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25-881 Christopher Hadsell v. Catherine Isham California 2026-01-23 Pending constitutional-challenge court-access due-process fundamental-rights judicial-procedure vexatious-litigant Whether States' Vexatious-Litigant Laws, specifically California's Vexatious-Litigant Law, are unconstitutional facial and as-applied challenges to fu…
25-6617 Naquea Elaine Johnson v. New Jersey, et al. Fourth Circuit 2026-01-20 Pending IFP due-process fundamental-rights in-forma-pauperis jurisdictional-challenge section-1983 state-actors Whether federal courts violate due process by denying in forma pauperis status when such denial prevents challenging jurisdictionally void state actor…
25-765 Health Freedom Defense Fund, Inc., a Wyoming Not-for-Profit Corporation, et al. v. Alberto Carvalho, in His Official Capacity as Superintendent of the Los Angeles United School District, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-30 Pending Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse Waived constitutional-scrutiny fundamental-rights government-mandate judicial-review medical-treatment rational-basis-review Does Jacobson v. Massachusetts limit judicial review of government-mandated medical treatments to rational basis review or require heightened scrutiny…
25-6132 Wesley Mark Sudbury v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof congressional-intent evidence-law fundamental-rights legal-procedure statutory-interpretation Whether mandatory statutes protecting fundamental rights under 18 USC 3504 are being uniformly applied as Congress intended, and what burdens are plac…
25-533 Minnesota Deer Farmers Association, et al. v. Sarah Strommen, Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, or her successor, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-10-31 Denied Amici (4) demographic-discrimination equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights legal-vocation strict-scrutiny Whether pursuing a legal vocation completely prohibited by state law for a demographic group is a fundamental right under the Fourteenth Amendment, an…
25A431 Health Freedom Defense Fund, Inc., a Wyoming Not-for-Profit Corporation, et al. v. Alberto Carvalho, in His Official Capacity as Superintendent of the Los Angeles United School District, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-10-15 Presumed Complete bodily-autonomy covid-19 fundamental-rights medical-treatment substantive-due-process vaccine-mandate Whether the Substantive Due Process Clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments permits a government entity to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations for emp…
25-380 Sean Kuhlmeyer v. Isabelle Latour Washington 2025-10-01 Denied constitutional-standard due-process family-court fundamental-rights no-contact-order parental-rights What due process is owed a parent when the state terminates, or significantly interferes with, the parent/child relationship by issuing a lifetime no …
25A330 John F. Carbin v. Massachusetts Board of State Examiners of Plumbers and Gas Fitters, et al. First Circuit 2025-09-23 Presumed Complete due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights licensing-restrictions property-rights rational-basis Whether the Fourteenth Amendment protects a fundamental right to perform one's own home repairs and plumbing work without state licensing restrictions…
25-258 Zante, Inc., dba Marlena's Bistro and Pizzeria v. Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Michigan 2025-09-05 Denied Response Waived civil-contempt equal-protection fundamental-rights subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause void-ab-initio Are unconstitutional laws void ab initio requiring retrospective treatment of opinions affecting fundamental rights?
25-259 January Littlejohn, et vir v. School Board of Leon County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-05 Pending Amici (12)Response RequestedRelisted (5) circuit-split constitutional-law executive-conduct fundamental-rights parental-rights state-policy When a plaintiff alleges that the application of a state policy infringed a fundamental right 'deeply rooted in this Nation's history and tradition,' …
25-5520 Dennis Wilson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-09-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-trial due-process fundamental-rights plea-agreement rights-to-counsel sentencing Whether the predicted outcome and potential sentence faced by Mr. Wilson, should he be convicted at trial, is to be compared to the plea agreement whe…
24A1055 Anthony Lemicy v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-05-01 Presumed Complete abortion-rights constitutional-privacy due-process equal-protection fundamental-rights reproductive-freedom Whether a state's population-based restrictions on abortion access violate the fundamental constitutional right to reproductive autonomy
24-6342 A. B. v. Florida Department of Children and Families Florida 2025-01-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-review due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights judicial-procedure Whether the lower court's de novo review of constitutional claims violated the petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment due process rights and right to a fai…
24-6176 Martin Gonzales v. New Mexico, et al. New Mexico 2024-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment-rights certiorari-denial constitutional-due-process fundamental-rights state-petition supreme-court-review Whether the New Mexico Supreme Court's denial of a state petition for certiorari violated constitutional due process and fundamental rights under the …
24A611 Ronnie Diaz, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-12-19 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearms-possession fundamental-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment when applied to individuals with non-violent criminal convictions
24-642 Lamel Jeffery, et al. v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2024-12-12 Denied Response Waived constitutional-scrutiny curfew-restrictions due-process emergency-powers fundamental-rights judicial-notice Whether the constitutionality of a mass curfew can be determined at the pleading stage without record evidence based solely on a government emergency …
24-5985 Tara Dawn Chapman v. Tennessee Department of Children's Services Tennessee 2024-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act fundamental-rights guardianship mental-disability parental-rights state-court Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) applies to termination of parental rights cases and protects parents with mental disabilities from l…
24-467 Christopher Hadsell v. Court of Appeal of California, First Appellate District, et al. California 2024-10-25 Denied access-to-courts constitutional-challenge due-process fundamental-rights state-interest vexatious-litigant Whether California's Vexatious Litigant Law is unconstitutional on facial and as-applied grounds due to lack of narrow tailoring and compelling state …
24-340 Jane Doe, on Behalf of Herself and Her Minor Child, Sarah Doe v. Franklin Square Union Free School District Second Circuit 2024-09-25 Denied Response Waived bodily-autonomy experimental-treatment fundamental-rights medical-intervention public-health strict-scrutiny Whether a child has a fundamental right to refuse an experimental medical intervention that places her at serious risk of harm, and whether strict scr…
24-5622 Elaine Mickman v. Superior Court of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2024-09-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-conflict constitutional-rights district-court fundamental-rights injunctive-relief judicial-overreach Whether the U.S. District Court erred in denying injunctive relief for alleged constitutional rights violations and potential judicial overreach
24-5350 Jay Sandon Cooper v. Texas Texas 2024-08-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP bill-of-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-rights judicial-duty Whether the judicial duty to identify and protect constitutional rights from Obergefell v. Hodges applies to state criminal cases and whether a convic…
24-5084 Terrence E. Gilchrist v. Simone Craig Ohio 2024-07-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP child-support due-process equal-protection equitable-relief fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights privileges-and-immunities procedural-protections social-security-act takings-clause turner-v-rogers Whether non-adherence to Turner procedural protections violates substantive-due-process-and-privileges-and-immunities,takings-clause,due-process-and-e…
24-22 Lauren N. Stone v. Theodore Worner, et al. Pennsylvania 2024-07-09 Denied Response Waived child-custody due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights grandparent-visitation harm-to-child parental-rights strict-scrutiny Does Pennsylvania's Child Custody Act violate a fit parent's due-process-rights,
23-7730 Thomas Richardson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process free-speech fundamental-rights judicial-exceptions legal-precedent standing supreme-court-authority Question not identified.
23-7712 C. B., Father v. Vermont Department for Children and Families Vermont 2024-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP balancing-test bright-line-rule constitutional-protection due-process fundamental-right fundamental-rights government-intervention parental-rights termination-of-parental-rights Whether the fundamental right to conceive and raise children without government interference requires a more objective, bright-line protection similar…
23-7681 Thomas George Craaybeek v. Texas Texas 2024-06-11 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-rights grand-jury habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief suppressed-evidence Question not identified
23-7470 Christopher L. Takhvar v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process edwards-v-arizona ex-post-facto fundamental-rights habeas-corpus retroactive-criminalization slack-v-mcdaniel Whether the denial of a Certificate of Appealability violates the established 'Slack v. McDaniel' standard to determine a substantial showing of the d…
23-7476 Julius Jerome Walker v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-05-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fundamental-rights ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct registration-requirements Whether the District court in Muskogee county denied me my fundamental rights because of PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT
23A986 Dwight Russell, et al. v. Harris County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-05-03 Presumed Complete fundamental-rights judicial-review legislative-intervention liberty-interest mootness pretrial-detention Whether legislation enacted during ongoing litigation can moot the underlying claims when the legislation does not provide the complete relief origina…
23-6503 David Rivera v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech fundamental-rights pretrial-claims prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-vindictiveness standing When a defendant presents strong circumstantial evidence of possible vindictiveness beyond mere correlation, can a presumption of vindictiveness arise…
23-6405 Brian K. Allen v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-circuit fundamental-rights plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-procedure Whether the near consensus Federal Circuit Courts of Appeals' application of plea agreement appeal waivers as to subsequent sentencing proceedings, wh…
23-646 Devon Tinius, et al. v. Luke Choi, et al. District of Columbia 2023-12-14 Denied Response Waived civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights curfew curfew-law due-process free-speech fundamental-rights overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine vagueness void-for-vagueness Whether the District of Columbia's curfew law is unconstitutional because it violates fundamental rights and because it is overbroad and void for vagu…
23-599 Miriam Gladden v. Rayna Woodford, et al. Maryland 2023-12-05 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure defective-motion due-process ex-parte-communication fundamental-rights judicial-bias pro-se standing Whether the Appellate Court's failure to acknowledge the plain error of Woodfords bringing a defective and improper motion and that the lower court al…
23-5737 Roger Wilson v. Department of Justice, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-10-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-rights dobbs-precedent due-process equal-protection fundamental-rights history-and-tradition obergefell-v-hodges originalist-interpretation same-sex-marriage substantive-due-process unenumerated-rights Does the Supreme Court's ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson apply to same-sex marriage rights?
23-358 Keith Andrews v. Jarred Brandon Kinnett, et al. Louisiana 2023-10-04 Denied biological-paternity deception due-process family-law filiation-petition fundamental-rights marital-presumption notice parental-rights paternity Does a biological father have a right to notice of paternity before prescription or peremption extinguishes his right to avow paternity?
23-309 Michael Paul Nelson v. North Carolina North Carolina 2023-09-26 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure disability-rights due-process equal-access fundamental-rights reasonable-accommodation Does the Confrontation Clause and/or Due Process Clause require a criminal court to modify policies to allow a disabled defendant to use prosthetic de…
23-5129 Earl Lionell Ward v. Ramsey County, Minnesota Minnesota 2023-07-18 Denied IFP civil-commitment civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights liberty-interest liberty-interests sex-offender statutory-criteria Whether Minnesota's indefinite sex offender civil commitment scheme violates Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment's due process rights
22-7797 Anurag Dass v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-justice due-process fundamental-rights ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel money-laundering plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the 5th Circuit erred in affirming the district court's decision that allowed to convict Petitioner of money laundering based on transactions …
22-6892 In Re Willie Thomas 2023-02-28 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process fundamental-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-bias judicial-discretion judicial-usurpation right-to-testify trial-procedure whether the District Court Approach to 2254 petition asserting a loss of a fundamental constitutional right to choose whether to testify in his own de…
22-6869 Daniel Earl Genson, III v. Kansas Kansas 2023-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-principles criminal-law criminal-punishment due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights mens-rea strict-liability Whether the absence of mens rea from a felony offense that criminalizes passive, otherwise innocent conduct without proof of notice while subjecting i…
22-6820 Sergio Moises Ochoa v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2023-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review compel-witnesses constitutional-interpretation due-process enumerated-rights evidence-rules fundamental-rights judicial-discretion present-defense rules-of-evidence May courts continue to treat fundamental and enumerated rights as mere guidelines to be discarded when inconvenient?
22-602 Ellizzette McDonald v. Shawn McDonald Illinois 2022-12-30 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fundamental-rights guardianship guardianship-rights marriage marriage-competency ward-autonomy Whether a state statute impermissibly interferes with the fundamental rights of wards to marry under the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of t…
22-586 Kimberly Beemer, et al. v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-12-27 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-challenge covid-19-restrictions due-process emergency-powers free-speech fundamental-rights judicial-review mootness standing voluntary-cessation Is this constitutional challenge to the Michigan Governor's emergency restrictions that directly infringed fundamental rights moot when the restrictio…
22-5975 Donnie Earl Phillips, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2022-11-04 Denied IFP civil-rights compensation constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process fundamental-rights judicial-review legal-proceedings malicious-prosecution speedy-trial wrongful-imprisonment Does Fundamental Error, Plain Error, and Constitutional Error all coincide when depriving a person of a final judgment?
22-404 Jane Goe, Sr., on Behalf of Herself and Her Minor Child, et al. v. James V. McDonald, et al. Second Circuit 2022-11-01 Denied Response Waived due-process fundamental-rights jacobson-v-massachusetts medical-exemption public-health strict-scrutiny unconstitutional-conditions vaccine-mandate Whether families have a fundamental right to a medical exemption
22-5276 Daniel Naftalovich v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, Division Four, et al. California 2022-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-vagueness criminal-statutory-scheme domestic-violence-prevention-act due-process emotional-calm ex-parte-restraining fundamental-rights prior-restraint-on-speech separation-of-powers void-for-vagueness Question not identified
22-67 Robert "Bob" King v. Specialty Hospital of Washington, et al. District of Columbia 2022-07-26 Denied anti-SLAPP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process expedited-hearing free-speech fundamental-rights pro-se-litigant procedural-rights special-motion-to-dismiss standing Whether the mandatory expedited hearing on a special motion to dismiss under an anti-SLAPP law is necessary to prevent a deprivation of fundamental pr…
22-5128 My Loan Nguyen v. Michael Pallares, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment fundamental-rights miranda-rights ninth-circuit police-interrogation police-questioning Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals violated petitioner's fundamental rights by ruling that the California Courts reasonably applied Miranda-v-…
21-8264 Ashley Georges v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-statute brady-v-maryland brady-violation court-of-appeals due-process equitable-tolling exculpatory-evidence fundamental-rights state-disclosure Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit improperly applied the AEDPA statute of limitations is subject to equitable tolling
21-8032 Michael G. Peters v. Innocent Projects of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-06-02 Dismissed IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection fundamental-rights marriage sexual-orientation Whether the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause and the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause prohibit the government from denying a person'…
21-7814 Julia Ann Poff v. Warren Smith, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fundamental-rights habeas-corpus standing structural-error trial-process Was the complete deprivation of Ms. Poef's fundamental rights to determine how to protect her liberty related to structural error that violated multip…
21-1352 Vivian Tat, aka Vivian Lnu v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-04-14 Denied Response Waived appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure fundamental-rights jury-instructions plain-error-review rogers-error rogers-v-united-states standard-of-review Does plain error review govern claims of Rogers error on appeal, as the Ninth Circuit held below, or are such claims reviewed for harmlessness beyond …
21-1226 Michael Washington v. Florida Department of Transportation Florida 2022-03-09 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-waiver counsel-representation due-process forfeiture fundamental-rights right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-rights waiver Whether the reasoning in Olano applies in a civil context where the failure of a party's counsel to object to closing argument due to misconduct or ne…
21-1212 Linsay Lorine Gatsby, nka Linsay Lorine Wallace v. Kylee Diane Gatsby Idaho 2022-03-07 Denied Relisted (2) child-custody civil-rights due-process equal-protection family-law fundamental-rights parental-rights same-sex-marriage Whether both members of a same-sex married couple have the same fundamental right as opposite-sex married couples to participate in the care, custody,…
21-7184 Richard Langley v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process fundamental-rights healthcare-rights medical-benefits medical-marijuana medication-alternatives right-to-life substantive-due-process Whether there is a fundamental right to use medical marijuana when it provides life-altering medical benefits that other medications cannot reasonably…
21-7173 Herman J. Snell, II v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-02-22 Denied IFP collateral-attack criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice fundamental-rights jurisdictional-challenge miscarriage-of-justice state-conviction subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the United States Supreme Court enter a new procedural rule of law that overrules subject matter jurisdiction?
21-1146 Gary McClain v. Texas Texas 2022-02-17 Denied client-autonomy criminal-procedure criminal-trial defense-counsel fundamental-rights right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error trial-strategy Whether defense counsel's concession of guilt during the guilt phase of trial, without the client's permission, violates the client's Sixth Amendment …
21-6782 A. M., aka A. G. v. Colorado, In the Interest of J. G. and C. G., Children Colorado 2022-01-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP best-interest-of-child best-interest-standard child-custody constitutional-rights due-process family-law fundamental-liberty fundamental-rights non-parent-standing parental-rights standing Whether it infringes on a fit parent's fundamental constitutional rights to, in the absence of clear and convincing evidence of unfitness or harm caus…
21-6708 Richard Max Tafoya v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process freedom-of-movement fundamental-rights international-travel judicial-review standard-of-review travel-restrictions What standard applies in reviewing the constitutionality of restrictions on the right to international travel?
21-6684 Ferrill Joseph Volpicelli v. Second Judicial District Court of Nevada, Washoe County, et al. Nevada 2021-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP bodily-autonomy civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection fundamental-rights judicial-review legal-interpretation reproductive-freedom state-supreme-court Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause and Equal Protection Clause prohibit the government from denying a person's fundamental right to…
21-667 Nathan Ernest Hatch v. State of Minnesota, City of Minneapolis Metropolitan Airports Commission Minnesota 2021-11-04 Denied 2nd-amendment carry-permit civil-rights constitutional-analysis due-process fundamental-rights minnesota-law second-amendment standing strict-scrutiny Whether a state statute that infringes on a U.S. citizen's Second Amendment fundamental rights must be subjected to strict scrutiny analysis
21-5966 Cecile Andrea Brown v. John C. Coughenour, Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii-standing civil-rights constitutional-rights damages due-process fundamental-rights government-accountability judicial-review mootness nominal-damages standing Whether nominal damages account for harms associated with past constitutional violations
21-5486 Scott Sanford v. Virginia Virginia 2021-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fundamental-rights intelligent-waiver jury-trial knowing-waiver sixth-amendment voluntary-waiver waiver Minimum requirements for waiving jury trial right
21-139 James W. Gilliam, II v. Discover Bank, et al. New York 2021-08-03 Denied Relisted (2) access-to-justice american-jurisprudence civil-rights constitutional-rights court-representation due-process fundamental-rights individual-immunity justice-system legal-access right-to-counsel Whether a citizen is entitled to their own day in court or be denied justice due to inability to afford a lawyer
20-7930 Oscar Smith v. Tennessee Tennessee 2021-05-05 Denied IFP death-penalty death-sentence due-process fair-trial fundamental-rights juror-bias juror-misconduct procedural-rules state-court-proceedings Whether a state court violates the federal due process rights of a death-sentenced prisoner who has asserted a colorable claim of juror bias and/or mi…
20-1423 Robert Grundstein v. Vermont Board of Bar Examiners Vermont 2021-04-09 Denied Response Waived bar-admission character-and-fitness civil-rights due-process equal-protection fundamental-rights separation-of-powers What levels of due process are required for bar admission?
20-7656 James Robert Monson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver constitutional-rights due-process fundamental-rights intentional-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing united-states-attorney Whether the United States Attorney Offices' standard appeal waiver violates due process of law
20-7131 Shean Elkins v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection fundamental-rights marriage-equality sexual-orientation Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause and Equal Protection Clause prohibit the government from denying a person's right to marry based…
20-6986 Lorenzo Escudero v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fundamental-rights habeas-corpus legal-sufficiency sentencing trial-by-jury trial-rights Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated through deprivations of due process, trial by jury, equal protection, and other fundament…
20-6504 Carolyn Barnes v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-authority delegated-authority due-process ex-post-facto fundamental-rights judicial-review motion-to-recuse recusal retaliation standard-of-review Whether it violates due process to ignore a Motion to Recuse and apply the wrong standard of review
20-692 Rosemary Webster, et al. v. Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc., aka Fresenius Medical Care North America Sixth Circuit 2020-11-19 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure bias civil-procedure due-process fundamental-rights impartial-tribunal judicial-bias prejudice standard-of-review tribunal-neutrality Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a judgment that violated the Petitioner's fundamental rights by supporting an opinion that (I) rep…
20-6333 Immanuel F. Sanchez v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fundamental-rights government-power hearing judicial-power oral-argument procedural-fairness standing statutory-interpretation Whether the government's denial of Petitioner's request for a hearing violates his fundamental right to due process under the Fifth Amendment
20-6310 Dean Phillip Carter v. Ron Broomfield, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254d1 attorney-client-conflict due-process fetal-alcohol-syndrome fundamental-rights habeas-corpus holloway-v-arkansas ineffective-assistance strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether a trial court has a duty to inquire into a conflict between a defendant and his attorney that implicates fundamental rights
20-416 Jon C. Caldara, et al. v. City of Boulder, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied Response Waived 2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights damages due-process federal-jurisdiction fundamental-rights judicial-abstention pullman-abstention Is Pullman abstention appropriate where abstaining has a chilling effect on the exercise of a natural, fundamental, constitutionally protected right?
20-5815 In Re Seth John Wilcox 2020-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process federalism fundamental-rights grand-jury hurtado-v-california supremacy-clause Can a state create and enforce contrary law that deprives its citizens of their fundamental rights, guaranteed by the United States Constitution?
19-8531 Marc Pierre Hall v. M. Inch, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-05-22 Dismissed IFP access-to-courts civil-rights deprivation due-process fundamental-rights standing Whether the petitioner's access to the courts to seek redress for the deprivation of his basic fundamental rights was denied in violation of due proce…
19-8180 M. H. v. Indiana Department of Child Services Indiana 2020-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment civil-rights compulsion constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fundamental-rights parental-rights self-incrimination waiver What are the present-day parameters to any assertion of privilege pursuant to the 5th Amendment to the United States Constitution (re: compulsion and …
19-7692 R. A. S. v. Montgomery County Children and Youth Services Pennsylvania 2020-02-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-1257a adjudication adjudication-hearing adjudication-order constitutional-rights due-process fundamental-rights parental-rights statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review termination-of-rights termination-proceeding Whether the right to a fair termination of parental rights proceeding include the right of an effective adjudication order, and whether the Supreme Co…
19-906 Philip N. Antico v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied allen-charge circuit-court-conflict constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-due-process fundamental-rights jury-instruction jury-instructions retrial-cost retrial-costs Is a criminal defendant's fundamental constitutional rights violated by an Allen charge that instructs a deadlocked jury to consider the expense of a …
19-891 John Lehmann v. Nicole Haims New York 2020-01-17 Denied child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights custody due-process family-law fundamental-rights parental-rights standing state-intervention Did the New York courts' decisions violate the parent and his child's constitutionally protected fundamental-rights,natural-rights
19-874 William Alan Pesnell, et al. v. Jill Sessions, et al. Louisiana 2020-01-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-access criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights public-access public-records sixth-amendment trial-recording Whether La. R.S. 44:4(47) and the local rule of the 26 Judicial District Court in and for Bossier Parish can bar public access to the digital recordin…
19-7077 Immanuel F. Sanchez v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fundamental-rights in-forma-pauperis oral-argument standing statutory-interpretation Whether the petitioner has a fundamental right to a hearing in these proceedings under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a)(1) and Coppedge v. United States
19-778 Edward A. Weinhaus v. Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-12-17 Denied Response Waived circuit-split custody-decrees diversity-jurisdiction domestic-relations-exception federal-question-jurisdiction frivolous-appeal fundamental-rights redress rule-38-sanctions Is There a Domestic-Relations Exception to Federal Question Jurisdiction?
19-6892 John R. Van Orden v. Mark Stringer, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-split civil-commitment due-process fundamental-rights liberty-interest mental-health-confinement sexually-violent-predator shocks-the-conscience substantive-due-process What is the proper analysis to review a substantive due process claim? Is it the conjunctive or disjunctive analysis?
19-6717 Jess Lee Green v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-rights guilty-plea plea-bargaining plea-proceedings trial trial-procedure trial-rights Is the right to due process of trial and/or during guilty plea process a fundamental constitutional right?
19-6536 Patt McGuire v. St. Louis County, Missouri, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-justice civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection fundamental-rights pro-se Should a Petitioner/Pro Se be granted the fundamental right to counsel which is essential to fairness in a civil case?
19-5985 Leeroy Cesar Carballo v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-18 Denied IFP appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-circuit-review fundamental-rights ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-testify sentencing sentencing-phase Whether a criminal defendant's right to testify was violated when his trial counsel prevented him from testifying to his version of events during the …
19-5519 Rubin R. Weeks v. Jason Lewis, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-08-08 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process fundamental-rights habeas-corpus jurisdictional-defect liberty-interest parole-revocation state-court-review state-jurisdiction void-judgment Does Petitioner have the Fundamental Rights to be free from the Missouri State Court's void judgment that has him restrained of liberty?
19-121 Kenneth Miller v. Robert Ferguson, Attorney General of Washington Ninth Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response Waived 2nd-amendment 351 (1973) which satisfies the habeas-corpus 411 US. 345 civil-rights custody-requirement due-process standing 2nd-amendment civil-rights due-process firearm-prohibition fundamental-rights habeas-corpus liberty-interest second-amendment self-defense severe-restraint-on-liberty standing Does the total prohibition on the exercise of a person's fundamental Second Amendment right to keep a firearm in one's home for purposes of self-defen…
19-5214 Beatrice Downs v. Ralph Northam, Governor of Virginia Fourth Circuit 2019-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1964-civil-rights-act adverse-medical-treatment civil-rights civil-rights-act-1964 due-process eeoc-claim employment-discrimination equal-protection fundamental-rights harassment medical-treatment retaliation right-to-work state-agency title-vii Whether the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects against retaliation by a state agency
18-9827 Donald Wayne Lamoureaux v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federalism fundamental-rights marriage-equality standing takings Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires States to license and recognize same-sex marriages?
18-9783 Nasser Ghelichkhani v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-validity coram-nobis criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fundamental-error fundamental-rights guilty-plea immigration immigration-consequences plea-bargaining Whether a conviction, with tremendous adverse consequences, is constitutionally valid, when it is obtained through a plea (that does not waive appeali…
18-9786 Luis Francisco, et ux. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services Texas 2019-06-25 Denied IFP appeal-fees appeals civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights indigent indigent-litigant notice parental-rights poverty Whether a State may condition appeals from termination of parental rights on a parent's ability to pay appeal fees when the parent's income is half of…
18-9759 Juan Rodriguez v. Illinois Illinois 2019-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP cognitive-defects due-process fundamental-rights kennedy-v-mendoza-martinez punishment-analysis rational-basis rational-basis-review sex-offender-registration strict-scrutiny substantive-due-process unfit-defendant Does Illinois's SORA scheme constitute punishment that impinges the fundamental right of unfit defendants to be free from trial or sentencing, thus fa…
18A1292 Steven L. Barnes v. South Carolina Department of Corrections South Carolina 2019-06-11 Presumed Complete certiorari due-process fundamental-rights prison-officials supreme-court time-extension Whether a state supreme court's denial of a prisoner's motion for an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari violates due process …
18-9065 Charlene Terry-Ann Walker Rosa v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-rights ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel sixth-amendment strategic-decision strickland-v-washington Whether petitioner's claim of ineffective assistance of counsel is governed by the applicable test of Strickland v. Washington
18-9012 Marc Anthony Lowell Endsley, aka Marc Endsley v. Edmund G. Brown, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-detention civil-rights due-process freedom-of-association fundamental-rights informed-consent privacy professional-judgment reproductive-choice youngberg-v-romeo Do civilly detained persons retain their fundamental rights to engage in voluntary sexual relations
18-1310 Charmaine Clement v. Thomas Durban, et al. New York 2019-04-16 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts burden-on-access civil-procedure constitutional-law court-access discrimination equal-protection fundamental-rights non-resident-discrimination privileges-and-immunities privileges-and-immunities-clause residency-requirements standard-of-review state-courts Whether Article 85 is consistent with the Privileges and Immunities Clause despite its discrimination against nonresidents of New York and the materia…
18-8688 Frederick A. McShan v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fundamental-rights ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct judicial-review legal-interpretation procedural-rights record statutory-provisions Whether the District Court erred in denying the appellant's due process and fundamental fairness claims
18-8346 Danilo Velasquez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure diminished-capacity due-process evidence expert-testimony fundamental-rights life-sentence ninth-circuit sentencing Did the Ninth Circuit fail to protect petitioner's fundamental due process right to present his complete defense?
18-8134 Ramon Vasquez v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights collateral-consequences constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process false-conviction fundamental-rights liberty-interest substantive-rights Whether 42 Pa.C.S.A. § 9543 (a)(1)(i), as applied by the court violated Vasquez's Substantive Rights of Due Process by impinging collateral civil and …
18-1040 Licong Li v. Sofia Dang Illinois 2019-02-08 Denied Response Waived child-custody crimes-against-humanity divorce divorce-proceedings due-process family-law fundamental-rights human-made-tragedies human-rights parental-rights visitation How long would crimes against humanity in terms of child custody and visitation in divorce cases be allowed to continue in this country?
18-7840 Tommie H. Telfair v. United States Third Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP dismissal-without-merits due-process miranda-v-arizona right-to-remain-silent wiggins-v-smith certificate-of-appealability due-process fundamental-rights judicial-discretion merits-review miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona right-to-remain-silent right-to-silence wiggins-v-smith Whether the lower courts abused their discretion in denying petitioner a certificate of appealability
18-7574 Libby Haines-Marchel v. Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board Washington 2019-01-25 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights community-property community-property-law criminal-liability-transfer due-process equal-protection fundamental-right-of-marriage fundamental-right-to-earn-a-living fundamental-rights marriage-rights right-to-earn-living spousal-liability state-licensing Can the transfer of the criminality of one spouse be legally shifted to another innocent spouse, to deny the innocent spouse a state license, despite …
18-7405 Gary Lee Beason v. Indiana Indiana 2019-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel-ineffectiveness appellate-review child-molestation collateral-attack criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-bias state-action trial-counsel trial-counsel-ineffectiveness Was Beason denied basic Due Process when a biased judge presided over his trial, and can the states preclude the issue from review on collateral attac…
18-7271 Richard Steven Johnson, Jr. v. Neil McDowell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied IFP confrontation-clause coy-v-iowa criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process fundamental-rights maryland-v-craig witness-testimony Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals violated petitioner's fundamental rights by ruling that the California Courts reasonably applied this Court…
18-794 Ronald R. Shea v. Winnebago County Sheriff's Office, et al. Seventh Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment bail civil-rights constitutional-amendments counsel due-process fundamental-rights petition-clause prisoner-rights telephone-access Whether a prisoner's right to a telephone call is a necessary inference of the fundamental rights of bail and counsel under the Sixth, Eighth and Four…
18-745 Alan Overton v. Tennessee Department of Children's Services Tennessee 2018-12-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process family-law fundamental-rights parental-rights state-action strict-scrutiny substantive-due-process Does the court order and underlying state action which prohibits all contact between the father and his children violate substantive due process under…
18-490 Jael Watts v. Michael K. Allen Virginia 2018-10-17 Denied civil-procedure court-rules due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights hearing-rights notice procedural-notice state-law state-procedure trial-court virginia-court-rules virginia-supreme-court Whether the trial court's failure to provide advance written hearing notices, as required by state procedural rules, constitutes a denial of the Petit…
18-445 Tanya Ramirez v. Texas Texas 2018-10-10 Denied civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute due-process equal-protection fundamental-right fundamental-rights intimacy legal-infringement privacy procreation sexual-conduct sexual-relationship texas-penal-code Is Texas Penal Code §21.12, which criminalizes an otherwise legal sexual relationship, unconstitutional in its infringement upon a constitutionally-pr…
18-286 Abhijit Prasad v. Will Lightbourne, et al. California 2018-09-05 Denied administrative-hearing child-abuse-reporting child-welfare due-process employment equal-protection family-privacy fundamental-rights privacy-rights reputation reputation-harm separation-of-powers Does CANRA's post-deprivation hearing scheme violate due process?