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25-6809 Michael Wayne Keller v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2026-02-13 Pending IFP commonwealth-instruction heat-of-passion jury-instruction legal-standard malice-definition trial-court-error 1) Was the definition of malice given to the jury a proper Virginia model jury instruction defining heat of passion? 2) Did counsel for appellant req…
25-6785 Nicholas Craig Woozencroft v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2026-02-12 Pending IFP alternative-theories circuit-split criminal-jury-trial evidence-relevance federal-rules-of-evidence legal-standard Generally, relevant evidence is admissible at trial. Evidence is relevant —in civil and criminal cases alike —if "it has any tendency to make a fact m…
25-6790 Diego Castillo-Pedraza v. United States Third Circuit 2026-02-11 Pending IFP appellate-decision circuit-court-review evidence-rule-404b judicial-procedure legal-standard sentencing-review 1. Was the Third Circuit decision to affirm the District Court's 404(b) Ruling and sentencing correct?
25-6704 Horacio Baca-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-02-03 Pending IFP case-precedent criminal-law judicial-review legal-standard statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Should Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), be overruled?
25-6522 Miguel Angel Macias-Fuentes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-01-08 Pending Response WaivedIFP case-remand certiorari judicial-procedure legal-standard precedent-review supreme-court-review This petition presents two questions. First, whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) should be overruled? Second, whether th…
25-6486 Marvin Bowman v. City of Chicago Board of Education Seventh Circuit 2026-01-06 Pending IFP appellate-review court-procedure harm-analysis judicial-error legal-standard summary-judgment Whether or not the courts errored when they applied the significant harm standard to this case when this court had already ruled against it? Whether o…
25-754 Rodney Woodland v. Montero Lamar Hill Ninth Circuit 2025-12-29 Pending burrow-giles-precedent circuit-split copyright-law feist-decision legal-standard photography-copyright 1. Whether, on an acknowledged Circuit split, copyrightability is a pure question of law, as the Ninth Circuit held below, or includes considerations …
25A441 Eric Tyrell Johnson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-10-20 Application certiorari constitutional-error criminal-case fourth-circuit legal-standard supreme-court-review Whether the Fourth Circuit's ruling in a criminal case warrants Supreme Court review for potential constitutional error or misapplication of law
25-439 Karl Tobien v. Nationwide General Insurance Company Sixth Circuit 2025-10-10 Denied affirmative-defense burden-of-proof civil-procedure legal-standard non-patent-case venue Whether a defendant who raises the affirmative defense of improper venue in a non-patent case bears the burden of proving that venue is improper.
25A404 Ángel Forteza-García v. United States First Circuit 2025-10-08 Presumed Complete criminal-appeal federal-public-defender first-circuit legal-standard time-extension writ-of-certiorari Whether the First Circuit correctly interpreted the applicable legal standard in a federal criminal case involving Forteza-Garcia
25-289 Muhamed Pathe Bah v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-09-12 Denied Response Waived 2255-motion federal-circuits habeas-corpus legal-standard rule-56 summary-judgment Whether Rule 56 summary-judgment standards apply uniformly to 2255 habeas motions across federal circuits
25-276 Bret Healy v. Supreme Court of South Dakota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-09-10 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure legal-standard non-signing-party reasonable-inquiry rule-11 sanctions Whether Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11 permits sanctions to be imposed on represented parties who do not sign the pleading, motion, or other paper…
25-5586 David Priest v. Bentley, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP discovery-ruling district-court inmate-rights judicial-discretion legal-standard pro-se-litigation Whether pro se inmate litigants are held to the same legal standard as lawyers in court proceedings, whether proper notice was given for raising issue…
25-254 Khamraj Lall v. United States Third Circuit 2025-09-04 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review legal-standard sentence-reduction Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals violated fundamental due process principles by granting a stay to delay proceedings until an unfavorable la…
25-5255 In Re Alex Anderson 2025-08-01 Denied IFP appellate-review custody-dispute family-court legal-standard procedural-due-process support-determination Did the Supreme Court of New York Appellate Division properly apply legal standards in reviewing the family court's custody and support determinations…
25-5236 Robert Annabel, II v. Sherman Campbell, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review fact-finding legal-standard religious-practice substantial-burden summary-judgment Does the Court of Appeals erroneously define what constitutes a substantial burden upon religious practice and did it make erroneous and impermissible…
25-90 Mark S. Scott v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2025-07-23 Denied Response Waived appellate-review constitutional-due-process government-misconduct judicial-review legal-standard perjured-testimony Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit applied the wrong standard to the admission of perjured testimony that the governmen…
25-5078 Lawrence J. Turner v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2025-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP counsel-performance direct-review ineffective-assistance issue-preservation legal-standard reasonableness-test Whether, in assessing direct-review counsel's performance based upon the omission of a preserved issue, lower courts should either apply the clearly s…
25-5022 Shemica Taylor v. Circuit Court of Illinois, Cook County, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-07-02 Denied IFP executive-immunity federal-statute judicial-immunity legal-standard prosecutorial-standard rule-60 Whether an officer of the Judicial branch must be subject to a different standard to determine entitlement to immunity from prosecution
24-7391 Angel L. Martinez v. Howard Sissem, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Forest, et al. Third Circuit 2025-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court federal-law ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-standard Was the District Court's decision that Petitioner received effective assistance of counsel, contrary to or involve an unreasonable application of clea…
24A1205 Leonard W. Hoffmann, et al. v. WBI Energy Transmission, Inc. Eighth Circuit 2025-06-06 Presumed Complete appellate-review attorney-fees district-court eighth-circuit judicial-discretion legal-standard Whether a federal appellate court may vacate a district court's award of attorney's fees without providing a substantive legal rationale
24-1243 Tri-Corp Housing, Inc. v. Robert Bauman Wisconsin 2025-06-05 Denied Response Waived actual-malice defamation jury-trial legal-standard public-figure wisconsin-supreme-court When is a claimant an 'involuntary public figure' within the meaning of Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc., and must the question of whether a party claiming…
24-7175 In Re Kevin Ogden 2025-05-12 Denied IFP appellate-review due-process jurisdiction legal-standard self-representation trial-rights Whether the Supreme Court of New Mexico lacks jurisdiction to rule on the petitioner's case prior to trial and applied the wrong legal standard when d…
24-7066 Hazem Garada v. District of Columbia Board of Medicine District of Columbia 2025-04-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP agency-proceeding constitutional-rights court-of-appeal due-process evidence-exclusion legal-standard Were due process Constitutional rights violated by respondent's agency proceeding and did the DC Court of Appeal unconstitutionally exclude petitioner…
24-7050 Juan Carlos Sotelo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process judicial-discretion juror-dismissal jury-selection legal-standard trial-procedure Whether the standard for dismissing a juror based on views on the merits of the case is a 'demonstrable reality', 'any possibility', 'any reasonable p…
24-6916 David C. Lettieri v. Suffolk County Police Second Circuit 2025-04-02 Dismissed IFP judicial-review legal-standard procedural-interpretation statutory-analysis strikes vacated-judgments Does vacated judgments count as 'strikes' under the legal standard?
24-6895 Herbert Lavonne Wiggins v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-03-31 Denied IFP factual-findings judicial-review legal-standard newly-discovered-evidence procedural-defect writ-of-certiorari Whether courts can refuse to adjudicate the merits of a writ when newly discovered evidence is presented and fail to make proper factual findings
24-958 Louis Ciminelli, Steven Aiello, Joseph Gerardi, & Alain Kaloyeros v. United States Second Circuit 2025-03-06 Denied appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy legal-standard retroactivity sufficiency-challenge Whether, before remanding for retrial, the Double Jeopardy Clause requires an appellate court to resolve a preserved sufficiency challenge applying th…
24-6571 Roel Ivan Sanchez-Sosa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law judicial-interpretation legal-standard procedural-review supreme-court-precedent Should Almendarez-Torres v. United States be overruled?
24-870 AMN Distribution, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, et al. v. Athena Cosmetics, Inc., a Delaware Corporation Ninth Circuit 2025-02-13 Denied attorney-fees fraud legal-standard misconduct prevailing-party reasonableness Should attorney time spent due to a prevailing party's fraud and misconduct be presumed unreasonable as a matter of law and excluded from prevailing p…
24-6490 Jose Omero Carrizal-Osornia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law-review constitutional-law judicial-interpretation legal-standard statutory-analysis supreme-court-precedent Should Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), be overruled?
24-6481 Frederick Stampone v. Michigan Supreme Court, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-02-05 Denied IFP constitutional-rights judicial-review legal-standard liberal-construction pro-se-pleadings procedural-interpretation Does this court construe the pleadings liberally and hold them to a less stringent standard than those filed by attorneys?
24-6314 David C. Lettieri v. City of Binghamton, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2025-01-15 Denied IFP case-law constitutional-interpretation imminent-danger judicial-strike legal-standard procedural-review What constitutes an 'imminent danger' under legal standards, and how does Neitze v. Williams impact the interpretation of a 'strike' in judicial proce…
24-675 Joseph R. Johnson, Jr. v. United States Third Circuit 2024-12-23 Denied certificate-of-innocence federal-damages legal-standard prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation unjust-conviction Whether a petitioner has satisfied the third element of Section 2513(a) when he did not engage in misconduct or neglect that proximately caused his pr…
24-6166 Hector Arturo Campos v. Texas Texas 2024-12-17 Denied IFP criminal-procedure deadly-weapon legal-standard provocation self-defense sudden-passion Whether evidence of former provocation is material in a Sudden Passion case and whether the legal standard was correctly applied in the analysis of se…
24-6009 Christian Guadalupe Contreras-Torres v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law certiorari constitutional-interpretation judicial-precedent legal-standard supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
24A482 James Timothy Norman v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-11-14 Presumed Complete criminal-conviction eighth-circuit legal-standard procedural-review sufficiency-of-evidence writ-of-certiorari Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals correctly applied the legal standard for reviewing a criminal conviction involving alleged evidentiary err…
24-463 Marta Sanchez, et al. v. Anthony Guzman, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-10-24 Denied affirmative-defense burden-of-proof civil-rights governmental-defendants legal-standard qualified-immunity Whether a civil rights plaintiff bears the burden of disproving the affirmative defense of qualified immunity for governmental defendants or whether g…
24A401 Xengxai Yang v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-10-24 Presumed Complete certiorari jurisdiction legal-standard seventh-circuit supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Whether the Seventh Circuit's decision in Yang v. United States improperly interpreted a critical legal standard or constitutional principle in the un…
24-5783 Genaro Alberto Nunez Ugarte v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law certiorari constitutional-interpretation judicial-precedent legal-standard supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
24-253 Avery Curry Archuleta, aka Avery Archuleta v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-09-06 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure jury-instruction legal-standard self-defense trial-court unanimity Whether trial courts must instruct juries that self-defense decisions require unanimity
24A209 Malikah Asante-Chioke v. Nicholas Dowdle, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-08-27 Presumed Complete certiorari court-review judicial-interpretation legal-standard petition time-extension Whether the lower court's decision improperly interpreted or applied a critical legal standard that warrants Supreme Court review
24A23 Carlos A. Alonso Cano, et al. v. 245 C&C, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-09 Presumed Complete civil-procedure eleventh-circuit legal-standard stay-of-proceedings supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Whether the Eleventh Circuit's decision conflicts with established Supreme Court precedent regarding the standard for granting a stay of proceedings i…
23-1364 Troy Kendrick, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-02 Denied Response Waived buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-review standard-of-review supervisory-power Whether the Court of Appeals' repeated misapplication of the standard for issuing a certificate of appealability warrants another exercise of this Cou…
23-7729 Lee Antwan Johnson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure court-review findings-of-fact judicial-procedure legal-standard lower-court standard-of-review What is the proper standard of review to be employed by a reviewing court examining a lower court's findings of fact?
23-7593 Kaleel Hinton v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-standard petition-for-writ post-conviction-relief procedural-due-process standing time-limitations Whether the PCRA court erred in dismissing the PCRA petition as untimely, where the petitioner was abandoned by plea counsel who failed to file a moti…
23A1018 Luis Marin v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-05-16 Presumed Complete criminal-case legal-standard ninth-circuit procedural-error time-extension writ-of-certiorari Whether the Ninth Circuit correctly applied the standard for granting or denying a writ of certiorari in a criminal case involving procedural or subst…
23-7396 Francisco Manuel Padilla v. California California 2024-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion legal-standard standing superior-court Whether the superior court has the authority to debase the constitutional rights of a defendant
23-1180 Palani Karupaiyan v. United States, et al. Third Circuit 2024-05-01 Denied Response Waived administrative-law alternative-relief civil-procedure extraordinary-relief extraordinary-writs judicial-review legal-standard mandamus standing writ-of-mandamus writ-of-prohibition Whether the lower court erred in denying the requested writs of mandamus, prohibition, or alternative relief
23-7341 Ronald Leon Thompson v. Colorado Colorado 2024-04-30 Denied IFP appellate-review consent constitutional-error constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-definition jury-instructions legal-standard trial-court-discretion Whether the Court of Appeals erred in finding the trial court's error in failing to define the term consent was constitutional harmless error
23-7310 In Re Arthur R. Holloway, Jr. 2024-04-26 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-standard procedural-rules standing statutory-provisions takings Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in denying the petitioners' request for rehearing en banc
23A832 Alexander Bayonne Stross v. Zillow, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-03-11 Presumed Complete copyright-infringement direct-infringement legal-standard ninth-circuit proximate-causation volitional-conduct Whether a defendant's passive or omissive conduct can satisfy the 'volitional conduct' requirement for direct copyright infringement liability
23-6733 Lunick Janvier v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling judicial-interpretation legal-standard standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals' decision on equitable tolling is in direct conflict with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals based on si…
23-842 Patricia Polanco, et al. v. Ralph Diaz, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-07 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process government-liability immunity judicial-doctrine law-enforcement legal-standard qualified-immunity standing Whether the Court should reverse or recalibrate the doctrine of qualified immunity
23-6683 Antoine Poteat v. Gerald Lydon, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Pennsylvania State Police, et al. Third Circuit 2024-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-process civil-rights fabrication-of-evidence legal-standard malicious-prosecution pro-se pro-se-pleading section-1983 speedy-trial Whether the Third Circuit's decision should be vacated and remanded for reconsideration in light of Thompson and McDonough?
23-6639 Omar Sierre Folk v. United States Third Circuit 2024-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP cert-denial civil-procedure extraordinary-circumstances judicial-decision legal-standard procedural-ruling rule-60(b)(1) rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b supreme-court-rule Whether Lower Court Misapplied Cert. Denial On 10/5/15 Was A Judicial decision Rendered Erroneous By Subsequent Legal Or Factual Changes Also Qualifie…
23-6525 Michael Dukes v. E.M.S.A. HSA Stephanie Wood, et al. Third Circuit 2024-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure court-proceedings due-process evidence extraordinary-circumstances judicial-procedure legal-standard material-evidence obstruction obstruction-of-justice standing Does obstruction preventing dispositive material evidence from being presented in court constitute 'extraordinary circumstances'?
23-783 Darren Kossen v. Asia Pacific Airlines, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-18 Denied Response Waived administrative-hearing air-21-statute burden-of-proof burdens-of-proof circumstantial-evidence clear-and-convincing-evidence legal-standard prima-facie res-judicata whistleblower-protection Did the ALJ, ARB and the 9th Circuit turn on its head AIR 21 law on burdens of proof?
23-752 Y.Y.G.M. SA, dba Brandy Melville v. Redbubble, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-11 Denied Response Waived adverse-consequences circuit-split contributory-liability contributory-trademark-infringement intellectual-property knowledge-standard legal-standard reasonable-steps specific-infringement trademark-infringement trademark-law Whether the Ninth Circuit erred by holding that a defendant may be held liable for contributory trademark infringement only if it knows or has reason …
23-642 Kevin Scott Karsjens, et al. v. Jodi Harpstead, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-12-14 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts implied-waiver legal-standard professional-judgment waiver Whether federal courts have a duty to apply the correct legal standard to a due process claim or can the court apply the wrong legal standard based on…
23-6243 Offie Curtis Brown, Jr. v. North Carolina Department of Public Safety, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-provisions first-amendment free-speech jurisdictional-issue legal-standard procedural-question public-concern public-employee retaliation statutory-provisions Whether the First Amendment protects the right of a public employee to speak on matters of public concern without fear of retaliation
23-618 Delano Marco Medina v. Colorado Colorado 2023-12-08 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) burden-of-proof constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process guilty-plea judicial-procedure judicial-review legal-standard whether-it-is-consistent-with-due-process-to-convict-a-criminal-defendant-without-finding-the-defendant-is-guilty
23-6181 Deryke Matthew Pfeifer v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process fifth-amendment jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue legal-standard procedural-question property-rights statutory-provisions takings Whether the U.S. Government violated the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment by failing to compensate the petitioner for the taking of their propert…
23-447 Jeremy Johnson v. Andre D. Boyd Fifth Circuit 2023-10-27 Denied Response Waived circuit-court-precedent civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights fifth-circuit legal-standard qualified-immunity split-second-use-of-force use-of-force Whether circuit court precedent can clearly establish the law for the purpose of qualified immunity analysis, and, if so, under what circumstances can…
23-5818 Eduardo Martinez v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process entitlement-to-relief habeas-corpus legal-standard procedural-requirements Whether a court of appeals can deny a Certificate of appealability because it believes the applicant will not demonstrate an entitlement to relief and…
23-5777 Iker Fabricio Mendez-Alfaro v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure legal-standard precedent-overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-274 William Felkner v. John Nazarian, et al. Rhode Island 2023-09-21 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights clearly-established-law first-amendment free-speech legal-standard policy qualified-immunity section-1983 supreme-court Whether the judge-made 'clearly established law' qualified immunity standard should be abolished or limited
23-5634 Jacob M. Currey v. Illinois Illinois 2023-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-standard plea-bargaining right-to-appeal sixth-amendment Whether the court clerk's refusal to file a pro se motion to withdraw guilty plea violates the petitioner's right to appeal
23-5463 Dexter Leemon Johnson v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-08-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment bills-of-attainder due-process impartial-judge indian-territory issues-of-first-impression jurisdiction legal-standard state-sovereignty Whether Oklahoma lacks jurisdiction in Indian territory due to its status as a state being void, whether Oklahoma's prosecution of the petitioner was …
23-5333 Abussamaa Rasul Ramzidin v. Angelo J. Onofri, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Mercer County Prosecutor, et al. Third Circuit 2023-08-10 Denied Relisted (3)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process judicial-error legal-standard prejudice procedural-prejudice standing third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey erred in their decisions which unfairly…
23-5196 James Calvin Massey v. Texas Texas 2023-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP attenuation-doctrine court-of-criminal-appeals criminal-act criminal-law due-process intervening-circumstance legal-standard police-misconduct texas-criminal-procedure utah-v-strieff Was the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals correct in holding that any new criminal act—even one that is petty, predictable, and uncharged—is always an i…
23-67 Springboards to Education, Inc. v. McAllen Independent School District Fifth Circuit 2023-07-25 Denied Response Waived anderson-v-liberty-lobby circuit-split consumer-confusion consumer-definition fact-intensive-inquiry legal-standard likelihood-of-confusion matsushita-v-zenith summary-judgment trademark-infringement Whether the case met the standard to dismiss on summary judgment
23-68 Springboards to Education, Inc. v. Mission Independent School District Fifth Circuit 2023-07-25 Denied Response Waived appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure consumer-confusion fact-intensive-inquiry legal-standard standard-of-review summary-judgment trademark trademark-law whether-the-case-met-the-standard-to-dismiss-on-summary-judgment
23-5181 Rudy Alexander Ventura-Recinos v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-precedent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial legal-standard sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5136 Chastity Quintana v. Rodney Wirthlin, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-07-19 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-counsel judicial-review legal-filing legal-standard procedural-error standing Whether the petitioner was denied due process and equal protection by having an unqualified or ineffective court-appointed counsel represent them in a…
23-15 Springboards to Education, Inc. v. IDEA Public Schools Fifth Circuit 2023-07-05 Denied Response Waived appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure consumer-confusion legal-standard legal-standards summary-judgment trademark-infringement Whether the legal reasoning used to evaluate the trademark-infringement issue was subjective, incomplete, and failed to address the record and the leg…
22-7831 Charles A. McRae v. Shannon N. Myers, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-06-23 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation legal-standard sentencing-guidelines standing summary-judgment Whether the Appellate Court erred by affirming the district court's decision to deny petitioner's constitutional claims
22-1201 Captain Mariella Creaghan v. Lloyd J. Austin, III, Secretary of Defense, et al. District of Columbia 2023-06-12 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process government-policy judicial-review legal-standard mootness-doctrine standing voluntary-cessation Whether under the voluntary cessation exception to mootness the government must satisfy the 'absolutely clear' standard if it maintains the authority …
22-7547 Carl Lee Ashley v. Mary Boayue, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment judicial-review legal-standard objective-prong prison-conditions standing Whether the court of appeals erred in finding that petitioner could not establish the objective prong of his Eighth Amendment claims
22-1108 Reuben Haley v. Urban Outfitters, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2023-05-12 Denied Response Waived appellate-review burden-of-proof civil-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-standard standard-of-review summary-judgment Whether the grant of summary judgment against petitioner was error?
22-7477 Douglas Manning v. Sgt. St. Paul, et al. Third Circuit 2023-05-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights culpability damages defendant-rights due-process evidence-interference judicial-discretion legal-standard plaintiff-burden representation standing Was the defendant's representation related to the harmful consequence to the plaintiff that he should be held responsible for?
22-1005 Cornelius L. Emily, et al. v. Christopher Welters Minnesota 2023-04-17 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process law-enforcement law-generality legal-standard precedent qualified-immunity supreme-court-precedent Did the Minnesota Supreme Court depart from this Court's decisions in qualified immunity cases?
22-6998 David Arroyo-Ramon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-13 Denied IFP criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent legal-standard precedent-overturning recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether this Court should overrule its decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998)
22-6906 Joseph Johnson v. Casey Campbell, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation counsel due-process habeas-corpus judicial-prejudice legal-standard lower-court-error petition-review standing summary-judgment Did the lower court err in granting Defendants' motion to dismiss?
22-668 Nachaiya Kama v. Memorial Hermann Health Systems, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-01-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federal-law legal-standard sexual-harassment standing workplace-discrimination Should any law repugnant to the US Constitution prevail?
22-646 Sergey Pustelnik, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission Second Circuit 2023-01-11 Denied Response Waived artificiality fraud intent legal-standard market-manipulation scienter securities-exchange-act securities-fraud securities-regulation Whether scienter alone may satisfy the traditionally separate artificiality requirement to establish market manipulation?
22-6448 Rickey Thompson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-04 Denied IFP case-review civil-rights compelling-circumstances compelling-reasons due-process extraordinary-circumstances extraordinary-reasons judicial-discretion legal-standard petitioner-relief relief standing Whether extraordinary and compelling reasons exist in granting Petitioner relief in this case?
22-6399 Kerry Simpson v. Tom Watson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process judicial-reasoning legal-standard manifest-weight prejudice prejudice-standard standard-of-review Did the Federal Appellate Court Apply the Correct Standard in the Determination of Prejudice?
22-6342 Palani Karupaiyan v. L. Naganda, et al. Third Circuit 2022-12-19 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP all-writs-act civil-rights due-process extraordinary-writ judicial-relief jurisdiction legal-standard mandamus parallel-proceedings prohibition standing Whether the petitioner's requested relief of a writ of mandamus or prohibition was properly denied
22-6103 Serdar Tatar v. United States Third Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582-c-1-a abuse-of-discretion actual-innocence brady-claims concepcion-v-united-states evidentiary-hearing judicial-error legal-standard motion-for-relief rule-60 rule-60-b Whether the district court's denial of Rule 60(b) motion was an abuse of discretion
22-5913 John Berman v. Kristin Draper District of Columbia 2022-10-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-court-interpretation continuity extortion fund-freezing hj-standard judicial-review legal-standard ongoing-entity predicate-acts regular-way-of-doing-business rico rico-continuity Does the DC Circuit's statement on RICO continuity directly contradict the HJ standard?
22-158 Jeremiah D. Edwards v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-08-19 Denied Response Waived courtroom-conduct due-process fair-trial government-witness judicial-discretion judicial-procedure jury-consideration legal-standard witness-behavior Is a Government witness' inappropriate behavior in the courtroom gallery an improper consideration for a juror?
22-5222 Travis Lee Combs v. Washington Washington 2022-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process individual-rights judicial-review legal-standard patent standing takings Unsure
22-5198 Akeem Markiese Rogers v. Virginia Virginia 2022-07-27 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process evidence evidence-standard jurisdiction legal-standard possession procedural-review search-and-seizure writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
22-5190 Rafael Cortez-Oropeza v. United States First Circuit 2022-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility-of-evidence atf bureau-of-alcohol-tobacco-and-firearms criminal-procedure evidence expert-testimony firearms interstate-commerce judicial-discretion legal-standard Whether the district court erred in allowing an unqualified ATF agent to testify as an expert on interstate commerce
22-5193 Shaidon Blake v. Maryland Maryland 2022-07-26 Denied IFP appellate-review brady-violation civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation legal-standard Did the courts err in their interpretation and application of Strickland v. Washington in petitioner's case, failing to find ineffective assistance of…
22-5168 Rodney Mesquias v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-error jurisdiction legal-standard sentencing standard-of-review Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming Mesquias' convictions and sentences
22-5098 Arthur Torlucci v. California California 2022-07-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law agency-adjudication appointments-clause civil-rights due-process judicial-review legal-standard lower-court-ruling protected-activity securities-regulation separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation Whether the Appointments Clause of the U.S. Constitution requires that administrative law judges of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission be app…
21-8146 Gregory Thomas v. United States Second Circuit 2022-06-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act judicial-procedure legal-standard sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court abused its discretion by failing to follow the law and determine a defendant's eligibility for First Step Act relief, in viola…
21-8132 James E. Sanicki, Jr. v. Chris S. Buesgen, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review biased-juror constitutional-review due-process judicial-procedure jury-selection legal-standard peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes reversal standard-of-review Whether errors in jury selection resulted in seating a biased juror, or deprivation of the mandated number of peremptory challenges should have been r…
21-1552 Central Specialties, Inc. v. Jonathan Large Eighth Circuit 2022-06-10 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process government-official legal-standard qualified-immunity scope-of-authority standing traffic-stops Whether courts must determine that a government official was acting within the scope of his authority before proceeding to the qualified-immunity anal…
21-8106 Jay Jurdi v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure government-misconduct ineffective-assistance jurisdictional-issue legal-standard preservation-of-error procedural-question self-incrimination sentencing statutory-provisions writ-of-certiorari Was Brent's counsel ineffective for failing to object to, and thereby preserve for review, the government-intended use of a novel, self-incriminating …
21-8079 Kenyad Laquan Kelly v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process federal-sentencing gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion legal-standard sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether the District Court Erred in Applying a Different Starting Point for Defendant's Sentence than the United States Sentencing Guidelines?
21-8001 Charles James v. Thomson Sailors Homes, L.L.C., et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-05-31 Denied IFP architectural-works circuit-split copyright-infringement copyright-scope fee-shifting legal-standard qualitatively-significant-similarity thin-copyright-protection thin-protection Scope of copyright protection for architectural works
21-7920 Jimmy Lee Wheeler v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-05-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction government-misconduct habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard structural-error Whether Thin Court Will Cobh, Hat 2 Mant Peet injudiiee. has heen Crrtumven%e d by The lower Courts and Also been diste garde d by The Appellate | Cou…
21-7826 Dexter Durrell Cooper v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-error court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-standard petition-review standing Whether or not the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in its constitutional analysis regarding the petitioner's bail motion
21-7552 Kalvin Bishop v. Thomas McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP adequate-grounds appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-of-appeals debatable-issue due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-error third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing Petitioner's application for certificate of appealability
21-7513 Jonathan Carvalho v. Steven Kenneway, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Shirley First Circuit 2022-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa-deference antiterrorism-effective-death-penalty-act arbitrary-decisions constitutional-reliability due-process judicial-discretion legal-standard lower-courts supreme-court trial-court-procedure Does the Supreme Court's leeway and the Antiterrorism Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) deference for lower courts to determine due process violatio…
21-1281 Interactive Wearables, LLC v. Polar Electro Oy, et al. Federal Circuit 2022-03-22 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 35-usc-101 abstract-idea claim-construction enablement judicial-exceptions legal-standard patent-eligibility patent-subject-matter section-101 two-step-framework What is the appropriate standard for determining whether a patent claim is 'directed to' a patent-ineligible concept under step one of the Court's two…
21-7384 Joseph Valchez Laue v. Louisiana Louisiana 2022-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP circumstantial-evidence constitutional-sufficiency criminal-evidence due-process jackson-v-virginia jury-verdict legal-standard lsa-r.s.-15-438 rational-trier-of-fact reasonable-doubt state-burden-of-proof trier-of-fact Sufficiency-of-the-evidence
21-7357 Joel Castro-Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing discretion district-court-discretion guidelines judicial-reasoning legal-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether a district court errs should reference or address substantial arguments for a sentence outside the Guideline range?
21-7230 Gemar Morgan v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-standard probation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether the words 'a house' in the Fourth Amendment apply both to the defendant's conduct as a renter of a house and to the defendant's period of 2 to…
21-7240 Robert Carr, Jr. v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2022-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeal court-of-appeals due-process judicial-review legal-standard standing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent Did the lower courts erroneously employ the wrong legal standard?
21-1189 Arthur Dale Lothringer v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-28 Denied Response Waived alter-ego circuit-precedent civil-procedure civil-rights corporate-law due-process legal-standard standing statutory-interpretation texas-law Whether Texas statutory law supersedes Fifth Circuit precedent regarding alter-ego determinations
21-7063 Salahudin Shaheed v. United States Third Circuit 2022-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure drug-introduction due-process exculpatory-defense legal-standard plea-bargaining sentencing sexual-misconduct standing Whether the lower courts have properly used their 'physical force' when declaring certain conduct, such as 'drug introduction' and 'illicit sex acts' …
21-7036 Jeffrey Davis v. Orange County Sheriff's Office, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP arrest-validity civil-rights criminal-procedure detention-challenge district-court-procedure due-process false-arrest habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard prima-facie-evidence standing Whether the district court departed from the essential requirements of the law
21-6926 Willie Wilcher v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-provisions criminal-law due-process firearms judicial-review jurisdiction legal-standard procedural-requirements rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions Whether the Lower Courts had jurisdiction to decide the case based on Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 814 (2019), and the government never proved …
21-6455 Anthony Pretty On Top v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment-violation appellate-review constitutional-rights district-court due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-standard Whether the court erred in affirming the district court's decision that petitioner's Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights were not violated?
21-6459 Daniel Lowell v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1(a) carjacking criminal-procedure criminal-statute defendant-burden federal-criminal-law felony-murder-rule legal-standard temporary-safety When applying the felony murder rule under 18 U.S.C. § 1(a) to the crime of carjacking, what must a defendant show to establish that he has reached a …
21-6351 Holly Harvey v. Georgia Georgia 2021-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-review legal-standard standing Whether the right to a direct appeal can be waived, diminished or abandoned due to a silent record?
21-648 Edward Hedican v. Walmart Stores East, L.P., et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-11-03 GVR Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) appeal appellate-procedure certiorari civil-procedure intervention legal-standard motion-to-intervene post-judgment standing statutory-right timeliness Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in holding that Petitioner's post-judgment motion to intervene for the sole purpose of filing a petition for certior…
21-6128 Tommy Pabellon v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure first-step-act intervening-changes-in-law intervening-law judicial-review legal-standard lower-court-judgment motion-review petition-for-writ-of-certiorari standard-of-review Whether a lower court's failure to apply the proper standard of review effects its judgment in reviewing a petitioner's case based on clear intervenin…
21-5870 Kirby Gant v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-principles due-process free-speech judicial-interpretation judicial-review legal-standard standing state-courts takings Does this Court's decisions in Greer and Gory override the government's and the court's duty to ensure the facts?
21-470 Eric Lee Brown v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-28 Denied appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rule-criminal-procedure judicial-precedent legal-standard plain-error precedent standard-of-review statutory-interpretation whether-error-can-be-plain
21-5778 Jeffrey Glenn Hutchinson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-24 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-court circuit-split district-court habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard merits-analysis merits-ruling standard-of-review Does a court of appeals violate the threshold certificate of appealability (COA) standard when it adopts the district court's merits rulings as its ow…
21-5688 Larry Donnell Dunlap v. Corizon Health, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2021-09-15 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure disputed-facts facts-unavailable judicial-interpretation legal-standard motion-procedure petitioner respondents summary-judgment Did the trial Court Judge abuse its discretion by granting the Respondents Summary Judgment, when facts were unavailable to Petitioner
21-5642 Terry Dibble v. Deanna Brookhart, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burglary certificate-of-appealability district-court-conclusion due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jury-instructions legal-standard reasonable-jurists residential-burglary Did Mr. Dibble present a ground for relief as to which reasonable jurists could differ concerning the correctness of the district court's conclusion, …
21-5456 Yarlin Garcia v. United States First Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure district-court evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment legal-standard motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure standard-of-review Whether the District Court erred by denying Mr. Garcia's Motion to Suppress?
21-5414 Johnny Tippins v. Anthony Immel, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process factual-dispute legal-standard motion-denial procedural-challenge standing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim
21-149 Rodolfo Rivera, Jr. v. John Granillo Tenth Circuit 2021-08-03 Denied Response Waived civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process judicial-proceedings legal-standard material-facts probable-cause qualified-immunity Whether the lower court has departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, misrepresenting and ignoring material facts of the ca…
21-5267 Robert Drawn, IV v. Robert Neuschmid, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-claims district-court-assessment due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-standard qualified-immunity reasonable-jurists summary-judgment writ-of-certiorari Did petitioner demonstrate that reasonable jurists would find the district court's assessment of the constitutional claims debatable or wrong?
21-98 Frank C. Warner v. Miguel Cardona, Secretary of Education Eighth Circuit 2021-07-23 Denied circuit-confusion civil-procedure contract contract-enforcement debt-collection economic-policy legal-standard promissory-note statute-of-frauds Is a fully legible Promissory Note (Contract) required to collect on a debt?
20-1760 iLife Technologies, Inc. v. Nintendo of America, Inc. Federal Circuit 2021-06-17 Denied 35-usc-101 claim-interpretation judicial-framework legal-standard patent patent-claim patent-eligibility question-of-fact question-of-law section-101 standard What is the appropriate standard for determining patent-eligibility under 35 USC 101?
20-8131 Brent Lang v. Erica Huss, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-requirements CERTIORARI IS APPROPRIATE WHERE THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS SHOULD HAVE GRANTED A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY IN AT LEAST ONE OF THE QUESTIONS…
20-8108 Roy Lee Dykes v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure bail bond bond-motion criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard motion-denial Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by failing to find that the District Court erred in denying Mr. Dykes' Motion for Release on Bond pending appeal?
20-1621 Antonia Lerner v. Citigroup Third Circuit 2021-05-20 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure judicial-review legal-standard non-movant nonmovant opposition procedural-default standard-of-review waiver Whether the proper standard of review and correct legal standard are waived from appellate review merely because the nonmovant did not file an opposit…
20-8059 Hasan Shareef v. Captain Moore, et al. Third Circuit 2021-05-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue legal-standard opinions-below procedural-question standing statutory-provisions writ-of-certiorari Did the lower court properly deny the petitioner's request for a writ of certiorari?
20-7807 Woodrow Andrew Clark v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure claims-assessment constitutional-law district-court due-process judicial-review legal-standard patent procedural-merit reasonable-jurists standing takings Whether reasonable jurists would find the District Court's assessment of Claims one and two debatable or wrong? Or that the issues presented are adequ…
20-1377 William V., et ux. v. Copperas Cove Independent School District Fifth Circuit 2021-04-02 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights disability-rights due-process educational-services idea-statute individuals-with-disabilities-education-act legal-standard procedural-waiver special-education standing Is not specifically naming non-dispositive factors, when actually arguing the factors, a waiver of claims?
20-7132 Roy Lee Dykes v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure bail bond bond-motion criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard motion-denial Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by failing to find that the District Court erred in denying Mr. Dykes' Motion for Release on Bond pending appeal?
20-1066 Ashlyn Hoggard v. Ron Rhodes, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-02-04 Denied Amici (6)Relisted (8) case-precedent circuit-split constitutional-rights factual-similarity first-amendment higher-standard legal-standard public-university qualified-immunity Whether qualified immunity shields public-university officials from liability
20-1002 Cody William Cox v. Don Wilson Tenth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Amici (1) circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights due-process fair-notice fair-warning government-official legal-standard precedent-comparison qualified-immunity Whether a court may uphold a qualified immunity claim on the ground that qualified immunity had been granted in a prior case in which the 'impropriety…
20-6917 Frank McAfee v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure counsel-performance fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance insufficient-record legal-standard procedural-dismissal sixth-amendment specific-objection strategic-reasons Did the Fifth Circuit fail to follow its own law and that of other circuits when it dismissed Mr. McAfee's appeal alleging ineffective assistance beca…
20-922 Lisa Marie Montgomery v. Jeffrey A. Rosen, Acting Attorney General, et al. District of Columbia 2021-01-09 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-regulations first-impression judicial-procedure legal-standard standing summary-reversal whether the director may designate a new execution date while a stay is in place
20-919 Richard Spinnenweber, et al. v. Dan Williams Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response Waived arrest civil-rights criminal-arrest criminal-procedure district-court due-process fourth-amendment judicial-determination law-enforcement legal-standard probable-cause Whether the district court erred in holding that there was probable cause to believe the plaintiffs had committed the crime for which they were arrest…
20-872 Shane Davis v. Mike Carroll, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-31 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process factual-reasonableness judicial-interpretation legal-standard qualified-immunity Whether qualified immunity absolves a defendant of § 1983 liability, despite knowledge of clearly established law, unless the plaintiff shows the viol…
20-6721 Monwell Dwight Booth v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights district-court fourth-amendment legal-standard search-and-seizure standard-of-review Whether the court erred in affirming the district court's decision that petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights were not violated?
20-6718 Jason J. Johnson v. California California 2020-12-29 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-rule judicial-discretion legal-standard newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction post-conviction-relief standards-of-review trial-procedure Under the 'newly discovered evidence rule' does not evidence discovered after conviction, such as evidence the movant could not have possibly discover…
20-6563 Isaiah Devon Stallworth v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-12-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals causation civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard petitioner standing Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by concluding that Petitioner failed to make the requisite showing to receive a COA, when two other Circuits have rul…
20-6471 Israel Washington v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure court-standard due-process judicial-discretion legal-standard standard-of-review testimony-readback trial-procedure Whether the district court abused its discretion in denying a request for the readback of testimony
20-5979 Steven Dwayne Bailey v. Stuart Sherman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-10-09 Denied IFP case-review compassionate-release criminal-justice district-court due-process early-release judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-standard parole procedural-error sentencing Whether the court can recall and/or resentence the defendant upon recommendation of the district attorney due to change in circumstances since the inm…
20-5980 Anthony Brawner, aka Anthony Barber v. United States District of Columbia 2020-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof civil-procedure court-procedure due-process jurisdiction legal-standard standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Can a valid claim of subject-matter jurisdiction ever come under a procedural bar?
20-5804 Bobby Burghart v. Sarah Beyer Fourth Circuit 2020-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights counsel discovery district-court due-process fourth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-standard reversible-error standing Did the District Court err, and did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals compound the errors, when petitioner's request for counsel was denied, because…
20-5683 Carlton Smith v. Hilton Hall, Warden Georgia 2020-09-14 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-review constitutional-rights due-process federal-constitution fundamental-fairness judicial-review legal-standard standing state-court structural-defect Does the state's waiver standard of fundamental constitutional rights violate the established standard of the Federal Constitution?
20-5660 Percy St. George v. Kevin Ransom, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claim court-of-appeals district-court due-process habeas-corpus legal-standard petition-review reasonable-jurist standard-of-review standing Whether reasonable jurist could debate the third circuit court of appeals adoption that the district court's ruling that appellant's petition does not…
20-5641 Steven Turbi v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-09 Denied IFP appeals appellate-review circuit-court civil-rights counsel-performance due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-standard strickland Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in rejecting Petitioner's claims regarding allegations of counsel being ineffective according to t…
20-5358 David Fuentes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-remand criminal-procedure davis-precedent davis-v-united-states habeas-corpus judicial-reconsideration legal-standard reasonable-probability reconsideration standard-of-review supreme-court-review Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light of…
20-5223 Jorge Madrid-Uriarte v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-precedent court-decision criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-review legal-standard precedent reasonable-probability reconsideration remand sentencing standard-of-review Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light of…
19-8830 Justin Michael Oxendine v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion legal-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines upward-variance Whether the district court abused its discretion by varying upward
19-8670 Rosalio Ramos Tapia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-precedent court-decision criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-review legal-standard precedent reasonable-probability reconsideration remand sentencing standard-of-review Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light of…
19-8650 Sebastian Albert Campbell v. Maryland Maryland 2020-06-09 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-tools due-process fair-trial legal-standard right-to-counsel self-representation trial-fairness Did the state of Maryland err by utilizing an improper legal standard in its determination that compelling Petitioner to relinquish his right to self-…
19-8625 Dedric Davis v. Florida Florida 2020-06-05 Denied IFP appeal criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judgment-of-acquittal legal-standard motion petitioner standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-court Whether the trial court erred in not granting petitioner's motion for judgment of acquittal
19-8319 Tarvares James Watson v. Florida Florida 2020-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-claim constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-challenge wrongful-conviction Whether petitioner's conviction resulted in the conviction of one who is actually innocent?
19-8264 Paul M. Gordon v. Arkansas Arkansas 2020-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights constitutional-violation due-process fair-trial judicial-procedure legal-standard mental-competency mental-incompetency sentencing Is it a constitutional violation of due process to have been sentenced while mentally incompetent?
19-1093 Aleashia Clarkston, et al. v. John White Fifth Circuit 2020-03-05 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit government-officials legal-standard qualified-immunity section-1983 standing takings Did the Fifth Circuit err in holding that there is a second type of qualified immunity—that government officials are also entitled to qualified immuni…
19-7886 Dennis Mahon v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constitutional-review custodial-interrogation district-court effective-assistance-of-counsel functional-equivalent-of-interrogation judicial-disagreement legal-standard magistrate-judge miranda-v-arizona right-to-silence substantial-showing Whether the lower courts erred in failing to find that a defendant made a substantial showing that jurists of reason could disagree on a constitutiona…
19-7853 Jaime Monzon-Silva v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-ruling fugitive judicial-discretion jury-evidence jury-instructions legal-standard trial-procedure Did the district court abuse its discretion by permitting a jury to hear evidence that Petitioner believed he was a 'wanted fugitive,' evidence that d…
19-7788 Ulises Corrales Vega v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-02-26 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process frivolous-claim habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis judicial-review legal-standard reasonable-jurists split standing summary-dismissal writ-of-certiorari Did the petitioner raise a substantial constitutional claim that was not so patently false or frivolous as to warrant summary dismissal?
19-7748 Kevin Souffrant v. Kevin Kauffman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. Third Circuit 2020-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certiorari circuit-split civil-rights class-action due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction federal-question habeas-corpus judicial-conflict legal-standard standing supreme-court-review Whether petitioner should be granted certiorari, where his claim not only affects him, but also hundreds of others
19-7729 Aaron New v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-21 Denied IFP circuit-split false-claims-act judicial-interpretation legal-standard materiality materiality-standard objective-standard subjective-standard supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-gaudin universal-health-services-v-escobar Did the Ninth Circuit's opinion contradict this Court's holding in Universal Health Services, Inc. v. United States ex rel. Escobar 136 S. Ct. 1989 (2…
19-7458 Kaleb Jermaine Myers v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-courts federal-criminal-law hobbs-act legal-standard statutory-interpretation Whether Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A)
19-7331 Lavorice Dondrell Cunningham v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion legal-standard pending-resolution remand sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness What is the appropriate standard for the determination of substantive reasonableness claim?
19-7258 Jamal Marquise Collins v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure holguin-hernandez judicial-review legal-standard objections remand sentencing timeliness timely-objection Whether parties to a criminal proceeding must make timely objections to the unreasonableness of a sentence?
19-7185 Stanley Brewer v. William Lee, Superintendent, Eastern New York Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2020-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 civil-rights district-court-review due-process facts-and-evidence federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-precedent legal-standard precedent standing statutory-interpretation Whether the district court violated long-standing precedent and misapplied 28-USC-2254-d-2, 28-USC-2254-e-1, and the facts and evidence presented by t…
19-7119 Larry Bell v. Kevin Ransom, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-rule-60b federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction legal-standard slack-v-mcdaniel standing third-circuit whether-reasonable-jurist-could-debate-third-circuit-court-of-appeals-adoption
19-6729 Cedric Gray v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion legal-standard mental-competency miranda-rights procedural-error sentencing suppression-hearing trial-rights Can my motion to suppress be denied even after I invoked my right to remain silent?
19-6705 Keenan G. Wilkins v. J. Galvin, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-11-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction arbitration-award civil-procedure dismissal district-court due-process jurisdiction legal-standard manifest-disregard motion-to-strike motion-to-vacate standing Does the Court of Appeal have jurisdiction to decide an appeal before hearing an oral argument by the appellants, and is the appellants' request for I…
19-6682 Zhaopeng Chen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP circumstantial-evidence criminal-law criminal-procedure deliberate-ignorance due-process evidence farmer-v-brennan jury-instructions knowledge-element legal-standard mens-rea Whether the rule of Farmer v. Brennan should be extended to criminal cases involving the defendant's knowledge as an element of the offense and the go…
19-593 City of Camden, New Jersey v. Alanda Forrest Third Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process legal-standard monell-doctrine monell-liability monell-v-department-of-social-services municipal-liability policy-custom policy-or-custom policymaker-notice untrained-or-unsupervised-employees What constitutes a pattern of similar constitutional violations by untrained and/or unsupervised employees under Monell v. Dep't of Soc. Servs.?
19-6426 John Ramirez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-10-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure district-court extraordinary-circumstances finality finality-exception legal-standard relief-from-judgement relief-from-judgment timely-filing timely-motion Whether Petitioner is entitled to relief from judgement where he files a motion in a timely fashion and provides the district court with extraordinary…
19-6447 Charles Donelson v. Darrise Hardy, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure-review-standard due-process hearing-requirement standing summary-judgment appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-standard ninth-circuit standing statutory-interpretation zipursky Whether the Power applied in this Case by Asserted Judicial Authority Was Contrary to Law and other Circuits in light of the whole Record
19-6312 Bryan Timothyleenard Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus standard-of-review appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-standard procedural-error standing Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred by denying petitioner's application for certificate of appealability
19-6252 Edinson Herrera Ramirez v. Maryland Maryland 2019-10-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review biased-jury criminal-procedure discretion ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion jury-selection legal-standard maryland-court-of-appeals peremptory-challenge peremptory-strike prejudice Whether the Maryland court erred in holding that petitioner received ineffective assistance of counsel but failed to prove prejudice
19-6221 George E. Brown, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-requirements standing When a defendant meets the requirements for issuance of a certificate of appealability (COA), is he then entitled to issuance of the certificate?
19-6067 Francisco Suarez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-conflict codefendant-comparison criminal-procedure-error eighth-circuit intra-circuit-conflict legal-standard public-safety sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-darden united-states-v-smith Whether the circuit and district court committed constitutional procedural error by failing to weigh the mandated public safety concern, violating the…
19-5981 William James Truesdale v. Florida Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdictional-issue legal-standard patent procedural-question standing statutory-interpretation three-strikes-rule transfer Whether the United States District Court deliberately denied Petitioner Jraesdole's February 26, 2019 'PETITION FOR CHANGE OF VENUE' and 'PATENT PETIT…
19-5944 Jerry D. Scott v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment 8th-circuit appeal certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-justice criminal-procedure domestic-assault due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus legal-standard missouri-robbery sentencing violent-crime Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in not granting a certificate of appealability
19-5930 Harold Blake v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review jurists-of-reason legal-standard standing Whether the petitioner has demonstrated that jurists of reason could disagree with the federal courts' resolution of his constitutional claims or that…
19-5860 T'Challa Rhashaed Washington v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP conflict-among-circuits court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-v-virginia jackson-virginia-standard judicial-review legal-standard standard-of-review strickland-washington-standard Whether the district state court of appeals rendered a decision in conflict with decisions of this court and other courts of appeals, when unreasonabl…
19-5220 Hernardo Medina-Villegas v. United States First Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claims due-process prejudice reasonableness sixth-amendment constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-standard prejudice reasonableness-standard sixth-amendment standard-of-reasonableness Did the trial and appellate counsel's performance fall below an objective standard of reasonableness and prejudice the petitioner?
19-5155 William M. Russell v. KS Ventures, LLC Montana 2019-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-procedure due-process genuine-issues judicial-review legal-standard material-fact material-facts standing summary-judgment Did the findings of the lower courts result in a violation of certain rights of due process?
19-5115 Cordero Robert Seals v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof burrage burrage-test but-for-causation causation-standard causation-test circuit-split contributing-causation contributing-cause eighth-circuit government-burden judicial-interpretation legal-standard seventh-circuit Whether the Eighth Circuit misinterpreted the but-for causation test in light of the government's burden, and inappropriately applied the contributing…
19-25 Irma Rosas v. Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago Seventh Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Relisted (2) accepted-and-usual-course certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights due-process erickson-v-pardus judicial-proceedings legal-standard pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-error standing supreme-court-review Whether the lower court, in conflict with this Court's holding in Erickson v. Pardus, 551 U.S. 89 (2007), so far departed from the accepted and usual …
19-5069 Chapel Thompson v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation buck-v-davis civil-procedure co-defendant court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus incriminating-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-standard procedural-analysis standing Whether the court of appeals followed the dictates of this court's decision in Buck v. Davis, explaining that the COA stage is not coextensive with a …
18-9611 Nicholas D. Weir v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2019-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure de-novo-analysis de-novo-review factual-allegation frivolous frivolous-claim frivolous-claims judicial-discretion legal-standard standing sua-sponte sua-sponte-dismissal How does the lower courts rigorously determine if a factual allegation is baseless or frivolous when there is no argument in fact or law to dispute th…
18-9613 Matthew L. Smeltzer v. Audrey King Ninth Circuit 2019-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-commitment complete-defense due-process erroneous-standard expert-testimony legal-standard section-2254 volitional-impairment Whether the petitioner was denied his due process right to present a complete defense during his civil commitment trial when the trial court precluded…
18-9557 Charles C. Brewington v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2019-06-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure custody due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-misconduct legal-standard sixth-amendment standing wrongful-conviction Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated by the state court proceedings
18-9400 Charlie Russell Martin v. Arizona Arizona 2019-05-23 Denied IFP 5th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process evidence-admission false-testimony fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review jury legal-standard miranda-warnings procedural-due-process state-procedure trial Did the knowing use of false testimony at defendant's second trial rise to a denial of due process that likely affected the jury's judgment?
18-9350 Russell Rafael Whitehead v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-20 Denied IFP assault-battery constitutional-review court-procedure criminal-law deadly-weapon ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-charge jury-instructions legal-standard standard-of-review use-of-force Can a fist be considered a deadly weapon in and of itself?
18-9158 Robert B. Lynn v. Theodore A. McKee, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, et al. Third Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP bias bias-standard circuit-court-procedure due-process ex-parte-proceedings federal-courts judicial-bias judicial-conduct judicial-recusal legal-standard precedent recusal recusal-standard supreme-court supreme-court-precedent Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals use the wrong legal standard; in conflict with the precedents of The Supreme Court and the Other Courts of Appe…
18-9032 Michael Slager v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-04-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights credibility-of-witness criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony legal-standard officer-involved-shooting police-misconduct police-use-of-force second-degree-murder use-of-force voluntary-manslaughter Did the district court deny Petitioner's right to due process when it found that the underlying conduct at issue here—Officer Michael Slager's shootin…
18-8997 Troy Williams v. Florida Florida 2019-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation constitutional-error constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-procedure legal-standard post-conviction-relief Whether the Post Conviction Court erred when it failed to conduct an evidentiary hearing on Petitioner's Motion for Post Conviction Relief based upon …
18-8971 William T. Liepe v. New Jersey New Jersey 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment blood-alcohol blood-alcohol-test case-review constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression judicial-interpretation legal-standard search-and-seizure statutory-provisions suppression warrantless-search Did the warrantless search of defendant's blood for the purpose of determining his blood alcohol level violate the established constitutional principl…
18-1326 Justin Shultz, et al. v. Jason Cole Third Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied Response Waived civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process first-amendment individual-assessment law-enforcement legal-standard police-conduct qualified-immunity retaliation summary-judgment When multiple police officers seek qualified immunity on a summary judgment motion, their entitlement to qualified immunity should be evaluated indivi…
18-8916 Steven Lawrence Wright v. California California 2019-04-19 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process fifth-amendment jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-standard motion-for-new-trial new-trial standard-of-review Did the trial court's erroneous jury instruction violate the Due Process Clause?
18-8863 Neville Turnbull v. Glen Johnson, Warden Georgia 2019-04-17 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-standard miscarriage-of-justice prosecutorial-misconduct standing trial-process Whether a State's highest court errs, and abuses discretion by refusing to remedy a prisoner's miscarriage of justice claim, critical to all parties i…
18-1251 Sandy Annabi v. United States Second Circuit 2019-03-28 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claim constitutional-deprivation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-standard sentencing standing Whether petitioner has established a colorable claim of constitutional deprivation such that the Court of Appeals should have issued a certificate of …
18-8551 Ikemefula Charles Ibeabuchi v. Arizona Arizona 2019-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure-appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-standard motion-for-relief self-representation standing timeliness Whether or not the Court of Appeals, State of Arizona, correctly viewed Appellant's Motion To Dismiss this Appeal, submitted pursuant to Arizona Rules…
18-1167 Sam Francis Foundation, et al. v. Sotheby's, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees civil-procedure copyright-act copyright-preemption discretionary-standard federal-copyright-act federal-copyright-law federal-jurisdiction legal-standard preemption procedural-interpretation state-statute uniformity Where an action is brought under a state statute preempted by section 301(a) the Copyright Act of 1976
18-1159 The Universal Church, Inc. v. Calvin Toellner, et al. Second Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied Amici (1) archaic-religious-texts circuit-split civil-rights contemporary-public-perception free-speech generic-marks generic-term legal-standard public-perception religious-freedom religious-organizations standing technical-theological-usages theological-usages trademark trademark-law trademark-protection Whether religious organizations' names like The Universal Church' and 'Universal Church' can be deemed generic as a matter of law regardless of eviden…
18-7945 Carl Allen Watts v. Michigan Michigan 2019-02-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal appeals appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-question criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection judicial-bias legal-standard michigan-court-of-appeals procedural-conflict standing Whether the Michigan Court of Appeals decision to reversed and remanded for a new trial in two similarly situated cases as petitioner's case, conflict…
18-7808 Michael Duane Wilson v. Robert LeGrand, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review claim-splitting due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-courts federal-habeas habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard ninth-circuit post-conviction state-courts sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Erred in Sanctioning the Ability of Courts to Refashion a Habeas Claims into Various …
18-7841 Adekunle Olufemi Adetiloye v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court-files due-process habeas-corpus legal-standard standard-of-review substantial-showing-standard threshold-inquiry Whether a court of appeals can deny a certificate of appealablity without conducting the prerequisite 28 U.S.C 2253(c)(2) threshold inquiry, two-compo…
18-7517 Donelle L. Johnson v. Jennifer McDermott, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-standard prisoner-rights procedural-rights Did the United States Court of Appeals err in denying Mr. Johnson a certificate of appealability?
18-7434 Christopher Adin Graham v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability closing-argument counsel-claims due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-standard prejudice testimony Whether the court of appeals correctly denied petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. 2253(c) on his ineffective-assistance-of-couns…
18-7367 Darwin Markeith Huggans v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review counsel-advice criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review lee-v-united-states legal-standard misinformation sixth-amendment Was the lower court required to address an evidentiary hearing when the evidence clearly showed that Huggins was misinformed based on counsel's advice…
18-7158 Tony Knox v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2018-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process federal-question federal-questions judicial-review legal-standard novel-claim procedural-default statutory-vagueness unconstitutional vague-statute Did The State Court Decide Important Federal Questions In A Way That Conflicts With Relevant Decisions Of This Court, such as: (1) A Vague Statute Was…
18-7131 Andreco Lott v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-fairness standard-of-review standing Whether the lower courts applied the correct legal standard at the certificate of appealability stage?
18-7077 JC Christopher Pulham v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review district-court legal-standard plain-error plain-error-review presumption presumption-of-correctness presumption-of-knowledge sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review When a district court does not articulate the legal standard it is applying, may an appellate court presume that the district court knew and correctly…
18-7079 Franklyn Morillo v. United States First Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-waiver certiorari controlled-substances criminal-procedure district-court due-process first-impression first-impression' 'Should certiorari be granted i judicial-discretion knowing-intelligent-voluntary legal-standard plea-bargaining procedural-rights role-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review' 'Should certiorari be granted Should certiorari be granted to decide whether a district court can only ask a Petitioner a single question about an appellate waiver, even though tha…
18-6894 David Crosby v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process evidence improper-vouching judicial-precedent legal-standard prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the Ninth Circuit's holding conflicts with the Seventh Circuit's and this Court's precedent as it concerns improper vouching
18-6668 Michael Tory, Jr. v. Whited, RNB, et al. Virginia 2018-11-13 Denied IFP civil-procedure common-knowledge due-process jury-determination jury-selection legal-standard medical-malpractice procedural-rights state-authority state-regulation Can the State of Virginia in all medical malpractice cases determine the common knowledge and experience of a jury?
18-6556 David McAlister, Sr. v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2018-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court credibility credibility-of-witness criminal-procedure cumulative-evidence due-process exculpatory-evidence legal-standard newly-discovered-evidence reasonable-probability recantation state-witness witness-credibility Whether the circuit court erroneously violated petitioner's right to due process when it applied an incorrect legal standard to newly discovered evide…
18-6341 John William Lieba, II v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury legal-standard standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether sufficient evidence existed to convict Mr. Lieba?
18-408 Kohn Law Group, Inc. v. Auto Parts Manufacturing Mississippi, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2018-10-02 Denied Amici (2) appellate-review appellate-review-standard armour-standard armour-v-united-states civil-contempt civil-contempt-standard consent-decree district-court-discretion federal-circuit fifth-circuit injunction-interpretation interpleader legal-standard mccomb-v-jacksonville-paper mccomb-v-jacksonville-paper-co non-consent-order What is the standard for judging allegations of civil contempt of an injunction or other disputed order, as distinct from a consent decree?
18-401 Faye Rennell Hobson v. James Mattis, Secretary of Defense Sixth Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) bias civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process due-process-violation evidence fifth-amendment judicial-bias legal-standard pro-se pro-se-litigant united-states-constitution What is the level of bias that must be demonstrated before it constitutes a violation of a pro se litigant's right to due process guaranteed by the Fi…
18-5988 Master Baye Balah Allah v. Brian Wilson, et al. Second Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied IFP 28-usc-1915-e abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure,standing,due-process,abuse-of-disc court-of-appeals due-process evidence federal-statute legal-standard lower-court standing Whether the court of appeals abused its discretion
18-248 Mohamed Idris Ahmed v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response Waived and whether the government must prove by clear an 8-usc-1451-a citizenship-revocation clear-and-convincing-evidence evidence-requirement evidence-standard Kungys-v-United-States legal-standard legal-test maslenjak-v-united-states naturalization-citizenship naturalization-process procurement procurement-element procurement-standard willful-concealment Whether the plurality decision in Kungys v. United States has caused confusion and varied interpretations by lower courts
18-200 Michigan v. Charles Damon Jones Michigan 2018-08-15 Denied Response Waived appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process inconsistent-verdicts judicial-discretion jury-confusion jury-instructions jury-nullification jury-verdict jury-verdicts legal-standard new-trial sufficiency-of-evidence trial-procedure verdict-inconsistency Whether the Michigan Court of Appeals erred in granting a new trial based on an inconsistent jury verdict, even though irreconcilable jury verdicts ar…
18-5596 George Wallace v. Ron E. Barnes, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-08-15 Denied IFP actual-innocence discovery due-process evidentiary-hearing factual-findings federal-habeas federal-habeas-corpus legal-standard state-court-findings state-court-procedure Was the federal court required to accept petitioner's factual allegations as true when the state court made findings against the petitioner without a …
18-184 John Ayanbadejo v. Mark Siegl, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion administrative-law appellate-court appellate-review civil-procedure court-procedure district-court due-process immigration judicial-proceedings legal-standard mootness procedural-error standing Whether the Lower Appellate Court departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, and/or sanctioned such a departure by the U.S. …
18-5522 Edward Vincent Ray v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review buck-v-davis civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-courts gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus legal-standard rule-60b standing successive-petition Whether the United States District Court abused its discretion by construing Petitioner's Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 60(b) motion as a 'suc…
18-25 Edward Mandel v. Steven Thrasher, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-court-decision damages damages-calculation damages-review judicial-review legal-standard reasonable-royalty remand standard-of-review trade-secret Whether the bankruptcy court properly calculated trade-secret damages
18-30 Gary Jefferson Byrd v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence coram-nobis due-process equitable-approach federal-criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-equity laches legal-standard morgan-decision procedural-delay statute-of-limitations time-delay writ-of-error writ-of-error-coram-nobis actual-innocence,coram-nobis,due-process,federal-criminal-procedure,harmless-error,statute-of-limitations
25A900 James Garfield Broadnax v. Texas Texas Application constitutional-rights emergency-relief irreparable-harm judicial-review legal-standard stay-application Question not identified.