| 25-526 |
Laura Beny v. University of Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-10-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split discrimination-evidence honest-belief-doctrine jury-trial-rights summary-judgment title-vii |
Whether federal courts may apply the judge-made "honest belief" doctrine to grant summary judgment in Title VII cases when: (1) this Court's unanimous… |
| 23-7756 |
Samuel T. Whatley v. Elmore County Probate Office, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-06-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
bill-of-rights constitution constitutional-property-rights declaration-of-independence due-process founding-fathers-intent governmental-limitations individual-property-ownership jury-trial-rights property-rights takings |
Does the Founding Father's documentation of individual rights, such as the Bill of Rights, Declaration of Independence, and Constitution, provide prot… |
| 23-7324 |
Danilo Velasquez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing deportation gang jury-trial-rights plea-bargaining rico rico-case section-2255 sentencing-disparity |
Whether the petitioner's continued life sentence represents an unwarranted sentencing disparity under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(6) |
| 22-6242 |
William Burke v. Jerry Jefferson, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa-deference antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act cumulative-errors due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions jury-trial-rights right-to-jury-trial strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Did the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals fail to adhere to the Strickland-standard-of-review |
| 22-5936 |
Demetrius Troy Bradley v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2022-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
acquitted-conduct constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-trial-rights sentencing sentencing-discretion sixth-amendment |
Do the jury-trial and due process guarantees of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit judges from considering, at sentencing in a criminal case… |
| 22-156 |
David Douglas Fennell v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anti-SLAPP-law civil-rights constitutional-rights equal-protection federal-preemption free-speech jury-trial jury-trial-rights political-assembly right-to-assemble |
Is California's anti-SLAPP law constitutional? |
| 21-7458 |
Derek Williamson v. Jason Clendenion, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split due-process jury-trial-rights lenient-standard self-defense summary-remand |
Does the failure to give a self-defense jury instruction contradict, or is an unreasonable application of, clearly established federal law regarding a… |
| 21-6289 |
Norris Deshon Andrews v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act judicial-fact-finding jury-trial jury-trial-rights predicate-crimes predicate-crimes-of-violence sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the sentencing court violated Petitioner's Sixth Amendment jury trial rights |
| 20-7299 |
Michael Dean Adkisson v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2021-03-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
consecutive-sentence criminal-sentencing custody due-process jury-trial jury-trial-rights prison-custody separate-offense separate-statute statutory-interpretation |
Whether state prison officials violate an inmate's due process and jury trial rights when they hold an inmate in custody pursuant to an additional con… |
| 20-6954 |
Brenda Yadira Gamez-Castaneda v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alien-smuggling criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judge-found-facts judicial-fact-finding jury-trial jury-trial-rights sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether Petitioner's sentence violates the Sixth Amendment because its reasonableness depends upon facts found by the court that was not admitted by t… |
| 20-6823 |
Robert Buttery v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial jury-trial-rights juvenile-adjudication sex-offender-registration |
Whether an adult felony conviction under Ohio's failure to register statute violates due process and jury trial rights |
| 19-959 |
TAMKO Building Products, Inc. v. Daniel Williams, et al. |
Oklahoma |
2020-01-31 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
agency-law arbitration-agreements equal-footing equal-footing-principle federal-arbitration-act jury-trial-rights practical-impact state-agency-law state-court-hostility state-courts |
Whether the Federal Arbitration Act permits state courts to craft state principles of agency law that uniquely disfavor arbitration |
| 19-799 |
Streambend Properties II, LLC, et al. v. Ivy Tower Minneapolis, LLC, et al. |
Minnesota |
2019-12-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights dismissal-with-prejudice due-process equal-protection failure-to-state-claim jury-trial jury-trial-rights pleadings standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing with prejudice Petitioners' claims for failing to state a claim for which relief may be granted |
| 19-101 |
Imperium IP Holdings (Cayman), Ltd. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
appellate-review burden-of-proof credibility-determinations credibility-of-witnesses expert-testimony jury-trial jury-trial-rights jury-verdict patent-infringement patent-invalidity patent-validity seventh-amendment standard-of-review |
Whether an appellate court may reverse a jury verdict based on its own view that expert testimony was credible, 'unrebutted,' and 'uncontradicted,' or… |
| 18-6877 |
Richard Earl Shere, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-11-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial-rights retroactivity |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection and the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of capricious capital sentencing impose limits… |
| 18-6535 |
Rodney Williams v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2018-11-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment due-process fourth-amendment-violation jurisdictional-defect jury-trial-rights restitution right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment-right void-judgment void-restitution-order void-sentence |
Was defendant denied his constitutional right to counsel at his sentencing and restitution hearing; constituting a void sentence and restitution order… |
| 18-5437 |
Gary Richard Whitton v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-08-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
advisory-jury capital-sentencing capricious due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection equal-protection-clause jury-trial jury-trial-rights retroactivity |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection and the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of capricious capital sentencing impose limits… |