| 25-7038 |
Scott Edward Palmer v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-03-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
AEDPA capital-punishment certificate-of-appealability federal-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus Miller-El-standard |
1. Does the Fifth Circuit's erroneous denial of petitioner's certificate of appealability significantly depart from the accepted and usual course of j… |
| 25-811 |
Matthew Lee Sepulveda v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-01-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-precedent federal-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus jurisdictional-issue statutory-interpretation |
Does the Supreme Court's ruling that 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(3) is non-jurisdictional in nature overrule the Fifth Circuit's jurisprudence? |
| 24-205 |
Michael Alan Weiss, as Executor of Estate of Jane L. Marsh v. Peggy Pei Lin, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
9th-circuit constitutional-procedure due-process federal-appellate-procedure judicial-misconduct property-rights |
(a) Has the 9th Circuit panel, and/or its clerk and staff attorney, used procedural or substantive springes unconstitutional under the 5th Amendment D… |
| 23A493 |
Indiezone, Inc., et al. v. Todd Rooke, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
covid-19-restrictions electronic-filing excusable-neglect federal-appellate-procedure good-cause judicial-discretion |
Question not identified. |
| 23-361 |
Brian D. Swanson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-10-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-interpretation federal-appellate-procedure frivolous-sanction income-tax insular-cases puerto-rico territorial-status uniformity-clause unincorporated-territory |
In the decision below, The Eleventh Circuit summarily affirmed the dismissal of petitioner's income tax refund suit, which challenged Puerto Rico's st… |
| 22-1234 |
Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. v. Sammie Louis Stokes |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-06-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (3) |
aedpa default-rule federal-appellate-procedure federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default standard-of-review statutory-interpretation strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
I. Did the Fourth Circuit defy this Court's remand instruction and circumvent 28 U.S.C. § 2254(e)(2)'s limitations on federal court authority by findi… |
| 22-990 |
Bright Harry, et al. v. KCG Americas LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure free-speech judicial-procedure pro-se-litigation standing summary-judgment |
Whether in arrogant defiance of 36 years of this Court's precedent in Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., the Ninth Circuit, just like the other Appellat… |
| 22-5587 |
Kaleb L. Basey v. United States District Court for the District of Alaska |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-court circuit-judge federal-appellate-procedure FRAP-22(b)(1) habeas habeas-corpus judicial-discretion mandamus retroactive-effect writ-of-mandamus |
Does a habeas petitioner have a right under FRAP 22(b)(1) to request a certificate of appealability ("COA") from a specifically chosen circuit judge?
… |
| 22-5089 |
Mike Webb v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-appellate-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction freedom-of-access-to-clinic-entrances grand-jury-investigation mandamus pro-se-litigation standing writ-of-mandamus |
"Globally, as of 6:19pm CEST, 6 July 2022, there have been 548,990,094
confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,341,637 deaths, reported to WHO", Staf… |
| 21-815 |
Raymond H. Pierson, III v. Bruce S. Rogow, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-appellate-procedure federal-courts jurisdictional-limits notice-of-appeal pro-se-litigant rules-of-civil-procedure service-of-documents standing |
This case advanced by a self-represented party against a prominent Southeastern Appellate Attorney now pending for over seven years in the Federal Cou… |
| 20-7657 |
David Erike MacLloyd v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-appellate-procedure mailbox-rule notice-of-appeal pro-se pro-se-standard standing |
I. Should a Writ of Certiorari Issue because the Sixth Circurit failed to apply the Pro Se litigant standard to a Pro Se Defendant 's pleadings? |
| 20-7540 |
Anthony V. Caiby v. Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix |
Third Circuit |
2021-03-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-dismissal circuit-court-dismissal civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process federal-appellate-procedure judicial-error jurisdiction opinions pro-se-litigation procedural-due-process standing |
Was the Circuit Court in err When it dismissed this case without Mr. Caiby ever having an opponent?
Was the Circuit Court in err when it decided to d… |
| 20-5864 |
Peter George Noe v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals certificate-of-appealability circuit-split civil-procedure federal-appellate-procedure federal-courts finality habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction standard-of-review standing |
Did the panel abuse its discretion by denying certificate of appealability when there is a conflict in the District courts on the issue and Jurists of… |
| 19-8867 |
Leonard Lashun Bradley v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-procedure district-court-discretion federal-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-review jurisdiction motion-for-permission out-of-time-appeal procedural-error standing time-limits |
Whether the district court erred by denying Mr. Bradley's Motion for Permission to File Out of Time Appeal |
| 19-8555 |
James Troiano v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus harmless-error rehaif-error rehaif-v-united-states structural-error |
The Fourth Circuit has held that error under Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2019), is structural; the Ninth Circuit and other courts routine… |
| 19-8089 |
Michael W. Jenkins v. Brigitte Amsberry |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability federal-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus ninth-circuit slack-standard slack-v-mcdaniel statutory-interpretation statutory-standard |
Does the Ninth Circuit's ruling, denying a Certificate of Appealabiliy to a habeas corpus petitioner, contravene the statutory standard, under 28 U.S.… |
| 19-6209 |
John Hudson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-appellate-procedure johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states prior-convictions resentencing section-2255 sentencing sentencing-review violent-felony |
The specific question presented for review is whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred by denying Mr. Hudson a Certifica… |
| 18-1118 |
Kim Kerrigan v. Qualstar Credit Union, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure federal-appellate-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction presumption-against-jurisdiction procedural-presumption removal removal-jurisdiction standing standing-challenge state-law subject-matter-jurisdiction washington-law |
When the standing of a removing defendant is challenged in the Court of Appeals must that Court directly address such standing challenge pursuant to i… |
| 18-737 |
Gregory Aime, et al. v. JTH Tax, Inc., dba Liberty Tax Service, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
certification common-law contract-formation diversity-jurisdiction federal-appellate-procedure federal-court lehman-bros-precedent lehman-bros-v-schein state-law state-law-certification virginia-common-law |
1. Whether a federal court of appeals in a case based on diversity jurisdiction should certify an issue of state law to the highest court of that stat… |
| 18-5925 |
Dean Loren v. City of New York, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal-filing civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-procedure due-process federal-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-misconduct public-forum standing state-actor |
1. Whether it is Constitutional for the lower Appellate Court, to so far depart from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, or sanctio… |