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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 Wtetter 3 Con-Fl ict W* _a.ncl.. (n&.aza lez $. j- -5- $tak Court© / Ccla awl. ke-re ipply £ sfak ^loceduM I W to cwnte 3A U^cedeat kittd § 22S3 (cXz)…
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