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25-6743 Gayle George v. U.S. Bank, as Legal Title Trustee for Truman 2016 SC6 Title Trust, et al. District of Columbia 2026-02-06 Pending IFP constitutional-injury due-process federal-jurisdiction prospective-equitable-relief rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-judgment Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars federal jurisdiction over an original action seeking prospective equitable relief where the plaintiff alleges…
25A849 Michael Prime v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-29 Application appellate-review cryptocurrency-seizure federal-jurisdiction motion-to-reconsider property-forfeiture rule-41g Whether federal courts have proper jurisdiction to review and potentially remand seized cryptocurrency under Rule 41(g) when a criminal defendant chal…
25-846 Reed Christensen v. Department of Justice, et al. Eighth Circuit 2026-01-15 Pending Response Waived amendment-violations constitutional-rights declaratory-judgment eighth-circuit federal-jurisdiction jan6-misconduct Did the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals err in determining federal district court jurisdiction over alleged Jan6 officer misconduct, and will the Supr…
25-843 Disability Rights New York v. New York State Department of Health, et al. Second Circuit 2026-01-15 Pending Response Waived article-iii-standing disability-rights federal-jurisdiction individual-rights protection-and-advocacy statutory-interpretation Whether a Protection & Advocacy System has Article III standing to bring a lawsuit on behalf of individuals with disabilities
25-839 Nicholas Fugedi, in His Official Capacity as Trustee of Carb Pura Vida Trust v. Initram, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-01-15 Pending Response Waived diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction fraudulent-joinder jurisdictional-standard misjoinder statutory-interpretation Whether the proper standard to be applied by a court determining if diversity jurisdiction has been improperly manufactured is the motive test or the …
25A815 Natural Lands, LLC v. City of Boca Raton, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-13 Application 42-usc-1983 due-process federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment property-rights state-remedies Whether a property owner asserting a federal procedural due process claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 must first exhaust available state court remedies bef…
25A805 Angeliina L. Lawson v. Jonathan D. Lawson Tenth Circuit 2026-01-12 Application ada-removal civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process federal-jurisdiction section-1443 Whether 28 U.S.C. § 1443(1) permits removal to federal court for civil rights protections based on disability when a litigant alleges inability to enf…
25-6493 Paul Keith Barksdale v. Jeffrey Wehking, Warden Seventh Circuit 2026-01-06 Pending Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus Question not identified.
25-6474 Anthony Dove v. Dr. Broadwell, et al. Fourth Circuit 2026-01-05 Pending IFP constitutional-rights federal-jurisdiction imminent-danger injunctive-relief plra-three-strikes prisoner-litigation Whether a prisoner's motion meets the PLRA's threshold requirements for overcoming the three-strikes bar and seeking injunctive relief when alleging i…
25-6395 In Re Wilfredo Feliciano-Rodriguez 2025-12-17 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-duty federal-jurisdiction judicial-power subject-matter-jurisdiction territorial-status writ-of-mandamus Whether the Court of Appeals violated its constitutional duty by failing to determine the absence of federal subject-matter jurisdiction and whether t…
25A700 Jesse Fernando Perez v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-12-16 Application circuit-split federal-jurisdiction judicial-notice legislative-fact statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction Whether a federal court may take judicial notice of a location's special territorial jurisdiction under 18 U.S.C. § 7 as a legislative fact
25-679 Glen Morgan v. X Corp., fka Twitter, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-11 Pending Amici (1) article-iii class-action federal-jurisdiction standing state-law statutory-damages Whether Article III permits a federal court to entertain a state law cause of action for deceptively procuring non-private information when the statut…
25-6345 Felix Verdejo-Sanchez v. United States First Circuit 2025-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce pro-se-representation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Court of Appeals can deny a pro se motion challenging subject-matter jurisdiction and federalize local crimes without proving interstate c…
25-653 Shannon McKinnon v. Genaro Hernandez Fifth Circuit 2025-12-05 Denied Amici (4)Response Waived appellate-review collateral-order-doctrine federal-jurisdiction final-judgment-rule sovereign-immunity state-law-immunity Whether an order denying a local official's claim of state-law immunity is immediately appealable in federal court under the collateral-order doctrine
25-631 Jae S. Nah v. Andrew V. Jablon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-03 Pending Response Waived copyright-discovery due-process federal-jurisdiction fraud-on-courts judicial-procedure remand-order Can DC and Appeal courts dismiss the complaint of the case 2:23-cv-06909 without further inquiry into the factual evidence of 5 courts and allegation …
25-6256 Francis T. Greiser, Jr. v. Marian K. Greiser, et al. Florida 2025-11-26 Pending IFP appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction pro-se-litigant supremacy-clause Does a Florida court's failure to apply 28 U.S.C. § 1367(d) tolling to dismissed claims, and the excessive use of per curiam affirmances, constitute a…
25-6231 Jacob Bellinsky v. Rachel Zinna Galan, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii circuit-conflict civil-rights constitutional-claims federal-jurisdiction younger-abstention Whether the Tenth Circuit's unpublished reversal requires mandatory Sprint analysis before Younger abstention and resolves circuit conflicts regarding…
25-584 Kenneth J. Rosellini v. Gary N. Wilcox, Individually, and as Judge, Superior Court, Bergen County, New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2025-11-18 Denied Response Waived civil-rights-statute constitutional-review due-process federal-jurisdiction state-court-procedure younger-abstention Is there a full and fair opportunity for a person to raise constitutional issues in state court attorney ethics proceedings, so that Younger Abstentio…
25A574 Peyman Roshan v. Christine M. Searle, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-11-17 Application constitutional-taking federal-jurisdiction foreclosure-dispute intervention-rights rooker-feldman state-court-judgment Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars federal court review of state court foreclosure judgments when a plaintiff alleges constitutional violations …
25A551 Michael Liberatore v. Nevada Employment Security Division, et al. Nevada 2025-11-12 Application cares-act certiorari federal-jurisdiction pua supreme-court unemployment-benefits Whether the Supreme Court has jurisdiction to review a state court decision involving federal CARES Act unemployment benefits under the Pandemic Unemp…
25A550 Daniel Liberatore v. Nevada Employment Security Division, et al. Nevada 2025-11-12 Application cares-act certiorari emergency-relief federal-jurisdiction pua supreme-court Whether the federal courts have jurisdiction to review a state court's interpretation of the CARES Act and Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) prog…
25A548 Daniel Liberatore v. Nevada Employment Security Division, et al. Nevada 2025-11-12 Application cares-act certiorari federal-jurisdiction pua supreme-court unemployment Whether the federal courts have jurisdiction to review a state court's interpretation of the CARES Act and Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) prog…
25-6077 In Re Brian William Schumaker 2025-11-10 Dismissed IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-prosecution district-court federal-jurisdiction newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-discretion Whether federal courts have jurisdiction to prosecute and convict the petitioner in light of newly discovered evidence from the Georgia Secretary of S…
25A527 Cristian Chaverra Moreno v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-06 Application criminal-procedure district-court eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a federal district court has proper subject matter jurisdiction to hear a criminal case when the defendant challenges the court's statutory au…
25-6048 Mark Brentley, Sr. v. City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2025-11-06 Denied IFP 14th-amendment administrative-law appellate-review civil-service-commission federal-jurisdiction property-rights Whether the federal court has jurisdiction over the Civil Service Commission and can appeal based on 14th Amendment property loss
25-6046 In Re Larry E. Clark 2025-11-06 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction judicial-power jurisdictional-error mandamus res-judicata Whether the U.S. Supreme Court has a constitutional duty to issue a mandamus to the 5th Circuit to reverse void judgments and address alleged jurisdic…
25A521 Thelonious Wayne Kirby v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-05 Application criminal-appeal criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction sentencing-guidelines writ-of-certiorari Whether the Eleventh Circuit correctly applied federal sentencing guidelines or constitutional standards in affirming Mr. Kirby's criminal conviction
25-5954 In Re Michael Albert Focia 2025-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause due-process federal-jurisdiction gun-control-act private-sales second-amendment Whether the Gun Control Act's application to private arms sales on the secondary market exceeds federal jurisdiction and violates constitutional prote…
25A473 Benzo Elias Rudnikas v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-24 Application estate-administration federal-jurisdiction pro-se-litigation probate-jurisdiction procedural-challenge removal-statute Whether a pro se litigant's procedural challenges to a state probate court's estate administration ruling can be removed to federal court under 28 U.S…
25A437 Francis T. Greiser, Jr. v. Marian K. Greiser, et al. Florida 2025-10-16 Presumed Complete artis-tolling certiorari-extension federal-jurisdiction pro-se-litigation statute-of-limitations supplemental-jurisdiction Whether the Supreme Court should apply the tolling provision under 28 U.S.C. § 1367(d) to preserve state law claims dismissed due to statute of limita…
25-5860 Robert Matthew Bowman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography constitutional-limits criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(4)(B) authorizes conviction based on interstate movement of a phone containing child pornography without direct evidence l…
25-5841 Melvin Ray v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach crime-of-violence due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment substantial-effects-test Whether the Fifth Circuit's interpretation of aiding and abetting bank robbery as a 'crime of violence' under 924(c)(3)(A) sidesteps the categorical a…
25-433 AST & Science LLC v. Delclaux Partners SA Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-09 Denied Response Waived exchange-act federal-jurisdiction grable-standard jurisdictional-test merrill-lynch-precedent securities-law Whether the Supreme Court's decision in Manning should be revisited to determine if the 'arising under' jurisdictional test should continue to be used…
25A403 Antonio Liberatore v. Nevada Employment Security Division, et al. Nevada 2025-10-08 Presumed Complete cares-act emergency-relief federal-jurisdiction pua state-court unemployment-benefits Whether the federal courts have jurisdiction to review a state court's interpretation of the CARES Act and Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) bene…
25-405 Audrey Clement v. The Washington Post District of Columbia 2025-10-06 Denied Response Waived administrative-exhaustion age-discrimination candidate-questionnaire federal-jurisdiction first-amendment-rights procurement-contracts Whether the Age Discrimination Act of 1975 provides federal court jurisdiction over age discrimination claims when no administrative agency of jurisdi…
25-346 Geoffrey M. Young v. Morgan McGarvey Kentucky 2025-09-23 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion motion-to-dismiss pleading-standards state-court-review Whether Kentucky state and federal courts can dismiss civil complaints before discovery without applying the Twombly standard of review
25-335 Lee Michael Tomko v. United States Federal Circuit 2025-09-23 Denied Response Waived contract-claims federal-jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss pleading-standards pro-se tucker-act Whether the lower courts correctly applied motion to dismiss standards when evaluating the plausibility of a pro se plaintiff's contract claims agains…
25-313 Chinook Indian Nation, et al. v. Doug Burgum, Secretary of the Interior, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-09-17 Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived administrative-law court-recognition federal-jurisdiction indian-law statutory-interpretation tribal-recognition Does a federal court have jurisdiction to recognize the existence of an Indian tribe where the findings in the Indian Tribe List Act provide that 'Ind…
25-299 Sam Silverberg v. District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia 2025-09-15 Denied Response Waived appellate-court collateral-estoppel constitutional-claim federal-jurisdiction judicial-review revenue-impact Whether the appellate court committed error by overturning Hibbs v. Winn and holding that constitutional claims arising from assessment bar federal ju…
25-5568 Donna Marie Conner v. Xfinity, United States General, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-09-05 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure dismissal-without-prejudice federal-jurisdiction pro-se-litigation telephone-consumer-protection-act Whether the district court properly dismissed Donna Marie Conner's civil action under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(B) and the Telephone Consumer Protection …
25-5562 Brian Dale Dubuc v. First National Bank of Okmulgee, et al. Oklahoma 2025-09-05 Denied IFP cherokee-nation due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction land-allotment treaty-rights Whether Registered Cherokee Nation members were deprived of lands, rights, and equity without due process and equal protection under treaties and cons…
25A244 Tremon Staley v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-29 Presumed Complete appellate-review criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-remand Whether the Eleventh Circuit's decision on remand from the Supreme Court improperly applied federal criminal procedural standards in reviewing the pet…
25A237 Marissa Girard v. Kenton Girard, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-08-28 Presumed Complete civil-rights-removal federal-jurisdiction pro-se-removal racial-discrimination remand-review section-1443 Whether a pro se litigant's notice of removal can satisfy 28 U.S.C. § 1443(1) requirements without explicitly citing the statute when federal civil ri…
25-236 In Re Justin Jeffrey Saadein-Morales 2025-08-28 Denied bankruptcy constitutional-violation due-process federal-jurisdiction property-rights supremacy-clause Whether the forcible seizure and alteration of a VA-backed home during pending federal bankruptcy and appellate proceedings violated the Supremacy Cla…
25-5505 Valeria Taveras, et vir v. U.S. Bank National Association as Legal Title Trustee for Truman 2016 SC6 Title Trust Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-28 Denied IFP civil-rights federal-jurisdiction first-amendment judicial-procedure removal-statute supreme-court-precedent Whether satisfying the second prong of Georgia v. Rachel requires a formal state statute or if systemic judicial practices and procedural barriers may…
25-5407 Brandon Keith Thompson v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause constitutional-authority criminal-possession federal-jurisdiction interstate-movement statutory-interpretation Does Congress have authority under the Commerce Clause to criminally punish the simple possession of an object that moved from one state to another at…
25-197 T. M. v. University of Maryland Medical System Corporation, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-08-19 Granted Amici (3)Relisted (2) appellate-procedure doctrine-interpretation federal-jurisdiction judicial-review rooker-feldman state-court Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine can be triggered by a state-court decision that remains subject to further review in state court
25A189 Mawule Tepe v. Whirlpool Corporation, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-08-15 Presumed Complete due-process federal-jurisdiction legal-practice removal-jurisdiction sixth-amendment state-court-removal Whether federal district courts may improperly remove state court cases when attorneys are not admitted to practice in that federal district court and…
25-5332 Francisco Melgar Cabrera v. Christian Lepe, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure-act detention-review extradition-treaty federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation Whether extradition treaty violations are cognizable under 28 USC §2241(c)(3) and may be challenged at any time regardless of AEDPA restrictions
25-5320 Heon Jong Yoo v. Brian Barker, et al. Third Circuit 2025-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law federal-jurisdiction law-enforcement mental-health Question not identified.
25-5221 Anna Gristina v. Juan Merchan, former New York State Judge, et al. Second Circuit 2025-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-claims federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman state-court-proceedings younger-abstention Whether the Younger abstention doctrine requires federal court abstention from state court civil proceedings seeking criminal case transcripts, and wh…
25-5038 Nicholas Weir v. Montefiore Medical Center, et al. Second Circuit 2025-07-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP attorney-deceit collateral-estoppel federal-jurisdiction judicial-procedure new-york-law statutory-interpretation Whether federal courts should recognize the cursory nature of facts to prevent collateral estoppel under Marrese and 28 U.S.C. § 1738 in attorney dece…
24-1222 Courtney Richmond v. Nolan Wiese, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-05-30 Denied Response Waived claim-adjudication copyright-law federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion product-liability tort-claims Whether federal courts may decline to adjudicate federal tort and product liability claims, and whether a federal court may dismiss copyright claims w…
24-1219 Dora L. Adkins v. JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. Fourth Circuit 2025-05-30 Denied civil-procedure district-court federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit motion-to-dismiss pro-se-plaintiff Whether the Fourth Circuit properly affirmed the district court's order and whether the district court properly denied Adkins' motions for leave to fi…
24-1157 Taylor Packwood, et al. v. County of Contra Costa, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-12 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure domestic-relations due-process federal-jurisdiction fraud-exception rooker-feldman Whether there is a fraud exception to the Rooker-Feldman doctrine in domestic relations cases raising claims of a violation of due process of law
24-7116 Keziah Thayer v. Vermont Department for Children and Families, DCF, et al. Second Circuit 2025-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights damages-claim due-process federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman state-court-judgment Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars a federal court from hearing a parent's claim for damages arising out of a State's violations of the parent's…
24-7039 Danilo Augusto Feliciano v. Nancy Landry, Louisiana Secretary of State, et al. District of Columbia 2025-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure environmental-regulation federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation Whether the United States federal courts have jurisdiction over habeas corpus proceedings under 40 CFR
24-7002 In Re Clifford L. Noll 2025-04-16 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP debt-collection due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment fourth-amendment property-seizure Whether the unwarranted seizure of real properties and personal savings by the United States violated the petitioner's Fourth and Fifth Amendment righ…
24-7004 Gerald Nelson v. New York City Transit Authority, et al. Second Circuit 2025-04-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP duty-of-fair-representation federal-jurisdiction immunity labor-management political-subdivision wrongful-discharge Whether a political subdivision has immunity under 301 labor management (duty of fair representation) and whether such immunity can be waived when fed…
24-1072 Raizel Blumberger v. Ian B. Tilley, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-04-11 Denied Response Waived attorney-general-removal federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption health-center-liability public-health-service statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant who disagrees with the Attorney General's state-court filing may remove the action to federal district court without a statutory b…
24-6970 Brian Kerry O'Keefe v. Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada, Clark County, et al. Nevada 2025-04-11 Denied IFP appellate-authority constitutional-duty federal-jurisdiction manifest-injustice supremacy-clause trial-court Whether the Supremacy Clause justifies a stay once the trial court had been provected and whether a state court of last resort maintains a constitutio…
24-6899 In Re Samuel Rivera 2025-03-31 Dismissed IFP constitutional-protection double-jeopardy federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus supreme-law writ-of-mandamus Whether the district court and appellate court improperly dismissed the petitioner's habeas corpus writ under 28 U.S.C. §2241 by converting it to §225…
24-1021 Cedric Galette v. New Jersey Transit Corporation Pennsylvania 2025-03-25 Granted Amici (1)Relisted (2) arm-of-state constitutional-law federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce sovereign-immunity state-agency Whether the New Jersey Transit Corporation is entitled to interstate sovereign immunity under the Federal Constitution
24-986 Mendocino Railway, a California Corporation v. Kate Huckelbridge, Executive Director, California Coastal Commission, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-03-14 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) abstention-doctrine circuit-conflict federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion preemption-claims state-court-action Whether the Court should abrogate or clarify the Colorado River abstention doctrine
24-6721 In Re Eddie Scott 2025-03-07 Denied IFP constitutional-rights federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus mandamus-writ state-proceedings younger-doctrine QP: Whether a federal court can maintain case closure under the Younger doctrine after a plaintiff's complete state trial acquittal and exhaustion of …
24-6722 Ashley Muse v. Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights collateral-estoppel due-process federal-jurisdiction res-judicata state-court Whether a U.S. District Court can apply Res Judicata and Collateral Estoppel to a void State Court judgment and deny due process rights in a federal c…
24-6624 Frederick Stampone v. Brittian Amann, et al. Third Circuit 2025-02-24 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus medical-negligence Whether the U.S. Supreme Court should review a case involving alleged constitutional rights violations and medical negligence related to cancer treatm…
24-909 Agudas Chasidei Chabad of United States v. Russian Federation, et al. District of Columbia 2025-02-24 Denied CVSGAmici (2)Relisted (3) commercial-activity federal-jurisdiction foreign-sovereign-immunities-act jurisdictional-immunity property-expropriation u.s.-nexus-test Whether a 'foreign state' lacks immunity from U.S. jurisdiction under the FSIA if either U.S.-nexus test is met or only if the first U.S.-nexus test i…
24-894 Michelle Avery Bey v. David Harper, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-02-20 Denied Response Waived 18-USC-1961 circuit-court district-court federal-jurisdiction racketeering statute-of-limitations Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in declaring federal questions under 18 U.S.C. §§ 1961 and 1962 should be adjudicated by a county appraiser and whethe…
24-6580 Darrell Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-02-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-ethics judicial-recusal Whether a federal judge should have recused himself under 28 U.S.C. §455(b)(2) due to prior involvement in creating the financial problems underlying …
24-6556 Edward Farley v. Ubiratan Marinho, Jr., et al. New Hampshire 2025-02-12 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction minimum-contacts nonresident-defendant personal-jurisdiction Did the New Hampshire Supreme Court misapprehend the two-part test for federal due process jurisdiction in determining personal jurisdiction over a no…
24-6530 Timothy P. Dasler, Individually and on Behalf of T.D. v. Dalene Washburn Second Circuit 2025-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights domestic-relations due-process federal-jurisdiction state-action younger-abstention Whether federal courts must exercise jurisdiction despite Domestic Relations or Younger abstention when state remedies are inadequate and parallel lit…
24-6532 Timothy P. Dasler v. Jennifer Knapp, fka Jennifer Dasler Second Circuit 2025-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights domestic-relations federal-jurisdiction state-action younger-abstention Whether federal courts can exercise jurisdiction through Domestic Relations or Younger abstention when state remedies are inadequate and parallel liti…
24-850 Andrew Kamal v. Femtosense, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-02-10 Denied Response Waived circuit-court constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation transfer-requirements Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied the Clark v. Busey transfer requirements under 28 U.S.C. § 1631 and whether the denial of transf…
24-6444 Samuel T. Whatley, II, et al. v. City of North Charleston, South Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-02-03 Denied IFP constitutional-rights election-interference federal-jurisdiction freedom-of-information governmental-immunity search-and-seizure Whether intergovernmental agencies, organizations, and individual governmental employees are immune from federal law prosecutions and sanctions when i…
24-6385 Baboucar B. Taal v. John Cronin, et al. Second Circuit 2025-01-24 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction property-rights state-actor-misconduct takings-clause Whether victims of state actor-led property fraud have a constitutional right to seek federal court redress for Fifth Amendment Takings Clause violati…
24-781 First Choice Women's Resource Centers, Inc. v. Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney General of New Jersey Third Circuit 2025-01-24 Granted Amici (52)Relisted (10) constitutional-challenge federal-jurisdiction first-amendment investigatory-subpoena ripeness-doctrine state-court-proceedings Where the subject of a state investigatory demand has established a reasonably objective chill of its First Amendment rights, is a federal court in a …
24-783 Enbridge Energy, LP, et al. v. Dana Nessel, Attorney General of Michigan, on Behalf of the People of the State of Michigan Sixth Circuit 2025-01-23 Granted Amici (13)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) district-court federal-jurisdiction procedural-rule removal statutory-interpretation time-limit Whether district courts have the authority to excuse the thirty-day procedural time limit for removal in 28 U.S.C. § 1446(b)(1)
24A709 Ghislaine Maxwell v. United States Second Circuit 2025-01-17 Presumed Complete circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court federal-jurisdiction plea-agreement prosecutorial-discretion Whether a plea agreement entered in one federal district court is binding on federal prosecutors in other districts when resolving potential criminal …
24-6307 In Re Bryan Lee Gregory 2025-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-duty due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-review subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the United States federal court system has a constitutional duty to review and reach the merits of a subject matter jurisdiction challenge in …
24-749 In Re Lorraine Bond 2025-01-15 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction government-liability Whether government officials can be held liable for damages resulting from the bombing of Osage Avenue and violation of civil rights
24A680 Katie Garding v. Montana Department of Corrections Ninth Circuit 2025-01-13 Presumed Complete circuit-split federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment strickland-standard Whether a federal appellate court retains jurisdiction to review a habeas petition when the underlying state criminal conviction has been vacated and …
24-724 The Hain Celestial Group, Inc., et al. v. Sarah Palmquist, Individually and as Next Friend of E.P., a Minor, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-01-10 Granted Amici (10)Relisted (2) appellate-review circuit-split diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction judgment-vacatur removal Whether a district court's final judgment as to completely diverse parties must be vacated when an appellate court later determines that it erred by d…
24A657 Ethan Margalith, et al. v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-02 Presumed Complete civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment homestead-rights removal-jurisdiction Whether the federal district court's misapplication of removal jurisdiction statutes under 28 U.S.C. sec. 1441 violated the plaintiffs' Fifth Amendmen…
24A658 Martin Akerman v. Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-01-02 Presumed Complete due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-review ninth-circuit writ-of-mandamus Whether the Ninth Circuit violated due process by prematurely dismissing a habeas corpus petition and barring further filings without addressing relat…
24A645 Carina Conerly, et al. v. Sharif R. Tarpin, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-12-31 Presumed Complete appellate-review civil-rights district-court federal-jurisdiction pro-se procedural-dismissal Whether pro se litigants can overcome procedural deficiencies in a federal civil rights action when alleging systemic filing interference
24-694 David Efron v. Madeleine Candelario, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-30 Denied Response Waived civil-rights-suit extrinsic-fraud federal-jurisdiction judicial-corruption rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-judgment Does the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bar a civil-rights suit alleging judicial corruption when the plaintiff does not seek to relitigate the state-court j…
24-683 Energetic Tank, Inc., as Owner of the M/V Alnic MC v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2024-12-26 Denied Amici (1) admiralty-law federal-jurisdiction military-liability sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation tort-claims Should Feres be extended to bar claims under statutes other than the Federal Tort Claims Act?
24A605 Anthony Craig Weimer v. Montana Montana 2024-12-19 Presumed Complete appellate-review certiorari federal-jurisdiction state-court-review statutory-interpretation supreme-court-jurisdiction Whether the Supreme Court has jurisdiction to review a state court judgment under 28 U.S.C. § 1257 when the underlying state court decision involves a…
24-6165 Deshawn Drumgo v. Sergeant William Kuschel Third Circuit 2024-12-17 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law federal-jurisdiction judicial-review statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
24A589 La Dell Grizzell, on Behalf of Her Minor Children v. San Elijo Elementary School, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-12-17 Presumed Complete access-to-courts constitutional-rights federal-jurisdiction minor-children parental-rights pro-se-litigation Whether a parent can bring a pro se civil rights action on behalf of minor children without retaining counsel, notwithstanding a categorical rule requ…
24-6094 Ramone Wright v. Milton Graham, Warden Fourth Circuit 2024-12-09 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-law federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus immigration-detention judicial-review statutory-interpretation Whether federal courts can review challenges to immigration detention decisions under 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(B)(ii)
24A541 Laura Smith, as Duly Appointed Representative and Independent Administrator of the Estate of Andrea Manfredi, Deceased v. The Boeing Company, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-12-04 Presumed Complete admiralty-jurisdiction death-on-high-seas-act federal-jurisdiction jury-trial maritime-law seventh-amendment Whether federal admiralty jurisdiction under the Death on the High Seas Act (DOHSA) is concurrent or exclusive, and whether such jurisdiction preclude…
24-588 Cyrus Mark Sanai v. Melanie J. Lawrence, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-12-02 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-review federal-jurisdiction party-presentation state-proceedings younger-abstention Whether the Ninth Circuit's sua sponte application of Younger abstention violates the party presentation principle and improperly evaluates federal co…
24A528 Lexington Insurance Company, et al. v. Suquamish Tribe, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-12-02 Presumed Complete environmental-contamination federal-jurisdiction insurance-coverage maritime-law policy-interpretation preemption Whether federal maritime law preempts state law claims related to insurance coverage for maritime environmental contamination
24A519 The Hain Celestial Group, Inc., et al. v. Sarah Palmquist, Individually and as Next Friend of E.P., a Minor, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-11-26 Presumed Complete diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction final-judgment fraudulent-joinder post-removal-amendment removal Whether a plaintiff may amend a complaint post-removal to destroy diversity jurisdiction and whether a district court's final judgment must be vacated…
24A502 Robert R. Turner v. Sharon W. Jordan, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-20 Presumed Complete civil-rights constitutional-claim eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction pro-bono-representation section-1983 Whether the First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments permit a constitutional claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the underlying case involving Turner v. Jo…
24-5986 Patrick Bernard Smith v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-11-15 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review legal-procedure statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
24-5957 Jeramy Davis v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-sentencing federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Do district courts have subject matter jurisdiction to impose a criminal sentence in the absence of a showing that the defendant committed an offense …
24-5958 In Re Jeremy Dewayne Foster 2024-11-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP amendment-violation constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review state-authority Whether the state of Louisiana violated the petitioner's 13th and 14th Amendment rights through alleged constitutional deprivations
24-5942 Garry Wayne Wilson v. Carrie Bridges, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-11-08 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation declaratory-relief federal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity state-official tribal-rights Whether state sovereign immunity bars a tribal member's lawsuit seeking declaratory relief against a state official
24-5911 Samuel T. Whatley, et al. v. Medical University of South Carolina Fourth Circuit 2024-11-05 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process elder-care federal-jurisdiction healthcare-protections judicial-oversight Whether the Constitution provides protective health care rights for elderly and disabled individuals and allows judicial relief for violations of thos…
24-5920 Robert Lee Wright, III v. Martin A. Fitzpatrick, Magistrate Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-05 Denied IFP civil-action constitutional-provisions federal-jurisdiction jurisdictional-writ legal-citizenship pro-se Question not identified.
24-5866 Edward Moses v. United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Fifth Circuit 2024-10-31 Denied Relisted (2)IFP attorney-sanctions clearly-erroneous-standard constitutional-challenge federal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity tribal-recognition Whether Emperor Moses is entitled to an injunction barring state officials from operating within the Atakapa Indian Nation based on the constitutional…
24A395 Onyinye Jideani v. Robert R. Rigsby, Judge, District of Columbia Superior Court District of Columbia 2024-10-23 Presumed Complete civil-rights constitutional-violation federal-jurisdiction judicial-capacity judicial-immunity section-1983 Whether 42 U.S.C. § 1983 permits civil rights claims against judicial officers who allegedly act outside their judicial capacity or breach judicial ob…
24-453 Emmanuel G. Louis, Jr., et al. v. Bluegreen Vacations Unlimited, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-22 Denied Amici (2) article-iii-standing contract-enforcement federal-jurisdiction judicial-review restitution void-contract Do plaintiffs who paid money under a void contract have Article III standing to challenge the enforcement of that contract and seek restitution of the…
24-5803 Sharif A. Eltawil v. Tammy L. Campbell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-10-22 Denied IFP administrative-law constitutional-claim due-process federal-jurisdiction legal-procedure statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
24-440 Harold R. Berk v. Wilson C. Choy, et al. Third Circuit 2024-10-18 Judgment Issued Amici (13)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) affidavit-of-merit circuit-split expert-testimony federal-civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction state-procedural-rules Whether a state law providing that a complaint must be dismissed unless it is accompanied by an expert affidavit may be applied in federal court
24A346 Renee Anna Najda, et al. v. Citibank, N.A., Not Individually but Solely as Separate Trustee for PMT NPL Financing 2015-1, et al. First Circuit 2024-10-11 Presumed Complete diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction navarro-test subject-matter-jurisdiction trustee-citizenship unincorporated-entity Whether a passive trustee's citizenship controls diversity jurisdiction under Navarro when the trustee lacks real and substantial control over the uni…
24A336 Michael Tyrone Young v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-08 Presumed Complete appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction writ-of-certiorari Whether the Eleventh Circuit correctly applied federal criminal procedural standards in reviewing the district court's judgment
24A322 Charles D. Hood v. Donald J. Trump, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-02 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure district-court-judgment federal-jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirement notice-of-appeal time-limit Whether a federal court lacks jurisdiction to hear an appeal when the notice of appeal is not filed within the statutorily prescribed 60-day period af…
24-5660 In Re Pakuja Crystal Vang 2024-09-30 Denied IFP civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment judicial-misconduct Whether the Fourth Circuit improperly dismissed the petitioner's constitutional claims involving civil rights violations and procedural misconduct
24-5661 Angelo Corey Stackhouse v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-09-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-intent federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce kidnapping-statute mens-rea statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1201(a)(1) regulating kidnapping through interstate commerce is constitutional and whether mens rea under 18 U.S.C. § 2421(a) can …
24-350 Port of Tacoma, et al. v. Puget Soundkeeper Alliance Ninth Circuit 2024-09-27 Denied CVSGAmici (7)Relisted (2) citizen-suit clean-water-act federal-jurisdiction npdes pollutant-discharge state-law Whether Section 505 of the Clean Water Act authorizes citizens to invoke federal courts to enforce conditions of state-issued pollutant-discharge perm…
24-329 Michael Ashford, et al. v. Aviation Technical Services, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2024-09-24 Denied case-controversy diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction realignment removal state-court Whether realignment can be used to create diversity jurisdiction in a removed case notwithstanding the presence of an actual case and controversy betw…
24-334 Innovative Fibers LLC, et al. v. Parker O'Neil Wideman, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-09-24 Dismissed agency-jurisdiction circuit-split diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction merits-defense state-law-claim When state law vests a state agency with exclusive jurisdiction over a claim, should a federal court decide for itself at the outset whether to dismis…
24-328 Joseph Marion Rywelski v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-09-23 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights equal-footing-doctrine federal-jurisdiction governmental-regulation second-amendment territorial-law Whether the Supreme Court will resolve disputes regarding governmental regulation of citizens' Second Amendment rights across municipal, state, federa…
24-5574 Angel L. Ruiz v. United States Second Circuit 2024-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
24A263 Marquice D. Robinson v. Michael Holman, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-13 Presumed Complete circuit-split court-of-appeals federal-jurisdiction legal-standards supervisory-power writ-of-certiorari Whether a federal court of appeals improperly deviated from established legal standards in a manner that could create a circuit split warranting Supre…
24-5531 Frederick Foster v. Joel H. Slomsky, et al. Third Circuit 2024-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction postal-accountability procedural-law sovereign-immunity Whether 39 U.S.C. §409(d) & (e) waive sovereign immunity for judicial officers and federal agencies acting on behalf of the USPS in violation of feder…
24A250 Thomas John Boukamp v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-09-10 Presumed Complete criminal-statute cyber-stalking federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit sentencing sexual-enticement Whether the Fifth Circuit correctly applied the legal standards for convicting a defendant of cyber stalking and sexual enticement under federal crimi…
24-260 Anthony Pandrella v. United States Second Circuit 2024-09-09 Denied Response Waived criminal-law federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act interstate-commerce loansharking robbery Whether a robbery of a former loanshark victim can establish federal jurisdiction under the Hobbs Act when the victim had previously withdrawn from th…
24-263 In Re Joyce Beggs, et vir 2024-09-09 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights conspiracy due-process extraordinary-writ federal-jurisdiction insurance-fraud Whether Third Party insurance Agents and Adjustors conspired against Petitioners under federal civil rights statutes and violated due process rights
24-5417 Joshual Lamar Davis v. Ian Maxfield, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-08-29 Denied IFP administrative-law constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction immigration-law statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
24A212 Innovative Fibers LLC, et al. v. Parker O'Neil Wideman, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-08-27 Presumed Complete diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction federalism state-law-claims subject-matter-jurisdiction workers-compensation Whether federal courts sitting in diversity jurisdiction may entertain state law workers' compensation claims that a state legislature has mandated mu…
24-5374 Latressa Railback v. City of Des Moines, Iowa, et al. Iowa 2024-08-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct legal-standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Iowa District Court had proper subject matter jurisdiction and authority to preside over a case involving alleged constitutional rights vi…
24-165 Trina Wilkins, et al. v. Genzyme Corporation First Circuit 2024-08-15 Denied Response Waived class-action equitable-tolling fairness-act federal-jurisdiction minimal-diversity relation-back-doctrine Whether the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA) establishes a unique jurisdictional framework combining federal question and diversity jurisdiction for i…
24-5229 Justin Levar Taylor v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment
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
24-5179 Forrest Hammond v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2024-07-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-liberties commutation criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review pardon state-court Whether the commutation of Petitioner's sentence to time-served ending his state custody before his pending federal habeas corpus application was adju…
24-5156 Rosalio Meledez-Rojas, Francisco Melendez-Perez, Abel Romero-Melendez, and Jose Osvaldo Melendez-Rojas v. United States Second Circuit 2024-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-of-consent child-exploitation criminal-law federal-criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction intent-requirement mens-rea statutory-interpretation Must the government prove that a defendant knew that the victim was less than 18 years old to support a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2423?
24-80 Eliezer Taveras v. U.S. Bank National Association, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-25 Denied claim-splitting due-process federal-jurisdiction procedural-removal removal rooker-feldman state-law state-law-claims Does the removal of a case from state to federal court, under allegations of fraudulent procedural conduct by the defendants and when the principal cl…
24-65 Tony Ping Yew, as Executor of the Estate of John Y. Wei v. Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2024-07-19 Denied civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60b en-banc-review federal-jurisdiction judicial-immunity procedural-defect rooker-feldman-doctrine sovereign-immunity summary-judgment void-judgment Whether the Third Circuit have any jurisdictional power to rule to begin with; and even if the lower courts have jurisdictional power, Whether it is v…
24-5101 Luis Eduardo Baez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, …
24-5103 David Thomas Overman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, …
24A63 Robert James Rainey v. Colorado Colorado 2024-07-18 Presumed Complete certiorari companion-case federal-jurisdiction state-court-judgment supreme-court-review time-extension Whether the Colorado Supreme Court's decision in a companion criminal case raises a substantial federal constitutional question warranting Supreme Cou…
24-5070 Javaris Marquez Tubbs v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment birth-certificate citizenship-status civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction legal-classification national-identity sentencing state-jurisdiction Was the sentence imposed in violation of the constitution or laws of the United States?
24-5057 Isaiah L. Dunbar v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus postconviction Whether an applicant can raise state postconviction claims that are procedurally barred in federal habeas review under the Antiterrorism and Effective…
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)
24A27 Cyrus Mark Sanai v. Melanie J. Lawrence, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-10 Presumed Complete appellate-review comity constitutional-claims federal-jurisdiction state-proceedings younger-abstention Whether federal courts must apply Younger abstention based solely on the state of proceedings at the time a complaint is filed or may consider subsequ…
23-1375 Anthony Italo Provitola v. Dennis L. Comer, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-02 Denied Response Waived color-of-state-law constitutional-rights federal-jurisdiction litigation-privilege rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 Whether the lower courts' decisions should be vacated and the case remanded for reconsideration in light of Supreme Court precedents regarding jurisdi…
23A1174 Kevin Deane Jones v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-01 Presumed Complete appellate-review criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction sentencing-standard statutory-interpretation Whether the federal appellate court correctly applied the standard of review in affirming a criminal conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 3742
23-7814 James Harmon, III v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-27 Denied IFP 8th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction juvenile-justice parole sentencing Whether sentences of life without parole, as applied to juvenile offenders, violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment…
23-1338 Martin Shkreli v. Federal Trade Commission, et al. Second Circuit 2024-06-25 Denied Response Waived affiliate-liability civil-procedure disgorgement equity equity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction sec sec-enforcement traditional-equity-practice unlawful-gains Does a district court's exercise of its federal equity jurisdiction, as defined and cabined by traditional equity practice, include the power to order…
23-7776 Joshua Willis v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-06-21 GVR IFP 2nd-amendment criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce standing Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment
23-7763 Barry Steven Gahagan v. Bill Stange, Warden Eighth Circuit 2024-06-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction judicial-review legal-standing standing takings Question not identified.
23-7757 Pacita D. Whatley, et al. v. Oakbrook Health and Rehabilitation Center Fourth Circuit 2024-06-18 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights disability-rights due-process elder-care federal-jurisdiction health-care healthcare-protections protective-measures Does the Constitution provide protected elder citizen rights for health care?
23A1122 Anthony Pandrella v. United States Second Circuit 2024-06-18 Presumed Complete circuit-split criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element Whether a potential or de minimis effect on interstate commerce is sufficient to satisfy the jurisdictional element of the Hobbs Act
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
23A1115 Ryan P. Givey v. Department of Justice, et al. Third Circuit 2024-06-17 Presumed Complete criminal-testimony department-of-justice federal-jurisdiction safety-threat supreme-court-review witness-protection Whether the Attorney General's discretionary authority under 18 U.S.C. § 3521 to provide witness protection can be compelled by the Supreme Court when…
23-7689 Ardis Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment standing Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, …
23-7696 Rit Tran v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecified p…
23A1081 Joshua A. Lapin v. EverQuote, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-06-04 Presumed Complete article-iii-standing concrete-harm consumer-protection digital-nomad federal-jurisdiction statutory-damages Whether an uninjured plaintiff who receives unsolicited communications lacks Article III standing to sue for statutory damages in federal court when n…
23-7607 In Re Kurt A. Benshoof 2024-05-31 Denied IFP civil-rights domestic-relations-exception due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-proceedings parental-rights pro-se-rights unlawful-imprisonment Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decided an important federal question regarding domestic-relations-exception in a way that conflicts with r…
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…
23A1010 Xanadu Corp, et al. v. Meor Adlin, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-14 Presumed Complete appellate-review certiorari federal-jurisdiction ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation writ-of-certiorari Whether the Ninth Circuit's ruling in a case involving Xanadu Corp. improperly interpreted federal appellate procedure or substantive law
23-7432 Torrieo Monte Johnson, aka Torrieo Corker v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights corporate-fraud criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge land-use multi-defendant-case ninth-circuit-interpretation state-jurisdiction What are the acceptance and recordation dates for which the Federal Government accepted concurrent legislative jurisdiction from the State of Georgia …
23-7434 Samuel T. Whatley, II v. Waffle House, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied IFP agency-oversight civil-rights constitution constitutional-rights declaration-of-independence due-process employment employment-law federal-jurisdiction wage-payment wages Does the Founding Father's documentation of individual rights provide protective measures against lack or delayal of employment wage payment(s)
23-1203 Terpsehore Maras v. Mayfield City School District Board of Education, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction minors mootness mootness-doctrine parental-rights pro-se-representation pro-se-rights statutory-interpretation pro-se-rights,parental-rights,minors,mootness,civil-rights,due-process
23-7414 Mark A. VandenBoom v. Robert Strohmeyer Seventh Circuit 2024-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-review circuit-court-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-precedent precedent pro-se pro-se-litigation Did the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals judgement conflict with this court's precedents resulting in a limitation of access to the court due to the p…
23-7402 Dequon Reon Stovall v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-possession due-process federal-jurisdiction firearms firearms-regulation interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any ammunition that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite pas…
23-7382 In Re Arthur Jones 2024-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federalism judicial-discretion judicial-overreach jurisdiction mandamus subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the district court abused its discretion in failing to issue the writ of mandamus
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…
23-1145 Ojin Kim v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-04-22 Denied Response Waived case-or-controversy criminal-conviction deportation deportation-consequences federal-jurisdiction habeas immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment standing strickland-standard Whether the real threat of deportation as a result of a federal criminal conviction establishes standing and a real case in controversy for federal co…
23-1139 John F. Gallagher v. Northampton County Revenue Appeals Board, et al. Third Circuit 2024-04-19 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 8th-amendment comity constitutional-claims federal-jurisdiction property-tax subject-matter-jurisdiction takings-clause tax-injunction-act Whether federal subject matter jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. §1331 is barred by the Tax Injunction Act or the doctrine of comity for claims challenging…
23-7281 Alicia Marie Richards v. Ryal W. Richards California 2024-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1446 civil-procedure discretion federal-jurisdiction remand remand-petition removal removal-statute state-court-proceedings subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the court had subject matter jurisdiction after the removal to the District Court?
23-7220 Luke John Scott, Sr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1153 congressional-amendment federal-jurisdiction felony-assault indian-country major-crimes-act minor statutory-interpretation Does the federal government have jurisdiction to prosecute a state felony assault on a minor under the Major Crimes Act (MCA), after Congress amended …
23-7210 Marqese Lynn Payne v. Janet Dowling, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-04-12 Denied IFP civil-jurisdiction civil-rights criminal-jurisdiction due-process federal-jurisdiction indian-civil-rights-act indian-law reservation-boundaries self-governance statutory-interpretation territorial-law Did Congress pass the Organic Act of May 2, 1890, for State laws in Oklahoma, or did Congress pass the Territory Certain general laws of Arkansas (C. …
23-7202 Craig Alford v. Lea Baylor, Director, Monroe County Correctional Facility, et al. Third Circuit 2024-04-11 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech legal-standing standing statutory-interpretation takings Did the lower courts err in dismissing the petitioner's claims challenging the constitutionality of certain federal statutes and regulations governing…
23-7171 Darryl Puderer v. Louisiana Louisiana 2024-04-10 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jurisdictional-claims out-of-time-appeal pleadings 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
23-7193 Jared Domei Maloid v. Texas Texas 2024-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech judicial-review legal-procedure standing statutory-interpretation whether-the-federal-question-was-decided-on-an-important-federal-matter-that-conflicts-with-the-decisions-of-the-united-states-court-of-appeals
23A906 Miracle Hurston v. Indiana Gaming Company, LLC, dba Hollywood Casino Lawenceburg Seventh Circuit 2024-04-10 Presumed Complete administrative-law appellate-review federal-jurisdiction gaming-commission pro-se standard-of-review Whether a pro se litigant's procedural challenges to a state gaming commission's decision can overcome the deferential standard of review in federal a…
23-7179 Xavier Lamarr Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, …
23-7181 Austin Drake Day v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, …
23-7151 Carolyn Sioux Green v. Washington Department of Social and Health Services, et al. Washington 2024-04-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP chemical-lobotomy civil-commitment constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling federal-jurisdiction incarceration legal-representation statute-of-limitations Should the doctrine of equitable tolling be applied to a violation of the constitutional right to due process?
23-7127 Martin Akerman v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2024-04-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-1254 28-usc-1257 administrative-law constitutional-mandate federal-authority federal-circuit federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus interlocutory-appeal merit-systems-protection-board state-authority Jurisdiction over habeas corpus decisions from the federal circuit
23-7125 Alberto Jimenez Pastrana v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession firearms second-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) exceeds Congress's power under the Commerce Clause
23A871 Pushpa Shekar v. PHH Mortgage Group Illinois 2024-04-01 Presumed Complete federal-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct mortgage-servicing removal state-court sua-sponte Whether a state supreme court can improperly interfere with federal court jurisdiction by sua sponte remanding a previously removed case without legal…
23-1068 PacifiCorp, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-04-01 Judgment Issued Relisted (4) administrative-law circuit-court-jurisdiction clean-air-act environmental-regulation epa-disapproval federal-jurisdiction judicial-review standing state-implementation-plan Whether the EPA's disapproval of a State Implementation Plan may only be challenged in the D.C. Circuit
23-7103 Marilyn Eason v. Cook County Correctional Facility, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure legal-standing pleadings standing Whether the district court erred in denying the petitioner's motion to amend the complaint under Rule 15(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
23-7086 Vinicio J. Garcia v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-03-27 Denied IFP 8th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process federal-jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation whether-grievances-were-properly-filed
23A865 James Joseph Bryant v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-27 Presumed Complete criminal-appeal district-court eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction sentencing-guidelines statutory-review Whether the federal appellate court correctly applied sentencing guidelines in reviewing a criminal conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 3742
23-7072 Martin Akerman v. Lloyd J. Austin, III, Secretary of Defense, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-03-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP accountability administrative-law civil-rights data-integrity due-process federal-employees federal-jurisdiction judicial-review transparency whistleblower-protection Did the Fourth Circuit Court's consolidation of appeals and selective review exacerbate the case's complexity, undermining the principles of thorough …
23-7066 Tremane Wood v. Christe Quick, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-03-25 Denied IFP 28-usc-1291 appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rule-60b strickland-v-washington Does the court of appeals have jurisdiction to review a district court's decision that a habeas petitioner's Rule 60(b)(6) motion is an unauthorized s…
23-7052 Shirron Jozette Gayles-Zanders v. Nevada Nevada 2024-03-21 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction qualified-immunity standing Whether the federal courts erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging violations of his constitutional rights
23-7036 Brent J. Daigle v. Steve Kallis, Warden Seventh Circuit 2024-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-agency administrative-law civil-rights district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-remedy standing unlawful-imprisonment Can a United States District Judge deny the right of a private citizen to invoke the aid of the courts of the United States if held in unlawful impris…
23-7012 Michael Deangelo Lowery v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-03-18 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure morris-defendant post-conviction-relief procedural-barriers standing treaty-rights Whether Oklahoma's Post-Conviction Procedure Act is adequate
23-7015 Colby Jerome Hale-El v. Gene R. Claps, Sheriff, Adams County, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-03-18 Denied IFP 14th-amendment ballot-disqualification candidate-eligibility civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process election-law federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus notice-of-removal standing Whether petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when he was convicted, and whether he was properly denied notice and an opportunity to prove …
23-1024 Country Mutual Insurance Company v. Angela Sudholt, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-03-18 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived ability-to-pay cafa circuit-split class-action class-action-fairness-act federal-jurisdiction home-state-exception primary-defendant real-target Whether a court should consider a defendant's ability to pay a judgment when determining whether the defendant is a primary defendant' under CAFA's ho…
23-6997 In Re Russell Rope 2024-03-15 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-misconduct standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim
23-6969 James Paul Antonio v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP assault criminal-law dangerous-weapon due-process federal-jurisdiction predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime Whether an assault with a dangerous weapon, with intent to do bodily harm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 113(a)(3), categorically qualifies as a predica…
23-6972 Jeremy Lynn Kerr v. Keith Lenz, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-03-13 Denied IFP civil-procedure collateral-attack due-process federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction res-judicata rooker-feldman standing state-court-judgment subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether Rooker-Feldman bars a collateral attack on a void ab initio state court judgment
23-6949 Jose Salomon Madrid-Paz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach criminal-law federal-crime federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act statutory-interpretation Whether aiding and abetting is a means of committing a Hobbs Act violation under the categorical approach
23-990 George Dunbar Prewitt, Jr. v. Yazoo County, Mississippi Fifth Circuit 2024-03-11 Denied civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction racial-equality reconstruction-acts removal removal-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction three-judge-court voting-rights Whether the district court and the 5th circuit panel acted in the total absence of subject-matter-jurisdiction by illegally assuming the subject-matte…
23-6926 Pidy T. Tiger v. Tommy Williams, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-03-07 Denied IFP constitutional-precedent federal-indian-law federal-jurisdiction federal-law indian-law jurisdictional-dispute native-american-rights statutory-interpretation treaty-abrogation treaty-interpretation tribal-sovereignty Can the Kansas Act 18 U.S.C. 3243 be read to abrogate the Creek Nation Treaty of 1856?
23-962 Oxnard Manor, LP, dba Oxnard Manor Healthcare Center, et al. v. Anna Sigala, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights complete-preemption covered-countermeasure emergency-preparedness federal-jurisdiction federal-remedies preemption public-health public-health-emergency removal willful-misconduct Does the PREP Act completely preempt state-law claims against a covered person relating to the administration or use of a covered countermeasure, such…
23-966 Oscar Amos Stilley v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-appointments judicial-assignment judicial-cross-designation judicial-ethics statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether 13 consecutive cross-designations of Oklahoma district judges are 'temporary' under 28 U.S.C. 292(b)
23A819 Sidikatu Raji v. Omaha Property Manager, LLC Fourth Circuit 2024-03-05 Presumed Complete abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction interlocutory-appeal preliminary-injunction Whether a district court abuses its discretion in denying a motion to dissolve a preliminary injunction when reviewing the underlying factual findings…
23-6883 Shawn David McMinn v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-03-01 Denied IFP certiorari constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction guilty-plea indian-law judicial-review post-conviction preemption supreme-court Whether Oklahoma violated its own law in an effort to deny a Petitioner his right to due process of law pertinent to the post-conviction proceedings
23-6881 Miguel Salinas, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession firearms interstate-travel second-amendment standing Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022)
23-6874 Kendall Dean Mitchell v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-02-29 Denied IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review jurisdiction retroactive-application state-law state-prosecution supremacy-clause Whether Oklahoma violated its own law in an effort to deny Petitioner's right to due process of law pursuant to the 14th Amendment
23-948 Texas Aromatics, L.P., et al. v. Intercontinental Terminals Company, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2024-02-29 Denied Response Waived absurd-consequences administrative-claim environmental-regulation federal-jurisdiction hazardous-substance maritime-law mixed-spill oil-pollution-act statutory-interpretation Whether the Oil Pollution Act, 33 U.S.C. § 2701 et seq., applies to a spill that is 91% oil and 9% a 'hazardous substance'
23-941 In Re First Choice Women's Resource Centers, Inc. 2024-02-28 Denied Amici (4) civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech investigatory-demand pre-litigation-challenge ripeness section-1983 standing state-official Whether a section 1983 suit to enjoin an unlawful investigatory demand by a state official is ripe only after a state court has enforced the demand
23-6850 Eric Michael Lujan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-firearms-law federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, …
23-930 Duringer Law Group PLC, et al. v. Janey Brown, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-27 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure collection-costs exxon-mobil-corp-v-saudi-basic-industries-corp fair-debt-collection-practices-act federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-judgment state-court-judgments subject-matter-jurisdiction May debtors let stand a state-court money judgment against them, waiving the right to dispute postjudgment collection costs, and then challenge those …
23-6793 Timothy Burks v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022)
23-6769 Derrick Durrell Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-law federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, …
23A755 Jameson Rosado v. Joseph Dickenson, et al. Third Circuit 2024-02-16 Presumed Complete civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct settlement-procedures writ-of-certiorari Whether federal district court judges violated constitutional due process rights by improperly handling settlement procedures and demonstrating judici…
23-6728 In Re Kimberlee Pitawanakwat 2024-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction general-crimes-act indian-rights major-crimes-act stare-decisis supremacy-clause treaty-interpretation treaty-of-fort-laramie Does it violate the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868) and the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution to subject Indians to stand federal trial…
23-6719 In Re Anthony Michael DelaRosa 2024-02-09 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct judicial-review legal-procedure Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the state court proceedings, including issues of due process, ineffective assistance o…
23-6687 Darius James Francis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment bruen-standard criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022)
23-6670 Catherine Fernandez v. Board of Pemberton Township, et al. Third Circuit 2024-02-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-1367 42-usc-1983 breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction standing statute-of-limitations tolling Whether the Appeals Court 3rd Circuit erred by omitting new evidence that could re-establish the Statute of Limitation or grounds for tolling or excus…
23-6664 Robert Edward Sindaco v. Florida Florida 2024-02-05 Denied IFP appellate-review bias constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the petitioner was denied due process and a fair trial due to bias, prejudice, and ineffective assistance of counsel
23-839 David Littlefield, et al. v. Department of the Interior, et al. First Circuit 2024-02-05 Denied Response Waived carcieri-v-salazar federal-jurisdiction indian-reorganization-act land-into-trust secretary-of-interior tribal-recognition tribal-status Whether the decision of the court of appeals conflicts with Carcieri?
23-6654 Lancey Darnell Ray v. Terry Quisenberry, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-02-02 Denied IFP civil-rights comanche-tribe due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-recognition legal-liability pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation treaty-interpretation treaty-rights tribal-sovereignty Whether an enrolled member of the Comanche Tribe is liable for wrongs under a treaty
23-6643 Michael Joseph Pepe v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-02-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP commerce-clause criminal-intent criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction improper-purpose interstate-travel jurisdiction round-trip-doctrine stare-decisis travel When a statute makes it a crime to travel in commerce or across state lines with an improper purpose or intent, can the government manufacture federal…
23-6647 Davaudrick Antron EtchisonBrown v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-02-01 Denied IFP 2nd-amendment bruen-standard criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce precedent second-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022)
23-6651 Falastin Martin v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction government-accountability judicial-review legal-immunity sovereign-immunity whistleblower-protection Will the courts recognize that individuals that work for the U.S. Government are not above U.S. law?
23-6637 Aruan Aleman Hernandez v. Palm Beach County State Attorney Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-31 Denied IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction sixth-amendment standing statutory-interpretation Whether the 6th Amendment right to counsel extends to victims of a crime for purposes of Equal Protection
23-6603 Johnnie Demond Jackson v. Kevin R. Sproul, Sheriff, Dougherty County, Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-rights confinement constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction interference jurisdiction retaliation summary-judgment Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the defendants' actions, which allegedly caused him more than 30 minutes of delay in r…
23-6598 Shuaib A. Haji Mohamed v. Jay Forshey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-01-26 Denied IFP constitutional-claim constitutional-rights discretionary-review federal-jurisdiction federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default state-review Has a state prisoner seeking federal habeas corpus made a substantial showing that his petition should have proceeded further where the procedural def…
23A690 Debra A. Charles v. Anna-Jonesboro National Bank, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-01-25 Presumed Complete bank-fraud contract-breach federal-jurisdiction fiduciary-duty pro-se-litigation venue-transfer Whether federal courts have jurisdiction over a civil case involving alleged contract breach, fiduciary duty violations, and fraud against a federally…
23-6539 In Re Jesse James Corbin-Bey 2024-01-23 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process ex-post-facto extraordinary-relief federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus imprisonment slavery state-court-jurisdiction Should this Court use its power to grant a writ of habeas corpus to the Petitioner who has no other available forum to raise his compelling claims of …
23-6546 Paul R. Hansmeier v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus rule-of-lenity sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-jurisdiction Whether an indictment that affirmatively alleges a course of conduct outside the scope of the charged offense can be the basis for a conviction
23-6513 Michael Mogan v. Sacks, Ricketts & Case LLP, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-18 Denied IFP anti-slapp-statute civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure magistrate-judge magistrate-jurisdiction recusal rule-11-sanctions standing Did the Ninth Circuit erroneously fail to recognize that 28 U.S.C. § 636(c) precludes the parties from selecting a magistrate judge
23-6516 Samuel T. Whatley, et al. v. City of North Charleston, South Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-01-18 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process election-interference federal-jurisdiction freedom-of-information governmental-immunity search-and-seizure transparency treason Are intergovernmental agencies immune to federal law prosecutions?
23-6519 Tonette L. Vazquez v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security Ninth Circuit 2024-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review mediation remand settlement Whether the district court erred in approving the proposed settlement of $50,000 through mediation
23-762 Sam Silverberg v. District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia 2024-01-17 Denied Response Waived appellate-discretion constitutional-challenge constitutional-challenges exclusive-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction property-rights state-revenues subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-assessment tax-assessments Whether the exclusive jurisdiction to shield local tax assessments from constitutional challenges in a federal court to protect state revenues can be …
23-764 Facebook, Inc. v. Rosemarie Vargas, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing circuit-conflict circuit-split civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction Iqbal judicial-procedure ninth-circuit-precedent plausibility plausibility-standard standing Twombly Does the Twombly-Iqbal plausibility standard apply to a plaintiff's allegations of Article III standing?
23-767 Shirley Crain v. Lisa Crain, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure divorce-decree domestic-relations domestic-relations-exception federal-jurisdiction property-settlement-agreement state-court-decree state-court-interpretation third-party-beneficiary Whether federal courts may exercise jurisdiction to interpret and modify a state-court-issued divorce decree, or whether the domestic-relations-except…
23-770 John Doe v. Bill Crouch, in His Official Capacity as Cabinet Secretary of the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge equal-protection federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction redressability rooker-feldman standing state-court Does Rooker-Feldman bar jurisdiction when declaring a statute unconstitutional would undermine a state court's reliance upon the statute?
23-6477 Jamaile L. Huey v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP borden-v-united-states crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit mens-rea robbery robbery-statute sentencing sentencing-guidelines violent-crime Whether a state robbery conviction, sustained under a statute without a specified mens rea for the element of violence or threat of violence, but with…
23-6470 Richard L. Gathercole v. United States, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-motion jurisdiction section-2255 sentencing unconstitutional Whether the South Circuit Court of Appeals and the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia have jurisdiction to hear and decide the Petiti…
23-751 0.12 Acres of Land, More or Less, in Washington County, Maryland, et al. v. Columbia Gas Transmission, LLC Fourth Circuit 2024-01-11 Denied Response Waived citizen-suit eleventh-amendment eminent-domain federal-jurisdiction judicial-power natural-gas-act sovereign-immunity state-sovereign-immunity Does the Eleventh Amendment bar federal courts from exercising jurisdiction over Natural Gas Act condemnation actions brought against a State by a cit…
23-711 James P. Ryan v. Carlo DeMaria, Jr., Mayor of the City of Everett, Massachusetts, et al. First Circuit 2024-01-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appeal-jurisdiction civil-procedure excusable-neglect federal-court-procedure federal-jurisdiction good-cause notice-of-appeal pro-se-motion statutory-interpretation time-limitation time-limits Whether a federal court is deprived of jurisdiction when a notice of appeal is filed beyond the 30 days in the first provision of § 2107 but meets the…
23-6328 Andrew Fields, III v. Patrick J. Bouldin, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-12-22 Denied IFP appellate-review case-dismissal civil-procedure court-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion legal-justification pleadings procedural-dismissal standing Whether the Avgellet Couet ceroRed in dismisSinG 4 prellants Appeal Soe dniluee to cure A defect
23-6313 In Re Jason D. Fisher 2023-12-21 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure discovery due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion standing sua-sponte-dismissal Do appellate courts and district courts have authority to raise and decide issues without party input?
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
23-673 In Re Jeffrey Lance Hill, Sr. 2023-12-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 5th-amendment civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment property-rights res-judicata rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing takings takings-clause Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars a federal court from considering a takings claim under the Fifth Amendment when the state court proceedings d…
23-6284 David Pontier v. Joseph Dang, dba Law Office of Joseph Dang Ninth Circuit 2023-12-18 Denied IFP civil-procedure conflict-of-interest fdcpa federal-interpleader federal-jurisdiction interpleader judicial-ethics standing statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction Question not identified.
23-6285 Kenneth Paiva v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction firearms firearms-regulation legislative-power statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) exceeds Congress's power under the Commerce Clause
23-6278 Devontae Nykel Racliff v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment bruen-standard criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022)
23-6259 Bryan Lee Ogle v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-assault armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction most-innocent-conduct sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation tennessee-statute violent-felony Whether the district court erred in applying an enhanced sentence, pursuant to the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), to Mr. Ogle at sente…
23-6244 Edmond Carl Warrington v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-12-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing federal-jurisdiction federal-offense judicial-review sentencing special-assessment statutory-interpretation Whether the $5,000 additional special assessment imposed under 18 U.S.C. § 3014 requires a non-indigent defendant to pay a single special assessment o…
23A531 Jamaal A. Hameen v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-12 Presumed Complete appellate-review criminal-sentencing eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction sentence-revocation statutory-interpretation Whether a federal appellate court correctly applied sentencing guidelines and standards of review in a criminal case involving sentence revocation
23-6152 In Re Michael Alonza Rufus 2023-12-01 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP arbitration civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review preemption statutory-interpretation takings Whether the federal courts have jurisdiction to review the constitutionality of the Federal Arbitration Act's application to state-law claims in state…
23A491 Lamar Larue White v. California California 2023-11-30 Presumed Complete constitutional-violations federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus state-proceeding supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Whether the Supreme Court has jurisdiction to review alleged federal constitutional violations in a state habeas corpus proceeding
23-6135 Charles Kevin Agerton v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law federal-jurisdiction legal-interpretation offense-matching sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether an offense-matching categorical approach applies to the determination of a 'controlled substance offense' under the Sentencing Guidelines?
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…
23-553 William Clark Turner v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-11-22 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof civil-rights criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction flight-attendant free-speech intimidation jury-instructions statutory-interpretation Did the inclusion of multiple alternative definitions of 'intimidate' within the jury instructions for the charged violation of 49 U.S.C. section 4650…
23-6089 Christopher Lenard Blockson v. Ronald Oliver, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-11-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct judicial-review prosecutorial-misconduct standing What is the proper course of action when a court ignores the record on appeal and engages in fraud on the court?
23-6093 George H. Finn v. New York, et al. Second Circuit 2023-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction obstruction-of-court-orders obstruction-of-justice perjury standing state-actors can-a-motion-for-dismissal-be-granted-if-the-court-dismisses-the-amended-complaint
23-6073 William Shirley, IV v. Steven Harpe, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2023-11-21 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief have-petitioner's-5th-and-14th-amendment-rights-been-violated
23A458 Tony Ford v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-21 Presumed Complete appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-jurisdiction sentencing-guidelines writ-of-certiorari Whether a federal appellate court correctly applied sentencing guidelines and standards of review in affirming a criminal defendant's sentence upon re…
23-534 Peter Otoh v. U.S. Bank Trust National Association, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Response Waived circuit-court-procedure diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction navarro-rule real-party-in-interest removal removal-jurisdiction securitized-trust traditional-trust trustee trustee-citizenship Whether the Eleventh Circuit was required to apply Navarro's rule to the Respondent
23-6003 David Santiago Renteria v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-11-15 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction legislative-history reconstruction-era removal-act statutory-interpretation Should an important federal law from the Reconstruction Era be given its original public meaning or should it remain a virtual deadletter due to the g…
23A432 Diamond J. Wholesale, LLC, dba Gabsons Novelties v. Top Tobacco, L.P., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-15 Presumed Complete appellate-review circuit-court federal-jurisdiction final-judgment statutory-interpretation unpublished-opinion Whether a federal appellate court's unpublished opinion can constitute a final judgment for purposes of Supreme Court review
23-488 Bruce R. Sands, Jr. v. Patricia V. Bradley, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-11-08 Denied 28-usc-2241 constitutional-conditions federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus incarceration incarceration-claims jurisdiction prisoner-rights release unconstitutional-conditions Whether federal courts have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 over a petition for habeas corpus alleging that a prisoner's unconstitutional conditio…
23-5974 Timothy Kaler v. ESA Management, LLC Ninth Circuit 2023-11-08 Denied IFP amendment-interpretation cares-act cares-act-violation civil-procedure constitutional-due-process constitutional-violations due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-removal fiduciary-duty jurisdictional-conflict removal Question not identified
23-476 Centinela Skilled Nursing & Wellness Centre West, LLC, et al. v. Shalimah Abdullah, as Legal Representative and Successor-in-Interest of Eric Holloway, Deceased, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-11-06 Denied Response Waived circuit-split complete-preemption covered-countermeasure federal-jurisdiction federal-removal PREP-Act public-health-emergency willful-misconduct Does the PREP Act completely preempt state-law claims against a covered person relating to the administration or use of a covered countermeasure, such…
23-5941 Gregory L. Randle v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP consecutive-sentence consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness supervised-release Whether the district court erred by ordering Mr. Randle to serve 12 months in prison for nonviolent supervised release violations, and by ordering the…
23-5930 Brent Douglas Cole v. R. D. Keyes, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-11-01 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-privileges due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-bias jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction writ-ad-prosequendum Question not identified
23-428 Chinonyerem Osuagwu v. Home Point Financial Corporation, et al. Second Circuit 2023-10-26 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction form-1099 fourteenth-amendment power-of-attorney property-rights standing Did the State Court violate the petitioner's Fourteenth-Amendment-right when it empowered one of the respondents to sign his (the petitioner's) name a…
23-434 Erie Indemnity Company v. Erie Insurance Exchange, By Troy Stephenson, Christina Stephenson, and Steven Barnett, Trustees ad Litem Third Circuit 2023-10-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) CAFA cafa-jurisdiction civil-procedure class-action federal-jurisdiction federal-removal jurisdictional-rules procedural-gamesmanship removal standing voluntary-dismissal Whether plaintiffs can evade federal CAFA-jurisdiction through pleading-artifices
23-5888 Howard L. Thompson v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-26 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law alien-tort-statute civil-rights corporate-liability due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction federalism human-rights international-law ninth-circuit standing Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing petitioner's claims challenging the constitutionality of Florida's medical marijuana…
23-5879 Richard Wayne Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-10-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge sentencing standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a motion pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c) is a part of the mitigation of a defendant's sentence that can challenge the subject-matter jurisdict…
23-5856 Dmt MacTruong, aka Mac Truong v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-10-23 Pending Response WaivedIFP abortion civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights copyright copyright-law federal-jurisdiction obstruction-of-justice standing texas-heartbeat-act Does Petitioner have standing to sue Defendants for violating Petitioner's constitutional and civil rights?
23-5859 Matthew Steven Hackney v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2251 and § 2252(a)(5)(B) authorize convictions upon proof that materials used to produce or possess child pornography once crossed…
23-5841 James Franklin Snyder v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction inmate-rights judicial-review legal-materials prison-conditions retaliation statutory-interpretation Can the State Department of Corrections terminate an inmate's access to legal materials and services in retaliation for the inmate's filing of a civil…
23-419 USIC, LLC v. Northern Illinois Gas Company Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-19 Denied appeals appellate-review civil-procedure district-court federal-jurisdiction final-order new-argument postjudgment-motion summary-judgment tolling If a federal court of appeals construes a filing below as a postjudgment motion tolling the time for appeal, does that court have authority to reverse…
23-5814 Justin Andre Lamoureux v. Florida Florida 2023-10-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-jurisdiction obstruction-of-justice witness-tampering Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the state court system, obstruction of justice across state lines, and tampering with …
23-5820 William H. Cornelius v. Florida Florida 2023-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment due-process federal-jurisdiction first-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions non-delegation-doctrine separation-of-powers sixth-amendment state-courts Whether the U.S. Supreme Court is obligated to resolve a dispute between Florida citizens and the state judiciary regarding the legislature's authorit…
23-5804 Joseph Alexander Clarke v. Kimberly M. Esmond Adams, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce jurisdictional-limits legal-procedure maxims-of-law pleadings standing supreme-court-review Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals failed to properly address the issues raised in the petition, including the failure to address the suffi…
23-5805 Jeffrey Corporal v. Ronald Weber, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-10-16 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction filing-deadline harmless-error pro-se-litigant procedural-error standing statute-of-limitations Does a federal district court harmlessly err when it erroneously extends a defendant's inexcusably neglectfully missed filing deadline to respond to a…
23-5761 Timothy Morse v. Clerk, Clinton District Court First Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split civil-rights custody custody-requirement due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-review sex-offender sex-offender-registration Whether the Supreme Court should decide that registration by a sex offender satisfies the requirement of custody for habeas corpus purposes to settle …
23-359 Kelvin Lionell Wright, II v. United States District Court for the Western District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2023-10-04 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction pleading-requirements standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the United States District Court, Western District of Texas lacked lawful jurisdiction in cause no: 5:19-CR-321-FB-1
23-340 Alejandro Evaristo Perez v. The Walt Disney Company Fifth Circuit 2023-10-02 Denied Relisted (3) copyright-holder copyright-infringement federal-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct monopolies-restricting-trade pro-se-litigation procedural-violations rossi-v-motion-picture-association-of-america trade-restriction us-code-title-15 us-code-title-17 Whether conspiring against and failing to defend a copyright holder in his own Federal Jurisdiction is a violation of US Code Title 17 (Copyrights), a…
23-5690 Azhar Lal v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-10-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-uscs-1331 28-uscs-1350 federal-jurisdiction foreign-national law-of-nations standing subject-matter-jurisdiction treaties treaty-interpretation Does a Foreign National have standing to bring challenges for violations of the law of nations or treaties of the United States pursuant to 28 USCS §§…
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…
23-305 Larry Rice v. Interfood, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-09-26 Denied Relisted (2) 12(b)(6) circuit-split civil-procedure contract-breach dismissal federal-jurisdiction merits missouri-law redressability standing summary-judgment Whether a federal court can rule on the merits of a complaint or counterclaim without first ruling on standing
23-5652 Brian J. Dorsey v. David Vandergriff, Warden Eighth Circuit 2023-09-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP comity death-penalty due-process federal-counsel federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Whether the court below erroneously denied jurisdiction pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3599 based on a failure to follow fundamental rules of statutory inter…
23-286 Windsor Oakridge Healthcare Center, LP, et al. v. Valerie Turner, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-22 Denied Response Waived circuit-split complete-preemption covered-countermeasure federal-jurisdiction federal-removal PREP-Act public-health-emergency willful-misconduct Does the PREP Act completely preempt state-law claims against a covered person relating to the administration or use of a covered countermeasure, such…
23-287 Vernon Healthcare Center, LLC, et al. v. Debra Ann Blackmon, By and Through Her Guardian ad Litem, Latasha Bracks Ninth Circuit 2023-09-22 Denied Response Waived circuit-split complete-preemption covered-countermeasure federal-jurisdiction federal-removal PREP-Act public-health-emergency willful-misconduct Does the PREP Act completely preempt state-law claims against a covered person relating to the administration or use of a covered countermeasure, such…
23-288 Novato Healthcare Center, LLC, et al. v. Angelina Martinez Ninth Circuit 2023-09-22 Denied Response Waived circuit-split complete-preemption covered-countermeasure federal-jurisdiction federal-removal PREP-Act public-health-emergency willful-misconduct Does the PREP Act completely preempt state-law claims against a covered person relating to the administration or use of a covered countermeasure, such…
23-292 Riverside Healthcare and Wellness Centre, LLC, et al. v. Latifa Khan, Individually and as Heir and Successor in Interest to Nafiu Khan, Deceased Ninth Circuit 2023-09-22 Denied Response Waived circuit-split complete-preemption covered-countermeasure federal-jurisdiction federal-removal PREP-Act public-health-emergency willful-misconduct Does the PREP Act completely preempt state-law claims against a covered person relating to the administration or use of a covered countermeasure, such…
23-293 Pomona Healthcare and Wellness Center, dba Park Avenue Healthcare and Wellness Center v. Brenda Thomas, Individually and as Heir and Successor in Interest to Larry Charles Jackson Ninth Circuit 2023-09-22 Denied Response Waived complete-preemption covered-countermeasure federal-jurisdiction federal-removal PREP-Act public-health-emergency state-law-claims willful-misconduct Does the PREP Act completely preempt state-law claims against a covered person relating to the administration or use of a covered countermeasure, such…
23-294 San Pablo Healthcare & Wellness Center, LLC v. Lynetta Westbrook Ninth Circuit 2023-09-22 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights covered-countermeasure emergency-preparedness federal-jurisdiction federal-removal preemption public-health public-health-emergency removal willful-misconduct Does the PREP Act completely preempt state-law claims against a covered person relating to the administration or use of a covered countermeasure, such…
23-295 San Marino Gardens Wellness Center, LP, dba Pasadena Park Healthcare and Wellness Center v. Susan Olmes, Individually and as Heir and Successor in Interest to the Estate of Michael Olmes Ninth Circuit 2023-09-22 Denied Response Waived circuit-split complete-preemption covered-countermeasure federal-jurisdiction federal-removal PREP-Act public-health-emergency willful-misconduct Does the PREP Act completely preempt state-law claims against a covered person relating to the administration or use of a covered countermeasure, such…
23-5626 Arun Dhavamani v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process evidentiary-hearing factual-finding federal-jurisdiction manufactured-jurisdiction sentencing Whether a defendant's right to due process is violated when a Court of Appeals remands a case for additional factfinding after the district court has …
23-5596 Edward James Steiner v. Washington Washington 2023-09-15 Denied IFP citizenship civil-liberties constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-jurisdiction legal-standing prosecutorial-misconduct standing witness-tampering Was there prosecutorial misconduct?
23-5589 Sara Elyas v. Edward Johnston, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-09-14 Denied IFP 28-usc-1257 certiorari civil-procedure federal-appeals federal-jurisdiction judicial-review judiciary-act-1789 jurisdiction standing state-court-review statutory-interpretation supreme-court Whether the Supreme Court has jurisdiction to review the decision of the state court under 28 U.S.C. 1257(4)
23-225 Keith M. Krupka, et al. v. Stifel Nicolaus & Co., Inc. Eighth Circuit 2023-09-11 Denied civil-procedure class-action class-action-fairness-act federal-jurisdiction negligence securities securities-exception securities-law statutory-construction underwriter underwriter-liability Whether a state law negligence claim based solely on an underwriter's acts and omissions with respect to a securities offering document relates to the…
23-5545 Robert K. Decker v. Federal Bureau of Prisons Seventh Circuit 2023-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts administrative-procedure-act amended-complaint amendment civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction pleadings pro-se-litigant Did the lower courts err in dismissing the case and denying the petitioner's motion to amend the complaint
23-5523 Cedrick L. Jones v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-oath judicial-review newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief standing state-constitution Whether a Florida court judge has the right to not comply with federal laws and the Florida constitution when it comes to a loyalty oath
23-5533 Rosetta M. Clayton v. Navy Federal Credit Union Alabama 2023-09-06 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction forfeiture mortgage-fraud redemption-period standing takings Did both State and Circuit Court err in upholding redemption period despite precedent to contrary that sets aside redemption periods and/or foreclosur…
23-5535 Michael Rocky Lane v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-claim brady-rule circuit-split clear-and-convincing-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence-standard federal-jurisdiction federal-law habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation Whether the circuit courts have decided an important question of federal law that should be definitively settled by this court?
23A205 Erie Indemnity Company v. Erie Insurance Exchange, an unincorporated association, by Troy Stephenson, Christina Stephenson, and Steven Barnett, trustees ad litem Third Circuit 2023-09-01 Presumed Complete class-action-definition class-action-fairness-act federal-jurisdiction procedural-gamesmanship removal-jurisdiction rule-41-dismissal Whether the Class Action Fairness Act permits federal courts to exercise removal jurisdiction over cases that plaintiffs attempt to restyle or refile …
23-5496 Jensen Ken Alexander v. Joseph Ely, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction legal-procedure prison-conditions retaliation statutory-interpretation transfer Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights to equal protection and due process under the Fourteenth Amendment are being violated by the government…
23A203 Troy George Skinner v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-08-30 Presumed Complete 18-USC-2251 child-sexual-abuse-material domestic-application extraterritorial-application federal-jurisdiction non-citizen-defendant Whether the federal government may prosecute a non-U.S. citizen located outside the United States for violating 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) based on conduct o…
23-5416 Curtis Benjamin Hollingsworth v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction state-action Does the federal courts have to consider States and individuals, acting in their official capacity and/or the authority of the States, do not violate …
23-168 American Petroleum Institute, et al. v. Minnesota Eighth Circuit 2023-08-22 Denied Amici (5)Relisted (3) civil-rights climate-change climate-change-litigation due-process federal-common-law federal-jurisdiction federal-question-jurisdiction interstate-emissions removal-jurisdiction standing state-law-claims Whether a federal district court has removal jurisdiction over putative state-law claims seeking redress for injuries allegedly caused by the effect o…
23-5387 James Frank Noel, Jr. v. Indiana Metro Police Department, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the Petitioner's convictions for a sentencing enhancement under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) are unconstitutional
23-5401 Rayshawn J. Christmas v. Unknown Wedd, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-jurisdiction judicial-procedure magistrate-judge pro-se pro-se-litigation section-1983 standing Why did the court deny Mr. Christmas at least one chance to amend, if it is possible to fix what court thank is wrong with Mr. Christmas's complaint
23-142 Joe L. Adams v. Royal Park Nursing and Rehabilitation Fourth Circuit 2023-08-16 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction medical-negligence nursing-home-abuse nursing-home-reform-act pressure-ulcers pro-se-litigant standing Did the court of Appeal Err in Affirming the District Court Decision regarding Jurisdiction over Nursing-Home-Abuse-Cases
23-126 Joe Blessett v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statutes public-private social-security-act title-iv Is there a distinction between the Public and Private in applying a federal government-funded Public Service, Title IV of the Social Security Act (Act…
23-5327 In Re Titus Lee Radcliff 2023-08-10 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech judicial-review patent standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Alice test for patent eligibility under 35 USC 101
23-107 Louis Matthew Clements v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) criminal-procedure criminal-sanction custody due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus liberty liberty-restraint sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation Whether a person is 'in custody' within the meaning of 28 U.S.C. § 2254 if that person remains subject for the rest of his life to a state-law sex-off…
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
23-5265 Mark Alan Miller v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-sanctions due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce standing statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecified p…
23-5216 Kinley MacDonald v. Michael A. Duddy, et al. First Circuit 2023-07-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP child-abuse constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction foster-care hearsay interstate-crime jurisdiction parental-rights standing witness-tampering Can a trial court open and remove children in a 'preserve custody' case based solely on hearsay allegations prohibited by state statute in secret and …
23-5187 Juan Sepulveda-Arreola v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP administration-of-justice criminal-procedure district-court federal-jurisdiction federal-law fifth-circuit minor-participant sentencing-guidelines Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it conducted a cursory review of the facts related to the district court's erroneous refusal to de…
23-5179 Arnes Becirovic v. Katherine K. Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2023-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals-court certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-circuit federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court writ Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
23-5169 Michael Mogan v. Sacks, Ricketts & Case LLP, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP anti-SLAPP anti-slapp-statute civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure magistrate-judge magistrate-jurisdiction rule-11-sanctions rules-enabling-act statutory-interpretation Did the Ninth Circuit erroneously fail to recognize that 28-U.S.C-636(c) precludes the parties from selecting a particular magistrate-judge
23-5158 Martice Deshawn Wallace v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus suppression-of-evidence witness-testimony Whether the suppression of a witness' testimony violates the defendant's due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment
23-5119 Nawllah Shayanne Tiger v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-07-17 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP federal-jurisdiction law-of-the-case major-crimes-act mcgirt-precedent mcgirt-v-oklahoma postconviction-relief retroactivity state-procedural-law subject-matter-jurisdiction tribal-jurisdiction Was the Oklahoma court's decision to approve reinstating Ms. Tiger's convictions based on such a novel and unforeseeable change in state procedural la…
23-43 Christopher M. Hunt, Sr. v. Deutsche Bank Trust Company Georgia 2023-07-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights conflict-of-laws court-preemption due-process federal-jurisdiction foreclosure-dispute judicial-review jurisdiction-conflict preemption state-jurisdiction supersedeas-bond whistleblower-protection When there is admitted by courts conflict between the federal courts and state courts on such all-important matters such as jurisdiction, which court …
23-5107 Malcolm A. Jordan v. Jordan Fly Fourth Circuit 2023-07-14 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-challenge court-of-appeals criminal-law due-process federal-agency federal-jurisdiction sentencing standing statutory-interpretation writ-of-certiorari what-is-the-legislative-intent-of-18-usc-3553
23-38 David Anthony Newbold, et al. v. Kinder Morgan SNG Operator, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-07-13 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction maritime-jurisdiction navigable-waters navigation-servitude ordinary-high-water-mark takings terrestrial-vegetation-test Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in limiting the federal navigation servitude
23-5075 Derek J. Petty v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-offense criminal-procedure due-process essential-element federal-felony federal-jurisdiction indictment indictment-defect judicial-review structural-error Whether the omission of an essential element of a criminal offense from a federal felony indictment constitutes structural error
23-23 Sebhat Afework v. Velanta Monique Babbitt, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-07 Denied Response Waived attorney-general civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction immunity public-health-service removal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation tort-immunity Whether 42 U.S.C. § 233(c)(2) permits a deemed Public Health Service employee to remove a civil action or proceeding against him to federal district c…
23-19 Bird Industries, Inc., et al. v. The Tribal Business Council of the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation Eighth Circuit 2023-07-06 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-clause civil-procedure contract contract-interpretation federal-jurisdiction indian-law indian-tribe jurisdictional-waiver sovereign-immunity tribal-law Does inclusion of a mandatory arbitration clause in an Agreement with an Indian Tribe waive the Tribe's sovereign immunity?
23-16 Axel Rietschin v. Dominika Rietschin Washington 2023-07-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) civil-court civil-procedure due-process family-law federal-jurisdiction immigration-law immigration-status marriage-proceedings non-immigrant-aliens state-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Can a State civil Court assert jurisdiction in private matters over non-immigrant aliens admitted temporarily under 8 U.S.C. § 1184?
23-17 Wisam R. Rizk v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-07-05 Denied Response Waived bribery conflict-of-interest constitutional-vagueness criminal-law federal-jurisdiction honest-services statutory-interpretation undisclosed-self-dealing vagueness Under §1346 Honest Services, can 'conflict of interest' and 'undisclosed self-dealing' be used as the underlying criterion of guilt even when a kickba…
23-5026 Isaiah L. Dunbar v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus standing Whether the denial by the U.S. Court of Appeals of Petitioner's Sixth Amendment due process claim was proper
22-7892 Sherri Jefferson v. State Bar of Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-29 Denied IFP civil-rights claim-preclusion conspiracy due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review jurisdictional-bar racial-discrimination standing state-court statutory-interpretation Whether the federal courts have jurisdiction to examine 42 U.S.C. 1981, 1983 and 1985 claims not intertwined with a state court judgment
22-1252 Dongmei Li v. Connecticut, et al. Second Circuit 2023-06-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) has so far departed from the accepted and usual c anti-asian-discrimination civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction hate-crimes judicial-misconduct judicial-proceedings standing Whether it is Unconstitutional
22-7884 Theresa Marshall v. Educational Credit Management Group, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-06-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP bankruptcy civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman standing Whether Rooker-Feldman bar prevents federal district court or US court of appeals jurisdiction to hear, rule, and/or remand in a complaint case, conce…
22-7860 Marijan Cvjeticanin v. United States Third Circuit 2023-06-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence claim-preclusion constitutional-precedent due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-jurisdiction fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice issue-preclusion jurisdictional-challenge miscarriage-of-justice Did the Third Circuit violate the Constitution's Due Process Clause and this Court's established precedents
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?
22-7762 In Re Lionel Scott Ellison 2023-06-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause
22-7743 Mac Truong v. Kevin Stitt, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-06-09 Denied IFP abortion abortion-rights civil-rights constitutional-violation copyright copyright-law due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech standing Does Petitioner have standing to sue Defendants for violating Petitioner's copyrighted intellectual property and constitutional rights?
22-7736 Brandon Ross Williams v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-06-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-law drug-offense federal-jurisdiction predicate-offense sentencing Whether the categorical approach for determining a 'serious drug offense' under the Armed Career Criminal Act applies the federal definition of 'contr…
22-1191 Thomas Gearing, et al. v. City of Half Moon Bay, California Ninth Circuit 2023-06-08 Denied Amici (1) abstention civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process eminent-domain federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment forum pullman-abstention regulatory-taking takings Whether federal courts may deprive takings claimants of their chosen forum by invoking the prudential Pullman abstention doctrine to require them to f…
22-7704 Theresa Marshall v. Wells Fargo & Company, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-06-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP bankruptcy due-process federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman standing state-court-ruling Whether Rooker-Feldman bar prevents federal district court or US court of appeals jurisdiction to hear, rule, and/or remand in a complaint case, conce…
22-7708 Brian Collins v. Warden, United States Penitentiary, Victorville Ninth Circuit 2023-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-adjudication consent detainer federal-custody federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction-transfer primary-jurisdiction sentence-calculation sovereign-jurisdiction Was the Ninth Circuit wrong to conclude that the federal government consented to a transfer of primary jurisdiction at the end of its sentence, when n…
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…
22-1167 Baron Bond, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Frank Bond, et al. v. Roger D. Silk Ninth Circuit 2023-06-02 Denied Response Waived accounting accounting-claim decedent-estate federal-jurisdiction judicial-jurisdiction marshall-precedent marshall-v-marshall probate-exception valuation Whether a complaint seeking, or requiring, an accounting or valuation of the assets of a decedent's estate continues, in the wake of Marshall v. Marsh…
22-7684 Christopher Darnell Douglas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-sanctions due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce standing statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecified p…
22-7674 John Paul Waldon v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-05-31 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred in denying Petitioner's petition for writ of certiorari
22-7664 Forest Mitchell Kirst v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-investigation congressional-intent criminal-procedure due-process federal-agency federal-jurisdiction obstruction-of-justice statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1505 applies to accident investigations by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), an agency that has no power to take en…
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
22-7644 Mark Anthony Reyna v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-25 Denied IFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a…
22-7621 Jerry Elkins v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction fraud-on-the-court hazel-atlas-fraud interstate-commerce jury-instructions rico-violation Whether the convictions were proper due to lack of federal jurisdiction
22-1134 Siyu Yang, et al. v. University of Rochester, et al. New York 2023-05-22 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause
22-1136 In Re Robert Steven Mawhinney 2023-05-22 Denied Response Waived administrative-law due-process employment-contract federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce judicial-review labor-law nondiscretionary-duty statutory-interpretation Does 49 U.S.C. § 42121 provide the means to invalidate the exemption incorporated in 9 U.S.C. §1 and allow the deviation of the nondiscretionary duty …
22-7524 Larry Carl Mack v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-11 Denied IFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a…
22-7527 Adam Garcia v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction force-clause predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime Whether Hobbs Act robbery can serve as the underlying felony for a 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) conviction
22-7495 Rudolfo Gill v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-05-09 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review legal-precedent standing takings Whether a plaintiff must make a 'substantial showing' of the deprivation of constitutional rights to establish standing to sue
22-1076 Online Merchants Guild v. Nicolas Maduros, Director, California Department of Tax and Free Administration Ninth Circuit 2023-05-05 Denied Response Waived cic-services-llc-v-internal-revenue-service comity-doctrine direct-marketing-association-v-brohl federal-jurisdiction information-demands online-merchants putative-taxpayer state-tax-demands tax-injunction-act third-party Whether the Tax Injunction Act applies differently based on whether the plaintiff is a putative taxpayer or a third-party
22-1069 Benefit Strategies West, Inc., et al. v. Roger Naumann, et al. Arizona 2023-05-04 Denied civil-procedure erisa-jurisdiction erisa-plan-administration erisa-preemption erisa-statutory-interpretation federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption participant-claims plan-administration state-court-jurisdiction trustee-rights Whether the Arizona Court of Appeals violated ERISA's exclusive federal jurisdiction and preemption doctrine by asserting state law and state-court ju…
22-7386 Louis McIntosh, aka Lou D v. United States Second Circuit 2023-04-27 Judgment Issued Amici (2)IFP appellate-courts commerce-clause criminal-forfeiture federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure federalism interstate-commerce jurisdiction rule-32.2 sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation Whether a district court may enter a criminal forfeiture order outside the time limitations set forth in Rule 32.2, Fed.R.Crim.P.
22-7390 Robert James Turner, aka Robert James Branham v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP assimilative-crimes-act civil-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction government-action jurisdictional-dispute legal-review ninth-circuit stipulation Whether the district court's jurisdiction over the case was legally defeated by the defendant's stipulation regarding the location of the offense, and…
22-7372 Alphonza Leonard Phillip Thomas Bey, III v. United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2023-04-26 Dismissed IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process evidence-suppression evidentiary-hearing federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-review liberty-remedy removal-proceedings state-court-proceedings When Article I, Section 9 of the North Carolina Constitution states that 'every person restrained of his liberty is entitled to a remedy to inquire in…
22-7384 In Re Reidie James Jackson 2023-04-26 Denied IFP abstention circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure dismissal due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-procedure jurisdiction standing Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in refusing to address the issue of abstention
22-1032 Sergei Vinkov v. Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Company Ninth Circuit 2023-04-25 Denied article-iii civil-procedure due-process duty-to-defend federal-jurisdiction first-amendment insurance-contract pro-se tax-exempt tax-exempt-corporation Has the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (9th Circuit) correctly determined the jurisdictional power of the federal court over Ins…
22-7320 Mary Gonzales v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-04-19 Denied IFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction firearms statutory-interpretation Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate possession of a firearm or ammunition solely because they crossed state lines at some point before they ca…
22-7274 Jorge Galeas, Jr. v. Adam Gibson, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-04-13 Denied IFP 10th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus independent-state-ground procedural-default state-court-decision strickler-v-greene Whether the United States District Court violated the claimant's inalienable rights to due process and equal protection under the law within the meani…
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…
22-7192 Dan Pizarro v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP consecutive-sentences criminal-sentencing district-court-authority district-court-discretion federal-criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction future-events future-sentence-commencement judicial-sentencing-power sentencing-authority setser-v-united-states Does a district court exceed its authority by expressly or effectively ordering its sentence to run consecutively to a sentence in another federal cas…
22-962 Usha Jain, et vir v. David Barker, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-04 Denied 28-usc-1443 anti-injunction-statute appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-removal finality jurisdictional-challenge remand removal statutory-interpretation Whether the Court of Appeals has jurisdiction to review when finality is not reached in the District case as there is no formal written remand order i…
22-953 Pablo Calderon v. United States Second Circuit 2023-03-30 Denied Response Waived criminal-charges criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation substantive-law Does a federal district court have habeas corpus jurisdiction when a substantive element of the criminal charges was not found under the law mandated …
22-7157 Andreqio Stevens v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-03-30 Denied IFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-transportation jurisdictional-element prohibited-persons statutory-interpretation Does the different language used by Congress as to the possession crime require a jury to find more than a prior shipping or transportation of the fir…
22-924 John M. Fife v. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. Second Circuit 2023-03-22 Denied Response Waived administrative-law declaratory-judgment due-process exchange-act federal-jurisdiction finra-discipline securities-exchange-act securities-law standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether Congress impliedly stripped federal district courts of their 'exclusive jurisdiction' to determine whether FINRA violates the Exchange Act whe…
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…
22-910 Javitch Block, LLC v. Jerome Redman Fourth Circuit 2023-03-17 Denied civil-procedure district-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction federal-question-jurisdiction procedural-remand remand removal state-court-litigation waiver Whether waiver by participation in state court litigation is a permissible basis for District Courts to decline to exercise their original jurisdictio…
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…
22-7013 Carl Puckett, et ux. v. Ain Jeem, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-16 Denied IFP appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction intellectual-property legal-standing pro-se-petition property-dispute standing trademark-infringement Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in dismissing the Pucketts' trademark infringement claims against Ain Jeem, Inc.
22-6967 Arnoldo Antonio Garcia v. Afod Valdez, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-03-08 Denied IFP access-to-courts bivens-claim civil-detainee civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction government-liability ninth-circuit Did the Ninth Circuit err in dismissing a meritorious Bivens claim of nationwide importance?
22-6954 Juanita Burch v. Rushmore Loan Management Services, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2023-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-procedure bankruptcy-removal civil-procedure court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction lien-extinguishment loan-management procedural-error removal summary-judgment Whether the 2008 bankruptcy extinguished the lien on the property and the lender's refusal to follow the court's instructions to reinstate the loan me…
22-846 Department of Agriculture Rural Development Rural Housing Service v. Reginald Kirtz Third Circuit 2023-03-07 Judgment Issued Amici (2)Relisted (3) civil-liability civil-procedure fair-credit-reporting-act federal-jurisdiction federal-law sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation waiver Whether the civil-liability provisions of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. 1681 et seg., unequivocally and unambiguously waive the sovereign i…
22-6948 Robert E. Spiker v. Robert E. Erskines, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-03-06 Denied IFP cell-phone-data constitutional-claims deliberate-indifference digital-privacy federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence habeas-corpus medical-care prisoner-rights privacy search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
22-821 Chevron Corporation, et al. v. City of Hoboken, New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2023-03-01 Denied civil-rights climate-change federal-jurisdiction greenhouse-gas-emissions preemption standing state-law-claims statutory-interpretation transboundary-injury Whether a federal district court has jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1331 over nominally state-law claims seeking redress for injuries allegedly caused…
22-818 Yusufu Anyika v. Cecelia Francis-Anyika Pennsylvania 2023-02-28 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause
22-6887 Steve Audette v. United States, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-02-28 Denied IFP 11th-amendment civil-rights federal-jurisdiction prospective-relief sovereign-immunity standing Whether the Eleventh Amendment bars a federal court from exercising jurisdiction over a state official in his official capacity when the plaintiff see…
22-6856 Cecil Guy Truman v. P. A. White, Warden Fourth Circuit 2023-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction 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
22-6843 Edgar Barrera v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction mandatory-minimum mens-rea non-elemental-facts plea-bargaining preponderance-standard sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether the Constitution permits a sentencing judge to find non-elemental facts by a preponderance of the evidence and then rely on those facts to imp…
22-779 Jeffrey Wills Lusk, Individually and as Executor of the Estate of Dorothy Jean Ross Lusk, Deceased v. Alsata Salimatu Lamin, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-02-17 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1985-3 civil-rights class-based-animus congressional-power conspiracy constitutional-law discrimination discriminatory-intent federal-jurisdiction state-action statutory-interpretation Should a conspiracy motivated by invidiously discriminatory intent other than racial bias be actionable under 42 U.S.C. § 1985(3)
22-6770 In Re Alphonza Thomas Bey 2023-02-14 Dismissed IFP 13th-amendment 14th-amendment 15th-amendment administrative-remedies constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-questions human-rights personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction unlawful-imprisonment Whether the United States Constitution, the United States Congress, and/or the Constitution of the State of North Carolina have government jurisdictio…
22-6746 Carl Hunter v. District of Asia, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP banking banking-dispute civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-jurisdiction government-overreach legal-procedure property-rights sovereign-citizen takings Whether the petitioner has a constitutional or statutory right to access their bank account and sign for their money after 5 years of banking, and whe…
22-725 Peter Kleidman v. Thomas L. Willhite, Jr., Associate Justice, Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-02-02 Denied civil-procedure constitutional-discrimination due-process due-process-rights exxon federal-jurisdiction injury-in-fact jurisdiction rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-review Is there sufficient disarray in post-Exxon Rooker-Feldman jurisprudence to warrant clarification?
22-6657 Alex Anderson v. Donald J. Trump Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-30 Denied IFP civil-procedure collateral-attack due-process eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction final-judgment fraud-on-court judicial-review res-judicata rule-60 standing Whether the U.S. District Court erred in dismissing Appellant's claims based on the Rooker-Feldman doctrine
22-701 Norman Bartsch Herterich v. Mary E. Wiss, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-01-27 Denied Relisted (2) appellate-review claims-and-issues constitutional-violations district-court federal-constitutional-violations federal-district-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-adjudication state-court-proceedings Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars federal-district-court jurisdiction over an action merely because the action alleges federal-constitutional-v…
22-6600 Eric Banks v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-prison jurisdictional-requirements statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction Whether the prosecution must show the facts required under 40 U.S.C. §3112(b) to establish territorial jurisdiction under 18 U.S.C. §7(3)
22-6587 Vernon White v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-20 Denied IFP 18-usc-113 40-usc-3112 circuit-split criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-prison maritime-jurisdiction special-maritime-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction Whether proof that a crime occurred at a federal prison is sufficient to establish the existence of 'special maritime or territorial jurisdiction of t…
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…
22-676 Bonnie Carter v. Florida Department of Children and Families, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-20 Denied abstention-doctrine civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process federal-claims federal-jurisdiction guardianship-proceeding standing state-agents younger-abstention Whether the Younger abstention doctrine requires dismissal of constitutional and federal claims arising from false reports and other lies told by stat…
22-616 Turlock Irrigation District, et al. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. District of Columbia 2023-01-06 Denied Amici (2) administrative-procedure certification-request clean-water-act federal-environmental-law federal-jurisdiction one-year-rule pro-forma-letters section-401 waiver Whether a State can avoid waiving its one-year period of time in which to act on a request for certification under Section 401 of the Clean Water Act
22-6458 Brian L. Melson v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-01-05 Denied IFP cherokee-nation criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction indian-law major-crimes-act native-american-rights reservation-status tribal-sovereignty united-states-constitution Whether the State of Oklahoma has the authority to prosecute crimes committed by or against Indians in the Cherokee Reservation
22-6422 Richard Bernard Nichols v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights congressional-authority constitutional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute felon-rights firearm-possession Whether Congress exceeded its authority in enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g))
22-6400 José L. Canales-Cancel v. United States, et al. First Circuit 2022-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction first-amendment privacy-and-1st-amendment statutory-interpretation jurisdiction-under-28-usc-1331
22-579 Jeanie Bisconte v. Sandia National Laboratories, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-12-22 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-limits employment-discrimination enclave-clause federal-enclave federal-jurisdiction federal-property jurisdiction jurisdictional-scope tenth-amendment u.s-constitution Whether the Enclave Clause limits federal jurisdiction over employment discrimination cases where the plaintiff and defendants did not work on or suff…
22-6387 Kenakil Gibson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process fair-presentation federal-claim federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jackson-standard procedural-default standing state-court state-court-proceedings Does state prisoner fairly present federal nature of his claim on direct appeal
22-561 Larry J. Winget, et al. v. Alter Domus, LLC Sixth Circuit 2022-12-19 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived article-iii civil-procedure creditor-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fraudulent-transfer jurisdiction revocable-trust sixth-circuit standing trust-law will-substitute-trust Whether a federal court has jurisdiction to annul a revocable, will-substitute trust and replace it with an irrevocable trust
22-6332 In Re James Vandivere 2022-12-19 Denied IFP adam-walsh-act civil-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus necessary-and-proper-clause pro-se-petition Question not identified
22-6337 Lonnie Charles Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause due-process federal-jurisdiction firearms statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a…
22-551 Francisco Negrete, et al. v. City of Oakland, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-12-16 Denied Response Waived civil-rights consent-decree federal-consent-decree federal-court-power federal-jurisdiction federal-power local-government municipal-charter settlement-agreement state-law state-law-conflict subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether federal courts have subject-matter jurisdiction over a state law claim that requires resolving a conflict between state law and a federal cons…
22-6307 John Homer Legros, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-law drug-offense federal-jurisdiction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether 'Conspiracy' to Commit a Crime is a Controlled Substance Offense as defined under the United States Sentencing Guidelines Section §4B1.2
22-6314 Ramiro Leal v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights congressional-authority constitutional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-statute felon-rights firearm-possession statutory-interpretation Whether Congress exceeded its authority in enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g))
22-547 Randall E. Rollins v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-12-14 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law executive-action federal-jurisdiction immigration immigration-policy judicial-review national-security separation-of-powers treason Whether the court erred in not considering the emergency issue of illegal alien invasion and the government's failure to stop it
22-6270 Charles H. Carter v. Gardaworld Security Services-US, et al. Maryland 2022-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction pro-hac-vice removal removal-procedure standing unauthorized-practice-of-law Whether the unauthorized practice of law by an out-of-state attorney, including the removal of a case to federal court without proper authorization, w…
22-6267 Mack Doak v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction indictment indictment-requirements interstate-commerce interstate-travel sexual-offense statutory-interpretation What connection must exist between the defendant's travel and the unlawful sexual act or sexual activity to support the exercise of federal jurisdicti…
22-523 Sunoco LP, et al. v. City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-12-06 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2) circuit-conflict climate-change climate-change-litigation federal-jurisdiction federal-officer-removal federal-preemption greenhouse-gas-emissions jurisdictional-challenge preemption statutory-interpretation transboundary-pollution Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that 28 U.S.C. § 1442 precludes removal by federal officers and persons acting under them unless the rem…
22-524 Shell Oil Products Co., L.L.C., et al. v. Rhode Island First Circuit 2022-12-06 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2) climate-change federal-common-law federal-jurisdiction greenhouse-gas-emissions preemption public-nuisance removal state-law-claims subject-matter-jurisdiction transboundary-harm Whether federal district court has jurisdiction over state-law claims for injuries caused by transboundary greenhouse gas emissions
22-6225 Jerome Kieffer v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-procedure criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment imprisonment-rights religious-land-use rluipa sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness Whether the unconstitutionally vague language struck down by the Court in 18 U.S.C. 1030 applies to 18 U.S.C. 2232(a)(1)
22-6229 In Re Steven B. Turner 2022-12-06 Denied IFP constitutional-violation due-process federal-claim federal-jurisdiction federal-statute habeas-corpus remedy remedy-unavailable state-prisoner supreme-court-holding Whether application of 28 U.S.C. 2244(b)(1) and (2) violates U.S. Const. Art. I, Sec. 9, cl. 2
22-504 Peter Paul Mitrano v. Marcia Mitrano, et al. Virginia 2022-11-30 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause
22-495 Chevron Corporation, et al. v. San Mateo County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-11-28 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) civil-procedure climate-change climate-injury federal-jurisdiction greenhouse-gas-emissions preemption standing state-law-claims statutory-interpretation transboundary-impact Whether a federal district court has jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1331 over nominally state-law claims
22-6117 Tracy Lamont Miles v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-question sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the term 'controlled substance' from the 'controlled substance offense' definition in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) is limited to substances that are fe…
22-466 Herederos de Roberto Gomez Cabrera, LLC v. Teck Resources Limited Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied civil-rights due-process extraterritorial-statute federal-court federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment foreign-defendant fourteenth-amendment international-law personal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Whether the Fifth Amendment imposes the same restrictions as the Fourteenth Amendment on the exercise of personal jurisdiction by a federal court unde…
22-6072 Randy Belcher v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act civil-rights criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction physical-force sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-felony Whether the petitioner's attempted use or threatened use of physical force against the person of another, without the use of physical force, is suffic…
22-6045 Douglas Cornell Jackson v. Kristopher Taskila, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-11-14 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus prisoner-rights Whether 28 U.S.C. 2241 provides federal courts of appeals substitute jurisdiction over the issues presented under the Due Process Clause
22-443 Michael S. Zummer v. Jeffrey S. Sallet, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-11-10 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights civil-service-reform-act constitutional-claims due-process employment employment-law federal-jurisdiction first-amendment free-speech judicial-review standing Whether a federal district court has jurisdiction to hear colorable constitutional claims by federal employees related to their employment
22-6044 Jerlard Derek Rembert v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1983 8th-amendment civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment federal-jurisdiction heck-doctrine section-1983 statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the plaintiff's 1983 civil-rights complaint for failure to show cause as to why the court should not dismi…
22-432 Rieth-Riley Construction Co., Inc. v. Operating Engineers’ Local 324 Fringe Benefit Funds, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-11-08 Denied contract-claim erisa-claim erisa-section-515 federal-jurisdiction garmon-preemption jurisdictional-issue labor-practice multiemployer-funds nlra-section-8(a)(5) nlrb-jurisdiction unfair-labor-practices Whether the Sixth Circuit may disregard the Court's holding that Garmon preemption is jurisdictional, turning not on a claim's labels but, instead, on…
22-6019 Richard Lee Green v. Dinh Hoang Phuong Ninth Circuit 2022-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitral-award federal-jurisdiction foreign-arbitration international-forum-shopping jurisdiction-abstention new-york-convention res-judicata younger-abstention younger-doctrine Whether the federal court improperly abstained from confirming a foreign arbitral award under the Younger doctrine
22-6022 Shimar Jamal Dean Thompkins v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-precedent criminal-law criminal-procedure diversionary-disposition due-process federal-charging federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant's prior diversionary disposition in a felony case can be considered both an indictment and a conviction for federal charging and s…
22-407 Maria Herta v. Terrie E. Roberts Ninth Circuit 2022-11-01 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights corporate-governance due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech freedom-of-speech jurisdictional-challenge oath-of-office standing Is the federal government's statutory law and corporate policies superior to the U.S. Constitution?
22-5933 Gennett M. Holmes-Smith v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2022-10-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights damages due-process federal-jurisdiction medical-malpractice standing Whether the federal court had jurisdiction to hear the case against the hospital and Department of Labor
22-5918 Tommy Allen Dickenson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights congressional-authority constitutional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-statute felon-rights firearm-possession statutory-interpretation Whether Congress exceeded its authority in enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g))
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…
22-5855 Kenrick C. Hamilton v. Northern Virginia District Office, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure debt-collection-practices default-judgment fair-debt-collection-practices federal-jurisdiction security-clearance service-of-process subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the court erred in finding that the plaintiff did not properly serve the defendant despite service by U.S. Marshals
22-5843 Clifton William Batts v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2022-10-14 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-protections criminal-sentencing custody-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law habeas-corpus post-conviction standing state-procedure What is the timeline for Ordeg_ habesS Corpys, Dy deadina, Judge. Assigued to hobers on liberty Bie Enterest oF STARS PUY sone 'Ni Custady LN A\\nolab…
22-331 Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General v. Fernando Cordero-Garcia, aka Fernando Cordero Ninth Circuit 2022-10-07 Judgment Issued Relisted (2) circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction immigration immigration-law obstruction-of-justice statutory-interpretation witness-dissuasion Whether dissuading a witness from reporting a crime, in violation of California law, is 'an offense relating to obstruction of justice,' 8 U.S.C. 1101…
22-5709 Erika Jacobs v. Oklahoma Tax Commission Tenth Circuit 2022-09-29 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction standing supervisory-power Question not identified
22-290 Anne-Marie Mendible v. Special Proceedings Department of the Wake County Court, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-09-27 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment pro-se pro-se-litigant res-judicata standing subject-matter-jurisdiction truth-in-lending-act Whether the due process constitutional right of the petitioner is infringed and the Federal Court has jurisdiction to entertain it
22-5651 In Re Randolph Lavon Carr-El 2022-09-22 Denied IFP citizenship civil-rights constitutional-provisions denationalization due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus race-discrimination racial-discrimination thirteenth-amendment Whether the petitioner, a naturalized U.S. citizen of African descent, was unlawfully detained and deprived of his constitutional rights
22-5657 Dawud Wilson v. Leon Hill, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-09-22 Denied IFP and thus warrants Petitioner overcoming a state p appellate-analysis constitutional-issue constitutional-review federal-jurisdiction judicial-procedure merits-review plain-error plain-error-analysis state-appeals-court state-procedural-bar Whether the state appeals court's plain-error analysis amounted to a review of the merits, and thus warrants Petitioner overcoming a state procedural …
22-5665 Geoffrie Dill v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-09-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-offense federal-jurisdiction federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Does 'controlled substance offense' refer only to substances prohibited by the Controlled Substance Act?
22-5639 Eddie Dewayne Thomas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a…
22-5612 Luis F. Gomez v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment administrative-law constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct reversal statutory-interpretation witness-credibility Does a prosecutor's improper vouching for a witness unduly prejudice the defendant and require reversal under the 6th Amendment?
22-245 Abolfazl Hosseinzadeh v. Bellevue Park Homeowners Association, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-09-15 Denied civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-question federal-question-jurisdiction motion-practice pendent-claims pendent-state-law-claims privilege-law related-proceedings summary-judgment Where a federal district court exercises federal question jurisdiction, does state or federal privilege law apply over pendent state law claims?
22-240 Jim Justice, Governor of West Virginia, et al. v. Jonathan R., Minor, By Next Friend Sarah Dixon, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-09-14 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived child-welfare civil-rights class-action due-process federal-jurisdiction federalism standing state-court-proceedings state-courts younger-abstention Must federal courts abstain from interfering with state-court child-welfare proceedings under Younger-v-Harris
22-228 In Re Urvashi Bhagat 2022-09-12 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-immunity bad-faith damages federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion mandamus patent-examination patent-rights takings takings-claim Whether the District Court abused discretion and obstructed justice
22-5539 Sean David Pickett v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jurisdiction miscarriage-of-justice rule-60(b) rule-60b section-2255 Does the Eleventh Circuit have jurisdiction to deny a certificate of appealability based on the Eleventh Circuit's determination that the petitioner c…
22-209 Transamerica Retirement Solutions, LLC v. Gloria A. Addison, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied cafa circuit-split class-action-fairness-act diversity-jurisdiction federal-diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction local-single-event local-single-event-exception mass-action statutory-interpretation Whether the phrase 'an event or occurrence' in CAFA's local single event exception means what it says—'a single happening'—as the Ninth Circuit holds,…
22-192 Glenhaven Healthcare LLC, et al. v. Jackie Saldana, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-08-31 Denied Amici (2) complete-preemption covered-countermeasure federal-jurisdiction federal-removal PREP-Act public-health-emergency state-law-claims willful-misconduct Does the PREP Act completely preempt state-law claims against a covered person relating to the administration or use of a covered countermeasure, such…
22-5479 Derek N. Jarvis v. United States Federal Circuit 2022-08-31 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 1866-treaties cherokee-freedmen civil-rights federal-jurisdiction indian-treaties native-rights treaty-interpretation treaty-provisions tucker-act Can a trial court dismiss 1866 complaint based on number of provisions stated?
22-5456 Min Jeong Kim v. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services Fourth Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law agency-discretion civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federalism immigration-law judicial-review jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether the circuit court has jurisdiction over criminal, bankruptcy, immigration, or state matters
22-5461 James Keith Russey v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation legal-uniformity sentencing-guidelines state-law Whether the categorical approach requires courts to define Sentencing Guidelines terms like 'controlled substance' uniformly
22-5441 Felipe Mata-Benavidez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecified p…
22-5425 William Paul Burch v. Bank of America, N.A. Fifth Circuit 2022-08-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP article-iii-court civil-procedure constitutional-challenge court-removal federal-jurisdiction in-forma-pauperis pro-se-litigation removal sanction-fees sanctions vexatious-litigant Should-removal-from-state-court-to-federal-court-be-allowed-only-after-state-court-hearing
22-5396 Timothy J. Hill v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-08-19 Denied IFP criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indian-law mcgirt-case native-american-rights oklahoma-jurisdiction procedural-rule retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-rule supreme-court-ruling Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), is a Substantive ruling or a Procedural ruling
22-5392 Jane Doe v. City of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-08-18 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-accountability due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct legal-procedure Whether the federal court of appeals should be allowed to disregard the US Supreme Court's law, the US Code, the Federal Rules, the Constitution, the …
22-149 Rosalie Weisfeld, et al. v. John Scott, Texas Secretary of State, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-08-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-challenge election-law enforcement-authority ex-parte-young federal-jurisdiction federalism sovereign-immunity standing state-official Whether a state's chief election officer may invoke sovereign immunity solely because local officials carry out day-to-day election administration dut…
22-5367 Derrick Lee Hinton v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation federal-jurisdiction federal-power first-amendment free-speech government-criticism judicial-review legal-precedent native-american-rights sovereignty-doctrine tribal-sovereignty Whether the federal government's reliance on the tribal sovereignty doctrine violates the First Amendment's Free Speech Clause by restricting criticis…
22-5335 Julius Wayne Baker v. Bryan K. Dobbs, Warden Fourth Circuit 2022-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-investigation federal-jurisdiction free-speech incarceration legal-jurisdiction miranda-rights standing Did the 4th Circuit err in denying the petitioner's grounds for relief when the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by agents of the Fede…
22-5334 Nicole Renee Crosby v. Idaho Idaho 2022-08-10 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction 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
22-5324 Daniel Del Brumit v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-08-09 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-jurisdiction due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-protection indian-law native-american-rights res-judicata reservation-boundaries state-court state-law treaty-interpretation Does the AEDPA instruct federal courts to give full faith and credit to State Court judgments and decrees which have clearly on its face usurped exclu…
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
22-5279 Abdulhakim Muhammad v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2022-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights congressmen-letter due-process federal-jurisdiction foreign-terrorist-organization habeas-corpus national-defense-authorization-act new-evidence standing statute-of-limitations Whether the petitioner's claims are exempt from the time bar of 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1)'s one-year statute of limitation, even though the evidence is e…
22-5235 Louis McIntosh v. United States Second Circuit 2022-08-01 GVR IFP §924(c) criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction forfeiture hobbs-act interstate-commerce rule-32.2 sentencing Whether petitioner's §924(c) conviction based on an attempted Hobbs Act robbery should be vacated in light of United States v. Taylor
22-96 Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. Centro de Periodismo Investigativo, Inc. First Circuit 2022-08-01 Judgment Issued Amici (11) abrogation circuit-split federal-jurisdiction financial-oversight-and-management-board puerto-rico puerto-rico-oversight sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation Does 48 U.S.C. § 2126(a)'s general grant of jurisdiction to the federal courts over claims against the Board and claims otherwise arising under PROMES…
22-5228 William Paul Burch v. America's Servicing Company Fifth Circuit 2022-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii-court civil-procedure federal-issue federal-jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirements removal removal-procedure service-of-process state-court state-court-removal state-issue Should removal from a state court to a federal court by a defendant only be allowed after the state court judge conducts a hearing to determine if the…
22-5200 Robert Oulton, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights constitutional-showing due-process eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction federal-review habeas-corpus indigent-rights ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-standard Can a specific record reference by an indigent be considered a substantive part of demonstrating a substantial showing of the denial of a constitution…
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…
22-5144 Khaled Shabani v. Tony Evers, Governor of Wisconsin, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-07-20 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction qualified-immunity standing Whether the petitioner has the right to prosecute a civil rights claim against federal officials for violating the petitioner's constitutional rights
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…
22-5057 Wade Lawrence Duchaine v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-922(g) commerce-clause criminal-prosecution federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element minimal-nexus scarborough-v-united-states statutory-interpretation substantial-nexus Can the government establish the interstate commerce element in a § 922(g) prosecution under the minimal nexus standard by only providing evidence tha…
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
22-21 Abdur-Rahim Dib Dubar v. Department of Community Affairs Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-06 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment federal-jurisdiction immunity-waiver procedural-default standing taking-clause takings waiver Was Petitioner's Amended Complaint considered in All Courts?
22-5 Peter Cooks v. Contra Costa County, California Ninth Circuit 2022-06-30 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute rehabilitation-act statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Does 28 U.S.C § 1658 supplying a 4 year statute of limitations apply to claims made under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as Amended?
21-8268 Roger Acosta v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution indictment indictment-defect mens-rea rehaif-standard structural-error Whether a federal prosecution is structural error when a grand jury indicts a defendant for conduct that is not a federal offense?
21-8272 Robert Edward Guerra v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction felon-in-possession firearm-possession firearms statutory-interpretation Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) exceed Congress's power under the Commerce Clause?
21-8282 Allan M. Leavitt v. United Services Automobile Association, et al. First Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights contract-dispute declaratory-relief due-process federal-jurisdiction injunctive-relief lance-v-dennis rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine specific-performance standing Did the Court of Appeals violate Petitioner's rights when it relied on the Rooker-Feldman doctrine as authority and affirmed dismissal his Complaints …
21-8208 Homer Jones v. Luke Pettigrew, Warden Tenth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus interstate-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity sovereign-nation treaty Is a treaty between Sovereign Nations over an individual State's Laws?
21-8220 Mary Alice Nelson-Rogers v. Internal Revenue Service, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-limitations damages federal-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction internal-revenue-code moot-controversies mootness standing Question not identified
21-8223 Fox Joseph Salerno v. United States District Court for the District of Colorado Tenth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2254 circuit-split custodian federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus interstate-compact prisoner-rights subject-matter-jurisdiction Should a 28 USC 2241 HC be filed in State of incarceration or State of conviction for a State prisoner serving sentence in another State under Inter-s…
21-1582 In Re Jack R. Finnegan 2022-06-23 Denied 28-usc-455 bankruptcy-procedure bias-and-prejudice constitution-questions-and-federal-laws constitutional-taking due-process federal-jurisdiction inferior-officer judicial-bias liteky-v-united-states rule-22(a) Why is the Inferior Officer who was disqualified in June, 2018, for Bias and Prejudice, allowed to be in defiance to the order of the United States Su…
21-8167 Xue Jie He, et al. v. United States, et al. Third Circuit 2022-06-17 Denied IFP 28-usc-1251 article-three civil-procedure constitution federal-jurisdiction original-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction state-sovereignty supreme-court Whether this Court has original jurisdiction over this action and personal jurisdiction over the parties pursuant to Article II Section 2. of the Cons…
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
21-8161 Onofre Tommy Serrano v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1443 civil-rights civil-rights-removal criminal-prosecution due-process equal-protection federal-defense federal-jurisdiction federal-removal jurisdiction removal statutory-interpretation Does besa domed equal cunt 2) airts oO» the basis of gelato { colae pursuant t> UL USC ¢ 20004{4) quelily foe Removel pubs tnt to 12 USC & \\443 0?
21-1556 Chinese Anti-Cult World Alliance, Inc., et al. v. Zhang Jingrong, et al. Second Circuit 2022-06-14 Denied commerce-clause congress-authority congressional-power federal-jurisdiction freedom-of-access-to-clinic-entrances-act intimidation lopez-morrison-test places-of-worship religious-worship statutory-interpretation united-states-v-lopez Whether 18 U.S.C. § 248(a)(2) is unconstitutional as exceeding Congress's authority under the Commerce Clause
21-1550 Suncor Energy (U.S.A.) Inc., et al. v. Board of County Commissioners of Boulder County, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-06-10 Denied CVSGAmici (7)Relisted (2) civil-procedure climate-change federal-common-law federal-jurisdiction greenhouse-gas-emissions standing Whether federal common law necessarily and exclusively governs claims seeking redress for injuries allegedly caused by the effect of interstate greenh…
21-8057 Cliffrie Morgan v. St. Francis Hospital Sixth Circuit 2022-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
21-8029 Hunter Adam Melnick v. Colorado State Board of Parole Tenth Circuit 2022-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 10th-circuit caprice-and-arbitrariness constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-review parole parole-hearing statutory-guidelines Did the Petitioner present enough evidence to show the denying of a constitutional right
21-1516 Swagelok Associates Welfare Benefits Plan v. Laura Patterson, et vir Ohio 2022-06-02 Denied civil-procedure equitable-relief erisa exclusive-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction plan-participant reimbursement state-court-jurisdiction welfare-benefits Is a state law action brought by a Plan Participant for an injunction barring an ERISA welfare benefit plan from enforcing its terms a claim for equit…
21-8024 Demarcus Antonio Taylor v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-claim due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-bar standing Did the panel of the Fifth Circuit err by deciding the merit of an appeal not properly before the Court to justify the denial of a Certificate of Appe…
21-1498 Norman Bartsch Herterich v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-05-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) adjudication appellate-review constitutional-violations district-court-dismissal due-process federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-proceedings Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars federal-district-court jurisdiction over an action merely because the action alleges Constitutional-violation…
21-7979 Robert Allen Stanford, aka Sir Allen Stanford, aka Allen Stanford v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-transmission jurisdictional-element miscarriage-of-justice separation-of-powers wire-fraud Whether the federal wire fraud statute, 18 U.S.C. 1343, can be used to charge, prosecute and punish a 'purely intrastate' wire communication
21-7971 Gaston Salazar-Sanchez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a…
21-1484 Arizona, et al. v. Navajo Nation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-05-25 Judgment Issued Response WaivedRelisted (2) arizona-v-california breach-of-trust colorado-river federal-jurisdiction federal-trust-responsibility indian-reservation indian-reservations water-rights winters-doctrine Whether the Ninth Circuit Opinion infringes upon the Supreme Court's retained and exclusive jurisdiction over the allocation of water from the Lower B…
21-7955 Michael Palma v. Harris County Appraisal District, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP bill-of-rights civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct libel state-law state-sovereignty Do federal judges have the absolute right to ignore the laws of the State in which they sit and while doing so libel the Petitioner?
21-7920 Jimmy Lee Wheeler v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-05-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction government-misconduct habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard structural-error Whether Thin Court Will Cobh, Hat 2 Mant Peet injudiiee. has heen Crrtumven%e d by The lower Courts and Also been diste garde d by The Appellate | Cou…
21-7926 Jonathan D. Stephen, Jr. v. Palestine Police Department, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-05-19 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violation covid-19 due-process eleventh-amendment federal-jurisdiction qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity standing state-officials Whether the plaintiffs' claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for deprivation of their constitutional rights were improperly dismissed
21-7880 Robert Andrew Riley v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction Whether child pornography is a federal crime enumerated by the Constitution
21-7868 Lee Michael Pederson v. Phillip Frost, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP calder-v-jones civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction intentional-interference personal-jurisdiction venue-transfer witness-tampering Does Minnesota have the power to exercise specific personal jurisdiction over Phillip Frost and CoCrystal Pharma, Inc. under Calder v Jones, where the…
21-1438 Tamia Banks, et al. v. Cotter Corporation, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction atomic-energy-act claim-severance federal-jurisdiction final-decision nuclear-incident price-anderson-act public-liability statutory-interpretation Whether there has been a 'nuclear incident' such that the Price Anderson Act is applicable and provides original jurisdiction when the Congressional c…
21-1434 VSP Labs, Incorporated v. Hillair Capital Investments L.P., et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-05-12 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1334(b) anticipated-outcome-test bankruptcy-jurisdiction celotex-corp-v-edwards conceivable-effect-test court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction judicial-test related-to-jurisdiction significant-connection-test statutory-interpretation What test determines whether a bankruptcy court has 'related to' jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1334(b)?
21-7852 Fernando Salazar-Figueroa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP administration-of-justice appellate-review criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law fifth-circuit mitigating-role sentencing-guidelines Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it conducted a cursory review of the facts related to a warranted mitigating role adjustment under…
21-7820 Darron Thomas v. United States Third Circuit 2022-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal mandamus-petition probable-cause standing Whether the lower courts erred in denying the petitioner's request for a writ of mandamus to recuse a judge who engaged in wrongful, excessive, inappr…
21-7744 Bralen Lamar Jordan v. Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-04-28 Denied IFP 18-usc-1915 civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction imminent-danger judicial-review standing three-strikes Whether the 'imminent danger' exception to the 'three strikes' rule under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g) applies when the prisoner alleges that something is abou…
21-7745 Raymond E. Lumsden v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction standing Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its decision
21-7728 Antonio M. Branco v. Massachusetts First Circuit 2022-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus state-appeals Whether the dismissal of a Section 2254 petition based on failure to exhaust state remedies should be overturned, given that the judgment conflicts wi…
21-1374 Floyd Chodosh, et al. v. John Saunders, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-04-22 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-455 civil-procedure disqualification due-process federal-jurisdiction fraud-on-the-court judicial-misconduct procedural-due-process rooker-feldman Whether Petitioners' procedural due process rights were violated
21-7632 Carlos Gotay-Guzman v. United States First Circuit 2022-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP application-note criminal-history criminal-history-points federal-jurisdiction first-circuit-decision plain-error plain-error-standard puerto-rico puerto-rico-convictions sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Did the First Circuit err when it held Mr. Gotay-Guzman could not establish plain-error regarding the assessment of 2 criminal-history points for his …
21-7593 David T. Young v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-04-12 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction indian-treaty judicial-review state-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation tribal-sovereignty Did the State of Maho ma Violate Rtboners Louth and Fourtunth Amend ment igh bs
21-1340 Lynn D. Becker v. Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-04-11 Denied civil-procedure contractual-consent federal-jurisdiction state-jurisdiction tribal-exhaustion tribal-sovereignty Whether a federal court may force a non-consenting, non-Indian plaintiff to exhaust his claims in tribal court
21-1334 Columbia Export Terminal, LLC v. International Longshore and Warehouse Union, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-04-07 Dismissed Response Waived arbitration arbitration-provisions collective-bargaining collective-bargaining-agreement federal-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction labor-management-relations-act labor-union lmra-preemption preemption rico rico-claims Does-section-301-of-the-LMRA-preempt-RICO-claims
21-7559 Vitaly Kolosha v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-04-06 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge detention-powers due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law legal-standing retroactivity state-law state-official state-sovereignty treason Whether a new SCOTUS ruling is automatically retroactive and applies to all cases
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…
21-7564 Armstead Kieffer v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-vagueness due-process federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech patent sixth-amendment standing takings Whether the unconstitutionally vague language, struck down by the Court in 185 OG, violates 35 USC 112(b)
21-1325 Estate of Samuel I. Roig, By and Through Its Personal Representative Gail Olivera, et al. v. United Parcel Service, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court-review civil-procedure consent-judgment diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction waiver Whether a Panel of the Circuit Court erred when it dismissed an appeal holding that there is no appellate jurisdiction to consider on the merits wheth…
21-7529 Jesse Dean Mince v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession firearms statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) exceed Congress's power under the Commerce Clause?
21-7488 Maria Andrea Gonzalez, et al. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2241(a) aggravated-sexual-abuse criminal-proceedings detention-facility federal-inmates federal-jurisdiction judicial-custody judicial-officer non-federal-detention-facility statutory-interpretation Is federal jurisdiction established under the first jurisdictional prong in § 2241(a) when an aggravated sexual abuse offense is allegedly committed i…
21-7491 Cassandra Bonita Charles v. Office of Personnel Management, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-action civil-rights civil-rights-violation due-process eleventh-amendment false-claims-act federal-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction judicial-immunity sovereign-immunity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Does Eleventh Amendment immunity apply when an officer of the court violates 31 U.S. Code 3729?
21-7493 Thomas Carl Bruni v. Craig Apple, Sheriff, Albany County, New York Second Circuit 2022-03-29 Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights counsel-appointment due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus standing Does appellant prove exemption from certificate of appealability?
21-7477 Roberto Cruz-Rivera v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split due-process federal-jurisdiction lambert-v-california notice notice-requirement section-2250(a) statutory-interpretation title-18 united-states-code Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit entered a decision in conflict with the decision of this Court when it held in Unit…
21-7464 Ioan Lela v. Thomas J. Dart, Sheriff, Cook County, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-03-25 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus irreparable-harm pre-trial-detention speedy-trial younger-abstention Whether a pretrial detainee can obtain dismissal of pending state criminal charges in federal court pursuant to 28 USC § 2241 based on willful and unc…
21-7433 Donnell Parker v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-travel precedent-tension standing statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a…
21-7450 Nicholas Andrew Waldman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-regulation interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(n) permits conviction for the receipt of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, and,…
21-1278 Judy Wright v. May 27, 2011 Order, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-03-22 Denied civil-procedure coram-non-judice diversity-jurisdiction due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-question in-rem-complaint judicial-bias judicial-neutrality standing standing-doctrine state-court-judgment Does a petitioner require proof of harm to have standing to challenge a judgment by a judge with an appearance of undermined neutrality?
21-7407 Janece Tisdel v. The Witness Protection Fifth Circuit 2022-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-law federal-jurisdiction government-disability legal-jurisdiction mandamus standing state-court subject-matter-jurisdiction Does the United States Court of Appeals and the United States District Court have subject matter jurisdiction?
21-7377 Rosee Torres, et vir v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction identity-theft judicial-recusal mortgage-fraud rico-act standing takings Whether Torres are entitled to protections of Amendments 5, 6, 7, 13, and 14 to the Constitution
21-7359 Kaleb Gattis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a…
21-1239 Securities and Exchange Commission, et al. v. Michelle Cochran Fifth Circuit 2022-03-11 Judgment Issued Amici (11)Relisted (2) administrative-law administrative-law-judge civil-procedure constitutional-challenge constitutional-law district-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction removal-provisions sec-administrative-proceeding securities-regulation separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation Whether a federal district court has jurisdiction to hear a suit in which the respondent in an ongoing Securities and Exchange Commission administrati…
21-1223 Ohana Military Communities, LLC, et al. v. Kenneth Lake, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-09 Denied concurrent-jurisdiction enclave-clause federal-enclaves federal-jurisdiction federal-policy federal-question federal-question-jurisdiction hawaii-admission-act military-housing Whether the grant of concurrent jurisdiction divests federal courts of enclave jurisdiction
21-1214 Oklahoma v. Emmitt G. Sam Oklahoma 2022-03-07 Denied Relisted (6) 18-usc-1153 criminal-defendant federal-jurisdiction indian indian-status major-crimes-act statutory-interpretation tribal-law What requirements must a criminal defendant satisfy to qualify as an 'Indian' under the Major Crimes Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1153?
21-7262 Bartholomew Antonio Guzman v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-03-03 Denied IFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process federal-habeas-proceeding federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus rule-60(b) Whether a COA is required to appeal the denial of a Rule 60(b) Motion
21-1193 Oklahoma v. Robert Eric Wadkins Oklahoma 2022-03-02 Denied Relisted (6) criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law indian-status major-crimes-act statutory-interpretation tribal-membership What requirements must a criminal defendant satisfy to qualify as an 'Indian' under the Major Crimes Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1153?
21-1197 KK-PB Financial, LLC v. 160 Royal Palm, LLC Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-02 Denied article-iii-jurisdiction bankruptcy bankruptcy-appeals constitutional-mootness equitable-mootness federal-jurisdiction judicial-review live-controversy merits-review Does the dismissal of an appeal of a bankruptcy court confirmation order based on 'equitable mootness' render an appeal from the same case 'constituti…
21-1202 Michael D. Smith v. Frances Catron Cadle, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-03-02 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-power civil-rights constitutional-rights cover-up criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction government-liability judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct Will the government officials be allowed to violate federal-laws,constitution-and-bill-of-rights,prosecutorial-misconduct,judicial-misconduct,no-juris…
21-7251 Major Hudson, III v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-03-02 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-sovereignty indian-law land-title native-american-rights standing subject-matter-jurisdiction tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty Whether Oklahoma Court's can continue to unlawfully exercise under state law criminal jurisdiction over the lands formerly known as the Unassigned Lan…
21-7220 Jesse Kyle Skyberg v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jurisdiction precedent-interpretation standing Whether the Exclusive Jurisdiction Doctrine applies to criminal cases
21-7226 Christopher Ronald Martin v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-sentencing generic-robbery mens-rea recklessness sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether generic robbery, as used in federal sentencing enhancement provisions, encompasses robbery offenses that only require a mens rea of mere reckl…
21-7210 James Thomas Webb v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP double-jeopardy due-process fair-play federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction settlement-agreement sovereign-immunity takings Did the relitigation of the CLOSED Florida 2 Federal District Court case United States Securities and Exchange Commission v. James Thomas Webb (Case S…
21-7217 Thomas Allen Twobabies v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-02-25 Denied IFP criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction major-crimes-act mcgirt-decision montgomery-v-louisiana native-american-law oklahoma-court-of-criminal-appeals retroactivity schriro-v-summerlin supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma applies to the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes for Major Crimes Act purposes
21-1175 Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Department of Justice, et al. District of Columbia 2022-02-24 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-order default-judgment federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure human-rights judicial-review state-sovereign-immunity Whether the DC Appeal Court can ignore inexcusable neglect by the Superior Court for failure to apply Default Judgement
21-1162 Erika Bailey-Johnson v. United States Federal Circuit 2022-02-23 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act court-of-federal-claims federal-jurisdiction injunctive-relief jurisdiction statutory-interpretation tohono-o'odham-nation tohono-precedent united-states-court-of-federal-claims united-states-v-tohono-o'odham-nation Should the Court revisit its holding in Tohono to determine whether, under 28 U.S.C. § 1500, a U.S. District Court action solely for injunctive or dec…
21-7176 Leandra Marrio Chisholm, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-offense jurisdictional-clause robbery statutory-interpretation vagueness Is an Interference of Commerce by Robbery conviction for the robbery of a single retail store beyond the scope of the Commerce Clause of the United St…
21-7140 Taquan Rashe Gullett-El v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-02-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-court federal-jurisdiction international-law jurisdiction-challenge pro-se-petition sovereign-immunity standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the government's actions
21-1127 Samish Indian Nation v. Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-02-15 Denied Response Waived dismissal-grounds federal-jurisdiction issue-preclusion ruhrgas-ag-v-marathon sinochem-int-l-co-v-malaysia sovereign-immunity steel-co-v-citizens subject-matter-jurisdiction tribal-immunity tribal-law Whether Eleventh Amendment sovereign immunity and tribal sovereign immunity deprived the lower courts of subject-matter jurisdiction
21-7047 In Re Daren Kareem Gadsden 2022-02-03 Dismissed IFP constitutional-violation criminal-indictment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-indictment federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment sentencing sentencing-authority Whether the U.S. District Court exceeded its authority and/or jurisdiction
21-1067 Ra Nu Ra Khuti Amen Bey v. United States Federal Circuit 2022-02-01 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-questions original-issue-discount secured-party-creditor standing takings tax tax-liability Whether plaintiffs' erroneously given 'inferior status' and denied the right to redress the UNITED STATES on obligations such as certificates of indeb…
21-7026 Nehemias Samayoa v. United States District of Columbia 2022-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-withdrawal civil-rights coercion dual-sovereignty due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-jurisdiction indigent-defendant standing state-court-judgment Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel requires a court to appoint new counsel to represent an indigent defendant who wi…
21-7030 Darrin Lynn Pickens v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-02-01 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure enabling-act federal-jurisdiction federal-land-restrictions indian-country state-enabling-act state-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction territorial-jurisdiction Does the State of Oklahoma have subject matter jurisdiction over any person who commits an offense within the boundaries of Indian Country?
21-7002 Jeffrey Charles Wren v. Rosemary Ndoh, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari-petition civil-procedure civil-rights court-filing due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review legal-document pleadings scotus-petition standing supreme-court Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's complaint for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted
21-1034 Peter Kagel v. Jay Laurence Raftery, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-24 Denied 14th-amendment americans-with-disabilities-act constitutional-vagueness due-process federal-jurisdiction fraud issue-preclusion rooker-feldman vagueness Should the 'Inextricably Intertwined' doctrine be abolished?
21-6859 Jaquirro T. Scott v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review plea-bargaining procedural-standard standing Whether a guilty plea without establishing a case against the United States is a structural error
21-6850 Jacques Paul Villafana v. Henry Thomas Padrick, Jr., Warden Fourth Circuit 2022-01-13 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge district-court-review due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-question-jurisdiction habeas-corpus mandatory-hearing post-conviction-motion post-conviction-relief standing state-court-hearing state-court-review Whether a state court's denial of a mandatory hearing on a post-conviction motion was unconstitutional
21-6809 Edward Shane West-El v. Midland Funding LLC Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-11 Dismissed IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure constitutional-rights delegation-of-authority due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-procedure judicial-review right-to-be-heard standing Whether the petitioner was denied the right to be heard in the lower tribunal federal courts
21-6821 Francis Schaeffer Cox v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy-liability contingent-conspiracy criminal-intent federal-employees federal-jurisdiction feola-test martial-law stalinesque-martial-law subjective-belief sufficiency-challenge Whether a contingent conspiracy may be based on a condition outside the conspirators' control that they subjectively believed was likely to occur, eve…
21-985 Oklahoma v. Gage Christopher J. Shriver Oklahoma 2022-01-11 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indian-law jurisdictional-challenge McGirt-precedent native-american-rights oklahoma-sovereignty stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled
21-979 Carla Young v. Brian Lundstrom, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied Relisted (2) abstention abstention-doctrine circuit-split federal-jurisdiction inextricably-intertwined injunctive-relief rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-judgment Whether receiving benefits pursuant to a state-court judgment is an independent claim or an injury caused by a state-court judgment
21-983 Rhonda Meisner v. Zymogenetics, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure corporate-membership diversity-jurisdiction federal-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction incorporated-parent-company legal-ethics limited-liability-company procedural-standing standing Does diversity jurisdiction exist when the sole member of a named Limited Liability Company defendant, is its incorporated parent company?
21-6714 In Re Rafael Verdejo-Ruiz 2021-12-23 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction ineffective-counsel military-appellate-review speedy-trial standing takings ucmj-jurisdiction Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted
21-6670 Eric Beverly v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP administration-of-justice bank-robbery beyond-reasonable-doubt criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit jury-conviction standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the appeals court conducted an adequate review of facts and evidence upon which the jury reached its decision to convict
21-6589 Lamont Guinyard v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) is unconstitutional under the Commerce Clause
21-6596 Jimmy D. Woods v. Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-14 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption state-court-jurisdiction supremacy-clause tenth-amendment veterans-benefits veterans-disability Whether the state court had jurisdiction over the federal claims
21-878 Carl Michael Seibert v. Jeremy McIntire, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-14 Denied civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-question rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 state-court-judgments subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Eleventh Circuit's purported 'inextricably intertwined' standard for evaluating jurisdictional claims under Rooker-Feldman arbitrarily and…
21-831 Matt P. Jacobsen v. Rushmore Loan Management Services, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-06 Denied Response Waived claim-preclusion factfinding federal-jurisdiction judicial-notice logically-consistent mortgage-dispute prior-action res-judicata statutory-interpretation Does Res Judicata apply when the earlier action(s) did not cover all the claims and allegations of the later case?
21-836 Sara Gonzalez Flavell v. International Bank for Reconstruction and Development District of Columbia 2021-12-06 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction interlocutory-appeal judicial-discretion mandamus procedural-due-process prohibition writ-of-certiorari Whether a writ of certiorari is appropriate due to the district court's failure to establish and stay within its limited jurisdictional authority
21-6503 Pradeep Gupte v. University of Connecticut Second Circuit 2021-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review child-pornography civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated
21-6480 Francisco C. Martinez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-12-01 Denied IFP circuit-split civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit judicial-interpretation ninth-circuit prisoner-rights sandin-v-conner Whether the district court and the court of appeals for the Fifth Circuit misapplied the Supreme Court's decision of Sandin v. Conner, 515 U.S. 472 (1…
21-6482 Calvin Wayne Thomas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause due-process federal-jurisdiction firearms statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a…
21-806 Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County, et al. v. Ivanka Talevski, Personal Representative of the Estate of Gorgi Talevski, Deceased Seventh Circuit 2021-12-01 Judgment Issued Amici (32)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction medicaid medical-malpractice nursing-home-amendments nursing-homes private-rights section-1983 spending-clause statutory-interpretation third-party-beneficiaries Whether Spending Clause statutes give rise to privately enforceable rights under Section 1983
21-798 Oklahoma v. Stephen Tanner Vineyard Oklahoma 2021-11-30 Denied Amici (1) criminal-appellate-review criminal-law federal-jurisdiction indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-rights oklahoma-criminal-law stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled
21-6406 Damoni Owens v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a…
21-6343 Jonathan Robins v. Bobbi Jo Salamon, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2021-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus standing state-court-convictions Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's habeas corpus petition challenging his state court convictions for lack of jurisdiction
21-6355 Everett Earl Parker v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction criminal-sentencing federal-jurisdiction johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement serious-violent-felony statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent violent-felony Whether Mr. Parker's life sentence for count 1 should be vacated due to lack of two prior qualifying 'serious violent felony' convictions
21-6360 Qian Williams v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-procedure factual-findings federal-court federal-custody federal-jurisdiction grand-jury-indictment judicial-discretion search-warrant speedy-trial-act Did the court of appeals properly affirm the trial court's decisions?
21-745 Robert L. Alexander, et al. v. PSFS 3 Corporation Iowa 2021-11-19 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction forum-selection full-faith-and-credit judicial-procedure res-judicata state-court Was it a violation of the Full Faith and Credit Clause and Statute for the Supreme Court of Iowa to refuse to give effect to the ruling of the federal…
21-6325 Leslie Reed v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certiorari-standard circuit-court-review civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-question judicial-precedent judicial-review precedent standard-of-review supreme-court-jurisdiction Whether the United States Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals had decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions…
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…
21-6313 Glen Plourde v. Knox County, Maine, et al. First Circuit 2021-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction human-rights judicial-abuse judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-litigation standing torture-allegations Does the well-evidenced fact that a sua sponte dismissal pursuant to 28 U.S.C. ! 1915(e)(2), and The Appeal's Court's subsequent upholding of that dec…
21-6291 Zoltan Barati v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied IFP case-dismissal circuit-split constitutional-rights dismissal-standard due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-oversight qui-tam relator sequoia-dismissal Whether the 11th Circuit can eliminate due process requirements of Qui Tam - relator progressed - case dismissals while other circuits rely on Sequoia…
21-6241 Eric J. Turner v. Richard L. Broch Seventh Circuit 2021-11-10 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-evidence habeas-corpus legal-competency mental-competency schizophrenia Whether the trial court failed to order a determination of the defendant's schizophrenia?
21-6244 Kirk Wayne McBride, Sr. v. Texas Fifth Circuit 2021-11-10 Dismissed IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process federal-habeas federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus state-court-conviction state-court-proceedings Whether a state federal habeas petitioner is required to obtain a certificate of appealability to appeal a district court decision not arising from a …
21-683 John C. Kitchin, Jr., et al. v. Bridgeton Landfill, LLC, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-11-09 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure class-action-fairness-act defendant-conduct federal-jurisdiction local-controversy-exception significant-basis statutory-interpretation Whether the local defendant's alleged conduct can satisfy the 'significant basis' requirement of CAFA's local controversy exception where it is the sa…
21-645 Oklahoma v. Chandler Kyle Ned Oklahoma 2021-11-02 Denied Amici (1) appellate-review criminal-law federal-jurisdiction indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-rights oklahoma-criminal-law stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled
21-6122 Malek Lassiter v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution motion-for-judgment-of-acquittal rico rico-conspiracy sentencing standard-of-review Whether the court of appeals erred by affirming the district court's denial of Lassiter's motion for judgment of acquittal on the RICO conspiracy char…
21-608 Oklahoma v. Laurie Jean Martin Oklahoma 2021-10-26 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction mcgirt-precedent native-american-law oklahoma-sovereignty stare-decisis state-sovereignty statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma should be overruled
21-598 Dipankar Chandra v. Leonardo DRS, Inc., et al. Texas 2021-10-25 Denied Response Waived causation civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction statute-of-limitations summary-judgment TWCA-claim Whether the courts below erred in their application of the federal and Texas summary judgment standards, the TWCA claim, and the statute of limitation…
21-6056 Terrance V. Frelix v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a…
21-6034 Clifton James Jackson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-conduct criminal-procedure discovery-violations federal-jurisdiction government-agencies indictment-defect mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states speedy-trial-act Whether an indictment defect can strip federal courts of jurisdiction
21-6003 Eli Erickson, aka Black v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-10-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction standing takings Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing
21-6005 Terrell Hunter v. United States Second Circuit 2021-10-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause commerce-element criminal-statute drug-proceeds drug-robbery federal-jurisdiction federal-law hobbs-act statutory-interpretation supreme-court-interpretation taylor-v-united-states Did the decisions of the district court and the court of appeals, that the commerce element of the Hobbs Act is satisfied by the robbery of moneys int…
21-5993 Michael Lee Williams v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate possession of a firearm and ammunition on the sole basis that the firearm and ammunition once moved, befor…
21-5979 Leihinahina Sullivan, aka Jennifer Sullivan v. Reneau Kennedy, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-15 Denied IFP civil-rights competency constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-subpoena medical-records patient-privacy psychotherapist-patient-privilege standing Does a judge vested by statute to subpoena a criminal defendant's treating psychotherapist-patient records, cannot over a criminal defendant's express…
21-5969 Derrick E. Steilman v. Reginald D. Michael, Director, Montana Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-timeliness section-2254 standard-of-review statute-of-limitations timeliness Whether the Ninth Circuit erred when it determined that Steilman's 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition is untimely?
21-536 Christopher Chestnut v. Charles Canady, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-12 Denied Response Waived anti-injunction-statute civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction protected-class state-bar-discipline younger-abstention Whether the district court may abstain from exercising its jurisdiction to enjoin an ongoing state bar disciplinary proceeding, pursuant to the Younge…
21-5941 Angela Michelle Morelli v. Joshua B. Hyman, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights domestic-violence due-process federal-jurisdiction hearsay-evidence life-liberty-property procedural-hearing victim-protection Why are Women's Constitutional Rights being violated under the 14th Amendment, for both procedural Due Process and Life, Liberty and Property?
21-5938 Brenda M. Johnson v. Electronic Transaction Consultants, LLC Ninth Circuit 2021-10-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-hearings administrative-law civil-action civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-litigation government-agencies government-liability legal-jurisdiction social-services standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the government agencies' actions
21-516 Justin Haggerty v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-07 Denied 18-usc-1152 affirmative-defense criminal-procedure element federal-jurisdiction indian-country interracial interracial-offense statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the 'interracial' nature of a minor offense in Indian Country is an element of 18 U.S.C. § 1152, rather than an affirmative defense
21-505 Bank of America Corporation, et al. v. Fund Liquidation Holdings LLC, as Assignee and Successor-in-Interest to FrontPoint Asian Event Driven Fund L.P., et al. Second Circuit 2021-10-05 Denied Amici (2) article-iii article-iii-jurisdiction civil-procedure court-procedure federal-civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction-creation legal-standing new-plaintiff plaintiff-addition rule-17 standing Whether a district court lacking Article III jurisdiction can create such jurisdiction by adding a new plaintiff via Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 1…
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…
21-486 Oklahoma v. Dakota James Alleyn Shriver Oklahoma 2021-10-01 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020) should be overruled appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-jurisdiction native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-law oklahoma-sovereignty precedent-review stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled
21-467 Clifton Merrill Parish v. Oklahoma, et al. Oklahoma 2021-09-29 Denied Amici (1) collateral-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus indian-law oklahoma-law retroactivity supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced
21-5820 Hector Manuel Bossio v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process evidence-destruction federal-jurisdiction silver-platter witness-intimidation Whether the government's use of coercive relationships with federal agencies to obtain evidence violates the Constitution's due process and silver pla…
21-5822 Tahji Antonio Eley, et al. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act-robbery section-924(c) sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether Hobbs Act Robbery is a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)
21-473 Daniel G. Szmania v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Trustee for Bear Stearns Arm Trust 2007-3 Washington 2021-09-28 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction removal-to-federal-court res-judicata service-of-process Did the Supreme Court of Washington err in not enforcing the civil court case removal to federal court under 28 U.S.C. § 1446(d)?
21-458 L. Lee Whitnum v. Connecticut Office of the Chief State's Attorney, et al. Second Circuit 2021-09-27 Denied Response Waived administrative-law appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights complaint-dismissal due-process favorable-termination federal-jurisdiction legal-pleading procedural-error standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing
21-5730 Shikeb Saddozai v. Kristen Esterheld, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-09-22 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction judicial-review section-1983 standing Whether plaintiff's claims are cognizable under 42-U.S.C.S-1983-1985-1986-1988
21-5738 Daniel Jose Gomez v. Robert Dooley, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-09-21 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jury-trial statutory-interpretation Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated when the state court denied his request for a jury trial in his criminal case
21-401 ZF Automotive US, Inc., et al. v. Luxshare, Ltd. Sixth Circuit 2021-09-14 Denied Amici (8)Relisted (3) arbitration-law civil-procedure evidence-gathering federal-jurisdiction foreign-tribunal international-tribunal judicial-assistance private-arbitration statutory-interpretation Whether 28 U.S.C. § 1782(a) encompasses private commercial arbitral tribunals
21-5659 Willie Powell v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction firearms united-states-v-lopez Whether the 'minimal nexus' test employed by the Eleventh Circuit to affirm Mr. Powell's conviction under 18 U.S.C. §922(g) as a felon in possession o…
21-5627 William Brinson Ball v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-exploitation criminal-law criminal-statute due-process extraterritorial-application extraterritorial-jurisdiction federal-criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction international-law interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) extends to conduct occurring outside the United States
21-370 Oklahoma v. Travis Dray Stewart Oklahoma 2021-09-08 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indian-law judicial-review McGirt-precedent native-american-rights oklahoma-sovereignty statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled
21-372 Oklahoma v. Charles Michael Cooper Oklahoma 2021-09-08 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) criminal-appellate-review criminal-law federal-jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-sovereignty oklahoma-criminal-law stare-decisis state-sovereignty statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma should be overruled
21-5605 Mark E. Sells v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's complaint for lack of standing
21-354 David Solomon v. Amazon.com, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2021-09-07 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction standing Whether the Second Circuit erred in dismissing David Solomon's claims when uncontroverted evidence existed that he invoked federal jurisdiction first …
21-338 Gary S. Christensen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-09-02 Denied Response Waived 16th-amendment criminal-tax due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction irs-determination precedent-interpretation restitution sixteenth-amendment tax-liability Where no determination of federal tax liability has been made by the IRS and the court of appeals has ruled patently contrary to this court's decision…
21-319 Oklahoma v. Nacole Ryan Bain Oklahoma 2021-09-01 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law oklahoma-law stare-decisis state-sovereignty statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma should be overruled
21-322 Oklahoma v. Joseph Harjo Oklahoma 2021-09-01 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) criminal-appellate-review criminal-law federal-jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-criminal-law stare-decisis state-sovereignty statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma should be overruled
21-324 Oklahoma v. Kadetrix Devon Grayson Oklahoma 2021-09-01 Denied Relisted (3) criminal-appellate-review criminal-law federal-jurisdiction indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-sovereignty oklahoma-criminal-law stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma should be overruled
21-259 Oklahoma v. Arnold Dean Howell Oklahoma 2021-08-23 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indian-law judicial-review McGirt-precedent native-american-rights oklahoma-sovereignty stare-decisis state-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma should be overruled
21-5415 Jarvis Brown v. Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-08-18 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-review standing supreme-court-review Whether the United States District Court and United States Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the Petitioner's case
21-5405 George A. Luna v. Anna Valentine, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights confrontation-clause domestic-violence due-process evidentiary-rule federal-jurisdiction forfeiture-by-wrongdoing hearsay-exception pleadings standing witness-unavailability 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
21-203 John A. Mandacina v. Frederick Entzel, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-08-12 Denied Response Waived brady-claim brady-rule due-process due-process-clause evidence-withholding federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief savings-clause statutory-interpretation Did the court of appeals correctly conclude that petitioner's Brady claim fell outside the scope of the 'savings clause' of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e)
21-179 Nehemiah Rolle, Jr. v. Norman St. George Second Circuit 2021-08-06 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights declaratory-judgment due-process equity equity-lawsuit federal-jurisdiction judicial-review jury-trial section-1983 Whether the petitioner's equity lawsuit under 42 USC § 1983 seeking declaratory judgment against the respondent is barred by statute
21-171 Joel Zupnik v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-08-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) ' 'entice ' 'induce ' or 'coerce' in 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) require more circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-state-balance federalism interstate-commerce mens-rea minor-protection sentencing sexual-offense statutory-interpretation Whether the verbs in 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) require the defendant to transform the minor's will or merely attempt to cause unlawful sexual activity
21-5306 In Re Richard Arjun Kaul 2021-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction free-speech standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging violations of their constitutional rights under the First and Fourteenth Amen…
21-157 Anderson & Anderson LLP-Guangzhou, et al. v. North American Foreign Trading Corporation Second Circuit 2021-08-04 Denied Response Waived amended-complaint appellate-review civil-procedure district-court federal-jurisdiction foreign-trading motion-to-dismiss second-circuit standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred when it affirmed the United States District Court for the Southern District of…
21-124 Emmanuel Torres v. Bay Area Credit Services, et al. Second Circuit 2021-07-29 Denied civil-rights consumer-protection debt-collection due-process fair-debt-collection federal-jurisdiction federal-statute new-york-business-law private-right-of-action statutory-interpretation Does a consumer have a private right of action under New York General Business Law Section 349 for a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act Violation?
21-5264 In Re Melvin Dinkins 2021-07-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-1651 28-usc-3730 administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation federal-civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction qui-tam standing statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause Whether the 'usages and principles' of 28 USC 3730(b)(2) allow a person to bring a civil action for the United States Government, and whether this is …
21-106 Audrey L. Kimner v. Berkeley County, South Carolina Ninth Circuit 2021-07-27 Denied Response Waived arbitration-agreement civil-rights contract-forgery due-process federal-crimes federal-jurisdiction fraud judicial-misconduct jurisdiction procedural-due-process Whether the California Federal Courts ignored the federal laws concerning a public official forging her name on petitioners house contract involving a…
21-99 Hensley K. McCalla v. Liberty Life Assurance Company of Boston, et al. Second Circuit 2021-07-23 Denied civil-procedure contract district-court enforcement federal-jurisdiction federal-law judicial-authority jurisdiction legal-enforcement settlement-agreement Did the District Court maintain jurisdiction to enforce the settlement agreement that defendant placed before it?
21-87 Jeffrey Angelo Campbell v. Sylvia Betta-Cole, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment child-custody civil-rights due-process family-law federal-jurisdiction parental-rights section-1983 state-court-jurisdiction state-courts Whether a parent has a right to visitation and a case plan when there is no proof of life-threatening issues
21-89 Mati Leeal, et ux. v. Ditech Financial, LLC Sixth Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction legal-claims Sixth-Circuit summary-judgment 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…
21-73 Albon Diamond v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-20 Denied Response Waived 28-U.S.C.-§-2254 actual-innocence circuit-split due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief procedural-standard Whether a freestanding claim of actual innocence is cognizable in a 28-U.S.C.-§-2254-proceeding
21-5113 Michael Anthony Almendarez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-07-16 Denied IFP article-vi constitutional-interpretation court-records due-process federal-habeas-corpus federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct procedural-due-process state-court-records united-states-constitution Is a judge categorically in excess of jurisdiction to enter an order if said judge refuses to obey the interplay between Article VI, cl. 2 of the Unit…
21-5119 Billy Wolfe v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Arkansas 2021-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP cherokee-nation criminal-jurisdiction extradition extradition-law federal-jurisdiction indian-law state-criminal-law state-jurisdiction treaty-interpretation treaty-rights Whether the provisions of treaties between the Cherokee Nation and the United States reserve jurisdiction for crimes committed by a Cherokee Nation ci…
21-5120 Kent Taylor v. Steven Otero California 2021-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default standing state-court-interpretation statute-of-limitations takings Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
21-5101 Giuseppe Viola, aka Joseph John Viola v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP cares-act conditions-of-confinement criminal-law eighth-amendment federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus restitution section-2241 supervised-release Whether jurisdiction exists for presentation of grounds for relief from all custody under § 2241, challenging conditions of confinement
21-5057 Lance Lamont Lavert v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-07-09 Denied IFP circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act property-rights robbery statutory-interpretation violent-crime Whether Hobbs Act robbery is necessarily violent
21-5010 Robert R. Taylor v. Florida Florida 2021-07-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus state-court-procedure state-court-review subject-matter-jurisdiction writ-of-certiorari Under the constitutional provisions and guaranties of the 14th Amendment due process and equal application of the law
20-8457 Michael Izell Seals v. K. Allison, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing
20-8433 Abdu-Salim Gould v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2021-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus standing Whether the petitioner has a constitutional guarantee to counsel in post-conviction proceedings
20-1774 Shaun Allahyari v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied Response Waived 26-usc-7403 contract-defenses federal-jurisdiction judicial-procedure standing standing-doctrine tax-debtor tax-liens third-party-creditor third-party-lienholder united-states-v-rodgers Whether the United States has standing to enforce a tax debtor's contract defenses against a third party senior lienholder
20-8351 Kevin Herriott v. Aaron Joyner, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-06-21 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-dismissal pro-se-litigation standing statutory-interpretation Whether the district court had proper subject-matter jurisdiction over parties' § 1983 claims
20-8361 Josh Small and Joni Amber Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-prosecution federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element kidnapping kidnapping-statute statutory-interpretation Does a purely local home invasion satisfy the interstate commerce nexus element of the federal kidnapping statute?
20-8342 John Willie Johnson, aka Dewayne Henderson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-17 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit-review post-borden post-conviction-relief post-johnson resentencing sentencing-enhancement violent-felony Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by denying Mr. Johnson a Certificate of Appealability
20-8330 Ilmane Charone Campas Strong v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction firearms judicial-fact-finding mandatory-minimum sixth-amendment supervised-release Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any ammunition that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past…
20-1699 E. M. M., et al. v. Douglas County, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied Response Waived appeal-rights appeals circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process ex-parte federal-jurisdiction procedural-due-process standing sua-sponte-dismissal subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a 'bright line' rule requires post-deprivation notice and hearing for ex parte child seizures
20-1702 Jimmy Cobb v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction plea-bargaining plea-deal sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation undercover-operation Does a District Court have the have Jurisdiction to punish and convict conduct that does not fall within a Federal Statute of 18 U.S.C 2422(b) and 18 …
20-8201 Andres Abelino Ayon-Brito, aka Hugo Ayon-Brito, aka Joel Diaz Garcia v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-06-03 Denied IFP administrative-law circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction immigration immigration-law reentry reentry-violation statutory-interpretation Does a 'found in' violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326 occur when an alien reenters the country, or when the alien is 'found in' the United States by immigrat…
20-8222 In Re Marshall DeWayne Williams 2021-06-03 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation Whether the petitioner is entitled to habeas corpus relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254
20-1657 Minor Lee McNeil v. United States, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-05-27 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-authority due-process executive-branch federal-jurisdiction federal-power trading-with-enemy-act trading-with-the-enemy-act treason war-powers Whether the use of the federal War power via the amended (TWEA), to establish federal jurisdictions inside the Union States is an act of Treason?
20-8061 Jermaine Davis v. Illinois Illinois 2021-05-19 Denied IFP 5th-amendment administrative-law agency-adjudication civil-rights constitutional-interpretation custodial-interrogation due-process federal-jurisdiction miranda-rights police-misconduct property-rights Whether the proper procedural safeguards were provided to the petitioner in their request to remain silent and request for an attorney
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…
20-8034 George Poole v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri Eighth Circuit 2021-05-14 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-law federal-jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's case for lack of standing despite the petitioner's allegations of injury-in-fact, caus…
20-7998 Tuan Ngoc Luong v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-05-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP commercial-transaction craigslist criminal-law federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act interstate-commerce local-robbery Does Hobbs Act jurisdiction extend to a local robbery of a local individual not engaged in interstate commerce or any federally regulated activity, by…
20-7994 In Re Lee Robert Scott 2021-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP agency-authorization civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction government-misconduct judicial-misconduct legal-immunity procedural-protection standing state-prosecution Does the Supreme Court allow lower courts to cover up victorious and malicious prosecution cases when vindictive legal sentencing is clearly on the re…
20-8008 Eric Christopher Conn v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP bail-reform-act conspiracy-to-escape criminal-conspiracy custody escape-statute federal-corrections federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus home-confinement jurisdictional-review parole-violation prisoner-rights Whether an individual released on bond under the Bail Reform Act is in 'custody' and as to a 'conspiracy to escape' or a 'walk away' parole violation
20-7964 John Riley, aka P. J. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-justice criminal-sentencing district-court federal-jurisdiction first-step-act motion-denial motion-to-modify sentence-reduction sentencing Whether the district court erred by denying the Motion for Sentence Reduction under The First Step Act of 2018
20-7900 Monique A. Lozoya v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-04-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aircraft-crime airspace aviation constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution trial-procedure venue venue-statute Is the airspace above a State part of that State, for purposes of the Constitution's provisions permitting venue only in the State and district where …
20-7891 Hasan Shareef v. Butler County Public Newspaper, et al. Third Circuit 2021-04-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether the court of appeals erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing
20-7871 Jemone Lawrence Walker v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-28 Denied IFP appellate-procedure criminal-indictment fairness-integrity-public-reputation federal-jurisdiction intervening-supreme-court-decision plain-error-review subject-matter-jurisdiction substantial-rights trial-record Whether the district court lacked subject matter jurisdiction
20-1511 Dax Elliot Carpenter v. Julie Elizabeth Carpenter Michigan 2021-04-28 Denied child-support disability-benefits federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption judicial-jurisdiction supremacy-clause va-benefits veterans-benefits Congress's-military-powers-preempt-state-law-on-veterans-benefits
20-7844 Paul Patrick Jolivette, Jr. v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California Ninth Circuit 2021-04-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion sovereign-immunity Did the United States Court of Appeals For The Ninth Circuit Order in 'DENIAL' of a writ of mandate to enforce a judgment Registeered and entered in t…
20-7821 In Re John A. Toth 2021-04-22 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel standing unlawful-detention Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging violations of their constitutional rights
20-1485 JoEllen Mary Crossett v. Emmet County, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-04-22 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction immunity-defense indian-law indian-reservation malicious-prosecution treaty-interpretation treaty-rights tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty Is Ms. Crossett on Indian-land, reservation-established, jurisdiction, treaty-rights, tribal-sovereignty, federal-jurisdiction
20-1459 United States v. Justin Eugene Taylor Fourth Circuit 2021-04-16 Judgment Issued Amici (5)Relisted (2) attempted-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime Whether 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(A)'s definition of 'crime of violence' excludes attempted Hobbs Act robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1951(a)
20-7721 Shannon Demond Dotson v. Tunica-Biloxi Gaming Commission, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-04-12 Denied IFP civil-procedure consent-extension-of-time due-process evidence federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction legal-standing service-of-process standing subject-matter-jurisdiction tribal-law Why the courts never acknowledged that the plaintiff never consented to the Defendant request for Extension of Time?
20-7691 Ernest Donald Washington v. Tammy Williams, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-04-08 Denied IFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jurisdiction ninth-circuit procedural-default Whether the district court lacked subject matter jurisdiction to try the petitioner
20-7684 Richard S. Glenn, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-04-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction government-action judicial-review legal-precedent standing Whether the court applied the wrong standard of proof for a member of the public to establish standing to challenge a government action
20-7663 Andre Watson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause constitutional-power criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce jurisdictional-hook murder-for-hire tenth-amendment Did the United States, under our federal-state jurisdiction as set out in our Constitution, fail to establish Watson was properly guilty of Use of Int…
20-7572 Jim Bass Holden v. Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment appellate-review circuit-split conflict-of-laws constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion procedural-default right-to-counsel Whether the use of a Brecon ment / wmnte wukecwautt Seven s\\k ¢ QQ violates the Sixth Amendment right to counsel
20-1317 Holly MacIntyre v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. Tenth Circuit 2021-03-23 Denied Response Waived attorneys-fees civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction fraud fraud-damages monetary-relief rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-judgment Whether a plaintiff in a diversity case who seeks monetary relief — for damages emanating from the defendant's fraud in procuring a state-court judgme…
20-1327 PDX North, Inc. v. Robert Asaro-Angelo, Commissioner, New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development Third Circuit 2021-03-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law administrative-proceeding civil-procedure civil-remedies civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction standing state-court younger-abstention Whether Younger abstention is applicable and the district court may decline jurisdiction when there is a state administrative proceeding brought under…
20-7502 Vaughn Alexander Cropper v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-19 Denied IFP 2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction firearms-regulation Second-Amendment standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in upholding petitioner's conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) despite his as-applied Second Amendment challenge
20-1284 Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc., et al. v. Rick C. Sasso Federal Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) abstention claim-construction exclusive-jurisdiction federal-abstention federal-jurisdiction patent-infringement patent-jurisdiction patent-law state-court-proceedings Whether a federal court with exclusive jurisdiction over a federal patent-law dispute may abstain in favor of a state court with no jurisdiction over …
20-7473 Ivan Dario Obregon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error plea-agreement sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines Are unforeseeable sentencing mistakes beyond the scope of federal appeal waivers?
20-7445 Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. SunTrust Bank, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-03-12 Dismissed IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law court-of-appeals due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation third-amendment Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioners' civil complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction
20-7430 Carlos Torres v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act predicate-offense robbery-statute sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crime Whether a completed Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a predicate crime of violence
20-1243 Staci Burk v. Doug Ducey, Governor of Arizona, et al. Arizona 2021-03-10 Denied Response Waived case-or-controversy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process election-challenge equal-protection federal-jurisdiction first-amendment standing stare-decisis voter-registration Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing
20-7404 De Andre Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause criminal-prosecution federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act individual-victim interstate-commerce intra-state-robbery mandatory-sentencing robbery software-purchase Whether the intra-state robbery of an individual satisfies the interstate commerce nexus sufficient for a Hobbs Act prosecution
20-7413 Zelos Fields v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-03-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 'bank-robbery' 'crime-of-violence' 'force-clause' 'hobbs-act' 'sentencing-enhancement' 'statutory-interpretation' criminal-law federal-jurisdiction force-clause property-rights statutory-interpretation violent-crime Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)
20-7382 Calvin Thomas v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 'bank-robbery' 'crime-of-violence' 'force-clause' 'hobbs-act' 'sentencing-enhancement' 'statutory-interpretation' criminal-law federal-jurisdiction force-clause property-rights statutory-interpretation violent-crime Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)
20-7351 Sheena Shaw v. Sacramento County Sheriff's Department, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-08 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1988 circuit-court civil-rights federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation section-1983 statute-of-limitations statutes-of-limitations tolling-rules May the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ignore the goals of 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when interpreting and applying state statutes of limitations and the coord…
20-1217 Daniel Kristof Lak v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-03 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment 14th-Amendment civil-procedure civil-rights consent-to-suit federal-jurisdiction private-right-of-action social-security-act state-immunity title-iv-d Whether a state can be shielded from suit in federal court via 11th-Amendment-immunity
20-7307 In Re Wayne M. Beaton 2021-03-02 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure custody-interrogation due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus miranda-rights Has the state appellate court decided an important Miranda rights question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions of this Court as determ…
20-7269 Antonio U. Akel v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-26 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction final-judgment habeas-corpus rule-60b-motion standing Whether the district court erred in denying a Rule 60(b) motion to reopen a final judgment denying habeas corpus relief, where the denial of the Rule …
20-7212 Kareem Davenport v. Illinois Illinois 2021-02-23 Denied IFP constitutional-rights counsel-adequacy defendant-fitness due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-competency state-statute trial-court Can a defendant waive their right to file a motion to vacate due to being on the wrong medication that heavily sedates them?
20-7222 Ian Lamonte Cormier v. Riverside County District Attorney, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-23 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-procedure dismissal due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction judicial-access judicial-review standing Whether petitioner's case can be denied in forma pauperis
20-1149 Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., et al. v. Clare E. Connors, Attorney General of Hawaii Ninth Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied Amici (4) circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review sprint-communications standing state-enforcement younger-abstention Whether a federal court must consider the specific characteristics of an underlying state-court civil proceeding to determine whether it is sufficient…
20-1133 Nicholas L. Triantos v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Morgan Stanley ABS Capital I Inc. Trust 2004-HE4, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2004-HE4, et al. First Circuit 2021-02-19 Denied Response Waived due-process equal-protection fair-debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption federalism mgc-93a remand separation-of-powers subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the First Circuit erred in concluding that one Count under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act was sufficient to confer Federal Jurisdictio…
20-1138 Cimznhca, LLC v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-02-19 Denied appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court-review civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction good-cause good-cause-analysis intervention motion-to-intervene non-final-order procedural-due-process standing Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously exercised jurisdiction over a non-final order
20-7175 Timothy W. Elkins, Jr. v. Tony Guinn, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-02-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure dismissal due-process federal-jurisdiction pleadings standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing the plaintiff's complaint for failure to state a claim
20-7150 Creadell Hubbard v. Charles Ratledge, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the Wuiked Ghebes Count of ygoeels Kine be the Rate erpuedtes (xn Avocend' » New Sexses, 53O US. Nhat, 440 (208X),+that mf Fedensl Seubemer ce…
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
20-1115 Christopher R. Granton v. Washington State Lottery Ninth Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied 11th-amendment civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment federal-jurisdiction judicial-bias lottery-dispute property-rights standing state-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit err in its rulings on this case?
20-1118 Robert Grundstein v. Lamoille Superior Docket Entries/Orders, et al. Second Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-review due-process federal-jurisdiction fraud rooker-feldman standing state-court-review void-ab-initio Should the Circuit Splits with respect to the Rooker-Feldman Fraud Exception be reconciled in favor of the exception?
20-7070 Jeremy S. v. West Virginia West Virginia 2021-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-inquiry jury-polling jury-trial trial-court-procedure verdict-review Does the new syllabus point issued by the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia permitting a trial court judge to make further inquiry of a juror …
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)
20-1061 Dantzler, Inc., et al. v. S2 Services Puerto Rico, LLC, et al. First Circuit 2021-02-03 Denied article-iii-standing causation circuit-split federal-court federal-jurisdiction injury judicial-standing standing third-party third-party-action Does the causal connection required for standing exist when it is substantially likely that a third party will respond to the defendant's conduct in a…
20-7014 Michael A. Bruzzone v. Intel Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP antitrust antitrust-law civil-rights confrontation constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-procedure privileges racketeering Whether the district court and appellate court erred in denying the appellant's due process, confrontation, examination, privileges, and protections i…
20-6964 Dallas Ray Morales v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP ammunition-possession commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction firearms firearms-regulation interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any ammunition that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past…
20-6919 Lawrence James Napper v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied IFP actual-innocence anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act civil-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus procedural-rules speedy-trial successive-motion Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in dismissing the petitioner's appeal for lack of jurisdiction
20-6913 Terry Smith v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review severance speedy-trial standing state-constitution Whether Petitioner has standing to bring his claims of speedy trial and due process rights
20-979 Pankajkumar S. Patel, et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-22 Judgment Issued Amici (6)Relisted (2) administrative-law citizenship citizenship-misrepresentation discretionary-relief due-process federal-jurisdiction immigration-law inadmissibility judicial-review statutory-interpretation Whether 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(B)(i) preserves the jurisdiction of federal courts to review a nondiscretionary determination that a noncitizen is ineli…
20-972 Ikemefula Charles Ibeabuchi v. Eggleston, Director of Operation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-01-15 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights due-process failure-to-state-claim federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction legal-mail ninth-circuit panel-rehearing standing Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals committed reversible error
20-6898 Lewis Anderson v. California Ninth Circuit 2021-01-15 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-petition fourth-amendment habeas-corpus search-and-seizure standing suppress-writ-of-habeas-corpus Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's federal petition for writ of habeas corpus based on a time bar procedure that commands the…
20-6910 El-Asad Alsaedi v. Florida Florida 2021-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum sentencing-authority sentencing-guidelines standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in dismissing Petitioner's civil rights claims against Defendant for lack of standing
20-6878 Edward Joseph Curran, III v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-statute firearm-possession firearms second-amendment statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) exceed Congress's power under the Commerce Clause?
20-6861 Justin Lee Sanders v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process eighth-circuit factual-disputes federal-jurisdiction federal-writ habeas-corpus reversible-error Whether the district court and court of appeals erred in denying a certificate of appealability to review the denial of the petitioner's federal habea…
20-940 Alaska v. Sean Wright Ninth Circuit 2021-01-13 GVR Amici (1)Relisted (2) custody custody-status federal-conviction federal-jurisdiction habeas habeas-corpus maleng-v-cook registration sex-offender sex-offender-registration speedy-trial state-conviction When an offender has fully served the sentence imposed pursuant to a state conviction, does a federal habeas court have jurisdiction to consider a § 2…
20-945 Samuel T. Russell v. Texas Fifth Circuit 2021-01-13 Denied 11th-amendment bill-of-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process eleventh-amendment federal-jurisdiction jury-trial right-to-petition search-and-seizure sovereign-immunity When the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit said they reviewed 'an Eleventh Amendment immunity determination de novo,' did they fail…
20-927 United States v. Dustin John Higgs Fourth Circuit 2021-01-11 Denied alternate-state-designation criminal-judgment death-sentence-implementation federal-death-penalty-act federal-death-sentence federal-jurisdiction state-death-penalty state-law-repeal Whether the district court erred in holding that it lacked authority after the sentence became final to designate an alternate State under 18 U.S.C. 3…
20-6768 Quentin Watson v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-evaluation petition-review standing Whether the United States District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana and Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied clearly established law in evalu…
20-6743 Neil Dussard v. United States Second Circuit 2020-12-31 Denied IFP circuit-split constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction plain-error sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis Whether the Supreme Court should correct the Second Circuit's split from other Circuit Courts in addressing the recurring question of the validity of …
20-6690 Randolph Burleson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-12-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-indictment criminal-law federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment indictment jurisdiction mens-rea sixth-amendment Whether federal courts have jurisdiction over a criminal matter when the charging document omits an essential mens rea element of the offense
20-6673 David Andrew Diehl v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their constitutional rights
20-6658 Michael Brent Brown v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-12-18 Denied IFP death-penalty district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-petition fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prisoner-rights procedural-grounds statute-of-limitations Whether the courts erred in denying relief and review on procedural grounds
20-6659 Eddie Ashley v. California, et al. California 2020-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP california-law california-supreme-court constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements Does Petitioner had a Federal Due Process Right to the Prohibition of the Imposition of Two Different Sentencing Enhancements, per the California Supr…
20-6632 Claudio Valdez v. United States First Circuit 2020-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing
20-6575 Ronald Jermaine Jackson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech government-accountability indigenous-rights jurisdiction land-management standing tribal-sovereignty Is the Constitution of the United States of America, its Articles, and Amendments valid and legal under the Supreme Law of the Land?
20-6577 Victor Mondragon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility appellate-review criminal-sentencing district-court downward-adjustment federal-jurisdiction panel-review standard-of-review Did the district court err by denying Mr. Mondragon a three-level downward adjustment for acceptance of responsibility?
20-6583 Edgar Espinoza v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-defect criminal-indictment criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment guilty-plea indictment jurisdiction mens-rea sixth-amendment Whether federal courts have jurisdiction over a criminal matter when the charging document omits an essential mens rea element of the offense
20-6593 Dustin Lee MacLeod v. William Moritz, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-provisions federal-indian-law federal-jurisdiction indian-treaty legal-interpretation native-american-rights supreme-law supreme-law-of-the-land treaty-rights Is an 'Indian Treaty' the Supreme Law of the Land?
20-778 Anthony T. Grose, Sr. v. Steven T. Mnuchin, Secretary of the Treasury Sixth Circuit 2020-12-08 Denied Response Waived administrative-remedies civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-question due-process employment-discrimination federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction res-judicata standing Were any such documentation entries in the court's proceedings whether the U.S. District Court or the Appellant Sixth Circuit Court had jurisdiction p…
20-755 Kenan Biberovic v. City of Culver City, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-02 Denied 28-usc-1343 28-usc-1831 28-usc-sections circuit-split extrinsic-fraud federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman-doctrine subject-matter-jurisdiction Has the court of appeals failed to exercise the federal jurisdiction given it by Congress under 28 U.S.C. §§ 1831 & 1343(a)(3) & (4), by refusing to a…
20-6507 Darrell Berry, et ux. v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-12-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-court federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment foreclosure rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court Whether the Berrys' Fifth Amendment Rights to Due Process were Violated
20-6484 Willie Tyler v. United States Third Circuit 2020-12-01 Denied IFP 18-usc-1512 communication-prevention criminal-prosecution federal-jurisdiction federal-statute federal-witness-tampering fowler-v-united-states reasonable-likelihood specific-intent witness-tampering Whether the 'reasonable likelihood' standard applies to cases where the defendant acted with intent to prevent communications only to state officials
20-6492 Calvin James v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-01 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction firearms government-power interstate-commerce sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the government is improperly denying a defendant's right to a pre-attachment hearing under the 5th Amendment
20-753 Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation v. Yakima County, Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) agency-deference consent criminal-jurisdiction federal-indian-law federal-jurisdiction indian-country indian-law public-law-280 public-safety retrocession statutory-interpretation tribal-sovereignty Can the United States change the scope of its reassumption of Pub. L. 83-280 jurisdiction in Indian Country years after the reassumption became effect…
20-6414 Daniel Ray v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-11-24 Denied IFP 18-usc-7 adams-v-united-states circuit-split criminal-law criminal-prosecution federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction maritime-jurisdiction prison-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction Whether the Ninth Circuit's rule that prison personnel testimony that they 'work at a United States prison' contravenes the requirements necessary to …
20-6420 Oscar Urias Espinoza, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause constitutional-power criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction federal-law felony-restriction firearm-possession firearms statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) exceed Congress's power under the Commerce Clause?
20-712 Leonid Burlaka, et al. v. Contract Transport Services, LLC Seventh Circuit 2020-11-24 Denied Response Waived fair-labor-standards-act federal-jurisdiction federal-law interstate-commerce intrastate-commerce intrastate-transport shipper-intent statutory-exemption transportation-jurisdiction transportation-regulation Are drivers subject to the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Transportation, and therefore exempt under 29 U.S.C. §213(b)(1)
20-6329 Daniel Acedo v. United States District Court for the Southern District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-16 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process extraordinary-remedy federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation property-rights relief-sought standing statute-of-limitations Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits warrantless searches of vehicles parked on private property
20-6319 Kathleen McCullough v. Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-order legal-appeal procedural-error standing Whether the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its final order dismissing Petitioner's claims
20-6323 Lamont Andre Thomas v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction prosecutorial-discretion sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-code Whether the district court had jurisdiction to hear the government's motion under 18 U.S.C. section 924(c)
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 …
20-657 Tony C. Thomas, for the Estate of Thalia Dukes v. Lawrence S. Craige Fourth Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction guardian-ad-litem rooker-feldman-doctrine standing state-court-judgment state-court-judgments subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars a federal suit where the plaintiff was denied the opportunity to present his case in state court
20-6298 Carlton Butler v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus sentencing Does the SCOTUS have authority to release a federal inmate's lawful sentence imposed on him as part of a criminal conviction?
20-615 Petra Martinez, et al. v. America's Wholesale Lender Ninth Circuit 2020-11-09 Denied Response Waived capacity civil-procedure claim-preclusion conflict-of-laws corporate-capacity corporate-dissolution dissolution federal-jurisdiction ninth-circuit-conflict notice-of-removal removal standing Is the Opinion below in conflict with the opinions of the Courts of the State of New York in that Respondent America's Wholesale Lender is a dissolved…
20-6233 Krishna Mote v. James W. Murtin, et al. Third Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their First Amendment rights
20-592 Hallmark Care Services, Inc., et al. v. Superior Court of Washington, Spokane County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-04 Denied civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-immunity rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-action state-court-proceedings Does the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bar federal constitutional claims arising from a government action in the state trial court before a final ruling in …
20-589 Reed Kirk McDonald v. Eagle County, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-11-03 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees case-conclusion civil-procedure criminal-conduct federal-jurisdiction federal-removal-law judicial-misconduct magistrate-jurisdiction removal state-court state-court-procedure Did the Magistrate for the District of Colorado error in determining that the Bellco and Eagle cases had concluded?
20-6031 Durwyn Talley v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois Seventh Circuit 2020-10-15 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-rights court-access due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction first-amendment fourteenth-amendment prison-litigation-reform-act Whether the United States Court of appeals, 7th Circuit decision denying Petitioner access to the Court and his right to file any motions against such…
20-5950 Clinton Riley v. Indiana Department of Correction, et al. Indiana 2020-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus standing Does the Trial Court's Order to dismiss a Writ of Habeas Corpus petition violate the petitioner's constitutional rights?
20-5914 Clifton Robinson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech interstate-commerce regulatory-authority sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether the lower courts erred in determining that the scheme involved in this case did not affect 'interstate commerce' as required by the Hobbs Act
20-416 Jon C. Caldara, et al. v. City of Boulder, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied Response Waived 2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights damages due-process federal-jurisdiction fundamental-rights judicial-abstention pullman-abstention Is Pullman abstention appropriate where abstaining has a chilling effect on the exercise of a natural, fundamental, constitutionally protected right?
20-5880 Deepak Deshpande v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction meaningful-access statutory-interpretation transcript Whether the petitioner's right to meaningful access to the courts and meaningful appeal of a criminal conviction was violated by the lower courts' den…
20-5861 Alijah Jaquez Mitchell v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-09-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime weapons-offense Whether a Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)
20-5840 James Robert Miller v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-09-29 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process ethical-violations federal-jurisdiction indictment-dismissal prosecutorial-misconduct recusal Whether a prosecutor's initiation of an investigation in a case in which he has a personal and financial interest, and subsequent continued involvemen…
20-5820 In Re Gregory Lamar Mathis 2020-09-25 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure constitutional-review due-process federal-jurisdiction mandamus standing state-law writ-of-mandamus writ-of-prohibition Would the issuance of a writ of prohibition and/or mandamus be justified where the petitioner's circumstances could aid this court in supervising an a…
20-5762 Will Robertson Brown v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-23 Denied IFP constitutional-review due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-precedent petition-standard retroactivity section-2255 successive-petitions unconstitutional-law Whether a petitioner must show it is 'more likely than not' that a district court's prior ruling relied on a provision of law later deemed unconstitut…
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?
20-5719 Efrain Camarill Cruz v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability double-jeopardy federal-jurisdiction guilty-plea habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mental-illness plea-bargaining Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability
20-313 Acer America Corporation, et al. v. Intellisoft, Ltd., et al. Federal Circuit 2020-09-10 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1451 claim-construction federal-jurisdiction gunn-v-minton inventorship patent-law removal removal-jurisdiction trade-secret Where Plaintiffs' theories of trade secret ownership, misappropriation, and damages depend on deciding the patent law issues of inventorship, claim co…
20-5636 Miguel Figueroa v. United States Second Circuit 2020-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction gun-statute plea-bargaining plea-colloquy predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant's statement during a plea colloquy admitting conduct that could serve as a predicate for a conviction for use of a gun under 18 U.…
20-262 Bridget Alex, et al. v. T-Mobile USA, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-09-02 Denied Response Waived certification civil-rights due-process erie-doctrine federal-jurisdiction federalism judicial-discretion state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation tort-claims-act Whether the Fifth Circuit abused its discretion by refusing to certify the case to the Texas Supreme Court
20-223 Michael P. O'Donnell v. United States First Circuit 2020-08-27 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing Petitioner's claims for lack of standing
20-5515 In Re Tracey A. Merrill 2020-08-27 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction ninth-circuit pleadings predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement standing statutory-interpretation 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
20-204 Ming Wei v. Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2020-08-21 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction pleadings standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing the plaintiff's complaint for lack of standing
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…
20-187 Okwudili Francis Chukwuani v. Solon City School District Sixth Circuit 2020-08-19 Denied Relisted (2) administrative-appeal civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction idea idea-stay-put parental-rights special-education standing Can an unconstitutional denial of parental rights by a State Court, due to a complaint about IDEA 'stay put' violation, be used to deny jurisdiction f…
20-5280 Rahim Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure cross-reference district-court error federal-jurisdiction homicide sentencing-guidelines u-s-sentencing-commission u.s.s.g.-§-2k2.1(c)(1)(b) Whether the district court erred by applying the Sentencing Guidelines cross reference under U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(c)(1)(B)
20-5251 Michael Owen Harriot v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2401b appeals appellate-review civil-procedure district-court federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit heck-v-humphrey jurisdictional-issue standing statute-of-limitations statutory-time-bar Whether the Fourth Circuit's lack of authority to raise 28 U.S.C. § 2401(b)'s time bar on its own when the district court's opinion did not rest on § …
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…
20-87 George Lee Nobles v. North Carolina North Carolina 2020-07-29 Denied Response Waived criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction indian-law indian-status jury-determination jury-instructions major-crimes-act statutory-interpretation Whether Indian status under the Major Crimes Act is a jury question
20-5153 Jamiell Sims v. United States Third Circuit 2020-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1594 conspiracy criminal-conspiracy criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-statute force-fraud-coercion offense-level sentencing sentencing-guidelines sex-trafficking What is the base offense level for conspiracy to commit sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion in violation of 18 U.S.C. §1594(c)?
20-5132 Antwan R. Cray v. Warden, FCI Coleman - Medium Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-21 Denied IFP criminal-innocence criminal-law due-process factual-innocence federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus legal-innocence rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent Whether Petitioner is actually, factually, legally, and lawfully innocent of his Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019) conviction
20-5045 In Re Daniel H. Jones 2020-07-13 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-jurisdiction judicial-review mandamus standing state-law writ-of-mandamus writ-of-prohibition Would the issuance of a writ of prohibition and/or mandamus be justified
19-8905 In Re Frank J. Matylinsky, Jr. 2020-07-07 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction 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
19-8889 Hector Guagua-Alarcon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-02 Denied IFP article-iii article-three due-process executive-branch executive-power federal-jurisdiction maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction Does the MDLEA violate Article III and the Sixth Amendment by giving dispositive weight to the Executive Branch's assertion that jurisdiction exists?
19-1441 City of Austin, Texas v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-06-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights declaratory-judgment due-process eleventh-amendment ex-parte-young federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption preemption standing state-preemption supremacy-clause Under Ex parte Young, is a state official a proper defendant in a federal declaratory judgment challenge under the Supremacy Clause to the validity of…
19-1419 Michael A. Henry-Bey v. Hector Castro, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-06-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appeals appellate-procedure arbitration civil-procedure court-transfer due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review pro-se-litigant standing subject-matter-jurisdiction transfer Whether the court had federal question jurisdiction to hear the petitioner's appeal, and if not, should the court have transferred the appeal to the c…
19-1420 Jared D. Herrmann v. Ryan McCarthy, Secretary of the Army Ninth Circuit 2020-06-25 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability collateral-consequences constitutional-challenge custody custody-interpretation federal-appeal federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus military-tribunals subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the district court misinterpreted its subject matter jurisdiction
19-1408 James Coppedge, et ux. v. Janet Z. Charlton Third Circuit 2020-06-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-complaint civil-rights-procedure collateral-order-doctrine due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction pleadings procedural-review standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the District Court review of the facial sufficiency of 42 USC § 1983 and § 1985 complaint below ignored the requirements of FRCP Rule 12(c)
19-1414 United States v. Joshua James Cooley Ninth Circuit 2020-06-24 Judgment Issued Amici (13)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment indian-law indian-tribe-authority law-enforcement-authority non-indian non-indian-rights public-lands public-right-of-way reservation reservation-jurisdiction search-and-seizure state-and-federal-law tribal-law-enforcement Whether the lower courts erred in suppressing evidence
19-8811 Michael Lee Crane v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-06-24 Denied IFP citizenship-status civil-rights constitutional-citizen constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus procedural-rules standing statutory-citizen Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit erred in denying Mr. Crane's habeas corpus petition
19-8785 Brandon Williams v. Roy Cooper, Governor of North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-06-23 Denied IFP bill-of-rights civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-ethics qualified-immunity standing Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit exceed its enumerated powers and violate basic principles of federalism
19-1377 In Re Nina Shahin 2020-06-15 Denied 14th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure due-process equal-protection standing civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction pleadings 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
19-1371 Roger Dean Waldner v. Bradley R. Hartke, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-06-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii case-or-controversy civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction judicial-admissions judicial-power jurisdictional-error rule-60(b)(4) standing void-judgment Is a district court's exercise of Article III judicial power over a non-controversy a rare instance of jurisdictional error that renders its judgment …
19-8664 Charles T. Kirvin v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-06-10 Denied IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-court civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenges legal-standing petition-denial procedural-grounds standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit arbitrarily and erroneously denied Appellant a Certificate of Appealability
19-8638 Walter Brzowski v. Executive Committee of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Seventh Circuit 2020-06-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-statute judicial-review procedural-due-process remand removal removal-jurisdiction statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction Can the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit review and discredit a previously entered Certified Copy of Order of Remand
19-8639 Derrick Allen v. Ted Wire, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights contract-law discrimination due-process employment equal-protection federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit Whether a plaintiff-African American male has been denied due process and equal protection under the 14th Amendment and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by Caucasian …
19-8576 Franklin Mackensie Robinson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-record court-of-appeals criminal-case criminal-procedure federal-grand-jury federal-jurisdiction grand-jury jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge statutory-compliance title-40-usc-s-255 Is the Petitioner entitled to review the Administrative Record?
19-1318 Michael Anthony Deem v. Lorna M. DiMella-Deem, et al. Second Circuit 2020-05-28 Denied abstention civil-rights domestic-relations domestic-relations-abstention due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-question jurisdiction jurisdiction-stripping malicious-prosecution standing May lower federal courts refuse to exercise jurisdiction over federal question claims in the absence of a warrant to do so from Congress or this Honor…
19-1315 Nevada, et al. v. Donald Walden, Jr., et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-05-27 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) 11th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-law court-jurisdiction due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-removal judicial-procedure removal sovereign-immunity state-courts state-immunity Whether a state remains immune from suit after voluntarily removing a federal claim to federal court when the state is immune from such claims in its …
19-8546 Annamalai Annamalai and Parvathi Sivanadiyan v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-fraud constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency federal-jurisdiction judicial-error new-trial procedural-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct issues-being-raised
19-8549 Emmanuel Adewale Adeyinka v. Brady Barrs, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-05-27 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim
19-8493 Mark Stinson v. Dewayne Hendrix, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-05-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP conspiracy criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction jury-trial ptsd Can husband and wife be charged with conspiracy despite the husband's PTSD diagnosis?
19-8419 Erik Wilhelm Traczyk v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-standards due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jury-impartiality jury-selection state-court-proceedings trial-procedure Whether a state court's denial of a federal habeas corpus petition can be appealed to federal court when no state remedy is available
19-8394 Paul Anthony Hatton v. Douglas L. Combs, Justice, Supreme Court of Oklahoma, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech judicial-enforcement standing state-court-rules state-supreme-court subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether federal courts have duty to hear 42-usc-1983 action challenging state-court rule
19-8395 Peter Gakuba v. Charles O'Brien, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights declaratory-judgment due-process equitable-relief federal-jurisdiction free-speech judicial-review standing statutory-protection Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for equitable relief under the Declaratory Judgment Act and the Administrative Proc…
19-8366 Andres Fernando Cabezas v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction forfeiture property-recovery property-rights rule-41g subject-matter-jurisdiction Does a district court have subject-matter jurisdiction to decide 41(g) motions for recovery of property that is unrelated to a criminal judgment on ap…
19-1239 Jackson Ridge Rehabilitation and Care, et al. v. Rhonda Meadows Ohio 2020-04-22 Denied Response Waived concurrent-jurisdiction employee-benefits erisa exclusive-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction interference retaliation statutory-interpretation Whether ERISA claims for retaliation and interference are enforced through 29 U.S.C. §1132(a)(1)(B) or 29 U.S.C. §1132(a)(3)
19-8299 Matthan James Simons Pattioay v. Hawaii Ninth Circuit 2020-04-19 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction standing Whether the court below erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted
19-8257 Eric C. Miller v. Randy Gibbs, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-04-14 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-requirements due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus procedural-default successive-petitions supreme-court-precedent time-barred-petition Can the lower courts continue to bypass U.S. Supreme Court law in favor of their self-created rule calling time-barred initial habeas petitions 'adjud…
19-8172 Adam Carson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction perjury statutory-interpretation witness-credibility witness-tampering Can a conviction for witness tampering be upheld when a Defendant did not ask a witness to lie for him?
19-1187 Matco Tools Corporation, et al. v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-03-30 Denied Response Waived arbitration-agreement civil-procedure contract-validity district-court-discretion federal-jurisdiction forum-non-conveniens forum-selection-clause ninth-circuit-rule procedural-exception subject-matter May a district court create an exception to the rule that the validity of a forum-selection clause does not depend upon the validity of the underlying…
19-1166 Diné Citizens Against Ruining Our Environment, et al. v. Bureau of Indian Affairs, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-03-24 Denied administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-action civil-procedure consent federal-agency federal-jurisdiction non-federal-entity rule-19 standing statutory-interpretation statutory-requirements Whether Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 19 requires dismissal of an Administrative Procedure Act action
19-8070 Kenney Shi Lai v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment administrative-law agricultural-improvement-act civil-rights constitutional-rights drug-conviction due-process federal-jurisdiction hemp-production standing takings Whether the federal government can prohibit the possession of firearms by law-abiding citizens
19-8079 Mark Steven Elk Shoulder v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP federal-jurisdiction major-crimes-act nondelegation-doctrine retroactive-application retroactivity sex-offender-registration special-relationship statutory-interpretation Whether SORNA can be applied, retroactively, through the Wetterling Act, to a defendant whose underlying sex offense conviction was prosecuted under t…
19-8085 Lamar L. Zamichieli v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction standing why the decision of the lower court may be erroneous, but the national importance of having the Supreme Court decide the question involved
19-1153 Russell A. Suzuki, et al. v. Christopher Deedy Ninth Circuit 2020-03-20 Denied 28-usc-1257 appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure double-jeopardy exxon-mobil-v-saudi-basic federal-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction lesser-included-offense lesser-included-offenses standing state-court-judgment state-court-judgments Limits on federal court jurisdiction to review state court judgments
19-8026 In Re Jonathan A. Hampton 2020-03-18 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-rights-speedy-trial-habeas-corpus-d criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jury-instructions personal-recognizance speedy-trial Does the petitioner in a habeas proceeding have an inherent constitutional right to be enlarged upon his personal recognizance in the interest of his …
19-8032 Vaughn Harris v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction reasons-for-granting-writ ripeness standing statement-of-case statutory-provisions Whether the lower court erred in its application of the legal standards for determining standing and ripeness in this case
19-8033 In Re Jonathan A. Hampton 2020-03-18 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus harmless-error jury-instructions lesser-included-offense prosecutorial-appeal state-law structural-error Does the California Supreme Court's holding in People v. Breverman (1998) inadvertently impose an unlawful state of ambiguity when faced with the fede…
19-8036 Odis Lee Jackson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-justice-reform criminal-resentencing district-court-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction first-step-act judicial-review mandatory-minimum post-sentencing-conduct sentencing sentencing-modification sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation What procedures does Section 404 of the First Step Act require a district court to follow when conducting its statutorily required 'complete review of…
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…
19-7923 Barlow Smith v. Terry Kennedy Fifth Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-violation due-process errors-made-by-court-of-appeals errors-made-by-district-court federal-jurisdiction miscarriage-of-justice no-evidence no-evidence-claim summary Is the petitioner actually innocent?
19-1111 Michael Anthony Deem v. Lorna DiMella-Deem, et al. Second Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response Waived abstention-doctrine civil-procedure civil-rights domestic-relations-abstention due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-question-claims federalism judicial-immunity parental-rights standing Does a federal court have a right to decline the exercise of jurisdiction over federal-question claims?
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…
19-1090 In Re Bahig F. Bishay 2020-03-05 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act agency-action federal-jurisdiction judicial-review mandamus standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the U.S. District Court erred in dismissing, sua sponte, the complaint seeking judicial review of agency action under the Administrative Proce…
19-7874 Jackie Dewayne Andrews v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-03-04 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-provisions district-court-jurisdiction due-process federal-court federal-jurisdiction federal-proceedings habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings integrity-of-proceedings judicial-review jurisdiction procedural-defect rule-60(b) rule-60b Does the district court have jurisdiction to consider a Rule 60(b) motion in habeas proceedings so long as the motion attacks, not the substance of th…
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
19-7855 Jeremy T. Walker v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari criminal-procedure district-court-discretion federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession material-facts obstruction offense-level-enhancement sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines serial-number serial-number-obliteration Whether the district court erred at sentencing by increasing Mr. Walker's Sentencing Guidelines offense level for possessing a gun with an obliterated…
19-7843 Tony Buck v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP bureau-of-prisons constitutional-law constitutional-rights conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review punishment punishment-clause sentencing Whether the Judgment of Conviction should be vacated as a violation of the Double Jeopardy Clause
19-7777 John Henry Hoyle v. West Virginia West Virginia 2020-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction question-not-identified sexual-offender-registration standing statutory-interpretation takings telephone-disclosure void-for-vagueness 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
19-7778 James William Hill, III v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-02-26 Denied Amici (1)IFP bias-motivated-assault civil-rights commerce-clause congressional-power criminal-law due-process federal-crime federal-jurisdiction hate-crimes hate-crimes-act hate-crimes-prevention-act jurisdictional-prong statutory-interpretation Does 18 U.S.C. §249(a)(2)(B)(iv)(D) exceed Congress's power under the Commerce Clause?
19-7782 Stephen Mayer v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP absolute-immunity contempt-of-court-18-usc-401 contempt-proceedings criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-42-a-2 federal-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction-28-usc-1331 federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure government-misconduct immunity judicial-immunity statutory-interpretation Whether the Eleventh Circuit's opinion declining jurisdiction over contempt proceedings under 18 U.S.C. §401 violates Federal Rules of Criminal Proced…
19-7748 Kevin Souffrant v. Kevin Kauffman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. Third Circuit 2020-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certiorari circuit-split civil-rights class-action due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction federal-question habeas-corpus judicial-conflict legal-standard standing supreme-court-review Whether petitioner should be granted certiorari, where his claim not only affects him, but also hundreds of others
19-1041 Rostislav Khrapko v. Kristin Splain, et al. Second Circuit 2020-02-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights declaratory-relief due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction government-corruption interlocutory-appeal standing Whether discrimination with no legitimate rationale, motivated by government corruption violates the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Cons…
19-7678 Tzedkiyah El Bey, fka James Richard Warren v. Doughtery County State Court, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-rights de-jure-citizen due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-questions judicial-officer organic-constitution standing state-legislature statutory-ordinance takings Can the De Jure American citizen be punished by fine or imprisonment for exercising a Constitutional right?
19-7588 Aleksandr Bible v. United States Federal Circuit 2020-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction mental-incompetence standing statute-of-limitations takings tolling Whether the statute of limitations for filing a federal action should be tolled due to the petitioner's mental incompetence at the time the claim accr…
19-7620 Bradley Campbell v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce judgment-of-acquittal kidnapping motion-for-acquittal motion-to-dismiss Whether Petitioner's motion for judgment of acquittal on the kidnapping charge should have been granted where there was no evidence that Petitioner us…
19-7579 Philip G. Barry v. Thomas Perkins, et ux. Second Circuit 2020-02-06 Denied IFP automatic-stay bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-courts bankruptcy-jurisdiction bankruptcy-law federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-judgment state-court-judgments void-ab-initio Whether the so-called 'Rooker-Feldman Doctrine' strips bankruptcy and other lower federal courts of jurisdiction to avoid or otherwise declare a state…
19-7553 Gerald Humbert v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied IFP 11th-circuit acca armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law federal-criminal-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction felon-in-possession mens-rea rehaif sentencing serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation summary-remand Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit should have granted COA as to whether Petitioner's Fla. Stat. § 893.13 drug offens…
19-7566 Javed Asefi v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights commerce-clause criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce predicate-acts racketeering rico rico-prosecution substantial-effect Whether federal jurisdiction exists in a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 1962(d) where neither the activities of the alleged enterprise nor the individu…
19-982 Erica Y. Bryant, et al. v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-transfer multi-district-litigation multidistrict-litigation preemption procedural-error state-law statute-of-repose Whether a transferee court in an MDL proceeding must follow the decisions of the transferor court's state supreme court and federal circuit court of a…
19-7536 James Henry Simpson v. Martesha Bishop, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure criminal-liability criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution federal-rules immunity judicial-docketing prisoner-filing standing statutory-interpretation Should a U.S. District Court docket a Criminal Complaint as a civil action?
19-7406 Bartholomew Antonio Guzman v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federal-jurisdiction first-amendment freedom-of-information government-transparency habeas-corpus public-records standing state-court state-court-interpretation state-court-proceedings Whether the United States District Court erred in dismissing a pro se habeas corpus petition due to the lack of jurisdiction because the habeas per pe…
19-7423 Adam Lee Hamilton v. Eileen Ramey, Warden Missouri 2020-01-27 Denied IFP criminal-law federal-jurisdiction government-property preemption property-theft robbery state-prosecution statutory-interpretation theft united-states-government Do the provisions of 18 U.S.C. §2112, 28 U.S.C. §2114, 28 U.S.C. §8 and 7 U.S.C. §2024(D) reserve jurisdiction for the prosecution of such a criminal …
19-938 Sean A. Clark v. New York Commissioner of Social Services Second Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied Response Waived administrative-fraud civil-procedure civil-rights disability-benefits due-process federal-jurisdiction fraud rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine social-services standing statute-of-limitations Can a federal district court review a state court ruling, exempting the case via Rooker-Feldman preclusion, where the state court judgment was alleged…
19-7415 Dennis C. Davis v. Fayette County Appraisal District, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 adjudicate-merits erroneous-limitation-law federal-jurisdiction state-court-remedies state-law-remedies statutory-claims statutory-interpretation tax-case-litigation tax-cases tax-cases-1983-relief taxation-violation-claim tort-claims Whether state courts must provide relief under 42 U.S.C. §1983 in tax cases when adequate state law remedies exist
19-7382 Tyrone Jemane Johnson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aggravated-assault criminal-law federal-jurisdiction force-clause mens-rea sentencing-guidelines uniformity Whether a generic aggravated assault requires a mens rea greater than mere recklessness
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 …
19-895 R. Kirk McDonald v. Bellco Credit Union Colorado 2020-01-17 Denied case-removal civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct legal-fabrication procedural-integrity removal standing state-court Whether a State judge can fabricate a lie into the Record attempting to prevent removal of a state case to federal court pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1441-…
19-879 Heon Seok Lee v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied Response Waived administrative-law contract-law contractor-payment court-jurisdiction federal-funding federal-funds federal-jurisdiction municipal-jurisdiction municipality-customer sub-award sub-vendor sub-vendor-status whether federal court has jurisdiction to determine that (1) a municipality is a customer of its sub-vendor, and (2) a municipality sub-awards federal…
19-887 Aryeh Simon, et ux. v. Marriott International, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) cafa civil-procedure class-action class-action-fairness-act constitution constitutional-requirement diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction minimal-diversity statutory-interpretation Whether a federal court can disregard the requirement of minimal diversity to exercise jurisdiction over a case that undisputedly lacks diversity, bas…
19-7286 Leah S. Caldwell v. Doris Downs, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-14 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-circuit equal-protection federal-jurisdiction petition-for-certiorari pro-se standing summary-judgment Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in dismissing Petitioner's civil rights claims against Respondents for lack of standing and failure to state a clai…
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…
19-7187 Tyree Miles v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights court-review due-process federal-jurisdiction ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-challenge legal-interpretation post-conviction-relief pre-arrest-delay procedural-requirements speedy-trial statutory-interpretation Whether Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated when trial counsel failed to raise certain evidentiary clai…
19-862 William Castro v. R. Fred Lewis, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-09 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process due-process-rights federal-constitutional-claims federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 state-court-judgment subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars subject-matter jurisdiction in a federal district court over federal constitutional claims filed pursuant to …
19-7185 Stanley Brewer v. William Lee, Superintendent, Eastern New York Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2020-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 civil-rights district-court-review due-process facts-and-evidence federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-precedent legal-standard precedent standing statutory-interpretation Whether the district court violated long-standing precedent and misapplied 28-USC-2254-d-2, 28-USC-2254-e-1, and the facts and evidence presented by t…
19-7192 Keith Edward Walker v. Ronda Pash, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-01-07 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction federal-review finality-of-judgment habeas-corpus standing state-court-decision statute-of-limitations Does the reamme of 28 U.S.C. 2244(d) and (p) create ambiguity in 28 U.S.C. 2244(d)(1) regarding the one-year period of litigation
19-7197 Darryl William Young v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-robbery colloquy constitutional-law constitutional-question-of-procedural-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-11 criminal-procedure-rule-20 direct-appeal district-court-jurisdiction due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-question-of-statutory-law federal-rules-criminal-procedure jurisdictional-venue overbroad-interpretation plea-agreement plea-validity procedural-requirements sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-law venue waiver Whether the district court had jurisdictional venue to accept the petitioner's plea agreement and sentence when the requirements of Federal Rules of C…
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
19-842 Mark J. Schwartz v. Clark County, Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-03 Denied abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-discretion federal-jurisdiction judicial-bias qualified-immunity section-1983 seniority-manipulation state-law supplemental-jurisdiction Does the district court abuse its discretion when it fails to differentiate between federal and state law claims under 28 U.S.C. §1367?
19-822 Laurie A. White, Judge, Section A of the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court, et al. v. Alana Cain, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response Waived conflict-of-interest constitutional-conflict criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction fines-and-fees judicial-disqualification judicial-impartiality state-court-funding state-court-jurisdiction Does the federal court have jurisdiction to disqualify state criminal court judges from adjudicating matters, over which they have exclusive jurisdict…
19-809 Michael Bonin v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-12-27 Denied Response Waived criminal-law due-process false-identity federal-jurisdiction federal-statute first-amendment impersonation standing statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant violates 18 U.S.C. § 912's prohibition on falsely assuming or pretending to be an officer or employee acting under the authority o…
19-7072 Tyrone Walker v. United States Second Circuit 2019-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) actual-or-threatened-force crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act physical-force property-crime property-rights sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states Whether the substantive offense of Hobbs Act robbery is categorically a 'crime of violence' for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)
19-806 Michael S. Barth v. Township of Bernards, New Jersey, et al. New Jersey 2019-12-26 Denied Response Waived certiorari-review civil-procedure constitutional-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction legal-precedent procedural-due-process standing supreme-court-review takings tax truck-council Whether to revisit or distinguish National Private Truck Council, Inc. v. Oklahoma Tax Commission, 515 U.S. 582 (1995) and General Motors Corp. v. Cit…
19-802 David Ehrman v. Cox Communications, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-23 Denied citizenship-pleading civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction domicile federal-jurisdiction notice-of-removal pleading pleading-standards procedural-requirements removal removal-procedure standing Is an allegation of an individual's state citizenship made solely on 'information and belief' sufficient to plead diversity of citizenship?
19-7049 In Re Antwoyn Spencer 2019-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance personal-liberty pro-se-petition punishment standing strickland-standard undue-delay Whether petitioner is being deprived of his civil rights due to undue delay in appellate ruling
19-7028 Jess Lee Green v. Joe Errington Fifth Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction qualified-immunity standing statutory-provisions Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in dismissing petitioner's civil rights claims for lack of standing
19-7030 Margaret Guevara v. Mark Padin, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied IFP child-support civil-rights commerce-clause commerce-clause-violation constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce interstate-dispute judicial-procedure standing Whether the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office is breaching the Commerce Clause by deducting wrongly calculated child support from Guevara's paychecks…
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
19-6986 Jarvis H. Neely v. John R. Baldwin, Director, Illinois Department of Corrections, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied IFP 5th-amendment circuit-court-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process eminent-domain federal-jurisdiction free-speech judicial-review jurisdiction pension-regulations property-rights standing statutory-analysis takings Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment prohibits the government from requiring a property owner to dedicate a portion of their property for…
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…
19-6936 Pedro Vigio-Aponte v. United States First Circuit 2019-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech rico standing statutory-interpretation Whether the text of the RICO statute, this Court's case law, case law from other Courts of Appeal, the First Circuit's case law, and the importance of…
19-750 In Re The Law Offices of Nina Ringgold, et al. 2019-12-12 Denied civil-procedure-28-usc-1446 civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1866 civil-rights-act-of-1886 due-process federal-jurisdiction first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-immunity recusal-requirement removal-procedure removal-statute state-court-procedure supremacy-clause Whether in conflict with the clear authority of this court California local rules of court may defeat the command of 28 U.S.C. § 1446 (d) that a state…
19-752 Hawaii Management Alliance Association v. Randy Rudel Ninth Circuit 2019-12-12 Denied Response Waived adjudicatory-procedure administrative-law civil-enforcement civil-procedure erisa erisa-preemption federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption federal-regulation preemption state-law state-statutes statutory-interpretation Whether state statutes can provide the 'relevant rule of decision' in an ERISA § 502(a) action when the state statutes create an adjudicatory procedur…
19-6896 Jeffrey Antonio v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP congressional-action criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction jurisdictional-element jury-determination land-claims preliminary-finding pueblo-lands pueblo-lands-act statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-the-evidence Whether the federal criminal jurisdiction over the Pueblo of Sandia lands was terminated by the 2005 Pueblo Lands Act Amendment
19-6797 Hal Mark Kreitman v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP business-expenses business-services criminal-activity criminal-liability criminal-offense criminal-procedure employee-liability employee-services employment federal-jurisdiction legal-culpability money-laundering payment-structure Does an employee's facilitation of a criminal offense, by providing services to a business engaged in criminal activity, make the employee guilty not …
19-6820 Rafael Leoner-Aguirre v. United States First Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court civil-procedure criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction first-circuit jury-instructions predicate-acts racketeering rico rico-conspiracy salinas-v-united-states statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions supreme-court united-states-code Whether the jury must find the specific predicate acts committed under the RICO conspiracy statute
19-6741 Jose Joaquin Ramirez v. Jeffrey C. Bloom, et al. Second Circuit 2019-11-27 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction incompetence incompetency incompetency-determination judicial-discretion mental-health section-1983 standing state-action title-42-usc-1983 Is a Governmental Paid - Governmental Mandated Lawyer that is forced upon an individual against will without consent acting as a Governmental Agent?
19-6779 Mitchell Stevens v. Darrell Vannoy, Warden, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction free-speech procedural-standards retaliation standing Did the district court err in dismissing the petitioner's claims, and did the appeals court err in overlooking key facts?
19-6745 Joseph S. Paul v. Florida Florida 2019-11-25 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction 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
19-6716 Israel C. Isbell v. Steven Merlak, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-mistake civil-rights consecutive-sentence due-process federal-government federal-jurisdiction interstate-transfer jurisdiction pardon primary-jurisdiction prisoner-custody prisoner-transfer sentencing-procedure sixth-circuit-precedent sovereign-immunity state-custody Does one sovereign lose or surrender its primary jurisdiction when it releases an inmate serving a consecutive sentence into the custody of another so…
19-6719 Mauro Castaneda Palacio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-supervised-release sentencing standing supervised-release vagueness Whether the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals erred in upholding the constitutionality of 18 U.S.C. § 3583(k) as applied to the petitioner
19-6711 Luciano Diaz-Contreras v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction federal-power felon-in-possession firearms firearms-possession statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) exceed Congress's power under the Commerce Clause?
19-6703 Shondor Janell Arceneaux v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2113(a) 924(c) aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting bank-robbery civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-offense generic-crime-definition generic-definition remand sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation If §924(c) applies to predicate crimes whose elements are no broader than a Federal Generic Definition of that crime, is remand required if a defendan…
19-630 Kyle Ray Hurst, Personal Representative of the Estate of Andrew James Hurst and on Behalf of the Estate of Andrew James Hurst Deceased and the Statutory Wrongful Death Survivor of Andrew James Hurst v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-15 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights commercial-area commercial-use due-process eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction federal-jurisprudence federal-lands-management fee-charged liability public-access standing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment takings Whether the Eleventh Circuit wrongfully absolved Respondent of liability when it determined that Moore Lake was not an 'area' where a fee was charged,…
19-6622 Helene Tonique Williams v. Toni Preckwinkle, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech judicial-discretion patent procedural-dismissal standing state-court-procedure takings Whether the District Court erred in dismissing the case against Pliner Porgue A Mhams, et al.
19-598 Joy Spurr v. Melissa L. Pope, Chief Judge, Tribal Court of the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction non-tribal-member personal-protection-order sovereign-immunity tribal-sovereignty violence-against-women violence-against-women-act Whether a tribe can invoke sovereign immunity to end a federal case challenging the tribe's jurisdiction over a non-tribal member
19-6480 Dario Rodriguez v. Rick Scott, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-04 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction free-speech judicial-review legal-dismissal procedural-fairness qualified-immunity retaliation standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights to free speech, due process, and equal protection were violated
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. § …
19-565 Antonio Passaro, Jr. v. Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-10-30 Denied civil-procedure federal-court federal-jurisdiction lapides-v-board-of-regents litigation removal sovereign-immunity state-court waiver Whether, in the context of a federal claim brought in state court where the state would enjoy sovereign immunity, a state's voluntary removal to feder…
19-6423 Halisi Uhuru v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-investigation federal-jurisdiction incarceration legal-proceeding mens-rea obstruction-of-justice rico rico-organization Whether the appellant was improperly convicted of RICO participation and obstruction of justice
19-6438 Jose Luis Tapia-Fierro v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-diligence due-process evidence-removal federal-jurisdiction innocence-claim procedural-limitations removal standing statute-of-limitations Whether the State of Arizona's statute of limitations found in Arizona Revised Statute (ARS) §12-542 applies to a Federally created cause of action in…
19-546 Douglas Brownback, et al. v. James King Sixth Circuit 2019-10-28 Judgment Issued Amici (6)Relisted (2) bivens-claim bivens-claims civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-tort-claims-act government-liability judgment-bar sovereign-immunity state-tort-law Whether a final judgment in favor of the United States in an action brought under Section 1346(b)(1) bars a claim under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Ag…
19-6412 Dennis Jones v. Arizona Arizona 2019-10-28 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure conflict-with-precedent constitutional-interpretation due-process essential-elements-of-crime federal-jurisdiction federal-question judicial-review precedent-conflict right-to-counsel standing state-court-decision supreme-court supreme-court-procedure Whether the state court decided a federal question in a way that conflicts with this Court's precedent on the right to counsel and due process
19-6383 Nelli Kesoyan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeals federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure legal-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Did the Court of Appeals adopt an erroneous interpretation of U.S.S.G. § 251.3(b)(3)?
19-6397 Jose Gomez-Aguilar v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-felony categorical-approach court-of-appeals criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction immigration immigration-law statutory-interpretation theft-offense Did the court of appeals err in holding that robbery in violation of D.C. Code § 22-2801 categorically qualifies as an aggravated felony theft offense…
19-6317 In Re D'Angelo Hildan Shipman 2019-10-22 Denied IFP 5th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-court federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment habeas-corpus illegal-sentence legal-sentence mandate Why am I still in prison? I filed a federal habeas corpus petition in the United States District Court, Middle District of Florida, Jacksonville Divis…
19-6334 Ignacio Arellano-Banuelos v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction illegal-entry immigration-law jurisdiction removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether an alien may be 'found' within the meaning of 8 U.S.C. §1326 before immigration authorities achieve actual knowledge of his or her actual pres…
19-516 Nolan Espinda, Director, Hawaii Department of Public Safety, et al. v. Royce C. Gouveia Ninth Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied appellate-deference appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review custody federal-district-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction federal-review habeas-corpus Hawai'i-sovereign-right manifest-necessity mistrial-declaration rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-judgments Did the Ninth Circuit err in concluding that the Rooker-Feldman doctrine is categorically not applicable to § 2241 petitions?
19-519 Psara Energy Ltd. v. ST Shipping & Transport Pte. Ltd., et al. Second Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied Response Waived admiralty-law admiralty-maritime admiralty-maritime-law civil-procedure court-of-appeals federal-jurisdiction interpleader jurisdiction maritime-garnishment mootness supplemental-rules Whether the jurisdiction a court of appeals has over a district court's vacatur of a maritime garnishment under Rule B(1) of the Supplemental Rules fo…
19-6307 Andrew Oreckinto v. United States Second Circuit 2019-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-659 circuit-split criminal-law federal-jurisdiction statutory-construction statutory-interpretation statutory-reach Whether the Second Circuit erred in adopting a reading of 18 U.S.C. § 659 unsupported by any relevant canon of statutory construction or relevant prec…
19-6293 Dwight Knowles v. United States District of Columbia 2019-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-jurisprudence congressional-intent conspiracy criminal-conspiracy criminal-law criminal-statute due-process extraterritorial-conspiracy extraterritorial-jurisdiction extraterritorial-offenses extraterritoriality federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation territorial-application Whether federal conspiracy statutes apply extraterritorially when the object of the conspiracy is an extraterritorial offense but there is no clear in…
19-6268 Isabel Yero Grimon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii article-three-courts burden-of-proof federal-jurisdiction indictment indictment-validity judicial-precedent limited-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the Eleventh Circuit err in holding that federal jurisdiction is conclusively established whenever an indictment alleges a federal crime?
19-6246 Shafia M. Jones v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2019-10-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP alford-plea bank-robbery criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption state-jurisdiction supremacy-clause Whether state law interferes with and conflicts with the Federal Bank Robbery Act and Federal Statute 18 USCS § 2113
19-6263 Carlos Velasquez v. Utah, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-10-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-hearing appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court rooker-feldman-doctrine standing Were the constitutional claims barred by Rooker-Feldman doctrine?
19-477 Arletta J. Kurowski v. Estate of Kenneth H. Kurowski, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-10-10 Denied collateral-estoppel court-of-competent-jurisdiction due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-rights full-and-fair-opportunity-to-litigate judicial-competency native-american-rights tribal-court-exhaustion tribal-court-jurisdiction Upon tribal court exhaustion must District Courts perform a threshold inquiry to protect the Indian Petitioners' federal 25 U.S.C. § 1302 rights?
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
19-6198 Gonzalo R. Rubang, Jr. v. United Airlines, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination federal-jurisdiction federal-money fraud labor-dispute labor-law negligence standing worker-compensation worker-endangerment worker-rights workplace-safety Whether the injured workers of United Airlines, Inc. were denied their right to be heard in court regarding allegations of fraud, negligence, and work…
19-6149 Desmond Williams v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting civil-procedure civil-rights commentary conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction legal-analysis legal-citation legal-issues legal-research legal-terminology legal-writing sentencing-commission standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims
19-6160 Reggie D. Caswell v. New York New York 2019-10-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law appellate-counsel civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment pro-se-appeal sixth-amendment 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
19-6105 Avram Moshe Perry v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP abstention amendment-of-pleadings bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-discrimination due-process equitable-powers federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion pro-se-plaintiff procedural-due-process standing Whether Congress had provided that in an American civilized federal court system a judge can use an unlimited discretion to outrageously discriminate …
19-408 Garey R. Nehrke v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Florida 2019-09-26 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights federal-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction-banking foreclosure-fraud gse-state-actors gses mortgage-securitization national-bank-act national-banks securities-law state-actors state-preemption takings-clause whistleblower-retaliation Whether Wells Fargo and others under National Bank Act, 12 U.S.C. 1 et seq. exclusive federal regulation and pre-emption, along with restrictions on s…
19-6074 Gerald Nelson v. Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1181-1061, AFL-CIO, et al. Second Circuit 2019-09-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights complete-preemption due-process federal-claim federal-jurisdiction federal-statute fourteenth-amendment labor-management-relations preemption removal removal-procedure state-common-law subject-matter-jurisdiction well-pleaded-complaint-rule Whether the United States Court of Appeal and District Federal Court can sua sponte a case when plaintiff has not had a chance to file a complaint and…
19-6026 Roland Michael Simon v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-jurisdiction federal-law-enforcement standing united-nations Whether the state court erred in denying the petitioner's request to expunge their criminal record
19-6035 Luis R. Espinal-Rivera v. United States First Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review bail bail-hearing criminal-procedure detention-review due-process federal-jurisdiction presumption-of-innocence pretrial-detention rebuttal statutory-presumption statutory-presumptions Whether bail should have been granted in this case as the petitioner rebutted the statutory presumptions
19-6002 Nicole Rena McCrea v. Mark S. Devan, et al. Maryland 2019-09-20 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-conflict legal-sufficiency maryland-law maryland-rule standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Is the Maryland Court of Special Appeals' March 13, 2019 unpublished Opinion and Memorandum affirming the judgment of the Circuit Court of Charles Cou…
19-6014 In Re Lee R. Comier, Jr. 2019-09-20 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process jurisdiction reparations slavery 13th-amendment 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus slavery state-law Whether the State of Arizona can legally apply a 'slave' label to a person of African descent after 1865, in violation of the 13th Amendment and due p…
19-365 John Barth v. United States First Circuit 2019-09-19 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-rights compensation constitutional-rights copyright copyright-law due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction seizure sovereign-immunity takings takings-clause Violation of Constitutional Rights
19-5952 Keith A. Gordon v. Cenedra D. Lee, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether the issues presented in the petition are properly raised and preserved for review
19-5960 Ben W. Bane v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavits breach-of-duty civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-prisoner federal-tort-claims-act judicial-enforcement medical-negligence prisoner-rights procedural-requirements standing state-law state-law-preemption Whether a Federal District Court and the Appellant Court can enforce a Local State Law requiring affidavits for a federal prisoner's Federal Tort Clai…
19-5901 In Re Charles K. Hamilton 2019-09-10 Denied IFP civil-procedure-standing-jurisdiction-due-process- civil-rights constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge legal-standing standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's petition for writ of mandamus
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
19-299 G. D. P. v. N. G. P. Maine 2019-09-05 Denied civil-rights constitutional-due-process domestic-violence due-process federal-jurisdiction government-surveillance international-law protection-from-abuse standing takings torture torture-allegations torture. Whether the Petitioner's constitutional rights were violated due to alleged torture, surveillance, and lack of government protection
19-290 Jay Nolan Renobato v. Bureau of the Fiscal Service Fifth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Response Waived antitrust antitrust-law authority-under-section-636-rule-72 bill-of-rights-excessive-government-power civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitution-application-judicial-proceedings-prop constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-jurisdiction government-power judicial-procedure judicial-transgressions-conflicts-miscarriages rule-12b1-subject-matter-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction treasury-regulations Whether Acts of Congress and the Constitution require their corrected application to judicial proceedings, property ownership, and interstate commerce…
19-5744 Johnny Ellery Smith v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP assimilative-crimes-act criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution federal-jurisdiction indian-country indian-law major-crimes-act state-law tribal-sovereignty Did the federal government's prosecution of an Indian for violation of state law in Indian country violate federal statutes and tribal sovereignty ret…
19-259 Maron Pictures Ltd. v. Sam Eigen, et al. California 2019-08-28 Denied berne-convention contributory-copyright-infringement copyright-act copyright-infringement copyright-law copyright-ownership federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption motion-picture motion-picture-rights preemption state-court state-court-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation How can any state court make conclusions in relation to motion picture rights without referring to the Copyright Act to make a determination?
19-262 Xiao-Ying Yu v. Robert R. Neall, Secretary, Maryland Department of Health, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-08-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 11th-amendment-immunity ada-title-vii civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eeoc-jurisdiction employment employment-discrimination federal-diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction pleadings retaliation right-to-sue standing Whether the lower courts' refusal to consider EEOC's right-to-sue letter and her statements as part of pleadings, and her request and leave for amendm…
19-5743 Michael Dewayne Hegwood v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 binding-precedent career-offender criminal-procedure criminal-resentencing federal-jurisdiction first-step-act jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Does the First Step Act authorize a court to 'impose' a reduced sentence in accordance with such statutes as 18 U.S.C. §§ 3553(a) and 3582(a), or does…
19-5699 Robert Gray v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-firearms-law federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) authorizes conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there is no …
19-5663 Clifford L. Robinson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP enterprise-profits federal-jurisdiction motive motive-element pecuniary-gain racketeering state-murder vcar-statute Does the application of the 'enterprise profits' theory stretch the application of the VCAR statute far beyond what Congress intended and federalize a…
19-5628 Charles Rochester v. New York State Division of Human Rights, et al. New York 2019-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion abuse-of-power administrative-law anti-injunction-act civil-rights conflict-of-interest discrimination-claims due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction investigative-misconduct state-court-proceedings tampering-with-evidence Does the United States District Court and United States Second Circuit Court of Appeals have a duty to protect jurisdiction and join a state case, and…
19-5632 T. A., et al. v. Howard B. Leff, et al. Second Circuit 2019-08-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-violations domestic-relations-exception due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-immunity quid-pro-quo racketeering rooker-feldman standing sua-sponta-fiduciaries Is it error to impose judicial immunity when the pleadings detail that NYS Judge and sua sponta appointed Part 36 Fiduciaries acted without jurisdicti…
19-5651 Gary Ray Bowles v. Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-20 Denied IFP 18-usc-3599 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-enforcement clemency clemency-proceedings death-penalty due-process federal-counsel federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus intellectual-disability right-to-counsel section-3599 Can state officials bar a death-sentenced individual's 18 U.S.C. § 3599 counsel from representing him in state clemency proceedings, and if not, is th…
19-5623 Deshawn Legrier v. United States Second Circuit 2019-08-16 GVR IFP 18-usc-922 18-usc-924 criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction firearms firearms-possession indictment knowingly-element rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the district court lacked subject-matter jurisdiction where the indictment for violating § 922(g)(1) did not charge the defendant with any off…
19-5602 Kirk Wayne McBride, Sr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-08-15 Denied IFP administrative-agency administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure declaratory-relief due-process exclusionary-rule exhaustion-of-remedies federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment habeas-corpus probable-cause search-and-seizure standing Whether the court of appeals erred by concluding that the petitioner's federal habeas corpus claim under 28 U.S.C. Section 2241 rather than under Titl…
19-191 Ashley Wilcox Page v. Todd L. Hicks, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 11th-amendment civil-procedure eleventh-amendment federal-court federal-jurisdiction lapides-v-board-of-regents removal sovereign-immunity state-court state-removal waiver waiver-by-removal Does a state waive its sovereign immunity by voluntarily removing a civil claim from state to federal court?
19-5575 Antwaine Enta Yarbrough v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus precedent sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions supreme-court supreme-court-review Whether this Court should hold the instant petition in light of Shular v. United States
19-5556 Regina Lewis v. United States Second Circuit 2019-08-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-magistrate federal-state-balance procedural-violation rule-of-lenity standing statutory-interpretation title-18-usc-115 Did United States Magistrate Gabriel Gorenstein violate the Fed. R. Civ. P. Rule 4 (b)
19-5557 Josiah English, III v. Theodore Campagnolo, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Judge of the Maricopa County Superior Court, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-jurisdiction irreparable-harm ninth-circuit standing state-officials younger-abstention Did the U.S. District Court err in invoking the Younger Abstention Doctrine and not allowing the Plaintiff to state a claim in his Civil Rights action…
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?
19-5511 Robert Hill v. Dave Jassen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus incarceration judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation Whether the dismissal of a civil case by a district court for lack of jurisdiction over an incarcerated petitioner violates the Eighth Amendment's pro…
19-5495 David Gray v. Phil Bryant, Governor of Mississippi, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-08-07 Denied IFP access-to-courts assault civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-dismissal due-process excessive-force federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus legal-procedure prisoner-rights retaliation standing Whether petitioner's civil rights were violated when his in forma pauperis application was denied, resulting in the dismissal of his civil rights laws…
19-5469 Brock Fay Fish v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction 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
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
19-5370 Pedro Medina Castillon v. California California 2019-07-29 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction harmless-error heat-of-passion jury-instructions penal-code preemption standing state-law-claim subject-matter-jurisdiction vagueness Whether the federal court had proper pendent jurisdiction over state law claims
19-125 Gale Zamore v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, Individually and as Trustee for JP Morgan Mortgage Acquisition Trust 2007-CH5 Asset Backed Pass-Through Certificates Series 2007-CH5, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 15-usc-1635 amos-v-glynn-county civil-rights claim-preclusion due-process exxon-mobil-v-saudi-basic federal-jurisdiction federal-vs-state-law-for-res-judicata jesinoski-v-countrywide-home-loans res-judicata semtek-v-lockheed-martin statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tila tila-rescission tila-rescission-as-completed-event Whether the Eleventh Circuit can ignore Exxon Mobil and apply its own discarded standard
19-5361 Luis D. Cabrera Mejia v. Walmart Fourth Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-litigation civil-procedure civil-rights class-action court-procedure due-process employment federal-jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue legal-parties lower-court-error standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in violation of 4 U.S.C. § 4
19-5325 Alan Victor Gomez Gomez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-25 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure force-element immigration-law mens-rea reckless-mental-state sentencing sentencing-law statutory-interpretation Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men…
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…
19-5318 Marilee Brown v. David Bernhardt, Secretary of the Interior, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process employment equal-protection federal-employment federal-jurisdiction hostile-work-environment personnel-actions retaliation standing suicide whistleblower workplace-discrimination wrongful-removal Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
19-5288 In Re Otis B. Brascom 2019-07-23 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the false complaint and indictment in violation of Rule 12(b)(6) of the Federal Rules …
19-5238 Arthur Lopez v. The Irvine Company Apartment Communities, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation due-process fair-housing-act federal-jurisdiction federal-review jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction remedies standing state-court-jurisdiction state-law Whether the Plaintiff and the General Cable did B permitted to Pursue Relief from Violations of the Kou Hearing Act (1968) for Segregation and Hearing…
19-5087 Willie Johnson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3559 categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing enumerated-list-of-offenses enumerated-offenses essential-nature federal-jurisdiction federal-statute federal-three-strikes-law prior-state-crime sentencing statutory-interpretation three-strikes-law Whether the categorical approach permits a court to compare 'the essence' of a prior state crime of conviction to the 'essential nature' of a specific…
19-5051 Armando Duarte Islas, Jr. v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence arizona-jurisdiction civil-rights confrontation-clause due-process federal-agencies federal-jurisdiction federal-organization habeas-corpus Whether Arizona had jurisdiction over events that occurred wholly, and investigated exclusively by agencies under exclusive federal organization?
18-9811 Eli Sloan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-jurisdiction due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction indian-law indigent-counsel native-american-rights sixth-amendment standing tribal-sovereignty uncounseled-conviction Are (Navajo Indians) Native American Indians U.S. citizens within the jurisdictions of 18 U.S.C.S § 1153 (Indian Country)?
18-9833 Sade Mone v. United States Federal Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation constitutional-violations contract-dispute court-of-federal-claims executive-department federal-claims-court federal-jurisdiction federal-regulations implied-contract little-tucker-act monetary-claim tucker-act Does the United States Court of Federal Claims have jurisdiction over cases against the United States based on an implied contract with an executive d…
18-1592 Allstate Insurance Company v. Daniel Rivera, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii article-iii-standing civil-procedure defamation fair-credit-reporting-act fcra federal-jurisdiction standing state-law-claims supplemental-jurisdiction trial-court-discretion Whether a federal court may exercise supplemental jurisdiction over state-law claims when it determines after trial that a plaintiff lacks standing to…
18-9815 Kazi Bowles v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions discretion district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction petition relief standing writ-of-habeas-corpus Whether the district court erred in not applying a clear error standard of review when reviewing the petitioner's motion for relief from judgment for …
18-9818 Bruce Allen Echols v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2019-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court lacked jurisdiction, committing reversible error by entertaining a claim that had not been exhausted by the well-established p…
18A1358 Michael Bornemann v. Benjamin Paul Kekona, et ux. Hawaii 2019-06-25 Presumed Complete 28-usc-1254 appellate-review federal-jurisdiction state-supreme-court supreme-court-rule writ-of-certiorari Whether a state supreme court's rejection of a writ of certiorari application can be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court under federal jurisdiction
18A1359 Louisiana Health Service & Indemnity Company, dba Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana v. Encompass Office Solutions, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2019-06-25 Presumed Complete benefits-plan certiorari erisa federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit health-insurance Whether a health insurance provider can be subject to federal court jurisdiction in a dispute involving the interpretation of a benefits plan under ER…
18-1574 William Henry Starrett v. Department of Defense, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied Response Waived 12(b)(6) appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process factual-allegations federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure motion-to-dismiss patent pleading pleading-standards standard-of-review standing takings technology-law Whether a complaint can survive a motion to dismiss when its factual allegations and claims involve one or more technologies, or capabilities of combi…
18-9763 Stirling Michael Heaton v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP concurrent-sentences concurrent-sentencing criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing discretion federal-guidelines federal-jurisdiction federal-plea-agreement judicial-discretion modification retroactive-amendment retroactive-guidelines-amendment sentence-concurrency sentencing-guidelines sentencing-modification sentencing-reform-act Whether a sentencing court has discretion to adjust a federal sentence to achieve concurrency with another criminal sentence in § 3582(c)(2) proceedin…
18-1566 Charles D. Scoville v. Securities and Exchange Commission Tenth Circuit 2019-06-21 Denied Amici (1) civil-procedure criminal-prosecution dodd-frank-act due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction extraterritorial-reach extraterritoriality federal-jurisdiction sec-enforcement securities-exchange-act securities-exchange-act-of-1934 securities-law securities-regulation statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether Section 929P(b)'s jurisdictional amendments conferred substantive extraterritorial reach upon Sections 10(b) and 17(a) in SEC enforcement acti…
18-9750 John G. Curry v. Mark Joseph Lopez, Associate Judge, Circuit Court of Illinois, Cook County, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-06-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act civil-rights-violations constitutional-deprivation due-process federal-forum federal-jurisdiction judicial-immunity mandamus mandamus-relief rooker-feldman-doctrine standing Whether John G. Curry or someone similarly situated can be denied a federal forum, contrary to standards, by misapplication of doctrines, such as Rook…
18-9732 Bejan David Etemad v. North Dakota North Dakota 2019-06-19 Denied IFP appeals certiorari constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process-clause federal-certiorari federal-jurisdiction jury-trial jury-verdict state-court state-courts state-supreme-court Can any State Court of last resort or specifically the North Dakota Supreme Court completely abrogate due process to the point that no process existed…
18-9733 Bobby F. McReynolds v. Preston Glenn, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-06-19 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus medical-treatment prisoner-rights procedural-default scheduling standing state-court-review surgery Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's case
18-9687 Candelario Lucio-Garza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-17 Denied IFP attempted-crime attempted-reentry circuit-conflict criminal-law federal-jurisdiction immigration mens-rea specific-intent united-states-v-resendiz-ponce Does the crime of attempted illegal reentry incorporate the common-law mens rea of a specific intent to commit the completed offense?
18-1547 Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. v. Shawn Jensen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-06-14 Denied 28-usc-636 civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-litigation constitutional-violation federal-court-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-rights magistrate-judge magistrate-judge-selection magistrate-jurisdiction prison-litigation-reform-act prospective-relief statutory-interpretation Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in allowing parties to choose their own magistrate judge and in permitting prospective relief in a prisoner case witho…
18-9661 William Kostopoulos v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1512 criminal-procedure criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction federal-nexus law-enforcement mens-rea misdemeanor obstruction-of-justice statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant's general denial to state law enforcement officers that he committed a misdemeanor offense is sufficient to meet the federal nexus…
18-9610 Keith Wromas, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2019-06-11 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-law data-protection due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech privacy standing Whether the petitioner's alleged unlimited access to any and all modal and personal data under Florida law violates federal constitutional rights
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
18-1531 South Carolina v. United States, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-06-11 Denied Amici (1) administrative-law civil-procedure department-of-energy environmental-law environmental-policy federal-jurisdiction nuclear-energy ripeness separation-of-powers standing standing-doctrine statutory-interpretation Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in holding that South Carolina lacked standing to challenge the DOE's final ac…
18-1532 Timothy J. Johnston v. Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-06-11 Denied civil-procedure due-process federal-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction privity rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing state-court-judgment state-court-judgments Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars a plaintiff from suing in federal court by claiming it was not a party to the earlier state court litigation,…
18-1533 William Henry Starrett, Jr. v. City of Richardson, Texas Fifth Circuit 2019-06-11 Denied civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 civil-rights-42-usc-1985 civil-rights-statute conspiracy conspiracy-claims due-process federal-jurisdiction municipal-liability pleading-standards pleading-sufficiency pleadings section-1983 texas-tort-claims-act Whether allegations are sufficient to support claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and 42 U.S.C. §§ 1985(2)-(3)
18A1285 Jason Edward Rheinstein v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland Fourth Circuit 2019-06-10 Presumed Complete 28-usc-1447d appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review circuit-split federal-jurisdiction remand-order Whether a federal court of appeals has jurisdiction to review an entire remand order under 28 U.S.C. §1447(d) or only a specific portion of that order
18-9526 Jimcy McGirt v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2019-06-07 Judgment Issued Amici (13)Response RequestedRelisted (11)IFP criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus indian-country indian-major-crimes-act major-crimes-act state-jurisdiction state-law Whether Oklahoma courts can continue to unlawfully exercise criminal jurisdiction over Indians accused of major crimes in Indian Country
18-9515 Brandon Christopher Pierre v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-rights conviction-and-sentencing criminal-procedure due-process false-arrest false-imprisonment federal-jurisdiction malicious-prosecution probable-cause Under what circumstances can a federal court falsely and wrongfully indict, arrest, imprison, convict, and sentence an individual under the 'color of …
18-9575 In Re Phillip Love 2019-06-06 Denied IFP commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-power federalism interstate-commerce jurisdiction necessary-and-proper-clause statutory-interpretation Can the federal government punish felonious crimes under the constitutional Interstate Commerce Clause within the 50 compact states of the Union?
18-9539 Keenan Brown v. Walmart Stores, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2019-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination federal-jurisdiction retaliation standing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment whistle-blower Did the Illinois Northern District Court erred its decision by not properly exercising Rule 56 Summary Judgment with all evidence being examined as a …
18-9551 Antoaneta Iotova, et al. v. McCabe, Weisberg and Conway, LLC Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process federal-jurisdiction standing takings Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim
18-9510 Rasaq Aderoju Raheem v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure conviction criminal-procedure defendant-conviction due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit jurisdiction legal-review standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by affirming Defendant's Raheem conviction
18-9495 Jason Jones v. Martha Underwood, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-05-31 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 federal-habeas-corpus federal-jurisdiction federal-statute habeas-corpus ineffective-remedy intervening-decision mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence post-conviction-relief retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing statutory-construction Whether petitioner is entitled to seek federal habeas corpus relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2241
18-9499 Chad Austin v. Timothy Stewart, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal bureau-of-prisons civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-review retroactive-application sentencing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation time-bar How can the Bureau of Prisons make petitioner's federal sentence, where petitioner was sentenced of violating 18 USC 3581(b), 18 USC 3553, USSG § 5G1.…
18-1496 Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of All Title III Debtors Other Than COFINA v. Aurelius Investment, LLC, et al. First Circuit 2019-05-31 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Response Waived administrative-law appointments-clause article-ii article-iv constitutional-law federal-jurisdiction financial-oversight financial-oversight-and-management-board financial-oversight-board oversight-board puerto-rico separation-of-powers territorial-clause territorial-governance Whether the Appointments Clause governs the appointment of members of the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico
18-1490 Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Bucks County, et al. v. Jason Piasecki Third Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied circuit-split custody federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus in-custody probation sex-offender-registration state-court state-court-conviction state-criminal-convictions third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously concluded that the respondent, who was no longer serving his state sentence of probation at the…
18-9427 Willie Anthony Saxby, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution dual-sovereignty due-process fair-notice federal-jurisdiction federal-state-jurisdiction pending-charges state-jurisdiction supervised-release Did the Federal Government violate the 'Doctrines of Dual Sovergeinship' which exist between Federal and State jurisdictions for prosecuting an 'alleg…
18-9421 In Re Ronald D. Veteto 2019-05-24 Denied IFP access-to-courts administrative-penalty civil-procedure civil-rights clerk-misconduct due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus mandamus-petition notice-pleading prisoner-litigation prisoner-rights sanctions Whether the district court and Eleventh Circuit erred in dismissing Veteto's civil rights claims and petitions for mandamus relief
18-1461 Dawn Marie Delebreau v. Cristina Danforth, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 bivens civil-rights constitutional-equality domestic-dependent-nations due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction native-american-rights section-1983 sovereign-immunity territorial-jurisdiction tribal-law tribal-sovereignty Are tribal laws considered territorial laws under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 such that Native Americans must also have an equal § 1983 remedy when Indians are c…
18-1467 Ty Clevenger v. Melanie Lawrence, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied Response Waived abstention administrative-hearing administrative-law article-iii-judges civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process federal-claims federal-jurisdiction judicial-review standing state-administrative-hearing state-court-judicial-review state-court-review younger-abstention younger-abstention-doctrine Where a state administrative hearing officer is prohibited from hearing a party's federal claim, may a federal court abstain from hearing that claim o…
18-9408 Freddie J. Hennington v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure criminal-procedure dismissal due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion legal-review procedural-error sentencing standing Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Hennington's appeal without considering the merits of his arguments
18-9417 Wade Lay v. United States, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP available-state-corrective-process certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-habeas-corpus federal-jurisdiction government-misconduct habeas-corpus standing state-court-determination wainwright-v-sykes Whether the government's actions in filing a Wainwright motion for a prisoner in state custody present a constitutional dilemma, and whether such acti…
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…
18-9279 Regina M. Preetorius v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights counsel-performance criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 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
18-9280 Miguel A. Jusino, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit 2019-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-or-controversy civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its application of the legal standard for determining if a plaintiff has standing to bring a claim
18-1434 United States v. Pablo Lovo and Joel Sorto District of Columbia 2019-05-15 Denied 18-usc-924 constitutional-challenge constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law federal-criminal-prosecution federal-jurisdiction firearms hobbs-act statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness Whether the subsection-specific definition of crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague
18-9229 Matthew DeRyan v. East Valley School District Washington 2019-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada ada-protections ada-rights-violation administrative-investigation civil-rights disability disability-rights due-process false-allegations false-arrest federal-jurisdiction fraud-by-court k-12-classrooms social-security-disability standing wrongful-termination Whether the Lower courts, if in violation of Petitioner's Disability-Rights, disregarding attempts at asserting Federal-ADA-Rights, denials of motions…
18-9223 Michael R. Gamble v. Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority Sixth Circuit 2019-05-10 Denied IFP ada-claims americans-with-disabilities-act animus civil-rights disability disability-discrimination disability-discrimination-claims due-process employment-termination federal-jurisdiction intentional-discrimination standing termination workers-compensation Whether Plaintiff's sustained muscular atrophy rendered him disabled under the Americans with Disabilities Act
18-9192 Michael Balice v. United States Third Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 16th-amendment civil-procedure civil-procedure-summary-judgment constitutional-limitations due-process federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction standing statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction summary-judgment tax tax-lien trial-by-jury Whether the grant of summary judgment was erroneous and improper due to factual disputes between the litigants
18-9178 Matthew Oliver Alford v. Erik A. Hooks, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Safety, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction grand-jury habeas-corpus indictment jurisdictional-constraints procedural-limitations standing state-court-conviction Did the district Court (WDNC) and the 4th Cir. Court violate petitioner's right to access a federal court & right to due process by applying the wrong…
18-1407 Anita M. Barrow v. B. Grant Willis, et al. First Circuit 2019-05-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights civil-rights-act congressional-intent constitutional-violation discrimination due-process equitable-tolling fair-housing-act federal-jurisdiction pro-se-litigant Should the First Circuit Court have applied the doctrine of equitable tolling regarding Appellant's tardy brief and heard the merits of the case with …
18-1392 John M. Barone v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-property-rights constitutional-rights due-process fannie-mae federal-jurisdiction foreclosure foreclosure-fraud nemo-dat-quod-non-habet pro-se-litigation securities securities-law standing state-actor takings takings-clause Whether the U.S. government's unconstitutional involvement in millions of foreclosures through FHFA and de facto state-actor Fannie Mae subjects it to…
18-9101 Pierre Montanez v. Ursula Walowski Illinois 2019-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-jurisdiction federalism judicial-regulation judicial-review peremptory-challenges separation-of-powers standing supremacy-clause supreme-court-precedent Whether the subject of peremptory challenges are valid under the Separation of Powers, Due Process, and the Supremacy Clause
18-9122 Don Nell Hawkins v. Patricia A. Gaughan Sixth Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 access-to-courts appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights denial-of-access due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey judicial-procedure section-2255 standing subject-matter-jurisdiction successive-2255-motion Whether the doctrine of Heck v. Humphrey applies to denial of access to court claims?
18-9089 Itoffee Gayle v. Home Box Office, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure copyright-infringement due-process fair-use federal-jurisdiction first-amendment intellectual-property motion-to-dismiss second-circuit standing Whether the plaintiff's intellectual property was improperly featured in the defendant's (HBO) series, Vinyl
18-9040 Valerie Arroyo v. Joseph Colbert, Jr., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied IFP 1985 1988 and 18 U.S.C. §§ 241 242? 18-usc-241-242 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1985 42-usc-1988 civil-rights civil-rights-deprivation-due-process-42-usc-1983-1 color-of-law constitutional-violation due-process federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Did the lower tribunal, federal or state court, federal or state agencies, or employees' actions, conduct or interference were unconstitutional throug…
18-9073 Maurice Grayton v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction fraud rooker-feldman-doctrine standing state-court-proceedings third-party Whether the state bar examination process violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by discriminating against a disabled veteran-examinee
18-9035 In Re Clifford E. Avery 2019-04-30 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-procedure-rules due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction 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
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
18-8962 Ronald Collins, Jr. v. Kristen Keller Fourth Circuit 2019-04-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus standing statute-of-limitations Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in dismissing the appeal for lack of jurisdiction under Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(1)(A), despite the petitioner's argument…
18-8935 Scott B. Miserendino, Sr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law bribery-conviction buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction mcdonnell-v-united-states official-act question-not-identified section-2255-petition standing takings 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
18-8950 Jesus Manuel Moran v. Arizona Arizona 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech standing takings 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
18-8953 Carol J. Morris v. Noel Francisco, Solicitor General of the United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-04-23 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights compensation constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction just-compensation standing statutory-interpretation takings veterans-benefits Whether the petitioner was denied just compensation pursuant to Title 38 USC § 1151 when the Department of Veterans Affairs statute (being challenged)…
18-8867 James A. Brown v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus standing Whether the district court and court of appeals erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of jurisdiction and standing
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…
18-8801 Patrick Joseph Terry v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2019-04-11 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (11)IFP 18-usc-1151 criminal-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction federal-law indian-country indian-reservation indian-territory treaty treaty-boundaries tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty Whether the boundaries established in the Treaty of February 23, 1867, for the Eight (8) Tribes within the former Indian Territory of northeastern Okl…
18-1281 Hayes B. Milliman v. Timothy L. Randall California 2019-04-08 Denied Relisted (2) bankruptcy bankruptcy-law congressional-intent constitutional-interpretation diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction federal-question markham-v-allen probate-exception state-probate-court trust trusts wills What is the scope of the probate exception to federal jurisdiction?
18-8719 Ciaran Paul Redmond v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-04-08 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-conflict criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal federal-jurisdiction judicial-notice jurisdictional-element jury-instructions jury-trial sentencing standards-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether, after a jury trial, a federal court of appeals can take judicial notice of evidence submitted by the government for the first time on appeal …
18-8705 In Re Keith Bryan Webb-el 2019-04-04 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus human-rights illegal-confinement standing suspension-clause Whether the Petitioner Webb-EL's habeas corpus petition raising claims of actual innocence and illegal confinement warrants Supreme Court review
18-8642 DeJuan Leshae Hill v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-04-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924c 28-usc-2255 2nd-amendment 2nd-amendment-rights certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-offense habeas-corpus hobbs-act post-conviction-relief sentencing tenth-circuit unconstitutionality Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in failing to address the unconstitutionality of use and carry of a firearm under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) offenses, in rela…
18-8656 Geneva Elaine Hames v. Patricia Yeldell, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection standing civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus standing state-court-procedures Whether the denial of a constitutional right is permissible when a state court sets up a procedural bar to prevent review of the constitutional claim
18A1000 Parviz Karim-Panahi v. District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia 2019-04-01 Presumed Complete district-court federal-jurisdiction judicial-procedure pro-se removal writ-of-certiorari Whether a federal district court improperly remanded a case to state court after the plaintiff had validly removed the case to federal jurisdiction
18-8628 Deon Tremell Lee v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment citizenship citizenship-rights civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction nationality naturalization property-rights Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the denial of his claim of nationality and citizenship under the 14th Amendment, resul…
18-8614 Leonard Dwayne Hill v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment atf-regulations civil-procedure civil-rights commerce-clause due-process evidence federal-jurisdiction standing-issue statutory-interpretation Whether the 'terminal ballistics test' used to determine the dangerousness of ammunition is properly applied in this case
18-8582 Malvin Nater-Ayala v. United States First Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction racial-discrimination school-desegregation 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
18-8584 Antwan Jones v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy constitutional-challenge criminal-conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-statute due-process federal-indictment federal-jurisdiction mens-rea statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness title-21-usc-846 vagueness Is Title 21 U.S.C. §846 ATTEMPT AND CONSPIRACY UNCONSTITUTIONALLY VAGUE BECAUSE IT FAILS TO PROVIDE THE REQUIRED ESSENTIAL ELEMENT THAT THE DEFENDANT …
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
18-8563 Melvin Grayer v. James Filliyaw, Warden, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-03-26 Denied IFP 35-usc-101. civil-procedure due-process patent standing takings civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims alleging violations of the Fourteenth Amendment's due process and equal protection…
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
18-1218 Buchwald Capital Advisors LLC, Litigation Trustee to the Greektown Litigation Trust v. Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-03-20 Dismissed bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-law indian-tribes sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation tribal-law Whether the Bankruptcy Code abrogates the sovereign immunity of Indian tribes
18-8460 Antonio Avilez v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2019-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment kidnapping petitioner-rights Whether the Petitioner's conviction for kidnapping violated the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution?
18-1205 Phillip B. Leiser, et al. v. Donald W. Lemon, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-03-18 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights declaratory-relief due-process federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 standing state-court-judgment state-court-judgments subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Rooker-Feldman abstention doctrine applies to deprive the lower federal courts of subject matter jurisdiction when a state-court loser, se…
18-1206 Lynda Like, et al. v. Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Company, LLC Third Circuit 2019-03-18 Denied Amici (2) civil-procedure condemnation eminent-domain federal-jurisdiction immediate-possession judicial-power land-condemnation natural-gas-act preliminary-injunction private-companies private-property-rights takings Whether district courts are empowered to grant preliminary injunctions giving private companies immediate possession of land before final judgment in …
18-1196 In Re William Kinney, et ux. 2019-03-14 Denied 14th-amendment all-writs-act civil-rights district-court-discretion district-court-jurisdiction due-process equitable-tolling fair-debt-collection fdcpa fdcpa-claim federal-jurisdiction mandamus state-court-jurisdiction state-court-proceedings stay-of-proceedings title-42-claims Challenging dismissal of FDCPA and civil rights claims, seeking reinstatement and stay of state court proceedings
18-1180 New Vision Home Health Care, Inc., et al. v. Anthem, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied Response Waived 5th-circuit 6th-circuit administrative-law circuit-split collateral-claims due-process federal-jurisdiction mandamus-relief medicare-administrative-law-judge medicare-appeals-process medicare-contractors medicare-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction tort-claims Whether federal courts have jurisdiction to enforce a Medicare Administrative Law Judge's order
18-8391 Nam Nhat Ngo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-definition criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion legal-interpretation sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate…
18-8394 Asim Shakir Daniels v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-definition criminal-law due-process equal-protection federal-crime federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation legal-interpretation sentencing statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate…
18-8375 Zebadiah Holland v. Michigan Michigan 2019-03-11 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction racial-discrimination school-desegregation 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
18-1167 Sam Francis Foundation, et al. v. Sotheby's, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees civil-procedure copyright-act copyright-preemption discretionary-standard federal-copyright-act federal-copyright-law federal-jurisdiction legal-standard preemption procedural-interpretation state-statute uniformity Where an action is brought under a state statute preempted by section 301(a) the Copyright Act of 1976
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
18-8355 Mario Chester Tabron v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP burglary burglary-element criminal-enhancement criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment fourth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Did the Fourth Circuit and the Middle district Of North Carolina (Greensboro) err in affirming the USSG 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) | 4-Level enhancement without p…
18-8357 Richard A. Wilford v. Bradley M. Trate, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-privilege criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-prisoner governmental-custodian habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge pro-se pro-se-petition standing unlawful-detention Whether the dismissal for lack of jurisdiction of a federal prisoner's pro se petition for the writ of habeas corpus against the governmental custodia…
18-8322 In Re Richard Madkins 2019-03-07 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-imprisonment federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jurisdiction sentence-modification sentencing-modification state-jurisdiction unlawful-detention Whether it would result in a fundamental miscarriage of justice if failure to entertain petitioner constitutional claims
18-8334 Ada A. Gonzalez v. Alfredo Ernesto Gonzalez Florida 2019-03-07 Denied IFP administrative-law appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights domestic-relations due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion mandamus-writ standing state-court-review state-courts writ-of-mandamus Whether Petitioner is entitled to a writ of mandamus
18-8243 In Re Andre David Leffebre 2019-03-05 Dismissed IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure due-process equal-protection standing appeals civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus standing Whether civil procedure rules should be applied to habeas corpus proceedings
18-8215 Blake Sandlain v. C. Johnson, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech maritime standing state-statutes takings Does the right of maritime states implicate the validity of the Assente Amendment for the purpose of banning certain cases, or was the validity of mar…
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…
18-1125 ZocDoc, Inc. v. Radha Geismann, M.D., P.C. Second Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived civil-procedure class-action class-action-standing deposit federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure individual-relief judgment-entry mootness mootness-doctrine rule-67 rule-68 rule-68-offer standing Whether the deposit of full amount of plaintiff's individual claim with the court moots the plaintiff's claim
18-1126 Mufasa Wilson Sejour v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied Response Waived commerce-clause criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution hobbs-act interstate-commerce jurisdictional-reach local-business robbery sentencing Robbery-of-local-gas-station-for-$200-prosecuted-under-Hobbs-Act
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
18-8139 Louis A. Hardison v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP asset-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-procedure-forfeiture due-process federal-adoption federal-jurisdiction forfeiture in-rem-jurisdiction ineffective-counsel missouri-forfeiture-laws missouri-statute state-federal-jurisdiction state-law turnover-order Whether Missouri statute RSMO 513.607-613.647 provides exclusive in rem jurisdiction over seized property even when state and local government fail to…
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…
18-1113 Jeffrey Gray Thomas v. Laurie Zelon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-26 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-complaint district-court-dismissal due-process federal-circuit-court federal-jurisdiction free-speech judicial-precedent rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the dismissal of the federal civil rights complaint under the Rooker-Feldman doctrine
18-8122 Ralph Hall v. Darwin LaClair, et al. Second Circuit 2019-02-25 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jury-selection newly-discovered-evidence public-trial sixth-amendment standing Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial extends to the voir dire process of jury selection
18-8124 Tony Gross v. John Havlin, Warden Ohio 2019-02-25 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment gideon-v-wainwright judicial-jurisdiction right-to-counsel rothgery-v-gillespie-county sixth-amendment state-jurisdiction zerbst-v-johnson Whether states are required to appoint counsel in death penalty cases for all hearings before a judicial officer to sustain a valid conviction
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 …
18-8011 Kevin Kerr v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Eighth Circuit 2019-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1988 6th-amendment civil-rights competency criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech pardon pro-se-appearance psychological-evidence self-representation sixth-amendment standing Does 42 U.S.C. § 1988(a) confer jurisdiction on the respondent, the United States District Court, and the United States Court of Appeals conveying to …
18-8013 Paul Pieczynski v. Wells Fargo and Company, N.A. Third Circuit 2019-02-19 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-procedures due-process federal-jurisdiction land-patent supremacy-clause takings time treaty-law update weather If one is entitled to update a land patent, is there a time of day, time of year, season, weather event, or anything that would bar the update?
18-7993 Ronald Bedford v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-111 18-usc-1114 contractor criminal-law employee-status federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction government-contracts obstruction-of-justice official-duties postal-service statutory-interpretation trucking-contractor Whether an employee of a private trucking contractor that maintains a contract with the United States Postal Service is a person assisting an officer …
18-7994 Daniel H. King v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP bureau-of-prisons civil-commitment civil-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure custody-transfer district-of-columbia due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether someone serving a sentence imposed by the District of Columbia whose physical custody was transferred to the Bureau of Prisons is 'in the cust…
18-8005 Jason Brooks v. Angel Medina, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-02-15 Denied IFP appellate-review exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-of-remedies federal-appellate-court federal-appellate-review federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus merits-determination res-judicata rule-60-motion rule-60(b)(6) state-court-appeal state-court-appeals state-remedies Whether a federal appellate court can deny making a merits determination for a petitioner's failure to exhaust state remedies, when the petitioner's a…
18-7940 Charles Kelvin Johns v. Alabama Department of Human Resources Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-immunity property-rights Question not identified. racial-discrimination Whether the 11th Circuit has interfered with the black appellant's rights under 42 USC §1981 and 42 USC §1982
18-1051 James Dickey v. City of Boston Inspectional Services Department First Circuit 2019-02-11 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1443 42-usc-3617 appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-removal civil-rights-removal-act court-of-appeals federal-jurisdiction remand remand-standard removal statutory-interpretation Whether the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit erred when it concluded that removal was inappropriate under the Civil Rights Removal Act, 28 U.S.C…
18-7859 Frank D. Monsegue, Sr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-defects due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plea-agreement standing subpoena warrantless-arrest Whether defective summons/subpoena (without authorizing authority, name or signature) attached herein render the indictment defective?
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
18-1008 In Re Veronica Hollowell and Vivian Epps 2019-02-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) child-custody civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discovery-rule due-process family-law federal-jurisdiction incarceration jurisdiction jury-trial mental-fitness single-parent standing statute-of-limitations Whether the State Court lacked jurisdiction of the child since the unwed, single-parent mother's case was not jury adjudicated (the ex-boyfriend/fathe…
18-7692 Byron Anthony Horn v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indictment plea-bargaining pleading reasonable-doubt reasonable-sentence sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether facts that alter the range of 'reasonable' federal sentences must be pleaded in the indictment in federal cases?
18-7674 Michael S. Gorbey v. Michael McCall, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process extradition federal-jurisdiction federal-prisoner habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief prisoner-rights standing state-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Can a state habeas corpus be removed from state court to federal court?
18-7633 Michael Lynn Heard v. Scott Solomon, et al. Arkansas 2019-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction standing supremacy-clause title-42-usc-1983 Whether Section 16-123-105 of the Arkansas Rules of Civil Procedure violates the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution by denying this Co…
18-989 United States v. Marvin Lewis Fifth Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3) 18-usc-924 constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-prosecution federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution firearm-offense firearms statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether the subsection-specific definition of 'crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague
18-7552 Leroy Hayes v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2019-01-24 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity standing state-courts Whether a state court must hear a case as a matter of federal right when the state court has discretion to decline jurisdiction over the case
18-7519 Daltonia Duncan v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-4246 civil-commitment civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute judicial-procedure mental-health mental-health-law state-custody statutory-interpretation united-states-code Whether a district court may civilly commit a person under 18 U.S.C. § 4246 without first determining whether suitable arrangements for state custody …
18-7484 Nimon Naphaeng v. United States First Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction racial-discrimination school-desegregation 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
18-946 Abigail Arroyo v. Angel M. Torres-Sanchez, et al. First Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment judicial-discretion property property-rights public-interest standing takings Whether the Petitioner's rights to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, property and due process were violated by the Respondents' alleged deceit, abu…
18-7450 Bradley B. Miller v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP anti-injunction-act civil-liability civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-law judicial-immunity removal removal-proceedings state-court-procedure state-courts supremacy-clause title-28 Whether federal jurisdiction remains during the pendency of a removal
18-7463 Sherwin V. Koyle v. Sand Canyon Corporation, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fraud judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct newly-discovered-evidence perjury public-policy rule-of-law Whether a federal judge or justice condones fraudulent misrepresentation, perjury, disregard of the rule of law, denial of newly discovered evidence, …
18-7387 James Dennis Lenihan, III v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c 18-usc-924c3a carjacking crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-offense force-clause statutory-interpretation violent-crime Whether the federal offense of carjacking, as defined by 18 U.S.C. § 2119, categorically qualifies as a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(…
18-7326 Mark Anthony Soliz v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-01-11 Denied IFP certiorari-standard due-process federal-habeas-review federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit-review habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation plain-statement-rule procedural-default state-court-decision state-court-determination state-court-proceedings Whether this Court should grant certiorari to remand this case to the Fifth Circuit because the Fifth Circuit misapplied this Court's 'plain statement…
18-904 King Law Group, PLLC, et al. v. M2 Technology, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2019-01-11 Denied Response Waived bell-v-hood circuit-split civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction jurisdictional-facts merits merits-overlap procedural-standard standing steel-co-v-citizens-for-a-better-environment subject-matter-jurisdiction What is the proper procedure for handling situations in which jurisdictional and merits facts overlap?
18-7300 Michael L. Millis v. Stephen Kallis, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-USC-2241 28-usc-2255 custodian custody due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue prisoner-petition savings-clause section-2241 section-2255 transfer-of-venue What is the correct interpretation of the savings clause in 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e)?
18-894 Harold McNeal, et ux. v. Navajo Nation, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied Relisted (2) congressional-policy contract-negotiation federal-indian-law federal-jurisdiction gaming-enterprise indian-gaming-regulatory-act sovereign-immunity state-court state-court-jurisdiction tort-claim tort-claims tribal-sovereignty Whether the Tenth Circuit panel violated the current jurisprudence of this Court and the Congressional policy underlying IGRA by precluding the Nation…
18-7255 In Re Andre Barnes 2019-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights corporate-disclosure courts due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction parties relief 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
18-838 Scott Kaseburg, et al. v. Port of Seattle, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied civil-procedure federal-interest federal-jurisdiction federal-law federal-preemption federal-statute grable-type-jurisdiction property-rights quiet-title railroad-easement state-law subject-matter-jurisdiction trails-act Whether Grable-type subject matter jurisdiction exists where (A) it is undisputed that the Plaintiffs' state law cause of action for quiet title does …
18-7211 Frank M. Monte v. Joe Kessling, et al. Third Circuit 2019-01-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-jurisdiction diversity-jurisdiction due-process federal-jurisdiction federalism interstate-dispute judicial-review legal-standing original-jurisdiction standing state-sovereignty Whether a State has standing to bring an original legal action against a citizen of another State
18-816 Gavin B. Davis v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-27 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 28-usc-2201 5th-amendment 8-usc-1481(a)(2) due-process expatriation-act expatriation-act-of-1868 federal-jurisdiction frap-21(c) frcp-57 frivolous in-forma-pauperis jurisdiction ninth-circuit political-asylum standing Whether Plaintiff-Appellant's Due Process rights were abridged
18-783 John M. Barone v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Florida 2018-12-20 Denied Relisted (2) constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption foreclosure-fraud national-bank-act national-banks property-rights state-courts Whether the National Bank Act, 12 U.S.C. 1 et seq. restrictions on states, federal preemption and exclusive federal regulation vie for exclusive feder…
18-7088 Oscar Raul Mora v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-firearms-law federal-jurisdiction felon-in-possession firearms second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) exceeds Congress's power under the Commerce Clause
18-7044 Andrew John Yellowbear, Jr. v. Robert O. Lampert, Director, Wyoming Department of Corrections Wyoming 2018-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act constitutional-review due-process equal-protection federal-court-jurisdiction federal-court-review federal-jurisdiction federal-laws-and-statutes habeas-corpus indian-treaties indian-tribes-and-reservations state-habeas-corpus Whether the Wyoming Supreme Court's reliance on precedent derived from the state-friendly deferential standard of the Antiterrorism and Effective Deat…
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
18-6920 Clyde Retiz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indictment plea-bargaining reasonable-sentence sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether facts that alter the range of 'reasonable' federal sentences must be pleaded in the indictment in federal cases?
18-6942 Monserrate Zapata v. PECO Energy Company Third Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-regulatory-commission government-regulation pleading-standards property-rights smart-meter standing state-actor utility-regulation utility-service utility-shut-off Whether the Fourteenth Amendment due process rights were violated when PECO issued shut-off notices to the petitioner for failing to provide access to…
18-6912 Bryant Lamar Monie v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-statute drug-trafficking federal-jurisdiction federal-law felony-conviction persistent-felony-offender sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation Whether the Defendant's Kentucky Drug trafficking conviction fulfills the conviction requirement under the Federal Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA)?
18-6790 Clarence Otworth v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States District of Columbia 2018-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appeal appeals civil-procedure constitutional-rights equal-protection federal-jurisdiction final-order jurisdiction notice-of-appeal oath-of-office presidential-nonfeasance standing Is an appeal of a final order and a notice of appeal the same thing?
18-6833 Jose Ramon Zuniga, aka Josue Ararel Zuniga-Zaragoza, aka Jose Ramon Zuniga-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure discretion due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion offense-level residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-standards statutory-interpretation Whether a Guideline which incorporates by reference § 16(b)'s residual clause may serve as the basis for increasing the defendant's offense level unde…
18-682 Manuel Enrique Santana v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied aggravated-identity-theft appellate-conflict circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute federalism identity-theft means-of-identification name statutory-interpretation Whether the use of a name, without more, constitutes the use of a 'means of identification of another person' under 18 U.S.C. § 1028A
18-660 Kenneth J. Taggart v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. Third Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied carpenter-v-longan due-process federal-home-loan-mortgage-corporation federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption federal-removal freddie-mac mortgage note property-rights real-estate security-interest standing state-court-action Has the authority of the Freddie Mac to remove state court actions to federal court been extinguished?
18-6771 Johny Gardner v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-interpretation criminal-law federal-jurisdiction felon-in-possession firearms firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) exceeds Congress's power under the Commerce Clause
18-6784 In Re Samuel Rivera 2018-11-21 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-amendments constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment habeas-corpus jurisdictional-rules standing whether-court-judges-uphold-constitution
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…
18-6689 Israel Sanchez v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-negotiations pleading-standard supreme-court-precedent Is California's stringent pleading standard to allege a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel during plea negotiations contrary to the governing …
18-6712 Bryan Marque Gilstrap v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federalism preemption state-rights state-sovereignty Whether the case should be held in light of any case establishing limitations on Congressional power to criminalize areas of traditional state respons…
18-6697 Kevin Marquette Bellinger v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-jurisdiction jury jury-instructions malice-aforethought mens-rea murder murder-conviction statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence Whether there was sufficient evidence presented to the jury in Bellinger's case to convict Bellinger of murder as alleged in Counts One and Two, where…
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 …
18-6596 Matthew James Dury v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights commerce-clause district-court-jurisdiction document-processing due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech jurisdiction legal-filing procedural-due-process standing Whether the district court lacked jurisdiction under Article III, Section 8, Clause 3 to deny petitioner's challenge to the Interstate Commerce Act, r…
18-6630 In Re Taquan Gullett 2018-11-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus mandamus ministerial-duties standing Whether the lower court erred in refusing to correct the case title misnomer and dismissing the habeas corpus petition
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…
18-579 Alaska Airlines, Inc. v. Judy Schurke, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-02 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration-requirement civil-procedure collective-bargaining collective-bargaining-agreement federal-jurisdiction labor-management-relations-act labor-preemption labor-relations ninth-circuit-ruling preemption railway-labor-act state-law-claim state-law-claims Whether federal courts lack authority to inquire into the nature and scope of an alleged state law claim in determining whether resolution of that cla…
18-6541 Michael Stoller v. Wilmington Trust Seventh Circuit 2018-11-02 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights disability discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction judicial-review standing Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims alleging violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act
18-575 YPF S.A. v. Petersen Energia Inversora S.A.U., et al. Second Circuit 2018-11-01 Denied CVSGRelisted (2) civil-procedure commercial-activity commercial-activity-exception expropriation federal-jurisdiction foreign-sovereign-immunities-act jurisdictional-challenge legal-exception sovereign-immunity Whether the 'commercial activity' exception to sovereign immunity in the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, 28 U.S.C. 1605(a)(2), is inapplicable to su…
18-6526 In Re Masao Yonamine 2018-10-31 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights district-court exhaustion-of-state-remedies federal-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction federal-writ habeas-corpus personal-liberty state-writ unlawful-detention void-judgment writ-of-mandamus Whether a federal court may entertain and determine the merits of a state prisoner's application for habeas corpus relief from a void judgment, when t…
18-6483 Armando Chavez, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-sentencing indictment indictment-requirements judicial-discretion plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether facts that alter the range of reasonable' federal sentences must be pleaded in the indictment in federal cases?
18-6489 Guetatchew Fikrou v. Montgomery County Office of Child Support Enforcement Division, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion bankruptcy bankruptcy-code child-support civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute standing state-law supplemental-jurisdiction Whether the abuse of discretion standard applies to review of the issues presented in the petition
18-550 Brandi K. Stokes v. Christopher Lance Corsbie, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-10-26 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1447d civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction geneva-conventions grave-breaches international-law preemption removal removal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction war-crimes Whether 28 U.S.C. § 1447(d) is preempted by international law for claims involving grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions
18-502 William Kinney, et ux. v. Anderson Lumber Company, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction first-amendment fraud post-removal-statute remand remand-order removal vacatur Does the post removal statute, Title 28 Section 1447, bar the vacatur of a remand order obtained by attorney misconduct and fraud?
18-6372 Michael Small v. Cherry Lindamood, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-challenge due-process evidentiary-ruling federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion procedural-default procedural-rules sentencing state-court sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the United States Court of Appeals erred when it agreed with the district court that the claim of ineffective assistance of counsel was withou…
18-6311 Winston Ray Walters v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2018-10-12 Denied IFP congress congressional-disestablishment criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law criminal-prosecution disestablishment federal-jurisdiction federal-law habeas-corpus indian-reservation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-member tribal-membership Whether Congress has disestablished the reservation of the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Nation in Oklahoma
18-6312 Tyrone Mason v. Kevin Lindsey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-1 article-1-section-9 constitutional-law due-process equitable-tolling federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ninth-amendment standing writ-suspension Does Article 1 § 9 cl. 2 of the United States Constitution prohibit suspension of the writ of habeas corpus and implicitly grant the petitioner an ina…
18-448 Estate of Jerry West, Deceased v. Department of Veterans Affairs Sixth Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1447 38-usc-511 administrative-law civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction probate-exception remand subject-matter-jurisdiction veterans-affairs veterans-benefits Whether the Kentucky probate court has exclusive jurisdiction over the disability award under the 'probate exception' to federal-court jurisdiction, w…
18-6236 Thomas Lee Swan v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction reasons-for-granting-writ statement-of-case statutory-provisions Whether the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals erred in deferring to the state court's conviction of the petitioner despite the petitioner's claims of due p…
18-6248 Antonio Mercedes-Rijo v. United States First Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP congressional-power criminal-procedure define-and-punish-clause drug-trafficking due-process federal-jurisdiction high-seas mitigating-role sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-3b1.2 statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission Whether the Petitioner's Mitigating Role Should of Been Adjusted In Accordance With The United States Sentencing Guidelines § 3B1.2
18-6254 Lou Tyler v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP bias bias-in-courts big-business civil-rights consumer-protection due-process fair-credit-reporting-act fair-debt-collection-protection-agency federal-jurisdiction foreclosure mortgage-foreclosure pro-se pro-se-litigation standing statute-of-limitations Why did lower courts refuse to hear Plaintiff's case, is there bias in favor of Big Business?
18-6192 Pedro Rodriguez v. William D. Gore, Sheriff, San Diego County, California Ninth Circuit 2018-10-04 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction pleadings standing takings Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted
18-6222 Donte Timothy Bacon v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP as-applied-challenges class-v-united-states commerce-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure de-novo district-of-colombia-v-heller federal-criminalization federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution firearm-regulation guilty-plea interstate-commerce intrastate-firearm-possession intrastate-firearm-sale plain-error second-amendment standard-of-review statutory-interpretation unconditional-guilty-plea united-states-v-lopez Whether as-applied constitutional challenges to statutes of conviction are waived by an unconditional guilty plea, and the standard of review
18-6224 Lamond Latney v. Anthony Parker Fourth Circuit 2018-10-04 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-fines federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment incorporation standing takings Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause
18-419 Len Boogaard, et ux., as Personal Representatives of the Estate of Derek Boogaard, Deceased v. National Hockey League, et al. Seventh Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights federal-jurisdiction forfeiture judicial-discretion pleading-requirements remand removal state-law-claims tort-law Whether the federal courts abused their discretion in usurping a states' power to adjudicate common law tort claims
18-6181 Michael Patino v. Rhode Island Rhode Island 2018-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP and does not contain a full petition for writ of but the text you've provided appears to be incomp I cannot extract a meaningful Question Presented I will respond with: Question not identified. administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction standing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that the petitioner's claims are barred by the statute of limitations
18-6204 Jermaine Franklin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit plea-agreement plea-bargaining unconstitutional waiver-of-appeal Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by enforcing the unconstitutional Waiver of Appeal provision in Petitioner Franklin's Plea Agreement
18-403 Bruce A. Shear v. MAZ Partners, LP, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated First Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights disgorgement disgorgement-order district-court-power diversity-jurisdiction due-process equitable-power equitable-remedy erie-doctrine federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion jury-trial jury-verdict When a jury finds in favor of defendant on the sole claim asserted against him, may a district court affirm the verdict but then use 'equitable power'…
18-387 Ben Gary Triestman v. Barbara D. Underwood, Attorney General of New York Second Circuit 2018-09-26 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus in-custody liberty-restraint liberty-restraints order-of-protection restraint-of-liberty risk-of-incarceration standing state-court-orders supreme-court-precedent Triestman v. Underwood
18-389 Parker Drilling Management Services, Ltd. v. Brian Newton Ninth Circuit 2018-09-26 Judgment Issued Amici (8)Relisted (2) choice-of-law circuit-split fair-labor-standards-act federal-jurisdiction federal-law federal-preemption gap-filling outer-continental-shelf-lands-act reliance-interests state-law state-law-borrowing statutory-interpretation wage-and-hour-laws Whether, under OCSLA, state law is borrowed as the applicable federal law only when there is a gap in the coverage of federal law, as the Fifth Circui…
18-6104 Wayne Thomas, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law federal-jurisdiction johnson-standard johnson-v-united-states robbery-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states supreme-court supreme-court-review use-of-force violent-crime Does the Florida Robbery 812.13 meet use of force' as defined in Johnson -v. United States U.S. __ (2010)?
18-6098 Joe Johnson, Jr. v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2018-09-25 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (5)IFP criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-subject-matter-jurisdiction indian-country indian-law major-crimes-act organic-act prospective-decisions seminole-country seminole-tribe state-waiver-rule subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Supreme Court clearly established the prospective decisions that Seminole Country written in Congress Organic Act invokes the Major Crimes…
18-6100 Hugo Pliego-Hernandez v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-16 administrative-law attempted-robbery circuit-court-review criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process federal-jurisdiction guideline-commentary sentencing-guidelines seventh-circuit stare-decisis statutory-interpretation stinson-v-united-states Whether the Seventh Circuit contravened Stinson v. United States when it relied on guideline commentary inconsistent with 18 U.S.C. § 16
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?
18-341 Billie Faye Keyes, et al. v. Philip Gunn, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-09-17 Denied Response Waived ballot-disenfranchisement civil-rights due-process election-integrity election-interference equal-protection federal-jurisdiction legislative-misconduct standing voting voting-rights If state legislators intentionally discard ballots to swing an election, may the disenfranchised voters bring suit in federal court to enforce the gua…
18-346 Estate of Jason Allen Smallwood v. United States Federal Circuit 2018-09-17 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction implied-contract implied-in-fact-contract jurisdiction jurisdictional-bar scheuer-v-rhodes sovereign-immunity standing statutory-interpretation tucker-act veterans-benefits whether-the-trial-court-properly-determined-the-estate's-complaint-must-fail
18-6002 David Librace v. Deborah Helton Wright, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-09-17 Denied IFP appeal civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-circuit federal-jurisdiction legal-notice procedural-defect remand service-of-process standing summary-judgment Whether the lower court erred in granting summary judgment in favor of the respondents when their attorney knew the summary judgment was issued illega…
18-5990 Omar Odale Brockman v. Erick Balcarcel, Acting Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP AEDPA aedpa-statute-of-limitations certificate-of-appealability federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus procedural-rulings slack-v-mcdaniel statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction us-v-cotton Does petitioner Brockman properly assert that Sup. Ct. R. 10(c) warrants him certiorari relief?
18-328 Kevin C. Rotkiske v. Paul Klemm, et al. Third Circuit 2018-09-13 Judgment Issued Amici (7)Response RequestedRelisted (3) circuit-split civil-procedure consumer-protection discovery-rule fair-debt-collection-practices-act federal-jurisdiction standing statute-of-limitations Whether the 'discovery rule' applies to toll the one-year statute of limitations under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1692, et s…
18-316 Brian Arthur Weese v. Maryland Fourth Circuit 2018-09-11 Denied civil-procedure-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process facial-challenge federal-jurisdiction federal-rules jurisdictional-challenge material-allegations nonmoving-party personal-jurisdiction pleading-requirements sovereign-immunity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction sufficiency-of-pleadings Whether the court lacks subject matter and personal jurisdiction over the case
18-299 Ross Harry Briggs v. Charles E. Rendlen, III, Judge, United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri Eighth Circuit 2018-09-07 Denied Response Waived article-iii bankruptcy bankruptcy-court civil-procedure claims-allowance creditor-debtor creditor-debtor-relations due-process federal-claim federal-jurisdiction judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction separation-of-powers Whether a federal claim pending before an Article I bankruptcy judge and intertwined with the bankruptcy but resolvable outside the claims allowance p…
18-5903 Rufus Jones v. Nancy A. Berryhill, Acting Commissioner of Social Security, et al. Second Circuit 2018-09-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 42-usc-407 42-usc-423 5th-amendment constitutional-supremacy discrimination-protection due-process equality-act federal-jurisdiction garnishment judicial-conduct judicial-oath jurisdiction social-security social-security-benefits supremacy-clause title-ii Does Social Security claimants have the right to receive all back payments free from garnishments or attachments?
18-5840 George Stoney v. United States Third Circuit 2018-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924c3a categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime Under the categorical approach, does a Hobbs Act conviction qualify as a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)
18-5743 Joyce Simmons v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction standing takings Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing
18-5666 Arthur Dennison v. Mark Hooks, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-08-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-habeas-corpus federal-jurisdiction federal-review habeas-corpus sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-court-of-appeals state-prisoner statutory-interpretation Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying a certificate of appealability to state prisoner Arthur Dennison to challenge the denial of his …
18-204 Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC v. Iris Pounds, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-08-16 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction fraud independent-action independent-actions lack-of-jurisdiction rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-judgment state-court-judgments subject-matter-jurisdiction Does the Rooker-Feldman doctrine prohibit a federal district court from exercising jurisdiction over an independent action challenging the validity of…
18-181 Larry Elliot Klayman v. Stephanie Ann Luck Ohio 2018-08-09 Denied civil-procedure comity constitutional-hierarchy due-process federal-court-judgment federal-judgment federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption judicial-enforcement state-court-intervention state-court-jurisdiction state-court-order supremacy-clause writ-of-execution Whether the Supremacy Clause precludes a state court from enjoining the enforcement of a federal court judgment
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…
18-170 John Anthony Gentry v. Tennessee, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) attorney-misconduct constitutional-rights constitutional-rights-enforcement due-process federal-jurisdiction government-reform judicial-misconduct judicial-oversight republican-form republican-government sovereign-immunity state-reform state-sovereignty Whether a state's sovereign immunity is vitiated when the state government is no longer republican in character or form
18-5493 Maceo Gant v. Thomas Winn, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability district-court district-court-decision due-process federal-jurisdiction final-judgment habeas-corpus jurisdiction plea-bargain plea-conviction sixth-circuit state-court-conviction unresolved-claims Whether the Sixth Circuit had jurisdiction to consider the petitioner's unresolved challenges to his state court plea conviction where the district co…
18-152 Gregory Garmong v. Supreme Court of Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-06 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-complaint due-process exxon-mobil-precedent exxon-mobil-v-saudi-basic federal-jurisdiction judicial-review ninth-circuit rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983-complaint standing stare-decisis state-court-judgments Whether the Ninth Circuit may ignore and refuse to follow this Court's precedent in application of the Rooker-Feldman doctrine, which requires that th…
18-159 Angela D. Clack v. United Services Automobile Association Fifth Circuit 2018-08-06 Denied Response Waived 9-usc-4 arbitration-agreement arbitration-jurisdiction civil-procedure due-process eeoc-claims failure-neglect-refusal-to-arbitrate federal-arbitration-act federal-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction motion-to-compel standing statutory-trial title-vii Whether a federal court can exercise jurisdiction to compel arbitration based solely on the existence of an arbitration agreement, without a finding o…
18-5454 In Re Deborah Elizabeth Gouch-Onassis 2018-08-06 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech standing takings Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's complaint for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted under Rule 12(b)(6…
18-5363 Reynaldo Rendon, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-interpretation criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federalism firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce interstate-commerce-clause state-lines Whether the Interstate Commerce Clause authorizes Congress to criminalize the possession of every firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any tim…
18-5305 Aubry Rae Johnson v. Paul Copenhaver, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-counting due-process federal-custody federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus habeas-petition jurisdiction primary-jurisdiction sentencing state-custody time-served Does 18 U.S.C. § 3585 prevent a federal sentence from commencing where federal authorities do not have primary jurisdiction of the inmate?
18-5277 Roger Charles Day, Jr. v. Office of the President District of Columbia 2018-07-19 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedures-act agency-action due-process equal-protection executive-office-of-president federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-review standing title-18-usc-3192 title-5-usc-551 Whether the Executive Office of the President is required to provide hearing and adjudication to the aggrieved petitioner under Title 5 U.S.C. §§ 551 …
18-5273 Davian Wilson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP authentication criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sufficiency-of-evidence criminal-trial evidence-authentication federal-criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction guilty-verdict jury-verdict native-american reasonable-jury sentencing-disparities sentencing-disparity standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the district court erred in finding sufficient evidence for a guilty verdict against Mr. Wilson
18-83 Stephen Busch, et al. v. Tamara Nappier, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-07-17 Denied circuit-split delegation-of-authority doubts-against-removal doubts-in-favor-of-federal-jurisdiction facial-challenge federal-jurisdiction federal-officer-removal removal-notice Whether a court resolves all doubts against removal and in favor of remand, or accepts the removal notice's allegations as true and resolves all doubt…
18-69 Yan Ping Xu v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2018-07-12 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process employee-retaliation equal-protection federal-defendants federal-jurisdiction legal-remedy municipal-authority municipal-liability retaliation Whether no remedy for the former municipal employee injured directly from her supervisors, federal defendants clothed with municipal authority power, …
18-5110 Abron Spraggins v. Rusty Washburn, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review cause-and-prejudice civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process federal-claim federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-decisions procedural-default state-appellate-court Is the decision of the court of appeals regarding the procedural default of petitioner's ineffective assistance of counsel claims in conflict with or …
18-10 Stephen J. Anderson, et ux. v. Gary L. Rainsdon, Chapter 7 Trustee Ninth Circuit 2018-07-02 Denied appeal-time-limits appeals bankruptcy-procedure bankruptcy-trustee chapter-7-bankruptcy civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure official-capacity standing statutory-interpretation time-to-appeal united-states-officer Whether a Chapter 7 bankruptcy trustee is a 'United States officer or employee sued in an official capacity' for the purposes of Fed. R. App. 4(a)(1)(…
18-5087 Peter Wilson v. Daniel Paramo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-07-02 Denied IFP aedpa civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law free-speech habeas-corpus standing state-prisoners statute-of-limitations Whether the one-year statute of limitations under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) violates due process by depriving state pr…
18-3 Robbie Ohlendorf, et al. v. Local 876, United Food & Commercial Workers International Union Sixth Circuit 2018-06-28 Denied alexander-v-sandoval check-off-authorization duty-of-fair-representation federal-jurisdiction first-amendment labor-management-relations labor-management-relations-act private-right-of-action revocation statutory-interpretation Whether Section 302 of the Labor Management Relations Act provides a private right of action
24A255 Irina Collier v. Donald J. Trump District of Columbia Presumed Complete circuit-court federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus petition-routing procedural-irregularity state-court Whether a federal habeas corpus petition challenging a state court conviction can be properly filed and adjudicated when procedural irregularities exi…