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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6449 Cynthia Lynn Pollick v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2025-12-30 Pending IFP constitutional-rights disorderly-conduct due-process legal-counsel pro-se sixth-amendment 1. Whether Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to counsel was violated by Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas, Pennsylvania when it failed to honor…
24-6992 Mehdi Nikparvar-Fard v. United States Third Circuit 2025-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process evidence-admissibility fifth-amendment guilty-plea legal-counsel motion-to-withdraw Whether the district judge's decision to deny the defendant's motion to withdraw his guilty plea violated the defendant's Fifth Amendment right to due…
24-6852 Eric William Diaz v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2025-03-26 Denied IFP double-jeopardy legal-counsel plea-negotiation sentencing sexual-offense sixth-amendment Whether the Pennsylvania State Courts violated the Double Jeopardy Clause and Sixth Amendment Rights during sentencing and plea negotiations involving…
24-761 William H. Viehweg v. Insurance Programs Management Group, LLC, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-01-17 Denied constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection kay-v-ehrler legal-counsel pro-se-representation Whether the lower courts' recognition of three defendants' entries of appearances as their own attorneys, including legal co-counsel, rather than pers…
24-26 Hugh H. Baldwin, Jr. v. Maryland Maryland 2024-07-10 Denied Response Waived bad-faith collateral-consequences due-process due-process,collateral-consequences,bad-faith,lega ineffective-assistance legal-counsel post-conviction-relief Did the State commit a Bad Faith Due Process Violation resulting in outstanding legal consequences to the petitioner, to wit: Significant Collateral C…
23A971 John Garland, et al. v. New York City Fire Department, et al. Second Circuit 2024-04-30 Presumed Complete certiorari court-procedure legal-counsel petition-filing supreme-court time-extension Whether a court may grant an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari based on counsel retention challenges and limited organizational reso…
23-7068 Jabari J. Johnson v. Jill Brady, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-03-25 Dismissed IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-counsel post-conviction right-to-counsel standing Whether the state court erred in denying petitioner's request for a hearing on his 35C01 post-conviction claim
23-7009 Warren Simpson v. Alan Simpson Arizona 2024-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection legal-counsel liberty pro-se-representation right-to-counsel self-representation trustee Should every US citizen be provided counsel if they cannot afford it?
23A609 Lorenzo M. Wilson, et al. v. Ford Motor Company, et al. Alabama 2024-01-02 Presumed Complete arbitration findings-of-fact first-amendment legal-counsel motion-to-compel right-to-petition Whether the First Amendment right to petition requires a trial court to make specific findings of fact and law when ruling on a motion to compel arbit…
23A605 Robert Holton v. Robert Henon, et al. Third Circuit 2024-01-02 Presumed Complete appellate-review disability legal-counsel third-circuit time-extension writ-of-certiorari Whether the Third Circuit's prior appellate decision in favor of the petitioner warrants Supreme Court review given the unique circumstances of counse…
23-5855 Regina Tate v. Hamilton County Election Commission Sixth Circuit 2023-10-23 Denied IFP appointment-of-counsel civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights dismissal due-process judicial-procedure legal-counsel pro-se-litigant standing Whether the Dismissal should be reconsidered for failure to appoint legal counsel
23-5706 Darrell Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP asset-seizure circuit-split constitutional-rights corporate-representation due-process indigent-company legal-counsel representative-counsel restitution can-the-courts-prosecute-indigent-companies-without-legal-representation
22-6611 Joseph P. Counts v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights cohen-collateral-order due-process jurisdictional-issue legal-counsel notice-of-appeal pro-se standing timeliness urgent-matters Whether district courts must rule on pro se motions regardless of representation
22-387 James Edward White v. Michigan State University Unemployment Compensation Division Michigan 2022-10-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 9th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-rules justice legal-counsel ninth-amendment right-to-petition Does the Ninth Amendment guarantee certain rights?
21-1563 Reynaldo Antonio De Los Santos, et al. v. William Bosworth, In the Official Capacity as Employee and/or Administrator and/or Policymaker and/or Official of Johnson County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-06-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights county-commissioners due-process government-code indigent-appointment legal-counsel open-meetings open-meetings-act public-funds texas-government-code texas-open-meetings-act Whether conditions precedent that are specified in both the Texas Open Meetings Act and the Texas Government Code must be met before county commission…
21-7497 In Re Willie T. Murphy 2022-03-30 Denied IFP collateral-proceeding collateral-review constitutional-right due-process ineffective-assistance legal-counsel martinez-v-ryan prisoner-rights right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Does a prisoner have a right to effective assistance of counsel in a collateral proceeding which provides the first occasion to raise a claim of ineff…
21-5451 John M. Wasson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions legal-counsel mining-claim right-to-counsel Was defendant provided adequate counsel?
21-5424 Victor H. Canales v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-08-20 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-procedure criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings legal-counsel post-conviction-relief standing Question not identified
20-1596 Taylor Lohmeyer Law Firm P.L.L.C. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-17 Denied Amici (1) attorney-client-privilege circuit-split client-identity confidential-communication irs-audit irs-summons john-doe-summons legal-counsel tax-planning Whether the attorney-client privilege protects the identity of a client when the government is aware of the client's confidential communication with l…
20-6934 Fred Cartwright v. Silver Cross Hospital, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process en-banc-rehearing equal-protection legal-counsel medical-condition post-traumatic-stress-disorder standing writ-of-certiorari Whether the petitioner's due process and equal protection rights were violated due to the dismissal of his case and denial of his motions for rehearin…
20-6062 Montgomery Carl Akers v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-10-16 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure criminal-process district-court due-process legal-counsel post-conviction-proceedings right-to-counsel standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the district court has subject-matter jurisdiction
20-5566 John J. Wilson, Jr. v. Florida, et al. Florida 2020-09-02 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-counsel relief-denial standing state-court-procedure Can the systematic deprivation of counsel be used as the primary reason to deny post-conviction relief?
19-8428 Marc Wyatt v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-05-08 Denied IFP appointment-of-counsel constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-market-value fifth-circuit legal-counsel replacement-cost right-to-self-representation self-representation Was the appointment of counsel valid?
19-8363 Daniel R. McClain v. Kenneth Sharp, Warden Fourth Circuit 2020-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-counsel post-conviction-relief prison-conditions Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated due to the deprivation of adequate access to the courts and lack of properly trained lega…
19-6575 Dorothy Williams Elliott v. Florida Florida 2019-11-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights court-proceedings criminal-procedure due-process expungement ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining probation sentencing Whether the state court erred in denying petitioner's motion to vacate conviction and sentence, given the ineffective assistance of counsel and due pr…
19-493 James J. Maksimuk v. Connor Sport Court International, LLC Federal Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied Relisted (2) cafc corporate-representation court-procedure district-court due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause legal-counsel legal-representation overturning-decisions supreme-court-rulings trademark-cancellation trademark-law Did the CAFC, District Court, 10th Cir., TTAB orders and judgments and referenced Supreme Court rulings—that required corporations to be represented b…
18-5017 Glenn Lee Selden v. Elizabeth A. Kovachevich, Judge, United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-06-28 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights commercial-contract constitutional-provisions criminal-forfeiture due-process false-name-registration government-authority legal-counsel military-appeal national-security standing takings Whether the court will enforce a commercial contract when the United States is under nuclear assault and the public is in grave danger