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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6622 John Bradley v. United States Second Circuit 2025-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appointments-clause article-two constitutional-interpretation federal-judiciary judicial-designation separation-of-powers Does it violate the Appointments Clause for a Circuit Judge to be appointed to sit continuously as a District Judge by another Circuit Judge?
24A574 Colton Bagola v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-12-12 Presumed Complete criminal-conviction eighth-circuit federal-judiciary legal-procedure petition-for-certiorari time-extension Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the petitioner's criminal conviction despite potential procedural or substantive defect…
24A471 Kayne Russell Donath v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-11-12 Presumed Complete certiorari conviction eighth-circuit federal-judiciary sentencing supreme-court-rules Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the petitioner's conviction and sentence based on procedural or substantive legal groun…
23-1072 Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al Bahlul v. United States District of Columbia 2024-04-02 Denied Amici (3) 28-usc-455 circuit-split federal-judges federal-judiciary government-service impartiality impartiality-standard judicial-recusal legal-ethics recusal statutory-interpretation Does §455(b)(3) require recusal when a federal judge is assigned to a case involving the same parties, same facts, and same issues as a case in which …
22-5706 Lynn Z. Smith v. Andrea Dobin, et al. Third Circuit 2022-09-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-court-corruption civil-rights constitutional-rights docket-fraud due-process federal-judiciary judicial-misconduct mandamus mandamus-petition standing supreme-court Should SCOTUS handle corruption-in-circuits cases separately?
21-7620 Arizona Hall v. United States, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights civil-rights-violation color-and-race constitutional-rights due-process eighth-circuit equal-protection federal-judiciary missouri-laws racial-discrimination Whether white federal judges of the Eastern District of Missouri under color of Missouri laws willfully subjected petitioner based on his color and ra…
21-1304 Dennis Hollingsworth, et al. v. Kristin M. Perry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) article-iii-standing civil-rights due-process emergency-stay federal-judiciary judicial-integrity promise-doctrine standing trial-recordings Whether the breach of Judge Walker's binding promise to Petitioners, upon which they reasonably and detrimentally relied, cognizably injures them
21-6058 David James Lola v. Florida Florida 2021-10-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process federal-judiciary fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-review legislative-review separation-of-powers sixth-amendment state-sovereignty Does due process pursuant to the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments dictate that a state court clerk may assign a criminal case to a judge who ex…
19-7964 Varis R. Aizupitis v. Delaware Delaware 2020-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-privilege confidential-materials constitutional-authority criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-defect criminal-process defense-counsel due-process federal-judiciary federal-jurisdiction ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strategic-intentions structural-defect structural-error Whether the release of confidential materials by defense counsel creates a structural defect in a criminal process where the release is contrary to th…
19-7172 Larry Antonio Simmons v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-judiciary first-step-act judicial-ethics political-bias sentencing sentencing-reduction standing statutory-interpretation trump Whether the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina violated the judicial code of ethics when they refused to recognize a Cong…
19-6974 Wilfredo Torres v. Bellevue South Associates LLP, et al. Second Circuit 2019-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest due-process federal-judiciary judicial-conflicts-of-interest judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality judicial-independence judicial-misconduct judicial-oversight judicial-recusal statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. Section 455(a) is unconstitutionally vague, ambiguous, arbitrary, capricious, and violates due process of law
18-7835 Iouri Mikhel v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied IFP burden-of-proof competency competency-hearing criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-judiciary hostage-taking judicial-discretion mental-health recusal standard-of-proof treaty-power trial-procedure Where significant evidence of competency is susceptible to conflicting inferences, what standard of proof is required for a competency hearing and wha…
18-717 PMCM TV, LLC v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. District of Columbia 2018-12-04 Denied Response Waived administrative-agency administrative-agency-interpretation administrative-law agency-interpretation cable-television-regulation chevron-deference constitutional-interpretation constitutional-power federal-judiciary federal-statutes statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Should courts continue to follow the Chevron policy of deferring to administrative agency interpretations of federal statutes?
18-6789 Delroy McLean v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-115 brady-violation constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-judiciary government-official immigration-judge judicial-officer protected-person statutory-interpretation vagueness Whether an immigration judge is a protected person under 18 U.S.C.S. § 115(a)(1)(B)
25A174 Kayle Barrington Bates v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied aedpa chevron-doctrine constitutional-review federal-judiciary habeas-corpus supreme-court-deference Whether the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act's (AEDPA) deferential standard of review for state court decisions violates the constitution…