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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A351 James Anthony Brian Morelock v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-26 Presumed Complete categorical-approach certiorari-petition circuit-split founding-era-practice historical-interpretation legal-doctrine Question not identified.
24-6267 Robert Moore v. New York New York 2025-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-of-appeals judicial-precedent legal-doctrine stare-decisis supervisory-power Should this Court exercise its supervisory power to clearly establish what is meant by "stare decisis", where the New York State Court of Appeals sanc…
24-697 Terry J. Clark v. Debra Anne Taylor, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-12-31 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction case-preclusion district-court federal-procedure legal-doctrine rooker-feldman 1. The first question presented is about Rooker-Feldtman, what standards exist for any and all appellate courts EXCEPTIONS to Rooker-Feldman? 2. Does…
24-192 Izhar Shefer v. Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-21 Denied arbitration due-process eleventh-circuit legal-doctrine manifest-disregard punitive-sanctions Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in holding that - even when an arbitral panel imposed punitive and dispositive sanctions in disregard of a party's …
24-6 Stacy Williams, on Behalf of Her Minor Grandson, J. J. v. Andrew Williams, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-07-08 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights deshaney-v-winnebago due-process federal-circuit-split fifth-circuit judicial-interpretation legal-doctrine standing state-created-danger Whether the Court should end the Fifth Circuit's decades-long refusal to rule on the viability of the "state-created-danger" doctrine by recognizing t…
23-513 Randy Smith, Sheriff, et al. v. Jerry Rogers, Jr. Fifth Circuit 2023-11-15 Denied Response Waived 42-U.S.C.-§-1983 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights discretionary-functions government-officials harlow-v-fitzgerald legal-doctrine qualified-immunity statutory-rights 1. What does it mean for a statutory or constitutional right to be "clearly established," beyond debate for purposes of § 1983 qualified immunity? 2.…
23-5035 Miguel Lux-Tum v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-doctrine precedent-overruling sentencing supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
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 so that it can address and resolve a circuit split between the Ninth and the Second, Sixth and Seventh Circ…
21-600 Wade Steven Gardner, et al. v. William Mutz, in His Capacity as Mayor of the City of Lakeland, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-26 Denied Response Waived civil-rights first-amendment free-speech government-speech legacy-monuments legal-doctrine monument-display public-forum public-forums summum summum-precedent Should the government speech doctrine as recognized in Pleasant Grove City, Utah v. Summum be modified in cases involving legacy monuments already in …
20-7802 Michael Green v. Illinois Illinois 2021-04-19 Denied IFP 6th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-doctrine precedent public-policy standing statutory-interpretation Whether there exist a Fivadde mee fe ( Misterstas 2 0 f Seshee bere the dst/onen's Conviction Rested On Pan Jig bye of the New Ss Cio biti ca his . St…
20-1438 Tina Cates v. Bruce D. Stroud, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-law courts-of-appeals due-process fourth-amendment legal-doctrine precedent qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing 1. Whether the unanimous conclusion of multiple other courts of appeals suffices to clearly establish the law for purposes of qualified immunity. 2. …
20-1415 Hyung Jin "Sean" Moon v. Hak Ja Han Moon, et al. Second Circuit 2021-04-08 Denied civil-procedure collusion court-jurisdiction ecclesiastical-abstention fraud fraud-exception legal-doctrine religious-organization religious-organizations tortious-conduct Whether there is an exception to this Court's ecclesiastical abstention doctrine that allows courts to resolve disputes over whether control of a reli…
20-1269 Amanda Kay Renfroe, et al. v. Robert Denver Parker, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-03-12 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-doctrine qualified-immunity separation-of-powers standing I. QUALIFIED IMMUNITY VIOLATES THE SEPARATION OF POWERS, IS REPUGNANT TO THE CONSTITUTION, AND IS VOID. II. IS A FACTUAL REASONABLENESS FOR A JURY TO…
20-7012 Stanley Dan Reczko, III v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-court continuance district-court judicial-discretion legal-doctrine party-presentation sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-challenge united-states-v-sineneng-smith Does the Ninth Circuit's rule permitting it to decline to address a defendant's Sixth Amendment challenge (arising from the district court's denial of…
20-876 Jeanine Liberti, et vir v. City of Scottsdale, Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-31 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights common-law constitutional-rights due-process legal-doctrine police-liability police-misconduct qualified-immunity section-1983 1. For 42 U.S.C. § 1983 cases, this Court has created a qualified-immunity doctrine. It lacks support in the common law, in this Court's pre-1974 case…
19-8902 Rafael Antonio Patino-Villalobos v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP acknowledgement criminal-procedure defense-counsel district-court federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure invited-error legal-doctrine procedural-waiver rule-52(b) sentencing Whether defense counsel's acknowledgement of the district court's statement during sentencing constitutes an affirmative, intentional, deliberate, and…
19-1446 Bing Charles W. Kearney, Jr., et al. v. Travelers Casualty and Surety Company of America Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-01 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment appellate-courts appellate-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-violations due-process federal-appellate-courts federal-courts fifth-amendment florida-supreme-court judicial-review legal-doctrine right-for-the-wrong-reason statutory-interpretation The possibility for federal appel late courts to abuse the "right for the wrong reason" rule, as the rule was promulgated by this Court in Helvering…
19-676 Joseph A. Zadeh, et al. v. Mari Robinson, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-liability judicial-precedent law-enforcement legal-doctrine qualified-immunity section-1983 standing Whether the Court should recalibrate or reverse the doctrine of qualified immunity.
18-7961 David Martinko v. New Hampshire New Hampshire 2019-02-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP absurdity-doctrine battery battery-continuous-course-of-conduct continuous-course-of-conduct criminal-offense criminal-offenses criminal-offenses-absurdity-doctrine-legislative-s criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review legal-doctrine legislative-supremacy statutory-interpretation Should the 'Absurdity Doctrine' be limited or abandoned in criminal offenses altogether to protect legislative supremacy?
18-909 Valarie Davis v. Fiat Chrysler Automobiles U.S., LLC Sixth Circuit 2019-01-14 Denied bad-faith bankruptcy bankruptcy-disclosure civil-claim civil-procedure civil-rights disclosure judicial-estoppel legal-doctrine procedural-bar standing takings Whether a plaintiff who fails to disclose her civil claim in bankruptcy is barred, under the doctrine of judicial-estoppel, from pursuing her claim—ev…
18-7082 Juan Bautista Rosas Cuellar v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure collateral-estoppel criminal-defendant due-process intervening-change-in-law intervening-law-change issue-preclusion legal-doctrine offensive-preclusion summary-reversal May collateral estoppel be applied offensively against a criminal defendant?