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25-6762 Eileen McLaughlin v. Community Living Association, et al. Maine 2026-02-10 Pending IFP civil-liberties due-process federal-law judicial-review medical-rights workers-compensation 1. Does The Court uphold the lower court 's current authority and decisions ordered by the powerful legal system (relying on Insurance Company paid re…
25-6767 Mario A. Manborde v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2026-02-10 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law due-process federal-law judicial-review manifest-injustice unreasonable-determination I. Is There a Constitutional Cure For Manifest Injustice? II. Was There An Unreasonable Application of Clearly Established Federal Laws Upon An Unrea…
25-6707 Elijah Dwayne Joubert v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2026-02-03 Pending IFP capital-trial false-testimony federal-law habeas-corpus materiality-burden napue-standard Whether, under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1), a standard that places the burden on the petitioner to prove materiality from the State's knowing elicitation a…
25-6648 Nathan Bermea v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-01-22 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction federal-law firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) , the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exc…
25-6556 Darrell Jones v. Stephen Reynolds, Acting Warden Sixth Circuit 2026-01-13 Pending Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-review sixth-circuit Where the Petitioner-Appellant's case presented a substantial showing of a denial of a constitutional right, and where the issues presented were debat…
25-720 Louemma Cromity v. City of Orlando, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-18 Pending circuit-split civil-procedure federal-law judicial-error legal-interpretation rule-60b Whether the Eleventh Circuit's continued refusal to apply Kemp v. United States, 596 U.S. 528 (2022), directly conflicts with this Court's holding tha…
25-6283 Samuel Patrick Cain, Jr. v. Carrie Bridges, Warden Tenth Circuit 2025-12-04 Pending IFP constitutional-claim district-court federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-review state-law 1. Whether District court erred in stating Petitioner's claim involves state law, not federal law and habeas relief is not available for violations of…
25-632 Laurence Bonday v. Nalco Company LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-03 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived arbitral-pleadings arbitration deference federal-law judicial-review statutory-interpretation Under 9 U.S.C. § 10(a)(4), may a court independently, and without deference to the arbitrator's determination, decide what claims are presented in a p…
25-612 Scot Van Oudenhoven v. Wisconsin Department of Justice Wisconsin 2025-11-25 Pending criminal-record expungement federal-law firearms-prohibition state-law statutory-interpretation 1. Does the word "expunged" in 18 U.S.C. § 921(a)(33)(B)(ii) apply to all expungements under state law, or does an expungement under state law have to…
25-545 Julia M. Robinson v. FedEx Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-05 Denied appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation federal-law judicial-review monetary-relief Why didn't The Northern District and The Appeals for The Eleventh Circuit court in Atlanta Georgia follow and properly apply The law, The Constitution…
25-546 Julia Mae Robinson v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-05 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-standards federal-law judicial-review monetary-relief Why didn't The Northern District and The Appeals for The Eleventh Circuit court in Atlanta Georgia follow and properly apply The law, The Constitution…
25-6031 Michael McAfee v. Missouri, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-11-05 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-procedure THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF A HABEAS CORPUS PROCEEDING IS TO MAKE CERTAIN THAT A MAN IS NOT UNJUSTEY IMPISONED; AND IF FOR SOME UNJUSTIFIABLE REASONS AS IN…
25A466 Vincenzo Oppedisano v. Lynda Zur Second Circuit 2025-10-23 Application circuit-split federal-law loss-sharing oral-partnership partnership-elements partnership-formation Whether an oral partnership requires a formal loss-sharing agreement as an essential element of formation under federal law
25-491 Gillian Filyaw v. Steve Corsi, in His Official Capacity as Chief Executive Officer of the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-10-21 Denied Amici (2) due-process ex-parte-young federal-law prospective-relief sovereign-immunity state-officials When a suit alleges that state officials are depriving a plaintiff of property in violation of due process, does the suit allege an ongoing violation …
25-5925 Tracy Jenkins v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction federal-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-ban Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a crime punishable by more than one year v…
25A453 Eric Arthur Walton v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-10-21 Application certiorari circuit-split federal-law pro-se standard-of-review supervised-release Whether the Supreme Court should establish a uniform standard of appellate review for district court decisions allowing defendants to proceed pro se a…
25-5916 Luis Espinal v. United States Second Circuit 2025-10-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (5)IFP constitutional-challenge federal-law felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional on its face or as applied to Petitioner because, consistent with the Second Amendment, the federal g…
25-5903 Joseph Vicarlos Robinson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-10-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (5)IFP constitutional-law criminal-statute federal-law gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violate the Second Amendment?
25-5830 Kortney Moore v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP agency-inaction career-offender controlled-substances federal-law sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Defendants who have at least two prior "controlled substance offense" convictions qualify as career offenders under the federal Sentencing Guidelines.…
25-5816 William Loydellton Speed, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP buyer-seller-exception career-offender-guideline controlled-substance drug-conspiracy federal-law state-law 1. Whether the term "controlled substance" in the definition of "controlled substance offense" in the Career Offender Guideline, § 4B1.2(b), refers to…
25-5747 Sidney Donnell Kimble v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-09-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction federal-law firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce…
25-5717 Raul Acosta v. United States Second Circuit 2025-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge federal-law felony-disarmament gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional on its face or as applied to Petitioner because, consistent with the Second Amendment, the federal g…
25A252 Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. v. Enbridge Energy, LP, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-09-02 Presumed Complete certiorari constitutional-interpretation federal-law michigan-officials sixth-circuit state-action Whether the Sixth Circuit's ruling on a Michigan state action improperly interpreted or applied federal constitutional or statutory law
25-5481 Isaac John Olivas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-08-27 Denied Relisted (4)IFP constitutional-authority federal-law felony-conviction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment 1. Federal law bans the possession of fire arms by anyone who has ever been convicted of a crime punishable by more th an one year of imprisonment. 18…
25-5467 Patrick Lee Adams v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-08-26 Denied Relisted (4)IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-statute federal-law felon-in-possession firearms-possession second-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which prohibits felons from possessing firearms or ammunition, violates the Second Amendment.
25-5421 Jose Antonio Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-08-21 Denied Relisted (5)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction federal-law firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce…
25-5376 Wesley Swick v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-08-15 Pending IFP criminal-procedure federal-law fugitive-tolling habeas-corpus sentencing supervised-release I. Whether the fugitive-tolling doctrine applies in the context of supervised release. Rico v. United States, No. 24-1056, presents the same question.
25-5352 Antonio Robledo Tovar v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-authority federal-law felony-conviction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment 1. Federal law bans the possession of fire arms by anyone who has ever been convicted of a crime punishable by more th an one year of imprisonment. 18…
25-170 Suncor Energy (U.S.A.) Inc., et al. v. County Commissioners of Boulder County, et al. Colorado 2025-08-12 Pending Amici (14)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) climate-change federal-law greenhouse-gas-emissions international-emissions interstate-emissions state-law-claims Whether federal law precludes state-law claims seeking relief for injuries allegedly caused by the effects of interstate and international greenhouse-…
25-5297 Christopher Jerome Ellis v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender controlled-substance federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation Whether the term "controlled substance" in the career offender guideline refers exclusively to substances listed in the federal Controlled Substances …
25-132 West Virginia Citizens Defense League, Inc. v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-08-04 Pending Amici (1) age-restriction constitutional-rights federal-law firearm-sales gun-control second-amendment Whether a federal law that bans licensed sales of handguns and handgun ammunition to law-abiding 18-to-20-year-old adults violates the Second Amendmen…
25-5245 Zachary C. Crouch v. Tennessee Department of Human Services Sixth Circuit 2025-07-31 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation federal-law sovereign-immunity state-law supremacy-clause The questions presented for review include whether state sovereign immunity can be and should be applied to federal laws of fraud and theft. This is a…
25-5181 Samuel Adam Sanchez-Tena v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-indictment federal-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(n), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been indicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding o…
25-24 Joshua Clay McCoy, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated as a Class, et al. v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-07-08 Pending Amici (3) age-restriction constitutional-rights federal-law firearms-regulation gun-purchase second-amendment 1. Whether federal laws banning 18-to-20-year-olds from purchasing handguns from federally licensed of the right to keep arms. 2. pursuant to Fed. R.…
25-15 Bellevue School District No. 405 v. C. S. A., a Minor, By and Through His Guardians B. W. A. and P. E. S. Washington 2025-07-03 Denied Response Waived federal-law ferpa gonzaga school-district state-pra supremacy-clause Gonzaga Univ. v. Doe, 536 U.S. 273 (2002) notes Congress's intent to avoid multiple judicial interpretations of the Family Education Rights and Privac…
25-5028 Michael Blake DeFrance v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-07-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bipartisan-safer-communities-act criminal-procedure domestic-violence federal-law statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Question 1: Whether the relationships listed in 18 USC §921(a)(33)(A) defining misdemeanor crime of domestic violence serve both jurisdictional and su…
24-1308 Jaffan International, LLC v. Radhe Krishna Properties, LLC Florida 2025-06-24 Denied Response Waived appellate-review federal-law final-judgment res-judicata state-law substantive-law Whether state law can supersede federal substantive law of res judicata in determining the binding effect of a federal final judgment in state court
24-7433 Zquareus Troyez Immanuel Thomas v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause constitutional-power due-process federal-law interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation Whether the 'affecting commerce' element of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(l) requires more than proving the firearm or ammunition traveled across state lines at …
24-7391 Angel L. Martinez v. Howard Sissem, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Forest, et al. Third Circuit 2025-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court federal-law ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-standard Was the District Court's decision that Petitioner received effective assistance of counsel, contrary to or involve an unreasonable application of clea…
24-1248 United States v. Patrick Darnell Daniels, Jr. Fifth Circuit 2025-06-06 Pending Relisted (3) constitutional-challenge controlled-substance criminal-statute federal-law firearms-possession second-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(3), which prohibits firearm possession by unlawful drug users, violates the Second Amendment
24-7335 Curtis Harris v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-conviction Is the Seventh Circuit on the wrong side of a circuit split when it construes the term 'controlled substance offense' under § 4B1.2(b) of the Sentenci…
24-7308 Zachary C. Crouch v. Braden Goddard, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation copyright-infringement due-process federal-law sovereign-immunity state-law Whether state sovereign immunity applies to federal copyright infringement and fraud claims under the Constitution
24-7275 Jacob Thomas Mireles v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction federal-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of 'a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce…
24-7160 Prentiss Jackson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights federal-law fourth-amendment marijuana-search state-law vehicle-search Whether it is constitutional to search a vehicle for the odor of marijuana alone in a state that has legalized marijuana, whether Illinois odorless co…
24-1056 Isabel Rico v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-04-07 Granted Amici (4) criminal-procedure federal-law fugitive-tolling sentencing supervised-release tolling-doctrine Whether the fugitive-tolling doctrine applies in the context of supervised release
24-6936 Deveon Jamear Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-04-07 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge controlled-substance criminal-statute federal-law firearm-possession second-amendment Whether the Charge of Unlawful User of or Addicted to Any Controlled Substance in Possession of a Firearm in Violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3) is Fac…
24-6898 Avery Jamal Edwards v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-03-31 Denied IFP controlled-substance criminal-law federal-law sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether an offense must have involved a substance that was controlled under federal law to be considered a 'controlled substance offense' as that term…
24-6708 Grace Wilson Marshall v. Benjamin Ryan Caudill Kentucky 2025-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-custody domestic-violence federal-law jurisdiction protective-order uccjea Whether a domestic violence victim's temporary protective order provides sufficient legal protection for her and her children under federal and state …
24-926 John R. Stensrud, et al. v. Rochester Genesee Regional Transportation Authority New York 2025-02-26 Denied constitutional-interpretation expert-evidence federal-law just-compensation legal-preemption state-regulation Whether a state regulation that precludes essential expert evidence can override federal law governing just compensation
24-6625 Ronnie Diaz, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-02-24 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction federal-law firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment for individuals with nonviolent criminal convictions
24-6620 In Re Bobby R. Reed 2025-02-21 Denied IFP constitutional-rights federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-power state-jurisdiction writ-of-certiorari Why did the state of Louisiana violate my constitutional rights and jurisdiction in a potential habeas corpus petition?
24-6584 Colton Bagola v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-02-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-law first-degree-murder force-clause statutory-interpretation Whether first-degree murder under 18 U.S.C. § 1 qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under the force clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)
24-6525 Richard Stephens Terry v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-conflict criminal-procedure federal-law statutory-interpretation substantial-step Whether the Eleventh Circuit's interpretation of the substantial step element under 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) is unconstitutional and conflicts with other f…
24-6442 Steven Lawayne Nelson v. Texas Texas 2025-02-03 Denied IFP adequate-state-grounds federal-law ineffective-assistance postconviction-relief sixth-amendment state-habeas Whether a state court's unexplained denial of a postconviction relief application can be presumed to lack adequate and independent state grounds when …
24-6410 Antoine Wiggins v. United States Third Circuit 2025-01-28 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7)IFP circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-procedure federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law Whether the term 'controlled substance' in the Sentencing Guidelines refers only to substances controlled under federal law or also includes substance…
24-6346 Daniel Moore v. Misty Mackey, Acting Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-01-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights federal-law habeas-corpus sixth-circuit state-court Where the case presented a substantial showing of a denial of a constitutional right, and where the issues presented were debatable amongst jurists of…
24-6287 Sean J. Trahan v. United States First Circuit 2025-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography federal-law mandatory-minimum predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement state-conviction Whether a district court may impose an enhanced mandatory minimum sentence under 18 U.S.C. 2252A(b)(2) based on a prior state conviction 'relating to'…
24-714 T. W. v. New York State Board of Law Examiners, et al. Second Circuit 2025-01-03 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) disability-discrimination ex-parte-young federal-law injunctive-relief ongoing-violation sovereign-immunity Whether a plaintiff who suffers ongoing harm caused by a state official's prior unlawful conduct is subject to an 'ongoing violation' of federal law, …
24-6205 Nelson Bruce v. Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, as Trustee of Stanwich Mortgage Loan Trust C, et al. South Carolina 2024-12-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process federal-law rooker-feldman-doctrine seventh-amendment Whether the South Carolina Court of Appeals violated Petitioner's due process rights by limiting appellate review to pleadings and refusing to conside…
24-6185 Warren Siepman v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography criminal-statute digital-evidence federal-law peer-to-peer-networks transportation-of-illicit-material Whether a conviction for transportation of child pornography requires proof of actual download or merely making material available through peer-to-pee…
24-6051 Ralph Berry v. United States Second Circuit 2024-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP cannabis-regulation circuit-court controlled-substances cross-border-transactions federal-law interstate-commerce Whether a Second Circuit ruling violates federal prohibitions on cross-border cannabis transactions and interstate commerce regulations
24-5996 Todd Norman v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance criminal-offense federal-law sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether an offense must have involved a substance that was controlled under federal law to be considered a 'controlled substance offense' under § 4B1.…
24A476 Missouri, et al. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-11-13 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge federal-law legislative-findings standing state-resources tenth-amendment Whether a state can withhold resources from federal law enforcement based on its legislative determination of federal law's unconstitutionality withou…
24-5894 Robert S. Pierce v. Jim Salmonsen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-procedure rule-10c supreme-court-precedent Whether state and federal courts can operate by void judgment and without authority to maintain convictions in violation of Rule 10(c) while disregard…
24-5799 Maria Navarro Martin v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-23 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-law habeas-corpus state-statute Whether the exhaustion of inadequate remedies in federal habeas corpus actions requires dismissal of a petition under an unconstitutional state statut…
24-403 Cai Hunter McIntosh v. Washington Washington 2024-10-10 Denied Response Waived civil-rights-restoration federal-law firearm-rights juvenile-conviction second-amendment state-law Should a sealed juvenile conviction that has essentially disappeared and for which a person's civil rights have been restored prevent someone from own…
24-5727 Jose Angel Herrera v. South Carolina South Carolina 2024-10-09 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions federal-law judicial-review sovereign-immunity Question not identified.
24-5729 Jerome Coast v. Georgia Georgia 2024-10-09 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-law jurisdiction Question not identified.
24-5639 Isaac Joel Chavez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-statute federal-law gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) is constitutional under the Second Amendment
24-264 Jay A. Liestman v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-09-09 Denied child-pornography circuit-split federal-law sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation Whether a state offense involving child pornography can serve as a predicate for federal sentencing enhancement under 18 U.S.C. § 2252(b)(1) when the …
24-5406 Michael Hoeft v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-08-28 GVR IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction federal-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) and (9) prohibiting firearm possession by certain convicted persons are facially unconstitutional under the Second Amend…
24-5376 Donald Davis Gipson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-statute federal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for firearm possession based on interstate travel and whether such statute is facially unconstitutional …
24-5287 John Phillip Bender v. Texas Texas 2024-08-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP acquittal double-jeopardy federal-law jury-determination legal-proceedings record-review Whether the Supreme Court must review the record truth of a federal double jeopardy acquittal from 2009 in light of subsequent proceedings
24-5261 Miguel Tejada-Cruz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment 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, …
24-112 Millia Promotional Services, et al. v. Arizona, Acting Through Arizona Department of Economic Security, Division of Employment and Rehabilitation Services Ninth Circuit 2024-08-01 Denied Response Waived circumstantial-evidence civil-rights contract-rights contractual-rights discrimination federal-law jury-trial racial-discrimination section-1981 statutory-interpretation summary-judgment Whether district courts may make factual and credibility determinations, weigh the evidence, and refuse to credit circumstantial evidence of discrimin…
24-87 Robert Sylvester Kelly v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-07-29 Denied Response Waived child-protection criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law retroactive-legislation sex-offenses statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Whether the 2003 amendment to 18 U.S.C. § 3283 extended the statute of limitations for sex offenses against children to charges for conduct from the 1…
24A81 Jane Doe, on Behalf of Herself and Her Minor Child, Sarah Doe v. Franklin Square Union Free School District Second Circuit 2024-07-23 Presumed Complete disability-accommodation disability-rights federal-law reasonable-accommodation school-district student-protection Whether a school district's denial of a reasonable accommodation for a disabled student constitutes a violation of federal disability rights laws
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, …
24-5112 Austin Wayne Massey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment 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, …
24-37 Lorenzo Garod Pierre v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-16 GVR 2nd-amendment as-applied-challenge constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-laws federal-law second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation Whether a criminal defendant may raise an as-applied Second Amendment challenge to 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1)
24-5086 Isaias Delgado v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial federal-law federal-sentencing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel self-incrimination Whether the government violated Mr. Delgado's right to due process and a fair trial by withholding evidence
24-5087 Travis Wayne Lovings v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law federalism firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate possession of a firearm solely because it crossed state lines at some point before it came into defendant'…
24A40 New York State Telecommunications Association, Inc., et al. v. Letitia James, Attorney General of New York Second Circuit 2024-07-15 Presumed Complete broadband federal-law internet-access preemption state-regulation telecommunications Whether federal law preempts state regulations governing broadband internet access rates and telecommunications services
24-5067 Stephen Mark Picart v. Marcus Pollard, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-07-12 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 constitutional-claim due-process federal-law habeas-corpus hypothetical-analysis ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-record state-court-review tactical-choices Whether the federal court can 'hypothesize' about possible 'tactical choices' trial counsel might have made on the basis of facts that were unreasonab…
24A19 Maxsony Coissy v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-09 Presumed Complete career-offender circuit-conflict controlled-substance-offense crime-of-violence federal-law sentencing-guidelines Whether Florida's aggravated assault statute and heroin possession statute qualify as predicate offenses for career offender enhancement under the Uni…
24-5001 Tito Lemont Knox v. Jeffrey Krueger, Warden Fourth Circuit 2024-07-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance privacy probable-cause search-and-seizure state-court-review Question not identified
24-5007 David Jimenez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law gun-rights second-amendment standing statutory statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment?
23-7767 In Re Jogaak Jogaak 2024-06-20 Denied IFP bodily-injury civil-procedure criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law north-dakota-law sentencing-enhancement serious-bodily-injury standing statutory-interpretation violent-felony Question not identified
23-7715 Noel Bender v. Iowa Department of Corrections, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-06-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure criminal-statute domestic-violence due-process evidence federal-law firearm-possession gun-rights restraining-order standard-of-proof statutory-interpretation Whether Substubal Evidence Supports the District Court's Holding beyond a reasonable doubt that Noel Berd and Boyle Banks were Cohabiting at the time …
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, …
23-7676 Romone Raphael Jackson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender career-offender-enhancement circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances-act drug-distribution federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law Whether a state conviction for distributing a drug that includes substances not regulated under the federal Controlled Substances Act qualifies as a '…
23-7529 Reginald Andrew Paulk, Sr. v. L. Benson, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-22 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights counsel due-process federal-law judicial-review probable-cause qualified-immunity racial-animus sovereign-immunity standard-of-review Did the District Court and the Eleventh Circuit use the incorrect standard to review the issues and thus incorrectly apply the law?
23-1200 Gregory Garmong v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-08 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-claims due-process federal-law fifth-amendment ninth-circuit private-right-of-action property-interest Did the Ninth Circuit err in affirming dismissal of, and declaring frivolous, constitutional due process claims pursuant to an express private right o…
23-7401 Kristopher Lee Rocco v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law federal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing takings 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, …
23-7386 Jose Caban v. United States Second Circuit 2024-05-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924(c) circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute federal-law inaction sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether the Court should grant certiorari to resolve the conflict among the circuits on the question of whether a crime that can be committed by compl…
23-7308 Marvin Holmes v. Mark Miller, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2024-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights court-of-appeals district-court due-process federal-law habeas-corpus Did the Court of Appeals violate Appellant's Constitutional right to Due Process by not issuing a Certificate of Appealability?
23A931 Vernon Fiehler v. T. Anthony Mecklenburg, et al. Alaska 2024-04-17 Presumed Complete appellate-review certiorari federal-law jurisdiction state-court supreme-court Whether the Supreme Court of Alaska improperly exercised jurisdiction over a dispute involving federal law when determining the underlying case
23-7221 Luke John Scott, Sr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP federal-law federal-perjury obstruction-of-justice perjury-rule sentencing-guidelines two-level-enhancement uncorroborated-testimony united-states Does the longstanding rule for federal perjury cases that a finding of perjury cannot rest on the uncorroborated testimony of one witness apply to the…
23-7212 Keith P. Sequeira, et al. v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, et al. Third Circuit 2024-04-12 Denied IFP circuit-split civil-procedure federal-law federal-question jurisdiction jurisdictional-grant remand removal subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the courts below may decide an important question of federal law not settled by this Court by expanding 12 U.S.C. § 1821(d)(6)'s jurisdictiona…
23-7170 Edward Revenous Brown v. Florida Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-09 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation district-court due-process federal-habeas federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-error notice-of-appeal state-habeas Did the United States District Court magistrate err in denying the petitioners' 28 U.S.C. §2254 state habeas corpus petition without ruling on the mer…
23A896 Lance Taylor v. Texas Texas 2024-04-09 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights conviction-review court-proceedings federal-law pro-se writ-of-certiorari Whether the lower court's conviction violated the petitioner's constitutional rights and warrants Supreme Court review due to alleged procedural irreg…
23-1087 Jack Jordan v. United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2024-04-05 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights disbarment due-process federal-judges federal-law federal-offenses free-speech judicial-misconduct legal-procedure Whether federal law or the U.S. Constitution authorize federal judges to penalize persons for stating federal judges violated rights
23-7001 Todd Andre Whitfield v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law federal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing takings 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, …
23-6973 Oren Javentay Pichon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law federal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing takings 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, …
23-6926 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?
23-952 Shell PLC, fka Royal Dutch Shell PLC, et al. v. City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii, et al. Hawaii 2024-03-01 Denied CVSGRelisted (2) clean-air-act climate-change constitutional-law federal-law federal-preemption foreign-emissions interstate-emissions preemption state-law Whether claims seeking damages for the effects of interstate and international emissions on the global climate are beyond the limits of state law and …
23-6859 Andrew Smart v. Jamie LaManna Second Circuit 2024-02-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure district-court-procedure due-process evidence federal-courts federal-law habeas-corpus witness-identification Whether the Courts below determination that the witnesses Identification was not unduly suggestive, was contrary to clearly established Federal Taw §2…
23-6875 Aaron Obeginski v. Glenn Johnson Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitution court-procedure due-process federal-law filing-requirements legal-document official-immunity petition sovereign-immunity supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Whether the petitioners' claims of sovereign immunity and official immunity should be recognized, despite the petitioners' alleged violations of feder…
23-6752 Patrick W. Wharen, Sr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims eleventh-circuit federal-law jurisdictional-prerequisites miller-v-cockrell slack-v-mcdaniel supreme-court-precedent Whether Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied federal law
23-6727 Daniel J. Erb v. John Rivello, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. Third Circuit 2024-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-law guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the lower courts' decisions were contrary to or involved an unreasonable application of clearly established federal law and an unreasonable de…
23-6655 Ralph Hall v. Anthony J. Annucci, et al. Second Circuit 2024-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-action constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment federal-law habeas-corpus intellectual-disability judicial-review legal-procedure Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a prisoner who has been found to be intellectual…
23-6626 Michael Gibson v. Mariejosee King, Acting Superintendent, Clinton Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2024-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law dna-evidence due-process federal-law frye-hearing habeas-corpus lcn-dna scientific-evidence Whether the denial of a Frye hearing regarding the admissibility of low copy number (LCN) DNA analysis evidence was an unreasonable application of cle…
23-6557 Frank R. Stevenson v. Lynn Lilley, Superintendent, Eastern Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2024-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP automatic-reversal constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process federal-law ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error unwanted-defense Whether the unconstitutionality of imposing an unwanted defense on the accused, over objection, has long been federally established and is a structura…
23-788 Hope Medical Enterprises, Inc., dba Hope Pharmaceuticals v. Fagron Compounding Services, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split drug-regulation federal-law federal-preemption food-and-drug-administration preemption state-law state-rights statutory-interpretation Whether the FDCA preempts state laws prohibiting the in-state sale of unapproved drugs whose sale is also prohibited as a matter of federal law by the…
23-6499 Pete Manning v. United States Third Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-procedure drug-schedules federal-law federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-law time-of-consequences time-of-conviction Whether the term 'controlled substance' is defined by the drug schedules that existed at the time of the prior predicate conviction, or the drug sched…
23-776 Jeffrey B. Israelitt v. Enterprise Services LLC Fourth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied ada-retaliation americans-with-disabilities-act anti-retaliation-provision circuit-split civil-rights damages due-process federal-law jury-trial standing Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act provides for damages (and therefore a trial by jury) in cases alleging that an employer has violated the A…
23-6431 Mariano Madrid v. Aaron D. Ford, Attorney General of Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process federal-law judicial-review juvenile-justice legal-procedure Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a person who was a juvenile at the time of the o…
23A580 Antowan Thorne v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-12-22 Presumed Complete election-certification election-challenge election-dispute federal-law safe-harbor state-official Whether a state election official's certification of election results can be challenged under federal law prior to the safe harbor deadline
23-6226 Carmen A. Zammiello v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process ex-post-facto-law federal-law federal-review federalism habeas-corpus state-court-misconduct state-law trial-errors When will a state's 'substantive law' be applied in a federal court?
23-623 Martin Akerman v. Nevada National Guard Nevada 2023-12-11 Denied Relisted (2) constitutional-rights detention detention-challenge due-process federal-law habeas-corpus military-jurisdiction nevada-supreme-court Whether the Nevada Supreme Court made an error in naming the Nevada National Guard as the sole respondent in a habeas corpus petition
23-6170 Edell Jackson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-12-06 GVR Relisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process federal-law firearms-possession second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment
23-6118 T'Shaun Omar Jones v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split controlled-substance federal-law federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines guideline-construction legal-definition state-law statutory-interpretation vehicle-for-review Is the definition of 'controlled substance' in the federal sentencing guidelines controlled by federal or state law?
23-6030 Gregory P. Burleson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP confession corroborating-evidence defense-of-others excessive-force federal-law law-enforcement reasonable-doubt self-defense supreme-court Is a citizen entitled to act in self-defense or defense of others against law-enforcement-officers if he has a reasonable-belief that there is an immi…
23-512 Steven M. Greenbaum, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Judith (Shoshana) Lillian Greenbaum, Deceased, et al. v. United States District of Columbia 2023-11-15 Denied Response Waived asset-freezing asset-seizure blocked-assets federal-law federal-sovereign-immunity judgment-enforcement sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation terrorism-based-judgments terrorism-risk-insurance-act Whether the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act waives the United States' federal sovereign immunity over assets that have been seized or frozen by the Unite…
23-505 Garrett A. Arrowood v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-14 Denied Response Waived appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause crawford-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-law habeas-corpus hearsay-evidence whether-the-record-supports-the-court's-conclusion-that-the-state-court-hearing-regarding-the-inadmissible-hearsay-(crawford-violation)-did-not-violat…
23-5951 Rodney L. Love v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-03 Denied IFP 18-usc-3582 appellate-review compassionate-release criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-reasons federal-law retroactivity sentence-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether non-retroactive changes in federal law can serve as 'extraordinary and compelling reasons' warranting a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3…
23-5944 Kaylin Eric Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-law habeas-corpus interlocutory-appeal judicial-review ninth-circuit standing Whether petitioner's constitutional rights were violated
23-5800 Malcolm Muhammad v. William E. Jackson, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-10-18 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 circuit-court civil-rights federal-law free-speech judicial-interpretation land-use property-rights religious-land-use-and-institutionalized-persons-a standing statutory-construction summary-judgment Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in deferring to the district court's findings that the appellant failed to present evidence disputing the defendants'…
23-5796 Jose Folch-Colon v. United States First Circuit 2023-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute federal-law mens-rea racketeering VICAR violent-crime Whether petitioner aided and abetted a VICAR crime absent evidence of payment to the enterprise and without need to prove the motive element
23-5782 Tyrone Robinson, aka Tyrone R. Robinson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance federal-law grievous-ambiguity rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation Whether the meaning of the term 'controlled substance' in the Sentencing Guidelines includes any substance prohibited by state law, or instead only th…
23-5725 Edward Troup v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP antiracketeering-statute criminal-jurisdiction due-process federal-law federal-statute murder-prosecution predicate-offense racketeering state-law statute-of-limitations Does a federal antiracketeering statute reach murders committed outside a state's statute of limitations, for which the defendant could not be adjudic…
23-5704 Gregory D. Jones v. Dustin Bayler Seventh Circuit 2023-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-law standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the District of Columbia's ban on the possession of stun guns violates the Second Amendment
23-258 Delaware Department of Insurance v. United States Third Circuit 2023-09-18 Denied Amici (1) business-of-insurance civil-rights federal-law federal-preemption insurance-regulation mccarran-ferguson-act preemption state-authority statutory-interpretation summons-power Whether the three statutory factors set forth in the first clause of § 1012(b) are the only proper factors to consider when determining whether a stat…
23-224 Christina Alessio v. United Airlines, Inc., et al. Ohio 2023-09-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) aircraft-safety chemical-exposure chemical-exposures federal-law federal-oversight government-oversight hazardous-materials regulatory-compliance standing writ-of-certiorari Does the Rule of Law under Title 49 U.S. Code 5124 apply to the Respondent?
23-5544 Juan L. Leonor v. Nebraska Nebraska 2023-09-07 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rule due-process federal-law judicial-legislation procedural-rule retroactive-review retroactivity substantive-decision substantive-rule supremacy-clause Whether the Federal Constitution prohibits a state court from denying consideration of a federal claim brought after petitioner's convictions became f…
23-207 R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, et al. v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-06 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) engine-manufacturers federal-law federal-preemption national-meat ninth-circuit preemption product-standards sales-ban sales-bans state-standards tobacco-control-act Whether the Tobacco Control Act expressly preempts state and local laws that prohibit the sale of flavored tobacco products
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?
23-198 Jamar M. Lewis v. United States Third Circuit 2023-09-05 Denied Amici (1) armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance federal-law predicate-conviction sentencing-guidelines state-law Whether the term 'controlled substance' in the Sentencing Guidelines is defined at the time of the predicate conviction or when federal consequences a…
23-5493 Brenda M. Johnson v. Catholic Community Services, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-08-31 Denied IFP bankruptcy civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination federal-law housing property-rights retaliation workplace-protection Is Brenda M Johnson an employee under WSDOT for protective activity clause
23-5402 In Re Tonya Knowles 2023-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5-usc-2302 administrative-procedure constitutional-violation department-of-veteran-affairs executive-leadership federal-law human-resources management prohibited-personnel-practices veterans-affairs Does the Department of Veteran Affairs-Human Resources, Executive Leadership, Management and or Staff reserve the right to violate the law regarding P…
23-5278 Earl Monroe Belcher v. Brian Williams, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-08-03 Denied IFP chain-of-custody constitutional-rights district-court dna-evidence due-process federal-law habeas-corpus hearsay ineffective-assistance reasonable-doubt unreasonable-application Whether the District Court's decision was an unreasonable application of clearly established federal law
23-5236 Marvas Aurelien v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-28 Denied IFP circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-sentencing drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-law federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-drug-offenses Whether the 'controlled substance' definition in United States Sentencing Guideline § 4B1.2(b) incorporates the federal drug schedules in effect at th…
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…
23-5191 Michael McShan v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2251 age-of-consent child-pornography consent-standard federal-law self-produced-images sexual-relationship state-law Whether the age of consent under state law is relevant to deciding whether a person produced child pornography under federal law by requesting self-pr…
23-59 Larry Eugene Clark v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. District of Columbia 2023-07-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitution constitutional-rights due-process election-integrity election-machines federal-law standing state-law voting voting-rights Whether injured voters have standing to challenge the use of uncertified voting machines that may have compromised the 2020 election
23-49 In Re Betty Ayers, et al. 2023-07-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-conflict due-process election-integrity federal-law hava-compliance standing state-law treason voting voting-rights Whether the Tennessee State Supreme Court's decision conflicts with other State Supreme Courts and denies Petitioners' right of suffrage and to redres…
23-30 Argent Trust Company, et al. v. Robert Harrison Tenth Circuit 2023-07-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration circuit-split civil-procedure class-action erisa federal-arbitration-act federal-law individual-arbitration statutory-claims statutory-interpretation Whether ERISA-claims can be compelled to individual-arbitration
22-1250 Peter Chien, et al. v. Scott E. Jarrett, et al. Maine 2023-06-28 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure court-order due-process enforceability entry-of-appearance federal-law fourteenth-amendment legal-compliance triggering-date Does the filing of an entry of appearance within 21 days of opening the mail containing a court order missing a triggering date for the 21 day deadlin…
22-7635 Deandre Hykeem Jackson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law divisibility federal-courts federal-law precedent precedent-interpretation statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §1951(a) is divisible into attempted and completed robberies for the purposes of the categorical approach?
22-7644 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…
22-7524 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…
22-7439 Julio Osorio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-law guideline-interpretation ransom-crime sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation whether-the-5th-circuit-erred-in-applying-a-6-point-enhancement-for-crimes-against-government-to-crimes-against-civilians
22-7449 Robert Richard Spurling, III v. Arizona Arizona 2023-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-law jury-instructions retroactive-application sexual-abuse state-courts statutory-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether a state court's decision that a state statute prevents the state courts from conducting analysis pursuant to United States Supreme Court prece…
22-7257 Santos Cuevas v. Tina Kotek, Governor of Oregon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-12 Denied IFP constitutional-review double-jeopardy due-process federal-law judicial-discretion jury-trial sentence-enhancement sentencing sixth-amendment Has Oregon's Judiciary and legislature failed to incorporate landmark cases relevant for how and when to enhance a sentence, and to comport with the r…
22-7263 Christopher L. Ramirez v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances due-process equal-protection federal-law sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether 'controlled substance offenses' under United States Sentencing Guidelines §4B1.2(b) are limited to those offenses involving substances listed …
22-988 Credit Consulting Services, Inc. v. Maritza Paredes California 2023-04-11 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling fair-debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act federal-law rotkiske-v-klemm statute-of-limitations supreme-court-precedent Whether the California Court of Appeal erred in holding that the California doctrine of 'equitable tolling' applied so as to toll the one-year statute…
22-7125 Charles M. Torrence v. Hazel Peterson, Warden Tenth Circuit 2023-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights critical-stage federal-law pro-se right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standby-counsel waiver-of-counsel Whether the Tenth Circuit correctly concluded there was no clearly established Federal law from the Supreme Court holding that the Sixth Amendment is …
22-7129 Thomas P. Thayer v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach criminal-conviction federal-law minor minor-protection prior-conviction registration-requirement sex-offender-registration sex-offense statutory-interpretation Whether a categorical approach applies to determining if a prior conviction is a federal 'sex offense'
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…
22-6931 In Re DeAnn Graham 2023-03-06 Denied IFP civil-rights court-administrative-errors covid-19 covid-19-leave due-process federal-law ffcra postal-service-interference unemployment unemployment-discrimination writ-of-mandamus Whether a writ of mandamus should be issued directing the court of appeals and or the district court without delay to change the dismissal
22-6945 Derrick Owens v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 7th-circuit appellate-review career-offender circuit-court-split circuit-split cocaine-conviction cocaine-convictions federal-law sentencing-guidelines Did the district court err in finding Mr. Owens a Career Offender under the Sentencing Guidelines
22-6847 Philip M. Close v. United States Second Circuit 2023-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-USC-2251 18-USC-2252A child-pornography circuit-split criminal-statute federal-law genital-exposure sentencing sexual-conduct sexually-explicit-conduct Whether brief glimpses of children's genital areas in videos constitute 'sexually-explicit-conduct' under 18-USC-2251-and-2252A
22-6848 Maurice Daniels v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights commerce-interference criminal-obstruction due-process federal-law federal-revised-code free-speech hobbs-act public-corruption standing threats-of-violence vagueness Whether the Hobbs Act's prohibition on interference with commerce by threats or violence is unconstitutionally vague as applied to the facts of this c…
22-6728 John Lezell Balentine v. Texas Texas 2023-02-08 Denied IFP given its interweaving with federal law -abuse-of-writ -federal-law -habeas-corpus -post-conviction-relief -state-law-ground #NAME? abuse-of-the-writ capital-case due-process federal-law juror-misconduct racial-prejudice Whether the CCA's otherwise unexplained ruling that abuse of the writ under Article 11.071, § 5, precluded post-conviction relief is an adequate and i…
22-6591 Alecia Trapps v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law Whether federal law or state law governs what constitutes a 'controlled substance offense' under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.1(a)
22-6574 Eddie Turner v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-01-19 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-law fourteenth-amendment judicial-conflict standing statute-of-limitations void-judgment void-ruling Can a void ruling legally be challenged at any time and in any court?
22-668 Nachaiya Kama v. Memorial Hermann Health Systems, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-01-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federal-law legal-standard sexual-harassment standing workplace-discrimination Should any law repugnant to the US Constitution prevail?
22-6478 Hanan Shiheiber v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. California 2023-01-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP chase chase-bank covid-19 estoppel fdic fdic-dissolution federal-law mortgage-foreclosure mortgage-foreclosure-crisis washington-mutual Whether the ownership of a former Washington Mutual mortgage is a question of fact
22-6465 Jess Richard Smith v. Washington Washington 2023-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process federal-law jurisdiction post-conviction state-court stay witness-testimony Whether the state court has decided an important question of federal law under the Due Process Clause of the United States Constitution
22-6389 Justin Rashaad Brown v. United States Third Circuit 2022-12-23 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach drug-offense federal-law sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-conviction state-law Which version of federal law should a sentencing court consult under ACCA's categorical approach?
22-6362 Carlos Santana R. Garcia v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-12-21 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel unreasonable-determination Did the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas and the U.S. District Court Northern District of Texas San Angelo Division err in deciding the merits of Pe…
22-6363 Dawud Canaan Sturrup Gabriel v. Trans Am Trucking Company Tenth Circuit 2022-12-21 Denied IFP certiorari circuit-court civil-procedure due-process federal-law judicial-proceedings standing supervisory-authority supreme-court-review Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit departed from the accepted course of judicial proceedings
22-6255 Deonte Courtez Gates v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP blakely-v-washington circuit-court-conflict constitutional-interpretation eighth-amendment federal-law juvenile-defendant relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines Whether the relevant conduct sentencing guideline is unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment as applied to conduct committed by a juvenile defenda…
22-6241 Clarence Lee Hooker v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-12-07 Denied IFP 6th-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process equal-protection federal-law ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct legal-interpretation procedural-due-process Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit erred by denying petitioner's claims of ineffective assistance of counsel, due-process, equal-pr…
22-500 Great Lakes Insurance SE v. Raiders Retreat Realty Co., LLC Third Circuit 2022-11-30 Judgment Issued Amici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) admiralty-law choice-of-law civil-procedure contract-enforcement federal-law maritime-contract public-policy What is the standard for enforcing a choice of law clause in a maritime contract?
22-457 Peter Whyte v. Dan Winkleski, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-11-15 Denied Response Waived constitutional-claim federal-constitution federal-law habeas-corpus material-facts plain-statement state-pleading-standard state-procedural-rule Whether a state court's dismissal of a habeas petitioner's claim under the U.S. Constitution for failure to plead sufficient 'material facts' under a …
22-431 Gigi Jordan v. Amy Lamanna, Superintendent, Bedford Hills Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2022-11-08 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) clearly-established federal-law habeas-corpus public-trial-clause sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent unreasonable-application Whether a federal habeas petitioner seeking relief on the basis of a violation of the Public Trial Clause can demonstrate an 'unreasonable application…
22-5963 Russell Spain v. Shenese Jones New York 2022-11-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-authority custody custody-dispute federal-law federal-law-violation judicial-jurisdiction national-security procedural-compliance rule-10 Did the lower courts preside within the scope of the United States Constitution?
22-5856 Tracy J. McGill v. Oklahoma Department of Corrections Oklahoma 2022-10-18 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-indian-law federal-law habeas-corpus jurisdiction state-court subject-matter-jurisdiction unreasonable-determination Whether Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals' denial of petitioner's jurisdictional claim resulted in an unreasonable determination of the facts
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…
22-5833 Carlos Alejandro Zuniga-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP administration-of-justice criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure federal-law fifth-circuit leader-organizer-role leader-role preponderance-of-evidence sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law in sentencing review
22-5718 Amos Westmoreland, Jr. v. Aimee Smith, Warden Georgia 2022-09-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP conflict-free-assistance-of-counsel cumulative-error due-process equal-protection federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether a state court's overruling of its prior precedent forbidding consideration of the cumulative prejudice of multiple errors at trial conflicts w…
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…
22-5634 Nelson Jean Dion v. United States First Circuit 2022-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP bail bail-condition criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-law interstate-travel protection-order statutory-interpretation Whether a state bail order/condition of release is a protection order under 18 U.S.C. § 2266(5) for purposes of violating 18 U.S.C. § 2262
22-5525 Terron Gerhard Dizzley v. Melvin Garrett Fourth Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 accrual appellate-review civil-rights district-court federal-courts federal-law section-1983 statute-of-limitations supreme-court Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit's affirmance of the District Court's order that state law determines the time of acc…
22-5463 Rahmael Sal Holt v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2022-08-29 Denied IFP adequate brady-claim default-ruling due-process federal-law federal-review independent jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony Does the United States Supreme Court have jurisdiction to hear Petitioner's Brady claim because the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania's default ruling was…
22-5427 Jade Christian Nichols v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing preemption sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation Does a state definition of 'controlled substance' control a federal sentencing enhancement under the Sentencing Guidelines, when the state lists subst…
22-5339 Maria Navarro Martin v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2022-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-law federal-review habeas-corpus legal-precedent post-conviction-relief standing state-court-decision state-law Whether the court erred in declaring the federal law 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a)(4) and the Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.430(b) invalid
22-5342 Patrick LaJuan Jones, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing preemption sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation Does a state definition of 'controlled substance' control a federal sentencing enhancement under the Sentencing Guidelines, when the state lists subst…
22-5296 Ryan T. Carleton v. Maine Maine 2022-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure agency-documents civil-rights disclosure-requirements due-process federal-law ineffective-assistance-of-counsel internal-communications prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel right-to-fair-trial staff-communications Does Carleton's public defender have a history of incompetence or misconduct?
22-69 Ampersand Chowchilla Biomass, LLC, et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2022-07-26 Denied Response Waived circuit-split compliance-threshold energy-facility environmental-compliance federal-law placed-in-service renewable-energy tax-benefits tax-incentives Whether an energy facility is 'placed in service' within the meaning of federal law whenever it can produce and sell some electricity without regard f…
21-1593 Robert L. Schulz, et al. v. United States Congress District of Columbia 2022-06-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) congress congressional-power constitution-power-liberty constitutional-petitioning electoral-process federal-law first-amendment first-amendment-petition judicial-proceedings jurisdiction presidential-electors Whether the D.C. Court of Appeals has sanctioned a 'lack of jurisdiction' decision by the District Court
21-1587 Tim Shoop, Warden v. Jeronique D. Cunningham Sixth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (6) aedpa circuit-precedent evidentiary-hearing federal-evidence-rule federal-law habeas-relief sixth-circuit state-court-ruling Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in granting habeas relief based on an alleged misapplication of its own circuit precedent
21-8103 Ernest Armando Andujo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-06-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-law federal-law firearm-silencer first-sixth-seventh-circuits intent-requirement intent-to-use ninth-circuit objective-characteristics statutory-interpretation Whether the federal definition of a firearm silencer requires a showing of subjective purpose or intent to use a device as a silencer
21-8056 Earl Lee King v. Texas Texas 2022-06-06 Denied IFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process federal-law habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence procedural-impediment standing state-court-action state-created-impediment Has the action by the Court af Criminal Appeals of Texas in dismissing Petitioners State Application for Habeas Corpus Violated Article I, Section A, …
21-8017 Stephen Scott Meals, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure district-court due-process exclusionary-rule federal-law fifth-circuit judicial-review motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure standing Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of the defendant's motion to suppress
21-1499 Mahesh Ramchanndani v. Sunil Gahdhi, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-05-31 Denied civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-law federal-statute property-rights racial-discrimination security-deposit standing tenant-rights Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1982 for failure to state a claim
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…
21-1480 James Acres v. Lester Marston, et al. California 2022-05-24 Denied Response Waived absolute-immunity california-common-law civil-litigation commercial-enterprise federal-law personal-immunity prosecutorial-immunity state-law tribal-immunity tribal-officials What personal immunities are available to tribal officials?
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…
21-7619 Jarbarri Randale Wall v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver criminal-procedure federal-law plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-condition statutory-authority statutory-maximum supervised-release Whether a special condition of supervised release that is not authorized by statute constitutes a sentence beyond the statutory maximum, and is theref…
21-7598 Irvin Garces v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP administration-of-justice criminal-procedure drug-offense exceptional-importance federal-law fifth-circuit minor-role sentencing-guidelines whether-the-fifth-circuit-violated-federal-law
21-1341 Wysingo Turner v. Christine Brannon-Dortch, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-04-11 Denied Response Waived 2nd-amendment civil-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process federal-law firearm-possession murder-trial self-defense standing state-court Whether a state court's decision that a criminal defendant can be falsely accused during his state criminal murder trial of 'illegally' possessing out…
21-7558 Vitaly Kolosha v. Luke Pettigrew, Warden Tenth Circuit 2022-04-06 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights congressional-act due-process federal-law free-speech jurisdictional-conflict retroactive-application retroactivity standing state-jurisdiction treaty-interpretation When is a new religious word 190 years old treaty, law, prior ruling, or act of congress automatically retroactive, or does it apply to all cases as i…
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
21-7536 Ramonta Forte v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment counsel-of-choice discretion due-process federal-law habeas-corpus right-to-counsel sentencing Whether the right to counsel at sentencing is clearly established federal law
21-7459 Robbie Catchings, aka Robert Brown, aka Robbie Catching v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-statute due-process evidence-sufficiency federal-law firearm-possession firearms jury-instructions jury-verdict knowingly-possessed statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence Whether sufficient evidence supported the jury's verdict that petitioner knowingly possessed a firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)
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,…
21-7421 Linda Jolly v. Carmelita White, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-03-21 Denied IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights disclosure disclosure-laws due-process federal-government federal-law no-fear-act retaliation whistleblower whistleblower-protection Why did the United States Federal Government allow Federal UNAX Law (IRM 10.5.5) and Retaliation Laws to be broken through the 'No Fear Act?
21-7391 Isaiah Ramon Henderson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-03-16 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP circuit-split controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether 'controlled substance[s]' in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines § 4B1.2(b) are limited to those substances defined and regulated under the fede…
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…
21-1193 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?
21-1163 Carolyn L. Baburka v. Township of Hazlet, New Jersey, et al. New Jersey 2022-02-23 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1988 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-amendments federal-law qualified-immunity search-and-seizure state-law Did the courts below commit error by failing to recognize federal law?
21-7163 Nathaniel Ruth v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-02-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-procedure federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation Does the phrase 'controlled substance' in U.S.S.C. § 4B1.2(b) include substances that are excluded from the Controlled Substances Act?
21-7148 Mark Allen Banes v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-02-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-law federalism improper-venue interstate-registration registration-compliance sex-offender-registration venue venue-jurisdiction Whether the state of origin where a sex offender is properly registered is an improper venue for hearing a violation of the sex offender's registratio…
21-6967 Lemonta Markuis Maddox v. California California 2022-01-26 Denied IFP civil-rights coerced-confessions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-law interrogation involuntary-statements plea-bargaining state-law Whether the use of coerced statements obtained through false promises of leniency violates federal and state constitutional rights to due process
21-6959 Kenneth J. Cox v. Ed Caley, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP AEDPA constitutional-rights federal-law jurisdiction procedural-default representation-right SAOC-elements sentence-enhancement sentence-enhancers state-court-judgment state-prisoner state-prisoners-claim Whether the jurisdiction of this court is invoked under 28-U.S.C.-1257(a)
21-6947 Rayshawn J. Christmas, aka Rayshaun J. Christmas v. Jeff Jackson, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-law fifth-circuit jurisdiction mandamus qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity standing Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying the appellants writ of mandamus
21-6915 Maxwell Gaffney v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof causation criminal-law criminal-statute drug-distribution drug-trafficking federal-law foreseeability judicial-review jury-instructions proximate-cause sentencing Whether the enhanced penalty provision of 21 U.S.C. §841(b)(1)(C) requires a showing of proximate causation
21-6826 Todd Stands Alone v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-01-12 Denied Amici (1)IFP assault circuit-split common-law-assault conviction criminal-law due-process federal-law federal-statute statutory-interpretation Whether common-law simple assault is an essential element of 18 U.S.C. § 111(b)
21-6766 Alan Eugene DeAtley v. Colorado Colorado 2022-01-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-process due-process enrollment federal-law jurisdiction state-law tribal-businesses tribal-court-jurisdiction tribal-land tribal-law tribal-matters tribal-membership Whether the tribal court has jurisdiction over all tribal land, tribal businesses, and all tribal matters without question
21-6762 Karina Lizett Juarez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administration-of-justice criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-criminal-law federal-law fifth-circuit mitigating-role sentencing-guidelines Whether the Fifth Circuit's review of the facts related to a mitigating adjustment under U.S.S.G. § 3B1.2 violated federal law
21-6758 Cameron Taevon Jones v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-law federal-law guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-law Does the term 'controlled substance offense' as defined in the Guidelines include offenses under state law that are not categorical matches under fede…
21-937 Christopher Lee Holloway v. Minnesota Eighth Circuit 2021-12-23 Denied Response Waived based solely on the relative age of the actor violates the constitutional right to equal-protec while permitting it to another affirmative-defense age-discrimination constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-law legislative-intent rational-basis Whether the denial of an affirmative defense to one class of offenders in a criminal case
21-6639 Jacqueline Giebell v. Heartland Dublin Nursing Facility Sixth Circuit 2021-12-16 Denied IFP circuit-split civil-rights federal-law nhra nursing-facility nursing-home obstruction-of-justice retaliation trespassing Was trespassing Ms. Giebell from the Heartland of Dublin Nursing Facility a violation of Federal Law, and the NHRA. Was it Retaliation?
21-6593 Murray Hooper v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2021-12-15 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 clearly-established clearly-established-law evidence-suppression federal-law greene-v-fisher habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct state-court supreme-court-review united-states-v-bagley witness-testimony Whether the state court decision by which 'clearly established federal law' is measured is rendered when the state court issues its mandate
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
21-846 John Montenegro Cruz v. Arizona Arizona 2021-12-07 Judgment Issued Amici (9)Relisted (2) capital-punishment collateral-review due-process federal-law parole-ineligibility retroactivity state-court-decisions supreme-court Whether the rule in Simmons v. South Carolina, as applied in Lynch v. Arizona, must be applied retroactively to cases pending on collateral review
21-847 Jonathan Ian Burns v. Arizona Arizona 2021-12-07 Judgment Issued Relisted (3) capital-punishment collateral-review due-process federal-law parole-ineligibility retroactivity supreme-court Whether this Court's decision in Lynch applied a settled rule of federal law that must be applied to cases pending on collateral review in Arizona
21-6513 Christopher Schneider v. Bank of America, N.A., et al. California 2021-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process federal-law first-amendment property-rights standing state-courts unlawful-detainer Whether the California courts violated the Petitioners' fundamental due process rights by explicitly citing federal law and issues that directly invol…
21-6506 E'Mario C. Allen v. Joseph Noeth, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2021-12-03 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion batson-challenge batson-issue constitutional-interpretation federal-habeas federal-habeas-court federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-discretion state-court supreme-court-review Whether the Habeas Court proceeding and adjudication of the claim regarding a Batson issue did not result in a decision that was contrary to, or invol…
21-6492 Jaime Galvez v. William Muniz, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-12-02 Denied IFP criminal-procedure defendant-rights directed-verdict due-process federal-law harmless-error insanity-defense right-to-remain-silent trial-court-error Whether a trial court's error of forcing a criminal defendant to testify before hearing all of the prosecution's evidence requires automatic reversal …
21-6413 Betty Caitlin Nicole Smith v. Honorable Jason Fleming, et al. Kentucky 2021-11-24 Denied IFP child-custody court-procedure domestic-violence domestic-violence-order federal-law jurisdiction truthfulness uniform-act uniform-child-custody-and-jurisdiction-and-enforce Whether a state court can enter a child custody order without contacting the other state with an existing order, ignoring the Uniform Child Custody an…
21-6388 Calvin Roach v. Donald W. Washington, Director, United States Marshals Service, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-duty due-process federal-law legal-interpretation military-law military-oath oath-of-office retiree-obligations standing Whether military retirees are bound by their Oath to protect the United States Constitution against foreign and domestic enemies
21-6319 Eric Martinez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-11-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP conviction crime federal-law probation sentencing state-law When federal law compels the use of state law to define and punish crime, and the state allows probation in lieu of a conviction, does federal law als…
21-684 Beverly Zylstra, et vir v. DRV, LLC Seventh Circuit 2021-11-09 Denied Response Waived breach-of-warranty circuit-split consumer-protection cure-opportunity federal-law judicial-uniformity jury-trial magnuson-moss-warranty-act repair-attempts warranty-claims What constitutes a 'reasonable opportunity to cure' under the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act?
21-676 Susan K. Musta v. Mendota Heights Dental Center, et al. Minnesota 2021-11-05 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (2) controlled-substances-act due-process federal-law medical-marijuana preemption standing state-law workers-compensation Does the Controlled Substances Act preempt an order under a state workers' compensation law requiring an employer to reimburse an injured employee for…
21-627 Air Transport Association of America, Inc., dba Airlines for America v. The Washington Department of Labor & Industries, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) airline-deregulation-act carrier-prices-routes-services circuit-split federal-law morales-v-trans-world-airlines preemption state-law statutory-interpretation transportation-regulation Whether the Airline Deregulation Act preempts neutral state laws that have a significant impact on carrier prices, routes, or services, even if that i…
21-568 Jason Jarvis v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-10-19 Denied Amici (1) criminal-law criminal-procedure extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-circumstances federal-law federal-law-change judicial-discretion retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether non-retroactive changes in federal law can serve as 'extraordinary and compelling reasons' warranting a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3…
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…
21-538 Dennis Reagle, Warden v. Roderick V. Lewis Seventh Circuit 2021-10-13 Denied aedpa circuit-court federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel penson-v-ohio sentencing strickland-v-washington supreme-court united-states-v-cronic Did the Seventh Circuit misapply 28 U.S.C. § 2254 in holding that the failure to apply Cronic violated 'clearly established Federal law, as determined…
21-547 Kevin Tung v. Superior Court of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2021-10-13 Denied Response Waived attorney-ethics civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment equal-protection ex-parte-young federal-law judiciary sovereign-immunity Whether the claims of an Officer of the Court with the New Jersey Judiciary System are barred by the Eleventh Amendment when the Officer of the Court'…
21-5927 In Re Lindsey Orr 2021-10-07 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights congressional-authorization detention-authority due-process federal-law first-time-offender legislative-intent patent standing statutory-interpretation takings Did the Thomas Act have legislative authorization to generate by means of implementation their holding that stashing FAZCO's towards first time offend…
21-5885 Michael Alan Webb v. Virginia Virginia 2021-10-05 Denied IFP 4th-amendment arbitration-award civil-rights district-court due-process federal-law legal-precedent manifest-disregard motion-to-vacate qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing Whether the lower courts erred in denying the petitioner's Fourth Amendment claims regarding an allegedly unconstitutional search and seizure
21-5850 Lawrence E. Mattison v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-10-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-law equal-protection federal-employment federal-law policy-procedure race-discrimination racial-discrimination Whether this Federal employer may use a Substantive Procedure contrary to Federal law and DVA Policy & Procedure
21-5729 Frank R. Stevenson v. New York New York 2021-09-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review confrontation-clause due-process federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment state-court-appeals writ-of-error-coram-nobis Whether the New York Court of Appeals precedential case, on confrontation violation claims, is contrary to clearly established federal law
21-5744 Joseph George v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-09-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-violation criminal-conspiracy due-process federal-law law-enforcement prisoner-rights public-officials standing Does Alowg AUN NING, Goeanmesst ruc/ Onegai eed Crimirirel Couspiieaey AAegedtissg Anil faanatng Ppetrtinier Aor. bahay cnses Meet the PLRA 3-sfhakés …
21-5758 Bobby Martin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-vagueness conviction-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-law harmless-error statutory-interpretation supreme-court Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A) that was obtained in reliance on the unconstitutionally vague residual clause may be sustained bas…
21-5727 Frank Cisneros v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy criminal-defense criminal-procedure federal-law ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining sentencing-enhancement statute-of-limitations withdrawal Whether an attorney's admitted failure to investigate or present a defendant's affirmative withdrawal from a conspiracy beyond the applicable statute …
21-5559 Selvin Leonell Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause criminal-procedure criminal-statute evidence evidentiary-standard federal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea Whether possession of a firearm is 'in or affecting commerce' when there is no evidence that the defendant moved the firearm across state lines or tha…
21-5543 Louis Matthews v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review circuit-court-conflict conspiracy conspiracy-charge federal-law indictment judgment-acquittal ninth-circuit plain-error Did the Ninth Circuit err in upholding a conviction for a conspiracy other than the conspiracy charged in the indictment?
21-5478 Ulises Alvarado v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP conditions-of-release COVID-19 covid-19-test criminal-law due-process federal-law federal-procedure revocation supervised-release Is it a violation of due-process for a defendant to have his supervised-release revoked for declining to take a COVID-19 test that was not clearly a c…
21-5460 Joe Michael Luna v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 circuit-split clearly-established-law federal-law federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-review state-court-decision statutory-interpretation wilson-v-sellers Under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1) and Wilson v. Sellers, is a habeas court's review limited to the state court's reasons or can it consider other reasons?
21-5452 Elliot Joseph v. Daniel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel miranda-v-arizona strickland-v-washington Whether the lower courts incorrectly found petitioner's petition for writ of habeas corpus failed to demonstrate a substantial showing of the denial o…
21-5413 Antoine L. Wallace v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation Does the undefined term 'controlled substance' in the federal Sentencing Guidelines refer to substances controlled by federal law or state law?
21-221 Blake Cretacci v. Joe Call, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-08-16 Denied civil-rights counsel-communication court-of-appeals-split due-process federal-law legal-representation mailbox-rule prisoner-filing prisoner-representation pro-se-filing standing Whether a prisoner who submits a filing through the prison mail system loses the benefit of the mailbox rule if he has counsel?
21-5322 André J. Twitty v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-law federalism first-amendment preemption state-statute statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause void-for-vagueness Does the Assimilative Crimes Act confer jurisdiction upon a federal court to assimilate and alter the elements of an unconstitutional state statute to…
21-5307 Millard Jerome Strickland, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-08-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (4)IFP career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-conviction federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law Whether a prior conviction involving a substance that is not a controlled substance for the purposes of federal law can render a federal defendant a '…
21-5308 Calvin B. Lynch v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2021-08-05 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-law statutory-interpretation witness-intimidation witness-testimony Is petitioner entitled to the Pennsylvania courts' clarifying interpretation of the witness intimidation statute, Pa.C.S.A.§4952, under which petition…
21-5231 Shaun J. Salazar v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process federal-law imprisonment revocation sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum supervised-release united-states-v-haymond Whether a district court may impose a revocation imprisonment term under 18 U.S.C. § 3583(e)(3) that, when combined with a defendant's initial term of…
21-5193 Vernon Collins v. New Jersey New Jersey 2021-07-23 Denied IFP appellate-division appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-law illegal-sentence open-court procedural-claims sentencing Did the New Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division err in concluding consecutive sentences imposed outside petitioner's presence was not contrary to…
21-96 Paul Daniels, et al. v. County of Alameda, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-23 Denied Response Waived civil-rights federal-law malicious-prosecution probable-cause retaliation section-1983 state-law Where absence of probable cause to prosecute is an element of a federal section 1983 civil-rights claim
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?
21-5171 Stephen Cummings v. Dolby Laboratories, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-law federal-procedure judicial-immunity property-rights standing That the lower court (and-or previous appeals court) have decided a legal matter in error, and in conflict with State and Federal Law
21-5099 Thomas Javion Guerrant v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-07-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP career-offender controlled-substance drug-trafficking federal-law predicate-offense sentencing-guidelines state-conviction Does a state conviction for distribution of a substance not defined as a 'controlled substance' by federal law qualify as a career offender predicate …
20-1804 In Re Peter R. Culpepper 2021-06-25 Denied arbitration-act arbitration-award contract-interpretation employment-agreement federal-arbitration-act federal-law judicial-discretion preemption state-law tennessee-uniform-arbitration-act vacatur Whether the FAA preempts the Tennessee Uniform Arbitration Act
20-1789 Lorna Y. Channer v. Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Authority Second Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied bankruptcy federal-law governmental-unit jurisdiction state-law statutory-interpretation title-11 Does the term governmental unit under title 11 include any entity created or organized pursuant to state law or only those that fit within the boundar…
20-8213 James Atwood v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-06-03 Denied Relisted (4)IFP career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law Does the undefined term 'controlled substance' in the federal Sentencing Guidelines refer to substances controlled by federal law or state law?
20-1669 Robert Gene Will, II v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-06-01 Denied Relisted (2) discovery fair-trial federal-habeas federal-law gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus judicial-procedure merits procedural-default rule-60(b) Whether a habeas petitioner makes a valid Rule 60(b) motion by arguing that, due to an incorrect procedural-default ruling, the district court (1) onl…
20-8161 Lisa Marie Belyew v. Mike Pallares, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-05-28 Denied IFP appellate-procedure bail constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process evidence-standard federal-law judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure statutory-interpretation Whether the district court erred in denying petitioner's motion for release on own recognizance pending appeal
20-7904 Bruce Simmons v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence bousley-v-united-states constitutional-claim due-process federal-law mcquiggin-v-perkins miscarriage-of-justice murray-v-carrier schlup-v-delo writ-of-error-coram-nobis Whether the principles of due process are offended
20-7847 Phillip Minor v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process federal-law habeas-corpus new-intervening-judgment state-court-decision statute-of-limitations Did the Ninth Circuit err by not 'second guessing' the decision of the state court as to the timing of Mr. Minor's petition, when the state court deci…
20-1487 Donna M. Gilbert, et al. v. RADM Michael D. Weahkee, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-04-23 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure contract-law due-process eligibility-requirements federal-agency federal-law non-profit non-profit-corporation standing Whether a federal agency is allowed to enter into a contract with a state non-profit corporation when the state non-profit corporation was established…
20-1483 Philip Pilevsky, et al. v. Sutton 58 Associates LLC New York 2021-04-22 Dismissed Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bankruptcy bankruptcy-code federal-law federal-preemption legal-proceedings liability-based-on-bankruptcy misuse-of-bankruptcy preemption state-law state-law-tort-claims tort-claims Whether the federal Bankruptcy Code preempts state-law tort claims
20-7823 Alan Trowbridge v. Jeffrey Woods, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review counsel-deficiency criminal-procedure federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-precedent prejudice sixth-amendment sixth-circuit strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals decide an important question of federal law in a way that conflicts with this Court's holding in Strickland v. …
20-1467 Michael Varco v. Superior Court of the District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia 2021-04-20 Denied Response Waived civil-rights crime-victims-rights crime-victims-rights-act dc-code district-court due-process federal-law metropolitan-police-department mpd standing statutory-interpretation victims-rights Whether a person harmed by a D.C. Code offense may assert rights under the Crime Victims' Rights Act against the MPD Chief
20-7675 John G. Stroming v. United States Second Circuit 2021-04-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-gender-differences child-molestation criminal-procedure criminal-propensity evidence evidence-admissibility evidentiary-rules federal-law prior-convictions propensity victim-characteristics Whether prior convictions for crimes of child molestation can be admitted into evidence where — because of differences in the age and gender of the vi…
20-1376 Michael Abatti, et al. v. Imperial Irrigation District California 2021-04-01 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bryant-v-yellen due-process federal-law federal-reclamation imperial-valley prior-appropriation property-rights reclamation-act standing water-law water-rights Whether the District may abrogate the farmers' water rights that it previously conceded, and that this Court recognized, in Bryant
20-1367 Ethan Johnson Spruill v. Jeorld Braggs, Jr., Warden Tenth Circuit 2021-03-30 Denied 5th-amendment 6th-amendment custodial-interrogation due-process federal-habeas-corpus federal-law miranda-warnings right-to-counsel unreasonable-application Is the admission at trial, over objection, of Petitioner's statement error that lies beyond any possible fairminded disagreement?
20-7508 James W. Campbell v. Tammy Brown, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-law Whether exigent circumstances can validate an otherwise invalid search under a defective search warrant
20-7493 Jose Luis Sanchez, Jr. v. Donald Holbrook, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP anti-terrorism-act article-iii constitutional-interpretation federal-courts federal-judicial-power federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-power state-court state-court-review Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2254(d) of the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) is unconstitutional
20-7498 Jose Federico Almeida-Olivas v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability dahda-v-united-states eighth-circuit federal-law habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-default standing Whether the court properly denied COA
20-7505 Olin Matice Gaskins v. West Virginia West Virginia 2021-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal constitutional-rights direct-appeal due-process equal-protection federal-law fourteenth-amendment legal-procedure retroactivity state-court supreme-court Did the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia violate clearly established federal law and petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment rights when it failed …
20-1287 Recovery Innovations, Inc., et al. v. Kenneth Rawson Ninth Circuit 2021-03-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-law involuntary-commitment mental-health mental-health-services state-action state-action-doctrine Whether private healthcare providers are state actors under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when providing mental health services pursuant to a state's involuntary c…
20-7432 Kevin Leon Lucien v. Texas Texas 2021-03-11 Denied IFP 14th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility federal-law federal-preemption prosecutorial-discretion state-law Whether a state's own articles of law can supercede federal law to further prosecute a defendant in regards to admissable and inadmissable evidence th…
20-7327 Timothy A. Ward v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied IFP career-offender categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law federal-guidelines federal-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-drug-schedules state-law Whether the term 'controlled substance' in the federal sentencing guidelines should be defined by federal law or the law of the state where the prior …
20-7339 Kevin Antonio Watson v. Virginia Virginia 2021-03-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-interpretation court-procedure critical-stage due-process federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation procedural-review right-to-counsel right-to-effective-assistance-of-counsel structural-error Whether trial counsel's absence during the Commonwealth's witness direct examination constitutes a critical stage of the trial and a structural error
20-7243 David Linehan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law first-amendment free-speech interstate-commerce interstate-communication statutory-interpretation threat-transmission Whether 18 U.S.C. § 875(c) requires the government to allege and the jury to find that the defendant threatened to injure a specific natural person
20-1180 Territory of American Samoa v. National Marine Fisheries Service, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied administrative-law american-samoa constitutional-law deeds-of-cession federal-law federal-obligations large-vessel-prohibited-area maritime-regulation territorial-law territory-of-american-samoa Whether the Deeds of Cession establish binding and enforceable obligations on the United States
20-1132 DeMichael Tyrone Moore and Derrick Darnell Moore v. Tennessee Tennessee 2021-02-19 Denied confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination effective-cross-examination federal-law hearsay-exception memory-loss prior-recorded-statement witness-testimony Whether the Confrontation Clause is violated by admitting a prior recorded statement of a witness who testifies he has no memory of making the stateme…
20-1137 California Parents for the Equalization of Educational Materials v. Tom Torlakson, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-19 Denied Amici (2) disfavored-treatment federal-law first-amendment free-exercise-clause government-discrimination ninth-circuit-precedent recurring-issue religious-exercise religious-liberty substantial-burden Whether the Free Exercise Clause permits the government to single out a religion for disfavored treatment so long as it does not 'substantially burden…
20-1109 George C. Chatman v. Arrowhead Credit Union Ninth Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitution constitutional-protection due-process federal-law legal-process property-rights social-security Whether we abide by the laws and the constitution of the United States in protecting our secured property Social security?
20-1057 Oracle America, Inc. v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-02-03 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law administrative-record agency-deference bid-protest conflicts-of-interest criminal-statute federal-law harmless-error procurement procurement-law Whether a bid protest that establishes a violation of federal law may be denied for 'harmless error' based on a rationale not present in the administr…
20-7013 In Re William M. Windsor 2021-02-03 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process federal-law jurisdiction remand removal removal-and-remand standing texas-courts Can Texas courts be allowed to violate federal law on removal and remand?
20-6906 Charles Hamilton v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2021-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-restrictions counsel-of-choice criminal-defendant criminal-defendant-rights federal-law sixth-amendment state-court state-court-review Whether a State Court's erroneous denial of a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment Right to be represented by counsel of choice resulted in a decision…
20-6877 In Re William M. Windsor 2021-01-14 Dismissed IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure conflict-of-laws federal-law jurisdiction remand removal texas-courts Can Texas courts be allowed to violate federal law on removal and remand?
20-955 Delva Newhouse, Administratrix of the Estate of William Perry Newhouse, III v. Ethicon, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights due-process federal-law fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court judicial-discretion medical-device product-liability rule-60 summary-judgment Did the U.S. District Court and U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals justices abuse their discretion, create manifest injustice, substantially err, pr…
20-6822 Rodney Berryman, Sr. v. Ron Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-01-11 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 criminal-procedure federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-illness mitigation-evidence neuro-psychiatric-testing Was the state court's denial of Petitioner's claims contrary to or an unreasonable application of clearly established federal law?
20-6833 Clorey Eugene France v. North Carolina North Carolina 2021-01-11 Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process federal-law free-speech standing state-court supreme-court-review Whether the appellate court has a constitutional duty to state its reasons for denying a petition for a writ of certiorari?
20-930 Karl Geppert v. Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration Maryland 2021-01-11 Denied Response Waived civil-rights driver's-license due-process federal-law real-id-act social-security social-security-number state-law state-legislation state-privilege Where no federal law requires a citizen of the United States to obtain a social security number, may a State legislature, or its courts in applying th…
20-6789 Lilia Abril Olmedo-Perez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP administration-of-justice appellate-review criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-law fifth-circuit minor-role sentencing-guidelines Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it conducted a cursory review of the facts related to a warranted two-level adjustment under U.S.S…
20-848 D. A. S. v. Madison County Department of Human Resources Alabama 2020-12-23 Denied Response Waived addiction-treatment due-process federal-law federal-regulations medicaid medicaid-expansion parental-rights remote-participation Whether the denial of a parent's request to participate remotely in a trial adjudicating parental rights violates due process
20-6680 Darryl Taylor v. Timothy E. Buchanan, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jackson-v-virginia standard-of-review standing sufficiency-of-evidence Whether federal judges should safeguard the constitutional right to a full and fair opportunity for consideration in state courts
20-6641 Jose Angel Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(a) is unconstitutional by exceeding the scope of the commerce clause and whether the statute requires knowledge of the interst…
20-6617 In Re Theresa Romain 2020-12-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-law federal-law-application judicial-error justice-standard legal-interpretation standing state-court state-court-review Can a State Court applied clearly established Federal Law erroneously or incorrectly as to cause harm to a Petitioner?
20-6594 Juan Fredy Hernandez-Zozaya v. United States Third Circuit 2020-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-law federal-law human-trafficking interstate-commerce interstate-transportation prostitution prostitution-statute statutory-interpretation transportation-across-state-lines Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2421(a) is violated where prostitutes arranged and paid for their own transportation across state lines
20-768 Gerardo Serrano v. United States Customs and Border Protection, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-12-04 Denied Amici (1) appropriate-case civil-forfeiture due-process federal-law government-action legal-detention post-seizure-hearing split-in-circuits vehicle-seizure Does due process require a prompt post-seizure hearing for civil forfeiture?
20-770 John Nypl v. JPMorgan Chase & Co., et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-04 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof civil-procedure federal-law federal-rules-civil-procedure judicial-deference motion-to-quash non-party-witness nonparty-witness rule-45 subpoena subpoena-compliance Whether the applicable burden on a moving-party seeking to quash the subpoena of a non-party witness under Fed. R. Civ. P. 45(d)(8) should be decided
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)
20-6420 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?
20-694 Eagle Cove Camp & Conference Center, Inc., et al. v. Town of Woodboro, Wisconsin, et al. Wisconsin 2020-11-19 Denied Response Waived due-process equal-protection federal-law judicial-review notice procedural-due-process property property-rights religious-exercise sanctions sua-sponte sua-sponte-analysis Did the Wisconsin courts deprive petitioners of due process by reversing sanctions without notice?
20-6351 Johnny Tippins v. Patricia Caruso, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-law legal-compliance standing state-actors statutory-interpretation Should the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit recall its mandate to prevent a miscarriage of justice because the district court did not apply…
20-6301 Alfornia Jason Wall, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-law federal-state-interaction recidivism sentencing-enhancement state-law Whether the consecutive imposition of a federal and state recidivism-enhanced sentence violates the Double Jeopardy Clause
20-6293 Raymond Alan Griffin v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-law findings-of-fact motion-to-suppress threshold-determination May a district court make findings of fact resolving contested issues in determining that the threshold for holding an evidentiary hearing on a defend…
20-6241 Lisa Marie Smith v. Kelly Services, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2020-11-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights discrimination employment-discrimination employment-law federal-law liability-exemption negligence retaliation state-law third-party-liability workplace-policies Whether work place polices made up by Kelly Services should overrule state and federal school laws
20-6221 Miguel Nunez v. United States Second Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-challenge federal-law johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines Whether a motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 challenging the constitutionality of the residual clause of the mandatory U.S. Sentencing Guidelines is timely…
20-6145 Anthony Quentin Kelly v. Frank B. Bishop, Jr., Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-10-28 Dismissed IFP circuit-split civil-rights due-process federal-law standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its decision regarding federal law
20-6050 James Anthony Martin v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2020-10-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-liability direct-appeal due-process federal-law legal-interpretation massachusetts-supreme-judicial-court supreme-court-decisions supreme-judicial-court Whether the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court misinterpreted federal law in not applying a new rule narrowing criminal liability to cases on direct…
20-5934 Thomas Holden v. Sherry L. Burt, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure conflict-with-supreme-court constitutional-review due-process federal-law ineffective-assistance premeditated-intent right-to-counsel sixth-amendment sixth-circuit strickland-standard trial-court-error Whether a United States Court of Appeal's has decided an important question of federal law that conflicts with relevant decisions of this Court
20-5871 Derrick Lenard Smith v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 attempt bodily-injury borden-v-united-states criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute federal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(8)(A) includes all offenses that require an attempt to inflict bodily injury?
20-5869 Michael Robert Everett v. Florida Florida 2020-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process federal-law federal-preemption judgment-rendition reclassification sentencing state-law Whether reclassification of a criminal offense from one degree to another violates the Double Jeopardy Clause
20-383 PAR, Inc., et al. v. Nichole L. Richards Seventh Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure enforcement-mechanism fair-debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act federal-law plain-meaning right-to-possession state-law statutory-interpretation Whether the Courts may look to state law to define 'present right to possession' in 15 U.S.C. §1692f(6) of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act to e…
20-5777 Leroy Banks v. Anthony Terry, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-23 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-law free-speech judicial-procedure standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Court of Appeals and the District Court erred in dismissing the Petitioner's claims and case, including the Petitioner's request for decla…
20-5766 Christopher Andre Vialva v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-21 Denied IFP attorney-general-power death-penalty death-sentence execution-procedures federal-courts federal-death-penalty-act federal-law judicial-precedent state-law state-law-implementation What law governs a federal court's implementation of a death sentence?
20-363 Frederick R. Whatley v. Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (12) circuit-split federal-law habeas habeas-corpus holbrook-v-flynn ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice shackling strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Does a state court unreasonably apply federal law when, in determining whether a person suffered prejudice as a result of ineffective assistance of co…
20-352 The Paine College v. The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied accreditation administrative-procedure common-law common-law-due-process conflict-of-interest decision-making-body due-process federal-law higher-education procedural-rights quorum Whether a college's right of common law due process is violated in its accreditation removal proceeding when one-half of the members of the decision-m…
20-5576 Sarina Ann Williams v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-09-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split congressional-intent conspiracy federal-law sentencing-guidelines sex-trafficking Whether the crime of Conspiracy to Engage in Sex Trafficking by Force, Fraud, and Coercion carries a base offense level of 34 or 14
20-236 Jerry W. Wells v. Robbin Nelson, et al. Kentucky 2020-08-28 Denied Response Waived adoption civil-rights constitutional-rights custody due-process family-law federal-law jurisdiction uccjea Can an original decree state, using the UCCJEA, deny the jurisdiction of a sister state during an adoption proceeding
20-5482 Marvin Arido Sorro v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process federal-law fourth-amendment judicial-proceedings jurisdictional-challenge procedural-rights standing Did the United States District Court deprived the petitioner access to the courts and to state a claim?
20-5472 Henry Dailey v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-authority criminal-procedure due-process federal-law jurisdictional-challenge restitution sentencing state-law statutory-interpretation Whether the district court had legal and constitutional authority to impose restitution, in light of the clause in 18 U.S.C. 3231, and Mo. Rev. Stat. …
20-5475 Archie Cabello, aka Archibaldo Cabello, aka Archie Cabello, Jr., aka Archie P. Cabello, aka Arquimedes Cabello, aka Archie Palumbo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-08-24 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 60(b)(4) 60(b)(6) constitutional-rights counsel-of-choice due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-law plea-petition right-to-counsel sixth-amendment When the government moves to strip a defendant of his counsel of choice, does the court have any obligation to hold a hearing to inquire and determine…
20-5443 Christopher Rondeau v. Indiana Indiana 2020-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-alien due-process federal-law foreign-national legal-status legally-dead murder-prosecution subject-matter-jurisdiction Were the Petitioner's 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendment rights violated?
20-5411 Kwame Anderson v. United States Second Circuit 2020-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-law presentence-report resentencing sentencing-procedure sentencing-proceeding Whether the Court must settle an important question of federal law that has not been, but should be, regarding Petitioner's resentence that was impose…
20-5341 Erik Becerra v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-08-13 Denied IFP affirmative-defense criminal-justice criminal-prosecution federal-law firearm-possession judicial-development lower-court-conflict statutory-interpretation Does federal law permit the judicial development of an innocent-transitory possession (ITP) affirmative defense in a criminal prosecution for unlawful…
20-5125 In Re Allen Fitzgerald Calton 2020-07-21 Dismissed IFP 14th-amendment brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-law federal-review habeas-corpus Whether the resolution of petitioner's Brady violation claim by the state courts resulted in a decision that was contrary to or involved an unreasonab…
20-5092 Sebastian Cortez-Hernandez v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2020-07-16 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-law ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-procedure statutory-construction supreme-court Whether the ruling by the Supreme Court constitutes a clearly established law error in the United States Supreme Court Ineffective Assistance of Couns…
20-5079 Charles Monroe Finchum v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law felon-in-possession firearms-possession 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 …
20-5080 Christopher George Wiggin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP with no evidence of defendants' conduct causing s criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-law felon-in-possession firearms-possession interstate-commerce 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 …
19-8866 Yara Chum v. Patricia Anne Coyne-Fague, Director, Rhode Island Department of Corrections First Circuit 2020-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP federal-law ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-analysis prejudice-standard sixth-amendment state-court-review state-law-standard strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Did the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit err in holding that a state court decision was not contrary to federal law when, in deciding a Sixth Am…
19-1384 James E. Pietrangelo, II v. Corrinne Hudson Ohio 2020-06-17 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts federal-law hipaa hipaa-compliance involuntary-consent litigation-procedure medical-authorization medical-authorizations personal-injury-claim supremacy-clause Whether federal courts violate HIPAA by compelling plaintiffs to execute involuntary and non-compliant medical authorizations upon penalty of dismissa…
19-1367 Vernon Lee Havens, II v. Maureen O'Connor, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-06-12 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-guarantees due-process equal-protection equal-treatment federal-law judicial-immunity jurisdiction rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 section-1988 superior-courts Do Mireles v. Waco, Brookings v. Clunk, and associated case law combine to grant absolute judicial immunity to all other regulation, Section 1988 suit…
19-8663 Tesa Keith v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-statute facial-challenge federal-courts federal-law plea-agreement procedural-challenge waiver Whether facial challenges to a federal criminal statute may be waived by plea agreement?
19-1348 Alfred Bourgeois, et al. v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. District of Columbia 2020-06-09 Denied Amici (2) administrative-law agency-deference agency-rule capital-case death-penalty execution-protocol federal-death-penalty-act federal-law notice-and-comment procedural-rule statutory-interpretation Whether the phrase 'prescribed by the law of the State' in 18 U.S.C. § 3596(a) includes those procedures that state law requires state officials to es…
19-1279 Jake LaTurner, Kansas State Treasurer v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-05-12 Denied abandoned-property bond-ownership bond-redemption due-process escheat escheat-power federal-law federal-preemption preemption redemption savings-bonds state-sovereignty treasury-regulations Whether States may redeem abandoned U.S. savings bonds
19-8441 Richard John Vieira v. California California 2020-05-12 Denied IFP attorney-general-duty constitution-violation constitutional-interpretation federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-authority judicial-misconduct judicial-oath legal-accountability oath-of-office prosecutorial-discretion state-law What statute or authority do California Supreme Court judges have to violate, ignore, and disobey the absolute commands in the state and U.S. constitu…
19-8399 Reshon Tolliver v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute drug-payment drug-trafficking evidence federal-law money-laundering statutory-interpretation Whether mere payment for drugs constitutes sufficient evidence for a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 1956?
19-8373 Frank Silva Roque v. Arizona Arizona 2020-04-29 Denied IFP appeals appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-rules federal-law habeas-corpus standing Did the Arizona court err in upholding the state court's ruling contrary to federal law on a reasonable appeal of federal claims?
19-1215 Steven Sussex, et ux. v. City of Tempe, Arizona Arizona 2020-04-14 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure enabling-act federal-defense federal-enabling-act federal-law federal-preemption judicial-procedure jurisdiction property-rights quiet-title state-law Can a state law bar a federal defense in a quiet title proceeding?
19-1174 John W. Kimbrough v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison Seventh Circuit 2020-03-26 Denied Response Waived appellate-review federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-relief strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Is it an unreasonable application of federal law to hold, for Strickland purposes, that there was no reasonable probability that the state's appellate…
19-1107 Clinton L. Sides, et ux. v. Central Kansas Conservancy, Inc. Kansas 2020-03-10 Denied Response Waived adverse-easement adverse-possession federal-law national-trail-system-act prescriptive-easement property-reactivation property-rights rail-banking railroad-right-of-way servient-estate trail-use-easement Does federal law preclude the application of state adverse possession/prescriptive easement doctrines to trail-use easements created under the Nationa…
19-7756 In Re Frank Deville 2020-02-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP amendment civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-law constitutional-violation due-process federal-law hazardous-waste judicial-procedure liberal-amendment standing Is the Petitioner a victim in this case?
19-7715 Alfredo Castillo-Reyes v. Bobbi Grant Ingalls, et al. Virginia 2020-02-20 Denied IFP civil-procedure divorce due-process property standing takings civil-procedure civil-rights court-jurisdiction divorce-proceedings due-process federal-law federal-review judicial-discretion legal-procedure property-rights standing takings Whether the Federal Law permit Virginia Supreme Court denied of case because of Circuit Court of Warren County refused of transcription and Order Medi…
19-7670 Hooman Ashkan Panah v. Ron Broomfield, Warden California 2020-02-13 Denied Amici (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-conviction due-process federal-law habeas invalidated-evidence judicial-review post-conviction scientific-evidence trial What is the test to determine when due process is violated based on scientific evidence presented at trial which is later shown to be invalid?
19-987 H. Stephens Winters, Judge, District Court of Louisiana, 4th Judicial District, et al. v. Stanley R. Palowsky, III, Individually and On Behalf of Alternative Environmental Solutions, Inc. Louisiana 2020-02-06 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1257a administrative-function case-pending federal-law forrester-v-white judicial-immunity record-destruction state-court state-law Does Louisiana Supreme Court have jurisdiction to review judicial immunity under federal law?
19-7560 Michael Swain v. Florida Commission on Offender Review Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitrary-action circuit-court-conflict constitutional-protections due-process federal-law government-agency habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-relief parole parole-board Did the judges of the United States Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal err when they affirmed the district court's denial of habeas corpus relief to pet…
19-7533 Allan Leslie Sinanan, Jr. v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-law fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure state-court state-court-decision unreasonable-application Whether Law Enforcement Authorities engaged in tactics and procedures designed to circumvent Petitioner's Constitutional protected rights guaranteed b…
19-969 John M. Marshall, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit 2020-02-03 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived creditor-rights federal-law property-transfer recharacterization state-law stern-v-commissioner tax-law tax-liability transaction-recharacterization Whether state law or federal law governs the recharacterization of a transaction for federal tax liability purposes
19-7511 Frank Deville, et ux. v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, et al. California 2020-01-31 Denied IFP civil-procedure concealing-material-facts conflict-of-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-law fraud-particularity hearsay-evidence judicial-procedure legal-standards liberal-amendment material-facts standing What is the liberal ability to amend a complaint?
19-7455 Ronson Kyle Bush v. Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden Tenth Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied IFP antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act certificate-of-appealability clearly-established-federal-law constitutional-standards death-penalty eighth-amendment federal-law fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus habeas-review state-court-decisions state-court-review unreasonableness Whether the 'clearly established Federal law' provision of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act renders state court decisions categorical…
19-935 Carl Leeper v. Hamilton County Coal, LLC, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied employee-recall employment-cessation employment-termination federal-law industry-standards layoffs objective-standard reasonable-expectation-of-recall terminations warn-act worker-adjustment-and-retraining-notification-act workforce-reduction Whether courts should distinguish between 'terminations' and 'layoffs' under the WARN Act by applying an objective standard that examines the employee…
19-7396 Julio Mario Haro-Verdugo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP cronic due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment strickland conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process federal-law fifth-amendment habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-standard Whether the District Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit's rejection of Petitioner's ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim(s) …
19-7269 James Patton Robertson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP coram-nobis criminal-procedure due-process federal-law frivolous frivolous-claim judicial-review statute-of-limitations summary-disposition transactional-immunity Whether summary disposition is appropriate when considering a petition for writ of coram nobis
19-7080 Stanley Jaboin v. Florida Florida 2019-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process due-process,criminal-procedure,federal-law,supreme failure-to-render-aid federal-law florida-statute-316.193 judgment-of-acquittal motion-for-acquittal standard-of-proof statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Did the First District Courts of Appeals apply federal law issued by the United States Supreme Court in a way that frustrates and undermines its holdi…
19-7042 Christian Rosado v. United States Third Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-law guidelines judicial-interpretation judicial-opinions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines state-law state-law-offense statutory-interpretation use-of-force Whether a state-law offense qualifies as a 'crime of violence' for purposes of the career-offender enhancement of the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines even …
19-7004 Mario Torres v. Shawn Hatton, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP blanket-policy brady-violations criminal-defendant-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence-withholding exculpatory-evidence federal-law ineffective-assistance plea-agreement policy right-to-counsel unreasonable-application Whether Contra.Costa County California's blanket policy of depriving a criminal defendant the facts and the evidence (exculpatory or otherwise), surro…
19-718 James King v. Douglas Brownback, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-12-06 Denied Relisted (2) 42-usc-1983 bivens civil-procedure civil-rights color-of-law due-process federal-law law-enforcement section-1983 state-law task-force Does a law enforcement officer's membership in a joint state-federal police task force managed, in part, by a federal agency preclude him or her from …
19-692 Sunil Deo v. California California 2019-12-02 Denied Amici (2) 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process federal-law fifth-amendment penal-code property-rights state-law takings takings-clause Does California's application of Penal Code section 115 to deprive lienholders of their property constitute an uncompensated taking in violation of th…
19-6725 Richard A. Wellbeloved-Stone v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 19-usc-1509 agency-authority agency-procedure civil-procedure criminal-procedure criminal-proceeding customs-summons exclusionary-rule federal-law federal-policy ice non-customs-information Whether information having nothing to do with customs, obtained by an agency pursuant to a customs summons under 19 U.S.C. § 1509, should be suppresse…
19-6737 Leonard L. Little, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2019-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review carpenter-v-united-states constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-law fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure jurisdiction legal-standards privacy search-and-seizure sixth-amendment-confrontation-clause standing supreme-court-precedent Did the Second District Court of Appeal apply federal law issued by the United States Supreme Court in a way that frustrates and undermines its holdin…
19-638 N. B. D. v. Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services Kentucky 2019-11-18 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (2) best-interests deportation federal-law homeland-security immigration immigration-law juvenile-protection predicate-findings special-immigrant-juvenile special-immigrant-juvenile-status state-court-jurisdiction state-courts Whether federal law requires state courts of competent jurisdiction to make predicate findings for special-immigrant-juvenile-status determinations up…
19-6640 Ramelus D. Bradley v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment circuit-court circuit-court-review civil-rights federal-law federal-law-violation fourth-amendment gps-tracking jones-v-united-states search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent vehicle-search Whether the circuit court erred when it failed to find that the state court had violated federal law and in doing so, violated petitioner Bradley's Fo…
19-6601 Kevin Battle v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-prosecution categorical-approach categorical-match circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing prior-conviction realistic-probability sentencing state-conviction state-court state-crime Whether a defendant must point to an actual state-court prosecution to demonstrate that a prior conviction is not a categorical match for federal sent…
19-6620 John Kevin Waldrip v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines federal-statute fifth-circuit judicial-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines special-assessments statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it refused to vacate the $15,000 special assessments
19-6513 Deyoe R. Harris v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-review controlled-substances criminal-justice drug-policy due-process federal-law federalism free-speech sentencing-disparity standing takings Whether the federal prohibition on certain substances has resulted in more crime and violence, and whether it is best to regulate or decriminalize the…
19-6505 Michael Ingram v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-851 21-usc-851-enhancement 28-usc-2255 28-usc-2255-f-4 federal-law federal-procedure federal-sentencing geographic-disparities geographic-disparity habeas-corpus sentencing-commission sentencing-commission-report statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation time-limit time-limitation Where the United States Sentencing Commission publishes a report summarizing the geographic disparities in the application of the 21 U.S.C. §851 enhan…
19-6470 Darrell Lamar Marshall v. George Caram Steeh, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-10-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-rights deprivation district-judge due-process federal-law human-services social-security Did United States District Judge, George C. Steeh, the Social Security Administration, Michigan Department of Human Services, Rehabilitation Services,…
19-6435 Iyang Peter Oduok v. Fulton DeKalb Hospital Authority, dba Grady Memorial Hospital, et al. Georgia 2019-10-29 Dismissed IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-procedure-preemption constitutional-violation due-process federal-law georgia-supreme-court judicial-procedure preemption rule-13 rule-38 writ-of-certiorari Does Georgia Supreme Court Rule 38 conflict with federal law and preempt it?
19-6414 Miguel Angel Vega-Torres v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-conflict due-process eighth-circuit federal-law fifth-circuit fourth-amendment immigration-checkpoint rodriguez-standard rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop traffic-stops Do the standards for traffic stops articulated in Rodriguez v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 1609 (2015), apply to immigration checkpoint stops?
19-532 United States v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-23 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (14) anti-commandeering civil-rights federal-law federal-preemption immigration immigration-enforcement immigration-law information-sharing intergovernmental-immunity preemption sb-54 state-enforcement state-law Whether provisions of California law that prohibit state law-enforcement officials from providing federal immigration authorities with release dates a…
19-6174 David Anthony Lee v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-law fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-rights state-court-proceedings Whether Mr. Lee's conviction was obtained in violation of his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights
19-6115 Jose Manuel Aguirre-Ganceda v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence collateral-attack criminal-justice criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-conviction due-process federal-law federal-state-comity mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimum prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-court-reduction state-law Whether a defendant is actually innocent of a mandatory life sentence once a prior state drug conviction relied upon by the District Court is set asid…
19-409 City of Cleveland, Ohio, et al. v. Ricky Jackson, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-09-26 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1988 brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 federal-law municipal-liability personal-injury personal-injury-claims qualified-immunity section-1983 section-1988 state-law state-law-survival-rule survival Whether §1988 requires the survival of §1983 claims to be determined using the state-law survival rule for the most closely analogous state cause of a…
19-405 Nicholas Schiano, dba HotWireMedia.com, et al. v. Matt Friedman, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied civil-rights constitutional-law defamation due-process eleventh-circuit federal-law first-amendment free-speech legal-defense motives substantial-truth Whether substantial truth is a complete defense to defamation under the First Amendment, regardless of the motives of the speaker?
19-395 Christina Alessio v. United Airlines, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Relisted (2) air-quality aircraft-cabin aircraft-safety chemical-exposure chemical-substances civil-rights compliance federal-law federal-law-49-usc-5124 federal-oversight government-oversight oversight product-disclosure public-health transparency transportation-regulations Whether the Rule of Law applies to the Respondent regarding the use of chemical cleaning and air-freshening products in aircraft cabins
19-352 Robin Brindle, et al. v. Delta Airlines, Inc., et al. Rhode Island 2019-09-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) airline-deregulation airline-deregulation-act civil-procedure federal-law federal-preemption labor-law local-wage-regulation preemption state-regulation state-wage-regulation transportation transportation-law wage-regulation Whether the preemption provision of the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 exempts airlines from state and local wage regulation
19-5953 Jose Juan Vallejo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP border-patrol constitutional-seizure eighth-circuit federal-law fifth-circuit immigration-checkpoint rodriguez-standard rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop traffic-stops Do the standards for traffic stops articulated in Rodriguez v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 1609 (2015), apply to immigration checkpoint stops?
19-339 Eugene J. Sonnier, II v. Catholic Foundation of The Diocese of Lafayette, et al. Louisiana 2019-09-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) armed-forces congressional-intent dis-internment federal-law federal-preemption military-benefits military-remains preemption remains-disposition service-member-rights state-statute Whether Louisiana's dis-internment statute is preempted by federal law and conflicts with congressional intent regarding the rights of members of the …
19-5903 Martin Ogden v. Digital Intelligence Systems Arizona 2019-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process federal-claims federal-law judicial-authority judicial-review nullity state-court state-court-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause Whether a state court's refusal to adjudicate a federal claim under federal law, while entertaining similar state law claims, violates the Supremacy C…
19-323 Charles V. Schneider v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eighth Circuit 2019-09-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-court-ruling circuit-court-rulings circuit-split constitutional-authority constitutional-authority-of-courts federal-law inferior-courts judicial-conflict judicial-hierarchy judicial-review judicial-supremacy legal-precedent statutory-interpretation supervisory-power supreme-court-precedent Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (or any other inferior court) has the Constitutional authority to rule in conflict with rulin…
19-5871 Patrick Jones v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempt controlled-substance controlled-substances federal-crime federal-law guidelines-interpretation mandatory-minimum offer-to-sell preparatory-action sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation substantial-step tenth-circuit-precedent Did the district court err in increasing the defendant's sentence based on the Guidelines definition of 'controlled substance offense'?
19-278 Pfizer Inc., et al. v. Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, et al. California 2019-09-03 Denied Amici (1) bristol-myers-squibb civil-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-law forfeiture jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a defendant's efforts to establish federal subject matter jurisdiction can result in forfeiture of an otherwise fully preserved challenge to p…
19-5763 Jose Lara-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-30 GVR Relisted (4)IFP circuit-split criminal-law federal-law federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law mens-rea reckless-mental-state recklessness sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-force 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…
19-5727 Trayvon Smith v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP against-the-person-of-another crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-court federal-law federal-recidivism intentional-conduct mens-rea negligence recidivism recidivism-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-court-interpretation state-law Whether a state offense qualifies as a crime of violence
19-5749 Juan Manuel Perez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP against-the-person-of-another crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-court federal-law federal-recidivism intentional-conduct mens-rea negligence recidivism recidivism-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation Whether a state offense qualifies as a crime of violence
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 …
19-5704 In Re James Larry 2019-08-23 Denied IFP 14th-amendment due-process federal-law fourteenth-amendment mental-disease mental-disease-defect post-conviction rule-32 standard-of-review Does the Alabama State standard of review in Rule 32 Ala.R.Crim.P. post-conviction proceedings regarding the mental disease/defect issue as presented …
19-5653 Edward Lee Busby v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-08-21 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 adjudication-on-the-merits atkins-claim due-process due-process-clause eighth-amendment federal-constitutional-claim federal-law habeas-corpus intellectual-disability standard-of-review state-court state-court-review When a state habeas court denies a petitioner relief on a federal constitutional claim by imposing a higher burden than is required by federal law, sh…
19-5654 Shederro Lemarc Brooks v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-firearms-law federal-law firearm-possession 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 …
19-181 Lance Patterson v. Indiana Family and Social Services Administration Indiana 2019-08-09 Denied administrative-interpretation agency-deference federal-law federal-regulation garnished-income garnishment income-calculation income-received medicaid medicaid-liability nursing-home nursing-home-payment state-agency-deference Whether a state Medicaid agency must include garnished income in 'income received' when calculating a nursing home resident's liability
19-5551 Jeffrey R. MacDonald v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 8th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-violation due-process federal-law federal-procedure habeas-corpus liberty-interest Is actual innocence a freestanding ground for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255?
19-5297 Esterlin Appolon v. Arizona Arizona 2019-07-24 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-law judicial-review jurisdiction post-conviction second-amendment sentencing standard-of-review state-court sufficiency-of-evidence unreasonable-application Whether the Arizona Supreme Court abused its discretion by dismissing the Petition for Special Action and Motion for Stay?
19-5303 Mario Benitez-Pineda v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law constitutional-challenge constitutional-law controlled-substances criminal-law due-process federal-law penalty-provision sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether 21 U.S.C. § 841 et. seq., is unconstitutional because it contains no penalty provision?
19-5271 Demarko Deon Cooper v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-23 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-review lower-court-decision state-court unreasonable-application Was the lower court's decision to deny habeas corpus relief to the Petitioner in this cause contrary to, and an unreasonable application of, clearly e…
19-5272 Pereneal Kizzee v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-appeals criminal-procedure-error-correction criminal-sentencing federal-appeals federal-law felony-offense fifth-circuit firearm-possession guidelines-enhancement judicial-discretion judicial-integrity plain-error plain-error-review sentencing-guidelines Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it refused to exercise its discretion to correct the forfeited error that seriously affected the f…
19-5270 Phyteaf Phequan McCormick v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-07-22 GVR IFP case-remand criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-law fourth-circuit judicial-interpretation sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review Whether the Fourth Circuit's judgment should be vacated and this case remanded for further review in light of this Court's recent opinion in Rehaif v.…
19-5232 Ricky Ray Malone v. Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-07-18 Denied IFP chapman-standard chapman-v-california constitutional-violation criminal-procedure cumulative-error cumulative-error-analysis federal-law harmless-error harmlessness-review plain-error plain-error-review prejudice prejudice-component Where plain error review includes a built-in prejudice component, is subjecting an acknowledged plain error to a second round of harmlessness review p…
19-5203 In Re Angel Ruiz-Rivera 2019-07-17 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-amendment debt-issuance due-process federal-law government-debt judicial-authority judicial-discretion legal-interpretation puerto-rico-government referendum standing statutory-interpretation takings Is Joint Resolution 87-121 of August 3, 1961 by the U.S. Congress and the amendment to the Constitution of P.R. approved therein and ratified by 82% o…
19-5164 Lamont Renard Stewart v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-15 Denied IFP conflict-with-precedent court-decision court-of-appeals federal-law federal-question important-issue judicial-review jurisdiction legal-conflict legal-settlement petition-for-writ settled-by-supreme-court standing Whether a State Court or a United States Court of Appeals has decided an important question of federal law that has not been, but should be, settled b…
19-5137 Albert Duval Gray v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-law fifth-amendment revocation-sentence sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the writ should issue so that this Court may decide whether Petitioner's revocation sentence violated the Fifth and Sixth Amendments
19-5096 Nicholas Rivera v. United States Third Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender career-offender-enhancement categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law federal-law pennsylvania-law predicate-offense sentencing-guidelines Whether the categorical approach applies in determining a predicate offense for career-offender enhancement
19-5100 Matthew Karahalios v. United States First Circuit 2019-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2113(a) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) 28-usc-2255 armed-robbery bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-law firearms-statute predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-correction statutory-interpretation Does unarmed bank robbery serve as a predicate offense for a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) of using or carrying a firearm during and in re…
18-1565 Matt A. Rogers v. SWEPI LP, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-06-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitrability arbitration-provision arbitration-validity contract-formation contract-validity delegation-of-arbitrability federal-law federal-preemption first-options-standard prima-paint-doctrine severability severability-doctrine state-law Whether the severability doctrine applies to determine arbitrability in the absence of clear and unmistakable evidence that the parties delegated that…
18-9546 Everett Charles Wills, II v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP collateral-review criminal-justice criminal-procedure danforth-v-minnesota federal-law greene-v-fisher mccoy-v-louisiana montgomery-v-louisiana post-conviction-proceedings postconviction-review retroactive-application retroactivity retroactivity-of-new-rules teague-rule teague-v-lane watershed-rule Whether States must apply a 'watershed rule' under Teague v. Lane in post-conviction proceedings
18-9472 Reginald Donell Rice v. Carey D. Cockell, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-06-03 Denied IFP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-question due-process federal-law federal-question jurisdiction precedent standing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions Whether the court of appeals decided an important question of federal law that has not been, but should be, settled by this Court
18-9518 Blayne D. Williams, Sr. v. City of Austin, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 7th-amendment civil-rights due-process employment federal-law federal-rules-of-civil-procedure municipal-employer municipal-government property-interest rule-12b6 seventh-amendment state-law Whether the City of Austin, as a municipal government employer violated the Appellant's federal and state law rights secured by the United States Cons…
18-9344 Samuel J. Yarber v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-922g 18-usc-924c 21-usc-841a conviction-grouping criminal-statute federal-courts federal-law grouping judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines united-states-code Whether counts of conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) and 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) should be grouped under the United States Sentencing Guidelines, U.S.S.G.…
18-9351 Craig Bassett v. Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights congressional-act court-rule due-process federal-courts federal-law respondeat-superior section-1983 separation-of-powers standing state-law statutory-interpretation Can a rule of court contradict an act of congress without violating due process?
18-9194 Noah Espada v. Texas Texas 2019-05-08 Denied IFP brady-violation constitutional-law criminal-procedure death-penalty double-jeopardy due-process federal-law perjury reversal Whether a Brady violation, that results in the reversal of a death sentence because of perjury stemming from the Brady violation, implicates the Doubl…
18-9183 Zachary Wayne Jones v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach civil-procedure due-process federal-law federal-prosecution fifth-amendment generic-federal-standard predicate-offense state-statute Is it a violation of Due Process under the Fifth Amendment for the federal government to utilize a state statute in the prosecution of a federal law a…
18-9016 Henry Earl Miller v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 4th-circuit-court-of-appeals 5th-amendment 5th-amendment-equal-protection constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-law fourth-circuit habeas habeas-corpus procedural-due-process procedural-law wood-v-milyard Does The Fourth Circuit's Widespread Practice Of Issuing Virtually Indistinguishable Production-Line Manufactured Rubber Stamped Opinions Violate Mill…
18-1336 Walter P. Reed v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-24 Denied Response Waived campaign-finance criminal-forfeiture criminal-forfeiture,statute-of-limitations,mail-fr criminal-prosecution custom-and-practice custom-and-practice,federal-mail-fraud,state-law,s due-process federal-law mail-fraud notice state-law statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation wire-fraud Whether the petitioner was denied due process by lack of notice of the federal prosecutors' interpretation of a state campaign finance statute and an …
18-8923 Ryan Watkins v. Norm Robinson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appeals-court criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts federal-law habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief re-sentencing sentencing sixth-amendment sixth-circuit successive-petition Whether Petitioner was entitled to present his claims after re-sentencing to the United States District Court of appeals
18-8835 Sabrina D. Davis v. Kia Motors America, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-interpretation discriminatory-ruling discriminatory-rulings due-process federal-law fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-discretion judiciary-act judiciary-act-of-1925 poverty standing statutory-construction unconstitutional Are the lower courts abusing the Judiciary Act of 1925 to ignore fraud on the court?
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…
18-8722 In Re Curtis Lee Sheppard 2019-04-09 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-review due-process federal-courts federal-law habeas-corpus jurisdictional-ruling mandamus prisoner-rights standing Whether the Eighth Circuit's refusal to allow the petitioner to file a successive habeas petition under 28 U.S.C. 2244(b) was proper
18-8668 Joseph Edwards Teague, III v. North Carolina North Carolina 2019-04-02 Denied IFP affidavit appeal appellate-review detective-affidavit federal-law good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant state-law state-vs-federal state-vs-federal-law Was COA17-1134 dispositive of appeal brought to NC Court of Appeals?
18-8510 Travis Thaniel v. Maryland Maryland 2019-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process federal-law ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactivity right-to-be-present right-to-presence state-law trial-counsel weaver-retroactivity weaver-v-massachusetts Does the federal law of Weaver v. Massachusetts, 137 S.Ct. 1899 (2017) have retroactive application in the state of Maryland?
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
18-8422 Johnny M. Young v. Alabama Alabama 2019-03-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-rights due-process federal-law standing state-courts supremacy-clause Whether denial of in forma pauperis by the Alabama Supreme Court is in conflict with the United States Supreme Court precedent on federal rights of ac…
18-8234 Jeremy Snider v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 advisory-guidelines advisory-sentencing-guidelines circuit-court-decision circuit-split cognizable-claims criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 federal-law federal-statute non-constitutional-claims post-conviction-relief sentencing-guidelines sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation Whether non-constitutional claims for sentencing relief grounded on the advisory Sentencing Guidelines can ever be cognizable under 28 U.S.C. § 2255
18-8279 George Wayne Brooks v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-03-05 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP brady-law constitutional-standards criminal-procedure due-process evidence-determination federal-law fraud-on-the-court judicial-process newly-presented-evidence Whether the United States has a substantial interest in preventing the risk of injustice to defendant and an interest in the public's confidence in th…
18-8206 Robert L. Clark v. Christopher M. Carr, Attorney General of Georgia Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-law imminent-danger in-forma-pauperis standards standing How Could the US. Court of Appeals grant a leave to proceed in forma pauperis in US. Court of Appeals Case no.18-10949 under the 'imminent danger' sta…
18-8048 Darnell D. Owens v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation criminal-history due-process federal-law historical-practice judicial-discretion propensity-evidence sixth-amendment sixth-circuit supervised-release Whether the Due Process Clause permits a judge or factfinder to rely on a person's criminal history to conclude that he or she likely committed anothe…
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…
18-7986 Maurin Chacon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 794 amendment-violation civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-law judicial-review plain-error plain-error-standard rosales-mireles rosales-mireles-v-united-states sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-olan Does a amendment violation of 794 warrant a plain error review under Rosales-Mireles
18-1062 Love Terminal Partners, L.P., et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2019-02-13 Denied Amici (8) civil-rights due-process economic-impact fair-market-value federal-law investment-backed-expectations investment-expectations just-compensation property-rights property-taking regulatory-environment regulatory-taking takings Whether courts may treat real property as worthless solely because the owner was not generating positive cash flow at the time of the taking
18-7832 Jason Lee Harris v. Karen A. Mullins, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied IFP access-to-courts appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process federal-law first-amendment in-forma-pauperis ninth-circuit sentencing-guidelines service-of-process standing Did the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit err in barring the grant of in forma paupe…
18-7624 Mario Griffin v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion apprendi-v-new-jersey apprendi-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process federal-law illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion judicial-integrity manifest-injustice miscarriage-of-justice sentence-enhancement sentencing Does the sentence imposed constitute an illegal sentence under federal law and represent a manifest injustice calling in question the integrity of the…
18-7638 John Todd Williams v. United States Second Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-violation civil-violations consumer-protection criminal-prosecution debt-collection deceptive-tactics fair-debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act fdcpa federal-law misrepresentations Whether the courts below erroneously held that Mr. Williams and his companies could be prosecuted criminally for acts his employees committed that hav…
18-7649 Sergeyi Bazar v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP caminetti-v-united-states criminal-law federal-law mann-act mann-act-18-usc-2422 prostitution sex-trafficking sexual-conduct sexual-intercourse statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-bitty When Congress amended the Mann Act (18 U.S.C. § 2422) in 1986, did it overrule this Court's decisions in United States v. Bitty, 208 U.S. 393 (1908), …
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
18-7436 Jeffrey Nicholas Aase v. Paul Schnell, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Corrections Eighth Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest criminal-defense cuyler-v-sullivan federal-law ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-integrity prosecutorial-ethics right-to-counsel structural-error Did the Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit err in not issuing a Certificate of Appealability?
18-7377 Jarvis Harris v. Joe Easterling, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-courts federal-law federal-question judicial-review legal-precedent standing supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and District Court for the Western District has entered a decision in conflict with t…
18-7304 Juan Rodriguez-Mantos v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines fifth-circuit judicial-review reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness supervisory-power Whether the imposition of an outside Guidelines sentence is reasonable
18-7268 Christopher Berry v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure court-filing-requirements due-process federal-law federal-procedural-rules newly-discovered-evidence pro-se-litigant standing third-circuit-court Did the holding of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit involve an unreasonable application of clearly established federal law in …
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 …
18-851 Bryan Christopher Marshall v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied Response Waived armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-sentencing drug-distribution drug-statute due-process federal-law first-amendment law-enforcement predicate-offense sentencing speech-protection statutory-interpretation Whether a state drug statute that lists a variety of means by which it can be violated, including one which does not meet the definition of a drug dis…
18-855 Ray Allen, Secretary, Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, et al. v. International Association of Machinists District Ten, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-01-04 Dismissed Amici (4)Relisted (2) dues-checkoff federal-law labor-law labor-relations national-labor-relations-act preemption right-to-work summary-affirmance union-authorization Whether this Court should overrule its summary affirmance in Sea Pak v. Industrial, Technical, and Professional Employees, Division of National Mariti…
18-7157 Cody Wayne Mayfield v. Jimmy Martin, Warden Tenth Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied IFP clearly-established-law deferential-review due-process estelle-v-mcguire federal-claim federal-law habeas-corpus standard-of-review state-court state-court-adjudication supreme-court-precedent unreasonable-application Whether deferential treatment is given when a state court's adjudication of a federal claim is not merely unreasonable, but too involved an incorrect …
18-7128 Joseph A. Bebo v. Sean Medeiros, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk First Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2254-standard 28-usc-2254 due-process extraneous-material federal-law habeas-corpus impartial-jury jury-impartiality jury-inquiry supreme-court-review Whether this Court should clarify its jurisprudence on the right to an impartial jury
18-6899 John Uranga, III v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied IFP certiorari circuit-split circuit-splits constitutional-error constitutional-violations de-minimis federal-courts federal-law implied-bias intra-circuit-split juror-bias structural-error structural-errors Whether the implied bias doctrine constitutes clearly established federal law
18-6903 Curtis McLaurin v. New York New York 2018-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-law due-process federal-law fourth-amendment groh-v-ramirez habeas-corpus incorporated-application new-york-state-appellate-court search-warrant stone-v-powell Whether the New York State appellate court's holding that a defective search warrant can be cured by an incorporated search warrant application
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)?
18-671 Kurt Robert Smith v. Anna Valentine, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2254 aedpa federal-law federal-review habeas-corpus ignorance-of-law ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-ignorance reasonable-counsel strategic-decision Must a court reviewing counsel's failure to investigate first determine whether the basis for the failure was counsel's ignorance of the law, or anoth…
18-6830 Francisco Heredia-Silva v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP california-penal-code circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-law-sentencing due-process federal-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation terrorist-threats violent-crime Whether California terrorist threats convictions under California Penal Code Section 422 are crimes of violence
18-680 Erica Huss, Warden v. Loren Robinson Sixth Circuit 2018-11-23 Denied criminal-procedure due-process federal-law habeas habeas-corpus jury-right parole-eligibility sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment jury right applies to parole-eligibility dates
18-6748 Malachi M. Glass v. United States Third Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law criminal-statute drug-offense federal-law federal-sentencing pennsylvania pennsylvania-law sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the broader Pennsylvania delivery of a controlled substance statute, 35 Pa. C.S.A. § 780-113(a)(30), qualifies as a 'controlled-substance-offe…
18-6611 Sherif Philips v. North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-law fraud fraud-upon-court medical-license medical-statute right-to-honest-services summary-suspension vagueness-doctrine Whether due process of law should be allowed
18-6474 Tyrone Hart v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act begay-v-united-states categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-statute drug-offense elonis-v-united-states federal-law florida-statute intent-to-sell mens-rea serious-drug-offense staples-v-united-states Is a post-2002 conviction for possession with intent to sell, manufacture, or deliver a controlled substance in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a 'se…
18-6429 Victor Dewayne White v. Ector County Appraisal District Texas 2018-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion california-v-larue civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-discretion due-process federal-law judicial-ruling jurisdiction legal-procedure standing state-courts subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the Texas Courts abuse their discretion when they ruled contrary to established Federal Law, or as now ruled contrary to this Honorable Court's Ru…
18-6398 Deon Pittman v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-statute drug-offense element-of-offense federal-law means-of-offense michigan-law sentencing-guidelines state-law state-statute Whether the specific type of controlled substance is an element of the offense or one of many means to commit the offense under a state statute that p…
18-6408 Tiffany A. Prince v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law drug-offenses drug-overdose federal-courts federal-law physical-injury sentencing-guidelines significant-physical-injury sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation Whether a non-fatal drug overdose is a 'significant physical injury' under U.S.S.G. § 5K2.2
18-519 Joseph A. Jennings, III v. Susan W. Jennings Ohio 2018-10-19 Denied agent-orange disability-compensation domestic-relations federal-law federal-preemption howell-v-howell preemption service-connected-disability spousal-support state-law veterans-benefits veterans-disability-benefits Whether veterans disability compensation may lawfully be included as a source of income in determining spousal support in a non-community property sta…
18-510 Charles G. Kinney v. Michele R. Clark, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied bankruptcy bankruptcy-law civil-rights due-process federal-law free-speech hobbs-act judicial-discretion professional-speech state-court-proceedings vexatious-litigant Whether the dismissal of multiple appeals was an abuse of discretion to cover up violations of federal law and civil rights
18-6291 Steven H. Cook v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-12 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights collateral-review deprivation-of-liberty due-process federal-law federal-mail-box-rule habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel liberty-deprivation mail-box-rule mailbox-rule standing timeliness Is the issue of great import to potentially thousands of prisoners similarly situated and does it have significant impact on the public?
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
18-418 United States, ex rel. Leatra Harper, et al. v. Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District Sixth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied civil-procedure constructive-knowledge false-claims-act false-claims-act-31-usc-3729 federal-law mistake-of-law pleading-requirements scienter statutory-interpretation subjective-scienter Whether stating a claim of knowing avoidance of an obligation or conversion under the FCA, 31 U.S.C. § 3729(a)(1)(G) and (D), requires alleging that d…
18-413 David R. Bosch v. Arizona Department of Revenue Arizona 2018-10-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 26-usc-6103 26-usc-6103(d) administrative-procedure agreement-on-coordination-of-tax-administration due-process federal-authority federal-law information-sharing non-federal-agency privacy-act recipient-agency state-tax statutory-interpretation tax-administration Whether a non-federal recipient agency can purport to act under 26 U.S.C. § 6103(d) and the Privacy Act while ignoring due process
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…
18-301 Chieftain Royalty Company v. Charles David Nutley, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-09-07 Denied Amici (4) attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights class-action common-fund common-fund-fees diversity diversity-jurisdiction due-process federal-law inherent-power judicial-discretion state-law Whether common-fund fee awards are governed in diversity cases by state or federal law
18-5837 David Lee Roberts v. Alabama Alabama 2018-08-30 Denied IFP capital-sentencing criminal-procedure death-penalty federal-law hurst-v-florida judicial-findings jury-sentencing jury-verdict retroactivity ring-v-arizona Did Hurst invalidate Alabama's capital sentencing scheme?
18-5808 Rafael Angel Rondon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924c 6th-amendment constitutional-law crimes-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process federal-law jury-instructions residual-clause sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent violent-crime Whether the Eleventh Circuit's 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) pattern jury instruction violates the Sixth Amendment
18-5791 Robert Wharton v. Donald T. Vaughn Third Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process federal-law federal-laws judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-procedure relief standing takings third-circuit Did the Third Circuit erroneously apply, enlarge and/or ignore several established federal laws in denying petitioner relief?
18-5694 Taumu James v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 circuit-court clearly-established-federal-law due-process fair-application federal-law habeas-corpus identification-evidence state-suggestion Does Perry govern the due process analysis if identification evidence is challenged based on the fact that it does not purport to identify the person …
18-5426 Gabriel Rivero v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process export-controls federal-law mens-rea munitions munitions-export smuggling statutory-interpretation Whether the Government may obtain a conviction for smuggling goods from the United States in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 554 charged in conjunction with …
18-5229 Robert Adam Neuman v. Mark Nooth Ninth Circuit 2018-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflicts federal-law federal-law-analysis federal-law-review federal-review judicial-review ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-precedent ohio-v-reiner review state-court state-court-decision state-court-interpretation state-statute supreme-court-precedent Whether the Ninth Circuit's opinion unreasonably insulates the state court decision from review and conflicts with Ohio v. Reiner
18-74 Danica Zovko, et al. v. National Credit Union Administration Board Sixth Circuit 2018-07-13 Denied Response Waived affirmative-defenses banking-law civil-procedure credit-union d-oench-duhme-doctrine d'oench-duhme-doctrine evidence federal-law financial-regulation fraud liquidation ncuab statute-of-limitations statutes-of-limitations Does the D'Oench, Duhme doctrine permit the NCUA to ignore proper evidence, statutes of limitations, affirmative defenses, and federal law?
18-5197 Akash Dixit v. Tanya Singh Dixit Georgia 2018-07-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP child-abduction divorce-jurisdiction federal-law federal-preemption foreign-nationals hague-convention hague-convention-on-child-abduction immigration immigration-status international-child-abduction international-law jurisdictional-limits state-court-jurisdiction treaty-interpretation Did the state court err in ignoring/condoning illegal retention of a foreign-citizen-child by the respondent, violating the Hague Convention?
18-5172 Samuel Isaac Marquez v. Timothy Filson, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP brumfield-precedent brumfield-v-cain due-process fact-finding federal-law habeas-corpus insanity-defense ninth-circuit state-court state-court-fact-finding Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision contradicted Brumfield v. Cain by holding that a state-court determination of fact cannot be unreasonable due to …
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…
25A287 New Jersey Transit Corporation, et al. v. Jeffrey Colt, et al. New York Presumed Complete civil-rights employment-discrimination federal-law sovereign-immunity state-agency transit-authority Whether state-owned transit authorities are entitled to sovereign immunity from employment discrimination lawsuits under federal civil rights statutes