| 25A351 |
James Anthony Brian Morelock v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-09-26 |
Presumed Complete |
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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 |
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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 (
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| 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 |
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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 |
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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? |