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25-6497 Candelario Cruz-Trujillo v. Indiana Indiana 2026-01-06 Pending Response WaivedIFP appellate-review ineffective-assistance judicial-proceedings post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct waiver Whether the Indiana Court of Appeals' holding that Candelario Cruz-Trujillo waived his post-conviction claim due to insufficient Record citations repr…
25-6087 Leroy Thomas Joyner, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review due-process evidence-transcription judicial-proceedings summary-affirmance supreme-court-precedent Whether a Federal Court may grant summary affirmance of an appeal when its mandate conflicts with Supreme Court precedents regarding transcription of …
25A516 Gary Pisner v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland Maryland 2025-11-04 Application attorney-discipline bar-counsel constitutional-rights due-process judicial-proceedings professional-misconduct Whether the Due Process Clause requires constitutional procedural safeguards in state bar disciplinary proceedings against attorneys, notwithstanding …
25-5755 Dawud C. S. Gabriel v. Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-29 Dismissed IFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-challenge court-access judicial-proceedings venue-jurisdiction Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals departed from accepted judicial proceedings and rendered an unconstitutional order in a civil case invol…
25-5384 Christopher Kines v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice Fifth Circuit 2025-08-15 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-violations court-procedure evidence-standard fifth-circuit judicial-proceedings Is it the common practice of the Fifth Circuit to disregard facts in the record and ignore evidence the court itself agreed to consider?
24-1297 Royal Merchant Holdings, LLC v. The Ferraro Law Firm, P.A., et al. Florida 2025-06-23 Denied Response Waived arbitration due-process federal-arbitration-act judicial-proceedings pleading-standard procedural-rules Whether a claim in arbitration must be asserted in a pleading at the outset of the case and whether the standard for procedural due process in arbitra…
24A636 Patrick L. Booker v. South Carolina South Carolina 2024-12-27 Presumed Complete criminal-contempt due-process judicial-proceedings mail-delivery pro-se supreme-court-order Whether a state supreme court's criminal contempt order against a pro se litigant for disrupting judicial proceedings violates due process when the li…
24-619 Igor Lukashin v. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Ninth Circuit 2024-12-05 Denied argument-waiver due-process judicial-proceedings ninth-circuit pre-filing-review pro-se-appellant Whether the Ninth Circuit has continued to deny Due Process by applying a categorical argument waiver rule to pro se appellants, and whether the Ninth…
24-5586 Ziyao Jiang v. Liu Yuan, et al. Third Circuit 2024-09-20 Denied IFP appellate-review court-departure judicial-proceedings jurisdictional-conflict procedural-error third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit Court's departure from standard judicial proceedings constitutes a reversible error or jurisdictional violation
24-77 GeLab Cosmetics LLC v. Zhuhai Aobo Cosmetics Co., Ltd., et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-07-25 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) abstention circuit-split civil-procedure colorado-river-doctrine federal-abstention federal-courts judicial-proceedings parallel-proceedings procedural-stay state-court-litigation Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in affirming the district court's stay of federal proceedings under the Colorado River doctrine
23-7607 In Re Kurt A. Benshoof 2024-05-31 Denied IFP civil-rights domestic-relations-exception due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-proceedings parental-rights pro-se-rights unlawful-imprisonment Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decided an important federal question regarding domestic-relations-exception in a way that conflicts with r…
23-7526 Thomas Webster v. Natalie Haskins, Program Director, Haskins Residential Care Ninth Circuit 2024-05-21 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-rules expert-witness judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings motion-timing standards-of-review Whether the lower court erred in allowing the defendant to introduce a crucial piece of evidence, an expert witness's report, after the closing of mot…
23-7367 John E. Garrett v. Richard Clouse Seventh Circuit 2024-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP bail bail-revocation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment judicial-proceedings liberty liberty-interest standing Is notice and a hearing required, prior to depriving one of his liberty pending trial and does said liberty qualify as a substantive and/or procedural…
23-1049 John-Henry Ayanbadejo v. Chanel Goosby, et al. Texas 2024-03-22 Denied appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings seventh-amendment supreme-court-procedure Whether the Lower Appellate Court departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, and/or sanctioned such a departure by the Texas…
23-6674 Terry Eugene Hambrick v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure judicial-discretion judicial-proceedings plain-error plain-error-review standard-of-review standards-of-review supervisory-power Whether the district court has departed from the accepted course of judicial proceedings in expanding the criteria for plain error review on appeal
23A678 Jerome Yelder v. Department of Labor, Administrative Review Board Sixth Circuit 2024-01-23 Presumed Complete covid-19 decision-order extraordinary-relief judicial-proceedings pro-se supreme-court Whether a pro se litigant's lack of original decision order documentation due to COVID-19 circumstances constitutes grounds for extraordinary relief o…
23-6401 Wayne Johnson v. Contra Costa County Clerk Recorder, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-misconduct civil-rights court-immunity court-reporter criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process immunity judicial-proceedings procedural-error standing state-court Whether a court reporter in a state criminal action is entitled to immunity for failing to record objections made by parties in a criminal preceding t…
23-591 Althea Miley v. Deborah J. Burns, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-05 Denied Response Waived appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit issue-preclusion judicial-proceedings res-judicata rule-12b6 Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals; Northern District Court of Georgia; and the Georgia State Courts' adherence to issue preclusion doctrin…
23-593 S. O. v. Jay Hartzell, President, University of Texas at Austin, et al. Texas 2023-12-05 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure due-process higher-education judicial-proceedings property-interest property-rights student-rights university-administration Whether a college degree is a protected property interest that can only be revoked through judicial proceedings rather than through the unilateral act…
23-592 K. E. v. Denise M. Trauth, President, Texas State University, et al. Texas 2023-12-04 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment administrative-action administrative-law civil-procedure due-process higher-education judicial-proceedings legal-rights property-interest property-rights university-administration Whether a college degree is a protected property interest that can only be revoked through judicial proceedings rather than through the unilateral act…
23-5720 In Re Terrance A. McCauley 2023-10-05 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-proceedings legal-procedure peaceable-assembly sovereign-immunity standing state-court Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in sustaining the dismissal of Terrance A. McCauley's civil rights claims against state officials f…
23-308 Paul Steelman, Individually and as Trustee of the Steelman Asset Protection Trust, et al. v. Ernest Bock LLC Ninth Circuit 2023-09-26 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure colorado-river colorado-river-doctrine federal-abstention federal-proceedings judicial-proceedings parallel-state-proceedings procedural-stay state-court-litigation stay water-rights Whether a stay of federal proceedings under Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States is permissible
23-5446 Elizabeth Richert v. Kathleen White Murphy, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-08-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings property-rights takings takings-clause Whether the District Court's April 21, 2022 post-trial order amount to an unconstitutional taking without due process, equal protection, and just comp…
23-5201 Andrew Valenzuela v. Roberto A. Arias, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process duress-defense habeas-corpus judicial-proceedings jury-instructions Did the Ninth Circuit's clearly erroneous finding so depart from the accepted course of judicial proceedings as to justify summary reversal?
23-5124 Quincetta Yvonne Cargill, aka Queen, aka Tonya, aka Angela Scott, aka Antela Scott, aka QuincetTucker, aka Quincetta Tucker v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-counsel appellate-procedure civil-rights direct-appeal due-process eleventh-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-proceedings petition-for-rehearing right-to-counsel Whether the exclusion of the appellant's opinions, requests for inclusion of psychiatrist's testimony, and other information as to the preserved issue…
23-20 Reza Ahmadi v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-07-06 Denied constitutional-claims exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance johnson-v-williams judicial-proceedings procedural-default rule-60b supreme-court-precedent trevino-v-thaler Does a court contravene Johnson v. Williams and Trevino v. Thaler when it holds an ineffective assistance claim was unexhausted and procedurally defau…
23-5024 Walter Charles Link v. Texas Texas 2023-07-03 Denied IFP burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-proceedings sufficiency-of-evidence texas-law Did the State of Texas err in failing to prove its Brooks' notice allegations beyond a reasonable doubt?
22-1252 Dongmei Li v. Connecticut, et al. Second Circuit 2023-06-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) has so far departed from the accepted and usual c anti-asian-discrimination civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction hate-crimes judicial-misconduct judicial-proceedings standing Whether it is Unconstitutional
22-7522 William Sim Spencer v. Joseph M. Gasper, Director, Michigan State Police Sixth Circuit 2023-05-11 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus heck-v-humphrey judicial-proceedings section-1983 sex-offender-registration sixth-circuit supervisory-power supreme-court-review Does the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals extension of the § 1983 favorable habeas corpus termination rule announced in Heck v Humphrey, 512 US 477 (199…
22-7254 Danny Wayne Alcoser v. Texas Texas 2023-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP amended-motion appellate-court appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process electronic-filing ineffective-assistance judicial-proceedings notice-of-appeal procedural-error Did the Texas Appellate Court(s) depart from judicial-proceedings to deprive petitioner's due-process rights
22-680 Jun Li, et al. v. Colorado Regional Center I, LLC, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied Response Waived appellate-review attorney-fees civil-procedure discretionary-review due-process erie-doctrine judicial-proceedings standard-of-review supervisory-power May a court of appeals refuse to conduct any appellate review of attorney fees awarded under state law?
22-6461 Segundo Marcial Dominguez-Caicedo and Adrian Andres Cortez-Quinonez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP arrest arrest-delay criminal-procedure due-process high-seas judicial-proceedings magistrate-review speedy-trial transportation transportation-time unnecessary-delay Whether the additional delay resulting from transportation to the district the Government chooses to prosecute must be considered when determining whe…
22-6363 Dawud Canaan Sturrup Gabriel v. Trans Am Trucking Company Tenth Circuit 2022-12-21 Denied IFP certiorari circuit-court civil-procedure due-process federal-law judicial-proceedings standing supervisory-authority supreme-court-review Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit departed from the accepted course of judicial proceedings
22-5946 Dawud Canaan Sturrup Gabriel v. Windy Hill Foliage Incorporated Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-31 Denied IFP ada americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-court civil-rights due-process eeoc eeoc-discrimination judicial-proceedings judicial-review right-to-sue standing supervisory-authority Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings
22-5540 David Villegas Pereznegron v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-09-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-proceedings plain-error-review right-to-allocution sentencing sentencing-allocution substantial-rights Whether the plain and prejudicial denial of the right to allocution is an error that ordinarily warrants correction under the fourth prong of plain-er…
22-5478 Lesester Duva McDaughtery v. Tammy Foss, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process false-evidence federal-courts foreign-policy habeas-corpus inherent-authority judicial-proceedings post-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct state-court-proceedings Whether the Judiciary Act of 1789 and the inherent authority of federal courts to control their own proceedings sanctions a federal court's dismissal …
22-127 Abraham Moses Fisch v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-09 Denied Response Waived 18-usc-1515(c) appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights fifth-circuit impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-proceedings judicial-review prosecutorial-misconduct Has the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, or sanctioned…
22-5146 Dawud Canaan Sturrup Gabriel v. Melton Truck Lines Tenth Circuit 2022-07-21 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings standing tenth-circuit-review Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit departed from the accepted judicial proceedings
22-34 Wei-Ping Zeng v. Marshall University, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-07-12 Denied adverse-employment-action civil-procedure discrimination-claim employment-retaliation federal-rules-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-proceedings record-on-appeal standing supervisory-power Whether the lower courts have departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings by refusing to provide Petitioner the record on appe…
22-5054 Tyrik Upchurch v. United States Third Circuit 2022-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review due-process evidence-rules expert-testimony expert-witness-testimony judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings lay-witness-testimony new-trial standard-of-review third-circuit trial-error Did the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit err in failing to award the Petitioner a new trial due to the District Court's error in allowing the go…
21-8286 Thomas Richie McBride v. Texas Texas 2022-06-29 Denied IFP constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process judicial-proceedings jury-trial repeat-offender sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the trial court proceedings constituted a mistrial that voided the 1984 judgment and sentence
21-1595 Terrance Carvell Guinn v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-28 Denied Response Waived 5th-circuit all-writs-act civil-procedure constitutional-conflict judicial-proceedings supervisory-power supreme-court-review writ-of-audita-querela writ-of-relief-from-judgment Whether the US Appeals Court for the 5th Circuit affirmed decision has departed from the usual judicial proceedings in denying Mr. Guinn's writs
21-1593 Robert L. Schulz, et al. v. United States Congress District of Columbia 2022-06-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) congress congressional-power constitution-power-liberty constitutional-petitioning electoral-process federal-law first-amendment first-amendment-petition judicial-proceedings jurisdiction presidential-electors Whether the D.C. Court of Appeals has sanctioned a 'lack of jurisdiction' decision by the District Court
21-1477 Sylwia Ewelina Madej Manchanda, et vir v. Andrea Lewis, et al. Second Circuit 2022-05-24 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-authority judicial-bias judicial-proceedings organized-crime systemic-bias Does the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and Catherine O'Hagan Wolfe routinely and arbitrarily exercise authority beyond the proposed function and jur…
21-1458 EPA Drug Initiative II v. Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2022-05-18 Denied Response Waived appellate-review fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court hazel-atlas-doctrine hazel-atlas-glass-co-v-hartford-empire-co judicial-proceedings patent-invalidation patent-invalidity standing supervisory-power third-party-intervention Questions presented
21-7725 Jeffrey Ndungi Sila v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appointed-counsel criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-proceedings plain-error plain-error-standard pro-se-motion summary-affirmance waiver Whether the Fifth Circuit proceedings in petitioner's case so departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings as to call for this …
21-7711 Brenda Joyce Haynes v. Leslie G. Foschio, et al. Second Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-conflict judicial-proceedings legal-interpretation standing statutory-construction supervisory-power Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has entered a decision in conflict with the decision of another United States Court …
21-7316 Richard Duerson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-03-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP absent-witness confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admission hearsay hearsay-testimony judicial-discretion judicial-proceedings just-conclusion officer-testimony What obligation does the court have in allowing an officer to repeat an absent witness's statements which inculpate a defendant, over counsel's object…
21-1203 In Re Roger Rowe 2022-03-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) agency-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-proceedings judicial-review lien standing statute-of-limitations tax-liability Whether Petitioner is entitled to relief from a judgment and orders from the Second Circuit court
21-6914 Michael Patrick Kennedy v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights dismissal-standard due-process fifth-circuit-interpretation judicial-proceedings pro-se-representation standing successive-petitions supervisory-power Whether a dismissal without prejudice is in fact a dismissal with prejudice
21-855 Paul M. Mahoney v. Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division Three California 2021-12-09 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights contempt contempt-citation due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech judicial-proceedings petition-for-rehearing Whether the California Court of Appeal's contempt citation for statements made in a petition for rehearing violates the First Amendment and equal prot…
21-659 Asociación de Periodistas de Puerto Rico v. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, et al. Puerto Rico 2021-11-03 Denied Amici (5) civil-procedure civil-rights court-closure domestic-violence due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-proceedings press-rights public-access standing Whether courts may summarily close judicial proceedings and deny access to the official recordings of those proceedings without determining whether th…
21-6019 James Paul Arlotta v. His Holiness Pope Francis, et al. Second Circuit 2021-10-19 Dismissed IFP appearances-of-impropriety bankruptcy-court civil-rights conflicts-of-interest constitutional-questions court-jurisdiction due-process establishment-clause judicial-proceedings legal-review recusal Whether the court will adhere to the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment in light of the apparent conflicts of interest and impropriety involv…
21-5977 In Re Rigoberto Melero Aguirre 2021-10-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constructive-denial counsel-rights criminal-procedure due-process fraud-on-the-court fraud-upon-court ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-proceedings miscarriage-of-justice plain-error-standard standard-of-review Whether the constructive denial of counsel during Melero Aguirre's judicial proceedings, coupled with the wholesale adoption by the Fifth Circuit, of …
21-5954 David Lee Smith v. United States, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights court-access due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment judicial-abuse judicial-proceedings takings Whether the Tenth Circuit grossly abused its inherent power by imposing the sanction of appeal dismissal against appellant Hook based on its false and…
21-529 Bataski Bailey v. Fair & Walker Unit Owners Association, Inc., et al. Georgia 2021-10-08 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment attorney-misconduct civil-rights defamation due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceeding judicial-proceedings legal-ethics Do intentional false statements by an attorney violate opposing party's rights?
21-5580 Marion Taylor v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-09-03 Denied IFP appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-rights due-process federal-question judicial-proceedings judicial-review standing supervisory-power supreme-court-precedent writ-of-certiorari Whether the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions…
21-5424 Victor H. Canales v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-08-20 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-procedure criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings legal-counsel post-conviction-relief standing Question not identified
21-149 Rodolfo Rivera, Jr. v. John Granillo Tenth Circuit 2021-08-03 Denied Response Waived civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process judicial-proceedings legal-standard material-facts probable-cause qualified-immunity Whether the lower court has departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, misrepresenting and ignoring material facts of the ca…
21-126 Lucio A. Barroga v. Board of Administration of California Public Employees' Retirement System Ninth Circuit 2021-07-30 Denied Relisted (2) administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-proceedings retirement-benefits statutory-interpretation Whether the refusal or denial of the MEMORANDUM and ORDER to interpret the issues of questions of laws violated laws
21-5167 Bishop Ruben DeWayne v. JPMorgan Mortgage Acquisition Corp., et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP and the right to a fair trial equal protection bill-of-rights civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment judicial-proceedings seventh-amendment standing Whether the lower court's denial of the Petitioner's guaranteed rights under the Bill of Rights departed from accepted judicial standards
21-5180 Eric Miguel Dowdy v. Shane Jackson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process judicial-proceedings manifest-injustice sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-court-of-appeals supervisory-power Was petitioner denied his fundamental and constitutional right to due process
20-8166 David B. Portee v. Craig Koenig, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-05-27 Denied IFP constitutional-violation false-arrest judicial-authority judicial-oath judicial-proceedings legal-validity oath-of-office state-court-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction waiver-of-jurisdiction Should each Justice or Judge of the United States take the Oath of office or affirmation before performing the duties of office?
20-8058 Kenneth Rose v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process judicial-bias judicial-proceedings search-warrant sixth-circuit Has the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings
20-7970 Christopher R. Glenn v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review counsel-misconduct due-process evidentiary-hearing fraud ineffective-assistance judicial-proceedings supervisory-power Did the Eleventh Circuit so far depart from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings as to call for an exercise of this Court's superviso…
20-7755 Wilbert James Veasey, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-regulations constitutional-rights due-process evidence fact-finding fair-trial judicial-proceedings jury-instructions sixth-amendment Did the district court's jury instruction impermissibly impair and redirect the jury's considerations of the evidence by adding words from civil regul…
20-7636 Marcus Anthony Barnes v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit certificate-of-appealability criminal-justice false-information false-testimony government-misconduct ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-v-virginia judicial-proceedings motion-to-vacate procedural-default Whether and to the extent the criminal justice system tolerates false testimony and false information relied upon by the United States Court of Appeal…
20-7411 Douglas Cornell Jackson v. Leah Berean, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-discretion due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-proceedings judicial-review pro-se pro-se-litigant rule-60b standing Should the lower courts have been so stringent in limiting their review to only one exception of Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b) in deciding whether to grant re…
20-943 Jean Barton, et vir v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-01-13 Denied 28-usc-1738 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-proceedings land-rights standing takings when-the-lower-federal-courts-abandon-28-usc-section-1738
20-6572 Deshawn Legrier v. United States Second Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure evidence-consideration felon-in-possession judicial-proceedings jury-instructions plain-error-review rehaif-error rehaif-v-united-states sufficiency-of-evidence trial-record Whether an appellate court can consider evidence outside the trial record to conclude that a Rehaif-based error did not seriously affect the fairness,…
20-6569 Quincey Frye v. United States Second Circuit 2020-12-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review felon-in-possession judicial-proceedings jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error rehaif-v-united-states second-circuit trial-record Should the Court of Appeals have looked beyond the trial record to Frye's presentence investigation report to decide that there was no plain error tha…
20-6226 Carlos Maez v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure judicial-proceedings jury-instructions jury-verdict olano-standard plain-error plain-error-test sixth-amendment standard-of-review Whether a conviction following incorrect jury instructions, failure of the petit jury to make a finding on an essential element of a crime, and an app…
20-532 Xiaohua Huang v. Huawei Technology Co., Ltd. Federal Circuit 2020-10-21 Denied Relisted (2) claim-preclusion federal-circuit fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-misconduct judicial-proceedings patent patent-infringement perjury pro-se-plaintiff sanctions Claim-preclusion-issue
20-5924 Patricia Wynn v. Mark Butler, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Labor, et al. Georgia 2020-10-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure court-intervention due-process extraordinary-writ judicial-proceedings legal-review procedural-standards supervisory-power Whether the Court below so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, as to call for an exercise of this Court's supervi…
20-5482 Marvin Arido Sorro v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process federal-law fourth-amendment judicial-proceedings jurisdictional-challenge procedural-rights standing Did the United States District Court deprived the petitioner access to the courts and to state a claim?
20-5200 Gerald A. Sanford, Sr. v. Tennessee Department of Correction, et al. Tennessee 2020-07-29 Denied IFP administrative-law appellate-review civil-rights due-process judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings prisoner-rights state-court-discretion state-court-of-appeals statutory-interpretation supervisory-power Whether a state court of appeals erred in dismissing a prisoner's case
19-1372 Angel M. Ayala-Vazquez v. United States First Circuit 2020-06-12 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial fifth-amendment judicial-proceedings perjured-testimony sixth-amendment standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent writ-of-certiorari Whether the lower courts circumvented the standard of review for issuing a certificate of appealability
19-8683 Edgardo Grande v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553a appeal-waiver fairness-integrity-public-reputation judicial-proceedings plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-factors substantial-rights unconscionability unconscionable-contract Whether the waiver of appeal rights contained in the Plea Agreement is unenforceable since the Plea Agreement is invalid because it is an unconscionab…
19-7934 Kathleen Betts v. United Airlines, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitration-procedure arbitration-procedures civil-procedure collective-bargaining court-review due-process eeoc-charge employment judicial-proceedings lower-court pro-se-litigation retaliation seventh-circuit Whether the Seventh Circuit so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, or sanctioned such a departure by a lower cour…
19-7837 Francine Slavin v. Residential Rentals, Trustee New Hampshire 2020-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction due-process free-speech judicial-intervention judicial-misconduct judicial-proceedings jurisdiction standing trial-procedure whistleblower Whether the New Hampshire supreme court unconstitutionally intervened in the low court's trial of this case by assigning one of its own justices to po…
19-7643 In Re Stephen Daniel Leonard 2020-02-12 Denied IFP 6th-amendment administrative-hearing administrative-procedure article-iv compulsory-process constitutional-rights disciplinary-proceeding disciplinary-proceedings due-process equal-protection judicial-proceedings liberty liberty-interest privileges-and-immunities witness-testimony Did the State of Florida violate Petitioner's protected rights
19-7400 Christopher R. Glenn v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights counsel-misconduct criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing fraud habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct judicial-proceedings pro-se-petition standing supervisory-power Did the Eleventh Circuit so far depart from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings as to call for an exercise of this Court's superviso…
19-6564 In Re Wei Zhou 2019-11-08 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-1331 28-usc-1332 civil-procedure constitution constitutional-interpretation federal-courts judicial-discretion judicial-jurisdiction judicial-power judicial-proceedings jurisdiction-decline legal-interpretation mandamus statutory-interpretation statutory-jurisdiction Does the Constitution of the United States permit any court of the United States to decline the exercise of jurisdiction given by any law of the Unite…
19-6166 Sean Lee Strandberg v. Carmen Denise Palmer, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure defense-mechanism due-process evidence evidence-conflict judicial-proceedings polygraph polygraph-evidence presumed-land sixth-amendment sixth-circuit state-lien strickland-v-washington united-states-supreme-court washington-v-hovey Whether the Sixth Circuit's decision on the important matter of whether the prosecutor's use of polygraph evidence conflicts with or departs from acce…
19-6127 Steven Justin Villalona v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest counsel-concession ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-proceedings law-of-the-case mootness plain-error presumption-of-prejudice substantial-rights What effect does a concession on ineffective assistance of counsel have on the court's ability to adjudicate the merits?
19-6138 William A. White v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-02 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure district-court due-process evidentiary-development evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings post-conviction-relief section-2255 supervisory-power May a District Court strike all evidence in a 28 USC §2255 proceeding and deny relief for failure to present evidence?
19-340 Carey D. Ebert v. John Paul DeJoria, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-09-16 Denied Response Waived aiding-and-abetting article-iii article-iii-standing bankruptcy bankruptcy-trustee breach-of-fiduciary-duty corporate-debt debtor-corporation fiduciary-duty judicial-proceedings standing trustee unpaid-debt Whether a bankruptcy trustee who proved at trial, without objection, that defendants' tortious conduct (breach of fiduciary duty and aiding and abetti…
19-172 Edina Harsay v. University of Kansas Kansas 2019-08-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) academic-deference academic-freedom civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings judicial-review Whether a rule-like application of federal case law that accords a nearly-insurmountable level of deference to academic administrators in breach-of-co…
19-50 John DeRaffele v. United States First Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals fair-housing-act federal-district-court federal-question judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings jury-verdict pro-se pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation standing tenant-standing writ-of-certiorari Does a Pro Se litigant have the right to request a Writ of Certiorari when the Court of Appeals has upheld a lower Court ruling on an important Federa…
19-25 Irma Rosas v. Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago Seventh Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Relisted (2) accepted-and-usual-course certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights due-process erickson-v-pardus judicial-proceedings legal-standard pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-error standing supreme-court-review Whether the lower court, in conflict with this Court's holding in Erickson v. Pardus, 551 U.S. 89 (2007), so far departed from the accepted and usual …
18-9828 Dylan Magluilo v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review conflicting-decisions constitutional-law due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings judicial-review public-interest reasonable-doubt Did Louisiana Courts err in denying Dylan Magluilo right to a fair trial and subsequent review when rejecting claims involving, Conflicting Decisions …
18-9331 Nawaz Ahmed v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied IFP access-to-courts appeals appellate-review capital-counsel capital-habeas civil-rights collateral-review counsel-substitution due-process habeas-corpus judicial-proceedings mandamus right-to-counsel statutory-interpretation statutory-right Whether the Court of Appeals failed to apply the existing basis of (a) Potential, (b) Pendent, (c) 28 U.S.C.S. § 1651(a) review by Mandamus, (d) 28 US…
18-1436 Ulric Jones v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-05-16 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure disbarment due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings judicial-review retained-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment supervisory-power Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit violated the petitioner's Sixth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment rights by disbar…
18-1361 Penelope Stillwell, et vir v. Eagle-Kirkpatrick Management Company, Inc., et al. Indiana 2019-04-30 Denied Response Waived conditional-payments due-process full-and-fair-hearing judicial-proceedings liability-settlement medicare-beneficiary medicare-secondary-payer medicare-secondary-payer-act medicare-trust-fund trust-fund-interests Does the Indiana Court of Appeals' approval of lower court judge's ordered settlement of a Medicare beneficiary's liability case lacking consideration…
18-8949 Hakim Muhammad v. Cedric Taylor, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights COA-standard color-of-authority constitutional-review counsel-performance due-process federal-appellate habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-proceedings post-conviction-relief state-court supervisory-power Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in a decision that conflicts with decisions of other Courts of Appeals on the same important matte…
18-8717 Hanoi Barbaro Acosta v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-petitioner federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-proceedings slack-v-mcdaniel Does the blanket denial of a certificate of appealability by the district court violate the rule announced in Slack v. McDaniel?
18-8512 DaRen Kareem Gadsden v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-integrity judicial-proceedings multiplicitous-sentence plain-error remand rosales-mireles-standard sentencing sentencing-review substantial-rights Whether a multiplicitous sentence issue can be raised at any time
18-1193 Brandon Lee Moon v. County of El Paso, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied Response Waived absolute-immunity brady-violation circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights dna-testing due-process imbler-v-pachtman judicial-proceedings post-conviction post-conviction-DNA-testing prosecutorial-immunity prosecutorial-misconduct Prosecutorial misconduct in post-conviction DNA testing
18-8341 Louie M. Schexnayder, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9)IFP aedpa-deference judicial-federalism judicial-proceedings judicial-review pecuniary-interest prisoner-rights pro-se-petition pro-se-prisoners state-court-decision statutory-interpretation supervisory-power writ-application writ-applications Could jurists of reason debate whether to apply AEDPA deference to a state court decision arising out of a secret, thirteen-year-long policy to deny a…
18-8349 Daverne Michael Foy v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-proceedings plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights waiver Whether the trial court's consideration of non-charged offenses with significantly higher sentencing guidelines constitutes plain error affecting the …
18-8288 Derrick Allen v. Envirogreen Landscape Professionals, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied IFP circuit-court-conflict civil-rights conflict-of-circuits due-process eeoc-decision employment-discrimination equal-protection federal-question judicial-discretion judicial-proceedings judicial-review lower-court-review supervisory-powers Can the US Supreme Court review at their judicial discretion for the compelling reason
18-8053 Malcolm Roland Allen v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3006a 6th-amendment career-offender due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel judicial-proceedings notice-of-appeal prejudice sentencing-guideline sentencing-guidelines Whether ineffective counsel failed to file a notice of appeal and object to career offender sentencing guideline
18-8074 Javonte T. Morgan v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP challenge-for-cause civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial judicial-proceedings jury-selection peremptory-challenges standard-of-review standing sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the lower court erred in denying the petitioner's challenge for cause and finding the evidence sufficient to support the conviction
18-8044 Lois Brooks v. United States Second Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure government-rights judicial-integrity judicial-proceedings mandatory-minimum plain-error sentencing sentencing-error substantial-rights Does the government have 'substantial rights' such that actions taken in derogation of them may constitute 'plain error' under Fed. R. Crim. Pro. 52(b…
18-7843 Patrick K. Gibson v. Jeri Boe, Superintendent, Clallam Bay Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings judicial-review ninth-circuit sixth-amendment Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals error in denying a Certificate of Appealability?
18-7667 Marion Taylor v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure article-3 civil-procedure constitution constitutional-power due-process federal-courts judicial-proceeding judicial-proceedings judicial-review standing supervisory-power supreme-court-jurisdiction Whether the U.S. 5th Cir. Court of Appeals has so far departure from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceeding
18-977 John A. Anderson v. John F. Walrath, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied Response Waived appellate-review certificate-of-appealability habeas-petition judicial-precedent judicial-proceedings stare-decisis supervisory-power supreme-court-rule supreme-court-rule-10(a) Where the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia concluded that reasonable jurists could disagree on the fundamental legal …
18-7389 Scott Smith v. Shane Jackson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts judicial-proceedings manifest-injustice sixth-circuit supervisory-power Was petitioner denied his fundamental and constitutional right to due process?
18-6874 Christine Cornelius v. Town of Atkinson, New Hampshire New Hampshire 2018-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights corruption disability-accommodations disability-rights due-process incompetence judicial-proceedings legal-abuse reasonable-accommodations standing Whether the Court unconstitutionally denied the Petitioner, disabled with bipolar disorder, her rights to reasonable accommodations during judicial pr…
18-6881 Jason Alston v. Mississippi Department of Employment Security Mississippi 2018-11-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights conspiracy due-process employment-security fourteenth-amendment fraud judicial-proceedings jurisdiction state-government unemployment-benefits Whether the Mississippi Department of Employment Security and/or Mississippi Department of Transportation violated petitioner due process rights under…
18-6795 Darrell Brown v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure due-process great-writ habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review judicial-precedent judicial-proceedings remand section-2255 standing supervisory-power supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Whether the Supreme Court should grant certiorari in this case
18-6555 Lester Barnett v. City of Gastonia, North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2018-11-02 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appeal constitutional-violation due-process judicial-proceedings record record-preservation Was it unconstitutional to not preserve the record of the judicial proceedings in violation of due process of law of the 5th and 14th Amendment of the…
18-6403 Chester Larvell Starnes, Jr. v. Shane Jackson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-circuit appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process judicial-proceedings manifest-injustice sixth-circuit supervisory-power Was petitioner denied his fundamental and constitutional right to due process?
18-507 Jessie D. McDonald v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee Sixth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure court-judgment due-process extraordinary-writ judicial-misconduct judicial-proceedings procedural-error standing void-judgment Whether the district court lacked jurisdiction to enter a judgment against the petitioner without a show cause hearing as required by Rule 11, FRCP
18-6275 Ricardo Lupian-Barajas v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-proceedings prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment strickland strickland-standard Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit depart from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings when it failed to st…
18-404 The Colorado Independent v. District Court for the Eighteenth Judicial District of Colorado, et al. Colorado 2018-09-28 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) capital-murder court-records criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment first-amendment-access judicial-proceedings press-enterprise press-enterprise-co-v-superior-court press-enterprise-doctrine public-access qualified-right Does the public's qualified First Amendment right of access apply to the substantive motion papers, hearing transcripts and court orders filed in a ca…
18-6113 Frank J. Ballesteros v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines criminal-procedure fairness fairness-doctrine integrity judicial-proceedings judicial-review post-conviction-relief pro-se-applicant public-reputation resentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines Should this Court grant review of the court of appeals' decision based on this Court's subsequent decision in Rosales-Mireles v. United States that re…
18-6061 Rogelio Ortiz-Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-09-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP change-in-law criminal-appeal divisible-statute fifth-circuit intervening-change-in-law judicial-proceedings mandate mandate-rule recall-of-mandate rehearing-petition sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines texas-burglary-statute Whether it is a serious departure from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings when a federal court of appeals refuses to consider an in…
18-276 Richard J. Baker v. Microsoft Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit 2018-09-04 Denied Response Waived article-i-section-8-clause-8 compensation constitutional-interpretation contract due-process government-compensation government-obligation invention-security judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings patent-infringement patent-rights property-protection property-rights takings trial Whether under rights given by Congress and contained in U.S. Constitution Article I Section 8 Clause 8 to all U.S. patent holders, courts must forward…
18-243 Anthony Fox v. John Powell, et al. Third Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment checks-and-balances civil-rights constitutional-protection constitutional-rights discovery due-process eleventh-amendment judicial-abrogation judicial-proceedings motion-to-dismiss rule-12b6 standing supervisory-liability supervisory-responsibility Is this Court not required to protect the Constitution as envisioned by our founding fathers in the Eleventh Amendment of the Constitution and does no…
18-5618 Tae H. Chon v. Barack H. Obama, former President of the United States, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure fairness integrity judicial-proceedings plain-error preservation-of-error remand substantial-rights tenth-circuit Whether a plain error affects the petitioner's substantial rights and implicates the fairness, integrity, or public reputation of judicial proceedings…
18-184 John Ayanbadejo v. Mark Siegl, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion administrative-law appellate-court appellate-review civil-procedure court-procedure district-court due-process immigration judicial-proceedings legal-standard mootness procedural-error standing Whether the Lower Appellate Court departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, and/or sanctioned such a departure by the U.S. …
18-5280 Patrick Lanier v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal criminal-procedure eighth-amendment fifth-circuit judicial-proceedings judicial-review manifest-miscarriage plain-error plain-error-review restitution rule-52b sentencing sentencing-error Whether the plain error standard requires a 'manifest miscarriage of justice' to correct a forfeited error affecting substantial rights
18-24 Shannon Hyland v. Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Company Seventh Circuit 2018-07-03 Denied appellate-review breach-of-contract causation civil-procedure duty-to-defend fact-finding insurance insurance-coverage insurance-litigation judgment-vacatur judicial-proceedings summary-judgment uninsured-motorist Whether the Court of Appeals so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings when it deliberately removed relevant and unco…