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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6814 | Tony Minh Le v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-02-13 | Pending | IFP | continuance district-court fourth-circuit judicial-review procedural-fairness speedy-trial-act | Whether the district court and Fourth Circuit made a fair and lawful Speedy Trial Act ruling denying relief, without properly assessing the timing of … |
| 25-6750 | Shawn Thomas Johnson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-02-06 | Pending | IFP | as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge criminal-statute felon-in-possession firearm-ban fourth-circuit | Petitioner Shawn Johnson was a felon only because of his nonviolent offenses of manufacturing and uttering counterfeit United States currency. After b… |
| 25-867 | Joseph Walters, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections v. Christopher Coleman | Fourth Circuit | 2026-01-21 | Pending | aedpa de-novo-review fourth-circuit habeas-corpus party-presentation state-court-judgment | 1. Whether the Fourth Circuit violated the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) and the party-presentation principle by granting habe… | |
| 25A768 | Elephant Insurance Company, et al. v. Christopher Holmes, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2026-01-05 | Application | article-iii-standing common-law-tort data-breach fourth-circuit intangible-injury transunion | Question not identified. | |
| 25-511 | William Edward Williamson v. School Board of Chesapeake City, Virginia, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-10-24 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights evidentiary-standard fourth-circuit mcdonnell-douglas racial-discrimination summary-judgment | 1. Whether the Fourth Circuit's application of a heightened and unprecedented evidentiary standard for proving racial discrimination against an Asian … |
| 25A441 | Eric Tyrell Johnson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-10-20 | Application | certiorari constitutional-error criminal-case fourth-circuit legal-standard supreme-court-review | Whether the Fourth Circuit's ruling in a criminal case warrants Supreme Court review for potential constitutional error or misapplication of law | |
| 25A371 | Rashun Suncar v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-30 | Presumed Complete | categorical-approach controlled-substance fourth-circuit state-court-deference statutory-interpretation supreme-court-rule-10 | Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals correctly applied the categorical approach in interpreting a state controlled substance statute and disreg… | |
| 25-5768 | Lorene Chittenden v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | court-interpretation fourth-circuit intervening-change legal-deadline restitution-statute timely-appeal | Should the fourth circuit ruling that Chittenden did not file a timely appeal apply given an intervening change in law? |
| 25-302 | Patsy Talley v. Dale R. Folwell, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-16 | Denied | Response Waived | due-process fourth-circuit pre-deprivation procedural-rights property-rights state-treasurer | Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has ignored decades of law establishing the right to pre-deprivation due process in circumstances allowing… |
| 25-5649 | David Anthony Runyon v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crime-of-violence fourth-circuit murder-for-hire postconviction-relief sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the Fourth Circuit's decision, and remand for further consideration in light of United States v. Tay… |
| 25A204 | Jairo Arnaldo Jacome v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-20 | Presumed Complete | criminal-procedure fourth-circuit jury-instructions plain-error rico-conspiracy substantial-rights | Whether a variance between oral and written jury instructions constitutes reversible error when the parties were aware of the discrepancy but did not … | |
| 25-5330 | Raymond Dugan v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-12 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-protections fourth-circuit joint-venture law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant | Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals construe the 'Joint-Venture' doctrine too narrowly to comply with constitutional protections? |
| 25-5190 | Curtis Dickerson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-07-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | co-conspirators expert-testimony fourth-circuit hearsay insufficient-evidence monetary-forfeiture | Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Dickerson's appeal where the District Court improperly entered a $2,400,000.00 Order of Monetary Fo… |
| 25A87 | Veronica W. Ogunsula v. Trooper First Class Michael Warrenfeltz | Fourth Circuit | 2025-07-22 | Presumed Complete | certiorari fourth-circuit petition pro-se supreme-court-rules time-extension | QUESTIONS TO BE PRESENTED (AS CONCEIVED TO DATE): 1. Are officials or law enforcement officers covered by or entitled to a defense of Qualified Immun… | |
| 25-5125 | Terrence Mack Booth v. Kevin McCoy, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2025-07-16 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-right evidentiary-hearing fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default | Did the Fourth Circuit err in deferring to the lower courts' findings that the petitioner was not entitled to an evidentiary hearing or relief on his … |
| 25-52 | Terence Clark, Director, Prince George's County Department of Corrections, et al. v. Jeremiah Antoine Sweeney | Fourth Circuit | 2025-07-15 | Judgment Issued | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) | AEDPA exhaustion-requirement fourth-circuit habeas-corpus merits-standard party-presentation | Did the Fourth Circuit violate the party presentation principle, improperly circumvent AEDPA's exhaustion requirement, and flout the AEDPA merits stan… |
| 25-34 | Continental Finance Company, LLC, et al. v. Tiffany Johnson, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-07-10 | Pending | Response Waived | arbitration-provision consideration contract-law federal-arbitration-act fourth-circuit maryland-law | Does the Federal Arbitration Act permit courts to apply a heightened consideration standard solely to contractual arbitration provisions? |
| 25A18 | Juan Carlos Sandoval-Rodriguez v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-07-08 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-standard criminal-trial due-process fourth-circuit jury-instruction reasonable-doubt | Whether the Due Process Clause requires trial courts to provide a definition of 'reasonable doubt' to a jury upon request in criminal proceedings | |
| 24-7357 | Christopher Scott Jones v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-06-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit obstruction-enhancement plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines | Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in accepting a plea agreement where the defendant was not adequately informed of material provisions, and whether the… |
| 24-1219 | Dora L. Adkins v. JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-05-30 | Denied | civil-procedure district-court federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit motion-to-dismiss pro-se-plaintiff | Whether the Fourth Circuit properly affirmed the district court's order and whether the district court properly denied Adkins' motions for leave to fi… | |
| 24-7298 | Thurmond R. Guess, Sr. v. Leonardo Brown, Administrator, Richland County, South Carolina, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-05-28 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 42-usc-1983 constitutional-rights district-court equal-protection fourth-circuit rule-59e | Whether the District Court and Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred under Rule 59(e) and violated constitutional rights related to judgment modificat… |
| 24A1150 | Stephen Corey Bryant v. Joel Anderson, Acting Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-05-27 | Presumed Complete | capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance | Whether the Fourth Circuit's denial of a death-sentenced prisoner's appeal violates his constitutional rights to effective assistance of counsel or du… | |
| 24A1120 | Anita Louise Jackson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-05-20 | Presumed Complete | criminal-charges criminal-conviction first-impression fourth-circuit medical-instrument physician-liability | Whether a physician can be criminally convicted for adulteration of a medical instrument under circumstances presenting a novel legal issue | |
| 24-7165 | John Laurence Berman v. Richard Jordan, Senior Judge, Circuit Court of Maryland, Montgomery County, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-05-09 | Denied | IFP | briefing-procedure court-rules fourth-circuit judicial-process legal-fraud procedural-integrity | Is the Fourth Circuit's published 'informal briefing' sheet a fraud that should be disregarded |
| 24-1076 | John Sigley v. ND Fairmont LLC | Fourth Circuit | 2025-04-15 | Denied | Response Waived | americans-with-disabilities-act dischargeable-misconduct employment-discrimination fourth-circuit medical-condition-disclosure post-offer-questionnaire | Whether an individual's decision not to disclose a medical condition on a post-offer questionnaire receives protection under the ADA? |
| 24-6930 | Demetris Sean Robinson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-04-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court effective-assistance-counsel evidence-suppression fourth-circuit | Whether the District Court erred by allowing evidence obtained in violation of petitioner's constitutional rights and whether the Fourth Circuit Court… |
| 24-6682 | Raequan Rucker v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-dismissal appellate-procedure fourth-circuit judicial-review legal-standing procedural-error | Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Rucker's Appeal before that Court |
| 24-6652 | David R. Kitchen v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-02-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure fourth-circuit home-detention judicial-review sentencing-discretion supervised-release | Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by affirming the District Court's discretion in sentencing Mr. Kitchen to six (6) months of home detention for a supe… |
| 24-6575 | Marshall Ray Scarborough v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-02-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing | Was it error for the Fourth Circuit to enforce Mr. Scarborough's appeal waiver to bar his sentencing appeal, and should this Court grant certiorari an… |
| 24A766 | Aghee William Smith, II v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-02-06 | Presumed Complete | conspiracy criminal-conviction fourth-circuit mail-fraud sufficiency-of-evidence wire-fraud | Whether the Fourth Circuit correctly applied the standard for reviewing the sufficiency of evidence in a federal wire fraud and mail fraud conspiracy … | |
| 24-6482 | In Re Petera Micale Carlton | 2025-02-05 | Denied | IFP | career-offender criminal-law fourth-circuit sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether Petitioner remains a career offender under the Fourth Circuit's decision in United States v. Simmons | |
| 24-6204 | Ronald P. Hargrave v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-12-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance due-process fourth-circuit harmless-error prescription-error ruan-standard | Can a physician be convicted of a violation of 21 U.S.C. §841, post-Ruan, when that physician's conduct in prescribing the controlled substance was bo… |
| 24-6110 | Askari Danso MS Lumumba, fka Dale Lee Pughsley v. Jeffrey Kiser | Fourth Circuit | 2024-12-10 | Denied | IFP | first-amendment fourth-circuit inmate-correspondence overbreadth prison-regulation turner-balancing | Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in applying Turner v. Safley balancing test to a First Amendment overbreadth challenge involving prison regulation of… |
| 24A550 | Zackary Ellis Sanders v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-12-05 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review child-exploitation criminal-statute federal-sentencing fourth-circuit statutory-interpretation | Whether the Fourth Circuit correctly interpreted the scope of criminal statutes related to child exploitation under 18 U.S.C. §§ 2251 and 2252 | |
| 24-544 | Patrick Emanuel Sutherland v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-11-14 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-procedure coram-nobis fourth-circuit judicial-review post-conviction-remedy writ-of-error | Whether the Fourth Circuit improperly limited the post-conviction remedy of a writ of coram nobis and created ambiguity in its scope |
| 24-5735 | Robert G. Moore v. Ronald Weber, Warden, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-10-10 | Denied | IFP | district-court due-process evidentiary-ruling fourth-circuit judicial-review procedural-error | Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals improperly applied due process standards in reviewing a district court's evidentiary rulings and potential… |
| 24-5403 | Tynia Levesy v. Christopher Scolese, Director, National Reconnaissance Office, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-27 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-procedure constitutional-claims fourth-circuit jurisdiction rule-26f rule-56d | Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals have jurisdiction over constitutional claims and properly apply procedural rules in this case? |
| 24-5401 | Whitney Leigh Estep v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure fifth-amendment fourth-circuit sentencing-discretion witness-testimony | Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in denying Ms. Estep's arguments regarding a witness's Fifth Amendment objection and the district court's sentencing … |
| 24A196 | Michael Scott Hoover v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-22 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review criminal-sentencing fourth-circuit ineffective-counsel procedural-due-process writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals improperly applied legal standards in reviewing the defendant's criminal sentence by refusing to address k… | |
| 24A192 | Sherman Brown v. Kevin McCoy, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-22 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-circuit innocence-project post-conviction writ-of-certiorari | Whether a criminal defendant's constitutional rights were violated by the Fourth Circuit's denial of post-conviction relief in a case involving potent… | |
| 24-5264 | Delgen Foye v. Scott S. Harris, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-07 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review criminal-law federal-procedure fourth-circuit judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines | Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals improperly affirmed a district court judgment in a case involving federal sentencing guidelines and judici… |
| 24-78 | Intelligent Waves, LLC v. Marthe Lattinville-Pace | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-25 | Denied | Response Waived | adea age-discrimination but-for-causation civil-rights due-process eeoc-complaint employment employment-law equal-employment-opportunity-commission fourth-circuit | Does a claim of age discrimination under 29 U.S.C. § 621 et seq. fail in the absence of but-for causation? |
| 24-5141 | Marcus Jay Davis v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-25 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924c attempted-murder attempted-murder-virginia-law categorical-approach crime-of-violence fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-court-of-appeals section-924(c) united-states-v-taylor | Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in deciding that attempted murder under Virginia law is a crime of violence under the categorical ap… |
| 23A1162 | Donte Parrish v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-06-26 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review constitutional-claim criminal-procedure fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct | Whether the Fourth Circuit correctly applied the standard for reviewing a criminal defendant's ineffective assistance of counsel claim challenging a c… | |
| 23A1152 | John Dwayne Garvin v. Levern Cohen, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2024-06-25 | Presumed Complete | certiorari constitutional-error fourth-circuit jurisdiction legal-research pro-se | Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals committed constitutional error in its judgment against a pro se litigant with limited legal education | |
| 23A1135 | John Dwayne Garvin v. Levern Cohen, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2024-06-21 | Presumed Complete | certiorari constitutional-error fourth-circuit jurisdiction legal-research pro-se | Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals committed constitutional error in its judgment against a pro se litigant with limited legal education | |
| 23A1074 | Sony Music Entertainment, et al. v. Cox Communications, Incorporated, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-31 | Presumed Complete | contributory-liability copyright-infringement digital-millennium-copyright-act fourth-circuit internet-service-provider safe-harbor | Whether internet service providers can be held liable for contributory copyright infringement by their subscribers under the Digital Millennium Copyri… | |
| 23-7502 | Kevin Day v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4a1.3(b) criminal-history district-court-discretion downward-departure fourth-circuit motion-to-dismiss sentencing-guidelines variance-sentence | Whether the District Court abused its discretion by failing to give a variance sentence and shorter incarceration period |
| 23A987 | Joe Louis Adams, Jr. v. 3D Systems, Inc. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-06 | Presumed Complete | court-filing extension-of-time fourth-circuit hardship petition-for-certiorari pro-se | Whether a pro se plaintiff experiencing personal hardship and property damage may be granted an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certi… | |
| 23-7286 | Francis Arthur v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-04-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure deportation due-process exculpatory-evidence fourth-circuit material-witness motion-to-dismiss witness-deportation | Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of Arthur's motion to dismiss the indictment |
| 23-7133 | Garry Hines v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-04-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility appellate-review criminal-appeal criminal-sentencing due-process fourth-circuit sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum | Whether the Fourth Circuit erred when determining that Petitioner's Sentence which exceeded the statutory maximum was proper and reasonable |
| 23A868 | Steven Vernon Bixby v. Bryan P. Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-03-28 | Presumed Complete | capital-case certiorari-extension constitutional-review death-penalty fourth-circuit habeas-corpus | Whether the Fourth Circuit applied the correct legal standard in reviewing a death-sentenced prisoner's habeas corpus petition challenging the constit… | |
| 23A861 | Larry Elwood Steptoe v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-03-25 | Presumed Complete | appeal-dismissal fourth-circuit habeas-corpus legal-access prisoner-rights sentencing | Whether the district court's sentencing calculation or the Fourth Circuit's dismissal of an appeal warrants extraordinary review due to limitations on… | |
| 23-7003 | Kenneth Malik Wise v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-03-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit knowingly-waived plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-argument | Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err by concluding that Appellant Kenneth Malik Wise knowingly and voluntarily waived his… |
| 23A842 | Quentin Freeman v. Daniel Deas | Fourth Circuit | 2024-03-15 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review certiorari criminal-procedure fourth-circuit incarcerated-petitioner legal-clinic | Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals improperly denied Quentin Freeman's petition for rehearing in a criminal case involving procedural or subs… | |
| 23A833 | Brandon Roberts v. Wexford Health Sources, Inc., et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-03-11 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights fourth-circuit legal-access prisoner-litigation pro-se writ-of-certiorari | Whether a pro se prisoner's limited access to legal resources constitutes an unconstitutional burden on his right to seek judicial review of his civil… | |
| 23A801 | Richard Arlee Champion v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-02-29 | Presumed Complete | certiorari court-review en-banc fourth-circuit inmate-rights petition-for-rehearing | Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying en banc review of a significant legal issue involving an inmate's rights or constitutiona… | |
| 23A784 | Kamal Mustafa v. Omaha Property Manager, LLC | Fourth Circuit | 2024-02-27 | Presumed Complete | certiorari fourth-circuit jurisdiction pro-se supreme-court-rules time-extension | Whether a pro se litigant's request for an extension of time to file a certiorari petition meets the legal standards for extraordinary relief under Su… | |
| 23A781 | Lawrence L. Crawford v. Warden of Lieber Correctional Institution | Fourth Circuit | 2024-02-26 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review court-procedure due-process fourth-circuit judicial-jurisdiction mandate-rule | Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals violated due process and judicial precedent by improperly declining jurisdiction over its own remand order | |
| 23-6585 | Arnulfo Fagot-Maximo v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure district-court due-process fourth-circuit government-vouching habeas-corpus witness-testimony | Should a writ of certiorari be granted since the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in not granting a Certificate of Appealability |
| 23A675 | Hong Tang v. Kurt L. Schmoke, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-01-22 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights dismissal federal-procedure fourth-circuit pro-se rule-12b6 | Whether the Fourth Circuit correctly applied the standard for dismissing a pro se civil rights complaint under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6… | |
| 23-6477 | Jamaile L. Huey v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-01-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | borden-v-united-states crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit mens-rea robbery robbery-statute sentencing sentencing-guidelines violent-crime | Whether a state robbery conviction, sustained under a statute without a specified mens rea for the element of violence or threat of violence, but with… |
| 23A541 | Carl Ray McNeil, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-12-13 | Presumed Complete | appellate-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-law fourth-circuit | Whether the Fourth Circuit's interpretation of a federal criminal procedural rule improperly limits a defendant's constitutional right to effective ap… | |
| 23A536 | Martin Akerman v. Lloyd J. Austin, III, Secretary of Defense, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-12-12 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review certiorari-extension fourth-circuit judicial-review statutory-interpretation supreme-court-jurisdiction | Whether the Fourth Circuit's interpretation of the relevant statute improperly limits the scope of judicial review in federal appellate proceedings | |
| 23A482 | Mark Anthony Crudup, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-11-29 | Presumed Complete | certiorari-petition court-appointed-counsel fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance jurisdictional-deadline withdrawal-of-counsel | Whether a criminal defendant's right to effective assistance of counsel is violated when his court-appointed attorney seeks to withdraw without ensuri… | |
| 23-6018 | Calvin F. Currica v. Richard Miller, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2023-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-standard brady-vs-maryland criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit guidelines judicial-review plea-agreement plea-bargaining post-conviction-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether the decision below should be summarily reversed because the Fourth Circuit substituted its judgment for an erroneous factual decision by the s… |
| 23-5978 | Brian Keith Person, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit knowing-voluntary plea-agreement plea-bargaining voluntariness | Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Person's appeal pursuant to an appeal waiver when he argued that his plea was not knowing and volun… |
| 23-5790 | Brock Brian Beeman v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit notice-requirements plea-agreement rule-32 sentencing sentencing-notice | Did the Fourth Circuit err in upholding the Petitioner's appeal waiver to preclude his claim that the trial court violated the notice provisions of Ru… |
| 23-5766 | Richard Todd Haas v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-10-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553(a) 3553a-factors appellate-review criminal-sentencing fourth-circuit procedural-error sentencing-guidelines variance-sentence | Is the Fourth Circuit's plausibility test for evaluating a variance sentence under the 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) factors, because it is untethered from any … |
| 23-264 | Jay Hannah v. United Parcel Service, Inc. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-09-19 | Denied | Response Waived | ada ada-accommodation business-decision disability-rights employment-discrimination equipment-modification fourth-circuit judicial-review reasonable-accommodation reasonable-modification union-employee | Whether an employer's selection of the equipment used to perform a job precludes a court from considering whether modification of such equipment would… |
| 23-5469 | Peonte Shamar Spencer v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-sentencing due-process fourth-circuit hobbs-act standing statutory-interpretation violent-conduct | Question not identified |
| 23-5433 | Kingsley Azubuike Ononuju v. Virginia Housing Development Authority, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-08-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 42-usc-1983 agency-regulation constitutional-rights fourth-circuit improper-eviction rule-12b6 rule-60(b)(4) rule-60b4 section-1983 tila tila-claim void-judgment | Did the Fourth Circuit err in affirming the district court's rulings |
| 23-158 | Dora L. Adkins v. Fitness International, LLC | Fourth Circuit | 2023-08-18 | Denied | civil-procedure complaint-dismissal dismissal district-court district-court-order emergency-complaint fourth-circuit in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion standing | Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit properly affirmed the district court's order denying the plaintiff's requests and dismissing … | |
| 23-5313 | Leonardo Roque v. Eddie M. Buffaloe, Jr., Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety | Fourth Circuit | 2023-08-09 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure constitutional-merit due-process equitable-tolling fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-ruling standing statute-of-limitations | Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals commit Error when that court Denied Petitioner's Certificate of Appealability |
| 23-5131 | Xavier Dominique Garris v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit harmless-error judicial-review plea-bargaining plea-colloquy rehaif-error remand standard-of-review trial-probability | Whether Rehaif error occurred and the Fourth Circuit erred in failing to remand the case |
| 22-7832 | David Troy, III v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-06-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court circuit-precedent criminal-resentencing fair-sentencing-act first-step-act fourth-circuit retroactive-changes retroactive-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether retroactive changes in the law unrelated to the Fair Sentencing Act must be corrected in a First Step Act proceeding? |
| 22-1207 | Columbia Falls Aluminum Company, LLC v. Atlantic Richfield Company | Ninth Circuit | 2023-06-13 | Denied | abuse-of-discretion cercla district-court environmental-response-costs equitable-allocation fourth-circuit judicial-review standard-of-review | Whether a district court's equitable allocation of environmental response costs pursuant to Section 113(f)(1) of CERCLA is properly reviewed on appeal… | |
| 22-7711 | William Jon Patric Ebert v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-06-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility fourth-circuit prior-bad-acts rule-404(b) rule-404b sixth-circuit united-states-v-stout | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's ruling to admit evidence of the appellant's … |
| 22-7692 | Gregory Allen Oaks v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-06-02 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act assault-offense circuit-split drunk-driving fourth-circuit mens-rea reckless-mens-rea violent-felony | Whether an assault offense that requires a reckless mens rea and is used to prosecute drunk drivers qualifies as a 'violent felony' under the Armed Ca… |
| 22-7534 | Charles Claude Ramsey v. Kimberly H. Runion, Director, Virginia Center for Behavioral Rehabilitation | Fourth Circuit | 2023-05-11 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-circuit judicial-recusal self-incrimination standing state-law | Whether the privilege against self-incrimination as set forth in Brown v. United States should be weighed against the need to put forward a defense th… |
| 22-7498 | Joel Armando Rodriguez v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-05-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cooperating-defendants cooperating-witnesses criminal-procedure drug-weight fourth-circuit methamphetamine offense-level plea-bargaining relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines | Whether the district court improperly expanded Guideline § 1B1.3 by including as relevant drug weight uncorroborated statements of two cooperating def… |
| 22-7414 | John Henry Moore v. United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina | Fourth Circuit | 2023-05-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process fourth-circuit judicial-procedure mandamus standing writ-of-relief | Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Erred When It Denied Certiorari to the District Court Proceedings |
| 22-7389 | Gerald Lee Banks v. A. W. Wingfield, Acting Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2023-04-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appellant-court case-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit judicial-review legal-precedent precedent sentencing-error | Did the Appellant err when it violated its own precedent in denying Banks sentencing error? |
| 22-7322 | Tevaris Crawford v. Mack Bailey, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2023-04-19 | Denied | IFP | appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-error standing writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Appeals Court of the Fourth Circuit erred by denying a certificate of appealability |
| 22-7290 | Michael Kenneth Howard v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure district-court fourth-circuit right-to-appeal sentencing-guidelines waiver waiver-of-appeal | Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by ruling that Mr. Howard waived his right to appeal whether the District Court erred by not applying Acceptance of R… |
| 22-7216 | Terrell Anderson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-04-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-circuit judicial-review motion-to-suppress pretrial-motion search-and-seizure standard-of-review | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Terrell Anderson's pretrial mo… |
| 22-946 | Martin Jay Manley v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-03-29 | Denied | Response Waived | borden categorical-approach circuit-split divisibility extreme-recklessness fourth-circuit mathis use-of-force vicar-statute violent-crimes-in-aid-of-racketeering | Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in holding that the Violent Crimes in Aid of Racketeering (VICAR) statute is divisible |
| 22-932 | North Carolina Division of Sons of Confederate Veterans, Inc. v. North Carolina Department of Transportation, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-03-24 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights constitutional-law first-amendment fourth-circuit free-speech government-speech license-plate public-forum specialty-license-plate state-law | Did the district court and Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals err in applying the 'Government Speech' doctrine? |
| 22-7035 | Brian Keith Person, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-03-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-circuit harmless-error mitigating-arguments procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review supervised-release | whether-the-fourth-circuit-erred-by-applying-a-plainly-unreasonable-standard-of-review |
| 22-7014 | Michael Hucks v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-03-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alternate-sentence appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-notice criminal-procedure fourth-circuit guideline-errors harmless-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit's reliance on an announced alternate variant sentence to assume as harmless all Guid… |
| 22-6972 | Deandre Earp v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourth-circuit judicial-interpretation mental-illness sentencing | Whether a criminal defendant who is found guilty but mentally ill can be punished as harshly as a defendant found guilty and sane |
| 22-797 | Marquay Quamaine Sheppard v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-02-22 | Denied | Response Waived | appeal circuit-court-precedent criminal-appeal criminal-procedure district-court due-process fourth-circuit precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-decisions | Did the Fourth Circuit err by dismissing the Petitioner's appeal and affirming the 188 month sentence imposed by the trial court, inasmuch as this dec… |
| 22-747 | Tracy Renee Pennington v. West Virginia | West Virginia | 2023-02-09 | Denied | Amici (3)Relisted (2) | arrest-warrant circuit-split fourth-amendment fourth-circuit home-entry law-enforcement payton-v-new-york probable-cause | When the police have an arrest warrant for a person, can they enter a home without probable cause that the person resides there and is present within? |
| 22-6719 | Michael Anthony Conage v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-02-07 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split drug-schedules eighth-circuit federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense fourth-circuit sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense tenth-circuit third-circuit | Whether the 'serious drug offense' definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug sch… |
| 22-736 | Willie Lumarris Baxter v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-02-07 | Denied | Response Waived | 18-usc-924(e) armed-career-criminal congressional-intent drug-offenses fourth-circuit predicate-offenses sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Was the Fourth Circuit's rejection of the Petitioner, Willie Baxter's argument that the prior offenses for serious drug offenses included in a prior i… |
| 22-6683 | Terrell Javon Jones v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-02-01 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split drug-schedules eighth-circuit federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense fourth-circuit sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense tenth-circuit third-circuit | Whether the 'serious drug offense' definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug sch… |
| 22-6625 | Ledger Lynn Hammonds, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment fourth-circuit franks-hearing franks-v-delaware judicial-review material-omissions preliminary-showing probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-challenge | Whether the proper test for determining a preliminary showing for a Franks hearing has been met when analyzing material omissions, and whether the Fou… |
| 22-6586 | Reginald Daushawn Earl Tate v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-01-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brandishing criminal-procedure firearm-brandishing fourth-circuit hobbs-act rule-11 sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether the United States Court of Appeals properly affirmed the trial court's improper sentencing of the defendant pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(1)(A… |
| 22-633 | Stacey A. Kincaid, Sheriff, Fairfax County, Virginia v. Kesha T. Williams | Fourth Circuit | 2023-01-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9) | 42-usc-12211 ada-title-ii americans-with-disabilities-act disability-definition disability-rights dsm-5 fourth-circuit gender-dysphoria statutory-interpretation | Whether the diagnosis of gender dysphoria, found in the DSM-5, is excluded from the ADA's definition of disability under 42 U.S.C. § 12211(b) |
| 22-6413 | Rajul Ruhbayan v. Rebecca Beach Smith, Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2022-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | christopher-v-harbury civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourth-circuit jury-trial sentencing-finality sixth-amendment supervisory-powers | Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and four Defendant judges' ongoing 17 years' cover up or violations of Petitioner's prospective denial of … |
| 22-6344 | Bryshun Genard Furlow v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance-offense criminal-procedure drug-conviction fourth-circuit mandate-rule prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines | Whether the Fourth Circuit erroneously refused to apply its intervening case law to Furlow's case, incorrectly applying the mandate rule |
| 22-6205 | Demetric Hardaway v. Lori Myers, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2022-12-02 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law district-court first-amendment fourth-circuit legal-interpretation retaliation summary-judgment transfer work-assignment | Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of the respondent on the petiti… |
| 22-6210 | Aaron Michael Crick v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-12-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing downward-variance fourth-amendment fourth-circuit judicial-discretion motion-denial reversible-error sentencing | Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by denying Mr. Crick's meritorious argument that the district court committed reversible error by de… |
| 22-6214 | Timothy Robert Gallion v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-12-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fourth-circuit sentence-credit sentencing-credit sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines supervised-release | Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by dismissing Mr. Gallion's meritorious argument that the district court committed reversible error … |
| 22-6099 | Robert Lewis v. Hoke County, North Carolina, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2022-11-18 | Denied | IFP | access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation procedural-default standing | Whether Ans Repellee's onmaddatery Response That Fully Riiefed The macs OF The Tesue Subject To Waiver Lohoot Realy Mew Or Vortec Gueerisa May Be The … |
| 22-6108 | Jose Luis Ramirez, Jr., aka Zachary Matthew Johnson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-11-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver criminal-conviction criminal-procedure fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel money-laundering plea-agreement plea-bargaining securities-fraud | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in dismissing the petitioner's meritorious appeal of his conviction of securit… |
| 22-5919 | Devonta Doyle v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-10-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-limits federal-criminalization fourth-circuit hobbs-act interstate-commerce local-crime morrison-v-united-states united-states-v-lopez | Whether the Hobbs Act's jurisdictional element violates the Constitution when applied to the federal criminalization of traditionally local violent cr… |
| 22-5854 | Willie Ricardo Gordon v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal criminal-procedure drug-crimes drug-weights fourth-circuit obstruction-of-justice presentence-investigation presentence-investigation-report sentencing | Did the trial court err in accepting the findings of the presentence investigation report, regarding the weights of the drugs attributable to Mr. Gord… |
| 22-5857 | Bango Benjamin Enyinnaya v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-10-18 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act breaking-or-entering burglary categorical-approach entry-requirement fourth-circuit generic-burglary mathis-v-united-states taylor-v-united-states violent-felony | Whether North Carolina breaking or entering is categorically broader than generic burglary |
| 22-5703 | Charles Michael Ledford v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-09-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourth-circuit habeas-corpus pro-se statute-of-limitations summary-dismissal | Whether it is inconsistent with this Court's Slack v. McDaniel 524 U.S. 473 (2002) standard for a Court of Appeals to decline to issue a Certificate o… |
| 22-5524 | Deandre Johnson v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia | Fourth Circuit | 2022-09-08 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review mandamus petition-for-writ standing unlawful-detention | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in denying Petitioner's request for a writ of habeas corpus |
| 22-5420 | Lawrence E. Mattison v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2022-08-22 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 4th-circuit civil-rights due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-procedure writ-of-error | Whether the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals made an error of Law when is failed to protect the 14th Amendment |
| 22-5404 | Charles Anthony Walker, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-08-19 | Denied | IFP | abduction abduction-definition circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure fourth-circuit hobbs-act robbery sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-guidelines | Whether movement of an employee within the confines of a store qualifies as abduction under U.S.S.G. § 2B3.1(b)(4)(A) |
| 22-5094 | Garfield D. Campbell v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-07-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidence fourth-circuit marijuana-use reversible-error sentencing supervised-release | Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by denying Mr. Campbell's meritorious argument that the district court committed reversible error by… |
| 22-5007 | Lann Tjuan Clanton, aka Tjuan v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-06-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver criminal-procedure federal-sting federal-sting-operation fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement | Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in dismissing petitioner's appeal pursuant to a plea agreement waiver after petitioner won the right to file a belate… |
| 21-8270 | Dora L. Adkins v. Driftwood Special Servicing, LLC | Fourth Circuit | 2022-06-29 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure en-banc en-banc-petition fourth-circuit judicial-procedure petition-for-rehearing petition-for-writ-of-certiorari rehearing | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit further erred in the Order, Dated, May 23, 2022, that denied Petitioner's Petition f… |
| 21-7959 | Salito Marques Good v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-05-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fourth-circuit johnson-precedent sentencing-maximum statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum supervised-release | Whether a defendant can be required to serve more than the statutory maximum sentence for his offense of conviction |
| 21-7860 | Erick Rahumid Hobbs v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-05-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cell-site-location-information exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment fourth-circuit imminent-harm warrantless-search | Whether law enforcement's warrantless collection of real-time cell-site location information (CSLI) is reasonable under the 'imminent harm' clause of … |
| 21-7867 | Jasper B. Mackey, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-05-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-sentencing due-process fourth-circuit government-discretion mandatory-minimum plea-agreement sentencing substantial-assistance | Whether the United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's judgment which did not depart below the mandatory mi… |
| 21-7683 | Nelson Conto v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-04-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-circuit interview-evidence judicial-error motion-in-limine standard-of-review trial-procedure | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in dismissing the petitioner's meritorious appeal of the denial of appellant's… |
| 21-7674 | Jamie Allen v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-04-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fourth-circuit reversible-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by refusing to hear Mr. Allen's meritorious claims that the district court committed reversible erro… |
| 21-7680 | In Re Israel Romero | 2022-04-21 | Denied | IFP | abeyance administrative-law appellate-review case-suspension civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts fourth-circuit judicial-discretion legal-procedure standing | Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err by placing this case in abeyance pending a decision in an unrelated case? | |
| 21-7583 | Larry Lowery, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-04-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering burglary categorical-approach civil-rights due-process fourth-circuit generic-burglary violent-felony | Whether North Carolina breaking or entering is categorically broader than generic burglary and cannot be a violent felony under the Armed Career Crimi… |
| 21-7581 | Ice Tee Hudson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-04-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-guidelines consecutive-sentences criminal-sentencing fourth-circuit reversible-error state-prosecution | Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by denying Mr. Hudson's meritorious argument that the district court committed reversible error by i… |
| 21-1155 | Natalia Marshall v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2022-02-22 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights declaratory-judgment fourth-circuit injunctive-relief mootness second-amendment standing | Whether a suit seeking a declaratory judgment and injunctive relief is rendered moot on appeal if the plaintiff remains negatively impacted by the law… |
| 21-7169 | Latwon James v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-factors supervised-release waiver | Whether the Fourth Circuit erroneously dismissed Mr. James's appeal based on a plea-agreement-waiver |
| 21-7107 | Nina Lynn Nowlan v. Bruce Gerald Randall Nowlan | Fourth Circuit | 2022-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-custody civil-procedure fourth-circuit habitual-residence hague-convention international-law parental-rights wrongful-removal | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred as a matter of law by affirming the district court's ruling that Canada had be… |
| 21-938 | Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. v. Sammie Louis Stokes | Fourth Circuit | 2021-12-23 | GVR | Relisted (2) | capital-punishment fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-evidence prejudice-analysis procedural-default strategic-decision strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | Whether the Fourth Circuit violated Strickland v. Washington in its prejudice analysis |
| 21-6643 | Leonus Stevenson Peterson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-12-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-circuit appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit knowing-and-voluntary miscarriage-of-justice plea-waiver standard-of-review | Did the Fourth Circuit err in finding that Petitioner's plea waiver was knowing and voluntary and then applying a stricter standard than a number of o… |
| 21-6509 | Adesijuola Ogunjobi v. United Nations, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2021-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure complaint-dismissal covid-19-class-action district-court fourth-circuit judicial-discretion judicial-immunity merit-of-complaint procedural-rules standing subject-matter summons-service | Whether the Fourth Circuit erroneously held that the district court has the absolute authority to dismiss a valid complaint on its own without allowin… |
| 21-797 | Serge Matthew Aluker v. Simin Yan, aka Simin Aluker | Fourth Circuit | 2021-11-30 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | child-abduction custody-agreement custody-rights fourth-circuit habitual-residence hague-child-abduction-convention hague-convention international-law parental-agreement parental-rights treaty-interpretation | Whether the Fourth Circuit's decision improperly wrote out the Article 3 requirement of the Hague Child Abduction Convention that a parental agreement… |
| 21-6260 | Samuel Lee Murchison v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review credibility-determination factual-findings findings-of-fact fourth-circuit judicial-procedure standard-of-review trial-court video-evidence | Did the Fourth Circuit err by employing a 'particularly defer[entional]' standard of review to findings of fact by the trial court that did not involv… |
| 21-5670 | Elijah Vines v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-09-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cell-phone-seizure circuit-split expectation-of-privacy fourth-circuit law-enforcement password-protected password-protection privacy-expectation tenth-circuit third-party-consent | Whether a third-party possesses authority to consent to the seizure of another's cell phone when that phone is password-protected, the owner has denie… |
| 21-391 | Paul Alexander, aka David Paul Hayes v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-09-10 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-conflict circuit-split constitutional-search derivative-evidence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-circuit harmless-error suppression supreme-court-precedent | Is the Fourth Circuit in violation of Supreme Court precedent and in conflict with other circuits when, in conducting a harmless error review, it inte… |
| 21-297 | Travis Croft v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-08-30 | Denied | Response Waived | armed-career-criminal-act carjacking categorical-approach force-clause fourth-circuit intimidation south-carolina statutory-interpretation | Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in concluding that a conviction for South Carolina carjacking is categorically a crime of violence under the Armed Ca… |
| 21-284 | In Re Mathew Ryan Byrd | 2021-08-27 | Denied | Response Waived | appeal appellate-review covid-19 criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit incarceration mandamus medical-conditions medical-risk | whether-the-fourth-circuit-abused-its-discretion-in-failing-to-render-a-timely-decision | |
| 21-271 | Raymond Benitez v. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Authority | Fourth Circuit | 2021-08-25 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | antitrust-immunity civil-procedure fourth-circuit governmental-unit hospital-authority local-government private-hospitals statutory-interpretation | Can a multibillion-dollar 'hospital authority' that operates in multiple States in a manner indistinguishable from private hospitals be a 'local gover… |
| 21-5463 | Christopher Jonell Tyler v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-08-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review due-process fourth-circuit government-breach judicial-review plain-error plea-agreement sentencing | Whether the Fourth Circuit violated the 'interests of justice' and this Court's ruling in Puckett v. United States |
| 21-5386 | Michael Kenneth Young v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-08-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal criminal-classification district-court drug-offense fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-appeal prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines serious-drug-offenses | Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal err in reversing the decision of the District Court which had determined that Petitioner Michael Young was not … |
| 21-5360 | Danta Omar Roberts v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-08-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure direct-appeal fourth-amendment fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-representation procedural-review standard-of-review trial-counsel | Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by ruling that the record did not conclusively demonstrate any deficiencies in trial counsel's representation, and Mr… |
| 21-5229 | Jevante Marcus Richmond and Arthur Gene Evans, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-07-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-sentencing district-court fourth-circuit procedural-reasonableness sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness | Whether the Fourth Circuit failed to apply substantive reasonableness review of the sentences imposed by the district court? |
| 21-5092 | Dawn J. Bennett v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-07-15 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fourth-circuit judicial-discretion presumption-of-reasonableness presumptive-reasonableness procedural-error sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review summary-reversal | Whether a district court applies an impermissible presumption of reasonableness to the Sentencing Guidelines range by referring to the range as 'presu… |
| 21-5098 | Hal Herring Brown, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver criminal-procedure fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel money-laundering plea-agreement plea-bargaining securities-fraud | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in dismissing the petitioner's meritorious appeal of his conviction for securi… |
| 20-8181 | Linwood Earl Stephens v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-06-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals appellate-jurisdiction clearly-erroneous-fact criminal-procedure due-process fact-finding fourth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding it did not have jurisdiction to review a decision to deny a departure under the United St… |
| 20-8186 | Michael James Young, Jr. and Vance Edward Volious, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-06-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law explosives first-amendment fourth-circuit law-enforcement mail-fraud non-mailable-matter postal-service statutory-interpretation | Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err by ruling that 18 United States Code Section 1716 prohibits as non-mailable an inert… |
| 20-8144 | Tamara Rouhi v. Kettler, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2021-05-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-courts fourth-circuit injustice judicial-procedure motion-to-dismiss standing | There has been no redress of my grievance |
| 20-1638 | Emmanuel Edokobi v. Paul W. Grimm, Judge, United States District Court for the District of Maryland | Fourth Circuit | 2021-05-25 | Denied | Response Waived | abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourth-circuit judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct letter-order pre-filing-injunction standing | Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in dismissing Petitioner's appeal |
| 20-8108 | Roy Lee Dykes v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-05-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appellate-procedure bail bond bond-motion criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard motion-denial | Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by failing to find that the District Court erred in denying Mr. Dykes' Motion for Release on Bond pending appeal? |
| 20-7677 | Juan Manuel Fuentes-Morales v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-04-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attorney-speech constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt victor-v-nebraska | Whether the Fourth Circuit's reasonable doubt charge conflicts with Victor v. Nebraska |
| 20-7703 | Gary Lamont Robinson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-04-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-court-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court fourth-amendment fourth-circuit individualized-assessment judicial-discretion procedural-reasonableness sentencing-review | Whether the Fourth Circuit's decision is in conflict with the Court's decision in Gall v. United States |
| 20-7489 | Michael Formica v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2021-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fabricated-evidence fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-standards standing | Whether the Fourth Circuit decision was debatable not to review the merits of the claims |
| 20-7476 | Jose Armondo Ramos Cabrera v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-03-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal criminal-appeal criminal-procedure defendant-objection due-process firearm-possession firearms fourth-circuit sentencing sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review two-level-enhancement | Whether the court erred when it denied defendant's objection to the two level enhancement for possession of a firearm |
| 20-7314 | Willard Lee Moss, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-03-03 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-conviction criminal-law domestic-violence due-process firearm-possession firearms fourth-circuit legal-error mens-rea rehaif rehaif-error | Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in affirming Moss's conviction for possession of a firearm by a domestic-violence-offender, where the evidence indica… |
| 20-7256 | James Timothy Cobb v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-02-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court fourth-circuit motion-to-suppress pretrial-motion search-and-seizure standard-of-review | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Appellant's pretrial motion to… |
| 20-7221 | William David Cannon v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2021-02-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggregate-prejudice criminal-procedure cumulative-effect due-process fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | Whether the Fourth Circuit's judicial precedence of not reviewing multiple ineffective assistance of counsel claims for the cumulative effect and aggr… |
| 20-7192 | Phillip Vance Smith, II v. Josh Stein, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2021-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactivity sixth-amendment teague-doctrine | Whether the rule announced in Melony v. Louisiana, 138 U.S. 1500 (2018) applies retroactively to cases on collateral review |
| 20-7186 | Brian Dale Lee v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-02-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5k2.1-motion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court fourth-circuit judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether the Fourth Circuit court erred in finding that the district court's consideration of conduct raised in a 5k2.1 motion was appropriate? |
| 20-7188 | Sedric Rashad Marion v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-02-19 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering burglary burglary-definition categorical-approach criminal-sentencing fourth-circuit north-carolina-law taylor-v-united-states violent-felony | Whether North Carolina breaking or entering is categorically broader than generic burglary and thus cannot be a violent felony under the Armed Career … |
| 20-7132 | Roy Lee Dykes v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appellate-procedure bail bond bond-motion criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard motion-denial | Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by failing to find that the District Court erred in denying Mr. Dykes' Motion for Release on Bond pending appeal? |
| 20-7079 | Lorenzo Liwayne Barnes v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-02-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-rights criminal-appeal criminal-procedure drug-crimes due-process fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel narcotics-distribution perjury sentencing sentencing-factors | Whether the United States Court of Appeal 4th Circuit violated the Appellant appeal rights |
| 20-6941 | Frank Joseph Dodge v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering burglary categorical-approach civil-rights due-process fourth-circuit generic-burglary stitt-v-united-states taylor-v-united-states violent-felony | Whether North Carolina breaking or entering is categorically broader than generic burglary and thus cannot be a violent felony under the Armed Career … |
| 20-897 | Kyle Kopitke v. Karen Brinson Bell, Executive Director, North Carolina State Board of Elections | Fourth Circuit | 2021-01-08 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | anderson-v-celebrezze ballot-access candidate-signatures constitutional-rights election-law fourth-circuit independent-candidates march-filing-deadline north-carolina petition-requirements | Whether the Fourth Circuit decision requiring all independent candidates to file their ballot access qualifying petitions by the date of North Carolin… |
| 20-6777 | James Baxton v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-01-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-evidence criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidence fourth-circuit rico rico-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether the Government produced sufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the Petitioner's actions were part of a Rico Conspiracy |
| 20-6703 | Roberto Antoine Darden, aka Dizz-e, aka Javon v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-12-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | district-court factual-dispute fourth-circuit government-breach hill-v-lockhart legal-interpretation plea-bargain plea-contract prejudice prejudice-standard | Whether the government's failure to dispute the factual manifestations of the Petitioner's government breach claim due to the plea contract's accounta… |
| 20-6647 | Douglas Charles Knicely v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-12-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court fourth-circuit motion-to-suppress pretrial-motion search-and-seizure standard-of-review | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Appellants' pretrial motion to… |
| 20-6563 | Isaiah Devon Stallworth v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-12-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appeals causation civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard petitioner standing | Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by concluding that Petitioner failed to make the requisite showing to receive a COA, when two other Circuits have rul… |
| 20-6476 | Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-11-30 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-1495 28-usc-2513 certificate-of-innocence court-of-appeals dismissal district-court federal-court-of-claims fourth-circuit jurisdiction rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation technical-claim | Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of a certificate of innocence in 28 U.S.C. § 2… |
| 20-6415 | Larry Antonio Burleigh v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-11-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | §2255-motion carjacking categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability collateral-review due-process due-process-clause fourth-circuit inchoate-crime johnson-ii mandatory-sentencing | Whether Petitioner is entitled to a certificate of appealability to appeal the denial of his motion to vacate his firearm convictions and mandatory se… |
| 20-6374 | Terrance Nathaniel Brown, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-11-18 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appeal appellate-review criminal-law drug-conspiracy fourth-circuit harmless-error sentencing united-states-v-harchulik | Whether the Court of Appeals misapplied the harmless error doctrine announced in United States v. Harchulik, regarding Brown's sentence for drug consp… |
| 20-6336 | Eric Troy Snell v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-11-16 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing fourth-circuit gall-standard gall-v-united-states harmless-error harmlessness-standard sentencing-guidelines | Does the Fourth Circuit's practice of not addressing erroneous Sentencing Guidelines calculations but affirming a sentence under 'assumed error harmle… |
| 20-6209 | Louis Sanders v. Charles Williams, Jr., Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2020-11-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus miller-el-standard slack-v-mcdaniel standard-of-review threshold-inquiry | Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in denying a certificate of appealability, in conflict with this Court's decisions in Miller-El and Slack v. McDaniel |
| 20-6165 | James Edward Sandford, III v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-10-29 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure felon-in-possession fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance plain-error-rule rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states second-circuit sixth-amendment | Should the Court grant certiorari to resolve the Circuit split regarding the plain error rule between the Second and Fourth Circuits as it applies to … |
| 20-407 | Nancy Massenburg v. Innovative Talent Solutions, Inc., et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2020-09-29 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights discrimination due-process eeoc-charge employment-discrimination federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourth-circuit pro-se-litigation statute-of-limitations summary-judgment title-vii | Whether the Fourth Circuit properly upheld the district court's dismissal of Title VII claim |
| 20-5804 | Bobby Burghart v. Sarah Beyer | Fourth Circuit | 2020-09-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights counsel discovery district-court due-process fourth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-standard reversible-error standing | Did the District Court err, and did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals compound the errors, when petitioner's request for counsel was denied, because… |
| 20-5824 | Trenard Caldwell v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-09-28 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit fourth-circuit guilty-plea plea-withdrawal rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation structural-error | Whether a defendant's guilty plea to a violation of 18 U.S.C. §922(g) is reversible error per se where the plea was neither knowing nor voluntary due … |
| 20-5792 | Ronald Leslie Pierce, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | concurrent-sentence concurrent-sentencing conviction-review criminal-monetary-penalties fourth-circuit harmless-error independent-sentences judicial-precedent sentencing-doctrine summary-reversal | Whether concurrent sentence harmless error doctrine is not appliable to multiple convictions and sentences with criminal monetary penalties |
| 20-346 | D. Ashley Pennington v. Beattie I. Butler | Fourth Circuit | 2020-09-15 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-termination first-amendment fourth-circuit public-defender qualified-immunity scott-v-harris standing | Whether the Fourth Circuit should have exercised jurisdiction and considered evidence regarding qualified immunity |
| 20-5453 | Jose Luis Sanchez-Rosado v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-08-24 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-error criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit harmless-error involuntary-plea plea-bargaining plea-colloquy standard-of-review | Whether an unconstitutional conviction based on a plea colloquy that omitted an element of the offense must be reversed where the defendant objected t… |
| 20-5424 | Alfred Lee Hanzy, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing fourth-circuit gall-precedent gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness | Whether the Fourth Circuit's decision is in conflict with the Court's decision in Gall v. United States, 552 U.S. 38 (2007) |
| 20-191 | Patrick Ronald Silva v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-08-19 | Denied | Response Waived | 28-usc-2255 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus miller-el-standard miller-el-v-cockrell | Whether the Fourth Circuit's denial of Petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 was unreasonable and confl… |
| 20-5251 | Michael Owen Harriot v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-08-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2401b appeals appellate-review civil-procedure district-court federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit heck-v-humphrey jurisdictional-issue standing statute-of-limitations statutory-time-bar | Whether the Fourth Circuit's lack of authority to raise 28 U.S.C. § 2401(b)'s time bar on its own when the district court's opinion did not rest on § … |
| 20-35 | Joshua E. Frankel v. United States, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2020-07-16 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights due-process federal-courts feres-doctrine fourth-circuit incident-to-service insurance-law military-tort separation-of-powers sovereign-immunity | Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in applying an unduly restrictive 'situs and status test' for the determination of whether the acts at issue were 'in… |
| 19-8752 | Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. Annette Moore, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2020-06-19 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights complaint-dismissal due-process fourth-circuit judicial-procedure jurisdiction official-misconduct precedent standing | Whether the petitioner's complaint contains sufficient factual allegations to survive a motion to dismiss |
| 19-8716 | Eric Martin Pepke v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-06-16 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review standing | Whether the Fourth Circuit appellate court erred in dismissing Pepke's motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 which included an unconstitutionality challenge t… |
| 19-8639 | Derrick Allen v. Ted Wire, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2020-06-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 42-usc-1983 administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights contract-law discrimination due-process employment equal-protection federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit | Whether a plaintiff-African American male has been denied due process and equal protection under the 14th Amendment and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by Caucasian … |
| 19-8616 | Anthony Helton v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-06-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review civil-procedure district-court fourth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-error motion-to-dismiss standing | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Helton's motion to dismiss? |
| 19-8605 | Courtland Barnes v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-06-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography criminal-sentencing district-court federal-appeals federal-sentencing-guidelines fourth-circuit mitigating-evidence sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness | Whether the district court's reliance on the child pornography guideline and the mitigating evidence Petitioner offered to the court require the vacat… |
| 19-1307 | Edward Thomas, Warden v. William Leroy Barnes | Fourth Circuit | 2020-05-20 | Denied | actual-prejudice brecht-v-abrahamson criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas-review fourth-circuit habeas-corpus juror-misconduct jury jury-contact precedent-interpretation substantial-effect | Did the Fourth Circuit misapply this Court's precedents by granting habeas relief where there was no evidence that a juror's contact with a third part… | |
| 19-8450 | Scott Leslie Carmell v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2020-05-12 | Dismissed | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-circuit habeas-corpus procedural-due-process sentencing-procedure standing | Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred by denying a certificate of appealability regarding the United States District Court issuing … |
| 19-8414 | Ashford James Simmons v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-05-07 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance-offense fourth-circuit prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing-guidelines serious-drug-offense | Whether the Fourth Circuit should be required to properly apply the categorical approach to determine if a prior conviction is a 'serious drug offense… |
| 19-8198 | Dora L. Adkins v. Whole Foods Market Group, Inc. | Fourth Circuit | 2020-04-07 | Denied | IFP | access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-circuit injunction standing | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit unpublished opinion and judgment issued on February 26, 2020 is defective |
| 19-7972 | Javier Brown v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4b1.1 career-offender categorical-approach drug-offense fourth-circuit modified-categorical-approach predicate-drug-offense prior-conviction records-of-conviction sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-4b1.1 south-carolina-code | Whether the Fourth Circuit violated the parameters set forth by this Court by using the modified categorical approach instead of the categorical appro… |
| 19-7872 | Samuel A. Wilder v. William F. Krebs | Fourth Circuit | 2020-03-04 | Denied | IFP | appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process fourth-circuit informal-brief motion-to-extend pro-se pro-se-litigation procedural-ripeness standing waiver-doctrine | Whether the court should have assisted this pro se litigant with time to respond to the Defendant's motion to extend time and Defendant's response to … |
| 19-7776 | Mickel L. Marzouk v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-02-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 924(c) crime-of-violence criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process elements-clause fair-sentencing-act fourth-circuit hobbs-act rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether Petitioner's sentence on the second § 924(c) conviction and twenty-five year sentence enhancement was incorrectly affirmed |
| 19-7706 | Tommy Adams, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-02-19 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | career-offender career-offender-guideline controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense controlled-substances criminal-law fourth-circuit modified-categorical-approach sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation taylor-descamps-mathis-precedent taylor-v-united-states | Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals incorrectly apply the line of authority from this Court beginning with Taylor v. United States, 495 U.S. 575 (… |
| 19-7562 | Dalton Laquane Smith v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-02-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-approach drug-offenses fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-categorical-approach mathis-v-united-states rehaif-v-united-states serious-drug-offense serious-drug-offenses shular-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | Does the Fourth Circuit's non-traditional definition of the categorical approach permit an overbroad definition of 'serious drug offenses' for career … |
| 19-7357 | Chris Fordham v. Corrections Officer Manzola, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2020-01-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-of-remedies fourth-circuit judicial-procedure procedural-dismissal section-1983 standing | Whether the USDC-EDAO erred in deciding that Plaintiff-Petitioner failed to exhaust and dismissing without prejudice Petitioner's § 1982 Complaint aft… |
| 19-7231 | Joshua Andrew Monroe v. Scott Lewis, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2020-01-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure district-court due-process fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-court-of-appeals habeas-corpus procedural-ruling statute-of-limitations | Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals err in not issuing a certificate of appealability where petitioner demonstrated that jurist of reason could fi… |
| 19-7178 | Tracy Jarvis Allen v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-01-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act armed-robbery fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-precedent johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states robbery sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment south-carolina standard-of-review | Whether the District Court erred in determining that Petitioner Allen's South Carolina Armed Robbery convictions are valid predicates under the Armed … |
| 19-7007 | Bryshun Genard Furlow v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-12-19 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach collateral-challenge controlled-substance-offense due-process fourth-circuit prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines serious-drug-offense state-conviction u.s.s.g.-4b1.1 | Whether the Fourth Circuit should be required to use the categorical approach, applying the parameters set by this Court, to its determination that a … |
| 19-6958 | Renee L. McCray v. Samuel I. White, P.C., et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-12-16 | Denied | IFP | bona-fide-error civil-procedure civil-procedure-rules debt-collection due-process fair-debt-collection-practices-act fdcpa federal-appeals federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourth-circuit jerman-v-carlisle rehearing standing summary-judgment | Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it denied the Petitioner's petition for rehearing, when the United States District Cour… |
| 19-6849 | Cedric Sharrod Williams v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-12-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-review controlled-substance criminal-law drug-crimes due-process firearm-proximity firearms fourth-circuit sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether the fourth circuit court of appeals erred in concluding that, despite the controlled substance [heroin] in this matter having been locked in a… |
| 19-680 | Kenneth Sealey, et al. v. J. Duane Gilliam, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-11-26 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process summary-judgment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court due-process fourth-circuit legal-analysis qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment | Did the Fourth Circuit err in holding that District Courts are not required to properly apply the qualified immunity analysis as to each officer and e… |
| 19-6619 | Genesis Lee Whitted v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | base-offense-level criminal-procedure drug-quantity drug-weight fourth-circuit indictment relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-1b1.3 time-interval | Whether the district court improperly expanded Guideline § 1B1.3 by including drug amounts associated with conduct occurring significantly outside the… |
| 19-6419 | Scott Wilson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability commerce-clause constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel plea-bargaining | Whether the district court erred in denying Wilson's habeas claim alleging counsel's unreasonable failure to investigate law and misadvice, thereby re… |
| 19-6394 | Jacques Paul Villafana v. Henry Thomas Padrick, Jr. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-10-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court-review civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine conflict-with-supreme-court fourth-circuit interlocutory-appeal judicial-procedure jurisdictional-challenge memorandum-order supreme-court-precedent | Whether the Court of Appeals' decision conflicts with this Court's opinions on collateral orders |
| 19-6292 | Malcolm Muhammad v. Y. Taylor, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights disciplinary-conviction district-court due-process evidence fourth-circuit good-time-credit hearing-rights jury-verdict liberty-interest parole retaliation standing | Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in deferring to the District Court's findings |
| 19-6124 | Jerry Scott Hill v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act assault breaking-and-entering certificate-of-appealability deadly-weapon fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-court-of-appeals johnson-v-united-states north-carolina-assault supreme-court violent-felony | Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that North Carolina assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious i… |
| 19-5801 | Emory Chiles v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-09-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-circuit motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure standard-of-review | Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Chiles' motion to suppress evidence? |
| 19-5501 | Mandrail Jamar Woodberry v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-08-07 | GVR | IFP | appellate-procedure counsel-withdrawal criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit jurisdiction rehaif rehaif-decision rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review withdrawal-of-counsel | Whether the court should vacate the opinion of the 4th Circuit and remand for further proceedings in light of Rehaif v. United States |
| 19-5408 | Gregory Daniels v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-dismissal dismissal due-process fourth-circuit jurisdiction legal-error notice-of-appeal standard-of-review standing | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred as a matter of law by dismissing petitioner's notice of appeal |
| 19-5270 | Phyteaf Phequan McCormick v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-07-22 | GVR | IFP | case-remand criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-law fourth-circuit judicial-interpretation sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review | Whether the Fourth Circuit's judgment should be vacated and this case remanded for further review in light of this Court's recent opinion in Rehaif v.… |
| 19-5196 | Malcolm Omar Robinson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-07-15 | GVR | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering burglary criminal-law fourth-amendment fourth-circuit rehaif-v-united-states remand sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether North Carolina Breaking and Entering is broader than Armed Career Criminal Act burglary |
| 19-5108 | Donald Covington v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines special-assessments standing statutory-claims | Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err in denying the Petitioner the ability to have his substantive constitutional, statut… |
| 19-5086 | Iris McClain v. Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-07-05 | Denied | IFP | bankruptcy-fraud civil-procedure district-court emotional-distress false-and-deceitful-misrepresentation fourth-circuit fraud-upon-the-court infliction-of-emotional-distress mail-and-wire-fraud mail-fraud wire-fraud | Whether the Fourth Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's Order Dismissing the Bankruptcy Fraud (Claim … |
| 18-9775 | Dustin Washington v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-06-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment affidavit criminal-procedure drug-weight forfeiture fourth-amendment fourth-circuit motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing-error standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in failing to find that the trial court erred in denying Mr. Washington's motion to suppress the search of the BMW |
| 18-9657 | Joseph Howard Davis v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-06-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split confrontation-clause criminal-evidence criminal-procedure drug-dealer drug-distribution due-process evidence fourth-circuit hearsay informant methamphetamine-offense non-testifying-witness second-circuit | Is an out-of-court statement by a non-testifying informant which identifies the defendant as a drug dealer hearsay? |
| 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 |
| 18A1211 | Karolyn Givens, et al. v. Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC | Fourth Circuit | 2019-05-22 | Presumed Complete | condemnation eminent-domain fourth-circuit land-use pipeline-easement property-rights | Whether a federal appellate court can authorize a private pipeline company to exercise eminent domain over private property without additional judicia… | |
| 18-9046 | Richard Shusterman v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-05-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-jurists standard-of-review | Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying issuance of a Certificate of Appealability of a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 ruling when the District Court… |
| 18-9016 | Henry Earl Miller v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 4th-circuit-court-of-appeals 5th-amendment 5th-amendment-equal-protection constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-law fourth-circuit habeas habeas-corpus procedural-due-process procedural-law wood-v-milyard | Does The Fourth Circuit's Widespread Practice Of Issuing Virtually Indistinguishable Production-Line Manufactured Rubber Stamped Opinions Violate Mill… |
| 18-9020 | Michael Marshall v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeal federal-courts federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit guilty-plea jurisdictional-grounds plea-bargaining sentencing | Whether the writ should issue so that this Court may decide whether Petitioner's guilty plea was valid |
| 18-8549 | Keith D. Goodman v. I. D. Hamilton, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2019-03-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process facial-unconstitutionality fourth-circuit habeas habeas-corpus second-or-successive second-successive-petition standing statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-statute | Whether a § 2254 (habeas) claim of a conviction under a facially unconstitutional statute is sufficient to overcome a statutory 'second or successive'… |
| 18-8410 | Marshall Ray Miller v. Joseph L. McFadden, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2019-03-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-enforcement-statements personal-jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing | Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals err in not issuing a Certificate of Appealability where Petitioner demonstrated a substantial showing of a con… |
| 18-8382 | Guy Ennis Smith v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-law coram-nobis criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment fourth-circuit free-speech military military-medals ninth-circuit speech-restrictions standing stolen-valor-act supreme-court-precedent | Whether this Court's decision in United States v. Alvarez has any effect on the subsection that criminalized the unauthorized wearing of military meda… |
| 18-8359 | Jarrett Terrell Edwards v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review career-offender criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fourth-circuit guideline-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g-4b1.1 u.s.s.g.-4b1.1(a) | Whether the United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals committed error by sentencing the Petitioner as a career offender pursuant to U.S.S.G. § 4B1… |
| 18-8355 | Mario Chester Tabron v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burglary burglary-element criminal-enhancement criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment fourth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Did the Fourth Circuit and the Middle district Of North Carolina (Greensboro) err in affirming the USSG 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) | 4-Level enhancement without p… |
| 18-7984 | James Scott Ervin v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit north-carolina statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals violate the Petitioner's rights to due-process by not following this Court's prior holdings, when it determine… |
| 18-7952 | Stanley D. Partman, aka Goat v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-vagueness due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirements standard-of-review unconstitutionally-vague | Is the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal's Standard of Determination for Issuance of a Certificate of Appealability in Essence Decides an Appeal Without … |
| 18-7924 | Clifton Donell Lyles v. Angela Broach, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-12 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-courts fourth-circuit issue-preclusion judicial-procedure jurisdictional-bar rooker-feldman-doctrine standing | Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals err by allowing the Rooker-Feldman doctrine to be used to grant motion for issue preclusion? |
| 18-7878 | John Timothy Cannon, aka Mr. JT v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment fourth-circuit jurisprudence | Whether the interpretation of conspiracy in the Fourth circuit is overbroad, violating the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment departing from th… |
| 18-7802 | Michael Hopson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aid-of-racketeering attempted-murder constitutional-claims criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-circuit insufficient-evidence murder pattern-of-racketeering racketeering-conspiracy | Whether the evidence was insufficient to convict the petitioner of racketeering conspiracy and murder/attempted murder in aid of racketeering |
| 18-7588 | Frank Odom, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-01-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver district-court due-process fourth-circuit mitigation mitigation-arguments plea-agreement remand sentencing | Does a plea agreement with an appeal waiver waive the right to obtain a remand requiring the district court to actually consider the defendant's mitig… |
| 18-7335 | Alonzo Alexander McKay v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2019-01-10 | Denied | IFP | appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missouri-v-frye supreme-court-precedent | Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err by denying a Certificate of Appealability (COA), due to its exceeding the scope of t… |
| 18-7129 | Brennan Christian, aka Twin, aka Trey v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | carpenter-precedent carpenter-v-united-states cell-phone-records cell-site-records circuit-split constitutional-rights district-court-discretion fourth-amendment fourth-circuit pro-se-petition stare-decisis | Has the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied this Court's ruling in Carpenter v. United States regarding cell phone records being Constitutional… |
| 18-7048 | Jimmy Lawrence Nance v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-12-17 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process extraordinary-circumstances fourth-circuit habeas-corpus slack-v-mcdaniel | Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying a certificate of appealability |
| 18-6581 | Larry Hailey v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-enhancement crimes-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-appeal prior-convictions section-2255-motion sentencing sentencing-guidelines virginia-prior-convictions | Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner's Appeal from Denial of His Motion Under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 Wherein Petitioner's… |
| 18-6352 | Joseph Kelvin Aberant v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-murder cross-reference firearm firearm-offense fourth-circuit imperfect-self-defense indictment self-defense sentencing-guidelines | Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in finding that the cross reference under Section 2K2.1(c)(1) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines was applicab… |
| 18-6231 | Dawud Rahim v. South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole, and Pardon Services | Fourth Circuit | 2018-10-05 | Denied | IFP | administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fourth-circuit notice notice-requirement parole parole-revocation procedural-rights standing state-deference | Was the petitioner denied procedural due process when the respondent failed to notify him prior to the reconvening of the Parole Board to reconsider a… |
| 18-6018 | In Re Gary Ivan Terry | 2018-09-18 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | actual-bias all-writs-act bias due-process fifth-amendment fourth-circuit judicial-bias mandamus recusal-statute separation-of-powers writ-of-mandamus | Whether the federal recusal statute was violated when a panel of judges on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit denied the motion… | |
| 18-5995 | Nathaniel R. Webb v. Donnie Harrison, Sheriff, Wake County, North Carolina, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2018-09-14 | Denied | IFP | abstention-doctrine circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-bail fourth-circuit habeas-corpus pretrial-detention speedy-trial younger-abstention | Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision in Arevalo v. Hennessy, 882 F.3d 763 (9th Cir. 2018), which held that the Younger abstention doctrine does not ap… |
| 18-5929 | David T. Odom v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal conditional-plea conditional-plea-agreement criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-appeals-court fourth-circuit plea-agreement standard-of-review statute-of-limitations | Whether a defendant can make a knowing and voluntary decision under a conditional plea agreement when, believing he is preserving his Motion to Dismis… |
| 18-5327 | Adib Eddie Ramez Makdessi v. Lieutenant Fields, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2018-07-24 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference deliberate-misconduct due-process evidence-suppression excessive-force federal-courts fourth-circuit judicial-conflict retaliation standing takings witness-tampering | Whether the Fourth Circuit's conflicting rulings overlooked key evidence and were in conflict with Supreme Court precedent in Farmer v. Brennan |
| 18-5063 | Charles Byers v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | class-decision counsel-notification criminal-procedure-appeal-rights due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandate-recall profitt-v-united-states recall-mandate right-to-appeal supreme-court-review wilkins-precedent wilkins-v-united-states | Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in denying Petitioner's Motion to Recall Mandate When Counsel Failed to Notify Him of his Right to seek review from t… |
| 18A1 | Adib Eddie Ramez Makdessi v. Lieutenant Fields, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2018-06-28 | Presumed Complete | due-process fourth-circuit judicial-opinion pro-se procedural-rights writ-of-certiorari | Whether the district court and Fourth Circuit violated due process by denying a pro se litigant copies of judicial opinions necessary to prepare a wri… | |
| 24A325 | South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism v. Google LLC | Fourth Circuit | Presumed Complete | constitutional-challenge fourth-circuit governmental-interest irreparable-harm sovereign-definition state-sovereignty | Whether a state's sovereign definition and self-identification constitutes a compelling governmental interest sufficient to overcome constitutional ch… |