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25-6670 Charles Victor Thompson v. Texas Texas 2026-01-27 Denied IFP autopsy-report confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process medical-evidence sixth-amendment Did the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals err when it failed to apply this Court's holdings in Smith v. Arizona, 602 U.S. __ (2024) and Crawford v. Wash…
25-6174 Jill Capobianco v. Frank Bisignano, Commissioner of Social Security Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-discretion disability-benefits due-process medical-evidence social-security During an application for Supplemental Security Insurance (SSI) and Disability Benefits (SSDI), under 20 § C.F.R. §§ 404.1527(c), SSR-2p, and SSR 16-3…
25-345 Ivy Darlene Johnson v. Frank Bisignano, Commissioner of Social Security Ninth Circuit 2025-09-23 Denied Response Waived administrative-law disability-determination due-process medical-evidence residual-functional-capacity social-security 1. Whether an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) violates a claimant 's ,due process rights, guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment, and fails to adequately…
25-5008 Stephen T. Aguiar v. United States Second Circuit 2025-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-review coram-nobis due-process factual-innocence medical-evidence sentencing-guidelines 1. DESPITE THE RECORD SHOWING THAT PETITIONER IS FACTUALLY INNOCENT OF DISTRIBUTING MORPHINE, DID THE SECOND CIRCUIT ERR IN AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT C…
24-7366 Damien Deshawn Pugh v. Frank Bisignano, Commissioner of Social Security Ninth Circuit 2025-06-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law disability-benefits due-process medical-evidence social-security supplemental-security-income Why does social security applicants have to endure unnecessary subjection of politics and opinions that never derive from the medical facts presented …
24-7362 Christine Louise Kensinger v. Frank Bisignano, Commissioner of Social Security, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP black-mold due-process environmental-toxins housing-authority medical-evidence warranty-of-habitability 1. Is there sufficient evidence to establish a casual link between black mold exposure and the Plaintiff's damages to Plaintiff's health issues? 2. C…
24-7257 Alejandro R. Duarte v. Nebraska Nebraska 2025-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance medical-evidence self-defense waiver I. In a he-said-she-said case involving allegations of physical assault with self-defense being raised as an affirmative defense, is defense counsel i…
24-1071 Jose Angel Garcia v. New Mexico, et al. New Mexico 2025-04-10 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance jury-instruction medical-evidence sixth-amendment trial-counsel Whether Petitioner Garcia's Sixth Amendment right to counsel was deprived under the following circumstances: • By failing to call the pathologist who…
24A608 Miguel Adan Cayetano v. Texas Texas 2024-12-19 Presumed Complete confrontation-clause due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Question not identified.
23-7800 Cleon Belgrave v. Publix Supermarket, Inc., et al. Georgia 2024-06-25 Denied IFP administrative-law appellate-review compensable-injury medical-evidence ttd-benefits workers-compensation workers-compensation,administrative-law-judge,comp 1. The Appellate inquires whether the Administrative law Judge made correct judgment that the claimant did not sustain compensable injuries to his hea…
23-457 Terrance Nelson Cates v. Zeltiq Aesthetics, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jury-trial medical-evidence summary-judgment 1. Does a circuit court of appeals' appellate review of the grant of a federal summary judgment under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 56 require the a…
23-5019 Kevin Y. Jin, et al. v. Rafael Velasquez, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP arbitration arbitration-dispute car-accident-injury civil-procedure civil-rights document-falsification due-process insurance-bad-faith medical-evidence standing witness-testimony Appeal/Trial Courts should not allow blatant perjury and/or false statements to be considered just. Also, Appeal Court will not reopen this case unles…
22-7546 Robert Leslie Roberson, III v. Texas Texas 2023-05-15 Denied Amici (5)IFP actual-innocence criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus medical-evidence scientific-consensus shaken-baby-syndrome (1) Does a conviction, based on a causation theory presented to a jury as scientific fact and used to establish that a homicide occurred, violate due …
22-7491 Orlando Ocasio v. Joseph Noeth, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2023-05-09 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony expert-witness fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-evidence trial-strategy As in Mr.Ocasio's case where there was no introduction of any defense whatsoever and the Monroe County Court, Western District Court, and the Second C…
22-997 Andrew Lewis v. Texas Texas 2023-04-13 Denied criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-evidence medical-testimony prejudice-analysis standard-of-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel Whether the TCCA, by considering only the trial testimony that supported the convictions rather than how the testimony of petitioner's medical experts…
22-6320 Mausean Carter v. Corizon Health, Inc. Maryland 2022-12-16 Denied IFP actual-innocence burden-of-proof civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment evidence gross-negligence habeas-corpus medical-evidence medical-treatment successive-petition ko (c^V '+U*L lo<*J £v' Courts & rr& r >/o dfc/ oo^- noe.ei'-t* ie burcJe, 7 oy: e£-fc,bhsh '"^ -ffae nesponcU^)-$ cLt-uh£r*\L£ fnd((^-C&ren {&- /-? …
22-6167 Eber Gramajo v. Mark Nooth, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2022-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-discovery habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-evidence pinholster-standard shaken-baby-syndrome Can reasonable jurists disagree whether a federal subpoena request for medical evidence, barred in state court because petitioner had not proven that …
22-5763 Benjamin Justin Brownlee v. New York Second Circuit 2022-10-04 Denied IFP brady-violation criminal-procedure discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-defense Question not identified.
22-5444 Robert JW McCleland v. Rick Raemisch, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-08-24 Denied IFP expert-witness indigent-litigants judicial-notice medical-evidence medical-information pro-se pro-se-litigant rule-201 rule-706 undue-burden 1. Does requiring an expert witness to present medical information, pursuant to Fed.R.Evid. Rule 201 Judicial Notice, create an undue burden on the co…
21-7533 Ion Stanciu v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied IFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process expert-witness fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance medical-evidence state-misconduct WHEN A STATE TOGETHER WITH STATE'S EXPERT WITNESS CHANGE THE ORIGINAL VERSION OF MEDICAL EVIDENCE INTO A NEW COMPLETE DIFFERENT VERSION, TO LINK THE A…
21-6577 Christine Kay Ostopowicz v. United Healthcare Seventh Circuit 2021-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-delays disability-discrimination due-process medical-evidence mental-health postal-delays procedural-fairness remote-plaintiff united-healthcare Why was my case previously denied by other courts without medical expertise, medical records or reports being taken into consideration even when supp…
21-6421 Shirlene Bailey v. Suffolk Public Schools, et al. Virginia 2021-11-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights doctor-patient-relationship due-process employment employment-rights medical-evidence physician-abandonment workers-compensation 1. Employer fail to give Employer 's intent in a timely manner. 65.2-601.2 a. Question: Should the Court have required claims adjuster, Loretta Lawren…
21-6414 Charles Wayne Marietta v. Leanne LoBue, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights discovery due-process judicial-discretion medical-evidence medical-treatment summary-judgment Did the District Court of Arizona err in granting Summary Judgment for Defendants without meeting all the elements of Appellant's Original Complaint, …
21-5607 Terry R. Smith v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP autopsy autopsy-requirement black-lung-disease cause-of-death civil-rights compensation-claim criminal-procedure due-process evidence medical-evidence A Reason(s) Wh+ Wftuse, of 4V ^p\\+- of ^ +Wis MA+feR +W (^ <3lWisioA/ / U)WcV\ is J C.A a/ you iACCuRjdely <SeWmiA^, A 4n0e, cwu^ of cW"^ U)>4Wf AV …
20-8240 Carl Edmond Yancy v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process fact-witnesses false-imprisonment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel medical-evidence medical-experts pre-trial-investigation sexual-assault sexual-assault-experts virgin-examination 1. At Petitioner's trial why did my lawyer not Conduct a pre-Trial investigation, my (Petitioner), CM EbMObtb HH/ty's Case! 2. Why d'd Petitioner's L…
20-7665 Donald David Dillbeck v. Florida Florida 2021-04-06 Denied IFP capital-punishment death-penalty due-process evolving-standards habeas-corpus medical-evidence mental-health post-conviction post-conviction-relief scientific-advancements scientific-evidence 1) What constitutes diligence in raising newly discovered medical and/or mental health evidence and diagnoses? 2) Are capital defendants confined to …
20-7484 Joseph F. Olivares v. Mark Long, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied IFP 42-USC-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-review limitations medical-evidence res-judicata standing statute-of-limitations DID THE COURT ERR; 1. IN NOT ALLOWING PETITIONER TO DEVELOP THE RECORD FOR APPEAL, BY ALLOWING AT LEAST ONE HEARING? 2. IN FINDING THAT LIMITATIONS …
20-7396 Marlina Calhoun v. Walmart Stores East, LP Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights court-procedure court-representation deposition-misconduct disability-discrimination due-process jury-selection medical-evidence mental-health personal-injury workplace-injury That the Plaintiff first Attorney Douglas was the Walmart Attorney Best friend. Also, that the second attorneys the HOOD LAW Group. Let the discovery …
20-6835 Otha S. Hamilton v. Dennis Reagle, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-01-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction expert-witness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence medical-evidence physical-impossibility priapism-surgery witness-testimony 1. Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in finding no substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right, when trial counsel failed to investiga…
20-6663 Benjamin Justin Brownlee v. New York New York 2020-12-18 Denied IFP brady-violation criminal-discovery criminal-procedure discovery due-process late-disclosure medical-evidence medical-records prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure Did the prosecution violate its duties under Brady v Maryland (373 US 83 [1963]) and its progeny by withholding the complainant's medical records unti…
20-784 Jeffry Schmidt v. Kenneth J. Braithwaite, Secretary of the Navy District of Columbia 2020-12-08 Denied Response Waived administrative-review arbitrary-and-capricious arbitrary-capricious-standard disability-evaluation disability-ratings judicial-notice medical-evidence military-compensation military-disability new-and-material-evidence veterans-affairs veterans-disability 1. Did Federal Circuits, including the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Refuse to Recognize that the U.S. Military and the …
20-6485 Qinard Lamar Collins v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence circuit-split due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus medical-evidence shaken-baby-syndrome statutory-interpretation Whether – in a case where (1) the prose cution's theory was based on "shaken baby syndrome" but (2) there has now been a sea change in the medi cal co…
20-5317 Jeremiah Rodgers v. Florida Florida 2020-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure diagnostic-uncertainty due-process gender-dysphoria medical-evidence mental-health plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness post-conviction-relief procedural-bar 1. Whether the newly discovered evidence of a criminal defendant's medical condition, including gender dysphoria, may implicate the voluntariness of a…
19-8721 Vincent A. Argentino v. Ruanne Stamps, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-standard deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment estelle-v-gamble legal-precedent medical-evidence prisoner-rights summary-record 1. Whether the Precedent of Placing Nesiifying, medical evidence in the Summary Record Showing O * aeke' mental ef Peck" Places an Unrealis-hic exfect…
19-1164 Jocelyn A. Johnson v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, et al. California 2020-03-24 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure disability-rating due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-evidence senate-bill-31 statute-of-limitations workers-compensation 1. Does the Workers ' Compensation Judge relying on medical reports according to Senate Bill 31 guidelines and not the permanent disability rating ,…
19-7296 In Re Gilbert M. Martinez 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion administrative-discretion administrative-law disability-benefits due-process evidence gerd medical-evidence property-tax-exemption rheumatoid-arthritis social-security social-security-administration-discretion social-security-disability Did the Social Security Administration abuse its discretion holding that plaintiff is ineligible for Social Security disability benefits after claiman…
19-6493 Theresa Gail Scanlan v. Washington Washington 2019-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP accuser confrontation-clause criminal-procedure medical-evidence medical-personnel police-interrogation police-involvement prosecutorial-purpose prosecutorial-use sixth-amendment testimonial testimonial-statements When police officers repeatedly inform an accuser that his statements to medical personnel will be given to the police and prosecuting authorities for…
19-5335 Patrick Brunette v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure disability-rating due-process effective-date lay-testimony material-evidence medical-evidence medical-records prescribed-bedrest reconsideration reopening-claims service-connected-disabilities veterans-affairs veterans-affairs-regulations veterans-claims Whether the VA incorrectly discharged its responsibilities under 38-C.F.R.-Section-3.156(c)
19-5205 Zachary A. Smith v. John A. Matthews, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-07-18 Dismissed IFP circuit-split civil-rights due-process evidence evidentiary-motion medical-evidence prisoner-rights pro-se rule-706 summary-judgment Should a pro se prisoner be permitted to admit medical information from a reputable website as 'verifying medical evidence' to overcome a motion for s…
18-1559 Velma Brooks v. Industrial Claim Appeals Office, et al. Colorado 2019-06-20 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof civil-rights conspiracy due-process evidence falsification judicial-oversight judicial-review legal-conspiracy medical-evidence worker's-compensation workers-compensation Why did the Colorado courts refuse to seek the truth in this case?
18-1551 Joseph Q. Mirarchi v. Office of Disciplinary Counsel Pennsylvania 2019-06-19 Denied Response Waived attorney-disbarment constitutional-rights disbarment due-process due-process-clause effective-assistance-of-counsel expert-witness-testimony fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-evidence mitigation-evidence neuropsychological-evidence sixth-amendment Whether the state supreme court order for attorney disbarment is inconsistent with the standards set forth in Selling v. Radford and In re Ruffalo, an…
18-9500 Linh Thi Minh Tran v. Tri-County Metropolitan Transit District of Oregon Oregon 2019-05-31 Denied IFP bus-accident carrier-liability civil-rights due-process duty-of-care evidence medical-evidence negligence public-transportation substance-impairment summary-judgment tort Issues being raised
18-1273 Alma Caldavado v. New York New York 2019-04-05 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-defense expert-testimony harrington-v-richter ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-evidence presumption-of-ineffective-assistance shaken-baby-syndrome strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel-for-failure-to-present-counter-expert-testimony-on-shaken-baby-syndrome
18-6786 Curtis J. Hill v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied IFP cause-of-death confrontation-clause due-process evidence expert-reports expert-testimony habeas-corpus medical-evidence pro-se pro-se-filing unreasonable-determination unreasonable-factual-findings Whether the California Court of Appeal unreasonably determined the facts critical to a Confrontation Clause analysis of the introduction of a non-test…
18-6488 Alonzo Dwayne Coleman v. Michael Hakala, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-medical-care deliberate-deception deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment incarceration medical-evidence medical-treatment prison prison-medical-treatment rare-disease Whether there is a constitutional standard of medical care for persons with rare massive polycystic liver disease and are the state's (Missouri) priso…
18-5932 Ronald Jones v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2018-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus medical-evidence section-2254 sixth-amendment state-conviction Whether Petitioner has shown clear and convincing evidence of a credible actual-innocence claim from his State conviction?
18-313 Albon C. Diamond, III v. Florida Florida 2018-09-11 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel impeachment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-evidence medical-testimony sixth-amendment strategic-decisions strickland strickland-standard Whether the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of effective attorney representation requires a finding of ineffective assistance of counsel where the trial a…
18-5507 Mark Schwarzman v. David W. Gray, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure critical-physical-evidence due-process genital-herpes habeas-corpus herpes-simplex-virus medical-evidence procedural-bar schlup schlup-standard standing Whether the highly infectious, extremely contagious, incurable sexually transmitted disease Herpes Simplex Virus HSV-2 (genital herpes) is sufficient …
18-5421 Sheila L. Gaines v. Nancy A. Berryhill, Acting Commissioner of Social Security Fourth Circuit 2018-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-appeal administrative-law arthritis civil-rights disability disability-benefits due-process employment medical-evidence medical-records social-security standing Whether the Social Security Administration improperly denied disability benefits to the petitioner despite medical evidence of her advanced arthritis …
18-5077 Frankie L. McCoy v. Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-07-03 Denied IFP ada ada-compliance administrative-remedies civil-rights correctional-facility-conditions disability-rights due-process equal-protection exhaustion-of-remedies medical-evidence personal-injury rehabilitation-act Did the trial court and Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erroneously dismiss the case brought by a physically impaired inmate seeking accommoda…