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25A890 Richard Rose, et al. v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State Eleventh Circuit 2026-02-05 Application at-large-elections eleventh-circuit public-service-commission racial-vote-dilution section-2 voting-rights-act Question not identified.
25A868 Gregory Michael Nierenberg v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-02-03 Application certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit federal-court habeas-corpus post-conviction statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
25A862 Clark MacKendrick v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2026-02-02 Application certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit federal-court habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-due-process Question not identified.
25-803 In Re Andy Desty 2026-01-07 Pending constitutional-rights corporate-disclosure due-process eleventh-circuit judicial-power mandamus-petition 1. Has the authority or ruling of the United States Supreme Court in Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway v. Waters, 294 U.S. 405 (1935), been …
25-771 Joe Carollo v. William O. Fuller, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-31 Pending appellate-review eleventh-circuit judicial-precedent jury-tampering presumption-of-prejudice trial-integrity Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals' narrow application of the presumption of prejudice standard when evaluating unrefuted evidence of jury …
25A709 Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Gus Lopez, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-17 Application certiorari eleventh-circuit extension litigation petition pro-se Question not identified.
25A710 Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Gus Lopez, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-17 Application certiorari eleventh-circuit extension-of-time litigation petition pro-se Question not identified.
25A671 Emanuel Johnson, Sr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-09 Application death-penalty docket-consolidation eleventh-circuit federal-habeas ineffective-assistance pro-se Question not identified.
25A525 Alan M. Dershowitz v. Cable News Network, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-06 Application constitutional-issues counsel-change eleventh-circuit legal-review summary-judgment writ-of-certiorari Whether the Eleventh Circuit's summary judgment ruling improperly interpreted the constitutional issues presented by the Applicant
25A527 Cristian Chaverra Moreno v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-06 Application criminal-procedure district-court eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a federal district court has proper subject matter jurisdiction to hear a criminal case when the defendant challenges the court's statutory au…
25A521 Thelonious Wayne Kirby v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-05 Application criminal-appeal criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction sentencing-guidelines writ-of-certiorari Whether the Eleventh Circuit correctly applied federal sentencing guidelines or constitutional standards in affirming Mr. Kirby's criminal conviction
25A508 Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Meghan Anderson, Police Lieutenant, Broward County Sheriff's Office, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-04 Application court-review eleventh-circuit judicial-screening petition pro-se vexatious-litigation Whether a federal court can review a pro se litigant's repeated filings and potential vexatious litigation status
25A511 Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Marcus Bach Armas, Judge, Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida, Miami Dade County, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-04 Application case-volume civil-rights eleventh-circuit judicial-review petition-dismissal pro-se-litigant Whether a federal court of appeals systematically and improperly dismisses a litigant's civil rights or constitutional claims without substantive revi…
25A512 Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Carlos Rosado, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-04 Application appellate-review case-volume civil-rights eleventh-circuit judicial-procedure petition-denial Whether a federal court can review the systematic denial of multiple civil rights claims by a lower appellate court based on procedural grounds
25A492 Robert L. Walker v. Brett Michael Waronicki, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-29 Application article-iii constitutional-violation due-process eleventh-circuit judicial-overreach rooker-feldman-doctrine Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals judges exceeded their judicial authority and violated due process by issuing conflicting opinions that p…
25A479 Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2025-10-27 Application appellate-procedure eleventh-circuit extension-of-time petition-for-certiorari pro-se-litigant supreme-court Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari given multiple pending cases and no opposition from resp…
25A454 Stanley Kappell Watson v. Shenekka Bradsher, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-21 Application certiorari eleventh-circuit pro-bono supreme-court time-extension writ-petition Whether a pro bono counsel's personal scheduling constraints constitute good cause for a 60-day extension of time to file a petition for a writ of cer…
25-5756 In Re Jody M. Johnson 2025-09-29 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence constitutional-violation due-process eleventh-circuit false-testimony habeas-corpus 1) Should Writ's D.S. Supreme Court grant Writ of Habeas Corpus petition, where the U.S Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying Petitioner'…
25-339 Michael R. Atraqchi, et ux. v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-23 Denied coerced-affidavits constitutional-protections due-process eleventh-circuit panel-rehearing rule-60b6 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit violated due process by simultaneously denying a Rule 60(b)(6) motion and a petition for panel rehearing, both based o…
25A278 Shadon Demetric Edwards v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-10 Presumed Complete armed-career-criminal-act eleventh-circuit felon-in-possession firearm-possession predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement Whether a prior felony conviction qualifies as a predicate offense under the Armed Career Criminal Act for purposes of imposing an enhanced sentence
25A244 Tremon Staley v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-29 Presumed Complete appellate-review criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-remand Whether the Eleventh Circuit's decision on remand from the Supreme Court improperly applied federal criminal procedural standards in reviewing the pet…
25-5375 Arturs Spila v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-intent eleventh-circuit evidence-standard felony-proceeds money-laundering statutory-interpretation 1. Was there "insufficient evidence" presented by the United States to convict Spila of money laundering conspiracy under 18 U.S.C. § 1956(a)(1)(B)(i)…
25A99 Carlos Daniel Canario-Vilomar v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-24 Presumed Complete criminal-prosecution drug-conspiracy eleventh-circuit maritime-drug-law plea-agreement vessel-jurisdiction Question not identified.
25A79 Kevin J. Koelemij v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-21 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit federal-courts habeas-corpus procedural-due-process state-prisoner Question not identified.
24-1211 Kristen Elizabeth Wagner v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-28 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-due-process standard-of-review Whether the Eleventh Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability based on a single judge's assessment violates the established standard for suc…
24-7084 Jeffrey Glenn Hutchinson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-04-28 Denied IFP aedpa-deadline attorney-negligence certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review Whether the Eleventh Circuit improperly applied the certificate of appealability standard by denying relief based on disagreements with other reasonab…
24-7064 Cameron M. Thierry v. The Honey Pot Company (DE), LLC Eleventh Circuit 2025-04-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP accrual-date breach-of-contract cause-of-action eleventh-circuit oral-contract statute-of-limitations Whether a cause of action accrual date for a breach of oral contract claim can be definitively determined under Georgia law when the specific date of …
24-7010 Kenneth Hartley v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-04-16 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims eleventh-circuit federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review Whether the Eleventh Circuit's blanket denial of a certificate of appealability complies with Supreme Court standards for COA review and whether the d…
24-6874 In Re Robert D. Batson 2025-03-27 Denied IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit mandamus pro-se-litigant Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has created local rules that arbitrarily encroach upon pro se litigants' rights and violate constitution…
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…
24-6683 Ferrell Walker v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability clisby-rule constitutional-rights eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals properly applied the Clisby v. Jones precedent in determining the Certificate of Appealability and poten…
24-6558 Mauricio Gonzalez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit judicial-notice statutory-interpretation witness-testimony Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in multiple legal interpretations regarding statutory application and judicial procedure in a criminal case involvi…
24-6549 Jesse Guardado v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-12 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit ineffective-assistance jury-selection martinez-rule strickland-standard Whether the Eleventh Circuit's analysis of ineffective assistance of counsel during jury selection violated Strickland v. Washington standards and whe…
24-6504 Danmond Jonathan Slack v. Gregory Sampson, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-bar Whether the District Court improperly denied Petitioner's federal habeas corpus claims and violated due process rights by failing to conduct a substan…
24-6496 In Re Maestro M. Faison, aka Maestro Matthew Faison 2025-02-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP collateral-review constitutional-rule eleventh-circuit federal-procedure habeas-corpus supreme-court-retroactivity Whether the Supreme Court's Erlinger decision is retroactively applicable to cases on collateral review under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 or § 2255
24-6322 Todd Erling Becker v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance Did the Eleventh Circuit erroneously apply the certificate of appealability standard in denying Petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 claims
24A630 Jesse Guardado v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-27 Presumed Complete capital-case certiorari constitutional-claims death-penalty eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus Whether the Eleventh Circuit applied the correct legal standard in reviewing a death-sentenced prisoner's constitutional claims in a complex capital c…
24A583 Andrew E. Hoffman v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-16 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance section-2254 Whether a state court's denial of a federal habeas corpus petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 violated the petitioner's constitutional rights to due proce…
24A575 Bryan Frederick Jennings v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-12 Presumed Complete death-penalty eleventh-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus second-petition statutory-interpretation Whether the Eleventh Circuit correctly applied the standard for granting habeas corpus relief under 18 U.S.C. § 2254 in dismissing a death-row inmate'…
24A513 Tony Barksdale v. Steve T. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-26 Presumed Complete capital-murder certificate-of-appealability death-sentence eleventh-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals correctly applied federal habeas corpus standards in denying relief to a death-sentenced inmate challeng…
24A502 Robert R. Turner v. Sharon W. Jordan, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-20 Presumed Complete civil-rights constitutional-claim eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction pro-bono-representation section-1983 Whether the First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments permit a constitutional claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the underlying case involving Turner v. Jo…
24A460 Donald E. Deardorff v. Terry Raybon, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-07 Presumed Complete criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus standard-of-review writ-of-certiorari Whether the Eleventh Circuit applied the correct standard for reviewing a federal habeas corpus petition challenging a state criminal conviction
24-480 Kimberly K. Sisia v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-30 Denied Response Waived diversity-jurisdiction eleventh-circuit insurance-coverage medical-payments state-law substantive-law Whether the Eleventh Circuit improperly applied state substantive law in a diversity jurisdiction case involving medical payments coverage by State Fa…
24A385 Johnnie Leeanozg Davis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-22 Presumed Complete appellate-review certiorari eleventh-circuit federal-procedure legal-briefing time-extension Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals correctly applied legal standards in affirming the lower court's decision in Mr. Davis's case
24A371 Benjamin Tyree Townsel v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-18 Presumed Complete criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit federal-appeal jurisdiction sentencing standard-of-review Whether the Eleventh Circuit correctly applied the standard of review in affirming a criminal conviction and sentence
24A363 Terius Thomas, aka Terius Brown, aka Terry Brown v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-17 Presumed Complete attempted-robbery criminal-intent eleventh-circuit hobbs-act sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. §924(c) for attempted Hobbs Act Robbery requires specific intent or meets constitutional standards for criminal l…
24A336 Michael Tyrone Young v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-08 Presumed Complete appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction writ-of-certiorari Whether the Eleventh Circuit correctly applied federal criminal procedural standards in reviewing the district court's judgment
24A310 Rafael Antonio Bracero-Navas v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-01 Presumed Complete appellate-review criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit federal-criminal-law standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether the Eleventh Circuit correctly applied the standard of review in affirming a criminal conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 3742
24-344 James T. Foster v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-26 Denied Response Waived appellate-review criminal-sentencing eleventh-circuit federal-procedure obstruction-of-justice sentencing-guidelines Whether certiorari review should be granted where the Eleventh Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of Foster's objection to the enh…
24-5566 Curtis Hunter v. Lieutenant Morris, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit federal-appeals habeas-corpus Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals improperly denied habeas corpus relief by failing to consider procedural due process violations
24A257 Jonathan High v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-12 Presumed Complete appellate-review criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit jurisdiction standard-of-review writ-of-certiorari Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals applied the correct standard of review in affirming the petitioner's criminal conviction
24A258 Robert A. Hamberg v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-12 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance section-2254 Whether a state court's denial of a federal habeas corpus petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 violated the petitioner's constitutional rights to due proce…
24A237 Andre Michael Dubois v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-04 Presumed Complete amendment-821 criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit federal-sentencing retroactive-relief sentencing-guidelines Whether the retroactive application of United States Sentencing Guidelines Amendment 821 requires resentencing or relief for federal criminal defendan…
24-5414 Cleveland J. Enmon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit jury-instructions medical-prescription ruan-standard standard-of-review Whether the Eleventh Circuit erroneously applied an objective standard in jury instructions for a physician's prescription case in light of the Ruan v…
24-192 Izhar Shefer v. Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-21 Denied arbitration due-process eleventh-circuit legal-doctrine manifest-disregard punitive-sanctions Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in holding that an arbitral panel's punitive and dispositive sanctions imposed in disregard of a party's due proces…
24A156 Humberto Falcon San-Martin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-08 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit government-inducement judicial-review sentencing-entrapment standard-of-review Whether the Eleventh Circuit correctly applied the legal standard for sentencing entrapment when denying the defendant's claim of improper government …
24-5241 Jason Gatlin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-06 Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment judicial-interference jury-verdict Whether a jury has rendered a final verdict and jeopardy terminates under the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment where the jury has indicat…
24A135 Eric Robert Rudolph v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-06 Presumed Complete certiorari circuit-split eleventh-circuit federal-appeals legal-complexity post-conviction Whether the Eleventh Circuit's decision in Eric Robert Rudolph's case involves a significant legal issue warranting Supreme Court review due to potent…
24-5153 Jonathan Godwin v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure-rule-60(b) constitutional-rights eleventh-circuit final-order habeas-corpus habeas-petition procedural-ruling rule-60b standards-of-review timeliness Whether Petitioner's Rule 60(b) Motion for Relief from judgment filed within a year of the denial of his Habeas Petition timely?
24A91 John Abdelsayed, et al. v. Affordable Aerial Photography, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-25 Presumed Complete attorney-fees copyright-infringement eleventh-circuit prevailing-party rule-68 voluntary-dismissal Whether a defendant who successfully defends against a copyright infringement lawsuit and obtains a voluntary dismissal without prejudice can be consi…
24-5127 Lamar Z. Brooks v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253c certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealability-coa constitutional-review eleventh-circuit federal-court-litigation federal-habeas habeas-corpus miller-el-v-cockrell slack-v-mcdaniel Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals' pro forma, nonindividualized, blanket denial of a certificate of appealability (COA) complies with the …
24A41 Christopher J. Thorpe v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-15 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance section-2254 Whether a state court's denial of a federal habeas corpus petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 violated the petitioner's constitutional rights to due proce…
24-5024 Timothy John Miers v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-interpretation double-jeopardy eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment miller-el-v-cockrell sentencing sentencing-authority separation-of-powers Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has so far departed from established Federal Law and the legal standards set out by this Court in MILLER…
24A12 Andrew R. Allred v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-09 Presumed Complete constitutional-review death-penalty eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus postconviction section-2254 Whether a death-sentenced inmate's habeas corpus petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 was improperly denied by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, poten…
24A23 Carlos A. Alonso Cano, et al. v. 245 C&C, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-09 Presumed Complete civil-procedure eleventh-circuit legal-standard stay-of-proceedings supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Whether the Eleventh Circuit's decision conflicts with established Supreme Court precedent regarding the standard for granting a stay of proceedings i…
23A1174 Kevin Deane Jones v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-01 Presumed Complete appellate-review criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction sentencing-standard statutory-interpretation Whether the federal appellate court correctly applied the standard of review in affirming a criminal conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 3742
23A1164 Charles Grover Brant v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-27 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability death-penalty eleventh-circuit first-degree-murder habeas-corpus post-conviction Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals improperly denied a Certificate of Appealability for a federal habeas corpus petition challenging a stat…
23A1133 Jason Gatlin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-21 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure double-jeopardy eleventh-circuit finality jury-verdict sex-trafficking Whether a jury's verdict becomes final for double jeopardy purposes when the verdict is announced in open court, is unanimous, and no juror has regist…
23A1106 Lamar Z. Brooks v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-11 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability death-penalty eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus hurst-v-florida section-2254 Whether the Eleventh Circuit improperly denied a Certificate of Appealability for a state prisoner's federal habeas corpus petition challenging his mu…
23-7471 Shauntavus Berklin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-appeal criminal-procedure district-court due-process eleventh-circuit evidence federal-sentencing-guidelines gun-accountability sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines Whether certiorari review should be granted where the Eleventh Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of Berklin's objection to the nu…
23-1205 Wayne Johnson for Congress, Inc., et al. v. Jeremy C. Hunt, dba Jeremy for Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure dismissal eleventh-circuit federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure mail-fraud pleading-requirements pleading-standards wire-fraud Did the Eleventh Circuit err in affirming the dismissal of Petitioners' suit due to the purported failure of Petitioners to comply with the heightened…
23A944 Jennifer Dupree, et al. v. Pamela Owens, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-22 Presumed Complete civil-rights due-process eleventh-circuit judgment-review time-extension writ-of-certiorari Whether the Eleventh Circuit's consolidated judgment improperly interpreted or applied constitutional or statutory standards in a case involving civil…
23A939 Doris Lapham v. Walgreen Co. Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-19 Presumed Complete appellate-decision certiorari eleventh-circuit federal-statute judicial-review time-extension Whether a plaintiff may seek relief under a federal statute after an adverse appellate decision when seeking an extension of time to file a petition f…
23-7194 In Re Fulvio Flete-Garcia 2024-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure eleventh-circuit federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure mandate notice service Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit violated Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 35(c) by failing to serve notice of t…
23-7163 Kyle Melkonian v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights criminal-statute due-process eleventh-circuit federal-statute government-property government-property-theft plain-text plain-text-analysis statutory-interpretation Whether the Eleventh Circuit's conflation of 18 U.S.C. § 641's two distinct offenses runs afoul of the plain text of the statute, its application by e…
23-7097 Travis C. Crosby v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit evidence fraud fraud-charges ppp-loans relevant-conduct rule-404b sentencing Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in admitting Rule 404(b) evidence of unrelated PPP loan fraud,
23A865 James Joseph Bryant v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-27 Presumed Complete criminal-appeal district-court eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction sentencing-guidelines statutory-review Whether the federal appellate court correctly applied sentencing guidelines in reviewing a criminal conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 3742
23A764 Richard Rose, et al. v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-21 Presumed Complete certiorari eleventh-circuit mandate redistricting supreme-court-precedent voting-rights Whether the Eleventh Circuit's panel opinion conflicts with the Supreme Court's precedents in Thornburg v. Gingles and Allen v. Milligan regarding vot…
23A756 Harvey Windsor v. Steven T. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-16 Presumed Complete capital-case certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenges death-penalty eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus Whether the Eleventh Circuit improperly denied a certificate of appealability in a capital case involving potentially meritorious constitutional chall…
23-6752 Patrick W. Wharen, Sr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims eleventh-circuit federal-law jurisdictional-prerequisites miller-v-cockrell slack-v-mcdaniel supreme-court-precedent Whether Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied federal law
23-6721 Jerry Scott Heidler v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-12 Denied IFP actual-conflict-of-interest certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit habeas habeas-corpus martinez-v-ryan mental-competency mental-incompetence procedural-dismissal trial-counsel Whether the Eleventh Circuit imposed an erroneously high standard when it denied a COA to address the petitioner's claims
23-6713 Tai A. Pham v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-v-cockrell supreme-court-standards witness-impeachment Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal's analysis of Tai A. Pham's application for a certificate of appealability conflicts with the relevant st…
23A705 Sherman Lee Ridley v. Brian Chambers, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-31 Presumed Complete constitutional-claims eleventh-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default state-prisoner Whether the Eleventh Circuit properly applied federal habeas corpus standards in reviewing a state prisoner's constitutional claims
23A707 Gavin G. Brown v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-31 Presumed Complete certiorari-petition constitutional-claims eleventh-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus section-2254 Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals correctly applied the standard for habeas corpus relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 in denying the petitioner…
23A668 Aruan Aleman Hernandez v. Palm Beach County State Attorney Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-22 Presumed Complete civil-rights eleventh-circuit judicial-review pro-se supreme-court-rule writ-of-certiorari Whether the Eleventh Circuit improperly dismissed a pro se civil rights case without adequate review of the merits
23-748 Langston Austin, et al. v. Glynn County, Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-10 Denied 11th-amendment circuit-split eleventh-amendment eleventh-circuit employment-law fair-labor-standards-act individual-liability public-officials state-officials Whether state officials are subject to liability as employers in their individual capacity for violations of the FLSA
23-6445 Calvin Solomon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-v-new-jersey crack-cocaine-law crack-cocaine-sentencing discretionary-review eleventh-circuit first-step-act judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction Whether the Eleventh Circuit's unique interpretation of the First Step Act's eligibility and discretionary steps is correct
23A626 Robert Shawn Ingram v. Warden, Holman Correctional Facility Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-08 Presumed Complete criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit federal-court habeas-corpus petition-review supreme-court-jurisdiction Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals improperly denied a federal habeas corpus petition challenging a criminal conviction or sentence
23-6403 Tony L. Ford v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP concepcion-precedent concepcion-v-united-states criminal-resentencing eleventh-circuit eleventh-circuit-interpretation fair-sentencing-act first-step-act intervening-law-changes sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-penalty Whether the Eleventh Circuit's limitation on First Step relief contravenes Concepcion's holding, that in deciding whether to reduce the sentence of an…
23A586 Anthony F. Wainwright v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-27 Presumed Complete certiorari civil-procedure death-penalty eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus sixty-b Whether a federal habeas petitioner may seek relief under Civil Procedure Rule 60(b) to reopen a judgment dismissing his habeas corpus proceedings
23A583 Ellis Louis Mashburn, Jr. v. John Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-26 Presumed Complete capital-case constitutional-challenge death-penalty eleventh-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus Whether the Eleventh Circuit applied the correct legal standard in affirming the denial of a capital defendant's federal habeas petition challenging t…
23A531 Jamaal A. Hameen v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-12 Presumed Complete appellate-review criminal-sentencing eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction sentence-revocation statutory-interpretation Whether a federal appellate court correctly applied sentencing guidelines and standards of review in a criminal case involving sentence revocation
23-591 Althea Miley v. Deborah J. Burns, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-05 Denied Response Waived appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit issue-preclusion judicial-proceedings res-judicata rule-12b6 Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals; Northern District Court of Georgia; and the Georgia State Courts' adherence to issue preclusion doctrin…
23A453 Alan Osterhoudt, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-21 Presumed Complete constitutional-claims eleventh-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus section-2254 state-court-adjudication Whether a federal habeas court may grant relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 when state court adjudications fail to provide a full and fair review of a crim…
23A462 Zachary S. Spiegel v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-21 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit judicial-review sentencing writ-of-certiorari Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals correctly applied legal standards in affirming the petitioner's criminal conviction and sentence
23-5981 Nestor Leon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts amendment-rights civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law court-of-appeals due-process eleventh-circuit judicial-procedure procedural-dismissal standing Did the district court err in not granting the petitioner an evidentiary hearing before the record conclusively declined that the petitioner was not e…
23-483 Mauricio Gonzalez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-07 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure district-court eleventh-circuit predicate-offense rule-29 rule-29-motion standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether the District Court applied the proper standard of review to find guilt and issue their judgment on Petitioner's Rule 29 motion
23A369 Grupo Unidos Por El Canal S.A., et al. v. Autoridad Del Canal De Panama Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-24 Presumed Complete construction-contract contract-dispute eleventh-circuit foreign-jurisdiction international-arbitration sovereign-immunity Whether a foreign contractor can challenge a foreign sovereign's interpretation of a construction contract under international arbitration principles …
23-341 Bobby Lee Ingram v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-02 Denied Relisted (2) apprendi-v-new-jersey concepcion-v-united-states drug-quantity eleventh-circuit fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-penalty terry-v-united-states Whether the Eleventh Circuit has violated Terry in holding that, at step one, district courts should disregard the 'elements' of a defendant's offense…
23-5124 Quincetta Yvonne Cargill, aka Queen, aka Tonya, aka Angela Scott, aka Antela Scott, aka QuincetTucker, aka Quincetta Tucker v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-counsel appellate-procedure civil-rights direct-appeal due-process eleventh-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-proceedings petition-for-rehearing right-to-counsel Whether the exclusion of the appellant's opinions, requests for inclusion of psychiatrist's testimony, and other information as to the preserved issue…
23-31 Willie James Pye v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-11 Denied aedpa eleventh-circuit federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus state-court-decision state-court-deference statutory-interpretation wilson-v-sellers Whether the Eleventh Circuit's novel construction of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) is inconsistent with the statutory text and in direct conflict with this Cour…
23-5014 Jamie Williams v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP apprendi apprendi-rule crack-cocaine-law crack-cocaine-sentencing discretionary-relief eleventh-circuit first-step-act judicial-discretion sentencing-facts sentencing-reduction Do this Court's First Step Act precedents admit of the uniquely Eleventh Circuit's intermediate step whereby, for the discrete group of individuals st…
22-7794 Leoncio Perez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-15 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey concepcion-v-united-states crack-cocaine-sentencing discretionary-relief eleventh-circuit first-step-act first-step-act-2018 sentence-reduction terry-v-united-states Whether the Eleventh Circuit's unique rule that precludes certain defendants from receiving relief under the First Step Act's discretionary sentencing…
22-1202 Spirit of the East, LLC v. Yale Products Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-12 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) arbitration-award contract-enforcement criminal-statutes eleventh-circuit federal-arbitration-act hall-street-associates-v-mattel judicial-review public-policy Whether a court is prohibited from even considering public policy as a ground to vacate an arbitration award under the FAA when the award commands act…
22-7728 Warren Lavell Jackson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey concepcion-v-united-states crack-cocaine-law crack-cocaine-sentencing discretionary-relief eleventh-circuit first-step-act sentencing-reduction terry-v-united-states Whether the Eleventh Circuit's unique interpretation of the First Step Act conflicts with Supreme Court precedents
22-7627 Denis Grushko v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest-warrant circuit-split eleventh-circuit fourth-amendment home-entry law-enforcement payton-v-new-york probable-cause Whether the 'reason to believe' standard in Payton v. New York, 445 U.S. 573 (1980) requires a showing of probable cause that a suspect is within the …
22-7385 Timothy Eugene Brown v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substances eleventh-circuit federal-enhancement florida-priors sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-law state-priors Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its decision in United States v. Jackson
22-7295 Saleem D. Williams v. Annettia Toby, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit ex-post-facto full-faith-and-credit habeas-corpus judicial-procedure petition-denial standing Whether the Eleventh Circuit lacked proper jurisdiction to rule on a case and allow that ruling to stand
22-7013 Carl Puckett, et ux. v. Ain Jeem, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-16 Denied IFP appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction intellectual-property legal-standing pro-se-petition property-dispute standing trademark-infringement Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in dismissing the Pucketts' trademark infringement claims against Ain Jeem, Inc.
22-835 Bradley Hester v. Matthew Gentry Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-03 Denied Amici (3) bail-practices civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit pretrial-liberty public-safety standing Whether the Due Process Clause protects a fundamental right to pretrial liberty
22-6657 Alex Anderson v. Donald J. Trump Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-30 Denied IFP civil-procedure collateral-attack due-process eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction final-judgment fraud-on-court judicial-review res-judicata rule-60 standing Whether the U.S. District Court erred in dismissing Appellant's claims based on the Rooker-Feldman doctrine
22-6418 Christopher Brian Cosimano v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process eleventh-circuit federal-criminal-law federal-sentencing first-degree-murder omission-liability statutory-interpretation violent-crime Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred by finding that Florida's First-Degree Premeditated Murder Statute is categorically a crime of violence for purpose…
22-6406 William James Truesdale v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-28 Denied IFP appellate-filing-fee certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit filing-fee habeas-corpus pro-se-petition standing Whether petitioner Truesdale owes the District Court Clerk the docketing and filing fee in order to obtain a Certificate of Appealability
22-514 Edwar Rodriguez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) advisory-sentencing-guidelines criminal-history criminal-sentencing dangerous-weapon dangerous-weapon-enhancement drug-quantity eleventh-circuit sentence-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines statutory-sentencing-factors Whether certiorari review should be granted
22-6017 Reginald Eugene Grimes, Sr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-08 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit false-testimony perjury plain-error prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-hearing Did the Eleventh Circuit commit error in denying a COA for government misconduct, perjured testimony, and sentencing violations?
22-384 Bronwyn Randel v. Rabun County School District Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-25 Denied civil-rights constitutional-standards due-process eleventh-circuit post-deprivation-process pre-deprivation-process procedural-claim state-court-remedy unbiased-decisionmaker Does the existence of a state post-deprivation process preclude a procedural due-process claim
22-389 Charles T. Johnson v. Jenna Dickenson Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-25 Denied Relisted (4) class-action eleventh-circuit fiduciary-duty greenough greenough-precedent incentive-payments judicial-oversight rule-23 Are incentive payments in Rule 23 class-action settlements per se unlawful under the rule from Greenough, as the Eleventh Circuit held, or sometimes p…
22-5727 Antonio Garrett v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-30 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction section-2254 Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying Garrett a certificate of appealability on his 28 U.S.C. Section 2254 habeas claim of in…
22-5668 Thomas Guerriero v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit judicial-review legal-argument precedent prior-precedent-rule stare-decisis Whether the Eleventh Circuit's prior precedent rule should be overturned
22-270 Ranchers Cattlemen Action Legal Fund United Stockgrowers of America, et al. v. Department of Agriculture, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-09-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law agency-guidance constitutional-avoidance eleventh-circuit federal-advisory-committee-act judicial-construction plain-meaning public-citizen-v-us-dept-of-justice separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation Should the word 'established' in the Federal Advisory Committee Act be construed in accord with its plain meaning or more narrowly?
22-5539 Sean David Pickett v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jurisdiction miscarriage-of-justice rule-60(b) rule-60b section-2255 Does the Eleventh Circuit have jurisdiction to deny a certificate of appealability based on the Eleventh Circuit's determination that the petitioner c…
22-5368 Kultar S. Goraya v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appealability certificate-of-appealability certiorari civil-rights due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus slack-v-mcdaniel standard-of-review Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals applied an improper heightened standard under Slack v. McDaniel and Buck v. Davis when denying petitione…
22-5252 Carlos Fleitas v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-procedure non-expert-testimony sentence-enhancement sentencing-enhancement writ-of-certiorari Should a higher standard, apart from that permitted by Fed. R. Evid. 1101(d)(3), apply when a defendant's sentence is enhanced based on non-expert tes…
22-89 Michelle M. Newbauer v. Carnival Corporation, dba Carnival Cruise Line Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-29 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure eleventh-circuit federal-rules iqbal iqbal-standard notice-pleading pleading pleading-standards rule-8 twombly twombly-standard Whether the Eleventh Circuit required an unnecessary and unrealistic level of detail in pleading factual allegations supporting a facially plausible c…
22-5200 Robert Oulton, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights constitutional-showing due-process eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction federal-review habeas-corpus indigent-rights ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-standard Can a specific record reference by an indigent be considered a substantive part of demonstrating a substantial showing of the denial of a constitution…
22-5191 Anis Blemur v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion certificate-of-appealability controlling-precedent district-court eleventh-circuit guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion remand Whether the Eleventh Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability, where the district court erred or alternatively abused its discretion in hold…
22-5140 Nolberto Lemus v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights criminal-appeal due-process eleventh-circuit federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance standing strickland-standard Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals properly applied the Correct Standard when it denied the petitioner's Certificate of Appealability and D…
22-5061 Dewayne Joseph v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-11 GVR IFP concepcion-ruling concepcion-v-united-states crack-cocaine crack-penalties criminal-resentencing discretion eleventh-circuit fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing sentencing-modification Whether the First Step Act proceedings should be conducted similar to original sentencings in light of Concepcion v. United States
22-20 John Klaas v. Allstate Insurance Company Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-06 Denied Response Waived allstate benefit-termination circuit-court-interpretation contract-interpretation early-retirement eleventh-circuit employee-rights erisa erisa-benefits retirement-benefits Did the Eleventh Circuit critically err by concluding that the written agreements by the parties unambiguously reserved to Allstate the right to termi…
22-5023 Sam Jones, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit judicial-discretion less-culpable-defendant mandatory-minimum sentencing-entrapment supervisory-jurisdiction Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of a motion for judgment of acquittal and a motion for new trial on ground…
22-5035 Irving Lisboa-Cupely v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit manifest-injustice miscarriage-of-justice plain-error Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court denied due process of the law under the 5th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution by failing to issue a certificate of…
22-7 Joe Carollo v. William O. Fuller, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-01 Denied discretionary-function eleventh-circuit legislative-immunity mitchell-v-forsyth municipal-elected-official municipal-official policy-making qualified-immunity scott-v-harris Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals' narrow application of the legislative-immunity doctrine to a municipal-elected-official departs-from-an…
21-8043 William Sims v. Alexis Figueroa Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights due-process eleventh-circuit factual-disputes medical-care nonmovant-rights prison-conditions prisoner-rights summary-judgment Does the decision below, which misstates a summary judgment record and resolves factual disputes against a nonmovant, warrant summary reversal?
21-7710 Hernandez Lopaz Daniels v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP anders-v-california appellate-review counsel-withdrawal due-process eleventh-circuit frivolous-appeal frivolous-case meaningful-review Whether counsel can withdraw without finding the case to be 'wholly frivolous' as required by Anders v. California
21-7653 Nathan Christopher Braun v. Justin DeMars, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-preparation civil-rights confinement document-access due-process eleventh-circuit legal-access legal-materials medical-care prison-litigation retaliation transfer Did the retaliatory transfer from one facility to another violate the petitioner's due process rights?
21-7604 Antonio U. Akel v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-12 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appeal certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas habeas-corpus procedural-access standing Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals approach and practice in the Certificate of Appealability (COA) context are significantly out of step wi…
21-7582 Francisco Abreu Tartabull v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability district-court eleventh-circuit evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2255 Whether the Eleventh Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability, where the district court erred or alternatively abused its discretion by deny…
21-7544 Erskine D. Salter v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review conflict constitutional-law due-process eleventh-circuit federal-question legal-procedure united-states-constitution Did the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals decide a federal question in a way in conflict with the Due Process Clause of the United States Constitution…
21-1310 Garnet Turner, et al. v. Allstate Insurance Company Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-31 Denied appropriate-equitable-relief benefit-claims civil-action concrete-injury eleventh-circuit equitable-relief erisa erisa-section-502(a)(3) fraud-claims fraud-in-equity statute-of-limitations Did the Eleventh Circuit critically err by applying the limitations period at 29 U.S.C. § 1113(1)(A)?
21-7099 Edwin Disla v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure eleventh-circuit fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus precedent remand rule-60b3-motion second-and-successive supreme-court-precedent Whether a Rule 60(b)(3) Motion for Fraud on the Court overcomes a Second and Successive Ruling Pursuant to the dictates of Supreme Court Precedent set…
21-7076 Richard Maurival v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-trial eleventh-circuit evidentiary-inquiry juror-statements jury-deliberations peña-rodriguez-v-colorado racial-bias sixth-circuit racial-bias-in-jury-deliberations
21-6958 Vorarut Vorasiangsuk v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit formatting-deficiency motion-to-exceed-page-limit motion-to-supplement prisoner-rights pro-se Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals abused its discretion and violated due-process, civil-procedure, pro-se
21-6668 Shane Patrick Sprague v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP animal-welfare-act conspiracy due-process eleventh-circuit evidence-sufficiency insufficient-evidence jury-deliberation jury-deliberations supervisory-jurisdiction Whether the evidence was sufficient to support a conviction of conspiracy to violate the Animal Welfare Act
21-6585 Freddy Crespo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus miller-el-v-cockrell supreme-court-precedent Whether the Eleventh Circuit's rule on certificates of appealability conflicts with Supreme Court precedent
21-6096 In Re Byron T. McCollum 2021-10-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge mandate-recall pro-se-prisoner procedural-due-process void-judgment Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals can refuse to consider and rule upon a duly filed Motion to Recall Mandate
21-5603 Alphonse Gainer v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appeal appellate-discretion criminal-justice criminal-sentencing eleventh-circuit first-step-act motion-for-reconsideration motion-reconsideration sentence-reduction sentencing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit abused its discretion in denying Gainer's Motion for Reconsideration of Denial of …
21-5613 Byron McCollum v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253c certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights eleventh-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review merits-determination slack-v-mcdaniel unauthorized-merits-determination Whether the Eleventh Circuit's denial of a Certificate of Appealability can be construed as an unauthorized merits determination
21-5584 Guerly Alexis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing eleventh-circuit equal-protection fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant whose offense preceded the enactment of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, and who was sentenced after its enactment, but not necess…
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…
21-198 Anthony W. Knights v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-11 Denied Amici (2) constitutional-analysis eleventh-circuit fourth-amendment free-to-leave free-to-leave-test race race-consideration reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard seizure Whether a court analyzing if a Fourth Amendment seizure has occurred is categorically barred from considering a person's race
21-5243 Charles Givens v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-due-process standard-of-review unelaborated-opinion Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in issuing an unelaborated opinion denying a certificate of appealability after denial of a COA by…
21-5133 Michael Skillern v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari coa criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit geders-rule geders-v-united-states habeas-corpus right-to-counsel supreme-court trial-recess Does the Eleventh Circuit's rule in Crutchfield v. Wainwright abrogate or modify the Supreme Court decision in Geders v. United States, and if not, is…
21-5051 Shangia Washington v. Cedric Taylor, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit precedent prison prison-conditions qualified-immunity risk-of-harm subjective-knowledge Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit is following its precedent prior to Hope v. Pelzer to require a prior case on all …
20-8370 Loranzo Thomas v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether aiding and abetting Hobbs Act robbery is a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A)
20-8334 Jerome Williams v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion acca armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states legal-landscape section-2255 sentencing-review Where a § 2255 movant relies on evidence of the legal background at the time of his sentencing to prove he was sentenced under an unconstitutional law…
20-8299 In Re Michael Skillern 2021-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-precedent mandamus scotus writ-of-certiorari writ-of-mandamus Does the Eleventh Circuit's rule in Crutchfield v. Wainwright abrogate or modify the Supreme Court decision in Geders v. United States?
20-7982 Eugene Jacobs, Jr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-limitations certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus post-conviction-review procedural-grounds slack-standard statute-of-limitations Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit err in its reading of Slack, in denying Petitioner's Certificate of Appealability, giv…
20-7989 Cash Wallace Pawley v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus procedural-bar Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal erred in its unelaborated denial of a certificate of appealability
20-7895 David Scott Franks v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-30 Denied IFP capital-case capital-sentencing eleventh-circuit ineffective-assistance mitigating-evidence residual-doubt sentencing wiggins-standard wiggins-v-smith Is counsel relieved of the duty to investigate and present all reasonably available mitigating evidence in a capital case if he chooses to present a r…
20-1424 ACE American Insurance Company, et al. v. MSP Recovery Claims, Series LLC Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-13 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived conditional-payment double-damages eleventh-circuit federal-election-commission lexmark-international liability-allocation medicare-reimbursement medicare-secondary-payer policy-considerations statutory-interpretation statutory-standing Should the Court grant certiorari to review and summarily reverse the decision of the Eleventh Circuit holding that Respondent has statutory standing …
20-1185 Douglas Edwards v. Solomon and Solomon P.C. Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied concurrent-jurisdiction district-court eleventh-circuit fair-debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act federal-courts federal-district-courts inconsistent-decisions renewal-statute state-courts uniformity Whether the Eleventh Circuit's affirmation of the District Court's refusal to apply Georgia's renewal statute was in error
20-1107 Roddie Melvin v. Federal Express Corporation Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived age-discrimination circuit-split eleventh-circuit employment-discrimination evidence-standard preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence seventh-circuit standard-of-proof summary-judgment What standard of proof must courts apply in evaluating summary judgment motions in employment-discrimination cases?
20-7101 Anthony Jerome Billings, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split controlled-substance-offense crime-of-violence Eleventh-Circuit florida-statute mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Is a conviction for sale of cocaine a 'controlled-substance-offense' under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) without proof of defendant's knowledge of the illicit n…
20-6876 Leon Tollette v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254(d) eleventh-circuit federal-habeas-review harrington-v-richter ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statutory-interpretation wilson-v-sellers Whether, on federal habeas review under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d), a federal court may refuse to 'look through' to the last reasoned state court decision, a…
20-6804 Stephen Cometa v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP bona-fide-doubt competency competency-hearing due-process eleventh-circuit irrational-behavior medical-opinions pate-v-robinson sua-sponte trial-competence Whether a district court must conduct a competency hearing sua sponte based on the record evidence
20-835 Warren Rosenfeld v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-22 Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment article-iii ausa-appointment certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit miller-el presidential-commission sixth-amendment-right standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Eleventh Circuit's denial of Petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability was unreasonable
20-6600 Throne Thomas Smiley v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP collateral-review criminal-defendant due-process eleventh-circuit fundamental-fairness meaningful-review panel-order second-or-successive-2255-motion section-2255 truncated-time-frame without-adversarial-testing Does the Eleventh Circuit's practice of applying published panel orders—issued in the context of an application for leave to file a second or successi…
20-6516 Eric Dynell McGadney v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit judicial-discretion molina-martinez per-se-rule prejudice prejudicial-error sentencing-error sentencing-framework sentencing-guidelines Whether a sentencing court's statement that it would have imposed the same sentence regardless of the Guidelines creates a per se rule that a miscalcu…
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?
20-6509 Milas Antwon Grant, III v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review criminal-defendant due-process eleventh-circuit fundamental-fairness meaningful-review panel-order second-or-successive-2255-motion section-2255-motion truncated-time-frame without-adversarial-testing Does the Eleventh Circuit's practice of applying published panel orders—issued in the context of an application for leave to file a second or successi…
20-6399 Duwayne Jones v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense eleventh-circuit fifth-circuit florida-statute-§-893.13 mens-rea second-circuit sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-§-4b1.2(b) Is a post-2002 conviction for possession of cocaine with intent to deliver or sell, in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13, a 'controlled substance offen…
20-565 George Matthews, et ux. v. Andrew J. Becker, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-30 Denied attorney-fees civil-procedure contempt-of-court court-orders eleventh-circuit judicial-accountability legal-procedure northern-district-court orders sanctions Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court failed to hold Attorneys in contempt of court after evidence was shown they violated orders from the Northern Distr…
20-6135 Justin Mertis Barber v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit federal-statute habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default statute-of-limitations Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying Barber's motion for leave to file a motion for a certificate of appealability
20-5873 Tario Stamps v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP binding-precedent due-process eleventh-circuit fundamental-fairness judicial-review meaningful-review panel-order second-or-successive-2255-motion section-2255 truncated-time-frame without-adversarial-testing Does the Eleventh Circuit's practice of applying published panel orders—issued in the context of an application for leave to file a second or successi…
20-5878 Renard Cortez Murray v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process eleventh-circuit fundamental-fairness judicial-review meaningful-review panel-order precedent second-or-successive-2255-motion section-2255 truncated-time-frame without-adversarial-testing Does the Eleventh Circuit's practice of applying published panel orders—issued in the context of an application for leave to file a second or successi…
20-5824 Trenard Caldwell v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-28 Denied Relisted (3)IFP criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit fourth-circuit guilty-plea plea-withdrawal rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation structural-error Whether a defendant's guilty plea to a violation of 18 U.S.C. §922(g) is reversible error per se where the plea was neither knowing nor voluntary due …
20-5670 Henry Horace Givins v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender-enhancement circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-law eleventh-circuit mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of cocaine or possession with intent to sell cocaine, in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13, a 'controlled-substance-…
20-5564 Antonio U. Akel v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP brown-opinion Brown-v-Board due-process Eleventh-Circuit fair-trial recusal recusal-statute resentencing sentencing Whether the Eleventh Circuit's decision affirming the district court's refusal to conduct a full resentencing with the defendant present renders the p…
20-133 Joseph Michael Diaz v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-07 Denied Response Waived child-pornography criminal-appeal eleventh-circuit evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines sexual-contact Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that counsel was not ineffective assistance
20-5304 Stephon Williams v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP adverse-effect conflict-of-interest criminal-trial cross-examination effective-assistance-of-counsel eleventh-circuit right-to-counsel sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent witness-representation Whether Mr. Williams' Sixth Amendment right to conflict-free counsel was violated
20-5201 Travaris Crawford v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability cross-appeal district-court eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus jennings-v-stephens judicial-procedure Whether Jennings v. Stephens allows an appellee to expand the certificate of appealability and urge affirmance of a district court denial of a habeas …
19-8726 Terrance D. Goodman v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-standards civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process eleventh-circuit holmes-v-united-states judicial-discretion standing Was the Eleventh Circuit overruled its own precedent of Holmes v. United States, 657 F.2d 1545 (11th Cir. 1981) by assuming an order that conflicts wi…
19-8737 James Steiner v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924(c) aiding-and-abetting crime-of-violence due-process eleventh-circuit fundamental-fairness johnson-claim judicial-review meaningful-review rosemond-claim section-2255 Whether the 11th Circuit's holding can be reconciled with Rosemond
19-8633 Weylin O. Rodriguez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari-review due-process eleventh-circuit evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus miller-el-standard precedent remand section-2255 supreme-court-precedent title-28-U.S.C-2255 Whether the Eleventh Circuit's decision not to remand for an evidentiary hearing was contrary to precedent requiring such a hearing under 28-U.S.C-225…
19-8570 Yamil M. Vega v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 28-usc-2244 crime-of-violence due-process eleventh-circuit hobbs-act-robbery legal-precedent panel-decision procedural-constraints statutory-mandate Whether the Eleventh Circuit exceeds its statutory mandate
19-8535 Courtney Rashon Johnson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit federal-review grand-jury habeas-corpus plea-bargaining standing Whether a defendant who pleaded guilty can seek relief from his conviction on the basis that the government failed to instruct the grand jury on an es…
19-1245 Samuel Kwushue v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-23 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process eleventh-circuit federal-appeals habeas-corpus section-2255 Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erred in denying a Certificate of Appealability (COA) to review the denial of Peti…
19-8256 Jerry Browdy v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit insufficient-evidence judicial-review motion-for-acquittal sentencing-errors sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the evidence was insufficient to support Browdy's conviction and his motion for judgment of acquittal should have been granted
19-8054 Nathan Richard Vineyard v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-code eleventh-circuit federal-criminal-law federal-registration-requirements notification-requirements sex-offender-registration sex-offender-registration-and-notification-act sexual-contact statutory-interpretation united-states-v-vineyard Whether SORNA extends to anything meeting the dictionary definitions of 'sexual' and 'contact' or is instead limited to the intentional touching of ce…
19-8015 Gabriel Cruz v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruton-rule co-defendant-statement codefendant-statement confrontation-clause criminal-appeal criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit non-testimonial non-testimonial-statement severance Whether the United States Court of Appeal Eleventh Circuit erred in finding that the Bruton rule does not mandate a severance when a non-testifying co…
19-7908 Larry Rashone Prunty v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus slack-v-mcdaniel Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit err when applying the two prong Slack v. McDaniel test (procedure and merits) in deter…
19-7945 Zacharias Abab Aguedo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit insufficient-evidence judgment-of-acquittal sentencing sentencing-errors sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the evidence was insufficient to support Aguedo's conviction and his motions for judgment of acquittal should have been granted
19-7851 Lenin Martinez-Alvarado v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 concurrent-sentences criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court downward-departure eleventh-circuit jurisdiction substantive-reasonableness u.s.s.g-§4a1.3 Whether certiorari review should be granted where the Eleventh Circuit held that it did not have jurisdiction to review the district court's denial to…
19-1075 Bryan Adrian Copeland v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-02 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court due-process eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment habeas habeas-corpus habeas-review ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan miller-el-v-cockrell strickland-v-washington Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in affirming the District Court and denying Copeland a Certificate of Appealability for § 2255 habeas review
19-7752 Daniel Ochoa v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation custody due-process eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona pre-miranda-questioning public-safety-exception self-incrimination Whether Mr. Ochoa's Fifth Amendment rights were violated
19-7709 John A. Toth v. Peter Antonacci, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit equal-protection federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance qualified-immunity treaty Whether the violation of any State or Federal Courts, Treaties, Rights or Privileges by any and all State and/or Federal Agents and individuals, both …
19-7672 Donte Deshawn Alston v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-14 Denied Relisted (4)IFP access-to-courts due-process eleventh-circuit habeas habeas-corpus prior-panel-precedent prior-precedent-rule pro-se second-or-successive Whether the Eleventh Circuit's Prior-Precedent Rule violates due process
19-7480 David Paul Lynch v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-error eleventh-circuit harmless-error hearsay hearsay-statements jury-trial precedent sixth-amendment weight-of-evidence Did the Eleventh Circuit violate this Court's precedent on harmless error
19-7314 Johnny L. Dawson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied IFP acca acca-predicate-offense actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act drug-offense eleventh-circuit elonis-v-united-states florida-statute mens-rea serious-drug-offense shular strict-liability supreme-court-review united-states-v-smith Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erroneously concluded that Petitioner's Fla. Stat. § 893.13 drug offenses qualify …
19-7266 Mickie Stone v. Centene Corporation Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-14 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 11-usc-1915-e-2-b appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process eeoc eeoc-complaint eleventh-circuit frivolous-appeal frivolous-claim in-forma-pauperis standing statute-of-limitations tolling Whether the Court in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erred in denying my motion for leave to proceed on appeal in forma pa…
19-7280 David Everett Jones v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP despite Petitioner's diligent efforts to timely f -civil-procedure aedpa aedpa-limitations civil-rights due-process eleventh-circuit equitable-tolling federal-habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default standing state-post-conviction statute-of-limitations timeliness Whether Jones' successful Fla. R. Crim. P. 3.850 motion created a new judgment, sufficient to restart the one-year AEDPA filing deadline, so as to mak…
19-7286 Leah S. Caldwell v. Doris Downs, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-14 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-circuit equal-protection federal-jurisdiction petition-for-certiorari pro-se standing summary-judgment Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in dismissing Petitioner's civil rights claims against Respondents for lack of standing and failure to state a clai…
19-7127 Phillip Wayne Tomlin v. Tony Patterson, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts aedpa certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process eleventh-circuit fair-punishment habeas-corpus retroactivity Whether non-capital habeas corpus petitioners in the Eleventh Circuit are being treated so fundamentally differently than similarly situated prisoners…
19-737 James Nathaniel Douse v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) camp-lejeune civil-rights disability disability-statute due-process eleventh-circuit federal-courts federal-district-court north-carolina standing state-legislator takings toxic-exposure toxic-water Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals and the Federal District Court of Northern Georgia erred in their interpretation and application of the …
19-6827 Wesley Dorcelus v. Chris Brannon, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability certiorari-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-procedure motion-denial standing Whether certiorari review should be granted where the Eleventh Circuit denied Dorcelus' motion for issuance of a certificate of appealability
19-6713 Derek Tyler Horton v. Sam Cochran Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights constitutional-violation double-jeopardy due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus jurisdiction procedural-error writ-of-certiorari Is there a remedy when the Habeas corpus proceeding fails to protect a citizen from Double Jeopardy violation because of an incorrect procedural rulin…
19-654 Kaleida Health, dba Buffalo General Medical Center v. Kathleen Biondo Second Circuit 2019-11-21 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights damages due-process eleventh-circuit gebser-standard gebser-v-lago-vista intentional-discrimination monetary-damages official official-decision rehabilitation-act second-circuit standing Whether the Gebser standard applies to the Rehabilitation Act
19-647 Jonathan Corbett v. Transportation Security Administration Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-19 Denied Response Waived article-iii article-iii-standing certainly-impending chain-of-events constitutional-challenge eleventh-circuit future-injury speculative speculative-harm speculative-injury standing standing-article-iii substantial-likelihood supreme-court Does the Eleventh Circuit's 'substantial likelihood' test for Article III standing relating to future injuries comport with this Court's 'certainly im…
19-630 Kyle Ray Hurst, Personal Representative of the Estate of Andrew James Hurst and on Behalf of the Estate of Andrew James Hurst Deceased and the Statutory Wrongful Death Survivor of Andrew James Hurst v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-15 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights commercial-area commercial-use due-process eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction federal-jurisprudence federal-lands-management fee-charged liability public-access standing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment takings Whether the Eleventh Circuit wrongfully absolved Respondent of liability when it determined that Moore Lake was not an 'area' where a fee was charged,…
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
19-6399 Carmen A. Zammiello v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis jones-v-bock jurisdictional-grounds procedural-grounds Whether the court of appeals for the eleventh circuit rendered a decision in conflict with the law of the U.S. Supreme Court
19-6355 Eric Mack v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP crime-of-violence due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus liberty-interest precedential-effect prior-panel-precedent pro-se-petition section-2255 successive-petitions Whether a defendant's right to Due Process in his initial § 2255 proceeding is violated by the Eleventh Circuit's rule assigning precedential effect t…
19-6310 Marilis Yaneth Velasquez Perez v. Jose Candido Diaz Palencia Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abbott-v-abbott appellate-review child-abduction civil-code custody eleventh-circuit guatemalan-civil-code guatemalan-law hague-convention hague-convention-child-abduction international-child-abduction international-custody ne-exeat-rights Did the lower courts err in determining that retention of the child was wrongful under the Hague Convention despite Guatemalan law giving custody to t…
19-6312 Bryan Timothyleenard Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus standard-of-review appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-standard procedural-error standing Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred by denying petitioner's application for certificate of appealability
19-405 Nicholas Schiano, dba HotWireMedia.com, et al. v. Matt Friedman, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied civil-rights constitutional-law defamation due-process eleventh-circuit federal-law first-amendment free-speech legal-defense motives substantial-truth Whether substantial truth is a complete defense to defamation under the First Amendment, regardless of the motives of the speaker?
19-6053 Diosme Fernandez Hano v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit evidentiary-rulings indictment judicial-precedent jury-instructions statute-of-limitations united-states-code witness-testimony Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in holding that the indictment was returned within the limitation period under 18 U.S.C. § 3297
19-6016 Devon Chance v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-20 GVR IFP 18-usc-924(c)(3) 18-usc-924c3 abrogation appellate-review case-law-abrogation circuit-court-decision criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ovalles-v-united-states section-2255-motion statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review united-states-v-davis Whether the Eleventh Circuit's decision denying petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion should be vacated due to reliance on an abrogated opinion
19-5883 Richard Johnson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment franks-challenge franks-v-delaware gall-standard search-warrant search-warrant-challenge-standard sentencing-variance substantial-preliminary-showing substantive-reasonableness veracity Whether this Court Should Clarify the Quantum Necessary for a Finding of a 'Substantial Preliminary Showing' That Entitles Defendants to a Hearing in …
19-5823 Jason Alston v. Arianna W. Eastman Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process eleventh-circuit in-forma-pauperis interested-parties judicial-discretion legal-procedure motion-for-leave recusal standing Whether United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit abuse its discretion in denying petitioner Motion for leave to proceed in forma pauper…
19-5451 Michael Lawrence Robinson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP binding-precedent circuit-split constitutional-question court-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2255 jurisdiction statutory-interpretation successive-petitions Whether the Eleventh Circuit exceeded its statutory mandate under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(3)(C) when it issued published rulings on the merits of open leg…
19-5478 Wilfredo Roy Madrigal v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP acca career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense eleventh-circuit mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of cocaine or possession with intent to sell cocaine in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a 'controlled substance of…
19-5434 Juan Fletcher Gordillo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-requirements constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit first-impression judicial-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether this Court should review the decision of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals to determine whether the decision in this case of apparent firs…
19-5438 Jimmy Fletcher Meders v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-02 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 anti-flyspecking-rule circuit-court-procedure clearly-established-law eleventh-circuit federal-court-deference federal-review habeas habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review section-2254 standard-of-review state-court-decision state-court-deference wilson-v-sellers Whether the Eleventh Circuit's adherence to its 'no-grading-papers-anti-flyspecking-rule' is incompatible with Wilson-v-Sellers
19-5429 Cantrell Lamont Burwell v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment appellate-procedure clear-error consent-search consent-to-search de-novo de-novo-review eleventh-circuit fourth-amendment standard-of-review totality-of-circumstances Whether an appellate court should review de novo or for clear error a district court's finding that a defendant did not voluntarily consent to a searc…
19-5267 Michael St. Hubert v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-23 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6)IFP 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit first-step-act habeas-corpus pending-on-direct-review preclusion pro-se section-2255 successive-2255-motion successive-motion successive-petitions Is a criminal defendant's right to Due Process violated by the Eleventh Circuit's rule affording binding force and preclusive effect to a prior panel'…
19-5246 Jason Rosado v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied IFP 18-usc-1203 924(c) certificate-of-appealability constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals' denial of a Certificate of Appealability should be vacated in light of the Supreme Court's decision in …
19-5261 Jorge Baez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c certificate-of-appealability conviction criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process due-process,vagueness,18-usc-924(c),criminal-proce eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus statutory-vagueness united-states-v-davis vagueness Whether Petitioner is entitled to relief on his claim that 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague and therefore his conviction under 18 …
19-5071 Erwin Burley v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion eleventh-circuit judicial-discretion sentencing-explanation sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines supervisory-power upward-variance Whether this Court should exercise its supervisory power and grant review because the Eleventh Circuit has permitted an upward variance sentence almos…
18-9766 Raymond Tyrone Lewis v. William O. Farmer, Sheriff, Sumter County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit essential-requirements-of-law motion-for-reconsideration standing statute-of-limitations Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal abused its discretion and deviated from the essential requirements of law
18A1355 Richard Johnson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-24 Presumed Complete crack-cocaine drug-distribution eleventh-circuit intent-to-distribute school-zone sentencing-guidelines Whether the sentencing guidelines for drug offenses near schools violate due process or constitute disproportionate punishment for crack cocaine posse…
18A1356 Montye Benjamin v. Lynn Thomas Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-24 Presumed Complete civil-rights constitutional-claims eleventh-circuit pro-bono summary-judgment wrongful-death Whether a civil rights action for wrongful death can survive summary judgment when the underlying constitutional claims have been dismissed by the low…
18A1330 Gale Zamore v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, Individually and as Trustee for JP Morgan Mortgage Acquisition Trust 2007-CH5 Asset Backed Pass-Through Certificates Series 2007-CH5, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-18 Presumed Complete certiorari district-court eleventh-circuit federal-appellate judicial-review mortgage-foreclosure Whether a federal appellate court's affirmance of a district court's dismissal of a mortgage-related complaint can be challenged through a Supreme Cou…
18-9547 Antwan Bernard Williams v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP acca acca-serious-drug-offense armed-career-criminal-act drug-offense eleventh-circuit elonis-v-united-states franklin-v-united-states mens-rea resisting-officer sentencing-enhancement strict-liability united-states-v-smith violent-felony Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erroneously concluded that Petitioner's Fla. Stat. § 893.13 drug offenses qualify …
18-9399 Paul Johnson, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-23 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ammunition ammunition-seizure eleventh-circuit fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-original-meaning original-meaning pat-down police-procedure probable-cause search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio Whether the Fourth Amendment permits a police officer to seize a freestanding round of ammunition identified during a pat down conducted pursuant to T…
18-9319 Robert Gray v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied IFP appeal certificate-of-appealability criminal-conviction due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-vacate sentencing standard-of-review Whether the trial and appellate court erred in denying Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability?
18-9264 Robert Marshall v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure buck-precedent buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisprudence DID THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT WRONGLY APPLY THIS COURT'S JURISPRUDENCE IN BUCK BY FAILING TO GRANT A COA IN THIS MATTER
18-9129 Delroy T. Booth v. Trevonza Bobbitt, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied IFP appeal appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights court-costs court-fees dismissal docketing-fees due-process eleventh-circuit fees in-forma-pauperis pro-se-litigant standing Whether the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erred in dismissing the petitioner's appeal by stating 'Failed to Pay the Docketing & Filing Fee…
18-9091 Antwayne Tremayne Lowry v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-conviction due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-vacate sentencing standard-of-review Whether the trial and appellate court erred in denying Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability
18-8911 Gerald Humbert v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-22 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 11th-circuit acca acca-serious-drug-offense armed-career-criminal-act certiorari criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense eleventh-circuit florida-statute florida-statute-893-13 mens-rea serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation united-states-v-smith Whether a Florida drug offense qualifies as a 'serious drug offense' under the ACCA without mens rea
18-8852 Xavier Huron Sanders v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review motion-for-review standard-of-review Whether the trial and appellate court erred in denying Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability?
18-8737 Mario Bachiller v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-09 GVR IFP categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit johnson-retroactivity mandatory-minimum residual-clause retroactivity section-924c vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)'s residual clause is unconstitutionally vague under Johnson v. United States
18-8730 In Re Jimmie Dixon 2019-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP all-writs-act circuit-court-rulings eleventh-circuit extraordinary-writ habeas-corpus multiple-holdings new-rule retroactivity retroactivity-of-new-rules seventh-circuit supreme-court-holdings Whether the Supreme Court can make a New Rule Retroactive Through Multiple Holdings that Logically Dictate the Retroactivity of the New Rule, as the S…
18-8458 Oniel Winston Scarlett v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit appellate-review buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealability-coa due-process eleventh-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-reasoning merits-analysis merits-review reasonable-jurist sentencing Should the Eleventh Circuit provide a sufficient explanation of its order denying a COA in order that a reasonable jurist could ensue its reasoning di…
18-8482 Lourdes Margarita Garcia v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP brecht-standard constitutional-rights criminal-procedure critical-stage Cronic cronic-rule cronic-standard defense-counsel direct-appeal due-process eleventh-circuit hybrid-error prejudice structural-error trial-procedure Did the Eleventh Circuit err by holding this 'startling, intentional' violation of the defendant's constitutional and statutory rights did not constit…
18-8345 Gary Lakey v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus indictment judicial-procedure jurisdiction Did the Eleventh Circuit decide an appeal without jurisdiction when it denied a Certificate of Appealability (COA) on all issues on the basis that the…
18-8320 Darius Andre Holmes v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP buford-v-united-states career-offender categorical-approach circuit-court-review criminal-history de-novo-review eleventh-circuit federal-enhancement predicate-offense serious-drug-offense taylor-v-united-states Whether the circuit court departed from the established rule of Taylor v. United States, 495 US 575(1990), requiring a categorical approach to determi…
18-1158 Jarrod Taylor v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied Amici (1) appeals brady-violation certificate-of-appealability constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review jury-bias prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure Jarrod Taylor's habeas corpus claims challenging the State's concealment of evidence during his trial
18-8186 Kirby Gant v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment automobile-exception civil-rights criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit inevitable-discovery inventory-search plain-view-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred by finding that the automobile exception applied when the district court made no findings that the vehicle was read…
18-8170 In Re William Edward Cloninger 2019-02-27 Denied IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-appeal civil-rights congress-legislation constitutional-claims due-process eleventh-circuit equal-protection legal-reform prison-litigation pro-se-litigant procedural-dismissal statute-of-limitations Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights under the 5th and 14th Amendments were violated by the dismissal of his appeal
18-7922 Thomas Isaac LaFleur v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit federal-registration firearm-definition national-firearms-act second-amendment staples-v-united-states statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction united-states-v-freed weapon-classification Did the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals error in denying the Petitioner's Subject-Matter Jurisdiction claim
18-7748 James Freeman v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability COA due-process Eleventh-Circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits procedural-claims section-2255 sentencing substantive-claims underlying-2255-claims Did the Eleventh Circuit exceed the limited scope of 28 USC §2253, the Certificate of Appealability (COA) statute, by deciding Petitioner's underlying…
18-7681 In Re Erasmo Aguinaga 2019-01-30 Denied IFP 28-usc-2241 actual-innocence circuit-split due-process eleventh-circuit equal-protection federal-prisoner habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-writ manifest-miscarriage-of-justice procedural-framework saving-clause Has the Eleventh Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals effectively suspended the Writ of Habeas Corpus, without authorization
18-7575 Alexis Valdes Gonzalez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9)IFP criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit judicial-process mandatory-form panel-decision preclusive-effect prior-panel-precedent strict-deadline writ-of-certiorari Whether the Due Process Clause permits the Eleventh Circuit to afford preclusive effect in a criminal case to a prior panel decision
18-7587 Biven Hudson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability district-court eleventh-circuit magistrate-court mandatory-minimum minimum-mandatory-enhancement reasonable-jurists sentencing-enhancement sentencing-review Whether the appellate court erred in denying Mr. Hudson's motion for certificate of appealability
18-7443 Wallace Thornton v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-battery armed-career-criminal-act bodily-harm curtis-johnson-v-united-states elements-clause eleventh-circuit florida-battery statutory-interpretation violent-felony Whether the Eleventh Circuit erroneously held that a Florida conviction for aggravated battery is a 'violent felony' under the elements clause of the …
18-898 R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company v. Barbara Jean Johnston, Personal Representative of Franklin James Johnston Florida 2019-01-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure collateral-estoppel constitutional-law due-process eleventh-circuit engle-litigation florida-supreme-court issue-preclusion jury-findings legal-preclusion preclusion prior-proceeding res-judicata Is the Due Process Clause violated by a rule that permits plaintiffs to invoke a prior jury's findings to establish elements of their claims without s…
18-7263 Gerald Patmon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-sentencing deadly-weapon eleventh-circuit enumerated-offenses georgia-assault-statute gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez overbreadth sentencing-guidelines state-statute statutory-interpretation Whether the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erroneously affirmed Mr. Patmon's sentence under USSG § 2K2.1 based on its determination that Ge…
18-867 Matthew E. Jackson, Jr., et al. v. Frances Edith Jackson Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure civil-sanctions criminal-sanctions due-process eleventh-circuit equal-protection evidentiary-standards jurisdictional-limitations precedent procedural-protections sanctions supreme-court Whether the failure of a court to comply with the jurisdictional limitations, procedural and due process protections, evidentiary standards, the prece…
18-7227 Antonio Ledon Jones v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3553a 18-usc-3553a6 due-process eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment judicial-review sentencing sentencing-disparities unwarranted-sentence-disparities Whether the Eleventh Circuit decided the opinion below based on inaccurate information and thereby betrayed the due process guarantees of the Fifth Am…
18-6969 Brandon Bivins v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit judicial-review prior-panel-precedent prior-panel-precedent-rule stare-decisis statutory-right statutory-right-to-appeal three-judge-panels Does the Eleventh Circuit too rigidly apply its 'prior panel precedent rule' —effectively denying Eleventh Circuit defendants their statutory right to…
18-6937 Steven Arthur Morrill v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempt criminal-law due-process eleventh-circuit jury-instructions mens-rea sexual-offense statutory-interpretation Whether defining 'induce' to mean 'to cause,' without further instructing on what must be caused, leaves defendants vulnerable to being convicted for …
18-6778 DeAngelo Horn v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability deficient-performance eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice reasonable-jurists standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Did the Eleventh Circuit reach beyond the threshold inquiry for a certificate of appealability and deny a COA based on the merits of the appeal?
18-649 R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, et al. v. Cheryl Searcy, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Carol LaSard Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-20 Denied actually-decided civil-procedure claim-preclusion class-action constitutional-law due-process eleventh-circuit issue-preclusion jury-findings opportunity-to-be-heard preclusion Whether the Due Process Clause is violated by a rule that permits plaintiffs to invoke a prior jury's findings to establish elements of their claims w…
18-6711 Ricardo Deleon Colon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act bodily-harm criminal-sentencing curtis-johnson eleventh-circuit johnson-standard predicate-offense united-states-v-castleman united-states-v-vail-bailon violent-force Does the causation of bodily harm necessarily entail the use of 'violent force'?
18-6677 Clarence Darnell Marshall v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment appeal booker-standard career-offender certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness Whether the Eleventh Circuit applied a heightened standard to the Defendant's request for Certificate of Appealability
18-6592 Andres Pavon v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-07 Denied IFP 5th-amendment appeal appeals castro-v-united-states criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment habeas-corpus lee-v-us padilla-v-kentucky sentencing standing Were this Petitioner's Fifth Amendment rights according to the United States Constitution violated by the United States Court of Appeal for the Eleven…
18-6492 Pascual Rentas v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability clearly-established-law due-process eleventh-circuit giglio giglio-standard habeas-corpus habeas-petition ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standard-of-review strickland strickland-standard supreme-court-law supreme-court-precedent Should the denial of Mr. Rentas' COA be reversed and reconsidered due to the recent ruling by this Court in Marion Wilson v. Eric Sellers, Warden 584 …
18-533 Contrice Travis v. Exel Inc., dba DHL Supply Chain (USA), et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-23 Denied circuit-split civil-rights discriminatory-conduct eleventh-circuit higher-management kolstad kolstad-v-american-dental managerial-capacity punitive-damages title-vii Whether the proper test for imputing a manager's discriminatory conduct is the 'higher management' standard advanced by the Eleventh Circuit in Dudley…
18-6400 Tarvares James Watson v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit extraordinary-circumstances federal-habeas-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rule-60(b) rule-60b state-law state-law-procedural-principles state-procedural-law Whether the Eleventh Circuit abused its discretion in overlooking the relevant state law procedural principles underlying petitioner's constitutional …
18-6391 Matthew Vaughn Hawks v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure mental-disability plain-error sentencing sentencing-disparity sentencing-reasonableness substantial-rights united-states-v-olano whether-the-eleventh-circuit-misapplied-fed-r-crim-p-52(b)-and-united-states-v-olano
18-494 Thomas S. Ross v. Apple, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-17 Denied Response Waived 17-usc-106 17-usc-501 copyright-infringement copyright-ownership eleventh-circuit exclusive-rights motion-to-dismiss standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether the Eleventh Circuit correctly held that granting defendant's Motion for Dismissal was justified even though a) plaintiff proved ownership of …
18-6317 Desmond DeWayne Turner v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act burglary categorical-approach eleventh-circuit mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states predicate-offense sentencing united-states-v-ovalles Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in finding that the convictions for Burglary in the first degree under Alabama law qualified as a …
18-6275 Ricardo Lupian-Barajas v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-proceedings prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment strickland strickland-standard Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit depart from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings when it failed to st…
18-6284 Alphonso Churchwell, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender collateral-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing eleventh-circuit mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness Whether U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(a)(2)'s residual clause is void for vagueness with respect to defendants sentenced under the pre-Booker mandatory Guidelines
18-6250 Curtis Nairn v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th and 14th Amendment rights unexhausted and meritless which violated Petitioner's 5th aedpa amendment-violation civil-rights constitutional-amendments constitutional-claims constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit exhaustion exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus procedural-bar procedural-default section-2254 Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal err when it denied Petitioner's §2254 petition as procedurally barred by AEDPA, unexhausted and meritless…
18-6172 Sherman Edward Williams v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-02 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (10)IFP access-to-courts binding-precedent categorical-approach circuit-procedure crime-of-violence due-process due-process-access-to-courts eleventh-circuit habeas habeas-corpus judicial-precedent prior-panel-precedent prior-precedent-rule second-or-successive-habeas second-or-successive-petitions Whether the Eleventh Circuit's prior-precedent rule violates due process when applied to orders denying second or successive habeas petitions
18-6180 Brian Deronceler v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure district-court due-process eleventh-circuit insufficient-evidence judgment-of-acquittal motion-for-acquittal sentencing sentencing-errors sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the evidence was insufficient to support the defendant's conviction and the motion for judgment of acquittal should have been granted
18-392 Aaron M. Richardson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-27 Denied carpenter-precedent carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-location-information eleventh-circuit fourth-amendment search-and-seizure standing stored-communications-act warrant-requirement warrantless-search whether-cell-site-location-information-obtained-without-a-warrant-violates-the-fourth-amendment
18-368 Cedrick Thomas v. Jeffrey Cozzi Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-20 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights detective-thomas district-of-columbia-v-wesby eleventh-circuit false-arrest fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause qualified-immunity Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in affirming the denial of probable cause and qualified immunity for Detective Thomas
18-5998 Keith Lapell Biggins v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure appellate-review buck-v-davis case-law certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process eleventh-circuit federal-procedure habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation statutory-operation Whether the United Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Contrary to Buck v. Davis, 137 S.Ct. 759 Inverted the Mode of Statutory Operation 28 U.S.…
18-5871 Samuel Posa v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim due-process eleventh-circuit self-representation tharpe-v-sellers Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying Petitioner's Certificate of Appealability
18-5515 Louie Anthony Salemi v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 abuse-of-discretion boiler-plate-language certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus-review-2255-claims ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel machibroda-v-united-states off-the-record-advice reasoned-opinion section-2255 summary-order Did the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals abuse its discretion by not providing a reasoned opinion to support its order?
18-5287 Luis Salas v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-conviction due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-vacate sentencing standard-of-review Whether the trial and appellate court erred in denying Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability?
18-5295 Miguel Pedraza v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied IFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction mental-competency procedural-default standard-of-review Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in denying petitioner's certificate of appealability application based on the conclusion that he failed to make a s…
18-5156 D'Angelo Battis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process eleventh-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness pro-se pro-se-brief pro-se-representation sentencing standard-of-review unconstitutional-sentence Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in ignoring the petitioner's pro se brief on appeal, affirming the petitioner's unconstitutional s…
18-5157 In Re Jose Luis Arevalo 2018-07-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence cause-and-prejudice cause-and-prejudice-doctrine certificate-of-appealability drug-crimes due-process eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment jurisdiction money-laundering reasonable-doubt Whether the due process clause was violated by failure to prove every element of money laundering beyond a reasonable doubt
18-5159 Allen Golden v. Antoine Caldwell, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2254 aedpa suspension-clause aedpa constitutional-claim constitutional-claims due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus non-violent-crime non-violent-crimes suspension-clause Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its order and the Magistrate Judge's report and recommendation regarding the suspension of habe…
18-5033 Johnny L. Dawson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-sentencing due-process eleventh-circuit modified-categorical-approach prior-convictions prior-offenses sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing,criminal-law,statutory-interpretation statutory-interpretation Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding Petitioner's prior offenses qualified him under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 1…
18-5046 Giezi Magno Zamora v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process eleventh-circuit evidence habeas-corpus international-law judicial-review maritime-law sentencing sentencing-reasonableness writ-of-certiorari Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously denied a motion where the petitioner showed new evidence to warrant an immediate release due…
23A1019 Home Depot U.S.A., Inc. v. Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, et al. Eleventh Circuit Presumed Complete attorneys-fees class-action eleventh-circuit petition-response supreme-court-rules word-limit Whether a district court may grant a motion to exceed standard word limits for a combined response to multiple petitions seeking review of distinct le…