence writ-of-certiorari Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals correctly applied the legal standard for reviewing a criminal conviction involving alleged evidentiary err…
24A471 Kayne Russell Donath v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-11-12 Presumed Complete certiorari conviction eighth-circuit federal-judiciary sentencing supreme-court-rules Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the petitioner's conviction and sentence based on procedural or substantive legal groun…
24A383 James Garrett and Levi Garrett v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-10-22 Presumed Complete criminal-appeal eighth-circuit medical-hardship pro-se supervised-release writ-of-certiorari Whether pro se litigants who have completed their criminal sentences can seek an extension of time to file a writ of certiorari based on medical hards…
24A384 Ryan A. Fleming, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-10-22 Presumed Complete criminal-appeal double-counting eighth-circuit firearm-possession high-speed-chase sentencing-guidelines Whether the Eighth Circuit improperly applied the Sentencing Guidelines by double-counting a high-speed chase for both a firearm enhancement and a rec…
24A345 Ronald Robinson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-10-11 Presumed Complete 18-usc-3553a criminal-history eighth-circuit mitigating-factors sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines Whether a district court may impose an unusually harsh sentence without meaningfully considering a defendant's mitigating factors of childhood trauma,…
24-5722 Buta Singh v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-10-08 Denied IFP custody-determination eighth-circuit miranda-warning ninth-circuit tenth-circuit terry-stop Whether courts must apply the second step of Howes to determine if a person is 'in custody' for Miranda purposes
24-5528 Terrace Tyrone Perkins, Sr. v. Nicholas Lamb, Warden Eighth Circuit 2024-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights eighth-circuit impartial-jury pretrial-identification Whether a circuit court can deny a certificate of appealability when the Applicant has made a substantial showing of the denial of important constitut…
24-5461 Ronald Ragan, Jr. v. Berkshire Hathaway Automotive, Inc. Eighth Circuit 2024-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation copyright-law copyright-protection eighth-circuit feist-decision originality-standard Whether the correct standard of copyrightability is the Constitutional and statutory standard of originality as articulated in Feist or the Eighth Cir…
24-5452 Dustin Sierra, aka Dustin Sierro v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP co-defendant criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit kidnapping severance Whether the defendant's case should have been severed from his co-defendant brother's case and whether the government sufficiently proved kidnapping c…
24-5328 Aaron Christopher Lindsey v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-08-15 GVR IFP bruen-standard constitutional-challenge eighth-circuit felon-in-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional as applied to a specific defendant under recent Second Amendment jurisprudence
24A119 Adam Owen Grady v. Brent Fluke, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-08-01 Presumed Complete criminal-justice-act eighth-circuit in-forma-pauperis prisoner-rights pro-se writ-of-certiorari Whether the pro se prisoner's motion for in forma pauperis status and extension of time to file a petition for certiorari should be granted given the …
24-32 Donavan J. White Owl, aka DJ v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-07-12 Denied Response Waived constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy eighth-circuit implied-consent manifest-necessity mistrial waiver Whether implied consent is valid consent to waive double jeopardy protections, and if so, what qualifies as implied consent?
24A14 Kenneth W. Blair v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-07-09 Presumed Complete certiorari conviction eighth-circuit haines-standard jurisdiction pro-se Whether a pro se litigant's criminal conviction and sentence can be challenged under a liberal construction standard when the Eighth Circuit has affir…
23-7524 Antoinne Lee Washington, aka Antionne Lee Washington v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus standing Did the panel of the Eighth Circuit err by deciding the merit of an appeal not properly before the court to justify the denial of a certificate of app…
23-7464 Michael Grady v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion circuit-split conflict-of-interest constitutional-right constitutional-rights counsel-of-choice disqualification-of-counsel eighth-circuit Whether the Eighth Circuit's decision to uphold the disqualification of Petitioner's counsel of choice deprived him of his constitutional right to rep…
23A963 Jovan Marquis Harris v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-04-26 Presumed Complete bureau-of-prisons criminal-procedure eighth-circuit federal-inmate petition-for-certiorari pro-se Whether the Eighth Circuit's judgment in a criminal case involving a pro se federal inmate improperly applied legal standards in reviewing the petitio…
23-7190 Trivansky Swington v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-conviction criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances eighth-circuit federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-enhancement Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem…
23-6976 Juan Cabrera v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-03-13 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure custody eighth-circuit howes-test miranda-custody miranda-rights ninth-circuit supreme-court tenth-circuit terry-stop Whether courts must apply the second step of Howes to determine if a person is 'in custody' for Miranda purposes
23A752 Michael Andrew Taylor v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-02-15 Presumed Complete certiorari eighth-circuit extension jurisdiction petition supreme-court-rule Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the petitioner's conviction and sentence
23-6703 Christopher Collings v. David Vandergriff, Warden Eighth Circuit 2024-02-08 Denied IFP appeals capital-case capital-punishment certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process eighth-circuit exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus rhines-stay Is a COA required to appeal a district court's denial of a motion for stay of the habeas proceedings
23-807 El Papel, LLC, et al. v. City of Seattle, Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-25 Denied Amici (7)Response Waived 5th-amendment constitutional-law due-process eighth-circuit land-use-regulation ninth-circuit physical-taking property-rights rental-property takings takings-clause Whether an ordinance that compels the possession of property by an unwelcome occupant is a categorical physical taking
23-798 EEE Minerals, LLC, et al. v. North Dakota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-01-24 Denied civil-rights common-law constitutional-rights due-process eighth-circuit just-compensation property-taking sovereign-immunity takings Whether sovereign immunity bars a claim asserting the constitutional right to just compensation for a taking of property by a state?
23-6478 Michael Alan Welker v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-indictment deception due-process eighth-circuit fraud mail-fraud marital-property marriage property wire-fraud Whether a husband's actions in deceiving his wife regarding marital property constitutes federal mail and wire fraud?
23-6333 Nora Gilda Guevara Triana v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit evidence-rule fair-trial rule-of-completeness special-verdict standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent u.s.-v.-griffin Whether the Eighth Circuit Court's failure to follow precedent violated the petitioner's right to a fair trial
23A554 Joshua James Duggar v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-12-15 Presumed Complete complete-defense constitutional-right criminal-defendant due-process eighth-circuit federal-criminal Whether a criminal defendant's constitutional right to present a complete defense was improperly restricted during trial proceedings
23-617 Casondra Pollreis, on Behalf of Herself and Her Minor Children, W. Y. and S. Y. v. Lamont Marzolf, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-12-08 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) civil-procedure dashcam-video disputed-facts eighth-circuit non-moving-party scott-v-harris standard-of-review summary-judgment video-evidence Whether a court at summary judgment is still obligated to view the evidence in the light most favorable to the non-moving party where record video doe…
23A516 Ronald D. Houston, aka Hassan Blue, aka Ron Reezy v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-12-07 Presumed Complete borden-precedent crime-of-violence eighth-circuit force-clause resisting-arrest sentencing-guidelines Whether a state law criminalizing resisting arrest constitutes a 'crime of violence' under the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines when the statute encompasses…
23A498 Michael Alan Welker v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-12-01 Presumed Complete certiorari conviction eighth-circuit extension petition sentence Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the petitioner's conviction and sentence without proper consideration of the legal argu…
23A476 Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, et al. v. North Dakota Legislative Assembly, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-11-28 Presumed Complete circuit-split eighth-circuit legislative-privilege mandamus subpoena-power voting-rights Whether state legislative privilege is an absolute bar to discovery in civil rights litigation involving potential voting rights violations or whether…
23A477 Christopher Collings v. David Vandergriff, Warden Eighth Circuit 2023-11-28 Presumed Complete capital-case certificate-of-appealability eighth-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying a certificate of appealability for all eight grounds raised in a capital habeas corpus pe…
23-508 Micah Sherif Matthews v. Chris Tripp, Warden Eighth Circuit 2023-11-14 Denied appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process eighth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review sixth-amendment Whether the United States District Court For the District of Iowa erred in denying Petitioner Matthews a Certificate of Appealability
23A406 Sylvester Cunningham v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-11-06 Presumed Complete appellate-review certiorari conviction eighth-circuit federal-public-defender sentencing Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the petitioner's conviction and sentence without proper consideration of the legal argu…
23A389 Guillermo Borboa aka Omar Gabriel Borboa v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-10-30 Presumed Complete appellate-review certificate-of-appealability eighth-circuit federal-prisoner habeas-corpus post-conviction Whether a federal prisoner can obtain a certificate of appealability after being denied relief on federal habeas corpus claims
23-5665 Shajuan Orlando Johnson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances drug-convictions eighth-circuit federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-enhancement Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem…
23-5302 Larry Rederick v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights eighth-circuit fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop traffic-stops unreasonable-search Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals Decision Authorizes Unreasonably Prolonged Traffic Stops and Unreasonable Searching of a Separate Vehicle …
23A28 Moses Crowe v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-07-12 Presumed Complete carjacking confrontation-clause eighth-circuit fair-trial firearm-possession sixth-amendment Whether the Eighth Circuit violated the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment and denied Mr. Crowe his constitutional right to a fair trial in h…
22-7898 Anthony Lamart Lawrence v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-06-29 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances drug-conviction eighth-circuit federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-enhancement Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem…
22-7903 Denvy Hoffman v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-06-29 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances drug-conviction eighth-circuit federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-enhancement Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem…
22-1243 Hieu Minh Le v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-06-27 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment 8th-circuit administrative-search constitutional-search due-process eighth-circuit inspection-level motion-to-suppress north-american-standard-inspection warrant-requirement Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in holding a North American Standard Inspection Level II inspection is an adequate substitute for the warrant require…
22-7675 Quanathan Naiji Knox Ivery v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-05-31 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances drug-conviction eighth-circuit federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-enhancement Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem…
22-7398 Michael A. Tisius v. David Vandergriff, Warden Eighth Circuit 2023-04-28 Denied IFP 18-usc-3599 appellate-jurisdiction ayestas-v-davis clemency-case collateral-order-doctrine eighth-circuit harbison-v-bell mcfarland medical-testing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether the district court had jurisdiction to order transportation for medical testing in a clemency case
22-7371 Ryan William Buchheim v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability eighth-circuit fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rodriguez-standard rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop Whether the district court abused its discretion in denying an evidentiary hearing on ineffective-assistance-of-counsel and unlawful-traffic-stop clai…
22-7261 Susan Elise Prophet v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 abuse-of-discretion appellate-review compassionate-release criminal-procedure eighth-circuit federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit abused its discretion in denying Prophet's Motion for Compassionate Release/Reductio…
22-6745 Robert Hill v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP Batson-challenge civil-rights constitutional-procedure due-process eighth-circuit equal-protection jury-selection prima-facie-evidence prosecutorial-discretion standard-of-review Whether petitioner established prima facie evidence demonstrating countervailing factors excusing him from making his similarly situated Batson-based …
22-6719 Michael Anthony Conage v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split drug-schedules eighth-circuit federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense fourth-circuit sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense tenth-circuit third-circuit Whether the 'serious drug offense' definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug sch…
22-6683 Terrell Javon Jones v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-01 Denied Relisted (4)IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split drug-schedules eighth-circuit federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense fourth-circuit sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense tenth-circuit third-circuit Whether the 'serious drug offense' definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug sch…
22-6667 Robert Henry Steele v. Dan Redington Eighth Circuit 2023-01-31 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-standard reasonable-jurists standard-of-review summary-reversal Whether this Court should summarily reverse the Eighth Circuit's denial of a COA where the underlying issues were clearly debatable by jurists of reas…
22-6596 Laverne C. Henderson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review precedent standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit violated Henderson's rights
22-6199 In Re Cornell White 2022-12-01 Denied IFP constitutional-violation eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missouri-supreme-court-rule procedural-default procedural-rule prosecutorial-misconduct second-petition Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in denying the petitioner's application for leave to file a second habeas petition
22-6138 Michael Lindell Teasley v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court due-process eighth-circuit equal-protection judicial-discretion non-violent-offenses sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, South on Piswier of Iowa, abused its discretion by violating the Cera Feendeg guidelines, which t…
22-5877 Onterrail Remond Altman, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-10-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances drug-convictions eighth-circuit federal-sentencing prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem…
22-5858 Heather Nicole Trogdon v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure eighth-circuit evidence fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery inventory-search policy probable-cause Does the inevitable discovery doctrine apply when it is based on the expectation that an inventory search of an arrestee's backpack will occur at the …
22-5725 Marty Joe Banghart v. Dan Sullivan, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-09-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit federal-procedure habeas-corpus standing Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in denying Banghart's motion for a certificate of appealability
21-8153 Michael Tisius v. Paul Blair, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-06-16 Denied IFP 8th-circuit certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest death-penalty eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statutory-interpretation Was the denial of a COA proper?
21-7865 Kra Deangelo Brooks v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review district-court eighth-circuit evidence-law fourth-amendment independent-source judicial-procedure murray-v-united-states national-importance search-warrant Whether an appeals court may 'implicitly find' an 'independent source' absent evidence and findings at the district court level
21-7620 Arizona Hall v. United States, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights civil-rights-violation color-and-race constitutional-rights due-process eighth-circuit equal-protection federal-judiciary missouri-laws racial-discrimination Whether white federal judges of the Eastern District of Missouri under color of Missouri laws willfully subjected petitioner based on his color and ra…
21-7135 Daniel Joseph Dawson v. Jeremy Larson, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process effective-counsel eighth-circuit supreme-court-precedent writ-of-certiorari Whether a circuit court can deny a certificate of appealability when the Applicant has made a substantial showing of the denial of important constitut…
21-7137 Lonnel Porter v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-02-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-law custody custody-escape eighth-circuit escape homelessness residential-reentry-center sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the Eighth Circuit misconstrued 18 U.S.C. § 751(a) to find that an escape from custody imposed 'by virtue of ... conviction' includes placemen…
21-6922 Jeffrey Charles Rodd v. Leann LaRiva, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-01-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights deliberate-indifference discovery district-court due-process eighth-circuit procedural-error standing summary-judgment Did the District Court err in dismissing Mr. Rodd's complaint without the benefit of discovery to further support his deliberate indifference claim
21-6754 Chad Mink v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-prosecution eighth-circuit false-statement felon-in-possession procedural-jurisdiction venue waiver-rule Question not identified
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…
21-6580 Kevin Johnson v. Troy Steele, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-12-13 Denied IFP appellate-review batson-claim Batson-v-Kentucky capital-habeas capital-punishment certificate-of-appealability certificates-of-appealability eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Martinez-v-Ryan Does the Eighth Circuit's practice of issuing unexplained blanket denials of certificates of appealability in capital habeas cases conflict with 28-U.…
21-770 Shelby Hawkins v. Johnny Banks, III Eighth Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) civil-rights eighth-circuit excessive-force fourth-amendment police-conduct probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-force use-of-force Whether the use of force was reasonable
21-6384 Kimani I. Sterling v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-review criminal-appeal eighth-circuit judicial-procedure preservation-of-error procedural-due-process sentencing sentencing-objections standard-of-review waiver waiver-doctrine Has the Eighth Circuit imposed upon Mr. Sterling an unlawful burden by finding Sterling waived his argument that the District Court violated procedura…
21-6329 Steven Blakeney v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process eighth-circuit evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-standard summary-reversal Whether this Court should summarily reverse the Eighth Circuit's denial of a COA where the underlying issues were clearly debatable by jurists of reas…
21-6276 Terrell B. Sullivan v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review kisor-v-wilkie united-states-v-havis united-states-v-winstead Whether the Eighth Circuit Erred in Holding that Petitioner's Issue on 'Certificate of Appealability' Was Not Debatable Among Jurists of Reason
21-6111 Jonas Ross, III v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP burrage-standard burrage-v-united-states but-for-causation causation circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-distribution eighth-circuit evidence Whether the Eighth Circuit's conclusion that Mr. Ross distributed the controlled substance that resulted in the death of K.P. is in conflict with Burr…
21-6044 Kenneth Jay Still v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP affirmative-defense criminal-law due-process eighth-circuit firearm-possession firearms justification justification-defense police-contact prohibited-person self-defense Whether the Eighth Circuit erred by holding that a defendant prohibited from possessing a firearm may not present a justification defense if he or she…
21-434 Mary E. Canning v. Creighton University Eighth Circuit 2021-09-21 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination eighth-circuit jury-consideration material-fact material-facts retaliation standard-of-review summary-judgment Whether the Eighth Circuit improperly borrowed part of the standard in FRCP 50 to review a summary judgment under FRCP 56
21-5163 Gregory Scott Stephen v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography criminal-procedure eighth-circuit fourth-amendment government-agent private-citizen search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing-guidelines standing Was the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit's conclusion that a private citizen can never be established as a government agent absen…
21-5070 Calvin Bernhardt v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion certificate-of-appealability district-court-error eighth-circuit ineffective-assistance motion-to-vacate prima-facie prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the Eight Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability, where the district court erred or alternatively abused its discretion in denying…
20-1808 Adam E. Billings v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-06-28 Denied Response Waived circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-booker united-states-v-roach Whether the Sentencing Guidelines §2D1.1 Application Note 4 violates procedural due process
20-8215 Aaron Walton v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-law eighth-circuit guidelines inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals incorrectly found that an inchoate offense such as an attempt is included in the definition of a 'controll…
20-8202 Otis Hill v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split controlled-substance-offense crime-of-violence criminal-law eighth-circuit inchoate-offenses sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g-4b1.2 Whether inchoate offenses are included in the definition of a 'crime of violence' or 'controlled substance offense' under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2
20-7878 Maci Denon Davis and Joe L. Franklin v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-04-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP congress congressional-intent discretion district-court eighth-circuit first-step-act sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines unwarranted-disparities Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals incorrectly found that the district court was permitted to tether itself to the United States Sentencing G…
20-7826 Jimmie C. Johnson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights collateral-review crack-cocaine district-court due-process eighth-circuit first-step-act ineffective-assistance-of-counsel johnson-case legal-review motion-denial sentencing Whether the district Court and Eighth Circuit erred in determining that Mr. Johnson's 2255 motion was not effective in cases on collateral review file…
20-1324 Charles McManemy v. Bruce Tierney, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-03-23 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process eighth-circuit excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement-conduct qualified-immunity standing Is the test for clearly established law being properly applied within the Eighth Circuit?
20-7498 Jose Federico Almeida-Olivas v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability dahda-v-united-states eighth-circuit federal-law habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-default standing Whether the court properly denied COA
20-7304 Robert Phillip Ivers v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-03-02 Denied Amici (1)IFP attorney-client-privilege chilling-effect common-law communication-scope confidential-communication eighth-circuit evidentiary-privilege federal-common-law legal-advice legal-profession privileged-communication Whether a confidential attorney-client phone call made for the primary purpose of obtaining legal advice is protected in its entirety by the attorney-…
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 …
20-7096 Brian Edward Reynolds v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit exclusionary-rule federal-court mandate search-and-seizure standing Whether the district court erred in denying the petitioner's motion to suppress evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment
20-6948 Beau Brandon Croghan v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied IFP 8th-circuit child-pornography criminal-intent criminal-law eighth-circuit evidence evidence-retention knowingly-receives mens-rea statutory-interpretation website-viewing Whether the Eighth Circuit erred by holding that a defendant knowingly receives child pornography by viewing it on a website, even without any evidenc…
20-6861 Justin Lee Sanders v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process eighth-circuit factual-disputes federal-jurisdiction federal-writ habeas-corpus reversible-error Whether the district court and court of appeals erred in denying a certificate of appealability to review the denial of the petitioner's federal habea…
20-683 Dirk Wilke, Interim State Health Officer of North Dakota, et al. v. Pharmaceutical Care Management Association Eighth Circuit 2020-11-17 GVR civil-rights eighth-circuit employee-benefits erisa erisa-preemption health-care-law pharmacy-benefit-managers plan-administration preemption state-regulation Whether ERISA preempts state laws regulating pharmacy benefit managers
20-6260 Sherman Johnson, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-11-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP eighth-circuit equal-protection fifth-amendment flowers-v-mississippi foster-v-chatman juror-strikes jury-selection miller-el-v-dretke prosecutorial-discrimination voir-dire Whether the District Court and United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit considered the full context of the other evidence of discriminati…
20-6133 Theodore David Newcomb v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach conspiracy conspiracy-elements controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense eighth-circuit inchoate-offense sentencing-commission statutory-interpretation Whether the United States Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority
20-6121 Jesus Adam Lizarraga v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability eighth-circuit guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel massaro-precedent massaro-v-united-states procedural-default Whether the Eight Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability
20-5595 Joshua Glen Box v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-circuit categorical-approach child-pornography criminal-law eighth-circuit federal-criminal-law predicate-offense predicate-offenses sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit erred when it failed to properly apply the categorical approach to determine whether Mr. Box's pri…
20-5560 Briand Daniel Fechner v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit evidence evidentiary-rules propensity-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure sixth-circuit Whether the prosecution may introduce child pornography videos at trial that were not found on the defendant's devices, but found in an outside invest…
20-5039 Antwoyn Terrell Spencer v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit fifth-amendment grand-jury-indictment habeas-corpus personal-liberty Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals Erred Denying Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability?
20-5040 In Re Antwoyn Terrell Spencer 2020-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process eighth-circuit first-step-act mandamus personal-liberty sentence-reduction sentencing Whether petitioner is entitled to a reduced sentence under Section 404 of the First Step Act
19-8701 Roger Allen Raymond v. United States District Court for the District of South Dakota Eighth Circuit 2020-06-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP aedpa Brady-violation constitutional-due-process due-process eighth-circuit exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct south-carolina successive-petition Whether the State of South Carolina commits a final byte power against the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals' decision is a second or successive habeas …
19-8688 Richard Dale Ingram, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP arkansas-law categorical-approach criminal-law divisibility divisibility-analysis eighth-circuit jury-unanimity mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states statutory-interpretation terroristic-threatening Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals incorrectly applied the divisibility analysis prescribed in Mathis v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 2243 (2016…
19-1143 FMC Corporation v. Shoshone-Bannock Tribes Ninth Circuit 2020-03-18 Denied CVSGAmici (3)Relisted (2) civil-rights due-process eighth-circuit federal-indian-law inherent-authority jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits montana-exceptions ninth-circuit-interpretation nonmember-regulation seventh-circuit tribal-jurisdiction tribal-jurisdiction-over-nonmembers tribal-self-government tribal-sovereignty Whether the Ninth Circuit correctly holds that tribal jurisdiction over nonmembers is established whenever a Montana exception is met
19-7865 Clifford Laverne Mecham, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-04 Denied IFP 2nd-circuit 8th-circuit child-pornography circuit-split constitutional-law eighth-circuit first-amendment free-speech morphed-images second-circuit sexually-explicit-conduct Whether the First Amendment protects morphed child pornography created without any child's involvement in sexually explicit conduct
19-7549 Gerard Cliston Ellis v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit fifth-circuit lowest-level-conduct lowest-level-of-conduct state-law Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the 'lowest level of conduct' as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach, an…
19-7520 Edward Steven Feeney, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law due-process eighth-circuit judicial-precedent lowest-level-conduct lowest-level-of-conduct rule-of-lenity 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…
19-7476 Timothy Wayne Kemp v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied Amici (1)IFP brady-rule brady-violation criminal-procedure death-penalty discovery due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation mitigation-investigation procedural-default professional-standards Must a court consider prevailing professional norms when determining whether a life history investigation was 'thorough?
19-7228 Jerry Carter v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-01-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP chain-of-custody confidential-informant confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-8th-amendment-confrontation-cla criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns eighth-circuit evidence harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel napue-violation strickland-standard Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in rejecting the Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred
19-7014 Geoffrey Scott Gaffney v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals constitutional-provisions district-court due-process eighth-circuit evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus procunier-v-atchley stare-decisis Should this court grant this petition to address the obvious failure of the eighth circuit court of appeals to require a district court to conduct an …
19-6862 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…
19-6767 Douglas D. True v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness standard-of-review Whether the Eighth Circuit's summary denial of Mr. True's application for a certificate of appealability was based on an adjudication of the underlyin…
19-6720 James Dwayne Myers v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied IFP criminal-law criminal-procedure divisibility divisibility-analysis eighth-circuit jury-unanimity mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation May a court properly apply the divisibility analysis prescribed in Mathis v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 2243 (2016), without considering the question o…
19-6685 Scott McLaughlin v. Anne L. Precythe, Director, Missouri Department of Corrections Eighth Circuit 2019-11-20 Denied IFP capital-case capital-cases capital-cases-habeas-corpus certificate-of-appealability certificates-of-appealability confrontation-clause eighth-circuit giles-v-california habeas-corpus pro-forma-denial procedural-due-process standard-of-review Whether the Eighth Circuit's pro forma practice of issuing unexplained blanket denials of COAs in capital habeas cases conflicts with 28 U.S.C. §2258 …
19-6687 Demetrius Marcellus Green v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-20 Denied IFP categorical-approach controlled-substances-act criminal-law eighth-circuit felony-drug-offense fifth-circuit legal-uncertainty state-conviction statutory-interpretation Whether the categorical approach is required to determine if a State conviction qualifies as a 'felony drug offense' under the Controlled Substances A…
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…
19-6671 Kyle Dwayne Boleyn v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-19 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach due-process eighth-circuit lowest-level-of-conduct serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation violent-felony Whether the determination of a 'serious drug offense' under the Armed Career Criminal Act requires the same categorical approach used in the determina…
19-6672 Erwin Keith Bell v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-19 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach due-process eighth-circuit lowest-level-of-conduct serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation violent-felony Whether the determination of a 'serious drug offense' under the Armed Career Criminal Act requires the same categorical approach used in the determina…
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…
19-6576 James Marvin Reed v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP blackledge-v-perry circuit-court-review district-court district-court-power eighth-circuit guilty-plea jurisdictional-challenge penson-review subject-matter-jurisdiction united-states-v-cotton waiver Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in ruling that the defendant waived his jurisdictional challenge by pleading guilty, despite the well-settled princip…
19-6414 Miguel Angel Vega-Torres v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-conflict due-process eighth-circuit federal-law fifth-circuit fourth-amendment immigration-checkpoint rodriguez-standard rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop traffic-stops Do the standards for traffic stops articulated in Rodriguez v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 1609 (2015), apply to immigration checkpoint stops?
19-6258 In Re Tiran R. Casteel 2019-10-11 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review competency district-court due-process eighth-circuit false-premise legal-competency mental-health restoration retroactive-determination trial trial-procedure Was the Petitioner restored prior to the November 2009 trial?
19-6241 Elfred William Petruk v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP confidential-informant confidential-informants drug-evidence eighth-circuit fourth-amendment gps-tracking gps-tracking-warrants illinois-v-gates probable-cause search-warrant stale-information Did the Eighth Circuit erroneously rule, in conflict with this Court's decision in Illinois v. Gates, that the search warrant for a Chrysler vehicle a…
19-6067 Francisco Suarez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-conflict codefendant-comparison criminal-procedure-error eighth-circuit intra-circuit-conflict legal-standard public-safety sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-darden united-states-v-smith Whether the circuit and district court committed constitutional procedural error by failing to weigh the mandated public safety concern, violating the…
19-5944 Jerry D. Scott v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment 8th-circuit appeal certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-justice criminal-procedure domestic-assault due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus legal-standard missouri-robbery sentencing violent-crime Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in not granting a certificate of appealability
19-5953 Jose Juan Vallejo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP border-patrol constitutional-seizure eighth-circuit federal-law fifth-circuit immigration-checkpoint rodriguez-standard rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop traffic-stops Do the standards for traffic stops articulated in Rodriguez v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 1609 (2015), apply to immigration checkpoint stops?
19-263 Cody Ross v. Johnnie Rochell, Jr. Eighth Circuit 2019-08-28 Denied 4th-amendment 8th-circuit assault-weapon civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-violation eighth-circuit excessive-force kisela-v-hughes law-enforcement qualified-immunity use-of-force Did the Eighth Circuit depart from this Court's decision in Kisela v. Hughes, __ U.S. _, 188 S. Ct. 1148 (2018) (per curiam) and numerous other cases …
19-88 Wadith Stockinger Nader, et ux. v. City of Papillion, Nebraska, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-07-17 Denied Response Waived absolute-immunity eighth-circuit fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause prosecutorial-immunity search-and-seizure totality-of-circumstances totality-of-the-circumstances Can an unverified tip constitute probable cause for arrest?
19-5115 Cordero Robert Seals v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof burrage burrage-test but-for-causation causation-standard causation-test circuit-split contributing-causation contributing-cause eighth-circuit government-burden judicial-interpretation legal-standard seventh-circuit Whether the Eighth Circuit misinterpreted the but-for causation test in light of the government's burden, and inappropriately applied the contributing…
19-5027 Eddie David Cox v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-07-01 GVR IFP criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rehaif-v-united-states,sentenci double-jeopardy eighth-circuit guidelines-calculation procedural-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states resentencing section-2241 sentencing sentencing-review Should the Court GVR the judgment of the Eighth Circuit so the appeals court may consider, whether Cox is entitled to relief from his conviction in li…
18A1289 Walter Barton v. Cynthia Griffith, Superintendent, Potosi Correctional Center, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-06-11 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights death-penalty eighth-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus Whether the Eighth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability in a death penalty habeas corpus case violated the petitioner's constitutional r…
18-9465 Beth Galloway v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting criminal-intent criminal-law eighth-circuit evidence evidence-sufficiency financial-transaction financial-transactions insurance-fraud judgment-of-acquittal motion-for-acquittal motion-for-new-trial new-trial Whether a judgment of acquittal should have been granted
18-9215 Dale Giles v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process eighth-circuit fair-notice in-forma-pauperis judicial-process opportunity-to-be-heard procedural-fairness supreme-court-precedent Did the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals violate petitioner's due process rights to fair notice and an opportunity to be heard?
18-8985 Michael Johnson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split eighth-circuit extraordinary-circumstances extraordinary-variance gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion major-departure minor-departure sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-review sentencing-variances standard-of-review Whether the Eighth Circuit's test that 'extraordinary variances do not require extraordinary circumstances' conflicts with this Court's mandate 'that …
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
18-8797 Juan Lopez-Zuniga v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 8th-circuit eighth-circuit gps-monitoring gps-tracking gps-warrant probable-cause search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent vehicle-search vehicle-tracking warrant-standard Whether the Eighth Circuit's creation of a new standard in evaluating GPS warrants is contrary to existing United States Supreme Court precedent
18-1270 Henry M. Jagos, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Sixth Circuit 2019-04-03 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure circuit-court-split circuit-split civil-procedure due-process eighth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction notice-of-deficiency sixth-circuit standing tax-appeals tax-court tax-court-jurisdiction tax-procedure Did the Tax Court lack jurisdiction when it had no facially legitimate notice of deficiency?
18-1271 Charles E. White, Jr., et al. v. Chevron Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-03 Denied Response Waived breach-of-fiduciary-duty circuit-split decision-making-process eighth-circuit employee-retirement-income-security-act-erisa erisa-fiduciary-duties erisa-fiduciary-duty fiduciary-breach ninth-circuit participant-claims pleading-standards secretary-of-labor twombly-iqbal Sufficiency of pleading breach of ERISA fiduciary duties
18-8523 Tynisha Latrice Reinerio, nka Akosua Tanisha Aaebo v. Bank of America, N.A., et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 15-usc-7003 account-debtor collateral-estoppel diversity-jurisdiction eighth-circuit mortgage-law mortgage-loan negotiable-instrument note-negotiation res-judicata security-interest standing statutory-trust ucc ucc-3-103(a)(12) ucc-3-110(b) ucc-9-102(a)(3) ucc-9-312(e)-(g) uniform-commercial-code Was the issue of res judicata and collateral estoppel improperly decided by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals?
18-8251 Zachariah Joel Peterson v. Jay Cassady, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit felony-murder habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence jury-instruction jury-instructions standard-of-review Whether the Eighth Circuit court of Appeals abused its discretion in denying petitioner a COA on his claim on insufficient evidence
18-8202 Walter Ronaldo Martinez Escobar v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied IFP circuit-split eighth-circuit exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception leon-standard search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent warrant-execution warrant-requirement warrantless-search Does the Eighth Circuit caselaw the Panel applied in Escobar's case holding that the United States v. Leon good-faith exception applies even when the …
18-7814 William E. Brown v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights drug-quantity due-process eighth-circuit equal-protection ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining standing strickland-standard takings 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
18-7614 Michael Jacoby v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment circuit-court-review circuit-split due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit reasonable-jurist reasonable-jurist-standard sixth-amendment strickland-standard undermining-of-confidence-in-verdict Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
18-7292 Marco Whitley, Sr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-privilege attorney-client-relationship crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process eighth-circuit prejudice second-degree-robbery sentencing sixth-amendment violent-crime Did the Eighth Circuit err by holding Missouri's Second Degree Robbery is always considered to necessarily be a crime of violence?
18-7037 Gerald L. Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60b-6 criminal-law district-court due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus johnson-ii johnson-v-united-states judicial-procedure retroactivity rule-60b sentencing welch-v-united-states Whether the district court and Eighth Circuit erred in denying petitioner's true Rule 60(b)(6) motion, when the district court failed to address petit…
18-6584 Larry Flenoid v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process eighth-circuit eighth-circuit-court-of-appeals federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fifth-amendment habeas-corpus procedural-irregularity second-or-successive section-2255 supervisory-powers Whether the supervisory powers of the United States Supreme Court will be asserted to correct the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals summarily affirming …
18-6546 Alexander Castellano-Benitez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit evidence exculpatory-evidence Judicial-Precedent precedent Procedural-Review prosecutorial-misconduct Writ-of-Certiorari Should a writ of certiorari be granted to determine if the Eight Circuit and the lower court erred in failing to follow this court's prior precedent i…
18-6480 Gregory Hill v. James Gammon, Superintendent, Moberly Correctional Center Eighth Circuit 2018-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP anderson-v-bessemer-city batson-challenge batson-claim constitutional-review due-process eighth-circuit eighth-circuit-jurisprudence federal-habeas jury-selection racial-discrimination racial-discrimination-in-jury-selection thomas-v-keohane Whether and to what extent the criminal justice system tolerates racial discrimination in selection of its jurors
18-540 Leslie Rutledge, Attorney General of Arkansas v. Pharmaceutical Care Management Association Eighth Circuit 2018-10-24 Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (20)Relisted (2) circuit-split drug-reimbursement eighth-circuit erisa-preemption health-care-law pbm-regulation pharmacy-benefit-managers rate-regulation state-regulation Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in holding that Arkansas's statute regulating PBMs' drug-reimbursement rates, which is similar to laws enacted by a s…
18-482 Paul Hill v. Accounts Receivable Services, LLC Eighth Circuit 2018-10-16 Denied bosch-v-commissioner circuit-split eighth-circuit fair-debt-collection-practices-act interest-statute materiality materiality-requirement pre-judgment-interest state-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether the Eighth Circuit may disregard this Court's instructions in Henson v. Santander Consumer USA Inc. regarding the Fair Debt Collection Practic…
18-6002 David Librace v. Deborah Helton Wright, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-09-17 Denied IFP appeal civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-circuit federal-jurisdiction legal-notice procedural-defect remand service-of-process standing summary-judgment Whether the lower court erred in granting summary judgment in favor of the respondents when their attorney knew the summary judgment was issued illega…
18-5856 David Gerard Jeep v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-09-04 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process eighth-circuit judicial-act judicial-immunity probable-cause qualified-immunity rico-act standing xiv-amendment Is the issuance, and support on appeal, of a court order without a 'reasonable probable cause' a judicial act?
18-5874 Nalenzer Lee Edwards v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest confidential-informant drug-possession eighth-circuit fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion vehicle-stop Did the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit error in finding probable cause to justify a vehicle stop and the arrest of petitioner?
18-5445 Jason Lee Pyles v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 aggravated-assault arkansas-statute armed-career-criminal categorical-approach due-process eighth-circuit johnson-standard johnson-v-united-states johnson-v-united-states-2015 physical-force statutory-interpretation violent-felony Whether Arkansas aggravated assault on a family or household member qualifies as a violent felony under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i), and whether the s…
18-51 Brad Francis, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eighth Circuit 2018-07-10 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure due-process eighth-circuit jurisdictional-review personal-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction tax tax-court Did the Eighth Circuit have jurisdiction to adjudicate Case No. 17-3679?