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25-6723 Victor Dema v. Jennifer Toth, Director, Arizona Department of Transportation Ninth Circuit 2026-02-04 Pending IFP federal-courts forum-defendant-rule immigration-jurisdiction ninth-circuit removal-procedure statutory-interpretation A. Whether All The Ninth Court Of Appeals ' Decisions Rendered Against This Particular Petitioner In This Very Case, Conflict With All The Other Fed…
25-808 James E. McNair v. K. Johnson Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-09 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived bad-faith circuit-split federal-courts inherent-authority judicial-sanctions legal-procedure Whether federal courts have the power to issue sanctions under their inherent authority without first finding "bad faith," and, if they do, whether th…
25A779 Malik Allah-U-Akbar, fka Odraye G. Jones v. Margaret Bradshaw, Warden Sixth Circuit 2026-01-05 Application capital-case due-process extraordinary-relief federal-courts habeas-corpus writ-compliance Question not identified.
25A685 Gopher Media LLC, a Nevada Limited Liability Corporation, fka Local Clicks, dba Doctor Multimedia, et al. v. Andrew Melone, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-11 Application anti-SLAPP appellate-jurisdiction collateral-order federal-courts interlocutory-appeal state-law-privilege Question not identified.
25-6233 Rod Serp v. United States Federal Circuit 2025-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-justice case-dismissal federal-courts government-accountability judicial-review pro-se-litigation This case began in late 2023 in Central District Court. It was dismissed without prejudice by Judge Fisher to be refiled in Federal Claims Court. Judg…
25A606 ThermoLife International LLC, et al. v. BPI Sports, LLC Federal Circuit 2025-11-21 Application bad-faith discovery due-process federal-courts inherent-authority sanctions Whether federal courts can impose sanctions under their inherent authority without a finding of bad faith in the context of discovery disputes
25-556 William Loginov v. Sheridan Memorial Hospital, aka Memorial Hospital of Sheridan County, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-11-06 Denied article-iii diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine federal-courts rules-of-decision-act state-law-interpretation Whether Article III, the Rules of Decision Act, and the Erie doctrine mandate that federal courts sitting in diversity must certify novel state law qu…
25-5970 Charles S. Renchenski v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2025-10-28 Dismissed IFP federal-courts legal-interpretation magwood-v-patterson procedural-error supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari DID THE LOWER FEDERAL COURTS MISAPPREHEND AND MISAPPLY THE UNITED STATES DECISION IN MAGWOOD V. PATTERSON?
25A409 Will McRaney v. The North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2025-10-08 Presumed Complete certiorari circuit-split federal-courts jurisdiction statutory-interpretation supreme-court Whether the Supreme Court should grant certiorari to resolve a circuit split regarding the proper interpretation of a federal statute or constitutiona…
25-367 Todd M. Harper, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Member of the National Credit Union Administration Board, et al. v. Scott Bessent, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. District of Columbia 2025-09-29 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-governance executive-authority federal-courts removal-power separation-of-powers This Court in Humphrey's Executor sustained restrictions on the removal of Commissioners of the 1935 Federal Trade Commission, and it has since reaffi…
25-5666 William P. DeBoskey v. Goshen Mortgage, as Separate Trustee for GDBT 1 Trust 2011-1, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP citizenship diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts jurisdictional-discovery llc-status removal 1. Whether a federal court may remand a case for lack of diversity jurisdiction based on speculation about an LLC 's citizenship without allowing ju…
25-319 Gwynne A. Wilcox v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. District of Columbia 2025-09-17 Pending administrative-law constitutional-law federal-courts nlrb removal-power separation-of-powers 1. May Congress constitutionally limit removal of members of the National Labor Relations Board to cases of "neglect of duty or malfeasance in office.…
25-5635 Roy Franklin Echols v. CSX Transportation, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2025-09-16 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violations federal-courts railroad-law summons-issuance workplace-exposure The United States Federal Courts have Denied the " Independent Question of Great Public Importance " which no other inferior court will answer. 1. Wa…
25-245 Fire-Dex, LLC v. Admiral Insurance Company Sixth Circuit 2025-09-03 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) abstention-doctrine coercive-relief declaratory-judgment diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts state-law When a complaint joins claims for declaratory relief on a novel state-law issue with claims for damages, does a district court retain its discretion t…
25-223 LegitScript LLC v. PharmacyChecker.com LLC Ninth Circuit 2025-08-25 Denied Response Waived antitrust-injury antitrust-standing clayton-act federal-courts private-right-action treble-damages Does a private plaintiff have standing to enforce antitrust laws when the primary purpose of its business is to facilitate unlawful activity by others…
25-5315 Kayle Barrington Bates v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-08 Denied IFP aedpa-deference article-iii circuit-court-review constitutional-interpretation federal-courts habeas-corpus Whether Article III courts unconstitutionally abrogate their duty to interpret the federal Constitution when deferring to state courts under 28 U.S.C.…
25A147 Scott Cannon, Individually and as the Personal Representative of the Estate of Blaise Cannon v. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Inc. First Circuit 2025-08-05 Presumed Complete erisa federal-courts preemption rutledge-precedent statutory-interpretation wrongful-death Whether the Supreme Court's decision in Rutledge v. Pharmaceutical Care Management Association clarifies the standard for statutory preemption of stat…
25-5241 Clarence Fry v. Timothy Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-07-30 Denied IFP capital-trial constitutional-right federal-courts mitigation state-courts waiver I. a. When the undisputed factual record demonstrates the denial of the constitutional right to testify at a capital trial , but the State courts f…
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.
25-5107 Markos Pappas v. United States Second Circuit 2025-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP bail-reform-act constitutional-challenge detention-conditions due-process federal-courts pretrial-detention 1. Whether the Bail Reform Act of 1984 ("BRA ") is facially unconstitutional, and/or unconstitutional as-applied to Petitioner in this case based (ind…
25-4 Preston L. Marshall, Individually and as Co-Trustee of the Peroxisome Trust v. Stephen D. Cook, as Co-Trustee of The Marshall Heritage Foundation and Marshall Legacy Foundation Fifth Circuit 2025-07-01 Denied citizenship-requirement diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts real-party-controversy subject-matter-jurisdiction trustees Whether diversity jurisdiction may be created by having one diverse co-trustee bring the lawsuit, strategically excluding all nondiverse co-trustees a…
24-7436 Hans Thomas Reiser v. California California 2025-06-16 Denied IFP constitutional-review death-penalty federal-courts habeas-corpus procedural-errors state-remedies Whether the split between Federal Courts and the California Supreme Court over state remedies for procedural errors in death penalty cases constitutes…
24-7410 Nicholas Craig Woozencroft v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-06-12 Dismissed IFP appellate-jurisdiction criminal-procedure federal-courts final-judgment multi-count-indictment sentencing Whether a judgment which convicts and sentences a defendant on a count of a multi-count indictment is appealable under § 1291 where, although others c…
24A1152 Jennine Labuzan-Delane v. Cochran and Cochran Land Company, Inc, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-05-27 Application adverse-possession due-process federal-courts land-patent property-rights summary-judgment Whether a federal court may extinguish property rights under a federal land patent and compel an heir to execute a deed based on disputed conveyances …
24-1170 LaQuan Stederick Johnson v. Elaine Terry, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-15 Denied Response Waived administrative-remedy bivens-remedy constitutional-rights federal-courts prison-officials special-factors Does the existence of the BOP's Administrative Remedy Program foreclose a Bivens action where prison officials prevent the inmate from accessing that …
24-7149 Samuel James Weaver v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split federal-courts judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review What standard of review should apply when a district court applies a federal sentencing guideline to undisputed facts?
24-7088 Sam Autry Fletcher v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-04-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-claims evidence-standard federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-discretion statutory-interpretation Does Title 28 U.S.C. §2254(e)(1) provide federal courts discretion to disregard clear and convincing evidence submitted by a state habeas petitioner t…
24-7014 Scott Anthony Williams v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-04-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule federal-courts remand sentencing-guidelines Whether a federal court of appeals may apply the exclusionary rule exception in the first instance on appeal and whether a federal court of appeals sh…
24-1020 Uber Technologies, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, et al. v. Amie Drammeh, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-03-25 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split erie-doctrine federal-courts judicial-prediction procedural-law state-law Whether federal courts can predict changes in state law under Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins
24-6825 Jane Doe v. Jack Dwosh California 2025-03-21 Denied IFP anti-slapp constitutional-rights federal-courts first-amendment petition-clause state-courts Whether anti-SLAPP statutes used in state and federal courts violate First Amendment rights of plaintiffs to petition the courts when even meritorious…
24A750 Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority v. Jeffrey Good, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-01-31 Presumed Complete arm-of-the-state circuit-split eleventh-amendment federal-courts sovereign-immunity state-instrumentality Whether an entity created by a state to perform essential public functions qualifies as an 'arm of the state' entitled to Eleventh Amendment sovereign…
24-796 Missouri, et al. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-01-27 Denied Amici (3) constitutional-interpretation federal-courts judicial-review standing state-sovereignty tenth-amendment Can federal courts second-guess a State's 'reason' for exercising Tenth Amendment authority?
24-787 Marco Destin, Inc., et al. v. Shaul Levy, Individually and as Agent of L&L Wings, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2025-01-24 Denied Response Waived due-process evidence-tampering federal-courts fraud-on-court hazel-atlas judicial-integrity Whether the Supreme Court's ruling in Hazel-Atlas Glass Co. v. Hartford-Empire Co. imposes a mandatory duty on federal courts to vacate judgments tain…
24-617 Joe Alter v. Donald J. Trump District of Columbia 2024-12-05 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment election-integrity electoral-standing federal-courts insurrection-clause voter-rights Whether an ordinary citizen has standing to challenge a former President's qualifications under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment in the Federal courts,…
24-586 Peyman Roshan v. Melanie J. Lawrence, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-11-27 Denied Response Waived civil-enforcement constitutional-standing federal-courts ninth-circuit state-proceedings younger-abstention At what point or points in time should federal courts analyze the factors for application of Younger abstention?
24-587 Scandinavian Airlines System, aka SAS, dba Scandinavian Airlines of North America, Incorporated v. Susan Hardy Fifth Circuit 2024-11-27 Denied due-process federal-courts fifth-amendment foreign-corporation personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment authorizes federal courts to exercise specific personal jurisdiction over a foreign corporation …
24-5875 Dennis Ray Davis, Jr. v. Caddo Department of Public Works, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-10-31 Denied IFP civil-rights federal-courts legal-notice personal-injury property-rights statute-of-limitations Whether lower federal courts should apply Louisiana's one-year personal injury statute of limitations and give effect to Louisiana's special reviews i…
24A426 Garry David Gallardo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-10-30 Presumed Complete article-iii constitutional-courts criminal-jurisdiction federal-courts jurisdiction state-courts Whether Article III of the Constitution limits Congress's power to confer criminal jurisdiction on federal courts within a state's judicial system
24-5801 In Re Frank Edwin Pate 2024-10-24 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-procedure search-warrant Can lower courts delay and deny access to Habeas Corpus while maintaining Constitutional adherence?
24-397 Coastline Commercial Contracting, Inc. v. Baltimore Gas & Electric Company, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-10-09 Denied admiralty-jurisdiction circuit-split federal-courts maritime-law navigational-capacity-test negligence-liability Does the navigational capacity test used by the Fourth Circuit constitute an overbroad expansion of federal admiralty jurisdiction and encroach on Mar…
24-5263 Pedro Rodriguez v. Officer Fisher Ninth Circuit 2024-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus ninth-circuit rule-of-lenity state-court timeliness timeliness-rules Did the Ninth Circuit err in holding that the California Supreme Court's summary denial of a habeas petition as untimely is beyond review by federal c…
24-5238 Robert Castle v. Daniel Akers, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 aedpa federal-courts habeas-corpus houston-v-lack post-conviction-relief prison-mailbox-rule statute-of-limitations Should Federal Courts apply the prison mailbox rule announced in Houston v. Lack, 487 U.S. 266 (1988) to state post conviction pleadings to commence t…
24-135 James G. Robinson, et al. v. Armin Azod, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-06 Denied arbitration-award civil-procedure contract federal-arbitration-act federal-courts forum-clause forum-selection-clause judicial-estoppel manifest-disregard venue venue-selection Whether a litigant's statement accepting 'venue' in a district court can judicially estop that litigant from later seeking to dismiss a new action in …
24-5228 Thomas Waters v. Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al. Third Circuit 2024-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-process amendment civil-litigation civil-procedure court-procedure due-process federal-courts judicial-discretion jurisdiction procedural-rules standing Question not identified
24-5209 Charles S. Renchenski v. Frederic J. Ammerman, Judge, Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Clearfield County Third Circuit 2024-08-01 Denied IFP due-process impartiality objective-bias public-confidence constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-courts judicial-bias third-circuit Has the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the Western District Court for Pennsylvania entered a decision that is in direct conflict with the United S…
24-5186 Issa Doreh v. Unknown Rodriguez, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedies civil-procedure court-of-appeal district-court due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-courts federal-statutes judicial-review standing Whether the district court and court of appeal erred in finding that Doreh had failed to exhaust administrative remedies in count one?
24-5190 Matthew Aaron Safrit v. Mike Slagle, Warden Fourth Circuit 2024-07-31 Denied IFP aedpa civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-review state-courts statutory-interpretation Question not identified
24-5142 Thomas E. Creech v. Tim Richardson, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-07-25 Denied IFP circuit-split competency-to-be-executed death-penalty federal-courts federal-procedure habeas-corpus late-evolving-facts second-or-successive-petition statutory-interpretation successive-petitions Is a federal habeas petition based on late-evolving facts second or successive when it is not based on a claim that the inmate is incompetent to be ex…
24-77 GeLab Cosmetics LLC v. Zhuhai Aobo Cosmetics Co., Ltd., et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-07-25 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) abstention circuit-split civil-procedure colorado-river-doctrine federal-abstention federal-courts judicial-proceedings parallel-proceedings procedural-stay state-court-litigation Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in affirming the district court's stay of federal proceedings under the Colorado River doctrine
24-24 Marcelo Hernandez v. Hassan Alameddine, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-10 Denied 1983-claims 9th-circuit-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction religious-freedom rluipa rluipa-violation tort-claims Does the 9th circuit have power to ignore U.S. Supreme Court ruling in, Felder v. Casey, 487 U.S. 131 (1988)
24-5003 In Re Alfred Lane-Bey 2024-07-03 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process federal-courts human-rights indigenous-rights international-law judicial-review legal-petition standing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
23-1359 Fucich Contracting, Incorporated, et al. v. Shread-Kuyrkendall and Associates, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-07-01 Denied Response Waived appellate-review diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts judicial-federalism legal-reasoning reasoned-opinion state-law supervisory-authority Should a federal court of appeals sitting in diversity be required to issue a reasoned opinion in disposing of a case when that case involves signific…
23-1358 George Stephenson, Warden v. Lafayette Deshawn Upshaw Sixth Circuit 2024-06-28 Denied Response Waived clearly-established-federal-law federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review-28-usc-2254 ineffective-assistance plurality-opinion plurality-opinions state-courts statutory-interpretation supreme-court-holding unreasonable-application Does a rule announced in a four-Justice plurality opinion constitute a holding of this Court, and therefore 'clearly established Federal law' under § …
23-1342 David W. Foley, Jr., et ux. v. Orange County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-26 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment administrative-injunction constitutional-provision due-process federal-courts fourteenth-amendment judicial-determination state-courts state-law Whether the Due Process Clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments require federal and state courts to answer the question of state law that the c…
23-7809 Ruben Gutierrez v. Luis Saenz, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-06-26 Judgment Issued Amici (2)IFP article-iii-standing circuit-split declaratory-judgment due-process federal-courts redressability reed-v-goertz state-official Does Article III standing require a particularized determination of whether a specific state official will redress the plaintiff's injury by following…
23-7793 Jesus M. Romero, Sr., Individually and on Behalf of His Minor Child, J. R. v. Bellevue Hospital, et al. Second Circuit 2024-06-25 Denied IFP administrative-law appellate-review circuit-court civil-rights covid-19 due-process federal-courts free-speech jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation vaccine-mandate Question not identified
23-1317 Jean Dufort Baptichon v. Department of Education, et al. District of Columbia 2024-06-18 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-rights federal-courts federal-jurisdiction forum-non-conveniens personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction transfer venue venue-transfer Personal-jurisdiction-versus-forum-non-conveniens
23-1310 Dean Gross v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-06-14 Denied Amici (1) criminal-custody criminal-law criminal-procedure custody federal-courts federal-escape-statute federal-statutes halfway-house statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit Whether a criminal defendant released to a halfway house is in 'custody' and can commit the crime of escape
23-7655 In Re Jovon Montell Hollowell 2024-06-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-courts government-powers individual-rights jurisdiction legal-precedent standing tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty Can a non-Article III court proceed without consent of the parties?
23-7608 Carney Turner v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion life-sentence sentencing standard-of-review Whether, in federal criminal cases where the district court has imposed a discretionary life sentence, the courts of appeal should employ a de novo st…
23A1053 Jeromy Schiedenhelm v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-24 Presumed Complete circuit-court federal-courts habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief state-conviction writ-petition Whether the federal courts improperly denied a petition for writ of habeas corpus challenging a state court conviction and sentence
23-1234 Konstantinos Zografidis v. Vanessa Richards, Assistant United States Attorney, et al. Second Circuit 2024-05-23 Denied Response Waived bivens bivens-action civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process evidence-fabrication federal-courts federal-procedure judicial-bias standing Did the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals act with bias in failing to reverse the District court's ruling on the Petitioner's civil-rights complaint?
23-7530 Deandre Lenier Neal-Hill v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-right due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus meaningful-review merits-denial procedural-denial reasonable-jurists standing whether-certificate-of-appealability-denial-requires-explanation
23-7519 Willie J. Williams, aka Willie Joe Williams v. Kelvin Malher, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-05-21 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process federal-courts legal-error procedural-due-process standing summary-judgment Did the Federal Court(s) and the Appellate Court(s) error by altering and omitting the Petitioner's first allegation and denying the second docketed a…
23-7510 Tidiane Kone v. Justin Brown, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus indian-law judicial-procedure procedural-default standing state-court Whether a court applied the correct standard in dismissing a complaint alleging a violation of the Indian Civil Rights Act
23-1201 CC/Devas (Mauritius) Limited, et al. v. Antrix Corp. Ltd., et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-08 Judgment Issued Relisted (2) civil-procedure due-process federal-courts foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunities-act minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether plaintiffs must prove minimum contacts before federal courts may assert personal jurisdiction over foreign states sued under the Foreign Sover…
23-1187 Food and Drug Administration, et al. v. R.J. Reynolds Vapor Co., et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-05-02 Judgment Issued Amici (9) administrative-law circuit-court civil-procedure fda fda-authorization federal-courts judicial-review product-distribution standing statutory-interpretation tobacco-regulation Whether a manufacturer may file a petition for review in a circuit (other than the D.C. Circuit) where it neither resides nor has its principal place …
23-1176 Sean Houston, et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-05-01 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims district-court due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction sixth-circuit standing sua-sponte-dismissal subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the court of appeals and district court made erroneous judgments in sua sponte dismissing the complainant's cause of action for lack of subjec…
23-7301 Reginald Burrell v. Sharon Langham, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-25 Denied IFP circuit-conflict civil-rights due-process equitable-relief federal-courts federal-procedure fraud-on-the-court fraudulent-judgments habeas-corpus judicial-discretion supervisory-power Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erred in denying equitable relief against a fraudulent judgment
23-7282 Jeff Baoliang Zhang v. County of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-19 Dismissed IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-violations deprivation-of-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-courts judicial-misconduct Whether federal courts can take serious civil rights violations as frivolous
23-7232 Quotez Tyvick Pair v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitution constitutional-rights covid-19 district-court due-process federal-courts judicial-procedure pandemic-restrictions sixth-amendment speedy-trial Can a United States District Court's general order suspend rights under the Constitution of the United States of America?
23A922 Tiberiu Kiss v. Best Buy Stores, Limited Partnership, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-16 Presumed Complete certiorari federal-courts jurisdictional-deadline petition-filing supreme-court-rules time-extension Whether a federal court may extend the deadline for filing a petition for certiorari beyond the statutory time limit set by Supreme Court rules
23-7226 Michael Lee Villamonte v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-04-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement plea-bargaining Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioner's request to recognize a miscarriage of justice exception to the appellate waiver doctrine conflict …
23-7183 In Re Joshua George Nowland 2024-04-10 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-jurisdiction federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-procedure jurisdictional-challenge legal-standing procedural-mechanism separation-of-powers treason Whether the US Supreme Court has jurisdiction over crimes committed on its property in Washington D.C.?
23-7164 Jason Bryan Cass v. California California 2024-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection federal-courts jurisdiction standing violent-circumstances Was the petitioner's constitutional rights violated?
23-7021 Darron Henderson v. United States Third Circuit 2024-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach divisibility federal-courts mathis-standard modified-categorical-approach state-law statutory-construction third-circuit-test Whether the Third Circuit's test for divisibility is consistent with Mathis
23-7002 Ayoob Wali v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-criminal-law miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing waiver-of-appeal Should the court of appeals recognize a miscarriage-of-justice exception to a waiver-of-appeal provision in a federal criminal defendant's plea agreem…
23-6992 Reynaldo Avila-Gonzalez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-sentencing district-court due-process federal-courts harmless-error judicial-review legal-reasoning presentence-report sentencing standard-of-review Whether a federal court of appeals should vacate the sentence when the district adopts the invalid reasoning of a Presentence Report to resolve a fact…
23-6939 Jaime Dean Charboneau, aka Jaimi Dean Charboneau v. Tyrell Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-03-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence admissibility-of-evidence circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process evidence-standard federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation whether-28-usc-b-2-b-ii-actual-innocence-standard
23-6913 Carl Thompson v. Marjorie K. Allard, Chief Judge, Court of Appeals of Alaska, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion circuit-court civil-procedure complaint-amendment federal-courts futile-amendment futility-standard judicial-discretion procedural-review rooker-feldman standing Was there a violation of the Rooker-Feldman doctrine?
23-967 Quentin Borges-Silva v. Michael S. Regan, in His Official Capacity as Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency District of Columbia 2024-03-06 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights collateral-estoppel due-process eeoc-proceeding employment-discrimination employment-law federal-courts hostile-work-environment wrongful-termination Whether offensive collateral estoppel in a concurrent administrative proceeding is binding in a district court proceeding arising from the same cause …
23-6859 Andrew Smart v. Jamie LaManna Second Circuit 2024-02-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure district-court-procedure due-process evidence federal-courts federal-law habeas-corpus witness-identification Whether the Courts below determination that the witnesses Identification was not unduly suggestive, was contrary to clearly established Federal Taw §2…
23-6862 Yasser AbdelHaq v. Donnie Ames, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex Fourth Circuit 2024-02-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process exhaustion exhaustion-of-remedies federal-courts jackson-v-virginia judicial-review state-courts substantive-review Whether the Petitioner's Federal Constitutional Right to Due Process of Law Was Violated When His Jackson v. Virginia Claim Was Not Substantively Revi…
23-6852 Elisha L. Gresham v. Martin J. O'Malley, Commissioner of Social Security Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ada-compliance administrative-law appeals civil-procedure disability-law federal-courts jurisdiction social-security standing venue Did the Eleventh Circuit Court have legal jurisdiction to hear and rule on this case?
23-6817 Israel Santiago-Lugo v. United States First Circuit 2024-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-rules-criminal-procedure first-circuit judicial-quorum nguyen-v-us notice-of-appeal standing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent Whether the First Circuit's Judgment was a valid decision by a quorum
23-892 Jason Antoine Brock v. Department of Transportation Federal Circuit 2024-02-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law civil-procedure discrimination-claim due-process eeoc equal-employment-opportunity federal-circuit federal-courts judicial-review statutory-interpretation Whether 5 U.S.C. § 7703(b)(2) is fair in allowing 30-days for judicial review
23-843 Robert Michael Miller v. Martin J. Gruenberg, Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-02-06 Denied Response Waived agency-personnel-actions civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts judicial-bias merit-systems-protection-board political-discrimination pro-se pro-se-litigant standing whistleblower-reprisal Whether the district court's errors and abuses demonstrate antagonism toward a pro se litigant and favoritism toward a federal defendant
23-828 Douglas B. Moylan, Attorney General of Guam v. Lourdes Leon Guerrero, Governor of Guam, et al. Guam 2024-02-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) advisory-opinion article-iv-court federal-courts guam judicial-authority justiciability organic-act separation-of-powers Whether the Supreme Court of Guam's advisory opinion constitutes a permissible exercise of the 'judicial authority' that Congress has vested in that c…
23-6586 Devrick Raquan Gail v. Virginia Virginia 2024-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in its application of the legal standard for determining standing to bring a claim
23-6593 Larry Rush, aka Leroy Thomas v. Michael Zaken, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. Third Circuit 2024-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction petition-denial third-circuit Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit err in affirming Mr. Rush's Denial of Habeas Corpus?
23A689 Tremane Wood v. Christe Quick, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-01-25 Presumed Complete appellate-jurisdiction federal-courts final-judgment habeas-corpus rule-60(b) statutory-interpretation Whether a federal appellate court has jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 to review a district court's threshold determination that a Rule 60(b) motio…
23-800 Niki-Alexander Shetty, et al. v. Thomas Block, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-24 Denied civil-procedure consumer-protection contract-law federal-courts rescission statute-of-limitations statutes-of-limitations statutory-construction tila-rescission truth-in-lending-act Can federal courts import state statutes of limitations to bar an action to enforce a timely TILA rescission when TILA itself has no such limitation p…
23A684 Sabrina Gibson v. Thomas F. Roupas, Jr., et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-01-24 Presumed Complete civil-procedure federal-courts motion-to-dismiss pleading-standard rule-12b6 sufficiently-alleged Whether a district court's dismissal under Rule 12(b)(6) for failure to state a claim can be challenged when the court allegedly applied an improperly…
23-6486 Schuyler Algernon Smith v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation criminal-sentencing federal-courts judicial-deference kisor-standard kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent Whether the standard for triggering judicial deference to an agency's interpretation of its own regulations, as clarified in Kisor v. Wilkie, governs …
23-6315 In Re Miguel Antonio Garcia 2023-12-21 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-rights due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirements lower-court-interpretation precedent-analysis res-judicata rooker-feldman standing Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the case based on the Rooker-Feldman doctrine
23A560 Exxon Mobil Corporation v. Connecticut Second Circuit 2023-12-18 Presumed Complete climate-change federal-common-law federal-courts removal-jurisdiction state-law well-pleaded-complaint Whether federal district courts have removal jurisdiction over state-law claims that necessarily arise under federal common law but are artfully plead…
23-642 Kevin Scott Karsjens, et al. v. Jodi Harpstead, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-12-14 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts implied-waiver legal-standard professional-judgment waiver Whether federal courts have a duty to apply the correct legal standard to a due process claim or can the court apply the wrong legal standard based on…
23-594 Christopher M. Hunt v. Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-05 Denied civil-rights constitutional-review federal-court-jurisdiction federal-courts fraud judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdictional-conflict property-rights sovereignty state-court-sovereignty state-courts Which court resolves an irreconcilable conflict of jurisdiction between the federal courts and state courts?
23-6157 Mario Alberto Netro-Perales v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-04 Denied IFP administrative-law circuit-split deference federal-courts federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stinson-v-united-states Whether the circuits have split over the extent of deference that is to be given to the commentaries to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines after the de…
23-6147 Brett Alexander Jones v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections Fifth Circuit 2023-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit habeas-corpus state-courts Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals is required to issue a COA if a state high court has found a substantial showing of a denial of a constitut…
23-580 Lisa O'Brien, et al. v. United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Second Circuit 2023-11-30 Denied anti-terrorism-act damages federal-courts federal-statute preemption state-law statute-of-limitations wrongful-death Whether Congress intended to preempt state wrongful death distribution laws in enacting the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA)
23-6115 Rakeem Barber v. Arizona Arizona 2023-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review constitutional-rights federal-courts federal-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief postconviction-relief state-court-procedure state-courts Is Arizona's collateral review scheme adequate to vindicate the constitutional rights of non-capital defendants?
23-6127 Shawna Karnes, et al. v. Tiffany Montengo, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-11-28 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction fraud-exception judicial-review jurisdiction rocker-feldman-doctrine state-court state-court-judgement Does the federal district court and federal court of appeals have the jurisdiction to reverse or modify a state-court judgement though a fraud excepti…
23-559 Adekunle C. Omoyosi v. Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-11-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appeal-timeliness civil-procedure court-discretion due-process eeoc federal-courts judicial-exception legal-procedure procedural-rules standing timeliness Whether, or under what circumstances, may the court excuse untimeliness of appeal
23-6092 Joe Lawrence Gallegos v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-enterprise criminal-law federal-courts gang-status gang-violence purpose-doctrine self-defense self-preservation statutory-interpretation vicar-murder Whether acting on the immediate instinct for self-preservation constitutes acting for the purpose of 'maintaining or increasing position in an enterpr…
23-549 Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Department of Justice, et al. District of Columbia 2023-11-21 Denied Response Waived administrative-law appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-of-columbia federal-courts judicial-procedure jurisdictional-error subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District Court of Columbia erred in issuing an improper Order stating the Court had no subject matter jurisd…
23A443 Brent Hebert, et al. v. FMC Technologies, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2023-11-16 Presumed Complete federal-courts fifth-circuit litigation-workload tenth-circuit time-extension writ-of-certiorari Whether federal courts can grant extensions of time for filing petitions for writ of certiorari based on counsel's concurrent litigation workload and …
23-6008 Matthew Johnson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-11-14 Denied IFP capital-punishment district-court-discretion docket-control due-process equal-protection federal-courts habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations statutory-limitations Does 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d) require a federal district court to allow the full 1-year period for habeas applications?
23A407 Advocate Christ Medical Center, et al. v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services District of Columbia 2023-11-06 Presumed Complete certiorari counsel-availability federal-courts procedural-rules supreme-court time-extension Whether federal courts may grant extensions of time to file petitions for certiorari beyond the standard 90-day period when counsel faces scheduling c…
23-5919 Wilkinson Oloyede Thomas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals criminal-law drug-enforcement federal-courts sentencing standard-of-review Whether the Fifth Circuit failed to use the standard of review for pill mill cases as established by this Court
23-5846 Jong Whan Kim v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-10-20 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-courts indictment mens-rea plea-hearing rule-11 Is it error for a district court to rely on a defendant's pre-hearing review of the indictment to inform him of the nature of the offense?
23-5847 Mai-Trang Thi Nguyen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federal-courts judicial-review right-to-vote standing statutory-interpretation Whether the federal courts erred in dismissing claims that the 2020 presidential election violated the equal protection clause, due process, and the r…
23-401 Michael Carey v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-10-17 Denied circuit-conflict federal-courts judge-made-exceptions judicial-exceptions legal-remedy state-courts statutory-interpretation suppression-provisions wiretap-act Whether courts lack power to fashion judge-made exceptions to the exceptionless suppression provisions of the Wiretap Act
23-384 Michael Boresky, in His Individual and Official Capacity as a Special Agent for the U.S. Secret Service v. Jeremy Graber Third Circuit 2023-10-12 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appeals appellate-jurisdiction bivens-action civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-courts federal-remedy implied-cause-of-action standing Whether a district court decision fashioning a new implied cause of action under Bivens is immediately appealable
23-386 Tata Consultancy Services Limited, et al. v. Epic Systems Corporation Seventh Circuit 2023-10-12 Denied Response Waived avoided-costs civil-procedure damages due-process economic-harm federal-courts legal-damages punitive-damages trade-secret trade-secrets unjust-enrichment Whether avoided costs are available as unjust enrichment damages
23-5746 James H. Hayes v. Jerry Howell, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standing standing Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying Mr. Hawes' petition for a certificate of appealability concerning the district court's den…
23-5728 Daniel E. Salley v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-10-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process federal-courts federal-district-court habeas-corpus judicial-procedure jurisdictional-challenge standing state-court-review subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the district court correctly dismissed a motion to vacate under 28 U.S.C. 2255 for lack of subject matter jurisdiction
23-5713 Delvarez Long v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-10-04 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process federal-courts rehabilitation rehabilitation-consideration sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation tapia-precedent tapia-v-united-states Does a sentencing court violate the Sentencing Reform Act when it relies on rehabilitation as a reason to impose prison time?
23-5679 Joshua Stephenson v. Robert May, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2023-10-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-discretion due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure procedural-rights standing Whether the discretion of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit to deny a certificate of appealability (COA) under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) is co…
23-291 Edward Little, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Andre' Doguet, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-09-22 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-courts presumptively-innocent pretrial-detention standing younger-abstention Whether Younger v. Harris requires federal courts to abstain from adjudicating constitutional challenges to pretrial detention
23-5560 Anthony Ravon Ruffin v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts jones-v-hendrix judicial-review ninth-circuit rehab-act standing Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals violated the Fifteenth Amendment
23-223 Charles J. Jenkins v. TriWest Healthcare Alliance, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-09-08 Denied Response Waived civil-rights court-procedure due-process federal-circuit federal-courts judicial-authority judicial-review rule-56 separation-of-powers stare-decisis sua-sponte whether-the-triumvirate-overstepped-their-authority
23-5543 Ahmad Jamaleddin Aljindi v. United States Federal Circuit 2023-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation deprivation-of-rights discrimination due-process federal-courts forgery hate-crimes judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice retaliation un-charter Did the United States Federal Government violate the United States Constitution and the Charter of the United Nations when the corrupt Chief Judge of …
23-5368 Larry Scott Reynolds v. Brian Eller, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default sixth-circuit Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in denying petitioner a COA?
23-97 Shannon Daves, et al., on Behalf of Themselves and All Others Similarly Situated v. Dallas County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-02 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-review mootness pretrial-detention standing younger-abstention Whether Younger v. Harvis and its progeny require federal courts to abstain from adjudicating petitioners' constitutional challenges
23-5199 Duron B. Peoples v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2023-07-26 Denied IFP compulsory-process criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts hearsay-exception ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel murder-conspiracy witness-testimony witness-unavailability Is federal due process violated where a federal court concludes that a petitioner's counsel ineffective claim lacks merit because petitioner did not s…
23-5189 Tyree Steele v. United States Third Circuit 2023-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing due-process federal-courts imprisonment judicial-discretion rehabilitation rehabilitative-purpose sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation Whether a district court violates the Sentencing Reform Act's ban on imprisonment as a rehabilitative measure
23-5122 Ronny Deviod Walker v. Amy Robey, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-07-18 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts immunity impeachment judicial-misconduct misconduct pro-se-pleading procedural-rules standing Who may be complained about: where to file a complaint?
23-5108 Cassandra McGuire v. Tennessee, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-07-14 Denied IFP abuse-of-process civil-rights court-jurisdiction due-process federal-courts federal-question injunctive-relief judicial-misconduct judicial-orders section-1983 standing state-agencies Did the Appeals Courts err by Affirming the District Court in complete disregard for the Supreme Court rulings regarding State agencies can be sued fo…
22-7864 Tommy Lee Hubbard, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP circumstantial-evidence civil-rights controlled-substance controlled-substances due-process federal-courts hemp legal-interpretation marijuana marijuana-classification thc-threshold Can the federal courts rely exclusively upon circumstantial evidence to decide that a marijuana substance is illegal, when the circumstances surroundi…
22-7870 Jayson Neil Sparks v. Texas Texas 2023-06-26 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility federal-courts standing state-court-ruling statutory-interpretation Whether the statutory duty to receive a petition for writ of certiorari precludes a court from dismissing such a petition for procedural defects
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 Whether the Fourth Circuit defied the Supreme Court's remand instruction and circumvented 28 U.S.C. § 2254(e)(2)'s limitations on federal court author…
22-1229 Ronnie D. Ward, et al. v. Cross Keys Bank, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-06-22 Denied appellate-review article-iii-court bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-review state-law-claim subject-matter-jurisdiction supervisory-power Should a case removed to bankruptcy court proceed through three levels of federal court without proof of subject matter jurisdiction?
22-7761 Aaron Keith v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-06-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure federal-courts judicial-procedure motion-to-dismiss speedy-trial statutory-right trial-continuance waiver Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that petitioner waived any speedy-trial objection
22-7766 Ramon Ramirez v. United States Second Circuit 2023-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-law criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure district-court federal-courts interstate-commerce jurisdiction second-circuit statutory-interpretation Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in concluding that the district court had jurisdiction based on evidence supporting the interstate c…
22-7714 George M. Lecco v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law district-court federal-courts federal-jurisdiction first-step-act individual-rights state-sovereignty Whether the First Step Act of 2018 changed the jurisdictional boundaries for federal criminal prosecutions, and whether federal courts are obligated t…
22-7665 Demarkus Antonio Brown v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-05-30 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-errors constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure standing Whether the federal courts have jurisdiction to review the merits of this case and issue a memorandum decision
22-7635 Deandre Hykeem Jackson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law divisibility federal-courts federal-law precedent precedent-interpretation statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §1951(a) is divisible into attempted and completed robberies for the purposes of the categorical approach?
22-7590 Jesse Shane Owens v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-05-18 Denied IFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law domestic-violence due-process federal-courts firearm-restrictions second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation Whether courts must assess the elements 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(8) and, if so, whether federal courts must consider a state's own law about the due process…
22-1098 David Parsons Demarest v. Town of Underhill, Vermont, et al. Second Circuit 2023-05-10 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived due-process federal-court-jurisdiction federal-courts property-rights retroactive-application retroactivity statute-of-limitations takings takings-litigation Whether the Court of Appeals erred in refusing to give retroactive effect to Knick v. Township of Scott and Wilkins v. United States
22-1086 Tatyana Evgenievna Drevaleva v. Department of Veteran Affairs, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-05-08 Denied Response Waived appeals civil-procedure court-authority due-process federal-courts federal-rules-civil-procedure jurisdiction procedural-defect service-of-process standing summons-requirements Did both the U.S. District Courts have a right to issue any ruling if the defendant was not properly served?
22-7473 In Re Raj K. Patel 2023-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP cares-act civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-claims-court federal-courts mandamus ordered-liberty standing tucker-act Whether the United States Court of Federal Claims abused its discretion in interpreting its own filing bar and denying the complaint
22-7405 Earl C. Handfield, II v. Bobbi Jo Salamon, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2023-04-28 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland counsel-performance due-process federal-courts legal-burden prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-v-washington Does Brady v Maryland law warrant clarification due to federal courts adding a 'counsel-performance' prong to the Brady analysis which confuses the la…
22-7357 Irina Collier v. Marc Tessier-Lavigne, President of Stanford University, et al. Federal Circuit 2023-04-24 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus standing Whether the habeas corpus petition was properly denied?
22-7307 Darek Lathan v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavits appeal appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process federal-courts judicial-discretion legal-procedure sentencing standing Which guarantee of due process of law is needed to rebut affidavits notarized under seal?
22-993 In Re Krishna Maharaj 2023-04-12 Denied Amici (2) constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process factual-innocence federal-courts federal-procedure habeas-corpus innocence judicial-review Whether the federal constitutional right not to be imprisoned when factually innocent exists and should be defined by the Court
22-987 Polaris Industries Inc., et al. v. Jeremy Albright Ninth Circuit 2023-04-11 Denied abstention-doctrine cafa civil-procedure class-action-fairness-act equitable-jurisdiction federal-courts forum-shopping subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether CAFA's mandatory grant of subject matter jurisdiction and enumeration of limited equitable bases authorizing abstention require district court…
22-7251 Thomas Creighton Shrader v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-competence constitutional-standing criminal-procedure criminal-venue federal-courts federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit-review standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction venue When Congress by Statute has mandatorily set where the criminal Subject Matter Jurisdiction of the offense must be, was the Fourth Circuit in error to…
22-7211 Marco Antonio Aguilar-Medina v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-procedure statute-of-limitations Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals violated Petitioner's constitutional due process rights, as protected by the Fifth Amendment, by (1) denyin…
22-7188 Brian Douglas Rambo v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-04-03 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation constitutional-underpinnings due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas habeas-corpus no-evidence no-evidence-claim sufficiency-of-evidence Is there a conflict among the federal courts on whether Jackson-vs-Virginia-sufficiency-of-evidence-standard-abrogated-Thompson-v-City-of-Louisville-n…
22-955 Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe v. City of Seattle, Washington Ninth Circuit 2023-03-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 28-usc-1447c article-iii article-three-limits federal-courts futility-doctrine jurisdiction remand removal removal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Is the court-created 'futility' doctrine repugnant to Article III?
22-7079 Henry Joseph Stevens v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-statute due-process federal-courts physical-force state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code violent-felony Whether the ACCA's demand for certainty constrains a federal court's interpretation of conflicting state-law decisions
22-7073 In Re Gregory K. Clinton 2023-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts jurisdiction standing Whether the U.S. Constitution and federal statutes allow the Supreme Court to validate the U.S. District Court's dismissal of a civil rights lawsuit d…
22-7043 Jean Montgomery v. Scialla Associates Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process employment federal-courts government-employment Did the court err in its rulings on the representation of the petitioner, the timeliness of the case, the erroneous removal of the petitioner, and the…
22-914 Stanley Waleski v. Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, LLP, et al. Second Circuit 2023-03-20 Denied Relisted (5) circuit-split civil-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction hypothetical-jurisdiction judicial-domain standing state-law-claims steel-co-v-citizens-for-a-better-env't subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a federal court may assume 'hypothetical' subject matter jurisdiction to reach a decision on issues of state law against the party challenging…
22-902 Sara Gonzalez Flavell v. Tracy Jane Marshall, et al. District of Columbia 2023-03-17 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights diversity-jurisdiction due-process federal-courts immunity international-organizations judicial-immunity judicial-power procedural-rights state-action Whether the two federal courts may in this manner and by issuing these rulings deprive a litigant of the right to pursue their state action in state c…
22-909 Kroger Limited Partnership I v. United Food & Commercial Workers, Local 1995 Sixth Circuit 2023-03-17 Denied Response Waived arbitrability arbitration civil-procedure federal-courts judgment-on-pleadings labor-arbitration labor-law pleadings presumption-in-favor-of-arbitrability rule-12c Does the universal standard for judgment on the pleadings apply to a Rule 12(c) motion to compel a labor arbitration or does the general principle of …
22-900 Ganiyu Ayinla Jaiyeola v. Robert Allen Brundage Sixth Circuit 2023-03-16 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction procedural-fairness standing sua-sponte subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a District Court can nullify an existing diversity jurisdiction by doing sua sponte conversion of one of Plaintiff's two witnesses into Plaint…
22-870 Eliezer Taveras v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-10 Denied civil-procedure claim-splitting district-court due-process federal-courts forum-shopping improper-claim-splitting mandamus removal removal-jurisdiction Whether a district court's decision to dismiss with prejudice an action improperly removed from state court is clear and manifest error that should be…
22-847 Virginia Silva-Navarro v. Roosevelt REO PR Corporation First Circuit 2023-03-07 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction due-process executive-power federal-court-jurisdiction federal-courts foreign-entity-litigation jurisdiction precedent standing supreme-court-precedent tax-collection Are lower courts in the federal system to follow the case law of this Honorable Court?
22-6932 In Re Garland Ray Gregory, Jr. 2023-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-courts standing Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
22-6933 John Hessmer v. Robert Bryan, Sheriff, Wilson County, Tennessee Sixth Circuit 2023-03-06 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct judicial-review ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation Whether the Sixth Circuit should be allowed to cover up Judge Crenshaw's violations of Sixth Circuit and Supreme Court precedents by intentionally mis…
22-6921 In Re Oscar Adrian Marquez 2023-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii-standing civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-court due-process federal-courts jurisdiction mandamus Is the failure of a District Court and a United States Court of Appeals to order instant dismissal of the immediate case for lack of Article III Stand…
22-6904 Robert Roderick Stubblefield v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-02 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights court-of-appeals district-court due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-merits petition-review standing writ-of-certiorari Should a COA have been issued and should relief have been granted after review of the merits of all three claims that were raised to the District cour…
22-6894 Hiking Dupre v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari civil-procedure concepcion-case due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction precedent remand supreme-court Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the Fifth Circuit's judgment, and remand for reconsideration in light of this Court's recent decisi…
22-825 James K. Collins v. D.R. Horton-Texas Limited Fifth Circuit 2023-03-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) due-process federal-courts federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment personal-jurisdiction res-judicata rule-60 supremacy-clause takings Can a judgment of a court that lacked personal jurisdiction be the basis for taking property?
22-6882 David Byron Russ v. Florida Florida 2023-02-28 Denied IFP capital-defendant capital-punishment criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus mental-competency review-claim state-court state-courts substantive-incompetency Whether a state court may refuse to review a capital defendant's claim of substantive incompetency?
22-6842 Bharani Padmanabhan v. Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine Massachusetts 2023-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP bedrock-of-jurisprudence court-procedure federal-courts jurisprudence litigation-principle neutral-arbiter party-presentation sineneng-smith state-courts united-states-v-sineneng-smith Does the Principle of Party Presentation apply to state courts?
22-6806 Torrey Dewayne Walker v. Micha Neal, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals circuit-court-conflict civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-appellate-review federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-precedent legal-standing standing supreme-court-jurisdiction Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erred in denying the petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability
22-6767 Travis Ray Thompson v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-02-13 Dismissed IFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure covid-restrictions district-court due-process excusable-neglect federal-courts frap-4 habeas-corpus notice-of-appeal standing Whether the Ninth Circuit abused its discretion in finding that the petitioner had not shown excusable neglect for not filing his Notice of Appeal wit…
22-755 Ganiyu Ayinla Jaiyeola v. Thomas L. Dorwin Sixth Circuit 2023-02-10 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Supreme Court order that Federal Courts of Appeals are obligated to sua sponte review subject-matter jurisdiction issues regardless of the…
22-6731 Lamon Demetrus Wright v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-02-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation confrontation-rights due-process evidence-admissibility federal-courts good-cause good-cause-standard hearsay hearsay-reliability reliability supervised-release What manner of hearsay should be considered 'reliable' when federal courts decide whether the government has established 'good cause' to deny confront…
22-6690 Steven Vernon Bixby v. Bryan P. Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-02-02 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability death-penalty federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-illness Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1), F-R.A.P. 22(b) and this Court's decisions in Miller-El v. Cockrell, 537 U.S. 322 (2003), Barefoot v. Estelle, 463 U.S.…
22-709 DeAngelo Montez Moody v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-01-31 Denied Response Waived aedpa federal-courts habeas-corpus precedent precedential-interpretation state-court-review state-courts strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether Section 2254(d)(1) prohibits lower federal courts from considering precedent from courts other than the Supreme Court in determining whether a…
22-6607 Billy Joe Wolfe, Jr. v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa congress-power congressional-power constitutional-law due-process federal-courts indian-affairs subject-matter-jurisdiction treaty-interpretation treaty-rights Whether the time of filing limitations of Antiterrorism Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) were intended by Congress to prevent consideration of lack…
22-6590 In Re Harry Sharod James 2023-01-20 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure constitutional-law district-court federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-review jurisdictional-challenge mandamus procedural-standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the petitioner is entitled to a writ of mandamus to compel the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and the U.S. District Court for th…
22-670 Pacesetter Consulting, LLC v. Herbert A. Kapreilian, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-01-20 Denied Response Waived arizona-law civil-procedure damages damages-rule federal-courts federal-procedure service-of-process special-appearance statute-of-limitations waiver-doctrine Whether defendants who make a purported 'special appearance' and obtain dismissal from a case without prejudice must be served with an amended complai…
22-6578 Derrick Tyrone Moore v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-19 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute federal-courts generic-offense mens-rea precedent state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation violent-felony Whether there is a reasonable probability of different result if the court below is directed to reconsider its judgment in light of Wooden v. United S…
22-664 Stephen Edward May v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-01-19 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure collateral-consequences federal-courts habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-error standing subject-matter-jurisdiction unconditional-release Whether a judgment rendered after a habeas petitioner has been unconditionally released with no collateral consequences is void for lack of subject-ma…
22-6534 Terry Lynn King v. Tony Mays, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-01-13 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-trial constitutional-error cruel-and-unusual-punishment cumulative-error due-process federal-courts fourteenth-amendment harmless-error judicial-review Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires that courts consider the aggregate effect of multiple legal errors
22-6522 Charvez Brooks v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process federal-courts hobbs-act ineffective-assistance interstate-commerce judicial-discretion jury-instructions reasonable-doubt standard-of-proof Does a federal district court possess meaningful discretion to define 'proof beyond a reasonable doubt' in jury instructions?
22-6507 In Re Michael Kenny Carter 2023-01-10 Denied IFP a.e.d.p.a. aedpa civil-rights congressional-authority due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus innocence innocence-claim procedural-barrier writ-suspension Is the A.E.D.P.A. second or successive provision unconstitutionally suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, as applied to incarcerated individuals wh…
22-6457 Roberto Antoine Darden, aka Dizz-e, aka Javon v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims constitutional-issues constitutional-law district-court-assessment due-process federal-courts judicial-review legal-interpretation procedural-rights standing Whether the district court's assessment of petitioner's constitutional claims are debatable or wrong?
22-590 Sergio Verdu v. Trustees of Princeton University, et al. Third Circuit 2022-12-27 Denied Response Waived federal-courts rule-of-law supervisory-authority third-circuit title-ix title-vii whether-courts-should-issue-not-precedential-opinions
22-6385 Peter Gakuba v. Rob Jeffreys Seventh Circuit 2022-12-22 Dismissed IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts first-amendment-retaliation free-speech habeas habeas-corpus sanctions standing Whether the USCA-7's imposition of a $500 sanction and bar from filing future habeas petitions against Gakuba constitutes a First Amendment retaliatio…
22-6355 Jess Richard Smith v. Sgt. Ellis, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-courts federal-procedure free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief standing Whether Khe Uuth Circo tks (0-722, ORDER Granting CVeseevdeniis _ Metion TO Reveke TH Comme
22-562 Stephen Douglass, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Shingo Alexander Douglass, et al. v. Nippon Yusen Kabushki Kaisha Fifth Circuit 2022-12-19 Denied Amici (3) admiralty-jurisdiction admiralty-law due-process federal-courts federal-rule-civil-procedure fifth-amendment high-seas law-of-nations personal-jurisdiction state-courts Whether the Fifth Amendment imposes the same restrictions on personal jurisdiction by federal courts as the Fourteenth Amendment imposes on state cour…
22-6321 Perry Taylor Armstrong v. Colorado Colorado 2022-12-16 Denied IFP case-determination civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fancrim-fabulet federal-courts legal-application mercer-test standing takings Question not identified
22-6327 Anthony Naquan West v. Texas Texas 2022-12-16 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-review conviction-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus state-court state-courts Whether the state Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas' adjudication denying Petitioner's writ of Habeas Corpus was contrary to or involved an unreasona…
22-6252 In Re James E. Hitchcock 2022-12-08 Denied IFP actual-innocence appeals constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process federal-courts federal-habeas post-conviction state-habeas writ-of-habeas-corpus Whether the federal courts' refusal to hear Mr. Hitchcock's meritorious federal claims amounted to a suspension of the writ
22-6233 Clifton B. Mays v. Kenneth Black, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-courts standing why-were-cox-hogan-county-filers-for-poe-mays-denied-on-sham-legal-process
22-518 Petrobras America Inc., et al. v. Transcor Astra Group S.A., et al. Texas 2022-12-05 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) arbitrability arbitration-clause contract contract-interpretation delegation-doctrine federal-courts judicial-review state-courts superseded-contract superseding-contract Whether the arbitrator or a court must decide whether a contract has been superseded by a subsequent contract
22-6206 Albert Holland, Jr. v. Florida Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judgments judicial-review post-conviction-relief standing Whether a court is required to appeal a district court's denial of a motion for relief from judgment under Rule 60(b)
22-6182 Stacy L. Conner v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-11-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-discretion liberty-interest procedural-fairness standing statutory-interpretation Does the U.S. Supreme Court view habeas-corpus as a static-narrow-formalistic remedy or has its scope grown to achieve its grand purpose the protectio…
22-6139 Lawrence Edward Thompson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-11-22 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process federal-courts jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in its application of the legal standard for determining if a petitioner has standing to bring a claim
22-485 Kenneth Charles McNeil v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-11-22 Denied Response Waived all-writs-act coram-nobis courts-of-equity criminal-judgment criminal-procedure equity evidentiary-hearing federal-courts habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation Whether federal courts of equity had jurisdiction to correct criminal judgments after completion of the sentence, and, if so, whether federal courts v…
22-6105 Eric Malmstrom v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-precedent en-banc federal-courts judicial-review stare-decisis Must a federal court of appeals adhere to the principle of stare decisis and abide by prior circuit precedent absent an intervening decision from this…
22-463 Aenergy, S.A., et al. v. Republic of Angola, et al. Second Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure federal-courts foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity forum-non-conveniens jurisdiction jurisdictional-exception sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation Whether courts may dismiss FSIA suits against foreign sovereign defendants on forum non conveniens grounds
22-433 The Lawyers' Committee for 9/11 Inquiry, Inc., et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General of the United States, et al. Second Circuit 2022-11-08 Denied Response Waived 11-Sep 9-11 article-iii article-iii-standing civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-circuits federal-courts first-amendment grand-jury judicial-remedies standing Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Act Contrary to the Constitution and in Conflict with Decisions of the Supreme Court Whe…
22-6001 Medgar Samuel v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act circuit-split district-court federal-courts federal-statute habeas-corpus procedural-default state-courts Whether a State can forfeit the affirmative defense of procedural default
22-5991 Glenn Randall Ferguson v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-4241 child-pornography competency criminal-competency criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-courts mental-health rule-403 When a district court has found a criminal defendant to be incompetent, is it sufficient to reverse the finding based solely on professional opinions …
22-400 Mark Barinholtz v. HomeAdvisor, Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-10-31 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure federal-courts federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discretion jurisdiction jurisdictional-rules procedural-flexibility timeliness timeliness-doctrine Whether federal courts should follow strict timeliness rules for appellate review or allow flexibility to exercise rights of review in an orderly, rea…
22-392 Bel Air Auto Auction, Inc. v. Great Northern Insurance Company Fourth Circuit 2022-10-26 Denied Response Waived abstention appellate-procedure certification circuit-split civil-procedure deference erie-doctrine federal-courts interlocutory-appeal judicial-deference state-courts state-law-certification Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit violate the principle of Erie v. Thompkins
22-361 BP p.l.c., et al. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore Fourth Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2) civil-procedure climate-change federal-common-law federal-courts federal-jurisdiction greenhouse-gas-emissions interstate-emissions jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether federal common law necessarily and exclusively governs claims seeking redress for injuries allegedly caused by the effect of interstate greenh…
22-5827 Jasmine Perry and Evans Lewis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-materiality brady-v-maryland cooperating-witness due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit kyles-v-whitley materiality rico-indictment suppressed-evidence Can the constitutional right to due process be protected when federal courts regularly apply inconsistent and erroneous standards to determining the m…
22-5812 Sir Mario Owens v. Colorado Colorado 2022-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process extraneous-information federal-courts implied-bias juror-bias mattox-remmer-presumption outside-influence postconviction-proceedings remmer-presumption Whether the presumption of prejudice established in Mattox and Remmer continues to apply to cases involving juror exposure to extraneous information a…
22-5819 Jose Efrain Vega v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-10-12 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default standard-of-review standing Whether the court of appeals properly denied Petitioner's certificate of appealability?
22-5820 S. Patrick Mendel v. Liane Randolph, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as Commissioner, California Public Utilities Commission, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-10-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights congressional-preemption criminal-conduct due-process federal-courts federal-enforcement preemption pro-se-petition public-safety transportation transportation-law Does this pro se case, alleging fatal systemic failures resulting in the continuing preventable murder of innocent citizens, where literally the lives…
22-321 Wilbur Slockish, et al. v. Department of Transportation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-10-05 Dismissed Amici (2) equitable-relief federal-courts federal-land mootness mootness-doctrine native-american-rights nonparties religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act sacred-site sacred-site-preservation Whether the Ninth Circuit's mootness ruling warrants summary reversal
22-5690 Michael G. Peters v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-09-28 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts standing takings Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim
22-5698 Robert L. Davis v. Julian Holt, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 appeal-process civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts forged-document hearing-rights immigration-law judicial-procedure non-citizen-rights standing Does federal Rules of Civil Procedure allow a petitioner to file a non 42 U.S.C. §1983 civil suit in federal court?
22-269 Dawn Moore v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-09-22 Denied Response Waived appointments-clause article-ii civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law federal-courts federal-rule-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-decision judicial-review separation-of-powers Is the application of Fed. R. App P. 2 unconstitutional and violates the appointment provision under Art. II, § 2, cl. 2 of the United States Constitu…
22-5628 In Re Tony Walker 2022-09-20 Denied IFP civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts federal-procedure in-forma-pauperis mandamus procedural-rules seventh-circuit standing standings-blanket-order statutory-interpretation Whether the January 23, 2014 standing blanket order of the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit violates 28 U.S.C. §1651(a) and 28 U.S.C. §1915(e)…
22-5608 Anthony Dewayne Lee Turner v. Patrick Covello, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-09-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus standing state-courts Whether the state court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims due to a procedural default issue
22-5609 Herve Wilmore v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-19 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-review case-law circuit-court civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-delegation procedural-issue Whether the exception to the law of the case doctrine permit a defendant to relitigate an issue that was erroneously decided by the U.S. Court of Appe…
22-5592 Harry Sharod James v. Eddie M. Buffaloe, Jr., Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety Fourth Circuit 2022-09-15 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-interpretation court-authority due-process federal-courts jurisdictional-challenge legislative-power state-courts subject-matter-jurisdiction Does Suloskantial and Procedure Due Process of the 5th and 14th Amendments establish Subject Matter Jurisdiction, and do Courts (Federal and STATE) ha…
22-5557 David Laurence Hodges v. William Bolin, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-09-13 Denied IFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-court federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-discretion reasonable-jurists statutory-interpretation Whether a federal court may find that 'reasonable jurists would not disagree' about the denial of relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2253 where other courts hav…
22-5570 Bernabe Encarnacion v. Anthony J. Annucci, Acting Commissioner, New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, et al. Second Circuit 2022-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim
22-5525 Terron Gerhard Dizzley v. Melvin Garrett Fourth Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 accrual appellate-review civil-rights district-court federal-courts federal-law section-1983 statute-of-limitations supreme-court Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit's affirmance of the District Court's order that state law determines the time of acc…
22-5527 Dora L. Adkins v. Tyson's Lodging, LLC Fourth Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied IFP administrative-law appellate-review circuit-court-affirmance civil-procedure district-court-judgment due-process equal-protection federal-courts legal-sufficiency per-curiam-opinion rule-60-motion standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Erred in the per curiam unpublished opinion and/or Judgment
22-5503 Jose Vargas-Soto v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-09-02 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge direct-appeal due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus johnson-decision procedural-default residual-clause sentencing vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether the doctrine of procedural default bars a court from granting relief to a defendant whose conviction and sentence were predicated on an uncons…
22-5478 Lesester Duva McDaughtery v. Tammy Foss, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process false-evidence federal-courts foreign-policy habeas-corpus inherent-authority judicial-proceedings post-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct state-court-proceedings Whether the Judiciary Act of 1789 and the inherent authority of federal courts to control their own proceedings sanctions a federal court's dismissal …
22-5419 Erika Jacobs v. Geisinger Wyoming Medical Center Third Circuit 2022-08-22 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts standing statutory-interpretation Whether the United States Court of Appeals erred in its decision
22-5407 In Re James R. Austin 2022-08-19 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-precedent miscarriage-of-justice procedural-mechanism rule-60b-motion standing supreme-court supreme-court-holding Whether the Supreme Court's holding in Gonzalez v. Crosby controls and must be followed by respondents
22-5261 Yusuf O. Bush v. David J. Ebbert District of Columbia 2022-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment federal-courts habeas-corpus standing statutory-interpretation Whether the AEDPA of 1996 violates the Constitution of the United States as to the 1st Amendment and 5th Amendment
22-112 Simonetta Vespucci Sutton v. Mountain High Investments, LLC, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-08-04 Denied civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judgment-amendment jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss motion-to-remand removal standing Whether the district court erred in denying petitioner's motion to remand
22-5291 Barton Ray Gaines v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-08-04 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review reasonable-jurists recusal rule-60b-motion standard-of-review substantial-showing Whether GAINES made a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right
22-5268 Anthony Peters v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process federal-court-jurisdiction federal-courts habeas-corpus limitations-defense petition-dismissal procedural-timeliness state-court-review state-courts timeliness Whether a federal court lacks authority, on its own initiative, to dismiss a habeas petition as untimely, once the State's highest court has answered …
22-5255 Selwin Martin v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2022-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus procedural-timeliness statute-of-limitations third-circuit writ-petition Whether the District Court and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the Petitioner's Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus as untimel…
22-5196 Malik Holloway v. United States Second Circuit 2022-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law due-process federal-courthouse federal-courts mens-rea statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness weapon-possession Whether 18 U.S.C. §930(e)(1) is unconstitutionally vague
22-78 Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al. v. Curtis Ulleseit, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-27 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts federal-preemption fraudulent-joinder jurisdictional-review preemption summary-inquiry Whether courts may refuse to perform more than a summary inquiry to determine if defendants are fraudulently joined due to a pure issue of federal law
22-5159 Eddie Lamont Lipscomb v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP armed-career-criminal-act demand-for-certainty federal-courts mens-rea state-criminal-law state-law statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code violent-felony When evaluating whether a state-law offense satisfies the Armed Career Criminal Act's definition of a 'violent felony,' 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B), fede…
22-5166 In Re DeVinche Javon AlBritton 2022-07-22 Denied IFP appeals constitutional-law due-process federal-appeals federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review mandamus procedural-standard standing Should the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit be required to articulate the court's grounds for granting or denying authorization t…
22-59 Paul Nunu v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-07-21 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment ab-initio constitutional-challenge due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction first-amendment privileges-or-immunities rooker-feldman state-court-judgments void-ab-initio Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars inferior Federal Courts from voiding State Court judgments that are void ab initio under State and Federal la…
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…
22-5111 Robert Doyle Harper v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-law defendant-rights due-process federal-courts federal-criminal-procedure judicial-review miscarriage-of-justice waiver Whether appellate waivers in federal criminal cases contain an implied exception for judgments that represent a miscarriage of justice?
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 Whether a prima facie case under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act or 18 U.S.C. § 1512 establishes a clear and indisputable right t…
22-18 Cuker Interactive, LLC v. Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP Ninth Circuit 2022-07-06 Denied CVSGAmici (2)Relisted (2) bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure case-law choice-of-law circuit-split federal-courts federal-jurisdiction forum-state judicial-interpretation substantive-law Whether federal courts must apply forum state or federal choice-of-law rules in bankruptcy cases
22-5014 Willie Johnson v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-07-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP case-law civil-rights constitution constitutional-interpretation dismissal district-court due-process election federal-courts judicial-procedure legal-standards standing Whether the District Court for the District of South Carolina erred in dismissing the case on the ground that the petitioners lacked standing to chall…
21-8259 In Re Johnny Brett Gregory 2022-06-29 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process federal-courts federal-tort-claims-act habeas-corpus mandamus ninth-circuit standing united-states-court-of-appeals writ-of-certiorari Should this court issue a writ of mandamus ordering the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit to issue a writ of mandamus
21-8222 Abdur-Rashid Muhammad v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts fifth-amendment judicial-discretion leave-to-amend pro-se pro-se-litigants standards-of-practice standing Whether the Fifth Amendment prohibits federal courts from holding pro se litigants to the same stringent standards as attorneys
21-8182 Reuben Conway v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction indictment indictment-defect jurisdiction mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation Whether an indictment's failure to charge the essential mens rea element renders federal courts without jurisdiction
21-8164 Michael L. Pinkney v. Kenneth Black, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-06-16 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure due-process federal-courts judicial-misconduct standing Whether the district court legally dismissed the appeal without a hearing, in violation of due process
21-8107 Keith Undray Ford v. Suzanne M. Peery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP adjudication criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-statute habeas-corpus legal-interpretation presumption-of-innocence presumption-of-law state-court state-courts When an issue before a state court is resolved by an assumption of fact, as opposed to a factual finding, has the issue before the state court been 'a…
21-1541 Quannah L. Harris v. Jerry Biddle, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-06-08 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-filing due-process equitable-relief federal-courts federal-rules judicial-discretion procedural-limitations standing Does Rule 4(a)(6) of the Rules of Appellate Procedure limit equitable relief as it is part of the broad powers granted to the Federal Courts?
21-8084 Frank Jarvis Atwood v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-06-07 Denied Amici (1)IFP as-applied-challenge comity constitutional-challenge eighth-amendment execution-protocol federal-courts federalism inmate-standing method-of-execution standing Whether federal courts may direct specific alterations to a state's execution protocol in an as-applied challenge under the Eighth Amendment
21-8061 Barbrie Logan v. MGM Grand Detroit Casino Sixth Circuit 2022-06-06 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights discrimination-claim due-process eeoc-exhaustion employment federal-courts indigent-plaintiff legal-representation pro-se summary-judgment title-vii Who has responsibility to inform indigent pro se complainant of right to counsel in Title VII action?
21-1512 San Bernardino County District Attorney, et al. v. Kevin Cooper, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-06-02 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights death-penalty due-process federal-courts governor-powers judicial-intervention ninth-circuit standing state-law Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit improperly denied Petitioners intervention in death-penalty-litigation
21-8013 In Re Mark Stinson 2022-06-01 Denied IFP administrative-law circuit-court circuit-executive civil-procedure court-of-appeals federal-courts federal-statute judicial-administration mandamus statutory-interpretation Whether the Circuit Executive Staff of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit is in violation of 28 U.S.C. § 1361
21-8015 Jeffrey Kinzle v. Eric Jackson Ninth Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure court-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-reasoning state-courts statutory-interpretation supreme-court Whether a federal court may 'look through' to review the decision of an inferior court when the high court offers additional reasoning
21-7961 Patrick Glenn Goodwin v. Marion Spearman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP but no text of a SCOTUS petition was provided in I cannot generate a question presented or identif I cannot generate the question presented or ident please include the full text of the document. please include the full text of the petition. constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus knowing-and-intelligent-waiver right-to-testify Whether a trial court must obtain an on-the-record waiver of the right to testify in one's own defense
21-7888 Evelyn Howell Massey v. Biola University, Inc. California 2022-05-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim
21-7851 Joseph Chhim v. City of Houston, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-05-12 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights civil-rights-act discrimination employment employment-discrimination employment-terms federal-courts protected-status statutory-interpretation title-vii workplace-conditions Are the 'terms, conditions, or privileges of employment' covered by Section 703(a)(1) limited only to hiring, firing, promotions, compensation, and le…
21-7760 William James Siskos v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-05-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts fraud fraud-prevention judicial-process misconduct misrepresentation pro-se-litigants Did the Supreme Court err in holding that the federal courts have the right and the duty to protect themselves from fraud, misrepresentation and misco…
21-7740 Michael G. Peters v. Texas Children's Hospital, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-04-28 Dismissed IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts standing Whether the United States District Court for the District of Columbia erred in dismissing petitioners' complaint for lack of standing and failure to s…
21-7693 Kenneth R. Heddlesten v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied IFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus plain-error rule-60b4 timeliness Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals' policy of reviewing plain error only prevents appellate counsel from raising all claims of error in a …
21-1366 Ashwani Sheoran v. Walmart Stores East, LP, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-04-21 Denied Response Waived appellate-discipline attorney-discipline circuit-split civil-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-procedure notice-requirements rule-11 show-cause-order Whether Fed. R. Civ. P. 11 requires the specific offending statements to be listed in the show cause order
21-7680 In Re Israel Romero 2022-04-21 Denied IFP abeyance administrative-law appellate-review case-suspension civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts fourth-circuit judicial-discretion legal-procedure standing Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err by placing this case in abeyance pending a decision in an unrelated case?
21-7650 Nathan Terry v. Kevin Ransom, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2022-04-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts standing Whether the United States District Court for the Eastern District violated 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circu…
21-7562 Michael Tyler v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-04-06 Denied IFP administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-review civil-rights due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus regulatory-compliance state-court-decisions statutory-interpretation Whether the Court of Appeals misapplied 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) in denying the petitioner's claim that the state court's decision was contrary to or an un…
21-7565 Brandon James Lee v. Eddie M. Buffaloe, Jr., Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-04-06 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discretionary-review district-court due-process federal-courts fifth-amendment habeas-corpus standing Whether the district court's fact-finding procedures were unduly prejudicial and denied petitioner a constitutional right
21-7532 Palani Karupaiyan v. International SOS, et al. Third Circuit 2022-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conley-v-gibson copyright-ownership federal-courts federal-procedure federal-statute joint-employment pleading-standards remedies software-engineering sullivan-v-little-hunting-park whether-the-plaintiff's-allegation-of-joint-employers-not-paying-is-enough-for-fcp-rule-8(a)'s-short-and-plain-statement-requirement
21-7517 Damilola Animashaun, aka Damilola Animshaun v. Correctional Officer Regner Second Circuit 2022-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing the complaint and disregarding the merits of the lawsuit
21-7478 Derrick Jerome Spencer v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-03-28 Denied IFP 1st-amendment capital-punishment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts standing takings Whether Bikoner is being deprived of his civil rights by the capital courts' denial of due process of law
21-1290 Joseph Ferrari v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-24 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process federal-courts federal-tort-claims-act feres-doctrine immunity intentional-misconduct scope-of-employment Is lying by a US employee to undermine the boss outside the scope of employment and therefore prevents US substitution into a suit for the liar and th…
21-1248 Snoqualmie Indian Tribe v. Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-15 Denied Amici (4)Response Waived congressional-action constitution executive-branch federal-courts indian-treaty-rights issue-preclusion Whether the federal courts have the constitutional authority to unilaterally abrogate all rights guaranteed to an Indian tribe under a treaty with the…
21-7276 Julio Rodriguez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus harmless-error residual-clause standing unconstitutional-vagueness Whether a certificate of appealability can be issued despite controlling circuit authority to the contrary
21-7247 Kevin Herriott v. Lieutenant Jackson Fourth Circuit 2022-03-02 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-amendments court-of-appeals due-process evidence federal-courts federal-rules legal-mail mail-room standing statutory-provisions Whether the claimant is entitled to offer evidence to support his claims?
21-1191 Gabriel Gonzalez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-02-28 Denied appellate-review article-iii article-iii-power federal-courts in-forma-pauperis prison-litigation-reform-act statutory-interpretation strikes ultra-vires Whether federal district courts exceed their statutory or Article III power by issuing proclamations that their dismissal 'counts as a 'strike' within…
21-7219 Lorenzo Suttles v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 compassionate-release criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure federal-courts first-step-act miscarriage-of-justice sentencing-reduction sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation Whether a pre-FSA defendant's circumstances changed by Congress's clarification of §924(c) may constitute extraordinary and compelling reasons for com…
21-7165 Bernard Middleton v. Brittany Greene, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-02-22 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment amendment-violations article-1-section constitutional-violations dismissal-without-prejudice dismissals-without-notification due-process federal-courts preliminary-hearing Whether the federal courts erred in denying the petition for writ of certiorari despite the petitioner's claims of due process violations, lack of pre…
21-7050 Guy Cozzi v. New York State Workers' Compensation Board, et al. Second Circuit 2022-02-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection federal-courts judicial-review necessary-and-proper-clause rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing supreme-court-discretion Whether Section 25 of the Judiciary Act of 1789 violates the Constitution
21-1039 In Re Gregory Charles Kapordelis 2022-01-26 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1291 28-usc-2253 appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure extraordinary-writ federal-courts mandamus recusal recusal-orders statutory-jurisdiction Whether this Court should issue a writ of mandamus
21-6836 Daniel Locus v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2022-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP credibility criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification federal-courts judicial-review state-court-review state-courts wrongful-conviction wrongful-convictions Did the District Court's ruling consistent with the holdings in Neil v. Biggers
21-6880 In Re Allen Fitzgerald Calton 2022-01-18 Dismissed IFP civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus standing state-prisoner successive-petition successive-petitions unreasonable-application Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals was original habeas corpus jurisdiction over a second or successive habeas petition filed by a state prisoner who wa…
21-6862 In Re Daniel Jones 2022-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process extraordinary-circumstances extraordinary-relief federal-courts filing-requirements judicial-procedure mandamus prisoner-rights standing is-petitioner-entitled-to-immediate-relief
21-997 Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. v. Arizona Attorneys for Criminal Justice, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-13 Denied Amici (1) civil-procedure civil-rights declaratory-judgment federal-courts first-amendment free-speech injunctive-relief standing state-criminal-proceedings state-sovereignty younger-abstention Does Younger apply when a federal claim is derivative of a claim that could be brought in ongoing state court proceedings or does Younger also require…
21-963 Neil McNaughton v. Eric Adams, Mayor of the City of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2022-01-04 Denied civil-rights due-process erickson-precedent federal-courts federal-procedure judicial-accountability judicial-reasoning pleadings pro-se-pleading standing twombly twombly-plausibility Does the persistent misapplication of the Twombly plausibility test by Federal judges invariably lead to a violation of this Court's mandate in Ericks…
21-6748 Jose Luis Wong v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-30 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-courts habeas-corpus hobbs-act procedural-default vagueness-doctrine Whether attempted Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence
21-6658 Donald Ray Johnson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-sentencing guideline-commentary judicial-deference judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether federal sentencing courts are bound by the illustrations found in Guideline Commentary?
21-6641 Choo Washburn v. Juana Quico Clark Fourth Circuit 2021-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts standing Question not identified
21-837 Robert Bohanon, et al. v. Jacqueline Lawrence, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-08 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure district-court federal-courts interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction qualified-immunity summary-judgment Whether a federal court of appeals has jurisdiction over an immediate appeal from a denial of qualified immunity
21-6518 Kassie Bond Carpenter v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional criminal-procedure federal-courts guideline sentencing statutory Whether application of 18 U.S.C. §3147 increases the total range of imprisonment to which the defendant may be subject?
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 Has a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying the relevance of the resetting of the end date for the filing of the Notice of Appeal under FRAP …
21-6422 Jake Rader v. Darrell Miller, Warden Virginia 2021-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus prisoner-rights standing Whether the petitioner's writ of habeas corpus was properly denied
21-6418 Emmanuel Ashemuke v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law circuit-split due-process federal-courts federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-deference legal-interpretation plain-meaning plain-meaning-rule sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether federal courts should defer to the Commentary of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines when it expands the definition of a term used in the text o…
21-6337 Kendall K. Magee v. Gloria Perry, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-remedies civil-rights due-process exhaustion-requirement federal-courts prison-litigation-reform-act prisoner-litigation prisoner-rights Whether a prisoner must proceed to the final step of the administrative grievance process to meet the exhaustion requirement of the Prison Litigation …
21-6274 Ricky Rivera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights due-process federal-courts standing supervisory-powers Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit conflicts with decisions of this Court and creates a split in the Cir…
21-6197 Lance Arnold Kingbird v. Vicki Janssen, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability circuit-split federal-court-procedure federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review reasonable-jurists similar-facts statutory-interpretation Whether a federal court may find that 'reasonable jurists would not disagree' about the denial of relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2253 where other courts hav…
21-6184 Mark Bitzan v. Chris Tripp, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review court-discretion court-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel petition-for-rehearing Where the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eight Circuit granted permission to file an overlength Petition for Rehearing and then denies the Petition for…
21-655 Max Ray Butler v. S. Porter, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-11-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) adequate-medical-care bivens bivens-remedy civil-rights constitutional-rights eighth-amendment federal-courts federal-prisoner federal-prisoners medical-care Whether Bivens remedies are categorically unavailable to federal prisoners in any other context
21-6101 Paul D. Timms v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-10-27 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-standard civil-rights constitutional-claim district-court-review due-process federal-civil-procedure federal-courts habeas-corpus standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent When a federal district court denies a state prisoner's 28-U.S.C.-2254-petition based upon an improper standard-of-review
21-5940 Jovani Jacobo v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-10-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP compassionate-release criminal-justice extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-reasons federal-courts federal-prisoners judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation Whether § 3582(c)(1)(A) permits sentencing courts to consider personal observation and anecdotal data in deciding motions for compassionate release
21-5907 In Re Matthew James Leachman 2021-10-06 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights court-of-appeals discrimination due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit judicial-conduct judicial-ethics legal-review procedural-compliance Whether the Honorable Priscilla R. Owen, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, failed to comply with the mandatory …
21-5865 Glen Plourde v. Maine, et al. First Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-abuse pro-se pro-se-litigant standing torture Does the continual disenfranchisement of the Petitioner by The Federal Courts' violate the Petitioner's Fifth Amendment Constitutional rights to Subst…
21-5876 Under Seal v. Virginia Board of Medicine Fourth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP abstention civil-rights comity constitutional-rights due-process fair-hearing federal-courts federalism state-agency younger-abstention Whether Younger and its progeny permit federal courts to abstain, on the basis of general principles of comity and federalism, from hearing Constituti…
21-481 Betty R. Shipley v. Helping Hands Therapy, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-30 Denied appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure federal-courts jurisdiction notice-of-removal procedural-defect remand removal reply statutory-authority Whether the court of appeals has jurisdiction to review an order remanding a case to state court based on a procedural defect, when the plaintiff file…
21-5796 Larry E. Clark v. Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development, et al. Louisiana 2021-09-29 Dismissed IFP appellate-review civil-rights condemnation due-process federal-courts federal-procedure jurisdiction standing state-courts state-law Whether 28 U.S.C. Section 1257(a) mandates this Court to consider the jurisdiction of this Court and the jurisdiction of the state appellate court, an…
21-5691 Juan Guzman Zuniga, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-17 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule federal-courts fourth-amendment habeas-corpus probable-cause search-and-seizure standing warrantless-search Whether the denial of a writ of habeas corpus by the district court was proper
21-5651 Taniko C. Smith v. Brian E. Williams, Sr., Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-09-13 Denied IFP civil-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-habeas habeas-corpus judicial-deference jurisprudence ninth-circuit state-court state-law supreme-court-precedent Does a federal habeas court owe deference to a state's wider jurisprudence when a state court arbitrarily fails to follow its own law?
21-5616 Felix Antequera Rivera, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts judicial-review legal-interpretation procedural-safeguards separation-of-powers standing Whether the court below erred in allowing the petitioner to bring a claim for a writ of mandamus
21-5601 Abdullah Hamidullah v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP colloquy constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts guilty-plea motion-to-withdraw plea-bargaining rule-11 sentencing Did the district court violate the defendant's substantial due process rights during the mandatory Rule 11 colloquy?
21-328 Robyn Morgan v. Sundance, Inc. Eighth Circuit 2021-09-01 Judgment Issued Amici (10)Relisted (2) arbitration arbitration-waiver circuit-split contract-law equal-treatment equal-treatment-principle federal-courts litigation-conduct prejudice prejudice-requirement state-courts waiver Does the arbitration-specific requirement that the proponent of a contractual waiver defense prove prejudice violate this Court's instruction that low…
21-5554 Joseph H. Gibbs v. South Carolina South Carolina 2021-09-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-standard due-process federal-courts fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus harmless-error standing state-court-process state-courts Whether the state court abrogated this court's constitutional holdings in its application of the legal standard of 'fundamental fairness shocking to u…
21-5479 Francisco Almanza-Garcia v. Rick Coursey, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2021-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act federal-courts federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-motion post-conviction-relief procedural-timeliness state-post-conviction-review statutory-interpretation Does the plain meaning of 'properly filed' in 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d) include a timely filed motion for the determination of the state appellate court's j…
21-5422 Jeffrey Alan Olson v. United States, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-08-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-selection due-process federal-courts federal-procedure judicial-independence judicial-selection standing Judicial-selection
21-207 Behrman Capital IV, L.P., et al. v. Thomas E. Reynolds, Trustee Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-12 Denied derivative-jurisdiction federal-courts lambert-run-coal-co-v-baltimore-o-r-co personal-jurisdiction removal state-courts subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the derivative jurisdiction doctrine precludes federal courts from exercising personal jurisdiction following removal from state courts that l…
21-146 Christine Clifford, as Administrator of the Estate of John Clifford, et al. v. Richard Federman, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-03 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure federal-courts federal-rules-of-civil-procedure pleading-standard pleadings rule-12 rule-8 shotgun-pleading twombly-and-iqbal Whether the Eleventh Circuit's 'shotgun pleading' rule used to strike pleadings with prejudice directly conflicts with the Twombly and Iqbal standard …
21-5176 De'Undre Rashad Robert Turner v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied IFP 4th-amendment federal-courts noncriminal-violation reasonable-suspicion seizure state-courts Whether a seizure can be initiated upon reasonable suspicion of a noncriminal violation
21-5179 Stanford R. Coleman v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-avoidance court-jurisdiction due-process federal-courts federal-state-conflict judicial-review legal-interpretation standing state-courts statutory-interpretation Whether this Court is required to consider the doctrine of Constitutional Avoidance
21-5186 Mihran Melkonyan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law auer-deference circuit-split deference federal-courts judicial-interpretation regulatory-interpretation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether Auer deference applies to the Sentencing Guidelines
21-86 Axon Enterprise, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-22 Judgment Issued Amici (15)Relisted (9) administrative-law constitutional-challenge constitutional-law federal-courts federal-trade-commission judicial-review jurisdiction removal-protections separation-of-powers Whether Congress impliedly stripped federal district courts of jurisdiction over constitutional challenges to the Federal Trade Commission's structure…
21-5155 Michael Wayne Shellito v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-discretion postconviction-proceedings standard-of-review Whether the petitioner has demonstrated that jurists of reason could disagree with the federal courts' resolution of his constitutional claims or that…
21-17 David Hargreaves v. Nuverra Environmental Solutions, Inc., aka Heckmann Corporation, aka Rough Rider Escrow, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) abstention-doctrine article-three-jurisdiction bankruptcy bankruptcy-law case-jurisdiction equitable-mootness federal-courts judicial-abstention jurisdiction reorganization-plan Whether the doctrine of equitable mootness is inconsistent with the federal courts' 'virtually unflagging' obligation to hear and decide cases within …
20-8474 Glen Plourde v. Maine, et al. First Circuit 2021-07-01 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts geneva-conventions international-law judicial-discretion pro-se-litigation standing torture Does the continual refusal of the Federal Court System to address the judicially noticeable fact that the Petitioner has been Tortured and has suffere…
20-8420 Jimmie O'Neal v. Jay Christensen Ninth Circuit 2021-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-delay district-court-merits due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-discretion ninth-circuit procedural-timeliness standing Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying a certificate of appealability based solely on the untimely filing of the petition due to …
20-8405 Robert Allen Vestal v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure deference federal-courts judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors?
20-1701 Walter P. Vargo, Jr. v. D & M Tours, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1631 civil-procedure court-discretion court-of-appeals federal-courts interest-of-justice jurisdiction jurisdiction-transfer procedural-rules statutory-interpretation transfer Whether 28 U.S.C. §1631 requires a court to transfer a case when it finds a lack of jurisdiction and it is in the interest of justice to do so
20-8231 Kevin Thomas Seigler v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-06-04 Denied IFP appellate-review burden-of-proof circuit-split conspiracy criminal-conspiracy criminal-law drug-distribution due-process federal-courts single-transaction Is evidence of a single sale of illegal drugs, from one seller to one buyer, sufficient to support a conviction for conspiracy to distribute illegal d…
20-1671 Chi Ping Patrick Ho v. United States Second Circuit 2021-06-02 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure federal-courts foreign-corrupt-practices-act indictment money-laundering prosecution-exemption reference-canon statutory-interpretation Whether a federal court may decline to apply the reference canon to the money laundering statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1956, which makes specific reference to …
20-1675 Melvin L. Phillips, Individually and as Trustee for Melvin L. Phillips, Sr., et al. v. Oneida Indian Nation Second Circuit 2021-06-02 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived deed-validity discovery federal-courts indian-nation jurisdiction land-jurisdiction land-ownership necessary-party state-involvement state-sovereignty tax-map trust-property Can the federal court exercise jurisdiction over this case when the land is listed on a tax map and the tax rolls in the name of New York State?
20-8183 Themba Bernard Sanganza v. Warden, Allenwood FCI Third Circuit 2021-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitution-supremacy constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-courts federalism governmental-branches judicial-review legislative-precedence separation-of-powers state-sovereignty Does the Constitution take precedence over other forms of legislation?
20-8144 Tamara Rouhi v. Kettler, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-05-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-courts fourth-circuit injustice judicial-procedure motion-to-dismiss standing There has been no redress of my grievance
20-8145 Tamara Rouhi v. Comcast Cable Communications, LLC Fourth Circuit 2021-05-26 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-courts federal-procedure injustice judicial-review motion-to-dismiss standing There has been no redress of my grievance
20-8131 Brent Lang v. Erica Huss, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-requirements CERTIORARI IS APPROPRIATE WHERE THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS SHOULD HAVE GRANTED A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY IN AT LEAST ONE OF THE QUESTIONS…
20-8084 Gregory Brown v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law federal-courts federal-procedure mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether 28 U.S.C. § 994(h)(2)(B) and the definition of a 'controlled substance offense' in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) require that a defendant's prior offens…
20-1611 Healthcare Distribution Alliance, et al. v. Letitia James, Attorney General of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2021-05-19 Denied Amici (2) circuit-split federal-courts fees-vs-taxes opioid-stewardship-act public-benefit regulatory-fee state-law state-tax tax-injunction-act Whether the New York Opioid Stewardship Act's surcharge is a 'tax' within the meaning of the Tax Injunction Act
20-1590 Audrey L. Kimner v. Capital Title of Texas, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-17 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-courts federal-jurisdiction mortgage-fraud standing Whether the California Federal District Court and Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals deprived petitioner of rights under 18 U.S.C. § 242, equal protection…
20-1557 Davendra Anand v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Second Circuit 2021-05-10 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure federal-courts international-law jurisdiction lower-courts treaties Whether the lower courts erred in ruling they lacked jurisdiction over claims arising under treaties
20-7956 Bryan Montalvo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines appellate-jurisdiction criminal-procedure downward-departure federal-courts judicial-discretion motion-for-departure sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation Whether a circuit court of appeals has jurisdiction to review the denial of a motion for downward departure?
20-7957 Kelley Keller v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-05-07 Denied IFP aedpa circuit-split civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling federal-courts habeas habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations Whether courts should employ the 'stop clock' method or require a showing of diligence throughout the entire tolling period for equitable tolling of A…
20-7936 Jose Oribel Ponce-Ulloa v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-courts federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines temporal-connection ussg-2d1.1 weapon-possession Whether a sentencing court can add two offense levels for possession of a weapon under USSG § 2D1.1(b)(1) when the gun is not used nor present in the …
20-1537 Terence K. Dickinson v. HSBC Bank USA, N.A., et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-04 Denied Response Waived congressional-act constitutional-law federal-courts federalism judicial-review legal-interpretation legislative-authority legislative-intent separation-of-powers statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether the [Act] passed by Congress is to be adhered to by the United States Federal Courts, or whether the lower court was correct in relegating the…
20-7862 In Re Momolu V. S. Sirleaf, Jr. 2021-04-27 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions court-review due-process federal-courts immigration-law jurisdiction standing state-courts statutory-provisions Does the AE DPA rescedoraly ar veld Sodgmer C8) dis
20-7745 Ronald R. Myles, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process federal-courts jurisdiction standing state-courts Whether the federal district court violated the Due Process Clause by failing to allow the petitioner to fully litigate his claims
20-7688 Roderick B. Lewis v. Florida Florida 2021-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus independent-state-ground procedural-default standing state-court Can a state's procedural default rule preclude a federal court from reviewing a defendant's federal constitutional claims?
20-7646 Kennis Earl Gatson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-04-01 Denied IFP actual-innocence district-court due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit habeas-corpus procedural-bar schlup-exception schlup-v-delo standard-of-review Did the Fifth Circuit err in deferring to the district court finding that petitioner's Schlup v. Delo exception to overcome the procedural bar was not…
20-7528 Jonathan Figueroa-Serrano v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-03-22 Denied IFP appellate-review conditional-plea criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-rules harmless-error plea-bargaining sentencing In conditional plea appeals, is an error harmless when (1) the error did not affect the defendant's choice to plead guilty; or (2) the error did not a…
20-1301 Kenneth Charles McNeil, aka Chip v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-03-19 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 all-writs-act coram-nobis equitable-relief federal-courts federal-equity judicial-discretion statutory-interpretation united-states-v-morgan writ-of-relief Whether the federal courts have the proper standard for granting coram nobis relief
20-7493 Jose Luis Sanchez, Jr. v. Donald Holbrook, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP anti-terrorism-act article-iii constitutional-interpretation federal-courts federal-judicial-power federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-power state-court state-court-review Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2254(d) of the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) is unconstitutional
20-1292 Parts Galore L.L.C., et al. v. Jacqueline Harrison Sixth Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation americans-with-disabilities-act auer-deference chevron-deference federal-courts judicial-review regulatory-guidance statutory-interpretation Should this Court overrule Kisor v. Wilkie, Auer v. Robbins and Bowles v. Seminole Rock & Sand Co. and direct federal courts to stop giving deference …
20-7441 Konstantin Rudenko v. Raymond Shanley, Superintendent, Coxsackie Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2021-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts free-speech standing Did the federal district court err in dismissing the petitioner's claims under the First Amendment and the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendm…
20-7408 Trystan Keun Napper v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-courts judicial-discretion legal-interpretation plain-error standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b) permits courts of appeals to grant appellate relief in the absence of error shown by binding preceden…
20-7409 Eduardo Pena-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure deference federal-courts judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors?
20-1252 Stephen J. Simoni v. Jersey Shore University Medical Center, et al. Third Circuit 2021-03-10 Denied arbitration attorneys-fees circuit-court-interpretation civil-procedure federal-courts federal-labor-law labor-arbitration labor-law supreme-court-precedent union-rights Can arbitrators disregard Supreme Court precedent on awarding attorneys' fees to union members wrongfully denied mandated arbitration?
20-1228 Chris Ann Jaye v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa Eighth Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 all-writs-act civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts judicial-authority judicial-immunity legal-remedies void-orders What legal authority did this Court have to impair the rights of the governed?
20-7310 Derrick Arnold Johnson v. Raybon C. Johnson, Jr., Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus standard-of-review Did the Ninth Circuit misapply the standard for the issuance of a certificate of appealability (COA) articulated by this Court in cases such
20-7317 Darex Antonio Chester v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections Fifth Circuit 2021-03-03 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge district-court due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-review petition-denial standing Whether the United States District Court decision to deny Petitioner's §2254 Habeas Corpus Petition as untimely is constitutional
20-1207 Alexander Balbuena v. Brian Cates, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-03-02 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) aedpa amendment appeal appellate-procedure circuit-split federal-courts habeas-corpus habeas-petition petition-amendment second-or-successive Whether a district court filing that seeks to amend a habeas petition pending on appeal constitutes a 'second or successive' petition under the Antite…
20-7280 Michael Dewayne Vickers v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-01 GVR Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split due-process federal-courts felony-murder physical-force state-court-interpretation statutory-interpretation violent-felony Whether a federal court is bound by a state supreme court's interpretation of a statute of conviction for Armed Career Criminal Act purposes
20-7274 Michael Diabolis Griffis, Sr. v. Les Parish, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process faretta-standard federal-courts pro-se pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals decision conflicts with clearly established law in Fareita v. California and conflicts with the decisions o…
20-1168 Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services of Nevada, Inc., et al. v. Sharath Chandra, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights comity comity-doctrine due-process federal-courts judicial-discretion legal-procedure standing Younger-abstention Whether any standard should guide the courts of appeals' discretion to raise Younger abstention sua sponte
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
20-1166 Jorel Shophar, et ux. v. United States, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-02-24 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 4th-amendment child-welfare child-welfare-act constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment seizure state-seizures Is the 1974 Child Welfare Act of Child Protective Services violating U.S. Citizens Constitutional Rights
20-7159 Danny L. Smith v. Alabama, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights congressional-intent court-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus legal-conflict standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court's decision bars petitioner's claims of statutory rights under 28 U.S.C. § 2255
20-1104 Irina Tesoriero v. Carnival Corporation, dba Carnival Cruise Line Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Response Waived adverse-inference circuit-split civil-procedure discovery evidence evidentiary-standard federal-courts legal-sanction sanctions spoliation spoliation-of-evidence Whether federal courts may grant an adverse inference as a sanction for negligent spoliation of evidence
20-1090 Thasha A. Boyd v. Department of Veterans Affairs, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied Response Waived administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling federal-courts federal-employment judicial-review retroactive-legislation statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection Whether the 60-day deadline for seeking judicial review pursuant 5 U.S.C. § 7703(b)(1)(B) and the FRAP sets a bar to an appeal, as the Eleventh Circui…
20-7067 Wilma Pennington-Thurman v. Sansone Group DDR LLC Missouri 2021-02-05 Dismissed IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-courts federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction removal-jurisdiction state-courts state-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Whether federal courts should gain jurisdiction when a state supreme court refuses to recognize 28 U.S.C. 1446(d)
20-6882 Bo Zou v. Linde Engineering North America, Inc. Tenth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-conflict civil-rights court-procedure due-process federal-courts injunctive-relief jurisdictional-challenge legal-precedent standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Tenth Circuit's decision on injunctive relief conflicts with Supreme Court and Ninth Circuit precedent
20-953 Michael D. Ellis v. Liberty Life Assurance Company of Boston Tenth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied choice-of-law civil-procedure erisa federal-courts insurance-contract insurance-contracts preemption state-law What is the correct test to apply in deciding whether an otherwise applicable state law—here, a state law prohibiting provisions in insurance contract…
20-6801 Mauro C. Palacio v. B. Sullivan Fourth Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process federal-courts standing Did the appeals court's decision conflict with other appeals courts on the issue of due process?
20-917 800 Services, Inc. v. AT&T Corp. Third Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response Waived administrative-law appellate-review federal-communications-commission federal-courts fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court jurisdiction primary-jurisdiction tariff tariff-interpretation telecommunications Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Failing to Refer this Questions of Tariff Interpretation to the FCC Under the Doctrine of Primary …
20-852 Shaquere Myleshia Gray, Co-Administratrix of the Estate of Gregory Tremaine Miller, et al. v. Alabama Great Southern Railroad Company Fifth Circuit 2020-12-28 Denied Response Waived civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process employer-liability federal-courts fela fifth-circuit labor-law legal-interpretation statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether the Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit has deviated from established Supreme Court precedent under the Federal Employers Liability Act (FELA…
20-814 James Nalder, et al. v. United Automobile Insurance Company Ninth Circuit 2020-12-15 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure damages-review diversity federal-courts judicial-procedure jury-trial standing standing-doctrine substantive-law Whether a federal appeals court may be divested of jurisdiction by evaluating facts of an alleged post-judgment reduction in the amount of damages and…
20-6563 Isaiah Devon Stallworth v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-12-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals causation civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard petitioner standing Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by concluding that Petitioner failed to make the requisite showing to receive a COA, when two other Circuits have rul…
20-6540 Joshua N. Wright v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP abduction acquitted-conduct constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-courts jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing sentencing-enhancement upward-variance Whether the district court erred in its 'crime of violence' instruction to the jury
20-750 Timothy P. Murphy v. Susan Stacy, Circuit Court Judge Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-03 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process erie-doctrine federal-courts state-law-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction summary-judgment swift-v-tyson Whether federal courts can disregard Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins
20-6485 Qinard Lamar Collins v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence circuit-split due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus medical-evidence shaken-baby-syndrome statutory-interpretation Whether a freestanding claim of actual innocence is cognizable in a 28 U.S.C. § 2254 proceeding in a case where the prosecution's theory was based on …
20-6435 Christopher Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggregate-sentencing constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-appeals federal-courts judicial-precedent north-carolina-pearce north-carolina-v-pearce sentencing-doctrine Whether the aggregate sentencing doctrine violates the rule in North Carolina v. Pearce
20-705 Chris Jaye v. United States Federal Circuit 2020-11-23 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process federal-courts first-amendment judicial-discretion judicial-immunity petition-rights pleading-standards standing Has the US Court of Federal Claims and US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit acting in opposition to controlling law (Erickson vu. Pardus, Johns…
20-680 Lee Wendell Loder v. Icemakers, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy-court-jurisdiction bankruptcy-jurisdiction bankruptcy-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure debt-dischargeability federal-courts judicial-authority money-judgment nondischargeable-debt Whether a bankruptcy court has the jurisdictional authority to render a liquidated money judgment at the same time that it determines a debt to be non…
20-684 Benjamin Tagger v. Strauss Group Ltd. Second Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights diversity-jurisdiction fcn-treaties federal-courts friendship-commerce-navigation-treaties international-commercial-relations national-treatment permanent-resident standing treaty-interpretation Does the National Treatment clause in Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation Treaties provide permanent resident aliens from treaty nations access to fe…
20-656 Robert Kinghorn, et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2020-11-13 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction intervention intervention-standard judicial-discretion motion-to-intervene procedural-motion standard-of-review What is the correct legal standard of review for determining a Motion to Intervene as of right as well as a Motion to Permissively Intervene when the …
20-6270 In Re Derrick Howell 2020-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted
20-6217 Adrian Rangel v. Steven P. Meyer, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-11-06 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights court-jurisdiction due-process federal-appeals federal-courts judicial-review legal-procedure state-courts trial-rights Did Petitioner Adrian Rangel receive meaningful due process?
20-6251 Timothy Tyrone Byers, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-review judicial-power standing state-court-jurisdiction supreme-court-jurisdiction territorial-jurisdiction united-states Whether the prosecution must always prove territorial jurisdiction over a crime in order to sustain a conviction?
20-597 Wisdom Jeffery v. Nathan Brooks, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence aedpa constitutional-error deference federal-courts habeas-corpus procedural-default Whether a state court's decision concerning a constitutional error should receive deference under AEDPA's 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) within the context of de…
20-588 Lyneal Wainwright, Warden v. Jason S. Sexton Sixth Circuit 2020-11-03 Denied aedpa circuit-split due-process federal-courts habeas state-proceedings Can federal courts award habeas relief based on errors in state proceedings?
20-6160 Azaniah Blankumsee v. Walter West, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-10-29 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions contract-clause due-process federal-courts first-amendment legal-interpretation private-contractors public-policy standing Did the court of Appeals decision create a conflict between its decision and the decision of other appellate courts on the same issues?
20-6162 Frank Trujillo v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-10-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process elements-of-offense federal-courts guilty-plea plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness rehaif-v-united-states standard-of-review Whether a defendant's guilty plea was knowing and voluntary when the defendant was not informed of an element of the offense
20-6077 Johnathan Pinney v. Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-courts frivolous-claims judicial-discretion pleading-standards pro-se-litigation standing three-strikes-rule Issues being raised
20-6083 John Oliver Wooten v. Patrick Warren, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP deference factual-error federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-review sixth-amendment sixth-circuit standard-of-review state-court state-courts Is a state court decision entitled to deference on federal habeas review if it is undisputed that the state court applied the wrong standard of review…
20-519 State Bar of California, et al. v. Lenore L. Albert-Sheridan Ninth Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied 11-usc-523(a)(7) attorney-discipline bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge circuit-split federal-courts kelly-v-robinson public-protection statutory-interpretation Whether payments ordered by the California Supreme Court as a condition of an attorney's discipline, imposed to protect the public, are non-dischargea…
20-510 IQVIA Inc. v. Florence Mussat, M.D., S.C. Seventh Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied Amici (4) civil-procedure class-action due-process federal-courts jurisdiction-limits personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a district court with jurisdiction coextensive with a state court in the district can exercise personal jurisdiction over absent class members…
20-6053 Dieter Riechmann v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 appellate-standard circuit-split evidence evidence-review federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus standard-of-review state-court-determination statutory-interpretation Is a state court's conclusion that evidence not presented at trial was cumulative of other evidence before the jury a 'determination of the facts' tha…
20-6033 Arrello Barnes v. Louis Fedele, et al. Second Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing the plaintiff's claims
20-5964 Marlow Shelton McDonald v. Jeff Titus, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability federal-court federal-courts habeas-corpus procedural-grounds reasonable-jurists statutory-interpretation Whether a federal court may find that 'reasonable jurists would not disagree' about the denial of relief on procedural grounds where other courts have…
20-5965 Vito A. Pelino v. Michael Zaken, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. Third Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-reopening civil-procedure due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-courts judicial-discretion rule-60(b) rule-60b state-courts substantive-claim Whether jurists of reason can debate that repeated decisions to ignore (not dismiss or deny) a substantive claim constitutes sufficiently 'extraordina…
20-446 James W. Richards, IV v. Barbara M. Barrett, Secretary of the Air Force, et al. Armed Forces 2020-10-08 Denied Response Waived article-i article-i-courts article-iii article-iii-courts collateral-claims federal-courts jurisdictional-issue military-courts military-law military-prisoners Should military-specific collateral claims raised by military prisoners still subject to military law be adjudicated in the specialized, experienced A…
20-5906 Demetrius Barber v. James Burke, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-10-05 Denied IFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights court-filing direct-appeal due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit judicial-procedure procedural-error standing Where does the petitioner have standing to bring this case before the U.S. Supreme Court?
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 Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of appellate jurisdiction
20-5839 Henry McCall v. Homer Hillis Texas 2020-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure due-process federal-courts standing statute-of-limitations Did the lower courts err in concluding that the petitioner's claims were barred by the statute of limitations?
20-5766 Christopher Andre Vialva v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-21 Denied IFP attorney-general-power death-penalty death-sentence execution-procedures federal-courts federal-death-penalty-act federal-law judicial-precedent state-law state-law-implementation What law governs a federal court's implementation of a death sentence?
20-357 Fritz Kaegi v. A.F. Moore & Associates, Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-09-18 Denied Amici (1) comity comity-doctrine equal-protection federal-courts federal-jurisdiction property-tax state-courts state-jurisdiction tax-injunction-act Does the Seventh Circuit's opinion in A.F. Moore v. Pappas continue the movement to erode the Tax Injunction Act and undermine congressional intent?
20-5735 Michael Dean Perry v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP antiterrorism-act civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus standing state-court-review Whether the Suspension Clause of the U.S. Constitution requires federal courts to review the merits of a habeas corpus petition challenging the legali…
20-5746 Brandon Thomas Finnesy v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied IFP 28-usc-636 consent-jurisdiction criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-criminal-procedure guilty-plea judicial-consent magistrate-judge statutory-interpretation Whether 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(3) authorizes a federal magistrate judge to accept a guilty plea with the parties' consent?
20-5705 In Re Paul Satterfield 2020-09-16 Dismissed IFP aedpa-statute constitutional-procedure district-attorney federal-courts habeas-corpus jurisdiction-defects jurisdictional-defects marbury-v-madison moot-issue standing Whether the court of appeals judgments were invalid for failure to resolve numerous preexisting fundamental jurisdictional defects?
20-5703 James L. Miller v. Virginia A. Phillips, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-09-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 11th-amendment civil-rights due-process federal-courts sovereign-immunity standing Does Ex parte Young allow a federal court to enjoin state officials from enforcing unconstitutional state laws?
20-5684 Frank Joseph Schwindler v. Shay Hatcher, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-14 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing state-court-procedures state-courts venue Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals lacked jurisdiction to review the district court's orders staying a habeas corpus petition
20-5672 David Kareem Turpin v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924c3a crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-courts force-clause hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime Whether Hobbs Act robbery, which can be committed by putting another in fear of future injury to himself, his property, or even his intangible propert…
20-5645 Virgil Nickens v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-10 Denied Relisted (3)IFP appellate-courts criminal-law federal-courts federal-courts-of-appeals jury-instructions jury-verdict plain-error-review rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states united-states-v-olano Can the appellate courts' divergent approaches to plain error review of pre-Rehaif jury verdicts be reconciled with one another?
20-5647 Robert William Moynihan v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-injustice constitutional-manifest-injustice exceptional-circumstances federal-courts judicial-power legal-remedy procedural-default standing Whether the petitioner, as a matter of law, who has presented clear and convincing evidence demonstrating a constitutional injustice, is entitled to a…
20-5621 Gregory Simmons-Bey v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-09-09 Denied IFP civil-procedure due-process federal-courts jurisdiction sovereign-immunity standing Whether the court has jurisdiction over a sovereign immunity dispute
20-5625 Ricky Williams v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus standard-of-review Whether the Court of Appeals employed the correct legal standard in determining that the Petitioner was not entitled to the issuance of a certificate …
20-292 John Pinder v. Scott Crowther, Warden Tenth Circuit 2020-09-04 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights conviction criminal-conviction due-process false-testimony federal-courts judicial-review prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct state-courts Whether Due Process is violated when a prosecutor relies on false testimony to secure a conviction but did not know that the testimony was false until…
20-5442 Condra L. Smith v. Department of Education, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law amount-in-controversy civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts federal-jurisdiction interstate-litigation standing student-loan-fraud subject-matter-jurisdiction wage-garnishment Whether the courts can exercise jurisdiction over a case involving parties from multiple states and the minimum amount in controversy for diversity ju…
20-5445 Jelani Walker v. Ed Sheldon, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure merits-ruling procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct sanctions state-court state-courts Does a defense cause prejudice due to inadequate notice?
20-5413 Josiah English v. Jo Lynn Gentry, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County, et al. Arizona 2020-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-court federal-courts judicial-discretion standing state-courts Did the Arizona Supreme court err by denying Father Fesigh English TIL's Petition for Review and request for a stay of proceedings, despite the fact t…
20-170 Karen Chongah Han v. Hankook Tire Co., Ltd. Sixth Circuit 2020-08-17 Denied civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction federal-court-discretion federal-courts judicial-estoppel legal-standing procedural-dismissal standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the doctrine of judicial estoppel can be applied to defeat subject matter jurisdiction
20-5340 Tanveer S. Majid v. Central Intelligence Agency Fourth Circuit 2020-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion administrative-procedure agency-complaint civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal due-process federal-courts harassment-claim judicial-dismissal standing Are the Federal Courts abusing their dismissal powers?
20-5316 Tyrone Smith v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim discretionary-review due-process equal-protection federal-courts federal-district-court habeas-corpus standing Whether the Federal District Court erred in dismissing Petitioner's claims contrary to Supreme Court precedent
20-5276 Stafon Edward Thompson v. Minnesota Minnesota 2020-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa circuit-court-division circuit-split federal-courts federal-habeas federal-law-violations habeas-corpus judicial-precedent remedial-authority state-court-remedies state-prisoners Whether the limited habeas authority of federal courts over state prisoners includes the authority to dictate how state courts must remedy federal law…
20-102 Christopher Hadsell v. Barry Baskin, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction rooker-doctrine separation-of-powers state-court-judgments state-courts Whether Rooker's usurpation of Congress' power to expand this Court's jurisdiction to include exclusive jurisdiction for appellate review of state-cou…
20-5232 Iris Lamarr Anderson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus standing state-courts Whether Petitioner was denied fundamental process in state and federal powers resolution of the claim
20-5160 Keith Henderson v. Eddie Miles, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability federal-court federal-courts habeas-corpus procedural-grounds reasonable-jurists statutory-interpretation Whether a federal court may find that 'reasonable jurists would not disagree' about the denial of relief on procedural grounds where other courts have…
20-5174 Ronald Demetrius Thomas v. William Muniz, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-07-24 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 constitutional-rights federal-courts habeas-corpus harrington-v-richter ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-application state-court-review Whether federal courts can undermine constitutional rights by finding state court rulings reasonable under Harrington v. Richter, 562 U.S. 86 (2011) i…
20-5136 In Re Abdul Mohammed 2020-07-23 Denied IFP case-dismissal civil-procedure district-court due-process executive-committee executive-power federal-courts judicial-procedure legal-order mandamus mandamus-petition standing whether the Executive Committee's Order entered against the Petitioner on June 17, 2020 is legal
20-5134 Donald Robin Barren v. Charles Daniels, Director, Nevada Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus standing Whether the Petitioner's application for a certificate of appealability was improperly denied
20-52 Yeitza Marie Aponte-Bermudez v. Eligio Colón, et al. First Circuit 2020-07-22 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process expert-testimony federal-courts judgment-as-a-matter-of-law jury-evaluation jury-trial law-of-the-case rule-50 May a federal district court consistent with the law-of-the-case doctrine grant judgment as a matter of law under Fed. R. Civ. P. 50(a) to respondents…
20-35 Joshua E. Frankel v. United States, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-07-16 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process federal-courts feres-doctrine fourth-circuit incident-to-service insurance-law military-tort separation-of-powers sovereign-immunity Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in applying an unduly restrictive 'situs and status test' for the determination of whether the acts at issue were 'in…
20-5066 Everett L. Spillard v. Superior Court of California, Humboldt County, et al. California 2020-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel judicial-misconduct sixth-amendment state-courts transcripts Can the Superior Court and its DA violate due process rights and omit judicial mistakes/misconduct from transcripts?
20-5083 Telly Kavantzas v. Florida Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure district-court electronic-dockets federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-notice rule-4 rules-governing-section-2254-cases section-2254 timeliness Whether Rule 4 of the Rules Governing Section 2254 Cases allows the district court to dismiss a habeas corpus petition as untimely without calling for…
20-5020 Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. Tri-Lift North Carolina, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-07-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts judicial-review jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether the court erred in dismissing petitioner's complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction
20-5021 Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-07-10 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts judicial-opinion legal-standing petition-review pleadings procedural-complexity standing Whether the petitioner's complaint contains sufficient factual matter to survive a motion to dismiss
19-8907 Jonathan Boyer v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-07-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-uscs-2254 civil-procedure federal-courts federal-habeas habeas-corpus judicial-procedure motion-to-recall relitigation-bar statutory-interpretation successive-petition Whether and under what circumstances a motion to recall judgment attacking the erroneous application of the relitigation bar in 28 USCS 2254(d) should…
19-8895 Dario M. Rodriguez v. Alan Lawson, Justice, Supreme Court of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-03 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts indigent-appeal pro-se procedural-restrictions standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims under the Rooker-Feldman doctrine, the Younger abstention doctrine, and the cou…
19-1446 Bing Charles W. Kearney, Jr., et al. v. Travelers Casualty and Surety Company of America Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-01 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment appellate-courts appellate-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-violations due-process federal-appellate-courts federal-courts fifth-amendment florida-supreme-court judicial-review legal-doctrine right-for-the-wrong-reason statutory-interpretation Does the 'right for the wrong reason' doctrine allow federal appellate courts to violate due process?
19-8862 Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. Total Visa, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-06-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's complaint for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be gran…
19-8761 Nivaldo Riascos v. United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia. Fourth Circuit 2020-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process federal-courts mandamus standing whether-the-court-of-appeals-erred-in-dismissing-the-petition-for-writ-of-mandamus
19-1394 Edward Ronny Arnold v. Herbert Slatery, III, Attorney General of Tennessee Sixth Circuit 2020-06-19 Denied Response Waived appeals civil-action civil-procedure civil-procedure-rooker-feldman civil-rights damages due-process federal-courts legal-fees pro-se-litigation rooker-feldman-doctrine sixth-circuit-court standing state-courts state-employee-wages Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit misapplied the Rooker-Feldman doctrine
19-1384 James E. Pietrangelo, II v. Corrinne Hudson Ohio 2020-06-17 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts federal-law hipaa hipaa-compliance involuntary-consent litigation-procedure medical-authorization medical-authorizations personal-injury-claim supremacy-clause Whether federal courts violate HIPAA by compelling plaintiffs to execute involuntary and non-compliant medical authorizations upon penalty of dismissa…
19-8663 Tesa Keith v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-statute facial-challenge federal-courts federal-law plea-agreement procedural-challenge waiver Whether facial challenges to a federal criminal statute may be waived by plea agreement?
19-1337 Todd Phillippi v. Humble Design, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-06-04 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure consent dismissal district-court-jurisdiction federal-civil-procedure federal-courts frcp-41 FRCP-60(b) judicial-consent jurisdiction legal-representative magistrate-authority prevailing-party rule-60b standing Whether the District Court and Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals have created an exception to 28 USC 636 (c)
19-8556 Kehinde Adeyemi Elebute v. Village Capital and Investment, LLC Fifth Circuit 2020-05-28 Denied IFP bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure due-process federal-courts judgment-entry judgments judicial-succession motion-reconsideration procedural-timeline recusal rule-60b standing Whether a successor to a judge that retired may refuse to consider a Rule 60(b)(1) motion on the grounds that he does not reconsider orders entered by…
19-8490 Timmy Stevens v. Emma Collins, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-05-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the lower court denied his habeas corpus petition
19-8472 Wyte Young, Jr. v. Arizona Arizona 2020-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claims constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction-review procedural-default sentencing state-court-procedure Did the federal court violate petitioner's 5th and 8th amendment rights
19-8436 In Re Michael A. Young 2020-05-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process federal-courts federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-recusal legal-standing right-to-appeal standing Whether indigent petitioner's 'gateway factual innocence' showing while being 'constructively' denied appointment of counsel on first and all other ap…
19-8446 Anthony S. Twitty v. Barry Smith, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale, et al. Third Circuit 2020-05-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions pcra-statute reasonable-doubt Was the Petitioner denied the right to a fair trial, due to hypothetical-jury, jury-instruction, ineffective-assistance-of-counsel, reasonable-doubt
19-1272 Thomas Christopher Retzlaff v. Jason Lee Van Dyke Fifth Circuit 2020-05-08 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) anti-slapp civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine federal-courts federal-procedure free-speech litigation-strategy Whether state anti-SLAPP statutes apply in federal diversity cases
19-8390 Do Kyun Kim v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors?
19-1259 Carlos Loumiet v. United States, et al. District of Columbia 2020-04-30 Denied Response Waived bivens-remedy civil-procedure civil-rights damages due-process federal-courts forum-of-defense standing takings Whether the Court of Appeals correctly concluded that a forum of defense and an unrelated fee-shifting statute preclude a Bivens remedy
19-1249 Phyllis Davis v. Echo Valley Condominium Association, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-04-27 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure fair-housing-act federal-courts federal-rules-of-civil-procedure notice-pleading pleading-standards state-law summary-judgment twombly Whether the liberal notice pleading standard under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8(a) and Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544 (2007) ceases…
19-8346 Naeem Jones v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2020-04-23 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-prisoner strickland-standard Does a freestanding claim of actual innocence stand a basis of relief for a state prisoner in the context of a federal habeas proceeding?
19-8315 Todd Michael Vincent v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review rule-60b section-2255 statutory-interpretation Is issuance of a certificate of appealability a prerequisite to appealing the denial of a Rule 60(b) motion?
19-1235 Brian Hampton Clark v. Virginia Virginia 2020-04-20 Denied constitutional-rights contempt-of-court due-process federal-courts fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal state-courts writ-of-prohibition Whether the fact that the contempt charge was brought in response to Brian Clark's petition for a writ of prohibition required Judge Williams to recus…
19-8310 Michael R. Haynes v. Colette S. Peters, Director, Oregon Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-04-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment administrative-rule civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts legal-fiction liberty-interests Whether a U.S. citizen can be denied U.S. constitutional rights through fraud or unlawful extension of authority
19-1233 Robert Doyle v. Douglas Palmer, Clerk, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York Second Circuit 2020-04-20 Denied bar-admission civil-rights delegation-of-power due-process federal-court federal-courts first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-association freedom-of-conscience judicial-branch judicial-delegation legislative-power standing Whether Congress may delegate power to the Judicial Branch to enact federal-court bar-admission requirements
19-8161 In Re Curtis Smith 2020-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court due-process federal-courts gatekeeper-standard habeas-corpus sanctions statutory-interpretation Did the court of appeal adopt divergent interpretation of the gatekeeper standard?
19-8173 Ervin L. St. Claire v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus standing whether-the-eighth-circuit-erred-in-circumventing-the-five-step-inquiry-mandated-by-buck-v-davis
19-8155 Omar Saunders v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2020-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure denial due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review saunders third-circuit Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit err in affirming Mr. Saunders' Denial of Habeas Corpus?
19-8136 In Re Lawrence Crawford 2020-03-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1651 appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process extraordinary-writ federal-courts jurisdictional-claims mandamus parties standing supreme-court-jurisdiction writ-of-mandamus Did the petitioner sufficiently establish the right to have the writ of mandamus granted?
19-1178 Robert K. Zabka, et ux. v. United States, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-03-27 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-procedure-final-judgment-receivership-appeal conflict-of-laws conflicting-precedent due-process federal-courts final-judgment jurisdiction net-operating-loss partnership-property receivership standing tax-liability timeliness Where the court clerk has entered the final appealable judgment, and the district court judge has initialed it as such, and then the litigant appeals …
19-8080 Julio Solorzano v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence-exception civil-rights collateral-attack criminal-procedure davis-ruling due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus sentencing sentencing-challenge waiver-doctrine Whether a defendant who previously waived collateral attack may seek relief under Davis v. United States
19-1157 Patsy Weatherly, et al. v. Pershing, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2020-03-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) american-pipe civil-procedure class-action diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts federal-procedure statute-of-limitations tolling Whether the tolling rule of American Pipe & Const. Co. v. Utah applies in a class action filed in federal court based on diversity jurisdiction
19-7985 Charles Ray Hooper v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-v-united-states brady-violation certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts government-misconduct guilty-plea plea-bargaining procedural-bar prosecutorial-misconduct Must a defendant continue to challenge a procedural bar ruling after being granted a Certificate of Appealability?
19-7940 Luis Fernandez Morales v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 28-usc-1915 appeals appellate-procedure criminal-appeal criminal-procedure federal-courts in-forma-pauperis merits-determination sentence-modification sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether defendant in a federal criminal case is entitled to appeal the district court's judgment denying motion to modify sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 3…
19-7915 Alan DeAtley v. Dean Williams, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-03-09 Denied IFP adoption-law child-welfare civil-rights due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction indian-child-welfare-act placement-preference standing state-courts state-jurisdiction tribal-court tribal-courts tribal-sovereignty Whether the U.S. District Court and the 10th Circuit must follow federal and tribal law as they have followed in the past, rather than the State of Co…
19-7852 Edwin F. Parson v. United States Air Force, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure-abuse-of-discretion-standing-fede civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-statutes judicial-process legal-review remedy scotus-petition standing supreme-court Whether there is an absence of a remedy when a federal magistrate judge acknowledges there is a civil right that has been violated
19-7834 Travis Soto v. Ohio Ohio 2020-03-02 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure federal-courts fifth-amendment finality plea-bargaining constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy federal-courts fifth-amendment finality jury-trial plea-agreement plea-bargaining Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause attaches to charges dismissed during a negotiated plea agreement
19-7772 John Lee Barron v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-26 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review life-sentence Whether a Petitioner who is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole is denied due process
19-7741 Robert W. Johnson v. Victoria Fire & Casualty Insurance Company, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-24 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process federal-courts jurisdiction reasons-for-granting-writ standing statement-of-case statutory-provisions Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the petitioner's case for lack of standing
19-7742 Derrick Lamark Lewis, Sr. v. Walter Berry, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-24 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process exhaustion federal-courts federal-remedies habeas judicial-procedure judicial-review legal-error standing state-court-proceedings state-courts What remedies are available when the state court's habeas proceedings are erroneous and contrary to the laws of justice?
19-7735 Ronnie Kearby v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP base-offense-level burden-of-proof drug-conspiracy drug-quantities drug-quantity due-process evidence federal-courts non-testifying-coconspirator non-testifying-informant preponderance-of-evidence Whether a court may accept a mere allegation of estimated drug quantities from a non-testifying coconspirator informant as satisfaction of the Governm…
19-7645 Ramiro F. Gonzales v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure decisional-law due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-courts federal-rules gonzalez-v-crosby rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6 split-among-circuits standing supreme-court-precedent Whether a change in decisional law may constitute an extraordinary circumstance justifying relief under Rule 60(b)(6)
19-7606 Robert McKinnon, III v. Florida Florida 2020-02-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2254 civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling extrinsic-fraud federal-court federal-courts federal-petition habeas-corpus jurisdictional-default standing statutory-tolling subject-matter-jurisdiction Does statutory tolling as described in 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1)(B) and (D) permit a petitioner's direct filing of second 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas corpus …
19-7550 In Re Alexander Guice 2020-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process federal-courts florida jurisdictional-dispute legal-challenge south-carolina standing state-courts subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court-jurisdiction writ-of-mandamus writ-of-prohibition Whether a writ of prohibition or mandamus is warranted
19-7555 In Re Eugene French 2020-02-05 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-limitations evidence-hearing evidentiary-hearing federal-courts habeas-corpus jurisdiction-question newly-discovered-evidence original-jurisdiction successive-petition Whether transfer to the district court for a hearing pursuant to this court's original habeas jurisdiction is warranted in this exceptional case where…
19-7573 Sean M. Donahue v. Eugene Scalia, Secretary of Labor, et al. Third Circuit 2020-02-05 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-jurisdiction due-process federal-courts jobs-for-veterans-act standing statutory-enforcement statutory-interpretation veterans-affairs veterans-employment-rights veterans-preference-act void-for-vagueness What is the appropriate enforcement mechanism for 38 U.S.C. §4215?
19-971 Angela James, et al. v. JW Gaming Development, LLC, a California Limited Liability Company Ninth Circuit 2020-02-03 Denied Response Waived civil-rights congress federal-courts individual-liability legal-standing official-capacity sovereign-immunity state-courts tribal-governance tribal-sovereignty Whether an Indian tribe's governing body can be stripped of its sovereign immunity from suit for actions taken by its members in their official capaci…
19-963 Henry Schein, Inc. v. Archer and White Sales, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2020-01-31 Judgment Issued Amici (9)Relisted (3) appellate-conflict arbitrability arbitration-agreement civil-procedure contract-interpretation contract-law delegation-doctrine federal-arbitration-act federal-courts questions-of-arbitrability state-courts Whether a provision in an arbitration agreement that exempts certain claims from arbitration negates an otherwise clear and unmistakable delegation of…
19-7506 David Andrew Hunt, Lusion Yoshua Rice, and Dendrick Demond Hall v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-30 Denied Relisted (5)IFP 28-usc-2244 binding-precedent due-process ex-parte federal-courts supervisory-authority Whether Alabama robbery categorically requires 'as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person of anothe…
19-7479 Brian Price v. United States First Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied IFP acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-courts federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether a defendant's constitutional rights are abridged when a district court bases its sentence solely on acquitted conduct
19-7447 Konstantin Rudenko v. Raymond Shanley, Superintendent, Coxsackie Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts fourteenth-amendment legal-procedure standing state-courts Did the New York state courts deny the petitioner his fundamental Fourteenth Amendment right to due process of law?
19-7458 Kaleb Jermaine Myers v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-courts federal-criminal-law hobbs-act legal-standard statutory-interpretation Whether Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A)
19-7327 Antonio Macli v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability claim-by-claim claim-determination constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-court federal-courts habeas-corpus reasonable-jurists Does a federal habeas court have to determine the need for an evidentiary hearing on a claim by claim basis?
19-7328 April Taylor v. City of Colonial Heights, Virginia Fourth Circuit 2020-01-17 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-filing court-rules due-process equal-access equal-protection federal-courts federal-jurisdiction legal-procedure state-courts Does the federal Court of Appeals or Eastern District Court of VA erred and had conflict with the U.S. Supreme Court Rule 29.2, and U.S. Constitution …
19-7336 Francisco Pena, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-judge fifth-amendment judicial-discretion preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence sentencing sixth-amendment uncharged-conduct Do the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal judge from imposing a sentence, based on a defendant's uncharged conduct found by the judge by a …
19-7177 Eric C. Miller v. Randy Gibbs, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa civil-procedure district-court federal-courts federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus procedural-dismissal successive-petition successive-petitions time-bar Can District Courts continue to dismiss (numerically) second habeas petitions as 'successive' and hold the petitioner to the stricter AEDPA requiremen…
19-7188 John Jay Powers v. M. L. Stancil Tenth Circuit 2020-01-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3584 18-usc-3584a administrative-deference administrative-law bureau-of-prisons criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deference federal-bureau-of-prisons federal-courts federal-sentencing sentencing-interpretation statutory-ambiguity statutory-interpretation Is the language of 18 U.S.C. 3584(a)'s phrase 'at the same time' ambiguous?
19-7163 Paul Anthony Hatton v. Douglas L. Combs, Justice, Supreme Court of Oklahoma, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-court-jurisdiction federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-enforcement standing state-court-rules state-courts state-supreme-court subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether federal courts have an affirmative duty to exercise jurisdiction over a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action challenging a state court rule
19-7186 James R. Young v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-06 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP bivens bivens-claim civil-rights due-process federal-courts federal-review fifth-amendment in-forma-pauperis inmate-rights property property-theft standing Did the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals abuse Petitioner's 5th Amendment due-process right to be heard on his Bivens claim on appeal by summarily di…
19-791 Anderson Law Offices, et al. v. Common Benefit Fee and Cost Committee Fourth Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied appeal-rights appeal-waiver appellate-review civil-procedure common-benefit-fund court-review due-process equitable-relief federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-discretion judicial-responsibilities standing waiver Whether federal courts can require waiver of appeal rights as a condition for receiving an award
19-6951 Ruben S. Ramirez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied IFP 28-U.S.C-2244(d)(1)(D) coerced-plea coercion collateral-review federal-courts guilty-plea habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence statutory-interpretation Whether the lower federal courts erred in determining that newly available evidence, in the form of affidavit of co-defendant's attorney, did not meet…
19-6966 Kyle A. Keys v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-split due-process exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-requirement fair-presentation federal-courts federal-habeas-corpus federal-review habeas-corpus standard-of-review state-court-remedies statutory-interpretation Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals correctly interpreted the 'fair presentation'/exhaustion requirement of 28 U.S.C. § 2254
19-6948 Michael Eugene Spry v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-USC-3553 criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness supervised-release Whether the appellant Michael Eugene Spry's sentence was unreasonable as it was greater than necessary and as such, fails to comply with Title 18, Uni…
19-769 Alaa Elkharwily v. Franciscan Health System Ninth Circuit 2019-12-16 Denied Response Waived bright-line-rule civil-procedure claim-preclusion different-facts district-court due-process federal-courts fraud-on-the-court issue-preclusion ninth-circuit post-trial-relief res-judicata Whether federal courts must refuse to dismiss on res-judicata grounds a second claim against the same defendant that is based on different facts, evid…
19-6888 In Re Roger A. Libby 2019-12-10 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection federal-courts habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2244-b-3-a jurisdiction jurisdictional-issues standing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions Does the Pre-Diath Circuit Court of Appeals have jurisdiction to circumvent the statutory commands of 28 U.S.C. 2244(b)(3)(A), established by Congress…
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 …
19-738 Tom Domingo, Sr. v. Department of the Army, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-12-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts jurisdiction kloeckner-v-solis mixed-cases obstruction-of-justice reduction-in-force standing supreme-court-ruling veterans-preference Did the US. Court of Appeals obstruct justice by ignoring or usurping the U.S. Supreme Court ruling of Kloeckner v. Solis Secretary of Labor federal c…
19-6855 Jose Luis Morales v. G. D. Lewis, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection federal-courts judicial-discretion res-judicata supreme-court supreme-court-directives Is it an abuse of discretion when the federal courts do not follow directives from the United States Supreme Court on how to apply res-judicata?
19-712 Hamp's Construction, LLC v. Inland Marine Services, L.L.C. Louisiana 2019-12-05 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-award arbitration-law civil-procedure due-process federal-courts industrial-justice judicial-review manifest-disregard statutory-interpretation statutory-law vacatur Is 'manifest disregard of the law' still a valid basis to vacate or modify an arbitrator's award?
19-698 Wendy Alison Nora v. Minnesota Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility Minnesota 2019-12-04 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure disciplinary-proceedings due-process federal-courts first-amendment free-speech interpretation lower-court political-speech regulation standing Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the First Amendment's free speech protections as applied to the regulation of political speech
19-6793 Quentin Herndon v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute federal-court federal-courts physical-force sentencing-guidelines state-court state-court-interpretation state-courts statutory-interpretation USSG-4B1.2(a) Whether a federal court must defer to a state court's interpretation of the elements of a state criminal statute to determine if that offense requires…
19-6714 Keith D. Goodman v. Eddie Pearson, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied IFP administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-district-court habeas-corpus procedural-rule section-2254 sentence-aggregation sentencing sentencing-calculation statutory-interpretation Is a federal district court (or a § 2254 petitioner) permitted to disregard or evade Rule 2(e) (of the Rules Governing Section 2254 Cases in the Unite…
19-6644 Darrell Freeze v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-sentencing fifth-amendment judicial-fact-finding sentencing sixth-amendment substantive-reasonableness Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments permit judges to find the facts necessary to support an otherwise substantively unreasonable federal sentence
19-6611 William Severs v. Gurbir Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts federal-statute habeas-corpus petition section-2254 statute-of-limitations time-bar Was the District Court's decision to dismiss Petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition as untimely correct?
19-6590 Antwon Whitten v. Atif Atyia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-11-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-courts jurisdiction standing takings Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim
19-6563 Robert William Wazney v. South Carolina Fourth Circuit 2019-11-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-court access-to-courts civil-rights court-access due-process federal-courts in-forma-pauperis judicial-immunity ministerial-duty standing state-court Whether federal citizens have standing when federal courts ignore their claims
19-6564 In Re Wei Zhou 2019-11-08 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-1331 28-usc-1332 civil-procedure constitution constitutional-interpretation federal-courts judicial-discretion judicial-jurisdiction judicial-power judicial-proceedings jurisdiction-decline legal-interpretation mandamus statutory-interpretation statutory-jurisdiction Does the Constitution of the United States permit any court of the United States to decline the exercise of jurisdiction given by any law of the Unite…
19-6556 In Re Therian Wimbush, et vir 2019-11-07 Denied IFP access-to-courts appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus joint-petition judicial-review petition-denial procedural-barriers standing Whether co-convicted, co-tried, co-convicted and sentenced, even though the same co-defendant husband and wife, can file a joint federal 28 U.S.C. 225…
19-6558 Antonio Lebaron Melton v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied IFP due-process federal-court-review federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-findings state-court state-court-deference strickland-v-washington trial-strategy wilson-v-sellers witness-investigation Whether Wilson v. Sellers requires faithful adherence to the last reasoned decision of a state court, or may federal courts bolster such a decision by…
19-6477 Charles Russell Rhines v. Darin Young, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-11-01 Denied IFP 18-usc-3599 ayestas-v-davis clemency-request death-penalty exhaustion-requirement expert-services federal-court federal-courts federal-jurisdiction indigent-defendant state-remedies Must indigent death-sentenced state prisoners exhaust state remedies before a federal court may authorize access to expert services under 18 U.S.C. § …
19-6465 Quintin Phillippe Jones v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-10-31 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3599 6th-amendment death-penalty federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigative-funding martinez-v-ryan meaningful-representation sixth-amendment When has a qualifying prisoner been denied meaningful representation informed by investigation to prepare a federal habeas corpus application?
19-6424 Anthony Darnell Stokes v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review conviction court-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-statute obstruction-of-justice sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the court of appeals misapplied 18 U.S.C.S. § 1512(c)(1)
19-6430 Harold Blake v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review standing Whether the petitioner has demonstrated that jurists of reason could disagree with the federal courts' resolution of his constitutional claims or that…
19-6433 Edward Anthony Torres v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-jurisdiction district-court due-process federal-courts indian-status jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue magistrate-court native-american native-american-law ninth-circuit pretrial-decision standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a district court may, pretrial, decide an Indian status jurisdictional question
19-6441 In Re Sherman Alexander Lynch 2019-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts actual-innocence brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default Whether the District Court erred when it held Lynch was not entitled to the 'fundamental miscarriage of justice' exception under the Carrier standard
19-544 In Re Todd C. Bank 2019-10-25 Denied affidavit affidavit-requirement article-iii-court bar-admission civil-procedure civil-procedure-28-usc-1746 due-process federal-courts legal-procedure standing statutory-interpretation unsworn-declaration Whether an applicant to the bar of an Article III court may, under 28 U.S.C. Section 1746, submit an unsworn declaration where such court requires tha…
19-6392 Jeffrey F. Evers v. Brian Foster, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts first-amendment free-exercise habeas-corpus merits-based-decision new-trial procedural-default public-accommodation religious-freedom same-sex-marriage standing state-licensing Does federal law under A952(c) permit a civil justice system to respond to a No-Merits review of a procedural default that can only be waived as a mer…
19-6280 Jose Soto v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-criminal-procedure harmless-error prosecutorial-misconduct Should the government bear the burden of establishing the harmlessness of a properly preserved claim of prosecutorial misconduct in a federal criminal…
19-6266 Willie Jones, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-among-courts constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure dilatory-conduct dilatory-purpose dilatory-purposes faretta-right faretta-v-california federal-courts self-representation sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-self-representation state-courts Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioner's Faretta claim conflict with Faretta v. California?
19-6239 Randell Glen Laws v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-10-10 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-precedent jurisdictional-challenge merits-review procedural-due-process supervisory-power Whether a federal appellate court necessitates the exercise of the Supreme Court's supervisory power when it decides that a petitioner/appellant has n…
19-470 Darin Jones v. Department of Justice, et al. District of Columbia 2019-10-09 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-procedure-time-limits civil-rights discrimination due-process federal-circuit federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-review merit-systems-protection-board mixed-cases rule-60(b) time-bar Whether the 120 day time bar of 5 U.S.C. § 7702(e)(1)(B) is nonjurisdictional
19-6207 Kevin Henderson v. Don Bottom, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari-petition circuit-conflict civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-question due-process federal-courts judicial-precedent legal-interpretation merits precedent standing supreme-court supreme-court-review Did the Sixth Circuit err when reaching conclusions arguably in conflict and inconsistent with this Supreme Court's decisions?
19-6221 George E. Brown, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-requirements standing When a defendant meets the requirements for issuance of a certificate of appealability (COA), is he then entitled to issuance of the certificate?
19-6203 Eric Christopher Barrass v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-08 Denied IFP chambers-v-mississippi constitutional-law double-jeopardy due-process federal-courts federal-review green-v-georgia habeas-corpus standard-of-review state-court-decision state-courts third-party-confession Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in applying 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) to the state appellate court's unexplained decision, rather than 'looking through' …
19-6181 Mark Robertson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-10-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3599 6th-amendment death-penalty federal-courts habeas-corpus investigation judicial-review meaningful-representation representation representation-services sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Did the district court deny Mr. Robertson the meaningful representation informed by investigation to prepare a habeas corpus application to which he i…
19-6153 Davontah Lee Nelson v. Sherry L. Burt, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-10-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts jurisdiction standing Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its decision that conflicts with federal procedures and precedents
19-6126 Adelbaset A. Youssef v. Bill Schuette, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP abstention appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights doe-v-univ-of-ky due-process federal-courts judicial-review motion-to-dismiss sprint-communications-inc-v-jacobs standing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent younger-abstention Whether the Six Circuit Court of Appeals' decision affirming motion to dismiss on Younger-Abstention conflicts with the Supreme-Court's-decision-in-SP…
19-6085 Frank Amodeo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii civil-procedure civil-procedure-standing constitutional-standing criminal-forfeiture criminal-procedure due-process federal-court-procedure federal-courts jurisdiction jurisdictional-hierarchy non-merits-questions standing standing-requirement Must a federal court resolve standing issues before resolving other dispositive, non-merits questions?
19-372 William D. Jenkins, Jr., et ux. v. Corey Chance, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-09-19 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-courts judicial-power legislative-authority legislative-intent standing state-legislation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-jurisdiction Does This Court possess verifiable Constitutional and Congressional power to interpret unwritten Congressional Law and alleged Legislative 'voids'
19-363 Jim R. Nash v. Norma Nash, et al. Arkansas 2019-09-18 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts fourteenth-amendment full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction state-court state-courts substitution Whether a judgment without jurisdiction of the decedent violates the petitioner's right to due process under the Fourteenth Amendment
19-5972 Dimitri Bernard Robinson v. Michigan Michigan 2019-09-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights federal-courts jurisdiction pen-register petition privacy probable-cause supreme-court trap-and-trace writ-of-certiorari Was petitioner's Fourth Amendment right to privacy and protection violated without probable cause, when law enforcement obtained an unreasonable order…
19-5930 Harold Blake v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review jurists-of-reason legal-standard standing Whether the petitioner has demonstrated that jurists of reason could disagree with the federal courts' resolution of his constitutional claims or that…
19-5917 Matthew A. Castro v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fact-finding federal-courts fifth-amendment habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment standard-of-review Whether the United States Court of Appeal for the Eleventh Circuit erred by unreasonably determining the facts based on a misreading of the state reco…
19-312 Ali Ekhlassi v. National Lloyds Insurance Company Fifth Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied Amici (1) administrative-law circuit-split civil-procedure exclusive-jurisdiction federal-courts federal-jurisdiction fema flood-insurance national-flood-insurance-act private-insurers statutory-construction Whether Section 4072's provision of 'exclusive' federal jurisdiction applies to suits against private insurers
19-306 Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. v. Yury Rinsky First Circuit 2019-09-05 Denied civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine federal-courts legal-standards punitive-damages standard-of-proof state-courts state-law state-law-certification subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether federal courts sitting in diversity should exercise their discretion to certify questions to state high courts when a state's courts are silen…
19-5799 Jesse Lee Coddington v. John Davids, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-rule due-process federal-courts federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance privileges-and-immunities privileges-or-immunities procedural-default state-courts Can Michigan's Court Rule 6.508 (BD) (2) be used to procedurally default a Petitioner's claims from federal habeas adjudication?
19-278 Pfizer Inc., et al. v. Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, et al. California 2019-09-03 Denied Amici (1) bristol-myers-squibb civil-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-law forfeiture jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a defendant's efforts to establish federal subject matter jurisdiction can result in forfeiture of an otherwise fully preserved challenge to p…
19-5773 John Franklin Kenney v. P. D. Brazelton, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-08-30 Denied IFP administrative-law administrative-proceedings agency-discretion appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review reasoned-decision statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions Whether a federal court can deny a habeas corpus petition without providing a reasoned decision, in violation of the Due Process Clause
19-5730 Lawrence Michael Lynde v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sex-offender-treatment sixth-circuit-appeal standing statutory-interpretation victim-restitution Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in holding that the petitioner lacks standing to challenge the constitutionality of the statute at issue
19-5681 Raphael Person, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process federal-courts harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether, when a district court imposes a sentence based on several factors, one of which is improper, the court of appeals should affirm the sentence …
19-5610 Richard Felton v. Colette M. Goguen, Superintendent, North Central Correctional Institution First Circuit 2019-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure counsel-interference court-closure cronic-v-united-states due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus presley-v-georgia public-trial sixth-amendment standing waller-v-georgia Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit contravened this Court's holding in Terrell v. Morris, 493 U.S. 1 (1989) (per curiam)…
19-5587 In Re Levar Lee Spence 2019-08-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-violations cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection false-imprisonment federal-courts federal-habeas-statute habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction liberty-rights Whether the courts can refuse and/or feign review of habeas corpus claims asserting constitutional violations, would warrant habeas corpus relief?
19-5590 Levar Lee Anthony Spence v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2019-08-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection federal-courts legal-document petition pro-se standing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Was your petitioner, being without any assistance of an attorney denied due process and equal protection of the law when the federal courts refused de…
19-196 Louisiana Health Service & Indemnity Company, dba Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana v. Encompass Office Solutions, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2019-08-14 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived antiassignment-provision authoritative-guidance choice-of-law civil-procedure claim-processing clear-authoritative-guidance erie-doctrine erie-railroad erie-railroad-co-v-tompkins erisa erisa-antiassignment-provision erisa-benefits erisa-waiver federal-court federal-courts liability medical-provider standing state-law statutory-interpretation waiver Whether a federal court may choose the option that expands liability under state law, absent clear, authoritative guidance from the state's courts
19-5564 Montye Benjamin v. Lynn Thomas Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights disputed-facts due-process federal-court federal-courts law-enforcement qualified-immunity section-1983 standing summary-judgment Whether a defense of qualified immunity raised by a law enforcement officer in a § 1983 action is a valid basis for a Federal court to resolve dispute…
19-5567 Delores Neely v. Georgia Department of Human Resources Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 amendment-xiv-section-5 civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1871 congressional-power constitutional-immunity constitutional-provisions eleventh-amendment federal-courts fourteenth-amendment sovereign-immunity state-sovereignty Can Congress abrogate a State's immunity from being sued in Federal court without its consent, under authority granted to Congress by the Fourteenth A…
19-5579 Sebastian Eccleston v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-08-13 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts federal-prisoner habeas-corpus judicial-delay post-conviction-relief post-conviction-statute statutory-interpretation supervisory-power Whether § 2244(b)(3)(D)'s 30-day deadline for deciding motions for authorization is binding or merely advisory
19-5550 Jackie Duncan v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 10th-circuit abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure constitutional-vagueness due-process evidence-admissibility federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-discretion procedural-error rule-403 rule-404(b) rule-404b standard-of-review Whether the 10th Circuit erred in ruling the Western District of Oklahoma didn't abuse their discretion?
19-5494 Sobhy Fahmy Amin Iskander v. Dean Borders, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-08-07 Denied IFP civil-rights collateral-challenge constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-rules-of-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-reconsideration newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief sentencing standing Whether Mr. Iskander's constitutional rights were violated when he was denied the opportunity to testify with new information and knowledge about his …
19-164 David Samarripa, et al. v. Gregory Kizziah, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-08-05 Denied Amici (2) circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights court-costs due-process federal-courts filing-fees habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion procedural-rules standing statutory-interpretation Whether federal courts have the authority to impose partial filing fees on habeas petitioners
19-5448 Antolin Torres Abonza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deference due-process federal-courts judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness-review Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors?
19-5417 Travis Wayne Bentley v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2019-07-31 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP appeals civil-procedure criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction indian-law jurisdiction native-american-rights standing Whether the state court had jurisdiction to convict the petitioner under the Major Crimes Act
19-140 Jason Edward Rheinstein v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland Fourth Circuit 2019-07-30 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction attorney-discipline circuit-split civil-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-review remand remand-order removal standing statutory-interpretation Whether the appellate court has jurisdiction to review the entire remand order or only the portion addressing particular issues
19-5353 Frank Elroy Vennes, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 28-usc-section-2255 civil-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-habeas federal-rule-civil-procedure gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus integrity-of-proceedings judicial-integrity motion-to-reconsider rule-60(d)(3) Does a motion filed under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(d)(3) that does not attack the merits of a prior habeas decision, but alleges 'some defec…
19-5328 Lyle R. Harrison v. Moultrie County, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-subsidies indigency judicial-procedure jurisdiction speedy-trial state-jurisdiction usda-fsa-subsidies Whether due process allows the Illinois Courts jurisdiction over federal farm USDA/FSA subsidies, or federal courts jurisdiction over federal farm USD…
19-5298 Kendrick Antonio Simpson v. Mike Carpenter, Interim Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-07-24 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-review certificate-of-appealability double-deference federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-deference prejudice-prong standard-of-review strickland-analysis strickland-standard Does the AEDPA require federal courts to apply a doubly-deferential standard of review to the prejudice prong of the Strickland analysis?
19-5314 Aurora Barrera v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-petition 28-usc-1291 28-usc-2255 appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review district-court due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-procedure jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Whether a court of appeals has jurisdiction over an appeal of the denial of a § 2255 Petition pursuant to § 1291 when the District Court fails to adju…
19-5265 Benjamin E. Schreiber v. Nick Ludwick, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-07-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law administrative-remedies appeals bivens-action civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation dismissal due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-courts parties section-1983 standing Did the Court of Appeals violate Petitioner's Due Process Rights when it 'ADDED' extra Defendants not in the original lawsuit and in which the U.S. Di…
19-5270 Phyteaf Phequan McCormick v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-07-22 GVR IFP case-remand criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-law fourth-circuit judicial-interpretation sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review Whether the Fourth Circuit's judgment should be vacated and this case remanded for further review in light of this Court's recent opinion in Rehaif v.…
19-5257 In Re Vincent Johnson 2019-07-19 Denied IFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-procedure-rules-60-b-6 clerk clerk-filing due-process federal-appeals federal-courts judicial-procedure jurisdiction motion motion-for-relief relief-sought rule-60-motion sixth-circuit standing Whether the clerk for the Sixth Circuit Debbrah Hunt should be order to file movant's R. 60(b)(6) motion
19-5229 Saldy Marzan v. CoreCivic Correctional Center, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review dismissal documentary-evidence due-process federal-courts frivolous habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-default standing Can the hintk Cireuid Courd of App esle dismissed My Lake US Frivelsus With 647. having given Ine opperrutedy 6 presentis documentary evidenze to demo…
19-5170 Phillip J. Rosenblum v. Martin Biter, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default reopening-deadline state-court-exhaustion successive-petitions Whether a petitioner with an 'actual innocence' claim can be barred from review and treated as if successive petitions that have not been adjudicated …
19-5104 Maurice Samuel Arrington v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certiorari-review civil-rights court-records due-process evidence-assessment factual-findings federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-standards legal-review standing state-courts supreme-court-precedent Does the Court of Appeals deny prisoners Due Process by Ignoring vital Facts necessary to determining their Pre-COA issues and Merely quoting Black v.…
19-5047 Cathy L. Toole v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, et al. District of Columbia 2019-07-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process equal-justice equal-protection federal-courts judicial-independence separation-of-powers standing Whether federal judges employed in the federal courts are required to obey federal laws and the Constitution
19-15 Bank of Louisiana, et al. v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Fifth Circuit 2019-07-01 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights discrimination due-process federal-court federal-courts judicial-review jurisdiction legal-standing standing Where does one seek judicial review in a case alleging discrimination, neither on merits nor on a procedural ground, but for lack of jurisdiction?
18-9804 Michael Zachariah Gomez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-revocation plain-unreasonableness sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review Whether the standard of review in appeals of federal revocation sentences is limited to review for \'plain unreasonableness\'?
18-9841 Charles Hines v. JTH Tax, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-oath due-process federal-courts judicial-accountability judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct judicial-oath justice-system legal-proceedings oath standing supreme-court Whether the district court and appeals court judges violated their oaths to support and defend the Constitution by denying the petitioner's constituti…
18-1560 Richard Leland Neal v. B. Marc Neal, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-06-21 Denied amended-complaint appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts federal-rules motion-to-dismiss ninth-circuit pleadings rule-12(b)(6) standing Whether the Arizona District Court and the Ninth Circuit created a split by holding that defendants timely responded to Plaintiff's amended complaint …
18-9721 Frederick H. Banks v. Dennis Walker, U.S. Marshal, et al. Third Circuit 2019-06-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing state-courts Whether federal courts have 'pretrial' habeas corpus jurisdiction to review state court convictions
18-9734 Hector Dominguez-Gabriel, aka Kinko, aka John Richard Bellefleur v. United States Second Circuit 2019-06-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion compassionate-release criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-courts federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentence-modification sentencing-guidelines sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court(s) abused its discretion when it denied appellant Section 3582(c)(2) relief?
18-1543 Michael A. Katz, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Cellco Partnership, dba Verizon Wireless Second Circuit 2019-06-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration-act arbitration-stay article-iii civil-procedure consent constitutional-rights due-process federal-arbitration-act federal-courts fifth-amendment judicial-review standing voluntary-consent waiver wellness-international-network-v-sharif Whether Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) § 3 requires the district court to stay the action after it compels arbitration of all claims and a stay is requ…
18-9677 Martin Arreola Zavala v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility contested-cases criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process evidence evidence-determination federal-courts federal-sentencing legal-sufficiency quantity-determinations sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether this court should grant certiorari to address the proper application of law to fact relating to sufficiency of the evidence for quantity deter…
18-9645 Victor J. Black v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-06-12 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP appeals civil-procedure due-process federal-courts jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit had jurisdiction to adjudicate Petitioners' Appeal
18-9624 Robert William Wazney v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. Fourth Circuit 2019-06-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its application of the legal standard for X
18-1526 Patrick J. Tobin v. City and County of San Francisco, California Ninth Circuit 2019-06-10 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure federal-courts federalism forum-shopping government-code-911.3(b) judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits legal-interpretation preemption rule-10(a) state-law supervisory-powers Whether the federal court erred in exercising pendent jurisdiction over state law claims and failing to follow state supreme court precedent on the in…
18-9563 Cody Shane Sorrels v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-sentencing judicial-discretion jury-trial sentencing sentencing-determination sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-18-usc-3553 statutory-interpretation statutory-minimum Whether district courts may determine without the aid of a jury that a sentence above the statutory minimum is 'not greater than necessary' to achieve…
18-9549 Mauricio Lucas-Lopez v. Tony Trierweiler, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentence eighth-amendment federal-court-decisions federal-courts guidance-needed mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence proportionality sentencing sentencing-guidelines Is petitioner's twenty-five year mandatory minimum sentence disproportionate to the offense committed violating the Eighth Amendment prohibition again…
18-9507 Theon Smith v. Charleston County Domestic Relations, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-06-03 Denied IFP administrative-law child-support-enforcement civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-government parental-rights sovereign-immunity standing title-iv-d Does the United States unequivocally wave its sovereign immunity when it does business with its citizens?
18-9452 In Re Kirk Wayne McBride, Sr. 2019-05-31 Dismissed IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights clerk-authority clerk-discretion court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts filing-requirements habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis judicial-authority procedural-compliance standing title-28 title-28-usc-1915 Does the United States District Court have the authority to gather and review civil service records & complaints to determine whether the party is a p…
18-1484 Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc., et al. v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-29 Denied atlantic-marine convenience-of-parties district-court-discretion federal-courts federal-policy forum-selection forum-selection-clause judicial-precedent mandamus mandamus-relief public-policy state-policy transfer-of-venue Whether a district court's disregard of Atlantic Marine is sufficient grounds for mandamus relief
18-1456 William Mauldin, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Pauline Gibson, Deceased v. Allstate Insurance Company, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-05-22 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure consent-to-removal deception diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction removal rule-interpretation standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether federal courts must dismiss a case for lack of jurisdiction under FRCP 12(h)(3) when diversity jurisdiction is lacking, even after improper re…
18-1457 Joseph Allen May v. United States, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-05-22 Denied Response Waived 26-usc-7431 civil-rights discovery discovery-denial-authority discovery-rights due-process federal-courts irs irs-disclosure perpetrator-liability standing tax-law taxpayer-information title-26 Under what authority do the Federal Courts deny Discovery when the IRS and IRS officers have all of the documents and the United States' employees wer…
18-9380 Miguel Daniel Leal v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-deference constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process federal-courts ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel marital-communications-privilege marital-privilege ninth-circuit-review sixth-amendment speedy-trial speedy-trial-rights state-courts supervisory-power supreme-court-dicta Is SCOTUS dicta authoritative?
18-9344 Samuel J. Yarber v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-922g 18-usc-924c 21-usc-841a conviction-grouping criminal-statute federal-courts federal-law grouping judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines united-states-code Whether counts of conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) and 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) should be grouped under the United States Sentencing Guidelines, U.S.S.G.…
18-9351 Craig Bassett v. Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights congressional-act court-rule due-process federal-courts federal-law respondeat-superior section-1983 separation-of-powers standing state-law statutory-interpretation Can a rule of court contradict an act of congress without violating due process?
18-9317 Lena Lasher v. Naomi Reice Buchwald, Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Second Circuit 2019-05-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-procedure code-of-federal-regulations due-process federal-appeals-court federal-courts injunctive-relief judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal subject-matter-jurisdiction Should an injuctive relief be granted to address a federal appeals court's violation of the Code of Federal Regulations of Reconsideration Panel, 38 C…
18-9203 Leslie E. Thomas v. Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Union County Third Circuit 2019-05-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals appeals-court appellate-review civil-procedure court-authority court-hierarchy district-court due-process federal-courts jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction procedural-standing standing state-court Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit have jurisdiction?
18-9141 Matthew James Griffin v. Unknown Gregoline, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law article-iii civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts standing Did the court of appeals err in holding that the petitioners lacked Article III standing to challenge the government's action?
18-9158 Robert B. Lynn v. Theodore A. McKee, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, et al. Third Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP bias bias-standard circuit-court-procedure due-process ex-parte-proceedings federal-courts judicial-bias judicial-conduct judicial-recusal legal-standard precedent recusal recusal-standard supreme-court supreme-court-precedent Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals use the wrong legal standard; in conflict with the precedents of The Supreme Court and the Other Courts of Appe…
18-9124 Garland D. Miller v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP coram-nobis criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-criminal-procedure illegal-sentence judicial-jurisdiction restitution rule-35 sentencing sentencing-correction statutory-interpretation title-18 Does jurisdiction exist to correct an illegal sentence at any time?
18-1374 Chris Ann Jaye v. Oak Knoll Village Condominium Owners Association, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights controlling-law due-process erickson-v-pardus federal-courts federal-question interlocutory-appeal pleading-standard pleading-standards statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Is the Third Circuit acting in opposition to controlling law and different from other circuits by implementing a heightened pleading standard?
18-1377 Kwame Gyamfi v. R. Alexander Acosta, Secretary of Labor, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment administrative-remedies civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts fifth-amendment judicial-procedure standing trojan-servers Whether the use of 'Trojan Servers' by federal courts to manage cases violates the petitioner's due process rights under the Fifth Amendment
18-9116 Jesus Cotto v. Jacqueline Lashbrook, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari-petition compliance-exception due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-court-discretion federal-court-review federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction procedural-default procedural-rules state-court-determination state-court-rules state-courts Whether Federal Courts May Excuse A Petitioner's Failure To Comply With The State Court's Procedural Rules, Notwithstanding The State Court's Determin…
18-9020 Michael Marshall v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeal federal-courts federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit guilty-plea jurisdictional-grounds plea-bargaining sentencing Whether the writ should issue so that this Court may decide whether Petitioner's guilty plea was valid
18-8957 Scott Matthew Goss v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process federal-courts sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines weapon-possession May a court accept a mere allegation of possession of a weapon as satisfaction of the Government's initial burden of proof requirement supporting the …
18-8959 James Paul Arlotta v. McKesson Corporation, et al. Second Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied IFP 28-U.S.C administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts judicial-procedure pro-se-litigation standing statutory-interpretation Whether the district court and appeals court properly addressed the constitutionality of the Wall Street Reform Act
18-8965 Olusola Olla v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-knowledge criminal-law criminal-procedure deliberate-indifference federal-courts investigative-standard jury-instructions mens-rea prosecutorial-evidence statutory-interpretation willful-blindness Whether, in a criminal case where a statute requires proof of knowledge, the government may establish the requisite knowledge with evidence of a failu…
18-8923 Ryan Watkins v. Norm Robinson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appeals-court criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts federal-law habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief re-sentencing sentencing sixth-amendment sixth-circuit successive-petition Whether Petitioner was entitled to present his claims after re-sentencing to the United States District Court of appeals
18-1290 Reed Kirk McDonald v. Arapahoe County, Colorado Tenth Circuit 2019-04-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-attack colorado-law colorado-rule-120 due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction non-judicial-proceeding non-judicial-proceedings preclusion res-judicata rooker-feldman-doctrine rule-120 standing Whether a party who was not, and has never been named as an underlying party to any court proceedings for/against petitioner can invoke Rooker-Feldman…
18-8722 In Re Curtis Lee Sheppard 2019-04-09 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-review due-process federal-courts federal-law habeas-corpus jurisdictional-ruling mandamus prisoner-rights standing Whether the Eighth Circuit's refusal to allow the petitioner to file a successive habeas petition under 28 U.S.C. 2244(b) was proper
18-8646 Norman Hampton v. Gregory McLaughlin, Warden Georgia 2019-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus sentencing state-courts Was the petitioner's sentence pronounced unlawfully?
18-8594 Jason Allen Tiszai v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction fex-v-michigan florida-law interstate-agreement-on-detainers-act interstate-detainers judicial-procedure jurisdiction speedy-trial Whether the state of Florida violated petitioner's constitutional right to a speedy trial
18-8509 Towaki Komatsu v. NTT Data, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2019-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitration arbitration-impossibility civil-procedure civil-rights contractor-misclassification due-process equitable-relief federal-courts federal-jurisdiction financial-impossibility rooker-feldman-doctrine standing supplemental-jurisdiction younger-abstention younger-abstention-doctrine Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred in affirming the judgment of the U.S. District Court
18-8449 Juan Bustos-Chavez v. Matthew Hansen, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence alibi alibi-evidence due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-review murray-v-carrier procedural-review Whether the actual innocence exception established by Murray v. Carrier applies to alibi evidence
18-8468 Alfredo Mendez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure discretion district-court-authority due-process federal-courts judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors Whether a federal district court is permitted boundless discretion at sentencing to weigh established factors at sentencing
18-1203 Courthouse News Service v. Dorothy Brown, Clerk, Circuit Court of Illinois, Cook County Seventh Circuit 2019-03-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) from hearing First-Amendment-access on the basis of general principles of comity and access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights comity comity-doctrine court-access federal-courts federalism first-amendment younger-abstention Whether Younger and its progeny permit federal courts to abstain from hearing First Amendment challenges seeking access to state court filings
18-8429 Tracy Lane Beatty v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied IFP adequate-representation circuit-split civil-procedure civil-procedure-60b6-martinez-v-ryan-conflict-amon federal-courts federal-habeas martinez-standard martinez-v-ryan procedural-default rule-60-motion rule-60(b)(6) standing timeliness Whether the Court should grant certiorari to resolve a conflict among the federal courts of appeals as to whether petitioners may ever prevail on a Fe…
18-8419 Fabian Hernandez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-03-13 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-review reasoned-decision standard-of-review state-court-decision state-courts statutory-interpretation unreasonableness-test Whether, in the face of a reasoned state court decision, a federal habeas court applies the unreasonableness test of 28 USC §2254(d)(1) to the specifi…
18-8339 Joshua E. Shepherd v. Jeffrey E. Krueger, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP acca-prior-conviction acca-purposes constitutional-interpretation constitutional-issue criminal-law due-process federal-court federal-court-jurisdiction federal-courts prior-conviction sentencing state-case-law state-courts state-statute state-statute-analysis statutory-interpretation Whether the Constitution permits a federal court to conclude that a prior conviction is 'generic' for ACCA purposes based solely on another federal co…
18-8347 Jason Allen Tiszai v. Florida Florida 2019-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict constitutional-rights federal-courts federal-courts-conflict federal-jurisdiction fex-v-michigan florida-law interstate-agreement-on-detainers-act interstate-detainers judicial-review jurisdiction speedy-trial state-court-determination Whether the state of Florida violated petitioner's constitutional right to a speedy trial
18-8304 Whitney N. Broach v. David G. Peake, Chapter 13 Trustee Fifth Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied IFP attorney-mistakes bankruptcy-attorney bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-filings bankruptcy-judge bankruptcy-law bankruptcy-petition bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure due-process excusable-neglect federal-courts federal-rules-civil-procedure medical-bills procedural-rights Does a Federal Bankruptcy Judge deny the debtor's procedural and substantive due process by holding the debtor responsible for the Bankruptcy Attorney…
18-8272 Juliette Fairley v. Don Ford, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-circuit civil-procedure civil-rights disgorgement district-court diversity-jurisdiction due-process federal-courts standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals violate the 14th Amendment when it upheld Petitioner Juliette's dismissal which was based on the District Court's…
18-8286 Marco M. Torres v. Michael S. Williams, Judge, Judicial Circuit Court of Florida, Hillsborough County Florida 2019-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-courts florida-supreme-court judicial-power judicial-review separation-of-powers sister-circuit statutory-interpretation Whether Article 3, section 2, and 2, of the United States Constitution, on doctrine central to the federal courts structural independence consists of …
18-1137 Les Schwab Tire Centers of Portland, Inc., et al. v. Scott Wilcox, Individually and as the Personal Representative of the Estate of Jenna Wilcox Oregon 2019-03-04 Denied civil-procedure civil-proceeding civil-rights due-process federal-courts legal-proceeding military-service representative-capacity servicemembers-civil-relief-act standing state-courts statute-of-limitations tolling Tolling of statute of limitations for servicemember's representative claim
18-1135 Batu Shakari v. Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, et al. Illinois 2019-03-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-application due-process federal-courts illinois-statute standing state-law Did the Illinois courts' application of an Illinois statute deprive Batu Shakari of due process under the 14th Amendment?
18-8228 Daryl Bocook v. Gary Mohr, Warden Ohio 2019-03-01 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-precedent forensic-evidence habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-conflict legal-principles precedent-conflict standing state-court-dismissal supreme-court-review Whether the state courts' sua sponte dismissal of the petition is in direct conflict with other precedents on standing legal issues as well as federal…
18-8192 James Anthony Barnett, Jr. v. Alamance County Sheriff Office Detention Center, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied IFP 18-usc-3582 access-to-courts administrative-law civil-rights compassionate-release due-process federal-courts first-amendment prison-conditions standing Did the United States District Courts of North Carolina unlawfully deny petitioner's motion for compassionate release under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)
18-8195 Malcolm Bolden v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-courts standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated
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 Whether the presumption against federal court subject matter jurisdiction is rebutted by state procedural law
18-8152 Alvin DeWayne Trigg v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing state-courts Whether the state courts erred in denying petitioner's application for a writ of habeas corpus
18-8155 Benjamin E. Smith v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-right constitutional-rights courts-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-habeas federal-habeas-corpus federal-prisoner habeas-corpus legal-scholars standing state-prisoner Does a state and/or federal prisoner have a constitutional right to raise a freestanding claim of actual innocence, in a federal habeas corpus proceed…
18-8157 James Arthur Brinson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction final-decision fraud fraud-on-court judicial-procedure state-court timeliness untimeliness Is a constitutional right of access to the courts being denied when a fraud on a state court decision is used to prove untimeliness when federal court…
18-8165 Michael J. Galvan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure deference federal-courts judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors?
18-8116 Budry Michel v. Florida Florida 2019-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment,federal-habeas,state-court,merits federal-courts federal-habeas federal-review habeas habeas-corpus juvenile-sentencing merits parole-eligibility plain-language standing state-court state-court-interpretation state-courts Whether a state court can treat a federal habeas decision of this Court as a ruling on the merits contrary to the plain language of the decision?
18-8130 Eduardo Segoviano-Briseno v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP consideration contract-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process federal-courts judicial-interpretation legal-consideration plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing Whether principles of contract law require consideration (benefit to the defendant) to support a valid plea agreement
18-8089 Lattrell Anthony Morris v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-due-process court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts gvr habeas-corpus procedural-review rule-60b standing summary-denial summary-disposition Whether the Certificate of Appealability standard can be consistently applied when petitioners are denied relief under Rule 60(b)
18-8103 Derrek Heard v. Walter Berry, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied IFP 11th-circuit appellate-review civil-rights court-discretion due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-precedent legal-procedure precedent state-courts state-prisoner Are the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia and the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit required to …
18-8047 Randy L. Pope v. Steve Franke Ninth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP conviction-nullification convictions criminal-procedure disposition due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-discretion nullification re-sentencing relief-standard sentencing state-law Whether the district court must grant relief by adhering to the relief dictated by state law when the state concedes in habeas corpus proceedings and …
18-8017 Jacoby Kindred v. Jeff Titus, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-02-19 Denied IFP barefoot-standard barefoot-v-estelle certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process federal-courts habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default procedural-grounds slack-standard slack-v-mcdaniel standard-of-review Whether district courts can employ the Barefoot v. Estelle standard instead of the Slack v. McDaniel analysis when determining whether to issue a cert…
18-8008 Cedrick Euron Draper v. Muy Pizza Southeast LLC, dba Pizza Hut Fourth Circuit 2019-02-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-courts'-review-of-a-federal-courts'-decr appellate-review detected-fraud-upon-the-court-predominantly-voidab federal-courts fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court immunity impersonation-by-title-18 intentionally-and-unintentionally-protected-or-unp judgment-void judicial-immunity legal-misrepresentation overrule-frivolous-defiance pro-se-ligitant's-defense-not-identified-to-author pro-se-litigant procedural-defiance voidable-judgment fraud upon the court
18-7939 In Re Daniel Eric Salley 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus patent standing statutory-interpretation supervisory-powers Whether the district court failed to properly apply 28 U.S.C. § 2255(b) and (c), and Fed. R. Civ. P. 52(a) by not computing time according to the stat…
18-1058 Janice Smets v. Heather Wilson, Secretary of the Air Force Ninth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response Waived administrative-exhaustion civil-rights civil-servant due-process employment federal-circuit federal-courts mixed-case mspb non-jurisdiction summary-judgment title-vii When a civil servant changes a claim to a 'mixed case' during the District Court's non-hearing proceedings and she files to remand based on non-jurisd…
18-7902 Mario Akothe v. Carl Bear, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing statutory-provisions What avenues are available to seek habeas corpus relief when a certificate of appealability is denied without due process of law?
18-7921 James Howard Looman, III v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process F.R.A.P.-Rule-22(b) federal-courts federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation Did the Fifth Circuit err when it refused to apply 28 U.S.C. §2253(c) and F.R.A.P. Rule 22(b) and follow this Court's commands regarding review of app…
18-7924 Clifton Donell Lyles v. Angela Broach, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-courts fourth-circuit issue-preclusion judicial-procedure jurisdictional-bar rooker-feldman-doctrine standing Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals err by allowing the Rooker-Feldman doctrine to be used to grant motion for issue preclusion?
18-7808 Michael Duane Wilson v. Robert LeGrand, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review claim-splitting due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-courts federal-habeas habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard ninth-circuit post-conviction state-courts sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Erred in Sanctioning the Ability of Courts to Refashion a Habeas Claims into Various …
18-7779 Kenneth William Kirkland v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law destructive-device federal-courts federal-courts-split federal-statute firearm firearm-regulation firearms parts-possession statutory-interpretation unregistered-firearm Whether a combination of parts designed or intended for use as a bomb can qualify as a 'destructive device'
18-7800 Rene Antonio Aguilar v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-criminal-justice procedural-obligations rita-standard rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-arguments Can a district court at sentencing fail to respond to a party's non-frivolous sentencing arguments?
18-1021 Travis Hawkins v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-05 Denied Response Waived appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review preservation-of-error public-trial state-court state-court-decision state-courts Whether an objection is required to preserve appellate review for an alleged public trial violation
18-7777 In Re Jaron Brice 2019-02-05 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus standing Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in denying habeas corpus relief to the petitioner
18-7660 LaBarrion Harris v. James Deal, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-challenge constitutional-law custody-violation due-process federal-courts federal-procedure habeas-corpus state-courts statute-of-limitations time-limitation unconstitutional void-judgment Whether the 1-year limitation period under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1)(A) and (D) can be tolled under Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b) and (c)(1), and whether the tim…
18-7667 Marion Taylor v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure article-3 civil-procedure constitution constitutional-power due-process federal-courts judicial-proceeding judicial-proceedings judicial-review standing supervisory-power supreme-court-jurisdiction Whether the U.S. 5th Cir. Court of Appeals has so far departure from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceeding
18-7580 Mourice Neal v. Wayne County Treasurer Michigan 2019-01-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitution constitution-interpretation due-process federal-courts federalism jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Is the United States Constitution for Supreme Court Proceedings?
18-7598 Carol J. Morris v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-compensation patent standing statutory-construction takings Whether the petitioner's convictions should be vacated due to ineffective assistance of counsel and violations of due process
18-962 In Re Joseph M. Arpaio 2019-01-25 Denied Amici (1) criminal-appeal department-of-justice due-process federal-courts prosecutorial-discretion separation-of-powers special-prosecutor young-v-united-states Where the Department of Justice has appeared in a criminal appeal on behalf of the United States, and indicated that it intends to represent the Unite…
18-7560 Marcus Leland Freeman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus standing statutory-interpretation Whether the court below erred by misconstruing the petitioner's motion based on Buck v. Dinis by failing to apply the correct legal analysis standard …
18-958 Peter P. Mitrano v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response Waived appeals civil-procedure court-of-appeals custody custody-order due-process family-court family-law federal-courts jurisdiction legal-dismissal new-hampshire ninth-circuit standing Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit err in affirming the dismissal of this action?
18-7517 Donelle L. Johnson v. Jennifer McDermott, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-standard prisoner-rights procedural-rights Did the United States Court of Appeals err in denying Mr. Johnson a certificate of appealability?
18-7513 Nelson Cobas v. Kevin Lindsey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts free-speech sentencing standing state-courts statutory-interpretation Whether the petitioner's conviction under 18 U.S.C. sections 2545 and 2544 violates his constitutional rights
18-7410 Walter A. Kott, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit judicial-review legal-precedent petitioner-claim precedent standing supreme-court Whether the United States District Court, Eastem District of Louisiana and Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals mis-applied clearly established Supreme Cour…
18-7389 Scott Smith v. Shane Jackson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts judicial-proceedings manifest-injustice sixth-circuit supervisory-power Was petitioner denied his fundamental and constitutional right to due process?
18-908 Charles G. Kinney v. Frances Rothschild, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-14 Denied Response Waived ada-violations civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts first-amendment free-speech judicial-misconduct separation-of-powers standing takings vexatious-litigant whistleblower Will this Court stop these ongoing violations of both state and federal law?
18-7377 Jarvis Harris v. Joe Easterling, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-courts federal-law federal-question judicial-review legal-precedent standing supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and District Court for the Western District has entered a decision in conflict with t…
18-7336 Jonathan Henry Hill v. Michigan Sixth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied IFP affidavit affidavit-standard civil-procedure conviction due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review newly-discovered-evidence one-year-limitation post-conviction-relief statute-of-limitations Can a Habeas Petitioner rely on an affidavit as newly discovered evidence when the affidavit is submitted more than one year after a conviction?
18-7321 Michael A. Young v. Carol Chapdelaine, Warden Second Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals certiorari civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct judicial-review legal-action standing statutory-provisions supreme-court Whether indigent petitioner's freestanding factual innocence showing is being constructively denied appointment of counsel on first and all other appe…
18-7133 Paul Burks v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-tax due-process elements federal-courts federal-prosecution indictment indictment-elements pretrial-motion statutory-interpretation substantive-law tax-law uncertainty Whether the substantial existence of uncertainty in the governing substantive tax law is irrelevant to the determination of a pretrial motion to dismi…
18-7040 Adam L. Perry v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights concurrent-jurisdiction constitutional-codes court-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-rules legal-jurisdiction procedural-rules standing state-codes state-courts Whether state courts have concurrent jurisdiction with federal courts, and whether state court judges can facilitate procedures to address violations …
18-7026 Bryan Coats v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-12-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts government-action jurisdiction jurisdiction-filing legal-procedure order-denying-rehearing petition-for-rehearing rehearing standing takings timeliness united-states Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the government's actions
18-7022 Ryan Lee Zater v. Kenny Atkinson, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-13 Denied IFP actual-innocence circuit-split federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure habeas-corpus saving-clause sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation What is the scope of the §2255(e) saving clause? And is it permissible for Zater to proceed thereunder?
18-6999 John McQueen v. Lynn Fisher Sixth Circuit 2018-12-12 Denied IFP circuit-court civil-procedure district-court-errors due-process exceptional-importance exxon-mobil-precedent exxon-mobil-v-saudi-basic federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-review jurisdiction rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine sixth-circuit-errors standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the District Court has subject matter jurisdiction to decide if Rooker-Feldman applies to cases filed in federal court before the state court …
18-7001 In Re Michael Kennedy 2018-12-12 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction free-speech habeas-corpus pleadings standing Whether the lower federal courts erred in dismissing petitioner's claims without allowing him to file any pleadings
18-7003 Jose Jesus Ramirez v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights congress constitutional-law due-process federal-courts impeachment separation-of-powers standing Whether the federal court erred in denying petitioner's constitutional challenge to the impeachment process
18-6979 Lewis Carnell Jackson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-12-11 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-offense culpable-negligence deference federal-circuit-courts federal-courts mens-rea sentencing-enhancement state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation violent-felony Whether a criminal offense with a mens rea of 'culpable negligence' qualifies as a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 9…
18-6992 Brandon Bernard v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-11 Denied Amici (1)IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights death-penalty due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias judicial-misconduct judicial-misconduct-allegations standing Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in its reading of Gonzalez v. Crosby, allowing Rule 60(b) motions to remedy procedural defects in habeas proceedings
18-735 Maricopa County, Arizona v. Manuel de Jesus Ortega Melendres, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-12-10 Denied Relisted (7) 10th-amendment 42-usc-1983 contempt-powers county-authority-under-state-law federal-courts federalism federalism-limits-on-federal-courts final-policymaker guarantee-clause mcmillian-precedent rizzo-v-goode sovereign-prerogatives tenth-amendment Are sheriffs 'final policymakers' under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for their counties with regard to law enforcement?
18-6899 John Uranga, III v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied IFP certiorari circuit-split circuit-splits constitutional-error constitutional-violations de-minimis federal-courts federal-law implied-bias intra-circuit-split juror-bias structural-error structural-errors Whether the implied bias doctrine constitutes clearly established federal law
18-6965 Lei Yin v. Biogen, Inc., fka Biogen-IDEC First Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-protections discovery discovery-rules due-process federal-court-procedure federal-courts federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-fairness legal-representation pro-se pro-se-rights standing Whether a Pro Se shall share the same right as those represented by lawyers that are protected by United States Constitution?
18-6927 In Re Jerry Urbina 2018-12-06 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-courts judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining retroactivity rule-11 sentencing-amendment sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation Whether the lower courts abused their discretion by denying petitioner Urbina relief under the 782 Amendment due to his being the beneficiary of a Rul…
18-721 Norman Bloom v. Aftermath Public Adjusters, Inc., et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied certification circuit-split civil-procedure discretion diversity-jurisdiction federal-court federal-court-discretion federal-courts legal-uncertainty procedural-standards state-law state-law-certification Whether the language of a state's certification rule should factor into the federal court's decision to certify a dispositive state law question in a …
18-6879 Darren Hogue v. Brad Cain, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2018-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court-decision due-process federal-courts federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-colloquy sixth-amendment standard-of-review waiver-hearing Did the Ninth Circuit's memorandum decision contravene this Court's command that a proper review of a viable Sixth Amendment claim of ineffective assi…
18-6850 Steven Madina Esparza v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-11-28 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2254 court-appointed-counsel discretionary-review equitable-tolling federal-courts finality-of-conviction gonzales-v-thaler gross-negligence habeas-corpus look-through-presumption ylst-v-nunnemaker Under GONZALES V. THALER, when does a petitioner's conviction become final for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1)(A)
18-6856 Geary Mohammed Mills v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure due-process jurisdiction standing-issue statutory-interpretation civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in its application of the legal standard for determining standing in this case
18-673 Terrence Edwin Prince v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-11-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) and whether applying AEDPA's restrictive provisio aedpa brady-claim brady-rule due-process federal-courts gatekeeping-provisions habeas habeas-corpus retroactivity second-in-time-petition second-or-successive Whether a Brady claim brought in a second-in-time habeas petition is 'second or successive' under AEDPA
18-6747 Gibran Richardo Figueroa-Beltran v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure divisibility-analysis divisibility-inquiry due-process federal-courts federal-divisibility-doctrine federalism mathis-doctrine mathis-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-court-certification state-courts state-statutes three-part-test When applying the federal divisibility doctrine to state statutes, may federal courts terminate the three-part test set forth in Mathis v. United Stat…
18-6745 In Re Donald L. Spencer 2018-11-20 Denied IFP aedpa antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act district-court-judge due-process federal-court federal-courts federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations tolling-provision Whether the Honorable Richard Williams, U.S. District Court Judge has a clear duty to afford Petitioner the full one-year statute period from the enac…
18-639 Marek Biszczanik v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-11-16 Denied Response Waived amended-complaint appeals appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals dismissal district-court due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-review procedural-dismissal sixth-circuit standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in affirming the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mich…
18-6717 Lei Yin v. Thermo Fisher Scientific First Circuit 2018-11-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-court-rules federal-courts judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-rights standing summons summons-issuance Whether a pro se litigant shall share the same rights as those represented by lawyers that are protected by the United States Constitution
18-627 William Henry Starrett, Jr. v. Lockheed Martin Corporation, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-11-13 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-statutory-causes-of-action constitutional-rights due-process emotional-distress federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress service-of-process standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the Fifth Circuit err in affirming a district court's conclusion that service of process by Certified Mail is insufficient under Federal Rules of …
18-6678 Jermeal White v. Charmaine Bracy, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-courts habeas-corpus standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in denying petitioner's Certificate of Appealability under the law
18-6622 Keeland Duralle Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review Whether a court of appeals is required to grant a habeas petitioner a COA when the question presented clearly is debatable by jurist of reason as demo…
18-6632 In Re Danny Howell 2018-11-08 Dismissed IFP adverse-consequences article-iii case-or-controversy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus standing Does the Court of Appeals abuse its discretion in refusing to permit consideration of a vital intervening legal development when petitioner's prior ha…
18-6640 James Derrick Hundley v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts habeas habeas-corpus-rights ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standing Whether the federal habeas court improperly and unconstitutionally suspended and foreclosed petitioner's habeas rights?
18-6591 Leslie Chin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-diligence due-process equal-protection federal-courts new-trial newly-discovered-evidence standard-of-review trial-procedure Whether the Equal Protections Clause is violated when there is a conflict amongst the federal circuit courts of appeal dealing with what a defendant i…
18-586 Jack R. Koch v. Adam Estrella, et al. California 2018-11-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction final-judgment jurisdiction state-court statute-of-limitations supplemental-jurisdiction Is it lawful for the state courts to create a final judgment from within the federal court files when there is no entry of a final judgment and then h…
18-572 Dorsey Ron McCall v. Aptim Corporation Fifth Circuit 2018-11-01 Dismissed abstention arbitration-waiver circuit-split civil-procedure federal-court-abstention federal-courts federal-state-jurisdiction forum-shopping litigation-conduct prejudice state-court-proceedings Must a party opposing arbitration on the ground of waiver by litigation conduct prove that it was prejudiced by the other party's waiver?
18-6495 Richard Anthony Trent v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split demand-for-certainty divisibility divisible-statute federal-courts federal-statute-interpretation mathis-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach state-law-materials statutory-interpretation Is the demand for certainty satisfied where, after a survey of relevant, state-law materials, the federal court can only say what is 'suggestive' and …
18-6500 In Re Sandra Rumanek 2018-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-courts federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-power pro-se-litigation procedural-rules standing Did the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware usurp this Court's judicial power in violation of FRCP rules?
18-6449 In Re Hakeem Sultaana 2018-10-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process extraordinary-writ extraordinary-writs federal-courts habeas-corpus mandamus relief-sought standing statutory-provisions Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the petitioner's extraordinary writ of mandamus and prohibition
18-6455 Ronnie McGee v. Pam Bondi, Attorney General of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 district-court-review due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-courts federal-habeas gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus section-2254 statutory-interpretation Whether a district court's misconstrual of a § 2254 claim and/or failure to consider or properly consider material evidence submitted to support a cla…
18-528 Elias Kifle, et al. v. Jemal Ahmed Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-23 Denied civil-procedure district-court diversity diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts jurisdiction rule-19 standard-of-review standing subject-matter-jurisdiction What is the standard of review for a District Court's determination that a required party is dispensable under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 19?
18-6408 Tiffany A. Prince v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law drug-offenses drug-overdose federal-courts federal-law physical-injury sentencing-guidelines significant-physical-injury sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation Whether a non-fatal drug overdose is a 'significant physical injury' under U.S.S.G. § 5K2.2
18-6331 Vernon Robinson v. Florida Florida 2018-10-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus sentencing standing statutory-interpretation Whether the District Court of Appeals erred in dismissing petitioner's claim
18-6199 Marco M. Torres v. Frances M. Perrone, Judge, Judicial Circuit Court of Florida, Hillsborough County Florida 2018-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-review due-process federal-courts florida-supreme-court judicial-power judicial-review separation-of-powers sister-circuit Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in its interpretation of Article 3, Section 1 and 2 of the U.S. Constitution regarding the judicial power to d…
18-6202 Amil Dinsio v. Appellate Division, Supreme Court of New York, Third Judicial Department Second Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure court-mandate discretion due-process federal-courts judicial-discretion legal-review mandate mandate-recall motion-denial recall standing Did the Second Circuit Court abuse its discretion when it denied the Petitioner's motion to recall the Court's mandate?
18-6144 Guadalupe Padilla v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-10-01 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-procedure-habeas-corpus-standing-due-process civil-rights constitutional-provisions district-court due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus legal-remedy petition standing statutory-provisions writ Whether the U.S. District Court has authority to order the clerk to not file any further pleadings in habeas corpus proceedings, where the order resul…
18-6125 Willie Frank Wright, Jr. v. Shawn Carter, aka Jay-Z, et al. Second Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied IFP breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-rights consideration constitutional-violation due-process factual-allegations federal-courts judicial-review motion-to-dismiss pleadings procedural-dismissal scheuer-v-rhodes Twombly-Iqbal Whether a court can rely on material outside the pleadings when ruling on a motion to dismiss
18-6119 Gary Long, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-sentencing de-facto-life-sentence due-process eighth-amendment federal-court-split federal-courts life-sentence sentencing-analysis sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent term-of-years Whether the district and appellate court failed to conduct the proper analysis of imposing a de facto life sentence on the petitioner?
18-6085 Gerald Daniels v. Janet Dowling, Warden Tenth Circuit 2018-09-24 Denied IFP constitutional-issue constitutional-law constitutional-review equal-protection evasion federal-court federal-courts habeas-corpus race-discrimination state-court state-law state-law-interpretation Whether a federal habeas court may reexamine a state court's interpretation of state law when it is an obvious subterfuge to evade consideration of a …
18-6037 Raul S. Zavala v. Hector Rios, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP bivens-claim civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions damages-claim due-process federal-courts mail-restrictions prison prison-mail prison-officials prison-regulations standing WHETHER PLAINTIFF IS ENTITLED TO NOTICE WHEN UNOPENED' MAIL HAS BEEN REJECTED AND RETURNED TO THE SENDER BECAUSE IT FAILED TO COMPLY WITH PRISON REGUL…
18-5967 Matthew Wade Howard v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-courts federal-criminal-law federal-guideline guideline-application sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit Whether the Tenth Circuit and other circuits have broadened the application of U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) beyond the plain language of the guideline's …
18-5968 In Re Jose Prisciliano Gracia-Cantu 2018-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-sentencing federal-appeals-court federal-courts federal-prisoner judicial-discretion mandamus mandate mandate-stay resentencing sentencing-guidelines unreasonable-sentence vacated-sentence writ-of-mandamus Whether a federal court of appeals can stay its mandate for more than five months, thereby keeping a federal prisoner in jail under an unreasonable se…
18-5971 Donavan T. Fortin v. Brad Cain, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence due-process estelle-v-mcguire evidentiary-hearing federal-courts habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-principles judicial-review ninth-circuit state-court state-law state-law-interpretation williams-v-taylor Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision, which interpreted state law contrary to the state court's ruling, conflicts with Estelle v. McGuire
18-5919 Lance R. Martin v. Edmund Gerald Brown, Jr., et al. California 2018-09-07 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts judicial-review patent standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant statute
18-5895 Justin Lyle Izatt v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 constitutional-law court-of-appeals due-process eighth-amendment federal-courts federal-habeas-corpus federal-question gross-disproportionality habeas-corpus judicial-review petition-for-writ-of-certiorari post-conviction-relief sentencing Whether the Court of Appeals committed error by denying the Petitioner's 28 U.S.C. §2255 petition?
18-275 Patricia Smith, et al. v. Hillary Rodham Clinton, et al. District of Columbia 2018-09-04 Denied Response Waived benghazi civil-procedure civil-rights dc-circuit defamation federal-court-procedure federal-courts government-immunity hillary-clinton motion-to-dismiss sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction substitution substitution-of-defendant westfall-act Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit erred in affirming the substitution of the United States for Hillary Clinton an…
18-5817 Jermaine Moorer v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federal-courts habeas-corpus qualified-immunity standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's dismissal of petitioner's claims alleging violations of his constitutional rights
18-5827 Robert Joseph King v. Robert R. Neall, Secretary, Maryland Department of Health, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-08-29 Denied IFP americans-with-disabilities-act appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts jurisdiction-28-usc-1292 sovereign-immunity standing state-immunity statutory-interpretation title-i Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issue an Order that conflicts with 28 U.S.C. § 1292 by denying Petitioner's appeal?
18-5771 Jim Walter Qualls, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-courts felony-case guilty-plea judicial-authority jurisdiction magistrate-judge magistrate-judges plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation Whether a United States Magistrate Judge has statutory authority to accept a guilty plea in a felony case and adjudge a defendant guilty
18-5801 Harvey Eugene Larson v. Doug Moore, Parole Officer, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-28 Dismissed IFP cause-of-action civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus legal-standing pleading prisoner-rights standing statutory-interpretation Did claims state a cause of action?
18-5773 Michael Delancy v. Jorge L. Pastrana, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied Relisted (5)IFP 851 F.3d 1076 (11th Cir. 2017) Inc. unconstitutionally forecloses habeas-corpus-acces which is in conflict with opinions of nine other 28-usc-2241 circuit-split constitutional-challenge due-process federal-courts federal-inmates florida-state-convictions habeas-corpus mathis-v-us sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals holding unconstitutionally forecloses habeas-corpus-access
18-5701 Stephen Aguiar v. United States Second Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal coram-nobis criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federal-courts fifth-amendment habeas-corpus second-circuit-dismissal sentence sentencing-appeal writ-of-error-coram-nobis Did the Second Circuit err by dismissing petitioner's appeal?
18-5672 Charles S. Renchenski v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2018-08-21 Denied IFP appellate-procedure circuit-split conflict-of-laws constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default state-courts Has the Third Circuit Court of Appeals entered a decision that is in conflict with the United States Supreme Court, all other Courts of Appeals, feder…
18-5645 Eric E. Johnson v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2018-08-20 Dismissed IFP appeals constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit, knowingly denied a petitioner's final appeal of a constitutional right to appeal his capital criminal…
18-5655 Cory D. Foster v. United States Third Circuit 2018-08-20 Denied IFP a question that has split the circuits 10-1 18-usc-924c categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-courts federal-criminal-provision federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-definition statutory-interpretation Whether the categorical approach applies in determining whether an offense is a 'crime of violence' supporting conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)
18-5629 Jermaine Dewitt Chaney v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealibility civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-district-court fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2254 standard-of-review standards Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err by reaching the merits of the case and denying certificate of appealability?
18-5591 Valerie Mason v. Dan A. Polster, Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-08-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 chambers-conduct civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process federal-courts free-speech judicial-conduct judicial-misconduct photography recusal standing Whether a judge's refusal to recuse himself after being photographed in his chambers violates the petitioner's civil rights under 42 USC 1983
18-197 E. K. Wade v. R. Alexander Acosta, Secretary of Labor, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-14 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights department-of-labor due-process federal-courts federal-tort-claims-act judicial-discretion pre-filing-order preliminary-injunction ripeness standing title-vii Whether Petitioner, at the time of his personal injuries, was a private citizen and not an employee subject to exclusive remedy under Title VII
18-5574 Christina Jay Acker v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-13 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-violations due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the federal courts failed to properly consider the petitioner's claims for habeas co…
18-178 SGK Properties, L.L.C., et al. v. U.S. Bank National Association, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Response Waived americold-realty-trust-v-conagra-foods business-trust circuit-split citizenship comity comity-and-federalism diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine erie-r-co-v-tompkins federal-courts federalism real-party-in-interest unincorporated-business-trust unincorporated-entity Whether the citizenship of constituent members of an unincorporated business trust determines federal diversity jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1332(a)…
18-5522 Edward Vincent Ray v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review buck-v-davis civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-courts gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus legal-standard rule-60b standing successive-petition Whether the United States District Court abused its discretion by construing Petitioner's Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 60(b) motion as a 'suc…
18-168 Bill G. Nichols, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Chesapeake Operating, LLC, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) cafa cafa-jurisdiction circuit-split citizenship civil-procedure class-action diversity-jurisdiction domicile domicile-presumption federal-courts federal-jurisdiction removal residency-domicile-presumption residency-presumption standing subject-matter-jurisdiction When determining the citizenship of a class for purposes of CAFA's home-state exception, 28 U.S.C. § 1332(d)(4)(B), does this Court's long-standing re…
18-5428 Restituto D. Barraquias v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2018-08-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standing takings Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated when the court failed to consider his claim of ineffective assistance of counsel
18-119 Gotech International Technology Limited, et al. v. Nagravision SA Fifth Circuit 2018-07-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure defendant-jurisdiction due-process federal-civil-procedure federal-claims federal-courts federal-rules-of-civil-procedure foreign-defendants jurisdiction-pleading personal-jurisdiction pleading pleading-requirements rule-4k2 subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a plaintiff invoking jurisdiction under Rule 4(k)(2) must plead that the defendant is not subject to jurisdiction in any state's courts of gen…
18-115 Kimothy Maurice Wynn v. Washington Ninth Circuit 2018-07-26 Denied civil-procedure due-process facial-challenge federal-courts federal-rules jurisdictional-challenge material-allegations personal-jurisdiction pleading-requirements pleadings sovereign-immunity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Lack of subject matter and personal jurisdiction
18-108 David Duncan v. GEICO General Insurance Company Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-24 Denied 14th-amendment 7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-interpretation due-process erie-doctrine erie-railroad-co-v-tompkins federal-case-law federal-common-law federal-courts judicial-precedent procedural-law substantive-law supreme-court-precedent Whether federal courts are wrongfully developing and applying federal case law in derogation of the U.S. Constitution and the established U.S. Supreme…
18-5327 Adib Eddie Ramez Makdessi v. Lieutenant Fields, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-07-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference deliberate-misconduct due-process evidence-suppression excessive-force federal-courts fourth-circuit judicial-conflict retaliation standing takings witness-tampering Whether the Fourth Circuit's conflicting rulings overlooked key evidence and were in conflict with Supreme Court precedent in Farmer v. Brennan
18-5270 Steven Lynn Deem v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-07-19 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurists-of-reason merits-hearing procedural-standard self-representation Whether the Fifth Circuit abused its discretion in denying a certificate of appealability on petitioner's actual-innocence claim
18-5198 Ronald David Jones v. Grand Canyon University, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure default-judgment due-process federal-courts obstruction-of-justice private-university service-of-process service-of-summons standing venue-change Whether the district court erred in dismissing the case despite defendants' failure to properly serve a response within the required timeframe
18-5203 Khalif Abdul Qawi Mujahid v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure-rules due-process federal-courts jurisdiction standing appeals civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in dismissing petitioner's motion under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b) …
18-42 GlaxoSmithKline LLC v. Louisiana Third Circuit 2018-07-09 Dismissed Amici (4) 11th-amendment absent-class-member civil-procedure class-action due-process federal-court federal-courts federalism opt-out rule-23 sovereign-immunity state-sovereign-immunity Whether state sovereign immunity bars a federal court from binding a State to a Rule 23 class settlement as an absent class member plaintiff based on …
18-22 Young Sung Lee, et al. v. Katelyn Garvey Second Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied civil-procedure directed-verdict diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts judicial-discretion meniscus-injury new-york-insurance-law new-york-law permanent-injury personal-injury rule-50-dismissal rule-50(a) rule-50a serious-injury-threshold state-law-interpretation summary-judgment Whether the Magistrate Judge erred in granting a Rule 50(a) motion for directed verdict
18-5134 Ronald Raymond Fowlkes v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment circuit-split civil-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-magistrates-act habeas habeas-corpus magistrate-judge notice notice-requirement opportunity-to-respond plea-bargaining procedural-rules Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in failing to find a violation of the petitioner's due process rights when the district court denied…