| 25-363 |
Victor Manuel Castro-Aleman, aka Alfredo Quinones Olmo v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-26 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
discretionary-relief due-process fundamental-unfairness immigration-law judicial-procedure removal-proceedings |
Whether an immigration judge's failure to inform an alien of the right to seek discretionary relief from removal violates due process and thus can con… |
| 22-7095 |
Efrain Avila-Flores v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-03-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
8-usc-1326d administrative-procedure circuit-split due-process fundamental-fairness fundamental-unfairness immigration-law removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
Whether a failure to advise an unrepresented alien in removal proceedings about relief for which he is apparently eligible, is a defect that can rende… |
| 21-1579 |
Stephen Alexander v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2022-06-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
courtroom-closure fundamental-unfairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
When Defense Counsel errs by not objecting to an improper courtroom closure, should reviewing courts apply a 'fundamental unfairness' test, or the tra… |
| 21-6970 |
Nigel Kinte Wright v. Steven Rivard, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-trial cumulative-errors due-process evidentiary-errors fundamental-fairness fundamental-unfairness harmless-error judicial-review sixth-amendment |
To what extent is the test for analyzing whether cumulative evidentiary errors created a fundamentally unfair criminal trial coextensive with the test… |
| 21-5697 |
Shawn Mayreis v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights courtroom-closure due-process fundamental-unfairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel public-trial right-to-counsel strickland voir-dire |
Whether prejudice can be presumed when counsel's defective advice results in an unlawful and total closure of the courtroom to a defendant's family me… |
| 20-437 |
United States v. Refugio Palomar-Santiago |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-06 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (6)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law administrative-remedies criminal-law due-process fundamental-unfairness immigration-law judicial-review removal-order statutory-interpretation unlawful-reentry |
Whether a defendant automatically satisfies the prerequisites of 8 U.S.C. 1326(d) solely by showing that he was removed for a crime that would not be … |
| 19-1425 |
Palm Valley Health Care, Inc. v. Alex M. Azar, II, Secretary of Health and Human Services |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure administrative-process delay due-process fundamental-unfairness homebound-status medicare medicare-appeals overpayment overpayment-determination provider-rights statistical-sampling |
Whether an administrative process that is fraught with delay and fundamental unfairness and that clearly violates the provider's constitutional Due Pr… |
| 19-8388 |
Terrence Jamal Williams v. Sherry L. Burt, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-05-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-error courtroom-closure due-process fundamental-fairness fundamental-unfairness ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion sixth-amendment waiver-doctrine weaver-v-massachusetts |
Whether counsel's failure to object to the closure of the courtroom because he did not want to draw attention to his conduct meets the Weaver v Massac… |
| 19-7530 |
Orando Ricardo Thompson v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process fairness fundamental-unfairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-precedent outcome prejudice sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-review |
Whether Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), and its progeny adequately allows consideration of the fundamental unfairness of a trial absent… |
| 18-7497 |
Carl Burnie Wellborn v. Shane Jackson, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fair-cross-section fundamental-fairness fundamental-unfairness habeas-corpus prejudice procedural-default sixth-amendment structural-error |
Can reasonable jurists debate whether habeas petitioners asserting procedurally defaulted fair cross-section claims must show actual prejudice or that… |
| 18-7254 |
Alvin E. Thomas v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment actual-prejudice automatic-reversal collateral-review counsel-of-choice fundamental-unfairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error |
Is automatic reversal required where a defendant was denied counsel of choice due to the ineffective assistance of counsel? |