| 25-6759 |
Carlos Granda v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-02-09 |
Pending |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent constitutional-rights federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review |
Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c), a claim foreclosed by binding circuit precedent may nonetheless be "debatable among jurists of reason" w… |
| 25A877 |
Dylann Storm Roof v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-02-04 |
Application |
|
criminal-justice death-penalty federal-procedure judicial-recusal post-conviction writ-of-mandamus |
Question not identified. |
| 25A861 |
Giordano Jackson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-02-02 |
Application |
|
certificate-of-appealability federal-procedure habeas-corpus institutional-constraints law-of-case pro-se |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6681 |
Victor Correa v. Scott Wyckoff, Executive Officer, Board of Parole Hearings, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-01-30 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights default-judgment due-process federal-procedure judicial-discretion |
Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in determining that it had authority to deny respondents' strategic lawsuit against public participat… |
| 25-6306 |
Mark Anthony Gooding v. Parole Board, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa due-diligence federal-procedure habeas-corpus pleading-amendment statutory-limitation |
Whether a prisoner arrested and housed in Oakland County Jail, 1201 N. Telegraph Road, Rawlins, Michigan 48341 as a pretrial detainee on an unrelated … |
| 25-6293 |
Melvin Leon Myrick v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure federal-procedure judicial-timing pretrial-hearing speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether a final ruling at a pretrial hearing stops the Speedy Trial Act clock from running, consistent with the dictates of 18 U.S.C. § 3161. |
| 25-5948 |
Jody D. Kimbrell v. United States District Court for the Central District of California, Los Angeles |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-procedure pro-se venue-change |
1. Under Federal Rule for venue change can Central District Court of California change rule procedures if plaintiff is pro se?
2. Can Ninth Circuit i… |
| 25-5888 |
Michael A. Powell v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-procedure judicial-jurisdiction |
1. The court has without jurisdiction to chose the file a certified legal for stitioner? And petitioner did not receive it?
2. The court violated pro… |
| 25-5853 |
Clarence Santiago v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-conduct federal-procedure sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
In assessing whether two defendants are similarly situated for purposes of § 3553(a)(6), are courts required to consider their actual offense conduct? |
| 25-5779 |
Teddy Roosevelt Sibley v. Robert Jackson, Superintendent, Washington State Penitentiary, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5457 |
Brian Kerry O'Keefe v. Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada, Clark County, et al. |
Nevada |
2025-08-25 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
appellate-review collateral-review federal-procedure habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge subject-matter-jurisdiction |
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| 25-5390 |
Brandon Desmond Medford v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion federal-procedure judicial-interpretation policy-disagreement sentencing-guidelines |
Whether district courts must ever consider arguments for a lesser sentence based on a policy disagreement with the Guidelines? |
| 25-5364 |
David R. Kauffman v. United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2025-08-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violations federal-procedure judicial-misconduct mandamus-petition rule-16 |
On October 3,2023, Petitioner David Ryan Kauffman ("Mr. Kauffman ") filed
a civil action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court f… |
| 25-5324 |
Kenneth Alfred Linville, Jr. v. Washington |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-08-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief |
A. Did the state and federal courts decide that newly discovered evidence was not newly discovered evidence on the checks?
B. Did the state and feder… |
| 25-5313 |
Kevin William Cassaday v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process federal-procedure obstruction-of-justice prosecutorial-misconduct |
1. Was the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, 13th & 14th U.S. Constitutional Amendments
purposefully denied to Mr. Cassaday?
2. Upon arrest Mr. Cassaday aske… |
| 25A168 |
Karl Tobien v. Nationwide General Insurance Company |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-08-07 |
Presumed Complete |
|
choice-of-law circuit-split federal-procedure prima-facie-showing rule-12-b-3 venue-burden |
Whether federal courts should apply a uniform standard for determining which party bears the burden of proving venue in a motion to dismiss under Rule… |
| 25-5284 |
Bobbie Ray Edwards v. Milton Graham, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus jones-v-hendrix subject-matter-jurisdiction vi-amendment |
i. WHETHER PETITIONER'S DUE PROCESS CLAIM CAN BE DENIED UNDER
28 U.S.C. 2241 (a)(c)(3) FOR "LACK OF SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION" BY
THE DISTRICT COURT… |
| 25-140 |
Jennine Labuzan-Delane v. Cochran & Cochran Land Company, Incorporated, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-05 |
Denied |
|
contract-clause discovery-rules federal-procedure land-patent summary-judgment supremacy-clause |
1. Whether a district court may grant summary judgment without affording any opportunity for discovery —contrary to Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, 477 U.S.… |
| 25A98 |
Kenneth J. O'Brien v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-07-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-challenge federal-procedure habeas-corpus mandamus pro-se-litigant statutory-certification |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5156 |
Marlin L. Royal v. Fidencio N. Guzman, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process evidence-law federal-procedure hearsay |
Whether, on de novo review, the erroneous admission of hearsay accusatory statements that the prosecution's chief witness made to the police prejudici… |
| 25-5097 |
Michael Bell v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-07-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation due-diligence federal-procedure habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief successive-petition |
Where government action prevented Petitioner from bringing his claims under Brady and Giglio in his initial § 2254 motion, should a second-in-time mot… |
| 24-7256 |
John Douglas v. Wexford Health Sources, Inc., et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-05-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights discovery-sanction federal-procedure judicial-discretion pro-se section-1983 |
Whether a dismissal of a meritorious and complex de-consolidated Federal Section 1983 lawsuit is appropriate as a discovery sanction when delayed comp… |
| 24-7010 |
Kenneth Hartley v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-04-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims eleventh-circuit federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's blanket denial of a certificate of appealability complies with Supreme Court standards for COA review and whether the d… |
| 24-6921 |
Benjamin Kohn v. State Bar of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-04-03 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
dismissal-with-prejudice federal-procedure jurisdictional-challenge rule-12b1 sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether sovereign immunity implicates subject-matter jurisdiction such that it may be resolved through factual challenges under Federal Rule of Civil … |
| 24-1036 |
LaWanda Johnson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-03-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
confidentiality-regulations court-order federal-procedure patient-privacy substance-abuse-records summary-judgment |
Whether summary judgment is appropriate when patient record information is used in a court order application in violation of confidentiality regulatio… |
| 24-6496 |
In Re Maestro M. Faison, aka Maestro Matthew Faison |
|
2025-02-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
collateral-review constitutional-rule eleventh-circuit federal-procedure habeas-corpus supreme-court-retroactivity |
Whether the Supreme Court's Erlinger decision is retroactively applicable to cases on collateral review under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 or § 2255 |
| 24-6486 |
Lucious Boyd v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review federal-procedure habeas-corpus prisoner-rights second-petition statutory-interpretation |
Whether § 2244(b)(2) applies to habeas filings after appellate review, to all second-in-time habeas filings, or to some second-in-time filings based o… |
| 24-6453 |
Steven Michael Cenephat v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
character-evidence evidence-rule federal-procedure intent-element mental-state prior-crime |
Does a court, in deciding whether a defendant's prior crime is relevant to the non-character issue of intent under Rule 404(b), need only determine wh… |
| 24-769 |
Joan Stormo, as Assignee of Peter T. Clark v. State National Insurance Company |
First Circuit |
2025-01-17 |
Denied |
|
certification diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine federal-procedure federalism state-law |
Does the rule disfavoring certification employed by a minority of circuits violate the Erie doctrine and principles of federalism by discriminating ag… |
| 24A671 |
Premier Nutrition Corporation, fka Joint Juice, Inc. v. Mary Beth Montera, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-01-10 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certification class-action consumer-protection federal-procedure judicial-federalism state-law |
Whether federal courts can apply state-law class action restrictions when a plaintiff files a putative class action in federal court under a state con… |
| 24-720 |
Vitaly Korchevsky v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-01-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-error court-of-appeals evidentiary-hearing federal-procedure habeas-corpus motion-to-strike |
Did the Court of Appeals err in ignoring a Motion to Strike the affidavit, denying an evidentiary hearing, and rubber-stamping the district court's de… |
| 24-697 |
Terry J. Clark v. Debra Anne Taylor, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-12-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-jurisdiction case-preclusion district-court federal-procedure legal-doctrine rooker-feldman |
What are the standards and exceptions to the Rooker-Feldman doctrine in appellate courts |
| 24-6213 |
Julien Simmons v. Consumer Assistance Group, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review certiorari-standard circuit-split federal-procedure immunity-defense statutory-interpretation |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit improperly applied precedent and misinterpreted statutory immunity defenses in a manner conflict… |
| 24-688 |
Property Matters USA, LLC v. Affordable Aerial Photography, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
attorney-fees copyright-law federal-procedure rule-41 statutory-interpretation voluntary-dismissal |
Whether a defendant is barred from recovering attorney's fees under 17 U.S.C. §505 because a plaintiff's Rule 41(a)(1) voluntary dismissal is not a co… |
| 24A612 |
Cameron M. Thierry v. The Honey Pot Company (DE), LLC |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-12-19 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certiorari excusable-neglect extension-of-time federal-procedure pro-se supreme-court-rules |
Whether a pro se litigant's multiple concurrent legal proceedings and lack of professional legal training constitute excusable neglect warranting an e… |
| 24-5999 |
Juan Manuel Cruzado Laureano v. United States Attorney's Office, District of Puerto Rico |
First Circuit |
2024-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights-complaint criminal-conviction doj-waiver federal-procedure solicitor-general-resignation supreme-court-review |
Whether a criminal conviction can be invalidated when the Solicitor General resigns and the Department of Justice waives its right to defend the convi… |
| 24-5988 |
In Re Bryan Lee Gregory |
|
2024-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-circuit due-process federal-procedure judicial-misconduct judicial-review mandamus |
Whether Chief Judge Smith violated 28 USC 352(a) by determining disputed facts in Mr. Gregory's complaint against district court judges and whether Mr… |
| 24-5918 |
Ricky Kamdem-Ouaffo v. Balchem Corporation, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-11-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights federal-procedure judicial-review rule-59-motion rule-60-motion subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether a federal court has subject-matter jurisdiction to order relief from a judgment under Rule 60(b)(4) and Rule 59(e), and whether such actions v… |
| 24-5892 |
Toccara Yvonne Puller v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-procedure judicial-review |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5834 |
Geovani Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aiding-and-abetting appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-conflict criminal-law federal-procedure |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in its application of the Certificate of Appealability (COA) standard and is attempting to aid and abet a valid offense unde… |
| 24A385 |
Johnnie Leeanozg Davis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-10-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certiorari eleventh-circuit federal-procedure legal-briefing time-extension |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals correctly applied legal standards in affirming the lower court's decision in Mr. Davis's case |
| 24-344 |
James T. Foster v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-09-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing eleventh-circuit federal-procedure obstruction-of-justice sentencing-guidelines |
Whether certiorari review should be granted where the Eleventh Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of Foster's objection to the enh… |
| 24-5621 |
Christopher Dallas Nelson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review clear-error-standard federal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether varied definitions of the clear error standard of review for Federal Sentencing Guidelines are permissible |
| 24-5615 |
Merl Simpson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-09-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 circuit-split criminal-judgment federal-procedure limitations-period restitution-obligations |
Whether the one-year limitations period in 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f) runs from the date of the original or amended criminal judgment when restitution obliga… |
| 24-5438 |
Michael Bowe v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-09-03 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (13)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
certiorari-jurisdiction circuit-split federal-procedure habeas-corpus second-successive-motion statutory-interpretation |
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(1) applies to a claim presented in a second or successive motion to vacate under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 and whether 28 U.S.C. § … |
| 24-5443 |
Antoine D. Craig v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-09-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-procedure judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5408 |
George Hall v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
federal-procedure investigative-process judicial-review jury-verdict legislative-pay south-dakota |
Whether a federal judge of South Dakota can review a jury's verdict and allow counselor legislative pay to be set by a jury in the investigative proce… |
| 24-5341 |
Charis Mapson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law due-process federal-procedure judicial-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5325 |
Richard Moaney, aka Richard Daniel Moaney, IV v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-08-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-rights federal-procedure legal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5264 |
Delgen Foye v. Scott S. Harris, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-law federal-procedure fourth-circuit judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals improperly affirmed a district court judgment in a case involving federal sentencing guidelines and judici… |
| 24-5179 |
Forrest Hammond v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-30 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-liberties commutation criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review pardon state-court |
Whether the commutation of Petitioner's sentence to time-served ending his state custody before his pending federal habeas corpus application was adju… |
| 24-5142 |
Thomas E. Creech v. Tim Richardson, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split competency-to-be-executed death-penalty federal-courts federal-procedure habeas-corpus late-evolving-facts second-or-successive-petition statutory-interpretation successive-petitions |
Is a federal habeas petition based on late-evolving facts second or successive when it is not based on a claim that the inmate is incompetent to be ex… |
| 24-27 |
Next Generation Technology, Inc., et al. v. Ur M. Jaddou, Director, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-07-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure de-novo-review district-court federal-magistrates-act federal-procedure judicial-review magistrate-judge subject-matter-jurisdiction waiver waiver-of-objections |
Waiver-of-subject-matter-jurisdiction |
| 23A1093 |
Donald Ray Malena v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-07 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certiorari extension-of-time federal-procedure habeas-corpus prisoner-rights pro-se |
Whether a pro se prisoner's request for an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari should be granted when the petitioner lacks acc… |
| 23-7641 |
Steven Vernon Bixby v. Bryan P. Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-06-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
counsel-abandonment federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-defect rule-60b |
Whether there is any remedy under Rule 60(b) for functional abandonment by counsel in a federal habeas proceeding, or whether there is no remedy for e… |
| 23-1261 |
Gussi S.A. de C.V. v. Voltage Pictures, LLC |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-06-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration arbitration-award circuit-split federal-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure foreign-parties international-law marshal-service nonresident-service service service-of-process statutory-interpretation |
Have the Marshal service requirements of 9 U.S.C. § 9 on an application to confirm an arbitration award on a nonresident foreign adverse party been im… |
| 23-7586 |
Christopher Eugean Brown v. Sergeant Ashley Kern |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure free-speech incarceration judicial-discretion standing takings |
Did the Session Tudor PEA Ca ce JoAv ORS, fe Sesiohe Tee, tans, OEE Ge eb |
| 23-7593 |
Kaleel Hinton v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2024-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-standard petition-for-writ post-conviction-relief procedural-due-process standing time-limitations |
Whether the PCRA court erred in dismissing the PCRA petition as untimely, where the petitioner was abandoned by plea counsel who failed to file a moti… |
| 23-1234 |
Konstantinos Zografidis v. Vanessa Richards, Assistant United States Attorney, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-05-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bivens bivens-action civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process evidence-fabrication federal-courts federal-procedure judicial-bias standing |
Did the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals act with bias in failing to reverse the District court's ruling on the Petitioner's civil-rights complaint? |
| 23-7466 |
Beatrice M. Uwamariya v. Enias Baganizi |
California |
2024-05-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-interpretation due-process extradition federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment judicial-authority standing state-officers supreme-court-orders unauthorized-practice-of-law |
Whether state court judges can defy orders of the U.S. Supreme Court |
| 23-7437 |
Overille Denton Thompson, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-process certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-procedure fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-discretion legal-precedent procedural-review sanctions standard-of-review |
Whether the Fifth Circuit failed to engage in the COA process |
| 23-7301 |
Reginald Burrell v. Sharon Langham, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-04-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-conflict civil-rights due-process equitable-relief federal-courts federal-procedure fraud-on-the-court fraudulent-judgments habeas-corpus judicial-discretion supervisory-power |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erred in denying equitable relief against a fraudulent judgment |
| 23-1152 |
Bernadette Dickerson v. Koch Foods, LLC, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-04-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights ex-parte-communication federal-procedure fraud judicial-bias pro-se-litigation retaliation sex-discrimination summary-judgment title-vii |
Whether the district court erred in granting summary judgment despite disputed material facts |
| 23-7255 |
Andrew Horace v. MD Now Medical Centers, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-circuit civil-rights dismissal-standard due-process evidence federal-procedure medical-battery pleading pleading-standards standing twombly-doctrine |
Whether Horace forfeited his argument in the District Court's error in granting MD Now's motion to dismiss without considering medical records and exp… |
| 23-1056 |
Joseph Brent Mattingly v. R.J. Corman Railroad Group, LLC, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-03-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure common-carrier corporate-law federal-procedure fela parent-company subsidiary summary-judgment veil-piercing |
Whether the veil-piercing provisions of FELA compel disregard of state corporate charter laws |
| 23-7066 |
Tremane Wood v. Christe Quick, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-03-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-1291 appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rule-60b strickland-v-washington |
Does the court of appeals have jurisdiction to review a district court's decision that a habeas petitioner's Rule 60(b)(6) motion is an unauthorized s… |
| 23-7048 |
Justin L. Dalcollo v. Anthony Wills, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-03-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-commitment civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure judicial-review legal-standing mental-health standing |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires the government to provide a higher level of procedural protections for individuals faci… |
| 23-6989 |
Lenroy McLean v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion co-defendants compassionate-release criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection federal-procedure judicial-discretion post-conviction-relief sentencing-factors |
Whether the lower court properly applied the evaluation of the sect. 3553 factors among differently situated co-defendant to denied Petitioner's compa… |
| 23-6970 |
Kathy R. Allen, et al. v. L3Harris Technologies, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-03-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion abuse-of-power civil-procedure court-appointed-attorney court-appointed-counsel due-process erisa-claim federal-procedure mediation mediation-rights rule-52-findings statute-of-limitations |
Whether the USDC D.E. #51-52, #55 and USDC-COA4th's Doc. #23 Orders Have Reversible Err and/or Was an Abuse of Power and an Abuse of Discretion |
| 23-6921 |
Hannibal Eason v. Kwame Raoul, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-03-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment access-to-courts administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-procedure judicial-review solitary-confinement |
Whether the State of Illinois violated the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment and the Fourteenth Amendment's due process c… |
| 23-966 |
Oscar Amos Stilley v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-03-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-appointments judicial-assignment judicial-cross-designation judicial-ethics statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 13 consecutive cross-designations of Oklahoma district judges are 'temporary' under 28 U.S.C. 292(b) |
| 23-973 |
Randy Tarum, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Robert L. Lindsay, et al. v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-03-06 |
Denied |
|
certification-of-state-law-questions comity cooperative-federalism divergent-decisions diversity-jurisdiction efficient-federal-practice erie-doctrine federal-procedure first-impression judicial-comity lehman-bros-v-schein state-law-certification |
Should cooperative-federalism, comity, efficient-federal-practice, divergent-decisions, lehman-bros-v-schein, certification-of-state-law-questions |
| 23-959 |
Colin Montague v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-03-04 |
GVR |
Amici (4) |
circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-charging criminal-law drug-statute due-process federal-procedure indictment indictment-sufficiency statutory-interpretation |
Whether an indictment charging a violation of 21 U.S.C. § 848 is invalid if it fails to set forth facts and circumstances that establish the elements … |
| 23-894 |
Gregory O. Garmong v. Maupin, Cox & Legoy |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-21 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-1447c bankruptcy-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure federal-procedure martin-v-franklin-capital-corp remand-fees removal removal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Ninth Circuit is employing a new and incorrect standard for remand fees under 28 U.S.C. § 1447(c) |
| 23-6737 |
Anthony F. Wainwright v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-misconduct conflict-of-interest due-process equitable-tolling evidentiary-hearing federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance rule-60b |
Whether habeas counsel's unsworn representations can rebut a petitioner's allegation of dishonesty |
| 23-851 |
John Doe v. Purdue University, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-02-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal appellate-review bias civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine constitutional-adjudication due-process federal-procedure judicial-bias recusal recusal-standard standing |
Should this Court exercise its supervisory authority to preserve the appearance and fact of justice by requiring review now of a denial of recusal for… |
| 23A675 |
Hong Tang v. Kurt L. Schmoke, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-01-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights dismissal federal-procedure fourth-circuit pro-se rule-12b6 |
Whether the Fourth Circuit correctly applied the standard for dismissing a pro se civil rights complaint under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6… |
| 23-6513 |
Michael Mogan v. Sacks, Ricketts & Case LLP, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
anti-slapp-statute civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure magistrate-judge magistrate-jurisdiction recusal rule-11-sanctions standing |
Did the Ninth Circuit erroneously fail to recognize that 28 U.S.C. § 636(c) precludes the parties from selecting a magistrate judge |
| 23-6407 |
Nira Woods v. Department of Housing and Community Development, et al. |
California |
2024-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-constitution federal-procedure interlocutory-order judicial-review standing state-court state-courts |
Is the Existence of the State Courts Interlocutory Order(s) in this case impairs/offense/invalidate my Federal Constitution and Due processes? |
| 23-705 |
Stephen Robert Deck v. California |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-sanction custody custody-definition due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus in-custody liberty-interests liberty-restraint sex-offender-registration |
Whether California's sex offender registration mandates place sufficiently significant burdens on a registrant's liberty to allow a federal habeas cor… |
| 23-6287 |
Parnell R. May v. Kawhun Tims, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-12-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process excessive-force federal-procedure judicial-review qualified-immunity standing takings |
Whether the U.S. District Court erred in granting a Supplemental 1983 claim |
| 23-6295 |
Gregory I. Ezeani v. Jeffrey S. McClain |
Third Circuit |
2023-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights document-theft due-process federal-procedure fraud impersonation privacy privacy-rights subpoena-fraud |
Whether the attorney's use of fraudulent means to obtain the plaintiff's personal employment records without consent violated the plaintiff's due proc… |
| 23-6191 |
In Re Colby Jerome Hale |
|
2023-12-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure consent consent-search constitutional-jurisdiction district-court due-process federal-procedure magistrate notification peace-officer standing statutory-interpretation |
What is the purpose of Rule 18 of the Supreme Court of the United States on an appeal from the U.S. District Court |
| 23-6094 |
Dena Inez Minton v. Miranda Richardson, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa civil-rights court-filing due-process federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus legal-documents prisoner-rights procedural-due-process standing |
Why is the petitioner being denied relief, when there has been a significant infringement of petitioner's Constitutional Rights |
| 23-5986 |
Francisco Rodriquez Ruiz, Jr. v. Jordan Wierenga |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-11-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights dismissal district-court due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pleadings procedural-default standing |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's civil rights claims against defendants without properly considering the factual allegation… |
| 23-5845 |
In Re Kennedy Wright |
|
2023-10-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction sentencing supreme-court |
Whether the lower court or district court violated the defendant's constitutional rights under due process of the laws |
| 23-5814 |
Justin Andre Lamoureux v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-jurisdiction obstruction-of-justice witness-tampering |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the state court system, obstruction of justice across state lines, and tampering with … |
| 23-5685 |
In Re Bobby Richardson |
|
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure court-jurisdiction federal-procedure jurisdiction mandamus motion-to-dismiss non-discretionary-duty rule-12b1 standing subject-matter subject-matter-jurisdiction writ-of-certiorari |
Whether petitioner is entitled to immediate relief, including mandamus from this Court, to compel the lower court(s) to adjudicate petitioner's Fed. R… |
| 23-5577 |
Brent Allen Morris v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2023-09-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-appeal due-process fair-trial federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-bias judicial-misconduct post-conviction standing |
Whether the petitioner was denied due process and a fair trial due to judicial bias and misconduct |
| 23-5590 |
In Re Jamar L. Williams |
|
2023-09-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-proceedings |
Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated when the state court denied his request for an evidentiary hearing to present newly discover… |
| 23-202 |
James William Hall v. Tammy O'Brien, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-09-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights deprivation-of-rights due-process federal-procedure judicial-misconduct standing subpoena subpoena-service summons |
Right to oral argument before dismissal |
| 23-5398 |
Charles Michael Ledford v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment amendment constitutional-rights district-court-review due-process federal-procedure federal-rule-of-civil-procedure-15 habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief |
Whether district courts violate fundamental principles of due process under the Fifth Amendment by denying a § 2255 movant's request to amend their pl… |
| 23-157 |
Samuel O. Jacobs v. Kent Jacobs, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-08-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11th-amendment 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-amendment federal-procedure rooker-feldman-doctrine sovereign-immunity |
Can a State Court use the 11th Amendment, Soverign Immunity, and the Rooker-Feldman Doctrine to justify or allow it to violate the 14th, 8th, 5th, and… |
| 23-5212 |
DeAndra Stephenson v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-procedure federal-rules habeas-corpus judicial-discretion newly-discovered-evidence notice-requirement standing sua-sponte-dismissal |
Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying petitioner's motion for rehearing en banc, which sought review of the district court's de… |
| 23-5169 |
Michael Mogan v. Sacks, Ricketts & Case LLP, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
anti-SLAPP anti-slapp-statute civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure magistrate-judge magistrate-jurisdiction rule-11-sanctions rules-enabling-act statutory-interpretation |
Did the Ninth Circuit erroneously fail to recognize that 28-U.S.C-636(c) precludes the parties from selecting a particular magistrate-judge |
| 23-5071 |
Bruce Allen Buckner v. Wilfredo Martell, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-07-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals civil-rights confession constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus police-procedure self-incrimination standing suspect-interrogation |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the petitioner's habeas corpus petition on procedural grounds without reaching the mer… |
| 23-5056 |
Carlos Antonio Raymond v. JPMorgan Chase Bank |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-tampering federal-procedure first-amendment fraud judicial-review summary-judgment |
Whether the violation of standard of review for summary judgment be allowed to stand uncorrected or violator go unpunished |
| 23-5047 |
Omar Javier Torres v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-discretion miscarriage-of-justice state-court-findings |
Whether the federal court of appeals abused its discretion |
| 23-5048 |
Leonard W. Houston v. Highland Care Center, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
2023-07-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process exceptional-circumstances federal-procedure in-forma-pauperis pro-se-litigation rule-60-motion rule-60(b)(6) standing |
Whether the lower court erred in denying the pro-se plaintiff's motion to proceed in forma pauperis and dismissing the appeal |
| 22-1251 |
Simon V. Kinsella v. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-fraud administrative-law agency-review civil-rights due-process federal-procedure fraud injunctive-relief regulatory-misconduct standing |
Whether the Fifth Amendment requires that defendants answer allegations against them |
| 22-1244 |
Angela Joseph v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-06-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights employment-discrimination federal-procedure job-performance protected-class summary-judgment wrongful-termination |
Whether summary judgment under Federal Rule of Civic Procedure Rule 56 standard was improperly granted |
| 22-7771 |
Jaden Rene Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583 acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-sentencing due-process federal-procedure incarceration liberty liberty-deprivation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the District Court unreasonably sentenced Petitioner to a higher than necessary sentence by denying Petitioner's points for acceptance of resp… |
| 22-7710 |
Michael Walker v. Morris Houser, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Benner Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-06-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-evidence credibility criminal-procedure due-process evidence exclusionary-rule federal-procedure judicial-review standing state-law timeliness |
Whether the petitioner must support his claims of constitutional error with new reliable evidence, and whether an untimely petition of new evidence sh… |
| 22-7694 |
Karl Ray Masek v. Rob Isonta, Attorney General of California, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-06-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights conspiracy due-process federal-procedure law-enforcement mail-fraud racketeering retaliation rico-complaint standing |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's RICO and BIVENS complaints |
| 22-7655 |
Benjamin Edward Bradley v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-05-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 castro-v-united-states certiorari-review circuit-court-review civil-procedure federal-procedure habeas-corpus motion-classification statutory-interpretation successive-petitions |
Did the Court below err in determining that the petitioner's second-in-time, §2255 motion was 'second [or] successive?' |
| 22-7609 |
Akiaz Marqiez King v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 federal-habeas federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reed-v-goertz sixth-amendment state-law-interpretation statute-of-limitations |
Whether the one-year statute of limitations under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f) for filing a federal habeas petition commenced when the state trial court denied… |
| 22-1014 |
Estate of Rex Vance Wilson, et al. v. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure district-court exceptions federal-appeals federal-procedure issue-preservation judicial-discretion legal-arguments preservation-of-claims standard-of-review |
Where a plaintiff may advance new arguments on appeal |
| 22-993 |
In Re Krishna Maharaj |
|
2023-04-12 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process factual-innocence federal-courts federal-procedure habeas-corpus innocence judicial-review |
Whether the federal constitutional right not to be imprisoned when factually innocent exists and should be defined by the Court |
| 22-7139 |
Bobby Richardson v. Richard A. Luna, Warden |
First Circuit |
2023-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence civil-procedure constitutional-rights federal-procedure habeas-corpus savings-clause standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the lower court's lack of factual predicate jurisdiction pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(1) motion could not be adjudicated |
| 22-7081 |
Tamir Abdullah v. Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-jurisdiction qualified-immunity standing |
Whether petitioner has a right to have his allegations disputed by respondents |
| 22-825 |
James K. Collins v. D.R. Horton-Texas Limited |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
due-process federal-courts federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment personal-jurisdiction res-judicata rule-60 supremacy-clause takings |
Can a judgment of a court that lacked personal jurisdiction be the basis for taking property? |
| 22-746 |
Damion Kentrell White v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus plea-agreement sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether due process requires that a provision in a plea agreement waiving the right to file a motion to vacate sentence under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 be cons… |
| 22-6714 |
Wilson Laboriel v. William Lee, Superintendent, Eastern New York Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2023-02-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment constitutional-rights counsel-substitution due-process effective-assistance federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance standard-of-review trial-court |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals can sanction the district court's recharacterization of a petitioner's claim after such claim has been libe… |
| 22-6622 |
Marvin Eduardo Luna Gomez v. Nineteenth Judicial Circuit of Virginia, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-01-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights confrontation confrontation-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus prison-disciplinary-proceedings standing wolfe-v-mcdonnell |
Question not identified |
| 22-670 |
Pacesetter Consulting, LLC v. Herbert A. Kapreilian, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arizona-law civil-procedure damages damages-rule federal-courts federal-procedure service-of-process special-appearance statute-of-limitations waiver-doctrine |
Whether defendants who make a purported 'special appearance' and obtain dismissal from a case without prejudice must be served with an amended complai… |
| 22-6419 |
Brian Wright v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
asset-forfeiture cash-seizure civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-procedure property-rights rule-41g |
Should Mr. Wright be allowed a return of his seized cash? |
| 22-6355 |
Jess Richard Smith v. Sgt. Ellis, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-courts federal-procedure free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief standing |
Whether Khe Uuth Circo tks (0-722, ORDER Granting CVeseevdeniis _ Metion TO Reveke TH Comme |
| 22-553 |
Derek Rodgers v. United Services Automobile Association, aka USAA |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration civil-procedure duty federal-procedure federal-rules rights rule-37 sanctions spoliation-of-evidence witness-coaching |
Should arbitrators have the duty and right to impose sanctions for violations of FRCP Rule 37? |
| 22-6226 |
James Armstrong v. Kathy Brittain, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Frackville, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-12-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-U.S.C-2254(e)(1) circuit-court-review federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-standard presumption-of-correctness state-court-determination statutory-interpretation third-circuit-court-of-appeals united-states-supreme-court |
Did the third Circuit Court of Appeals fail to apply it's face of opinion an petitioner habeas corpus j~etition on 'Presumption Of Correctness' mandat… |
| 22-507 |
Tyson Martin v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review miller-el-standard miller-el-v-cockrell reasonabl-jurists-debate reasonable-jurists |
Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability |
| 22-6089 |
Heeralall Puran v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability due-process equitable-tolling federal-procedure habeas-corpus math-mistake time-limitation untimely-petition |
Whether Petitioner Puran Is Entitled to a Certificate of Appealability on the Question Whether Equitable Tolling Should Apply to Permit an Untimely Ha… |
| 22-6069 |
Rufus Spearman v. Mary Parson, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violations district-court dolan-v-city-of-tigard due-process endangered-species-act federal-procedure judicial-dismissal nollan-v-california-coastal-commission section-1983 takings |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision in Wimbleton v. Ospn, 210 F.3d 1088 (9th Cir. 2000), which held that the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment do… |
| 22-6050 |
Jane Doe v. City of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process federal-procedure judicial-misconduct legal-filing procedural-due-process statutory-law supreme-court-precedents |
Whether the federal court of appeals should be allowed to criminally dismiss the strikingly meritorious appeal |
| 22-5965 |
Michael C. Smart v. Prime Mortgage & Escrow, LLC, et al. |
Texas |
2022-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1981 civil-rights civil-rights-statute due-process federal-pleading-standard federal-procedure motion-to-dismiss pleading-standards preemption prima-facie-case supremacy-clause |
Was the petitioner's federal rights violated when Swierkiewicz v. Sorema N.A. 534 U.S. 506, 122 S. Ct. 992 (2002) held that a plaintiff does not need … |
| 22-5885 |
Christopher Surles v. Warden, Limestone Correctional Facility, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure due-process federal-government federal-procedure notice-of-appeal procedural-rules standing time-limitation time-limits united-states-agency |
Whether the time limit for filing a notice of appeal is extended when the United States or an agency of the United States is a party? |
| 22-5725 |
Marty Joe Banghart v. Dan Sullivan, Warden, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-09-30 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit federal-procedure habeas-corpus standing |
Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in denying Banghart's motion for a certificate of appealability |
| 22-5635 |
Vladimir Vladimirovic Brik v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation civil-rights due-process federal-procedure gatekeeping-provision habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance material-evidence second-petition successive-petition |
Whether the court of appeals erred in affirming the dismissal of petitioner's material Brady claim as 'second or successive' under §2255(h) |
| 22-5628 |
In Re Tony Walker |
|
2022-09-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts federal-procedure in-forma-pauperis mandamus procedural-rules seventh-circuit standing standings-blanket-order statutory-interpretation |
Whether the January 23, 2014 standing blanket order of the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit violates 28 U.S.C. §1651(a) and 28 U.S.C. §1915(e)… |
| 22-239 |
Krishna Maharaj v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-09-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2244 appellate-review court-of-appeals evidence evidence-consideration federal-procedure habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-bar successive-petition |
Whether a district court is jurisdictionally barred from considering evidence supporting a claim in a second or successive habeas petition that the co… |
| 22-5491 |
John Michael Ward v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-statute federal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel overbreadth statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Was the U.S. District Court's interpretation of 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) vague and overbroad, and did Petitioner's attorney render ineffective assistance o… |
| 22-5270 |
Joaquin Mendez-Hernandez v. Catricia Howard |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-split federal-procedure habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief savings-clause statutory-interpretation |
What is the scope of the 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e) savings clause for habeas corpus relief? |
| 22-68 |
Perry Adron McCullough v. David F. Levi, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-07-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
accardi-doctrine civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-authority standing tort-claim |
Whether a prosecutor can legally escape answering the 'Accardi Doctrine' by dismissing a case as 'frivolous' or 'meritless' without a substantive basi… |
| 22-5081 |
Palani Karupaiyan, et al. v. Township of Woodbridge, New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
11th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-procedure foreign-sovereign-immunities-act jurisdictional-challenge racial-discrimination sovereign-immunity standing |
When USCA does not have jurisdiction to Constitutional challenges, US Supreme Court has (Original) Jurisdiction for the [following] reliefs petitioner… |
| 21-8170 |
Samuel Gaines, Jr. v. Brooks L. Benton, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights court-fraud criminal-law due-process federal-procedure fraud-on-the-court judicial-interference legal-obstruction obstruction-of-justice prosecutorial-misconduct standing state-procedure |
Whether the lower court's order violated the Petitioner's constitutional and statutory rights by disrespecting the authority of the United States Dist… |
| 21-8048 |
Michael Ray Kapp v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-court compassionate-release criminal-justice federal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing summary-affirmance |
Whether the Denial of Michael Kapp's Motion for Compassionate Release Was an Abuse of Discretion? |
| 21-7993 |
Louis Neptune v. Andrew Carey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-05-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process ex-parte-communication federal-procedure judicial-immunity probable-cause procedural-rules recusal standing |
Whether the lower courts violated due process, exceeded their jurisdiction, and failed to follow the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure |
| 21-7955 |
Michael Palma v. Harris County Appraisal District, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bill-of-rights civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct libel state-law state-sovereignty |
Do federal judges have the absolute right to ignore the laws of the State in which they sit and while doing so libel the Petitioner? |
| 21-1419 |
Hong Tang v. Kurt L. Schmoke, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-05-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling federal-procedure jurisdictional-dismissal maryland-law saving-statute section-1983 statute-of-limitations |
Whether federal equitable tolling rather than borrowed Maryland state limitations and tolling rules should apply to the subsequently re-filed 42 U.S.C… |
| 21-7715 |
Lacy E. Lewis v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-04-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process exhaustion-of-state-remedies federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the District Court for Florida improperly procedurally barred the petitioner's claim for failing to exhaust state remedies, where the record s… |
| 21-1366 |
Ashwani Sheoran v. Walmart Stores East, LP, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-04-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-discipline attorney-discipline circuit-split civil-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-procedure notice-requirements rule-11 show-cause-order |
Whether Fed. R. Civ. P. 11 requires the specific offending statements to be listed in the show cause order |
| 21-7652 |
Damian Scott Olvera v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment 8th-circuit certificate-of-appealability circuit-court constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review miller-el-v-cockrell slack-v-mcdaniel |
Whether the Eighth Circuit's Court of Appeals misapplied the standard for issuing a Certificate of Appealability |
| 21-7588 |
Gloria Marigny v. Centene Management Company LLC |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-04-11 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-144 appellate-review bias civil-rights conflict-of-interest district-court document-admissibility due-process federal-procedure judicial-recusal standing summary-judgment |
Why Judge Brett Ludwig Denied Motion for Recusal |
| 21-7545 |
Sloan Patrick Stanley v. Jeffrey Uttecht, Superintendent, Coyote Ridge Corrections Center |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254 civil-rights constitutional-provisions custody-status due-process equal-protection federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
Is petitioner entitled to be found 'in custody' for purposes of 28 USC § 2254, given the particular facts, in accord with Ninth Circuit Court of Appea… |
| 21-7532 |
Palani Karupaiyan v. International SOS, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights conley-v-gibson copyright-ownership federal-courts federal-procedure federal-statute joint-employment pleading-standards remedies software-engineering sullivan-v-little-hunting-park |
whether-the-plaintiff's-allegation-of-joint-employers-not-paying-is-enough-for-fcp-rule-8(a)'s-short-and-plain-statement-requirement |
| 21-1318 |
Gregory Bogomol v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 evidentiary-hearing federal-procedure fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel knock-and-talk motion-to-suppress warrantless-search |
What is the proper standard for determining when a federal habeas petitioner is entitled to an evidentiary hearing under 28 U.S.C. § 2255? |
| 21-7192 |
Thomas Johnny Wilkins v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-court-interpretation civil-rights due-process evidentiary-standards federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review new-evidence supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-supervisory-power |
Whether new reliable evidence for the purpose of Schlup's actual innocence gateway must be newly discovered, previously unavailable evidence or relate… |
| 21-7202 |
In Re Mohammed Kwaning |
|
2022-02-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court-jurisdiction due-process federal-procedure grand-jury habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct unlawful-imprisonment |
Whether petitioner is entitled to immediate discharge where the United States District Court tried and imprisoned petitioner for infamous crimes witho… |
| 21-7031 |
Joseph D. Davis v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release court-of-appeals criminal-sentencing district-of-columbia-court-of-appeals federal-procedure guidelines inconsistent-opinions judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-commission |
Whether the opinion of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals concerning the Petitioner's motion for Compassionate Release is inconsistent with oth… |
| 21-1052 |
United States, ex rel. Jesse Polansky, M.D., M.P.H. v. Executive Health Resources, Inc., et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-01-31 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (6)Relisted (3) |
civil-procedure false-claims-act federal-procedure government-dismissal judicial-conflict qui-tam standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the government has authority to dismiss an FCA suit after initially declining to proceed with the action, and what standard applies if the gov… |
| 21-6790 |
Timothy Ryan v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction child-pornography civil-rights constitutional-violations discretionary-review due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing |
Whether the district court erred in denying Ryan's § 2255 habeas corpus petition without holding an evidentiary hearing |
| 21-6781 |
Matthew James Dury v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-law criminal-sentencing document-fraud due-process evidence-tampering federal-procedure fraud immigration judicial-misconduct release-conditions standing |
Whether a federal judge has the authority to order the use of fraudulent documents to circumvent federal, state, and local laws |
| 21-970 |
Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections v. Karl Fontenot |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-01-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
actual-innocence antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act circuit-split due-diligence due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations |
Whether 'new' evidence, as referred to in Schlup v. Delo and McQuiggin v. Perkins, means evidence that was not available at the time of trial or, unde… |
| 21-963 |
Neil McNaughton v. Eric Adams, Mayor of the City of New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-01-04 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process erickson-precedent federal-courts federal-procedure judicial-accountability judicial-reasoning pleadings pro-se-pleading standing twombly twombly-plausibility |
Does the persistent misapplication of the Twombly plausibility test by Federal judges invariably lead to a violation of this Court's mandate in Ericks… |
| 21-6692 |
Alex D. Ramos v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582c1a 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing extraordinary-circumstances federal-procedure sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … |
| 21-6655 |
Henry Trevillion v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure covid-19 covid-19-pandemic equitable-tolling evidentiary-hearing federal-procedure judicial-review lockdown statute-of-limitations |
Is petitioner Henry Trevillion entitled to an evidentiary hearing regarding his claim that the statute of limitations should be equitably tolled becau… |
| 21-877 |
Ross Thacker v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-12-14 |
Denied |
|
18-usc-3582c1a 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons federal-procedure first-step-act sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … |
| 21-832 |
Terrance Walker v. Intelli-Heart Services, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-06 |
Denied |
|
anti-slapp circuit-split civil-procedure federal-procedure federal-rules necessary-and-proper ninth-circuit rules-of-civil-procedure shady-grove |
Is applying state law Anti-Slapp procedure in Federal Court consistent with Shady Grove? |
| 21-6451 |
Ada Maria Benson v. IHSS DPSS, In Home Supportive Services, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure frivolous-litigation labor-law standing wage-theft workplace-assault |
Question not identified |
| 21-6410 |
Steve Herbert Speckman v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process federal-procedure federal-statute habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review limitations-period petition-deadline statute-of-limitations supreme-court-interpretation |
Whether the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals misconstrued the federal statute when it failed to recognize the one-year limitations period begins to r… |
| 21-6398 |
Roy M. Belfast v. M. Breckon, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-procedure judicial-review standing takings |
Did the Rope, Aly Covell, Bid to the Violation of the Equal Powers U.S. to the Writ of Certiorari? |
| 21-6247 |
Andrew Cox v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-11-10 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-delay motion-to-vacate statutory-interpretation suspension-clause |
Does an inordinate delay of almost six years render a motion to vacate under 28 USC 2255 inadequate or ineffective to the point that Petitioner may in… |
| 21-616 |
Lee W. Yeager v. FirstEnergy Generation Corporation |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-10-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure dismissal district-court due-process federal-procedure fifth-amendment legal-redress notice opportunity-to-be-heard pleading-amendment standing |
Whether a federal district court's outright dismissal of a stayed action without having first lifted that stay, to permit ruling on plaintiffs pending… |
| 21-6032 |
Charles Francis Hurt v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-limits district-court due-process federal-procedure federal-rules judicial-precedent jurisdiction prosecutorial-authority standing territorial-court territorial-jurisdiction |
Whether the United States district court can prosecute a defendant outside the limited jurisdiction provided to a territorial court |
| 21-5934 |
Charles Ivan Branham v. Montana, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244 direct-appeal direct-review federal-procedure habeas-corpus montana-supreme-court sentence-review statute-of-limitations |
Whether proceedings of the Sentence Review Division of the Montana Supreme Court are part of the 'direct review' process under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1)(… |
| 21-5886 |
Sasha Trieste McGarity v. Birmingham Public Schools, dba West Maple Elementary - Bloomfield Hills |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-10-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-1652 28-usc-8004 civil-procedure court-rules due-process electronic-filing federal-procedure legal-service service-of-process statutory-interpretation |
Does filing an answer with the court via electronic means but failing to serve the plaintiff satisfy service of process in accordance with 28 U.S. Cod… |
| 21-5796 |
Larry E. Clark v. Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development, et al. |
Louisiana |
2021-09-29 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights condemnation due-process federal-courts federal-procedure jurisdiction standing state-courts state-law |
Whether 28 U.S.C. Section 1257(a) mandates this Court to consider the jurisdiction of this Court and the jurisdiction of the state appellate court, an… |
| 21-5787 |
In Re Randall Thomas McArty |
|
2021-09-24 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-rights compassionate-release criminal-procedure due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-procedure federal-sentencing habeas-corpus parole sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether 28 U.S.C. §2254 would function as a recognition of habeas corpus jurisdiction, declaring judgment and injunctive relief to enjoin respondents'… |
| 21-5639 |
Siliaivaoese Fuimaona v. D. Hudson, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
concurrent-sentences criminal-appeal custody federal-bureau-of-prisons federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review ninth-circuit parole sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas erred in holding that the petitioner wa… |
| 21-5622 |
Michael C. Sullivan v. Karen Carrington, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure fifth-amendment forest-service government-liability judicial-canon judicial-conduct takings |
Whether the Fifth Amendment requires the government to pay just compensation |
| 21-5477 |
Clifford Senter v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act collateral-attack criminal-law due-process federal-procedure federal-sentencing non-existent-offense sentencing-enhancement state-conviction state-law |
Where state law holds that a particular offense is non-existent, but a defendant has a conviction for the non-existent offense, and a federal sentenci… |
| 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… |
| 21-5422 |
Jeffrey Alan Olson v. United States, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-selection due-process federal-courts federal-procedure judicial-independence judicial-selection standing |
Judicial-selection |
| 21-5390 |
Jeanette S. R. Lipinski v. Yolanda Castaneda, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights conflict-of-interest court-administration due-process federal-procedure judicial-bias judicial-conduct judicial-disability judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct recusal |
Judicial-misconduct |
| 21-203 |
John A. Mandacina v. Frederick Entzel, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-08-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
brady-claim brady-rule due-process due-process-clause evidence-withholding federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief savings-clause statutory-interpretation |
Did the court of appeals correctly conclude that petitioner's Brady claim fell outside the scope of the 'savings clause' of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e) |
| 21-5318 |
Beatrice Munyenyezi v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 brecht-standard chapman-standard federal-procedure habeas-corpus harmless-error jury-instruction post-conviction-relief supreme-court-review |
Which harmless error standard applies to a habeas corpus challenge under 28 U.S.C. §2255? |
| 21-93 |
Lawyers' Committee for 9/11 Inquiry, Inc., et al. v. Christopher A. Wray, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-07-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
9-11-transparency article-iii-standing attorney-general department-of-justice federal-judicial-disqualification-statute federal-procedure government-accountability judicial-disqualification legislative-history recusal supervisory-power |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit depart from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings to such … |
| 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 |
| 21-5008 |
Brittany Crownhart v. Anne Magill Collins |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-07-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-procedure fourth-amendment judicial-review property-rights search-and-seizure statutory-interpretation warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment was violated by the warrantless search and seizure of the petitioner's property |
| 20-8446 |
Hewitt A. Grant, II v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-06-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-procedure fifth-amendment judicial-review jurisdiction legal-interpretation procedural-rules retrial united-states-law |
Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment bars the retrial of the petitioner after the trial court's erroneous dismissal of the charge… |
| 20-8386 |
Cheddie Lamar Griffin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure davis-precedent due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus johnson-rule sentencing statutory-interpretation successive-petition supreme-court |
Whether the circuit panel's decision affirming the denial of the authorized successive 2255 petition was erroneous |
| 20-8351 |
Kevin Herriott v. Aaron Joyner, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-dismissal pro-se-litigation standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court had proper subject-matter jurisdiction over parties' § 1983 claims |
| 20-8359 |
James Christopher Castle v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation statutory-rights |
Whether the district court's order suspending jury trials due to the COVID-19 pandemic was valid |
| 20-8332 |
Damen Rabb v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244 certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus innocence-claim standards-for-coa-determinations successive-petition |
whether-due-process-requires-district-court-to-give-petitioner-fair-opportunity-to-provide-proof-supporting-claims |
| 20-1705 |
Renovo Services, LLC, et al. v. George Badeen, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-06-09 |
Denied |
|
amount-in-controversy class-action-fairness-act district-court-jurisdiction federal-procedure federalism-separation-of-powers removal-statute rules-enabling-act separation-of-powers statutory-deadline statutory-deadlines |
Whether a district court can extend the mandatory statutory deadline to file a motion for remand under 28 U.S.C. § 1447(c) without violating the const… |
| 20-8145 |
Tamara Rouhi v. Comcast Cable Communications, LLC |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-05-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-courts federal-procedure injustice judicial-review motion-to-dismiss standing |
There has been no redress of my grievance |
| 20-8084 |
Gregory Brown v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law federal-courts federal-procedure mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 994(h)(2)(B) and the definition of a 'controlled substance offense' in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) require that a defendant's prior offens… |
| 20-1579 |
Vivian Epps v. CVS Health Corporation |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-13 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process electronic-record-freedom-of-information-act federal-procedure federal-rule-60 judicial-misconduct natural-justice ninth-circuit standing |
Whether the Ninth Circuit 3-panel Judges had infringed the rule of natural justice |
| 20-7596 |
Olen Ware, II v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
amendment appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure federal-procedure fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance motion-to-amend motion-to-suppress |
Did the federal district court err in dismissing the habeas petition without considering the petitioner's motion to amend |
| 20-1343 |
Audrey L. Kimner v. Web Watchers, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure federal-rules first-amendment racketeering standing vacatur |
Whether the Supreme Court finds it appropriate by law, The United States Constitution and Federal Rule 60 to VACATE all attached federal orders in cas… |
| 20-7525 |
Masao Kikuchi v. Catherine S. Bauman, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review parole parole-challenge standing substantive-due-process |
Does substantive due process protect inmates in parole process? |
| 20-7473 |
Ivan Dario Obregon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error plea-agreement sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines |
Are unforeseeable sentencing mistakes beyond the scope of federal appeal waivers? |
| 20-1273 |
Franek Olstowski v. Petroleum Analyzer Company, L.P. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-15 |
Denied |
|
arbitration arbitration-award bankruptcy federal-court federal-procedure full-faith-and-credit judicial-proceeding state-court state-court-judgment trade-secret |
Whether state-court judgments confirming arbitration awards, including state-court orders clarifying such judgments, are 'judicial proceedings' entitl… |
| 20-7247 |
Walter Eugene Powell v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-procedure search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights were violated by the warrantless search and seizure of his hotel room |
| 20-7212 |
Kareem Davenport v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-02-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights counsel-adequacy defendant-fitness due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-competency state-statute trial-court |
Can a defendant waive their right to file a motion to vacate due to being on the wrong medication that heavily sedates them? |
| 20-1079 |
Richard E. Boggs v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights federal-procedure fifth-amendment fourth-amendment internal-revenue-enforcement irs-authority judicial-review |
Does 26 U.S.C. §7608 establish the relevant requisite authority of IRS agents? |
| 20-7077 |
Derrick Lakeith Brown v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-02-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-claims constitutional-provisions federal-procedure first-step-act gall-v-united-states habeas-corpus judicial-review petition-standards sentencing-reform statutory-provisions supreme-court-review united-states-v-booker |
Whether the first step act sentencing reform wreak havoc with the United States v. Booker (2005) and Gall v. United States, 552 U.S. 38 (2007) precede… |
| 20-918 |
In Re Johnathon Kelly |
|
2021-01-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-innocence antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act constitutional-rights evidence-exclusion federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review newly-discovered-evidence |
Whether the petitioner's actual innocence claim is unconstitutionally restricted by the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) and Fede… |
| 20-800 |
Tracy Alan Barnett v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-12-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-claims district-court district-court-jurisdiction federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure final-order habeas-corpus |
Are United States District Courts required to address and resolve all constitutional claims or issues raised in a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 Motion to satisfy t… |
| 20-745 |
Ismael Lechuga v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
abuse-of-discretion circuit-split due-process federal-procedure fifth-circuit impartiality judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal sentencing sentencing-procedure standard-of-review |
Whether federal circuit courts should review the denial of a motion to recuse a district judge under 28 U.S.C. § 455(a) de novo or for an abuse of dis… |
| 20-697 |
Orlando Cordia Hall v. T. J. Watson, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-11-19 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 batson-claim batson-v-kentucky constitutional-error death-penalty federal-procedure habeas-corpus racial-discrimination |
Whether the savings clause of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e) permits use of 28 U.S.C. § 2241 to present new evidence of racial discrimination in a federal death … |
| 20-667 |
Antwaun Bush v. City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-11-16 |
Denied |
|
civil-litigation civil-procedure federal-action federal-procedure procedural-waiver state-procedural-mechanisms statute-of-limitations third-circuit waiver writ-of-summons |
Whether the failure to contest a writ of summons constitutes waiver of the statute of limitations defense in a subsequent federal action |
| 20-6252 |
David Boyle v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-rules civil-rights constitutional-remedy due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus Jimenez-v-Quarterman judicial-interpretation statute-of-limitations |
How can Ohioans reset the statute of limitations pursuant to 28-USC-2244(d)(1)(A) when Ohio-Rules-of-Appellate-Procedure prohibit the only remedy rais… |
| 20-6230 |
Ulis Howard Alexander v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
corpus-delicti criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-procedure fifth-circuit legal-error punishment-phase sentencing |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in holding that the concept of corpus delicti should not apply in the punishment phase? |
| 20-581 |
United States, ex rel. Integra Med Analytics, L.L.C. v. Baylor Scott & White Health, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
3rd-circuit 5th-circuit alternative-explanation alternative-explanations false-claims-act federal-procedure pleading-standards relator statistical-analysis |
Whether a relator may use statistical analyses to plausibly allege the submission of false claims under the False Claims Act |
| 20-5997 |
Zaira Franco v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedies compassionate-release criminal-justice exhaustion federal-procedure judicial-review sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court erred by ruling that exhaustion of administrative remedies is required before a court can consider a motion for compassiona… |
| 20-5946 |
Roberto Antoine Darden v. Barbara Von Blanckensee, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights disciplinary-notice district-court due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus liberty-interest prisoner-rights procedural-grounds qualified-immunity |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision that due process was satisfied because the officer's act was 'above the norm' conflicts with other appellate cour… |
| 20-5927 |
Gene Michael Diulio v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 circuit-split due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-sentencing mandatory-sentencing-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines vagueness |
Are 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motions filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), raising due-process, vagueness, mandatory-sent… |
| 20-5767 |
William Emmett LeCroy, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
all-writs-act death-sentence district-court-discretion execution-date exigent-circumstances federal-district-court federal-procedure injunction judicial-modification stay-of-execution |
May a federal district court reset or modify an execution date for a federally death-sentenced inmate in order to manage unforeseen exigent circumstan… |
| 20-5668 |
Kelly Frithiof Sundberg v. Harold Oreol, Executive Director of Patton State Hospital |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split civil-procedure diligence-standard due-process equitable-tolling federal-procedure habeas-corpus section-2254 standing |
Should this Court resolve the conflicting approaches to equitable-tolling? |
| 20-5587 |
Zachary Joseph Love v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2255-motion 28-usc-2254 28-usc-2255 constitutional-rights evidentiary-hearing federal-procedure habeas-corpus kaufman-v-united-states townsend-factors townsend-v-sain |
Should the Townsend v. Sain factors for evidentiary hearings in 28 U.S.C. § 2254 state habeas proceedings apply to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 federal habeas pro… |
| 20-5441 |
Craig Saunders v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson civil-rights constitutional-challenge cross-examination federal-procedure habeas-corpus peremptory-strikes rule-60b |
Whether reasonable jurists could debate the limitation on cross-examination of prosecutor about peremptory strikes in Batson claim |
| 20-5451 |
Casey Rafael Tyler v. North Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-08-21 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
actual-innocence church-state constitutional-claims due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus legal-prosecution second-petition successive-petitions unlawful-prosecution |
When Petitioning for Federal Habeas Relief, is the Actual Innocence Requirement Satisfied Where Conceding Guilt Nevertheless Could Not Have Legally Au… |
| 20-169 |
Lawrence Richard Metsch v. Timothy Hajdasz |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-litigation civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction federal-procedure removal removal-jurisdiction rule-11-sanctions sanctions stonewalling subject-matter-jurisdiction time-limit |
Did the Eleventh Circuit err in imposing sanctions on the defendant's lawyer for removing the case to federal court? |
| 20-5370 |
Luis Guillen v. Russell Washburn, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254 civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling federal-procedure habeas-corpus standing statute-of-limitations supreme-court-precedent |
whether-the-petitioner's-petition-is-timely-and/or-the-one-year-statute-of-limitations-in-petitioner's-case-are-equatably-tolled-under-holland-v.-flor… |
| 20-5172 |
Darrell Henry Williams v. Joe Coakley, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-07-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender criminal-statutes due-process federal-procedure mandatory-minimums physical-force reckless-conduct sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether reckless-conduct-resulting-in-injury satisfies the 'use-of-physical-force' element of the career-offender-sentencing-guideline |
| 20-69 |
William O. Fuller, as Successor Personal Representative of the Estate of Robert Otis Fuller v. Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. |
Second Circuit |
2020-07-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure constitutional-jurisdiction court-of-appeals federal-procedure hypothetical-jurisdiction res-judicata standing steel-company subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether a Court of Appeals panel can, consistent with Steel Company v. Citizens for A Better Environment, avoid a res judicata bar by determining that… |
| 20-5115 |
Gerson Serrano-Ramirez v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence evidence-rules federal-procedure gang-affiliation jury-instructions motion-to-sever sufficiency-of-evidence venue |
Whether the district court erred in its rulings that prevented the defendant from receiving a fair trial |
| 20-5013 |
Rafeal D. Newson v. Superior Court of California, Pima County, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process extradition extradition-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus interstate-detainers-act probable-cause |
Malicious prosecution - favorable termination, abuse of process, Interstate Agreement on Detainers Act, extradition, mandamus, habeas corpus |
| 19-8864 |
Calvin D. Williams v. Samson Resources Corporation |
Third Circuit |
2020-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bivens bivens-action civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-authority federal-procedure judicial-authority judicial-conduct procedural-due-process |
Are judges bound by ABA-Rule-2.15, Judicial-Canons-1-5, and FRCP-Rule-46 while under color-of-federal-authority? |
| 19-8686 |
Beverley M. Harris v. The Bozzuto Group, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-dismissal civil-procedure civil-rights court-access discovery due-process federal-procedure in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion procedural-due-process standing |
Whether the Court should resolve the questions for which the Federal District Court rejected/denied Petitioner's evidences and amendments, conducted n… |
| 19-8674 |
Rolando Gus Paez v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adversarial-system civil-procedure dismissal-rule due-process federal-procedure federalism federalism-doctrine habeas-corpus section-2254 statutory-interpretation |
Does Rule 4 of the rules governing Section 2254 cases in the United States District Court violate the federalism doctrine and/or the adversarial syste… |
| 19-8505 |
George Tolbert v. Stephanie Waggoner, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-05-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis judicial-review prisoner-rights prisoners-rights statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court erred in denying Appellant George Tolbert's motion to proceed in forma pauperis |
| 19-8436 |
In Re Michael A. Young |
|
2020-05-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeals circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process federal-courts federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-recusal legal-standing right-to-appeal standing |
Whether indigent petitioner's 'gateway factual innocence' showing while being 'constructively' denied appointment of counsel on first and all other ap… |
| 19-1272 |
Thomas Christopher Retzlaff v. Jason Lee Van Dyke |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-05-08 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
anti-slapp civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine federal-courts federal-procedure free-speech litigation-strategy |
Whether state anti-SLAPP statutes apply in federal diversity cases |
| 19-8377 |
Bobby Ray Knight v. Monterey County, California |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-04-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
antiterrorism-act circuit-court civil-procedure due-process extensions federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus health-issues incarceration statutory-interpretation time-limitations |
Whether the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 6(a) and 6(b) are too restrictive or inflexible when resolving impediments to timely litigation, and whet… |
| 19-1243 |
Arthur O. Armstrong v. Wilson County, North Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-04-22 |
Denied |
|
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process equal-protection federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment frivolous-complaint official-discrimination standing |
Whether trial court deprived petitioner of constitutional rights |
| 19-8187 |
Kahwahnas Nucumbhi Potts v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1028a circuit-split consecutive-sentencing criminal-law criminal-sentencing district-court federal-procedure inter-circuit-conflict sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether this honorable Court should grant certiorari to resolve inter-Circuit disharmony regarding a District Court's consideration of consecutive sen… |
| 19-8076 |
Alfredo Galindo v. Brad Cain, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment federal-procedure habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-requirement |
Whether petitioner's claim that his 300-month sentence violates his Eighth Amendment right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment meets the stat… |
| 19-1157 |
Patsy Weatherly, et al. v. Pershing, L.L.C. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
american-pipe civil-procedure class-action diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts federal-procedure statute-of-limitations tolling |
Whether the tolling rule of American Pipe & Const. Co. v. Utah applies in a class action filed in federal court based on diversity jurisdiction |
| 19-964 |
Christopher Lawrence v. University Hospital, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights diversity due-process federal-procedure interpleader interpleader-statute minimal-diversity pro-se-litigant standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the 11th Circuit violated petitioners' rights as beneficiaries to allow and select enjoining siblings as claimants and real parties in a negli… |
| 19-7189 |
Kevin D. Moore v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-08 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
bias civil-rights criminal-indictment due-process federal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-bias judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal prosecutorial-misconduct recusal standing |
Did the United States District Court (USDC) judge abuse his discretion in refusing to recuse himself |
| 19-791 |
Anderson Law Offices, et al. v. Common Benefit Fee and Cost Committee |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
|
appeal-rights appeal-waiver appellate-review civil-procedure common-benefit-fund court-review due-process equitable-relief federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-discretion judicial-responsibilities standing waiver |
Whether federal courts can require waiver of appeal rights as a condition for receiving an award |
| 19-6972 |
Tarsis Guillermo Sanchez-Mora v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-procedure jury-instruction jury-instructions miscarriage-of-justice plain-error rico-conspiracy statutory-interpretation |
Should this Court grant certiorari to correct a miscarriage of justice and provide needed clarification of the RICO law? |
| 19-6994 |
Christopher William Manikowski v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights debatable due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) |
| 19-6946 |
In Re Michael Curtis Reynolds |
|
2019-12-17 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
actual-innocence appeal civil-rights civil-rights,due-process,criminal-procedure,senten constitutional-void criminal-appeal due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus remand statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Does Dimaya require all counts to be reviewed? |
| 19-6982 |
Ernest Collins v. Barnes & Thornburg LLP, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
1983-civil-rights-act case-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment incorporation judicial-discretion qualified-immunity section-1691 standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states under the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause |
| 19-6838 |
Joshua Smith v. Sandra Butler, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 appellate-review caselaw federal-procedure guideline-range habeas-corpus incorrect-guideline-range mandatory-guidelines savings-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Courts of Appeals have incorrectly interpreted the 'savings clause' found in 28 USC 2255(e) |
| 19-6829 |
Lisa Washington v. Diana Deleon, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-court appeals civil-procedure civil-rico civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process federal-procedure federal-rules in-forma-pauperis judicial-procedure procedural-rules recusal |
due-process,civil-rights,access-to-court,federal-procedure,recusal,civil-rico |
| 19-6785 |
Bobbie London, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness due-process federal-habeas federal-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-petition johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-career-offender-guideline residual-clause statute-of-limitations unconstitutionally-vague vagueness-doctrine |
Are habeas petitions challenging sentences fixed by the mandatory career offender guideline timely if filed within one year of Johnson v. United State… |
| 19-659 |
Miladis Salgado v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-21 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
28-usc-2465 abuse-of-discretion civil-forfeiture claimant court-dismissal dismissal dismissal-without-prejudice federal-procedure judicial-discretion legal-prevailing-party prevail prevailing-party statutory-interpretation without-prejudice |
When does a civil forfeiture claimant 'substantially prevail' under 28 U.S.C. § 2465(b)(1)? |
| 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… |
| 19-582 |
Sara Ann Edmondson v. Lilliston Ford Inc., et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-11-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights contract contract-formation due-process federal-procedure fraud fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-admission judicial-admissions oscanyan-v-arms-co standing summary-judgment |
Whether the Third Circuit and District Court are acting in opposition to long standing, controlling law |
| 19-6383 |
Nelli Kesoyan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeals federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure legal-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Did the Court of Appeals adopt an erroneous interpretation of U.S.S.G. § 251.3(b)(3)? |
| 19-6389 |
Quincy Dennis v. J. A. Terris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 categorical-approach drug-offense federal-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-relief-28-usc-2241 intervening-change mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence presidential-commutation presidential-pardon retroactive-application retroactively-applicable-decision sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether petitioner Dennis is entitled to seek federal habeas corpus relief |
| 19-6371 |
Wesley Jefferson v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1505 18-usc-1515 18-usc-1519 civil-rights constitutional-rights discovery documentary-evidence due-process federal-procedure obstruction-of-justice qualified-immunity summary-judgment |
Would a United States Federal Court be in error, if it granted qualified immunity to a Defendant in a case, where video and/or documentary evidence, c… |
| 19-6263 |
Carlos Velasquez v. Utah, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-hearing appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court rooker-feldman-doctrine standing |
Were the constitutional claims barred by Rooker-Feldman doctrine? |
| 19-478 |
Amadou Sowe v. Pall Corporation |
Second Circuit |
2019-10-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1746 affidavit affidavit-substitution age-discrimination civil-procedure due-process federal-procedure local-rule-violation local-rules owbpa perjury-statute summary-judgment sworn-declaration unsworn-declaration |
Whether plaintiff's counter statement sworn under 28 U.S.C. § 1746 can be used to show lack of compliance with OWBPA statute despite local rule violat… |
| 19-6197 |
Donald Steven Reynolds v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
§2255-motions circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-procedural-rules federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jurisdiction local-rule-interpretation local-rules motion-to-strike page-limits statutory-interpretation |
Is the Sixth Circuit's holding in-Martinez v. United States, that the 25 page limit under Local Rule 7.1 applies to §2255 Motions, inconsistant with R… |
| 19-6210 |
Marcus Jackson v. Noah Nagy, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-standard case-by-case case-by-case-analysis circuit-split civil-procedure factual-circumstances federal-procedure judicial-review reasonable-time rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6 |
Whether the appropriate application of Rule 60(b)(6) requires a full case-by-case analysis of the factual circumstances, or whether a less stringent r… |
| 19-6156 |
Randy Ethan Halprin v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (6)IFP |
abuse-of-the-writ aedpa anti-semitism capital-punishment constitutional-claim due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-bias racial-discrimination recusal second-or-successive-petition |
Whether Halprin's second federal petition raising a judicial bias claim is 'second or successive' under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(2) if the judge concealed … |
| 19-6090 |
Taylor Wells v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
amended-judgment case-law-precedent civil-procedure federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-modification magwood-v-patterson new-judgment scrivener's-error serivener's-error statutory-interpretation |
Whether an amended judgment which does more than correct a mere scrivener's error in the original judgment constitutes a 'new judgment' within the mea… |
| 19-401 |
Lamont Dejuan Higgs v. Warden Wilson |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 appeal appellate-review federal-procedure habeas-corpus saving-clause sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
Whether the saving clause of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e) allows defendants to seek relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 on the grounds that a subsequent statutory in… |
| 19-6073 |
Glen T. Jones, Jr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus harmless-error judicial-interpretation plain-error structural-error |
Whether the state court's harmlessness determination is subject to habeas corpus review under Brecht v. Abrahamson |
| 19-390 |
William James, et al. v. Barbara Hunt, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rico collateral-estoppel constitutional-amendments due-process federal-procedure final-judgment-act first-amendment fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court interlocutory-appeal jury-trial obstruction-of-justice |
Whether district court orders denied petitioner's Civil RICO rights, |
| 19-5851 |
Felix O. Brown Jr. v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
2254-habeas cause-and-prejudice cause-prejudice constitutional-claim federal-court federal-procedure federal-procedure-rule habeas-corpus pro-se pro-se-petition procedural-default |
Is there a federal procedural rule that permits a court to refuse to acknowledge and determine a presentation of cause & prejudice in a habeas petitio… |
| 19-5755 |
Billy Jack Crutsinger v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
60b-motion change-in-law civil-procedure civil-procedure-60b extraordinary-circumstances federal-procedure finality habeas-corpus rule-60b statutory-representation statutory-right-to-counsel structural-defect |
Whether a court can consider a change in the law as one of many factors in determining extraordinary circumstances warranting relief from judgment und… |
| 19-5570 |
Walter Barton v. William Stange, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-08-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability circuit-split dissent double-jeopardy due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus issue-being-raised judicial-review |
Whether the Eighth Circuit has imposed an improper and unduly burdensome standard for granting a certificate of appealability in Mr. Barton's federal … |
| 19-5530 |
Leroy Lyons v. Thomas Winn, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus innocence judicial-review legal-interpretation procedural-rights statutory-construction wrongful-conviction |
Question not identified |
| 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? |
| 19-5513 |
Charles Head v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-appointed-attorney court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure defiance-of-request due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-remedy petition-filing petition-for-certiorari right-to-counsel statutory-right statutory-rights timely-filing writ-of-certiorari |
What remedy is available for petitioner when court-appointed attorney failed to file timely petition for writ of certiorari in defiance of the petitio… |
| 19-5516 |
Rayshawn Roshard Robertson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 burden-of-proof constitutional-law constitutional-provision criminal-defendant criminal-procedure criminal-relief federal-procedure retroactive-application retroactive-constitutional-decision section-2255 sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
Whether a criminal defendant moving for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 can satisfy his burden of proof by showing his sentence may have been based on a… |
| 19-5463 |
Jesse Dean v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence aedpa-restrictions anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act brady-v-maryland criminal-jurisdiction criminal-offense due-process federal-procedure fraud habeas-corpus jurisdiction kyles-v-whitley |
Whether the District Court had jurisdiction |
| 19-140 |
Jason Edward Rheinstein v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-30 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-jurisdiction attorney-discipline circuit-split civil-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-review remand remand-order removal standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the appellate court has jurisdiction to review the entire remand order or only the portion addressing particular issues |
| 19-137 |
Vibe Micro, Inc. v. SIG Capital, LLC |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-29 |
Denied |
|
bankruptcy-law bankruptcy-statute circuit-split damages federal-procedure involuntary-bankruptcy involuntary-petition non-debtor non-debtor-relief standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 11 U.S.C. § 303(i) forbids non-debtors from obtaining relief from an improper bankruptcy filing |
| 19-5325 |
Alan Victor Gomez Gomez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure force-element immigration-law mens-rea reckless-mental-state sentencing sentencing-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… |
| 19-5221 |
Richard Potts v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-claim constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jurisdiction sentencing standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether collateral review is available to obtain relief under 28 USC § 2255 in the circumstances presented |
| 19-5073 |
In Re Elvis Rivera Cruz |
|
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2244 civil-procedure court-of-appeals federal-procedure federal-statutory-law-jurisdiction fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review obstruction-of-justice statutory-jurisdiction writ-of-certiorari |
Did the United States Court of Appeals, For The Fifth Circuit, lack federal statutory law jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. §2244(b),(3),(D), when more tha… |
| 19-5021 |
Oliver M. Boling v. United States Parole Commission, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-rights district-of-columbia due-process equal-protection federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure personal-capacity preclusion section-1983 |
Whether the United States Court of Appeal for the District of Columbia is in conflict with the circuit courts on the issue of preclusion |
| 18-1567 |
Alexander A. Benzemann v. Houslanger & Associates, PLLC, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-06-24 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split civil-litigation civil-procedure consumer-protection discovery-rule fair-debt-collection-practices-act federal-procedure standing statute-of-limitations |
Whether the discovery rule applies to toll the one-year statute of limitations under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1692, et seq… |
| 18-9680 |
Elester Middlebrook v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence appeals certificate-of-appealability extraordinary-circumstance extraordinary-circumstances federal-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings reopening rule-60b statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction unresolved-claims |
Does a corroborated claim of actual-innocence constitute an extraordinary-circumstance that justifies reopening the habeas-proceedings to adjudicate t… |
| 18A1295 |
Jesse Mendivil v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-11 |
Presumed Complete |
|
federal-procedure legal-research prisoner-rights pro-se time-extension writ-of-certiorari |
Whether a pro se prisoner's inability to access legal research resources constitutes good cause for an extension of time to file a writ of certiorari |
| 18-9457 |
Edwin D. McMillan v. Ron Rackley, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-u.s.c.-2244(d)(1) 28-usc-2244 constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances federal-procedure habeas-corpus state-impediment statutory-interpretation |
Does strict calculation of timeliness after finding of extraordinary circumstances created by a state impediment to filing 28 U.S.C. section 2244(d)(1… |
| 18-9458 |
Elseddig Elmarioud Musa v. United States District Court for the District of Arizona |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process emergency-relief federal-procedure injunctive-relief mandamus-writ standing writ-of-mandamus |
Whether the District Court improperly violated Petitioner Musa's constitutional right |
| 18-1453 |
Mitra Rangarajan v. Johns Hopkins University, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-misconduct attorney-responsibility circuit-split civil-procedure discovery discovery-violations dismissal federal-civil-procedure federal-procedure prejudice rule-37 sanctions warning |
When is it appropriate to dismiss an action for discovery violations under Fed. R. Civ. P. 37? |
| 18-9265 |
Juan Ramon Meza Segundo v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa capital-case circuit-split extraordinary-circumstances federal-habeas federal-habeas-proceedings federal-procedure gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus merits-review procedural-defect rule-60(b) rule-60b section-3599 |
Whether the denial of Section 3599 representation services under the wrong legal standard constitutes a defect in the integrity of the federal habeas … |
| 18-9234 |
Rudy Mendoza v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-05-10 |
GVR |
IFP |
constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process federal-procedure jury-determination second-amendment section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court united-states-v-davis vagueness |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague |
| 18-8903 |
Owen W. Barnaby v. Bret Witkowski, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment fraud law-of-the-case res-judicata |
Whether res judicata and collateral estoppel doctrines should bar an independent or original action in federal court when the defendants employed frau… |
| 18-8872 |
In Re Samuel Lewis Surles |
|
2019-04-17 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation judicial-interpretation sixth-amendment |
Whether petitioner was denied his unwaivable constitutional right of due process of law when the Michigan Supreme Court failed to rule on the merits o… |
| 18-8881 |
Garry Coleman v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-52-rule-60 coa competency conclusions-of-law due-process federal-procedure findings-of-fact habeas-corpus rule-60b-motion |
Whether the district court failed to provide findings of fact and conclusions of law as required by Fed. R. Civ. P. 52(a)(1) in denying petitioner's F… |
| 18-8817 |
Michael Clark v. United States District Court for the Northern District of New York |
Second Circuit |
2019-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bradley-v-fisher civil-rights color-of-law common-law-rights due-process federal-procedure federalism first-amendment first-amendment-rights free-speech judicial-immunity nixon-v-warner standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Did the Northern District and Second Circuit Courts violate the Clark Family First Amendment and Common Law Rights related to the two fraudulent court… |
| 18-8745 |
Louis Alfred Piccone v. Supreme Court of Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure pa-rde-216 patent selling-v-radford administrative-law civil-procedure due-process federal-procedure patent patent-attorney-discipline professional-discipline reciprocal-discipline statutory-interpretation |
Does Mr. Piccone's Pennsylvania reciprocal suspension, based upon the USPTO action conducted in violation of 35 U.S.C. § 24's mandated discovery and d… |
| 18-8767 |
Antonio Slaton v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alford-plea criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence evidence-of-innocence federal-procedure federal-sentencing federal-supervised-release revocation-hearing supervised-release |
Whether a state conviction entered via an Alford plea creates an irrebuttable presumption such that a defendant in a federal supervised release revoca… |
| 18-8756 |
Jonathan S. Williams v. Dr. Kurk, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal civil-procedure constitutional-rights dismissal due-process federal-procedure judicial-error prima-facie-case res-judicata standing |
Did the U.S.D.C. commit legal error by granting defendant's motion to dismiss under res judicata without allowing the appellant an opportunity to cont… |
| 18-8717 |
Hanoi Barbaro Acosta v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244 actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-petitioner federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-proceedings slack-v-mcdaniel |
Does the blanket denial of a certificate of appealability by the district court violate the rule announced in Slack v. McDaniel? |
| 18-1222 |
Christopher Andre Vialva v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
|
capital-case certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-habeas federal-habeas-proceedings federal-procedure habeas-corpus integrity-of-proceedings judicial-misconduct rule-60(b) rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b successive-habeas-petition successive-petition |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in denying a Certificate of Appealability to review whether Petitioner's Rule 60(b)(6) motion challenging a procedural… |
| 18-8370 |
Lonnie Eugene Lillard v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-appeal criminal-procedure discretion due-process federal-procedure ninth-circuit self-representation |
What procedural safeguards are afforded to federal criminal defendants when an Appellate Court panel exercises its discretion in deciding whether or n… |
| 18-8290 |
Vicky Ware Bey v. Joseph Ponte, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1981 42-usc-1983 42-usc-2000e anti-retaliation civil-rights civil-rights,title-vii,42-usc-2000e,42-usc-1981,42 due-process employment-discrimination federal-procedure retaliation title-vii |
Whether the anti-retaliation provision of section 704(a) of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protect the Plaintiffs from discrimination and r… |
| 18-8236 |
Robert L. Bianchi v. Sean Medeiros, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk |
First Circuit |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
10th-amendment 28-usc-2244(d)(2) civil-procedure due-process federal-court federal-procedure filing-requirements habeas-corpus mass-rule-25(b)(2) motion-for-new-trial motion-for-reduction-in-verdict new-trial state-court state-court-requirements statutory-interpretation |
Whether the United States District Court/United States Court of Appeals violated the 10th Amendments of the United States Constitution when they creat… |
| 18-8158 |
Jerry Anderson, II v. Rex Miller, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus procedural-error standing |
Whether the lower court's decision to dismiss the petitioner's claim with prejudice without affording the petitioner an opportunity to offer evidence … |
| 18-7660 |
LaBarrion Harris v. James Deal, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-challenge constitutional-law custody-violation due-process federal-courts federal-procedure habeas-corpus state-courts statute-of-limitations time-limitation unconstitutional void-judgment |
Whether the 1-year limitation period under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1)(A) and (D) can be tolled under Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b) and (c)(1), and whether the tim… |
| 18-7636 |
Ernest Lee Glover, Jr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
26-usc-2244 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2254 due-process equal-protection federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
Does a court of Appeals violate Due Process and Equal protection of law by applying 26 USC §2244(d)(1) to deny review of G.0.A. Challenging District c… |
| 18-7646 |
Jesse Sawyer v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process federal-procedure judicial-mandate judicial-power mandate sentencing standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the powers of federal appellate courts are diminished and whether a defendant is deprived of his fundamental right to appellate review |
| 18-7461 |
In Re Brandon Lee |
|
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
affirmative-proof civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-procedure grand-jury indictment judicial-review judicial-supervision legal-standing prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the Supreme Court should invoke its judicial supervision power to prescribe standards of prosecutorial conduct before the grand jury when affi… |
| 18-7370 |
Skye Ely Gipson v. Cynthia Y. Tampkins, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act antiterrorism-act civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default standing statute-of-limitations |
Whether the court should hear this writ of certiorari challenging the denial of a certificate of appealability under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure … |
| 18-7368 |
Redmond Howard v. Daryl McCready, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ada ada-compliance civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-violation disability-accommodation disability-rights due-process federal-procedure judicial-dismissal pro-se-pleading special-litigation standing |
Had Judge Russell III drafted an inaccurate OPINION based on the American Disabilities Act (ADA), rather than the plaintiffs true claim: What the US D… |
| 18-7188 |
Ian R. Davis v. Margaret Bradshaw, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2244 actual-innocence brady-v-maryland discovery due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition prima-facie-showing successive-petition witness-recantation |
Whether the proof necessary to make a prima facie showing that a petitioner satisfies 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(2)(B)(ii) is equivalent to the proof necessa… |
| 18-7022 |
Ryan Lee Zater v. Kenny Atkinson, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence circuit-split federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure habeas-corpus saving-clause sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation |
What is the scope of the §2255(e) saving clause? And is it permissible for Zater to proceed thereunder? |
| 18-6934 |
Bobby Evans v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-treatment federal-procedure purposes-of-supervised-release revocation sentencing supervised-release |
Whether revoking the supervised release term of a defendant who is in need of drug treatment, after he initially failed in a drug treatment program, i… |
| 18-6834 |
Dexter Johnson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty eighth-amendment federal-death-penalty federal-habeas federal-procedure final-judgment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus rule-58 |
What are the requirements under Rule 58 for a final judgment in district court for a federal death penalty habeas petition under the Eighth and Fourte… |
| 18-696 |
Center for Medical Progress, et al. v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
anti-SLAPP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-procedure federalism first-amendment free-speech heightened-pleading investigative-journalism protected-speech |
Should the Ninth Circuit have applied the anti-SLAPP statutes? |
| 18-6812 |
Jack Ferranti v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 criminal-sentencing federal-bureau-of-prisons federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-sentencing-guidelines good-time-credits life-expectancy post-conviction-relief rule-60(b) rule-60b sentencing |
Whether the district court imposed a defacto life sentence not authorized by the statute of conviction |
| 18-6765 |
Bernard J. Bagdis v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 certiorari-review circuit-split due-process federal-procedure finality habeas-corpus rehearing statute-of-limitations timeliness |
When does a criminal conviction become 'final' under 28 U.S.C. §2255(f)(1) if a petition for rehearing is filed after the petition for certiorari has … |
| 18-6719 |
Bobby Kenneth Williamson v. Jamey Luther, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split exhaustion-of-state-remedies federal-procedure habeas-corpus new-evidence newly-presented-evidence post-conviction-relief post-conviction-relief-act post-conviction-relief-act-petition protective-habeas-corpus-petition schlup-vs-delo statute-of-limitations statutory-exception third-circuit written-notice |
Did the Third Circuit err in rendering petitioner's Post Conviction Relief Act Petition untimely and 'THE END OF THE MATTER,' without the Pennsylvania… |
| 18-6626 |
William Foley Miller v. Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process federal-habeas federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mistrial procedural-default right-to-counsel state-appellate-review |
Who did not use any federal case's or federal codes, did not preserve these issues for review that creates an unexhausted and procedurally defaulted c… |
| 18-582 |
Stephen Yagman v. Michael J. Colello |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-05 |
Denied |
|
anti-SLAPP civil-procedure federal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure iqbal rules-enabling-act supreme-court-precedent twombly |
Whether a state anti-SLAPP statute can be used to dismiss a claim in federal court when its application is contrary to the Rules Enabling Act, Federal… |
| 18-6507 |
Alice Brown v. Del Norte County, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-30 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-discrimination dereliction-of-duty due-process equal-protection fraudulent-concealment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment interlocutory-appeal judicial-disqualification jurisdiction magistrate-judge ninth-circuit |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit erred in dismissing the interlocutory appeal for lack of jurisdiction, thereby violat… |
| 18-516 |
Charles G. Kinney v. Philip Gutierrez, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-law civil-rights due-process federal-procedure free-speech judicial-discretion professional-speech retaliation section-1983 vexatious-litigant |
Whether the 3-judge panel abused its discretion in dismissing 8 of Kinney's pending appeals, which allegedly covered up acts by Justice Gutierrez and … |
| 18-508 |
Charles G. Kinney v. Tyson Takeuchi, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion bankruptcy bankruptcy-law civil-rights due-process false-statements federal-procedure free-speech judicial-discretion professional-speech |
Issue being raised |
| 18-515 |
Charles G. Kinney v. Michele R. Clark, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
|
abuse-of-discretion bankruptcy bankruptcy-law civil-rights due-process federal-procedure free-speech judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct professional-speech |
Dismissal of pro se litigant's appeals for alleged professional speech violations, cover-up of bankruptcy law violations, and abuse of discretion by a… |
| 18-6173 |
Carlos Tiznado-Valenzuela v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split federal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-interpretation molina-martinez molina-martinez-standard plain-error-review prejudice prejudice-prong sentencing-guidelines |
Should the Court address the division of circuit authority over the Court's application of the prejudice prong of plain-error review in Molina-Martine… |
| 18-6120 |
Jose Ramon Pulido-Nolazco v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-justice criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-procedure prior-conviction sentencing sex-offender sex-offender-treatment supervised-release |
Whether the age of a prior sex offense conviction is a factor the court must consider when determining whether to impose sex offender treatment as a c… |
| 18-6087 |
Samuel Raphael Johnson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
§2255-motion 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief procedural-default successive-petitions |
Does asking the district court to reopen the habeas proceeding to consider all issues presented constitute a second or successive §2255 motion? |
| 18-5980 |
Shelton Denoria Jones v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-U.S.C-2254(e)(2) 28-usc-2254 diligence evidentiary-hearing factual-basis fair-trial federal-court federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment state-court state-court-review |
Whether a habeas applicant has 'failed to develop the factual basis' of a claim under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(e)(2) when the state court did not hold an evid… |
| 18-5998 |
Keith Lapell Biggins v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-circuit 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure appellate-review buck-v-davis case-law certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process eleventh-circuit federal-procedure habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation statutory-operation |
Whether the United Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Contrary to Buck v. Davis, 137 S.Ct. 759 Inverted the Mode of Statutory Operation 28 U.S.… |
| 18-5911 |
Manuel Lampon-Paz v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-redaction child-abuse child-abuse-neglect child-abuse-or-neglect court-of-appeals fair-trial federal-procedure minor-plaintiff minor-protection ongoing-case ongoing-federal-case plaintiff-rights redaction trial-fairness |
Whether a plaintiff can have his case redacted in accordance with laws and regulations about disclosure |
| 18-249 |
Madeleine Connor v. Eric Castro, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process federal-procedure free-speech government-retaliation lugar-v-edmondson rule-15-supplementation section-1983 standing state-action twombly-iqbal |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's denial of Petitioner's request to supplement her pleading under Fed. R. Civ. P. 1… |
| 18-5636 |
Edgar Searcy v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-4248 28-usc-1658 circuit-split civil-action civil-commitment federal-civil-procedure federal-procedure statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
Whether the 28 U.S.C. § 1658(a) four-year statute of limitations for a civil action arising under an Act of Congress' applies to civil commitment proc… |
| 18-5477 |
Thomas Ebron v. Karen D. Brown, Chair, Virginia Parole Board, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 appeal appeals appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-procedure legal-access standing statutory-interpretation |
Has the U.S. Court of Appeals abused its discretion and committed reversible error in dismissing Ebron's 42 USC § 1983 appeal, finding no reversable e… |
| 18-89 |
AmeriCulture, Inc., et al. v. Los Lobos Renewable Power, LLC, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-07-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
anti-SLAPP attorneys-fees circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal-motion expedited-motions federal-court federal-procedure fee-shifting free-speech public-participation |
Whether state anti-SLAPP fee-shifting provisions apply in federal court |
| 18-57 |
Gerald E. Vallejos v. Lovelace Medical Center, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-07-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure honest-services-fraud judicial-immunity misprision-of-felony obstruction-of-justice section-1983 standing statutory-standing |
Whether 42 U.S.C. § 1983 provides statutory standing for a District State Judge, a US District Court Justice, and Three Justices of the 10th Circuit C… |
| 18-5135 |
Mark Francis Honish v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-procedure fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation time-limitation tolling |
Was Honish's first state habeas writ 'application' properly filed within the meaning of 28 U.S.C. §2244(d)(2), and required to be tolled? |
| 18-5039 |
Guy Kevin Rowland v. Kevin Chappell, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federal-procedure good-faith habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition local-rules state-court statute-of-limitations |
Does the AEDPA apply where Petitioner's attorneys relied in good faith on the federal district court's local rules |