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24-7325 Tracie L. Green, aka Tracie Ledora Mitchem-Green v. US Bank National Association Fourth Circuit 2025-05-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP bank-misconduct civil-litigation false-statements foreclosure-fraud intent-to-defraud property-theft Are the elements of fraud satisfied in this foreclosure case involving U.S. Bank National's alleged scheme to steal property?
24-6702 Vincent Adams Vassor v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP counsel-objection false-statements jury-instructions jury-testimony legal-procedure witness-credibility Are false statements and false quotations solicited in the presence of a jury that have not occurred to each attorney considered admissible testimony …
24-6672 Anil Jhingan v. Superior Court of California, Alameda County, et al. California 2025-02-28 Denied IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-rights court-enforcement due-process false-statements statutory-violation Whether a court's judgment can be enforced when statutory provisions prohibiting false statements have been violated and constitutional due process ri…
24-6423 Davonte Laron Chaney v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit false-statements fourth-amendment materiality probable-cause search-warrant Whether a search warrant affidavit establishes probable cause when the affiant made materially false statements
24-508 Joseph Anoruo v. Department of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2024-11-05 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure due-process false-statements first-amendment performance-appraisal workplace-harassment Whether the Fifth Amendment due process clause and First Amendment Petition Clause are violated by false performance appraisals and administrative pro…
24-5176 Antonio Santonastaso v. United States First Circuit 2024-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1001 criminal-law false-statements federal-prosecution judicial-review jurisdiction maslenjak-v-united-states materiality materiality-standard statutory-interpretation Does the new materiality standard from Maslenjak v. United States apply to prosecutions under 18 U.S.C. § 1001(a)(2)?
23-7713 Calvin K. Wilson v. Florida Florida 2024-06-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP exclusionary-rule false-statements fourth-amendment franks-v-delaware judicial-integrity law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant Whether the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule requires suppression of evidence obtained through a search warrant that was based in part on false stat…
23-1115 Melissa Ing v. Tufts University First Circuit 2024-04-15 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights employment-discrimination false-statements gender-discrimination retaliation sexual-harassment title-ix whistleblowing Whether the lower court relied on demonstrably false information, submitted by Tufts University to reject Dr. Melissa Ing's retaliation and gender dis…
23-7159 Thomas Joseph Buck v. Janice J. Compton Sixth Circuit 2024-04-08 Denied IFP circuit-court circuit-court-rulings civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-statements judicial-review legal-remedy standing What is the Supreme Court's duty when a Circuit Court introduces false statements into the facts of a case?
23-5759 Meredith McConnell v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-indictment false-statements federal-statute materiality neder-v-united-states ninth-circuit omissions wire-fraud Does an indictment charging the offense of wire fraud require pleading and proof of a specific false statement or omission, or is the allegation of an…
23-5369 Dallas Terrell Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-16 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-law false-statement false-statements firearms firearms-transaction jury-instructions materiality statutory-interpretation Whether a false statement in a firearm purchase was material
22-7374 Earl McCoy v. United States Second Circuit 2023-04-26 Denied IFP court-of-appeals due-process false-statements juror-bias jury-selection mcdonongh-test mcdonough-standard new-trial sixth-amendment voir-dire whether-the-court-of-appeals-misapplied-mcdonongh
22-6947 Alexander Samuel Smith v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1001 due-process entrapment false-statements fbi-investigation government-fabrication materiality statutory-interpretation Whether a statement made to FBI agents can be material and knowingly false under 18 U.S.C. §1001(a) when the criminal enterprise underlying the statem…
22-645 Blanca Telephone Company v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-01-11 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-deference appellate-mandates appellate-procedure civil-procedure compliance due-process false-statements federal-agencies judicial-deference judicial-review Whether federal agencies are exempted from the rule requiring strict compliance with appellate mandates
22-5959 William A. White v. United States, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-review civil-rights court-order document-entry due-process false-statements judicial-discretion procedural-standards sanctions standing Did the Seventh Circuit err in upholding two orders issued by the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois barring the petit…
21-7170 Deborah Bowers and Steve S. Jabar, aka Steve Shariff, aka Satar Jabar, aka Kamal Jabar, aka Kamal Jamel v. United States Second Circuit 2022-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1001 appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure false-statements fraud fraud-theory indictment materiality materiality-standard prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation May a court of appeals reinstate a verdict on a theory of fraud that was not pled in the indictment, not sought to be proven or argued at the trial, n…
21-1135 Goyko Gustav Kuburovich v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-02-16 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-fraud criminal-procedure due-process false-statements federal-prosecution fraud jury-instructions jury-unanimity statutory-interpretation sua-sponte Whether a district court has an obligation to issue a sua sponte jury unanimity instruction when a criminal defendant is prosecuted for a single count…
21-1104 John Davis v. City of Andrews, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-02-09 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-statements law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in upholding the doctrine of qualified immunity for a police officer who utilized known false statements to ensure the…
21-6942 Alison Gu v. United States Second Circuit 2022-01-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1542 circuit-court-split criminal-law false-statements oath-requirement passport-application statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether making false statements on a passport application form violates 18 U.S.C. § 1542
21-6603 Joanna Blauch v. City of Westminster, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-12-14 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-injury due-process equal-protection false-statements justiciability pro-se public-records standing supervisory-liability Whether ignoring live controversies defies U.S. Supreme Court justiciability standards requiring cause applied to injury-in-fact?
21-6497 Hye-Young Park v. Colin S. Bruce Seventh Circuit 2021-12-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP alternative-remedies due-process false-statements federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-act judicial-immunity judicial-process Whether a judge knowingly replacing facts with false statements is a judicial act
21-5839 Antonio Darnell Mays v. Tracy Johnson Seventh Circuit 2021-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule false-documents false-evidence false-statements fourth-amendment fundamental-question probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether the United States Court of Appeals made its decisions on the basis of false statements, documents, and evidence, and whether the petitioner wa…
21-5805 Jean Leonard Teganya v. United States First Circuit 2021-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure false-statements obstruction-of-justice perjury sentencing-guidelines significant-further-obstruction Whether the obstruction-of-justice enhancement under the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines can apply when a defendant testifies at trial and repeats the fals…
21-5039 Gavin Wayne Wright v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied IFP co-conspirator-statements co-defendant criminal-conspiracy due-process entrapment false-statements federal-rules-of-evidence government-agent jury-instruction materiality testimony Was the quantum and character of this evidence in the record sufficient to entitle him to a jury instruction on entrapment?
20-8366 Larry Dean Garrett, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP coercion confrontation-clause criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule false-statements fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment jury-bias plea-negotiation search-and-seizure sixth-amendment Did the district court err by suppressing evidence illegally seized with a warrant obtained by the use of false statements violating Petitioners' Four…
20-1281 Byron Dredd v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-03-15 Denied Response Waived 18-usc-1001 18-usc-1519 18-usc-241 acquittal civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy false-statements religious-communication trial-evidence Whether petitioner's acquittals on two counts should have been admitted into evidence in petitioner's retrial
20-952 Construction Cost Data, L.L.C., et al. v. The Gordian Group, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied business-disparagement defamation false-statements first-amendment jury-findings noerr-pennington noerr-pennington-doctrine reckless-disregard state-law-liability Whether the Noerr-Pennington doctrine has been improperly expanded beyond its First-Amendment-protections to insulate knowingly-false-statements
20-6278 Bodhisattva Skandha v. Gloriann Moroney Massachusetts 2020-11-12 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion application-of-law attorney-general civil-procedure claim court-discretion facts false-statements fraud jurisdiction legal-procedure official-document parole-board representation standing supreme-court tort tort-claim Whether making false statements in an official doc Whether the defendant is allowed to represent the Whether the respondent was required to apply the l Whether the lower court abused its discretion by not allowing the tort claim to go forward?
20-5324 In Re Jeremiah Ybarra 2020-08-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial false-evidence false-statements false-testimony law-enforcement warrant-validity Was the petitioner innocent of the alleged offense?
19-8120 Jarvis Rodrick Thomas v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection false-statements fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment liberty-interest Was it unreasonable to be seized in violation of the Fourth Amendment and re-arrested for the same offense to deprive the Petitioner of his Fourteenth…
19-1159 Michael Bouchard v. United States Second Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment brady-giglio-jencks brady-violation certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ex-post-facto false-statements false-statements-statute ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mortgage-lending retroactivity sixth-amendment Whether the 2009 amended version of 18 U.S.C. §1014 was retroactively applied in violation of the Ex Post Facto Clause
19-1069 Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, et al. v. Painters and Allied Trades District Council 82 Health Care Fund, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-28 Denied Amici (3) article-iii-standing causation-theory class-action false-statements intervening-factors omissions prescription-drug prescription-drugs product-liability proximate-cause rico-act rico-claim standing Whether the chain of causation between a manufacturer's allegedly false or misleading statements or omissions and end payments for prescription drugs …
19-848 Patrick Shin v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-06 Denied Response Waived 18-usc-1001 coram-nobis decisionmaker-influence escobar-clarification false-statements fraud fraud-prosecution materiality materiality-standard universal-health-services-v-escobar Do Escobar's clarifications apply to the materiality requirement for False Statements prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 1001(a)(8)?
19-660 David Silver v. Hamrick & Evans, LLP California 2019-11-21 Denied attorney-accountability civil-procedure due-process false-statements judicial-integrity legal-ethics professional-conduct standing tribunal-misconduct tribunals Does a lawyer or a law firm deserve to be given a free pass by the lower courts when the lawyer and the law firm make false statements of material fac…
19-6597 Thiodore Igorovich Galitsa v. United States Second Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP credibility criminal-history criminal-procedure-due-process cross-examination dismissed-case dismissed-charges due-process fair-trial false-statements illegal-reentry prior-arrests prior-convictions prosecutorial-misconduct trial-fairness Was Mr. Galitsa denied his right to a fair trial?
19-541 Michael Lambert v. Estate of Kevin Brown, by its Successor in Interest Rebecca Brown, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-24 Denied cold-case criminal-investigation criminal-procedure dna-evidence exigent-circumstances false-statements fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violations murder-case probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant third-party Whether the Fourth Amendment requires a warrant to search a home based on probable cause and exigent circumstances when the home is owned by a third p…
19-433 Patrick Emanuel Sutherland v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied 18-usc-1512 false-statements grand-jury nexus-requirement obstruction-of-justice obstruction-of-justice-18-usc-1512-c-2 plain-error plain-error-review prosecutorial-misconduct When does the 'nexus' requirement for obstruction of an official proceeding under 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2) apply when false statements are made to a U.S…
19-5689 Benjamin Oshea Calhoun v. Tony Villa, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-procedure-12b6 civil-rights due-process false-statements federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-recusal judicial-supervision legal-authority motion-to-dismiss probable-cause standing warrantless-arrest Whether the Appellant court's ruling to uphold the District Court's order which granted defendants' motions to dismiss conflicts with the Supreme Cour…
18-1581 Michael Lowry, Robert Mulgrew, and Thomasine Tynes v. United States Third Circuit 2019-06-26 Denied 18-usc-1623 ambiguous-questioning ambiguous-questions bronston-rule bronston-v-united-states false-declaration false-statements grand-jury grand-jury-testimony literal-truth perjury perjury-statute prosecutorial-questioning statutory-interpretation Responses to fundamentally ambiguous questions or literally truthful answers to unambiguous questions can constitute false declarations before a feder…
18-9723 Jennifer Cardenas v. United States Second Circuit 2019-06-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constructive-amendment due-process false-statements indictment indictment-specificity jury-instruction statutory-interpretation variance visa-fraud Whether an indictment charging visa-fraud must specify the allegedly-false-statements and include factual-allegations to establish their-falsity
18-9691 Dwayne Lee Stallings v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-32-violations criminal-rule false-statement false-statements federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure obstruction-of-justice plain-error plain-error-analysis sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure standard-of-review structural-error Whether the Court's plain error analysis is properly applied to violations of Fed. R. Crim. P. 32(i)(1)(A), and, if so, whether such violations are st…
18-8602 Enrico M. Ponzo v. United States First Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process evidence false-affidavit false-statements franks-doctrine franks-v-delaware judicial-review law-enforcement-misconduct probable-cause sanctions standing Whether Franks v. Delaware should be revisited to allow sanctions for false affiant declarations even if there remains probable cause in the absence o…
18-1024 Lenard Johnson v. Richard Winfrey, Jr. Fifth Circuit 2019-02-06 Denied 4th-amendment accrual-of-claim civil-rights false-statements fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure franks-analysis franks-v-delaware law-enforcement-misconduct legal-accrual material-omission probable-cause qualified-immunity warrant-application Franks v. Delaware analysis of omitted information material to probable cause
18-6875 Kendall Thrift v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing false-statements franks-hearing franks-v-maryland magistrate-judge ninth-circuit omissions search-and-seizure substantial-showing warrant-challenge Whether the Court should grant certiorari because the Ninth Circuit's decision that defendant Kendall Thrift had not made a substantial preliminary sh…
18-6864 Thomas Whitlow v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-complaint criminal-complaint-validity false-statements fraud-on-court indictment perjury probable-cause reckless-disregard subject-matter-jurisdiction sworn-affidavit void-judgment Is the criminal complaint void when it was based on statements from Special Agent Terrance Taylor that were knowingly false and exhibited reckless dis…
18-601 John Frederick Tate, aka John M. Tate v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-11-07 Denied Amici (3) agency-jurisdiction circuit-split criminal-law false-statements federal-election-commission jurisdiction materiality obstruction obstruction-of-justice obstruction-statute remand Whether an agency's receipt of information over which it has no authority to act implicates a 'matter within' the agency's jurisdiction under 18 U.S.C…
18-6589 Liddon Young v. United States Second Circuit 2018-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court criminal-law criminal-procedure false-statement false-statements materiality obstruction-of-justice sentencing sentencing-enhancement stipulation When a defendant admits to all the elements of an offense/enhancement, does a prevarication on details not effecting the question of guilt render the …
18-508 Charles G. Kinney v. Tyson Takeuchi, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion bankruptcy bankruptcy-law civil-rights due-process false-statements federal-procedure free-speech judicial-discretion professional-speech Issue being raised
18-453 Olivia de Havilland v. FX Networks, LLC, et al. California 2018-10-11 Denied artistic-license civil-rights defamation docudrama false-statements first-amendment free-speech pleading-stage public-figure right-of-publicity Are reckless or knowing false statements about a living public figure, published in docudrama format, entitled to absolute First Amendment protection …
18-156 James H. Brady v. John Goldman, et al. Second Circuit 2018-08-03 Denied Response Waived air-rights attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights commercial-transaction constitutional-rights court-injunction court-interference due-process false-statements filing-injunction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction takings Was the deprivation of the right to sue for damages against lawyers and law firms who schemed to steal contractual air rights unconstitutional?
18-5440 Larenzo Lomax v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-08-02 Denied IFP arrest arrest-legality constitutional-rights criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule false-affidavit false-statements fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-and-seizure search-warrant sixth-amendment Whether Lomax was denied the effective assistance of counsel when his trial attorney failed to challenge the legality of Lomax's arrest
18-101 Patrick Jon Evers v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-07-23 Denied Response Waived 18-usc-1920 decisionmaking-body false-representation false-statements federal-benefits federal-benefits-fraud federal-workers-compensation fraud materiality materiality-standard perjury workers-compensation Can false representations be 'material' for purposes of 18 USC §1920 where such representations were neither addressed to the decisionmaking body nor …
18-5035 Sandra Grazzini-Rucki v. Minnesota Minnesota 2018-06-29 Denied IFP civil-procedure coerced-testimony constitutional-law defense-evidence due-process false-statements jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct restitution standing statutory-interpretation Whether the prosecutor committed misconduct by allowing false statements and filing additional charges after a witness was coerced to recant testimony…