| 24-6430 |
Maurice Fleming v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2025-01-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
accomplice-testimony criminal-conviction due-process jury-instruction legal-principles statutory-interpretation |
Whether the trial court's failure to provide a requested jury instruction on an accomplice's testimony requires reversal of a criminal conviction when… |
| 23-7040 |
Hamid Houbbadi v. Kennedy Law Firm, PLLC, et al. |
Tennessee |
2024-03-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment appeals constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process legal-principles state-court statutory-interpretation |
Is the petitioner's constitutional right to due process of law under the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution violated when the Tennessee … |
| 23-6091 |
Valentino Bernard Lee v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process firearm-possession jury-instructions legal-principles mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence possession-of-firearm sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the trial court erred in sentencing the defendant to a mandatory 10-year minimum sentence under Florida Statute § 775.087(2)(a)1 when the defe… |
| 22-6614 |
Omar Kashaka Taylor v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ambiguous-term criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process jury-instruction legal-principles statutory-interpretation Whether a jury instruction effectively directing a |
Whether an overly broad interpretation of an ambiguous term in a criminal statute carrying severe penalties complies with established principles of st… |
| 22-6547 |
Kashai Jones v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process illinois-supreme-court judicial-discretion jury-instructions jury-selection legal-principles plain-error trial-court wainwright-v-witt |
Whether the Illinois Supreme Court's rule requiring trial courts to ensure that each juror understands the principles of People v. Zehr, 103 Ill. 2d 4… |
| 20-1592 |
Caitlin McCann, et al. v. Sheila Garcia, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process legal-principles precedent qualified-immunity social-workers standing |
Whether a plaintiff satisfies the 'clearly established law' prong of qualified-immunity |
| 20-6525 |
Gerald Aranoff v. Susan Aranoff |
New York |
2020-12-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals divorce-proceedings due-process judicial-decision-making judicial-interpretation legal-principles pension-division standing state-constitutional-law |
Are the NYS Court of Appeals' rulings consistent with the NYS constitutional requirement to articulate statewide principles of law in the context of d… |
| 19-8653 |
Jose Heriberto Ramirez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-standards criminal-procedure due-process independent-review judicial-review legal-principles sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether independent review is an obligation for the lower court and the appellate court to maintain control of and to clarify the legal principles in … |
| 19-821 |
Isaac M. Nsejjere v. Reuben Smith, et ux. |
Washington |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-law constitutional-rights deprivation deprivation-of-rights due-process equal-protection legal-principles state-action unequal-protection |
Is a state action constitutional when it leads to deprivation by denying a process that is 'due', and premised on unequal protection under the law? |
| 19-5674 |
Ed Teague, II v. Regent Financial Group, Inc., et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure failure-to-state-a-claim failure-to-state-claim judicial-interpretation legal-principles motion-to-dismiss pleading-requirements standard-of-review |
Whether the court of appeal's decision below contradicts existing legal principles when evaluating a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim up… |
| 18-8786 |
Stephen Krell v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights controlling-legal-principles deficient-advice effective-assistance-of-counsel legal-principles misapprehension-of-case plea-bargaining sixth-amendment trial-counsel trial-counsel-incompetence |
Whether the Sixth Amendment's right to the effective assistance to counsel during the plea bargaining stages of the proceeding is implicated when tria… |
| 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… |
| 18-1060 |
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… |
| 18-6615 |
Eugene Riley, III v. Stephanie Dorethy, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment criminal-justice due-process evidence jury-instructions law legal-assessment legal-principles separateness-of-events |
Whether Ritey was denied his 6th Amendment right to have his jury assessed with instructions on the application of legal principles to the evidence an… |
| 18-5186 |
Dominick Theresa v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2018-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure claim-limitations claim-validity due-process judicial-review legal-principles patent patent-claims patent-examination pro-se pro-se-litigation standing |
Whether the lower courts deprived the pro se petitioner of due process and disregarded the limitations within the patent claims as well as the validit… |