federal-statutes
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-5033 | Wade Greely Lay v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2025-07-07 | Denied | IFP | administrative-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-statutes habeas-corpus prisoner-rights | Question not identified. |
| 24-5186 | Issa Doreh v. Unknown Rodriguez, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-07-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedies civil-procedure court-of-appeal district-court due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-courts federal-statutes judicial-review standing | 1. Whether the district court and court of appeal erred in finding that Doreh had failed to exhaust administrative remedies in count one? 2. Whether … |
| 23-1310 | Dean Gross v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-06-14 | Denied | Amici (1) | criminal-custody criminal-law criminal-procedure custody federal-courts federal-escape-statute federal-statutes halfway-house statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit | Whether or under what circumstances a criminal defendant released to a halfway house is in "custody" and therefore can commit the crime of escape. |
| 23-7598 | Arnaud Paris v. Heidi M. Brown | Oregon | 2024-05-31 | Denied | IFP | custody-dispute due-process equal-protection family-law federal-statutes fourteenth-amendment international-custody international-law national-origin state-statutes uccjea | Does a state court's decisions and actions violating both Federal Statutes (UCCJEA) and State Statues in a custody dispute, which appears to favor an … |
| 23-6652 | Don Meeker v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-02-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting carjacking criminal-law criminal-statute due-process evidence-sufficiency federal-statutes intent rosemond-standard rosemond-v-us | 1. The government failed to prove by sufficient evidence as to the petitioner that the petitioner-appellant possessed the requisite intent to commit t… |
| 23-6571 | Mark A. Panowicz v. Sharon L. Hancock, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-01-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-justice-records due-process federal-law-compliance federal-statutes procedural-due-process public-impact rule-60b6 standing state-immunity | 1. Is the State continuing failure to follow, (even after specifically passing a state law expressly agreeing to adhere to applicable federal law. etc… |
| 23-126 | Joe Blessett v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-08-10 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (3) | administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statutes public-private social-security-act title-iv | Joe Blessett disagrees with the U.S. 5th Appellate Circuit Court's decision to affirm the District Court Judgment. Is there a distinction between the … |
| 22-7181 | Kerrin Ann Barrett v. PAE, Incorporated | Fourth Circuit | 2023-04-03 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | administrative-timeline civil-rights claim-preclusion due-process federal-statutes judicial-expediency res-judicata whistleblower whistleblower-statutes | Whether applying res judicata doctrine to deny separate and distinct claims under Federal whistleblower statutes, including those that have specific a… |
| 22-6686 | Jerad M. Ross v. Virginia, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability disability-rights due-process federal-statutes incarceration rehabilitation-act standing | Whether State Prisoner incarceration For a Felony is Considered a disability under Federal statutes the Rehabilitation Act ("RA") and the Americans wi… |
| 22-5982 | Richard Allen Jackson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-11-03 | Denied | IFP | categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law divisibility divisibility-analysis federal-statutes felony-murder first-degree-murder schad-v-arizona statutory-interpretation violent-crime | 1. Is federal first-degree murder, 18 U.S.C. § 1(a), which includes felony murder, a crime of violence within the meaning of the force clause of 18 U.… |
| 22-159 | Steven Pascale v. RPI Company | California | 2022-08-19 | Denied | civil-procedure concealment constitutional-rights disbarment discovery due-process federal-statutes lawyer-discipline legal-ethics legal-practice oath-of-office professional-misconduct | Brayton Law was barred from practicing due to lying, breach of lawyers oath of office, impropriety, and dishonesty: See Appendix K, p. 27 (CV 442750 J… | |
| 22-5220 | Palani Karupaiyan v. Jatinder Singh, et al. | Third Circuit | 2022-07-29 | Rehearing | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process federal-statutes intellectual-property procedural-error standing tax-evasion | 1) USCA failed to vacate the Sua sponte order of dismissing the complaint is error 2) Lower Courts dismissing/denying petitioner 's Intellectual prop… |
| 21-610 | Louis S. Shuman, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue | Fourth Circuit | 2021-10-26 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | court-rules due-process federal-court-rules federal-statutes fifth-amendment jurisdiction jurisdictional-grounds tax-court | Whether an Order of the United States Tax Court is deemed final, and legally enforceable, including enforcement on jurisdictional grounds, when the U.… |
| 21-5903 | Angela Johnson, et al. v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2021-10-05 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process federal-governing-bodies federal-statutes legal-jurisdiction standing state-law takings victim-rights | (1) CAN STATES OVERTURN FEDERAL STATUTES BY AND ENFORCEABLE FEDERAL GOVERNING BODIES WITHOUT REBUKE OR AWARDING EXPIATION, SPECIFICALLY UIFSA AND UC… |
| 21-5523 | Amos Kiprop Koech v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof cell-phone-evidence criminal-law criminal-statute federal-statutes interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element jury-instruction reasonable-doubt | I. Does the jurisdictional element "in or affecting interstate commerce" in federal criminal statutes require an actual effect on interstate commerce … |
| 21-5132 | Michael Curtis Reynolds v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | arson-statute constitutional-law constitutional-voidness covid-19-risk criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-statutes predicate-offense statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness | (1) Did Davis render 18 U.S.C. §2332b(a)(l)(B) equal to 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(3)(B)-, and thus equally make void and Unconstitutional both statute subsect… |
| 20-7412 | Anthony W. Gardner v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-statutes force-clause hobbs-act physical-force property-crimes statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), where the offense encompas… |
| 20-6670 | Janice Sue Taylor v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2020-12-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 1st-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-rights due-process federal-statutes fifth-amendment first-amendment jurisdiction title-26-usc | 1. Petitioner's Constitutional rights have been violated by the Appellate Court denying Petitioner due process of law, as provided under The Constitut… |
| 19-8056 | Brian Alan Matalka v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-03-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administration-of-justice criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure federal-statutes fifth-circuit-review indigency indigent-status plain-error plain-error-review special-assessment standard-of-review | Did the Fifth Circuit's cursory review of the district court record reached the wrong conclusion that Matalka was not indigent under the standard pros… |
| 19-7852 | Edwin F. Parson v. United States Air Force, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure-abuse-of-discretion-standing-fede civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-statutes judicial-process legal-review remedy scotus-petition standing supreme-court | WHY AFTER A REVEEW OF RELATED TIHERE IS AN ABSENCE OF A REMEDY DOCumeNTs THERE IS A CIVIL RIGHT THAT SUFFERED NOWLODGE 2 A WRONG? A STRATAGEM. OR SUBT… |
| 19-7732 | Jerad Hanks v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-02-21 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | bank-robbery circuit-court-conflict circuit-court-split constitutional-interpretation crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute due-process elements-clause federal-bank-robbery federal-statutes firearm-use rule-of-lenity use-of-force vagueness-doctrine | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1), which criminalizes the use of a firearm during a "crime of violence," in this case, the federal bank robbery statute… |
| 19-923 | Timothy Barnes v. Chase Home Finance, LLC, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-24 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights due-process federal-circuit-court federal-statutes ownership-interest principal-dwelling property-rights rescission-rights state-law state-law-interpretation truth-in-lending-act | Does a consumer have the right to exercise federal TILA rescission protection where applicable state law has defined his ownership interest in a way t… |
| 19-5520 | Terry G. Watson v. Nathan B. Stewart, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2019-08-08 | Denied | IFP | 42-usc-1981 42-usc-1982 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1985 42-usc-1986 civil-rights due-process ethnic-discrimination ethnic-origin federal-statutes human-rights political-prisoners religious-conscience | 1. Did the USCA8, err, by not addressing the fundemental issues of civil rights under 42 USC § 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985 and 1986; Bivens or the Federal… |
| 19-5313 | Thomas Arthur Kahlow v. Florida | Florida | 2019-07-24 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 14th-amendment capital-punishment constitutional-limits due-process excessive-punishment federal-statutes fourteenth-amendment indefinite-imprisonment life-imprisonment state-constitutional-law state-governments | WHETHER THE RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS OF LAW GUARANTEED BY THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION'S FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT IS DENIED BY FLORIDA'S IMPOSITION OF A CAP… |
| 19-5059 | Paul A. Viera v. Florida | Florida | 2019-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights due-process excessive-punishment federal-statutes florida florida-constitution fourteenth-amendment indefinite-imprisonment life-imprisonment state-sentencing | WHETHER THE RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS OF LAW GUARANTEED BY THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION'S FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT IS DENIED BY FLORIDA'S IMPOSITION OF A NAT… |
| 18-717 | PMCM TV, LLC v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. | District of Columbia | 2018-12-04 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-agency administrative-agency-interpretation administrative-law agency-interpretation cable-television-regulation chevron-deference constitutional-interpretation constitutional-power federal-judiciary federal-statutes statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | (a) Should courts continue to follow the Chevron policy of deferring to administrative agency interpretations of federal statutes when the federal jud… |
| 18-6102 | Anthony Mayes, Jr. v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-09-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | collateral-proceedings due-process federal-statutes judicial-review pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-default trial-counsel | Whether a pro se litigant's failure to address on direct appeal trial counsel's procedural default of client's fundamental due process rights, for app… |
| 18-206 | Craig Cunningham v. General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. | Fourth Circuit | 2018-08-16 | Denied | affirmative-defense civil-procedure federal-agency-authority federal-contractor-liability federal-preemption federal-statutes government-contractor-defense jurisdictional-defense separation-of-powers sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation yearsley-defense yearsley-v-w-a-ross | Almost 80 years ago, in Yearsley u. W. A. Ross Const. Co., 309 U.S. 18, 21-22 (1940), under seemingly innocuous facts, this Court created a defense to… |