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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
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 Whether the district court and court of appeal erred in finding that Doreh had failed to exhaust administrative remedies in count one?
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 a criminal defendant released to a halfway house is in 'custody' and 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 Insufficient-evidence-for-carjacking-conviction
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 Is the State continuing failure to follow federal statutes, regulations, policies and practices impacting state court originated federal criminal just…
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 Is there a distinction between the Public and Private in applying a federal government-funded Public Service, Title IV of the Social Security Act (Act…
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 incarceration of felons is considered a disability under the Rehabilitation Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act
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 Is federal first-degree murder, 18 U.S.C. § 1(a), a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)?
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 Whether the district court erred in its August 3, 2021 ruling by closing discovery on July 20, 2020 and concealing the plaintiffs' case information pr…
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 USCA failed to vacate the Sua sponte order of dismissing the complaint is error
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 Can states overturn federal statutes by enforceable governing bodies without rebuke or expiation?
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 Does the jurisdictional element 'in or affecting interstate commerce' in federal criminal statutes require an actual effect on interstate commerce and…
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 Did Davis render 18 U.S.C. §2332b(a)(1)(B) equal to 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(3)(B), and thus equally make void and Unconstitutional both statute subsections …
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)
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 Has the petitioner's constitutional rights been violated by the appellate court's denial of due process?
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 Whether there is an absence of a remedy when a federal magistrate judge acknowledges there is a civil right that has been violated
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 Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1) is unconstitutionally vague
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 Dismissed 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 Did the USCA8 err by not addressing civil-rights, 42-usc-1981, 42-usc-1982, 42-usc-1983, 42-usc-1985, 42-usc-1986, bivens, federal-torts-claim-act
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 is denied by Florida's imposition of a capital life imprisonment sentence
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 Should courts continue to follow the Chevron policy of deferring to administrative agency interpretations of federal statutes?
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 Whether the Yearsley defense is a jurisdictional defense or an affirmative defense, and whether it applies to violations of federal law or only state …