| 25A894 |
George Jimenez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-06 |
Application |
|
appellate-review fifth-circuit ineffective-counsel legal-claims pro-se procedural-deficiency |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6710 |
Jose Ramon Castillo-Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-04 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-waiver federal-sentencing fifth-circuit guilty-plea plea-agreement withdrawal-of-plea |
1. Based on his plea agreement's boilerplate waiver of most appellate rights, the Fifth Circuit dismissed Petitioner's challenge to his federal senten… |
| 25-6716 |
Ramon Manuel Ortega-Borunda v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-04 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law criminal-appeal fifth-circuit judicial-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 25-6719 |
Rolando Heriberto Sanches-Raudales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-04 |
Pending |
IFP |
case-law criminal-appeal fifth-circuit judicial-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 25-6582 |
Demonya Marquise Swarn v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-01-14 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach crime-of-violence fifth-circuit guidelines mens-rea robbery-definition |
I. Texas robbery may be committed by a reckless use of force merely incidental to the taking of property. Did the Fifth Circuit misapply the categoric… |
| 25A816 |
Wilhemena J. Beary, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Joshua J. Johnson v. Harris County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-01-14 |
Application |
|
en-banc fifth-circuit judicial-procedure petition-review time-extension writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 25A819 |
Ashton J. Ryan, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-01-14 |
Application |
|
attorney-client-privilege certiorari criminal-procedure fifth-circuit statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6463 |
Luis Antonio Talamantes-Romero v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-31 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law criminal-appeal fifth-circuit judicial-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 25-6424 |
Sherrod Goodspeed v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-23 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach crime-of-violence fifth-circuit guidelines mens-rea robbery-definition |
I. Texas robbery may be committed by a reckless use of force merely incidental to the taking of property. Did the Fifth Circuit misapply the categoric… |
| 25-6343 |
Sharard Collier v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
district-court due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment |
QUESTON NUMBER ONE:
Whether the district court abused its discretion by failing to
conduct an Evidentiary Hearing regarding Ground One pre-trial
ine… |
| 25-6278 |
David Andrew Diehl v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-04 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-argument ex-post-facto fifth-circuit peugh-v-united-states subject-matter-jurisdiction united-states-v-booker |
Did the fifth Circuit have subject matter jurisdiction on direct appeal to consider an ex post facto constitutional argument that was never raised.
D… |
| 25A602 |
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., et al. v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-21 |
Application |
|
election-regulations fifth-circuit minority-voting texas-law voter-assistance voting-rights |
Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly interpreted Texas voting assistance laws in a manner that potentially restricts minority voters' access to electo… |
| 25A605 |
OCA - Greater Houston, et al. v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-21 |
Application |
|
certiorari election-law fifth-circuit injunction senate-bill-1 voting-rights |
Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly interpreted Texas Senate Bill 1 in a manner that potentially infringes on voting rights and electoral access |
| 25-6175 |
Luis Fernando Puente v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-counsel fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance reasonable-expectation-privacy state-law supreme-court-precedent |
1. THE FIFTH CIRCUIT AND THE U.S.D.C'S DECISION THAT A MANDATORY REQUIRED PIECE OF THE REPORTER'S RECORD THAT IS MISSING IS AN ISSUE OF STATE LAW AND … |
| 25-6188 |
Abel Vargas-Maldonado v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law certiorari fifth-circuit judicial-precedent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 25-6152 |
Melvin Alberto-Velasquez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law criminal-appeal fifth-circuit judicial-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 25A583 |
Ikechukwu Okorie v. University Mall, L.L.C. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-18 |
Application |
|
access-to-courts all-writs-act due-process fifth-circuit monetary-sanctions pre-filing-injunction |
Whether a pre-filing injunction conditioning court access on monetary sanctions violates due process and the right to access courts under the All Writ… |
| 25A556 |
La Union del Pueblo Entero, et al. v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-13 |
Application |
|
equal-protection fifth-circuit redistricting texas-law voter-assistance voting-rights |
Whether the Voting Rights Act and Equal Protection Clause prohibit Texas from enacting voter assistance restrictions that disproportionately burden mi… |
| 25-6009 |
Jorge Armando Varela-Angel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law criminal-appeal fifth-circuit judicial-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 25-465 |
Timothy Barton v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-16 |
Pending |
Amici (10)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
asset-seizure constitutional-limits due-process equitable-relief fifth-circuit securities-law |
The United States Government brought parallel crim-inal and civil enforcement actions against Petitioner Tim-othy Barton, alleging violations of the s… |
| 25-5905 |
Antonio Valle-Ramirez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law criminal-appeal fifth-circuit judicial-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 25-403 |
Kenneth D. Anderson, et al. v. Crystal Estrada, Deputy, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-violation excessive-force fifth-circuit graham-factors qualified-immunity rule-12b6 |
The Fourth Amendment requires courts to evaluate excessive force claims based on the totality of the circumstances by sloshing through a "factbound mo… |
| 25-392 |
Jake Ellis Daughtry, et al. v. Silver Fern Chemical, Inc., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
evidence-fabrication fifth-circuit first-party-reliance fraud-claim government-agency third-party-misrepresentation |
1. Whether Bridge v. Phoenix Bond & Indemnity Co. permits a fraud claim based on misrepresentations to a third-party government agency that cause inju… |
| 25-5724 |
Arnulfo Martinez-Fajardo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review certiorari criminal-law fifth-circuit judicial-precedent supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 25-5558 |
Matthew Andrew Garces v. Cindy Hernandez, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
claim-preclusion default-judgment due-process fifth-circuit jurisdictional-limit pro-se-litigant |
1. Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that a default judgment, entered against a pro se litigant who was incapacitated and hospitalized during… |
| 25A202 |
Kevin Frymier v. Dianne Curvey, Judge, in Her Individual and Official Capacity, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-20 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights dismissal-as-frivolous fifth-circuit first-amendment judicial-immunity pro-se |
Whether a pro se civil rights plaintiff can overcome judicial immunity and First Amendment barriers to challenge a state court judge's actions in fede… |
| 25-5391 |
Jose Guadalupe Marquez-Floriano v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law criminal-appeal fifth-circuit judicial-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 25-5384 |
Christopher Kines v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-violations court-procedure evidence-standard fifth-circuit judicial-proceedings |
1. Is it the common practise of the Fifth Circuit to disregard
facts in the record and ignore evidence the court itself
agreed to consider?
2. Did … |
| 25-5363 |
Edras Reyes-Salinas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law criminal-appeal fifth-circuit judicial-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 25-5178 |
Pablo Martinez-Lara v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law criminal-law fifth-circuit judicial-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 24A1293 |
Bart Wade Reagor v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
fifth-circuit jurisdiction petition supreme-court time-extension writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari in a Fifth Circuit case |
| 24A1278 |
Stewart A. Feldman, et al. v. Scott Sullivan, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-24 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review commercial-litigation fifth-circuit motion-for-judgment standard-of-review summary-judgment |
Whether a federal appellate court correctly applied the standard for granting or denying a motion for summary judgment in a complex commercial litigat… |
| 24-7300 |
Jorge Arturo Nanez-Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres case-law certiorari fifth-circuit judicial-precedent supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 24-7307 |
Eblin Omar Ardon-Amaya v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law certiorari criminal-appeal fifth-circuit judicial-precedent supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 24-7283 |
James Rubio v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus procedural-default |
Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly denied a Certificate of Appealability (COA) by misapplying procedural default rules and violating due process in … |
| 24-7271 |
Cristian Javier Chevez-Solano v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres certiorari criminal-law fifth-circuit precedent supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 24-7261 |
Adrian Hermosillo-Lujan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres-precedent certiorari criminal-law fifth-circuit judicial-review supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 24A1092 |
David Nicholson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-14 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certiorari constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-circuit supreme-court-rules time-extension |
Whether a criminal defendant's constitutional right to file a timely petition for certiorari is preserved when seeking an extension beyond the standar… |
| 24-7053 |
Valente Brito, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari-petition fifth-circuit firearms-conviction plain-error-review second-amendment supreme-court-precedent |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in denying petitioner's argument that his federal firearms-related conviction violated the Second Amendment under plain erro… |
| 24-7013 |
Richard Schorovsky v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law fifth-circuit sentencing-enhancement texas-burglary-statute united-states-v-stitt |
Whether the Texas burglary statute qualifies as a predicate offense under the Armed Career Criminal Act after United States v. Stitt, given its potent… |
| 24-7000 |
Avery B. Crawford v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-04-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus self-representation |
Whether the Fifth Circuit failed to review the Certificate of Appealability (COA) process and whether the Federal District Court improperly procedural… |
| 24-6888 |
Russell Wayne Driver v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-error fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sentencing-claim |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability for a §2255 claim of ineffective assistance of counsel is irreconcilable with con… |
| 24A937 |
J.A. Masters Investments, et al. v. Eduardo Beltramini |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-28 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure certiorari fifth-circuit judicial-discretion supreme-court-rules time-extension |
Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari beyond the standard deadline |
| 24-6693 |
Sean Wayne Thompson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-interpretation criminal-law fifth-circuit firearms-conviction second-amendment supreme-court-precedent |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in denying petitioner's argument that his federal firearms-related conviction violated the Second Amendment, even after rece… |
| 24-925 |
Gregory Lala, Chairman, Louisiana Motor Vehicle Commission, et al. v. Tesla, Incorporated, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
adjudication due-process fifth-circuit industry-participant pecuniary-interest regulatory-board |
Whether the Court should grant, vacate, and remand with instructions to the Fifth Circuit to identify any alleged substantial pecuniary interest held … |
| 24-915 |
In Re Bart Wade Reagor |
|
2025-02-25 |
Dismissed |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure court-of-appeals fifth-circuit judicial-delay mandamus writ-of-mandamus |
Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to issue a decision without delay |
| 24-6583 |
Gilberto Aguilar-Gutierrez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari criminal-law fifth-circuit judicial-procedure precedent-review supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 24-6567 |
Longino Lopez Flores, IV v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-appeal drug-offense fifth-circuit firearm-possession sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
QP: Did the Fifth Circuit err in affirming a four-level sentencing enhancement for simultaneous possession of drugs and a firearm under 18 U.S.C. § 92… |
| 24-6407 |
Samuel Tanel Crittenden v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court fifth-circuit jury-instruction sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether a conviction should be reversed and remanded for a new trial when a district court erroneously fails to give a jury instruction, despite suffi… |
| 24A686 |
Ruel M. Hamilton v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-13 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure certiorari extension-of-time fifth-circuit judicial-discretion supreme-court |
Whether the Fifth Circuit correctly applied the standard for granting or denying a motion for extension of time to file a petition for certiorari |
| 24A669 |
Dajuan Martin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-statute fifth-circuit firearm-possession plea-agreement prohibited-person sentencing |
Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) for possession of a firearm by a prohibited person satisfies the elements of a substantive federal crimi… |
| 24-6225 |
Dennis Mischler v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-circuit habeas-corpus sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth Circuit deprived Mischler of Due Process by failing to afford an evidentiary hearing on disputed facts when no hearing was provided … |
| 24-6198 |
Martin Diaz-Nunez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres-precedent case-law certiorari fifth-circuit judicial-review supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 24-6160 |
Benjamin Escobedo v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal-review constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in denying Escobedo's constitutional rights and ineffective assistance of counsel claims? |
| 24-618 |
Erin Wade, et al. v. City of Houston, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-05 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights fifth-circuit first-amendment mass-arrests pleading-standards qualified-immunity |
Whether the Supreme Court should correct the Fifth Circuit's departure from accepted judicial proceedings and pleading standards in civil rights cases… |
| 24-573 |
Coleman County, Texas v. Patsy K. Cope, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-11-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bell-v-wolfish detainee-suicide fifth-circuit monell-standard municipal-liability qualified-immunity |
Does a Bell v. Wolfish claim for detainee suicide allow a plaintiff to bypass the traditional Monell test for imposing municipal liability, and does s… |
| 24A484 |
Pamela Anai Carrillo v. Texas Juvenile Justice Department, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-11-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights constructive-dismissal fifth-circuit pro-se procedural-dismissal retaliation |
Whether a pro se plaintiff alleging workplace retaliation and constructive dismissal can overcome procedural dismissal and seek Supreme Court review o… |
| 24A480 |
Randal M. Hall v. Travis Trochessett, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-11-13 |
Presumed Complete |
|
arrest-warrant fifth-circuit first-amendment interference-with-public-duties probable-cause speech-exception |
Whether a verbal argument with a police officer constitutes probable cause for arrest under Texas law when the speech is protected by the First Amendm… |
| 24-491 |
Bernice Rutland v. Robinson Property Group, L.L.C., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-31 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
conclusory-allegations evidentiary-standard federal-civil-procedure fifth-circuit stare-decisis summary-judgment |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's ruling conflicts with Supreme Court precedent on summary judgment standards under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 56(a) |
| 24-477 |
Thomas John Boukamp v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
competency-to-stand-trial criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-standard mental-capacity |
Whether the Dusky standard for competency to stand trial requires a defendant to have a rational and factual understanding of the proceedings against … |
| 24A424 |
National Federation of the Blind of Texas, Incorporated, et al. v. City of Arlington, Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
charitable-services constitutional-rights fifth-circuit municipal-ordinance nonprofit-rights public-spaces |
Whether a municipal ordinance regulating public spaces violates the constitutional rights of nonprofit organizations to provide services to disadvanta… |
| 24A305 |
RSBCO v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certiorari-petition counsel-representation fifth-circuit legal-procedure supreme-court-rules time-extension |
Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari in a case involving a Louisiana partnership's … |
| 24-5624 |
Omar Jorge Valle Estrada v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-procedure federal-appeals fifth-circuit judicial-review sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24A250 |
Thomas John Boukamp v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-10 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-statute cyber-stalking federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit sentencing sexual-enticement |
Whether the Fifth Circuit correctly applied the legal standards for convicting a defendant of cyber stalking and sexual enticement under federal crimi… |
| 24A230 |
Aaron Christopher Taylor v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
anders-procedure criminal-appeal direct-appeal fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance pro-se-litigation |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals improperly applied Anders v. California procedural standards in dismissing a criminal defendant's direct ap… |
| 24A187 |
Aisha Wright v. Transportation Communication Union/IAM |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-08-20 |
Presumed Complete |
|
dismissal-with-prejudice district-court fifth-circuit ineffective-counsel pro-se res-judicata |
Whether the doctrine of res judicata can bar a pro se plaintiff's claims when the prior dismissal may have resulted from ineffective legal representat… |
| 24-5144 |
Richard Villareal v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2d1.1(b)(1) criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process fifth-circuit firearm-enhancement sentencing-guidelines tools-of-the-trade-presumption |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's practice of applying a tools-of-the-trade presumption to the firearm enhancement of sentencing guidelines §2D1.1(b)(1) vio… |
| 24A71 |
Travis Adam Brown v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
ammunition-charge criminal-conviction felon-in-possession fifth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing |
Whether a felon's guilty plea to possessing ammunition precludes subsequent constitutional challenges to the underlying conviction or sentence |
| 24-6 |
Stacy Williams, on Behalf of Her Minor Grandson, J. J. v. Andrew Williams, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights deshaney-v-winnebago due-process federal-circuit-split fifth-circuit judicial-interpretation legal-doctrine standing state-created-danger |
Whether the Court should end the Fifth Circuit's decades-long refusal to rule on the viability of the state-created danger doctrine by recognizing the… |
| 24-5012 |
Miguel Angel Ibarra-Mora v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit precedent-overturning sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-1367 |
Pamela Quinlan v. Joseph P. Lopinto, III, Sheriff, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-02 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process fair-warning fifth-circuit malicious-prosecution qualified-immunity section-1983 thompson-v-clark |
Whether the United States Fifth Circuit cases of Guerra v. Castillo and Wallace v. Taylor, which stand for the proposition that qualified immunity req… |
| 23-7725 |
Jimmie Lee Walton v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion allen-charge coercion court-of-appeals criminal-procedure Did the Court of Appeals abuse it's discretion in Did the Court of Appeals abuse its discretion in a directed-verdict double-jeopardy due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judgment-of-acquittal judicial-discretion jury-instructions mistrial motion-for-acquittal right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Did Walton receive effective assistance of counsel? |
| 23-7682 |
Daniel Loyola, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment appellate-review constitutional-analysis criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit firearms plain-error statutory-interpretation united-states-v-bruen |
Whether a ruling in Mr. Rahimi's favor would affect the Fifth Circuit's plain-error analysis concerning the constitutionality of § 922(0) |
| 23-7670 |
James Edward Young v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-analysis criminal-law due-process felony-conviction fifth-circuit firearm-possession plain-error plain-error-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether a ruling in Mr. Rahimi's favor would affect the Fifth Circuit's plain-error analysis concerning the constitutionality of § 922(g)(1) |
| 23A1091 |
Jackson Peter Chiwanga v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
aggravated-felony domestic-assault federal-interpretation fifth-circuit immigration-law state-criminal-law |
Whether federal immigration authorities can override a state's own classification of a criminal offense when determining whether a conviction constitu… |
| 23-7646 |
Rogaciano Demetrio-Jimenez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres case-precedent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23A1076 |
Jason Wade Grant v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-31 |
Presumed Complete |
|
anders-review appellate-procedure criminal-appeal fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance pro-se-defendant |
Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly dismissed a criminal appeal without fully evaluating the defendant's claims of ineffective assistance of counsel |
| 23-1258 |
Royce Wade Lander v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason motion-to-vacate standard-of-review threshold-showing |
Whether the Order of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit holding that Petitioner failed to make the threshold showing for a certi… |
| 23-7592 |
Ynedra Diggs v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruton-rule bruton-v-united-states co-defendant-statements confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-amendment fifth-circuit testimonial-evidence testimonial-statements unavailable-witnesses |
Was Ms. Diggs's constitutional right to confrontation violated? |
| 23-7594 |
Felipe Matias-Miguel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 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 |
| 23-7419 |
Warren Ledominique Davis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-analysis criminal-law due-process felony-conviction fifth-circuit firearm-possession plain-error plain-error-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether a ruling in Mr. Rahimi's favor would affect the Fifth Circuit's plain-error analysis concerning the constitutionality of § 922(g)(1) |
| 23-7421 |
Demarcus Deon Staples v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-analysis criminal-law due-process felony-conviction fifth-circuit firearm-possession plain-error plain-error-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether a ruling in Mr. Rahimi's favor would affect the Fifth Circuit's plain-error analysis concerning the constitutionality of § 922(g)(1) |
| 23-7307 |
Silvano Marroquin-Bravo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-1157 |
Robert W. Remmert v. Briar Capital Working Fund Capital, L.L.C., as Assignee of South Coast Supply Company |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11-usc-547 avoidance-action avoidance-powers bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-preference bankruptcy-sale estate-standing fifth-circuit res-nova standing statutory-powers |
Whether an avoidance action can be sold and whether the sale will confer standing on the purchaser to prosecute the avoidance action |
| 23-7192 |
In Re Lionel Davis |
|
2024-04-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-U.S.C.-§-2254 28-usc-2254 due-process federal-appellate-review fifth-circuit habeas-corpus standard-of-review successive-petition |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals failed to apply the proper standard of review in denying his motion for authorization to file a successive … |
| 23-7147 |
Margarito Cruz-Ramirez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-1078 |
Gregory Jamal Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
direct-appeal fifth-circuit gun-enhancement importation-guideline leadership-role methamphetamine-distinction sentencing-guidelines united-states-district-court united-states-sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the lower court should have remanded for the recalculation of sentencing |
| 23A880 |
Dylan Gregory Kerstetter v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-02 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certiorari criminal-procedure deadline-extension fifth-circuit jurisdictional-requirements supreme-court-rules |
Whether a criminal defendant may obtain an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari beyond the standard 90-day deadline under Supre… |
| 23-7108 |
Efren Derma-Dominguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aggravating-role application-note application-note-2 criminal-organization criminal-role fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines supervision upward-departure |
Does an aggravating role adjustment under U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 3B1.1 apply, as Application Note 2 says, only if the defendant organized or supe… |
| 23-7109 |
Edgar Garcia-Heredia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure jury-trial precedent-overruling recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23A857 |
Vinicio J. Garcia v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appeal-dismissal fifth-circuit filing-fee pro-se procedural-due-process want-of-prosecution |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals improperly dismissed a pro se prisoner's appeal for want of prosecution without providing adequate notice o… |
| 23-7027 |
John Stancu v. Hyatt Corporation/Hyatt Regency Dallas |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights district-court due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-procedure seventh-amendment standing |
Did the district court and the 5th Circuit usurped the Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution by wrongly denying Stancu's right to a jury… |
| 23-6974 |
Bartolo Damaso-Sixtos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-overruling precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-1004 |
Moises Sandoval Mendoza v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-13 |
Denied |
|
capital-punishment capital-sentencing due-process federal-court fifth-circuit habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance merits-adjudication section-2254 state-court |
Whether a federal claim is 'adjudicated on the merits' in state court under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) |
| 23-6951 |
Jesus Barron-Bautista v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial precedent-overruling sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-972 |
Angela Germaine Spencer, By and Through Next Friend and Mother of A. S., a Minor v. Harrison County, Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-06 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
children-in-court civil-procedure civil-rights detainee-rights detainees due-process fifth-circuit nonjury-proceedings shackling |
Whether the indiscriminate shackling of detainees, particularly children, in nonjury proceedings violates the Due Process Clause |
| 23-974 |
Sammy Jay Riddle v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-06 |
Denied |
|
aedpa criminal-procedure deferred-adjudication fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judgment judgment-of-conviction statute-of-limitations |
Whether the federal habeas corpus statute of limitations begins to run from the finality of a deferred adjudication order or the finality of the judgm… |
| 23-6900 |
Bryan Reshad Hill v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure federal-rules fifth-circuit jury-verdict plain-error presentence-report rosales-mireles sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Does a sentence twice that authorized by the jury's verdict constitute plain error? |
| 23-6845 |
Milton Martin Biester-Villeda v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-procedure sentencing sixth-amendment stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-6855 |
William B. Hungerford, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-deference administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation criminal-prosecution due-process EB-5-investment-program fifth-circuit regulatory-interpretation regulatory-scheme standing |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in its affirmance of Petitioner William Hungerford's conviction by failing to properly account for the devastating har… |
| 23A790 |
John Doe 1, et al. v. Harris County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
cause-of-action certiorari fifth-circuit judicial-review procedural-dismissal time-extension |
Whether the lower courts properly dismissed the Petitioner's case for failure to state a viable cause of action |
| 23-6594 |
Noemy Ramirez-Gomez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-6279 |
Ismael Robles-Perez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres almendarez-torres-precedent constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-6242 |
Francisco Mora-Carrillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial precedent-overturning sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-6245 |
Donato Lopez-Arellano v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-precedent constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-6166 |
Moses Moreira v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
application-notes criminal-activity criminal-assets fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-precedent manager-status participant-supervision sentencing-enhancement subordinate-participant supervision u-s-sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a defendant must have exercised some direction or supervision over a subordinate participant in a criminal activity to qualify for a sentencin… |
| 23-6147 |
Brett Alexander Jones v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit habeas-corpus state-courts |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals is required to issue a COA if a state high court has found a substantial showing of a denial of a constitut… |
| 23-6082 |
Cuedell Javon Henry v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
borden-precedent categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-sentencing fifth-circuit reckless-mental-state sentencing-guidelines taylor-descamps texas-robbery |
Whether the Fifth Circuit has continued to misapply Taylor and Descamps |
| 23A443 |
Brent Hebert, et al. v. FMC Technologies, Incorporated |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-16 |
Presumed Complete |
|
federal-courts fifth-circuit litigation-workload tenth-circuit time-extension writ-of-certiorari |
Whether federal courts can grant extensions of time for filing petitions for writ of certiorari based on counsel's concurrent litigation workload and … |
| 23A434 |
Ernesto L. Natividad v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certiorari extension-of-time fifth-circuit incarcerated-petitioner pro-se writ-of-habeas-corpus |
Whether a pro se incarcerated petitioner can obtain an extension of time to file a writ of certiorari when awaiting a response from the Circuit Court … |
| 23-6002 |
Justin Del Rio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review plain-error statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the District Court's imposition of a $5,000 fine under 18 U.S.C. § 3014 despite the petitioner's argument… |
| 23-447 |
Jeremy Johnson v. Andre D. Boyd |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-court-precedent civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights fifth-circuit legal-standard qualified-immunity split-second-use-of-force use-of-force |
Whether circuit court precedent can clearly establish the law for the purpose of qualified immunity analysis, and, if so, under what circumstances can… |
| 23-5848 |
In Re Naser A. Abdallah |
|
2023-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment abuse-of-discretion administrative-law appellate-review civil-rights district-court due-process equal-protection fifth-circuit identity-theft standing writ-of-prohibition |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause |
| 23-5788 |
Roberto Buendia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review davis fifth-circuit intra-circuit-conflict molina-martinez plain-error plain-error-review rosales-mireles sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the standard the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals applied for determining if the sentencing Guidelines' error in Buendia's case was 'plain' conf… |
| 23-5756 |
David Davalos, Sr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-forfeiture criminal-law due-process Fifth-Circuit forfeiture Honeycutt-v-United-States property-rights property-seizure statutory-interpretation tainted-property |
Whether Honeycutt-v-United-States-requires-limiting-forfeiture-to-tainted-property-defendant-actually-acquired |
| 23-5739 |
Daniel Ray Metsinger v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing waiver |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Metsinger's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provision in his Plea Agreement |
| 23-364 |
Nima Nazerzadeh v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process fifth-circuit plain-reading rule-of-last-antecedent sex-offender-registration statutory-construction statutory-interpretation surplusage-canon tier-classification |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit's reversal of the district court's order terminating petitioner's sex offender regist… |
| 23-5621 |
Amado Alvarez-Alvarado v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-interpretation precedent precedent-overruling sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5629 |
Rene Rigoberto Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment appellate-review constitutional-analysis criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felony-indictment fifth-circuit plain-error statutory-interpretation united-states-v-rahimi |
Whether a ruling in Mr. Rahimi's favor would affect the Fifth Circuit's plain-error analysis concerning the constitutionality of § 922(n) |
| 23A246 |
Rowland J. Martin, Jr. v. United States District Court for the Western District of Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
federal-circuit fifth-circuit judicial-review marbury-v-madison patent-applications subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the Federal Circuit or the Fifth Circuit has subject-matter jurisdiction over patent-related disputes involving abandoned but revivable patent… |
| 23-5555 |
Alfredo Garcia-Aleman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5522 |
Javier Guerra v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure drug-quantities fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentence-enhancement sentencing-enhancement strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Was the defense counsel ineffective according to the Strickland v. Washington 466 U.S. 668 (1984) precedent when failing to alert Guerra about potenti… |
| 23-5450 |
Hermenegildo Garcia-Gutierrez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5435 |
Marques Webb v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-default waiver |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Webb's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provisions in his Plea Agreement |
| 23-5340 |
Lewis Gilmore Hurst v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-discretion sentencing-errors statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit may prohibit consideration of sentencing errors under 18 USC §3582(c)(1)(A) |
| 23-5320 |
Curtis Lavon Magee v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-error waiver |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Magee's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provisions in his Plea Agreement |
| 23-5273 |
Cory Joe Barton v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit procedural-due-process rule-32 sentencing statutory-construction |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in holding that the determination of Mr. Barton's sentence did not violate his procedural due process rights? |
| 23-5261 |
Everado Joe Flores-Salcido v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres case-precedent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5245 |
Juan Leonardo Aparicio-Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5229 |
Rodolfo Hernandez Roman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5210 |
Andres Zapata-Reyes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5187 |
Juan Sepulveda-Arreola v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administration-of-justice criminal-procedure district-court federal-jurisdiction federal-law fifth-circuit minor-participant sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it conducted a cursory review of the facts related to the district court's erroneous refusal to de… |
| 23-5181 |
Rudy Alexander Ventura-Recinos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-precedent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial legal-standard sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5149 |
Javier Escalera, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-20 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-history fifth-circuit mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant is ineligible for relief from a mandatory minimum sentence if his criminal history runs afoul of any one of the disqualifying crit… |
| 23-5141 |
Alejandro Holguin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5120 |
Clim Eugene Murphy Thomas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights consensual-encounter consent-search due-process fifth-circuit law-enforcement police-encounter racial-profiling totality-of-circumstances |
Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly applied its totality-of-the-circumstances analysis by ignoring race in petitioner's confrontation |
| 23-5079 |
Genaro Perchez-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5089 |
Garland Bernell Harper v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
batson batson-challenge certificate-of-appealability equal-protection fifth-circuit habeas ineffective-assistance jury-selection peremptory-strike race-discrimination |
Does the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals' methodology for evaluating a prosecutor's facially race-neutral reasons for purposeful discrimination violate… |
| 23-5101 |
Christopher Wade v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure fifth-circuit gall-v-united-states harmless-error judicial-precedent sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-guzman-rendon |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's application of harmless error doctrine violates SCOTUS precedent |
| 23-5058 |
Gabriel Simental-Murillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5016 |
Jonathan Limbrick v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion courts-of-appeals criminal-procedure fair-and-just-reason fifth-circuit guilty-plea kercheval-v-united-states plea-withdrawal rule-11 |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in finding no abuse of discretion in denying motion to withdraw guilty plea? |
| 23-5004 |
Gregory L. Randle v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-waiver right-to-appeal waiver |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Randle's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provisions in his Plea Agreement |
| 22-7896 |
Marcelino Mendoza-Najera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-precedent constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7899 |
Enrique Lopez-Cristobal v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit legal-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7875 |
J Reyes-Carrillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-procedure statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7863 |
Osvaldo Castelan-Saucedo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-precedent court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-review sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7840 |
Cordelro Desean Shoulders v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-error waiver |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Shoulders' appeal based on the waiver of appeal provisions in his Plea Agreement |
| 22-7796 |
Jose Alfredo Perez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review case-specific-facts criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance upward-variance |
Whether a district court's mere recitation of the sentencing statute absent any application of case-specific facts is sufficient to support a five-yea… |
| 22-7713 |
Javier Giovanni Araujo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process federal-custody fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-discretion section-2255-motion |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Erred in Denying Araujo's Motion for Certificate of Appealability |
| 22-7647 |
Nicasio Nevarez-Zamudio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7653 |
Jose Carlos Gallegos-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7636 |
Jose Luis Manriquez-Gutierrez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7587 |
John Wayne Spell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review plea-agreement procedural-error waiver |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Spell's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provisions in his Plea Agreement |
| 22-1105 |
Carlo Giuseppe Civelli, et al. v. JPMorgan Chase Securities, L.L.C., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure fifth-circuit notice notice-requirement preservation sua-sponte summary-judgment trial-court |
Whether an appellate court may sua sponte raise grounds for summary judgment, which were not noticed or preserved in the trial court |
| 22-7479 |
Mario Rodolfo Chairez-Avila v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-law certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7459 |
Joseph Church v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit guilty-plea involuntary-plea notice plea-withdrawal sentencing |
Whether it is harmless error when a guilty plea is obtained in violation of due process of law |
| 22-1061 |
Jonathan B. Andry v. Lawyer Disciplinary Committee of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review attorney-discipline disciplinary-proceedings district-court due-process fifth-circuit legal-rationale quasi-criminal quasicriminal-proceedings |
Does an appellate court violate an attorney's right to due process of law when it upholds a disciplinary violation in a quasicriminal proceeding on gr… |
| 22-7444 |
Julio Gonzalez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administration-of-justice base-offense-level cocaine-possession criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing culpability culpability-assessment drug-quantity fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it conducted a cursory review of the facts |
| 22-7420 |
Jose Angel Morquecho-Sanchez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7423 |
Gilberto Marquez-Calzadilla v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7427 |
Travis Blank v. United States, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bill-of-costs civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit inmate-rights medical-care special-housing-unit standing |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in denying plaintiff's appeal for compelling him to pay the bill of costs |
| 22-1036 |
Ronda L. Cormier v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-circuit meaningful-access pro-se pro-se-appeal summary-judgment willis-v-cleco |
Did the Fifth Circuit's automatic application of Willis v. Cleco violate the pro se Petitioner's rights to equal-protection, meaningful-access-to-cour… |
| 22-7349 |
Thomas J. M. Goodin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance standing |
Whether the Fifth Circuit clearly erred by exceeding the limited scope of the COA analysis |
| 22-7319 |
Jose Manuel Salazar-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7301 |
Arturo Daniel Aranda v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
fact-finding fifth-circuit habeas habeas-corpus miranda-waiver pre-aedpa presumption-of-correctness state-court-process townsend-standard townsend-v-sain |
Whether the pre-AEDPA presumption of correctness applies whenever the state record supports the state court's finding, or whether the federal court mu… |
| 22-7259 |
Jose Manuel Cejudo-Mancinas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7260 |
Luis Alberto Escobedo-Duenas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
almendarez-torres-precedent certiorari constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review overrule sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7218 |
Jaime Tomas-Antonio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit legal-precedent precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7224 |
Trinidad Walter Encarnacion-Pascual v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-precedent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7209 |
Dylan Brando Ervey Macias-Torres v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7183 |
Manuel Camilo Ordonez-Mendoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7074 |
Christopher White v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-procedure standard-of-review supervisory-power supreme-court-precedent |
Did the Fifth Circuit's denial of a Certificate of Appealability (COA) in this case conflict with Supreme Court precedent, warranting correction by th… |
| 22-7020 |
Tiwian Laquinn Skief v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review misrepresentation procedural-error standard-of-review |
Did the Fifth Circuit misrepresent facts in this case that caused them to deny Petitioner's COA? |
| 22-6927 |
Derrick Deshon Collins v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-presumption appellate-review certiorari criminal-procedure fifth-circuit presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness within-guidelines-sentence |
How does a court of appeals determine whether a defendant has rebutted the presumption of reasonableness when the defendant is challenging the substan… |
| 22-6908 |
Eduardo Guadalupe Melendrez-Soberanes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof case-agent-testimony criminal-procedure drug-quantity drug-trafficking due-process evidence fifth-circuit photographic-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming a district court's reliance on a case agent's approximation of the weight of unseized cocaine based prima… |
| 22-6894 |
Hiking Dupre v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari civil-procedure concepcion-case due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction precedent remand supreme-court |
Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the Fifth Circuit's judgment, and remand for reconsideration in light of this Court's recent decisi… |
| 22-6873 |
Jesus Ivan Dominguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-799 |
Marie Pfau v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process employment employment-law federal-court fifth-circuit reasonable-jury sex-discrimination summary-judgment |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that a reasonable jury could not hold that the Petitioner experienced discrimination based on sex |
| 22-6823 |
Abraham Conde-Herrera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure fifth-circuit judicial-precedent recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-6826 |
Marcos Juan Martin-Andres v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-review recidivism sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-6750 |
Pascual Agustin-Basilio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-procedure sentencing sixth-amendment stare-decisis supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-756 |
Lannette Linthicum, et al. v. Robin Wayne Smith |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit medical-needs qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment summary-reversal |
Whether the Fifth Circuit manifestly departed from this Court's precedent by holding that authority that postdates the defendant's alleged acts can cl… |
| 22-6708 |
Arturo Villalobos-Franco v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-6668 |
Aaron Lyons v. Brian Ladner, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process evidence fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel insufficient-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct standing |
Question not identified |
| 22-6637 |
Roberto Francisco-Francisco v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-6493 |
Robert Keith Kinsey v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights controlled-substance criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit preponderance-of-evidence sentencing supervised-release trial-by-jury |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) unconstitutionally deprive federal supervised releasees of the right to trial by jury? |
| 22-6317 |
Normando Eligio Esquivel-Ontiveros v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-jurisdiction constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit legal-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-6309 |
Uriel Mora-Mendez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-jurisdiction constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-6303 |
Steven Riad Jalloul v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the language in a defendant's plea agreement requiring the defendant to pay 'whatever restitution is ordered' is sufficiently specific to cons… |
| 22-6289 |
Kevin Singleton v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeal-waiver constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-circuit judicial-review plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-history waiver |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Singleton's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provisions in his Plea Agreements |
| 22-6247 |
Denis Amilcar Munguia-Portales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-precedent constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial legal-challenge precedent sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-6122 |
Danny Wayne Alcoser v. Kathryne Ford, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fifth-circuit judicial-discretion rule-15 standing sua-sponte supervisory-power |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings |
| 22-6125 |
Carlos Bladimir Rodriguez-Juarez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-474 |
Laddie Huffman, et al. v. Rachel Harris |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-18 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-duties criminal-procedure detention due-process fifth-circuit mental-health qualified-immunity schizophrenic-inmate section-1983 |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in finding that the Due Process Clause imposes an obligation on county sheriffs to release a violently dangerous schiz… |
| 22-6063 |
Naomi Michelle Gutierrez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-circuit criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process fifth-circuit firearm-enhancement presumption sentencing-guidelines tools-of-the-trade |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's practice of applying a tools-of-the-trade presumption to the firearm enhancement of sentencing guidelines §2D1.1(b)(1) vio… |
| 22-6066 |
Brent Stephens v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2244 28-usc-2254 appeal appeal'\n\n'Whether the Federal Court of Appeals f appeal'\n\n'Whether the U.S. District Court Magist appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process exhaustion exhaustion'\n\n'Whether the Federal Court of Appea federal-statute fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-deference jury-trial jury-verdict magistrate-bar procedural-bar sentencing standard-of-review standard-of-review'\n\n'Whether the U.S. District trial-court-authority |
Whether the Trial Court had the authority to supplant the verdict of the jury on punishment |
| 22-6054 |
Stephen Barbee v. Bryan Collier, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment execution-chamber fifth-circuit first-amendment free-exercise prison-litigation-reform-act prison-policy religious-rights rluipa spiritual-advisor |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in vacating the injunction requiring TDCJ to publish a clear policy on religious expression in the execution chamber |
| 22-5983 |
Cordavia Daniels v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) age-consideration criminal-appeal criminal-sentencing fifth-circuit mitigating-factors sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by affirming the district court's consideration of Cordavia's age and mitigating factors |
| 22-5949 |
Oswaldo Omar Ramirez-Ortiz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5950 |
Antonio Ramirez-Juan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-review sentencing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5940 |
Hugo Villarreal-Solis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-discretion motion sentencing |
Whether it was error for the Fifth Circuit to deny Solis' motion for compassionate release? |
| 22-5879 |
Eugene Thurman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law appellate-review controlled-substance criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in deferring to the Sentencing Commission's use of commentary to expand the definition of 'controlled subst… |
| 22-370 |
Percy Utley v. City of Houston, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
5th-circuit burden-of-proof civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review pleading-standard probable-cause |
Whether the Fifth Circuit has so far departed from the accepted and usual application of the pleading standard as to require this Court's correction |
| 22-5826 |
Alonzo Peters v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-materiality brady-v-maryland conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process fifth-circuit kyles-v-whitley suppressed-evidence witness-testimony |
Whether a defendant's convictions for conspiracy and drug trafficking conspiracy must be vacated |
| 22-5827 |
Jasmine Perry and Evans Lewis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-materiality brady-v-maryland cooperating-witness due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit kyles-v-whitley materiality rico-indictment suppressed-evidence |
Can the constitutional right to due process be protected when federal courts regularly apply inconsistent and erroneous standards to determining the m… |
| 22-5833 |
Carlos Alejandro Zuniga-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administration-of-justice criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure federal-law fifth-circuit leader-organizer-role leader-role preponderance-of-evidence sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law in sentencing review |
| 22-5647 |
Jose Antonio Guerrero-Yanez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2253 appeal certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fifth-circuit first-amendment rule-60b-motion standing |
Did the Fifth Circuit misapply 28-USC-2253 by requiring a Certificate of Appealability for a Rule-60(b) motion, infringing First-Amendment and Due-Pro… |
| 22-5606 |
Jesus Guadalupe Amparano-Torres v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-precedent constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review legal-challenge sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5597 |
Bernardino Adrian Venzor-Ortega v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-precedent overrule sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5485 |
Juan Daniel Cano v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas, Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure diligence district-court due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances fifth-circuit habeas-corpus standard-of-review |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in affirming the district court's finding that the petitioner failed to show both that he pursued habeas relief diligently a… |
| 22-5467 |
Antonio B. Moore v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment amendment-violation appellate-record civil-procedure constitutional-rights fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel search-warrant |
Did the Chief Deputy District Clerk err in excepting the search warrant and return without a prior stamp file on its-face and then file it into the ap… |
| 22-5445 |
Ereby Lujan-Madrid v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5446 |
Jose Francisco Maldonado-Rosa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing waiver waiver-of-rights |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by ruling that Mr. Maldonado waived the right to appeal his sentence |
| 22-5411 |
Darnay Thibodaux v. Jon Reeves, District Administrator, Jefferson Parish District, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, Department of Probation and Parole, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review statutory-provisions |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit properly denied Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability |
| 22-5418 |
Miguel Jesus Rodriguez-Villanueva v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split criminal-sentencing discretionary-decision downward-departure fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals had appellate jurisdiction to review the district court's discretionary decision not to depart below the ad… |
| 22-153 |
Wanda Bowling v. Lester John Dahlheimer, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fifth-circuit gubernatorial-liability immunity-invocation judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct jurisdictional-overreach prosecutorial-immunity res-judicata standing |
Did the Fifth Circuit Court error by issuing a boiler plate opinion omitting any language addressing Petitioner's caselaw nullifying immunity invocati… |
| 22-5387 |
Ulises Ervey Islas-Macias v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5389 |
Antonio Molina-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit legal-review precedent recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5353 |
Ricardo Salazar-Munoz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-127 |
Abraham Moses Fisch v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-1515(c) appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights fifth-circuit impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-proceedings judicial-review prosecutorial-misconduct |
Has the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, or sanctioned… |
| 22-5234 |
Victor Manuel Duarte-Munoz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-jurisdiction constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5241 |
Silvino Vasquez-Jacinto v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-jurisdiction constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5212 |
Jonita Desirrae Brown v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review booker-standard criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plain-error plain-unreasonableness reasonableness sentencing supervised-release |
Whether appellate review of a sentence imposed after the revocation of a defendant's supervised-release term is for reasonableness or merely to see if… |
| 22-5204 |
Ramon Belducea-Mancinas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender circuit-conflict controlled-substance drug-trafficking federal-drug-conviction fifth-circuit plain-error sentencing-guidelines |
Is it obvious error to find a prior federal drug trafficking conviction is a 'controlled substance offense' under the Sentencing Guidelines when the s… |
| 22-5168 |
Rodney Mesquias v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-error jurisdiction legal-standard sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming Mesquias' convictions and sentences |
| 22-5126 |
Davis Lamar Brooks v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof civil-commitment conditional-release due-process fifth-circuit haldol-injection involuntary-medication involuntary-treatment mental-health preponderance-of-evidence standard-of-review |
whether-the-fifth-circuit-erred-by-affirming-the-district-court's-denial-of-mr-brooks'-motion-for-unconditional-release |
| 22-5084 |
Luciano Felipe-Pascual v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-precedent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial legal-challenge recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5059 |
Rodolfo Oliva-Santos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation Supreme-Court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5015 |
Devoris Lamont Jackson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act due-process fifth-circuit supreme-court-precedent texas-aggravated-robbery texas-burglary violent-felony |
Whether Jackson received due process |
| 22-5018 |
Michael Allen Long v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure fifth-circuit jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-error standard-of-review waiver |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by finding that Mr. Long's appeal should be dismissed based on the waiver of appeal provision in his Plea Agreement |
| 22-5003 |
Ernesto Villalobos-Marquez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5004 |
Eduardo Pena-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8214 |
Miguel Andres-Tomas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Apprendi-v-New-Jersey constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial precedent-review recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8196 |
Cody Andrew Anderson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review booker-standard criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plain-error plain-unreasonable reasonableness sentencing supervised-release |
Whether appellate review of a sentence imposed after the revocation of a defendant's supervised-release term is for reasonableness or merely to see if… |
| 21-8149 |
Jesus Rodriguez-Castro v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres constitutional-law criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit overruling-precedent rodriguez-castro statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent united-states writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8158 |
Larry Jose Torrez-Gutierrez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing sixth-amendment stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-1555 |
Derek Allen, et al. v. Vertafore, Incorporated |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights disclosure driver-privacy-protection-act driver's-privacy-protection-act due-process fifth-circuit motor-vehicle-record personal-information public-records standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in finding that the petitioners' allegation that the respondent exposed their DPPA-protected personal information to p… |
| 21-1558 |
John Curtis Dewberry v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Divisions |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-14 |
Denied |
|
aedpa certificate-of-appealability death-penalty district-court evidentiary-hearing fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel minor-sentencing |
Whether the United States District Court For The Eastern District Of Texas erred in denying Petitioner Dewberry a Certificate of Appealability |
| 21-8100 |
Luis Antonio Molina-Rivas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8101 |
Marco Antonio Marin-Maldonado v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres certiorari constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8102 |
Rodrigo Jimenez-Ramirez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres certiorari constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8072 |
Erik Daniel Salgado-Castellano v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres appellate-procedure case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8055 |
In Re Shane Jeansonne |
|
2022-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-procedure pro-se pro-se-petition rules-of-interpretation section-2255 standing |
Writ of Mandamus |
| 21-8058 |
Alejandro Pascual-Miguel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review legal-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8059 |
Jesus Morales-Agustin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-1517 |
Bridgette Jacobs v. Walgreen Company |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
and the Texas Medicaid Fraud Prevention Act ("TMF civil-procedure false-claims-act fifth-circuit materiality medicaid-fraud pleading-requirements pleading-standards rule-9(b) statutory-interpretation texas-medicaid-fraud-prevention-act |
Whether the Fifth Circuit correctly interpreted Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b)'s pleading requirements as applied to The False Claims Act, 31 U.… |
| 21-8017 |
Stephen Scott Meals, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure district-court due-process exclusionary-rule federal-law fifth-circuit judicial-review motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure standing |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of the defendant's motion to suppress |
| 21-8024 |
Demarcus Antonio Taylor v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-claim due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-bar standing |
Did the panel of the Fifth Circuit err by deciding the merit of an appeal not properly before the Court to justify the denial of a Certificate of Appe… |
| 21-7995 |
Joseph Kurz v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ex-post-facto fifth-circuit fourteenth-amendment reasonable-jurists sixth-amendment |
Whether reasonable jurists would determine there was sufficient evidence to support convictions |
| 21-7974 |
Omero Rojas-Leal, aka Belarmino Lopez-Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7960 |
Jesus Antonio Montoya-Balderrama v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres-precedent certiorari constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7962 |
Jimmie Spratt v. Timothy Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure direct-appeal district-court due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review lozada-precedent lozada-v-deeds |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying a certificate of appealability, which deprives the petitioner of a direct appeal from the … |
| 21-7915 |
Amado Rodriguez-Navarrete v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit precedent-review recidivism sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7918 |
Jaime Gonzalo Castiblanco Cabalcante v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit harmless-error jury-deliberations jury-instructions knowledge-element |
Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in finding that Castiblaneo failed to state a valid claim of the denial of a constitutional right? |
| 21-1460 |
Cynthia Sue Mary, et al. v. QEP Energy Company, fka Questar Exploration & Production Company |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-18 |
Denied |
|
continuing-trespass disgorgement-of-profits federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fifth-circuit louisiana-law oil-and-gas-pipelines summary-judgment trespassing-pipelines |
Did the Fifth Circuit erroneously fail to determine and apply the substantive law of Louisiana with respect to 'disgorgement of profits' from trespass… |
| 21-1442 |
In Re Adriano Kruel Budri |
|
2022-05-16 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure brief-dismissal civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-litigation timely-filing |
Did the Panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit err by dismissing for want of prosecution a pending Appellant's Opening Brief filed i… |
| 21-1439 |
Jairus Collins v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process fifth-circuit mississippi speedy-trial statutory-construction supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred in denying a Certificate of Appealability |
| 21-7852 |
Fernando Salazar-Figueroa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administration-of-justice appellate-review criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law fifth-circuit mitigating-role sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it conducted a cursory review of the facts related to a warranted mitigating role adjustment under… |
| 21-7837 |
Cedric D. Burns v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-process buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process extension-of-time fifth-circuit judicial-procedure motion-for-rehearing standing |
Did the panel of the Fifth Circuit err by deciding the merit of an appeal not properly before the court |
| 21-7813 |
Hector Cervantes-Resendiz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit precedent-review sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7786 |
Ignacio Trevizo-Cortez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-jurisdiction constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7721 |
Juan Francisco Cruz-Mora v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres certiorari constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7723 |
Freddie Galan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit guilty-plea ineffective-assistance judicial-review plea-bargaining rule-11 supreme-court-review |
Whether Mr. Galan's guilty plea to facts which do not constitute a conspiracy offense as a matter of law is an invalid and unintelligent guilty plea w… |
| 21-7725 |
Jeffrey Ndungi Sila v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appointed-counsel criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-proceedings plain-error plain-error-standard pro-se-motion summary-affirmance waiver |
Whether the Fifth Circuit proceedings in petitioner's case so departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings as to call for this … |
| 21-7702 |
Marvin Lewis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process fifth-circuit presentence-investigation-report sentencing-enhancement supervisory-powers |
Whether the decision of the Fifth Circuit conflicts with Supreme Court precedent on sentencing enhancements |
| 21-7706 |
Irving Ernesto Arias v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process fifth-circuit guilty-plea motion-to-withdraw plea-bargaining sentencing |
Did the district court err in denying the defendant's motion to withdraw his guilty plea? |
| 21-7621 |
Jose Miguel Perez-Vides v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7622 |
Alejandro Medina-Rios v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7612 |
Jose Luis Aldaba-Roman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial sentencing Supreme-Court writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7598 |
Irvin Garces v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administration-of-justice criminal-procedure drug-offense exceptional-importance federal-law fifth-circuit minor-role sentencing-guidelines |
whether-the-fifth-circuit-violated-federal-law |
| 21-7503 |
Lucas Victorino-Tista v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-1280 |
In Re J. Cory Cordova |
|
2022-03-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-authority fifth-circuit full-faith-and-credit improper-removal judicial-removal procedural-fairness removal subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the Fifth Circuit exceeded its constitutional and appellate authority |
| 21-7291 |
Bonifacio Eduardo Trujillo-Gutierrez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres certiorari constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7256 |
Clemente Rosales-Sanchez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7258 |
Fernando Contreras-Rojas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres certiorari constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7196 |
Luis Alonso Ramirez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres certiorari criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7174 |
Inocencio Gamboa-Rivera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-precedent constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit legal-review sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7147 |
Sergio Alberto Arzate-Gameroz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-precedent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review overrule sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7149 |
Pedro Romero-Sandoval v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-1115 |
In Re Wanda Bowling |
|
2022-02-11 |
Denied |
|
abuse-of-discretion appellate-court appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-mandate due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction mandamus petition-for-review |
Is the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal's deliberate refusal to adjudicate appealed issues a failure to execute duties or abuse of discretion? |
| 21-7094 |
Gustavo Guillermo Gutierrez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Apprendi-v-New-Jersey constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial precedent-review recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7074 |
Benny Dennis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process fifth-circuit guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining standing supreme-court-precedent |
Did the panel of the Fifth Circuit err by deciding the merit of an appeal not properly before the Court to justify the denial of a certificate of appe… |
| 21-7032 |
Adrian Hunt v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2d1.1(b)(1) 5th-circuit criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit firearm-enhancement sentencing-guidelines tools-of-the-trade tools-of-the-trade-presumption |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's practice of applying a tools-of-the-trade presumption to the firearm enhancement of sentencing guidelines §2D1.1(b)(1) vio… |
| 21-6951 |
Jacob Allen Adair v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-analysis categorical-matching civil-procedure descamps-ruling due-process fifth-circuit generic-offense generic-offenses state-offenses taylor-precedent taylor-v-united-states united-states-v-descamps |
Whether—in contravention of this Court's precedent and every other circuit—the Fifth Circuit's approach allowing for variations between a given offens… |
| 21-6947 |
Rayshawn J. Christmas, aka Rayshaun J. Christmas v. Jeff Jackson, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-law fifth-circuit jurisdiction mandamus qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity standing |
Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying the appellants writ of mandamus |
| 21-6918 |
Robert Rodriguez Trevino v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process fifth-circuit inmate-rights liberty-interest medical-condition medical-supervision parole parole-review tex-gov-code-508.146 texas-criminal-procedure texas-department-of-criminal-justice |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has departed from the accepted course of judicial proceedings |
| 21-6887 |
Sergio Rodriguez-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-6901 |
Wilbert Mathes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-counsel certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure drug-quantity drug-quantity-enhancement evidentiary-hearing fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel leadership-enhancement sentencing sentencing-errors |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability |
| 21-6846 |
Juan Jose Reynoso v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review mitigation-evidence prejudice sixth-circuit supervisory-power tenth-circuit trial-counsel |
Whether the Fifth Circuit has departed from the accepted course of judicial proceedings |
| 21-6833 |
Jason Lee Sarabia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure double-jeopardy evidence-standard fifth-circuit jury-conviction jury-instructions lesser-included-offenses multiplicity |
Do convictions of greater and lesser-included offenses violate the Double Jeopardy Clause when the prosecution uses the same evidence to obtain both c… |
| 21-6812 |
Manuel Gerardo Velasquez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability district-court-hearing due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Lafler-v-Cooper life-sentence |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in refusing to grant a certificate of appealability when the record showed Velasquez received ineffective assistance o… |
| 21-6762 |
Karina Lizett Juarez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administration-of-justice criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-criminal-law federal-law fifth-circuit mitigating-role sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's review of the facts related to a mitigating adjustment under U.S.S.G. § 3B1.2 violated federal law |
| 21-962 |
In Re Whole Woman's Health, et al. |
|
2022-01-04 |
Denied |
|
abortion civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure mandamus remand standing texas writ-of-certiorari |
Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the court of appeals to remand the case to the district court without delay |
| 21-950 |
Ker'Sean Olajuwa Ramey v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-29 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-2254 batson-claim batson-v-kentucky certificate-of-appealability fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance martinez-trevino peremptory-strike racial-bias |
In rejecting Ramey's claim for relief under Batson v. Kentucky, did the Fifth Circuit decide an important federal question in a way that conflicts wit… |
| 21-6732 |
Julio Cesar Cardenas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
castro-v-united-states civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus mandates nonfrivolous-claims notice-and-opportunity procedural-rule slack-v-mcdaniel supreme-court supreme-court-mandate |
Has the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals effectively established a procedural rule to efface, abridge, or abrogate the Supreme Court's mandate(s), notic… |
| 21-6703 |
Joshua Cumberland v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254 actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court fifth-circuit habeas-corpus statutory-provisions timeliness |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit properly denied petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability |
| 21-6670 |
Eric Beverly v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administration-of-justice bank-robbery beyond-reasonable-doubt criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit jury-conviction standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the appeals court conducted an adequate review of facts and evidence upon which the jury reached its decision to convict |
| 21-6572 |
Jose Luis Ramos-Ramos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-6582 |
Genaro Alberto Nunez-Ugarte v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-precedent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-6454 |
Kyle Leroy Myers v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conversion criminal-sentencing fifth-circuit guidelines narcotics supervisory-powers |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit conflicts with decisions of this Court on an important matter and thu… |
| 21-6480 |
Francisco C. Martinez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit judicial-interpretation ninth-circuit prisoner-rights sandin-v-conner |
Whether the district court and the court of appeals for the Fifth Circuit misapplied the Supreme Court's decision of Sandin v. Conner, 515 U.S. 472 (1… |
| 21-6403 |
Garland Guillory v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
application-note commentary controlled-substance-offense district-court-discretion fifth-circuit inchoate-offenses kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines u.s.-sentencing-commission |
Whether a district court may rely on commentary in the U.S. Sentencing Commission's Guidelines Manual to determine a defendant's Guidelines range for … |
| 21-6374 |
Howard Paul Guidry v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause confrontation-rights exculpatory-evidence fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default racial-discrimination |
Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly addressed the merits of the habeas claims |
| 21-6295 |
Jmarreon Mack v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law appellate-review attempt controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense deference fifth-circuit judicial-deference sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in deferring to the Sentencing Commission's use of commentary to expand the definition of 'controlled subst… |
| 21-6145 |
Omar Sanchez-Barrera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review certiorari constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent sentencing supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-6155 |
Jose Burciaga-Alcantar v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-6124 |
Saul Contreras-Roman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-6131 |
Jose Alfredo Gonzalez-Mares v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-5957 |
Manuela Villa de Morales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-v-kentucky civil-rights fifth-circuit jury-selection racial-discrimination supervisory-powers |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed the decision of the United States Magistrate Judge denying M… |
| 21-5907 |
In Re Matthew James Leachman |
|
2021-10-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights court-of-appeals discrimination due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit judicial-conduct judicial-ethics legal-review procedural-compliance |
Whether the Honorable Priscilla R. Owen, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, failed to comply with the mandatory … |
| 21-5848 |
Zackie Thomas Reed, IV v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
black-v-romano criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit narcotics narcotics-violation preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-standard revocation supervised-release |
Whether the preponderance of the evidence standard utilized by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in a supervised release revoca… |
| 21-444 |
Andre Lee Thomas v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-22 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (22) |
aedpa-deference capital-punishment fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-bias racial-bias schizophrenia supreme-court-precedent voir-dire |
Denial of constitutional rights to impartial jury and effective assistance of counsel |
| 21-5715 |
Ronald George Whitehouse v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof co-defendant criminal-procedure drug-offenses drug-quantity due-process fifth-circuit probation-officer reversible-error sentencing |
Whether the district court committed reversible error in holding the petitioner responsible for 10 kilos of methamphetamine based on the probation off… |
| 21-5735 |
Juan Manuel Lira-Salinas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-production burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process fifth-circuit sentencing |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's practice of shifting the burden of production and proof to the defendant at sentencing violates a defendant's Due Process … |
| 21-366 |
Michael Jones v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-intent criminal-prosecution due-process expert-testimony fifth-circuit fraud medicare-fraud medicare-regulations sufficiency-of-evidence |
Are the Medicare rules, regulations, and policies controlling in a criminal prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 1347 |
| 21-367 |
Paula Jones v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-intent due-process expert-testimony fifth-circuit medicare-fraud medicare-rules prosecutorial-misconduct sufficiency-of-evidence |
Questions Presented |
| 21-345 |
Manpreet Singh v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
collateral-attack counsel due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-remedy restitution writ-of-error-coram-nobis |
Is there no avenue for a collateral attack on a restitution award that was the result of ineffective assistance of counsel? |
| 21-5546 |
Fernando Rodriguez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
conflict-of-interest counsel-switching due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-review ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-ethics state-court state-legislature |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in deferring to the state court's ruling that Mr. Rodriguez was not prejudiced by his counsel switching sides in the s… |
| 21-5514 |
Diandra Marie Harvey v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-30 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3553(f) constructive-possession discretionary-review fifth-circuit firearm supervisory-powers |
Whether the decision of the Fifth Circuit conflicts with decisions of this Court on an eligibility for safety-valve reduction |
| 21-5411 |
Jerome Skee Smith v. Timothy Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence aedpa due-process equitable-tolling fifth-circuit habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations successive-petition |
Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err when it dismissed Jerome Smith's successive §2254 petition as untimely without considering his McQuiggin ac… |
| 21-5234 |
Melquiades Galvez-Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-5241 |
Jose Lazaro Venancio Mendoza-Batres v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-5219 |
Bryan James Collins v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process evidence federal-statute fifth-circuit sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Fifth Circuit wrongly affirmed Collins's conviction |
| 21-5172 |
Mayra Vanessa Gandara Escarcega v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-procedure sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-5174 |
Domingo Cruz-Miguel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-5175 |
Alfredo Jesus Chavez-Portillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-5158 |
Miguel Angel Berdeja-Medina v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing sixth-amendment stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-5096 |
Jaime Martinez-Rojas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-5072 |
Roque Saenz-Quintela v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-19 |
Christopher Sullivan v. Texas A&M University System |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
eleventh-amendment federal-funding federal-funds fifth-circuit human-rights-act sovereign-immunity state-entity state-immunity texas-commission-on-human-rights-act texas-labor-code-chapter-21 waiver-of-immunity |
Whether the Fifth Circuit correctly interpreted that a State Entity who receives Federal funds waives its Eleventh Amendment Immunity from the Texas C… |
| 21-5043 |
Carlos Amador Saragoza-Botello v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-5019 |
Noe Perez v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-question fifth-circuit judicial-disagreement nevada-supreme-court ninth-circuit reasonable-jurists seventh-circuit |
Did the Ninth Circuit clearly err when it denied Mr. Perez's request for a COA even though three reasonable jurists on Nevada's highest court already … |
| 21-5029 |
Antonio Domingo-Morales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-1777 |
Willard Hall v. Edward Bickham, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-24 |
Denied |
|
6th-amendment community-representation due-process effective-assistance fair-cross-section fair-trial fifth-circuit impartial-jury jury-composition probable-cause |
Whether the petitioner was deprived of his right to a fair and impartial trial due to his jury not representing a fair cross-section of his community |
| 20-8325 |
Francisco Javier Bermudez-Chavez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-1681 |
Shelton Barnes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-intent due-process fair-trial fifth-circuit medicare-billing obstruction obstruction-statute rule-of-lenity sufficiency-of-evidence |
Does the Panel Decision conflict with its own authority and other circuit court decisions? |
| 20-8197 |
Samuel Earl Smith v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure defendant-role fifth-circuit leader-organizer leadership-enhancement sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's holding that Mr. Smith was a leader or organizer under the United States Sentencing Guidelines evidences a circuit split |
| 20-8033 |
Ivan Ignacio Minjarez-Molina v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-7983 |
Thomas Lam v. Robert C. Tanner, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-plea criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus henderson-v-morgan judicial-error jury-instructions plea-bargaining standard-of-review voir-dire |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in denying a request for COA on an important question of federal law regarding the trial judge's incorrect explanation of th… |
| 20-7931 |
Oscar Segura-Resendez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal constitutional-due-process due-process ex-post-facto fifth-circuit guidelines harmless-error post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-retroactivity |
Whether violation of the ex post facto clause of the U.S. Constitution is harmless if the specific definition of the conduct was done by the court |
| 20-7884 |
Roel Gilberto Melendez-Davila v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-7829 |
Edmundo Bustamante-Muniz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-04-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment fifth-circuit precedent-overturning sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-7788 |
Alexander Olivieri v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-04-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-law fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan procedural-bar trevino-v-thaler |
Is the Fifth Circuit effectively overturning the Supreme Court and its own rulings in not granting Olivieri a Certificate of Appealability? |
| 20-7731 |
Rodney Bernard Allen v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-04-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act bodily-injury certificate-of-appealability elements-clause fifth-circuit johnson-rule reckless-conduct successive-habeas-petition successive-motion texas-penal-code texas-robbery |
Whether Texas robbery under Tex. Penal Code § 29.02(a) is categorically violent under the ACCA's elements clause |
| 20-7678 |
Roshawn Deon Joiner, aka Shon Joiner v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-04-08 |
GVR |
IFP |
18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i) encompass crimes with armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause criminal-statute fifth-circuit mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation supreme-court use-of-force-clause |
Does the 'use of force' clause in the Armed Career Criminal Act (the 'ACCA) |
| 20-7690 |
Jon Terrance Winzer v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus procedural-review section-2254 standing |
Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal err in allowing the Western District Court to deny his 28 U.S.C. Sec. 2254 petition as being improperly filed? |
| 20-7646 |
Kennis Earl Gatson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-04-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence district-court due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit habeas-corpus procedural-bar schlup-exception schlup-v-delo standard-of-review |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in deferring to the district court finding that petitioner's Schlup v. Delo exception to overcome the procedural bar was not… |
| 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 |
| 20-7472 |
David Maurice Milner v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction reconsideration rule-59-motion section-2255 successive-motions |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability |
| 20-7255 |
Samuel Zubia-Olivas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial precedent sentencing Supreme-Court writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-7128 |
Teodoro Reynosa-Denova v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-procedure sentencing stare-decisis supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-7112 |
Hector Miguel Martinez-Carrillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-1037 |
Wanda Bowling v. John Roach |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-29 |
Denied |
|
11th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights court-conflict due-process fifth-circuit judicial-immunity judicial-precedent legal-remedy prefiling-injunction standing vexatious-litigant |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's panel's opinion is in direct conflict with its own previous decisions, other U.S. Court of Appeals, and with the U.S. Supr… |
| 20-6973 |
Tommy Demond Fannin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assault criminal-procedure cross-reference district-court due-process fifth-circuit firearm-possession sentencing-guidelines |
Did the district court err when it imposed a cross-reference under U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual § 2K2.1(c)(1) without a connection between the po… |
| 20-6917 |
Frank McAfee v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure counsel-performance fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance insufficient-record legal-standard procedural-dismissal sixth-amendment specific-objection strategic-reasons |
Did the Fifth Circuit fail to follow its own law and that of other circuits when it dismissed Mr. McAfee's appeal alleging ineffective assistance beca… |
| 20-6921 |
Elier Isai Marquez-Gonzalez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure empirical-basis fifth-circuit illegal-reentry presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a presumption of reasonableness on appeal does not apply to a sentence produced by the illegal reentry guideline, §2L1.2, because that guideli… |
| 20-6789 |
Lilia Abril Olmedo-Perez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administration-of-justice appellate-review criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-law fifth-circuit minor-role sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it conducted a cursory review of the facts related to a warranted two-level adjustment under U.S.S… |
| 20-6786 |
Erica Yvonne Sheppard v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-05 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2254 batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection mitigation-evidence section-2254 wilson-v-sellers |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's application of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) survives Wilson v. Sellers and whether the court must consider the impact of all mitiga… |
| 20-6768 |
Quentin Watson v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-evaluation petition-review standing |
Whether the United States District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana and Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied clearly established law in evalu… |
| 20-6738 |
Lisa Yvette Coffman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-intent criminal-law embezzlement federal-statute fifth-circuit fraud plain-error-review statutory-interpretation substantial-rights |
Does the first paragraph of 18 U.S.C. § 641 set out separate offenses or different means of committing one offense? |
| 20-852 |
Shaquere Myleshia Gray, Co-Administratrix of the Estate of Gregory Tremaine Miller, et al. v. Alabama Great Southern Railroad Company |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process employer-liability federal-courts fela fifth-circuit labor-law legal-interpretation statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit has deviated from established Supreme Court precedent under the Federal Employers Liability Act (FELA… |
| 20-6687 |
William James Jonas, III v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-appointed-counsel due-process fifth-circuit pro-se right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-hearing sixth-amendment substitute-counsel |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that the district court did not violate Petitioner William James Jonas, III's right to cou… |
| 20-6699 |
Juan David Pineda-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-procedure sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-6692 |
Juan Manuel Lopez-Canales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-6656 |
Jose Armando Bazan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure davis-v-united-states fifth-circuit plain-error role-adjustment sentencing |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in refusing to review an unpreserved factual argument for plain error |
| 20-6658 |
Michael Brent Brown v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-petition fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prisoner-rights procedural-grounds statute-of-limitations |
Whether the courts erred in denying relief and review on procedural grounds |
| 20-6631 |
Aaron Sebastian Redmond v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-sentencing constitutional-law district-court-discretion due-process federal-sentencing fifth-circuit guidelines-error harmless-error sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's rule that a Guidelines error is harmless if the district court states it would have imposed the same sentence regardless o… |
| 20-6609 |
Salvador Moreno Cervantes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 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… |
| 20-744 |
Michael Wigginton, Jr. v. The University of Mississippi, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established-right due-process fifth-circuit hope-v-pelzer qualified-immunity state-actors supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's grant of qualified immunity to the state actors named in the instant matter was violative of Supreme Court precedent estab… |
| 20-6463 |
Alex Murillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-6452 |
Michael Deshawn Homer v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu case-remand certiorari constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond |
Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo… |
| 20-6424 |
Deloyd Jones v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-conflict common-purpose criminal-enterprise drug-distribution fifth-circuit legal-interpretation rico rico-statute shared-profits statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Is concerted criminal activity by individuals within a group sufficient to establish an 'enterprise' under RICO even if there is no evidence of shared… |
| 20-6399 |
Duwayne Jones v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense eleventh-circuit fifth-circuit florida-statute-§-893.13 mens-rea second-circuit sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-§-4b1.2(b) |
Is a post-2002 conviction for possession of cocaine with intent to deliver or sell, in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13, a 'controlled substance offen… |
| 20-6327 |
Terry Charles Carroll v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plea-bargaining standard-of-review supervisory-powers supreme-court |
Whether the standard of review on a motion to withdraw a guilty plea conflicts with Supreme Court precedent |
| 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? |
| 20-558 |
Jon D. Adams v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
26-usc-6404e case-law fifth-circuit interest-abatement judicial-review lee-v-commissioner statutory-interpretation tax-abatement tax-law tax-procedure |
Whether the Taxpayer was entitled to interest abatement under 26 U.S.C.A. § 6404(e) |
| 20-6042 |
Barry Lynn Bailey v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond |
Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo… |
| 20-6047 |
Ramada Tajedeen Shabazz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent remand sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond |
Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo… |
| 20-6004 |
Jconcepcion Alonso-Tobar v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-5998 |
Kevin Ray Prentice v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-analysis civil-rights criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit least-culpable-act mellouli-v-lynch predicate state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Fifth Circuit ignored this Court's authority and misapplied the categorical analysis by failing to consider the least-culpable act covered… |
| 20-5940 |
Sabrina Alexander Weightman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond writ-of-certiorari |
Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo… |
| 20-5906 |
Demetrius Barber v. James Burke, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights court-filing direct-appeal due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit judicial-procedure procedural-error standing |
Where does the petitioner have standing to bring this case before the U.S. Supreme Court? |
| 20-5851 |
John Christopher Badgett v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness united-states-v-haymond |
Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo… |
| 20-5853 |
Ubaldo Gabriel Acosta-Leyva v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-guidelines drug-offense due-process empirical-basis fifth-circuit presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a sentence produced by the drug guideline, §2D1.1, is not entitled to a presumption of reasonableness on appeal |
| 20-5750 |
Chester Alan Staples v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit err in denying my motion (Stanles) for a Certificate of Appealability? |
| 20-5738 |
Willie Hugh Washington v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu 139-S-Ct-2369 certiorari constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit sentence-vacatur sentencing united-states-v-haymond |
Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo… |
| 20-5711 |
David Smith-Garcia, fka David Garwood Atwood, II v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plain-error-review sentencing supervised-release |
Whether the district court erred by ordering two terms of imprisonment to run consecutive in the subject third supervised release revocation proceedin… |
| 20-5712 |
Marcus Vernell Coleman v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance new-trial prejudice right-of-confrontation strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Did the federal Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal apply the correct legal standard in accordance to Strickland's prejudicial prong when petitioner(s) righ… |
| 20-5692 |
Johnathon Nico Wise v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure error-preservation federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-circuit judgment-of-acquittal legal-motion preservation-of-error rule-29 standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether specific grounds must be identified in a Rule 29 motion for judgment of acquittal to preserve error? |
| 20-5609 |
In Re Gary Wayne Barnes |
|
2020-09-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights dna-evidence due-process federal-statute fifth-circuit habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief state-court-conviction |
Can the claim of Actual innocence be reviewed under a petition for HABEAS CORPUS ON PETITION FOR EXTRAORDANATY WRIT pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241 and 2… |
| 20-5590 |
Manuel Chacon-Lara v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process fast-track fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-court-of-appeals ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pre-trial-proceedings pre-trial-stage sentence-reduction sentencing |
Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in determining there was no 'Substantial Showing of Denial of a Constitutional Right' when Chacon-Lara argu… |
| 20-263 |
Nanette Blanchard-Daigle, Representative of the Estate of Lyle Blanchard v. Shane Geers, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-02 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fifth-circuit law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by overlooking precedent in determining whether an officer enjoys qualified immunity after applying deadly excessive f… |
| 20-5543 |
Javier Galindo-Caballero v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-precedent sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-5516 |
Joseph Peter Garbarini v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-court district-court double-jeopardy due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-disagreement procedural-bar |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in denying a certificate of appealability on a double jeopardy claim |
| 20-5470 |
German Milla-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-overturning precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-5423 |
Edwin Jassiel Peralta-Castro v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-proceedings pre-trial-stage sentencing-exposure |
Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in determining there was no 'Substantial Showing of Denial of a Constitutional Right' — Failure to Explain … |
| 20-5432 |
Michael James Barnes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court fifth-circuit habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states plea-agreement plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief post-conviction-waiver section-2255-petition sentencing |
Whether the post-conviction waiver in plea agreement bars relief in Johnson-related § 2255 petition |
| 20-5437 |
Wendell Taylor v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court fifth-circuit habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states plea-agreement plea-bargaining post-conviction-waiver section-2255-petition sentencing |
Whether the post-conviction waiver in Mr. Taylor's Plea Agreement bars him from the relief sought in his Johnson-related § 2255 Petition |
| 20-5376 |
Alfredo Estrada-Eugenio, aka Alfredo Erasto Estrada-Eugenio, aka Juan Eugenio Medina, aka Alfredo Estarada, aka Alfredo Eugenio-Estrada, aka Alfredo Estrada, aka Gerardo Amezquita v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-5319 |
Juan Carlos Avila-Gonzalez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights compelled-speech competence-to-waive counsel-investigation due-process fifth-circuit free-exercise free-speech ineffective-assistance medical-history public-accommodations |
Whether the First Amendment prohibits the government from requiring individuals to engage in speech that violates their sincerely held religious belie… |
| 20-5292 |
Ashvinbhai Chaudhari v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-plea criminal-procedure downward-departure fifth-circuit involuntary-plea judicial-procedure plea-bargain plea-bargaining restitution supervisory-powers |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial pr… |
| 20-5250 |
Oscar Armando Avila-Jaimes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 andrus-precedent evidentiary-hearing fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Should a writ of certiorari be granted since the Fifth Circuit's decision in not remanding to the lower court was contrary to precedent of this court … |
| 20-5219 |
Binh Nguyen v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review remand sentence-vacatur sentencing united-states-v-haymond |
Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo… |
| 20-5227 |
Jesus Hernandez-Medrano v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process empirical-basis fifth-circuit illegal-reentry presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a presumption of reasonableness on appeal does not apply to a sentence produced by the illegal reentry guideline, §2L1.2, because that guideli… |
| 20-5191 |
Joshua Edwards v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process elements-of-crime elements-of-offense fifth-circuit jury-instructions trial-defense |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit err when it held that the district court's failure to instruct the jury on the elements o… |
| 20-5056 |
George Cortez, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent remand sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo… |
| 20-5019 |
Raul Barrera-Velasquez, aka Raul V. Barrera, aka Raul Velasquez Barrera, aka Raul Velasquez-Barrera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing due-process enhancement equal-protection fifth-circuit parole sentencing sentencing-enhancement u.s.s.g-2l1.2 |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in rejecting Barrera's claim that the District Court's sentence violated constitutional principles of… |
| 19-8790 |
Christina Ann Whichard v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond |
Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo… |
| 19-8655 |
Milton Barrios-Alvarado v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial overrule petition sentencing supreme-court writ |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 19-8523 |
Christian James v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split due-process fifth-circuit government-promise obstruction-of-justice sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-justice united-states-sentencing-guidelines writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals opinion rejecting James's claim that the Government made an implied promise that any obstruction of justice… |
| 19-8503 |
Darieus Malik Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administration-of-justice criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court fact-intensive-inquiry federal-criminal-cases fifth-circuit prostitution-enhancement review-standard sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Did the Fifth Circuit's cursory review of the district court's record lead to an illegal, unreasonable sentence |
| 19-8428 |
Marc Wyatt v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-05-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
appointment-of-counsel constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-market-value fifth-circuit legal-counsel replacement-cost right-to-self-representation self-representation |
Was the appointment of counsel valid? |
| 19-8280 |
Jesus Jaime Jimenez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-04-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus jurisdiction lack-of-jurisdiction statutory-window |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in not allowing Petitioner his rights to bring his complaint of 'Lack of Jurisdiction', under a §2254 Writ of Habeas Corpus,… |
| 19-8255 |
Emilio Medina-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 19-8171 |
Carolyn R. Dawson v. Bank of New York Mellon, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment circuit-split claim-preclusion constitutional-due-process due-process fifth-circuit issue-preclusion jurisdiction jurisdictional-dispute |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that it lacks jurisdiction to adjudicate preclusion order disputes |
| 19-8128 |
Bobby Joe Buckner v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-circuit implied-bias standard-of-review |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in its application of the implied bias doctrine by stating that this case is outside the 'extreme genre of cases' to warrant… |
| 19-8129 |
Charles Ben Bounds v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal bounds-case court-of-appeals criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jurisdiction legal-review sentence-enhancement sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the application of Sentence Enhancement |
| 19-8103 |
Ramiro Rubi Ibarra v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-sentencing double-edged-evidence federal-judicial-review fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel judicial-review sixth-amendment texas-law |
Whether the Fifth Circuit failed to ensure meaningful federal judicial review of a substantial Sixth Amendment claim |
| 19-8019 |
Efrain Sifuentes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
resulting in an unreasonable sentence appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines unreasonable-sentence |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit improperly condone the District Court's error in applying the United States Sentencing Gu… |
| 19-8020 |
Walter Freeman Jordan, III v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting criminal-procedure evidence-admission federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence fifth-circuit harmless-error hearsay hearsay-evidence standard-of-review |
Did the admission of the unrefuted inadmissible hearsay evidence constitute harmful error |
| 19-1121 |
Guadalupe A. Welsh v. Fort Bend Independent School District |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-code adverse-action adverse-employment-action civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process employment-discrimination fifth-circuit retaliation teacher-discipline texas-education-code title-vii |
Is the Fifth Circuit's restrictive 'ultimate adverse employment action' doctrine in conflict with Title VII protections? |
| 19-7914 |
Lucas James Moss v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent remand sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond |
Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo… |
| 19-7931 |
Nancy Arlene Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-appeal criminal-procedure-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment fifth-circuit government-misconduct methamphetamine-conspiracy miranda-rights sentencing-guidelines substantial-assistance supreme-court unconstitutional-motive |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the defendant's sentence by concluding there was no unconstitutional motive for the government's failure … |
| 19-7903 |
Alfred Brown v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-09 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent remand sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond |
Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo… |
| 19-1087 |
Charles M. Hallinan v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-03-05 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure criminal-intent fifth-circuit mens-rea rico rico-act-1962-c rico-statute scienter second-circuit second-fifth-eleventh-circuits third-circuit unlawful-debt wire-fraud |
Whether a person violates 18 U.S.C. § 1962(c) by simply knowing an enterprise is collecting a debt that is separately determined to be unlawful |
| 19-1093 |
Aleashia Clarkston, et al. v. John White |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit government-officials legal-standard qualified-immunity section-1983 standing takings |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in holding that there is a second type of qualified immunity—that government officials are also entitled to qualified immuni… |
| 19-7771 |
Christopher Benjamin Blanton v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond |
Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo… |
| 19-7790 |
Brenda Mason, Individually and on Behalf of Quamaine Dwayne Mason, et vir v. Martin Faul |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (6)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fifth-circuit objective-reasonableness police-misconduct qualified-immunity standing use-of-force |
Whether a finding of 'objectively unreasonable excessive force' can be squared with a finding of qualified immunity |
| 19-1042 |
Euince J. Winzer, Individually and on Behalf of the Statutory Beneficiaries of Gabriel A. Winzer v. Kaufman County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fifth-circuit law-enforcement qualified-immunity |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's qualified immunity analysis sets a dangerous precedent for the Civil Rights Act, exposing flaws in the Supreme Court's qua… |
| 19-7684 |
Jeremy Glenn Powell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-18 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act due-process fifth-amendment fifth-circuit physical-force reckless reckless-offenses statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code texas-robbery violent-felony |
Whether the Texas offense of simple robbery qualifies as a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 19-7596 |
Julia L. McDuffy-Johnson v. Daniel A. Lane, III |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
amendment-violations Amendments-I-IV-VIII-XIII-XIV appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-question fifth-circuit judicial-procedure sexual-assault standing Supervisory-power-of-SCOTUS |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit has entered a decision which is in conflict with the federal guidelines handout of the lower… |
| 19-7568 |
Theodore Michael Brewster v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-interpretation discretionary-review federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-circuit legal-procedure rule-11 supervisory-powers supreme-court-precedent united-states-court-of-appeals |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit conflicts with the decisions of this Court on an important matter |
| 19-7549 |
Gerard Cliston Ellis v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit fifth-circuit lowest-level-conduct lowest-level-of-conduct state-law |
Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the 'lowest level of conduct' as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach, an… |
| 19-7516 |
Mary Mosley v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-acquitted-conduct double-jeopardy due-process fifth-circuit jury-verdict nelson-v-colorado sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
Did the panel err by upholding the application of an enhancement for brandishing or possessing a firearm when Miss Mosley was acquitted by a jury of t… |
| 19-7454 |
Kenneth James Barfield v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-32 due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-circuit gall-v-united-states guidelines preponderance-of-evidence presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-watts |
Where the Government offers no evidence at sentencing in response to an objection to a factual assertion in the presentence report that increases a se… |
| 19-7437 |
Tony Sparks v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process fifth-circuit juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-rule miller-v-alabama montgomery-retroactivity montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity sentencing |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in concluding that the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Miller v. Alabama does not extend to sentences imposed upon ju… |
| 19-7446 |
Enrique A. Echeverria-Benitez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-circuit illegal-reentry plain-error retribution sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Whether the imposition of consecutive sentences for illegal reentry and revocation of supervised release was unreasonable and constituted reversible e… |
| 19-7345 |
Roberto Sanchez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-precedent civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process fifth-circuit immigration immigration-status judicial-conflict legal-interpretation precedent prejudice prejudicial-evidence procedural-review |
Did the Fifth Circuit's opinion conflict with its own precedent in Rojas v. Richardson regarding the prejudicial nature of a party's immigration statu… |
| 19-907 |
Dejenay Beckwith, et al. v. City of Houston, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-questions due-process fifth-circuit government-conspiracy motion-to-dismiss standing statute-of-limitations |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by affirming a statute of limitations defense on a motion to dismiss |
| 19-882 |
Shannon Dale Dukes v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions lesser-included-offenses punishment-exposure sixth-amendment |
Whether petitioner's trial counsel was ineffective |
| 19-889 |
Kaufman County, Texas, et al. v. Eunice J. Winzer, Individually and on Behalf of the Statutory Beneficiaries of Gabriel A. Winzer, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity summary-judgment use-of-force |
Did the Fifth Circuit panel majority err in reversing Kaufman County's summary judgment after concluding Officer Hinds did not violate clearly establi… |
| 19-7164 |
Dominic Howard v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fifth-circuit fourth-amendment in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review pro-se probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing standing writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of Petitioner's motion to suppress evidence obtained in violation of the Four… |
| 19-7051 |
Adan Reyes-Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing waiver waiver-of-rights |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by ruling that Mr. Reyes-Martinez waived the right to appeal his sentence |
| 19-7044 |
Darmarcus Fisher v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-assault appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fifth-circuit procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the district court imposed a substantively unreasonable sentence and erred by imposing a 4-level enhancement for aggravated assault |
| 19-6932 |
Dustin Larmon McDonald v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-13 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certiorari criminal-procedure district-court due-process fifth-circuit leniency-arguments preservation-of-error procedural-objection reasonableness sentencing-procedure sentencing-reasonableness united-states-v-haymond |
Must challenges to the procedural reasonableness of a sentence be preserved by a separate 'reasonableness' objection in district court? |
| 19-6934 |
Dexter Johnson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
buck-doctrine buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability fifth-circuit gonzalez-precedent habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel rule-60(b)(6) successive-petition successive-petitions |
Whether the Fifth Circuit has misinterpreted Buck by requiring Mr. Johnson to plead a meritorious claim for habeas relief in his Rule 60(b)(6) motion? |
| 19-6935 |
Rickie James King v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certiorari criminal-procedure district-court due-process fifth-circuit leniency-arguments preservation-of-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness remand sentencing sentencing-procedure united-states-v-haymond |
whether-challenges-to-procedural-reasonableness-of-sentence-must-be-preserved |
| 19-6862 |
Dalton Betsinger v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law eighth-amendment eighth-circuit fifth-circuit lowest-level-of-conduct state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the 'lowest level of conduct' as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach, an… |
| 19-6687 |
Demetrius Marcellus Green v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
categorical-approach controlled-substances-act criminal-law eighth-circuit felony-drug-offense fifth-circuit legal-uncertainty state-conviction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the categorical approach is required to determine if a State conviction qualifies as a 'felony drug offense' under the Controlled Substances A… |
| 19-6688 |
Robert Joseph Fisher v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split eighth-amendment eighth-circuit fifth-circuit lowest-level-of-conduct rule-of-lenity state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the 'lowest level of conduct' as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach, an… |
| 19-6620 |
John Kevin Waldrip v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines federal-statute fifth-circuit judicial-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines special-assessments statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it refused to vacate the $15,000 special assessments |
| 19-6511 |
Roberto Trinidad Del Carpio Frescas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure fifth-circuit mandatory-victims-restitution-act preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence reliable-evidence restitution restitution-standard sentencing |
What is the meaning of 'reliable evidence' for establishing the amount of restitution under the Mandatory Victim's Restitution Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3663A? |
| 19-6503 |
Pedro Jorge Moreno-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause deportation fifth-amendment fifth-circuit immigration supreme-court testimonial-hearsay warrant-of-removal |
Is an immigration officer's signature on a warrant of removal attesting that he witnessed the alien depart the United States testimonial hearsay subje… |
| 19-6488 |
Javier Yebra v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-review standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent trial-counsel |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit continue to impose an improper Certificate of Appealability (COA) standard that contraven… |
| 19-6414 |
Miguel Angel Vega-Torres v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-conflict due-process eighth-circuit federal-law fifth-circuit fourth-amendment immigration-checkpoint rodriguez-standard rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop traffic-stops |
Do the standards for traffic stops articulated in Rodriguez v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 1609 (2015), apply to immigration checkpoint stops? |
| 19-6298 |
John Steven Gardner v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability federal-court-review federal-habeas-proceedings fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-standard state-court-deference state-habeas strickland-v-washington wilson-v-sellers |
Whether in denying a COA, the Fifth Circuit's methodology in the Gardner opinion is in conflict with Wilson v. Sellers and Miller-El |
| 19-6106 |
Alexander William Johnson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process fifth-circuit habeas habeas-corpus judicial-review summary-denial summary-order |
Whether a 1'4-page order that summarily denies a certificate of appealability satisfies the requirement of Buck v. Davis |
| 19-6070 |
Malcom McClenon v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals appellate-review batson-challenge constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-circuit habeas-corpus harmless-error judicial-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Is Recier DUE. To fr ConvicTioN 1 Devoid OF THE RUD MENTARY DEmAwos of FAIR Pacegouns ? |
| 19-403 |
Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas v. Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
agency-interpretation federal-indian-law fifth-circuit gaming gaming-prohibition gaming-regulation indian-gaming indian-gaming-regulatory-act multi-circuit-conflict national-indian-gaming-commission statutory-interpretation tribal-lands tribal-sovereignty trust-lands trust-statutes |
Whether IGRA authorizes gaming on tribal lands previously governed by trust statutes that prohibited gaming |
| 19-6021 |
Ricardo Valles De La Rosa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
braxton-precedent braxton-v-united-states criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit nelson-v-colorado plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals' affirmance of the petitioner's guilty-plea sentence violated petitioner's due process rights |
| 19-5953 |
Jose Juan Vallejo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
border-patrol constitutional-seizure eighth-circuit federal-law fifth-circuit immigration-checkpoint rodriguez-standard rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop traffic-stops |
Do the standards for traffic stops articulated in Rodriguez v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 1609 (2015), apply to immigration checkpoint stops? |
| 19-336 |
Keith Chester Hill v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
capital-sentencing discretionary-sentencing fifth-circuit glover-v-united-states habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis reasonable-probability sentencing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that, to demonstrate that counsel was ineffective at a state, non-capital, discretionary sentencing proc… |
| 19-5862 |
Jorge Alberto Ramirez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-court deference-to-state-courts federal-habeas-corpus federal-habeas-relief federal-review fifth-circuit habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standard-of-review state-court-deference strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Was the Fifth Circuit's 'unreasonable application' inquiry proper? |
| 19-249 |
Kevin Lampkin, et al. v. UBS Financial Services, Incorporated, fka UBS Painewebber, Incorporated, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
cendant-cases civil-procedure employee-compensation employee-stock-options fifth-circuit sale-definition sale-of-securities securities securities-act securities-act-of-1933 securities-regulation standing stock-option supervisory-powers |
Is the grant of an employee stock option a 'sale' of a security under the Securities Act of 1933? |
| 19-231 |
Wes Perkins v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-21 |
Denied |
|
5th-amendment 5th-circuit actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process electronic-filing fifth-circuit habeas habeas-corpus judicial-procedure parties-to-proceeding pro-se-petition standing state-respondent |
Was DAVIS improperly included? |
| 19-5574 |
Anthony Ray Welch v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law drug-importation drug-offenses fifth-circuit listed-chemicals mens-rea methamphetamine methamphetamine-offense scienter scienter-requirement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether scienter is required for the two-level increase under USSG §2D1.1(b)(5) for the importation or manufacture of methamphetamine from imported ch… |
| 19-5538 |
Timothy Jamaras Burns v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus plea-agreement plea-bargaining section-2255 waiver-of-appeal |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by ruling that Mr. Burns § 2255 claims are barred by the Waiver of Appeal provision in his Plea Agreement |
| 19-149 |
Fort Bend Mechanical, Limited, et al. v. Gil Ramirez Group, L.L.C., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure civil-procedure-review federal-rules-civil-procedure fifth-circuit plain-error rule-50 sufficiency-challenge sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the Fifth Circuit failed to follow its own precedent when declining to conduct a plain error review of the sufficiency challenge due to incons… |
| 19-5374 |
Benson Coriolant v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abandoned-claims actual-appeal actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability criminal-justice-act criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure fifth-circuit pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-rules |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's holding that the pro se litigant has abandoned any claim(s) not raised in an application for a certificate of appealabilit… |
| 19-5272 |
Pereneal Kizzee v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-appeals criminal-procedure-error-correction criminal-sentencing federal-appeals federal-law felony-offense fifth-circuit firearm-possession guidelines-enhancement judicial-discretion judicial-integrity plain-error plain-error-review sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it refused to exercise its discretion to correct the forfeited error that seriously affected the f… |
| 19-5185 |
William Eric Taylor v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure denial-of-certificate due-process factual-predicates fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-premises legal-reasoning procedural-due-process standing uncontested-application |
Should the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals granted a certificate of appealability based the uncontested application submitted by the petitioner? |
| 19-58 |
Xitronix Corporation v. KLA-Tencor Corporation, dba KLA-Tencor, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-07-10 |
Denied |
|
antitrust-law appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split federal-circuit fifth-circuit jurisdiction patent patent-fraud summary-judgment walker-process |
Does appellate jurisdiction over Walker Process claims lie in the regional circuits, or in the Federal Circuit? |
| 19-5083 |
Aaron Clayton McVea v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-sentencing empirical-basis fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-vs-second-circuit judicial-review methamphetamine-sentencing presumption-of-reasonableness second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines |
Is a sentence imposed under the methamphetamine sentencing guideline-a guideline crafted without benefit of Sentencing Commission expertise or empiric… |
| 19-5072 |
Troy Lee Bridges v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
batson-challenge certificate-of-appealability fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel peremptory-strikes prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review voir-dire |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in deferring to the Federal court finding that Mr. Bridges was not prejudiced by his trial counsel,findings and the prosecut… |
| 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… |
| 19-5022 |
Brian K. Banks v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
404(b)-evidence appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-error louisiana-supreme-court prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review |
Did the Louisiana Supreme Court err in allowing the Fifth Circuit to contradict its own prior rulings by overruling the District Court's decision to n… |
| 18A1357 |
Anthony Ray Welch v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certiorari counsel-mistake criminal-conviction extension-of-time fifth-circuit procedural-error |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's judgment affirming a criminal conviction should be reviewed due to counsel's inadvertent failure to timely file a petition… |
| 18A1359 |
Louisiana Health Service & Indemnity Company, dba Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana v. Encompass Office Solutions, Incorporated |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Presumed Complete |
|
benefits-plan certiorari erisa federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit health-insurance |
Whether a health insurance provider can be subject to federal court jurisdiction in a dispute involving the interpretation of a benefits plan under ER… |
| 18-1540 |
VHT, Inc. v. Zillow Group, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
automated-systems circuit-split copyright-infringement direct-liability exclusive-rights fifth-circuit fourth-circuit proximate-causation statutory-construction third-circuit volitional-conduct |
Whether a defendant's volitional conduct is required to establish direct copyright infringement |
| 18-9597 |
Jose Berrum, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure district-court fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
May This Court Grant Certificate Of Appealability Or Overturn Conviction Where The Fifth Circuit Court Of Appeals Sanctioned District Court's Misappli… |
| 18-9540 |
Clifton D. Harvin v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence actual-innocence-exception aedpa district-court due-process federal-review fifth-circuit habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins miscarriage-of-justice slack-v-mcdaniel statute-of-limitations |
When a Petitioner relies upon the McQuiggin V Perkins 133 S.Ct. 1924 miscarriage of justice actual innoccence exception to overcome the AEDPA one year… |
| 18-9510 |
Rasaq Aderoju Raheem v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure conviction criminal-procedure defendant-conviction due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit jurisdiction legal-review standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by affirming Defendant's Raheem conviction |
| 18-9453 |
Vincent Pisciotta v. D. J. Harmon, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review buck-v-davis due-process due-process,equal-protection,habeas-corpus,buck-v- equal-protection federal-prisoners fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-court-of-appeals state-prisoners |
Did the Fifth Circuit Court of appeals err when it denied Mr. Pisciotta's appeal in violation of The Supreme Court decision in Buck v. Davis, 137 S.Ct… |
| 18-9273 |
Billy Joe Wardlow v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
adequate-state-ground adequate-state-procedural-ground capital-case capital-habeas capital-habeas-case-appeal certificate-of-appealability due-process-right-to-present-evidence federal-habeas fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presumption-of-correctness state-habeas state-habeas-proceedings state-procedural-ground texas-court-of-criminal-appeals |
Whether the Fifth Circuit violated the standard for determining a Certificate of Appealability |
| 18-1370 |
Joanna Burke, et vir v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review assignment clear-error due-process fifth-circuit impartial-tribunal judicial-bias judicial-error law-of-the-case law-of-the-case-doctrine lender-income-fraud manifest-injustice nominee published-opinion |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit correctly applied the well-established exception to the law-of-the-case doctrine for appellate deci… |
| 18-9051 |
Quintonius B. Golston v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation circuit-conflict conflict criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression federal-question fifth-circuit important-question prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit has decided an important federal question that conflicts with this Court in Brady v. Maryland… |
| 18-8910 |
Norris Lynn Fisher v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federalism fifth-circuit judicial-accountability judicial-review rule-60b6 standing supreme-court-precedent |
Why do the Fifth Circuit courts continue to ignore the United States Supreme Court's authoritative precedent? |
| 18-1323 |
June Medical Services L.L.C., et al. v. Stephen Russo, Interim Secretary, Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-19 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (20)Relisted (2) |
abortion abortion-rights admitting-privileges constitutional-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent undue-burden whole-woman's-health whole-womans-health womens-health |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's decision upholding Louisiana's law requiring physicians who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a local hosp… |
| 18-8795 |
Luis Alberto Armendariz-Chavez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause due-process fifth-circuit immigration immigration-law removal testimonial testimonial-evidence warrant warrant-of-removal |
Whether an immigration officer's warrant of removal is testimonial for purposes of the Confrontation Clause? |
| 18-8775 |
Samuel William Maines v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel remand summary-denial |
Should the Fifth Circuit's unreasoned summary denial of a Certificate of Appealability be remanded for further consideration? |
| 18-8603 |
Gralyn Leon White v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c aiding-and-abetting brandishing consecutive-sentences criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit first-step-act hobbs-act united-states-v-lewis |
Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err by failing to apply the holdings of United States v. Lewis, 907 F.3d 891, 894-95 (5 Cir. 2018) to Hobbs Act… |
| 18-8589 |
Demetrius S. Rankin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anders-brief appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-law court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance legal-ethics legal-standards procedural-review right-to-counsel |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied and ignored the procedural pronouncements made in Anders v. California |
| 18-8280 |
Darrell J. Williams v. Cecilia Reynolds, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
blakely-v-washington circumstantial-evidence due-process fifth-circuit jackson-v-virginia reasonable-doubt sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the Due Process Standard of Jackson v. Virginia requires a court to consider all evidence, including evidence inconsistent with guilt, in deci… |
| 18-8159 |
Phillip Camillo-Amisano v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-crisis constitutional-violation due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice strickland-standard supreme-court |
Did the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit improperly deny a Certificate of Appealability (COA), violating due process in a manner that conflicts … |
| 18-1107 |
Charles Chandler v. Vermont, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-02-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split constitutional-challenge custody due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance lackawanna ninth-circuit strickland-standard tenth-circuit |
Is the Exception for Habeas Corpus Custody under Lackawanna valid law as affirmed by the Ninth, Tenth, and Fifth Circuits? |
| 18-8094 |
Eric Gros v. Jason Kent, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights comity comity-principle due-process exhaustion-of-remedies exhaustion-of-state-remedies fifth-circuit finality habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition judicial-review magistrate-judge report-and-recommendation state-remedies |
Whether the Magistrate Judge for the U.S. Eastern District Court of Louisiana erred when he issued a Report and Recommendation recommending that the p… |
| 18-8049 |
Ramon Montero v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-circuit harmless-error harmlessness-standard molina-martinez molina-martinez-precedent molina-martinez-v-united-states preserved-error preserved-errors rule-52a sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Is the Fifth Circuit correctly conducting its harmlessness inquiry when reviewing preserved Guidelines-calculation errors arising under Rule 52(a) of … |
| 18-7997 |
Samuel Gregg Allen v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal civil-rights constitutional-provision criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit plea-agreement unconstitutional waiver waiver-of-appeal |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by enforcing the unconstitutional Waiver of Appeal provision in Petitioner Allen's Plea Agreement |
| 18-7977 |
James Mowery v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit first-amendment free-speech internet-access internet-restrictions packingham-precedent packingham-v-north-carolina social-media-access standing supervised-release |
Whether the Fifth Circuit has failed to apply the Supreme Court's ruling in Packingham v. North Carolina to supervised release Internet restrictions, … |
| 18-7921 |
James Howard Looman, III v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process F.R.A.P.-Rule-22(b) federal-courts federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation |
Did the Fifth Circuit err when it refused to apply 28 U.S.C. §2253(c) and F.R.A.P. Rule 22(b) and follow this Court's commands regarding review of app… |
| 18-7445 |
Lennis A. George v. Jason Kent, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-manslaughter constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence procedural-history standard-of-review |
Whether there was sufficient evidence to convict Lennis George of attempted manslaughter? |
| 18-7447 |
Christopher E. Lemon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional constitutional-provision constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit plea-agreement waiver-of-appeal |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by enforcing the unconstitutional Waiver of Appeal provision in Petitioner Lemon's Plea Agreement |
| 18-7410 |
Walter A. Kott, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit judicial-review legal-precedent petitioner-claim precedent standing supreme-court |
Whether the United States District Court, Eastem District of Louisiana and Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals mis-applied clearly established Supreme Cour… |
| 18-7374 |
David Mejia v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa counsel-performance fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-hoc-rationalization sixth-amendment strickland-test strickland-v-washington wiggins-v-smith |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that a court may indulge 'post hoc rationalization' for counsel's decision making that contradicts the avai… |
| 18-902 |
Paul Poupart v. Timothy Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act clearly-established-federal-law custodial-interrogation federal-review fifth-amendment fifth-circuit habeas-corpus miranda-rights unreasonable-application |
Whether a habeas corpus application should be granted when a state court decision was contrary to or involved an unreasonable application of clearly e… |
| 18-7304 |
Juan Rodriguez-Mantos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines fifth-circuit judicial-review reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness supervisory-power |
Whether the imposition of an outside Guidelines sentence is reasonable |
| 18-7252 |
Eddie Ray Wiese, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act federal-prisoner fifth-circuit johnson-claim residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation successive-motion |
When a federal prisoner demonstrates that the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause was the only lawful substantive basis to enhance his sentenc… |
| 18-7274 |
Reginald L. Spears, aka RLS Ar Abdul Aziz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure bias certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-circuit impartial-judge judicial-bias procedural-error strawman-argument |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals introduced and attacked a strawman argument as a basis to deny appellant a COA, and whether this violates d… |
| 18-7201 |
Mark Isaac Snarr v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-3599 ake-v-oklahoma appellate-review ayestas-v-davis capital-case capital-defendant circuit-split due-process expert-services federal-funding fifth-circuit statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Fifth Circuit disregarded this Court's precedent when it required petitioner to show that an expert was 'critical' to his case before fund… |
| 18-7140 |
Tommy Ray Hull, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
chavez-meza-precedent chavez-meza-v-united-states circuit-split district-court district-court-discretion due-process fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-standard mitigation mitigation-arguments sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in its standard of review when a district court fails to address arguments of counsel in mitigation of sentencing |
| 18-7111 |
Johnny Joe Guerra v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-1291 constitutional-procedure court-of-appeals district-court due-process federal-constitution fifth-amendment fifth-circuit injustice jurisdictional-review mandate-recall unadjudicated-claims |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred when it did not recall the mandate in order to prevent an injustice relative to two unadjudicated claims in the distri… |
| 18-7045 |
Chris G. Gilkers v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-habeas-proceedings fifth-circuit gonzalez-v-crosby habeas habeas-corpus rule-60(b) rule-60b successive-habeas successive-habeas-petition |
Proper-standard-for-Rule-60(b)-motion |
| 18-6984 |
Benjamin Tillman v. J. A. Barnhart, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 collateral-review fifth-circuit habeas-corpus mcfadden-case mcfadden-v-us retroactivity savings-clause statutory-interpretation |
Whether petitioner was entitled to file an application for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. §2241 and/or 28 U.S.C. 2255(e) in light of McFadden v. U.S. |
| 18-6911 |
Adrian Pineda-Orozco v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility affirmative-defense criminal-conviction criminal-law criminal-law-procedure duress-defense family-member fifth-circuit miscarriage-of-justice sentencing |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals opinion permitting Pineda-Orasco's conviction to stand resulted in a miscarriage of justice given the longs… |
| 18-6904 |
Oree Roberson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof chavez-meza chavez-meza-v-united-states circuit-conflict due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review mitigation presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure standard-of-review |
Whether the defendant bears the burden to establish that objected to information in the Presentence Report is materially untrue, or whether the govern… |
| 18-668 |
Peggy Berg v. Social Security Administration |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
absolute-debt bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-section-553(b) circuit-split creditor-rights debt-setoff fifth-circuit mutual-debt setoff seventh-circuit statutory-interpretation third-circuit |
Whether Bankruptcy Code Section 553(b) requires that a debt be 'absolutely owed' for a setoff to occur, or whether a setoff can occur at an earlier ti… |
| 18-633 |
Gary Jefferson Byrd v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court district-court-summary-denial due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-litigant standing summary-denial |
Should a Certificate of Appealability (COA) be denied to a pro se litigant thus denying an appeal when the issue has been extensively researched and c… |
| 18-6600 |
Ringo Recto Labrador v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-sentencing empirical-basis fifth-circuit judicial-review methamphetamine-sentencing presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-standard second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines |
Is a sentence imposed under the methamphetamine sentencing guideline entitled to a presumption of reasonableness? |
| 18-6524 |
Brian Thomas, aka O'Brian A. Thomas, aka Thomas A. O'Brian v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-standard berger-standard berger-v-united-states berger-v-us due-process fair-trial fifth-circuit harmless-error judicial-review jury-bias jury-misconduct procedural-violation prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review |
Whether the Fifth Circuit courts violated Berger v US after it conceded that the violations had occurred but deciding that it was 'implausible that it… |
| 18-6435 |
John Rogers v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability collateral-review constitutional-right-to-counsel direct-appeal due-process extraordinary-circumstances fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel |
Whether the State of Louisiana stripped John Rogers of his Constitutional Right to Representation by counsel on his claim of 'ineffective assistance o… |
| 18-6204 |
Jermaine Franklin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit plea-agreement plea-bargaining unconstitutional waiver-of-appeal |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by enforcing the unconstitutional Waiver of Appeal provision in Petitioner Franklin's Plea Agreement |
| 18-408 |
Kohn Law Group, Inc. v. Auto Parts Manufacturing Mississippi, Inc. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
appellate-review appellate-review-standard armour-standard armour-v-united-states civil-contempt civil-contempt-standard consent-decree district-court-discretion federal-circuit fifth-circuit injunction-interpretation interpleader legal-standard mccomb-v-jacksonville-paper mccomb-v-jacksonville-paper-co non-consent-order |
What is the standard for judging allegations of civil contempt of an injunction or other disputed order, as distinct from a consent decree? |
| 18-373 |
Floyd Rose v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-09-21 |
Denied |
|
atm atm-robbery circuit-split commerce-clause commerce-element criminal-law federal-criminal-law fifth-circuit hobbs-act interstate-commerce robbery second-circuit |
Whether the Second Circuit erred by holding, in direct conflict with the Fifth Circuit, that a robbery in which an individual victim is forced to with… |
| 18-6066 |
Melvin Noel Vasquez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure de-novo-review downward-adjustment due-process federal-sentencing fifth-circuit minimal-role mitigating-role sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-3b1.2 standard-of-review |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's cursory review rather than the proper de novo review resulted in a misapplication of the provision of U.S.S.G. § 3B1.2 den… |
| 18-6061 |
Rogelio Ortiz-Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
change-in-law criminal-appeal divisible-statute fifth-circuit intervening-change-in-law judicial-proceedings mandate mandate-rule recall-of-mandate rehearing-petition sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines texas-burglary-statute |
Whether it is a serious departure from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings when a federal court of appeals refuses to consider an in… |
| 18-5913 |
Alfonso Escobedo Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure empirical-basis fifth-circuit judicial-review methamphetamine-sentencing presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-review second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines |
Is a sentence imposed under the methamphetamine sentencing guideline entitled to a presumption of reasonableness? |
| 18-5775 |
William Christopher Hogan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split conflict-of-circuits criminal-history fifth-circuit ninth-circuit sentencing shop-lifting shoplifting texas-state texas-state-law u.s.-supreme-court-rule-10 |
Whether the District Court erred in sentencing Petitioner by adding one point to his criminal history score based on a Texas State shop lifting convic… |
| 18-5716 |
Richard Blake Ray v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-circuit buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-circuit habeas-corpus reasonable-legal-argument supreme-court-law |
Whether the district court and 5th circuit court of appeals erred in denying Ray a certificate of appealability |
| 18-5649 |
Charles Richardson v. Jason Kent, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct recusal trial-counsel venue |
Whether the prosecutor's improper arguments resulted in an unfair trial and a guilty verdict of murder instead of a lesser charge thereto? |
| 18-5629 |
Jermaine Dewitt Chaney v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealibility civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-district-court fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2254 standard-of-review standards |
Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err by reaching the merits of the case and denying certificate of appealability? |
| 18-5533 |
Brandon Maurice Shannon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review certiorari-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit harmless-error judicial-remand plain-error post-conviction-relief retroactivity rosales-mireles sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Should this Court grant certiorari, vacate the judgment, and remand in light of Rosales-Mireles v. United States |
| 18-5516 |
Isaiah Galbreath v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-sentencing empirical-basis fifth-circuit judicial-review methamphetamine methamphetamine-sentencing presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-standard second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a sentence imposed under the methamphetamine sentencing guideline, which was crafted without benefit of Sentencing Commission expertise or emp… |
| 18-5494 |
Blaine Keith Milam v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights death-penalty due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability judicial-review mitigating-evidence procedural-default right-to-counsel |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in not granting a certificate of appealability on the claims presented in violation of the holding in Buck v. Davis |
| 18-5324 |
Anastasio N. Laoutaris v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1030 criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-due-process due-process evidence fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jackson-v-virginia judgment-of-acquittal malicious-code perjury perjury-standard reasonable-doubt sentencing strickland-standard sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether a rational jury could have found each essential element of the offense of transmitting a malicious code, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(5… |
| 18-5280 |
Patrick Lanier v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal criminal-procedure eighth-amendment fifth-circuit judicial-proceedings judicial-review manifest-miscarriage plain-error plain-error-review restitution rule-52b sentencing sentencing-error |
Whether the plain error standard requires a 'manifest miscarriage of justice' to correct a forfeited error affecting substantial rights |
| 18-95 |
Kyrt M. Wentzell, et al. v. BP America, Incorporated, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-procedure-appeal deepwater-horizon dismissal due-process fifth-circuit judicial-discretion mdl-procedure multidistrict-litigation oil-spill procedural-compliance standing timeliness |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in holding that the petitioners' appeal to the Fifth Circuit was not timely filed |
| 18-5236 |
In Re Ferlando Esco |
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2018-07-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
' 'certificate-of-appealability" ' 'due-process" ' 'habeas-corpus" ' 'ineffective-assistance-of-counsel" ' 'mandamus" ' 'sentencing' appellate-review certificate-of-appealability designated-issues extraordinary-relief fifth-circuit fully-briefed judicial-procedure merits-decision writ-of-mandamus |
Whether a writ of mandamus should issue to compel the Fifth Circuit to decide the merits of a request for certificate of appealability regarding two d… |
| 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? |
| 24A239 |
Gavin Blake Davis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
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Presumed Complete |
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bail-pending-appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit pro-se-petition |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in denying the petitioner's request for bail pending appeal and potentially violating his constitutional due process r… |