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25-6792 Daniel Smalls v. South Carolina Department of Social Services, et al. South Carolina 2026-02-12 Pending IFP child-support due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction paternity personal-service Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause permits a state court to assert jurisdiction and impose child support obligations on a nonreside…
25-6781 Stacy Gene Hall v. Buddy Myotte, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-02-11 Pending IFP due-process evidence-suppression fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction rule-60b section-1983 Whether the Due Process Clause permits a lower court to refuse to consider a Rule 60(b) motion when a prior notice of appeal allegedly divests jurisdi…
25-6744 C. Holmes, aka Cynthia Elaine Collie v. James Kevin Holmes South Carolina 2026-02-06 Pending IFP case-law constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction procedural-rights trial-court Whether jurisdictional challenges can be raised at any time and cannot be waived
25-6684 Yehonatan Kapach v. New Hampshire New Hampshire 2026-02-02 Pending IFP constitutional-rights due-process judicial-fairness jurisdiction traffic-court video-conference Was the traffic court in New Hampshire justified in denying a North Carolina resident and driver his application to appear by video conference, as it …
25-870 In Re Delmart Vreeland 2026-01-21 Pending constitutional-violations fabricated-evidence habeas-corpus jurisdiction state-prisoner writ-of-certiorari Whether this Court's power to issue a writ of habeas corpus should be exercised when a state prisoner is confined by a court without jurisdiction and …
25-6639 In Re Deon D. Colvin 2026-01-21 Pending IFP appellate-review circuit-court district-court judicial-procedure jurisdiction writ-of-mandamus Does the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals have jurisdiction over this matter, and is a writ of mandamus appropriate to direct the court to send the case …
25-6471 Marcia Vazquez Rijos v. United States First Circuit 2026-01-02 Pending Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure conspiracy criminal-procedure indicative-ruling jurisdiction sixth-amendment Whether Rule 4 of the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure allows for an Amended Notice of Appeal or requires a new notice of appeal for every indicat…
25-6423 Ammar al Baluchi, aka Ali Abdul Aziz Ali v. Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense District of Columbia 2025-12-23 Pending Response WaivedIFP appellate-review detainee-rights geneva-convention jurisdiction military-law mixed-medical-commission Whether the Court of Appeals erred by denying jurisdiction over Petitioner's appeal and interpreting provisions of the Third Geneva Convention regardi…
25-6381 James Pettus v. Bryan Mazzola, et al. Second Circuit 2025-12-16 Pending IFP case-statement constitutional-provisions jurisdiction opinions statutory-provisions writ Question not identified.
25-6361 Ronald Johnson v. Jeff Zmuda, Secretary, Kansas Department of Corrections, et al. Kansas 2025-12-15 Pending IFP constitutional-provisions court-review jurisdiction legal-procedure statutory-provisions writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
25-687 Richard Eugene Bryant, aka Ritshard Anu Bey v. Mark S. Braunlich, Judge, 38th Circuit Court of Michigan, Monroe County, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-12-12 Pending Response Waived color-of-law constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment jurisdiction probable-cause Whether a warrant and license suspension issued without probable cause violates the Fourth Amendment and constitutes a violation of constitutional rig…
25-6284 Leonard W. Houston v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2025-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-litigation individual-actions jurisdiction pleadings statutory-provisions Whether it constitutes an abuse of discretion to stay individual CLJA actions without requiring responsive pleadings from defendant counsel
25-6263 Sherri Richardson v. Irongate Mutual Homes, Inc., trading as Pear Tree Park Townhomes Fourth Circuit 2025-12-02 Pending IFP appellate-review counterclaims district-court federal-question jurisdiction procedural-considerations Whether the appellate court erred in affirming the district court's ruling on federal question jurisdiction and procedural considerations
25-6248 Nathan David Black v. Ryan Flores, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-11-26 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction protection-order Question not identified.
25-6056 Ruben Santoyo v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction pro-se-litigant sanctions Whether a district court may impose punitive monetary sanctions sua sponte after a notice of appeal has divested it of jurisdiction, in light of confl…
25-6030 Terry Lee Miksell v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process evidence-sufficiency ineffective-assistance interstate-commerce jurisdiction sixth-amendment Whether the District Court had jurisdiction under Gonzales v. Raich to prosecute a case occurring entirely within one state due to out-of-state cell p…
25-549 Russian Federation v. Hulley Enterprises Ltd., et al. District of Columbia 2025-11-05 Denied arbitration-agreement court-procedure foreign-state-immunity international-law jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Whether 28 U.S.C. §1605(a)(6) allows a United States court to exercise jurisdiction without first determining whether the foreign-state defendant agre…
25-536 Robert G. Hicks, Individually and as Trustee of the Roberta Cherry Hicks Testamentary Trust v. City of Hopkinsville, Sewerage and Water Works Commission, dba Hopkinsville Water Environment Authority Kentucky 2025-11-03 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment discretionary-review due-process eminent-domain jurisdiction state-court Does a state court's failure to follow its own statutory authority in an eminent domain proceeding violate due process rights of non-resident landowne…
25-501 Jennifer Young, et vir v. Collect Co. California 2025-10-23 Denied asset-seizure court-order due-process judicial-misconduct jurisdiction legal-standing Whether it violates the Constitution for a state judge without jurisdiction to reopen a closed judgment and order the prevailing judgment creditors to…
25A442 Palanikumar V. Gnanam, et al. v. Nathaniel Chibuzor Keita, et al. Florida 2025-10-20 Application automatic-stay bankruptcy certiorari jurisdiction state-court void-judgment Whether a bankruptcy filing and automatic stay can retroactively invalidate prior state court judgments and proceedings
25-5915 Fareed Sepehry-Fard v. U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for Greenpoint Mortgage Trust Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2007-AR2 California 2025-10-20 Dismissed IFP due-process federal-constitution jurisdiction land-patents supremacy-clause treaty-law Did the lower court violate Article VI Clause 2 of the Supremacy Clause in relation to Land Patents and treaty laws?
25A425 Zhuo H. Zhong v. United States Armed Forces 2025-10-14 Presumed Complete appellate-review court-martial factual-sufficiency firearm-prohibition jurisdiction military-justice Whether military courts of criminal appeals have jurisdiction to review firearm prohibition errors and factual sufficiency challenges in court-martial…
25A409 Will McRaney v. The North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2025-10-08 Presumed Complete certiorari circuit-split federal-courts jurisdiction statutory-interpretation supreme-court Whether the Supreme Court should grant certiorari to resolve a circuit split regarding the proper interpretation of a federal statute or constitutiona…
25A375 Jeremiah Vance v. Jeffery Mims Fifth Circuit 2025-10-01 Presumed Complete bankruptcy-appeal federal-rules jurisdiction notice-of-appeal pro-se time-bar Whether a pro se litigant's untimely notice of appeal from a bankruptcy court order can be excused or tolled due to unique procedural circumstances
25A352 Glen Morgan v. X Corp., fka Twitter, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2025-09-26 Presumed Complete article-iii concrete-harm jurisdiction privacy-rights standing statutory-damages Whether a federal court may exercise Article III jurisdiction over a state law privacy claim where the plaintiff alleges a statutory violation but can…
25A256 Lujan Claimants v. Boy Scouts of America, et al. Third Circuit 2025-09-03 Presumed Complete certiorari jurisdiction precedential-opinion supreme-court third-circuit time-extension Whether the Third Circuit's denial of rehearing in a precedential opinion warrants extraordinary relief from the Supreme Court to extend the time for …
25-5450 John Todd Williams v. United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Second Circuit 2025-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-three due-process federal-appellate-judge judicial-designation jurisdiction post-conviction-motion Whether a federal appellate judge who was never properly designated under 28 U.S.C. § 294 may lawfully adjudicate a post-conviction 28 U.S.C. § 2255 m…
25-216 Mathew Grashorn v. Wendy Love, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-08-22 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) clearly-established-law imminent-danger jurisdiction objective-reasonableness qualified-immunity tenth-circuit Whether a reviewing court lacks jurisdiction over a district court's determination of imminent danger in a qualified immunity analysis, and whether th…
25A195 Marcus T. Dixon v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-08-19 Presumed Complete certiorari-petition court-of-appeals federal-criminal-case jurisdiction supreme-court-rules time-extension Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari in a federal criminal case
25-104 Joe Louis Adams, Jr. v. 3D Systems, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2025-07-29 Denied arbitration-clause civil-rights double-jeopardy electronic-filing jurisdiction pro-se-litigant Whether the Federal District Court improperly denied Pro Se litigant's ECF notification privileges and jurisdiction to enforce trade agreement past ar…
25-83 Adrian Jules v. Andre Balazs Properties, et al. Second Circuit 2025-07-22 Granted Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) arbitration-award diversity-jurisdiction federal-arbitration-act federal-question jurisdiction post-arbitration-application Whether a federal court that initially exercises jurisdiction and stays a case pending arbitration maintains jurisdiction over a post-arbitration Sect…
25-5109 In Re Maria Dolores Navarro Martin 2025-07-15 Dismissed IFP discretionary-power due-process federal-declaratory-judgment immigration-law jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Whether the District Court had jurisdiction under the Federal Declaratory Judgment Act and whether the Attorney General and Immigration officials exer…
25-50 Mike Fitzhugh, Sheriff, Rutherford County, Tennessee, et al. v. Bradley Patton Sixth Circuit 2025-07-15 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii civil-procedure class-action jurisdiction mootness standing Whether Article III permits a plaintiff with moot claims to continue a putative class action based on the possibility that a future class-certificatio…
25-5094 Awad Mustafa v. HTS Services, Inc., et al. Texas 2025-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process federal-claims jurisdiction supremacy-clause trial-court Whether the state's trial court has jurisdiction to hear this case with its federal claims, and whether the trial court's dismissal with prejudice vio…
25A39 Kevin Michael Jones v. Frank Bisignano, Commissioner of Social Security Administration Fourth Circuit 2025-07-10 Presumed Complete administrative-law certiorari jurisdiction pro-se social-security supreme-court Whether the Supreme Court has jurisdiction to review a pro se litigant's multi-jurisdictional social security case involving alleged procedural errors…
25-28 Claude Franklin Sanders v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Sixth Circuit 2025-07-09 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act agency-filing federal-register income-tax jurisdiction tax-court Is the IRS required to publish in the Federal Register the places where federal income tax returns are to be filed, and are citizens subject to income…
25-26 Berkeley County School District v. Hub International Limited, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-07-09 Denied Response Waived arbitrability arbitration-agreement contract-termination delegation-clause dispute-resolution jurisdiction Where parties enter into an agreement which expressly terminates on a date certain, and which contains an arbitration provision with a delegation clau…
25A23 Kevin Paul Cantu v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-07-08 Presumed Complete certiorari eighth-circuit extension jurisdiction petition supreme-court-rule Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the petitioner's conviction and sentence
25A20 Brandon Allen Haynes v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-07-08 Presumed Complete certiorari eighth-circuit extension jurisdiction petition supreme-court-rule Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the petitioner's conviction and sentence
25-5036 Wilfredo Feliciano-Rodriguez v. United States First Circuit 2025-07-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-provisions federal-prosecution grand-jury interstate-commerce jurisdiction puerto-rico-statehood Whether a federal court can prosecute without verifying jurisdiction and whether the Respondent can usurp Puerto Rico's jurisdiction in violation of 1…
24A1293 Bart Wade Reagor v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-06-30 Presumed Complete fifth-circuit jurisdiction petition supreme-court time-extension writ-of-certiorari Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari in a Fifth Circuit case
24-1195 In Re Symon Mandawala 2025-05-22 Denied civil-procedure jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss rule-12(b)(6) service-of-process sua-sponte Whether a district court itself can invoke a motion to dismiss sua sponte under Rule 12(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in a civil case …
24-7175 In Re Kevin Ogden 2025-05-12 Denied IFP appellate-review due-process jurisdiction legal-standard self-representation trial-rights Whether the Supreme Court of New Mexico lacks jurisdiction to rule on the petitioner's case prior to trial and applied the wrong legal standard when d…
24-1138 Rafael Beltre v. Fit Guys Walk, LLC, dba Planet Fitness Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-07 Denied Relisted (2) case-management civil-rights dismissal-with-prejudice due-process jurisdiction section-1983 Whether the Middle District Court of Florida and the U.S. Court of Appeals of the Eleventh Circuit properly dismissed a case for failure to state a ca…
24-7137 In Re Jack Eugene Carpenter, III 2025-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP counsel-consultation district-court-authority evidence-preservation jurisdiction legal-representation self-determination Whether a District Court can exercise jurisdiction and self-determination when a defendant lacks the ability to consult with counsel and preserve evid…
24-1130 Kingdom of Spain v. Blasket Renewable Investments LLC, et al. District of Columbia 2025-05-05 Pending CVSGAmici (5) arbitration-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities-act forum-non-conveniens international-law jurisdiction sovereign-consent Whether §1605(a)(6) allows United States courts to assert jurisdiction over a foreign sovereign without determining whether the sovereign consented to…
24-7081 Michael Galluzzo v. Robin K. Edwards, Champaign County Treasurer Ohio 2025-04-28 Denied IFP constitutional-requirement judicial-authority jurisdiction oath-of-office plain-error standing Whether the court committed plain error by failing to adhere to constitutional requirements for judicial appointments and oaths of office
24-1091 Christopher Kiely, et al. v. Sherene Fagon, Administrator of the Estate of Zoe Dowdell Second Circuit 2025-04-18 Denied Response Waived interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction qualified-immunity second-circuit trial-court undisputed-facts Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in declining to exercise jurisdiction over Defendants' interlocutory appeal of the trial court's den…
24-6982 In Re Lawrence J. Gerrans 2025-04-11 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Whether the petitioner's detention is unconstitutional due to lack of jurisdiction, violation of due process, and invalid prosecution theories
24-6955 In Re Dexter Leemon Johnson 2025-04-10 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction legal-existence state-sovereignty tribal-rights Whether Oklahoma's legal existence and jurisdictional status can be challenged under U.S. Constitutional precedent as a separate and potentially inval…
24-6952 David J. Rudometkin v. United States Armed Forces 2025-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP all-writs-act appellate-defense-counsel court-of-appeals-for-armed-forces jurisdiction military-justice sixth-amendment Whether the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (CAAF) has jurisdiction to deny appellate defense counsel assigned by U.S. Army Judge Advocate Gener…
24-6866 Adrian Lee Guzman v. Colorado Colorado 2025-03-26 Denied IFP case-statement constitutional-provisions jurisdiction statutory-provisions supreme-court-procedure writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
24-6846 Gayle George v. U.S. Bank National Association, as Legal Title Trustee for Truman 2016 SC6 Title Trust District of Columbia 2025-03-25 Denied IFP banking-regulations due-process federal-enforcement judicial-taking jurisdiction property-rights Whether District of Columbia courts have jurisdiction to adjudicate claims involving judicial taking of private property without due process and just …
24A906 Deloris Phillips v. Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers' Compensation Fifth Circuit 2025-03-24 Presumed Complete appellate-review final-order interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction magistrate-judge pro-se Whether a pro se litigant's appeal of a magistrate judge's report and recommendation can be considered jurisdictionally valid when the underlying orde…
24-1005 Nathan Young v. Burton W. Wiand, As Receiver for Oasis International Group Ltd., Oasis Management, LLC and Satellite Holdings Company Ninth Circuit 2025-03-20 Denied jurisdiction non-party personal-communications receiver standing subpoena Does a sole member and shareholder of a nonparty LLC, who specially appeared in the lower court proceedings, have standing to appeal a federal receive…
24-6708 Grace Wilson Marshall v. Benjamin Ryan Caudill Kentucky 2025-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-custody domestic-violence federal-law jurisdiction protective-order uccjea Whether a domestic violence victim's temporary protective order provides sufficient legal protection for her and her children under federal and state …
24-942 Patrick Comack v. Leland Dudek, Acting Commissioner of Social Security Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-03 Denied Response Waived administrative-exhaustion constitutional-rights due-process jurisdiction mathews-v-eldridge social-security-disability Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit violate Supreme Court precedent by using a three-part test instead of the two-part Mathews v. Eldri…
24-6592 Lawrence E. Mattison v. Department of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2025-02-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP collateral-orders-doctrine court-transfer federal-circuit judicial-procedure jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is required to vacate a transfer order if transfer violated 28 U.S.C. §1631
24-6547 Mitchell S. Sanderson v. Janne Myrdal, et al. North Dakota 2025-02-12 Denied IFP due-process judicial-oath jurisdiction rules-of-court service-of-process supremacy-clause Whether the Rules of Court must be followed by the Court and whether judges can violate their oath of office, due process, and the Supremacy Clause
24-838 Sol M. Leiner v. Dow, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-02-05 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy-discharge constitutional-provisions federal-court jurisdiction product-liability supreme-court-review Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in dismissing the case involving product liability claims against Dow Defendants and jurisdiction over federal versus …
24A743 Joseph Lee Conley v. Arizona Arizona 2025-01-29 Presumed Complete appellate-review certiorari extension-of-time federal-question jurisdiction supreme-court Whether the Arizona Court of Appeals' decision denying relief to the petitioner raises a substantial federal question warranting Supreme Court review
24-800 Rosemary D'Augusta, et al. v. American Petroleum Institute, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-27 Denied act-of-state-doctrine antitrust-law jurisdiction oil-production price-fixing sherman-act Whether American oil companies can enter into price-fixing agreements with Russian and Saudi Arabian oil companies without Congressional sanction in v…
24A679 Adam Cole Shryock v. Colorado, ex rel. Phillip J. Weiser, Attorney General of Colorado Colorado 2025-01-13 Presumed Complete business-activity corporate-division due-process jurisdiction notice-requirements statute-of-limitations Whether the state's failure to bring an action within the applicable statute of limitations violated due process and deprived the trial court of juris…
24-6234 Danilo Augusto Feliciano v. Nancy Landry, Louisiana Secretary of State, et al. District of Columbia 2025-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-general dismissal false-claims-act jurisdiction qui-tam relator Does the District Court have jurisdiction to dismiss a False Claims Act action without a written explanation from the court and Attorney General, and …
24A654 Carl Ellen Puckett, Jr., et ux. v. Ain Jeem, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2025-01-02 Presumed Complete due-process first-amendment jurisdiction lanham-act pro-se trademark-seizure Whether a district court can issue an ex parte trademark seizure order without proper notice and hearing under 15 U.S.C. § 1116 when jurisdiction is d…
24A649 Cristian M. Loga-Negru v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2024-12-31 Presumed Complete ineffective-assistance jurisdiction newly-discovered-evidence plea-withdrawal postconviction-motions pro-se Whether a criminal defendant's pro se postconviction motions challenging jurisdiction and plea withdrawal based on alleged ineffective assistance of c…
24A619 Tonia Scott v. Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2024-12-20 Presumed Complete criminal-prosecution due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction native-american tribal-sovereignty Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's due process protections are violated when a state court fails to properly consider tribal jurisdiction and sovereig…
24A557 Prabhjot Kaur Kang v. Western Governors University Ninth Circuit 2024-12-09 Presumed Complete certiorari jurisdiction ninth-circuit pro-se supreme-court time-extension Whether a pro se litigant's employment constraints and need for additional research time constitute sufficient grounds for an extension of time to fil…
24-6092 Russell M. Grimes v. Delaware, et al. Third Circuit 2024-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-review jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
24-6078 Michael Andrew Peterson v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2024-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-provisions extraordinary-circumstances jurisdiction legal-opinion petition supreme-court Question not identified.
24-6076 Reginald Wright v. Virginia Department of Child Support Enforcement, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-support constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction legal-proceedings Did the false information and improper jurisdiction in a child support case violate the petitioner's constitutional due process and civil rights?
24-608 Daniel Montes, Jr. v. Bertha A. Tibbs Fifth Circuit 2024-12-04 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure claim-assignment federal-rules jurisdiction precedent-conflict summary-judgment Whether the Fifth Circuit's decision conflicts with Supreme Court precedents regarding absolute claim transfers and summary judgment procedures
24-6025 Kecia Porter v. Jennifer Navarro, et al. Illinois 2024-11-25 Denied IFP arbitration color-of-law coram-non-judice due-process equal-protection jurisdiction Whether a court under color of law violates the petitioner's 14th Amendment rights by ruling on matters outside its jurisdiction without proper legal …
24-6004 In Re Aliyah Monroe 2024-11-20 Denied IFP child-custody due-process emergency-order-of-protection jurisdiction parental-rights uniform-child-custody-jurisdiction-enforcement-act Whether a state court's child custody determination violates due process and jurisdictional requirements when modifying an out-of-state emergency orde…
24-6008 Michael P. Crenshaw v. Illinois Illinois 2024-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-review jurisdiction statutory-provisions Question not identified.
24A426 Garry David Gallardo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-10-30 Presumed Complete article-iii constitutional-courts criminal-jurisdiction federal-courts jurisdiction state-courts Whether Article III of the Constitution limits Congress's power to confer criminal jurisdiction on federal courts within a state's judicial system
24-476 Ascension Data & Analytics, LLC, et al. v. Pairprep, Inc., dba OpticsML Fifth Circuit 2024-10-30 Denied Response Waived arbitration circuit-split federal-question jurisdiction preclusive-effect res-judicata Whether a court or arbitrator should determine the preclusive effect of a prior judgment in an arbitration proceeding
24A401 Xengxai Yang v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-10-24 Presumed Complete certiorari jurisdiction legal-standard seventh-circuit supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Whether the Seventh Circuit's decision in Yang v. United States improperly interpreted a critical legal standard or constitutional principle in the un…
24-5789 Saretta Mildred Gross v. United Parcel Service, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP collective-bargaining employment-discrimination jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss pro-se-plaintiff sexual-harassment Whether a district court errs in dismissing a pro se plaintiff's complaint without fully considering incorporated earlier complaints and allegations o…
24A371 Benjamin Tyree Townsel v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-18 Presumed Complete criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit federal-appeal jurisdiction sentencing standard-of-review Whether the Eleventh Circuit correctly applied the standard of review in affirming a criminal conviction and sentence
24-5729 Jerome Coast v. Georgia Georgia 2024-10-09 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-law jurisdiction Question not identified.
24-299 Kent Knox Johnson v. Superior Court of California, El Dorado County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-09-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) attorney-misconduct due-process equal-protection jurisdiction llc-law racketeering Is material fraud by attorneys purporting to be agents of an unregistered LLC law firm in a California Court insubstantial?
24-298 In Re Kelsey Cascadia Rose Juliana, et al. 2024-09-16 Denied Response Waived appellate-review cheney-conditions district-court jurisdiction ninth-circuit writ-of-mandamus Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the Ninth Circuit to vacate its writ of mandamus and remand to the district court where the Ninth Ci…
24-5552 Roy Dean Harjo v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-09-16 Denied IFP court-review evidence-distortion jurisdiction legal-standing petition-claims procedural-irregularity Whether the Petition Court has jurisdiction to review the Petition's claims of distorted evidence and procedural irregularities
24A257 Jonathan High v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-12 Presumed Complete appellate-review criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit jurisdiction standard-of-review writ-of-certiorari Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals applied the correct standard of review in affirming the petitioner's criminal conviction
24-5403 Tynia Levesy v. Christopher Scolese, Director, National Reconnaissance Office, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-08-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-claims fourth-circuit jurisdiction rule-26f rule-56d Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals have jurisdiction over constitutional claims and properly apply procedural rules in this case?
24A204 Marlon Abraham Rosasen v. Kingdom of Norway, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-26 Presumed Complete certiorari family-rights guardian-ad-litem jurisdiction ninth-circuit pro-se Whether a pro se litigant's family rights claims involving international jurisdictional disputes can survive dismissal under federal appellate review …
24-5357 Peter Mule v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2024-08-21 Denied Relisted (2)IFP federal-rules-civil-procedure judicial-review jurisdiction procedural-defect subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment Whether a court's judgment is void under FRCP 60(b)(4) when jurisdiction is lacking or improperly exercised
24-5348 Tierzah Mapson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit declaration forma-pauperis jurisdiction oath writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
24-5351 In Re Michael Toro El 2024-08-20 Denied IFP 13th-amendment constitutional-rights denationalization jurisdiction racial-labeling slavery Whether the use of racial labels on arrest records constitutes a violation of constitutional rights and a form of denationalization under the 13th Ame…
24A176 Anthony Patterson v. Asli Baz Seventh Circuit 2024-08-15 Presumed Complete appellate-review certiorari jurisdiction pro-bono rehearing seventh-circuit Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals correctly applied legal standards in its decision in Baz v. Patterson that potentially impacted the appli…
24-157 Roy C. Derksen v. Wisconsin, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-08-13 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment administrative-law constitutional-rights due-process jurisdiction sovereign-citizen Whether the district court and 7th Circuit improperly dismissed a pro se litigant's constitutional challenges to administrative law proceedings withou…
24-5277 Robert Scott v. Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2024-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-provisions jurisdiction opinions reasons-for-writ statement-of-case Question not identified.
24A149 The Estate of Isabella "Bella" Herndon, et al. v. Netflix, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-08 Presumed Complete article-iii cafa circuit-conflict diversity-jurisdiction jurisdiction minimal-diversity Whether the Class Action Fairness Act and Article III require a plaintiff invoking federal diversity jurisdiction to specifically identify the name an…
24-132 Mark Bambach, et al. v. Gina Moegle, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-08-06 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure-jurisdiction constitutional-rights due-process johnson-v-jones jurisdiction qualified-immunity section-1983 summary-judgment tolan-v-cotton Whether the Sixth Circuit lacked jurisdiction under 28 USCS § 1291 and Johnson v. Jones and its progeny to hear Defendants' appeal
24-5223 Michael Domonic Sales v. Tennessee Tennessee 2024-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-issue court-record due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-petition related-cases standing supreme-court takings Question not identified
24-5224 Michael Paul Gianfrancesco v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review court-proceedings criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing jurisdiction sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness Sentencing-reasonableness
24-5228 Thomas Waters v. Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al. Third Circuit 2024-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-process amendment civil-litigation civil-procedure court-procedure due-process federal-courts judicial-discretion jurisdiction procedural-rules standing Question not identified
24-5208 In Re Daimeyahn Stevenson 2024-08-01 Denied IFP arbitrary-order case-review civil-procedure court-authority due-process erroneous-order judicial-procedure jurisdiction jurisdiction-divesting legal-jurisdiction procedural-error standing Whether a court may divest itself of lawful jurisdiction by an erroneous or arbitrary order
24-5213 Gilbert Campa v. Ingrid Rosenquist, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-01 Denied IFP appeals civil-action civil-procedure court-of-appeals dismissal holidays judicial-procedure jurisdiction legal-review prejudice procedural-error time-limits Question not identified
24-5200 Victor Tavares v. Rhode Island Rhode Island 2024-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process indictment jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction petition sixth-amendment supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Does the case violate the Sixth Amendment Clause of the U.S. Constitution?
24-5176 Antonio Santonastaso v. United States First Circuit 2024-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1001 criminal-law false-statements federal-prosecution judicial-review jurisdiction maslenjak-v-united-states materiality materiality-standard statutory-interpretation Does the new materiality standard from Maslenjak v. United States apply to prosecutions under 18 U.S.C. § 1001(a)(2)?
24A111 Stan Brown v. Corey Pankow, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-07-30 Presumed Complete appeal-deadline federal-rules-appellate-procedure in-forma-pauperis jurisdiction prisoner-litigation pro-se Whether a pro se prisoner's untimely notice of appeal can be excused due to unique circumstances or equitable tolling principles when filed beyond the…
24A103 Akmal Narzikulov v. United States Second Circuit 2024-07-29 Presumed Complete certiorari constitutional-rights jurisdiction rule-13 supreme-court time-extension Whether a criminal defendant's constitutional rights are violated when a district court denies a motion to extend time to file a petition for writ of …
24-74 In Re Alphonza Leonard Phillip Thomas Bey 2024-07-25 Denied Relisted (2) 14th-amendment 8th-amendment black-negro-colored-persons constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment jurisdiction property state-court Question not identified.
24-5077 Gary Davis v. Randy Irwin, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Forest, et al. Third Circuit 2024-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-statement civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provision due-process free-speech habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing statutory-provision supreme-court-procedure writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
24-5078 In Re Hassan Williams 2024-07-15 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-provisions district-court due-process grounds-for-relief jurisdiction petition-for-writ standing statement-of-case statement-of-the-case Question not identified
24-5059 Gregory D. Crosby v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction standing statutory-provisions Question not identified
24-5039 In Re James A. Wolfe 2024-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights court-filing due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure petition standing Question not identified.
24A14 Kenneth W. Blair v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-07-09 Presumed Complete certiorari conviction eighth-circuit haines-standard jurisdiction pro-se Whether a pro se litigant's criminal conviction and sentence can be challenged under a liberal construction standard when the Eighth Circuit has affir…
24-5002 Maurice P. Scott v. Mrs. Stevenson, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-07-03 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction standing Question not identified
23-1360 Vernon Fiehler v. Catherine Mecklenburg, et al. Alaska 2024-07-01 Denied CVSGAmici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) civil-procedure constitutional-provision evidence evidence-interpretation federal-survey geographic-determination judicial-discretion jurisdiction property-law water-boundary Whether a court has the power to disregard evidence of the location of a water boundary from a federal survey based on subsequent evidence of the body…
23-7805 In Re Enrique Medina 2024-06-28 Denied IFP access-to-court constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment jurisdiction search-and-seizure sixth-amendment warrantless-search Whether the petitioner's right to speedy trial was violated
23-7828 Sean Moffitt v. Warden, USP-1 Coleman, et al. Third Circuit 2024-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction standing statutory-provisions Question not identified
23-7816 In Re William H. Wright, Jr. 2024-06-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process emergency-motion jurisdiction jurisdictional-review petition-for-review standing Question not identified
23-7822 Nukarri Williams v. Florida Florida 2024-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law due-process equal-protection equal-treatment federal-code fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction petition relief state-court writ Whether the state court's failure to provide the petitioner with the relief provided to similarly situated defendants violates the Equal Protection Cl…
23A1152 John Dwayne Garvin v. Levern Cohen, Warden Fourth Circuit 2024-06-25 Presumed Complete certiorari constitutional-error fourth-circuit jurisdiction legal-research pro-se Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals committed constitutional error in its judgment against a pro se litigant with limited legal education
23A1156 Rona J. Adeoye v. Clayton County DFCS Employees, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-25 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure court-of-appeals dismissal jurisdiction pro-se sua-sponte Whether a pro se litigant's procedural challenges to a sua sponte dismissal by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals for lack of jurisdiction warrant …
23-7793 Jesus M. Romero, Sr., Individually and on Behalf of His Minor Child, J. R. v. Bellevue Hospital, et al. Second Circuit 2024-06-25 Denied IFP administrative-law appellate-review circuit-court civil-rights covid-19 due-process federal-courts free-speech jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation vaccine-mandate Question not identified
23A1135 John Dwayne Garvin v. Levern Cohen, Warden Fourth Circuit 2024-06-21 Presumed Complete certiorari constitutional-error fourth-circuit jurisdiction legal-research pro-se Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals committed constitutional error in its judgment against a pro se litigant with limited legal education
23-7744 In Re William F. Laffoon 2024-06-18 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jurisdiction mcgirt-ruling native-american native-american-rights reservation-law retroactivity tribal-jurisdiction Question not identified.
23-7735 Maria M. Faust v. Michael T. Faust District of Columbia 2024-06-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law court-jurisdiction domestic-violence due-process evidence-sufficiency judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure military-spousal-abuse Question not identified
23-7720 Patsy N. Sakuma v. Association of Apartment Owners of the Tropics of Waikele, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-06-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights cross-appeal cross-appeal-rules due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-exception rico-merits rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine summary-judgment Whether 42 U.S.C. Sections 1985(2),(3) and a new Rooker-Feldman exception that exists also under Lance v. Dennis are jurisdictional exceptions to the …
23-7699 Levoyd A. Jones v. Angela Hunsinger-Stuff, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-06-12 Denied IFP 6th-amendment brady-violation criminal-procedure direct-evidence due-process evidence ineffective-assistance jurisdiction sixth-amendment trial-counsel uncharged-crime witness-impeachment Whether evidence of an uncharged crime can be used as direct evidence
23-7701 Robin Jones v. Angela Reaves, Warden, et al. Georgia 2024-06-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal certificate-of-appealability certiorari civil-rights court-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction legal-review petition supreme-court Whether the federal courts should address the Strickland Assistance of Trial Counsel claims are moot due to the claims being stayed, whether dismissin…
23-1287 Ian Brenner v. Randy Irwin, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Forest, et al. Third Circuit 2024-06-10 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure confrontation-clause consent due-process ineffective-assistance jurisdiction magistrate magistrate-jurisdiction standing strickland-standard surrogate-expert Whether denial of a Certificate of Appealability is proper when the magistrate judge who entered judgment lacked jurisdiction because the Petitioner d…
23-7655 In Re Jovon Montell Hollowell 2024-06-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-courts government-powers individual-rights jurisdiction legal-precedent standing tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty Can a non-Article III court proceed without consent of the parties?
23-7656 Carl Monroe Gordon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendants-rights due-process jurisdiction legal-procedure speedy-trial statutory-interpretation trial-act Was defendants Speedy Trial Rights Act Violated?
23-7637 Andres Nixon Gonzales-Catagua, aka Nexon Gonzalez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure drug-enforcement drug-interdiction jurisdiction jurisdictional-limit law-enforcement maritime-drug-law maritime-law military-law-enforcement miranda-warnings sixth-amendment Whether the jurisdictional limit in the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act relates to legislative reach or subject matter jurisdiction
23-7630 Jamaal Elwood Dance v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appellate-procedure constitutional-law contract-law criminal-procedure judicial-enforcement jurisdiction plea-agreement Was the appeal barred by the appeal waiver in the plea agreement?
23-7596 Andre Tayson Boone v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2024-05-30 Denied IFP appeal civil-procedure constitutional-analysis due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-interpretation procedural-rules standing statutory-provisions time-extension Whether the courts erred in dismissing the petitioner's appeal of the district court's denial of their motion for an extension of time to file a notic…
23-7582 Manna Massaquoi v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process evidence judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure standing Did the Pennsylvania Supreme Court err in finding that the FORA Consent Decree entered by the Pennsylvania Governor was not violated by the granting o…
23-1245 David Timothy Johnson, Sr. v. Urvashi Foster, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-28 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion judicial-power jurisdiction pro-se-litigation procedural-defect shotgun-pleading Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit's questioned Orders amount to an unlawful denial of due process, an oppressive exe…
23-7548 In Re Kinley MacDonald 2024-05-23 Dismissed IFP child-custody child-welfare civil-rights due-process family-law hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-misconduct jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge parental-rights state-statute Can a trial court open and remove children in a 'protective custody' case based solely on hearsay accusations prohibited by state statute and in absen…
23-7549 In Re Kinley MacDonald 2024-05-23 Dismissed IFP child-custody child-welfare due-process family-rights hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction parental-rights standard-of-review state-court-procedure Whether a state court can remove children from a parent's custody based solely on hearsay allegations prohibited by state statute, in the absence of j…
23-7550 In Re Kinley MacDonald 2024-05-23 Dismissed IFP child-abuse due-process family-rights federal-review habeas-corpus hearsay ineffective-assistance jurisdiction post-conviction-relief protective-custody state-court-jurisdiction Can a trial court open and remove children in a 'protective custody' case based solely on hearsay about actions prohibited by state statute in secret …
23-7540 Oscar Catalan Ruiz v. California California 2024-05-22 Denied IFP abstract-statutes appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendants-rights due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-interpretation procedural-due-process sentencing Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated by the sentencing court's failure to consider mitigating evidence and impose an appropriate …
23-7541 Tommy Duane Barnes v. Roberto Felix, Jr., et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-05-22 GVR Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP civil-rights conspiracy conspiracy-to-murder constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-misconduct jurisdiction pro-se-representation standing texas-jurisdiction tyranny Was the petitioner's constitutional rights violated by the denial of a telephone hearing after being granted pro se representation?
23-1229 Environmental Protection Agency v. Calumet Shreveport Refining, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-05-22 Judgment Issued Amici (6)Response WaivedRelisted (3) administrative-law circuit-court-review clean-air-act environmental-law epa-administrative-action jurisdiction renewable-fuel-standard statutory-interpretation venue venue-jurisdiction Whether venue for the refineries' challenges lies exclusively in the D.C. Circuit
23-7527 Larry Williams v. Warden Kelly, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-05-21 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its application of the relevant legal standards
23-7515 Carlos Davis v. Hemmersbach US, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2024-05-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP appellate-procedure circuit-rules civil-procedure contract-law due-process evidence evidence-presentation jurisdiction verbal-agreement verbal-contract Does the 5th Circuit's circuit rules supersede The Federal Circuit and U.S Supreme Court, particularly when parties may present new arguments for the …
23-7516 Anthony Roy Spain v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-05-20 Denied IFP creek-nation criminal-procedure direct-appeal flores-ortega ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction mcgirt-decision mcgirt-v-oklahoma sixth-amendment Were trial counsel ineffective for failing to consult with Mr. Spain about taking a direct appeal from his conviction, where doing so would not have b…
23A1025 Vivendi S.E., et al. v. EPAC Technologies Ltd. New York 2024-05-17 Presumed Complete appellate-review certiorari final-judgment jurisdiction state-court supreme-court Whether a state appellate court's denial of leave to appeal constitutes a final judgment for purposes of Supreme Court certiorari jurisdiction
23-7475 Steve Podkulski v. Illinois Illinois 2024-05-15 Denied IFP 4th-amendment cell-phone-data civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction legal-document petition privacy search-and-seizure supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
23-7428 Robert Pann v. Julian Ulmer Florida 2024-05-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-amendment default-judgment due-process garnishment jurisdiction notice-requirement procedural-due-process subject-matter-jurisdiction writ-of-garnishment Whether the petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment procedural due process rights were violated when: (A) the respondent provided only 16 hours' notice for …
23-7445 Lloyd Kidd v. United States Second Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process electronic-evidence jurisdiction motion-to-suppress sufficiency-of-evidence summary-charts venue venue-challenge Was there legally insufficient evidence to establish that venue was proper in the Southern District of New York for each count of conviction?
23-7426 Saye Henry Gofan, Jr. v. Cameron C. Gustafson, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-issue court-of-appeals district-court due-process free-speech habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge legal-procedure standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's constitutional challenges to the government's actions
23-7382 In Re Arthur Jones 2024-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federalism judicial-discretion judicial-overreach jurisdiction mandamus subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the district court abused its discretion in failing to issue the writ of mandamus
23-7370 Sammie Davis King, Jr. v. Gregory Sampson, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-02 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions due-process false-confession judicial-review jurisdiction legal-standing standing statutory-provisions Did He Distick Lourk err by ouerlookns hebhonr Pu cera! Dehalt clsins thon Pedbiboner wes level Lfoctive. assichae of louse) ta hi's OWAD
23-7371 Laron Darrell Carter v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-05-02 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-court jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue mandate mandate-rule procedural-law waiver Whether the rule requiring a district court to follow the mandate of a court of appeals is jurisdictional
23-7362 Tesae Harrington v. Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State District of Columbia 2024-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP affirmative-action civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection higher-education judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure precedent race-discrimination statutory-interpretation Whether the race-based admissions policies of Harvard College and the University of North Carolina violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteen…
23-1176 Sean Houston, et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-05-01 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims district-court due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction sixth-circuit standing sua-sponte-dismissal subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the court of appeals and district court made erroneous judgments in sua sponte dismissing the complainant's cause of action for lack of subjec…
23-7330 Jessica Graulau v. Credit One Bank, N.A. Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-29 Denied IFP arbitration-agreement arbitrator-powers counterclaim diversity-jurisdiction federal-arbitration-act jurisdiction manifest-disregard time-limitations Whether arbitrator exceeded his powers by awarding on a matter not submitted to him
23-7332 Angel De Jesus Castillo-Godoy v. United States First Circuit 2024-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment government-defense jurisdiction opening-brief reply-brief sixth-amendment Whether a criminal defendant must raise the issue of an appeal waiver in his opening brief or whether it falls upon the government to raise the waiver…
23-7337 In Re Lorenza Gerald Ferebee, Jr. 2024-04-29 Dismissed IFP case-number civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure due-process jurisdiction legal-filing patent petition standing takings transfer Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim
23-7263 Everald S. Allen, Jr. v. Kevin Payne, Commandant, United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth Tenth Circuit 2024-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP command-influence constitutional-rights due-process jurisdiction military-justice presidential-comments strict-liability trial-integrity unlawful-command-influence whether-unlawful-command-influence
23-7275 Charles Gary Singletary, III v. Terrie Wallace, Warden Fourth Circuit 2024-04-19 Denied IFP cell-phone-data constitutional-provisions due-process fourth-amendment jurisdiction legal-procedure privacy search-and-seizure standing supreme-court writ Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment
23A942 Angelia and Kelvin Smith v. Snug Owner, LLC Texas 2024-04-19 Presumed Complete covid-19 eviction jurisdiction pro-se supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Whether a state court's judgment regarding potential eviction during the COVID-19 pandemic violates due process rights of pro se litigants
23-7251 In Re Raynada Jones 2024-04-18 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony-murder jurisdiction magistrate probable-cause subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether petitioner is in custody in violation of the Constitution or laws or treaties of the United States
23-7253 Calvin King v. Louisiana Louisiana 2024-04-18 Denied IFP application constitutional-provisions interpretation jurisdiction legal-analysis lower-court-decision petition statement-of-case statutory-provisions table-of-contents Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
23-7254 Alfred Johnson, Sr. v. Ohio Ohio 2024-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing Question not identified
23A931 Vernon Fiehler v. T. Anthony Mecklenburg, et al. Alaska 2024-04-17 Presumed Complete appellate-review certiorari federal-law jurisdiction state-court supreme-court Whether the Supreme Court of Alaska improperly exercised jurisdiction over a dispute involving federal law when determining the underlying case
23-7233 Chikezie Ottah v. National Grid Federal Circuit 2024-04-16 Denied IFP 35-USC-101 civil-procedure constitutional-provisions court-review due-process jurisdiction legal-procedure patent standing statutory-provisions takings writ-of-certiorari Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of patent-eligibility under 35-USC-101
23A923 Bryant Christopher Watts v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-04-16 Presumed Complete civil-procedure equitable-tolling jurisdiction notice-of-appeal prisoner-litigation pro-se Whether a pro se prisoner's untimely notice of appeal can be excused under equitable tolling principles when the delay results from alleged procedural…
23-7212 Keith P. Sequeira, et al. v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, et al. Third Circuit 2024-04-12 Denied IFP circuit-split civil-procedure federal-law federal-question jurisdiction jurisdictional-grant remand removal subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the courts below may decide an important question of federal law not settled by this Court by expanding 12 U.S.C. § 1821(d)(6)'s jurisdictiona…
23-7200 Willie Johnson v. Kenneth Nelson, Warden Fourth Circuit 2024-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-provision criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jurisdiction legal-review petition sentencing statutory-provision writ Whether the South Carolina District Court erred in denying the petitioner's motion to vacate their conviction with respect to the alleged civil rights…
23-7155 Mary A. Kindred v. Memphis Light, Gas and Water Sixth Circuit 2024-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process jurisdiction opinions-below standing takings Question not identified
23-7164 Jason Bryan Cass v. California California 2024-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection federal-courts jurisdiction standing violent-circumstances Was the petitioner's constitutional rights violated?
23-7139 Eugenia Woodard v. Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers' Compensation, et al. Texas 2024-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appeals civil-procedure due-process final-decision final-order jurisdiction jurisdictional-review procedural-error sovereign-immunity standing statutory-interpretation How does U.S. Supreme Court address final decision/order of lower courts when dates are in questioned?
23-7120 Chaviz Wofford v. Illinois Illinois 2024-04-02 Denied IFP case-statement constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction opinions plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing statutory-provisions writ-of-certiorari Was defendant's plea bargain destroyed by coercive conduct of prosecutor
23-7129 Cedric Jones v. Brian Eller, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appeals-court civil-rights due-process federal-court jurisdiction petition public-health rehearing standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Appellate Court has the authority to rule District Court lacked authority to enjoin the CDC from enforcing its eviction moratorium
23-7111 Noel Vincent Thomas v. Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, Driver License Division, et al. Alabama 2024-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-burden pleading pleading-standards res-judicata sovereign-immunity statute-of-limitations trial-court-dismissal whether-trial-court-erred-dismissing-case
23-7069 Jesse R. Redmond, Jr. v. District of Columbia District of Columbia 2024-03-25 Denied IFP 4th-amendment constitutional-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment jurisdiction precedent rule-4 rule-4a Whether the District of Columbia Court of Appeals fails to apply the law in the precedent set by the United States Supreme Court pursuant to Criminal …
23-7019 Quindell Montrae Kirby v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2024-03-19 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution due-process evidence-disclosure exculpatory-evidence fair-trial jurisdiction venue Whether the Court of the County of Chesterfield, Commonwealth of Virginia was allowed to prosecute this case when precedent supports the Petitioner's …
23-7020 Donovan A. Reid v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General Fourth Circuit 2024-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law case-statement civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process freedom-of-information government-transparency jurisdiction legal-provisions public-records writ-petition Whether federal agencies must allow their policies, manuals, and other internal guidance to be publicly available when employees of the federal agency…
23-7011 Irina Collier v. Superior Court of California, Contra Costa County, et al. California 2024-03-18 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process free-speech jurisdiction legal-document petition standing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Whether the Writ of Writ of Certiorari has been properly granted to speak on the topics of public interest at mandatory gag order of the year for US f…
23-6972 Jeremy Lynn Kerr v. Keith Lenz, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-03-13 Denied IFP civil-procedure collateral-attack due-process federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction res-judicata rooker-feldman standing state-court-judgment subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether Rooker-Feldman bars a collateral attack on a void ab initio state court judgment
23-6948 Erick Wanjiku v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-03-11 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-bias jurisdiction legal-standards state-court vagueness-doctrine Question not identified
23-6956 David Wilbanks v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-03-11 Denied IFP collateral-order-doctrine confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing due-process final-judgment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review jurisdiction sixth-amendment statutory-construction Did the Court of Appeals have jurisdiction over the collateral order doctrine when the district judge failed to issue a COA for the final judgment und…
23-6927 In Re Antoine Thomas 2024-03-07 Denied IFP appeals constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction standing Question not identified
23-6898 Jose G. Castillo v. Jean Harper, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-03-05 Denied IFP due-process fifth-amendment jurisdiction land-use-regulation legal-document petition property-rights regulatory-takings scotus takings-clause writ-of-certiorari Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in holding that the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment does not prohibit the government from requiring a property o…
23-6861 Tyree Ford v. Carmine Marceno, Sheriff, Lee County, Florida Florida 2024-02-29 Denied IFP appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions disciplinary-proceedings due-process jurisdiction professional-conduct standing statutory-provisions supreme-court whether-state-attorney-can-be-disciplined-for-misconduct
23-6874 Kendall Dean Mitchell v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-02-29 Denied IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review jurisdiction retroactive-application state-law state-prosecution supremacy-clause Whether Oklahoma violated its own law in an effort to deny Petitioner's right to due process of law pursuant to the 14th Amendment
23-6852 Elisha L. Gresham v. Martin J. O'Malley, Commissioner of Social Security Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ada-compliance administrative-law appeals civil-procedure disability-law federal-courts jurisdiction social-security standing venue Did the Eleventh Circuit Court have legal jurisdiction to hear and rule on this case?
23A797 Marvin H. Johnson v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2024-02-28 Presumed Complete board-of-veterans-appeals disability-compensation effective-date jurisdiction pro-se veterans-benefits Whether the Veterans Court properly dismissed a pro se veteran's appeal for lack of jurisdiction when the appeal raised claims not previously presente…
23A784 Kamal Mustafa v. Omaha Property Manager, LLC Fourth Circuit 2024-02-27 Presumed Complete certiorari fourth-circuit jurisdiction pro-se supreme-court-rules time-extension Whether a pro se litigant's request for an extension of time to file a certiorari petition meets the legal standards for extraordinary relief under Su…
23-6827 Victor Leon-Moya v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-importation drug-trafficking enhancement-factors importation jurisdiction sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness whether-defendant-directed-codefendant
23-6815 Martin Akerman v. Virginia State Corporation Commission, et al. Virginia 2024-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-implications constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment fraud jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge state-corporation-commission Does the Supreme Court of Virginia's refusal to review the State Corporation Commission's (SCC) alleged introduction of fraudulent evidence and its pr…
23-917 Jeffrey-Allen Witzeman v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-23 Denied breach-of-trust civil-rights due-process jurisdiction land-patent nonfeasance restraint-of-trade standing title title-challenge Whether the United States District Court, District of California lacked lawful jurisdiction in the case
23-896 Sean Garnand, et al. v. Greg Moore, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-21 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction jurisdictional-limitation legal-question qualified-immunity Can a Circuit Court of Appeals avoid deciding purely legal qualified immunity questions over which it has interlocutory appellate jurisdiction?
23-6772 Jackie-Devere Allen Cole v. District Court Colorado 2024-02-16 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights confidentiality defendant-rights discovery due-process federal-litigation jurisdiction service-of-process standing Did the Supreme Court err when it failed to issue a writ of prohibition to preclude the District Court of El Paso County, Colorado from compelling the…
23-6760 In Re Kinley MacDonald 2024-02-15 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP child-custody child-welfare civil-rights due-process family-law judicial-procedure jurisdiction parental-rights standing state-intervention Can a State Trial Court open a CHINS proceeding against Defendant without the pre-requisite family/dating/household relationship + persistent conduct …
23A752 Michael Andrew Taylor v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-02-15 Presumed Complete certiorari eighth-circuit extension jurisdiction petition supreme-court-rule Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the petitioner's conviction and sentence
23-6710 Martin Akerman v. Sherri Doiron District of Columbia 2024-02-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 constitutional-rights federal-authority habeas-corpus jurisdiction military-custody military-jurisdiction posse-comitatus procedural-standards Does the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia have jurisdiction over a habeas corpus petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 when the petitioner's…
23A742 Luis Alexis Briceno v. Tennessee Tennessee 2024-02-09 Presumed Complete constitutional-standards conviction-review court-of-criminal-appeals criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction Whether the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals correctly applied constitutional standards in affirming a criminal conviction that may have violated t…
23-850 Lucinda Jones v. David W. McKeague, Senior Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-02-07 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights declaratory-judgment-act due-process due-process-claim federal-statute judicial-review jurisdiction non-merit-claim standing Does the Declaratory Act of 28 U.S.C. § 2201 afford jurisdiction over non-merit claims for due-process-violations?
23-6671 Raymond Alexander Ford, Jr. v. Ralph Northam, former Governor of Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-02-06 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction standing Question not identified
23-6666 Jackie-Devere Allen Cole v. Colorado Colorado 2024-02-05 Denied IFP 6th-amendment civil-liberties constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure procedural-fairness speedy-trial standing Did the Col. Jyp. Cr err in holding my right to a speedy trial has been violated?
23-6667 Michael Townsend v. Deondre Esters, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-02-05 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law court-proceedings due-process insurance-liability judicial-misconduct jurisdiction legal-rights standing Did the tribunal court follow the constitutions, statues and/or common law upon request given by the Plaintiff to a jury trial (Due Process)?
23-6660 Douglas Manning v. New Jersey New Jersey 2024-02-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech judicial-review jurisdiction legal-relief procedural-due-process standing Question not identified
23-833 Zachary Greenberg v. Jerry Lehocky, in His Official Capacity as Board Chair of the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2024-02-02 Denied Amici (7) article-iii civil-rights complaint-amendment ethics-rule free-speech jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction mootness standing standing-inquiry time-of-filing-rule Does amending or supplementing a complaint to include new factual developments absolve the government of its burden to prove mootness?
23-6643 Michael Joseph Pepe v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-02-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP commerce-clause criminal-intent criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction improper-purpose interstate-travel jurisdiction round-trip-doctrine stare-decisis travel When a statute makes it a crime to travel in commerce or across state lines with an improper purpose or intent, can the government manufacture federal…
23-6633 Daryl Anthony Green v. Prince George's County Office of Child Support, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-01-31 Denied IFP appeal appeal-rights bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-jurisdiction due-process judicial-misconduct jurisdiction property-rights standing Did Mr. Green have the right to appeal the entire case and all previously unheard issues raised in the lower courts once the bankruptcy matter was dis…
23-6624 In Re Johnny Jones 2024-01-30 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-procedure criminal-law due-process florida-statutes jurisdiction legislative-process legislative-validity statutory-interpretation statutory-revision subject-matter-jurisdiction Does the creation of Statute 794.011(2) leave the courts without subject-matter-jurisdiction?
23-6625 Wayne Frazer v. Bakery & Drivers Local 550, et al. Second Circuit 2024-01-30 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process freedom-of-information government-transparency jurisdiction legal-review procedural-rules public-records standing supreme-court writ Whether the summary plea descriptor that police mailed to the petitioner was false
23-821 Michelle Smith v. Peter B. Krupp, Judge, Superior Court of Massachusetts, Norfolk County, et al. First Circuit 2024-01-30 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fraud fraud-of-court jurisdiction rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 state-court-proceedings title-42 usurpation-of-power Whether the Rooker Feldman Doctrine was intended to shield Defendants in a Title 42 section 1983 claim, in immunity for their actions of fraudulently …
23-6590 Johnny Eugene Holton v. Georgia Georgia 2024-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction mandatory-minimum res-judicata sentencing statutory-interpretation void-sentence Did the Georgia Court of Appeals err in vacating the petitioner's void sentence and barring him by res judicata from attacking the void sentence in an…
23-6603 Johnnie Demond Jackson v. Kevin R. Sproul, Sheriff, Dougherty County, Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-rights confinement constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction interference jurisdiction retaliation summary-judgment Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the defendants' actions, which allegedly caused him more than 30 minutes of delay in r…
23-6586 Devrick Raquan Gail v. Virginia Virginia 2024-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in its application of the legal standard for determining standing to bring a claim
23-6591 Tracie Ledora Green v. U.S. Bank National Association Fourth Circuit 2024-01-26 Denied Relisted (4)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process foreclosure foreclosure-case jurisdiction legal-violations standing witness-protection Was the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in error dismissing the appeal for a 'lack of jurisdiction'
23-6593 Larry Rush, aka Leroy Thomas v. Michael Zaken, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. Third Circuit 2024-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction petition-denial third-circuit Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit err in affirming Mr. Rush's Denial of Habeas Corpus?
23-6574 Deirdre Baker v. JEA Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction legal-document petition standing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
23-6561 Lawrence Edward Thompson v. Texas Texas 2024-01-24 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
23-6563 Justin Taylor v. Tim Hooper, Warden Louisiana 2024-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure due-process jurisdiction legal-standing procedural-challenge remand standing state-court supreme-court void-proceedings Whether the lower court must investigate and resolve jurisdiction if raised by a party
23-797 Marco Gonzalez v. Salem Shahin, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-01-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rules judicial-discretion jurisdiction notice-of-appeal post-judgment-motion time-extension Does an unobjected-to extension of time to file a post-judgment motion, even though unauthorized by the civil rules, permit appellate review of the un…
23-6532 Zerak Brown v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment assistance-of-counsel certiorari criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process jurisdiction right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Did the Framers intend that, in a criminal prosecution, a defendant is entitled assistance of counsel, under the 6th Amendment, for all criminal prose…
23-6542 Archie Cabello, aka Archibaldo Cabello, aka Archie Cabello, Jr., aka Archie P. Cabello, aka Arquimedes Cabello, aka Archie Palumbo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-01-23 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment 6th-amendment-counsel constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-interpretation Whether the Court Violated its duty Under the 6th Amendment, due process Clause and 6th Amendment counsel clause
23-789 Larisa Dirkzwager v. Archer-Daniels-Midland Company Eighth Circuit 2024-01-23 Denied Response Waived appeal civil-procedure constitutional-review deadline due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-error jurisdiction procedural-deadline standing Whether the Judge's error in miscalculation of the Plaintiff's Response deadline negates his dispositive Order and thereby logically and legally rende…
23-6491 Peyton John Wesley Hopson v. Deborah S. Hunt Sixth Circuit 2024-01-18 Denied IFP certificate-of-good-cause certificate-of-good-faith circuit-court counsel-appointment district-court due-process jurisdiction right-to-counsel sixth-amendment sixth-circuit Did the Sixth Circuit lose jurisdiction to proceed to review where the Sixth Circuit failed to comply with the Sixth Amendment requirement to appoint …
23-780 Eugene Misquith v. St. Mary's Medical Center Florida 2024-01-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure florida-constitution florida-statute judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdiction-decline legal-process motion-to-dismiss standing Did the Supreme Court of Florida invalidate the law itself when it did not assume mandatory jurisdiction?
23-770 John Doe v. Bill Crouch, in His Official Capacity as Cabinet Secretary of the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge equal-protection federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction redressability rooker-feldman standing state-court Does Rooker-Feldman bar jurisdiction when declaring a statute unconstitutional would undermine a state court's reliance upon the statute?
23-761 Kionn Alls v. Florida Department of Revenue, on Behalf of Sharita Denise Gosa Florida 2024-01-16 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection fundamental-error judicial-duty jurisdiction jurisdictional-error procedural-due-process standing Do our state court of appeals have an unrenunciable judicial duty to correct jurisdictional or fundamental errors that were preserved at trial, were r…
23-755 Andrew S. Clyde, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, et al. v. William McFarland, in His Official Capacity as Sergeant at Arms of the U.S. House of Representatives, et al. District of Columbia 2024-01-12 Denied congressional-immunity congressional-rules constitutional-interpretation constitutional-violations judicial-review jurisdiction legislative-immunity legislative-procedure separation-of-powers speech-or-debate-clause twenty-seventh-amendment Whether the Speech or Debate Clause creates a jurisdictional bar to judicial consideration of whether internal congressional rules or practices violat…
23-6457 Peter Grigg v. Barbara Benson Ninth Circuit 2024-01-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure jurisdiction legal-standards standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights under the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses were violated
23-6462 Arthur Harris v. New Rez, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-11 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction legal-procedure patent separation-of-powers standing supreme-court takings writ-of-certiorari Whether the lower court's decision against the petitioner is unconstitutional and a violation of the United States Constitution
23-6470 Richard L. Gathercole v. United States, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-motion jurisdiction section-2255 sentencing unconstitutional Whether the South Circuit Court of Appeals and the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia have jurisdiction to hear and decide the Petiti…
23-6449 Robert James Swint v. Dish Network, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-01-10 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-law fifth-amendment jurisdiction standing takings-clause Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in holding that the district court lacked jurisdiction to consider petitioners' claims under the Takings Clause of the…
23-6452 Shannon R. Thomas v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-01-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP compassionate-release criminal-procedure federal-sentencing first-step-act jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether a person who does not qualify for relief under the First Step Act can be convicted under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) without jurisdiction
23-741 Iftikar A. Ahmed v. Securities and Exchange Commission, et al. Second Circuit 2024-01-09 Denied appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure cross-appeal-rule greenlaw-v-united-states judicial-discretion jurisdiction remand remedy-limitation substantive-law Whether the cross-appeal rule is jurisdictional or mandatory, or admits of exceptions
23-6419 Anthony Harris v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-sentencing due-process free-speech jurisdiction recidivism standing state-law-offense statutory-interpretation violent-felony Question not identified
23-6409 Alfred E. Caraffa v. Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-04 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Does the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit's decision in this case conflict with the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Hernandez v. Mesa?
23A614 Azariah M. Ellington, et al. v. Mary Thornton House, Judge, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-03 Presumed Complete appeal-of-right certiorari due-process en-banc fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's due process protections are violated when a federal appellate court improperly denies a litigant's appeal of right …
23A618 Azariah M. Ellington v. Department of Veterans Affairs Ninth Circuit 2024-01-03 Presumed Complete appeal-of-right certiorari due-process en-banc fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's due process protections are violated when a federal appellate court improperly denies a litigant's appeal of right …
23A604 Zehava Friedman, et al. v. Republic of Hungary, et al. District of Columbia 2024-01-02 Presumed Complete foreign-sovereign-immunities holocaust-survivors international-law jurisdiction property-seizure world-war-two Whether the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act permits Holocaust survivors to bring claims against a foreign state for property seizures during World Wa…
23-701 Palani Karupaiyan v. Arnaud Vaissie, et al. Third Circuit 2023-12-29 Dismissed Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure due-process extraordinary-writs judicial-procedure jurisdiction mandamus prohibition standing test-condition writ Whether the district court erred in denying Petitioner's request for a writ of mandamus or prohibition
23-6380 Noel Austin v. Tim Hooper, Warden Louisiana 2023-12-28 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-amendment due-process federal-preemption jurisdiction jurisdictional-barriers standing state-law supreme-court-review Whether the lower state court's deliberate transgression of jurisdictional barriers imposed by the 14th Amendment should be addressed
23-697 Tony Evers, in His Official Capacity as Governor of Wisconsin v. Michael Dean, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-12-28 Denied Response Waived appellate-mandate civil-procedure costs district-court fees judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction legal-fees sanctions sanctions-motion section-1927 Did the Seventh Circuit err in holding that district courts lack jurisdiction to consider motions under Section 1927 after a court of appeals has issu…
23-6368 In Re Damion Hardy 2023-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction legal-document petition standing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Whether the United States government's actions against the petitioner are lawful
23-6351 Jerome Terry, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect ninth-circuit notice sentencing sentencing-departure upward-departure waiver Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in dismissing the appeal
23-6329 Russell G. Finnegan v. David L. Chidester Seventh Circuit 2023-12-22 Denied IFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure court-fees due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-procedure jurisdiction pro-se-litigation signature-requirement standing Are the orders from the Court of Appeals valid absent an authorized signature of a judicial officer?
23-677 Royal Canin U.S.A., Inc., et al. v. Anastasia Wullschleger, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-12-22 Judgment Issued Amici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split civil-procedure federal-question jurisdiction post-removal-amendment removal removal-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction supplemental-jurisdiction Whether a post-removal amendment of the complaint defeats federal-question subject-matter jurisdiction
23-6306 Devon Austin Earl v. Brandon Harris, et al. Third Circuit 2023-12-19 Denied IFP civil-rights dismissal-with-prejudice due-process false-arrest forma-pauperis jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge pro-se-litigation statute-of-limitations university-police issue being raised
23-6290 In Re Pietro Pasquale Antonio Sgromo 2023-12-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure contract-law due-process in-personam in-personam-judgment jurisdiction license-agreement parol-evidence personal-jurisdiction service-of-process void Is a judgment rendered in personam against a defendant without jurisdiction of his person void?
23-6299 Jovon Montell Hollowell v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process indigenous-rights judicial-authority jurisdiction service-of-process subject-matter-jurisdiction tribal-courts tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty Whether the District Court was obligated to prove its jurisdiction and proper service before proceeding, whether the court was required to allow the d…
23-6272 In Re Bruce Lamont Fuller 2023-12-15 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions corpus-delicti criminal-procedure due-process evidence jurisdiction standing statewide-importance statutory-provisions How shall we have a conclusive answer of corpus delcti of statewide importance when their has not been an effective ascertainment of expeditious truth…
23-6261 Tyqashia Sellers v. United States North Carolina 2023-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their First Amendment rights
23-620 Dominique Gerald Burns v. South Carolina Department of Social Services South Carolina 2023-12-08 Denied Response Waived administrative-agency administrative-law agency-authority civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process judicial-authority jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge procedural-due-process standing state-agency Whether the court of appeals erred in its ruling when it failed to protect the appellant's procedural due process
23-6202 Damorius D. Gaines, aka Damorius Dontavis Gaines, aka Damorius Dontavious Gaines v. Shane Jackson, Warden Fourth Circuit 2023-12-08 Denied IFP amendment-rights cestui-que-trust civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process enemy-property government-property judicial-review jurisdiction standing takings Is a pre-1933 private U.S. citizen and cestui que trust who is not an enemy, ally of an enemy, or foreign national precluded from suing the U.S. gover…
23-619 Puerto Rico Supplies Group, Inc., et al. v. Bautista Cayman Asset Company Puerto Rico 2023-12-08 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction misrepresentation mistake puerto-rico-law relief-from-judgment rule-49.2 whether-puerto-rico-courts-can-foreclose-access-to-relief-from-appellate-court-judgments
23-6181 Deryke Matthew Pfeifer v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process fifth-amendment jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue legal-standard procedural-question property-rights statutory-provisions takings Whether the U.S. Government violated the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment by failing to compensate the petitioner for the taking of their propert…
23-6184 Brian Best v. Virgil Smith Ninth Circuit 2023-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitrary-decision civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process jurisdiction legal-procedure panel-rehearing summary-disposition swimmer-v-irs Was Petitioner's right to Due Process violated?
23A512 Kimra Bowers v. Payson City Utah 2023-12-06 Presumed Complete appellate-review de-novo-review disorderly-conduct final-judgment jurisdiction justice-court Whether a district court's decision in an appeal from a justice court is final and non-appealable when the district court does not rule on the constit…
23-594 Christopher M. Hunt v. Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-05 Denied civil-rights constitutional-review federal-court-jurisdiction federal-courts fraud judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdictional-conflict property-rights sovereignty state-court-sovereignty state-courts Which court resolves an irreconcilable conflict of jurisdiction between the federal courts and state courts?
23-581 Joey D. Thompson v. Asia Thompson Tennessee 2023-11-30 Denied child-custody family-law interstate-jurisdiction jurisdiction minor minor-rights parens-patriae parental-rights state-authority Does the State of Tennessee have jurisdiction over the minor child 'A. T.'?
23-6140 In Re Yi Tai Shao 2023-11-30 Pending IFP 28-usc-636 civil-procedure due-process first-amendment judicial-conspiracy judicial-disqualification judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction magistrate-judge venue-change whether-district-court-dismissal-order-must-be-reversed
23-577 Norfolk Southern Railway Company v. Surface Transportation Board, et al. District of Columbia 2023-11-29 Denied administrative-law circuit-split court-of-appeals deference hobbs-act jurisdiction jurisdictional-question kisor-v-wilkie legal-background procedural-background statutory-provisions surface-transportation-board Whether a court of appeals has jurisdiction to review a Surface Transportation Board ruling
23-6133 Jacquelyn Reaves v. Monmouth University, et al. Third Circuit 2023-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-liability civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-liability criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection false-imprisonment hate-crime jurisdiction racial-discrimination Should respondents be criminally and civilly liable for hate-crime, false-imprisonment, racial-discrimination, persecution, emotional-distress, miscon…
23-568 Robert Bartlett, et al. v. Muhammad Baasiri, et al. Second Circuit 2023-11-28 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedRelisted (2) 28-usc-1603 circuit-split complaint-filing-time dole-food-precedent dole-food-v-patrickson foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity instrumentality-status jurisdiction jurisdictional-determination standing Whether a defendant's status as an instrumentality of a foreign state under 28 U.S.C. § 1603(b)(2) 'is determined at the time of the filing of the com…
23-573 Tina Bastian Veneskey v. Michael Keith Sulier North Carolina 2023-11-28 Denied custody custody-determination due-process error-of-law fourteenth-amendment full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction jurisdictional-determination legal-error state-jurisdiction Whether the Full Faith and Credit Clause precludes the enforcement of a State's jurisdictional determination when that very determination is based upo…
23-6124 Moses Estrada v. Superior Court of California, San Bernardino County, et al. California 2023-11-28 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction juvenile-court legal-procedure standing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Can the California Supreme Court deny en banc review of a petition for writ of certiorari that seeks to have a juvenile court's order recognized?
23-6127 Shawna Karnes, et al. v. Tiffany Montengo, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-11-28 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction fraud-exception judicial-review jurisdiction rocker-feldman-doctrine state-court state-court-judgement Does the federal district court and federal court of appeals have the jurisdiction to reverse or modify a state-court judgement though a fraud excepti…
23A478 Rufus E. Dennis v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-11-28 Presumed Complete circuit-split criminal-attempt jurisdiction pro-se sentencing united-states-v-taylor Whether a circuit split exists regarding the proper interpretation of the elements of criminal attempt that conflicts with the Supreme Court's holding…
23-6090 In Re Kurt A. Benshoof 2023-11-22 Denied IFP constitutional-violations due-process family-court fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jurisdiction justiciable-controversy religious-freedom subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether family court proceeded in absence of jurisdiction and absent a justiciable controversy, thereby violating the Due Process Clause of the Fourte…
23-6104 Michael Venetez McRae v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jurisdiction sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the federal court erred in imposing an illegal sentence that exceeded the statutory maximum penalty
23-6105 Alvin Henry Dalton v. M. Votari Ninth Circuit 2023-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-provisions dismissal district-court due-process environmental-justice equal-protection jurisdiction legal-procedure standing Whether respondent's actions in forcing petitioner to live in an unhealthy environment violate petitioner's constitutional rights
23A456 Leslie Willis v. PNC Financial Services Group Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2023-11-21 Presumed Complete certiorari jurisdiction legal-standards mandamus pro-se time-extension Whether a pro se litigant's request for an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari meets the legal standards for extraordinary relief when…
23A457 Leslie Willis v. Dolores Willis Third Circuit 2023-11-21 Presumed Complete certiorari extension-of-time jurisdiction mandamus petition supreme-court Whether the Supreme Court will grant an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari under extraordinary circumstances
23-6053 Nathan Nixon v. Florida Florida 2023-11-20 Denied IFP administrative-law appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions due-process first-district-court florida-supreme-court free-speech jurisdiction public-records standing Whether the First District Court of Appeals of the State of Florida erred in denying Petitioner's federal constitutional claims
23-6055 Debora D. v. John D., et al. California 2023-11-20 Denied IFP custody due-process ex-parte ex-parte-orders idea-law jurisdiction parental-rights special-education state-encroachment Did the court make a mistake rendering orders on an ex-parte basis?
23-6065 Tyrone Kevin Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924(o) actual-innocence circuit-split criminal-procedure hobbs-act jurisdiction post-conviction post-conviction-relief section-2255 statutory-interpretation Whether the Eleventh Circuit's wanton disregard for Taylor and its progeny in erecting an illogical and legally erroneous barrier to relief for § 2255…
23-488 Bruce R. Sands, Jr. v. Patricia V. Bradley, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-11-08 Denied 28-usc-2241 constitutional-conditions federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus incarceration incarceration-claims jurisdiction prisoner-rights release unconstitutional-conditions Whether federal courts have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 over a petition for habeas corpus alleging that a prisoner's unconstitutional conditio…
23-484 Jose Trevino, et al. v. Susan Soto Palmer, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-11-07 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) fourteenth-amendment hispanic-voting-power judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction legislative-redistricting racial-gerrymandering section-2 section-2-claim three-judge-panel voting-rights-act May a single-judge district court's ruling on a Section 2 claim divest a 3-judge panel of jurisdiction to decide a Fourteenth Amendment claim?
23-5949 Ramone L. Wright v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP charges civil-rights collateral-consequences constitutional-provisions conviction court-review due-process jurisdiction legal-procedure notice petition writ Whether proper notice of charges can constitute a due process violation
23A405 Gilbert Dean Bicknell v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-11-03 Presumed Complete certiorari federal-criminal-case jurisdiction petition-deadline supreme-court-rules time-extension Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari in a federal criminal case
23-5929 Anthony Andrews v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-11-01 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions due-process judicial-procedure jurisdiction parole sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the construction of the Aggregate Series & the Pot of Aid Parole Release is constitutional
23-5930 Brent Douglas Cole v. R. D. Keyes, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-11-01 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-privileges due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-bias jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction writ-ad-prosequendum Question not identified
23-5912 Darrell Cathey v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-10-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing Whether the lower courts properly dismissed the petitioner's claims because the alleged harms were not a concrete case or controversy
23-448 Aparna Vashisht-Rota v. Howell Management Services, LLC Utah 2023-10-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure choice-of-law civil-procedure final-judgment interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction mootness rule-37 voluntary-dismissal Whether an exception to the final judgment rule is valid under U.R.A.P. 5
23-5900 Gus Massey, Jr. v. El Paso City Attorney's Office Texas 2023-10-27 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process jurisdiction justice-courts procedural-error sovereign-immunity standing texas-constitution texas-tort-claims-act tort-claims-act Whether Texas 'Justice Courts' should be submitted to the rules, precedents, and guidelines 'Outside of it's Texas Statutory Guidelines
23-5882 Walter Lee Merritte v. Circuit Court of Illinois, LaSalle County Illinois 2023-10-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP case-number civil-procedure criminal-law due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction legal-authority order-validity procedural-challenge standing trial-court Whether the state trial court's October 29, 1990 order was issued without authority and is void for want of jurisdiction?
23-5879 Richard Wayne Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-10-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge sentencing standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a motion pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c) is a part of the mitigation of a defendant's sentence that can challenge the subject-matter jurisdict…
23-5867 Anita Bryant v. Delaware County Treasurer, et al. Indiana 2023-10-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP beneficiary-standing civil-procedure constitutional-notice due-process estate-jurisdiction jurisdiction notice probate probate-court property-interest standing tax-sale-notice Whether one trial court can assume jurisdiction of an estate property in the possession and jurisdiction of a separate trial probate court without a c…
23-5845 In Re Kennedy Wright 2023-10-20 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction sentencing supreme-court Whether the lower court or district court violated the defendant's constitutional rights under due process of the laws
23-5817 Cordarius Lawrence v. Illinois Illinois 2023-10-17 Denied IFP appeal criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction sentencing standard-of-proof Whether the evidence at trial was insufficient to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt?
23-5822 Gina Russomanno v. Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2023-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure frcp-rules jurisdiction jurisdiction-statement motion-for-permission pro-se rule-54b standing Whether the Supreme Court will consider the merits of the decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
23-5752 Donald Foster v. Billy Jackson, Assistant Warden, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction standing Question not identified
23-5738 Angela Cao v. BSI Financial Services, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process fair-procedure judicial-authority jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect procedural-fairness res-judicata rule-60b4 subject-matter-jurisdiction usurpation-of-power Whether factors of correct administration of the rules and fair procedure to allow a party an opportunity to litigate the question of jurisdiction mus…
23-5739 Daniel Ray Metsinger v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing waiver Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Metsinger's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provision in his Plea Agreement
23-5741 Hewitt A. Grant, II v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2023-10-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-prosecution jurisdiction standing witness-testimony Whether the District Court erred in denying the same 4th Amendment protection of legal intrusion as the initial entry question
23-371 D'Andre M. Johnson v. United States Armed Forces 2023-10-06 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived case-scope court-of-appeals harmonious-reading jurisdiction jurisdictional-question legal-sufficiency legislative-history military-justice standard-of-review statutory-interpretation surplusage-canon Whether 28 U.S.C. § 1259(8) gives this Court jurisdiction to consider issues raised to, but not granted review by, the Court of Appeals for the Armed …
23-360 Richard Sharif, et al. v. Horace Fox, Jr., as Trustee Seventh Circuit 2023-10-04 Denied bankruptcy-court due-process foreign-court jurisdiction probate rooker-feldman-doctrine Whether a bankruptcy court has the jurisdiction to overrule an Aleppo Syria foreign probate court order or whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine applies…
23-5709 Guy L. Coulston v. Raúl Labrador, Attorney General of Idaho Ninth Circuit 2023-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction sovereign-individual standing subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment Did the District court through the 9th circuit court of appeals and Prosecution, and My Trial counsel err in discretion to a Void Judgment that lead i…
23-5685 In Re Bobby Richardson 2023-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure court-jurisdiction federal-procedure jurisdiction mandamus motion-to-dismiss non-discretionary-duty rule-12b1 standing subject-matter subject-matter-jurisdiction writ-of-certiorari Whether petitioner is entitled to immediate relief, including mandamus from this Court, to compel the lower court(s) to adjudicate petitioner's Fed. R…
23-5652 Brian J. Dorsey v. David Vandergriff, Warden Eighth Circuit 2023-09-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP comity death-penalty due-process federal-counsel federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Whether the court below erroneously denied jurisdiction pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3599 based on a failure to follow fundamental rules of statutory inter…
23-5635 William Raymond Carter v. Illinois Illinois 2023-09-21 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process evidence free-speech jurisdiction legal-procedure standing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Whether the petitioner's constitutional and statutory rights were violated
23-5601 In Re Michael Kenny Carter 2023-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP charging-statute circuit-split constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-conduct criminal-jurisdiction interstate-activity jurisdiction jurisdictional-scope sexual-activity statutory-interpretation whether criminal-conduct-beyond-scope-of-charging-statute-is-jurisdictional-defect-or-plain-error
23-5578 April Paw v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
23-5584 Raymond L. Rogers v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-09-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-appeal criminal-appeals due-process grand-jury-indictment jurisdiction jurisdictional-review merits-determination standing subject-matter-jurisdiction tenth-circuit threshold-question Did the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals commit a reversible error when it resolved the merits of the petitioner's criminal direct appeals review withou…
23-5589 Sara Elyas v. Edward Johnston, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-09-14 Denied IFP 28-usc-1257 certiorari civil-procedure federal-appeals federal-jurisdiction judicial-review judiciary-act-1789 jurisdiction standing state-court-review statutory-interpretation supreme-court Whether the Supreme Court has jurisdiction to review the decision of the state court under 28 U.S.C. 1257(4)
23-5558 Tracy J. McGill v. William Rankin Tenth Circuit 2023-09-13 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure equitable-estoppel government jurisdiction standing Whether a district court is estopped from sua sponte declining jurisdiction when the petitioner raises a claim of equitable estoppel against the gover…
23-5562 Paul Dubois v. Nelson Alves, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk First Circuit 2023-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-procedure court-conflict criminal-procedure due-process extradition extradition-law judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction procedural-review standing whether-the-united-states-of-appeals-has-entered-a-decision-in-conflict-with-the-decision-of-another-united-states-court-of-appeals-on-the-same-justic…
23-5551 Kristian G. Little, nka Kristian G. Childers v. Jamie A. Little Kentucky 2023-09-11 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
23-214 Juannelious Benjamin Murray, Sr. v. Safir Law P.L.C. Sixth Circuit 2023-09-07 Denied Response Waived 11-usc-362k1 attorney-fees automatic-stay bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-estate chapter-13 core-proceedings jurisdiction legal-services property-of-estate segal-v-rochelle Is it sound discretion for a bankruptcy court to disregard nearly sixty years of Supreme Court jurisprudence regarding what comprises property of a ba…
23-208 Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael, et al. v. Education for a Just Peace in the Middle East District of Columbia 2023-09-06 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) aiding-and-abetting civil-rights due-process facial-plausibility foreign-policy foreign-terrorist-organizations jurisdiction pro-palestinian-organizations standing statutory-interpretation terrorism terrorism-liability Whether 'facial plausibility' of a complaint filed by a victim of international terrorism committed in Israel may be judged by a different standard th…
23-5527 Brian Kerry O'Keefe v. Doug Gillespie, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-06 Denied IFP circuit-court-review civil-procedure constitutional-violation criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy federal-habeas habeas-corpus jurisdiction post-conviction post-conviction-relief state-court-proceeding Whether as a matter of procedural law, Appellant's motion under Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b) to reopen a § 2241 case was timely
23-5480 Jesus C. More v. Florida Florida 2023-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure competency-hearing due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-bar procedural-rules remedies separation-of-powers subject-matter-jurisdiction Question not identified
23-5463 Dexter Leemon Johnson v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-08-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment bills-of-attainder due-process impartial-judge indian-territory issues-of-first-impression jurisdiction legal-standard state-sovereignty Whether Oklahoma lacks jurisdiction in Indian territory due to its status as a state being void, whether Oklahoma's prosecution of the petitioner was …
23-5467 Anthony Andrews v. R. Ramos, Warden Fourth Circuit 2023-08-29 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction legal-procedure standing statutory-provisions supreme-court writ Question not identified
23-184 Karen M. Suber v. VVP Services, LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2023-08-28 Denied articulable-nexus civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment inconsistent-application jurisdiction long-arm-statute personal-jurisdiction standard-of-review substantial-relationship Whether the courts sitting in New York have inconsistently interpreted and applied the standard for the 'arising from' prong of the New York Long-Arm …
23-5448 Charles Belssner v. Westgate Las Vegas Hotel, LLC, et al. Nevada 2023-08-25 Denied IFP address-verification administrative-procedure civil-procedure due-process jurisdiction legal-notification notice notice-to-appear service-of-process standing Isn't the appellant entitled to notice to appear?
23-5430 Demitri Brown, aka Timothy D. Brown v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP antitrust civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-precedent stare-decisis vertical-restraints Does the Bb Circuit Court of Appeals abuse its discretion when it refuses to honor the Supreme Court's Conception ruling overruling its Leegin decisio…
23-5435 Marques Webb v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-default waiver Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Webb's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provisions in his Plea Agreement
23-5438 Fox Joseph Salerno v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-08-24 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP apprendi apprendi-rule blakely blakely-retroactivity certificate-of-appealability due-process jurisdiction retroactivity rule-of-finality rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-jurisdiction Does Apprendi decision apply to Arizona Defendants
23-5419 Seth Williams v. United States Third Circuit 2023-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-authority mandatory-minimum rehaif-doctrine sentencing sentencing-modification Does the District Court have authority to change a sentence after 12 years?
23-5386 Bryant Matthew Parker v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2023-08-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process free-speech jurisdiction legal-procedure petition-review reasons-for-writ standing statement-of-case voting-rights Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that the Plaintiff's Yoakum County Protest Voting Restrictions Act was unconstitutional, …
23-5373 Ronald Barnett v. Florida Florida 2023-08-17 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process ex-post-facto judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction separation-of-powers sexual-predator statute-of-limitations Whether the Third District Court of Appeal and Florida Supreme Court violated the laws governing the separation of power by creating an unwritten ex p…
23-5380 Gary Leon Webster v. Doe, Sheriff, Department Head, Craighead County Eighth Circuit 2023-08-17 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights due-process intervention jurisdiction standing Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erred in dismissing petitioners' challenge to the Eleventh Circuit's order denying their mo…
23-5363 Kyle Richard Bishop v. Georgia Georgia 2023-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction mitigating-factors sentencing-guidelines standing Whether the U.S. Constitution allows the conviction of a U.S. citizen without an indictment
23-141 Rowland J. Martin, Jr., Individually and as Administrator to the Estate of Johnnie Mae King v. Bexar County, Texas, et al. Federal Circuit 2023-08-15 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure federal-circuit jurisdiction patent patent-jurisdiction remand removal removal-action statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a removal action supported by 28 USC 1338 and 1454 is justiciable by way of a district court order of remand issued pursuant to 28 USC 1447?
23-5350 Daniel Chris Ramsey v. California California 2023-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights competency constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jurisdiction legal-procedure mental-health writ Whether the Constitution is violated when a petitioner with mental health issues is denied a competency hearing before facing trial
23-5318 Aaron J. Bressi v. John Gembic, et al. Third Circuit 2023-08-09 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion case-dismissal civil-procedure complaint-dismissal court-procedure due-process failure-to-state-claim judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-review public-interest standing How does this Complaint get dismissed by Both the Honorable District Court, and the Honorable Appeals Court, Sor failure To State a Claim
23-5320 Curtis Lavon Magee v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-error waiver Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Magee's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provisions in his Plea Agreement
23-111 United States, ex rel. Howard Beck v. St. Joseph Health System, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-04 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jurisdiction post-judgment-motion post-judgment-motions rule-59 timely-appeal Whether a court-created exception barring successive post-judgment motions can deprive a court of appeals of jurisdiction over an appeal that is timel…
23-5287 In Re William G. Haake 2023-08-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP doctrine-of-speciality dual-criminality due-process extradition extradition-law habeas-corpus jurisdiction perjury prosecutorial-misconduct treaty-interpretation treaty-obligations Whether the United States Treaty 22 (1971) deprived Florida of jurisdiction when they knowingly used perjured information to compel Spain through trea…
23-5269 Noble Christo El, aka Christopher Nathan Jones v. William Todd Miller, et al. Third Circuit 2023-08-03 Denied IFP cause-of-action civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federalism jurisdiction legal-standing pleading-standards standing subject-matter-jurisdiction takings Whether the sovereignty vested in the people under the U.S. Constitution has been usurped by the states
23-5274 Wicahpe George Milk v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1503 attorney-client-privilege constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure dismissal indian-reservation jurisdiction statutory-interpretation suppression Whether acts occurring on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation deprived the Court of jurisdiction over all parts of the indictment
23-5232 In Re Marcus Antone Peterson 2023-07-28 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process illegal-imprisonment jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect mandamus mandamus-relief sentencing Can the lower court's lack of jurisdiction and failure to properly arraign the defendant warrant immediate release?
23-5204 Larry David Davis v. Anna Catherine Cargile, Prosecutor, Pulaski County Prosecutor's Office, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-07-26 Dismissed IFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions court-filing criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction legal-document petition police-misconduct qualified-immunity search-and-seizure statutory-provisions Whether the district court erred in denying the petitioner's motion to suppress evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment
23-5216 Kinley MacDonald v. Michael A. Duddy, et al. First Circuit 2023-07-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP child-abuse constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction foster-care hearsay interstate-crime jurisdiction parental-rights standing witness-tampering Can a trial court open and remove children in a 'preserve custody' case based solely on hearsay allegations prohibited by state statute in secret and …
23-5184 Kinley MacDonald v. Lea-Anne Sutton, Judge, District Court of Maine, et al. First Circuit 2023-07-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law family-rights hearsay-evidence judicial-misconduct jurisdiction standing Can a final court open and remove children in protective custody case based solely on hearsay evidence prohibited by state statute in secret and in ab…
23-5176 Damarco Antonio Smith v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-procedure jurisdiction legal-standing procedural-rights right-of-appeal standing Did the Court of Appeals incorrectly deprive Mr. Smith of his right of appeal?
23-5179 Arnes Becirovic v. Katherine K. Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2023-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals-court certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-circuit federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court writ Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
23-63 San Diego County Credit Union v. Citizens Equity First Credit Union Ninth Circuit 2023-07-24 Denied 15-usc-1119 cardinal-chemical circuit-split invalidity jurisdiction non-infringement patent-and-trademark-office summary-judgment trademark-cancellation trademark-disputes trademark-law Whether a finding of non-infringement moots a claim for trademark invalidity
23-5162 DeMario B. Griffin v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process fifth-amendment jurisdiction mandate-recall right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Does Griffin have a right to counsel on his first direct appeal under the Fifth Amendment?
23-5174 Dionte Houff v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver circuit-split constitutional-statute jurisdiction plea-agreement retroactive-application statutory-and-constitutional-issues supreme-court-precedent waiver-of-appeal Can a plea agreement that contains a waiver of appeal bar a direct appeal of a conviction and/or sentence based on a statute that this Court later rul…
23-5134 Kenan Allen v. Louisiana Louisiana 2023-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-supremacy discrimination due-process federal-preemption jurisdiction jurisdictional-barriers standing state-law Whether the lower state court's deliberate transgression of jurisdictional barriers imposed by the U.S. Constitution must be addressed
23-5125 Justin Lewis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jurisdiction sixth-amendment Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits the government from prosecuting a defendant for the same offense after a court has previously denied the …
23-5110 James K. Silva v. District Court of Massachusetts, Dukes County First Circuit 2023-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction standing Question not identified
23-5080 Brandon Tate v. Tim Hooper, Warden Louisiana 2023-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discriminatory-impact due-process federal-questions jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court had proper jurisdiction
23-5093 German Alexis Arjona v. California California 2023-07-13 Denied IFP certiorari civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection first-amendment jurisdiction legal-procedure standing statutory-provisions supreme-court voting-rights Whether a specific limitation on the right to vote violates the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
23-5103 Brandon Tate v. Louisiana Louisiana 2023-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights court-transfer due-process federal-supremacy jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge procedural-challenge remand standing supreme-court Whether the lower court's jurisdiction must be investigated and resolved if raised by a petitioning party
23-5050 Nickholas Knight, Sr. v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. District of Columbia 2023-07-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
23-5015 Jeffrey Kent v. Kathy Jennings, Attorney General of Delaware, et al. Third Circuit 2023-07-03 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction standing takings Question not identified
23-5018 Richard P. Spaulding v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-07-03 Denied IFP appeal appeal-rights court-order court-orders covid-quarantine due-process equal-protection jurisdiction legal-notice post-conviction Did the Tulsa Court deprive itself of jurisdiction in the subsequent matters
23-3 Coinbase, Inc. v. David Suski, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-06-30 Judgment Issued Amici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) arbitration arbitration-agreement arbitration-scope civil-procedure contract-interpretation delegation-clause dispute-resolution federal-arbitration-act judicial-review jurisdiction Whether an arbitrator or a court should decide whether an arbitration agreement is narrowed by a later contract that is silent as to arbitration and d…
22-7893 Liver Gruezo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction law-enforcement-procedures maritime-drug-law maritime-law minimum-contacts miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona stateless-vessel Whether the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act violates Due Process
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
22-7824 Alfredo Medina v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction standing whether the Asti? Covre Ger? ¢ ane flat pF bad Considey Defendants trqumene by a Stark Sfifenent tet fhowt MOK
22-7840 Cordelro Desean Shoulders v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-error waiver Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Shoulders' appeal based on the waiver of appeal provisions in his Plea Agreement
22-7841 Bruce A. Buckner v. Wilfredo Martell, Warden Fourth Circuit 2023-06-22 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing
22-7836 Tony Michael Julien v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-06-21 Denied IFP civil-procedure court-authority criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process ignorance-of-law jurisdiction legal-maxim procedural-law retroactive time-limitation Can the mere passage of time retroactively confer jurisdiction on a court that did not and does not otherwise have jurisdiction?
22-7811 Trent S. Griffin, Sr. v. American Zurich Insurance Company, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 60b-motion abuse-of-discretion affirmative-defense appellate-review full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss plea-to-the-jurisdiction res-judicata Whether an unauthenticated judgment has res judicata effects as an affirmative defense
22-7757 Samuel Lee Morrison v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment bruen bruen-standard constitutional-law federal-criminal-statutes federal-statute gun-rights historical-tradition jurisdiction second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(n) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022)
22-7766 Ramon Ramirez v. United States Second Circuit 2023-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-law criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure district-court federal-courts interstate-commerce jurisdiction second-circuit statutory-interpretation Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in concluding that the district court had jurisdiction based on evidence supporting the interstate c…
22-7767 Wesley Sinclair Ricks v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2023-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing
22-7739 Robert L. Swinton, Jr. v. United States Second Circuit 2023-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process firearms-statute jurisdiction speedy-trial standing tenth-amendment witness-impeachment Is 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) constitutional and was Tenth Amendment jurisdiction maintained for firearms alleged in this case?
22-7742 Kent Taylor v. California California 2023-06-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction speedy-trial statutory-interpretation Whether the district court's denial of petitioner's motion to dismiss the indictment for violation of the Speedy Trial Act, 18 U.S.C. 3161(c)(1), cons…
22-7727 Gary Leon Webster v. Lieutenant Withers Eighth Circuit 2023-06-07 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction standing Question not identified
22-7718 Donnell Bledsoe v. Pearlie Townes California 2023-06-06 Dismissed IFP cherokee-nation civil-rights constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eastern-state-court jurisdiction life-sentence second-generation-offender sovereign-immunity Question not identified
22-1176 Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Department of Justice, et al. District of Columbia 2023-06-05 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment judicial-error jurisdiction rule-of-law standing Whether inexcusable error or neglect by U.S. Court of Appeals for the District Court of Columbia
22-7677 Francis Okiemute Akpore v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process federal-tort-claims-act immigration immigration-law jurisdiction obstruction-of-justice removal removal-proceedings subject-matter-jurisdiction Does 8 U.S.C. 1252(g) strip the district court of subject matter jurisdiction to hear a noncitizen's FTCA claim of wrongful removal?
22-7665 Demarkus Antonio Brown v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-05-30 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-errors constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure standing Whether the federal courts have jurisdiction to review the merits of this case and issue a memorandum decision
22-1158 Lassana Magassa v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-05-30 Denied administrative-procedure-act agency-rulemaking constitutional-challenge final-order jurisdiction jurisdiction-stripping mcnary-v-haitian-refugee-ctr statutory-interpretation sts-redress-process Does agency rulemaking constitute a final order under 49 U.S.C. § 46110?
22-7637 Michael D. Beiter, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court constitutional-rights district-court due-process forced-counsel jurisdiction pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment vagueness Whether a district court can force counsel upon a person even without inquiring the provisions set forth in §3006(A)
22-7622 Anthony Bogarin v. Luis Martinez, Acting Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-05-23 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation whether-the-court-of-appeals-erred-in-dismissing-the-petition-for-writ-of-certiorari
22-1131 Brenda R. Blalock v. Union Pacific Railroad Company Fifth Circuit 2023-05-19 Denied civil-procedure de-novo-review iccta-preemption jurisdiction jurisdictional-review legal-standing procedural-forfeiture rollins-v-home-depot standing summary-judgment Whether the ICCTA-preemption-is-a-jurisdictional-issue
22-7560 Patrick Timothy Wyatt v. Jon Bolling Wood, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-16 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process judicial-review jurisdiction standing statutory-provisions Whether a federal court has a duty to inquire into the bona fides of an affidavit when the record facially indicates the affiant may have violated the…
22-7576 Crystal Maye v. Ocean Tax Deed Investment, LLC Florida 2023-05-16 Denied IFP administrative-law beneficiary-rights civil-rights due-process jurisdiction legislative-authority property-rights statutory-interpretation tax-regulation trust-income whether tax appraiser has the authority to create a tax regulate private property not sanction by legislature or congress
22-7550 Daniel Novilla v. Department of Agriculture Federal Circuit 2023-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-review court-jurisdiction due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction petition-timeliness procedural-due-process standing Why did the court accept my petition knowing it was late, they sent me a packet stating it was compliant with the rules of the court, it was processed…
22-7540 Harry Cole v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure district-court due-process essential-element jurisdiction jurisdictional-concept sua-sponte venue Whether venue is only a jurisdictional concept rather than essential element of an offense that must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt
22-1110 Justin Paul Dreiling v. United States Federal Circuit 2023-05-12 Denied Response Waived constitution court-of-federal-claims equitable-jurisdiction equitable-relief executive-department executive-regulation judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction monetary-claims statutory-interpretation united-states Shall the Court of Federal Claims have jurisdiction to render judgment upon any claim against the United States founded upon any regulation of an exec…
22-1104 Shawn Talbot v. Louis Eric Johnson, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-05-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process facial-challenge federal-court federal-rules jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge material-allegations pleading-requirements standing Whether the United States District Court, District of Nevada lacked lawful jurisdiction in cause no: 2:09CR-0078, and 2:10-CR-00520
22-1094 Mandy Mobley Li v. Chao Li Georgia 2023-05-10 Denied Response Waived child-support child-support-modification due-process equal-protection exclusive-jurisdiction federal-preemption fourteenth-amendment full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction preemption Whether Georgia law has been pre-empted by the FFCCSOA
22-1086 Tatyana Evgenievna Drevaleva v. Department of Veteran Affairs, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-05-08 Denied Response Waived appeals civil-procedure court-authority due-process federal-courts federal-rules-civil-procedure jurisdiction procedural-defect service-of-process standing summons-requirements Did both the U.S. District Courts have a right to issue any ruling if the defendant was not properly served?
22-7465 Jogaak Jogaak v. Dan Sullivan, Warden South Dakota 2023-05-04 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction sentencing-enhancement standing statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine violent-felony Whether a scalp laceration is a 'serious bodily injury' as defined in SDCL 22-1-2(1A)?
22-7430 Debora D. v. John D., et al. California 2023-05-01 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process idea idea-protections jurisdiction parental-rights procedural-safeguards special-education standing Did the California Court act in Obstruction of the Federal Individuals Disabilities Act (IDEA) Jurisdiction and Protections?
22-1051 Ronald Simon, et ux. v. Wayne Janke, et al. Washington 2023-04-28 Denied child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights custody due-process equal-protection fraud jurisdiction racial-discrimination standing Whether the State Courts have the inherent power or jurisdiction to allow a white couple, or any person, to proceed in court to gain custody of a chil…
22-7386 Louis McIntosh, aka Lou D v. United States Second Circuit 2023-04-27 Judgment Issued Amici (2)IFP appellate-courts commerce-clause criminal-forfeiture federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure federalism interstate-commerce jurisdiction rule-32.2 sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation Whether a district court may enter a criminal forfeiture order outside the time limitations set forth in Rule 32.2, Fed.R.Crim.P.
22-7392 Moses Clark v. Glen E. Pratt Ninth Circuit 2023-04-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-law jurisdiction justiciability standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its application of the legal standards for determining standing and justiciability
22-7384 In Re Reidie James Jackson 2023-04-26 Denied IFP abstention circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure dismissal due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-procedure jurisdiction standing Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in refusing to address the issue of abstention
22-7356 Michael Moose v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-04-25 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction standing takings Whether the United States Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the petitioner's request for writ of certiorari
22-1035 Shoman Kasbekar, et al. v. Ivy Station Community Association, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-25 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction pleading rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court state-court-jurisdiction Whether a state court acts with jurisdiction and in a manner consistent with Fourteenth Amendment Due Process when it enters judgment on a pleading ex…
22-991 George R. Jarkesy, Jr., et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission Fifth Circuit 2023-04-12 Denied Relisted (2) administrative-law agency-adjudication circuit-court-jurisdiction due-process judicial-review jurisdiction securities-law securities-regulation statutory-interpretation Whether circuit courts have jurisdiction to remand to the SEC under 15 U.S.C. § 78y
22-7255 Thomas L. Fast v. Florida Florida 2023-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights cold-war constitutional-rights due-process g-r-u-interference judicial-misconduct jurisdiction national-security pre-trial-procedure standing Did the Florida Twelfth Judicial Circuit Court and Appellate Courts violate Petitioner's 14th Amendment, Sections 1 and 3 Constitutional Due Process r…
22-7242 In Re Henry Jones 2023-04-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights collateral-attack constitutional-violations constructive-amendment denial-of-counsel due-process extraordinary-writ fraud jurisdiction sentencing trial-record-falsification Whether Jones' sentence and conviction were unconstitutionally imposed due to numerous constitutional violations by the district court
22-968 Ginger Atherton v. Key Bank, N.A. Washington 2023-04-06 Denied arbitrability arbitration-agreement conditions-precedent contract-interpretation federal-arbitration-act jurisdiction preemption state-court-jurisdiction state-courts When there is a valid and enforceable agreement to arbitrate, and the dispute is within the scope of the arbitration agreement, does the FAA preempt s…
22-7214 Miguel Angel Bacilio v. Texas Texas 2023-04-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-error constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial judicial-discretion jurisdiction right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the trial court was legally convened and constituted with the provisions of the constitution and statute to remain a 'Court of Competent Juris…
22-7178 David Frazier v. Tennessee Tennessee 2023-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-review court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-error procedural-due-process sentencing sentencing-procedure state-courts Whether Supreme Court for Tennessee ignored facts and procedure for correction of illegal sentence
22-7154 In Re James C. Winding 2023-03-30 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP double-jeopardy due-process due-process-violation jurisdiction kidnapping sexual-battery Whether Petitioner's Indictment Lacked the Charge of Kidnapping and Sexual Battery for Which Petitioner was Convicted, Adams County had No Jurisdictio…
22-955 Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe v. City of Seattle, Washington Ninth Circuit 2023-03-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 28-usc-1447c article-iii article-three-limits federal-courts futility-doctrine jurisdiction remand removal removal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Is the court-created 'futility' doctrine repugnant to Article III?
22-7112 Fuhai Li v. United States Third Circuit 2023-03-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction probable-cause procedural-default standard-of-review unconstitutional-search-and-seizure Whether the Court of appeals' decision denying Petitioner's request for a COA is contrary to the decision of this Court
22-7088 James Duane Grzeslo v. Raythel Fisher, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
22-7094 Michael Lee Gordon v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction standing statutory-provisions whether the district court's denial to Kecvuse MmselF was an error
22-7103 George Lincoln Stanley, IV v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1291 confrontation-clause criminal-procedure hearsay-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jurisdiction kidnapping kidnapping-charges sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence Whether Mr. Stanley's Sixth Amendment right to confront his witness was violated
22-7063 Colby Dranoel Leonard v. James M. LeBlanc, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights compact-clause due-care due-process joint-tenancy jurisdiction prisoners-rights rehabilitation-programs standing venue venue-transfer Should the State District Court have transferred Mr. Leonard's civil suit to the correct venue/jurisdiction?
22-7071 Elmer D. Baker v. Ron Neal, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights directed-verdict due-process ex-post-facto jurisdiction jury-unanimity state-jurisdiction statute-of-limitations verdict-direction Is it a denial of due process when a state imports a due process right and then acquiesces the defendant was denied this right and then arbitrarily ta…
22-7072 Montoyya Sims v. Fox Ridge Apartments Michigan 2023-03-22 Denied IFP civil-procedure claim-transfer court-of-claims due-process judicial-review jurisdiction michigan-law procedural-rules removal standing supreme-court-procedure transfer Whether the United States Supreme Court should vacate the Michigan Supreme Court's order and transfer the individual claim to the Michigan Court of Cl…
22-7073 In Re Gregory K. Clinton 2023-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts jurisdiction standing Whether the U.S. Constitution and federal statutes allow the Supreme Court to validate the U.S. District Court's dismissal of a civil rights lawsuit d…
22-6999 Allen Maki v. Texas Texas 2023-03-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-rules judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction motion-in-limine second-amendment statutory-interpretation texas-criminal-law Whether there is a conflict between Tex Criminal Code Art. 44.17 And Tex Gov. Code Sec. 30.00015 (a)
22-6966 In Re Antwoyn Terrell Spencer 2023-03-08 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-decisis constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process-clause final-decisions grand-jury grand-jury-clause indictment jurisdiction statute-of-limitations Whether the district court erred in refusing to address the merits of the petitioner's motion to dismiss the indictment for lack of jurisdiction
22-851 United States v. Julian Garcon Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-08 Dismissed Response RequestedRelisted (2) criminal-history criminal-history-points criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines jurisdiction safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation Whether the defendant satisfies the prerequisites for 'safety-valve' sentencing relief under 18 U.S.C. 3553(f)(1)
22-6956 Michael Blake DeFrance v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP all-writs-act appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review categorical-approach civil-procedure domestic-violence final-judgment jurisdiction ninth-circuit standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether the Ninth Circuit correctly determined that the orders appealed were neither final nor worthy of consideration under the All-Writs Act 18 USC …
22-847 Virginia Silva-Navarro v. Roosevelt REO PR Corporation First Circuit 2023-03-07 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction due-process executive-power federal-court-jurisdiction federal-courts foreign-entity-litigation jurisdiction precedent standing supreme-court-precedent tax-collection Are lower courts in the federal system to follow the case law of this Honorable Court?
22-6916 Carlos Mejia-Quintanilla v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review appellate-waiver constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-claim plea-agreement plea-bargaining summary-enforcement whether courts can summarily enforce an appellate waiver to bar motions to vacate unconstitutional convictions
22-6921 In Re Oscar Adrian Marquez 2023-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii-standing civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-court due-process federal-courts jurisdiction mandamus Is the failure of a District Court and a United States Court of Appeals to order instant dismissal of the immediate case for lack of Article III Stand…
22-840 K. M., Individually and on Behalf of M. M. and S. M., et al. v. Eric L. Adams, Mayor of the City of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2023-03-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedies affirmative-defense claim-processing-rule disability-education idea-statute individuals-with-disabilities-education-act judicial-challenge jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirement waiver Whether IDEA exhaustion requirement is jurisdictional or a claim-processing rule
22-6914 David B. Morgan v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether Congress has concurrent jurisdiction over the subject matter of this case
22-6894 Hiking Dupre v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari civil-procedure concepcion-case due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction precedent remand supreme-court Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the Fifth Circuit's judgment, and remand for reconsideration in light of this Court's recent decisi…
22-6896 Kim Lynn Mason v. Jim Farris, Warden Oklahoma 2023-03-01 Denied IFP due-process habeas-corpus judicial-relief jurisdiction state-prisoner void-judgment Whether due process demands that corrective judicial process in the nature of state writ of habeas corpus be available to expunge a void judgment for …
22-827 Carlos Herrera, Daniel Sanchez, and Anthony Ray Baca v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-03-01 Denied commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge post-trial-motion rule-12 waiver Whether a facial constitutional challenge to a criminal statute under the Commerce Clause can be brought by post-trial motion under Federal Rule of Cr…
22-829 Marla Faith Crawford v. Richmond City School Board Virginia 2023-03-01 Denied Response Waived circuit-court civil-procedure due-process idea-regulations jurisdiction pretrial-motion reversible-error sovereign-immunity standard-of-review subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court-of-virginia Did the Supreme Court of Va. error in determining that the Circuit Court for Richmond City nonruling on a pretrial motion filed on April 2, 2019 wasn'…
22-6883 Fairly W. Earls v. Kari Buske, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-claim constitutional-claim due-process jurisdiction screening section-1367 section-1983 standing supplemental-jurisdiction Whether the District Court and Court of Appeals abused their discretion on jurisdiction and erroneous application of 28-usc-1367(c)(3) on constitution…
22-814 William R. Tinnerman v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-28 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure district-court-jurisdiction flora-rule internal-revenue-code jurisdiction jurisdictional-prerequisite standing statutory-interpretation tax-refund Whether full payment of tax is a jurisdictional prerequisite for a district court to adjudicate a taxpayer's refund claim
22-6865 Jennifer Reinoehl v. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-02-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure complaint-sufficiency due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-bias judicial-discretion jurisdiction pro-se-litigants pro-se-litigation standing Whether Courts have discretion to hold pro se litigants to a strictly following Fed.R.Civ.P. while ignoring represented litigants' late filings and wh…
22-6857 Cynthia J. Rowe v. Penny J. Roberts, et al. Third Circuit 2023-02-24 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights crime-scene criminal-procedure defendant-presence documentary-evidence due-process equal-protection evidentiary-standard jurisdiction standing supreme-court-review Whether the lower court erred in its ruling
22-6864 In Re Abdush S. DuBose 2023-02-24 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-procedure criminal-defendant due-process grand-jury indictment judicial-discretion jurisdiction jury-selection standing trial-rights Whether the U.S. District Court has personal or subject-matter jurisdiction over an indictment that was not filed in open court or voted on by a grand…
22-6800 Ronald Lee Sorenson v. Washington Washington 2023-02-16 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process jurisdiction mathews-factors reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment structural-error structural-error-doctrine venue where-the-first-of-the-four-total-specific-alleged-acts-occurred-outside-the-state-of-washington
22-6749 Robert L. Harrington v. James Corrigan, Warden Michigan 2023-02-10 Denied IFP arbitrary-prosecution civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction prosecution standing trial-judgment Whether the district court lacked subject matter jurisdiction to bindover any charge against the petitioner, depriving the petitioner of due process r…
22-6761 Joshua David Lambert v. Washington Washington 2023-02-10 Denied IFP civil-procedure copyright-law criminal-procedure damages due-process jurisdiction legal-notice right-to-counsel sentencing statutory-interpretation waiver-of-counsel Can a defendant waive counsel to some charges but not all charges, and is the waiver still valid if the defendant is not apprised of the potential pun…
22-6723 Syed K. Rafi v. Yale School of Medicine, et al. Second Circuit 2023-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights civil-rights-litigation due-process employment employment-retaliation interstate-conduct jurisdiction jurisdictional-principles res-judicata retaliation strassheim-v-daily territorial-jurisdiction Does the Traditional Method of Determining Jurisdiction Under Territorial Principles apply to 'Interstate Telephonic and Email—Computer Server Based C…
22-6693 William A. Rankin v. Brian Lavan and Associates, P.C., et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-02-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bankruptcy civil-procedure court-misuse due-process jurisdiction legal-procedure misuse respondent standing trustee Did the Trustee and Respondents use the Bankruptcy Court intentionally for misuse of a personal or another purpose?
22-6695 Ronald L. Kupsky v. Randall Hepp, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-02-02 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction standing Question not identified
22-725 Peter Kleidman v. Thomas L. Willhite, Jr., Associate Justice, Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-02-02 Denied civil-procedure constitutional-discrimination due-process due-process-rights exxon federal-jurisdiction injury-in-fact jurisdiction rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-review Is there sufficient disarray in post-Exxon Rooker-Feldman jurisprudence to warrant clarification?
22-6680 Michael Stapleton v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP aiding-and-abetting alien-smuggling circuit-split defective-indictment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction pro-se-rights sixth-amendment Was the indictment defective?
22-6684 In Re Fox Joseph Salerno 2023-02-01 Dismissed IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jurisdiction post-conviction-relief standing Did the Aritena Distetet. Covuct have jurisdic hen HN Qq Habeas Ceoepys Cavse tr whieh the Pe te fener asa S . s 2 sj the housed in the Coleradg Dept …
22-6650 Antonio Rooks-Byrd, aka Abdur-Rashid Muhammad v. Court of Appeals of Nebraska Nebraska 2023-01-27 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appellate-court civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure jurisdiction standing state-appellate-court whether-the-fourteenth-amendment-prohibits-a-state-appellate-court-from-adjudicating-an-application-or-motion-in-complete-absence-of-all-jurisdiction
22-6627 Kenneth Mobley v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process jurisdiction loss-calculation restitution restitution-order sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness Was Mr. Mobley's sentence procedurally and substantively unreasonable
22-6641 In Re James D. Sudberry 2023-01-26 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction standing Whether the Feresape Hho ewAl te chack matter Freee Fo whale uneluc chlo Uc se @ psibor Ro Gfluane 4o Ae lad Sbohs Count op Appeals Ov ARE aj /2 appre…
22-6630 John Butler v. Howard Sissem, et al. Third Circuit 2023-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-procedure correctional-facility federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure jurisdiction legal-standing prisoner-rights standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals, for the Third Circuit, did in fact have jurisdiction concerning Petitioners' appeal under the Federal Rule…
22-6582 In Re Elaine Mickman 2023-01-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP child-support constitutional-rights due-process judicial-authority jurisdiction legal-procedure legislated-law state-constitution state-court-jurisdiction usurpation Whether the state Court violated due-process,constitutional-rights,jurisdiction,legislated-law,state-constitution,usurpation
22-6589 In Re Moses Jackson 2023-01-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction article-iii constitutional-review due-process federal-question judicial-power jurisdiction standing state-court-discretion supreme-court supreme-court-jurisdiction Whether the judicial power of the United States under Article III, Section 2 of the Constitution extends to the issues raised in this case
22-664 Stephen Edward May v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-01-19 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure collateral-consequences federal-courts habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-error standing subject-matter-jurisdiction unconditional-release Whether a judgment rendered after a habeas petitioner has been unconditionally released with no collateral consequences is void for lack of subject-ma…
22-6562 George S. Schrand, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction standing Whether the court below erred in denying Petitioner's constitutional claims
22-6544 Bradley B. Miller v. Andrea Plumlee, Judge, District Court of Texas, Dallas County Texas 2023-01-17 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure due-process federal-removal fourteenth-amendment judicial-immunity jurisdiction res-judicata standing state-court-jurisdiction statute-of-limitations Whether state court jurisdiction halts during the pendency of a federal removal
22-6545 Kamil Hakeem Johnson v. R. M. Wolfe, Warden Fourth Circuit 2023-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge sentencing-discretion sentencing-options statutory-interpretation Whether the district court had jurisdiction to impose a term-of-years sentence when the statute only provided for death or life imprisonment without p…
22-6502 Jerry Joseph Higdon, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge procedural-bar sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit is using its procedural bar rules in a manner inconsistent with the United States …
22-6487 Chasity Reanee Orellana v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court due-process jurisdiction post-release-conduct revocation sentencing supervised-release Whether the district court erred by revoking Ms. Orellana's supervised release because its revocation decision relied on conduct that occurred after h…
22-6465 Jess Richard Smith v. Washington Washington 2023-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process federal-law jurisdiction post-conviction state-court stay witness-testimony Whether the state court has decided an important question of federal law under the Due Process Clause of the United States Constitution
22-610 Warren Adam Taylor v. Augusta-Richmond County Consolidated Commissioners, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-04 Denied case-controversy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss public-interest qualified-immunity standing statute-of-limitations Question not identified
22-596 Lamon Sandel Dewayne Donnell v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-28 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process foreign-state judicial-procedure jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunities sovereign-immunities-act subject-matter-jurisdiction title-28 Is this Court, and all public offices, a FOREIGN STATE as defined under FRCP Rule 4(j) and under Title 28— JUDICIARY | AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE?
22-6392 Adam Tello v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect legal-correction sentencing sentencing-error standing strickland-standard Whether a jurisdictional defective sentence must be noticed, heard, adjudicated and legally corrected at any time, whether on appeal or any other moti…
22-579 Jeanie Bisconte v. Sandia National Laboratories, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-12-22 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-limits employment-discrimination enclave-clause federal-enclave federal-jurisdiction federal-property jurisdiction jurisdictional-scope tenth-amendment u.s-constitution Whether the Enclave Clause limits federal jurisdiction over employment discrimination cases where the plaintiff and defendants did not work on or suff…
22-6377 Thaddeus Chaylon Martin v. Florida Florida 2022-12-22 Denied IFP civil-rights corrections criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction prison-credits retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-credits Whether the court had jurisdiction to re-sentence the petitioner to 18 years after initially sentencing him to 10 years
22-6365 Ronald E. Cook v. Tom Watson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-12-21 Denied IFP appeals constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence-exclusion fair-trial jurisdiction right-to-present-defense When can a criminal indictment be changed without due process
22-561 Larry J. Winget, et al. v. Alter Domus, LLC Sixth Circuit 2022-12-19 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived article-iii civil-procedure creditor-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fraudulent-transfer jurisdiction revocable-trust sixth-circuit standing trust-law will-substitute-trust Whether a federal court has jurisdiction to annul a revocable, will-substitute trust and replace it with an irrevocable trust
22-6342 Palani Karupaiyan v. L. Naganda, et al. Third Circuit 2022-12-19 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP all-writs-act civil-rights due-process extraordinary-writ judicial-relief jurisdiction legal-standard mandamus parallel-proceedings prohibition standing Whether the petitioner's requested relief of a writ of mandamus or prohibition was properly denied
22-6290 Bennie Mitchell v. Levern Cohen, Warden Fourth Circuit 2022-12-13 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit erred in finding the publisher met the legal standard for standing
22-6259 Eric Bruce Fowler v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-arrest cross-deputization due-process federal-approval indian-law indian-reservation jurisdiction law-enforcement state-jurisdiction territorial-sovereignty Did the state trooper have jurisdiction to arrest Mr. Fowler, an Indian, within his reservation boundaries?
22-6249 Ruben James Rios v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure jurisdiction motion-to-reopen notice-of-appeal pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-deficiency Whether a pro se litigant's 'Notice of Appeal' constitutes a liberally-construed 'Motion to Reopen Time to File' as well as a 'Notice of Appeal
22-6202 Peter Gakuba v. Illinois Prisoner Review Board Illinois 2022-12-02 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule grand-jury grand-jury-indictment jurisdiction jurisdictional-error privacy-protection statutory-rape video-privacy-protection-act void-judgment vppa-violation Gakuba's criminal indictment was void due to violation of the Video Privacy Protection Act
22-6148 Larry James Bradley v. Florida Florida 2022-11-23 Denied IFP civil-rights commerce-clause due-process enemy-combatant equal-protection fourth-amendment jurisdiction presidential-authority standing statutory-interpretation suspension-clause Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant civil rights statutes and constitutional provisions
22-6139 Lawrence Edward Thompson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-11-22 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process federal-courts jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in its application of the legal standard for determining if a petitioner has standing to bring a claim
22-6110 Luis David Huerta-Carranza v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process immigration-court immigration-proceedings jurisdiction notice-to-appear removal-order statutory-interpretation Whether a defective notice to appear that omits the statutorily required time-and-place information fails to confer jurisdiction on the immigration co…
22-463 Aenergy, S.A., et al. v. Republic of Angola, et al. Second Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure federal-courts foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity forum-non-conveniens jurisdiction jurisdictional-exception sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation Whether courts may dismiss FSIA suits against foreign sovereign defendants on forum non conveniens grounds
22-6068 Anthony Braxton v. Superior Court of the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2022-11-16 Denied IFP appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure jurisdiction standing supreme-court-rules Whether the lower court erred in its application of the legal standards for granting a writ of certiorari
22-6082 In Re George W. Buford, III 2022-11-16 Denied IFP adjudication civil-rights constitutional-claim constitutional-crisis due-process jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions voting-rights Question not identified
22-6036 Martin Robinson v. Jim Simone, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-11-10 Denied IFP case-documentation civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions court-procedure due-process judicial-oversight jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction legal-review standing Whether the trial and appeals courts erred in failing to review and correct their lower court's decisions
22-6040 William H. Wyttenbach v. Roy A. Cooper, III, Governor of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2022-11-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP article-iii-court civil-procedure conclusions-of-law constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process findings-of-fact fourth-circuit-court jurisdiction rule-of-law Has the Fourth Circuit Appellate Court and the lower court violated all three foundational corner stones of Rule of Law; Jurisdiction, Finding of Fact…
22-6034 Francis Stock v. Chanelle Braswell, et al. Third Circuit 2022-11-09 Denied IFP appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure district-court due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-filing notice notice-of-appeal prisoner-rights service-of-process standing Whether a prisoner's notice of appeal was timely filed when he did not receive notice of the district court's dismissal order within 21 days
22-5976 Ricky Pendleton v. Donnie Ames, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex West Virginia 2022-11-04 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP constructive-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment grand-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jurisdiction malicious-assault robbery sixth-amendment Question not identified
22-400 Mark Barinholtz v. HomeAdvisor, Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-10-31 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure federal-courts federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discretion jurisdiction jurisdictional-rules procedural-flexibility timeliness timeliness-doctrine Whether federal courts should follow strict timeliness rules for appellate review or allow flexibility to exercise rights of review in an orderly, rea…
22-5939 Nathaniel L. Wilson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim
22-5873 Nicholas Levi Olsen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP §2255-motion access-to-courts aedpa certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction legal-materials one-year-time-limit prison-lockdown Did the district error in holding that defendant violated AEDPA's one-year time limit for filing §2255 motion, even though prison was locked-down with…
22-361 BP p.l.c., et al. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore Fourth Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2) civil-procedure climate-change federal-common-law federal-courts federal-jurisdiction greenhouse-gas-emissions interstate-emissions jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether federal common law necessarily and exclusively governs claims seeking redress for injuries allegedly caused by the effect of interstate greenh…
22-5846 Michael Pacelli v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance jurisdiction search-and-seizure statute-of-limitations warrantless-search Can a law enforcement agency seize evidence or record private phone calls without a warrant, and then use the gathered evidence against a defendant?
22-5856 Tracy J. McGill v. Oklahoma Department of Corrections Oklahoma 2022-10-18 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-indian-law federal-law habeas-corpus jurisdiction state-court subject-matter-jurisdiction unreasonable-determination Whether Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals' denial of petitioner's jurisdictional claim resulted in an unreasonable determination of the facts
22-5865 Charles Smith v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure criminal-conviction criminal-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect ninth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing waiver Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in dismissing the appeal
22-5825 Ahmed R. Morning v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction ramos-v-louisiana retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-review Whether the State trial court erred by imposing an unconstitutionally harsh and excessive sentence?
22-5822 Eric S. Ray v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Fifth Circuit 2022-10-12 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus interstate-agreement-on-detainers-act interstate-extradition jurisdiction uniform-criminal-extradition-act Whether the violation of the Interstate Agreement on Detainers Act and the Uniform Criminal Extradition Act by state and local authorities provides a …
22-5804 In Re David Kevin Lewis 2022-10-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP acquittal-standard affirmative-defense civil-procedure due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue legal-procedure motion-for-acquittal statute-of-limitations trial-motion Is the Law of the United States for Statute of Limitations a matter of jurisdiction and by Lewis raising the issue in trial as well as filing the tria…
22-5795 Kevin White, Jr. v. Michigan Michigan 2022-10-07 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission judicial-discretion jurisdiction trial-procedure venue Whether the district court erred in dismissing the case for improper venue where the indictment indicated that the alleged crime by the defendant occu…
22-5768 Issa Battle v. United States Third Circuit 2022-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process jurisdiction separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Supreme Court's facial abrogation of 28 U.S.C. § 1264(a) is unconstitutional
22-5753 Phillip Scott, Jr. v. District Court of Iowa, Scott County Iowa 2022-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing Whether the state denied the petitioner due process, whether the state denied the petitioner equal protection
22-5755 Ervin Carter v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitution constitutional-protection court-transfer federal-preemption judicial-review jurisdiction lower-court state-law transfer Whether this Honorable United States Supreme Court 'must' investigate and resolve jurisdiction if raised by one of the petitioning party(ies) to the l…
22-5739 LaTausha Simmons v. Michigan Michigan 2022-10-03 Denied IFP acquittal appeal circuit-court constitutional-protection criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy insufficient-evidence jurisdiction michigan-supreme-court reconsideration Whether the Michigan Supreme Court erred in concluding that the prohibition against double jeopardy did not apply in this case
22-5712 Ramona I. Morgan v. Gloria Geither Tenth Circuit 2022-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction motion-to-vacate prosecutorial-discretion sentencing-review statutory-interpretation Should the United States Court of Appeals for the [oth Circuit have granted a Certificate of Appealability to the Petitioner Ramona Morgan?
22-5716 Michael Tarvin v. Mississippi Mississippi 2022-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction standing Question not identified
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?
22-5708 David K. Lamb v. Susan Wilson, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-09-28 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP article-iii case-controversy civil-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process judicial-standing jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect ripeness standing supreme-court-precedent Lack-of-standing-is-a-jurisdictional-defect
22-5669 Robert Carrasco Gamez v. Arizona Arizona 2022-09-23 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
22-5652 G. T. v. C. S. Ohio 2022-09-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-support civil-procedure due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-principles service-of-process social-security-act title-iv-d uniform-interstate-family-support-act Does the construction of Title IV-D of the Social Security Act allow raising 'any matters' after the registration of a support order has confirmation …
22-5661 Anthony Dewayne Lee Turner v. Unknown Ninth Circuit 2022-09-22 Denied IFP 8th-amendment appeal-status bail-funding bail-funding-appeal certiorari due-process jurisdiction motions-for-new-trial non-trial-motions post-conviction post-conviction-records Question not identified
22-5616 In Re Deonte Jenkins 2022-09-20 Denied IFP 13th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-claim political-hostage sovereign-rights treaty-rights Whether the petitioner's claims of unconstitutional and unlawful detention by the Commonwealth of Virginia violate his constitutional rights under the…
22-5626 James Earl Jones v. New Jersey New Jersey 2022-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-assault case-law criminal-law criminal-statute jurisdiction legal-procedure murder remand sexual-assault statutory-interpretation whether-the-term-on-another-applies
22-5629 Saul Williams v. South Carolina South Carolina 2022-09-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing supreme-court Question not identified
22-239 Krishna Maharaj v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-14 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2244 appellate-review court-of-appeals evidence evidence-consideration federal-procedure habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-bar successive-petition Whether a district court is jurisdictionally barred from considering evidence supporting a claim in a second or successive habeas petition that the co…
22-5512 Maurice Diggins v. United States First Circuit 2022-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-249 district-court-jurisdiction due-process jurisdiction public-interest public-interest-prosecution racially-motivated-assault substantial-justice thirteenth-amendment Does a United States district court have jurisdiction under the Thirteenth Amendment for a racially motivated assault prosecution under 18 USC Sec. 24…
22-5548 In Re David Moore 2022-09-12 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-limitations criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge state-court-jurisdiction successive-petition successive-petitions unconstitutional-conviction Did Congress intend to preclude as successive under the AEDPA a state prisoner habeas claim that he is held unconstitutionally upon conviction and sen…
22-5553 Rafael Villagomez-Troche v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8-usc-1229 administrative-law court-jurisdiction immigration-law jurisdiction notice-to-appear removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation statutory-jurisdiction Whether service of a 'notice to appear' that complies with 8 U.S.C. § 1229(a)(1) is required to vest jurisdiction in an immigration court over removal…
22-5539 Sean David Pickett v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jurisdiction miscarriage-of-justice rule-60(b) rule-60b section-2255 Does the Eleventh Circuit have jurisdiction to deny a certificate of appealability based on the Eleventh Circuit's determination that the petitioner c…
22-5526 William Paul Burch v. Homeward Residential Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP article-iii-judge bankruptcy civil-procedure constitutional-procedure due-process federal-court judicial-discretion jurisdiction removal removal-jurisdiction standing state-court Is it a violation of the United States Constitution for a federal court to accept removal of a case from state court after thirty days or can it be ex…
22-5509 Jaime Luevano v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-09-06 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing takings Whether the Petitioners' First Amendment rights were violated by the government's actions
22-5514 Roland Scott, Jr. v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction sentencing standing statutory-interpretation Did the United States Supreme Court overturn its own precedent in Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191, 204 L. Ed. 2d 594 (2019)
22-5477 Tracey L. Brown v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender case-law circuit-split criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process hobbs-act jurisdiction ninth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines Should the Ninth Circuit's decision be vacated due to vacated case law?
22-5456 Min Jeong Kim v. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services Fourth Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law agency-discretion civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federalism immigration-law judicial-review jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether the circuit court has jurisdiction over criminal, bankruptcy, immigration, or state matters
22-5463 Rahmael Sal Holt v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2022-08-29 Denied IFP adequate brady-claim default-ruling due-process federal-law federal-review independent jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony Does the United States Supreme Court have jurisdiction to hear Petitioner's Brady claim because the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania's default ruling was…
22-5447 Christopher Schneider v. Bank of America, N.A., et al. California 2022-08-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-case civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction legal-proceedings petition standing supreme-court takings Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
22-5402 Ronnie Jones v. Deanna Brookhart, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction procedural-error sentencing standing Whether the Court's imposition of a sentence or judgment lacks constitutional safeguards
22-5380 Wallace A. Gardner v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Arkansas 2022-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction standing takings Question not identified
22-5361 Ernest Bustos v. Bexar Appraisal District, et al. Texas 2022-08-16 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure first-impression fraud fraudulent-scheme jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge plea-of-jurisdiction standing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether the Court failed to view the Plea of Jurisdiction as a statutory-construction case
22-5328 Justin Michael Tyson v. North Carolina North Carolina 2022-08-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process indictment jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether the indictment for File No. 18 CRS 55155 is fatally defective
22-5311 Willie A. Key v. Medical University of South Carolina, et al. South Carolina 2022-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-review civil-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process filing-complaint filing-fee jurisdiction legal-procedure small-claims-court standing Whether the Court of Common Pleas erred in refusing to file petitioner's complaint on the ground of lack of jurisdiction?
22-112 Simonetta Vespucci Sutton v. Mountain High Investments, LLC, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-08-04 Denied civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judgment-amendment jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss motion-to-remand removal standing Whether the district court erred in denying petitioner's motion to remand
22-5294 Gary Wayne Warner v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-08-04 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction limitation-bar miscarriage-of-justice sentencing standing Does this court have jurisdiction & power to grant certiorari, excused limitation bar, correct fundamental miscarriage of justice, denial of COA by 5t…
22-5277 Leila Nasser Asr v. Karen Eady-Williams, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP aliens aliens-rights civil-rights constitutional-precedent courts due-process human-rights international-law judicial-conduct jurisdiction Do the United States courts have jurisdiction to hear aliens' cases or aliens must file their lawsuits against United States citizens in courts of the…
22-5249 Michael Anthony Galluzzo v. Village of St. Paris, Ohio Ohio 2022-08-02 Dismissed IFP arrest-warrant constitutional-rights due-process failure-to-appear jurisdiction law-enforcement liberty notice proof-of-service Did the lower court violate due-process requirements by failing to provide proper proof-of-service and notice of a hearing before issuing an arrest wa…
22-5258 Jeremy Lafitte v. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Ninth Circuit 2022-08-02 Denied IFP appellate-procedure cause-of-action civil-procedure court-of-appeals federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-dismissal pleading procedural-error rule-8(a) Whether a plaintiff must plead a specific set of facts that constitute a cause of action under the federal pleading requirements of Rule 8(a) of the F…
22-94 Robert Alan Fratta v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-08-01 Denied Relisted (2) appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure habeas habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-grounds procedural-default rule-60(b) rule-60b Must a habeas petitioner obtain a certificate of appealability to appeal the denial of a Rule 60(b) motion on jurisdictional grounds?
22-5194 Maxo Jean v. United States Second Circuit 2022-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 appeals appellate-procedure criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jurisdiction motion-to-vacate timeliness timely-filing Whether the appeals court abused its discretion by dismissing petitioner's notice of appeal from the denial of a motion to vacate, filed pursuant to 2…
22-5197 Leonard Noble v. Arkansas Arkansas 2022-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
22-5198 Akeem Markiese Rogers v. Virginia Virginia 2022-07-27 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process evidence evidence-standard jurisdiction legal-standard possession procedural-review search-and-seizure writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
22-68 Perry Adron McCullough v. David F. Levi, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-26 Denied Response Waived accardi-doctrine civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-authority standing tort-claim Whether a prosecutor can legally escape answering the 'Accardi Doctrine' by dismissing a case as 'frivolous' or 'meritless' without a substantive basi…
22-73 Usha Jain, et vir v. David Barker, et al. Florida 2022-07-26 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-removal federal-statute jurisdiction remand-order removal-jurisdiction standing state-court state-court-proceedings Whether state court proceedings and orders are void during the removal period
22-5168 Rodney Mesquias v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-error jurisdiction legal-standard sentencing standard-of-review Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming Mesquias' convictions and sentences
22-5157 William Paul Burch v. Bank of America, N.A. Fifth Circuit 2022-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-dismissal civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-hearing jurisdiction removal removal-procedure sanctions unconstitutional-rulings Should removal from a state court to a federal court be allowed without a hearing to determine if the case is a state or federal issue?
22-57 Dean Allen Steeves, Acting Trustee of Brother's Keeper Ministries v. Internal Revenue Service Ninth Circuit 2022-07-21 Denied Response Waived church-organization constitutional-law constitutional-mandate integrated-auxiliary iRS-subpoena jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge non-organization-private-church procedural-error subpoena substantive-law Whether the U.S. District and U.S. Appellate Court usurped jurisdiction and declined to exercise jurisdiction by denying Petitioner's Motion to Quash …
22-39 Xiu Jian Sun v. R. Craig Lawrence, Assistant United States Attorney, et al. District of Columbia 2022-07-14 Denied Response Waived civil-rights divine-intervention due-process judicial-petition jurisdiction mandamus mandarin-interpreter pro-se religious-doctrine religious-freedom spiritual-communication standing Whether the plaintiff's claims based on divine revelations and instructions from God are cognizable under the U.S. Constitution and federal law
22-19 Ukraine v. PAO Tatneft District of Columbia 2022-07-06 Denied arbitral-award arbitration civil-procedure foreign-arbitral-award foreign-proceedings forum-non-conveniens international-arbitration international-law judicial-confirmation jurisdiction jurisdictional-doctrine Whether the doctrine of forum non conveniens is available in proceedings to confirm a foreign arbitral award in the United States
22-5018 Michael Allen Long v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure fifth-circuit jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-error standard-of-review waiver Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by finding that Mr. Long's appeal should be dismissed based on the waiver of appeal provision in his Plea Agreement
21-8285 Darryll Justin Lee Reed v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-06-29 Denied IFP criminal-procedure indian-law judicial-precedent jurisdiction mcgirt-rule procedural-law retroactive-application retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-law tribal-sovereignty Is McGirt a Substantive or Procedural rule?
21-8240 Clayton Jones v. South Carolina Fourth Circuit 2022-06-28 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction speedy-trial standing Does the denial of a speedy trial violate due process rights?
21-8252 Isaac Jude Rodriguez v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2022-06-28 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process excusable-neglect jurisdiction jurisdictional-time-limit legal-filing procedural-rules state-court writ-of-certiorari Whether the court of appeals correctly concluded that petitioner's motion for certificate of appealability was filed untimely
21-8258 Luke D. Patterson v. R. M. Wolfe, Warden Fourth Circuit 2022-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitration civil-rights contract due-process jurisdiction retroactivity Whether the recent precedents affecting arbitration clauses should be applied retroactively
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
21-8168 Sushila Gaur v. James Millikan, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-06-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction standing Question not identified
21-8182 Reuben Conway v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction indictment indictment-defect jurisdiction mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation Whether an indictment's failure to charge the essential mens rea element renders federal courts without jurisdiction
21-8161 Onofre Tommy Serrano v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1443 civil-rights civil-rights-removal criminal-prosecution due-process equal-protection federal-defense federal-jurisdiction federal-removal jurisdiction removal statutory-interpretation Does besa domed equal cunt 2) airts oO» the basis of gelato { colae pursuant t> UL USC ¢ 20004{4) quelily foe Removel pubs tnt to 12 USC & \\443 0?
21-8112 Jaime Luevano v. Ivanka Trump, et al. Second Circuit 2022-06-09 Dismissed IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims alleging violations of their constitutional rights under the First and Fourth Amen…
21-8031 Michael G. Peters v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-06-02 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure due-process jurisdiction standing supreme-court Whether the federal courts have jurisdiction to review the merits of a petition for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of the United States
21-1503 Lloyds Banking Group plc, et al. v. The Berkshire Bank, et al. Second Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure co-conspirator conspiracy defendant-actions due-process forum jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction Whether a court may exercise personal jurisdiction over a defendant merely because the defendant's alleged co-conspirator took foreseeable actions in …
21-1507 Houston Byrd, Jr. v. Christopher Cook, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights court-conspiracy due-process equal-protection fair-hearing judicial-bias jurisdiction procedural-fairness Did the Circuit court violate one's civil and constitutional rights?
21-1492 Anas Elhady v. Blake Bradley Sixth Circuit 2022-05-27 Denied bivens bivens-remedy border-enforcement civil-rights collateral-order-doctrine due-process federal-law-enforcement interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction qualified-immunity Whether a court of appeals has jurisdiction to decide Bivens issue in interlocutory appeal on qualified immunity
21-7996 George Edward Purdy v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-05-27 Denied IFP 5th-amendment blockburger-rule criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment jurisdiction plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion venue Where identical charges are filed for the same alleged victim in multiple counties, is it a violation of the 5th Amendment double-jeopardy rule based …
21-7967 Jairo Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction procedural-default retroactivity statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court-precedent unconstitutional-statute Can a defendant procedurally default a claim that the court lacked jurisdiction to imprison him under an unconstitutional statute?
21-1476 Stephen Loftis White v. Nicholas B. Cox, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-05-24 Denied birth-certificate-trust civil-rights commercial-law corporate-fiction due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge prosecutorial-authority redemption secured-interest standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court had subject-matter and personal jurisdiction over the petitioner
21-7930 Daniel Coleman v. Minneapolis Public Schools Eighth Circuit 2022-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure fraud inherent-authority jurisdiction relief voluntary-dismissal Whether trial courts have jurisdiction or inherent authority to grant relief from a voluntary dismissal in which there have been allegations of fraud …
21-7932 Sameer Muhammad v. Florida Florida 2022-05-19 Denied IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process florida-constitution judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction mandate trial-court-authority Whether the trial court was without jurisdiction to enter an order reinstating the previous order vacating offense under double jeopardy principle des…
21-1459 Thomas Levien, et al. v. HIBU PLC, et al. Third Circuit 2022-05-18 Denied Response Waived alternative-forum american-federal-forum burden-of-proof conditional-dismissal forum-non-conveniens judicial-discretion jurisdiction jurisdictional-analysis statute-of-limitations Whether a proposed alternative forum is adequate and/or available if its statute of limitations has expired
21-7888 Evelyn Howell Massey v. Biola University, Inc. California 2022-05-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim
21-7883 In Re Graham Schiff 2022-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing Was petitioner denied constitutional rights related to habeas corpus?
21-7884 Juan Carlos Rodriguez-Garcia v. Eddie M. Buffaloe, Jr., Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety, et al. North Carolina 2022-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction standing state-court state-jurisdiction Whether the State of North Carolina's continued confinement of the Petitioner is unconstitutional under the Court's prior rulings
21-7857 Richard Dwayne Blalock v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-05-12 Denied IFP criminal-law criminal-procedure indian-law jurisdiction mcgirt-case native-american-rights procedural-rule retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-rule tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), is a Substantive ruling or a Procedural ruling
21-1436 Leon Santos-Zacaria, aka Leon Santos-Sacarias v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Fifth Circuit 2022-05-12 Judgment Issued Amici (3) administrative-exhaustion administrative-law circuit-split exhaustion-of-remedies immigration-law judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirement removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether Section 1252(d)(1)'s exhaustion requirement is jurisdictional, or merely a mandatory claims-processing rule that may be waived or forfeited
21-7833 Rhonda Nanette Polite v. Kilolo Kijakazi, Acting Commissioner of Social Security Ninth Circuit 2022-05-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims
21-7772 Timothy R. Petrozzi v. Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing Question not identified
21-7792 John Joseph Dedeaux v. Marc McClure, Superintendent, Central Mississippi Correctional Facility Fifth Circuit 2022-05-05 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-questions due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto jurisdiction retroactive-application statutory-interpretation vagueness whether-the-retroactive-application-of-mississippi-statute-creates-a-significant-risk-of-prolonging-the-petitioner's-stay-in-prison
21-7774 Brandon Leon Bibbs v. Alex Villanueva, Sheriff, Los Angeles County, California Ninth Circuit 2022-05-04 Denied IFP civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-and-statutory-provisions constitutional-review due-process federal-review habeas-corpus jurisdiction reasons-for-granting-the-writ standing state-court-adjudication Whether the lower court erred in denying petitioner's claim for adequate relief when petitioner is fully denied standing to bring his claims
21-7776 Kelvin Wrenn v. Deborah Toney, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-05-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
21-7777 Vedal A. Davis v. Texas Texas 2022-05-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP amendment-and-tolling constitutional-rights due-process false-evidence finality-of-prior-conviction ineffective-assistance jurisdiction legal-facts-pleadings-circumstances prosecutorial-misconduct statute-of-limitations trial-counsel-ineffectiveness trial-jurisdiction Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel,due-process,statute-of-limitations,grand-jury,prosecutorial-misconduct,habitual-offender
21-7761 In Re Shannon Riley 2022-05-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure counterclaim due-process jurisdiction punitive-damages res-judicata standing supersedeas-bond Can a Kansas state court reverse a Kansas appellate court on a counterclaim?
21-1390 Robert LaPoint v. Commerce & Industry Insurance Company, et al. Louisiana 2022-04-29 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure claim-enforcement full-faith-and-credit interstate-law jurisdiction legal-preclusion res-judicata state-jurisdiction state-law workers-compensation Does the full faith and credit clause preclude enforcement of a claim dismissed as unenforceable under one State's law in another State?
21-7729 William Gerard Wallace v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-27 Denied IFP civil-action civil-procedure criminal-charge criminal-procedure due-process florida-state-law judicial-error jurisdiction plea-bargaining standing trial-court Is the Florida State trial court at error when allowing the petitioner to plea out to a non-existing criminal charge that constitutes civil action?
21-7704 Kerry Vanderpool v. United States Second Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3742 appeals criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction sentencing Does the plain language of 18 U.S.C. § 3742(f) deprive the federal Courts of Appeals of jurisdiction to vacate a sentence when it is uncontested that …
21-7679 Richard Morrison v. CCA CORR - Civil, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-21 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-statute jurisdiction standing Whether the U.S. Middle-District Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals violated the Equal Protection Clause and Due Process Clause
21-7590 Stephen Izuchukwu Onwuzulike v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Third Circuit 2022-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights deportation due-process immigration immigration-law judicial-discretion jurisdiction non-citizen-rights procedural-review standing takings Whether the Due Process Clause prohibits the suppression of a properly filed appeal application
21-7543 Gerardo Castillo-Chavez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 constitutional-ruling district-court habeas-corpus jurisdiction preponderance-of-evidence section-2255 standard-of-proof successive-motion successive-petitions Whether a district court is authorized to dismiss a successive § 2255 motion for lack of jurisdiction after a court of appeals has authorized the fili…
21-7500 William Curtis Jones v. Texas Texas 2022-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
21-7489 Raul Roy Vasquez v. Florida Florida 2022-03-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court-appeal double-jeopardy due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-conflict privileges-immunities procedural-law state-court-conflict two-year-limitation Whether the refusal of the Supreme Court of the State of Florida to address the certified conflict between the petitioner's Second District Court of A…
21-7441 Edgardo Maldonado-Arce v. Deanne Criswell, Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency First Circuit 2022-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-interpretation sentencing-guidelines standing state-law statute-of-limitations whether-the-federal-district-court-erred-in-dismissing-the-case
21-1279 Klavdia Thomas, et al. v. Valentin Belevich Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-22 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights court-jurisdiction due-process fair-justice judicial-intent jurisdiction legal-misalignment legal-review standing statutory-interpretation Whether there is a serious misalignment of courts on statute-intent, statute-interpretation, jurisdiction
21-1252 Maria Herta v. John McBride, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-03-16 Denied Response Waived administrative-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights contempt-of-court driver-license driver's-license due-process jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the court had subject matter jurisdiction over the case, given the challenges to jurisdiction raised by the petitioner
21-1244 Beijing Shougang Mining Investment Company, Ltd., et al. v. Mongolia Second Circuit 2022-03-15 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitrability arbitration-agreement bilateral-investment-treaty civil-procedure de-novo-review first-options-doctrine first-options-v-kaplan judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdictional-objections Whether participating in agreeing to a scheduling order as to the timing of jurisdictional objections and making arguments about jurisdiction to the a…
21-1237 Lloyds Banking Group PLC, et al. v. Schwab Short-Term Bond Market Fund, et al. Second Circuit 2022-03-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (6) civil-procedure co-conspirator conspiracy defendant due-process forum forum-contacts jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction Whether a court may exercise personal jurisdiction over a defendant merely because the defendant's alleged co-conspirator took foreseeable actions in …
21-7339 Robert Donald Gordon v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-jurisdiction constitutional-limits due-process federal-state-powers fifth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-counsel jurisdiction procedural-default standing Did the courts act outside of their jurisdictions?
21-7347 Anthony Phillips v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Does the legal standard for equitable tolling apply to the one-year deadline for filing a notice of appeal under 28 U.S.C. § 2107(c)
21-7299 Rasheed Ali Muhammad v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jurisdiction Whether petitioner's conviction was reviewed in violation of due process and equal protection rights
21-1219 Estela Mabel Argueta Romero v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-08 Denied administrative-law immigration immigration-law judicial-review jurisdiction notice-to-appear order-of-removal removal removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether a noncitizen who leaves the United States after receiving notice to appear at a removal hearing, but before receiving an order of removal, is …
21-7294 Daniel Gerard Lacey v. Brian M. Gootkin, Director, Montana Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari circuit-split foreshadowing ineffective-assistance judicial-review jurisdiction legal-doctrine timeliness writ-of-certiorari Whether this Court should grant certiorari to address and resolve a circuit split on the doctrine of foreshadowing and its application to ineffective …
21-7278 Calvin James v. John T. Wilcher, Sheriff, Chatham County, Georgia Georgia 2022-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights court-procedure criminal-procedure defendant-rights double-jeopardy due-process federalism jurisdiction service-of-process summons Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits successive state and federal prosecutions for the same offense
21-1211 Constance George v. House of Hope Recovery, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-04 Denied Amici (2) appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rule-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure jurisdiction notice-of-appeal pro-se pro-se-litigant service-of-process service-requirement standing Whether Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 3 permits a court of appeals to dismiss an appeal because the appellant did not serve the notice of appeal
21-1201 Michael D. Smith v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-03-02 Denied Response Waived civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury judicial-misconduct jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct Will the Eastern District of Kentucky be allowed to ignore our federal laws,Constitution and Bill of Rights and have a 5 week, mock trial on innocent …
21-7255 James Robert Hope v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence jurisdiction jury-instructions mistrial prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct standing Whether the lower courts erred in finding that Mr. Hope was not prejudiced by mistrial counters due to his failure to object to the trial court's lack…
21-7220 Jesse Kyle Skyberg v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jurisdiction precedent-interpretation standing Whether the Exclusive Jurisdiction Doctrine applies to criminal cases
21-7210 James Thomas Webb v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP double-jeopardy due-process fair-play federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction settlement-agreement sovereign-immunity takings Did the relitigation of the CLOSED Florida 2 Federal District Court case United States Securities and Exchange Commission v. James Thomas Webb (Case S…
21-1176 Alice Jin-Yue Guan v. Bing Ran Virginia 2022-02-25 Denied bribery civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-order due-process judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct jurisdiction standing Whether state court has lost its jurisdiction
21-7203 Hamid Michael Hejazi v. Michael Schwab Oregon 2022-02-25 Dismissed IFP adverse-judgment appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure court-dismissal due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirements procedural-default service-of-notice service-of-process standing Was it justified for the appellate commissioner to dismiss Petitioner's appeal
21-7190 Jason Terrell v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process jurisdiction merits plea-agreement procedural-facts standard-of-review Whether the court of appeals erred by dismissing the appeal based upon an appeal waiver contained in the plea agreement and should have addressed Mr. …
21-1162 Erika Bailey-Johnson v. United States Federal Circuit 2022-02-23 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act court-of-federal-claims federal-jurisdiction injunctive-relief jurisdiction statutory-interpretation tohono-o'odham-nation tohono-precedent united-states-court-of-federal-claims united-states-v-tohono-o'odham-nation Should the Court revisit its holding in Tohono to determine whether, under 28 U.S.C. § 1500, a U.S. District Court action solely for injunctive or dec…
21-1164 Larry Steven Wilkins, et al. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-02-23 Judgment Issued Amici (3)Relisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure claim-processing-rule easement-dispute federal-land jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirement property-rights quiet-title statute-of-limitations Whether the Quiet Title Act's Statute of Limitations is a jurisdictional requirement or a claim-processing rule?
21-1149 Phoenix Light SF DAC, et al. v. U.S. Bank National Association Second Circuit 2022-02-18 Denied Response Waived article-iii-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-analysis lexmark lexmark-doctrine merits merits-issues prudential-standing standing Whether federal courts can evaluate prudential standing before addressing Article III jurisdiction
21-7123 John J. Wilson, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2022-02-15 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-violation due-process florida-constitution florida-supreme-court judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction record-keeping records standing Can the Supreme Court of Florida rule on whether to accept jurisdiction on a case which has no records?
21-1115 In Re Wanda Bowling 2022-02-11 Denied abuse-of-discretion appellate-court appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-mandate due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction mandamus petition-for-review Is the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal's deliberate refusal to adjudicate appealed issues a failure to execute duties or abuse of discretion?
21-7058 Adam Pelletier v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2022-02-04 Denied IFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure fraud-upon-the-court gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus jurisdiction motion-to-reconsider rule-60(b)(3) state-court-dismissal Is Petitioner's claim of prosecutorial 'Fraud Upon The Court' a valid claim under Rule 60(b)(3)?
21-7059 Timothy George Muller v. Michigan Michigan 2022-02-04 Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction plea-bargaining substance venue Whether the trial court erred in denying Mr. Muller's motion to withdraw his plea and vacate his conviction for delivery of a controlled substance cau…
21-7022 Patrick Nilo Gil v. Virginia Virginia 2022-02-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction public-defender sentencing suppression-hearing video-evidence Whether the seizure of a vehicle by law enforcement officers was lawful, given the alleged lack of authority and the defendant's claims of defective p…
21-1061 Courtney Kristek v. The Travelers Home and Marine Insurance Company, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-31 Denied Response Waived americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights constitutional-rights disability-discrimination diversity due-process jurisdiction removal standing Does the Ninth Circuit have jurisdiction over non-diverse parties when there is no federal question?
21-7011 Jabari J. Johnson v. Kathleen McGuire, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-01-31 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation district-court due-process judicial-review jurisdiction ninth-circuit standing supreme-court takings Whether the District Court erred in dismissing Plaintiff's claims
21-7005 Adam M. DeVore v. Kenneth Black, Warden Ohio 2022-01-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-indictment due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction jurisdictional-change location-modification ohio-supreme-court venue Whether the location of an alleged offense can be changed post-appeal and whether such a change violates due process
21-1045 I. M. v. Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Maryland 2022-01-26 Denied Response Waived child-custody due-process forum-shopping international-law jurisdiction minimum-contacts parental-rights uccjea Whether the UCCJEA comports with the Due Process Clause, where it subjects an international parent to termination of parental rights, where the parent…
21-6959 Kenneth J. Cox v. Ed Caley, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP AEDPA constitutional-rights federal-law jurisdiction procedural-default representation-right SAOC-elements sentence-enhancement sentence-enhancers state-court-judgment state-prisoner state-prisoners-claim Whether the jurisdiction of this court is invoked under 28-U.S.C.-1257(a)
21-6963 Vincent X. Lee, aka Imam M. Khalifa Al-Amin v. Missouri, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-01-25 Dismissed IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions governing the issues prese…
21-6947 Rayshawn J. Christmas, aka Rayshaun J. Christmas v. Jeff Jackson, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-law fifth-circuit jurisdiction mandamus qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity standing Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying the appellants writ of mandamus
21-6926 Willie Wilcher v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-provisions criminal-law due-process firearms judicial-review jurisdiction legal-standard procedural-requirements rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions Whether the Lower Courts had jurisdiction to decide the case based on Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 814 (2019), and the government never proved …
21-6927 Rickey Ray Wallgren, Jr. v. Rick Whitten, Warden Tenth Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP allotment general-allotment-act indian-law indian-treaty jurisdiction jurisdictional-boundaries native-american-rights reservation reservation-status treaty-interpretation treaty-rights tribal-sovereignty Does text and meaning of Article (3) Treaty of February 27 1867 15 Stat. 53] between United States and Potawatomi Tribe of Indians remain valid
21-1009 Oklahoma v. Robert Taylor Bragg Oklahoma 2022-01-18 GVR Amici (1)Relisted (2) civil-rights criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law due-process indian-country indian-law jurisdiction mcgirt-precedent mcgirt-v-oklahoma non-indian-defendants state-prosecution tribal-sovereignty Whether a State has authority to prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian country
21-6891 Jabari J. Johnson v. Kathleen Boyd, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-01-18 Denied IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction standing whether-the-district-court-correctly-decided-the-case
21-6900 Patrice E. Brown v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Arizona 2022-01-18 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
21-1000 Clifford Allen Brace, Jr. v. Steven M. Speier, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-14 Denied 11-usc-541 automatic-stay bankruptcy-jurisdiction bodily-detention contempt contempt-order due-process jurisdiction probate-exception Whether the Bankruptcy court's order violates the 5th, 8th and 14th amendments of the United States Constitution
21-6873 Juan J. Torres v. Illinois Illinois 2022-01-14 Denied IFP appellate-court court-denial criminal-procedure custody-violation due-process fifth-amendment jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge legal-procedure miranda-rights right-to-counsel sixth-amendment What was the United States Supreme Court ruling about informing a suspect about having a lawyer present during questioning?
21-6839 Frank L. Amodeo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process jurisdiction laches void-judgment waiver Does the doctrine of laches apply to a jurisdictional challenge that if proven, renders the judgment void?
21-6832 Douglas D. True v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Arkansas 2022-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-mandate due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus jurisdiction plea-voluntariness supreme-court-review whether-the-supreme-court-overruled-boykin-v-alabama
21-987 Owolabi Salis v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security Second Circuit 2022-01-11 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process first-amendment fourth-amendment jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction witness Whether facts brought by a witness before a jury and tried by that jury can be reexamined by the same witness before another body who was also a witne…
21-6766 Alan Eugene DeAtley v. Colorado Colorado 2022-01-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-process due-process enrollment federal-law jurisdiction state-law tribal-businesses tribal-court-jurisdiction tribal-land tribal-law tribal-matters tribal-membership Whether the tribal court has jurisdiction over all tribal land, tribal businesses, and all tribal matters without question
21-6763 Jabari J. Johnson v. Lambkins, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-01-05 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction standing takings Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims
21-956 Sojourner Rudisill v. International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, et al. Third Circuit 2021-12-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law administrative-review arbitration civil-procedure due-process judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction labor-law railway-labor-act Whether the Railway Labor Act permits courts to exercise jurisdiction over due process challenges to decisions rendered by RLA arbitration panels
21-961 Oklahoma v. Patrick Wayne Olive Oklahoma 2021-12-30 Denied criminal-law criminal-procedure federalism jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law oklahoma-sovereignty stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma should be overruled
21-6745 Anthony Tyrone Garrett v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3583g 5th-amendment 6th-amendment jurisdiction supervised-release transfer-order Whether the district court lacked jurisdiction to revoke supervised release
21-942 Clark County Bancorporation v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, as Receiver for Bank of Clark County Ninth Circuit 2021-12-27 Denied administrative-claims declaratory-judgment federal-common-law firrea jurisdiction jurisdictional-rule tax-refund Whether the Ninth Circuit Memorandum conflicts with the Supreme Court decision in Rodriguez
21-930 Xiu Jian Sun v. Barack Hussein Obama District of Columbia 2021-12-23 Denied civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law divine-law due-process free-speech government-accountability judicial-review jurisdiction mandamus religious-petition standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their First Amendment rights
21-6724 Carl Thompson v. Alaska Alaska 2021-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus incompetent-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction sixth-amendment supremacy-clause Can a trial court lose its jurisdiction when a defendant has incompetent representation, as it does when there is a physical absence of counsel at tri…
21-6696 L. W. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services Texas 2021-12-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure deadlines due-process jurisdiction jurisdiction-termination standing statutory-interpretation texas-family-code trial-court-procedure Did trial court commence prior to losing jurisdiction under Tex. Fam. Code § 263.401
21-6705 Robert Tracy Warterfield v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-12-22 Denied IFP aedpa certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest contracts-clause district-court due-process final-judgment habeas-corpus interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction plea-agreement sixth-amendment Does a United States Court of Appeals have jurisdiction to deny a Motion for a Certificate of Appealability when the District Court's putative Final J…
21-917 Abel Diaz v. Warden, Federal Correctional Institution, Bennettsville Fourth Circuit 2021-12-21 Denied Response Waived drug-offense drug-offenses habeas-corpus jurisdiction jury-trial savings-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum Whether the district court had jurisdiction under the savings clause of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e) to adjudicate the merits of petitioner Diaz's § 2241 petit…
21-6680 Jemaine Monteil Cannon v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-12-20 Denied IFP criminal-procedure direct-appeal final-conviction jurisdiction jurisdictional-claim mcgirt-retroactivity post-conviction postconviction-proceeding retroactivity right-to-counsel state-procedure Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma applies retroactively to final convictions
21-6652 Salatheo Fluid v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion attorney-representation criminal-procedure district-court federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-standing motion-for-new-trial Whether the lower courts abused their discretion in dismissing petitioner's motion for a new trial
21-6633 Hamid Michael Hejazi v. White Bird Clinic Oregon 2021-12-16 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure claim-payment due-process fundamental-error judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge poverty procedural-dismissal standing waiver Whether an appellate court can dismiss a case for lack of payment of an 'undertaking' on appeal when the undertaking was not allowed in the first plac…
21-6645 Robert Brandon Bilus v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jurisdiction plea-bargaining precedent sixth-amendment Whether the Eleventh Circuit entered a decision that misapplies the precedent of this Court and as a result, violates the Sixth Amendment to the Unite…
21-6624 Arthur F. Jones v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-12-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-rights due-process federal-court-procedure federalism habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdiction-dispute standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the axon exclusive soars decision rule should have precluded the district court and the appellate court from exercising jurisdiction over the …
21-6627 Balitha Greenfield, et al. v. Vanessa Munoz Illinois 2021-12-15 Denied IFP due-process federal-land-patent jurisdiction property-rights real-estate recording Whether the petitioner has a valid property interest in the land that was the subject of the federal land patent filed with the Cook County Recorder o…
21-6564 Anthony Cruz v. California California 2021-12-13 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights conclusion constitutional-provisions due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction reasons-for-granting standing statement-of-case writ Was my request for motions acknowledged - Hearing my Proceedings of Court
21-6583 Roger Edward Picard v. United States First Circuit 2021-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge mental-health-assessment rule-35 rule-35-motion sentencing sentencing-procedure Did the First Circuit err in denying a jurisdictionally sound motion filed pursuant to Fed.R.Crim.P. 35(a)
21-865 Deborah Walton v. First Merchants Bank Seventh Circuit 2021-12-10 Denied Response Waived 60(b)-motion 7th-circuit-court appeals civil-procedure district-court due-process final-order jurisdiction procedural-due-process Whether the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals neglected to apply procedural-due-process in accordance with the Fifth-and-Fourteenth-Amendments, by not acce…
21-837 Robert Bohanon, et al. v. Jacqueline Lawrence, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-08 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure district-court federal-courts interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction qualified-immunity summary-judgment Whether a federal court of appeals has jurisdiction over an immediate appeal from a denial of qualified immunity
21-851 Richa Narang v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-12-08 Denied burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury indictment jurisdiction mens-rea reinstatement statute Whether a district court has jurisdiction to try a defendant upon a finally dismissed indictment
21-6516 Martin Robinson v. Sean Bailey Ohio 2021-12-07 Denied IFP appeals certiorari civil-procedure constitutional-issue due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure lower-court-decision meritorious-claims standing supreme-court-review Whether the trial court falsified the trial docket, whether the trial was illegal, whether the plaintiff was denied the right to present evidence, whe…
21-6527 Ronald Johnson v. Kansas Kansas 2021-12-06 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process jurisdiction mandatory-minimums sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the State of Kansas can enact a statutory provision that was held to be unconstitutional under the 8th Amendment
21-6533 Jabari J. Johnson v. Kathleen McGuire, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-12-06 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-precedent habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing state-court-review Whether the district court erred in its decision regarding the issue at hand?
21-833 David Louis Whitehead v. Traveler's Insurance Company, et al. Second Circuit 2021-12-06 Denied Relisted (2) attorney-general circuit-court civil-procedure copyright-infringement due-process injunctive-relief judicial-review jurisdiction mandamus-writ recusal standing Whether the Second Circuit Court had jurisdiction to hear the case: appeal or writ of mandamus
21-821 Mary J. Farrier v. George Phillip Leicht, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-12-03 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing
21-823 Abdulla Nagi Naser Daifullah v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-12-03 Denied Response Waived citizenship-revocation civil-procedure congressional-power denaturalization due-process good-cause-affidavit jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirement naturalization naturalization-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether 8 U.S.C. § 1451(a)'s requirement that the United States Attorney for the respective district institute proceedings is a jurisdictional require…
21-6507 Lyle Quinton Brown v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-12-03 Denied IFP circuit-court civil-rights due-process judicial-decision jurisdiction native-american official-authority precedent retroactivity statutory-interpretation Whether the Matloff v. Wallace, 2021 OK CR 21 non-retroactivity decision conflicts with the holdings in Sharp v. Murphy, 140 S. Ct. 2412 (2020) and Mc…
21-6496 Christopher Wood v. Florida Florida 2021-12-02 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights confidential-information due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction petition-for-writ-of-certiorari post-conviction pro-se standing supreme-court Did The Supreme Court Violate The 14th, 5th and Other Amendments To The United States Constitution as well as Clearly Established Federal Law when it …
21-6446 Khongsana Soumphonphakdy v. Mary J. Walilko, et al. Third Circuit 2021-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
21-6445 Ruben Vazquez-Ovalle v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process illegal-reentry immigration-law jurisdiction notice-to-appear removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Did the immigration court lack authority to remove Vazquez because he was not served a notice to appear that had a hearing time?
21-6413 Betty Caitlin Nicole Smith v. Honorable Jason Fleming, et al. Kentucky 2021-11-24 Denied IFP child-custody court-procedure domestic-violence domestic-violence-order federal-law jurisdiction truthfulness uniform-act uniform-child-custody-and-jurisdiction-and-enforce Whether a state court can enter a child custody order without contacting the other state with an existing order, ignoring the Uniform Child Custody an…
21-6423 Jermaine L. Cobbs v. Michael Stephan, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing Did the cows eat the apples without it being brownly and intelligently done?
21-772 Oklahoma v. Stewart Wayne Coffman Oklahoma 2021-11-24 GVR Amici (1)Relisted (2) civil-rights criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law due-process indian-country indian-law jurisdiction mcgirt-precedent mcgirt-v-oklahoma non-indian-crimes state-prosecution tribal-sovereignty Whether a State has authority to prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian country
21-773 Oklahoma v. Harold Denton McCurtain Oklahoma 2021-11-24 Denied Amici (1) criminal-appellate-review criminal-law federal-indian-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-criminal-law stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled
21-776 Billy Duncan, as Next Friend of Charles Inness Thrash, et al. v. Tonya Barina, as Guardian of the Estate of Charles Inness Thrash, et al. Texas 2021-11-24 Denied Response Waived attorney-immunity civil-procedure civil-rights due-process guardianship jurisdiction next-friend pre-trial-sanctions sanctions standing Whether Charlie had a right to appeal through his next friend and the sanctions order was contrary to the evidence
21-6357 Kenneth Roshaun Reid v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fair-sentencing-act federal-sentencing habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel jurisdiction procedural-default retroactivity sentencing Whether the district court erred in denying Mr. Reid a fair hearing for resentencing and failing to bring him back to court for the application of the…
21-6338 Danquan A. Fanning v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii article-iii-authority article-iv-court constitutional-authority court-judgment criminal-procedure due-process judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction legal-usurpation territorial-court Whether the United States District Court, as an Article IV Territorial Court, illegally usurped Article III Constitutional Authority and illegally ent…
21-6339 Sushila Gaur v. Department of Defense Fourth Circuit 2021-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction standing Question not identified
21-6358 Michael A. Young v. Ned Lamont, et al. Second Circuit 2021-11-19 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP case-or-controversy civil-rights emergency-relief jurisdiction mootness standing Whether the Second Circuit Court erred in finding that the petitioner lacked standing despite a lack of mootness
21-6331 Byron White v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-11-18 Denied IFP collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction mcgirt-decision post-conviction-relief procedural-defenses retroactivity subject-matter-jurisdiction teague-exception tribal-sovereignty Whether respondent waived/forfeited any of its procedural defenses
21-6317 Clayton G. Walker v. Steve Barnett, South Dakota Secretary of State, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-11-17 Denied IFP amendment-interpretation candidate-rights constitutional-access election election-rights equal-protection judicial-procedure jurisdiction mask-mandate writ-of-mandamus Question not identified
21-6288 Tina L. Wagoner v. New York New York 2021-11-16 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction standing Whether the tactical evolution of trial court unconstitutional application of law to facts, the lack of jurisdiction, and the administration of federa…
21-725 PeopleConnect, Inc. v. Barbara Knapke Ninth Circuit 2021-11-16 Dismissed appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split discretionary-stay discretionary-test federal-arbitration-act interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction motion-to-compel-arbitration stay-of-proceedings Whether district court proceedings must be stayed pending appeal of a denial of a motion to compel arbitration
21-728 Pedro Dino Cedado Nuñez, et al. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied circuit-split criminal-procedure customary-international-law drug-enforcement international-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-test maritime-drug-law maritime-law statutory-interpretation vessel-nationality Whether the three ways to identify nationless vessels enumerated in 46 U.S.C. § 70502(d)(1) are exhaustive
21-713 Victor P. Kearney v. Unsecured Creditors Committee, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-11-15 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-trustee district-court-jurisdiction due-process fiduciary-duty jurisdiction trust-law trustee-appointment When does a lower district court have the sole discretion to influence, lead, dictate, supersede, deny, or nullify the jurisdiction of the higher fede…
21-6228 Juan Antonio Gonzalez-Urena v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law due-process immigration-court immigration-law jurisdiction notice-to-appear statutory-interpretation statutory-requirements When a notice to appear fails to include information required by statute and/or regulation, does the immigration court lack jurisdiction over the matt…
21-693 Nina Rae Ringgold v. United States District Court for the Central District of California Ninth Circuit 2021-11-10 Denied administrative-agency civil-rights civil-rights-act discriminatory-retaliation due-process judicial-disqualification jurisdiction standing supremacy-clause voting-rights-act Whether a state administrative agency lacking federal jurisdiction can be assigned authority of a state court of record
21-6219 Martin Lindstedt, et al. v. Bryan Anthony Reo Ohio 2021-11-08 Denied IFP civil-lawfare civil-procedure defamation false-light jurisdiction monopoly-license public-figure punitive-damages statutory-limitations white-supremacy Question not identified
21-6142 John Gregory Alexander Herrin v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-theft criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-indictment indictment interstate-transportation jurisdiction money-laundering statute-of-limitations Whether the government was entitled to establish petitioner's guilt at trial for federal offenses it did indict by trial proof on a federal offense it…
21-6161 Adam Rene Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-court judicial-review jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
21-6162 Antwain T. Sales v. Tennessee Tennessee 2021-11-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdictional-authority standing state-courts state-law-interpretation Whether the lower courts in Tennessee exceeded the jurisdiction conferred and acted illegally
21-6113 Clinton Rayshawn Grayson v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-precedent standing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions Whether the court of appeals erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
21-626 Boyd & Associates v. Bryan K. White, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-10-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) attorneys-fees circuit-split civil-procedure false-claims-act first-to-file-bar jurisdiction jurisdictional-dismissal medicaid-fraud sebelius-v-auburn-regional-medical-center Whether the First-to-File Bar of the False Claims Act is jurisdictional
21-622 Susan Elaine Devine v. Absolute Activist Value Master Fund Limited, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure dismissal district-court-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jurisdiction modification motion-modification protective-order rule-41 voluntary-dismissal Whether the voluntary dismissal of a plaintiff's suit under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(a)(1) permanently strips the district court of jurisdic…
21-6095 Jabari J. Johnson v. Donald Nunez, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-10-27 Denied IFP case-statement civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction pleadings remedies standing statutory-provisions supreme-court writ-petition Whether the district court abused its discretion in denying the plaintiff's request
21-6070 Alan Williams v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process jurisdiction standing Whether the Court of Appeals abused its discretion in not protecting Petitioner's constitutional right to not be deprived of liberty, where Petitioner…
21-610 Louis S. Shuman, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Fourth Circuit 2021-10-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) court-rules due-process federal-court-rules federal-statutes fifth-amendment jurisdiction jurisdictional-grounds tax-court Whether an Order of the United States Tax Court is deemed final, and legally enforceable, including enforcement on jurisdictional grounds, when the U.…
21-6043 Vedrick Lamonte Symonette v. Florida Florida 2021-10-25 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland constitutional-violations criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-error fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice judicial-procedure jurisdiction miscarriage-of-justice vague-indistinct-indefinite Whether the information provided to the defendant was so vague, indistinct, and indefinite that it resulted in a due process violation, a Brady v. Mar…
21-6021 Elroy William Robinson v. David Holbrook, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-10-20 Denied IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights due-process jurisdiction military-law Whether the military court-martial jurisdiction extends to a civilian spouse of an active-duty service member
21-6027 Fidel Anguiano Gallardo v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2021-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
21-6030 Keith Elmo Davis v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-10-20 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process jurisdiction mcgirt-decision post-conviction-relief procedural-defenses retroactivity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction teague-exception tribal-sovereignty Whether respondent waived/forfeited procedural defenses
21-6032 Charles Francis Hurt v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2021-10-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-limits district-court due-process federal-procedure federal-rules judicial-precedent jurisdiction prosecutorial-authority standing territorial-court territorial-jurisdiction Whether the United States district court can prosecute a defendant outside the limited jurisdiction provided to a territorial court
21-5997 Jeremiah Ybarra v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure drug-statute due-process effective-counsel fifth-amendment grand-jury indictment jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether appellant was denied his Fifth Amendment right to a grand jury presentment or indictment
21-6018 Gary F. Compelleebee v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-10-19 Denied IFP civil-rights collateral-proceedings due-process jurisdiction mcgirt-decision post-conviction-relief procedural-defenses retroactivity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction teague-exception Whether respondent waived/forfeited any of its procedural defenses
21-5988 Stephen B. Jones, Sr. v. Maryland Maryland 2021-10-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-reasoning procedural-rules speedy-trial statutory-provisions Did the trial court err?
21-5920 In Re Jason Brooks 2021-10-06 Dismissed IFP actual-innocence aedpa constitutional-vagueness due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction securities-act suspension-clause vagueness Whether a freestanding claim of actual innocence can overcome AEDPA's gatekeeping provisions and/or whether a prisoner may be entitled to federal habe…
21-488 Oklahoma v. Dakota Shay Fox Oklahoma 2021-10-01 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020) should be overruled appellate-review criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-indian-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law oklahoma-sovereignty oklahoma-statehood stare-decisis tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma should be overruled
21-481 Betty R. Shipley v. Helping Hands Therapy, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-30 Denied appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure federal-courts jurisdiction notice-of-removal procedural-defect remand removal reply statutory-authority Whether the court of appeals has jurisdiction to review an order remanding a case to state court based on a procedural defect, when the plaintiff file…
21-477 Jason Self, et al. v. Cher-Ae Heights Indian Community of the Trinidad Rancheria California 2021-09-29 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure immovable-property immovable-property-rule jurisdiction jurisdictional-immunity legal-exception property-exception sovereign-immunity standing tribal-immunity Whether the immovable-property exception applies to tribal sovereign immunity
21-5796 Larry E. Clark v. Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development, et al. Louisiana 2021-09-29 Dismissed IFP appellate-review civil-rights condemnation due-process federal-courts federal-procedure jurisdiction standing state-courts state-law Whether 28 U.S.C. Section 1257(a) mandates this Court to consider the jurisdiction of this Court and the jurisdiction of the state appellate court, an…
21-5812 Carlos Velazquez-Fontanez v. United States First Circuit 2021-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924(c)(1)(A) actual-innocence crime-of-violence davis-precedent davis-v-us first-step-act jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge sentencing sentencing-review Whether the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals erred in failing to find that appellant Carlos Velazquez-Fontanez is 'actually innocent' of violating …
21-5804 Kenneth Randale Door v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-09-28 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure evidence evidence-sufficiency judgment-of-acquittal jurisdiction plain-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states Is review of a claim that the evidence was insufficient to establish the knowledge of status required by Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (201…
21-5788 Paul Joseph Begnoche, Sr. v. Melinda Adams, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mercer, et al. Third Circuit 2021-09-24 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-discretion judicial-neglect judicial-partiality jurisdiction statutory-jurisdiction third-circuit Issues being raised
21-5761 Hamid Michael Hejazi v. Michael J. Buseman PC, et al. Oregon 2021-09-23 Denied IFP adverse-parties appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure dismissal due-process jurisdiction pro-se-litigation service-of-process standing Was the Appellate Commissioner correct in determining that Petitioner needed to have served Respondents as 'adverse parties' to the appeal?
21-5762 Hamid Michael Hejazi v. City of Eugene Police Department, et al. Oregon 2021-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-dismissal legal-standing oregon-supreme-court service-of-process standing Was the Appellate Commissioner justified in dismissing the appeal on jurisdictional grounds
21-5763 Hamid Michael Hejazi v. Downtown Eugene, Inc. Oregon 2021-09-23 Denied IFP administrative-procedure appellate-review board-of-immigration-appeals civil-procedure due-process immigration-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge service-of-notice service-of-process standing Was the Appellate Commissioner justified in dismissing Petitioner's appeal on jurisdictional grounds due to lack of service on adverse parties when Pe…
21-5764 Hamid Michael Hejazi v. Roberto Rios, et al. Oregon 2021-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP adverse-parties appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights court-dismissal due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-dismissal legal-review service-of-process standing Was the Appellate Commissioner justified in denying the application for appellate court filing fees?
21-5771 Sirshun Dontrell Burris v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review circuit-court circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process evidence jurisdiction search-and-seizure standing statutory-provisions Whether officers' search of a defendant's house without a warrant violates the Fourth Amendment
21-5749 Krishna Mote v. United States Third Circuit 2021-09-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii case-or-controversy civil-procedure injury-in-fact jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in its application of the test for standing under Article III of the U.S. Constitution
21-429 Oklahoma v. Victor Manuel Castro-Huerta Oklahoma 2021-09-21 Judgment Issued Amici (22)Relisted (3) civil-rights criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law due-process indian-country indian-law jurisdiction mcgirt-precedent mcgirt-v-oklahoma non-indian-crimes state-prosecution tribal-jurisdiction Whether a State has authority to prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian country
21-5675 Jayson Neil Sparks v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-15 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-protections criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection indigenous-rights jurisdiction native-american-law sentencing Whether the petitioners' rights were violated under the 5th and 14th Amendments of the U.S. Constitution
21-5676 Patsy Naomi Sakuma v. Association of Condominium Homeowners of Tropics at Waikele, et al. Hawaii 2021-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine due-process equal-protection foreclosure foreclosure-proceeding jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge mootness Whether the Intermediate Court of Appeals improperly applied mootness and the collateral order doctrine
21-373 Oklahoma v. Joses Ric-E Beck Oklahoma 2021-09-08 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-indian-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge McGirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-sovereignty stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma should be overruled
21-5578 Guy Don Minze v. Texas Texas 2021-09-03 Denied IFP court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-facts jurisdiction notice penal-code prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-vindictiveness standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence tex-r-app-p Did the Court of Appeals err in failing to base its Opinion on the evidentiary and adjudicated facts in the record
21-5573 Richard M. Miller v. Maryland Maryland 2021-09-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure constitutional-appeal constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-review post-conviction standing writ-of-certiorari Did The Intermediate Appellate Court Of Special Appeals Of Maryland Err When Denying Petitioner His Absolute Constitutional Right To An Appeal Or Bela…
21-294 Rukminesh Mehta v. Maggie Kuhl Fourth Circuit 2021-08-30 Denied case-statement civil-rights constitutional-provisions district-court due-process jurisdiction legal-review standing statutory-provisions Why is FISC involved in a child custody case in the first place?
21-5512 In Re Shannon Riley 2021-08-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law default-judgment due-process foreign-judgment judicial-procedure jurisdiction mandate nunc-pro-tunc standing Did the filing of a nunc pro tunc journal entry correcting default judgment filed as a final order of judgment impeach due process?
21-290 Joseph Chapo, et al. v. Jefferson County Plan Commission Indiana 2021-08-27 Denied 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-oath constitutional-structure de-facto-officer due-process injunction jurisdiction standing state-law vacant-office Whether the de facto officer doctrine can be applied to individuals claiming to hold a vacant office of a political subdivision
21-5507 Michael Geoffrey Peters v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-08-27 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction standing takings Whether the court below erred in dismissing petitioner's claims
21-274 Oklahoma v. Johnny Edward Mize, II Oklahoma 2021-08-25 GVR Amici (1)Relisted (4) criminal-law due-process federal-indian-law indian-law jurisdiction mcgirt-v-oklahoma Whether a State has authority to prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian country
21-5474 Antwoyn Terrell Spencer v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-step-act jurisdiction resentencing standing Whether Petitioner is being deprived of his civil-rights, due-process, 5th-amendment, first-step-act
21-5479 Francisco Almanza-Garcia v. Rick Coursey, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2021-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act federal-courts federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-motion post-conviction-relief procedural-timeliness state-post-conviction-review statutory-interpretation Does the plain meaning of 'properly filed' in 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d) include a timely filed motion for the determination of the state appellate court's j…
21-5459 Bernabe Encarnacion v. Anthony J. Annucci, Acting Commissioner, New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, et al. Second Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest double-jeopardy due-process final-decision jurisdiction pro-bono-counsel standing summary-judgment Whether the court has jurisdiction over the defendants, and whether the court of appeals order was a final decision and this petition was timely filed
21-261 Carrie Rae Eldridge v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit 2021-08-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment civil-rights class-legislation direct-tax due-process equal-protection graduated-taxation jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction tax Does subject-matter jurisdiction exist to enforce the income tax as a direct tax without limitation
21-5448 Megan Kyte v. Marion County Police Seventh Circuit 2021-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction standing takings Question not identified
21-253 Oklahoma v. Christopher Jason Hathcoat Oklahoma 2021-08-20 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) criminal-procedure federal-indian-law judicial-review jurisdiction McGirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-sovereignty statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled
21-5439 Michael Geoffrey Peters v. Bobby Lumpkin. Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-08-20 Denied IFP brady-evidence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct jurisdiction jury-selection trial-procedure Whether I am guilty on Count No.1 of the indictment
21-5387 Roland Adams, aka Peter Brown, aka Harold Whiteker v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction plea-agreement statutory-authority statutory-interpretation void-judgment Whether the district court lacked jurisdiction to enter judgement under 18 U.S.C § 1956(h)
21-228 Michael Murphy v. Richard Sarta, et al. Tennessee 2021-08-17 Denied access-to-justice civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-vagueness due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge jury-trial state-court-procedure WHETHER THE TENNESSEE STATE TRIAL AND APPELLATE COURTS ARE USING A CONSTITUTIONALLY VAGUE STATUTE TO DENY CITIZENS SIMILARLY SITUATED HEREIN AN OPPORT…
21-211 Valueland Auto Sales, Inc., and Ron Benit v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-08-13 Denied circuit-split criminal-charges criminal-procedure district-court expungement judicial-procedure jurisdiction record-expungement When the district court dismisses all criminal charges against a defendant, does that court have jurisdiction over a motion to expunge the records rel…
21-5353 Michael Napper v. Artis Singleton, Warden Georgia 2021-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
21-5357 Sandra Harmon v. Department of Finance, Sussex County, Delaware, et al. Third Circuit 2021-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-closure appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure district-court-order due-process final-order judicial-misconduct jurisdiction notice-of-appeal third-circuit-court Whether the Third Circuit Court can create a reason unsupported by the District Court Judge that the docket was mistakenly marked closed and rule admi…
21-186 Oklahoma v. Shaun Michael Bosse Oklahoma 2021-08-10 Dismissed Amici (2) criminal-procedure indian-country jurisdiction mcgirt-precedent non-indian-crimes postconviction-relief procedural-bars prosecutorial-authority state-prosecution Whether a State may impose procedural or equitable bars to postconviction relief on the claim that the State lacked prosecutorial authority because th…
21-168 Dennis De Jesus v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-05 Denied Response Waived alternative-holding appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure dicta judicial-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-error merits merits-denial Whether a cursory statement that a court would deny relief on the merits if it had jurisdiction qualifies as an alternative holding or is merely dicta
21-5295 Anthony D. Jones v. Michelle Floyd, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-counsel civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance jurisdiction legal-representation sixth-amendment standing Whether the lower court erred in its application of the relevant legal standards
21-5281 Steven Burda v. Pennsylvania Department of Human Services Pennsylvania 2021-08-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure due-process evidence judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure lower-court standing supreme-court Did the Supreme Court err by not allowing exhibits to be included?
21-5260 James E. Nottingham v. Laurel Harry, et al. Third Circuit 2021-07-30 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process false-arrest habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge perjury standing writ-of-certiorari Whether the writ of certiorari should be granted in favor of the Petitioner James E. Nottingham for false arrest, perjury, fraud, void warrant, ineffe…
21-5249 Megan Elizabeth Kyte v. Rob Persson, Superintendent, Coffee Creek Correctional Facility Ninth Circuit 2021-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction standing Whether the petitioner's right to cross-appeal under Section 1291 of Title 28 was violated
21-5251 Spencer Utsey v. Terrie Wallace, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-07-29 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fraud jurisdiction standing Whether the court's commitment of fraud
21-106 Audrey L. Kimner v. Berkeley County, South Carolina Ninth Circuit 2021-07-27 Denied Response Waived arbitration-agreement civil-rights contract-forgery due-process federal-crimes federal-jurisdiction fraud judicial-misconduct jurisdiction procedural-due-process Whether the California Federal Courts ignored the federal laws concerning a public official forging her name on petitioners house contract involving a…
21-5221 Andre M. Adams v. Kevin Kauffman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. Third Circuit 2021-07-27 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction legal-proceeding petition standing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions writ Whether the court below erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
21-99 Hensley K. McCalla v. Liberty Life Assurance Company of Boston, et al. Second Circuit 2021-07-23 Denied civil-procedure contract district-court enforcement federal-jurisdiction federal-law judicial-authority jurisdiction legal-enforcement settlement-agreement Did the District Court maintain jurisdiction to enforce the settlement agreement that defendant placed before it?
21-86 Axon Enterprise, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-22 Judgment Issued Amici (15)Relisted (9) administrative-law constitutional-challenge constitutional-law federal-courts federal-trade-commission judicial-review jurisdiction removal-protections separation-of-powers Whether Congress impliedly stripped federal district courts of jurisdiction over constitutional challenges to the Federal Trade Commission's structure…
21-5157 Gary Simmonds v. Territory of the Virgin Islands Third Circuit 2021-07-21 Denied IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law due-process judicial-power jurisdiction lesser-included-offense statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Is a lesser-included-offense of an unconstitutional-statute authorized by federal-statute
21-5117 Christopher Allan Allred v. Washington Ninth Circuit 2021-07-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial jurisdiction jury-selection standing Whether the Harless v. Calbeaia filing, Can rhebes, if they so choose, substitute a preliminary hearing for a grand jury, by determining whether prose…
21-46 Joseph John Plany v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-07-13 Denied Response Waived case-severance caseloads civil-procedure constitutional-violation district-court-jurisdiction due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-caseload jurisdiction standing Whether the District Court had jurisdiction over Mr. Plany's case?
21-38 Henry E. Gossage v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2021-07-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure claim-processing-rule due-process equitable-tolling foia-request jurisdiction jurisdictional-deadline misconduct opm-investigation subject-matter-jurisdiction want-of-service Whether the 60-day filing deadline is subject to equitable tolling
21-5069 William Paul Burch v. Freedom Mortgage Corporation, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-07-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bankruptcy-procedure circuit-court-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-precedent due-process judicial-overreach jurisdiction pro-se-litigation standing statutory-interpretation Is a Circuit court allowed to establish new precedence by disregarding and/or overruling twenty-four statutes written by the Congress of the United St…
21-17 David Hargreaves v. Nuverra Environmental Solutions, Inc., aka Heckmann Corporation, aka Rough Rider Escrow, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) abstention-doctrine article-three-jurisdiction bankruptcy bankruptcy-law case-jurisdiction equitable-mootness federal-courts judicial-abstention jurisdiction reorganization-plan Whether the doctrine of equitable mootness is inconsistent with the federal courts' 'virtually unflagging' obligation to hear and decide cases within …
21-18 Skyler Thomas Rice v. Ed Gonzalez, Sheriff, Harris County, Texas Fifth Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied Response Waived article-iii circuit-split civil-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus jurisdiction mootness prison-litigation-reform-act pro-se standing Whether the court of appeals' judgment should be vacated, where the appeal was moot at the time the opinion issued
21-5023 Donnie Romone Twiggs v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's case for lack of standing and failure to state a claim
20-8465 Felipe Ambriz-Valdovinos v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8-cfr-1003.14 8-usc-1229 administrative-procedure circuit-split immigration-law immigration-proceedings jurisdiction notice-to-appear statutory-interpretation Should the Court resolve the circuit split on whether a notice to appear in immigration proceedings must comply with the statutory definition of a not…
20-8468 Deborah Petty v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-identity-theft criminal-procedure criminal-venue district-court due-process identity-theft interstate-crime jurisdiction venue Was venue proper in the Northern District of Texas when the crimes were actually committed in Nevada and Florida?
20-8475 Plutarco Angulo-Aguirre v. United States Second Circuit 2021-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure conspiracy criminal-law due-process jurisdiction standing Question not identified
20-8446 Hewitt A. Grant, II v. Florida Florida 2021-06-30 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-procedure fifth-amendment judicial-review jurisdiction legal-interpretation procedural-rules retrial united-states-law Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment bars the retrial of the petitioner after the trial court's erroneous dismissal of the charge…
20-1812 Donald C. Kupperstein v. Irene Schall, Personal Representative of the Probate Estate of Fred Kuhn, et al. First Circuit 2021-06-28 Denied Response Waived automatic-stay bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-stay civil-jurisdiction civil-money-judgment civil-procedure governmental-collection jurisdiction police-power-exception Whether a state court has jurisdiction or authority to determine whether a civil action before it is subject to the automatic stay of 11 USC §362
20-8415 Demario Deshawn Simpson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-06-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP count-specific-plea criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-criminal-procedure jurisdiction partial-guilty-plea plea-bargaining plea-entry sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether a defendant has a right under the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure to enter a partial guilty plea (without a plea agreement or any plea bar…
20-8434 Robert L. Henning v. Michigan State Treasurer Michigan 2021-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP asset-seizure civil-procedure due-process enforcement-action jurisdiction jurisdictional-boundaries legal-jurisdiction michigan-court post-judgment-enforcement state-treasurer Did the state treasurer violate jurisdictional boundaries by proceeding to seize petitioner's assets held in Minnesota without filing a post judgment …
20-1789 Lorna Y. Channer v. Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Authority Second Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied bankruptcy federal-law governmental-unit jurisdiction state-law statutory-interpretation title-11 Does the term governmental unit under title 11 include any entity created or organized pursuant to state law or only those that fit within the boundar…
20-8349 Thomas Gordon v. Delaware Delaware 2021-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether the court below erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing
20-8358 In Re Hector David Sanchez 2021-06-21 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction retroactivity standing Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in its determination of the jurisdictional issues under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(2)(A)
20-8338 Mark Woods v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-court due-process final-judgment jurisdiction mandamus writ-of-procedencia Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit Abused Its discretion in denying petitioner's Writ of Procedendo ad Judicium or Manda…
20-8339 John David Wilson, Jr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in its application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
20-1758 RD Legal Funding, LLC, et al. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, et al. Second Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction cfpb-enforcement cfpb-structure constitutional-structure enforcement-action jurisdiction ratification seila-law separation-of-powers standing Whether ratification is an appropriate remedy for the violation identified in Seila Law
20-1726 Roy J. Meidinger v. United States Federal Circuit 2021-06-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure contract contractual-relationship federal-claims-court iRS-jurisdiction jurisdiction statutory-interpretation tax-court tax-relief-and-healthcare-act-of-2006 tax-whistleblower whistleblower whistleblower-claims What are the jurisdiction and limitations of the Tax Court and Federal Claims Court over whistleblower contracts and administrative procedures under 2…
20-8320 James E. Nottingham v. Laurel Harry, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill, et al. Third Circuit 2021-06-15 Denied IFP civil-procedure due-process jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court Whether the respondents lack of jurisdiction should result in the petition for writ of certiorari being granted
20-8298 Henry Frederick Ramey, Jr. v. Superior Court of California, San Bernardino County, et al. California 2021-06-14 Denied IFP cdc-declaration cdc-eviction-moratorium civil-procedure due-process eviction-moratorium federal-preemption jurisdiction nationwide-importance unlawful-detainer writ-of-mandamus Did the California Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District, Division Two, err in an issue of nationwide importance, and refused to grant a Writ of …
20-8286 Kemon Dominique Thompson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP categorical-approach constitutional-error crime-of-violence guilty-plea hobbs-act-robbery jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis Whether Mr. Thompson's plea of guilty was voluntary, knowing, and intelligent
20-1718 Samuel H. Sloan v. Maria Childress, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-06-11 Denied Response Waived child-custody interstate-custody judicial-immunity judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction new-york parental-rights religious-freedom supreme-court third-parties virginia Where may a family court take jurisdiction over a child custody case
20-8277 Richard Wesley Bryan v. Jeffrey Uttecht, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-06-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment First-Amendment-right,civil-rights,due-process,sta habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct jurisdiction Question-not-identified First-Amendment-right,civil-rights,due-process,standing,civil-procedure,habeas-corpus
20-1695 Todd Phillippi v. Humble Design, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) attorney-fees callon-petroleum-v-frontier civil-procedure de-novo de-novo-review frcp-60(b) frcp-60b4 jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirements rule-41-dismissal rule-54 standard-of-review Whether the Fifth Circuit can refuse to review the denial of a FRCP 60(b)(4) motion under the de novo standard of review
20-1701 Walter P. Vargo, Jr. v. D & M Tours, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1631 civil-procedure court-discretion court-of-appeals federal-courts interest-of-justice jurisdiction jurisdiction-transfer procedural-rules statutory-interpretation transfer Whether 28 U.S.C. §1631 requires a court to transfer a case when it finds a lack of jurisdiction and it is in the interest of justice to do so
20-1702 Jimmy Cobb v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction plea-bargaining plea-deal sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation undercover-operation Does a District Court have the have Jurisdiction to punish and convict conduct that does not fall within a Federal Statute of 18 U.S.C 2422(b) and 18 …
20-1675 Melvin L. Phillips, Individually and as Trustee for Melvin L. Phillips, Sr., et al. v. Oneida Indian Nation Second Circuit 2021-06-02 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived deed-validity discovery federal-courts indian-nation jurisdiction land-jurisdiction land-ownership necessary-party state-involvement state-sovereignty tax-map trust-property Can the federal court exercise jurisdiction over this case when the land is listed on a tax map and the tax rolls in the name of New York State?
20-8192 Jorge Ramon Newball-May v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure jurisdiction jury-trial maritime-drug-law maritime-law pre-trial-hearing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, 46 U.S.C. 70501 et. seq., is unconstitutional on its face and in violation of the Sixth Amendment right…
20-8181 Linwood Earl Stephens v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction clearly-erroneous-fact criminal-procedure due-process fact-finding fourth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding it did not have jurisdiction to review a decision to deny a departure under the United St…
20-8161 Lisa Marie Belyew v. Mike Pallares, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-05-28 Denied IFP appellate-procedure bail constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process evidence-standard federal-law judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure statutory-interpretation Whether the district court erred in denying petitioner's motion for release on own recognizance pending appeal
20-8176 Leslie Willis v. Lawrence J. O'Toole, Judge, Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, et al. Third Circuit 2021-05-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fiduciary-duty fraud judicial-immunity jurisdiction petition-clause standing summary-judgment Whether a Court may grant summary judgment without jurisdiction
20-1660 In Re Garvester Bracken 2021-05-28 Denied article-iii criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure jurisdiction probable-cause right-to-be-present right-to-counsel trial-jurisdiction Whether the trial court had jurisdiction to proceed and enter judgment without the defendant and defense counsel being personally present during any s…
20-1664 Jason Michael Jett v. Michigan Michigan 2021-05-28 Denied civil-rights constitutional-violation constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection felony-charges illegal-search-and-seizure jurisdiction racketeering state-agent Whether the State agents' actions, including threats, bullying, secret felony charges, continuous taxation, and causing irreparable damage, violate du…
20-8142 Charlene Terry-Ann Walker Rosa v. Howard Finkelstein, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-26 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction standing takings Whether Ms. Moda has a right to seek pre-trial discovery against the government under the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment
20-8120 Gary Lee Willingham v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 acca-enhancement certificate-of-appealability district-court habeas-corpus jurisdiction merits-review post-conviction section-2255 standard-of-review summary-reversal Whether Mr. Willingham waived his argument that the district court had jurisdiction to adjudicate the merits of his § 2255(h) motion
20-8097 Brandon Marquis Jennings, aka Mustafa Beezy Bey v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction professional-misconduct Does the defendant have the right to effective assistance of counsel
20-8079 Kevin L. Martin v. Kenneth P. Cotter, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-05-20 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing Whether the Court of Appeals erred in denying Petitioner's claim of equal protection under the law
20-8059 Hasan Shareef v. Captain Moore, et al. Third Circuit 2021-05-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue legal-standard opinions-below procedural-question standing statutory-provisions writ-of-certiorari Did the lower court properly deny the petitioner's request for a writ of certiorari?
20-8067 In Re Jeremiah Ybarra 2021-05-18 Denied IFP constitutional-rights conviction due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury indictment jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct Is an American citizen's Fifth Amendment violated when his case is not presented to a grand jury to gain an indictment on the alleged offense?
20-8069 Walter L. Merritte v. Illinois Illinois 2021-05-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-order due-process illinois-supreme-court judicial-review jurisdiction legal-nullity procedural-authority separation-of-powers standing supreme-court Whether the Supreme Court Orders Denying Review are Null and Void For Want of Authority?
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
20-8049 In Re Olivia Douce 2021-05-17 Denied IFP civil-procedure court-procedure due-process jurisdiction legal-notice notice property-transfer service standing tax-deed whether the trial court abused its discretion in a manner that conflicts with this Court's and other courts' decisions, whether the appellee properly …
20-8017 Subrina Brenham v. Joseph Kemp, et al. Texas 2021-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
20-7996 Roland Leroy Reese-Bey v. Juan Guerrero, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment jurisdiction right-to-travel summary-judgment traffic-stop Where jurisdiction was questioned and never established, in an arrest and prosecution resulting from an alleged and unwarranted traffic stop with viol…
20-7967 Nikolay Vladimirov Sloboda v. Mike Obenland, Superintendent, Monroe Correctional Complex Ninth Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied IFP appeals constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process evidence jurisdiction racial-bias sentencing statutory-provisions writ why-wasn't-the-dna-evidence-tested
20-1564 James M. Perna v. Health One Credit Union, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts arbitration civil-rights due-process first-amendment forum-selection jurisdiction petition-clause sixth-circuit writ-of-certiorari Whether a grant of a writ of certiorari is warranted
20-1550 Xiu Jian Sun v. Rudolph Contreras District of Columbia 2021-05-10 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing Question not identified.
20-1557 Davendra Anand v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Second Circuit 2021-05-10 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure federal-courts international-law jurisdiction lower-courts treaties Whether the lower courts erred in ruling they lacked jurisdiction over claims arising under treaties
20-7969 Refugio Agustin-Pineda v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure due-process immigration-law immigration-proceedings jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirements notice-to-appear removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether the government may commence removal proceedings by serving a noncitizen with a 'notice to appear' that fails to specify the hearing's time and…
20-7979 Talmadge Adib Talib v. Juan Guerrero, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge summary-judgment Where jurisdiction was never established, in an arrest and prosecution resulting from an alleged and unwarranted traffic stop with violations of right…
20-1555 Ruth McLean v. 800 DC, LLC, et al. Third Circuit 2021-05-07 Denied due-process fraud fraudulent-measures jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-judgment void void-ab-initio Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine applies when the underlying state-court judgment is void ab initio
20-7960 Michael Anthony Carroll v. Michigan Michigan 2021-05-07 Denied IFP due-process fundamental-defect-exception ineffective-assistance interstate-agreement interstate-agreement-on-detainers jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits jury-impartiality sixth-amendment tad-claims time-limits waiver Whether the statutory time limits imposed by the Interstate Agreement on Detainers are strictly jurisdictional and cannot be waived or proceeded upon …
20-1547 Broidy Capital Management, LLC, et al. v. State of Qatar Ninth Circuit 2021-05-06 Denied Response Waived civil-rights civil-rights-violations criminal-law criminal-violations discretionary-act-exclusion foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-law jurisdiction Whether the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act's discretionary act exclusion bars the exercise of jurisdiction over claims by a U.S. citizen against a f…
20-7919 Edward Shane West-El v. C. K. ONeal Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights delegated-authority due-process indigenous-status judicial-hearing jurisdiction standing tax tax-compliance Where does the IRS agent have delegated authority to request tax forms from a Moorish American?
20-7892 Gerald Aranoff v. Susan Aranoff New York 2021-04-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP annulment civil-procedure civil-rights divorce-appeal due-process fraud international-residence judicial-review jurisdiction qdro standing Can an elderly USA citizen living in Israel continuously since July 9, 1991 except for 1 week August 1992, appeal to the United States Supreme Court t…
20-7862 In Re Momolu V. S. Sirleaf, Jr. 2021-04-27 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions court-review due-process federal-courts immigration-law jurisdiction standing state-courts statutory-provisions Does the AE DPA rescedoraly ar veld Sodgmer C8) dis
20-7842 Eliu Elixander Lorenzana-Cordon v. United States District of Columbia 2021-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion district-court-procedure due-process extradition extradition-notice international-law judicial-discretion jurisdiction motion-for-new-trial notice treaties treaty-violation Did the District Court abuse its discretion by denying the motion for a new trial without taking into consideration that the document of extradition t…
20-1482 Cheri Lynne Melchione v. Timothy Temple Florida 2021-04-22 Denied civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights court-review district-court-power due-process judicial-jurisdiction judicial-procedure jurisdiction standing supreme-court supreme-court-access Did the Florida Fifth District Court of Appeal's unchecked power to withhold or strip jurisdiction from the Florida Supreme Court to hear cases involv…
20-1477 Randy R. Bell v. New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, et al. Second Circuit 2021-04-21 Denied appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-discretion district-court due-process fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction notice-of-appeal standing Did the district court lack jurisdiction due to fraud upon the court?
20-1472 Boechler, P.C. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eighth Circuit 2021-04-21 Judgment Issued Amici (6) claim-processing-rule equitable-tolling internal-revenue-code jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirement tax-court tax-law time-limit Whether the time limit in Section 6330(d)(1) is a jurisdictional requirement or a claim-processing rule subject to equitable tolling
20-1452 Rick C. Sasso v. Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2021-04-16 Denied 28-usc-1295(a)(1) 28-usc-1338(a) breach-of-contract declaratory-judgment federal-circuit federal-patent-laws jurisdiction patent-jurisdiction removal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether this is a case 'arising under' federal patent laws under 28 U.S.C. § 1338(a) within the Federal Circuit's jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1295(…
20-7781 Abdu-Salim Gould v. Leslie Bess, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 administrative-proceeding civil-rights constitutional-violation final-judgment jurisdiction Whether a 1963 civil rights action can be treated as an administrative proceeding, whether a court has jurisdiction to adjudicate the matter presented…
20-7738 Elmer W. Grant, Jr. v. United States District of Columbia 2021-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment-14th-amendment constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury grand-jury-selection judicial-precedent jurisdiction precedent subject-matter-jurisdiction Validity-of-indictment-with-foreman-signature-only
20-7745 Ronald R. Myles, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process federal-courts jurisdiction standing state-courts Whether the federal district court violated the Due Process Clause by failing to allow the petitioner to fully litigate his claims
20-7747 Anthony A. Patel v. Charles Robinson, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction ninth-circuit political-discrimination standing Does Article III of the U.S. Constitution belong to the legal profession or to the American people?
20-7754 Robert Roland Yerton, Jr. v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-04-14 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction mandamus mandamus-relief post-conviction standing state-court state-courts Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals (OCCA) erred in denying a writ of mandamus
20-7762 Biner Ma v. CVS Pharmacy, Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights damages due-process federal-rules jurisdiction misrepresentation reliance standing Whether a plaintiff has standing to sue while she did not act in reliance on the defendant's misrepresentation but another party acted in reliance on …
20-7727 Hasan Shareef v. Brian Palko, et al. Third Circuit 2021-04-13 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment case-statement civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jury-selection legal-reasoning public-trial statutory-provisions writ Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial applies to jury selection proceedings
20-7721 Shannon Demond Dotson v. Tunica-Biloxi Gaming Commission, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-04-12 Denied IFP civil-procedure consent-extension-of-time due-process evidence federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction legal-standing service-of-process standing subject-matter-jurisdiction tribal-law Why the courts never acknowledged that the plaintiff never consented to the Defendant request for Extension of Time?
20-1428 Tammy Noergaard v. Christian Noergaard California 2021-04-12 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection hague-convention judicial-review jurisdiction trial-costs trial-delays trial-jurisdiction Does a reviewing court retain jurisdiction to review lower court decisions for due process violations under the Equal Protection Clause that occur bef…
20-7691 Ernest Donald Washington v. Tammy Williams, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-04-08 Denied IFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jurisdiction ninth-circuit procedural-default Whether the district court lacked subject matter jurisdiction to try the petitioner
20-7682 Antoine Barnes v. Salinas Superior Court Judge Ninth Circuit 2021-04-07 Denied IFP case-statement civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection firearms first-amendment jurisdiction legal-provisions standing supreme-court writ Whether Senate Bill 16 violates the First Amendment, due process, and equal protection rights of individuals who wish to have production or possession…
20-7628 Daryl Fitzgerald Johnson v. Mississippi Mississippi 2021-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction legal-procedure standing supreme-court trial-court writ-of-certiorari Did the Supreme Court of Mississippi have jurisdiction to hear a direct appeal from the Court of Appeals where there are two duty members who refused …
20-7634 Nevia Abraham v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-01 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP appeals-court appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure district-court extraordinary-circumstances federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jurisdiction motion-review rule-60b Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals had jurisdiction to review the District Court's February 13, 2019 Order granting Petitioner's Federal Ru…
20-1380 Security People, Inc. v. Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-04-01 Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge due-process federal-circuit fifth-amendment inter-partes-review jurisdiction patent patent-law retroactive-application vested-property Whether the retroactive application of inter partes review deprived Petitioner of its vested property in violation of the Due Process Clause
20-7598 Marcellus Thomas v. Sonja Nicklaus, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct Question not identified
20-1359 Superama Corporation, Inc., dba USA Sumo v. Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-26 Denied Response Waived arbaugh-v-y-h-corp copyright copyright-act extraterritorial-application jurisdiction jurisdictional-bar morrison-v-national-australia-bank ninth-circuit reed-elsevier-v-muchnick statutory-requirement subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the presumption against extraterritorial application, applied in the context of the U.S. Copyright Act, creates a jurisdictional bar
20-7558 Kesha S. Packer v. Wisconsin Department of Corrections Seventh Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure district-court excusable-neglect jurisdiction notice-of-appeal procedural-default standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals has jurisdiction to hear the plaintiff's appeal?
20-7551 Dennis Roger Bolze v. Warden, FCI Coleman Sixth Circuit 2021-03-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP counsel-deprivation criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction miscarriage-of-justice right-to-counsel state-law subject-matter-jurisdiction When a State intentionally abandons State law and deprives an individual of counsel during a critical stage in the criminal proceedings, does the stat…
20-7554 Eron Jordan v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction speedy-trial Whether the district court erred in denying the defendant's motion to dismiss and ordering the defendant to stand trial within five days without a hea…
20-7540 Anthony V. Caiby v. Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix Third Circuit 2021-03-23 Denied IFP case-dismissal circuit-court-dismissal civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process federal-appellate-procedure judicial-error jurisdiction opinions pro-se-litigation procedural-due-process standing Was the Circuit Court in err when it dismissed this case without Mr. Caiby ever having an opponent?
20-1320 Wael Lasheen v. Supreme Court of Ohio Ohio 2021-03-23 Denied administrative-judge administrative-jurisdiction disqualification due-process judicial-disqualification judicial-procedure jurisdiction ohio-revised-code opportunity-to-be-heard state-court-review unconstitutional Can a case proceed if the petitioner argues that the administrative judge lacked jurisdiction?
20-7517 In Re Khayree Smith 2021-03-22 Dismissed IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-amendments denationalization due-process ex-post-facto genocide jurisdiction slave-labels slavery What branch of law authorized states to apply abolished slave labels (Negro, Black, colored) to any person of African descent after 1865?
20-7509 Erik Santiago Leon Del Angel v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP continuance criminal-procedure defendant-rights district-court-discretion due-process immigration immigration-proceedings judicial-error jurisdiction procedural-fairness sentencing sentencing-continuance Did the District Court prejudicially err by denying petitioner's request to continue his sentencing so he may first appear in Immigration Court?
20-7494 Kirk A. Simmons v. United States Third Circuit 2021-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-issue fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus jurisdiction legal-innocence rule-60 rule-60-motion standing Did the District Court abuse its discretion when it dismissed petitioner's Rule 60 motion, which asserted evidence falsification and Fraud on the Cour…
20-7499 Kevin Dean Brewer, aka Michael Green v. Marcus A. Pollard, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction standing Whether the Jucists of CHOASOW would have a valid claim of the deprivation of a Court's decision
20-7501 Alfredo Arroyo-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-law immigration-removal jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Did the immigration court lack authority to remove Mr. Arroyo-Hernandez because he was not served a notice to appear that had a hearing time?
20-1297 In Re Barbara Riley 2021-03-18 Denied Response Waived administrative-order civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection equal-rights judicial-misconduct jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge slavery Is it constitutional for officers of the courts to be creating, selling and buying facially null and void judge's personal orders entered/issued witho…
20-7472 David Maurice Milner v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction reconsideration rule-59-motion section-2255 successive-motions Whether the Fifth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability
20-7401 Ronald Brandon v. Jay Forshey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights contemporaneous-objection criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction standing state-court-procedure Whether the handling of the handling of the Old Faction Roll below the Abba, Lo filed, and the following additional questions defy the jurisdiction of…
20-7365 Ronald Brount, aka Ronald Brunt v. Brian E. Frosh, Attorney General of Maryland Fourth Circuit 2021-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err in denying the petitioner a certificate of appealability?
20-7370 Avery Bradford v. Clinton Perry, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
20-1227 David Louis Whitehead v. Netflix, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure consolidation constitutional-rights due-process fraud judicial-jurisdiction judicial-recusal jurisdiction notice-of-appeal pro-se pro-se-litigation Whether the 9th Circuit Court had full jurisdiction of the appeal, having no notice of appeal filed by petitioner in the District Court until 1 year a…
20-1219 Carline Maria Curry v. Douglas Mackenzie Ohio 2021-03-03 Rehearing Relisted (2) civil-procedure constitutional-challenge damages-calculation default-judgment due-process jurisdiction jurisdiction-denial partial-liability resubmission summons-process Whether the plaintiff should have been awarded the amount prayed for in the initial complaint under Ohio Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 4 and Rule 54(C…
20-1209 In Re Raymond L. Rogers 2021-03-02 Denied Response Waived all-writs-act appeals appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge sentencing statutory-authority statutory-interpretation Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in failing to vacate the Kansas District Court's criminal conviction and sentence of the petitioner
20-7298 Andrew Watson Bunn v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2021-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review capital-case civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-provisions due-process judicial-procedure jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction petition-for-review right-to-appeal standing Whether a right to appeal is preserved when the questions presented remain unanswered
20-7302 Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. Rentgrow, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-03-02 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP amendment civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal diversity-jurisdiction due-process federal-court jurisdiction legal-claim procedural-rules standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing the complaint against the defendant(s) for lack of subject matter jurisdiction
20-1191 Robert Singletary v. Kenneth Nelsen, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-02-26 Denied Response Waived civil-rights compulsory-process due-process equal-protection jurisdiction rule-of-law Do the accused have a right to reside?
20-7257 Tito Knox v. Elizabeth G. Magera, U.S. Probation Officer, Individually and in Her Official Capacity, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jurisdiction standing Whether the court erred in denying petitioner's motion to dismiss the indictment on the grounds that the government's prosecution violated the Double …
20-7226 John R. Scannell v. Washington State Bar Association, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP disciplinary-proceedings first-amendment fourteenth-amendment investigation judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction obstruction res-judicata rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court unlawful-practice Did the Washington State Supreme Court have jurisdiction to conduct original disciplinary proceedings against Scannell?
20-7207 Manuel de Jesus Gordillo-Escandon v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied IFP criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process interstate-agreement-detainers interstate-agreement-on-detainers-act judicial-procedure jurisdiction speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation trial-timing Did the district court err in failing to dismiss the indictment under the Speedy Trial Act and the Interstate Agreement on Detainers Act?
20-7179 Nelson Viera v. Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-19 Denied IFP civil-procedure court-jurisdiction fraud fraud-upon-court judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-interpretation miscarriage-of-justice procedural-review rule-60 supreme-court Whether the lower Courts are properly interpreting and implementing the Supreme Court decree about jurisdiction and fraud upon the Court under Rule 60…
20-7166 Charles J. Jordan v. United States District of Columbia 2021-02-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection grand-jury grand-jury-selection judicial-review jurisdiction Whether the D.C. Court of Appeals is interpreting D.C. Code § 11-947 correctly when it is allowing the D.C. Superior Court to modify Federal Rule and …
20-7123 Kenneth R. Heddlesten v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied IFP conviction-finality district-court-jurisdiction due-process habeas-corpus haynes-v-kerner jurisdiction limitations-period pro-se pro-se-petition statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation When was conviction final?
20-7158 Raymond J. Ramirez v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review certificate-of-appeal criminal-procedure due-process florida-rules habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge standing Whether a certificate of appealability should have been granted
20-1113 American Hospital Association, et al. v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services District of Columbia 2021-02-12 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2) administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-action agency-deference chevron-deference civil-procedure judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether Chevron deference applies to a statutory interpretation question that determines both the lawfulness of agency action and the court's jurisdic…
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?
20-7105 Deyoe R. Harris v. University of Arizona Police Department, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their constitutional rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments
20-1098 Tod Houthoofd v. Les Parish, Warden Michigan 2021-02-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-error trial-jurisdiction venue venue-challenge Does Petitioner's convictions violate the U.S. Constitution and prior decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court?
20-7058 Dwayne Wilson v. Ed Sheldon, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-violation double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection jurisdiction mental-health miscarriage-of-justice Question not identified
20-7062 Alfred L. Cross v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-fraud constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea indictment-defect intent intent-to-defraud jurisdiction materiality materiality-element plea-bargaining Whether the Decision below squarely conflicts with McCarthy v. United States and Neder v. United States, where Mr. Cross Held a Constitutional Right t…
20-7067 Wilma Pennington-Thurman v. Sansone Group DDR LLC Missouri 2021-02-05 Dismissed IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-courts federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction removal-jurisdiction state-courts state-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Whether federal courts should gain jurisdiction when a state supreme court refuses to recognize 28 U.S.C. 1446(d)
20-7013 In Re William M. Windsor 2021-02-03 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process federal-law jurisdiction remand removal removal-and-remand standing texas-courts Can Texas courts be allowed to violate federal law on removal and remand?
20-1054 Vipula D. Valambhia, et al. v. United Republic of Tanzania, et al. District of Columbia 2021-02-03 Denied bank-account commercial-activities commercial-activities-exception direct-effects foreign-judgments foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunity international-law judgment-recognition jurisdiction payments u.s.-banking Whether clause 3 of the commercial activities exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA), 28 U.S.C. § 1605(a)(2), provides for jurisdict…
20-1031 Northern California Small Business Assistants, Inc. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Amici (1) administrative-procedure civil-procedure equitable-tolling jurisdiction jurisdictional-deadline statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent tax-law Is 26 U.S.C. § 6213(a)'s deficiency petition (90-day) filing deadline jurisdictional
20-6965 Bradley B. Miller v. Virginia T. Dunn Texas 2021-01-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights contempt court-fine court-fines due-process fourteenth-amendment indigent-party judicial-discretion jurisdiction removal Whether the levying of a court fine against an indigent party represents a violation of constitutional Due Process
20-1010 Ded Rranxburgaj v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-01-27 Dismissed Amici (3) administrative-law agency-discretion immigration-law jurisdiction removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Do legal determinations antecedent to agencies' discretionary decisions to commence proceedings, adjudicate cases, or execute removal orders 'arise fr…
20-6920 Sean Moffitt v. United States Third Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights district-court-jurisdiction due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus jurisdiction legal-procedure post-conviction-relief subsequent-petition Does the district court have jurisdiction to entertain a lawfully filed, Subsequent Petition
20-6897 In Re Lee Charles Bradford 2021-01-15 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant civil-rights, due-process, and equal-protection laws
20-967 Pedro Rodriguez-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-15 Denied Response Waived collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear removal-order removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Did the immigration court lack authority to remove Mr. Rodriguez-Garcia because he was served a Notice to Appear that did not comply with federal law …
20-972 Ikemefula Charles Ibeabuchi v. Eggleston, Director of Operation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-01-15 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights due-process failure-to-state-claim federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction legal-mail ninth-circuit panel-rehearing standing Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals committed reversible error
20-6857 Luis Pina v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process illegal-reentry immigration-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge removal-order removal-orders separation-of-powers Whether the immigration court lacked jurisdiction to issue removal orders, violating separation of powers and due process
20-6877 In Re William M. Windsor 2021-01-14 Dismissed IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure conflict-of-laws federal-law jurisdiction remand removal texas-courts Can Texas courts be allowed to violate federal law on removal and remand?
20-6865 William Rouser v. Unknown Ninth Circuit 2021-01-13 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
20-917 800 Services, Inc. v. AT&T Corp. Third Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response Waived administrative-law appellate-review federal-communications-commission federal-courts fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court jurisdiction primary-jurisdiction tariff tariff-interpretation telecommunications Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Failing to Refer this Questions of Tariff Interpretation to the FCC Under the Doctrine of Primary …
20-6762 James W. Knipfer v. Reed A. Richardson, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction due-process federal-court habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct jurisdiction jury jury-trial procedural-due-process Can there be a 'perpetual jury', 'phantom jury', 'forever jury' or a 'jury on a judge's whim' in the United States?
20-6735 Frank A. McClung, Jr., et ux. v. Elia E. Estevez Florida 2020-12-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights default-judgment due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction jury-trial service-of-process seventh-amendment standing Seventh Amendment right to jury trial
20-6736 Salvador Diaz v. United States Second Circuit 2020-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-challenge court-of-appeals due-process jurisdiction prior-conviction sorna-violation statutory-interpretation supervisory-power venue venue-selection whether-the-court-of-appeals'-failure-to-remedy-the-district-court's-improper-venue-selection
20-6733 John Christopher Ferguson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment affidavit exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits law-enforcement search-warrant warrant-affidavit Whether the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule applies where law enforcement knew or should have known the affidavit would lead to a mistak…
20-6685 Peter Terrell Redditt v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction standing takings Question not identified
20-6690 Randolph Burleson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-12-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-indictment criminal-law federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment indictment jurisdiction mens-rea sixth-amendment Whether federal courts have jurisdiction over a criminal matter when the charging document omits an essential mens rea element of the offense
20-6667 Ronald Douglas v. Eric S. Schmitt, Attorney General of Missouri, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights communications-act constitutional-challenge due-process eminent-domain government-owned-stations human-rights-violations jurisdiction property-rights takings Whether the district court had exclusive jurisdiction over the in rem eminent domain action
20-6670 Janice Sue Taylor v. United States Federal Circuit 2020-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-rights due-process federal-statutes fifth-amendment first-amendment jurisdiction title-26-usc Has the petitioner's constitutional rights been violated by the appellate court's denial of due process?
20-6682 Vamsidhar R. Vurimindi v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Pennsylvania 2020-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP condominium-association constitutional-appeal due-process in-rem-judgment jurisdiction mortgage-foreclosure sheriff-sale standing void-judgment Whether state appellate court violated state constitutional right to appeal, which is protected by Due Process Clause of U.S. Constitution Fifth Amend…
20-6683 Reynaldo Diaz-Guzman v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression judicial-discretion jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the court of appeals erred and abused its discretion in rejecting the challenge to the indictment and argument for dismissal for lack of subje…
20-6635 Daion J. Williams v. Michele Wilhelm, Warden, et al. Nebraska 2020-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-attack constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-error jurisdiction statutory-interpretation unconstitutional writ-of-review Did the district court judge error in denying the petitioner's habeas corpus petition?
20-6620 Michael R. Spengler v. Los Angeles County District Attorney Ninth Circuit 2020-12-14 Denied IFP civil-procedure collateral-estoppel criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-review habeas-corpus jurisdiction state-remedies Whether federal habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 is available to criminal defendants challenging the legality of their confinement before exhausti…
20-6575 Ronald Jermaine Jackson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech government-accountability indigenous-rights jurisdiction land-management standing tribal-sovereignty Is the Constitution of the United States of America, its Articles, and Amendments valid and legal under the Supreme Law of the Land?
20-6583 Edgar Espinoza v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-defect criminal-indictment criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment guilty-plea indictment jurisdiction mens-rea sixth-amendment Whether federal courts have jurisdiction over a criminal matter when the charging document omits an essential mens rea element of the offense
20-6564 Eric Bernard Scott v. Artis Singleton, Warden Georgia 2020-12-08 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights court-proceedings due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-review standing state-law supreme-court-jurisdiction Whether the Supreme Court abused its discretion by failing to rule that the Superior Court of Fulton County was without subject matter jurisdiction to…
20-778 Anthony T. Grose, Sr. v. Steven T. Mnuchin, Secretary of the Treasury Sixth Circuit 2020-12-08 Denied Response Waived administrative-remedies civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-question due-process employment-discrimination federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction res-judicata standing Were any such documentation entries in the court's proceedings whether the U.S. District Court or the Appellant Sixth Circuit Court had jurisdiction p…
20-783 Suncor Energy (U.S.A.) Inc., et al. v. Board of County Commissioners of Boulder County, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-12-08 GVR Relisted (2) appellate-review civil-rights-removal court-of-appeals federal-officer-removal jurisdiction remand-order removal statutory-interpretation Whether 28 U.S.C. 1447(d) permits a court of appeals to review any issue encompassed in a district court's order remanding a removed case to state cou…
20-6555 Solomon Manamela v. Warden, Fort Dix FCI Third Circuit 2020-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-uscs-1347 18-uscs-24(b) civil-procedure civil-rights due-process health-care-fraud jurisdiction pennsylvania-public-welfare-code standing state-created-danger statutory-interpretation Whether affirmative evidence exists to establish Congress' intention under 18 USCS §24(b) to find City of non-medical family support service provider …
20-6488 Mario Allan Montano v. Oakland County Circuit Court Judge Michigan 2020-12-01 Dismissed IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-fees due-process equal-protection jurisdiction legal-standing standing supreme-court-jurisdiction Whether the Michigan Supreme Court violated its jurisdiction by issuing an order dismissing the Petitioner's case and depriving the Petitioner of his …
20-6489 Mario Allan Montano v. Ivy Alice Wimmer Michigan 2020-12-01 Dismissed IFP access-to-courts case-dismissal constitutional-rights court-fees court-orders due-process equal-protection filing-fees jurisdiction supreme-court-jurisdiction Whether the Michigan Supreme Court violated its jurisdiction in issuing three orders dismissing the Petitioner's cases thus depriving the Petitioner o…
20-6490 Mario Allan Montano v. Oakland County Circuit Court Judge Michigan 2020-12-01 Dismissed IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights court-fees court-orders due-process equal-protection jurisdiction legal-injunction standing supreme-court-jurisdiction Whether the Michigan Supreme Court violated its jurisdiction in issuing orders against the Petitioner, depriving him of his right to equal protection …
20-6491 In Re Mario Allan Montano 2020-12-01 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP case-dismissal civil-procedure due-process fee-waiver filing-injunction judicial-sanctions jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits michigan-supreme-court sanctions Did the Michigan Supreme Court fail to rule on the Petitioner's motions to waive fees and issue orders dismissing uncontested cases without jurisdicti…
20-6476 Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-1495 28-usc-2513 certificate-of-innocence court-of-appeals dismissal district-court federal-court-of-claims fourth-circuit jurisdiction rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation technical-claim Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of a certificate of innocence in 28 U.S.C. § 2…
20-6477 Hamid Reza Ardaneh v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2020-11-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-bias jurisdiction mental-health-detention national-origin nationality If the petitioner cannot enforce his equality of rights in lower state courts based on discrimination toward his nationality of being Iranian, then wh…
20-6462 Anastacio Castruita-Escobedo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-court immigration-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear removal-order removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether the immigration court lacked authority to remove Mr. Castruita-Escobedo because he was not served a notice to appear with a hearing time
20-6432 Elise LaMartina v. David Adler, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied IFP automatic-stay bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-jurisdiction barton-doctrine creditor-claims immunity judicial-immunity jurisdiction state-court trustee ultra-vires-acts May a bankruptcy court exponentially expand the Barton Doctrine?
20-6456 Maurice Trammel v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Arkansas 2020-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction standing takings Whether the Arkansas Supreme Court erred in dismissing the petitioner's case for lack of jurisdiction despite the petitioner's showing of entitlement …
20-730 Lindsay R. Cooper, et al. v. Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc., aka TEPCO, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) choice-of-law diplomatic-mission foreign-corporation foreign-corporations humanitarian-assistance international-comity jurisdiction military-personnel u.s.-court-jurisdiction Whether U.S. military personnel can rely on U.S. court jurisdiction for harms by foreign corporations on foreign soil
20-703 William Kinney Jr., et al. v. Urban Housing Development, LLC Oregon 2020-11-23 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process foreclosure jurisdiction mortgage-securitization property-rights res-judicata standing Whether the Multnomah County Trial Court is without jurisdiction to Adjudicate the Defected Inferior FED action because of the Original jurisdiction o…
20-6394 Michael A. Hagar v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-judicial-power criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process jurisdiction protective-order sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act venue venue-limitations Question not identified
20-6353 Larry Williams v. Scott B. Lewis, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
20-6362 Victor Manuel Avalos-Rivera v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8-usc-1229 circuit-split illegal-reentry immigration-court immigration-law jurisdiction notice-to-appear removal-order statutory-interpretation Whether an immigration court lacks jurisdiction to issue an order of removal that can later be used as a basis for an illegal reentry criminal convict…
20-6365 Gregory D. Crosby v. Bill True, Warden Tenth Circuit 2020-11-17 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
20-6323 Lamont Andre Thomas v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction prosecutorial-discretion sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-code Whether the district court had jurisdiction to hear the government's motion under 18 U.S.C. section 924(c)
20-6278 Bodhisattva Skandha v. Gloriann Moroney Massachusetts 2020-11-12 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion application-of-law attorney-general civil-procedure claim court-discretion facts false-statements fraud jurisdiction legal-procedure official-document parole-board representation standing supreme-court tort tort-claim Whether making false statements in an official doc Whether the defendant is allowed to represent the Whether the respondent was required to apply the l Whether the lower court abused its discretion by not allowing the tort claim to go forward?
20-6289 Catherine Denise Randolph v. United States District Court for the District of Maryland Fourth Circuit 2020-11-12 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction obscenity public-forum Whether the First Amendment protects the right to distribute obscene material in public places
20-635 Soo Line Railroad Company, dba Canadian Pacific v. Consolidated Rail Corporation, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied Response Waived exclusive-jurisdiction federal-preemption interstate-commerce interstate-commerce-commission-termination-act jurisdiction preemption rail-corporation state-law termination-act Whether the court of appeals erroneously held that the exemption provision of the Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act (49 U.S.C. § 11321(a)…
20-642 Jorge Mendoza v. Uber Technologies Inc. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-jurisdiction civil-procedure constitutional-due-process constitutional-law contract-law dispute-resolution due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits legal-procedure procedural-rights Whether Constitutional Due Process can be part of Arbitration Jurisdiction
20-6256 Elet Valentine v. The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc., et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-11-09 Denied IFP amendment civil-procedure dismissal federal-rules-of-civil-procedure interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction jurisdictional-transfer law-of-the-case motion-to-dismiss service-of-process Question not identified
20-6248 Shawn Thomas Brooks v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction standing takings Whether the Petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the government's actions
20-6195 Erlin Josue Torres Zuniga v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-adjudication administrative-agency-adjudication civil-procedure collateral-estoppel criminal-defendant due-process immigration-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirement notice-to-appear removal-proceedings Whether and under what circumstances the government may invoke collateral-estoppel against-a-criminal-defendant based-on-a-prior-administrative-agency…
20-6204 Kenneth Curry v. Kess Roberson Seventh Circuit 2020-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
20-577 Moaze Ibrahim v. United States Second Circuit 2020-10-30 Denied Response Waived appeal civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction sentencing Question not identified
20-6175 Rico Walker v. Vance Laughlin, Warden Georgia 2020-10-30 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment indictment-sufficiency ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge notice-of-charges void-conviction Can Petitioner be convicted of a crime where the Indictment fails to allege the essential elements of the crime charged?
20-6115 Warren Scott Taylor v. Virginia Virginia 2020-10-23 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction standing Question not identified
20-516 D'Ann S. McCoy v. Boureima Ouedraogo Pennsylvania 2020-10-20 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte ex-parte-communication family-court judicial-disqualification judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction sua-sponte Has the Pennsylvania Court System violated the constitutional rights of the Appellant, D'Ann McCoy, through communication ex-parte in a matter without…
20-5992 Alan Lane Hicks v. West Virginia West Virginia 2020-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant civil-rights, due-process, and equal-protection laws
20-5980 Anthony Brawner, aka Anthony Barber v. United States District of Columbia 2020-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof civil-procedure court-procedure due-process jurisdiction legal-standard standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Can a valid claim of subject-matter jurisdiction ever come under a procedural bar?
20-5968 Rochelle Driessen v. Miami-Dade County, Florida, et al. Florida 2020-10-08 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure court-access due-process florida-constitution judicial-procedure jurisdiction Whether the Supreme Court of Florida denied petitioner access to the court pursuant Article 1, Section 21 of the Florida Constitution when it declined…
20-5971 Gregory D. Crosby v. Bill True, Warden Tenth Circuit 2020-10-08 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection jurisdiction legal-procedure petition-for-writ remedies standing statutory-provisions whether-the-court-erred-in-dismissing-the-petitioner's-claims
20-5942 John Tran v. United States First Circuit 2020-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule federal-criminal-procedure good-faith-exception judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction procedural-error rule-41 search-and-seizure void-ab-initio warrant-validity Whether the First Circuit erroneously applied the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule
20-5944 In Re Gerald M. Calmese 2020-10-07 Denied IFP constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process effective-counsel evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus identity-theft jurisdiction sixth-amendment Whether the evidence presented failed to establish the required element of 'another person,' for which the plaintiff was convicted of taking their ide…
20-5931 David Frank Petrano, et ux. v. Darlene P. Baylor Florida 2020-10-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction standing takings Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
20-428 Horacio Sequeira v. Republic of Nicaragua, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-05 Denied arbitration-clause breach-of-contract choice-of-forum choice-of-law commercial-arbitration commercial-contract contract-validity foreign-sovereign-immunities-act jurisdiction jurisdiction-waiver motion-to-dismiss Whether the proper procedure for a district court to follow in FSIA breach of contract cases is to apply the FSIA to avoid converting a Motion to Dism…
20-5900 Fane R. Sellers, et al. v. Wyoming, et al. Wyoming 2020-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection good-behavior government-accountability judicial-procedure jurisdiction unbiased-judge When the inferior District Court failed and/or refused to initiate or commence the action by issuing the summons as required by Wyoming Rules of Civil…
20-5864 Peter George Noe v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability circuit-split civil-procedure federal-appellate-procedure federal-courts finality habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction standard-of-review standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of appellate jurisdiction
20-5881 Jose Vincente Lira-Ramirez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process immigration immigration-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect noncitizen-rights notice removal removal-proceedings unlawful-reentry Does the Due Process Clause permit a noncitizen to be convicted under 8 U.S.C. § 1326 for unlawful reentry into the United States if the noncitizen wa…
20-5855 In Re Ruben Orlando Benitez 2020-09-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-authority civil-procedure court-procedure due-process judicial-oversight judicial-recusal jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge legal-precedent new-evidence recusal standing Whether the Court committed errors therein arising from oversight
20-5781 Abdur-Rashid Muhammad v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel jurisdiction plea-agreement subject-matter-jurisdiction void-conviction habeas-corpus
20-5778 David Davalos, Sr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rules district-court-jurisdiction federal-rules forfeiture forfeiture-order jurisdiction money-judgment notice-of-appeal time-limits Whether a district court exceeds its jurisdiction by entering a preliminary order of forfeiture and an order of money judgment beyond the time limits …
20-364 Thomas Wilkins v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of California Federal Circuit 2020-09-18 Denied Relisted (2) administrative-procedure article-iii-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process federal-circuit inventor-correction inventorship jurisdiction patent patent-law standing uspto-procedure Whether the USITC, district court, and Federal Circuit lacked Article III jurisdiction over the patent inventorship dispute
20-5699 Abdur-Rashid Muhammad v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-error court-jurisdiction due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel jurisdiction plea-agreement void-conviction void-judgment issues-being-raised
20-5684 Frank Joseph Schwindler v. Shay Hatcher, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-14 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing state-court-procedures state-courts venue Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals lacked jurisdiction to review the district court's orders staying a habeas corpus petition
20-5687 John Oliver Bryant v. United States Second Circuit 2020-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure district-court due-process judicial-procedure jurisdiction legal-review petition-dismissal standing suspension-clause timeliness Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petition as untimely
20-5691 In Re Freeman Berry 2020-09-14 Denied IFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea indictment jurisdiction jurisdictional-authority plea-agreement Does the United States Government retain the inherent right to bind this Petitioner and other Defendants to a guilty plea contract it drafted containi…
20-5657 Eric Bernard Scott v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-review mandamus procedural-error standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals abused its discretion
20-311 Deborah Walton v. First Merchant's Bank Seventh Circuit 2020-09-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction Whether the Appellants' 14th Amendment rights were violated when she was not afforded the right to respond to the Appellee's motion for Attorney fees
20-5656 Priscilla Ann Ellis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure district-prosecution due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge overt-act venue venue-requirement Does proof of venue require that at least one defendant charged in a criminal conspiracy case have participated in an overt act in furtherance of the …
20-5621 Gregory Simmons-Bey v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-09-09 Denied IFP civil-procedure due-process federal-courts jurisdiction sovereign-immunity standing Whether the court has jurisdiction over a sovereign immunity dispute
20-278 Marguerite Smith v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 11th-circuit appellate-procedure circuit-rules civil-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion jurisdiction mandate-issuance standing Does the 11th Circuit's circuit rules supersede the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedures, particularly when it results in depriving an individual due…
20-5567 Linda Ames v. HSBC Bank USA, N.A. Washington 2020-09-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP assignment foreclosure jurisdiction parties quiet-title relationship statute-of-limitations summary-judgment tolling trustee-appointment unjust-enrichment Does the complete absence from the jurisdiction of this court from the outset of the assignment in 2011 entitle the plaintiff to claim that the statut…
20-5551 Ohio, ex rel. Jeremy Kerr v. Robert Pollex, et al. Ohio 2020-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-sufficiency jurisdiction state-court state-court-judgment subject-matter-jurisdiction sufficiency-of-evidence Does a state court's judgment of conviction violate the 14th Amendment when the record is devoid of evidence proving the defendant committed an elemen…
20-5557 Earl Crownhart v. STRiVE Tenth Circuit 2020-09-01 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing takings Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in dismissing Appellant Earl Clowbhaft's claims that the State of Ohio violated his Fift…
20-236 Jerry W. Wells v. Robbin Nelson, et al. Kentucky 2020-08-28 Denied Response Waived adoption civil-rights constitutional-rights custody due-process family-law federal-law jurisdiction uccjea Can an original decree state, using the UCCJEA, deny the jurisdiction of a sister state during an adoption proceeding
20-238 Changzhou Sinotype Technology Co., Ltd. v. Rockefeller Technology Investments (Asia) VII California 2020-08-28 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived arbitration arbitration-award civil-procedure foreign-relations hague-service-convention international-litigation judicial-sovereignty jurisdiction postal-service service-of-process Whether a private litigant can waive a foreign state's objection to service by postal channels under the Hague Service Convention
20-212 Teresita A. Canuto v. Nancy Pelosi, et al. District of Columbia 2020-08-24 Denied Response Waived article-iii causal-connection civil-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure ftca ftca-claims jurisdiction standing standing-doctrine summary-judgment Whether the district court erred in dismissing the case due to federal defendants' non-compliance with Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
20-5446 Jin H. Zheng v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge motion-for-new-trial precedent standing supreme-court-certiorari uniformity Jurisdiction of an appeal of an interlocutory order
20-5414 Aimee Lewis v. Seventh Circuit Court, South Dakota Unified Judicial System, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process jurisdiction patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims
20-5393 Timothy McCullough v. Jeff Dennison, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction sentencing void-for-vagueness Does the Sentencing court have jurisdiction to sentence a defendant under a statute void or judgment unenforceable under the Constitution?
20-5315 Robert Lee Stabnow v. Jodi Harpstead, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Human Services Eighth Circuit 2020-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction pleadings standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims
20-5268 Luis Fernando Ramirez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-law immigration-removal jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Did the immigration court lack authority to remove Ramirez because he was not served a notice to appear that had a hearing time?
20-5291 Dexter Leemon Johnson v. John Marlar Tenth Circuit 2020-08-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-conflict civil-procedure district-court due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirements medical-treatment standing tenth-circuit warrant-constitutionality Whether the Tenth Circuit's failure to satisfy itself of district court's jurisdiction resulted in it exceeding its discretion and jurisdiction
20-117 Jairo Sequeira v. Republic of Nicaragua, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-05 Denied Response Waived contract-validity direct-effect direct-effect-doctrine explicit-waiver foreign-law foreign-sovereign-immunities-act jurisdiction jurisdiction-waiver property-rights Whether 1605(a)(1) of the FSIA waiver exception requires courts to determine jurisdiction based on whether or not a contract contains an explicit waiv…
20-5256 Travis Jackson Marron, aka Abdul Mu'min v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-08-04 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights court-precedent due-process judicial-ruling judicial-rulings jurisdiction legislative-law legislative-laws standing subject-matter-jurisdiction virginia-supreme-court Did the Virginia Supreme Court and Chesapeake Circuit Court err in failing to establish jurisdiction over the subject matter?
20-102 Christopher Hadsell v. Barry Baskin, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction rooker-doctrine separation-of-powers state-court-judgments state-courts Whether Rooker's usurpation of Congress' power to expand this Court's jurisdiction to include exclusive jurisdiction for appellate review of state-cou…
20-5228 United States, ex rel. Friedrich Lu v. Ramandeep Samra, et al. First Circuit 2020-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-representation circuit-court civil-procedure false-claims-act jurisdiction legal-representation pro-se qui-tam standing Whether a relator may proceed pro se under the False Claims Act
20-5167 Jean McIntosh v. United States Third Circuit 2020-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure due-process jurisdiction standing Was the Court of Appeals decision to dismiss the appeal in error?
20-5175 John David Wilson, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2020-07-24 Denied IFP collateral-estoppel criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jurisdiction Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits a second criminal prosecution for the same offense after the first prosecution was dismissed without prej…
20-5150 Ernest R. Jenkins v. Daniel Clarke, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-07-22 Denied IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-right habeas-corpus harmless-error judicial-review jurisdiction standing state-prosecution Was the Circuit Court's denial of the petitioner's request for a certificate of apealability (COA) erroneous?
20-5114 Leonel Romero-Ochoa v. Washington Washington 2020-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
20-5118 Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-07-21 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ancient-writs appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process jurisdiction post-conviction-relief procedural-constraints standing statutory-interpretation Do Pennsylvania appellate courts have the authority and jurisdiction to review and grant petitions of ancient writs ex statutory constraints?
20-5033 Travis Jackson Marron, aka Abdul Mu'Min v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights court-precedent due-process judicial-ruling judicial-rulings jurisdiction legislative-law legislative-laws standing subject-matter-jurisdiction virginia-supreme-court Question not identified
20-40 CATIC USA Incorporated v. Soaring Wind Energy, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-07-17 Denied arbitral-award arbitration-agreement arbitration-jurisdiction commercial-arbitration due-process international-treaty jurisdiction new-york-convention us-activities us-citizens Does a federal court have jurisdiction under the New York Convention to confirm an arbitral award where the underlying agreement is exclusively betwee…
20-41 Warren Wexler v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-07-17 Denied Response Waived administrative-discretion administrative-law attending-physician discretion jurisdiction medical-evaluation occupational-injury periodic-report second-opinion workers-compensation Whether it is within the OWCP's discretion to not request a periodic report from the AP but to instead obtain a periodic report by scheduling a second…
20-5087 Italo Ebaristo Napa Moreira v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-16 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge due-process johnson jurisdiction maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act miranda prosecutorial-discretion stateless-vessel Whether the MDLEA is unconstitutional due to lack of minimum-contacts or nexus requirement
20-5047 In Re Daniel H. Jones 2020-07-13 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction mandamus prohibition sovereign-immunity standing state-law writ-of-prohibition Whether the issuance of a writ of prohibition and/or mandamus would be justified
20-5020 Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. Tri-Lift North Carolina, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-07-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts judicial-review jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether the court erred in dismissing petitioner's complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction
20-5006 Manuel Olivas-Guevara v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP abduction appeal appeal-timeliness base-offense-level civil-procedure dismissal district-court jurisdiction robbery sentencing-guidelines standing timeliness Did the panel err by dismissing the appeal for timeliness?
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
19-1463 Sandra Jean Oliver v. James C. Oliver, Jr., et al. Mississippi 2020-07-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) abuse-of-discretion chancery-court civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction recusal rule-60 standing void-judgment Whether four orders issued by the chancery court, when the court did not have jurisdiction over the Petitioners, should be held as void and vacated pu…
19-1454 Naray Palaniappan v. United States Second Circuit 2020-07-02 Denied Response Waived computer-search fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-particularity-requirement good-faith-exception jurisdiction jurisdiction-limitation particularity-requirement search-warrant warrant-application warrant-incorporation Where a warrant application requested authorization to search computers 'wherever located' but the warrant itself omitted that language, can governmen…
19-8842 Angel Prado v. United States Third Circuit 2020-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-provisions constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction search-and-seizure sentencing-standards speedy-trial Question not identified
19-1447 Yehudi Manzano v. United States Second Circuit 2020-07-01 Denied Amici (1) 18-usc-3731 circuit-split criminal-appeals-act criminal-procedure interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction jurisdictional-basis jury-nullification mandamus writ-of-mandamus Whether the United States may seek a writ of mandamus in a criminal case to bring an interlocutory appeal that is not permitted by 18 U.S.C. § 3731
19-1449 Ronald E. Davis v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Tenth Circuit 2020-07-01 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction racial-discrimination school-desegregation standing tax Whether the United States Tax Court erred in dismissing petitioner's case for lack of jurisdiction
19-8867 Leonard Lashun Bradley v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure district-court-discretion federal-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-review jurisdiction motion-for-permission out-of-time-appeal procedural-error standing time-limits Whether the district court erred by denying Mr. Bradley's Motion for Permission to File Out of Time Appeal
19-8855 Robert H. Johnson v. Eddie Tester, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction standing takings Question not identified
19-1423 George Vortman v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Response Waived exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction magistrate-judge search-and-seizure void-ab-initio warrant-validity Does the Leon good faith exception to the exclusionary rule apply when the police search and seize property pursuant to a warrant that is void ab init…
19-1422 Nakisha Jackson v. Roy L. Brun, Judge, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-06-25 Denied Relisted (2) 501(3)c appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech funding internet-communication jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge legal-records-access misrepresentation personal-jurisdiction pro-se-litigation secretary-of-state small-business-administration standing Is it considered 'misrepresentation' when an individual is not registered with the Secretary of State (SOS), in their state, to represent an entity, b…
19-1408 James Coppedge, et ux. v. Janet Z. Charlton Third Circuit 2020-06-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-complaint civil-rights-procedure collateral-order-doctrine due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction pleadings procedural-review standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the District Court review of the facial sufficiency of 42 USC § 1983 and § 1985 complaint below ignored the requirements of FRCP Rule 12(c)
19-8793 R. W. v. Dauphin County Social Services for Children and Youth Pennsylvania 2020-06-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction parental-rights standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging violations of due-process, civil-rights, and parental-rights
19-8769 Daryll Shumake v. Virginia Fourth Circuit 2020-06-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigative-report jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct trial-court Whether the trial court erred in denying the petitioner's motion for a new trial based on newly discovered evidence
19-8773 Quincy Harrison v. Vance Laughlin, Warden Georgia 2020-06-22 Denied IFP armed-robbery constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process firearm jurisdiction vehicle-theft Whether the Fifth Amendment's Double Jeopardy Clause is violated
19-8777 In Re Garvester Bracken 2020-06-22 Dismissed IFP article-iii article-iii-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process judicial-determination jurisdiction probable-cause removal standing trial-court-jurisdiction whether-the-trial-court-had-jurisdiction
19-8781 Egbert Francis v. Superior Court of North Carolina, Wake County Fourth Circuit 2020-06-22 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction standing Was the petitioner's right to due process violated when the lower court dismissed their claim without considering the merits?
19-8752 Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. Annette Moore, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-06-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights complaint-dismissal due-process fourth-circuit judicial-procedure jurisdiction official-misconduct precedent standing Whether the petitioner's complaint contains sufficient factual allegations to survive a motion to dismiss
19-8748 Nathan Daniel Knuth v. Colorado Colorado 2020-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant legal principles
19-8714 Bodhi Tree v. Jim Robertson, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-06-15 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provision due-process equal-protection jurisdiction legal-procedure standing supreme-court writ Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
19-8684 Brian David Hill v. United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2020-06-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process fraud-allegations fraud-on-the-court judicial-inaction jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge mandamus mandamus-petition pending-motions Where the U.S. Court of Appeals didn't think that the Petition for Writ of Mandamus should apply to the case of multiple pending motions not being act…
19-1367 Vernon Lee Havens, II v. Maureen O'Connor, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-06-12 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-guarantees due-process equal-protection equal-treatment federal-law judicial-immunity jurisdiction rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 section-1988 superior-courts Do Mireles v. Waco, Brookings v. Clunk, and associated case law combine to grant absolute judicial immunity to all other regulation, Section 1988 suit…
19-1369 TRUMPF, Inc. v. CSI Worldwide, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2020-06-12 Denied Response Waived 11-usc-303 bankruptcy-law-11-usc-303 bankruptcy-standing congress-authority congressional-authority court-procedure involuntary-bankruptcy judicial-estoppel judicial-overreach judicial-usurpation jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirements separation-of-powers standing standing-requirements Whether it is unconstitutional and impermissible for a court to usurp Congress' authority by reducing the strict standing and jurisdictional requireme…
19-8620 Ashley T. Prior v. South Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-06-09 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction standing Question not identified.
19-8622 Kimberley McQueary-Layne v. Louisiana State Board of Nursing, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-06-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law case-number civil-procedure civil-rights court-case district-court due-process government-liability judicial-system jurisdiction legal-proceeding standing Whether the lower courts erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
19-8648 Vernon Wayne McNeal v. Fleming, C/O, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-06-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law administrative-penalties agency-authority civil-procedure due-process jurisdiction regulatory-compliance standing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation three-strikes Question not identified
19-8624 Miguel DeFreitas v. Jaifa Callado, Superintendent, Shawangunk Correctional Facility New York 2020-06-05 Denied IFP constitutional-rights corrective-remedy due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction Did the New York State Appellate and Supreme courts' dismissal of Petitioner's habeas corpus petition, which left Petitioner with no corrective remedy…
19-1343 In Re Edward Starling 2020-06-05 Rehearing Relisted (3) article-i article-i-court civil-procedure due-process income-tax-refund judicial-authority jurisdiction quasi-in-rem question-not-identified tax-court tax-court-jurisdiction title-26 Scope of United States Tax Court jurisdiction under Article I
19-1337 Todd Phillippi v. Humble Design, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-06-04 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure consent dismissal district-court-jurisdiction federal-civil-procedure federal-courts frcp-41 FRCP-60(b) judicial-consent jurisdiction legal-representative magistrate-authority prevailing-party rule-60b standing Whether the District Court and Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals have created an exception to 28 USC 636 (c)
19-8576 Franklin Mackensie Robinson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-record court-of-appeals criminal-case criminal-procedure federal-grand-jury federal-jurisdiction grand-jury jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge statutory-compliance title-40-usc-s-255 Is the Petitioner entitled to review the Administrative Record?
19-8578 In Re Khayree Smith 2020-06-01 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-jurisdiction denationalization due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction nationality racial-classification slave-nomenclature status status-correction What branch of law authorized States to assume jurisdiction over any person prior to adjudication?
19-8552 Curtis McTizic v. Illinois Illinois 2020-05-28 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction standing Question not identified
19-8558 David Hardman v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion Anders-review appeal-waiver breach-of-plea-agreement criminal-procedure jurisdiction Did the circuit court err in refusing to make a determination of the validity of the appeal waiver during a review of the record, pursuant to Anders v…
19-1318 Michael Anthony Deem v. Lorna M. DiMella-Deem, et al. Second Circuit 2020-05-28 Denied abstention civil-rights domestic-relations domestic-relations-abstention due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-question jurisdiction jurisdiction-stripping malicious-prosecution standing May lower federal courts refuse to exercise jurisdiction over federal question claims in the absence of a warrant to do so from Congress or this Honor…
19-8537 Susan Xiao-Ping Su v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-05-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction legal-remedy procedural-error sentencing whether the Ninth Circuit should sua sponte vacate a grand jury conviction and sentence because the defendant alleges court error in failing to apply …
19-8534 Robert W. Johnson v. Performant Recovery, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-05-23 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process jurisdiction standing tax-assessment Whether the Department of the Treasury had jurisdiction to assess taxes against the petitioner for IRS civil matters
19-8484 Ali Mehdipour v. City of Midwest City, Oklahoma, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process final-order jurisdiction rule-60(b) standing Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying jurisdiction from the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma after issui…
19-8510 Juan Carlos Garcia Torres v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law due-process immigration-court immigration-law jurisdiction noncitizen notice-to-appear removal-proceedings Whether an immigration court has jurisdiction to commence removal proceedings against a noncitizen if the 'notice to appear' at the removal hearing fa…
19-8501 Jimmy L. Livingston v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-05-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights collateral-attack due-process jurisdiction standing void-or-voidable Whether the Nebraska Supreme Court abused its discretion or committed reversible error in denying further review of the Nebraska Court of Appeals' dec…
19-8485 Melvin T. Bell v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-05-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process final-judgment judicial-review jurisdiction legal-remedy statutory-interpretation Whether the court of appeals can exercise jurisdiction over the petitioner's interlocutory appeal before the imposition of an unconstitutional sentenc…
19-8476 Robert R. Yerton, Jr. v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2020-05-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-procedure criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction oklahoma-court post-conviction-relief Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals erred in their original 3-3-2020, and subsequent 3-4-2020 request for rehearing, decision to refuse jur…
19-8452 William Strickland v. Illinois Illinois 2020-05-13 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-review jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
19-1288 Alan Singer v. Mondex Corporation Arizona 2020-05-13 Denied appellate-procedure attorney-fees choice-of-law civil-procedure cross-appeal jurisdiction minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction waiver Did the Arizona Supreme Court have subject matter jurisdiction to grant attorney's fees on behalf of an appellee after it declined to grant review; al…
19-8358 Anthony L. Meads v. Illinois Illinois 2020-04-26 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction sixth-amendment speedy-trial Whether the petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial was violated
19-8347 Joseph A. Daniels v. Virginia Virginia 2020-04-23 Denied IFP due-process exigent-circumstances extrinsic-fraud Fourth-Amendment jurisdiction motion-to-vacate probable-cause property-rights standing void-judgment warrantless-search Did the Supreme Court of Virginia have jurisdiction to adjudicate the claims of Daniels' Motion to Vacate, based upon extrinsic fraud, and could it be…
19-8314 Reginald Ward v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2020-04-21 Denied IFP actual-innocence circumstantial-evidence constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process forensic-evidence jurisdiction self-defense statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant is actually innocent when the socks clearly show he acted within his wants, and whether the defendant's exercise of his rights to …
19-8327 Ikemefula Charles Ibeabuchi v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-04-21 Dismissed IFP case-processing certificate-of-appealability civil-rights court-of-appeals discretionary-power due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure standing Whether the District Court should have granted a Certificate of Appealability
19-8308 Terry Gooden v. U.S. Navy/U.S. Marine Corps, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-04-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claim
19-8295 Clarence B. Jenkins, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction pro-se standing Whether the district court's denial of pro se litigant's due process rights requires a writ of certiorari from the U.S. Supreme Court
19-8277 Abraham A. Augustin v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP ancillary-jurisdiction bivens-action civil-procedure constructive-possession criminal-investigation criminal-procedure fed-r-crim-p-16 fed-r-crim-p-41 jurisdiction property-seizure Whether the district court had ancillary jurisdiction over property seized during the criminal investigation
19-8285 In Re David L. Williams 2020-04-17 Denied IFP constitutional-claims due-process equal-protection federal-court-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge sentencing Was dismissal of Petitioner Appeal error by the Fifth Circuit?
19-8286 Edward Tiger v. Florida Florida 2020-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency criminal-competency criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction jurisdictional-prerequisite Whether a finding that a criminal defendant is presently competent to proceed is a jurisdictional prerequisite to a court's authority to deprive an ac…
19-8287 Muhammad Toure v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2020-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-question judicial-review jurisdiction precedent-analysis standing statutory-interpretation Whether the scope of a court's discretion in declining to exercise jurisdiction over a claim for relief in the absence of a federal question is limite…
19-8292 Russell Tinsley v. Sherry Yates, Administrator, Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center, et al. Third Circuit 2020-04-17 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-commitment constitutional-law constitutional-provisions due-process fauntleroy-doctrine full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction Whether the New Jersey civil commitment of Mr. Tinsley was a violation of the Fauntleroy doctrine and/or jurisdiction of the Full Faith and Credit Cla…
19-1226 In Re Masoud Bamdad 2020-04-17 Denied 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 constitutional-rights constitutional-violation detention-review due-process federal-prisoner habeas-corpus inadequate-and-ineffective ineffective-assistance jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge procedural-remedy Whether a federal prisoner can obtain relief via the original writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. §2241 when the initial §2255 motion and its subseq…
19-8276 In Re Levar Lee Anthony Spence 2020-04-16 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rule-60 court-of-appeals district-court federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jurisdiction notice-of-appeal petit-rule Whether the district court should have filed the Petitioner's Civil Rule 60 petition as a notice of appeal in the Court of Appeals?
19-8280 Jesus Jaime Jimenez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-04-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus jurisdiction lack-of-jurisdiction statutory-window Did the Fifth Circuit err in not allowing Petitioner his rights to bring his complaint of 'Lack of Jurisdiction', under a §2254 Writ of Habeas Corpus,…
19-1215 Steven Sussex, et ux. v. City of Tempe, Arizona Arizona 2020-04-14 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure enabling-act federal-defense federal-enabling-act federal-law federal-preemption judicial-procedure jurisdiction property-rights quiet-title state-law Can a state law bar a federal defense in a quiet title proceeding?
19-8234 Eric J. Davis v. LaShann Eppinger, Warden Ohio 2020-04-09 Denied IFP conviction court-jurisdiction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction legal-finality petition-construction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment Whether there can be a finality of judgement of conviction rendered against a criminal defendant, where the criminal court lacked subject-matter-juris…
19-8189 Jose E. Ramos v. Connecticut Connecticut 2020-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof civil-procedure dispute-resolution due-process judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction legal-standing procedural-compliance ripeness-doctrine standing Whether the jurisdiction of the trial court to decide the issue is called into question, and whether the party seeking the exercise of jurisdiction ha…
19-8193 John Purifoy v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review booker booker-decision criminal-procedure downward-departure jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-assistance Whether the courts of appeal have jurisdiction under Booker to review a district court's denial of a motion for downward departure under 5K1.1
19-8179 In Re Harold Wayne Nichols 2020-04-03 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 capital-defendant court-of-appeals habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits merits-adjudication retroactive-law statutory-interpretation successive-petitions When a capital defendant requests from a court of appeals authorization to file in a district court a second or successive habeas petition presenting …
19-8169 Jorge Madero-Gil v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process illegal-reentry immigration-court immigration-law jurisdiction pereira-v-sessions removal-order removal-orders separation-of-powers Whether the immigration court lacked jurisdiction to issue orders of removal, violating separation-of-powers and due-process
19-8171 Carolyn R. Dawson v. Bank of New York Mellon, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment circuit-split claim-preclusion constitutional-due-process due-process fifth-circuit issue-preclusion jurisdiction jurisdictional-dispute Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that it lacks jurisdiction to adjudicate preclusion order disputes
19-1189 BP p.l.c., et al. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore Fourth Circuit 2020-03-31 Judgment Issued Amici (20) appellate-review civil-rights-removal federal-officer-removal jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits remand remand-order removal statutory-interpretation Whether 28 U.S.C. 1447(d) permits a court of appeals to review any issue encompassed in a district court's order remanding a removed case to state cou…
19-8141 Eric Jeffrey Cowan v. Josie Gastelo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-03-30 Denied IFP civil-rights Constitutional-Challenge constitutional-law due-process equal-protection Fourteenth-Amendment Judicial-Review jurisdiction Legal-Interpretation Petitioner-Rights standing Should Petitioner receive relief under United States Constitution Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection
19-8148 Brent Douglas Cole v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct separation-of-powers sovereignty standing territorial-jurisdiction venue Was the Federal court without jurisdiction because the cause did not constitute a Case, the court exceeded its authority, or venue?
19-8129 Charles Ben Bounds v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal bounds-case court-of-appeals criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jurisdiction legal-review sentence-enhancement sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the application of Sentence Enhancement
19-1178 Robert K. Zabka, et ux. v. United States, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-03-27 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-procedure-final-judgment-receivership-appeal conflict-of-laws conflicting-precedent due-process federal-courts final-judgment jurisdiction net-operating-loss partnership-property receivership standing tax-liability timeliness Where the court clerk has entered the final appealable judgment, and the district court judge has initialed it as such, and then the litigant appeals …
19-8096 Marvin D. Noble v. Shane Jackson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-03-24 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
19-8069 Eric S. Newton, Jr. v. Ohio Ohio 2020-03-23 Denied IFP 4th-amendment cell-phone-search civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment jurisdiction law-enforcement-misconduct police-misconduct probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant Was the Ohio Supreme Court in error when it refused to accept jurisdiction over a matter that, like the instant petition, involves a substantial Const…
19-1163 Bernard Rottschaefer v. United States Third Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response Waived appeals collateral-estoppel court-of-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy drug-distribution due-process judicial-deference judicial-review jurisdiction medical-professional precedent standard-of-review substantial-question May the District Court overrule the previous unanimous Court of Appeals decision in the same case?
19-1143 FMC Corporation v. Shoshone-Bannock Tribes Ninth Circuit 2020-03-18 Denied CVSGAmici (3)Relisted (2) civil-rights due-process eighth-circuit federal-indian-law inherent-authority jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits montana-exceptions ninth-circuit-interpretation nonmember-regulation seventh-circuit tribal-jurisdiction tribal-jurisdiction-over-nonmembers tribal-self-government tribal-sovereignty Whether the Ninth Circuit correctly holds that tribal jurisdiction over nonmembers is established whenever a Montana exception is met
19-8028 Tyler Gore v. Florida Florida 2020-03-18 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process free-speech jurisdiction reasons-for-granting-writ standing statement-of-case statutory-provisions Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions?
19-8032 Vaughn Harris v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction reasons-for-granting-writ ripeness standing statement-of-case statutory-provisions Whether the lower court erred in its application of the legal standards for determining standing and ripeness in this case
19-8037 Shlomit Ruttkamp v. Bank of New York Mellon, fka The Bank of New York Connecticut 2020-03-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process foreclosure foreclosure-litigation fourteenth-amendment fraud fraud-allegations jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the court of Connecticut has acted unreasonably and in clear abuse of its discretion when it violated the Fourteenth Amendment to due process …
19-7996 Milton Mayorga v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-16 Denied IFP collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-court-authority immigration-law immigration-removal jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Did the immigration court lack authority to remove Mr. Mayorga because he was not served a notice to appear that had a hearing time?
19-7963 Yehowshua Yisrael v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2020-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process florida-constitution jurisdiction manifest-injustice miscarriage-of-justice procedural-due-process prosecutorial-misconduct substantive-due-process Did the trial Court and State of Florida Prosecutor invoked a miscarriage of Justice and manifest Injustice
19-7924 Shanel Stacz v. ESA Management, LLC, et al. California 2020-03-10 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-amendments court-jurisdiction due-process jurisdiction timeliness transfer-petition writ-of-mandate Whether the Supreme Court of California erred by not granting and transferring the Appellant's Writ of Mandate of original jurisdiction back to the Co…
19-7949 Kenneth Richard Devore v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-public-trust criminal-law criminal-law,evidence,sentencing,fraud,public-trus evidence jurisdiction sentencing sophisticated-means Does sufficient evidence exist to support Mr. Devore's convictions for mail-fraud, theft-of-public-money, wire-fraud
19-7805 Shavis Holloman v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-03-09 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction patent standing takings Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the lower court's decision
19-7910 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Intuit, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2020-03-09 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-law contract contract-rights due-process government-contract government-contracts government-grants judicial-misconduct jurisdiction patent patent-contract patent-rights standing takings Whether the Supreme Court should enforce the mandated prohibition against repudiating government-issued patent contract grants as delineated in govern…
19-1096 Multiventas y Servicios, Inc., et al. v. Oriental Bank Puerto Rico 2020-03-06 Denied credit-default-swap due-process foreclosure foreclosure-standing jurisdiction mortgage-securitization note-ownership promissory-note securities-law securitization standing standing-to-sue ucc-section-3 ucc-section-8 uniform-commercial-code Whether the plaintiff lacks standing to sue for collection of monies and foreclosure when the plaintiff is neither owner, nor holder, nor possessor of…
19-7884 In Re James Ernest Frye 2020-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP adequate-relief appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exceptional-circumstances jurisdiction standing takings Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing
19-7867 David Leon Mims v. Illinois Health and Family Services Illinois 2020-03-04 Denied IFP child-support civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process freedom jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Whether the payment of child support is mandatory and within the jurisdiction of the court to stop an individual's freedom as a free man
19-7871 In Re Antonio Damarcus Woodson 2020-03-04 Dismissed IFP access-to-courts appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-jurisdiction civil-procedure-standing-jurisdiction-federal-rule civil-rights district-court due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure final-judgment jurisdiction legal-standards procedural-due-process retroactive-law standing Whether the jurisdictional requirements under 28 USC §§ 1331, 1332, 1343, 1367, 2072, and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were met, and whether t…
19-7873 Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof case-dismissal civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process firearms judicial-review jurisdiction legal-error mens-rea standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-jurisdiction Whether the government must prove the defendant's knowledge of his prohibited status in order to convict under 18 U.S.C. 922(g)
19-7874 Jackie Dewayne Andrews v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-03-04 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-provisions district-court-jurisdiction due-process federal-court federal-jurisdiction federal-proceedings habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings integrity-of-proceedings judicial-review jurisdiction procedural-defect rule-60(b) rule-60b Does the district court have jurisdiction to consider a Rule 60(b) motion in habeas proceedings so long as the motion attacks, not the substance of th…
19-7829 Dale E. Phillips v. South Coast Plaza, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights civil-rights-discrimination class-action constitutional-rights diversity-jurisdiction due-process equal-protection in-forma-pauperis jurisdiction pro-se-litigation standing state-actor vexatious-litigant Whether California's Vexatious Litigant Laws violate the 1st, 8th and 14th Amendments
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…
19-7851 Lenin Martinez-Alvarado v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 concurrent-sentences criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court downward-departure eleventh-circuit jurisdiction substantive-reasonableness u.s.s.g-§4a1.3 Whether certiorari review should be granted where the Eleventh Circuit held that it did not have jurisdiction to review the district court's denial to…
19-7841 In Re Elloyd Johnson 2020-03-02 Denied IFP certiorari-denial conviction court-jurisdiction due-process habeas-corpus judicial-assignment judicial-misconduct judicial-oath judicial-review jurisdiction oath-of-office sentence Whether a conviction and sentence stand affirmed as closed with no further form of consideration by the court when a judicial officer clearly presided…
19-7808 Richard Wayne Taylor v. Texas Texas 2020-02-27 Denied IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-validity conviction criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jurisdiction oath-of-office sentencing Whether the trial judge's failure to retake and refile a valid oath of office before pronouncing sentence renders a judgment, conviction and sentence …
19-1060 Victor Thomas v. New York New York 2020-02-26 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived appeal appellate-jurisdiction criminal-defendant criminal-procedure garza-v-idaho jurisdiction right-to-counsel sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent waiver waiver-of-appeal Whether a provision in a waiver of appeal that forbids a criminal defendant from filing a notice of appeal, and in so doing also strips superior court…
19-7739 H. K. V. v. Florida Department of Children and Families, et al. Florida 2020-02-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-interpretation standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the lower court dismissed the petitioner's claims without proper jurisdiction
19-7741 Robert W. Johnson v. Victoria Fire & Casualty Insurance Company, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-24 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process federal-courts jurisdiction reasons-for-granting-writ standing statement-of-case statutory-provisions Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the petitioner's case for lack of standing
19-7753 Juan Ramon Pineda-Fernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-24 Denied IFP collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-law immigration-removal jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether the immigration court lacked authority to remove Mr. Pineda because he was not served a notice to appear that had a hearing time
19-7721 Machelle Parsons v. Ashton McDaniel, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-02-21 Denied IFP Child-protective-services-investigation child-support child-welfare civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment Eleventh-Amendment-immunity family-law guardian-ad-litem Guardian-ad-litem-liability jurisdiction parental-rights Parental-rights-termination social-security-disability standing Termination-order-access Does the court have jurisdiction over the parties in the case to mandate services to families if there were no finding of neglect. No adjudicatory hea…
19-7736 Silvester Woods v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-02-21 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights complaint court-of-appeals damages district-court due-process emotional-distress employment intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress jurisdiction representation standing Whether the WMATA and ATU Local 689 presented unjustified excuses to reinstate the plaintiff and deny representation, and whether the district court a…
19-7717 Tarvis M. Wilson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2020-02-20 Denied IFP bail certiorari-petition civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process excessive-bail federal-statute fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge lower-court-conflict pretrial-detention standing supreme-court supreme-court-review Whether the constitutional prohibition on excessive bail, as incorporated through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause, requires a state cour…
19-1027 David Caswell v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-18 Denied Response Waived child-pornography computer-search federal-investigation fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception jurisdiction magistrate-jurisdiction network-investigative-technique search-warrant Did the FBI act in good-faith when it indicated to a magistrate judge that property to be searched pursuant to a search warrant application was locate…
19-1011 Eric F. Kelly v. United States Armed Forces 2020-02-13 Denied Response Waived appellate-review court-martial court-of-appeals-for-the-armed-forces court-of-criminal-appeals courts-martial criminal-appeals due-process judicial-procedure jurisdiction military-court military-courts remand Whether a military Court of Criminal Appeals must review the results of a court martial anew when the court previously reviewed the case but its judgm…
19-7642 Ann Karnofel v. Superior Waterproofing, Inc. Ohio 2020-02-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection exculpatory-evidence federal-evidence judicial-review jurisdiction lower-court standing Were petitioner's due-process rights denied, since she is a female, and an applicant?
19-7602 Joshua Neil Harrell v. Michelle Belyea, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing takings civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process eminent-domain jurisdiction legal-opinion procedural-grounds property-rights reasons-for-writ regulatory-takings statement-of-case takings What is the proper standard for determining whether a government regulation effects a taking under the Fifth Amendment?
19-7591 Leo Lionel Payne v. Jessica Mangum Fourth Circuit 2020-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-deprivation due-process failure-to-defend fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction right-to-travel standing state-action travel When Ms. Mangum acting under color of state law deprived petitioner of constitutional right to travel by the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States…
19-7592 John D. McAllister v. Timothy Malfitano, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-02-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment judicial-integrity jurisdiction jurisdictional-overreach law-enforcement-misconduct probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-falsification Whether the Fourth Amendment was violated by the illegal arrest and search of the petitioner without probable cause
19-7564 In Re Michael Dewayne Seibert 2020-02-06 Denied IFP criminal-procedure death-penalty-case due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge pro-se-representation resentencing resentencing-hearing void-judgment Can a defendant raise a claim of fraud on the court pro se when their counsel refuses to do so?
19-7577 Jason L. Brown v. Lisa M. Brown Third Circuit 2020-02-06 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review jurisdiction standing statutory-provisions systemic-discrimination Whether the United States Courts and United States Justice system discriminate against citizens
19-7558 Freddie Lee Wilson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction question-not-identified standing takings Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims
19-7525 Gregory Joel Sitzmann v. United States District of Columbia 2020-02-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-laws conflict-with-other-courts-of-appeals conflict-with-supreme-court court-of-appeals criminal-procedure drug-smuggling evidence federal-sentencing foreign-drug-smuggling ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction jurisdiction-over-evidence pro-se-petition prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the district court lacked jurisdiction over evidence of foreign drug smuggling and whether the United States Court of Appeals for the District…
19-7493 Charles T. Kirvin v. L. Grant, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-30 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process excusable-neglect good-cause jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge ninth-circuit notice-of-appeal standing timeliness Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit arbitrarily and erroneously denied appeal notice for lack of jurisdiction
19-7474 Rodney Banks v. California California 2020-01-29 Denied IFP 5th-amendment civil-rights deliberation due-process evidence jurisdiction police-misconduct standing Whether my Miranda rights were violated
19-7483 Lisa Washington v. Diana Deleon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appeals appellate-procedure certiorari-petition civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-court in-forma-pauperis judicial-bias judicial-recusal jurisdiction procedural-due-process recusal standing Whether the District of California's rules satisfy the First Amendment's right to access the courts
19-7484 Jose Candelario Perez-Cruz v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-dispute jury-trial maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law mdlea pretrial-hearing stateless-vessel trial-procedure Whether the Court of Appeals clearly erred in upholding the District Court's conclusion that jurisdiction in a stateless vessel case under the MDLEA i…
19-7443 Charles Milton v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2020-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-provisions takings Whether the government's actions violated the petitioner's civil rights
19-944 Scott A. Seldin v. Theodore M. Seldin, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied Response Waived arbitration civil-procedure functus-officio jurisdiction jurisdictional-bar law-of-the-case mandate-rule rule-of-mandate statutory-interpretation trust-accounting Whether the court of appeals erred in affirming the district court's dismissal of a narrow statutory trust accounting action
19-7422 Andre Antonio Fairley v. Mississippi Mississippi 2020-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights colloquy constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction record self-incrimination sentencing waiver Whether the court committed reversible structural error by failing to consider unindicted conduct on the record colloquy with a waiver of course, besi…
19-7399 Frederick Charles Harris, II v. United States Federal Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law asset-seizure civil-procedure due-process irs jurisdiction tax-law Why was my demand denied when the defendant, the Commissioner of the IRS, admitted in writing that they didn't have jurisdiction to take my assets?
19-7410 Victor Manuel Mora-Galindo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied IFP collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-court-jurisdiction immigration-law immigration-removal jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear procedural-due-process removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether the immigration court lacked authority to remove the petitioner because he was not served a notice to appear that had a hearing time
19-932 In Re Julius Jerome Murphy 2020-01-24 Denied 2244(b) 28-U.S.C.-§-2244(b) circuit-court-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jurisdiction prima-facie-showing statutory-interpretation successive-petition successive-petitions Does a circuit court exceed its jurisdiction by requiring a petitioner to satisfy the burden of actually establishing that his application to file a s…
19-7394 Jeremias Guillen v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process illegal-reentry immigration-court jurisdiction notice notice-to-appear pereira-v-sessions removal-proceedings Where a Notice to Appear served on a noncitizen to initiate removal proceedings fails to state the date and time to appear, the noncitizen is never pr…
19-915 Donald Henderson Scott, et ux. v. U.S. Bank National Association, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-court jurisdiction jury-trial standing supreme-court Whether the United States Court of Appeal for the Eighth Circuit misapprehended its jurisdiction in a way that conflicts with decisions of the U.S. Su…
19-7351 In Re Alphonza Leonard Phillip Thomas Bey 2020-01-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 13th-14th-15th-amendments 14th-amendment-property 8th-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment amendment-interpretation black-negro-colored-citizenship citizenship citizenship-status civil-rights constitutional-jurisdiction due-process federal-court-jurisdiction federal-questions-28-usc-1331-1332 jurisdiction moorish-american-national property racial-identity-rights standing Whether the United States Constitution, the United States Congress, and/or the Constitution of the State of North Carolina have jurisdiction over a Mo…
19-7354 Lawrence Martin v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2020-01-21 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-court capital-murder constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process hearing jurisdiction perjury prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct standing Whether state court violated A.C.A. 5-10-202
19-7279 Charlotte Oliphant-Johns v. Good Deal Remodeling Pennsylvania 2020-01-17 Denied IFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights court-records court-system due-process jurisdiction legal-filing municipal-court procedural-error record-keeping standing What laws of Gwil Court jurisdiction were applied in this Municipal Court; why were the defendants barely questioned concerning my complaint; why did …
19-7300 Billy J. Booker v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction sentencing standing statutory-provisions Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. 1962 holds Cubana Air Piracy as a predicate act
19-7249 Herbert Evans v. J. Hollingsworth, Warden Third Circuit 2020-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction parole revocation sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether a district court has the authority to impose a new sentence of imprisonment after the original term of supervised release has expired
19-7250 Thomas Kevin Jenkins v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its application of the legal standard for determining standing to bring a claim
19-865 Marian S. A. Tipp v. JPMC Specialty Mortgage, LLC Alabama 2020-01-10 Denied Response Waived door-closing-statutes due-process equal-protection foreign-corporation foreign-corporations jurisdiction legal-standing property-rights res-judicata Whether a decision with no opinion or legal authority depriving a person of property violates the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments
19-7157 Mother v. Lorain County Children Services Ohio 2020-01-03 Denied IFP abuse-neglect administrative-law child-welfare civil-rights due-process family-law federalism jurisdiction parental-rights separation-of-powers Did Lorain County Children Services violate Parents' rights?
19-7165 Omar Macias-Macias v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-ripeness circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process finality jurisdiction justiciability legal-challenge standing supervised-release Does the doctrine of prudential ripeness allow the Court of Appeals to dismiss a defendant's timely direct appeal challenging a supervised release con…
19-7156 Robert E. Clayborne v. Brad Hansen, Warden Nebraska 2020-01-02 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process false-arrest habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing unlawful-detention Whether the petitioner's allegations of set-up for a false arrest petition for writ of habeas corpus are valid
19-7160 Ernest J. Espinoza v. Matt A. Ashe, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-02 Denied IFP civil-procedure due-process free-speech patent. standing takings appeal case-statement civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process filing-deadlines jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions supreme-court writ-petition Whether civil-procedure rules (including appeal windows) take precedence over statutory filing deadlines
19-7119 Larry Bell v. Kevin Ransom, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-rule-60b federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction legal-standard slack-v-mcdaniel standing third-circuit whether-reasonable-jurist-could-debate-third-circuit-court-of-appeals-adoption
19-7125 Shane R. Dodge, et ux. v. Bonners Ferry Police Department, et al. Idaho 2019-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process idaho-supreme-court jurisdiction police-misconduct standing statutory-provisions Whether the Idaho Supreme Court erred in dismissing Petitioner's civil rights claims against police officers for lack of standing and failure to timel…
19-7068 Janice Baker v. Macy's Florida Stores, LLC Florida 2019-12-27 Denied IFP 14th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing takings Whether the
19-7052 Jose Alexander Callejas Rivera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-23 Denied IFP collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-court-jurisdiction immigration-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge pereira-v-sessions removal-order removal-orders separation-of-powers Whether the immigration court lacked jurisdiction to issue orders of removal, violating separation-of-powers and due-process
19-7028 Jess Lee Green v. Joe Errington Fifth Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction qualified-immunity standing statutory-provisions Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in dismissing petitioner's civil rights claims for lack of standing
19-7033 Ali Darwich v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appeals-court appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60-b-6 district-court district-court-discretion due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-review motion-for-reconsideration rule-60-motion rule-60(b)(6) sixth-circuit-appeal standing Whether the panel erred in construing Darwich's motion as a motion for reconsideration under local rule 7.1(h)(1) and remanding the case back to the d…
19-7037 Shannon Bradley v. Thomas A. Cox, Jr. Georgia 2019-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment arrest-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule jurisdiction probable-cause search-and-seizure trial-court-jurisdiction unlawful-search unlawful-seizure Whether the trial court lawfully obtained its jurisdiction to be heard?
19-7009 Daniel Rosario-Gonzalez v. United States First Circuit 2019-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review case-disposition civil-procedure dismissal dismissal-with-prejudice district-court judicial-authority jurisdiction prejudice procedural-error standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a district court which had no jurisdiction over a case can dismiss it with prejudice
19-7023 Michael P. Cotton v. Scott Eckstein, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-12-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process eminent-domain jurisdiction property-rights standing statutes-and-regulations takings Whether the lower court erred in its application of the legal standard for evaluating a claim under the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment
19-6986 Jarvis H. Neely v. John R. Baldwin, Director, Illinois Department of Corrections, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied IFP 5th-amendment circuit-court-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process eminent-domain federal-jurisdiction free-speech judicial-review jurisdiction pension-regulations property-rights standing statutory-analysis takings Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment prohibits the government from requiring a property owner to dedicate a portion of their property for…
19-6988 Marlon Jessie Blacher v. S. Johnson, Chief Deputy Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-litigation civil-procedure contract due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction fraud interstate-conflict jurisdiction jurisdictional-statute legal-standing non-resident-parties standing Whether the magistrate had valid jurisdiction when Congress has not conferred any jurisdiction by law
19-6996 Myron L. Johnson v. Darren Settles, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review case-disposition civil-procedure constitutional-law court-disposition due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-error legal-procedure lower-court-decisions standard-of-review standing statutory-interpretation Did the lower courts err in their disposition of petitioner's case?
19-6929 Steven D. Lisle, Jr. v. James Diercks, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal civil-procedure district-court due-process notice standing appeal civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction standing Whether Petitioner was denied access to the courts
19-6919 Michael Allen Channel, Sr. v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process excessive-fines incorporation jurisdiction standing takings Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment
19-6903 Alvin R. Barney, II v. Escambia County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure failure-to-prosecute final-judgment judicial-discretion jurisdiction notice-of-appeal premature-appeal sanction sanctions subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Eleventh Circuit had the authority or subject matter jurisdiction to dismiss a premature notice of appeal as a sanction for failure to pro…
19-744 Leslie T. Jackson v. District of Columbia District of Columbia 2019-12-11 Denied Response Waived administrative-dismissal artis-v-district-of-columbia civil-procedure due-process final-adjudication jurisdiction precedent-binding precedent-binding-effect-of res-judicata statute-of-limitation statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction Issues being raised
19-6888 In Re Roger A. Libby 2019-12-10 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection federal-courts habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2244-b-3-a jurisdiction jurisdictional-issues standing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions Does the Pre-Diath Circuit Court of Appeals have jurisdiction to circumvent the statutory commands of 28 U.S.C. 2244(b)(3)(A), established by Congress…
19-6897 Obaydul Hoque Bhuiyan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure federal-tort-claims-act government-liability jurisdiction plaintiff-burden prima-facie prima-facie-showing private-party-analogue standing statutory-interpretation What prima facie showing is it necessary and sufficient for a plaintiff to make, in order to establish the existence of a private-party analogue suppo…
19-6901 Alonso Barrera-Montes v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-10 Denied IFP appellate-review confrontation-clause criminal-procedure department-of-state due-process evidence evidence-admission hearsay hearsay-rule jurisdiction jury-trial Whether the court of appeals erred in upholding the admission of evidence that violated the hearsay rule and the defendant's confrontation rights
19-738 Tom Domingo, Sr. v. Department of the Army, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-12-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts jurisdiction kloeckner-v-solis mixed-cases obstruction-of-justice reduction-in-force standing supreme-court-ruling veterans-preference Did the US. Court of Appeals obstruct justice by ignoring or usurping the U.S. Supreme Court ruling of Kloeckner v. Solis Secretary of Labor federal c…
19-722 Larry J. Hudack v. La Cresta Property Owners Association California 2019-12-06 Denied Response Waived anti-slapp anti-SLAPP-statute civil-procedure collateral-attack due-process federal-statute first-amendment jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect right-to-petition standing state-statute void-judgment void-judgments Is a collateral attack on void judgments, on its face, an assault on the constitutional Right to Petition under any state or federal statute?
19-6867 Jose Luis Maya v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law asylum civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process immigration jurisdiction parole standing statutory-provisions Whether the Department of Homeland Security's policy of denying parole to asylum seekers violates the Immigration and Nationality Act and the Due Proc…
19-6836 Therian Wimbush v. Willie Sue Mickens, Warden Georgia 2019-12-04 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal civil-rights court-appeal-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge speedy-trial standing Can the challenge of a void judgment of conviction be premature?
19-6850 Ledell Tyler v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-statute due-process force-definition hobbs-act home-invasion interstate-commerce jurisdiction non-violent-conduct statutory-interpretation violent-conduct Whether The Meaning of The Word 'Force' Under The Hobbs Act Provision Encompasses Both Violent and Non-Violent Conduct
19-6802 Gary Jackson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process identification identification-process judicial-circuit jurisdiction precedent sentencing standing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent Did the state courts and federal courts err in determining that the identification process violated Supreme Court precedent?
19-6789 Joseph Jasman v. DeWayne Burton, Warden Michigan 2019-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process judicial-misconduct judicial-oath jurisdiction legal-detention standing takings void-judgment Question not identified
19-6776 William Dawson v. Bryan K. Wells Fourth Circuit 2019-11-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process excessive-force good-faith habeas-corpus jurisdiction police-misconduct qualified-immunity sentencing voluntary-manslaughter writ Whether the petitioner is entitled to a remand of the case with instructions for the district court to reduce his or her sentence to time served and o…
19-6787 Robert Lee Mitchell v. Miller, Magistrate Judge, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-11-27 Denied IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions district-court due-process jurisdiction patent standing statutory-provisions takings Is the order of the U.S. district court dated 11-19 valid?
19-6788 Eber Roblero v. Florida Florida 2019-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process extradition jurisdiction standing takings Whether the Gallina doctrine applies to a criminal defendant who has been extradited to the United States
19-6767 Douglas D. True v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness standard-of-review Whether the Eighth Circuit's summary denial of Mr. True's application for a certificate of appealability was based on an adjudication of the underlyin…
19-6742 Jorge Prieto v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Florida 2019-11-25 Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process finality judicial-discretion jurisdiction sentencing subject-matter-jurisdiction trial-court Did the state trial court have jurisdiction to vacate petitioner's sentence and re-impose a life sentence, violating double jeopardy?
19-6744 Kevin M. Merck v. Minnesota Supreme Court, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-11-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bank-account-seizure civil-procedure civil-rights color-of-law court-record-manipulation due-process fraud jurisdiction jurisdictional-dispute procedural-irregularity racketeering seizure standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the seizure of the petitioner's bank account by Washington County, MN was lawful and justified based on the cited case of Cathy S. Jones v. Ke…
19-6713 Derek Tyler Horton v. Sam Cochran Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights constitutional-violation double-jeopardy due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus jurisdiction procedural-error writ-of-certiorari Is there a remedy when the Habeas corpus proceeding fails to protect a citizen from Double Jeopardy violation because of an incorrect procedural rulin…
19-6716 Israel C. Isbell v. Steven Merlak, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-mistake civil-rights consecutive-sentence due-process federal-government federal-jurisdiction interstate-transfer jurisdiction pardon primary-jurisdiction prisoner-custody prisoner-transfer sentencing-procedure sixth-circuit-precedent sovereign-immunity state-custody Does one sovereign lose or surrender its primary jurisdiction when it releases an inmate serving a consecutive sentence into the custody of another so…
19-6737 Leonard L. Little, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2019-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review carpenter-v-united-states constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-law fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure jurisdiction legal-standards privacy search-and-seizure sixth-amendment-confrontation-clause standing supreme-court-precedent Did the Second District Court of Appeal apply federal law issued by the United States Supreme Court in a way that frustrates and undermines its holdin…
19-6705 Keenan G. Wilkins v. J. Galvin, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-11-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction arbitration-award civil-procedure dismissal district-court due-process jurisdiction legal-standard manifest-disregard motion-to-strike motion-to-vacate standing Does the Court of Appeal have jurisdiction to decide an appeal before hearing an oral argument by the appellants, and is the appellants' request for I…
19-6708 Daniel Wert v. Ronnie R. Holt, Warden Third Circuit 2019-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 actual-innocence administrative-remedy atypical-and-significant-hardship atypical-hardship civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-jurisdiction due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction sandin-v-conners section-2241 standing Whether the district court had jurisdiction over the actual-innocence claim, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. Section 2241, even though no good time credit was t…
19-6697 Michael Lawrence Pack v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States District of Columbia 2019-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
19-649 N. E. L., et al. v. Monica Gildner, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-11-19 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment child-custody civil-rights decisional-law due-process fourth-amendment jurisdiction post-removal-hearing post-seizure-hearing qualified-immunity uccjea Were Colorado's UCCJEA requirements detailed enough to defeat qualified immunity in a Fourth Amendment claim arising from the denial of a post-seizure…
19-6654 Tremaine Bernard Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-provisions criminal-extradition due-process federal-authority federalism government-action interstate-jurisdiction jurisdiction jurisdictional-dispute legal-procedure reasons-for-granting-writ state-authority statement-of-case statutory-provisions uniform-criminal-extradition-act uniform-law Where does federal authority end and state authority begin when the Uniform Criminal Extradition Act is violated?
19-613 W&T Offshore, Incorporated v. Apache Deepwater, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response Waived choice-of-law civil-procedure conflict-of-laws federal-courts precedent state-courts civil-law court-procedure federal-court highest-court judicial-methodology jurisdiction jurisdictional-interpretation legal-precedent methodology precedent Whether a federal court applying the law of a civil-law jurisdiction should follow the methodology that the jurisdiction's highest court would apply o…
19-6572 Derrick Hills v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-proceeding coram-nobis criminal-matter federal-criminal-matter federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge united-states-v-morgan Whether Rule 12(b)(2) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure is applicable to coram nobis civil proceedings that challenge jurisdiction in a feder…
19-6578 John Garrett Smith v. Washington Washington 2019-11-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction probable-cause standing Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
19-6588 Carlos Javier Pedroza-Rocha v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-12 Denied IFP administrative-remedies collateral-attack due-process hearing-time illegal-reentry immigration-court immigration-court-authority immigration-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear removal-order removal-proceedings Did the immigration court lack authority to remove Mr. Pedroza because he was not served a notice to appear that had a hearing time?
19-6590 Antwon Whitten v. Atif Atyia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-11-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-courts jurisdiction standing takings Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim
19-6548 Julian Marcus Raven v. United States, et al. District of Columbia 2019-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights corporate-disclosure due-process equal-protection jurisdiction parties standing Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant legal principles
19-6546 Elmer Misael Garcia Ramirez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-authority define-and-punish-clause due-process high-seas international-law international-waters jurisdiction maritime-law nexus Whether the trial court lacked jurisdiction because neither the U.S. Constitution nor any theory of international law permits jurisdiction to be asser…
19-598 Joy Spurr v. Melissa L. Pope, Chief Judge, Tribal Court of the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction non-tribal-member personal-protection-order sovereign-immunity tribal-sovereignty violence-against-women violence-against-women-act Whether a tribe can invoke sovereign immunity to end a federal case challenging the tribe's jurisdiction over a non-tribal member
19-6518 Eric Burgie v. Arkansas Arkansas 2019-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-robbery civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process jurisdiction mental-fitness mental-health parole parole-eligibility sentencing sentencing-scheme Whether the petitioner's sentence violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment
19-6519 Charles M. Ray v. Florida Florida 2019-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-statement civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection jurisdiction legal-conclusion standing statutory-provisions takings writ-reasons Whether the constitutional and procedural due process rights of the petitioner were violated
19-6532 Pedro J. Amaro v. Hector Balderas, Attorney General of New Mexico, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights class-action constitutional-claims due-process equal-protection grand-jury habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jurisdiction procedural-grounds Whether the lower courts prejudicially abused their discretion in denying both COA and the Rehearing request to review the district court's summary di…
19-583 Estate of Robert Cunningham, et al. v. Mark McGuire First Circuit 2019-11-05 Denied facts-underlying false-claims-act first-to-file-bar judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdictional-provision legal-standing pleadings procedural-analysis qui-tam statutory-interpretation Whether Section 3730(b)(5) of the False Claims Act is a jurisdictional provision that permits courts to consider all of the 'facts underlying the pend…
19-6428 Keith Elmo Davis v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2019-11-01 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP 18-usc-1151 choctaw-nation congressional-act dependent-indian-community diminishment disestablishment extinguishment indian-country jurisdiction jurisdictional-boundaries oklahoma reservation reservation-status statutory-interpretation Whether the Choctaw Nation's 10,864 square miles located in the south-eastern part of the state of Oklahoma constituted a reservation under 18 USCA 11…
19-6464 Alejandro Garcia-Jacobo v. Marion Feather, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-10-31 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-convictions due-process habeas-corpus immigration jurisdiction suspension-clause Whether 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(5) eliminates jurisdiction over § 2255 / § 2241 claims challenging criminal convictions
19-6447 Charles Donelson v. Darrise Hardy, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure-review-standard due-process hearing-requirement standing summary-judgment appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-standard ninth-circuit standing statutory-interpretation zipursky Whether the Power applied in this Case by Asserted Judicial Authority Was Contrary to Law and other Circuits in light of the whole Record
19-6433 Edward Anthony Torres v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-jurisdiction district-court due-process federal-courts indian-status jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue magistrate-court native-american native-american-law ninth-circuit pretrial-decision standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a district court may, pretrial, decide an Indian status jurisdictional question
19-6439 Arthur Lopez v. MUFG Union Bank, N.A., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions deception due-process fraud jurisdiction legal-procedure pro-se religious-beliefs standing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Whether the lower courts erred in dismissing Petitioner's claims alleging fraud, deception, and due process violations despite Petitioner's status as …
19-6398 Aretha Townsend v. National Labor Relations Board Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP all-writs-act article-iii case-dismissal civil-procedure civil-rights compliance contempt due-process frivolous judicial-discretion jurisdiction procedural-jurisdiction standing Whether District Judge violated Petitioner's due-process rights
19-542 Robert L. Jarrett, Jr. v. State Bar of California California 2019-10-25 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction attorney-misconduct civil-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jurisdiction legislative-intent precedent recusal-standards standing supreme-court-review vexatious-litigant How does this Court resolve the absence of appellate jurisdiction in the proceedings in which the attorney misconduct is alleged to have occurred, eve…
19-545 Jean Coulter v. Gerri Volchko Paulisick, et al. Third Circuit 2019-10-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-conflict civil-procedure conflicting-decisions domicile due-process judicial-bias jurisdiction procedural-error standing third-circuit venue Has the Third Circuit improperly determined that domicile of Plaintiff can be based exclusively on the determination of domicile in a subsequently fil…
19-6396 Charles Jordan v. John H. Magill, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-10-25 Denied IFP civil-forfeiture civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-law-enforcement due-process equal-protection jurisdiction just-compensation standing takings-clause Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in holding that the Takings Clause does not prohibit the government from taking private property without just compensa…
19-6369 Kelly Dutton v. American Bankers Insurance Company Pennsylvania 2019-10-24 Denied IFP bad-faith bad-faith-claim breach-of-contract civil-procedure insurance insurance-contract jurisdiction municipal-court statute-of-limitations summary-judgment Does this rule exclude municipal court from statute of limitation?
19-6373 Casey Dullea Peppin v. Washington Washington 2019-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP art constitutional-interpretation copyright court-determination due-process effective-assistance-counsel effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence file-sharing jurisdiction legal-error prejudice sexually-explicit-material source-code Did the Washington State Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of Washington err by granting as fact that the defendant shared files with the public?
19-6350 Maurice Antoine-Hake Dobson-El v. Michigan Michigan 2019-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction sentencing speedy-trial standing Whether the Warden Sons Coase tooncd C) abe to a Speedy
19-520 Alan Philipp, et al. v. Federal Republic of Germany, et al. District of Columbia 2019-10-22 Denied CVSGRelisted (3) commercial-activity expropriation-exception foreign-state international-law property-rights commercial-activity expropriation expropriation-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunity instrumentality international-law jurisdiction property-claims property-rights Is the Federal Republic of Germany subject to jurisdiction under the expropriation exception of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act for claims to pro…
19-6334 Ignacio Arellano-Banuelos v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction illegal-entry immigration-law jurisdiction removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether an alien may be 'found' within the meaning of 8 U.S.C. §1326 before immigration authorities achieve actual knowledge of his or her actual pres…
19-519 Psara Energy Ltd. v. ST Shipping & Transport Pte. Ltd., et al. Second Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied Response Waived admiralty-law admiralty-maritime admiralty-maritime-law civil-procedure court-of-appeals federal-jurisdiction interpleader jurisdiction maritime-garnishment mootness supplemental-rules Whether the jurisdiction a court of appeals has over a district court's vacatur of a maritime garnishment under Rule B(1) of the Supplemental Rules fo…
19-6302 James Philip Douglas v. Margaret Gilbert, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2019-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection free-speech jurisdiction standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
19-6300 John Patrick Stokes, et ux. v. LSF 8 Master Participation Trust Ninth Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction mortgage-foreclosure standing statement-of-reasons statutory-provisions takings Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in dismissing petitioners' claims against respondents for lack of standing and failure to state a claim
19-6257 Lamar Lovett v. Texas Texas 2019-10-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fair-trial jurisdiction public-trial sixth-amendment standing takings Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial applies to voir dire proceedings
19-480 John Hankins, et al. v. Barry Seifman, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-10-10 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights contract contract-law court-decisions due-process federalism judicial-overreach jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction michigan-law public-policy res-judicata sixth-circuit state-law Can the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals violate settled Michigan law, Sixth Circuit and U.S. Supreme court decisions and/or make Michigan law?
19-6243 Jackie Ray Patrick v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-defects due-process indictment indictment-validity jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue mississippi-law standing state-law void-for-failure-to-state-offense void-for-vagueness Whether Patrick's conviction and sentence were derived from a defective indictment
19-6200 Michael Scott Smith v. Florida Florida 2019-10-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence constitutional-claims criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process florida-statutes habeas-corpus indictment jurisdiction lesser-included-offenses post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-court statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Can a State Court indict an accused on one charge and take him to trial on another in the case of the same crime merely because a theory of prosecutio…
19-6226 Supreme Raheem Ackbar v. Patricia S. Connor, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction standing statutory-provisions takings Is the order of the U.S. District Court deed dated 17 Void?
19-6184 Chavalier Dwayne Johnson, Sr. v. Lars Severson, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
19-6197 Donald Steven Reynolds v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP §2255-motions circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-procedural-rules federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jurisdiction local-rule-interpretation local-rules motion-to-strike page-limits statutory-interpretation Is the Sixth Circuit's holding in-Martinez v. United States, that the 25 page limit under Local Rule 7.1 applies to §2255 Motions, inconsistant with R…
19-6168 Edward Robinson v. DeWayne Burton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-provisions takings Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated
19-6188 John Gregory Alexander Herrin v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction collateral-order-doctrine due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury-indictment grand-jury-indictment-clause interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction statute-of-limitations Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in failing to assume interlocutory appellate jurisdiction over petitioner's Fifth Amendment grand-jur…
19-6169 In Re Anthony Brawner 2019-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federalism jurisdiction mandamus maryland-jurisdiction sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction trial-rights venue Does the District of Columbia superior court have subject matter jurisdiction over crimes that happen in the State of Maryland?
19-6133 Jeremy S. Cochran v. Maryland Maryland 2019-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights conviction convictions criminal-procedure due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing Did the court of appeals of Maryland err in denying petitioner's appeal?
19-6153 Davontah Lee Nelson v. Sherry L. Burt, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-10-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts jurisdiction standing Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its decision that conflicts with federal procedures and precedents
19-6134 In Re Recardo Wimbush, et ux. 2019-10-02 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-imprisonment habeas-corpus jurisdiction slavery speedy-trial state-remedies void-judgment Whether the petitioner's judgment of conviction should be vacated for lack of jurisdiction under the U.S. Constitution
19-6103 Farid John Popal v. New York New York 2019-10-01 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence government-misconduct jurisdiction law-enforcement skype-testimony witness witness-coaching witness-testimony Whether law enforcement's coaching the witness violated petitioner's due process rights
19-416 Nestlé USA, Inc. v. John Doe I, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-27 Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) aiding-and-abetting alien-tort-statute civil-procedure corporate-activity corporate-liability domestic-corporation extraterritoriality foreign-actors foreign-investment international-law jurisdiction Whether an aiding and abetting claim against a domestic corporation brought under the Alien Tort Statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1350, may overcome the extraterr…
19-418 Benoit Brookens v. Patrick Pizzella, Acting Secretary of Labor District of Columbia 2019-09-27 Denied Response Waived appeal civil-rights district-court due-process federal-circuit jurisdiction merit-systems-protection-board mixed-appeal non-discrimination Whether the Federal Circuit has jurisdiction over non-discrimination issues in a mixed appeal filed within 60 days of the decision by the Merit System…
19-6085 Frank Amodeo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii civil-procedure civil-procedure-standing constitutional-standing criminal-forfeiture criminal-procedure due-process federal-court-procedure federal-courts jurisdiction jurisdictional-hierarchy non-merits-questions standing standing-requirement Must a federal court resolve standing issues before resolving other dispositive, non-merits questions?
19-6087 Atif Babar Malik v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-09-27 Denied IFP appellate-procedure charged-statute circuit-split cotton-precedent criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge scope-of-statute statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction united-states-v-cotton Do courts lack subject matter jurisdiction when alleged conduct falls outside the scope of the charged statute?
19-406 Marilu F. Touma v. The General Counsel of the Regents, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-26 Denied Relisted (2) abuse-of-power ada ada-violation americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights conspiracy-to-interfere-with-civil-rights disability disability-discrimination due-process jurisdiction medical-discrimination medical-treatment Whether UCLA Medical Center violated the ADA and Civil Rights when it denied medical treatment to a disabled woman, provided substandard services, and…
19-6038 Clayton Paul Bateman v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights color-of-law colorable-authority congressional-authority due-process forum-challenge forum-procedures jurisdiction jurisdictional-standing procedural-due-process standing state-authority state-sovereignty Whether a person has standing before a non-sovereign state forum with no act of the U.S. Congress delineating jurisdictional authority over such perso…
19-6039 Camilo Andres Landazuri Vargas v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied IFP congress-powers-limits congressional-power criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment foreign-national international-law international-waters jurisdiction jurisdictional-element maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution Whether the prosecution of Mr. Vargas - an Ecuadorian national with no ties to the United States - for trafficking controlled substances in internatio…
19-6044 Janice Stevenson v. TND Homes I LLC Massachusetts 2019-09-24 Denied IFP anti-peonage anti-peonage-act civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process housing jurisdiction low-income-housing privileges-and-immunities statutory-interpretation summary-process supremacy-clause thirteenth-amendment Does Massachusetts General Law (MGL) c 239 Summary Process for Possession of Land subrogate IRC § 26 U.S. Code §42(h)(6)(B)(vi) (IRC §42) restriction …
19-6029 Frank Jeffs v. Michael Overmyer, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Forest, et al. Pennsylvania 2019-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder habeas-corpus jurisdiction premeditated-murder prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense sentencing sentencing-order Whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court was required to vacate and set aside the judgment and discharge the prisoner when the Commonwealth refused to f…
19-377 Kraig Rudinger Kast v. Erickson Productions, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-20 Denied capacity-to-be-sued civil-procedure civil-procedure-jurisdiction due-process erisa frcp-17(b) inter-vivos-trust jurisdiction probate probate-law standing tenth-amendment Whether the district and appellate courts have jurisdiction over a person if the person lacks capacity to be sued under FRCP 17(b)
19-6010 John Robert Demos v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. First Circuit 2019-09-20 Closed IFP citizenship civil-rights diversity-jurisdiction due-process foreign-nationals jurisdiction residency standing state-treaties subject-of-foreign-nation Whether the Supreme Court has jurisdiction over cases involving projected persons, foreign nationals, subjects of a foreign nation, state treaties, an…
19-6011 John Robert Demos v. United States, et al. District of Columbia 2019-09-20 Closed IFP civil-rights due-process foreign-nationals foreign-policy immigration jurisdiction protected-persons standing statutory-provisions Whether the Supreme Court has 'original jurisdiction' over cases involving aliens, foreigners, nationals, and subjects
19-364 Dwayne Lamar Williams, Sr. v. Virginia Virginia 2019-09-19 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury incorporation jurisdiction state-criminal-procedure state-indictment Does the Fifth Amendment grand jury right apply to state indictments via the Fourteenth Amendment?
19-6008 David W. Tippens v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule good-faith-exception jurisdiction magistrate-judge magistrate-jurisdiction search-and-seizure void-ab-initio warrant warrant-validity Does the Leon good faith exception to the exclusionary rule apply when the police search and seize property pursuant to a warrant that is void ab init…
19-363 Jim R. Nash v. Norma Nash, et al. Arkansas 2019-09-18 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts fourteenth-amendment full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction state-court state-courts substitution Whether a judgment without jurisdiction of the decedent violates the petitioner's right to due process under the Fourteenth Amendment
19-5972 Dimitri Bernard Robinson v. Michigan Michigan 2019-09-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights federal-courts jurisdiction pen-register petition privacy probable-cause supreme-court trap-and-trace writ-of-certiorari Was petitioner's Fourth Amendment right to privacy and protection violated without probable cause, when law enforcement obtained an unreasonable order…
19-5990 David Alan Vogel v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-18 GVR Relisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure circuit-court-jurisdiction circuit-court-split civil-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction notice-of-appeal procedural-defect right-to-appeal standing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals conflict with Supreme Court precedent by denying the petitioner's right to appeal based on a minor defect in th…
19-5952 Keith A. Gordon v. Cenedra D. Lee, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether the issues presented in the petition are properly raised and preserved for review
19-5956 Adrian Apodaca v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause constitutional-jurisdiction crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process federalism interstate-action jurisdiction sentencing Whether the defendant's conviction and sentence can be upheld under the definition of 'crime of violence'
19-5971 Darlene Schmidt v. Gary R. Herbert, Governor of Utah Tenth Circuit 2019-09-17 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appeals appeals-court appeals-procedure cause-of-action civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation corporate-governance dismissal due-process facts judicial-bias judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction misrepresentation standing Does appeals court's dismissal finding 2 reliefs but no known cause show the appeals court is misrepresenting the facts?
19-5902 Sharvelt Mister v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Arkansas 2019-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression judicial-hearing judicial-process jurisdiction procedural-fairness standing supremacy-clause Whether the actions taken by law enforcement, including arrest and detention without a judicial determination of probable cause, violate the petitione…
19-331 Sequoia Capital Operations, LLC v. Jessica Gingras, et al. Second Circuit 2019-09-11 Denied arbitrability arbitration arbitration-agreement civil-procedure contract contract-interpretation contract-law court-jurisdiction delegation-provision federal-arbitration-act jurisdiction Whether Section 2 of the Federal Arbitration Act requires a court to decide any challenge to a delegation provision's validity before the court may pr…
19-320 Harold Wade, et ux. v. Kreisler Law, P.C. Seventh Circuit 2019-09-10 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure claim-processing federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure functional-equivalence jurisdiction jurisdictional-rules mandatory-claim-processing-rules notice-of-appeal petition-for-appeal petition-for-permission-to-appeal whether the 'functional equivalence' doctrine applies to nonjurisdictional mandatory claim processing rules requiring a petition for permission to app…
19-5880 Andrew Joseph Larson v. Michael Pacheco, Warden Wyoming 2019-09-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights constructive-denial-of-counsel criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction name-change personal-jurisdiction presumption-of-guilt presumption-of-innocence standing state-department subject-matter trial-jurisdiction What are the necessary components for the trial court to be complete and hold jurisdiction over a case and was Avitabile's trial court complete?
19-5901 In Re Charles K. Hamilton 2019-09-10 Denied IFP civil-procedure-standing-jurisdiction-due-process- civil-rights constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge legal-standing standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's petition for writ of mandamus
19-319 Bonnie Cruickshank-Wallace, et vir v. CNA Financial Corporation, et al. Third Circuit 2019-09-09 Denied alter-ego-doctrine civil-procedure claim-preclusion due-process holding-company issue-preclusion jurisdiction malpractice precedent standing subsidiary-liability technicality Should this Court affirm the standard that 'claim preclusion' requires the new claim to arise from the same set of facts as a claim adjudicated on the…
19-5863 Crystal Biton v. United Airlines, et al. Third Circuit 2019-09-09 Dismissed IFP air-travel civil-procedure civil-rights common-carrier constitutional-provisions disability-discrimination due-process jurisdiction passenger-rights standing takings Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the respondent United Airlines denied the petitioner boarding on a flight due to the…
19-5867 Angela Krasny v. Jacob Krasny New Jersey 2019-09-09 Denied IFP 14th-amendment child-custody civil-procedure civil-rights commencing-during-pendency due-process full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction parental-rights protective-order standing takings Whether New Jersey can deny or limit civil procedural due process protected under the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution especially when the court …
19-5872 Philip Hugh Wentzel v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal certificate-of-appealability collateral-review constitutional-rights conviction criminal-charge criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-error Were petitioner's double jeopardy and due process rights violated?
19-5849 Sara Elyas v. Edward Andrew Johnston, et al. Michigan 2019-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process insurance jurisdiction standing supreme-court Whether the state court erred in dismissing the case against the defendant Auto-Owners Insurance Company
19-5815 Antonio Demetrius Parker v. Virginia Virginia 2019-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence false-imprisonment jurisdiction probable-cause search-and-seizure standing warrant-requirement Did the Supreme court of Virginia err when it determined that the circuit court didn't have the jurisdiction to give the petitioner the relief sought …
19-5826 Jerry Perez, Jr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-05 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction patent standing takings Whether the 5 Great Lobsters of Spect on é a flab ed, (flee OitteS- ad Ggee table a og | tp iotees daw , a het si ance Ge She Syihan - wating Cnn YS c…
19-5803 Robert H. Johnson v. Drew Stanley, Superintendent, Warren Correctional Institution Fourth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its application of the 'effective compromise' doctrine
19-5822 Ronald Tuttle v. United States Second Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-provisions due-process judicial-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-issues standing supervisory-powers supreme-court-review the-supreme-court Did the United States Supreme Court err in denying the petition for writ of certiorari
19-278 Pfizer Inc., et al. v. Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, et al. California 2019-09-03 Denied Amici (1) bristol-myers-squibb civil-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-law forfeiture jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a defendant's efforts to establish federal subject matter jurisdiction can result in forfeiture of an otherwise fully preserved challenge to p…
19-5786 Joshua George Nowland v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-03 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction barker-v-wingo civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction prejudice pretrial-detention speedy-trial Is oppressive pretrial incarceration still an important aspect of the Barker balancing test?
19-5745 Mary Ryan v. Robert J. Connelly, III, et al. Rhode Island 2019-08-30 Denied IFP attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process jurisdiction parties self-represented-litigant standing Whether the Court has jurisdiction to proceed with a case without having the proper parties to a case
19-5764 Ola D. Dickens v. Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-08-30 Denied IFP 7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech judicial-procedure jurisdiction seventh-amendment standing surveillance Whether circuit court made a mistake on order filed 12/04/2017, finding no basis in documents or records filed 11/07/2017, to conclude that any of Pla…
19-5756 In Re James Bryant 2019-08-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process felony-murder felony-murder-doctrine-retroactivity habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-jurisdiction jurisdiction retroactive-application retroactivity subject-matter-jurisdiction vagueness Whether the state trial court lacked subject-matter jurisdiction by convicting Petitioner in 1971 under a vague first-degree murder statute
19-5759 Travis Lavoy Jenkins v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-08-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence civil-rights conviction due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing Whether a petitioner can bring a habeas corpus petition challenging a conviction based on a claim of actual innocence, even if the petitioner is not i…
19-262 Xiao-Ying Yu v. Robert R. Neall, Secretary, Maryland Department of Health, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-08-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 11th-amendment-immunity ada-title-vii civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eeoc-jurisdiction employment employment-discrimination federal-diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction pleadings retaliation right-to-sue standing Whether the lower courts' refusal to consider EEOC's right-to-sue letter and her statements as part of pleadings, and her request and leave for amendm…
19-5733 Latasha Boyd v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection freedom-of-expression freedom-of-religion jurisdiction life-liberty-property standing What constitutional rights were violated?
19-5743 Michael Dewayne Hegwood v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 binding-precedent career-offender criminal-procedure criminal-resentencing federal-jurisdiction first-step-act jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Does the First Step Act authorize a court to 'impose' a reduced sentence in accordance with such statutes as 18 U.S.C. §§ 3553(a) and 3582(a), or does…
19-5664 Curtis Lee Sheppard, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2019-08-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-motivation criminal-procedure Does the application of the 'enterprise profits' t double-jeopardy due-process federal-prosecution jurisdiction pecuniary-gain rico-enterprise standing standing-issue statutory-interpretation vcar-statute Whether the trial court lacked the authority to set aside the conviction and dismiss the cause
19-5696 Adrian Francis Williams v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights custody discovery due-process fourth-amendment jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment speedy-trial state-law Whether the petitioner's speedy trial rights were violated by the delay in bringing him to trial
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…
19-232 New Mighty U.S. Trust, et al. v. Robert Shi, as Executor of the Will of Yueh-Lan Wang, et al. District of Columbia 2019-08-21 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived burden-of-proof choice-of-forum choice-of-law circuit-split civil-procedure conflict-of-laws forum-non-conveniens jurisdiction jurisdictional-doctrine standing venue Whether a forum resident bears a heightened burden to establish that a suit brought by a foreign plaintiff should be dismissed under the doctrine of f…
19-5661 David M. Robinson v. Warden, Fort Dix FCI, et al. Third Circuit 2019-08-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence aedpa civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-writ jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect pro-se section-2255 standing Whether there exist a conflict between the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in this case and the unanimous decisio…
19-215 Darrel Conell Nevels v. Piggly Wiggly Corporation, et al. Alabama 2019-08-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process gross-negligence interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction premises-liability qualified-immunity In qualified liability cases, whether an Appellate court has jurisdiction to hear a Rights to Due Process, Gross Negligence, and Premises Liability in…
19-5618 Charles Singletary, Jr. v. Georgia Georgia 2019-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction standing takings Question not identified
19-5587 In Re Levar Lee Spence 2019-08-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-violations cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection false-imprisonment federal-courts federal-habeas-statute habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction liberty-rights Whether the courts can refuse and/or feign review of habeas corpus claims asserting constitutional violations, would warrant habeas corpus relief?
19-5599 Lisa J. Gillard v. Illinois Illinois 2019-08-15 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federalism fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine judicial-review jurisdiction state-courts Does the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution apply in the Illinois State Courts?
19-5571 Carlos Eloy Garcia-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-procedure burden-of-proof criminal-law deportation due-process federal-criminal-law illegal-reentry immigration-law jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Whether an alien may be 'found' within the meaning of 8 U.S.C. §1326 before immigration authorities achieve actual knowledge of his or her actual pres…
19-5534 James W. Royster v. Virginia Virginia 2019-08-12 Denied IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-procedure-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process jurisdiction standing state-courts statutory-interpretation Did the Henrico County Circuit Court err in determining that it did not have jurisdiction to consider such motions for Virginia Supreme Court Rule 5:1…
19-5537 Benjamin Escobedo v. Texas Texas 2019-08-09 Denied IFP 6th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-defects-indictment due-process indictment jurisdiction motion-to-close motion-to-quash sixth-amendment trial-court Did the Trial Court err when it overruled Appellants Motion to Quash the Amended Indictment?
19-5506 Darrel R. Fisher v. J. Doe Eighth Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-immunity jurisdiction standing Can a federal court's judge make up his own rules that violate civil, constitutional and legal rights and privileges protected by the laws of the Unit…
19-5512 Gregory Green v. Donald Beckwith, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim court-of-appeals due-process jurisdiction standing Whether the Fourte Curcoct erred by denying 4 Coch fegte of oppealadibly ast the apileshle Sond of revrews
19-5514 In Re Charlene Terry-Ann Walker Rosa 2019-08-08 Dismissed IFP civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jurisdiction public-defender wrongful-conviction Whether the Blue Caste that rested on a Wrongful Conviction of an innocent person because of Ineffective Counsel Lack Knowledge and Understanding of t…
19-175 Brad S. Francis, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eighth Circuit 2019-08-07 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act agency-misconduct appellate-procedure due-process jurisdiction notice-of-deficiency personal-jurisdiction reasoned-opinion statutory-notice subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-court tax-court-jurisdiction Does the Eighth Circuit's judgement and PER CURIAM AFFIRMANCE using Local Rule 47B AFFIRMANCE OR ENFORCEMENT WITHOUT OPINION of Case No. 18-2447 satis…
19-5501 Mandrail Jamar Woodberry v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-08-07 GVR IFP appellate-procedure counsel-withdrawal criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit jurisdiction rehaif rehaif-decision rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review withdrawal-of-counsel Whether the court should vacate the opinion of the 4th Circuit and remand for further proceedings in light of Rehaif v. United States
19-5443 Kent Vu Phan v. R. Brooke Jackson, Judge Tenth Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction standing Question not identified.
19-5444 Andrew Blake Moorehead v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception jurisdiction jurisdiction-limitation network-investigative-technique void-ab-initio warrant warrant-validity When a warrant is void ab initio, does the Good-Faith exception to the exclusionary rule apply?
19-5451 Michael Lawrence Robinson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP binding-precedent circuit-split constitutional-question court-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2255 jurisdiction statutory-interpretation successive-petitions Whether the Eleventh Circuit exceeded its statutory mandate under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(3)(C) when it issued published rulings on the merits of open leg…
19-5461 Anthony L. Pierce v. Lisa Garrett, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal civil-procedure civil-rights conclusion constitutional-provisions dismissal due-process frivolous jurisdiction magistrate opinions-below reasons-for-writ standing statement-of-case Did the court erred in allowing the magistrate to use non-meritorious issues to dismiss petitioner's action without prejudice, barring appeal
19-5474 Terry Lee Carlson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP computer-search district-court due-process evidence evidence-suppression fourth-amendment jurisdiction search-limitation search-warrant territorial-jurisdiction venue warrant-scope Did the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals disregard plain and unambiguous language in the search warrant limiting searches to the computers located in t…
19-5486 Jarrell Williams v. United States Second Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-of-defendant constitutional-provisions criminal-prosecution district-court-jurisdiction due-process federal-juvenile-delinquency-act ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction juvenile juvenile-delinquency juvenile-offenders rico rico-conspiracy Did the Federal Juvenile Delinquency Act divest the district court of jurisdiction over the petitioner's prosecution?
19-165 Daniel T. Morgan v. Sheri A. Morgan Pennsylvania 2019-08-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) alimony-contract appellate-court contract contract-interpretation due-process en-banc judicial-procedure jurisdiction jurisdiction-limitation overrule same-case Whether it is due process of law for an intermediate appellate court, not en banc, to overrule its decision in the same case
19-167 Galen J. Suppes v. Curators of the University of Missouri Missouri 2019-08-05 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment invention-rights Jurisdiction Patent-Law patent-misuse standing takings university-ownership Was the Judgment's demand of perpetual (no limit in time or geography) and unconditional payment of remunerations of sixteen years of Defendant Suppes…
19-5463 Jesse Dean v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence aedpa-restrictions anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act brady-v-maryland criminal-jurisdiction criminal-offense due-process federal-procedure fraud habeas-corpus jurisdiction kyles-v-whitley Whether the District Court had jurisdiction
19-5426 Leonard Stansberry v. Texas Texas 2019-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions court-review due-process equal-protection jurisdiction legal-procedure police-misconduct racial-discrimination standing statutory-provisions takings writ wrongful-death Whether the cause and manner of death of Quastisa Ne was properly investigated and determined
19-5427 Danny Reaves v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1291 civil-procedure due-process final-order jurisdiction standard-of-review standing statutory-interpretation unadjudicated-claims Whether the court leaves claims unadjudicated, is that considered a final order within the meaning of 28 U.S.C. § 1291?
19-5435 Steven Eason v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause due-process jurisdiction sexual-battery subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the defendant's constitutional rights against double jeopardy are violated when multiple identical sexual battery charges are brought based on…
19-5413 John Thomas Rooney v. Georgia Georgia 2019-08-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus jurisdiction plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-jurisdiction unconstitutional unconstitutional-conviction Can convictions and sentences imposed by a State Trial Court without Constitutional or statutory subject-matter jurisdiction be used to enhance a 24-y…
19-5417 Travis Wayne Bentley v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2019-07-31 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP appeals civil-procedure criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction indian-law jurisdiction native-american-rights standing Whether the state court had jurisdiction to convict the petitioner under the Major Crimes Act
19-5418 Walter Lee Brown v. James Deal, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment free-speech jurisdiction land-use-regulation property-rights regulatory-takings standing takings-clause Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment does not prohibit the government from requi…
19-5380 In Re Charles L. Cox 2019-07-30 Denied IFP community-supervision criminal-procedure deferred-adjudication due-process equal-protection jurisdiction separation-of-powers vagueness void-for-vagueness Is Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, Article 42.1285(a) deferred Adjudication Community Supervision void for vagueness?
19-5396 Vincent Anzalone v. United States First Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure-41(b) federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure good-faith-exception government-policy judicial-authority jurisdiction procedural-violation warrant warrant-application Whether the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule is categorically applicable to a warrant issued in violation of Federal Rule of Criminal Pro…
19-5398 Steven Talbert Williams v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure collateral-claims court-of-appeals dismissal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure internal-operating-procedures jurisdiction jurisdictional-claims local-rules pendent-jurisdiction procedural-rules standing Will the Court provide for questioning upon Fed. R. App. P. 27, L.R. 27(d), (g), (i) and L.R. 40.2 of the Local Rules and Internal Operating Procedure…
19-5400 Jason Alston v. Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc., dba Luvel Fifth Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied IFP admissibility civil-procedure dispositive-motion district-court evidence evidence-admissibility evidence-hearing evidentiary-hearing hearing judicial-procedure jurisdiction legal-motion Whether the Respondent's Declarations submitted with their Dispositive Motion inadmissible evidence?
19-5406 Ronald Lee Coleman v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims constitutional-law district-court due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-error petitioner-rights procedural-due-process standing takings Whether the District Court erred in failing to address Petitioner's constitutional claims
19-5408 Gregory Daniels v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-dismissal dismissal due-process fourth-circuit jurisdiction legal-error notice-of-appeal standard-of-review standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred as a matter of law by dismissing petitioner's notice of appeal
19-134 Blanca Telephone Company v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-07-29 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation agency-reconsideration auer-deference chevron-deference civil-procedure due-process exhaustion jurisdiction jurisdictional-review statutory-interpretation takings universal-service-fund Whether Chevron and Auer required the appellate court to accord absolute deference to the Government's conflicting jurisdictional statements
19-5349 Andrew Condon v. Illinois Illinois 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its application of the law
19-5327 Quitissica Y. Howell v. Social Security Administration Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
19-5328 Lyle R. Harrison v. Moultrie County, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-subsidies indigency judicial-procedure jurisdiction speedy-trial state-jurisdiction usda-fsa-subsidies Whether due process allows the Illinois Courts jurisdiction over federal farm USDA/FSA subsidies, or federal courts jurisdiction over federal farm USD…
19-5297 Esterlin Appolon v. Arizona Arizona 2019-07-24 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-law judicial-review jurisdiction post-conviction second-amendment sentencing standard-of-review state-court sufficiency-of-evidence unreasonable-application Whether the Arizona Supreme Court abused its discretion by dismissing the Petition for Special Action and Motion for Stay?
19-5314 Aurora Barrera v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-petition 28-usc-1291 28-usc-2255 appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review district-court due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-procedure jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Whether a court of appeals has jurisdiction over an appeal of the denial of a § 2255 Petition pursuant to § 1291 when the District Court fails to adju…
19-5288 In Re Otis B. Brascom 2019-07-23 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the false complaint and indictment in violation of Rule 12(b)(6) of the Federal Rules …
19-5269 Reginald Christopher Gilbert v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-22 Denied IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-review jurisdiction objection reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-review Whether a formal objection after pronouncement of sentence is necessary to invoke appellate reasonableness review of the length of a defendant's sente…
19-5221 Richard Potts v. United States Third Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-claim constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jurisdiction sentencing standing statutory-interpretation Whether collateral review is available to obtain relief under 28 USC § 2255 in the circumstances presented
19-5238 Arthur Lopez v. The Irvine Company Apartment Communities, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation due-process fair-housing-act federal-jurisdiction federal-review jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction remedies standing state-court-jurisdiction state-law Whether the Plaintiff and the General Cable did B permitted to Pursue Relief from Violations of the Kou Hearing Act (1968) for Segregation and Hearing…
19-5257 In Re Vincent Johnson 2019-07-19 Denied IFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-procedure-rules-60-b-6 clerk clerk-filing due-process federal-appeals federal-courts judicial-procedure jurisdiction motion motion-for-relief relief-sought rule-60-motion sixth-circuit standing Whether the clerk for the Sixth Circuit Debbrah Hunt should be order to file movant's R. 60(b)(6) motion
19-5209 Therian Cornelia Wimbush v. Willie Sue Mickens, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP conviction direct-appeal due-process federal-exhaustion habeas-corpus jurisdiction sentence speedy-trial state-court-remedy Does the timely and legally sufficient filing of a Notice of Appeal of a Directly Appealable post-conviction Statutory Speedy Trial motion preclude th…
19-5210 Therian Wimbush v. Christopher M. Carr, Attorney General of Georgia, et al. Georgia 2019-07-17 Denied IFP access-to-courts appeal appeals appellate-procedure civil-rights discretionary-appeal due-process georgia-court-of-appeals georgia-courts incarceration jurisdiction mailbox-rule parental-rights pro-se pro-se-litigant time-limitation Should the 'Mailbox Rule' be extended to all notices of appeal that must be filed in the trial court, filed by pro se incarcerated litigants?
19-5169 Timothy Stratton v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 107 325 U.S. 91 65 S.Ct. 1031 89 L.Ed. 1495 (1945) civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jury-instructions screws-v-united-states venue Whether the trial court failed to instruct the jury on the elements of the crime (venue) as according to Screws v. United States, 325 U.S. 91, 107, 65…
19-5201 Kenneth Medenbach v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3561 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing-authority district-court-jurisdiction due-process jurisdiction probation probation-term sentencing-authority statutory-interpretation substantial-rights supervised-release Did the District Court err in finding that it has authority under 18 USC §3561(a)(3) to impose a sentence of six months imprisonment and a 5 year term…
19-79 Dana Albrecht v. Katherine Albrecht New Hampshire 2019-07-16 Denied Response Waived choice-of-law civil-rights conflict-of-laws due-process federalism full-faith-and-credit judicial-procedure jurisdiction marital-estate property-law sister-state Does this constitute a policy of 'hostility to the public Acts' of a sister State?
19-74 Michael A. Willner, et ux. v. James Dimon, et al. District of Columbia 2019-07-15 Denied Response Waived administrative-law constitutional-claims due-process fdic federal-deposit-insurance-corporation financial-institutions financial-institutions-reform-recovery-and-enforce firrea judicial-review jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Whether the DC Circuit erroneously held that 12 U.S.C. § 1821(d)(6)(A) required claimants to have filed their constitutional claims against the FDIC i…
19-5164 Lamont Renard Stewart v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-15 Denied IFP conflict-with-precedent court-decision court-of-appeals federal-law federal-question important-issue judicial-review jurisdiction legal-conflict legal-settlement petition-for-writ settled-by-supreme-court standing Whether a State Court or a United States Court of Appeals has decided an important question of federal law that has not been, but should be, settled b…
19-5168 Stephenson Lamar Smith v. Ted Jackson, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct standing Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment protects an individual from being tried on different charges related to the same offense
19-5190 Steven Williams v. National Railroad Passenger Corporation, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-07-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging violations of his civil-rights, due-process, and free-sp…
19-5158 John Higgins, Jr. v. Federal National Mortgage Association First Circuit 2019-07-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process free-speech jurisdiction patent standing statement-of-case statutory-provisions takings Whether the lower court erred in its decision
19-5156 Theresa A. Logan v. Town of Windsor, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2019-07-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 1st-amendment civil-rights conclusion constitutional-provisions content-discrimination free-speech jurisdiction public-forum reasons-for-granting statement-of-case statutory-provisions viewpoint-discrimination Whether the First Amendment protects the right of a public access television channel to exclude a speaker based on the content of their speech
19-55 James W. Richards, IV v. Barbara M. Barrett, Secretary of the Air Force, et al. Armed Forces 2019-07-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) all-writs-act article-i article-i-court caaf executive-branch extraordinary-writ jurisdiction military-courts military-jurisdiction uniform-code-military-justice uniform-code-of-military-justice Can the Executive Branch divest an Article I military court of appeals of jurisdiction over an extraordinary writ brought under the All Writs Act, 28 …
19-58 Xitronix Corporation v. KLA-Tencor Corporation, dba KLA-Tencor, Inc. Federal Circuit 2019-07-10 Denied antitrust-law appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split federal-circuit fifth-circuit jurisdiction patent patent-fraud summary-judgment walker-process Does appellate jurisdiction over Walker Process claims lie in the regional circuits, or in the Federal Circuit?
19-5121 Ricky Daniel Wagoner v. North Carolina North Carolina 2019-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction patent standing takings Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated
19-5094 In Re Donna Sneller 2019-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii article-iii-courts civil-rights congress congressional-power constitutional-interpretation due-process government-structure judicial-jurisdiction judicial-power jurisdiction legislative-power separation-of-powers standing supreme-court tribunals Can the Congress only create tribunals inferior to the Article III section 1 one supreme Court?
19-5101 Darryl Puderer v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process equitable-tolling evidence-standard forcible-rape jurisdiction second-degree-kidnapping standing statute-of-limitations tolling Did the Federal District Court err in denying the petitioner's statutory or equitable tolling request when adequate record evidence was presented in s…
19-5066 Jordon Louis Dongarra v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-07-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3161 constitutional-claims double-jeopardy due-process federal-court habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel jurisdiction plea-agreement prisoner-rights pro-se speedy-trial statutory-interpretation Whether the dismissal of the first indictment under 18 USC 3161(b) and the subsequent untimely indictment without an alignment violates due process an…
19-5084 Antoaneta Iotova, et al. v. Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al. Second Circuit 2019-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing takings Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the lower court's decision
19-5088 Quancidine Hinson-Gribble v. Office of Personnel Management, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts attorney-representation civil-procedure civil-rights default-judgment due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing Why was the case dismissed?
19-5091 Orrin Tyler Colbourn v. California California 2019-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction patent standing statement-of-case statutory-provisions takings Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
19-5076 William J. Daugherty v. Randy L. White, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure dismissal due-process equal-protection judicial-review jurisdiction pleadings standing Whether the judge had a sufficient basis to dismiss the complaint
19-5033 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. International Business Machines Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit 2019-07-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP antitrust antitrust-violation bias civil-procedure-jurisdiction collateral-estoppel constitutional-challenge corporate-infringement due-process jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge patent patent-rights rico standing Whether due process requires jurisdiction must be proven when challenged, when none existed to begin with
19-15 Bank of Louisiana, et al. v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Fifth Circuit 2019-07-01 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights discrimination due-process federal-court federal-courts judicial-review jurisdiction legal-standing standing Where does one seek judicial review in a case alleging discrimination, neither on merits nor on a procedural ground, but for lack of jurisdiction?
19-5017 Shanta Phillips-Berry v. Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court due-process equal-protection evidence-presentation fair-trial judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-procedure standing Whether the district court abused its discretion in denying the petitioner a fair trial by jury and the opportunity to present evidence against the re…
19-5001 Melvin Dosdos Dulcero v. Dwight W. Neven, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-06-28 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction standing takings Whether the issuance of a writ of mandamus is appropriate to compel the United States Court of Federal Claims to consider the merits of a takings clai…
19-5004 Ivan Stamps v. Michael Miller Tenth Circuit 2019-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP biggers-test concerted-action fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment fraud-on-the-court fundamental-fairness governmental-conduct habeas-corpus hearsay-testimony jurisdiction oath-requirement-perjury-fraud-jurisdiction perjury perjury-fraud-jurisdiction verification-affidavit Whether State obtained conviction through perjury/fraud
18A1369 Jaideep S. Chawla v. Court of Appeals of Massachusetts Massachusetts 2019-06-27 Presumed Complete appellate-panel due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure jurisdiction recusal Whether a state appeals court violates the Fourteenth Amendment by changing an appellate panel without notice or by requiring a judge to sit on a pane…
18-9814 Robert Wazney v. Sharon Wazney Fourth Circuit 2019-06-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process government-action jurisdiction standing takings Has the government's action violated the petitioner's constitutional rights?
18-9815 Kazi Bowles v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions discretion district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction petition relief standing writ-of-habeas-corpus Whether the district court erred in not applying a clear error standard of review when reviewing the petitioner's motion for relief from judgment for …
18-9818 Bruce Allen Echols v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2019-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court lacked jurisdiction, committing reversible error by entertaining a claim that had not been exhausted by the well-established p…
18A1362 Marshall Leon Watkins v. Nurse Jones, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-06-26 Presumed Complete appellate-review civil-procedure district-court final-order interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction Whether a district court's failure to rule on all claims against a defendant renders the order non-final and non-appealable
18-9777 Earnest S. Harris v. E. McCumsey, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-06-25 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction standing Did respondent E. M'Cummsey, Senior Law Librarian at SMU, deny petitioner Earnest S. Ware access to the court?
18-9784 Antoaneta Iotova, et al. v. Dr. Demisa, et al. Second Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction opinions-below standing takings Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging violations of due process and equal protection rights
18-9765 Joseph Kinard v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2019-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP bar-membership civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence jurisdiction oath-of-office prosecutorial-misconduct state-court-review supreme-court-jurisdiction vagueness Whether a United States Attorney must be a member of the bar in the city or state to prosecute cases in the United States District Court and Superior …
18-9718 Antoanet Iotova v. Gary Farmer, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-19 Denied IFP administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process government-agency jurisdiction passport standing takings Whether the Department of State's denial of a passport application violates the petitioner's constitutional rights
18-9720 Frederick H. Banks v. United States Third Circuit 2019-06-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-order-doctrine due-process jurisdiction standing timeliness Whether the District Court erred in committing federal law to the State Burner
18-9721 Frederick H. Banks v. Dennis Walker, U.S. Marshal, et al. Third Circuit 2019-06-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing state-courts Whether federal courts have 'pretrial' habeas corpus jurisdiction to review state court convictions
18-9702 Cathrin Funk-Vaughn v. Tennessee Department of Children's Services Tennessee 2019-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP agency-overreach child-custody child-jurisdiction child-removal diversion-plea document-fraud due-process evidence-suppression federal-funding first-amendment food-recall free-speech interstate-custody jurisdiction kidnapping law-enforcement parental-rights rescission unreasonable-search Does the Department of Children Services have the legal right to remove a child from a parent/legal guardian while the parent/legal guardian was on va…
18-9694 Oliver Douce v. New York New York 2019-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights false-arrest fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-self-incrimination first-amendment-free-speech fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure illegal-arrest illegal-search jurisdiction probable-cause search-and-seizure standing Whether fingerprints obtained from John Doe appellant should have been excluded from evidence as the product of false arrest and illegal search under …
18-9646 Max Edward Webb v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-06-13 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation When the text has no mandatory interpretation - the right to due process of law
18-9640 Paul Eugene Lawson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-06-12 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process fair-warning in-forma-pauperis jurisdiction legal-sequestration legal-work prison prison-discipline standing Can a district court dismiss petitioner's lawsuit based upon the State's attorney's waiver of reply to complaint?
18-9645 Victor J. Black v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-06-12 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP appeals civil-procedure due-process federal-courts jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit had jurisdiction to adjudicate Petitioners' Appeal
18-9624 Robert William Wazney v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. Fourth Circuit 2019-06-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its application of the legal standard for X
18-9625 Lawton Frederick Tyson v. Texas Texas 2019-06-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial grand-jury habeas-corpus jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct Were petitioner's due process & equal protection rights violated when trial court lacked proper jurisdiction?
18-9627 Jeffrey Dean Tucker v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility jurisdiction standing witness-testimony Whether due process was violated in convicting a North Carolina state citizen pursuant to general jurisdiction?
18-9592 Gene T. Favors, Jr. v. Michigan Michigan 2019-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-procedure takings Whether the lower court erred in its application of the law
18-1526 Patrick J. Tobin v. City and County of San Francisco, California Ninth Circuit 2019-06-10 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure federal-courts federalism forum-shopping government-code-911.3(b) judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits legal-interpretation preemption rule-10(a) state-law supervisory-powers Whether the federal court erred in exercising pendent jurisdiction over state law claims and failing to follow state supreme court precedent on the in…
18-9585 Roy Williams v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2019-06-07 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction patent standing takings Whether the Slables Covell of Hygoees Cntet 4 betan is constitutional
18-9575 In Re Phillip Love 2019-06-06 Denied IFP commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-power federalism interstate-commerce jurisdiction necessary-and-proper-clause statutory-interpretation Can the federal government punish felonious crimes under the constitutional Interstate Commerce Clause within the 50 compact states of the Union?
18-9553 Marvin Eugene Jones v. California California 2019-06-05 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing statutory-provisions Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures
18-9531 Lan Deyerle v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources West Virginia 2019-06-04 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions supreme-court-rules Whether the court should grant an out-of-time petition for writ of certiorari
18-9538 Mark Anthony Head v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60(b) constitutional-claim constitutional-claims due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction legislative-process merits procedural-error procedural-errors rule-60b standing Whether the court of appeals erred in failing to construe the appellant's motion under Rule 60(b)
18-9472 Reginald Donell Rice v. Carey D. Cockell, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-06-03 Denied IFP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-question due-process federal-law federal-question jurisdiction precedent standing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions Whether the court of appeals decided an important question of federal law that has not been, but should be, settled by this Court
18-9510 Rasaq Aderoju Raheem v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure conviction criminal-procedure defendant-conviction due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit jurisdiction legal-review standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by affirming Defendant's Raheem conviction
18-9450 Angela Pizzarelli v. Gurbir Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2019-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus habeas-relief jurisdiction notice notice-requirement procedural-default standing state-court time-limitation Does the failure of the state court clerk's office to notify petitioner of the court's decision on appeal constitute grounds for equitable tolling of …
18-9454 Daniel Brown v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-05-31 Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-challenge constitutional-law constitutional-questions coram-nobis custody error-coram-nobis habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-limitation pcra post-conviction-relief writ-of-error-coram-nobis Whether 42 Pa. C.S. § 9542 of the Pennsylvania Post Conviction Relief Act (PCRA) operate under the Antiterroism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA…
18-9482 Jorge J. Rubio v. Tina Raburn, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-05-31 Dismissed IFP 28-usc-1291 28-usc-1915 appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure in-forma-pauperis jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether a federal court of appeals has jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. 1291 to review an order denying leave to proceed in forma pauperis under 28 U.S.C.…
18-9476 In Re Anthony K. Anderson 2019-05-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction standing state-court state-court-proceedings Whether the Nevada District Court erred in denying petitioner's application for a writ of habeas corpus despite the court's lack of subject matter jur…
18A1239 Ian Alexander Bowline v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-05-30 Presumed Complete extension-of-time federal-public-defender jurisdiction supreme-court-rules tenth-circuit writ-of-certiorari Whether the Tenth Circuit's affirmance of the district court's judgment warrants Supreme Court review
18-9435 Steven Jacob Seibert v. Antoine Caldwell, Warden Georgia 2019-05-29 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel interstate-communication jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge restraining-order retroactivity. stalking-statute standing Whether the petitioner's conviction for aggravated stalking was unconstitutional due to lack of jurisdiction, ineffective assistance of counsel, and r…
18-9443 Arthur L. Campbell v. Sherman Campbell, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-05-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction miller-el-v-cockrell procedural-error sixth-circuit standard-of-review statute-of-limitations Whether the Sixth Circuit committed plain error in considering the merits of Campbell's appeal without issuing a certificate of appealability first
18-9468 Melvin Bonnell v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-05-29 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 capital-conviction capital-punishment federal-habeas habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect magwood-v-patterson nunc-pro-tunc second-or-successive statutory-interpretation Whether a state court's nunc pro tunc judgment cures a jurisdictional defect in a capital defendant's conviction, and whether the first federal habeas…
18-9471 Joseph John Viola v. Arizona Arizona 2019-05-29 Denied IFP appellate-review collateral-review constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto jurisdiction retroactivity self-representation state-supreme-court Whether the order promulgating the 1992 amendments to Rule 32 constituted violations of guarantees against ex post facto law and due process under the…
18-9439 Danea M. Addison v. Indiana, dba Family and Social Services Administration Seventh Circuit 2019-05-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ada civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection jurisdiction medicaid standing statutory-interpretation Whether the state of Indiana's 'Indiana Medicaid' program violates the ADA and the U.S. Constitution against the petitioner
18-9447 QuintIn Irving Brown v. Virginia Virginia 2019-05-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process judicial-boundaries jurisdiction jurisdictional-overreach procedural-error reversal state-law territorial-jurisdiction venue When a conviction occurs in any state of the United States where a county's jurisdiction occurs over 2,200 yards beyond its 300-yard permissible juris…
18-1481 Eric S. Strohmeyer v. Surface Transportation Board, et al. Third Circuit 2019-05-28 Denied Response Waived abandonment administrative-law federal-agency-decision jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss rail-line-acquisition standing surface-transportation-board third-circuit transportation-board-jurisdiction united-states Whether the Surface Transportation Board had jurisdiction to render a decision in the underlying proceeding
18-1472 In Re Christopher Hadsell 2019-05-24 Denied Relisted (2) access-to-courts civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct jurisdiction mandamus standing unauthorized-practice-law unauthorized-practice-of-law vexatious-litigant vexatious-litigant-statutes Whether the trial court's actions violated the petitioner's equal protection rights by entering a judgment without personal jurisdiction, subject matt…
18-9391 Josephine McGowan v. Walmart Stores Tenth Circuit 2019-05-23 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction qualified-immunity standing takings Whether the petitioner was treated in an unconstitutional manner by various officials
18-9404 Devon Lona Lunn v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech jurisdiction standing takings Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the respondent's actions
18-9375 Saleem Elamin v. Superior Court of the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2019-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment armed-robbery civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction sentencing statutory-interpretation Can the government charge the minimum sentence of 2 years for an agreed offense of carrying a firearm during a robbery?
18-9377 John Patrick Donohue v. Virginia Virginia 2019-05-22 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jurisdiction parole probation sentencing standing Whether the Conditional release of an individual violates due process
18A1210 Marshall Martinez v. Todd Thomas, Warden Arizona 2019-05-22 Presumed Complete civil-rights constitutional-interpretation incarceration jurisdiction legal-status thirteenth-amendment Whether the Thirteenth Amendment prohibits the continued incarceration of an individual who claims to be improperly classified as a 'slave' rather tha…
18-1456 William Mauldin, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Pauline Gibson, Deceased v. Allstate Insurance Company, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-05-22 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure consent-to-removal deception diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction removal rule-interpretation standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether federal courts must dismiss a case for lack of jurisdiction under FRCP 12(h)(3) when diversity jurisdiction is lacking, even after improper re…
18-9355 Sheila Robinson v. Rental Maintenance, Inc. Maryland 2019-05-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the First Amendment's free speech protections
18A1205 James W. Richards, IV v. Deborah Lee James, Secretary of the Air Force, et al. Armed Forces 2019-05-21 Presumed Complete article-i-courts executive-branch extraordinary-writ jurisdiction military-courts uniform-code-of-military-justice Whether an Article I military court of appeals can be divested of jurisdiction over an extraordinary writ by executive action after jurisdiction has i…
18-9346 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP bias civil-procedure collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights due-process judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction patent patent-prosecution procedural-fairness Whether preclusive effect should not be given to agency/court determination where a financially conflicted agency/court lacked jurisdiction to adjudic…
18-9348 Willie Joe Williams v. Stephen Welch, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeals criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction sentencing Whether or not the Stote Court And Federol Courhis) error in sending Petitioner to prison after dismissing Crime (sd and Charge ls)
18-9328 Diego Portocarrero Valencia v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation-rights criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process high-seas-offense jurisdiction maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law safety-valve sentencing stateless-vessel Is the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (MDLEA) unconstitutional because no minimum contacts between the accused and the United States are required t…
18-9333 Gustavo Gomez v. California Ninth Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied IFP appeal case-law constitutional-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction motion-to-amend sixth-amendment standing Were this Petitioner's Sixth Amendment rights according to the United States Constitution violated by the United States Court of Appeal for the Ninth …
18-9342 Thomas Tiner v. Danella Cockrell, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process free-speech jurisdiction reasons-for-granting-writ standing statement-of-case statutory-provisions takings Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the respondent's actions
18-9280 Miguel A. Jusino, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit 2019-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-or-controversy civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its application of the legal standard for determining if a plaintiff has standing to bring a claim
18-9294 Andre Derrell Lee v. Jerry Goodwin, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction right-to-counsel standing Did the Circuit Court err in not granting a COA?
18-9296 In Re Allen J. Dannewitz, Jr. 2019-05-15 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment ada-violation civil-rights civil-rights-deprivation due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment guardianship guardianship-rights judicial-procedure jurisdiction standing Whether ward was ever incapacitated
18-1432 Nidal Khalid Nasrallah v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-15 Judgment Issued Amici (3)Relisted (2) administrative-law administrative-review asylum deportation due-process immigration-law jurisdiction statutory-interpretation torture-convention withholding-of-removal Whether, notwithstanding Section 1252(a)(2)(C), the courts of appeals possess jurisdiction to review factual findings underlying denials of withholdin…
18-1427 Marie Laventure, et al. v. United Nations, et al. Second Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) civil-procedure common-law federal-rules-of-civil-procedure immunity jurisdiction legislative-enactment liability tort tort-action tort-claims un-general-assembly un-immunity un-liability un-secretary-general Whether the term 'liability' can be used in an unenforceable, non-obligatory context
18-9263 Luis Felipe Valencia v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process international-law jurisdiction maritime-drug-law maritime-law minimum-contacts stateless-vessel vagueness void-for-vagueness Whether the MDLEA is unconstitutional due to lack of minimum-contacts requirement
18-9272 Loren J. Larson, Jr. v. Nancy Dahlstrom, Commissioner, Alaska Department of Corrections Alaska 2019-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction juror-bias jury-bias no-impeachment-rule right-to-remain-silent sixth-amendment Does the Equal Protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment require courts to apply a Sixth Amendment constitutional exception to a no-impeachment ru…
18-1414 Giuliano Stefano Giovanni Wildhaber v. EFV, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-10 Denied aliens-tort-claim-act aliens-tort-claims-act constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling jurisdiction property-rights sovereign-immunity statute-of-limitation Whether the ATS/ATCA allows liability under a 100% valid kept foreign (Switzerland) statute of limitation
18-9169 Andre McDaniels v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255 6th-amendment appeal appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-rights court-reporter due-process fifth-amendment judicial-review jurisdiction pro-se-litigant sixth-amendment standing transcripts Does a pro-se petitioner forfeit his constitutional rights when denied opportunity to have merits heard?
18-9172 Wendy Darlene Pitts v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conflicting-information disaster-assistance due-process fema jurisdiction plea-bargain privacy privacy-act special-needs standing Did FEMA error in releasing funds without due process of the Privacy Act law on FEMA Form 009-0-37?
18-9192 Michael Balice v. United States Third Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 16th-amendment civil-procedure civil-procedure-summary-judgment constitutional-limitations due-process federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction standing statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction summary-judgment tax tax-lien trial-by-jury Whether the grant of summary judgment was erroneous and improper due to factual disputes between the litigants
18-9195 Keith Walter Bullard v. Shane Jackson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection index-of-authorities jurisdiction reasons-for-granting-certiorari standing statement-of-case statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions governing the issues prese…
18-9201 Galen Lemar Amerson, et al. v. United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Colorado Tenth Circuit 2019-05-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-rule civil-procedure conceivable-effect de-novo-review due-process jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction testate-estate wills-and-trusts withdrawal-of-reference Does the bankruptcy court have subject matter jurisdiction over the petitioner's Florida counterclaims?
18-9203 Leslie E. Thomas v. Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Union County Third Circuit 2019-05-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals appeals-court appellate-review civil-procedure court-authority court-hierarchy district-court due-process federal-courts jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction procedural-standing standing state-court Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit have jurisdiction?
18-9142 Joshua Neil Harrell v. California California 2019-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction patent standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
18-9148 Ikemefula Charles Ibeabuchi v. James T. Blomo Arizona 2019-05-06 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure court-rules due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure motion-to-dismiss pro-se standing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment Whether the Honorable Margaret Mahoney should have issued a court order for the pro se litigant to reply to the defendant's motion to dismiss, as a mi…
18-9162 Kurtis D. Worley v. Illinois Illinois 2019-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal case-caption civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirements legal-document petition-formatting procedural-rules standing statutory-provisions supreme-court Whether the cappelare Cound erred by not aptly ine
18-9164 Antonio Muro, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-06 GVR Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction objection procedural-requirement reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing Whether a formal objection after pronouncement of sentence is necessary to invoke appellate reasonableness review of the length of a defendant's sente…
18-9087 Donald Durrant Farrow v. Erik A. Hooks, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech government-overreach jurisdiction standing Was the Perini & Denim Menswear denied access to the courts when Perini was described as a 'Domestic Terrorist'?
18-9096 Douglas A. Glaser v. City and County of Denver, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment jurisdiction qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures
18-9107 In Re Garvester Bracken 2019-05-02 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction question-not-identified standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant legal principles and application of the facts to the law
18-9057 In Re Miles Kaufman 2019-05-01 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Question not identified
18-1364 Jim Miller v. Eric Olsen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-30 Denied Response Waived circuit-court district-court employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa erisa-plan jurisdiction ninth-circuit primary-purpose-test retirement-plan surrounding-circumstances-test Whether the Oregon District Court and Ninth Circuit erred in applying the 'primary purpose' test rather than the 'surrounding circumstances' test to d…
18-9024 Michael J. Littles v. Florida Florida 2019-04-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection judicial-review jurisdiction standing Whether the court has a duty to review each case impartially, and whether the court's failure to do so violates the petitioner's constitutional rights
18-8987 Michael Wainaina Kariuki v. Washington Washington 2019-04-26 Denied IFP assault constitutional-law conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jury-instructions legal-relief procedural-error second-degree-assault sexual-assault standing victim Whether the defendant, Michael Kariuni, is entitled to reversal of the second-degree-assault conviction with instructions to dismiss
18-9017 Ronald R. Myles v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-04-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction review standing Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
18-8954 Kareem Hassan Millhouse v. Ms. Davis, P.A., et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction property-rights reasons-for-granting-writ standing statement-of-case statutory-provisions takings Whether the government's seizure of private property without just compensation violates the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment
18-8967 In Re Larry L. Brinson 2019-04-23 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 actual-innocence all-writ-jurisdiction all-writs constitutional-review constitutional-rights gate-keeping gate-keeping-order gatekeeping-order habeas-corpus jurisdiction successive-habeas-corpus successive-petition supreme-court-jurisdiction Whether the United States Supreme Court has jurisdiction under habeas corpus and all writ jurisdiction to review circuit court's gate keeping order de…
18-8908 Preston G. Demouchet, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction patent standing takings Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim
18-8884 Jimmy Wayne Brown v. California California 2019-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction property-rights standing takings Whether the court erred in denying the petitioner's right to use leased property
18-8886 In Re James Rodgers, Jr. 2019-04-18 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jurisdiction statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness. aggravating-circumstances criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection facial-unconstitutionality gang-relation-element jurisdiction legislative-intent statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction void-for-vagueness Whether ACTR No. 92-601 is facially unconstitutional
18-8904 Octavius Matthews v. Terry Ratliff (TR Motors) Alabama 2019-04-18 Denied IFP appeal appeal-procedure appeals civil-procedure court-dismissal down-payment due-process jurisdiction legal-timeliness plaintiff-claim procedural-grounds standing statute-of-limitations timeliness Why did the courts find that the Appeal was improper, because the plaintiff did not do it right?
18-8856 Jairo Estupinan Micolta v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process illegal illegal-transfer jurisdiction legal-transfer procedural-violation standing transfer united-states-jurisdiction Was due process violated when Micolta was illegally transferred into the United States jurisdiction without any due process of law?
18-8877 Reginald Knox v. Unknown Parties Sixth Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law constitutional constitutional-error court-rules district-court due-process federal-statute judicial-review jurisdiction mandamus petition-for-certiorari standing statutory-provisions writ-of-mandamus Should the District Court's dismissal of the Petitioner's Writ of Mandamus under 28 U.S.C. § 1361 be reviewed?
18-8879 Olusola Arojojoye v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction jurisdiction restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation Does 18 USC §§3664(o) and USC §§3742 give the district court jurisdiction to review a sentence which the restitution was calculated in violation of th…
18-8833 Shea Pascal Dease v. Virginia Virginia 2019-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process elements felon-in-possession jurisdiction notice second-amendment Can a State maintain a judgment of conviction for a crime that the defendant never served notice of the elements for?
18-8832 Annamalai Annamalai v. Darrin Harmon, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights custody district-court due-process habeas-corpus habeas-relief illegal-custody jurisdiction legal-procedure standing warden-authority Whether the district court illegally suspended Habeas Relief(s) for Annamalai Annamalai
18-8803 Raymond Ramirez v. Florida Florida 2019-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-violation conviction due-process fourteenth-amendment judgment-of-conviction jurisdiction jurisdictional-rule sentence sentencing state-court Whether the State of Florida / State Court violated the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution by enlarging a jurisdictional rule without au…
18-8805 In Re Andre Rene Scott 2019-04-12 Denied IFP appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus judicial-jurisdiction judicial-review jurisdiction mandamus mandamus-petition procedural-rules standing void-judgment Whether the ruling in Marbury v. Madison still stands
18-8768 Darryl A. Robinson v. Unknown Mawer, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-04-11 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction public-forum standing takings Was my right to protest on U.S. government property infringed?
18-8787 Oliver Douce Al-Dey v. City of New York, New York New York 2019-04-11 Denied IFP article-iii-court article-iv-court civil-procedure constitution constitutional-limits courts due-process judicial-authority jurisdiction jurisdiction-boundaries standing Whether a court of general jurisdiction is authorized to extend its jurisdiction, beyond the boundaries fixed therefor by the Constitution, into geogr…
18-1291 Linda Thurman, et al. v. Judicial Correction Services, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-11 Denied Amici (3)Response WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-district-courts judicial-review jurisdiction municipal-court private-probation probation-order rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing state-court-judgment void-ab-initio Whether Rooker-Feldman doctrine applies when the underlying state-court judgment is void ab initio
18-8773 Emmanuely Germain v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error essential-elements harmless-error jurisdiction jury-instructions statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence uncharged-offense venue venue-error Is the omission of an essential element of an offense from jury instructions harmless if there is sufficient evidence to support a conviction of a rel…
18-8774 John Elvin Turner v. Nevada, et al. Nevada 2019-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-exercise jurisdiction religious-freedom standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Amish Sect's religious beliefs and practices are protected under the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment
18-1284 Jennifer L. Wilson v. SunTrust Bank, et al. North Carolina 2019-04-09 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure court-hearing due-process judge judicial-discretion judicial-procedure jurisdiction north-carolina-constitution north-carolina-general-statutes procedural-rules standing statutory-interpretation trial-court venue Did the Trial Court hearing of August 15, 2016, Judge Gregory R. Hayes presiding, violate Article VI Section 11 of the North Carolina Constitution; N.…
18-8716 Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, et al. Pennsylvania 2019-04-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 107th-congress congressional-act constitutional-provisions employment-rights federal-funding job-placement jurisdiction public-law public-law-107-288 state-obligations state-services statutory-provisions us-jobs-for-veterans-act veterans-affairs veterans-benefits veterans-services What services are owed to all veterans by states that accept federal funding under the US Jobs for Veterans Act (Public Law 107-288, 107th Congress)?
18-8706 Donn Deveral Martin v. Texas Texas 2019-04-04 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure patent scotus-rules standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-rules takings Whether the lower courts correctly applied the standard for granting a writ of certiorari under SCOTUS Rule 10
18-8696 Cody R. Brown v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures
18-1270 Henry M. Jagos, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Sixth Circuit 2019-04-03 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure circuit-court-split circuit-split civil-procedure due-process eighth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction notice-of-deficiency sixth-circuit standing tax-appeals tax-court tax-court-jurisdiction tax-procedure Did the Tax Court lack jurisdiction when it had no facially legitimate notice of deficiency?
18-8657 Ikemefula Charles Ibeabuchi v. Maricopa Commissioners Arizona 2019-04-01 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure dismissal evidentiary-ruling judgment judgment-of-dismissal jurisdiction reversible-error rule-38.1(n) special-commissioner Whether the Special Commissioner committed reversible error in the judgment of dismissal
18-8610 Antonio Sierra v. Josh Shapiro, Attorney General of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied IFP 28-usc-2241 article-iii civil-procedure constitutional-review district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction procedural-impairment standing Whether the District Judge of the Custodial United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania is precluded from exercising Article…
18-8638 Michael Bennefield v. Georgia Georgia 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-safeguards criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial guilt-determination jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect plea-bargaining plea-proceedings procedural-validity standing structural-defects When Structural Jurisdictional defects prevent a fair proceeding, can any reliable determination of guilt or innocence be deemed fair?
18-8617 Kristen Patrick Doyle v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeals circuit-court-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction legal-motion-type mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err in its denial of Defendant - Appellant's Motion to be granted relief under the clari…
18-8594 Jason Allen Tiszai v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction fex-v-michigan florida-law interstate-agreement-on-detainers-act interstate-detainers judicial-procedure jurisdiction speedy-trial Whether the state of Florida violated petitioner's constitutional right to a speedy trial
18-8551 Ikemefula Charles Ibeabuchi v. Arizona Arizona 2019-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure-appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-standard motion-for-relief self-representation standing timeliness Whether or not the Court of Appeals, State of Arizona, correctly viewed Appellant's Motion To Dismiss this Appeal, submitted pursuant to Arizona Rules…
18-8554 Wylmina Hettinga v. Timothy P. Loumena California 2019-03-26 Denied IFP child-support civil-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process jurisdiction legal-standing parental-rights standing vexatious-litigant Can Petitioner be brought into a state superior court to be ordered to pay child support for a minor she had no legal rights to and no visitation righ…
18-8539 Blake Joseph Sandlain v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction remedy standing writ-of-certiorari Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's case
18-8519 Frederick H. Banks v. United States Third Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process error-coram-nobis foreign-intelligence-surveillance-act jurisdiction revocation-proceeding standing Did the appeals court and/or district court err in denying the petition for a writ of error coram nobis to vacate the criminal conviction and affirmin…
18-8530 Steven Dennis Young v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied IFP administrative-law appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
18-8535 Daniel Arthur Heleva v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-representation due-process-violation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interlocutory-appeal judicial-waiver jurisdiction prosecutorial-effectiveness prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-overreach right-to-counsel trial-court-discretion waiver-of-constitutional-rights waiver-of-rights Whether state statutes provide pre-trial remedies for prosecutorial overreaching by interlocutory appeal, and whether defense counsel's failure to per…
18-8502 John Allen Alexander v. Randee Rewerts, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process judicial-review jurisdiction standing Whether a clerk of a court issuing an opinion denying a petitioner his right to appeal violates the United States Constitution, Article III, Section 1…
18-8483 Rafael Agosto v. Christopher Miller, Superintendent, Great Meadow Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals had subject matter jurisdiction pursuant to the U.S. Const. Art. III, Sec. 2(a), to issue an order on December 19th …
18-8497 Leslie Roy Lynch v. Idaho Idaho 2019-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the Petitioners are entitled to be heard in open court to challenge the constitutionality of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) of t…
18-8443 James F. Oliveira v. Patricia A. Coyne-Fague, et al. First Circuit 2019-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-justice criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-review jurisdiction speedy-trial statutory-interpretation trial-procedure Whether the defendant James F. Oliveira was denied his constitutional right to a speedy trial
18-8454 Carl Lynn Scott v. Jerry Goodwin, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-03-19 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction reasons-for-granting-writ standing statement-of-case statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions Whether the court has jurisdiction to consider the petition
18-8457 John Garrett Smith v. Washington Washington 2019-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing takings us-v-will Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims due to lack of jurisdiction and failure to state a claim under the U.S. Constitution
18-8437 Garceia Coleman v. Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, District I Wisconsin 2019-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights conviction-standards criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-review jurisdiction jury-verdict standing statutory-interpretation supervisory-writ Whether the Wisconsin Supreme Court's failure to grant a Wis. Stat. § 809.71 supervisory writ has jurisdiction to change the jurisdiction of cases
18-8381 Christopher D. Schneider v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP censorship courthouse-access due-process Equal-access first-amendment hobsons-choice jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge jurisdiction-over-individual prior-restraint standing Structural-error Did the Ninth Circuit Court and Tax Court lack jurisdiction over Christopher David Schneider?
18-8398 Wiliam Oneal Watters v. Michigan Michigan 2019-03-12 Denied IFP 2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing Was Me. Weathers Constobonal Rights becky ?
18-8368 Desmond Martin v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2019-03-11 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant legal principles
18-8376 Dee Deidre Farmer v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2019-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP bivens-claims civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-district-court jurisdiction jurisdictional-transfer prisoner-civil-action prisoner-rights residence-determination standing venue-requirements When a prisoner initiates a civil action in a federal district court should that court deem the prisoner a resident of the state in which she/he resid…
18-8345 Gary Lakey v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus indictment judicial-procedure jurisdiction Did the Eleventh Circuit decide an appeal without jurisdiction when it denied a Certificate of Appealability (COA) on all issues on the basis that the…
18-8347 Jason Allen Tiszai v. Florida Florida 2019-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict constitutional-rights federal-courts federal-courts-conflict federal-jurisdiction fex-v-michigan florida-law interstate-agreement-on-detainers-act interstate-detainers judicial-review jurisdiction speedy-trial state-court-determination Whether the state of Florida violated petitioner's constitutional right to a speedy trial
18-8356 In Re Steven Eason 2019-03-08 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-limitations procedural-bars prosecutorial-misconduct state-law successive-habeas successive-petitions Whether the petitioner's fundamental constitutional right to due process was violated when the state prosecuted him on counts of his indictment becaus…
18-8357 Richard A. Wilford v. Bradley M. Trate, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-privilege criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-prisoner governmental-custodian habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge pro-se pro-se-petition standing unlawful-detention Whether the dismissal for lack of jurisdiction of a federal prisoner's pro se petition for the writ of habeas corpus against the governmental custodia…
18-8358 Joel S. Elliott v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure brief-denial certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-discretion jurisdiction merits standing Did the Circuit Court err when it denied in part the appellants Combined Opening Brief and Application for Certificate of Appealability on the merits?
18-1170 Xitronix Corporation v. KLA-Tencor Corporation, dba KLA-Tencor, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3) antitrust antitrust-law appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split federal-circuit jurisdiction patent patent-fraud regional-circuits sherman-act subject-matter-jurisdiction walker-process Appellate jurisdiction over Walker Process antitrust claims involving patent fraud lies in the regional circuits, not the Federal Circuit
18-8278 Timothy M. Schieve v. Indiana Indiana 2019-03-07 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process false-testimony free-speech judicial-instructions jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing-reduction standing Why was the testimony of a 'mean person' who provided false testimonies to obtain a sentence reduction permissible?
18-8322 In Re Richard Madkins 2019-03-07 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-imprisonment federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jurisdiction sentence-modification sentencing-modification state-jurisdiction unlawful-detention Whether it would result in a fundamental miscarriage of justice if failure to entertain petitioner constitutional claims
18-8274 Avniel Awan Anthony v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue obstruction-of-justice probation-department reckless-endangerment sentencing sentencing-enhancement Sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines unproven-conduct Upward-variance Does the U.S. Probation Department have authority to apply enhancements for conduct alleged to have happened outside the jurisdiction of the United St…
18-8284 Matthew Winters v. City of West Jordan, Utah, et al. Utah 2019-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment appeal-restrictions appeals constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction jurisdictional-bars pro-se standing Does it violate the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses of the 14th Amendment for pro se parties to have less time and more restrictions to file …
18-1141 Sandra Brown v. New Hampshire Board of Veterinary Medicine New Hampshire 2019-03-05 Denied Response Waived administrative-agency controlled-drug-act controlled-substances criminal-law enforcement-authority jurisdiction pharmacy-board regulatory-inspection separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Lack of subject matter jurisdiction for the New Hampshire Board of Veterinary Medicine to inspect and enforce violations under the New Hampshire Contr…
18-8184 Daryl Sharp v. Timothy Dolan District of Columbia 2019-03-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence free-speech jurisdiction jury-instructions standard-of-review standing Whether the evidence presented at trial was sufficient to support the conviction
18-8222 Desi A. Lewis v. Virginia Virginia 2019-03-01 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction sentencing statutory-interpretation trial-court virginia-code Was the trial court in error in finding it lacked jurisdiction to resentence or modify the defendant's sentence based on due process rights?
18-8228 Daryl Bocook v. Gary Mohr, Warden Ohio 2019-03-01 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-precedent forensic-evidence habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-conflict legal-principles precedent-conflict standing state-court-dismissal supreme-court-review Whether the state courts' sua sponte dismissal of the petition is in direct conflict with other precedents on standing legal issues as well as federal…
18-8230 Montgomery Carl Akers v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights counsel-of-choice court-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jurisdiction legal-obstruction record standing Does petitioner/appellant/defendant have a constitutional right under the Fifth Amendment due process clause to have his case heard by the district co…
18-8178 Charles E. Justise, Sr. v. David Liebel, et al. Indiana 2019-02-28 Denied IFP civil-procedure exceptions federal-court federal-removal judicial-discretion jurisdiction multi-defendant procedural-rules removal state-court unrelated-claims Whether Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 18 allows a case with unrelated claims to be removed from state court to federal court, and, if so, the except…
18-8201 Robert Edward Butler v. Howard W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-02-28 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions court-appeal due-process federal-habeas federal-habeas-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction legal-review procedural-default retroactivity state-post-conviction-proceedings statutory-provisions writ-of-certiorari Whether Supreme Court decisions in Buck v. Davis, Martinez v. Ryan, and Trevino v. Thaler permit federal habeas review of ineffective assistance of ap…
18-1129 Cadian Capital Management, LP, et al. v. Terry Klein, et al. Second Circuit 2019-02-28 Dismissed article-iii-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rule-civil-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-standing mootness plaintiff-substitution rule-17-substitution rule-17(a)(3) rule-17a3 securities-exchange-act securities-exchange-act-1934 securities-exchange-act-of-1934 shareholder-action shareholder-derivative-action standing substitution Whether a shareholder action under § 16(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 must be dismissed for lack of jurisdiction once the sole plaintiff h…
18-8146 Jamie Geer v. Florida Florida 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment interstate-police-action jurisdiction jurisdictional-violation minor-consent out-of-state-jurisdiction police-conduct wire-communication wiretap-act Whether the minors consent for the interception of wire communication is legally and constitutionally valid, when secured by police acting outside of …
18-8152 Alvin DeWayne Trigg v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing state-courts Whether the state courts erred in denying petitioner's application for a writ of habeas corpus
18-8164 Geoffrey W. Freeman v. Jacqueline Lashbrook, Warden Illinois 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitrary-application civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation vagueness Whether the statute of limitations for filing a civil rights lawsuit is unconstitutionally vague and arbitrarily applied, violating due process
18-8137 Tanya Steele v. John Pedro, Jr., et al. First Circuit 2019-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP anti-harassment civil-rights due-process fair-housing-act jurisdiction sovereign-immunity standing sua-sponte Whether the First Circuit Appeals Court erred in dismissing the case for lack of jurisdiction despite the judge's sua sponte order overriding the lega…
18-8142 Michael Williamson v. Karen Slusher, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-02-26 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech jurisdiction official-misconduct prisoner-lawsuit standing Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions governing the case
18-8097 Robert Herrera, Sr. v. Texas Texas 2019-02-22 Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction standard-of-review Was the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denied Mr. Benton's appeal and the Texas Court of Appeals stated that his counsel's actions were below a reaso…
18-8101 Lawrence Montgomery Foltz v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction military-law military-records property-rights standing takings veterans-affairs Do the chattels and loans of an American soldier come under the jurisdiction of this court's record and receive the full protection of record?
18-1100 Wayne D. Ramsay v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Fifth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure deficiency deficiency-interest interest internal-revenue-service jurisdiction statutory-interpretation tax tax-court tax-law Does the U.S. Tax Court have jurisdiction to determine deficiency interest assessed by the Internal Revenue Service?
18-8038 James Patrick Burke v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP child-pornography criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment jurisdiction network-investigative-technique rule-41 rule-41(b) Should evidence be suppressed under the 'exclusionary rule' when obtained from Network Investigative Tecnique (NIT) warrants that violated Rule 41(b) …
18-8039 James Barstad v. Washington Washington 2019-02-20 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus invasion jurisdiction legal-standing suspension venue void-ab-initio war Has the Great Writ of Habeas Corpus been suspended in America? If so, what entity has declared war against and invaded America?
18-8018 Michael Anthony Kendrick v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction patent standing statutory-provisions takings Can Fagen Nebers Coutr dissaern MY Peesuma Tb be; Poaener™ 2 USES 22H408) Cini AND DENY qo Explaln Why?
18-1076 In Re Robert K. Hudnall 2019-02-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction secret-hearing service-of-process standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a State Supreme Court with only appellate jurisdiction can exercise personal jurisdiction without proper service of process, take subject matt…
18-8006 In Re Curtis Evans 2019-02-15 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process freedom-of-information jurisdiction private-company public-records standing statutory-provisions Why does the public have a right to access the records of a private company?
18-7935 Kahri Smith v. Bonita J. Hoffner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari criminal-procedure felony jurisdiction michigan-law reasonable-jurists self-defense sixth-circuit Is certiorari appropriate where the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals decided the merits of petitioner's self-defense claim without jurisdiction and is i…
18-7949 In Re Reginald Watson 2019-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2241-motion career-offender civil-rights criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2241 jurisdiction sentencing standard-of-review standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether the District Court erred in dismissing Watson's 2241 motion for lack of jurisdiction?
18-7952 Stanley D. Partman, aka Goat v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-vagueness due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirements standard-of-review unconstitutionally-vague Is the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal's Standard of Determination for Issuance of a Certificate of Appealability in Essence Decides an Appeal Without …
18-7956 Ikemefula Charles Ibeabuchi v. Paul Penzone Ninth Circuit 2019-02-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction pleadings standing Whether the court below committed a reversible error in dismissing Appellants Complaint for Failure to State a Claim upon which Relief can be Granted,…
18-7957 Ikemefula Charles Ibeabuchi v. Mikel Steinfeld Ninth Circuit 2019-02-13 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-procedure-abuse-of-discretion compulsory-process constitutional-question due-process jurisdiction sixth-amendment-compulsory-process standing Whether the judge's denial of leave to amend complaint is a reversible error
18-1060 Michael A. Weiss, Individually and as Executor of the Estate of Jane L. Marsh, Deceased v. Stephen D. Marsh, as Executor of the Estate of Monroe F. Marsh, Deceased, et al. California 2019-02-13 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-clauses constitutional-standing due-process fourth-amendment fundamental-justice jurisdiction legal-principles material-change pre-trial-seizure standing statutory-basis takings unclean-hands Whether specified principles of fundamental justice, including unclean hands, constitutionally prohibited the court from affirming distribution of pro…
18-7902 Mario Akothe v. Carl Bear, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing statutory-provisions What avenues are available to seek habeas corpus relief when a certificate of appealability is denied without due process of law?
18-7903 Albert J. Arrington v. Virginia Virginia 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure default-judgment due-process ex-parte-communication Fourteenth-Amendment fraud ineffective-assistance judicial-review Jurisdiction procedural-rules Rules-of-civil-procedure Did the Supreme Court of Virginia err in finding that the Circuit Court of Henrico did not commit reversible error
18-7908 Twila Haynes v. Walmart, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 7th-amendment civil-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process federal-rules in-forma-pauperis jurisdiction legal-malpractice pro-se-litigation seventh-amendment standing Whether an in forma pauperis (IFP) status granted by one district court is transferable to another district court
18-7928 Gilbert Carrasco v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP abney-rule appeal bail bail-denial criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction notice-of-appeal Was U.S. District Court, (S.D. Cal.) divested of jurisdiction because of Abney-rule
18-7879 Clayton D. Colkley v. Maryland Maryland 2019-02-11 Denied IFP 5th-amendment appeal appeals appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss trial-court trial-court-jurisdiction Did the court of special appeals of maryland err in affirming trial court's denial of defendant's motion to dismiss on the ground of double-jeopardy?
18-7891 Leslie Ann Haymond v. Helmand Investment, LLC Virginia 2019-02-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure due-process equal-protection jurisdiction parrish-v-federal-nat-mortg-association pro-se-litigation standing stare-decisis subject-matter-jurisdiction unlawful-detainer Did the Court error when disregarding the maxim of stare decisis et non quieta movere
18-7822 Meryl S. McDonald v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2019-02-08 Denied IFP 14th-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-jurisdiction due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-fact postconviction-counsel pro-se-filing standing voir-dire Whether the voir dire examination oath provision of Rules 3.191 and 3.300(a) of the Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure is a jurisdictional fact
18-7770 Michael Paul Bradley v. Georgia Georgia 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals confrontation-clause constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the Petitioner's conviction should be overturned due to procedural errors in the trial court
18-7787 Alan William Golder v. Carol Chapdelaine, Warden, et al. Second Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims constitutional-law due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing the habeas petition on procedural grounds without reaching the petitioner's constitutional claims
18-7821 Darryl Mixon v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-procedure criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment formal-complaint jurisdiction jurisdiction-over-persons jurisdiction-over-subject-matter procedural-defect sentencing standing subject-matter Whether the trial court lacked jurisdiction over the persons and the subject matter of this cause, in absence of a signed formal complaint?
18-7837 Marlon Blacher v. Superior Court of California, Contra Costa County, et al. California 2019-02-07 Denied IFP civil-rights constitution due-process jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction standing state-authority statutory-provisions Is the writ true that the Constitution and all of its instruments are bound to the matters declared via Article IV, clause 3, Constitution of the Unit…
18-7839 Eric Mario Byers v. E. K. White, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appeals-court case-dismissal civil-rights district-court due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
18-7752 Mohan A. Harihar v. US Bank NA, et al. First Circuit 2019-02-05 Denied IFP 28-usc-1915 appointment-of-counsel circuit-panel-procedure civil-procedure-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process judicial-recusal jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge legal-complexity pro-se pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation recusal standing Whether the replacement Circuit Panel repeatedly refused to address/clarify Jurisdiction issues, ultimately denying Petitioner's efforts to resolve a …
18-7739 Gonzalo Holguin-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-04 Judgment Issued Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction objection procedural-requirement reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing Whether a formal objection after pronouncement of sentence is necessary to invoke appellate reasonableness review of the length of a defendant's sente…
18-7756 Roscoe Chambers v. Nicholas Sarcone Eighth Circuit 2019-02-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment 6th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jury-selection public-trial standing Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial applies to a criminal defendant's exclusion from the courtroom during jury selection
18-1008 In Re Veronica Hollowell and Vivian Epps 2019-02-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) child-custody civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discovery-rule due-process family-law federal-jurisdiction incarceration jurisdiction jury-trial mental-fitness single-parent standing statute-of-limitations Whether the State Court lacked jurisdiction of the child since the unwed, single-parent mother's case was not jury adjudicated (the ex-boyfriend/fathe…
18-997 Oliver Williams, et al. v. The National Gallery, London, et al. Second Circuit 2019-01-31 Denied Response Waived expropriation-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-law jurisdiction property-rights sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction takings wrongful-possession Is a sovereign's, or its instrumentality's, refusal to return property wrongfully held a taking of rights in property in violation of international la…
18-999 Atlanta Gas Light Company v. Bennett Regulator Guards, Inc. Federal Circuit 2019-01-31 GVR Amici (1)Relisted (3) 35-usc-314 35-usc-315 administrative-procedure administrative-review america-invents-act dismissal-without-prejudice federal-circuit-jurisdiction inter-partes-review jurisdiction patent patent-law patent-review-procedure-35-usc-314-315 patent-trial-and-appeal-board standing time-bar Did the Federal Circuit err in concluding that it had jurisdiction to review the Board's decision to institute inter partes review
18-7664 John Felix Greer v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure appellate-review case-or-controversy civil-procedure court-of-appeals judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdiction-of-court jurisdictional-review legal-jurisdiction mandate mandate-recall procedural-error standing Whether the appellate court abused its discretion in deciding the merits of a motion to recall the mandate without first determining jurisdiction
18-7679 Jeriton Lavar Curry v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924(c) appeal-waiver appellate-review constitutional-error criminal-procedure jurisdiction plain-error sentencing sentencing-jurisdiction unconstitutional-sentence Did the Appeals Court err by granting the Government's motion to enforce an invalid appeal waiver, after determining that Currys' issue was non-frivol…
18-7625 Thomas Florence v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence jurisdiction sentencing standing Can the sites of the United States government maintain a valid conviction based on a DNA report that does not prove beyond a reasonable doubt to suppo…
18-7652 Brian Anderson v. Colorado Colorado 2019-01-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights colorado-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction nelson-v-colorado presumption-of-innocence standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Does Colorado Revised Statutes 18-3-302 Supersede Nelson V. Colorado 137 S.CT. 1249 (2017)
18-7548 David Abiodun K. G. B. Onafeko v. Great Britain, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied IFP appellant-rights civil-rights district-court due-process human-rights international-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge legal-venue standing treaty united-nations Whether the Appellant is entitled to rights afforded him under the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights whilst he is residing in the United Stat…
18-7580 Mourice Neal v. Wayne County Treasurer Michigan 2019-01-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitution constitution-interpretation due-process federal-courts federalism jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Is the United States Constitution for Supreme Court Proceedings?
18-7571 Gabriel Cervantes Valencia v. Dave Davey, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-01-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence jurisdiction Whether the Civcurh, Districk and Strode Courts denials and akesmissals of Petihwners BRADY VIOLATION Claim violate pebbroners bye Process Rights Guav…
18-7539 Justin Michael Rossi v. The Crown District of Columbia 2019-01-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-liberties civil-rights due-process foreign-government international-human-rights international-rights jurisdiction redress standing work-permit What does an American Citizen traveling on a work permit do to protect his civil-liberties from being infringed upon by a foreign-government?
18-7541 Adrian G. Rangel v. Tippecanoe County, Indiana, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP absolute-immunity appeals civil-procedure civil-rights complaint court-of-appeals dismissal due-process federal-court federal-trial-court immunity jurisdiction legal-error standing Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh and the Hammond Indiana Federal Trial Court err in dismissing Petitioner's Complaint based sole…
18-958 Peter P. Mitrano v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response Waived appeals civil-procedure court-of-appeals custody custody-order due-process family-court family-law federal-courts jurisdiction legal-dismissal new-hampshire ninth-circuit standing Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit err in affirming the dismissal of this action?
18-7501 GwanJun Kim v. Grand Valley State University, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-01-22 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure complaint dismissal due-process evidence factual-findings jurisdiction marshal service-of-process standing summons time-limits Whether the district court erred in dismissing the complaint for failure to serve the defendants within the time period required by Rule 4(m) of the F…
18-7499 Ilirjan Bida v. Sharon Johnson Third Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied IFP civil-procedure court-decision court-error due-process email-address jurisdiction notice service-of-process standing Why did the District Court of Newark email the decision to the wrong email address instead of bidas|@aol.com?
18-7504 Raphael R. Hamilton v. Joe M. Allbaugh, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied IFP circuit-court-discretion coercion competency criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process guilty-plea guilty-plea-withdrawal jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue right-to-withdraw standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by not reversing the trial court's order denying petitioner his right to withdrawal of the guilty ple…
18-7478 Lloyd Michael Blair v. Michigan Michigan 2019-01-17 Denied IFP constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect jury-trial post-conviction-relief relief resentencing sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment Are the sentencing proceedings that were found to be unconstitutional made to be invalid?
18-7483 Robert John Frank v. Florida Florida 2019-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction patent standing takings Whether the Second District Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the petitioner's case
18-7446 Anthony Jujuan Hopkins v. Warden, Ventress Correctional Facility Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction legal-proceeding ninth-circuit petition-for-review sentencing standing Whether the U.S. Appeals Court for the Eleventh Circuit erred in denying petitioners' COA, when petitioners raise jurisdictional issues that can be ra…
18-7409 Stephen Daniel Leonard v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction standing takings Did the Court of Appeals violate Petitioners' Fourteenth Amendment rights by refusing to vacate all orders after Ms. Leonard's amended complaint
18-7422 David Lee Williams v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Louisiana 2019-01-15 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction louisiana-supreme-court right-to-counsel standing statutory-interpretation Whether the defendant's due process rights were violated when the Louisiana Supreme Court upheld his conviction and sentence without a hearing or oral…
18-7435 James Arthur Biggins v. Carl C. Danberg, et al. Third Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied IFP 35-usc-101 civil-procedure damages due-process jurisdiction patent patent-eligibility patent-infringement patent-law standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant patent law statutes
18-7437 Damilola Animashaun v. William Schmidt, et al. Second Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence jurisdiction standing Whether the Plaintiff provided sufficient evidence to support his claims?
18-7404 John Laake v. Turning Stone Resort Casino Second Circuit 2019-01-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-violation first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-religion indian-land jurisdiction religious-freedom tribal-sovereign-immunity tribal-sovereignty Whether the established clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution as it pertains to Free Speech and Freedom of Religion effectiv…
18-7372 Santos Cuevas v. Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Prison Ninth Circuit 2019-01-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech grand-jury jurisdiction presumption-of-innocence standing Whether the district courts retained jurisdiction to entertain claims that the trial court directing a grand jury and judges to deliberate with statut…
18-7380 Ricardo Glover v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2019-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure deprivation-of-liberty due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge liberty prosecutorial-misconduct subject-matter-jurisdiction united-states-constitution Whether a person is deprived of their liberty when they are forcefully brought before a court in chains and shackles by the prosecution, the prosecuti…
18-904 King Law Group, PLLC, et al. v. M2 Technology, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2019-01-11 Denied Response Waived bell-v-hood circuit-split civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction jurisdictional-facts merits merits-overlap procedural-standard standing steel-co-v-citizens-for-a-better-environment subject-matter-jurisdiction What is the proper procedure for handling situations in which jurisdictional and merits facts overlap?
18-7300 Michael L. Millis v. Stephen Kallis, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-USC-2241 28-usc-2255 custodian custody due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue prisoner-petition savings-clause section-2241 section-2255 transfer-of-venue What is the correct interpretation of the savings clause in 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e)?
18-7333 DeShawn Maurice Moffett v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appealability appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction merits-adjudication standing writ-of-certiorari whether-certifying-petitioner's-request-for-certificate-of-appealability
18-7362 Roy O. Daniels v. Florida Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP focusing on the core legal dispute I cannot identify a clear legal issue being raise I cannot provide a meaningful set of key terms. M in order to receive a more helpful response. As p making it difficult to extract a concise statemen the 'Question(s) Presented' section does not prov civil-rights collateral-attack due-process finality jurisdiction plea-bargain Whether the principles of finality still apply, especially in a case where the foundational terms of a specifically negotiated and agreed upon plea ba…
18-7293 Neil Walker v. Alabama Alabama 2019-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conflict-of-laws criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process jurisdiction sentencing standing venue Where there is a conflict between the two state laws?
18-7261 Keith Stuart Cumbee v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion appeal appealability appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure fraud-on-the-court habeas habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jurisdiction merits motion-to-reconsider procedural-error rule-60(b) Whether the lower court clearly erred in abusing its discretion by dismissing the appeal as premature/no jurisdiction without addressing the merits of…
18-7248 Vertis Anthony v. Louis Boyd, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment judicial-bias jurisdiction probable-cause rules-of-civil-procedure standing subject-matter-jurisdiction warrantless-search Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erred in its rulings on the jurisdictional issues raised in the petition
18-7251 Consuelo Jordan v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, et al. District of Columbia 2019-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process exclusionary-rule jurisdiction probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures
18-7244 Vidal Licea Morales v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech jurisdiction racial-discrimination school-desegregation standing voting-rights Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the First Amendment's free speech protections
18-833 Brandi K. Stokes v. Commission for Lawyer Discipline Fifth Circuit 2019-01-03 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure geneva-conventions international-law judicial-review jurisdiction procedural-review subject-matter subject-matter-characterization subject-matter-jurisdiction treaty-obligations united-states-courts Whether a United States Court of Appeals may rely upon the subject matter characterizations of a lower court to avoid jurisdiction to review a claim f…
18-842 Gilbert Mendez v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-01-03 Denied assistant-us-attorney attorney-misconduct criminal-procedure due-process fraud government-negligence jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction us-attorney Whether the Court of Appeals erred by failing to recognize that a U.S. District Court lacks subject-matter jurisdiction over a criminal prosecution wh…
18-816 Gavin B. Davis v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-27 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 28-usc-2201 5th-amendment 8-usc-1481(a)(2) due-process expatriation-act expatriation-act-of-1868 federal-jurisdiction frap-21(c) frcp-57 frivolous in-forma-pauperis jurisdiction ninth-circuit political-asylum standing Whether Plaintiff-Appellant's Due Process rights were abridged
18-7175 Christopher Lipsey, Jr. v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District Ninth Circuit 2018-12-27 Denied IFP access-to-courts california-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing takings Whether the ALLS role complies with the First Amendment and due process rights of individuals seeking access to the courts
18-7182 Roy Dean Gates v. Texas Texas 2018-12-27 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-authority jurisdiction texas-court-jurisdiction texas-court-of-criminal-appeals texas-supreme-court united-states-constitution-amendment-fourteen void-order Does the Texas court have authority to overrule a state supreme court order?
18-812 Teamsters Local 210 Affiliated Health and Insurance Fund v. Leon Silverman, as Trustee of the Union Mutual Medical Fund, et al. Second Circuit 2018-12-26 Denied collective-bargaining collective-bargaining-agreements federal-claims jurisdiction jurisdictional-scope labor-management-relations-act labor-management-relations-act-301a labor-organization national-labor-policy signatory supplemental-jurisdiction union-benefit-trust union-sponsored-benefit-trust union-sponsored-benefit-trust-fund Did the Second Circuit impermissibly expand the jurisdiction of LMRA § 301(a) and drastically alter national labor policy
18-805 Eric S. Strohmeyer v. Surface Transportation Board, et al. Third Circuit 2018-12-21 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure clear-error due-process jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss standing standing-doctrine surface-transportation-board third-circuit transportation Was the Third Circuit's failure to address the Surface Transportation Board's jurisdiction a clear error?
18-7148 Austin Ray v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest custody custody-rights detainer habeas-corpus implied-consent interstate-agreement interstate-agreement-on-detainers jurisdiction prisoner-transfer speedy-trial Is the Interstate Agreement on Detainers (IAD) triggered when a prisoner in custody is arrested by another jurisdiction?
18-7160 Gerald Aranoff v. Susan Aranoff New York 2018-12-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals divorce-judgment due-process forgery fraud judicial-misconduct jurisdiction legal-standing pro-se standing Whether the New York State Court of Appeals can dismiss a case for lack of jurisdiction despite evidence of fraud/forgery in the lower court proceedin…
18-786 Glenn Blair v. Angela McClinton, et al. Texas 2018-12-20 Denied child-support civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction plenary-powers standing subject-matter subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether Title IV-D Agency Court had jurisdiction over my daughter and I when they issued a child support order
18-792 Ronald Leroy Satterlee v. Alicia Miller-Degase, Assessor of Douglas County, Missouri, et al. Missouri 2018-12-20 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights contract-rights due-process government-authority jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge presumption-of-innocence property-rights property-tax right-of-contract tax-assessment taxation Whether the appellant has the right to life, liberty, property and pursuit of happiness, the right to presumption of innocence, the right of contract,…
18-7090 Leonardo T. Morales v. Florida Florida 2018-12-19 Dismissed IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction mandamus mandamus-writ-of-certiorari supreme-court-precedent Whether the Florida Supreme Court dismissal of mandamus conflicts with this court's decisions in Schlagenhauf v. Holder, Bankers Life and Casualty Co.…
18-7119 Stanley Grigsby v. Louisiana Louisiana 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-justice criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process excessive-sentence judicial-error jurisdiction louisiana-law sentencing sentencing-review subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Louisiana Court's have erred in determining that the sentence was not excessive?
18-7074 Gennaro Mattiaccio v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the evidence was insufficient to sustain the convictions on Count 3
18-7085 Larry A. McGhee v. Michigan Michigan 2018-12-18 Denied IFP affirmative-action civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-constitution free-speech jurisdiction public-education standing state-constitution Whether the Michigan Constitution's prohibition on affirmative action in public education violates the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitutio…
18-7066 Raymond Jones v. United States Third Circuit 2018-12-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel en-banc-review jurisdiction petition-for-rehearing rehearing rule-60b6 standing subject-matter-jurisdiction wilkins-precedent Whether the district court lacked subject-matter jurisdiction to adjudicate Rule 60(b)(6) motion
18-7026 Bryan Coats v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-12-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts government-action jurisdiction jurisdiction-filing legal-procedure order-denying-rehearing petition-for-rehearing rehearing standing takings timeliness united-states Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the government's actions
18-6999 John McQueen v. Lynn Fisher Sixth Circuit 2018-12-12 Denied IFP circuit-court civil-procedure district-court-errors due-process exceptional-importance exxon-mobil-precedent exxon-mobil-v-saudi-basic federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-review jurisdiction rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine sixth-circuit-errors standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the District Court has subject matter jurisdiction to decide if Rooker-Feldman applies to cases filed in federal court before the state court …
18-748 Richard McKinley Wilson, Jr. v. Office of the Commissioner of the Revenue of Stafford County, et al. Virginia 2018-12-11 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process international-law jurisdiction legal-recognition nation-state property-law sovereignty standing taxation Do the courts of the Commonwealth of Virginia have the jurisdiction to recognize the authority of the Petitioner's re-established nation state?
18-6953 Jesus Jaime Jimenez v. Texas Texas 2018-12-10 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment actual-innocence criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect post-conviction-writ texas-constitution Whether the Trial Court, as well as, the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, abused their discretion (violating Applicants Constitutional Rights) by f…
18-6962 In Re Walter E. Kostich 2018-12-07 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection jurisdiction magistrate-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation statutory-requirements Whether the State prosecution or Courts has the authority to prosecute a criminal case in the absence of a statutory required signed 'Bind-Over Order'…
18-6964 Henry L. Wallace v. United States District of Columbia 2018-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-defects double-jeopardy due-process indictment-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect jury-instruction jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct standing Whether a jurisdiction defective indictment can be procedurally or time bar adjudication
18-6924 Larry E. Walden v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certiorari civil-procedure jurisdiction standing supreme-court time-limits Does the United States Supreme Court have the authority to grant certiorari from a decision of the Arkansas Court of Appeals?
18-705 Wendell Griffen, Judge, Sixth Judicial Circuit, Pulaski County, Arkansas v. John Dan Kemp, Chief Justice, Arkansas Supreme Court, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-11-30 Denied Response Waived all-writs-act civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-1983 due-process jurisdiction mandamus motion-to-dismiss non-final-order standing writ-of-mandamus Whether the All Writs Act grants the circuit courts jurisdiction to issue writs of mandamus to review on the merits a district court's non-final denia…
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…
18-6839 Billy A. Robin v. United States District of Columbia 2018-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection jurisdiction opinions reasons-for-granting-the-writ standing statement-of-the-case statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
18-6856 Geary Mohammed Mills v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure due-process jurisdiction standing-issue statutory-interpretation civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in its application of the legal standard for determining standing in this case
18-6857 Joel Marvin Munt v. Paul Schnell, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Corrections, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure collateral-appeal district-court due-process judge judicial-jurisdiction judicial-recusal jurisdiction nondiscretionary-standard recusal standing Does the Court of Appeals have jurisdiction to hear a collateral appeal of a district court judge's refusal of a nondiscretionary recusal?
18-6865 Adony Nina v. United States Second Circuit 2018-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting burden-of-proof criminal-law criminal-statute due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-element prosecutorial-burden reasonable-doubt statutory-interpretation united-states Whether Title 18 U.S.C. § 2 (Aiding and Abetting) Requires the Prosecution to Prove Beyond A Reasonable Doubt The Jurisdictional Element By Establishi…
18-700 Tiby J. Saunders-Gomez v. Rutledge Maintenance Corporation Delaware 2018-11-28 Denied Response Waived constitutional-law contract contract-law due-process equal-protection fair-debt-collection-practices-act jurisdiction statute-of-limitations Whether the Delaware Superior Court erred in asserting jurisdiction over a claim that exceeded the statute of limitations
18-6790 Clarence Otworth v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States District of Columbia 2018-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appeal appeals civil-procedure constitutional-rights equal-protection federal-jurisdiction final-order jurisdiction notice-of-appeal oath-of-office presidential-nonfeasance standing Is an appeal of a final order and a notice of appeal the same thing?
18-6787 In Re William M. Bailey 2018-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure defense-preparation due-process formal-charges jurisdiction right-to-defense subject-matter void-judgment Was the circuit court deprived of jurisdiction over the subject matter, thereby rendering the judgment void, by failing to formally charge the petitio…
18-6722 Craig Porter v. Texas Texas 2018-11-19 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction speedy-trial statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in affirming the applicant's conviction based on the prosecution's arguments with regards to the applicant's right to a …
18-6716 Jerry Walker, aka Jerry Richmond v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-11-16 Denied IFP appeal appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court conviction conviction-reversal conviction-vacatur criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-preclusion sentencing superseding-indictment Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in vacating the Petitioner's conviction and sentence pursuant to Count One of his Superseding Indictment
18-635 Brian M. Burmaster v. United States Federal Circuit 2018-11-15 Denied Response Waived attorney-general criminal-conspiracy federal-court-judges federal-judges immunity international-criminal-court international-law judicial-immunity jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction u.s.-attorney-general Are US Federal Court Judges and former U.S. Attorney General immune from the International Criminal Court?
18-620 Jamahl Harim Simmons v. Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied 14th-amendment civil-rights collateral-attack constitutional-challenge due-process foreign-state jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunities sovereign-immunities-act subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the state trial court lacks subject matter and personal jurisdiction
18-6661 Bryan Christopher Samuel v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-11-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-issues court-of-appeals delayed-opinions due-process first-impression-issues habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jurisdiction jurisdictional-barriers jurisdictional-issues petition-for-certiorari petition-for-rehearing procedural-delay timeliness Whether the federal courts abused their discretion in causing delays that made the petitioner untimely in seeking further review
18-6652 Michael Carlton Lowe v. Tom Roy, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Corrections Minnesota 2018-11-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court-discretion due-process federal-question habeas-corpus jurisdiction liberty-interest standing Did the district court abuse its discretion by answering a federal question on petitioner's liberty interest in a state court?
18-6674 Octavious Lamar Rhymes v. Texas Texas 2018-11-09 Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy due-process judicial-vindictiveness jurisdiction prosecutorial-vindictiveness same-criminal-episode venue-transfer Where Rhymes' due process rights violated by prosecutorial and judicial vindictiveness
18-6596 Matthew James Dury v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights commerce-clause district-court-jurisdiction document-processing due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech jurisdiction legal-filing procedural-due-process standing Whether the district court lacked jurisdiction under Article III, Section 8, Clause 3 to deny petitioner's challenge to the Interstate Commerce Act, r…
18-6609 Manuel Lampon-Paz v. Office of Personnel Management Third Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-immunity due-diligence due-process federal-tort-claims-act government-liability jurisdiction negligence statutory-interpretation Whether the Office of Personnel Management can be held liable under FTCA statutes
18-6631 David Hollenback, Jr. v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jurisdiction miscarriage-of-justice state-conviction state-court-jurisdiction Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals commit error by denying the petitioner a Certificate of Appealability
18-601 John Frederick Tate, aka John M. Tate v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-11-07 Denied Amici (3) agency-jurisdiction circuit-split criminal-law false-statements federal-election-commission jurisdiction materiality obstruction obstruction-of-justice obstruction-statute remand Whether an agency's receipt of information over which it has no authority to act implicates a 'matter within' the agency's jurisdiction under 18 U.S.C…
18-602 Jodi A. Smith v. Lakewood Ranch Gymnastics LLC, et al. Florida 2018-11-07 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure defamation enhanced-appellate-review first-amendment jurisdiction legal-procedure new-york-times-v-sullivan non-media-defendant private-plaintiff standing supreme-court Whether the enhanced appellate review reiterated in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan is required for First Amendment protection in a defamation case wit…
18-586 Jack R. Koch v. Adam Estrella, et al. California 2018-11-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction final-judgment jurisdiction state-court statute-of-limitations supplemental-jurisdiction Is it lawful for the state courts to create a final judgment from within the federal court files when there is no entry of a final judgment and then h…
18-6512 Jabril Jones v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appeals cell-phone-privacy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule false-imprisonment Fourth-Amendment jurisdiction jury-trial probable-cause search-incident-to-arrest sentencing standing warrantless-search Whether petitioners were arrested without probable cause
18-6536 Lewis Waters v. Charles L. Lockett, Warden District of Columbia 2018-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-safeguard court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury habeas-corpus jurisdiction unindicted-crime Where the Fifth Amendment guarantees that no person shall be held to answer for a crime unless upon presentment of a Grand Jury's indictment, does the…
18-570 Felisa Tunac, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Randy Tunac, Deceased v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-31 Denied Response Waived administrative-review civil-procedure healthcare judicial-review judicial-review-act jurisdiction jurisdictional-limitation medical-malpractice negligence negligence-claims va-healthcare veterans-affairs veterans-judicial-review-act Whether the court below erroneously held that its jurisdiction was limited by the Veterans' Judicial Review Act to negligence claims against Departmen…
18-6514 In Re Melvin T. Bell 2018-10-31 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus imprisonment jurisdiction liberty-deprivation standing territorial-jurisdiction Whether the petitioner is illegally deprived of his liberty
18-6516 Linh Thi Minh Tran v. Happy Valley Municipal Court, Oregon Oregon 2018-10-31 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial judicial-error jurisdiction municipal-court sentencing zoning-violation Was the trial court's judgment unconstitutionally cruel and unusual?
18-6477 Delmer M. Ackels v. Randy M. Olsen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied IFP answer civil-procedure court-of-appeals default-judgment excuse excuses jurisdiction procedural-rules timeliness timely-filing Whether the Court of Appeals had jurisdiction to deny a default judgment when the defendant was untimely with its Answer without an excuse
18-6507 Alice Brown v. Del Norte County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-discrimination dereliction-of-duty due-process equal-protection fraudulent-concealment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment interlocutory-appeal judicial-disqualification jurisdiction magistrate-judge ninth-circuit Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit erred in dismissing the interlocutory appeal for lack of jurisdiction, thereby violat…
18-539 George T. Hawes v. Daniel P. Reilly Rhode Island 2018-10-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-laws constitutional-law court-jurisdiction due-process full-faith-and-credit full-faith-and-credit-clause interstate-litigation judicial-procedure jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction standing Did the Supreme Court for the State of Rhode Island violate the full-faith-and-credit-clause by failing to uphold and enforce a Utah court's order fin…
18-6437 Corey Holder v. Michael Sepanek, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court-jurisdiction civil-procedure due-process excusable-neglect extension-of-time ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction prima-facie-request record-review remand time-extension Had the Circuit Court of U.S. errored in failing to properly review the record and remand to the district court for consideration and necessary findin…
18-6439 Juan Ortega Lara v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-10-26 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction patent standing takings Whether the court below erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
18-6442 Phillip T. Merritt v. Illinois Illinois 2018-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions discovery due-process jurisdiction reasons-for-granting-the-writ sanctions standing statement-of-the-case statutory-provisions Was it an abuse of sanction on behalf of the judge to refuse to seal the discovery papers?
18-6456 William J. O'Brien, III v. United States Third Circuit 2018-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction patent standing takings Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
18-6429 Victor Dewayne White v. Ector County Appraisal District Texas 2018-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion california-v-larue civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-discretion due-process federal-law judicial-ruling jurisdiction legal-procedure standing state-courts subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the Texas Courts abuse their discretion when they ruled contrary to established Federal Law, or as now ruled contrary to this Honorable Court's Ru…
18-6444 James E. Whitney v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-and-statutory-provisions due-process federal-and-state-cases free-speech issues-presented jurisdiction opinion standing statement-of-the-case table-of-contents takings Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the respondents' actions
18-6402 Elroy William Robinson v. California California 2018-10-24 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection jurisdiction qualified-immunity standing statutory-provisions Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging violations of his civil rights and due process rights
18-6420 Gregory P. Nesselrode v. Betsy DeVos, Secretary of Education Sixth Circuit 2018-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP amount-in-controversy due-process federal-tort-claims-act jurisdiction sovereign-immunity student-loans tucker-act Whether the 'Tucker Act' and 20 U.S.C. § 1082(a)(2) overrule the 'Federal Tort Claims Act' and grant jurisdiction for petitioner to sue respondent wit…
18-528 Elias Kifle, et al. v. Jemal Ahmed Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-23 Denied civil-procedure district-court diversity diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts jurisdiction rule-19 standard-of-review standing subject-matter-jurisdiction What is the standard of review for a District Court's determination that a required party is dispensable under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 19?
18-536 Harmon L. Taylor v. Texas Texas 2018-10-23 Denied 'appellate-jurisdiction' 'civil-jurisdiction' 'compelled-consent' 'plea-to-the-jurisdiction' 'special-appearance' 'tex-transp-code-unconstitutional' appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights compelled-consent due-process jurisdiction plea-to-jurisdiction special-appearance standing takings texas-transportation-code transportation-code Whether the federal question rulings on compelled consent are final
18-525 Fort Bend County, Texas v. Lois M. Davis Fifth Circuit 2018-10-19 Judgment Issued Amici (7) administrative-exhaustion circuit-split civil-rights due-process eeoc eeoc-claim employment-discrimination exhaustion jurisdiction jurisdictional-prerequisite title-vii waivable-claim-processing-rule Whether Title VII's administrative exhaustion requirement is a jurisdictional prerequisite to suit
18-6374 William Carl Welsh v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-10-19 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-4248 actual-innocence civil-commitment federal-prison jurisdiction jurisdictional jurisdictional-requirement rule-60(b)(5) rule-60b5 section-4248 summary-reversal Whether a district court may deny relief from a civil-commitment judgment under 18 U.S.C. § 4248 and keep a person in federal prison indefinitely when…
18-500 The First Presbyterian Church U. S. A. of Tulsa, Oklahoma, et al. v. John Doe Oklahoma 2018-10-18 Denied Amici (3) affirmative-defense church-discipline church-doctrine church-government church-member-disputes consent consent-based first-amendment jurisdiction jurisdictional-doctrine membership membership-dispute religious-autonomy Whether the religious autonomy doctrine derives from the First Amendment or is a consent-based doctrine applicable only to disputes between a church a…
18-6384 Michael A. Lanteri v. Connecticut Second Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights divorce divorce-property-division due-process family-law judicial-discretion jurisdiction property-rights state-jurisdiction takings Can the state of Connecticut or any state take all your property from you (marital, premarital and inheritance) once you file for Divorce?
18-501 Alim Adburahman, et al. v. Hyundai Motor America, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-10-17 Denied Response Waived amendment appellate-procedure case-dismissal civil-procedure district-court-jurisdiction docket-management final-order frcp-15 judicial-authority jurisdiction multidistrict-litigation procedural-conflict Does a U.S. District Court have the power to dismiss cases previously transferred to a Multidistrict litigation, interfering with the adjudication of …
18-6357 In Re Rajamani Senthilnathan 2018-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure commitment court-authority document-upload due-process electronic-case-filing electronic-filing filing-requirements judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction legal-filing-procedure pleading pleading-submission standing Does the court have the authority to consider an ECF (Electronic Case Filing) pleading as having filed when the filing is not fully committed to, with…
18-6334 Ahkeem Wiggins v. Robert C. Tanner, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process enhancement-penalty guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction plea-bargaining sentencing Whether the 1st Judicial District Court, Parish of Caddo, State of Louisiana had jurisdiction to accept a guilty plea to an enhancement penalty under …
18-6338 Briand Williams v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2018-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel contract contract-law due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge plea-bargain statute-of-limitations Is a Plea Bargain Agreement a contract between the defendant and the prosecutor on behalf of the State, and can the defendant be relieved from the res…
18-470 Brandi K. Stokes v. Christopher Lance Corsbie, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-10-12 Denied Response Waived civil-rights geneva-conventions international-law jurisdiction sovereign-immunity treaty-interpretation war-crimes Whether the United States has sovereign immunity for claims involving grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions
18-6279 Samuel Kwushue v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-11 elements-of-crime federal-regulation federal-regulations federal-rule-11 guilty-plea jurisdiction rule-11 statute-of-conviction statutory-elements wire-fraud Could a guilty plea, accepted in violation of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11, support a conviction, when the conduct to which a defendant admit…
18-6233 Stephan Schuermann v. Jubilie Anqui Florida 2018-10-09 Denied IFP 14th-amendment child-custody civil-procedure due-process equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction relocation Whether the Supreme Court erred in not vacating orders granting relocation of a minor child
18-6236 Thomas Lee Swan v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction reasons-for-granting-writ statement-of-case statutory-provisions Whether the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals erred in deferring to the state court's conviction of the petitioner despite the petitioner's claims of due p…
18-6246 Michael Parnell v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction property-rights reasons-for-granting-the-writ search-and-seizure standing statement-of-the-case statutory-provisions Whether the government's seizure of petitioner's property without a warrant or probable cause violated the Fourth Amendment's protection against unrea…
18-427 Masoud Bamdad v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) agency-policy controlled-substances court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure defective-indictment due-process fed.r.civ.p.-54(b) final-judgment habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings interstate-commerce jurisdiction medical-practice procedural-rules Whether a habeas court must adjudicate all claims of a habeas petitioner before making a final judgment and closing the case, or else the judgment is …
18-6188 Andrew Lucero v. Colorado Department of Corrections Colorado 2018-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP bill-of-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue liberty-interest procedural-default statutory-interpretation Whether the original Criminal Trial Court abused its discretion in its Procedural Defaults, ab initio, depriving petitioner of Constitutionally Secure…
18-6193 Kenneth A. White v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus jurisdiction sixth-circuit Did the District Court err in failing to grant Mr. White a Certificate of Appealability on his Fifth Amendment argument?
18-6195 Marlon L. Watford v. Natasha Doe, et al. Seventh Circuit 2018-10-03 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction patent standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions governing the case
18-6186 Alvin Gaitan Benitez, aka Pesadilla, aka Lil Pesadilla, aka Lil Tuner, aka Tooner, aka Lil Tunnel v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP antagonistic-defense antagonistic-defenses codefendant criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial interstate-commerce jurisdiction jurisdictional-element motion-for-severance severance Whether the circuit court erred in affirming the denial of a motion for severance
18-6151 Claude Thelemaque v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof cocaine-distribution conspiracy criminal-law criminal-law-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence evidence-admissibility jurisdiction standard-of-proof witness-testimony Whether the government failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Thelemaque conspired to distribute cocaine with knowledge that it would be impor…
18-6158 Makandi L. Terry v. Larry Abraham, Chief, Dillon County Detention Center Fourth Circuit 2018-10-01 Denied IFP brady-disclosure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction plea-bargaining standing Should Petitioner Feery's case be reversed and remanded based upon direct evidence of ineffective assistance of counsel in his failure to disclose any…
18-6127 Timothy Warren Vallier v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP anonymous-speech civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech jurisdiction online-speech patent standing takings Does the First Amendment protect the right to engage in anonymous online speech?
18-6128 Norman Douglas Diamond v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue District of Columbia 2018-09-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP due-process fraud irs irs-corruption jurisdiction jurisdictional-notice overpayment-refund statutory-guarantee statutory-notice tax tax-court tax-court-jurisdiction tax-deficiency tax-evasion tax-fraud When statutes guarantee deficiency proceedings and mandate issuance of notices, do statutes confer jurisdiction and due process even without complianc…
18-6106 James L. Miller v. Amir Kashani, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-09-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-forfeiture civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction property-rights standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires the government to provide a hearing before seizing a person's property for civil forfei…
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…
18-6048 In Re Daniel A. Spottsville 2018-09-20 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing takings Whether the Supreme Court has jurisdiction to review the lower courts' decisions regarding the application of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Pe…
18-6038 Carlos D. Villavicencio v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2018-09-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jurisdiction nolle-prosequi prosecutorial-misconduct speedy-trial statute-of-limitations Whether the prosecution (State of Florida) retained jurisdiction after the speedy trial period expired
18-6026 James Ray Booth v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendments appeals circuit-court-decision civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction ministerial-correction procedural-relief sentence-amendment sentencing Whether the Circuit Court's decision nullified amendments to Petitioners' sentences and deprived him of the ability to seek habeas corpus relief in th…
18-346 Estate of Jason Allen Smallwood v. United States Federal Circuit 2018-09-17 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction implied-contract implied-in-fact-contract jurisdiction jurisdictional-bar scheuer-v-rhodes sovereign-immunity standing statutory-interpretation tucker-act veterans-benefits whether-the-trial-court-properly-determined-the-estate's-complaint-must-fail
18-6010 Babubhai Patel v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction miller-el-v-cockrell sixth-circuit standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals sidestep the COA process in Petitioner Babubhai Patel's COA Application
18-5991 Johnny Ray Bennett v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-scrutiny double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction unlawful-detention Whether the 2002 enactments violate the ex-post-facto-clauses,whether the trier-of-fact lost-subject-matter-jurisdiction,whether ex-post-facto-violati…
18-5961 Vincent Michael Marino v. Barbara Rickard, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights collateral-attack constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure criminal-trial double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jury-jeopardy supreme-court-precedent Whether the District Court, Appeals Court for the Second Circuit, and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals sitting En Banc committed reversible legal e…
18-5951 David Dwayne Cassady v. Steven D. Hall Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-damages due-process ex-contractu ex-contractu-actions garnishment indemnity indemnity-proceeds jurisdiction sovereign-immunity state-liability Does the United States District Court have jurisdiction under 42 USC §1983 to enforce its judgement by garnishment of indemnity proceeds of the Georgi…
18-5952 In Re Samuel H. Williams 2018-09-12 Dismissed IFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection free-speech jurisdiction standing takings Whether the petitioner's First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated
18-5954 Don Ray White v. Texas Texas 2018-09-12 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court had jurisdiction to entertain the petitioner's claim that the indictment was presented without jurisdiction
18-299 Ross Harry Briggs v. Charles E. Rendlen, III, Judge, United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri Eighth Circuit 2018-09-07 Denied Response Waived article-iii bankruptcy bankruptcy-court civil-procedure claims-allowance creditor-debtor creditor-debtor-relations due-process federal-claim federal-jurisdiction judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction separation-of-powers Whether a federal claim pending before an Article I bankruptcy judge and intertwined with the bankruptcy but resolvable outside the claims allowance p…
18-5908 Gregory D. Kilpatrick v. Howard A. Zucker, Commissioner, New York State Department of Health, Office of Professional Medical Conduct Second Circuit 2018-09-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction medical-treatment standing takings Why were the lives of the petitioners terminated without due process?
18-5891 James Edward Whitney v. Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, et al. Arkansas 2018-09-06 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 9th-amendment administrative-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-procedure due-process judicial-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct jurisdiction legal-pleadings standing Whether courts can deny individuals' secured, guaranteed, and protected rights to due process
18-5903 Rufus Jones v. Nancy A. Berryhill, Acting Commissioner of Social Security, et al. Second Circuit 2018-09-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 42-usc-407 42-usc-423 5th-amendment constitutional-supremacy discrimination-protection due-process equality-act federal-jurisdiction garnishment judicial-conduct judicial-oath jurisdiction social-security social-security-benefits supremacy-clause title-ii Does Social Security claimants have the right to receive all back payments free from garnishments or attachments?
18-5875 John Vivo, III v. Connecticut Connecticut 2018-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-provisions court-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-procedure plain-error plain-error-doctrine state-court-review statement-of-the-case statutory-exception statutory-interpretation Whether the state court of last resort erred by declining to review the petitioner's request for review under the plain-error doctrine and the applica…
18-5833 Gregory D. Kilpatrick v. Fabio Volterra Second Circuit 2018-08-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction patent standing takings Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
18-5834 Gregory D. Kilpatrick v. Keith Robinson Second Circuit 2018-08-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction medical-treatment patent prison-conditions standing takings Whether the petitioner was denied due process and equal protection under the 14th Amendment when the court failed to provide him with adequate medical…
18-5816 Keith L. Nash v. Richard J. Bishop, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process incarceration jurisdiction medical-care prison standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment requires the government to provide adequate medical care to incarcerated in…
18-5820 Augustus Hebrew Evans, Jr. v. Delaware Delaware 2018-08-29 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ' 'civil-rights" ' 'due-process" ' 'freedom-of-information" ' 'public-records" ' 'standing" ' 'state-government' civil-procedure due-process jurisdiction patent standing takings Whether the State of Delaware violated the petitioner's constitutional rights by denying his request for public records under the Freedom of Informati…
18-5771 Jim Walter Qualls, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-courts felony-case guilty-plea judicial-authority jurisdiction magistrate-judge magistrate-judges plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation Whether a United States Magistrate Judge has statutory authority to accept a guilty plea in a felony case and adjudge a defendant guilty
18-5785 In Re Clifford Winkles 2018-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-prisoner habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge post-conviction-relief pro-se-petition saving-clause standing Whether Petitioner Clifford Winkles was improperly denied relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 due to procedural barriers, despite demonstrating actual innoc…
18-5788 James Everett Dutschke v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP biological-agents bioweapon-offenses civil-rights constitutional-separation-of-powers due-process federal-prosecution jurisdiction jurisdictional-ambiguity plea-agreement select-agents separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation statutory-validity subject-matter-jurisdiction territorial-jurisdiction treaty treaty-enactment Is it constitutional for an Article III judge to act as an Article I lawmaker by rewriting or nullifying existing written law, writing new law or as a…
18-5791 Robert Wharton v. Donald T. Vaughn Third Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process federal-law federal-laws judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-procedure relief standing takings third-circuit Did the Third Circuit erroneously apply, enlarge and/or ignore several established federal laws in denying petitioner relief?
18-5792 Marlon Watford v. Thomas LaFond, et al. Seventh Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied IFP 1st-amendment 42-usc-1983 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing Petitioner's claims under 42 U.S.C. §1983 alleging violations of his constitutional rights under the Fi…
18-5799 In Re Robert N. Smithback 2018-08-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jury-trial plea-agreement plea-bargaining selective-prosecution subject-matter-jurisdiction trial-by-jury Whether Smithback is being deprived of his liberty without due process of law
18-5803 Matthew James Dury v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction patent standing statutory-provisions takings Whether the lower court erred in its ruling on the issues presented
18-5777 Rodney S. Pederson v. Arctic Slope Regional Corporation Alaska 2018-08-27 Denied IFP administrative-law agency-decision alaska-supreme-court appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federalism judicial-review jurisdiction procedural-due-process standing statute-of-limitations takings Whether the Alaska Supreme Court erred in dismissing Petitioner's claims against Arctic Slope Regional Corp. for lack of standing
18-5780 Peter Vincent Capra v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-court appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure district-court due-process duty-to-disclose evidentiary-hearing expert-testimony final-order good-faith-defense ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion jurisdiction standing Did the Appellate Court lack jurisdiction over the Appeal due to the fact from review of the record that the District Court had not adjudicated all of…
18-240 Kirk Tang Yuk v. United States Second Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied Response Waived co-conspirator-testimony criminal-procedure criminal-venue due-process government-overreach jurisdiction prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment telephone-call-evidence venue venue-manipulation witness-location Whether a prosecutor can manufacture venue in a particular district solely by bringing a cooperating witness to a favored district and having the witn…
18-241 Paminder S. Parmar, Individually and as Executor of the Estate of Surinder K. Parmar, et al. v. Lisa Madigan, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. Illinois 2018-08-24 Denied constitutional-challenge due-process estate-tax jurisdiction post-deprivation-remedy retroactive-application retroactivity sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation tax-refund Whether the State of Illinois failed to provide the Petitioner taxpayer with a clear and certain post-deprivation procedure consistent with the Due Pr…
18-5738 Bill Paul Marquardt v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction capital-collateral-regional-counsel collateral-order-doctrine constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge pro-se-claims self-representation whether-the-three-collateral-order-doctrine-conditions-are-satisfied-and-the-u.s.-court-of-appeals-can-take-jurisdiction-on-my-pro-se-claims,-where-th…
18-5754 Ivan Rodrigo Campillo Restrepo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-precedent criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing habeas-corpus jurisdiction mandate-recall penal-term retroactivity sentencing statutory-maximum supreme-court-ruling writ-of-certiorari whether-recall-of-mandate-should-issue
18-5755 Dwight L. Allen v. Superior Court of Georgia, Camden County Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction patent standing takings Whether the federal district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
18-5760 William Benjamin Brown v. Andrew Mansukhani, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction standing Did Yar Dishtich Lourl Moose ays Disteion BY Nol Address x's Cour OADER 7?
18-5763 Jimmy Don Wooten v. Arkansas Arkansas 2018-08-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights diligence-standard due-process insanity insanity-defense jurisdiction legal-diligence mental-capacity mental-handicap procedural-fairness standing Did the Arkansas Supreme Court violate due process by denying mentally handicapped petitioner opportunity to litigate insanity at time of trial?
18-5718 James Willis Campbell, Sr. v. Virginia Virginia 2018-08-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment jurisdiction probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant standard-of-review Did the Supreme Court of Virginia err in reversing the Court of Appeals of Virginia's ruling and affirming the judgment of the trial court?
18-5703 Joshua D. Blair v. Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied IFP appeals arbitrary-and-capricious civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction martinez-v-ryan procedural-defect standing Did the Foortis Cirecit Coors of Apgeals errored in Peii toner I writ, usinauny Vasiierer Shavoeck cont yi ed 1c an LYYPETrary ISSOL LWHYn Ane YM Circ…
18-5622 Susan Elizabeth Walker v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-1291 28-usc-2253 breach-of-fiduciary-duty,sec-securities-exchange-c certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealability,circuit-split,jurisdi circuit-split de-novo-review denovo,circuit-split,uniformity,lawrence-v-dept-of fiduciary-duty hohn-v-united-states ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel,circuit-split,un jurisdiction Should a Certificate of Appealability be granted to resolve a circuit split regarding Jurisdiction established by 28 U.S.C.§ 1291 and 28 U.S.C. § 2253…
18-5586 William Knight v. Florida Florida 2018-08-15 Denied IFP abuse-of-authority appellate-procedure criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habitual-offender illegal-sentence judicial-abuse judicial-authority jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum Whether trial court abused their authority by allowing the state attorney office to impose a sentence contrary to the requirements of the law on doubl…
18-5580 In Re Camaron Thorn Kye-El 2018-08-14 Denied IFP 13th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection human-rights involuntary-servitude jurisdiction legal-personhood property-rights property-status racial-classification racial-discrimination slavery standing Whether the Thirteenth Amendment prohibits the involuntary servitude of African Americans and other racial minorities
18-5582 Donald Lee Kissner v. Michigan Michigan 2018-08-14 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus introduction jurisdiction opinions-below standing state-court-review statement-of-the-case statutory-provisions Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated by the state court's failure to provide a reasoned decision on the merits of his claims
18-5555 William Womack v. Landan Adams, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-review district-court due-process jurisdiction legal-procedure ninth-circuit standing summary-judgment Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has jurisdiction to review the district court's erroneous decision
18-5567 Carline Curry v. City of Mansfield, Ohio, et al. Ohio 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-procedure court-discretion default-judgment due-process failure-to-answer fraud judicial-review jurisdiction perjury procedural-due-process standing Should Plaintiff Curry been Awarded Default Judgement
18-5568 Carline Curry v. City of Mansfield, Ohio, et al. Ohio 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bad-faith civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions court-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge opinions-below patent procedural-defect standing summary-judgment takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
18-5551 In Re Rafael A. Joseph 2018-08-10 Dismissed IFP administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct judicial-oversight jurisdiction malfeasance mandamus nonfeasance oversight Can the Circuit & Court of Appeals Executive refuse to refer my petition for reconsideration; Clerk Court of Appeals refuse to docket my motions to sh…
18-5492 In Re David Louis Colson 2018-08-09 Denied IFP appellate-review article-3-section-2 civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction original-jurisdiction standing state-court state-party state-vs-federal subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court Whether the superior court of Arizona had jurisdiction to render the judgments against the petitioner in a case where the state was a party
18-5534 Juan Carrasquilla-Lombada, et al. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied IFP confrontation-clause jurisdiction jury-trial maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act pre-trial-hearing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation testimonial-evidence Whether the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act violates the Sixth Amendment by precluding the jury from determining jurisdiction and allowing the gover…
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…
18-5493 Maceo Gant v. Thomas Winn, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability district-court district-court-decision due-process federal-jurisdiction final-judgment habeas-corpus jurisdiction plea-bargain plea-conviction sixth-circuit state-court-conviction unresolved-claims Whether the Sixth Circuit had jurisdiction to consider the petitioner's unresolved challenges to his state court plea conviction where the district co…
18-5448 Ellen Elizabeth Packenham Stanley v. Nancy A. Berryhill, Acting Commissioner of Social Security Eighth Circuit 2018-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-405(h) administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction pro-se pro-se-appellant social-security-administration standing stare-decisis tort tort-claim venue venue-jurisdiction Whether the U.S. Federal District Court of Minnesota is the appropriate venue and jurisdiction to present an appeal for a tort suit against the Social…
18-5455 In Re Deborah Elizabeth Gouch-Onassis 2018-08-06 Dismissed IFP but the text you've provided appears to be incomp fragmented I cannot extract a meaningful question presented I will respond with: 'Question not identified." legible text of a SCOTUS petition for writ of cer or unreadable. Without a clear civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation jurisdiction standing takings Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause
18-5414 Keith William Deichert v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception jurisdiction objective-reasonableness rule-41 search-warrant void-ab-initio Does the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule apply to a search warrant that is issued by a judge without jurisdiction, rendering the warrant…
18-5429 Michael Garry v. Trane Company Wisconsin 2018-08-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fraud judicial-review jurisdiction labor-law standing state-court-appeals Whether the Wisconsin courts erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims for lack of subject matter jurisdiction despite evidence of fraud and due pro…
18-5392 Quitman Carter v. B. E. Blackmon, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act foreclosed-claims habeas-corpus johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states jurisdiction jurisdictional-bar retroactivity savings-clause section-2241 section-2255 sentencing Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in ruling that Mr. Carter's claims under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 are jurisdictionally barred from consideration because they …
18-5403 Leroy Dean Dennis v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2018-07-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment capital-case constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial false-testimony jurisdiction oklahoma-constitution-article-2-section-20 reasonable-doubt title-18-usc-section-3432 witness-endorsement Whether a defendant's constitutional rights are violated when the prosecution fails to endorse trial witnesses as required by state law
18A100 Dion Terry Taylor v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-07-27 Presumed Complete certiorari extension-of-time jurisdiction petition sixth-circuit supreme-court Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its decision regarding Mr. Dion Taylor's case and if the lower court's ruling warrants Supreme Cou…
18-116 John E. Reardon v. Daniel B. Zonies, et al. Third Circuit 2018-07-26 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process fraud fraud-allegation heck-v-humphrey jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge legal-procedure ongoing-tort standing statute-of-limitations takings Does Heck v Humphrey apply to a case with ongoing constitutional violations, lack of jurisdiction, and fraud over 115 years?
18-5368 Gabriel Werdene v. United States Third Circuit 2018-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP computer-search criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure-41(b) fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect law-enforcement-procedure search-warrant warrant warrant-validity Whether the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule applies when a warrant is void from the outset due to the issuing authority's lack of jurisd…
18-5341 Roger Wilson v. United States Third Circuit 2018-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure default-judgment due-process equal-protection jurisdiction service-of-process standing Whether the appeals court committed a reversible error by denying the petitioner's motion to vacate a default judgment, where the petitioner claims he…
18-5342 Roger Wilson v. Delta Airlines, et al. Third Circuit 2018-07-25 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech judicial-delay judicial-misconduct jurisdiction standing whether-the-year-long-delay-in-the-court-issuing-a-decision-on-petitioner's-case-violated-due-process
18-5343 Roger Wilson v. McKeesport Police Department, et al. Third Circuit 2018-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction standing takings Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the lower courts refused to consider evidence of his innocence and denied his reques…
18-5344 Roger Wilson v. United States, et al. Third Circuit 2018-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process government-accountability jurisdiction standing statutory-provisions Whether the district court erred in dismissing the lawsuit on the grounds that the petitioner lacked standing to challenge the government's actions
18-5350 Carroll Erman Crider v. Virginia Virginia 2018-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conviction-vacatur criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus indictment indictment-notice jurisdiction notice standing statutory-violation Whether Crider's convictions should be vacated due to lack of jurisdiction and inadequate indictment notice
18-5310 Walter N. Rhodes, Jr. v. Shane Baker, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation timeliness Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's habeas corpus petition as untimely under 28 U.S.C. 2244(d)
18-5333 Scott Leslie Carmell v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-07-24 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jurisdiction sixth-amendment standing Whether the petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of appellate counsel was violated when the appellate court sua sponte dismissed…
18-5294 Herbert Pridgen v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP adjudication appeal appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court-error civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-judgment judicial-review jurisdiction legal-adjudication procedural-defect sentencing Did the Circuit Court err in its opinion when it failed to properly address the four issues raised on appeal for adjudication, giving an insufficient …
18-5295 Miguel Pedraza v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied IFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction mental-competency procedural-default standard-of-review Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in denying petitioner's certificate of appealability application based on the conclusion that he failed to make a s…
18-5305 Aubry Rae Johnson v. Paul Copenhaver, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-counting due-process federal-custody federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus habeas-petition jurisdiction primary-jurisdiction sentencing state-custody time-served Does 18 U.S.C. § 3585 prevent a federal sentence from commencing where federal authorities do not have primary jurisdiction of the inmate?
18-5243 Curumulathu Jacob v. Virginia Virginia 2018-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction notice-clause sixth-amendment stare-decisis void-ab-initio Can a state maintain a judgment which was entered absent jurisdiction under its own stare decisis ruling and which is a violation of the Sixth Amendme…
18-5205 Tony D. Littles v. Trudie Roundtree Florida 2018-07-12 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction property property-rights standing takings Whether the lower court erred in denying petitioner's claims that the government's actions violated his constitutional rights to due process, property…
18-5224 Frank Costelon v. New Mexico Tenth Circuit 2018-07-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constructive-denial-of-counsel cronic-violation custody due-process equitable-tolling federal-custody gideon-violation habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction standing state-court-conviction Whether the District Court erred in concluding that it did not have jurisdiction because the petitioner was no longer in custody of the state court ju…
18-5202 Samuel Knowles v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability consular-notification criminal-procedure due-process extradition extradition-process international-treaty jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect Question not identified
18-62 Brian Colbry, et ux. v. Lisa Von Pier, Director, New Jersey Division of Child Protection and Permanency, et al. Third Circuit 2018-07-11 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2254 child-custody child-protective-services custody deprivation-of-liberty habeas-corpus jurisdiction liberty-deprivation state-institution state-restraint unlawful-restraint Is a minor child in custody for purposes of jurisdiction on a Petition for Habeas Corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §2254 where the child is suffering a se…
18-5170 Ijaz Khan v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-determination citizenship-and-naturalization-fraud citizenship-status due-process evidence evidence-standard fraud immigration immigration-law jurisdiction legal-review marriage naturalization naturalization-fraud standing statutory-interpretation Whether there was evidence presented at trial that petitioner was lawfully married to Shabana before he became naturalized?
18-47 Thomas McClary, et al. v. Commodores Entertainment Corp. Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-09 Denied extraterritorial-conduct extraterritorial-jurisdiction international-commerce jurisdiction lanham-act steele-v-bulova substantial-effect trademark-enforcement trademark-standing us-commerce What defines the 'substantial effect on United States commerce' that grants U.S. court's jurisdiction to expand the Lanham Act to extraterritorial con…
18-5157 In Re Jose Luis Arevalo 2018-07-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence cause-and-prejudice cause-and-prejudice-doctrine certificate-of-appealability drug-crimes due-process eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment jurisdiction money-laundering reasonable-doubt Whether the due process clause was violated by failure to prove every element of money laundering beyond a reasonable doubt
18-41 Micheline Baptiste v. Shrusan Gray Florida 2018-07-06 Denied access-to-courts bodily-injuries civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process florida-supreme-court free-speech government-redress judicial-review jurisdiction petition-clause petition-for-redress pro-se-petition standing state-court-jurisdiction Whether Florida Supreme Court has authority to dismiss petition by unrepresented party to review orders and impede sought relief for bodily injuries, …
18-27 Estate of Juanita Jackson, et al. v. Rubin Schron Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied all-writs-act bankruptcy bankruptcy-jurisdiction consent injunctive-relief judicial-authority jurisdiction non-core-proceedings permanent-injunction state-law-claims Can bankruptcy courts use the All Writs Act to expand their jurisdiction and authority beyond the confines of the Bankruptcy Code? And if so, can they…
18-5114 Nigel L. Faison v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the district court erred in accepting the petitioner's guilty plea without a sufficient factual basis, in violation of due process
18-5116 Benjamin A. Gibbs v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process jurisdiction life-sentence murder patent retroactive-application sentencing-guidelines standing takings uncharge-offense Whether the petitioner's life sentence for an uncharged offense of murder violates due process, retroactive application of law, and sentencing guideli…
18-5123 Eric Glenn Parker v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting conspiracy criminal-conviction criminal-procedure district-court jurisdiction murder murder-charge rico rico-conspiracy sixth-amendment venue venue-proof Was venue proven to convict Eric Glenn Parker of conspiracy to commit RICO and aiding and abetting murder in the Northern District of Mississippi?
18-5142 Robert Jay Heximer v. Michigan Michigan 2018-07-05 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-4th-amendment-exclusionary-rule due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment illegal-detention jurisdiction probable-cause standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the evidence acquired during Mr. Heximer's illegal detention is inadmissible under clearly-established law
18-5076 Billy R. Melot v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Fifth Circuit 2018-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction standing tax venue Whether the 5th Circuit Decision is an intervening controlling precedent that affects the Justiciability of Appellant's claims
18-5109 Reggie Rankins v. Illinois Illinois 2018-07-03 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence jurisdiction jury-trial sentencing sexual-assault statutory-interpretation Did the State of Illinois properly disrnim a conviction based upon the evidence of J.P. testimony, and in accordance with statute 720 ILCS 5/11-1.30(A…
18-5064 In Re Kenneth Gaylord Stokes 2018-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-procedure criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus jurisdiction lower-court-decisions standing takings Is petitioner entitled to immediate relief, including mandamus, from this court for a claim of actual innocence with regard to double ex post facto vi…
18-5035 Sandra Grazzini-Rucki v. Minnesota Minnesota 2018-06-29 Denied IFP civil-procedure coerced-testimony constitutional-law defense-evidence due-process false-statements jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct restitution standing statutory-interpretation Whether the prosecutor committed misconduct by allowing false statements and filing additional charges after a witness was coerced to recant testimony…
18-5049 Leroy Lamont Wells v. Collette Peters, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus jurisdiction opinions standing takings Leroy Lamont Wells v. Colleen TC Peters
18-5050 James E. Whitney v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States Eighth Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP accountability civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process government-authority judicial-independence jurisdiction legal-standing separation-of-powers sovereignty standing Is the living breathing sentient mortal sovereign of the world-of-man government constructs known as the United States or a sub-servant and subjugated…
18-5024 William Robert Dixon v. Robert LeGrand, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation court-access due-process equal-protection exhaustion-of-remedies illegal-sentencing jurisdiction standing Does violation of right to access the court measure constitutional violation?
25A111 Judy A. Brannberg v. Jefferson County Public Schools, et al. Colorado Presumed Complete charter injunction irreparable-harm jurisdiction land-seizure rico Whether a federal court can issue an injunction to prevent a RICO-based charter and land seizure that threatens to irreparably harm a petitioner's leg…