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25A907 Samson K. Orusa v. United States Sixth Circuit 2026-02-12 Application certiorari federal-court good-faith judicial-misconduct prisoner-petition pro-se Question not identified.
24-1125 ISS Aviation, Inc., Wyoming, et al. v. Bell Textron, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2025-05-01 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure contract-breach good-faith independent-representative quantum-meruit summary-judgment Did the district court misapply Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 12 and 56 in ruling on Bell's contract breach and good faith obligations, and did the…
24-5074 Charles Brian O'Neill v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant suppression Do the deficiencies in the search warrants and their supporting affidavits merit good faith protection from the exclusionary rule?
23-1321 Jeffrey Batio v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-06-18 Denied criminal-intent fraudulent-intent good-faith good-faith-defense jury-instruction jury-instructions mail-fraud misrepresentation misrepresentations wire-fraud Does it improperly deprive a defendant of his defense of good faith when a jury is instructed that, if the jury finds any 'false and fraudulent repres…
23-7323 Damon Todd Carey v. United States Third Circuit 2024-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP exclusionary-rule expert-testimony fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-doctrine independent-source inevitable-discovery probable-cause warrant-requirement Whether the 'inevitable discovery' doctrine requires the alternative theory to be active during the illegal search, and whether illegally obtained evi…
23-1144 John Anthony Castro v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-04-22 Denied Response Waived affirmative-defense burden-of-proof estoppel good-faith good-faith-erroneous-interpretation judicial-admission standard-of-review If the government raises an affirmative defense, does it bear the burden of proof?
23A598 Lillian Akwuba v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-29 Presumed Complete controlled-substances criminal-intent drug-distribution good-faith jury-instructions mens-rea Whether the jury instructions for a controlled substances distribution charge improperly defined the good faith standard and mens rea elements under 2…
23-148 SR Construction, Inc. v. RE Palm Springs II, LLC, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-16 Denied Response Waived adverse-claims bankruptcy-code-363(m) bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-sale foreclosure good-faith good-faith-purchaser section-363(m) superior-lien Whether a purchaser with notice of adverse claims that the property is not part of the bankruptcy estate and is subject to foreclosure based on a supe…
23-5303 Jeanne Germeil v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-procedure expert-testimony good-faith jury-instructions medical-practice ruan-v-united-states Whether the United States Supreme Court's Decision in Ruan v. United States Warrants Certiorari Review of the Court's Refusal to Instruct the Jury on …
22-7881 Leroy Henry Jr. v. United States Third Circuit 2023-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP anonymous-informant exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure united-states-v-leon warrant-requirement Whether United States v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897 (1984) was wrongly decided
22-1179 Sabena Puri v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-06-06 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-process foreign-government-inquiry good-faith irs-summons judicial-process judicial-review powell-framework tax-treaty treaty-request united-states-v-powell united-states-v-stuart Is a foreign government's abusive or bad faith purpose ever relevant to the enforcement of an IRS summons issued pursuant to a treaty request?
22-7098 Rashid Turner v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment bank-robbery-act cell-phone cell-phone-search double-jeopardy exclusionary-rule good-faith good-faith-exception hobbs-act search-and-seizure warrant warrant-requirement Whether good faith should apply when law enforcement agency has a policy, written or unwritten, where the officer who conducts a search of a cell phon…
22-6777 Fharis Denane Smith v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-02-14 Denied IFP cell-phone circuit-split digital-privacy fourth-amendment good-faith law-enforcement-procedure probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-requirement Question Presented
22-6489 Brian Matthew Morton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights good-faith probable-cause riley-v-california search-and-seizure Whether the pervasive role of cell phones in contemporary society alone can supply probable cause to believe that evidence of a known or suspected cri…
22-567 Gary Mattos, et al. v. AFSCME Council 3 Fourth Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 agency-fees civil-rights constitutional-rights damages first-amendment good-faith good-faith-defense section-1983 state-law state-law-immunity Does defendant's good-faith reliance on a state law before it was held unconstitutional shield it from damages liability for taking agency fees from P…
22-394 Eric Brown, et al. v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 5, AFL-CIO, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-10-27 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 agency-fees civil-rights constitutional-rights damages-liability first-amendment good-faith good-faith-defense section-1983 Does defendants' good-faith reliance on a state law before it was held unconstitutional shield them from damages liability for taking agency fees from…
22-373 David Schaszberger, et al. v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Council 13 Third Circuit 2022-10-20 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights damages-liability due-process good-faith good-faith-defense qualified-immunity retroactivity state-action Is there a 'good faith' defense under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 that shields a defendant from damages liability for depriving citizens of their constitutional …
22-85 Oregon v. Langston Amani Harris Oregon 2022-07-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) delegation delegation-authority evidence-suppression good-faith good-faith-exception law-enforcement prosecuting-attorney statutory-interpretation suppression wiretap-order wiretapping Does 18 U.S.C. § 2516(2) prohibit the principal prosecuting attorney from delegating that authority to a deputy when state law allows the delegation?
21-1418 Medardo Queg Santos v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-05-04 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (2) controlled-substances expert-testimony good-faith good-faith-defense medical-practice medical-purpose relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether a physician's good faith is a complete defense to a prosecution for prescribing controlled substances without a legitimate medical purpose or …
21-7512 Kevin E. Herriott v. Major Parrish, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-03-31 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment disciplinary-action due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force good-faith good-faith-effort law-enforcement Whether petitioner given defendants' notice of what the claims are and the grounds upon which it rests?
21-1073 Kourosh Kenneth Hamidi, et al. v. Service Employees International Union, Local 1000 Ninth Circuit 2022-02-02 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights employee-protections first-amendment fourteenth-amendment good-faith state-action union-rights waiver Whether a labor union acting in concert with state officials may seize payments for union political speech from an employee absent clear and compellin…
21-1059 Citibank, N.A., et al. v. Irving H. Picard, Trustee for the Liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2022-01-31 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 11-usc-550 avoided-transfer bankruptcy bankruptcy-trustee burden-of-proof good-faith statutory-interpretation subsequent-transferee Whether a bankruptcy trustee seeking to recover an avoided transfer from a subsequent transferee under 11 U.S.C. 550 bears the burden of pleading and …
21-6682 Marcus L. Short v. Nebraska Nebraska 2021-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception judicial-review leon-standard probable-cause search-warrant united-states-v-leon Whether a reviewing court should ignore the Fourth Amendment analysis and go directly to a good faith analysis under United States v. Leon when an aff…
21-856 Barry D. Bilder v. Janice Dykstra Seventh Circuit 2021-12-09 Denied Response Waived agreement-construction civil-procedure clean-hands contract-ambiguity contract-interpretation contract-law contract-terms due-process fact-determination fraud good-faith legal-definition In contracts, after signing an agreement, is the term, 'new fact,' applicable to a fact that is new and previously unknown to one party, or new and pr…
21-781 NVS Technologies, Inc. v. Department of Homeland Security Federal Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied administrative-law consideration contract-law contract-termination due-process federal-agency funding-limitation good-faith good-faith-dealing government-contracts termination Can a federal agency refuse to allot available funds to an incrementally funded contract for any reason or no reason, and so terminate that contract, …
21-6211 Cubby Wayne Williams v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP brain-injury cognitive-deficits criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony good-faith mens-rea rule-702 traumatic-brain-injury willfulness Whether the district court committed reversible error by excluding expert evidence of the defendant's traumatic brain injury and its effects on his co…
21-480 William D. Brice v. California Faculty Association Ninth Circuit 2021-09-30 Denied 42-usc-1983 agency-fees civil-rights damages first-amendment good-faith good-faith-defense monetary-damages retrospective-liability statute-of-limitations union-dues Whether an affirmative good faith defense denying damages to the victims of First Amendment wrongdoing is faithful to the language and purpose of 42 U…
21-5086 Frank Craig Purpera, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-intent criminal-law good-faith jury-instructions lawful-practice medical-malpractice medical-practice professional-ethics professional-standard subjective-intent subjective-standard Whether a physician alleged to have acted outside the 'lawful course of professional practice' is entitled to a good faith instruction defining good f…
20-7739 Patrick J. Gage v. Reed A. Richardson, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied IFP constitutional-rights effective-assistance-of-counsel good-faith habeas-corpus reasonable-decision sixth-amendment state-criminal-defendants state-criminal-procedure Does habeas corpus exist for state criminal defendants?
20-1382 Emanuel Gettinger, et al. v. Irving H. Picard, et al. Second Circuit 2021-04-01 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy-code for-value good-faith good-faith-transfer ponzi-scheme securities-investor-protection-act sipa-liquidation statutory-interpretation transfer-avoidance value-transfer Whether the Bankruptcy Code's avoidance provisions operate differently in the context of a SIPA liquidation proceeding
20-1338 Li Li v. J.C. Penney Company, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2021-03-24 Denied Response Waived 363-motion asset-sale bankruptcy-code chapter-11 equity-committee good-faith good-faith-requirement standing sub-rosa-plan Whether the lower courts erred in authorizing the sale of J. C. Penney's crown jewel assets pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 363 under an impermissible sub ros…
20-6599 Randy Dominguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-10 Denied IFP appeal circuit-split criminal-procedure good-faith in-forma-pauperis retained-counsel Whether a criminal defendant represented by retained counsel in the district court must show that his appeal is taken in good faith to proceed in form…
20-5776 Joel Thomas Augard v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-09-23 Denied IFP 4th-amendment affidavit criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule good-faith good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant warrant-execution Whether the good-faith analysis prohibits consideration of facts not included in the search-warrant affidavit?
20-5367 In Re Abdul Mohammed 2020-08-18 Denied IFP civil-procedure district-court district-court-judgment frivolous-appeal good-faith good-faith-complaint judicial-immunity mandamus-petition subject-matter-jurisdiction whether-judges-have-immunity-for-lack-of-subject-matter-jurisdiction
20-160 Ahmed Halim v. United States Federal Circuit 2020-08-14 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-diligence good-faith government-discretion housing-regulations official-good-faith standing state-variance takings What are the limits on due diligence?
20-5339 Leandre R. Jennings, III v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception illinois-v-krull judicial-approval judicial-review law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant united-states-v-leon Whether the reviewing court must use the test set forth in United States v. Leon or the test set forth in Illinois v. Krull to determine if good faith…
19-8423 Christopher Gies v. Ohio Ohio 2020-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-doctrine probable-cause probation-search reasonable-suspicion statutory-compliance warrantless-search warrants-clause Does a warrantless probation search conducted outside the scope of an authorizing state regulation and not authorized by a condition of probation, and…
19-1027 David Caswell v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-18 Denied Response Waived child-pornography computer-search federal-investigation fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception jurisdiction magistrate-jurisdiction network-investigative-technique search-warrant Did the FBI act in good-faith when it indicated to a magistrate judge that property to be searched pursuant to a search warrant application was locate…
19-7139 Daryl Glenn Pawlak v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment circuit-split due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment good-faith outrageous-government-conduct rule-41 search-warrant warrant-violation Whether the Fifth Circuit's standard for determining outrageous government conduct violates the Fifth Amendment Due Process clause
19-759 Milo H. Segner, Jr. v. Cianna Resources Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2019-12-13 Denied avoidance-power bankruptcy bankruptcy-code burden-of-proof criminal-statute good-faith jury-instructions ponzi-scheme reasonable-commercial-standards transfer-liability Can a party who receives transfers that are the undisputed proceeds of a Ponzi scheme—and who admits committing a crime in connection with every trans…
19-708 Gold Value International Textile, Inc. v. Sanctuary Clothing, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 17-usc-411 attorneys-fees copyright-infringement copyright-law copyright-ownership copyright-procedure copyright-registration copyright-validity good-faith publication publication-status statutory-interpretation Can a court invalidate a copyright registration and terminate a pending case based on a good-faith inclusion of inaccurate information on a copyright …
19-6776 William Dawson v. Bryan K. Wells Fourth Circuit 2019-11-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process excessive-force good-faith habeas-corpus jurisdiction police-misconduct qualified-immunity sentencing voluntary-manslaughter writ Whether the petitioner is entitled to a remand of the case with instructions for the district court to reduce his or her sentence to time served and o…
19-495 Martin Shkreli v. United States Second Circuit 2019-10-16 Denied Response Waived bank-fraud forfeiture-calculation good-faith good-faith-defense jury-instruction jury-instructions loss-causation mail-fraud materiality mens-rea no-ultimate-harm prosecutorial-standard securities-fraud statutory-interpretation wire-fraud Whether a 'no ultimate harm' instruction in a securities fraud prosecution causes prejudicial jury confusion by effectively holding the accused to a h…
19-389 Jay Anthony Dobyns v. United States Federal Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Amici (1) breach-of-contract civil-procedure contract-interpretation contract-law duty-of-good-faith fair-dealing federal-circuit federal-contracts federal-government good-faith good-faith-and-fair-dealing government-contracts undercover-agents Whether the duty of good faith and fair dealing implied in all contracts, including contracts between private parties and the United States, permits a…
19-139 Delmar Hardy v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied cheek-v-united-states criminal-tax good-faith good-faith-reliance jury-instruction jury-instructions professional-reliance reliance-on-accountant specific-intent tax-fraud tax-law tax-professional willfulness Whether a subjective standard must be applied in determining whether there was evidence of full disclosure to support a reliance on a tax professional…
18-1489 Curtland H. Caffey, et al. v. Brenda K. Bowers, Chapter 7 Trustee Sixth Circuit 2019-05-29 Denied automatic-stay bankruptcy-estate chapter-7 civil-procedure civil-rico good-faith good-faith-defense property-of-estate rico rico-action statutory-interpretation Whether a state RICO action for injuries to a Chapter 7 debtor that arises five years after the filing of the Chapter 7 petition is property of the ba…
18-1405 Robert N. Taylor, III v. United States Third Circuit 2019-05-08 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment good-faith income-tax standing tax tax-liability waiver waiver-of-rights Whether a citizen can be compelled to waive constitutional rights or pay a tax he does not owe in good faith
18-8518 John Moses Burton v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception judicial-interpretation legal-precedent magistrate-qualifications search-and-seizure search-warrant standing When and how should the courts be bound to the precedent set by the high Court's opinion?
18-8418 Marvin Waddleton, III v. Bernadette Rodriguez, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-03-13 Denied IFP civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights cross-examination due-process force-application good-faith qualified-immunity summary-judgment Whether the District Court erred in resolving the issue of qualified immunity without a trial to cross-examine witnesses on the application of force i…
18-1066 Tracy Chang and Howard Hsu v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied Response Waived criminal-defense criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-defense good-faith-reliance jury-instructions search-warrant standing tax-fraud Whether a court must instruct the jury on a criminal defendant's good-faith reliance on professional tax advice as a defense, the scope of discretion …
18-7554 Jack Ferm v. Office of the Attorney General of Nevada Nevada 2019-01-24 Denied IFP attorney-general-misconduct contract-breach contract-damages fair-dealing false-statement gainful-employment good-faith good-faith-and-fair-dealing implied-covenant implied-covenant-of-good-faith-and-fair-dealing plea-agreement restitution Whether the court below erroneously held that a false statement by the Attorney General did not breach the plea agreement or the 'Spirit the contract'…
18-7231 Mark J. Avery v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial good-faith good-faith-defense money-laundering specific-intent trust trustee-liability wire-fraud Where the defendant, trustee of a private trust charged with wire fraud and money laundering based on his non-disclosure and misspending involving tru…
18-6645 Peyton John Wesley Hopson v. Stark County, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure good-faith in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion manifest-injustice pro-se standing Do the district court's failure to state reasons for certifying lack of good faith, failure to dismiss as frivolous, and failure to allow amendment am…
18-489 Bradley Weston Taggart v. Shelley A. Lorenzen, Executor of the Estate of Stuart Brown, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-16 Judgment Issued Amici (8) bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-law bankruptcy-procedure civil-contempt creditor-good-faith creditor-rights debtor-rights discharge-injunction good-faith judicial-conflict Whether a creditor's good-faith belief that the discharge injunction does not apply precludes a finding of civil contempt
18-379 Ellis Keyes v. Edison G. Banks, II Kentucky 2018-09-24 Denied Response Waived bill-of-rights bona-fides civil-rights due-process elections free-speech good-faith literacy-test voting-rights Whether a state's right-to-work law can subject a candidate to a mandatory literacy test as a condition of ballot access, abridging voting rights
18-5414 Keith William Deichert v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception jurisdiction objective-reasonableness rule-41 search-warrant void-ab-initio Does the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule apply to a search warrant that is issued by a judge without jurisdiction, rendering the warrant…
18-5410 Charles Podaras v. City of Menlo Park, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure good-faith good-faith-appeal in-forma-pauperis informal-form-brief ninth-circuit pro-se pro-se-litigant statement-of-reasons written-reasons Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in not permitting the petitioner to proceed on appeal in forma pauperis without further authorization
18-5368 Gabriel Werdene v. United States Third Circuit 2018-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP computer-search criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure-41(b) fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect law-enforcement-procedure search-warrant warrant warrant-validity Whether the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule applies when a warrant is void from the outset due to the issuing authority's lack of jurisd…
18-5039 Guy Kevin Rowland v. Kevin Chappell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied IFP aedpa criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federal-procedure good-faith habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition local-rules state-court statute-of-limitations Does the AEDPA apply where Petitioner's attorneys relied in good faith on the federal district court's local rules
23A905 Carl A. Melvin v. Hampton-Newport Community News Services Board Fourth Circuit Presumed Complete employment-discrimination good-faith hipaa-violations hostile-work-environment retaliation workplace-harassment Whether a public employer may legally retaliate against an employee for making good faith reports of workplace misconduct and potential HIPAA violatio…