| 25-961 |
Peyman Roshan v. Christine M. Searle, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-02-13 |
Pending |
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constitutional-challenge due-process federal-district-court rooker-feldman state-court-jurisdiction tax-sale |
QUESTIONS PRESENTED
On October 3, 2025 this Court granted the petition for certiorari in Pung v. Isabella Cty., Mich. Case No. 25-95 ("Pung ") where … |
| 25A30 |
Humberto Andres Maldonado v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-08 |
Application |
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certificate-of-appealability federal-district-court habeas-corpus procedural-bar statute-of-limitations sua-sponte |
Whether a federal district court's sua sponte denial of a certificate of appealability based on the statute of limitations constitutes an abuse of dis… |
| 24-7258 |
In Re Paul Kenneth Cromar |
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2025-05-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
16th-amendment constitutional-authority federal-district-court income-tax non-apportioned-tax subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Does the federal district court possess subject-matter jurisdiction to conduct tax trials and enforce IRS assessments of a non-apportioned direct tax … |
| 23-7292 |
Morris Fuller v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-04-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing drug-offense due-process equal-protection federal-district-court judicial-discretion maximum-penalty post-conviction-relief sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the district court erred in sentencing the petitioner to an above-guideline sentence based on factors that were already accounted for in the g… |
| 23-6684 |
Anthony Earl Ridley v. Thomas L. Williams, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-02-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence aedpa civil-procedure federal-district-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance presumption-of-correctness procedural-default state-appellate-court |
Question not identified |
| 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 |
| 23-5657 |
Arthur Ray Deere, Sr. v. Kiry K. Gray, Clerk, United States District Court for the Central District of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-09-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection federal-district-court federal-jurisdiction juvenile-custody legal-procedure standing state-courts |
Whether the U.S. District Court violated the petitioner's constitutional right to due process and equal protection under the 14th Amendment by denying… |
| 21-7557 |
Maria Andrea Gonzalez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3161 criminal-procedure due-process ends-of-justice federal-district-court findings-of-fact speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation trial-continuance |
Does the Speedy Trial Act require specific findings of fact when excluding days from a criminal defendant's speedy trial clock? |
| 21-743 |
Donald Lempar v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2254 custody custody-definition federal-district-court federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus sex-offender-registration state-court state-court-judgment |
Whether a habeas corpus petitioner who is subject only to sex offender registration requirements when he or she filed his or her petition is 'in custo… |
| 21-6292 |
Jason R. Bohlinger v. Ron Neal, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-claim due-process federal-district-court habeas-corpus section-2254 standing |
Whether the Northern District of Indiana erred by denying Bohlinger habeas relief as untimely under section 2254 habeas corpus Rule 4, and by redactin… |
| 21-6182 |
Erick Argueta Larios v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
clear-and-convincing-evidence criminal-procedure due-process federal-district-court relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether a federal district court may use relevant conduct not proven by clear and convincing evidence to disproportionately raise a defendant's senten… |
| 21-5168 |
Darrell Demetrius Cross v. Kecia Davidson, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-procedure attorney-general civil-procedure civil-rights detainer-warrant due-process federal-district-court inmate-rights prisoner-rights standing voluntary-protective-custody |
Whether a U.S. federal district court judge and the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals can allow a voluntary protective custody inmate to be placed on cond… |
| 20-5897 |
Demetrice Williams v. Sandy McCain, Warden, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability COA criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution denial effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection federal-district-court fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether the federal district court should not have denied COA based on the substantial showing of the denial of the Sixth Amendment guarantees of the … |
| 20-5767 |
William Emmett LeCroy, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
all-writs-act death-sentence district-court-discretion execution-date exigent-circumstances federal-district-court federal-procedure injunction judicial-modification stay-of-execution |
May a federal district court reset or modify an execution date for a federally death-sentenced inmate in order to manage unforeseen exigent circumstan… |
| 20-338 |
Johnny Clyde Benjamin, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11th-circuit controlled-substances-act criminal-indictment federal-district-court furanyl-fentanyl indictment jurisdictional-defect statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Did the district court have subject matter jurisdiction over this case? |
| 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 |
| 20-5151 |
Antoine Reed v. Daniel Paramo, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appointed-counsel clear-error compulsory-process credibility federal-district-court material-witness police-manipulation procedural-bar standard-of-review state-law state-law-error |
Did the federal district court commit clear error when it deemed the Reed's properly presented 28 USC section 2254 compulsory process violation claim … |
| 20-5139 |
Algere Jones v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule federal-district-court fourth-amendment search-and-seizure standing supervised-release |
Can a federal district court bar the use of the Exclusionary Rule during the petitioner's violation of supervised release hearing? |
| 19-8863 |
Michael Strausbaugh v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appealability appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-district-court habeas-corpus judicial-determination miller-el-doctrine procedural-standard standing |
Whether the Court of Appeals correctly determined that the requirements of Miller-El v. Cockrell for a Certificate of Appealability were not met |
| 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 … |
| 19-6714 |
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… |
| 19-6502 |
Cory Dale Fields v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process federal-district-court federal-sentencing grand-jury no-bill prior-conduct reliability reliability-of-evidence reliability-standard sentencing sentencing-considerations uncharged-conduct |
Is alleged prior uncharged conduct that had been no-billed by a Grand Jury sufficiently reliable for a federal district court to consider at sentencin… |
| 19-50 |
John DeRaffele v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals fair-housing-act federal-district-court federal-question judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings jury-verdict pro-se pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation standing tenant-standing writ-of-certiorari |
Does a Pro Se litigant have the right to request a Writ of Certiorari when the Court of Appeals has upheld a lower Court ruling on an important Federa… |
| 18-9537 |
Stephen S. Henry v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assistant-united-states-attorney due-process federal-district-court fifth-amendment fraud fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court habeas habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review rule-60 section-2254 section-2255 standard-of-review state-court-review |
whether-fraud-on-the-court-can-be-reviewed-in-a-§-2255-habeas-proceeding |
| 18-8685 |
Ervin Thomas v. Cathy A. Jess, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-04-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-district-court habeas-corpus pleading-standards pro-se pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation standing time-bar |
Whether a federal district court should deny petitioners petitions for a writ of habeas corpus as untimely and failed to issue a certificate of appeal… |
| 18-8376 |
Dee Deidre Farmer v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia |
District of Columbia |
2019-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bivens-claims civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-district-court jurisdiction jurisdictional-transfer prisoner-civil-action prisoner-rights residence-determination standing venue-requirements |
When a prisoner initiates a civil action in a federal district court should that court deem the prisoner a resident of the state in which she/he resid… |
| 18-8354 |
Anthony K. Anderson v. Jerry Howell, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights district-court due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-district-court federal-habeas habeas-corpus post-conviction post-conviction-review pro-se pro-se-litigant protective-petition standing |
Whether a Federal District Court Unfairly Precluded pro se Prisoner Litigant Anthony Anderson's Future Ability to a Federal Habeas Review of his Nevad… |
| 18-6077 |
Omar Qazi v. Nevada, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
2254-petition 28-usc-2254 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process federal-district-court federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel remittitur state-court-appeals |
Did the Federal District Court of Nevada have the jurisdiction to hear my 2254 Petition? |
| 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? |