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25-246 Kenneth J. Jouppi v. Alaska Alaska 2025-09-03 Pending Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-law culpability due-process excessive-fines judicial-standard property-forfeiture Whether, in determining whether a fine contravenes the Excessive Fines Clause, courts may consider the gravity of the underlying offense purely in the…
24-7499 Rodney Mesquias v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability counsel-preparation ineffective-assistance judicial-standard post-conviction trial-continuance Whether the lower courts erred in applying the standard for determining a certificate of appealability in a post-conviction proceeding involving ineff…
24-1030 Parker-Hannifin Corporation, et al. v. Michael D. Johnson, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-03-28 Pending CVSGAmici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) benchmark-comparison erisa fiduciary-duty investment-prudence judicial-standard retirement-plan Whether pleading an ERISA claim requires allegations showing that a performance benchmark is a sound basis for comparison for an investment
24A770 Violet Love Ray v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-07 Presumed Complete appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-standard Whether a federal court of appeals may deny a certificate of appealability when state appellate judges have divided on the merits of a petitioner's co…
24-477 Thomas John Boukamp v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-10-30 Denied Response Waived competency-to-stand-trial criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-standard mental-capacity Whether the Dusky standard for competency to stand trial requires a defendant to have a rational and factual understanding of the proceedings against …
24-5808 Cyrus Hazari v. Court of Appeal of California, Sixth Appellate District, et al. California 2024-10-23 Denied IFP ada-accommodation disability-discrimination federal-preemption judicial-standard legal-remedy pro-se-litigant Whether a federal judge can set a uniform national standard for ADA accommodation and preempt state court rules, and whether California courts systema…
24-5318 Norberto Serna v. O’Brian Bailey, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process judicial-standard miranda-warning Whether the Court of Appeals imposed an incorrect standard for granting a certificate of appealability in conflict with Supreme Court precedent
23-5993 Jose Miguel Montemayor v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review chapman-v-california constitutional-error defendant's-guilt fourth-amendment harmless-error independent-evidence judicial-standard prejudicial-effect suppression-error Whether an appeals court can conclude that a Fourth Amendment error is harmless beyond a reasonable doubt without juxtaposing the error's prejudicial …
23-5869 Craig Martin Shults v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-standard mutually-exclusive severance standard zafiro-precedent zafiro-v-united-states Whether the Ninth Circuit's rigid 'irreconcilable and mutually exclusive' standard for severance survives this Court's decision in Zafiro v. United St…
23-5271 Eric Villarreal v. California California 2023-08-03 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion court-of-appeals criminal-conviction criminal-procedure disability due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-standard legal-review mental-health psychological-disorder right-to-counsel Did the trial courts abuse its discretion by denying VeSendant and Repellant repeated request for new counsel
22-6226 James Armstrong v. Kathy Brittain, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Frackville, et al. Third Circuit 2022-12-06 Denied IFP 28-U.S.C-2254(e)(1) circuit-court-review federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-standard presumption-of-correctness state-court-determination statutory-interpretation third-circuit-court-of-appeals united-states-supreme-court Did the third Circuit Court of Appeals fail to apply it's face of opinion an petitioner habeas corpus j~etition on 'Presumption Of Correctness' mandat…
22-5988 Clemente Hernandez-Garcia v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-procedure discriminatory-intent equal-protection judicial-standard ninth-circuit peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike racial-discrimination If a trial court legally errs at step three of Batson, may an appellate court resolve the factual question of whether a party acted with discriminator…
22-5938 Carrington K. Joseph v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2022-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus judicial-standard procedural-review standard-of-review substantial-showing supreme-court-precedent Whether the Court of Appeals decision to deny Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability conflicts with the standard articulated by this Court and its …
21-7662 Michael Wayne Cook v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-opinions appellate-review district-court district-court-discretion federal-sentencing judicial-standard prejudice prejudicial-error sentencing-guidelines Whether courts of appeals evaluating the prejudicial effect of a Guideline error must accept a district court's claim that the Guidelines exerted no i…
21-5436 William D. Dickerson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-analysis civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-review court-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-standard legal-procedure procedural-error sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether Section 804 of the First Step Act of 2018's definition of 'covered offense' covers a 'dual-object' conspiracy that includes both crack cocaine…
20-1640 Frederick M. Weber v. Ohio Ohio 2021-05-25 Denied civil-rights constitutional-review core-rights due-process firearm-regulation home-defense home-possession judicial-standard lower-court-uncertainty second-amendment standard-of-review Whether the proper standard of constitutional review for a law that impacts the core value of the Second Amendment and the use of a firearm within the…
20-7457 Mark Andrew Morris v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-circuit appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus judicial-standard merits-review standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent threshold-inquiry Did the United States Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit, use an improper and unduly burdensome Certificate of Appealability (COA) standard which conflicts…
20-7442 Ahmad Shalash v. David W. Gray, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process habeas-corpus judicial-standard legal-precedent prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct recantation standing undue-burden Has the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit imposed an improper burden and unduly burdensome Certificate of Appealability (COA) stand…
20-5841 Gerard Nguedi v. Federal Reserve Bank of New York Second Circuit 2020-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights comparator-evidence disparate-treatment employment-discrimination employment-law equal-protection intentional-discrimination judicial-standard prima-facie-case similarly-situated-comparator Does a prima facie case of intentional discrimination require a judicial finding that the defendant gave more favorable treatment to a nearly identica…
20-5549 Javier Lopez-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review credibility-determination credibility-determinations fact-finding factual-issues federal-sentencing judicial-standard precedent reasonableness-review standard-of-review wrongful-incarceration Whether review for reasonableness in federal sentencing requires a separate, more deferential, standard of review for credibility determinations than …
20-5224 Kenneth Clark v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2020-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence aedpa circuit-split evidence federal-review habeas habeas-corpus judicial-standard reliability statute-of-limitations Must a habeas petitioner make a threshold showing of reliability before the reviewing court will consider the evidence in totality to determine whethe…
20-5073 Gilberto Martinez-Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure clear-error evidentiary-errors harmless-error judicial-review judicial-standard legal-sufficiency standard-of-review Whether the court of appeals committed clear error by concluding that significant evidentiary errors were harmless
19-1333 Monster Energy Company, fka Hansen Beverage Company v. City Beverages LLC, dba Olympic Eagle Distributing Ninth Circuit 2020-06-02 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived arbitration arbitration-award arbitration-awards bias circuit-split commonwealth-coatings disclosure disclosure-requirements disclosure-rule evident-partiality federal-arbitration-act judicial-standard standard standard-of-review What is the standard for determining 'evident partiality' under the Federal Arbitration Act?
19-8261 Sean Ath v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-sufficiency judicial-standard standard-of-review substantial-evidence sufficiency-of-evidence united-states-v-rahseparian Whether the United States Court of Appeals properly applied the 'substantial evidence' test in concluding there was sufficient evidence to affirm Peti…
19-7585 Jerry Ellis, aka Jerry Leonard Ellis v. Noel Barlow-Hurst, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-standard post-conviction standard-of-review standing trial-procedure Whether the district court erred in denying the appellant's claim of ineffective assistance of first instance trial counsel
19-7293 Desmond Bowen v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553(a) appellate-review booker-v-united-states federal-sentencing gall-v-united-states judicial-standard sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness What standard should appellate courts use to review claims of substantively unreasonable sentences under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)?
19-5767 Virgil Lee Bailey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis guilty-plea harmless-error judicial-standard plain-error plain-error-review plea-bargaining plea-sufficiency sullivan-v-louisiana Whether the sufficiency of a factual basis for a defendant's plea should be subject to plain error review
19-5421 Charles Earl Davis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-31 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process factual-error harmless-error judicial-standard legal-interpretation plain-error plain-error-review procedural-review standard-of-review Whether factual error is categorically immune from plain error review?
18-1507 Augustin Zambrano v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied Response Waived appellate-court appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability certificates-of-appealability coa-standard court-discretion due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review judicial-standard procedural-ruling standard-of-review Should this Court grant certiorari to make explicit that in ruling on a request for certificates of appealability, an appellate court must apply the a…
18-8873 Tracy Devon Thomas v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-evidence evidence judicial-standard law-enforcement perpetrator probable-cause search-warrant shooting standing vehicle-rental Can the common-sense standard of probable cause be so reduced as to allow a search warrant to be issued on the basis that a person rented a vehicle th…
18-6329 Adan Sandoval Dominguez v. M. Eliot Spearman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency competency-standard constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process factual-understanding judicial-standard major-depressive-disorder mental-competency mental-health rational-understanding standing trial-rights Did defendant meet the competency requirement to stand trial set forth in Godinez v. Moran, 509 U.S. 389 (1993)?
18-5265 In Re Brandon Lee 2018-07-18 Denied IFP consent consent-requirements criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection indictment-procedure indictments indigent-defendants judicial-standard prosecutorial-discretion right-to-counsel right-to-effective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-jury-trial standard Whether the state can rely on true bill of indictments that meet the clearly erroneous standard without verbal and/or written consent of indigent defe…