| 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 |