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25-6796 Carlos Martinez v. California California 2026-02-12 Pending IFP california-law constitutional-rights criminal-law judicial-interpretation resentencing sentencing-discretion Whether the California Supreme Court's interpretation of state sentencing law improperly restricts judicial discretion in resentencing proceedings for…
25-6731 Keith Lashon Bell v. United States Fourth Circuit 2026-02-05 Pending IFP appellate-waiver consideration contract-law criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation plea-agreement Whether general contract principles, such as the requirement of consideration, and negotiated exclusive remedies, apply to the enforcement of appellat…
25-6703 Pedro Cesar Villalobos-Espinoza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-02-03 Pending Response WaivedIFP case-law-review constitutional-law judicial-interpretation legal-precedent statutory-analysis supreme-court-precedent Should Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), be overruled?
25-654 Ayyakkannu Manivannan v. Department of Energy, et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-05 Denied Response Waived agency-document circuit-split court-order judicial-interpretation privacy-act procedural-error Did the 3rd Circuit Court err by accepting District Court's interpretation on a County Prothonotary-signed court order not signed by a Judge, violatin…
25-6237 Francisco Javier Rodriguez-Contreras v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law judicial-interpretation legal-precedent precedent-overruling statutory-construction supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
25-6038 Daniel Stewart v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-11-05 Pending IFP administrative-law auer-deference circuit-split judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction Pursuant to Kisor, are courts obligated first to determine whether a sentencing guideline is ambiguous before affording deference to the Sentencing Co…
25-6007 Gabriel Escalera-Diaz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law judicial-interpretation legal-precedent precedent-overruling statutory-analysis supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
25-396 Hernan Lopez v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2025-10-03 GVR criminal-prosecution foreign-commercial-bribery honest-services-statute judicial-interpretation second-circuit statutory-vagueness Whether the honest-services statute criminalizes foreign commercial bribery and whether the statute is unconstitutionally vague
25-5517 Joshua Rodriguez v. United States Second Circuit 2025-09-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review evidence-rule hearsay-exception judicial-interpretation present-sense-impression reliability-standard Have the federal appellate courts departed too far from the purpose and intent of the present-sense impression exception to the hearsay rule, such tha…
25-227 Raymond Poore v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-08-27 Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) administrative-law agency-deference circuit-split judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction Whether the limits on agency deference announced in Kisor and Loper Bright constrain the deference courts may accord the Sentencing Commission's inter…
25-5390 Brandon Desmond Medford v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion federal-procedure judicial-interpretation policy-disagreement sentencing-guidelines Whether district courts must ever consider arguments for a lesser sentence based on a policy disagreement with the Guidelines?
24-1325 Go New York Tours Inc. v. Gray Line New York Tours, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2025-06-30 Denied Response Waived factual-inference judicial-interpretation plausibility-standard pleading-requirements summary-adjudication twombly-iqbal Should this Court reconsider or clarify the pleading standards of Bell Atl. Corp. v. Twombly and Ashcroft v. Iqbal because lower courts nationwide hav…
24-7310 Ian Leonard Clark v. United States District Court for the District of Oregon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-challenge federal-constitution judicial-interpretation state-law statutory-interpretation Does the Supreme Court agree with the Appellant's claim that Oregon Revised Statute 14.270 is unconstitutional?
24-7268 Oscar Olalde-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law-review constitutional-law judicial-interpretation statutory-analysis supreme-court-precedent Should Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), be overruled?
24-7200 Theresa Batson v. Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation nunc-pro-tunc statute-of-limitations Whether a state court's entry of an amended judgment nunc pro tunc prevents that judgment from restarting the federal statute of limitations period fo…
24-1143 Atrium Medical Corporation v. C.R. Bard, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-07 Denied Response Waived circuit-split contract-law judicial-interpretation patent-expiration patent-licensing royalty-agreement Whether the Ninth Circuit's approach fails to properly determine what royalties are 'for,' as Brulotte and Kimble require
24-7149 Samuel James Weaver v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split federal-courts judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review What standard of review should apply when a district court applies a federal sentencing guideline to undisputed facts?
24-1136 Dale Prey v. Franciscan University of Steubenville, et al. Ohio 2025-05-06 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights equal-protection first-amendment judicial-interpretation religious-doctrine tort-law Whether the First Amendment's prohibition on congressional lawmaking limits judicial interpretation of religious doctrine and tort claims, and whether…
24-1039 Adolfo Sandor Montero v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Fifth Circuit 2025-04-01 Denied Response Waived brushaber-doctrine circuit-court-conflict judicial-interpretation legal-precedent supervisory-power supreme-court-rule Whether the Supreme Court should exercise its supervisory power to resolve circuit court conflicts regarding the Brushaber doctrine and prevent mischa…
24-6848 Derek Steven Trumbull v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP agency-deference judicial-interpretation regulatory-ambiguity rule-of-lenity separation-of-powers statutory-construction Do the separation of powers and the canons of statutory construction, most fundamentally the rule of lenity, permit the judiciary to defer to an agenc…
24-6839 Ralph W. Baker, Jr. v. Ta-Nehisi P. Coates, et al. Second Circuit 2025-03-25 Pending Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP copyright-law expression-of-ideas intellectual-property judicial-interpretation literary-rights originality Whether the court of appeals correctly interpreted copyright protection for an author's arrangement of words
24-6571 Roel Ivan Sanchez-Sosa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law judicial-interpretation legal-standard procedural-review supreme-court-precedent Should Almendarez-Torres v. United States be overruled?
24-6545 Rangsey Arundech Pich v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation sentencing written-order Whether a reviewing court may find ambiguity by going beyond the words used by the district court when pronouncing the relevant decision
24-6490 Jose Omero Carrizal-Osornia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law-review constitutional-law judicial-interpretation legal-standard statutory-analysis supreme-court-precedent Should Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), be overruled?
24-6477 Wilmer Yonathan Doblado-Padilla v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law-review constitutional-law judicial-interpretation legal-precedent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Should Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), be overruled?
24-6455 Ernest Murphy v. United States Second Circuit 2025-02-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation constitutional-precedent evidence-suppression favorable-evidence judicial-interpretation second-circuit Whether the Second Circuit Court invented an entirely new definition of Brady's 'favorable' definition that is incongruent with well-established Const…
24-6425 Cameron Cates v. Jared Shlemovitz, dba Junto Sounds, et al. Second Circuit 2025-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP copyright-law creative-works judicial-interpretation legal-petition procedural-fairness public-domain How is it that, according to the Second Circuit, 'all on the common wellspring that is the creative works draw public domain,'? What good is copyright…
24-6404 Degny Oshmarlin Molina Villatoro v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law-review constitutional-law judicial-interpretation legal-precedent statutory-construction supreme-court-precedent Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) should be overruled
24-6388 Taiming Zhang v. X Corp., fka Twitter, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 9th-circuit internet-immunity judicial-interpretation platform-liability section-230 user-content Whether the Supreme Court will correct the 9th Circuit's misinterpretation of 47 U.S. Code § 230 immunity and its potential impact on internet platfor…
24-6304 Rafael Paredes-Hinojosa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law-review constitutional-law judicial-interpretation precedent-analysis statutory-construction supreme-court-precedent Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) should be overruled
24-728 Iowa Pork Producers Association v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-10 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) circuit-split dormant-commerce-clause fractured-opinion interstate-commerce judicial-interpretation pike-balancing-test Whether a party alleging that Proposition 12 discriminates against interstate commerce states a claim under Pike v. Bruce Church, and whether lower fe…
24-6117 Michael Eric Pennington v. Texas Texas 2024-12-11 Denied IFP constitutional-review criminal-appeals ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation legal-precedent trial-procedure Whether the Court of Criminal Appeals' decision was contrary to established Supreme Court precedent
24-626 F.W. Webb Company v. Vincent N. Micone, III, Acting Secretary, Department of Labor First Circuit 2024-12-06 Denied administrative-exemption employment-law fair-labor-standards-act judicial-interpretation labor-regulations regulatory-compliance Whether the First Circuit's 'relational analysis' improperly determines FLSA administrative exemption by focusing on employer's business instead of em…
24-604 Xiaoqing Zheng v. United States Second Circuit 2024-12-03 Denied administrative-law agency-deference judicial-interpretation kisor-standard sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction Whether the limits on agency deference articulated in Kisor limit the deference owed to the United States Sentencing Commission's commentary on intend…
24-5845 Jackie Robinson v. Jerry Spatny, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-10-29 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation federal-statute judicial-interpretation remedies section-1983 Whether the lower court's interpretation of 42 U.S.C. § 1983 improperly limits civil rights remedies for constitutional violations
24-5765 Robert Lance Walker v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-of-appeals evidence-sufficiency judicial-interpretation legal-precedent standard-of-review Whether the court of appeals misapplied well established precedent when determining sufficiency of the evidence presented
24-5674 Gilbert Carrasco v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law judicial-interpretation legal-jurisdiction supreme-court-procedure Question not identified.
24-288 Jonathan Zuhovitzky, et ux. v. UBS AG Che 101.329.562, et al. Second Circuit 2024-09-12 Denied Response Waived circuit-court judicial-interpretation legal-causation proximate-cause rico-statute statutory-construction Whether the Second Circuit's interpretation of 'proximate cause' under RICO is unreasonably narrow and fails to honor the statute's breadth
24-5424 Bryan C. O'Rourke v. Carrie Bridges, Warden Oklahoma 2024-08-30 Denied IFP brady-violation criminal-statute due-process evidence-suppression judicial-interpretation prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the State of Oklahoma violated due process by suppressing material exculpatory evidence and retroactively applying an expanded judicial interp…
24-227 John Kevin Woodward v. California, et al. California 2024-08-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) acquittal criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment judicial-interpretation substantial-evidence Does the Supreme Court of California's narrow test for an 'acquittal' under the Fifth Amendment conflict with this Court's precedent?
24-5409 Maxsony Coissy v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence judicial-interpretation violent-felony Whether, under the categorical approach, the elements of a prior state conviction are determined by judicial interpretations in effect at the time of …
24A209 Malikah Asante-Chioke v. Nicholas Dowdle, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-08-27 Presumed Complete certiorari court-review judicial-interpretation legal-standard petition time-extension Whether the lower court's decision improperly interpreted or applied a critical legal standard that warrants Supreme Court review
24-5341 Charis Mapson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-law due-process federal-procedure judicial-interpretation Question not identified.
24-5214 Hsiu Ying Tseng v. Mona D. Houston, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation legal-review ninth-circuit prosecutorial-misconduct writ-of-certiorari due-process
24-5132 Charles Fitzgerald Branch v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split evidence-admissibility evidence-admission federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay hearsay-rule judicial-interpretation non-hearsay non-hearsay-probative-value probative-value procedural-standard Should this Court resolve a split between the Ninth and Third circuits on the admission of evidence for a non-hearsay purpose when its non-hearsay pro…
24-5128 Selvyn Gustavo Mejia-Marroquin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation legal-precedent recidivism sentencing statutory-analysis supreme-court-precedent Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) should be overruled
24-47 Return Mail, Inc. v. United States Federal Circuit 2024-07-16 Denied 35-usc-101 abstract-idea alice-corporation-v-cls-bank innovation judicial-interpretation patent patent-eligibility patent-law return-mail-inc-v-united-states-postal-service section-101 Whether the claimed invention is ineligible for patent protection under the abstract-idea exception to 35 U.S.C. §101
24-42 Scott Meide v. Pulse Evolution Corporation, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-16 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure corporate-assignment due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-interpretation legal-standing procedural-rules separation-of-powers standing unbiased-judiciary Has F.R.Civ. P. been abrogated by judicial fiat?
24-6 Stacy Williams, on Behalf of Her Minor Grandson, J. J. v. Andrew Williams, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-07-08 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights deshaney-v-winnebago due-process federal-circuit-split fifth-circuit judicial-interpretation legal-doctrine standing state-created-danger Whether the Court should end the Fifth Circuit's decades-long refusal to rule on the viability of the state-created danger doctrine by recognizing the…
23-1373 Capital Cartridge, LLC v. J. Michael Issa, as Trustee of the HMT Liquidating Trust Ninth Circuit 2024-07-02 Denied avoidance-provisions bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-courts bankruptcy-litigation creditors-committee derivative-standing judicial-interpretation statutory-authority Under the Bankruptcy Code's avoidance provisions, whether a creditors' committee has 'derivative standing' to bring suit on behalf of the estate, and …
23-7772 Christopher L. Parker v. Darren Galloway, Warden Seventh Circuit 2024-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-prisoner habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement state-court-remedies Whether the petitioner was denied due process by not being allowed to submit supplemental evidentiary arguments or be allowed to submit an amended mem…
23-1327 Paulette Barclift v. Keystone Credit Services, LLC Third Circuit 2024-06-20 Denied article-iii article-iii-standing circuit-split civil-rights-standing common-law-tort due-process intangible-harm judicial-interpretation standing-article-iii-harm-intangible-tort-common-l transu nion-precedent transunion-v-ramirez Whether under TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez, a plaintiff alleging an intangible harm need only allege one that is similar in kind, and not degree, to a ha…
23-1174 Peter Kleidman v. Hilton & Hyland Real Estate, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-01 Denied circuit-split evidence-rule expert-testimony federal-rule-of-evidence-704(a) federal-rules judicial-interpretation legal-duties ninth-circuit petition-for-writ-of-certiorari Does Federal Rule of Evidence 704(a) allow an expert to opine on a person's compliance with legal duties?
23-7345 James Joseph Bryant v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-30 GVR IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation jury-trial prior-convictions reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement Whether the elements of a prior conviction can be determined using current judicial interpretations
23A913 Richard Shean, et al. v. ZRS Management, as Manager for Arbors at Orange Park Florida 2024-04-11 Presumed Complete appellate-review due-process florida-supreme-court judicial-interpretation supreme-court-rule writ-of-certiorari Whether the Florida Supreme Court's ruling on [specific legal issue] violates constitutional principles of due process or judicial interpretation
23-7203 Vladimir Blasko v. Lasha Boyden, Acting United States Marshal for the Eastern District of California Ninth Circuit 2024-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP district-court-role extradition extradition-treaty foreign-state-law judicial-interpretation requesting-state-law statute-of-limitations treaty-interpretation treaty-obligations treaty-provisions When must a district court interpret and apply a requesting state's statute of limitations in an extradition proceeding?
23-7076 Jose R. Villavicencio v. Myron N. Terlecky Sixth Circuit 2024-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-exemption civil-procedure civil-rights drafting-error due-process exemptions iRA-exemption judicial-interpretation land-contract ohio-revised-code standing Is an error in the drafting of a land contract something that the court can ignore even as the validity of that land contract is central to the case
23-7016 Gregory Chatten Stockman v. California California 2024-03-18 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-interpretation patent-infringement patent-licensing standing state-court-review Whether the terms and conditions of a patent license agreement are admissible as evidence in a patent infringement case
23-6954 Charles B. Thomas v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review case-law circuit-court-conflict criminal-procedure double-jeopardy judicial-interpretation sentencing statutory-analysis supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-blackwell united-states-v-phipps witte-v-united-states Whether the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals decision conflicts with Supreme Court precedent
23-6950 Lawrence Guerain Fleming v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure felon-in-possession guideline-interpretation judicial-interpretation obstruction-of-justice pre-investigation-conduct sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines Can the sentencing guideline be applied to the defendant's conduct, which occurred before any justice was being administered and before any investigat…
23-884 Marco Antonio Perez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-16 Denied Response Waived circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process grand-jury harmless-error judicial-interpretation release-violation sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum Does 18 USC § 3147 authorize a sentence exceeding the statutory maximum for the underlying offense?
23-6749 Craig Alan Morrison v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-sentencing judicial-interpretation physical-restraint plain-text recurring-issue sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines victim-definition Whether a defendant should receive an increased sentence under U.S.S.G. § 3A1.3 for having 'physically restrained' a victim, where the conduct at issu…
23-6733 Lunick Janvier v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling judicial-interpretation legal-standard standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals' decision on equitable tolling is in direct conflict with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals based on si…
23-6606 In Re Jose Alonso Jimenez 2024-01-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP article-iii civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-interpretation jurisdictional-issue juvenile-justice legal-standards sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Question not identified
23-6493 Shannon Wilson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP application-note application-note-9 criminal-law drug-quantity judicial-interpretation methamphetamine pill-form sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the plain language of Application Note 9 to sentencing guidelines §2D1.1(c) requires a sentencing court to calculate the amount of pill-form m…
23-763 JDH Pacific, Inc. v. Precision-Hayes International, Inc. Texas 2024-01-17 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-standard clear-and-unmistakable-evidence evidence-standard first-options-precedent first-options-v-kaplan judicial-interpretation post-termination post-termination-claims state-supreme-court supreme-court-review united-states-supreme-court Whether a state supreme court can disregard the 'clear and unmistakable evidence' standard established by the United States Supreme Court in First Opt…
23-749 Edith Littlefield Sundby, as Trustee v. Jeffrey Myers, et al. California 2024-01-10 Denied amendment-iii civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-interpretation legal-rationing standing supreme-court-review takings Whether the Amendment III due process guarantee is being selectively rationed by California courts
23-6387 Montgomery Lebeau v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP anticipated-imprisonment concurrent-sentence concurrent-sentences criminal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-interpretation same-incident sentencing-guidelines state-charges ussg-5g1.3(c) Whether a pending state charge arising out of the same incident as the federal case plainly qualifies as 'anticipated' under USSG § 5G1.3(c)?
23-647 Adrienne Sepaniak King v. Meta Platforms, Inc., fka Facebook, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2023-12-15 Denied Relisted (2) 47-usc-230 civil-procedure content-moderation contract contract-law first-amendment free-speech immunity internet-immunity judicial-interpretation section-230 standing Should this Court adopt the opinion of Justice Thomas in Malwarebytes v. Enigma Software Group USA, LLC, reverse the Barnes v. Yahoo!, Inc. decision, …
23-5975 Caesar Mark Capistrano v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-court civil-rights due-process judicial-interpretation jury-instruction mens-rea prosecutorial-discretion reversal statutory-construction supreme-court-precedent Are inferior courts allowed unrestricted freedom to interpret the Supreme Court's holding in Ruan v United States?
23-474 Hearst Newspapers, L.L.C., et al. v. Antonio Martinelli Fifth Circuit 2023-11-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 17-usc-507(b) civil-claims civil-procedure copyright-act copyright-law discovery-rule judicial-interpretation statute-of-limitations Whether the 'discovery rule' applies to the Copyright Act's statute of limitations for civil claims
23-5800 Malcolm Muhammad v. William E. Jackson, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-10-18 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 circuit-court civil-rights federal-law free-speech judicial-interpretation land-use property-rights religious-land-use-and-institutionalized-persons-a standing statutory-construction summary-judgment Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in deferring to the district court's findings that the appellant failed to present evidence disputing the defendants'…
23-5662 Charles Keith Wampler v. Alicia Handwerk, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-laws due-process interpretation judicial-interpretation judicial-writing legal-argument legal-interpretation legislative-drafting legislative-intent statutory-construction statutory-laws word-definition Can an individual, in any capacity, be allowed to alter the definition of a word, or words, within a law so that the law better suits the argument the…
23-5621 Amado Alvarez-Alvarado v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-interpretation precedent precedent-overruling sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5332 Tamara Jeune, aka Tamara Voltaire v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-10 Denied IFP circuit-court-split circuit-split evidence-rule federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-interpretation prejudice probative-value propensity-evidence rule-404(b) trial-procedure How are the courts to properly apply Fed. R. Evid. 404(b)?
23-80 Jeffrey Laydon, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Cooperatieve Rabobank U.A., et al. Second Circuit 2023-07-27 Denied Amici (3) circuit-split civil-procedure domestic-application extraterritorial-application extraterritoriality federal-commodities federal-securities judicial-interpretation legal-precedent precedent statutory-focus statutory-interpretation Whether courts may consider factors other than the statute's focus to decide if a claim involves a domestic application
23-5221 Gilberto Betero-Carrillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-rule almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi-rule constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
23-5053 Joann Artis Stevens v. Town of Snow Hill, North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-07-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP administration-of-justice civil-procedure civil-rights judicial-interpretation judicial-system legal-remedies litigation-efficiency pre-trial-motions pretrial-motions rule-12(b)(6) rule-12b6 Whether the recurring issues and conflicts in the judicial system regarding the use of pre-trial motions under Rule 12(b)(6) to thwart remedies for me…
23-5012 Matthew Nix v. United States Second Circuit 2023-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation juror-misconduct jury-misconduct jury-selection mcdonnell-test mcdonongh-test supreme-court Whether the multiple interpretations of McDonough's two prong test requires this Court to grant certiorari to provide clarity and avoid disparate resu…
22-7883 Latron Y. Cross v. Illinois Illinois 2023-06-27 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation jurisdiction legal-standing speedy-trial standing state-court-review Whether the Illinois Supreme Court violated the petitioner's constitutional right to a speedy trial
22-7831 Charles A. McRae v. Shannon N. Myers, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-06-23 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation legal-standard sentencing-guidelines standing summary-judgment Whether the Appellate Court erred by affirming the district court's decision to deny petitioner's constitutional claims
22-1210 Colgate-Palmolive Company, et al. v. Rebecca McCutcheon, Individually and on Behalf of all Others Similarly Situated, et al. Second Circuit 2023-06-14 Denied actuarial-assumptions benefit-determination circuit-split deference erisa erisa-plan-administrator-discretion extrinsic-evidence judicial-interpretation plan-administrator statutory-and-regulatory Whether the Second Circuit erred in holding that it must disregard all objective extrinsic evidence of the reasonableness of an ERISA plan administrat…
22-7588 Eric Lee Coleman v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-05-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP affirmative-defense categorical-approach criminal-law due-process judicial-interpretation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-analysis statutory-interpretation Whether a court must consider the availability (or non-availability) of an affirmative defense in the categorical approach
22-7438 Frank Nellom v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2023-05-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP court-order criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process expungement fourteenth-amendment judicial-interpretation jury-finding jury-instructions rape-conviction Did the honorable Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge Joan A. Brown find the Commonwealth v. Frank Nellom, 565 A.2d 770 (Pa. Super.1989) Court Or…
22-7212 In Re Solomon Roberts 2023-04-04 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP administrative-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-due-process court-review due-process habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation legal-discretion pluralist-rule standing statute-of-limitations Whether the court erred in dismissing a pro se petition asserting a plausible claim of actual innocence without requiring a response from the state an…
22-7114 Miguel Ortiz-Castillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-27 Denied IFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
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
22-6897 Ruben Hernandez-Correa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-01 Denied IFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi certiorari constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation precedent sentencing supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
22-6845 Jesus Lopez v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment judicial-interpretation legal-procedure plea-bargaining rule-11 seventh-circuit Whether the Seventh Circuit's stringent application of Rule 11(d)(2)(B) violates due process?
22-6809 Mohamed Ibrahim Ahmed v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 404(b)-standard appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-rule evidentiary-issues evidentiary-test judicial-interpretation legal-uniformity rule-404(b) Is an updated, clear, and uniform test needed for the most common evidentiary issue presented on appeal, Rule 404(b) related issues?
22-6603 Miguel Angel Valencia-Sandoval v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation precedent-interpretation sentencing supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
22-653 Melvin Ray v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-17 Denied Response Waived abduction abduction-definition circuit-split criminal-procedure different-location guideline-commentary judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines stinson-v-united-states Whether the failure to follow the commentary's abduction definition engendered a broad circuit split — and if so, do it show that the victims were 'ab…
22-649 Jacinta Downing v. Abbott Laboratories, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-01-12 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence civil-rights discrimination employment employment-discrimination judicial-interpretation pretext seventh-circuit Whether the Seventh Circuit defeated the fundamental holding of this Court's decision in Costa when it affirmed the district court's refusal to allow …
22-644 Anthony Lomax v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-01-11 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived auer-deference career-offender career-offender-enhancement circuit-split crime-of-violence judicial-interpretation kisor-v-wilkie seminole-rock sentencing-guidelines Whether courts must determine if a sentencing guideline is ambiguous before deferring to the Sentencing Commission's commentary
22-6509 Roosevelt Mondesir v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP §2254-petition 28-usc-2254 federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation reasonableness-review state-court-decision state-court-decisions wilson-v-sellers Did the 11th U.S. Circuit Court err in interpreting Wilson v. Sellers to allow federal habeas courts to consider justifications not provided by the st…
22-6417 Eric C. Burgie v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2022-12-29 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure claim-construction criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation racial-discrimination standing statute-of-limitations tolling Whether the district court abused its discretion in denying Mr. Burgie's Rule 60(b) motion and appointment of counsel
22-6121 Michael Paul Conn v. West Virginia West Virginia 2022-11-21 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP bouie-principle bouie-v-city-of-columbia due-process judicial-interpretation notice notice-requirement retroactive-application retroactivity sex-offender-registration west-virginia Did the retroactive application of a new interpretation of a state sex offender registration law violate due process?
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 …
22-465 Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP, et al. v. International Paper Company, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (2) cercla cercla-statute-of-limitations contribution contribution-action damages declaratory-judgment environmental-liability judicial-interpretation response-costs statute-of-limitations Does a bare declaratory judgment that determines liability but imposes no 'costs' and awards no 'damages' trigger CERCLA's three-year statute of limit…
22-6022 Shimar Jamal Dean Thompkins v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-precedent criminal-law criminal-procedure diversionary-disposition due-process federal-charging federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant's prior diversionary disposition in a felony case can be considered both an indictment and a conviction for federal charging and s…
22-5981 Jose Refugio Nieto-Uribe v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation legal-precedent recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) should be overruled
22-397 Maria Solange Ferrarini v. Ipek Irgit, et al. Second Circuit 2022-10-28 Denied 17-usc-507b civil-procedure claim-accrual copyright-infringement federal-circuit-split judicial-interpretation laches laches-doctrine petrella-v-mgm statute-of-limitations Whether the judge-made laches-like ownership claim accrual test applies to bar a copyright infringement suit brought within the three-year look-back p…
22-295 In Re Deborah Walton 2022-09-28 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure court-order district-court due-process first-amendment judicial-interpretation jurisdiction legal-procedure remand seventh-circuit standard-of-review Did the District Court err by misinterpreting the Order from the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals?
22-5688 Michael G. Peters v. David Hittner, Judge, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-09-28 Dismissed IFP abortion civil-rights constitutional-rights declaratory-relief due-process free-speech injunctive-relief judicial-interpretation legal-standing procedural-law standing Whether the courts below erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for declaratory and injunctive relief against the enforcement of a state statute that…
22-5691 Meamen Jean Nyah v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence-rule-404b federal-rules-of-evidence firearms firearms-case judicial-interpretation prior-bad-acts propensity-evidence Whether Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) should be construed as a rule of inclusion resulting in certain admissibility of prior bad acts and use of pro…
22-5599 Denzell Russell v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation plain-error plain-error-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Is the Sixth Circuit's application of plain-error-review under Fed.-R.-Crim.-P.-52(b) in conflict with this Court's decisions?
22-5459 Jose Socorro Gonzalez-Ruiz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation legal-precedent recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) should be overruled
22-5461 James Keith Russey v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation legal-uniformity sentencing-guidelines state-law Whether the categorical approach requires courts to define Sentencing Guidelines terms like 'controlled substance' uniformly
22-5437 Justin Cornelius Harris v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-definition criminal-law due-process force-intimidation generic-robbery judicial-interpretation property-rights property-taking robbery statutory-interpretation Whether generic robbery requires the taking of property from another person or from the immediate presence of another person by force or by intimidati…
22-163 Lenair Moses v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-08-23 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law agency-deference auer-deference criminal-law judicial-interpretation kisor-v-wilkie precedential-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether the limits on agency deference announced in Kisor constrain the deference that courts may accord to the commentary to the Sentencing Guideline…
22-5386 Pamela Bond v. McKean County, Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2022-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process judicial-interpretation pennsylvania-law property property-tax real-estate real-estate-law tax-assessment tax-delinquency taxation vehicle-transfer Whether the 2005 Dodge Caravan was properly registered and inspected, whether Pennsylvania rebate laws apply to the property taxes on 316 Dawson Stree…
22-5193 Shaidon Blake v. Maryland Maryland 2022-07-26 Denied IFP appellate-review brady-violation civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation legal-standard Did the courts err in their interpretation and application of Strickland v. Washington in petitioner's case, failing to find ineffective assistance of…
22-5112 Roberto Hernandez-Aldama v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-standard fifth-amendment judicial-interpretation methamphetamine sentencing Whether the court of appeals violated the defendant's Fifth Amendment right to due process
22-18 Cuker Interactive, LLC v. Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP Ninth Circuit 2022-07-06 Denied CVSGAmici (2)Relisted (2) bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure case-law choice-of-law circuit-split federal-courts federal-jurisdiction forum-state judicial-interpretation substantive-law Whether federal courts must apply forum state or federal choice-of-law rules in bankruptcy cases
22-5020 Eduardo Che Rodriguez v. Gena Jones, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach criminal-provisions due-process elements judicial-interpretation prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement Whether due process requires that the comparison of elements of a prior conviction from a foreign state for sentencing enhancement purposes encompass …
21-8133 Gary L. Boyle v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-precedent course-of-conduct criminal-acts criminal-sentencing discretionary-sentencing federal-guidelines guidelines judicial-interpretation same-course-of-conduct sentencing-discretion separate-course-of-conduct united-states-v-booker What constitutes a 'separate course of conduct' in the discretionary sentencing context?
21-1551 Jamar E. Plunkett v. Dan Sproul Seventh Circuit 2022-06-10 Denied ambiguity contract-interpretation criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-interpretation plea-agreement rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation Whether a plea agreement that is subject to more than one reasonable interpretation must be interpreted in the defendant's favor
21-8041 Markentz Blanc v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidentiary-standards judicial-interpretation procedural-protections standing state-law vagueness-doctrine Whether an unaddressed Constitutional claim not affirmatively contradicted by the record deserves review, and if so, should review under Due Process C…
21-1283 Animal Science Products, Inc., et al. v. Hebei Welcome Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., et al. Second Circuit 2022-03-23 Denied Amici (2) antitrust antitrust-law federal-rule-44.1 foreign-conduct foreign-law judicial-interpretation prescriptive-comity sherman-act statutory-interpretation Whether U.S. courts may reinterpret the Sherman Act using a discretionary ten-factor balancing test under the doctrine of prescriptive comity
21-7429 Damon Ramon Martinez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law auer-deference constitutional-law crime-of-violence judicial-interpretation seminole-rock seminole-rock-deference sentencing-guidelines Does the Sentencing Commission's commentary impermissibly expand the unambiguous definition of 'crime of violence' in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 to include atte…
21-7408 Randy Dingle v. Talmage S. Baggett, Judge, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-03-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 18-usc-242 42-usc-1983 case-coherence civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-interpretation legal-induction occurrence-analysis planned-action procedural-reasoning standing Whether the occurrences in the case were the result of a planned action
21-7354 Joseph Patrick Keel v. Florida Florida 2022-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-precedent apprendi-rule criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process identity judicial-interpretation prior-convictions prior-record-exception sentencing sixth-amendment Whether courts have incorrectly applied a 'prior-record' exception to Apprendi and Alleyne
21-1232 Paul C. Nordberg v. The Massachusetts Teachers' Retirement System First Circuit 2022-03-10 Denied 11th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law due-process hans-v-louisiana judicial-interpretation legal-precedent sovereign-immunity standing state-immunity Should the 11th Amendment be the basis for judicial determinations
21-7211 Theodore William Taylor v. The Kendall Law Group, P.L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-02-25 Denied IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation legal-ethics misconduct statutory-interpretation Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's order dismissing the plaintiff's civil complaint without considerin…
21-7001 Adam J. Tenser v. Beth Silverman, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-representation civil-rights due-process fairness judicial-interpretation legal-solicitude liberal-construction pro-se self-representation slander standing Whether this Court's articulation of the pro se liberal construction rule in Haines v. Kerner, 404 U.S. 529 (1972) implies a general withdrawal of the…
21-1037 Steve Wilson Briggs v. James Cameron, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-25 Denied Response Waived 9th-circuit civil-procedure copyright-law due-process judicial-accountability judicial-interpretation judicial-system legal-authorities shell-corporations standing statutory-interpretation Whether the 9th Circuit has betrayed the Founders' intents by disregarding established authorities and creating its own copyright law system
21-1021 Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction v. Alvin Bernal Jackson Eighth Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Relisted (4) adaptive-skills constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process evidence intellectual-disability judicial-interpretation Whether courts may consider adaptive strengths in deciding whether a defendant is intellectually disabled and thus ineligible for the death penalty
21-6848 Juan Manuel Lopez v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-01-13 Denied IFP criminal-procedure equal-protection equal-protection-clause federal-major-crimes-act judicial-interpretation major-crimes-act mcgirt-v-oklahoma native-american-rights new-rule subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), announced a new rule of criminal procedure
21-920 Kalab D. Willman v. United States Armed Forces 2021-12-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure article-66-ucmj courts-martial due-process judicial-interpretation military-justice sentence-review sentencing statutory-interpretation uniform-code-military-justice Does the CAAF's decision prevent the CCAs from fulfilling their Congressionally imposed mandate pursuant to Article 66, UCMJ, 10 U.S.C. § 866, to dete…
21-6658 Donald Ray Johnson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-sentencing guideline-commentary judicial-deference judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether federal sentencing courts are bound by the illustrations found in Guideline Commentary?
21-6629 Jimmy Steele v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act judicial-interpretation retroactivity sentencing state-court statutory-interpretation Whether Congress intended a sentencing reduction under the First Step Act of 2018 to apply retroactively to defendants sentenced before the Act's enac…
21-6618 Jamie Matsuba and Takaharo Thomas Matsuba v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 27-year-old-opinion due-process judicial-interpretation legal-precedent loss-calculation mortgage-fraud rents-gained sentencing-guidelines Whether a loss calculation determined using 'rents gained' in a mortgage fraud case violates due process
21-869 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Lynn Goldsmith, et al. Second Circuit 2021-12-13 Judgment Issued Amici (41)Relisted (2) artistic-intent copyright copyright-law fair-use judicial-interpretation meaning message second-circuit source-material transformative transformative-work Whether a work of art is transformative when it conveys a different meaning or message from its source material
21-6476 Aaron Michael Murray v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court-review civil-rights due-process frivolous in-forma-pauperis judicial-interpretation legal-precedent standing Whether the district court and the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals violated this Court's decision in Ellis v. United States
21-6480 Francisco C. Martinez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-12-01 Denied IFP circuit-split civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit judicial-interpretation ninth-circuit prisoner-rights sandin-v-conner Whether the district court and the court of appeals for the Fifth Circuit misapplied the Supreme Court's decision of Sandin v. Conner, 515 U.S. 472 (1…
21-6440 Jemaine Monteil Cannon v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-11-29 Dismissed IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure final-judgment final-judgments habeas-corpus indian-law judicial-interpretation McGirt-precedent mcgirt-v-oklahoma procedural-law retroactivity Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 1408. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced
21-6443 Shaun Michael Bosse v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-11-29 Denied IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure final-judgment final-judgments habeas-corpus indian-law judicial-interpretation McGirt-precedent mcgirt-v-oklahoma procedural-law retroactivity Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 1408. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced
21-5935 Alex Adams v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-10-08 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation post-conviction-relief prisoner-rights unnecessary-litigation Whether the lower court abused its discretion by denying the petitioner's procedural claims, including the denial of access to the courts, failure to …
21-5870 Kirby Gant v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-principles due-process free-speech judicial-interpretation judicial-review legal-standard standing state-courts takings Does this Court's decisions in Greer and Gory override the government's and the court's duty to ensure the facts?
21-5688 Larry Donnell Dunlap v. Corizon Health, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2021-09-15 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure disputed-facts facts-unavailable judicial-interpretation legal-standard motion-procedure petitioner respondents summary-judgment Did the trial Court Judge abuse its discretion by granting the Respondents Summary Judgment, when facts were unavailable to Petitioner
21-5625 Phillip Shawn Horton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-interpretation legal-conflict procedural-review remand remand-order sentencing stare-decisis supreme-court-precedent Whether the opinion of the court below conflicts with this Court's decisions in Witte v. United States, Stinson v. United States, and Davis v. United …
21-5579 Emmanuel Perez v. Nebraska Nebraska 2021-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility evidence-rule evidentiary-standard federal-rules-of-evidence inextricably-intertwined judicial-interpretation standard-of-review Whether the 'inextricably intertwined' standard is a proper exception to Fed.R.Evid. 404(b)
21-5270 Robert Stanard v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process firearms judicial-interpretation legal-challenge personal-property state-law takings Does the taxing powers of Congress negate a person's possessory interest in personal property?
21-5271 Paul Surine v. United States Third Circuit 2021-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP crack-cocaine drug-conviction drug-quantity first-step-act judicial-interpretation recidivism-probability retroactivity sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines Whether petitioner Paul Surine should receive a reduced sentence under the First Step Act
21-5186 Mihran Melkonyan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law auer-deference circuit-split deference federal-courts judicial-interpretation regulatory-interpretation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether Auer deference applies to the Sentencing Guidelines
21-5071 Gigi Fairchild Littlefield v. California California 2021-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights covid-19 criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation prison-reform prosecutorial-discretion sentencing-guidelines standing systemic-injustice Whether the State of California's Department of Corrections has ignored a court ruling that jeopardized the lives and caused injuries and deaths of ma…
20-8409 Brenda Ford White v. O. L. Matthews, et al. Michigan 2021-06-23 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-discretion due-process fraud judicial-interpretation medical-malpractice racial-bias rico rico-violations standing vulnerable-citizens Must a court overlook a plaintiff's race in making a decision about her capacity and her right to defend her mother's cortisone death/ murder case aga…
20-8172 Jorge Antonio Perez, aka Steven Mark Hamm v. Gavin Newsom, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-28 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-due-process constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federal-sentencing free-speech judicial-interpretation prior-conviction-doctrine standing state-secrets-doctrine Whether the circuit court erred in ruling against the petitioner and finding violations of the state-secrets-doctrine
20-1630 Susan Chen v. Kate Halamay, et al. Washington 2021-05-20 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process guardian-ad-litem judicial-interpretation legislative-power pro-se-representation separation-of-powers Whether RCW 4.08.050 deprives a minor's constitutional right to counsel and effective representation as well as his right to access the courts
20-1601 Xiu Jian Sun v. David B. Cohen, et al. Second Circuit 2021-05-18 Denied civil-rights constitutional-jurisdiction divine-intervention due-process judicial-interpretation jurisdiction legal-standing mandarin-translation religious-freedom religious-petition separation-of-church-and-state standing Whether the plaintiff's claims based on divine revelation and instructions from God are justiciable under the U.S. Constitution
20-7932 Virgil Delano Presnell v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-05 Denied IFP 2254-limitations 2254(d) appellate-procedure factual-findings federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus implicit-findings judicial-interpretation state-court state-court-findings wilson-v-sellers Does Wilson v. Sellers permit federal habeas court to assign 'implicit' factual findings to state court order when applying 2254(d)'s limitations on r…
20-7784 Bryan Keith Goins v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process filing-deadline ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation legal-timeliness procedural-requirements sentencing writ-of-certiorari Whether the petitioner's sentence was unconstitutional
20-7720 Corey Denard Thomas v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation procedural-rules sentencing standing state-court-procedure Are Ferecal Couels Allowed fo Tatecfees with pendine Stete Couet PROCEEDINGS
20-1394 PersonalWeb Technologies, LLC v. Patreon, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2021-04-06 Denied CVSGAmici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) civil-procedure claim-preclusion federal-circuit issue-preclusion judicial-interpretation kessler-doctrine patent-law preclusion-doctrine voluntary-dismissal Whether the Federal Circuit correctly interpreted Kessler to create a freestanding preclusion doctrine
20-1352 Alexander Christian Miles v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response Waived appellate-waiver collateral-attack collateral-attack-waiver contract-interpretation contract-law judicial-interpretation plea-agreement plea-colloquy Whether oral pronouncements by the court or the government at a plea colloquy which clarify the extent of an appellate and collateral attack waiver in…
20-7542 Calvin Lewis Carter, III v. Illinois Illinois 2021-03-23 Denied IFP court-procedure criminal-procedure defendant-rights evidentiary-rulings fourth-amendment judicial-interpretation legal-challenge privacy procedural-rules search seizure standing Whether the petitioner's observation of 'by' char' from outside a residential building violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable sea…
20-7474 Ezralee J. Kelley v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP as four circuits hold as three circuits hold or whether a resentencing court must correct a Gu career-offender circuit-split fair-sentencing-act first-step-act judicial-interpretation resentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether a district court imposing a reduced sentence under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act is prohibited from correcting an erroneous Sentencing …
20-7351 Sheena Shaw v. Sacramento County Sheriff's Department, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-08 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1988 circuit-court civil-rights federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation section-1983 statute-of-limitations statutes-of-limitations tolling-rules May the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ignore the goals of 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when interpreting and applying state statutes of limitations and the coord…
20-7339 Kevin Antonio Watson v. Virginia Virginia 2021-03-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-interpretation court-procedure critical-stage due-process federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation procedural-review right-to-counsel right-to-effective-assistance-of-counsel structural-error Whether trial counsel's absence during the Commonwealth's witness direct examination constitutes a critical stage of the trial and a structural error
20-7306 Agustin Madrid, aka Augustin Madrid v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure case-preservation circuit-split criminal-procedure holguin-hernandez-v-united-states judicial-interpretation legal-objection preservation-of-error procedural-unreasonableness sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review Whether Holguin-Hernandez v. United States is relevant to the objections necessary to preserve claims of procedural unreasonableness
20-7111 Carlos Lopez-Vanegas v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-02-11 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence-presentation judicial-interpretation jurisdiction jury-trial state-court Should the 'Speedy Process' globally regarded as a 'Miracle Appeal' be properly adjudicated?
20-958 Rickey Leon Scott v. Eric Arnold, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived aedpa civil-rights due-process judicial-interpretation precedent stare-decisis When a Justice contributes the necessary fifth vote to a majority opinion but also writes a concurrence interpreting that opinion, should lower courts…
20-6755 Alejandro Tovar-Regalado v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-rule almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi-rule constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation precedent-interpretation sentencing supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
20-6760 Adam Lee Thomas v. Texas Texas 2021-01-04 Denied IFP civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process evidence extraneous-offenses innocence-phase judicial-interpretation legal-error state-court texas-rules texas-rules-of-evidence whether the weal Court erroneously admitted evidence of extraneous offenses or acts of miscanduct allegedly Committed by Petitioner luring the gui inn…
20-872 Shane Davis v. Mike Carroll, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-31 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process factual-reasonableness judicial-interpretation legal-standard qualified-immunity Whether qualified immunity absolves a defendant of § 1983 liability, despite knowledge of clearly established law, unless the plaintiff shows the viol…
20-836 Marcus Broadway v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-12-22 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) agency-deference due-process judicial-interpretation kisor-v-wilkie rule-of-lenity sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines stinson-deference Whether courts owe deference to the Sentencing Commission's commentary when it expands the scope of the Sentencing Guidelines
20-6668 Christopher Zamarripa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-21 Denied IFP ambiguity appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-interpretation plea-bargaining plea-colloquy procedural-ambiguity Does a district court's mischaracterization, during the plea colloquy, of an appeal waiver create an ambiguity that must be construed against the gove…
20-6525 Gerald Aranoff v. Susan Aranoff New York 2020-12-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals divorce-proceedings due-process judicial-decision-making judicial-interpretation legal-principles pension-division standing state-constitutional-law Are the NYS Court of Appeals' rulings consistent with the NYS constitutional requirement to articulate statewide principles of law in the context of d…
20-6535 Levi Ruffin v. United States District of Columbia 2020-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appointment-of-counsel civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-review habeas-corpus indigent-representation judicial-interpretation procedural-default standing state-court Whether the petitioner has a due process right to have counsel appointed to represent them in a civil matter due to their inability to afford an attor…
20-6329 Daniel Acedo v. United States District Court for the Southern District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-16 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process extraordinary-remedy federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation property-rights relief-sought standing statute-of-limitations Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits warrantless searches of vehicles parked on private property
20-621 Hua Cai v. Huntsman Corporation Tenth Circuit 2020-11-09 Denied Relisted (2) code-of-conduct contract-elements contract-formation contractual-obligations employee-handbook employment-contract employment-contract-terms judicial-interpretation non-retaliation-policy policy-documents Do policy documents constitute legally enforceable contracts?
20-6252 David Boyle v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-11-06 Denied IFP appellate-procedure appellate-rules civil-rights constitutional-remedy due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus Jimenez-v-Quarterman judicial-interpretation statute-of-limitations How can Ohioans reset the statute of limitations pursuant to 28-USC-2244(d)(1)(A) when Ohio-Rules-of-Appellate-Procedure prohibit the only remedy rais…
20-579 Zimmian Tabb v. United States Second Circuit 2020-11-02 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) administrative-law agency-deference criminal-law guidelines-commentary judicial-interpretation regulatory-ambiguity sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation Whether courts may defer to Sentencing Guidelines commentary without first determining that the underlying Guideline is genuinely ambiguous
20-574 Jake Corman, et al. v. Pennsylvania Democratic Party, et al. Pennsylvania 2020-10-30 Denied Amici (2)Response WaivedRelisted (4) constitutional-authority election-deadlines election-integrity election-law election-procedures elections-clause intervention judicial-interpretation legislative-power mail-in-ballots presidential-electors Whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court majority violated the United States Constitution by usurping the Pennsylvania General Assembly's plenary author…
20-542 Republican Party of Pennsylvania v. Veronica Degraffenreid, Acting Secretary of Pennsylvania, et al. Pennsylvania 2020-10-26 Denied Amici (9)Response WaivedRelisted (4) constitutional-authority election-law elections-clause electors-clause federal-election-day federal-election-statutes judicial-interpretation mail-in-ballots mail-in-voting pennsylvania-supreme-court preemption Whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court majority usurped the Pennsylvania General Assembly's plenary authority
20-5937 Rosa Enedia Pazos Cingari v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law authority commentary federal-sentencing guideline-commentary inconsistency judicial-interpretation legal-authority sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether United States Sentencing Guideline Commentary which adds to a sentencing guideline is necessarily inconsistent with the guideline such that th…
20-5759 Charles C. Williamson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP accomplice-liability criminal-procedure drug-quantity drug-weight judicial-interpretation relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether the district court and circuit court misinterpreted and misapplied the 'relevant conduct' provisions of United States Sentencing Commission, G…
20-5700 Antonio Moss v. Florida Florida 2020-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-regulations civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-interpretation judicial-review sentencing statutory-construction Why did a defendant's due process and equal protection rights be violated by the lower court's failure to address a defendant's sentencing error that …
20-5455 Fareed Sepehry-Fard v. Aurora Bank, FSB, et al. California 2020-08-24 Denied IFP arbitration-award civil-procedure court-conflict due-process henry-schein-inc-v-archer-white-sales-inc judicial-corruption judicial-interpretation non-judicial-arbitration notary-affidavit schein-rules standing Should this court end the conflict in lower courts by applying Schein rules nationwide that Arbitration Award is effective upon its perfection under n…
20-5222 Travon Nikeith Johnson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-remand court-review criminal-procedure exceptions Holguin-Hernandez judicial-interpretation legal-precedent procedural-analysis remand reversal sentencing supreme-court-citation Whether the court below overlooked or disregarded Holguin-Hernandez v. United States
20-5022 Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. Sara Glines, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-07-10 Denied IFP administrative-law agency-decision appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal due-process federal-circuit judicial-interpretation pleadings precedential-opinion standing Whether petitioner's complaint contains sufficient factual allegations to survive a motion to dismiss
20-5012 In Re Jeanette Woolsey-Ross 2020-07-09 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process equal-protection federal-state-laws judicial-interpretation jurisdiction legislative-intent standing statutory-interpretation Question not identified
19-8918 Donovan G. Davis, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court civil-procedure criminal-procedure executive-branch judicial-branch judicial-interpretation property-return rule-41g standing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Federal-Rules-of-Criminal-Procedure-41(g)
19-8928 Oscar Campos-Lagunas, aka Jose Lopez-Lomali, aka Carlos Ortiz, aka Orbelin Lagunas Campos, aka Carlos Laguna Campos, aka Oscar Laguan Campos, aka Norbelio Campos-Lagunas, aka Carlo Garcia, aka Orbelin Campos v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment judicial-interpretation precedent-review sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
19-8829 Anastasia Purnell v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation pro-se rule-of-law standing Should courts be held responsible for abuse of discretion when failing to follow the rule of law as written?
19-8483 Walter Barton v. William Stange, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-05-18 Denied IFP actual-innocence actual-innocence-evidence circuit-split competency-to-be-executed due-process evidence-standard execution-competence habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation schlup-standard schlup-v-delo Does new evidence of actual innocence require that it was not available at trial or not presented to the jury?
19-8477 Timothy Martin Kendrick v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech judicial-interpretation sixth-amendment standing Whether the petitioner's proceedings below violated his constitutional rights
19-1267 Ford Motor Company of Canada, Ltd. v. George Bell, et al. California 2020-05-05 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure control judicial-interpretation legal-standing litigation-control non-party preclusion preclusion-doctrine rigid-test rigid-two-part-test totality-of-circumstances Whether 'control' is assessed based on the totality of the circumstances, as seven courts of appeals have held, or using a rigid two-part test, as fou…
19-8116 Brenda Ford White v. O. L. Matthews, et al. Michigan 2020-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-discretion due-process judicial-interpretation medical-malpractice race racial-discrimination rico rico-claims standing vulnerable-citizens Must a court overlook a plaintiff's race in making a decision about her capacity and her right to defend her mother's cortisone death/ murder case aga…
19-8095 Deville McCants v. Cheryl Hansen, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-rules civil-procedure discovery district-court due-process judicial-interpretation medical-bills standing summary-judgment Whether the district court erred in denying the petitioner's motion to compel discovery
19-1146 Centaur, L.L.C. v. River Ventures, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2020-03-19 Denied Response Waived circuit-split conceptual-approach contract-classification federal-maritime-law judicial-interpretation maritime-commerce maritime-law precedent spatial-approach Whether the Fifth Circuit's new mechanical test complies with the conceptual approach mandated by this Court in Kirby and Kossick
19-8013 Keith Alexander v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-03-17 Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns criminal-sentencing due-process federal-appellate-review firearms ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation mandatory-minimum mental-capacity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction whether-the-court-erred-by-denying-defendant's-petition-for-writ-of-coram-nobis
19-7729 Aaron New v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-21 Denied IFP circuit-split false-claims-act judicial-interpretation legal-standard materiality materiality-standard objective-standard subjective-standard supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-gaudin universal-health-services-v-escobar Did the Ninth Circuit's opinion contradict this Court's holding in Universal Health Services, Inc. v. United States ex rel. Escobar 136 S. Ct. 1989 (2…
19-7646 Davion Fitzgerald v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach criminal-law due-deference federalism federalism-principles judicial-deference judicial-interpretation judicial-subjectivity sentencing-guidelines state-court-deference state-courts state-criminal-statutes state-statute statutory-interpretation May a federal court dismiss state precedent interpreting the state's own criminal statute as an 'odd hypothetical' based on 'legal imagination' to sub…
19-7632 Joshua Allen Bolen v. Erik A. Hooks, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety Fourth Circuit 2020-02-11 Denied IFP 2nd-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-interpretation sentencing standing statute-of-limitations takings Whether the petitioner's conviction was unconstitutional under the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution
19-7615 William E. Vukich v. Unified Judicial System of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2020-02-10 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection incarceration judicial-interpretation mistrial probation sentencing Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits multiple punishments for the same offense
19-7512 Jose Luis Urias-Marquez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure discretionary-review federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation rule-11 supervisory-powers united-states-court-of-appeals united-states-v-lee Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit conflicts with the decision of the D.C. Circuit on an important matte…
19-7338 David P. Moran v. Florida Florida 2020-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-interpretation prosecutorial-charging same-conduct same-victim sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines Should two charges for the same episode of conduct and the same victim with no temporal break whatsoever be sentenced to consecutive prison terms even…
19-7319 Thomas Bradford Waters v. John Stewart, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process evidentiary-standards excessive-force free-speech judicial-interpretation legal-procedure procedural-review qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment takings Whether the district court erred by granting summary judgment in favor of the defendant, despite the plaintiff's claims that there were genuine issues…
19-7042 Christian Rosado v. United States Third Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-law guidelines judicial-interpretation judicial-opinions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines state-law state-law-offense statutory-interpretation use-of-force Whether a state-law offense qualifies as a 'crime of violence' for purposes of the career-offender enhancement of the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines even …
19-725 JonMichael Guy v. Robert O. Lampert, Director, Wyoming Department of Corrections, et al. Wyoming 2019-12-09 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights clearly-established due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-interpretation qualified-immunity religion-clauses religious-discrimination sincere-belief standing When a government official discriminates against a belief that is sincere and religious to the victim, and is therefore protected by the Religion Clau…
19-6794 Lakesha Smith v. St. Joseph's/Candler Health System, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-law judicial-interpretation statute-of-limitations statutory-definition statutory-interpretation time-bar wrongful-termination Whether the United States Court of Appeals erred in affirming the United States District Court's decision of a time-bar verdict on the issue of 'willf…
19-640 Andrew Clarke, et al. v. Ray D. Goodson, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-18 Denied 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-interpretation legal-theory standing substantive-due-process Does substantive due process really mean anything, or is it mere mythology? Does equal protection of the law apply to everyone, or not?
19-6661 Jean Bernier, aka Charles Watson v. United States Second Circuit 2019-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP congressional-encroachment congressional-intent general-savings-clause habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation judicial-powers mandate-recall sentencing-enhancement separation-of-powers statutory-clarification statutory-interpretation Is the principle of separation-of-powers, which prohibits judicial encroachment on the exclusive power of Congress to make laws, violated, when a cour…
19-521 ChargePoint, Inc. v. SemaConnect, Inc. Federal Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Amici (2) 35-usc-101 abstract-idea alice-corp-v-cls-bank alice-v-cls-bank diamond-v-diehr innovation judicial-interpretation machine-or-process patent-eligibility patent-law section-101 Whether a patent claim to a new and useful improvement to a machine or process may be patent eligible even when it 'involves' or incorporates an abstr…
19-490 Jonathan S. Metcalf v. Michael Fitzgerald, et al. Connecticut 2019-10-15 Denied adversary-proceeding adversary-proceedings bankruptcy bankruptcy-code civil-procedure federalism judicial-interpretation legal-claims preemption standing state-law state-law-claims vexatious-litigation Does the Bankruptcy Code preempt state-law vexatious-litigation claims arising from adversary actions in bankruptcy proceedings?
19-6158 William A. White v. Todd Sloop, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-10-03 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process first-amendment free-speech hate-speech judicial-circuit-split judicial-interpretation prison prison-regulations religion Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in ruling that the statement that Judaism is a 'doctrine of hate' is equivalent to 'violence and murder' such that l…
19-6058 Guy Philippe v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP case-analysis civil-procedure-standing constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process extradition international-law judicial-interpretation legal-precedent res-judicata standing Whether the Court's conclusions in United States v. Rauscher, 119 U.S. 407 (1886) in conjunction with Kirkpatrick & Co., Inc. v. Environmental Tectoni…
19-6073 Glen T. Jones, Jr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus harmless-error judicial-interpretation plain-error structural-error Whether the state court's harmlessness determination is subject to habeas corpus review under Brecht v. Abrahamson
19-6022 Angel Rodriguez v. Laura Heit, et al. Second Circuit 2019-09-23 Denied IFP 14th-amendment access-to-justice administrative-remedies civil-rights disability disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-interpretation legal-remedy medical-privacy retaliation state-court statutory-construction Whether Petitioner's 14th Amendment Rights were violated by denying him the opportunity to work in food service
19-371 Stephen S. Wise Temple v. Julie Su California 2019-09-19 Dismissed Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse Waived employment-discrimination first-amendment first-amendment-free-exercise free-exercise functional-approach hosanna-tabor hosanna-tabor-v-eeoc judicial-interpretation ministerial-exception religious-education religious-institutions transmitting-faith Whether courts should apply a functional approach to the ministerial exception that does not punish religious institutions for employing non-adherents…
19-304 Ranger American of the V.I., Inc., et al. v. Frederick J. Balboni, Jr. Virgin Islands 2019-09-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bill-of-rights congressional-power due-process equal-protection federal-legislation federal-statute guam-v-guerrero judicial-interpretation kepner-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent territorial-courts territorial-law Is the Virgin Islands Supreme Court bound by this Court's Equal Protection decisions where Congress explicitly applied the Equal Protection Clause to …
19-5832 Daniel G. Durain v. Florida Florida 2019-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law criminal-procedure due-process endangered-species-act environmental-regulation evidence federal-agency-discretion habitat-conservation judicial-interpretation jury-instructions mens-rea premeditation reasonable-doubt Can motive be used to establish premeditation?
19-5697 Felipe Vinagre-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure detention detention-motion federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure indictment judicial-interpretation jurisdiction legal-timing pretrial-motion speedy-trial-act Whether a motion for detention filed before an indictment or information charging a person has been obtained is a pretrial motion within the meaning o…
19-5674 Ed Teague, II v. Regent Financial Group, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure failure-to-state-a-claim failure-to-state-claim judicial-interpretation legal-principles motion-to-dismiss pleading-requirements standard-of-review Whether the court of appeal's decision below contradicts existing legal principles when evaluating a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim up…
19-162 Michael Richards v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-08-05 Denied Response Waived collateral-attack collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation pena-rodriguez pena-rodriguez-v-colorado racial-bias retroactivity supreme-court-precedent Should this Court's decision in Pena-Rodriquez v. Colorado, 187 8, Ct. 855 (2017) be applied retroactively to Petitioner's collateral attack?
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.…
19-5115 Cordero Robert Seals v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof burrage burrage-test but-for-causation causation-standard causation-test circuit-split contributing-causation contributing-cause eighth-circuit government-burden judicial-interpretation legal-standard seventh-circuit Whether the Eighth Circuit misinterpreted the but-for causation test in light of the government's burden, and inappropriately applied the contributing…
19-41 Keith A. Tucker, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Fifth Circuit 2019-07-05 Denied circuit-split due-process economic-substance-doctrine judicial-doctrine judicial-interpretation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation tax-avoidance tax-law tax-provisions May the judge-made 'economic substance doctrine' be invoked to supplant any tax results that a court deems abusive, even when those results stem from …
18-9738 Francisco Gonzalez Jose v. United States Third Circuit 2019-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP alternate-juror criminal-procedure deliberations due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation jury jury-deliberation jury-instructions mistrial third-circuit united-states-v-sotelo When a juror cannot continue deliberations and an alternate juror is empaneled, does the Third Circuit's decision in United States v. Sotelo conflict …
18-9739 Timothy Paul Malone v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility application-note application-note-2 chapter-5 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing judicial-interpretation offense-level sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court has misconstrued and misapplied U.S.S.G. Chapter 5, Part A, Application Note 2 by failing to limit the offense level to a leve…
18-9608 Trinidad Jesus Garcia v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process judicial-interpretation plain-error procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review Does the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals decision conflict with decisions of the Supreme Court and was the decision incorrect when it stated that Garc…
18-9493 Jose Santillan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether factual findings in a Presentence Report must be proven by the government or disproven by the defendant
18-9487 Willie Lee Johnson v. Brad Cain, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation jury-selection legal-ethics oregon-state-bar presumption-of-innocence Whether the Oregon State Bar and the Oregon Supreme Court's Chief Justice's approved adoption of the American Bar Association's Model Rules of Profess…
18-9366 Michael T. Rivera v. Florida Florida 2019-05-22 Denied IFP collateral-review criminal-statute due-process eighth-amendment judicial-interpretation procedural-rule retroactivity substantive-law Whether the Federal Due Process Clause requires a state to apply a new interpretation of a state criminal statute retroactively to cases on collateral…
18-9344 Samuel J. Yarber v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-922g 18-usc-924c 21-usc-841a conviction-grouping criminal-statute federal-courts federal-law grouping judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines united-states-code Whether counts of conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) and 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) should be grouped under the United States Sentencing Guidelines, U.S.S.G.…
18-9213 James Paine v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP conviction-analysis criminal-history criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation perceived-seriousness point-calculation sentencing-guidelines seriousness similar-offenses u.s.s.g.-§4a1.2(c) united-states-sentencing-guidelines Should the court analyze whether a conviction is similar to the offenses listed in U.S.S.G. §4A1.2(c) as a group or solely for perceived seriousness w…
18-9152 Gary Reid v. Florida Florida 2019-05-06 Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-claims constitutional-question eighth-amendment federal-habeas federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation legal-precedent merits-decision state-court state-court-decisions supreme-court-review Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. Ct. 1726 (2017), as a decision on the merits of the underlying constit…
18-9080 Joseph Carter v. Florida Florida 2019-05-01 Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-claims constitutional-interpretation eighth-amendment federal-habeas-review federal-review graham-v-florida habeas-corpus habeas-review judicial-interpretation legal-precedent merits-decision miller-v-alabama parole state-court-decisions supreme-court-review Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. Ct. 1726 (2017), as a decision on the merits of the underlying constit…
18-8971 William T. Liepe v. New Jersey New Jersey 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment blood-alcohol blood-alcohol-test case-review constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression judicial-interpretation legal-standard search-and-seizure statutory-provisions suppression warrantless-search Did the warrantless search of defendant's blood for the purpose of determining his blood alcohol level violate the established constitutional principl…
18-8872 In Re Samuel Lewis Surles 2019-04-17 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation judicial-interpretation sixth-amendment Whether petitioner was denied his unwaivable constitutional right of due process of law when the Michigan Supreme Court failed to rule on the merits o…
18-8550 Ernest M. Flowers v. Laura Uriarte, et al. Florida 2019-03-25 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing trial-procedure Whether the petitioner was lawfully retained in the Florida Department of Corrections
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?
18-1231 Xiu Jain Sun v. Philip O. Ohene, et al. New York 2019-03-21 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights divine-intervention due-process free-speech judicial-interpretation judicial-remedy jurisdictional-challenge legal-authority legal-confrontation mandamus mandamus-request mandarin-chinese-interpreter religious-doctrine religious-freedom separation-of-powers spiritual-petition standing statutory-interpretation Issue being raised
18-8394 Asim Shakir Daniels v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-definition criminal-law due-process equal-protection federal-crime federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation legal-interpretation sentencing statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate…
18-8130 Eduardo Segoviano-Briseno v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP consideration contract-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process federal-courts judicial-interpretation legal-consideration plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing Whether principles of contract law require consideration (benefit to the defendant) to support a valid plea agreement
18-7923 Derrick Jones v. James M. LeBlanc, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation due-process ex-post-facto fair-notice judicial-interpretation judicial-procedure retroactive retroactive-application sentencing-provision substantive-rule-change Could jurists of reason debate whether Louisiana may, consistent with the Due Process Clause's fair notice requirement, judicially invent a new proced…
18-1037 Zheng Cai v. Diamond Hong, Inc. Federal Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied administrative-review cafc cultural-symbols foreign-cultural-symbol foreign-language foreign-language-marks judicial-interpretation language-expertise standing trademark trademark-examination trademark-law ttab Disputed marks with foreign language and cultural symbols, lack of judges knowledgeable in foreign languages and cultures leads to erroneous trademark…
18-7586 Zachary T. Frey v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation post-sentencing-case-law post-sentencing-law residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-enhancement Whether a defendant can prove his ACCA-enhanced sentence was based on the unconstitutional residual clause by relying on post-sentencing case law
18-7473 William Dale Albright v. Kansas Kansas 2019-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne alleyne-decision alleyne-v-united-states apprendi apprendi-rule criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent Does this Court's decision in Alleyne v. United States, 570 US 99 (2013) announce a new rule or was it dictated by Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 US 466 …
18-7326 Mark Anthony Soliz v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-01-11 Denied IFP certiorari-standard due-process federal-habeas-review federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit-review habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation plain-statement-rule procedural-default state-court-decision state-court-determination state-court-proceedings Whether this Court should grant certiorari to remand this case to the Fifth Circuit because the Fifth Circuit misapplied this Court's 'plain statement…
18-7086 Alex Joe Hernandez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-retroactivity due-process johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states judicial-interpretation prior-convictions residual-clause sentencing sentencing-error standing welch-v-united-states When a Johnson movant would not be an armed career criminal if sentenced today, how can he show that his sentence is infected with error under Johnson…
18-728 Jacobus Rentmeester v. Nike, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (2) 9th-circuit circuit-split copyright copyright-law copyright-protection creative-expression intellectual-property judicial-interpretation original-creative-judgments original-judgments photographic-originality photography selection-and-arrangement Is copyright protection for a photograph limited solely to the photographer's 'selection and arrangement' of unprotected elements, as the Ninth Circui…
18-6643 Sobhy Fahmy Amin Iskander v. United States District Court for the Central District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-competence judicial-discretion judicial-ethics judicial-independence judicial-interpretation judicial-review legal-standards rule-of-law state-court-decision Whether the state court decision is contrary to federal law based on the principle of an independent, fair, and competent judiciary
18-6274 Robert Klein v. Centennial Ranch and Aspen Mountain Ranch Association Colorado 2018-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-obligations constitutional-rights court-orders discrimination due-process judicial-deference judicial-interpretation judicial-review legal-procedure legislative-intent prevailing-party-rights pro-se-litigation standing state-courts-interpretation statutory-interpretation Whether state courts are following what the legislators have put in place
18-6187 Antonio Martinez-Lopez v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-1425 acquisition-of-citizenship citizenship-application criminal-statute false-statement immigration-law judicial-interpretation maslenjak-v-us naturalization naturalization-fraud revocation-of-citizenship Did the appeals court err in affirming petitioner's conviction for unlawful procurement of naturalization
18-6173 Carlos Tiznado-Valenzuela v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split federal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-interpretation molina-martinez molina-martinez-standard plain-error-review prejudice prejudice-prong sentencing-guidelines Should the Court address the division of circuit authority over the Court's application of the prejudice prong of plain-error review in Molina-Martine…
18-385 Jakks Pacific, Inc. v. Accasvek LLC District of Columbia 2018-09-25 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure court-precedent diversity diversity-jurisdiction espinosa-v-united-student-aid-funds finality-of-judgments judicial-interpretation jurisdiction procedural-dismissal public-policy standing subject-matter-jurisdiction united-student-aid-funds-v-espinosa Whether the lower courts disregarded this Court's judgment in United Student Aid Funds, Inc. v. Espinosa, 559 U.S. 260 (2010), and thereby defeated th…
18-6063 Craig Alexander v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals criminal-history criminal-procedure disciplinary-infractions due-process judicial-discretion judicial-interpretation section-3582 sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the Supreme Court should resolve split decisions in the lower court as to how far a Judge must explain and/or elaborate on a decision to grant…
18-354 Stanley Weiss v. New Jersey Third Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied 4th-amendment due-process federalism interstate-law jones-case jones-v-united-states judicial-interpretation legal-uniformity privacy property-rights search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent trespass Whether United States v Antoine Jones is the law of the land and should be followed in all states?
18-262 Xiu Jian Sun v. Stephen Mullkoff Second Circuit 2018-08-30 Denied civil-complaint civil-procedure civil-rights divine-directive divine-intervention doctrine-and-covenants due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-interpretation legal-action legal-standing religious-doctrine religious-freedom spiritual-claim spiritual-messenger standing widow-parable Whether the plaintiff's claims based on divine revelation and instructions from God are cognizable under the U.S. Constitution and federal law
18-254 Xiu Jian Sun v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States District of Columbia 2018-08-28 Denied Response Waived administrative-law biblical-reference civil-procedure civil-rights divine-revelation due-process free-speech judicial-interpretation legal-metaphor legal-parable presidential-names presidential-powers presidential-reference prophetic-message religious-freedom religious-text separation-of-church-and-state standing Whether the President of the United States has the authority to disregard the religious beliefs and revelations of the spiritual Adam, Xiu Jian Sun, a…
18-5776 Carlos Placeres-Cruz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP breach-of-contract circuit-split criminal-procedure duty-of-candor judicial-interpretation plea-agreement prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-discretion sentencing-recommendation Where some courts hold that a prosecutor commits an implicit breach of a plea agreement by proffering statements undermining the agreed, sentencing re…
18-213 H. Richard Austin v. Hanover Insurance Company, aka Massachusetts Bay Insurance Company Eighth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure collateral-estoppel court-interpretation daubert daubert-standard en-banc-review fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court homeowners-insurance judicial-interpretation judicial-procedure motion-for-summary-judgment res-judicata sanctions summary-order Whether an initial appellate 'Summary Order' is the definitive source regarding the subject matter contested, or if courts in the same dispute can ado…
18-5488 Eddie Allen Jackson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation jurisdiction legal-construction liberal-construction lower-court motion plea-bargaining prejudice pro-se pro-se-pleadings section-2255 standard-of-review Does the lower court violate this Court's directive to liberally construe documents filed pro se when they construe assertion in a §2255 Motion as mer…
18-147 Karen H. Scott v. District Hospital Partners, L.P., et al. District of Columbia 2018-08-01 Denied ada ada-amendments-act breathing circuit-conflict circuit-split disability-discrimination disability-law disability-rights eeoc-procedure judicial-interpretation life-threatening medical-impairment reasonable-accommodation relation-back-doctrine standing Whether a severe physical condition that can prevent breathing and be life-threatening is considered a disability under the law, in conflict with othe…