| 25A531 |
John Koe, aka Nicholas Krudy v. University Hospitals Health System, Inc., et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-11-07 |
Presumed Complete |
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appellate-procedure jurisdictional-dismissal merits-determination party-presentation procedural-rule sua-sponte |
Question not identified. |
| 25A530 |
John Koe, aka Nicholas Krudy v. University Hospitals Health System, Inc., et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-11-07 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure due-process jurisdictional-rule merits-determination party-presentation sua-sponte |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5452 |
In Re Andrew James Johnston |
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2025-08-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-privilege filing-restrictions habeas-corpus merits-determination section-2255 |
1. Is petitioner entitled to immediate relief, including issuance of a writ of habeas corpus from this Court, to protect the privilege of habeas corpu… |
| 23-7558 |
Marcus Jones v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court-ruling judicial-review merits-denial merits-determination procedural-denial reasonable-jurists |
Whether, under this Court's holdings, in Miller-El v. Cockrell , 537
U.S. 322 (2008), and Buck v. Davis, 580 U.S. 100 (2017), it is inadequate
for a C… |
| 23-6853 |
William Marcellus Campbell v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review merits-determination procedural-denial standard-of-review |
Whether, under this Court's holdings, in Miller-El v. Cockrell, 537 U.S. 322 (2008), and Buck v. Davis, 580 U.S. 100 (2017), it is inadequate for a Co… |
| 23-814 |
Visa Inc., et al. v. National ATM Council, Inc., et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-01-29 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
antitrust antitrust-impact civil-procedure class-action class-certification classwide-impact federal-rule-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure material-dispute merits merits-determination |
Whether a district court validly certifies a class under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(3) where it deems the proposed method through which pla… |
| 23-6439 |
Jennifer Lynn Mothershead v. Deborah Jo Wofford, Superintendent, Washington Corrections Center for Women |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254 appellate-review comity habeas-corpus merits-determination procedural-bar state-court-ruling |
Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision violates Harris v. Reed, 489 U.S. 255 (1989) and the bedrock habeas corpus principle of comity by … |
| 23A390 |
Richard D. Holcomb, in his Official Capacity as the Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles v. Damian Stinnie, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-10-31 |
Presumed Complete |
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attorney-fees civil-rights merits-determination preliminary-injunction prevailing-party statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether, to prevail "on the merits" under 42 U.S.C. § 1988, a party must obtain a ruling that conclusively decides the merits in its favor, as oppo… |
| 23-5584 |
Raymond L. Rogers v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-appeal criminal-appeals due-process grand-jury-indictment jurisdiction jurisdictional-review merits-determination standing subject-matter-jurisdiction tenth-circuit threshold-question |
(1). DID THE TENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS COMMIT A REVERSIBLE
ERROR WHEN IT RESOLVED THE MERITS OF YOUR PETITIONER'S
CRIMINAL DIRECT APPEALS REVIEW… |
| 22-7252 |
Marlon McCay v. Kevin Genovese, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review merits-determination merits-review petition-denial sixth-circuit standard-of-review |
Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals err when it denied the petitioner's petitions for a COA and rehearing despite the petitioner's showing that his… |
| 22-7031 |
David Andrew Diehl v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure federal-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure gonzales-v-crosby habeas-corpus merits-determination procedural-bar procedural-rulings rule-60 statute-of-limitations |
Point 1 Should a Fed.R.Civ.P. 60(b) and 60(d)(3) mixed motion initially be reviewed de novo, without requiring a certificate of Appealability
Point 2… |
| 22-773 |
Tre Hargett, Tennessee Secretary of State, et al. v. Tennessee State Conference of the NAACP, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
42-usc-1988 attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights merits-determination preliminary-injunction prevailing-party statutory-interpretation |
When, if ever, does a party who obtains a preliminary injunction, but never secures a final merits determination, qualify as a "prevailing party" elig… |
| 21-6588 |
Amy Bishop Anderson v. Deidra Wright, Warden, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
certificate-of-appealability claim-exhaustion cumulative-error effective-assistance-of-counsel exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-determination voluntariness-of-plea voluntary-plea |
Charged and convicted of capital murder, sentenced to Life Without Parole
Question 1: Whether the 11th Circuit Court used a merits determination to d… |
| 21-510 |
PDVSA US Litigation Trust v. Lukoil Pan Americas, LLC, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
and raised in the appellate briefing to such an e appellate-procedure appellate-review argument-abandonment civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-court issue-preservation judicial-review legal-briefing merits-determination waiver |
Whether a court of appeals may deem an argument to have been abandoned when it was properly raised and fully briefed in the district court, and raised… |
| 21-5613 |
Byron McCollum v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253c certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights eleventh-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review merits-determination slack-v-mcdaniel unauthorized-merits-determination |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's denial of a Certificate of Appealability, stating only that the Petitioner "has failed to make a substantial showing of… |
| 19-8850 |
Billy Joe Wardlow v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split federal-habeas habeas-corpus merits-determination procedural-bar rule-60(b) successive-petition |
1. Whether a Rule 60(b) motion arguing that a procedural defect affected the district court's determination of the merits of the claims in a federal h… |
| 19-7940 |
Luis Fernandez Morales v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 28-usc-1915 appeals appellate-procedure criminal-appeal criminal-procedure federal-courts in-forma-pauperis merits-determination sentence-modification sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether defendant in a federal criminal case is entitled to appeal the district court's judgment denying motion to modify sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 3… |
| 18-9159 |
Freddy Brown v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-05-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa constitutional-claim constitutional-claims constitutional-question eighth-amendment federal-habeas federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-review legal-interpretation merits-decision merits-determination state-court state-court-decisions supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. Ct. 1726 (2017), a case arising under federal habeas review, as a deci… |
| 18-8005 |
Jason Brooks v. Angel Medina, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-02-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-of-remedies federal-appellate-court federal-appellate-review federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus merits-determination res-judicata rule-60-motion rule-60(b)(6) state-court-appeal state-court-appeals state-remedies |
Whether a federal appellate court can deny making a merits determination for a petitioner's failure to exhaust state remedies, when the petitioner's a… |