lower-courts

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A603 Gabriel L'Ambiance Ingram v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-11-21 Application certiorari extension-of-time lower-courts pro-se title-iii wiretap Whether a pro se petitioner may obtain an extension of time to file a certiorari petition when related motions to unseal Title III wiretap materials a…
23-6985 Susmita Nayak v. Superior Court of California, Contra Costa County, et al. California 2024-03-15 Denied IFP case-categorization cert-worthy civil-procedure conflict-of-interest court-jurisdiction judicial-review legal-standing lower-courts Whether there is a possibility of conflict of interest between the lower courts pertaining to the filed civil case categorization and corresponding co…
23-6857 Lamar Gibson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance lower-courts post-conviction-relief statutory-violation trial-testimony Whether the petitioner's due process, fair trial, and 6th amendment rights were violated when the lower courts omitted, manipulated, and altered trial…
22-1155 Douglas E. Wilcox v. Maine Maine 2023-05-30 Denied Response Waived constitutional-provision constitutional-rights field-sobriety-test fourth-amendment law-enforcement lower-courts probable-cause search sobriety-test Whether a field sobriety test is a search for which the Fourth Amendment requires probable cause
22-525 Adrean L. Smith v. Gary A. Boughton, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-12-06 Denied Response Waived constitutional-guarantee fair-presentment fifth-amendment habeas habeas-corpus lower-courts miranda-rights seventh-circuit state-court-review Whether a habeas petitioner fairly presents his federal claim in state court
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…
20-8395 Luis Bernal-Villareal v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP average-participant criminal-procedure drug-importation lower-courts minor-role sentencing-guidelines ussg-3b1.2 ussg-analysis Whether managers and supervisors should be considered 'average participants' for USSG § 3B1.2 minor role analysis
20-1557 Davendra Anand v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Second Circuit 2021-05-10 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure federal-courts international-law jurisdiction lower-courts treaties Whether the lower courts erred in ruling they lacked jurisdiction over claims arising under treaties
20-6107 Larry Michael Maples v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-10-23 Denied IFP constitutional-rights controversial-evidence due-process evidentiary-hearing findings-of-fact habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance lower-courts pillow state-evidence Whether an accused's Due-Process Rights are violated when all lower courts deny an Evidentiary Hearing on controversial evidence and picture of a pill…
19-5544 Overille Denton Thompson, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2019-08-09 Denied IFP appellate-review barker-default constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process fundamental-right lower-courts presumption-against-waiver procedural-default speedy-trial texas-court-of-criminal-appeals Did the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals err in refusing to grant Mr. Thompson's petition for discretionary review, and therefore, sanction the lower c…
18-9376 Charles A. Davis v. United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2019-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure court-discretion judicial-review jurisdictional-defect jurisdictional-defects legal-standing lower-courts procedural-error standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the lower courts abused their discretion by their failure to address the jurisdictional defects that deprive them of subject-matter-jurisdicti…
18-6323 Ashley Kenneth Hunter v. North Dakota North Dakota 2018-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof colorado-v-connelly constitutional-rights distortion due-process interrogation-recording law-enforcement-procedure lower-courts miranda-warnings supreme-court unequal-application When lower courts distort the rule announced in Colorado v. Connelly, 479 U.S. 157 (1986) (burden of proof), should this Court correct that distortion…