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25-6723 Victor Dema v. Jennifer Toth, Director, Arizona Department of Transportation Ninth Circuit 2026-02-04 Pending IFP federal-courts forum-defendant-rule immigration-jurisdiction ninth-circuit removal-procedure statutory-interpretation A. Whether All The Ninth Court Of Appeals ' Decisions Rendered Against This Particular Petitioner In This Very Case, Conflict With All The Other Fed…
25A848 Mohamed Ahmed Hassan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2026-01-23 Application case-load criminal-conviction federal-defenders ninth-circuit sentencing-review writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
25-6660 Demetrius Franklin v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2026-01-23 Pending Response WaivedIFP brady-violation certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ninth-circuit prosecutorial-misconduct summary-denial Petitioner Demetrius Franklin was convicted of first degree murder based on the testimony of a single identifying witness, Shanti Day. The prosecution…
25-850 California Crane School, Inc. v. Google LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-16 Pending Response Waived antitrust-violations arbitration-clause discovery-rights market-division ninth-circuit pleading-standards 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit has ignored this Court's well-established standards regarding per se antitrust violations, including division of markets …
25-6613 Dustin Matthews v. City of Tempe, Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-16 Pending IFP appellate-review civil-procedure due-process ninth-circuit rule-56 summary-judgment 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit departed from this Court's Rule 56 jurisprudence by sanctioning summary judgment where the district court failed to credi…
25-6429 Georgiy Chipunov v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-12-23 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP as-applied-challenge criminal-procedure facial-challenge first-amendment ninth-circuit true-threats In Counterman v. Colorado, 600 U.S. 66, 73 (2023), the Court clarified that, to comply with the First Amendment's protections, prosecutors "must prove…
25-6398 Loni Nicole Granger, et al. v. Lauren J. King, Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-18 Pending IFP constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review mandamus ninth-circuit random-assignment 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit violated petitioners ' Fifth Amendment due-process rights by summarily denying in-forma-pauperis status and dismissing t…
25A692 Eliel Nunez Sanchez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-12-12 Application criminal-conviction direct-appeal federal-appellate ninth-circuit standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Question not identified.
25A679 Matthew Lee Pelton v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-12-09 Application criminal-statute ninth-circuit pecuniary-damages restitution statutory-interpretation victim-compensation Question not identified.
25A674 Arizona, et al. v. Mi Familia Vota, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-09 Application ballot-collection election-law election-procedures ninth-circuit voter-registration voting-rights Question not identified.
25A673 Republican National Committee, et al. v. Mi Familia Vota, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-09 Application citizenship-requirements civil-rights-act election-procedures ninth-circuit voter-registration voter-roll-maintenance Question not identified.
25-667 CoStar Group, Inc., et al. v. Commercial Real Estate Exchange, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-08 Pending Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse Waived antitrust exclusive-dealing ninth-circuit plausible-relief refusal-to-deal sherman-act In Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, this Court recognized the risk of allowing antitrust claims to proceed past the pleading stage in the absence of a …
25-6316 Kyle Ray Campbell v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-12-08 Pending IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure ninth-circuit sentence-reasonableness sentencing waiver Whether the district court erred and imposed a substantively unreasonable sentence of three hundred months? Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal…
25-6194 Douglas P. Pasquinzo v. Montana Montana 2025-11-21 Denied IFP constitutional-rights montana-law ninth-circuit procedural-due-process prosecutorial-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction 1) Where the State^Courts continue to disobey the Laws and Rulescof Procedure, and allow County Prosecutors to Amend complaints, v.-i without leave …
25-6166 Gregory P. Burleson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit trial-counsel Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying a Certificate of Appealability ("COA") consistent with the standards set by 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(…
25-6116 Frank Iglesias v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure discretion early-termination ninth-circuit sentencing supervised-release Did the Ninth Circuit abused it's discretion in finding that Petitioner is not entitled to shortening or terminating supervised release of his sentenc…
25A567 Paul D. Carr v. Jeff Macomber, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2025-11-14 Application certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ninth-circuit pro-se substantial-showing Question not identified.
25-554 Shawn Edward Shaffer v. James Hill, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-11-06 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus jackson-standard ninth-circuit state-procedural-rule 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying a certificate of appealability where the petitioner alleged a violation of the 14th Amendment's Due Proc…
25A523 Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. v. Bradley Bieganski Ninth Circuit 2025-11-06 Application aedpa de-novo-review deferential-standard habeas-corpus ninth-circuit state-court-review Question not identified.
25-510 Damon Balar Cook v. Luis Garnica, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-10-24 Denied appeal-reinstatement discretion-abuse mandate-recall miscarriage-justice ninth-circuit procedural-review 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Abused its discretion in denying Petitioner Damon Cook's timely motion to recall the mandate and to rein…
25A446 Rodney Woodland v. Montero Lamar Hill Ninth Circuit 2025-10-17 Presumed Complete copyright-infringement fair-use ninth-circuit originality photographic-copyright sui-generis-rule Question not identified.
25-5892 Daniel Jacob Werk v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court federal-rule judgment-of-acquittal ninth-circuit rule-29-motion Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in upholding the district court's denial of Petitioner's Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 29 motion for judgment of …
25-430 Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. v. Yassir Fazaga, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-10-08 Pending Relisted (4) district-court judicial-review merits-adjudication ninth-circuit privileged-information state-secrets-privilege Whether dismissal of a claim after assertion of the state-secrets privilege requires a district court to adjudicate the merits of the claim using the …
25-384 Faisal Ashraf v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-10-02 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability due-process intervening-law ninth-circuit noncriminal-conduct plea-agreement Whether this Court should grant, vacate, and remand the Ninth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability for the plainly substantial issue of …
25A369 Israel Alberto Rivas-Gomez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-09-30 Presumed Complete appellate-review certiorari constitutional-rights criminal-defendant en-banc ninth-circuit Question not identified.
25A362 Kate Adams v. Sacramento County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-09-29 Presumed Complete employment-retaliation first-amendment matter-of-public-concern ninth-circuit public-employee racist-speech Question not identified.
25A332 Olegario Lares-De La Rosa v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-09-23 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure federal-public-defender ninth-circuit petition-for-certiorari supreme-court-rules time-extension Question not identified.
25-5622 Tara Jean McManus v. Frank Bisignano, Commissioner of Social Security Ninth Circuit 2025-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-dismissal judicial-error justice-seeking legal-pursuit ninth-circuit procedural-review Did the Ninth Circuit error in dismissing case: 25-409 (Appendix: A-l) that carries not only personal consequence, but broader implications for proced…
25-5595 Dina Sarkisova v. California Ninth Circuit 2025-09-10 Denied IFP constitutional-violation due-process federal-removal frivolous-appeal ninth-circuit subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals violated Petitioner's due process rights by summarily dismissing her appeal as frivolous under 28 U.S.C.…
25A274 John Benton Ragland v. Karin Arnold, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2025-09-09 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim federal-review habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-default Question not identified.
25-5551 Ronald Buzzard, Jr. v. Jack Warner, Superintendent, Monroe Correctional Complex Ninth Circuit 2025-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process judicial-discretion ninth-circuit procedural-exhaustion 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err and abuse their discretion in failing to grant a Certificate of Appealability (CoA) based on the fact that the Washington…
25-5414 Anthony Tyrone Campbell, Sr. v. Andre Gonzales, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempted-murder constitutional-errors due-process habeas-corpus liberty-rights ninth-circuit 1. With having consideration for the meaningful importance involved, notwithstanding Rule 10 of this Court, could this Supreme Court of the United Sta…
25-5308 Michael J. Gaddy v. C. Pfeiffer, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-08-08 Denied IFP claim-preclusion constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment ninth-circuit parole-hearing 1. WHETHER THE NINTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN APPLYING CLAIM PRECLUSION TO BAR PETITIONER'S FIRST AMENDMENT FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION CLAIM WHEN THE ALLEGED CONS…
25-5300 In Re Onofre Serrano 2025-08-07 Denied IFP brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression ninth-circuit probable-cause 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit arbitrarily concluded that Petitioner has not made a substantial showing of the denial of a Constitutional right? 2. Whe…
25A159 Richard Rynn, et al. v. Craig Jennings, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-08-06 Application appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias ninth-circuit record-correction Question not identified.
25-5200 Isaias Lopez Nunez v. Martin Gamboa, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit procedural-default sentencing (1) Whether the California courts' and Ninth Circuit's rejection of an Ex Post Facto Clause claim—where a more punitive law was applied at sentencing,…
25-5151 J. Ines Ruiz-Rivera v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP confession-admissibility criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error ninth-circuit supreme-court-precedent Whether courts should follow the direction of Fulminante and use "extreme caution" before finding the admission of a confession is harmless error.
25A58 Shawn Edward Shaffer v. James Hill, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-07-15 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit state-conviction Question not identified.
25-5096 Christopher John Spreitz v. Arizona Arizona 2025-07-14 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2)IFP capital-sentencing constitutional-review death-penalty habeas-corpus mitigating-evidence ninth-circuit 1. Whether in conducting independent sentencing review to cure a constitutional error in a capital case, a court must consider all of the evidence in …
25-19 Laura Loomer, Individually and as a Candidate for United States Congress, et al. v. Mark Zuckerberg, Individually and as CEO of Meta Platforms, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-07-07 Denied Response Waived circuit-split ninth-circuit post-judgment-facts res-judicata rico-claims social-media-censorship 1. Does the Ninth Circuit's application of res judicata, barring claims based on new material facts arising after prior judgments, conflict with this …
24A1291 Cheri Poe v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company Ninth Circuit 2025-06-27 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure certiorari lehman-brothers ninth-circuit state-law-certification supreme-court-rules Question not identified.
24A1254 Julian Omidi and Surgery Center Management, LLC v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-06-20 Presumed Complete criminal-appeal direct-appeal federal-conviction ninth-circuit supreme-court-rule writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
24-7449 Marco Antonio Casillas v. Janan Cavagnolo, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit's practice of adjudicating the ultimate merits of a habeas petition at the COA stage, often on prejudice grounds, violate…
24-1282 Robert Menzer v. U.S. Bank, N.A., et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-06-16 Denied Response Waived constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-statute full-faith-and-credit ninth-circuit void-judgment 1. Does the full faith and credit clause of the Constitution and 28 U.S.C. § 1738 require a court to conduct an independent analysis of whether a judg…
24-7392 Jonathan Mota v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP claim-preclusion collateral-review direct-appeal ninth-circuit procedural-rule section-2255 1. Does the Ninth Circuit's rule that issues raised and rejected on direct appeal are not reviewable in a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petition conflict with the …
24-1251 Nicole Gilbert-Daniels v. Lions Gate Entertainment, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-06-06 Denied Response Waived copyright-infringement due-process expert-evidence ninth-circuit substantial-similarity summary-judgment 1. Substantial Similarity and Summary Judgment: Does the Ninth Circuit's application of the extrinsic test and its requirement of striking similarity …
24A1185 Elizabeth Flynt v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-06-03 Presumed Complete civil-rights court-of-appeals extension-of-time ninth-circuit petition-for-certiorari summary-judgment Question not identified.
24-1225 LaWanda D. Small v. Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America, a Minnesota Corporation Ninth Circuit 2025-06-02 Denied Response Waived appellate-review certification-standard federalism-interests judicial-procedure ninth-circuit state-law-certification In Lehman Brothers v. Schein, 416 U.S. 386 (1974), this Court encouraged federal courts to certify uncertain questions of state law to state high cour…
24-7251 Michael Deuschel v. Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 12b6-dismissal civil-procedure discovery-rule due-process erie-doctrine ninth-circuit Whether the Ninth Circuit departed from the Erie Doctrine, and violated Appellant's due process rights, when it ratified the district court's 12(b)(6)…
24-7191 Daryl Cook v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2025-05-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-analysis Question not identified.
24-1146 Gilda Ryan, et al. v. County of Imperial, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights due-process judicial-supervision ninth-circuit pro-se-litigation section-1983 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals sanctioning of The District Court 's effective use of a pro-se litigants §1983 based civil action as a…
24-1141 Patricia Iten, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Howard Iten v. County of Los Angeles, California Ninth Circuit 2025-05-07 Denied Response Waived constitutional-law contract-impairment contracts-clause covid-19-moratorium foreseeability ninth-circuit Whether a party is barred from stating a claim for relief for violation of the Contracts Clause merely because the party could have foreseen the enact…
24-1145 Live Nation Entertainment, Inc., et al. v. Skot Heckman, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-07 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration-agreement contract-interpretation federal-arbitration-act mass-arbitration ninth-circuit severability-doctrine 1. Whether the FAA protects all arbitration agreements (as this Court and five circuits have stated) or only a subset of traditional, bilateral arbitr…
24-6853 Brett A. Sinkevitch v. Jamie Miller, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2025-03-25 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance insufficient-evidence ninth-circuit Did the Ninth Circuit err in denying a COA where a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right was demonstrated because reasonable jur…
24-6796 Steven Nicholson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP covid-19-test district-court ninth-circuit sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act summary-reversal Whether this Court should summarily reverse the Ninth Circuit, which itself summarily reversed the district court's order dismissing petitioner's indi…
24-980 William Jones, Jr., Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Police Officer for the Los Angeles Police Department v. Ymelda Elena, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-03-12 Denied Response Waived excessive-force law-enforcement ninth-circuit qualified-immunity summary-judgment video-evidence In ruling on a claim for qualified immunity raised in a motion for summary judgment, does a court's obligation to view the evidence in the light most …
24-6734 Christina Alexandria Taylor-Loper v. Sam's Club/Walmart Associates, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-03-10 Denied IFP americans-with-disabilities appellate-review certification civil-rights judicial-procedure ninth-circuit I. Why didn't the United States District Court Establish Disabled or Women Certified Victim Ombudsman Help to all Americans with Yearning to key of IE…
24A858 Tiante Dion Scott v. Jason Schultz, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-03-07 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right federal-review habeas-corpus ninth-circuit post-conviction Question not identified.
24-947 Chanel Wiley v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-03-04 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights court-precedent criminal-procedure jury-prejudice ninth-circuit physical-restraints Whether a criminal defendant whose government imposed restraint is perceptible to a jury must show actual prejudice, as the decision below held, or wh…
24-6551 William J. Wise v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure habeas-corpus ninth-circuit panetti-standard section-2255 successive-petition The sole question raised by this Petition for Certiorari is whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals fundamentally erred by dismissing the appeal of…
24-6544 Lemack Bellot v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting attempt-crime criminal-conduct ninth-circuit reverse-sting statutory-interpretation Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision that "aiding and abetting an attempt" and "attempting to aid and abet" are equivalent permits wholly fictitious c…
24A774 Darrel Eston Lee v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2025-02-11 Presumed Complete conviction-challenge death-penalty federal-review habeas-corpus ninth-circuit standard-of-review Question not identified.
24-6522 Samuel Carl Neyhart v. Tyrell Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violations habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel martinez-review ninth-circuit procedural-default 1) Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals error, and/or so far depart from the Supreme Court of the United States processes and precedents, by failin…
24A757 Brett A. Sinkevitch v. Jamie Miller, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2025-02-04 Presumed Complete 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability custodial-status federal-review habeas-corpus ninth-circuit Question not identified.
24-816 Phillip Joshua Yellin v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-01-31 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability credibility-determination habeas-corpus judicial-review ninth-circuit In Miller-El1, this Court held of the relatively low level of showing necessary from a habeas Petitioner like Phillip J. Yellin to be entitled to a …
24A739 Fei Fei Fan v. Yan Yao Jiang, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-28 Presumed Complete 18-usc-1589 18-usc-1591 federal-statute forced-labor ninth-circuit sex-trafficking Question not identified.
24-6360 Maximo DiazLeal-DiazLeal v. Ronald Haynes, Superintendent, Airway Heights Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2025-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit Whether The District Court's Pro-Forma And Blanket Denial of A COA Order Adopting The Magistrate's Report and Recommendation (R & R) Manifestly Erred …
24-6345 Mark Jones v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-01-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-violation criminal-statute guilty-plea immigration-law ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation 1. Whether "in violation of law" in 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(1)(A)(ii) is limited to criminal immigration violations (and does not include civil immigration…
24-6297 Donald Sherman v. Jeremy Bean, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-14 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability discovery-rights due-process factual-findings ninth-circuit state-appellate-courts 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err in failing to address Sherman's argument that the state appellate courts factual findings made without notice, an opportu…
24A690 Uber Technologies, Inc., et al. v. Amie Drammeh, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-14 Presumed Complete certification erie-doctrine federal-diversity judicial-prediction ninth-circuit state-tort-law The question presented by applicants' forthcoming petition would concern the proper application of Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938), …
24-6289 Marilyn Tillman-Conerly v. Office of Personnel Management, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP alternative-service covid-19-pandemic judicial-discretion knick-v-township ninth-circuit service-of-process 1) WHETHER, the Ninth Circuit Erred in Finding that the case Knick v. Township of Scott Pa. does not apply in this case at hand? 2) Whether the Ninth…
24A658 Martin Akerman v. Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-01-02 Presumed Complete due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-review ninth-circuit writ-of-mandamus Did the Ninth Circuit err in dismissing the habeas petition despite evidence satisfying the custody requirement under 28 U.S.C. § 2241(c)(1)? Is clos…
24A628 Shaheryar Khan v. Nancy K. Curry, Trustee Ninth Circuit 2024-12-27 Presumed Complete civil-liberties court-procedure dismissal-standard frivolous-appeal in-forma-pauperis ninth-circuit Question not identified.
24-6197 Gail Manney v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruen-standard constitutional-review criminal-statute firearm-regulation ninth-circuit second-amendment The question presented is whether the Second Amendment covers a federal firearm regulation. This Court has not yet clarified the Second Amendment's co…
24A625 Chad Alan Lee v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2024-12-26 Presumed Complete certiorari death-row federal-review habeas-corpus ninth-circuit state-conviction Question not identified.
24-6156 Cenious Brewster v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-appeal judicial-discretion ninth-circuit presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines Whether the Ninth Circuit erred when it created an unprecedented "presumption of reasonableness" for "Judiciary Sentencing INformation" ("JSIN") data …
24A591 Fernando Lopez-Armenta v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-12-17 Presumed Complete criminal-conviction drug-statute federal-statute jury-instructions ninth-circuit sufficiency-of-evidence In a criminal case in which the only defense raised is that the defendant is guilty of a lesser included offense, does the 14th Amendment's guarantee …
24A579 City of Los Angeles, California v. Jesus Pimentel, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-12-13 Presumed Complete civil-rights constitutional-violation law-enforcement municipal-liability ninth-circuit section-1983 Question not identified.
24-6132 In Re David Charles Thatcher 2024-12-12 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-violation criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ninth-circuit successive-petition 1. Whether Mr. Thatcher's actual innocence and the constitutional violations taking place at his trial require the vacatur of his petition. 2. Whethe…
24A565 William Michael Dennis v. Chance Andes, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-12-10 Presumed Complete court-of-appeals habeas-corpus ninth-circuit post-conviction time-extension writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
24-6099 Joseph William Hart v. Chance Andes, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-12-09 Denied IFP adequate-state-grounds coleman-standard habeas-corpus ninth-circuit state-procedural-rule timeliness-bar In re Robbins, 18 Cal. 4th 770 (1998), and In re Gallego, 18 Cal. 4th 825 (1998) "explained many aspects of the timeliness rules applicable to petitio…
24-631 Magni Hamso, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as the Medical Director of the Idaho Division of Medicaid v. M. H., et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-12-09 GVR Relisted (2) constitutional-law equal-protection heightened-scrutiny medicaid-coverage ninth-circuit sex-reassignment 1. Whether a policy declining coverage for sexreassignment surgeries violates the Equal Protection Clause; and 2. Whether clearly established law as …
24A557 Prabhjot Kaur Kang v. Western Governors University Ninth Circuit 2024-12-09 Presumed Complete certiorari jurisdiction ninth-circuit pro-se supreme-court time-extension Question not identified.
24-619 Igor Lukashin v. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Ninth Circuit 2024-12-05 Denied argument-waiver due-process judicial-proceedings ninth-circuit pre-filing-review pro-se-appellant 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit has continued to deny Due Process by applying a purportedly categorical, Ramirez- Aleiandre v. Ashcroft , 320 F.3d 858…
24-586 Peyman Roshan v. Melanie J. Lawrence, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-11-27 Denied Response Waived civil-enforcement constitutional-standing federal-courts ninth-circuit state-proceedings younger-abstention 1. At what point or points in time should federal courts analyze the factors for application of Younger abstention? There are at least six views expre…
24-574 Nikolai Belov v. East Bay Sanctuary Covenant, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-11-25 Denied Response Waived court-procedure judicial-intervention legal-review motion-to-intervene ninth-circuit procedural-due-process This case is a continuation of the federal government's illegal practice of exerting pressure on the U.S. judiciary, which is an independent branch of…
24A505 Shen Zhen New World I, LLC v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-11-21 Presumed Complete appellate-review certiorari corporate-entity monetary-sanctions ninth-circuit procedural-violations Question not identified.
24A487 City of Los Angeles, California, et al. v. Hasmik Jasmine Chinaryan, Individually and as Guardian ad Litem for NEC, a Minor, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-11-15 Presumed Complete civil-rights constitutional-violations excessive-force law-enforcement municipal-liability ninth-circuit Question not identified.
24A459 Raymond Anthony Lewis v. Brian D. Phillips, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-11-07 Presumed Complete criminal-conviction federal-review habeas-corpus ninth-circuit state-court time-extension Question not identified.
24A411 Donald Sherman v. William Gittere, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-28 Presumed Complete capital-punishment eighth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
24A400 Iowa Pork Producers Association v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-24 Presumed Complete agricultural-regulation ballot-measure dormant-commerce-clause interstate-commerce ninth-circuit state-law Question not identified.
24-5722 Buta Singh v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-10-08 Denied IFP custody-determination eighth-circuit miranda-warning ninth-circuit tenth-circuit terry-stop In Howes v. Fields, 565 U.S. 499 (2012), the Court established a two-step test for determining whether a suspect is "in custody" for purposes of Miran…
24A315 B&L Productions, Inc., et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-02 Presumed Complete administrative-law california emergency-application judicial-review mandate ninth-circuit Question not identified.
24A320 Joshua Idlefonso Villalobos v. Kris Mayes, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-02 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure federal-review habeas-corpus ninth-circuit post-conviction procedural-rules Question not identified.
24-5651 Michael T. McLaughlin v. Ronald Oliver, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP diligence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-rule ninth-circuit procedural-default In his petition for writ of habeas corpus before the district court, Petitioner Michael McLaughlin raised the claim that his trial counsel ineffective…
24-5587 Clayton Cornelius Reynolds v. Texas Texas 2024-09-20 Denied IFP constitutional-review criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ninth-circuit post-conviction-relief state-court-review 1) Did the Court of Appeals error, lou Albuns eco hosel tole an A Sees eak€ chen there wAS an bbuious Tresecuel Arcealable icsue. 2.) Teal founels tu…
24A275 Jason Dee Taylor v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-09-18 Presumed Complete appellate-representation due-process incarceration-conditions mail-system ninth-circuit prison-communication Question not identified.
24-298 In Re Kelsey Cascadia Rose Juliana, et al. 2024-09-16 Denied Response Waived appellate-review cheney-conditions district-court jurisdiction ninth-circuit writ-of-mandamus When this now nine-year-old case was before the Court in 2018, this Court denied the Government's application for a stay of proceedings in the distric…
24A267 Kelsey Cascadia Rose Juliana, et al. v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-09-16 Presumed Complete article-iii-standing declaratory-judgment fifth-amendment leave-to-amend ninth-circuit redressability 1. The petition for a writ of certiorari would raise two issues. The first is the manner of analyzing the redressability prong of Article III standing…
24A265 Jeremy Ray Morris, et ux. v. West Hayden Estates First Addition Homeowners Association, Inc., an Idaho Corporation Ninth Circuit 2024-09-13 Presumed Complete homeowners-association individual-rights ninth-circuit property-rights property-use restrictions Whether a trial court judge may, under Rule 50(b), overturn a unanimous jury verdict by making credibility determinations and weighing evidence, parti…
24A249 Igor Lukashin v. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Ninth Circuit 2024-09-10 Presumed Complete due-process filing-ban judicial-discretion ninth-circuit pre-filing-review pro-se-litigant 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit has been denying Due Process by applying a purportedly categorical rule, Ramirez-Alejandre v. Ashcroft, 320 F.3d 858, 875…
24-5472 In Re Thomas Jayaton-Kerry 2024-09-05 Denied IFP due-process frivolous-filing in-forma-pauperis judicial-machinery mandamus ninth-circuit Did the Ninth Circuit err by dismissing Thomas' Jayaton-Kerry's Writ of Mandamus because of their stated frivolous filing due and related In Forma Pau…
24A224 Port of Tacoma, et al. v. Puget Soundkeeper Alliance Ninth Circuit 2024-08-30 Presumed Complete clean-water-act environmental-preemption federal-regulation maritime-law ninth-circuit port-operations Question not identified.
24-5390 Paulina Buhagiar v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP ada employment-discrimination intentional-emotional-distress ninth-circuit summary-judgment title-vii 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of Wells Fargo on Buhagiar's claims of discrim…
24A204 Marlon Abraham Rosasen v. Kingdom of Norway, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-26 Presumed Complete certiorari family-rights guardian-ad-litem jurisdiction ninth-circuit pro-se Question not identified.
24-5385 Marc Anthony Colon v. Nethanjah Breitenbach, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit trial-counsel witness-preparation Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying a Certificate of Appealability ( "COA ") consistent with the standards set by 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c…
24A190 Chad D. Begay v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-21 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review federal-habeas habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-default Question not identified.
24-5263 Pedro Rodriguez v. Officer Fisher Ninth Circuit 2024-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus ninth-circuit rule-of-lenity state-court timeliness timeliness-rules 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err in holding that the California Supreme Court's summary denial of a habeas petition as untimely is beyond review by federa…
24-5214 Hsiu Ying Tseng v. Mona D. Houston, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation legal-review ninth-circuit prosecutorial-misconduct writ-of-certiorari Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in holding that the prosecutorial misconduct did not violate due process?
24A67 Allison Cole-Kelly v. Malia Cohen, in Her Official Capacity as State Controller of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-22 Presumed Complete administrative-procedure benefit-claims certiorari-extension joint-petition ninth-circuit state-controller Question not identified.
24-5109 Clinton Mark Lewis v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2252 child-pornography circuit-split circumstantial-evidence criminal-law evidence-standard federal-statute image-specific ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit 1. Is the charge of possession or accessing child pornography under 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(4)(B) "image specific" in that it requires proof that the defe…
24A32 Marino Scafidi v. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-11 Presumed Complete appellate-review civil-rights ninth-circuit pro-se section-1983 summary-judgment Whether the Ninth Circuit, when granting summary judgment to the movants, clearly ignoring Nevada state court judgments that concluded the LVMPD viola…
24A28 Peyman Roshan v. Melanie J. Lawrence, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-10 Presumed Complete certiorari extraordinary-circumstances ninth-circuit pro-se supreme-court-rules time-extension Question not identified.
24A17 Richard Rynn v. First Transit Incorporated, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-09 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights due-process judicial-procedure motion-to-vacate ninth-circuit pro-se Question not identified.
24A22 Richard Rynn, Next Friend and Parent of M. R., a Minor v. Gregory A. McKay, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-09 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights court-filing due-process judicial-procedure motion-to-vacate ninth-circuit Question not identified.
23-1353 Kansas, et al. v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-06-28 Denied Amici (4) administrative-procedure-act administrative-procedure-act-rule-making collusive-settlements federal-government federal-government-defense intervention litigation-strategy ninth-circuit standing sue-and-settle Did the Ninth Circuit err when it denied States with sufficient interests the ability to intervene as defendants after the federal government stopped …
23-1333 Sami Azmi, et al. v. John Sylvester Penny Ninth Circuit 2024-06-21 Denied civil-rights clearly-established excessive-force law-enforcement ninth-circuit qualified-immunity summary-judgment undisputed-evidence video-evidence In ruling on a claim for qualified immunity raised in a motion for summary judgment, does a court's obligation to view the evidence in the light most …
23A1119 Lowe's Home Centers, LLC v. Maria Johnson Ninth Circuit 2024-06-17 Presumed Complete arbitration-agreement federal-arbitration-act ninth-circuit paga standing viking-river-cruises 1. This case presents an important question concerning the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA). In Viking River Cruises, Inc. v. Moriana, 596 U.S. 639 (2022…
23A1102 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC v. Charles Ramsey California 2024-06-11 Presumed Complete arbitration-agreement consumer-protection federal-arbitration-act mcgill-rule ninth-circuit public-injunctive-relief Question not identified.
23-7620 Donald Kie, Jr. v. Garrett, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-06-03 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-conviction due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit plea-bargaining sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence sufficient-evidence Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying a Certificate of Appealability ( "COA") consistent with the standards set by 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)…
23-7595 Daniel Levi v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-waiver criminal-appeal due-process liberty-interest ninth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines voluntary-consent The Ninth Circuit dismissed Mr. Levi's criminal appeal due to an appellate waiver in the plea agreement. Mr. Levi argues that the appellate waiver in …
23-1250 Carlos Vega v. Terence B. Tekoh Ninth Circuit 2024-05-29 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administration-of-justice circuit-split coerced-confessions confession-admissibility criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony fifth-amendment miranda-rights miranda-warning ninth-circuit 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit erred by establishing—in conflict with the decisions of other circuits—a categorical rule requiring the admission of expe…
23A1050 Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, dba Labcorp v. Luke Davis, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-24 Presumed Complete accessibility ada disability-rights medical-testing ninth-circuit reasonable-accommodation Question not identified.
23-7507 Kenneth Allen Washington v. Deputy Rayl, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-05-17 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions court-of-appeals due-process judicial-discretion motion-to-extend ninth-circuit standing time-extension Question not identified.
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 46 U.S.C. § 70502(d)(1)(C) of the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act exceeds Congress's power under the Define and Punish Clause by defining a …
23A1009 Luis Chavez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-05-14 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ninth-circuit petition-for-certiorari supreme-court-rules time-extension Question not identified.
23A1010 Xanadu Corp, et al. v. Meor Adlin, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-14 Presumed Complete appellate-review certiorari federal-jurisdiction ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
23A1012 Brent Evan Webster v. United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Oregon Ninth Circuit 2024-05-14 Presumed Complete extension-of-time in-forma-pauperis judicial-misconduct ninth-circuit pro-se writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
23-1200 Gregory Garmong v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-08 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-claims due-process federal-law fifth-amendment ninth-circuit private-right-of-action property-interest Did the Ninth Circuit err in affirming dismissal of, and declaring frivolous, constitutional due process claims pursuant to an express private right o…
23-1196 Christopher Ryan Martin v. Tom Lawson, Chief, Nevada Division of Parole and Probation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-07 Denied apprendi certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim habeas-corpus jones judicial-enhancement jury-trial ninth-circuit prior-conviction prior-convictions I. Whether Petitioner is entitled to a Certificate of Appealability (COA) from the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit by his showing that reaso…
23-1174 Peter Kleidman v. Hilton & Hyland Real Estate, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-01 Denied circuit-split evidence-rule expert-testimony federal-rule-of-evidence-704(a) federal-rules judicial-interpretation legal-duties ninth-circuit petition-for-writ-of-certiorari Does Federal Rule of Evidence 704(a) ("Rule 704(a)") allow an expert to opine that a person's conduct complied with the person's legal duties? Does R…
23A957 Benjamin Galecki and Burton Ritchie v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-04-25 Presumed Complete constitutional-violation criminal-conviction federal-appeal ninth-circuit panel-decision writ-of-certiorari Whether the Controlled Substance Analogue Enforcement Act, 21 U.S.C. § 813, is void for vagueness as applied to synthetic cannabinoid XLR-11; and Whe…
23-7260 Mark R. Zana v. Nevada Nevada 2024-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ninth-circuit post-conviction retroactivity statutory-interpretation 1. Whether Petitioner's conviction and continued incarceration under Nevada Revised Statute 209.730 are facially unconstitutional under the Due Proces…
23A937 Azariah M. Ellington v. Mary Thornton House, Judge, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-18 Presumed Complete de-novo-review en-banc-petition judicial-misconduct ninth-circuit section-1983 trust-litigation Question not identified.
23A938 Azariah M. Ellington v. Department of Veteran Affairs Ninth Circuit 2024-04-18 Presumed Complete certiorari constitutional-rights due-process judicial-misconduct ninth-circuit trust-litigation Question not identified.
23A916 Karen E. Ellingstad, et al. v. Kake Tribal Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-15 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment ninth-circuit oral-argument Question not identified.
23A874 Rodrigo Alvarez-Quinonez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-04-01 Presumed Complete 18-u-s-c-3231 certiorari criminal-appeal direct-appeal district-court ninth-circuit Is the Ninth Circuit's determination in United States v. Gadson, 763 F.3d 1189, 1206, 1208-1209 (9th Cir. 2014) that Federal Rule of Evidence 701 auth…
23-1065 Robert A. Eaton v. Montana Silversmiths Ninth Circuit 2024-03-29 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion ninth-circuit pro-se-litigation standing waiver waiver-of-rights 1. In determining Whether the Ninth Circuit had power to Waive Eaton 's Constitutional rights in their Memorandum regarding connection of personnel …
23-7088 Brian T. Hill v. Josie Gastelo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-03-27 Denied IFP constitutional-right counsel due-process equal-protection jury-trial ninth-circuit parole parole-hearing quorum 1) Do a t2): ; judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit constitutes a quorum within the meaning of 28 United States Code Section…
23-1040 Scott Smith v. Entrepreneur Media, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2024-03-20 Denied appeal civil-procedure federal-statute judgment-renewal motion-to-dismiss ninth-circuit renewal-of-judgment state-law Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit err in granting Respondent's Motion to Dismiss Appeal by failing to consider Petitioner's…
23-1032 Gary Topolewski v. URS Holdings, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-03-19 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure discovery-sanctions due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure inherent-authority ninth-circuit rule-37 sanctions In Societe Internationale Pour Participations Industrielles Et Commerciales, S. A. v. Rogers, 357 U.S. 197, 209 (1958) ("Societe Internationale") this…
23A844 David W. Murphy, Individually, and as Personal Representative for the Estate of Kathleen J. Murphy, et al. v. Medical Oncology Associates, P.S., et al. Washington 2024-03-18 Presumed Complete due-process estate-claim medical-malpractice ninth-circuit personal-representative statute-of-limitations Question not identified.
23-1012 Teri Kealoha Sahm v. Select Portfolio Servicing, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2024-03-15 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights court-documentation document-forgery due-process forgery fraud legal-proceedings ninth-circuit portfolio-servicing procedural-irregularity standing The Organic Act of 1871 was repealed in 1874. And, strangely enough, the end result of creating a second Municipal Corporation operating within the Di…
23-6976 Juan Cabrera v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-03-13 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure custody eighth-circuit howes-test miranda-custody miranda-rights ninth-circuit supreme-court tenth-circuit terry-stop Whether courts must apply the second step of Howes to determine if a person is "in custody" for Miranda purposes.
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 the Ninth Circuit's requirement that plaintiff prove that a defendant commit "volitional conduct" in the form of an affirmative act to recover…
23-6922 Benjamin Kohn v. State Bar of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law arms-of-the-state bar-admission civil-rights eleventh-amendment en-banc judicial-review ninth-circuit pro-bono-counsel sovereign-immunity state-university Question not identified.
23A799 Raul Mendez v. Moonridge Neighborhood Assocociation, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-28 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure due-process frivolous-dismissal judicial-discretion ninth-circuit pro-se-appeal Question not identified.
23A793 Gregory Garmong v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-27 Presumed Complete attorneys-fees cell-tower civil-rights due-process ninth-circuit standing Question not identified.
23-6820 Marvin Carcamo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure gang-membership harmless-error ninth-circuit procedural-error racketeering rico-conspiracy sentencing-guidelines 1. Did the Ninth Circuit incorrectly affirm the district court's procedural error determining racketeering conduct was reasonably foreseeable under th…
23-6704 Joshua P. Lindsey v. Sarah Evans Barker, Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana Seventh Circuit 2024-02-08 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-standards criminal-conviction due-process free-speech ninth-circuit prosecutorial-misconduct standing Deliberately Any Malicious VIOLATER Petitioner. Liaw. (Te Aimendnenlr CZ S Constitvtional. /2TEHT leith [Sedge Barker's (Two) [Consecutive Sanehen Or…
23A734 Dalibor Kabov and Berry Kabov v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-02-07 Presumed Complete brady-challenge controlled-substances drug-distribution ninth-circuit ruan-standard supreme-court-precedent Question not identified.
23-6681 Danny Lowe v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-intent due-process harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea ninth-circuit sex-trafficking Danny Ray Lowe was convicted of attempting to sex traffic two fictional minors in an undercover sing. As the Court of Appeals acknowledged, "The criti…
23-846 City of Sparks, Nevada, et al. v. Rosa Ester Brizuela, Individually and as Special Administrator of the Estate of Rolando Antonio Brizuela, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split clearly-established-law community-areas community-owned-areas curtilage multi-family-dwelling multifamily-dwelling ninth-circuit precedent 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err by holding that the community-owned areas in front of a multifamily dwelling constituted curtilage, contrary to its own p…
23-805 Christopher Paul George v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-01-25 Denied Response Waived buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-v-cockrell ninth-circuit supreme-court-precedent Did the Ninth Circuit ignore the process re-emphasized by this Court in Buck v. Davis and MillerEl, by refusing to issue Cristopher P. George a COA, t…
23-807 El Papel, LLC, et al. v. City of Seattle, Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-25 Denied Amici (7)Response Waived 5th-amendment constitutional-law due-process eighth-circuit land-use-regulation ninth-circuit physical-taking property-rights rental-property takings takings-clause Whether an ordinance that compels the possession of property by an unwelcome occupant is a categorical physical taking, as the Eighth Circuit held in …
23A687 Danilo Arturo Velasquez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-01-24 Presumed Complete criminal-appeal federal-sentencing ninth-circuit rico-conspiracy sentencing-disparity statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
23A670 Thomas Webster v. Natalie Haskins, Director, Haskins House State Wide Transitional Re-Entry Program Ninth Circuit 2024-01-22 Presumed Complete certiorari extension-of-time incarcerated indigent ninth-circuit pro-se Question not identified.
23-6495 Peter Burno v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conspiracy conspiracy-law controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-statute drug-trafficking drug-transfer due-process intent-to-distribute ninth-circuit sentencing Is the mere transfer of drugs from one person to another sufficient to prove a conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute controlled substanc…
23-6497 Alex Marquez v. Tim Garrett, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel involuntary-confession miranda-warning ninth-circuit 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err when Alex Marquez made a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right as to an inadequate Miranda warning …
23A650 Scott Smith v. Entrepreneur Media Inc., a California Corporation Ninth Circuit 2024-01-12 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure certiorari filing-deadline ninth-circuit supreme-court-rules time-extension Question not identified.
23A625 Shaheryar Khan v. Kent Seton, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-08 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure court-dismissal frivolous-appeal in-forma-pauperis ninth-circuit pro-se-litigant Question not identified.
23-6423 Jasper Frazier v. Christina Reagle, Commissioner, Indiana Department of Correction Seventh Circuit 2024-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure ninth-circuit procedural-default standing Did GeaGrouw? Pricate risen New) Caste Cocectianal Fact itnet Won, wo Lb Olan Violole Peta ver Doe CCocass bY {a isePvinG Ged 6d OFFiar O. Predericii…
23-722 Ralph Diaz, et al. v. Patricia Polanco, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-04 Denied Response Waived 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation covid-19 due-process ninth-circuit prison-conditions qualified-immunity substantive-due-process Whether the Ninth Circuit improperly denied qualified immunity to prison officials in these cases by defining the relevant law at a high level of gene…
23-6351 Jerome Terry, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect ninth-circuit notice sentencing sentencing-departure upward-departure waiver Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in dismissing the appeal when the district court failed to give notice of its intent to depart upwards 147 months and …
23A519 Raul Mendez v. Ada Community Libraries Board of Trustees, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-12-07 Presumed Complete civil-rights equal-protection first-amendment ninth-circuit pro-se voting-rights Question not identified.
23A514 David James Lack v. Matthew Rodriguez Ninth Circuit 2023-12-06 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus jury-misconduct ninth-circuit post-conviction-relief pro-se Question not identified.
23-6112 Derek Paul Smyer v. Bryan D. Phillips, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-discretion ninth-circuit standing third-party-culpability I. WHETHER THE UNITED STATES NINTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED WHEN IT FAILED OR REFUSED TO ISSUE A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY (COA) ON ONE OR MO…
23-522 Imperial Pacific International (CNMI), LLC v. Commonwealth Casino Commission, as Agency of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Ninth Circuit 2023-11-16 Denied Response Waived arbitrability arbitration-clause carve-out clear-and-unmistakable clear-and-unmistakable-standard delegation delegation-doctrine ninth-circuit non-binding-arbitration permissive-arbitration 1. Is "clear and unmistakable" delegation to the arbitrator to decide arbitrability negated by a carve-out to arbitrability in the arbitration clause,…
23-5959 Jason Claude Edwards v. Tristan Lemon, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-11-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP counsel-advice ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper missouri-v-frye ninth-circuit plea-bargaining plea-offer prejudice-analysis prejudice-standard strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit majority unreasonably applied clearly established Supreme Court law by approving as reasonable a state court prejudice an…
23-5944 Kaylin Eric Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-law habeas-corpus interlocutory-appeal judicial-review ninth-circuit standing Question not identified.
23-5931 Donald Lee Kissner v. Joseph Michael Orr, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-11-01 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony judicial-error medical-care ninth-circuit pretrial-detention qualified-immunity I. Did the Sixth Circuit United States Court of Appeals commit clear error when it affirmed the motion to dismiss? II. Did the Sixth Circuit United S…
23-5888 Howard L. Thompson v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-26 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law alien-tort-statute civil-rights corporate-liability due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction federalism human-rights international-law ninth-circuit standing Question not identified.
23-5768 Frank Nathan Escalante v. Jim Robertson, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-10-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice ninth-circuit procedural-rights standing 1. Was Petitioner's due Process Violated at any time through Judicial Proceedings? 2. Was Petitioner's Trial "fundamentally unfair"? 3. Has Petition…
23-5759 Meredith McConnell v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-indictment false-statements federal-statute materiality neder-v-united-states ninth-circuit omissions wire-fraud Does an indictment charging the offense of wire fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1343, require pleading and proof of a specific false statement or o…
23-377 Chris Dutra, et al. v. Kim Jackson Ninth Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied circuit-court-precedent clearly-established-law excessive-force fourth-amendment ninth-circuit police-conduct qualified-immunity supreme-court-precedent The meaning of "clearly established" for qualified immunity purposes is not, itself, clearly established. There is a split among this Court's preceden…
23-5723 James Daryl West v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-05 Denied IFP circuit-opinion civil-procedure civil-rights claim-dismissal due-process factual-assertion habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-error ninth-circuit prisoner-rights standing Sp2uivcollv| uji'U Kgoy-cls Ixntr/ Morri 5^ VJa^clW\ Tek-Uow poses 4Xjl girsW) \o Ul5 Ccu^f ot bukj^Ujtr ^ £kw\4ji\ Crcuvf GcurV ok Aff-^Ls cUadUd 4-…
23-5689 Philip Jones v. Charles Schuyler, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-10-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-v-cockrell ninth-circuit slack-v-mcdaniel Did the Ninth Circuit's refusal to issue a certificate of appealability for Jones's ineffective assistance of counsel claim conflict with this Court's…
23-344 Apple Inc. v. Epic Games, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2023-10-02 Denied Amici (5) civil-rights class-certification constitutional-limitations due-process federal-court injunction injunctive-relief judicial-scope ninth-circuit nonparties nonparty-impact standing Whether, in the absence of class certification, a federal court is precluded from entering an injunction that extends to nonparties without a specific…
23A277 David Wong v. Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-28 Presumed Complete appellate-jurisdiction certiorari-petition extension-of-time memorandum-opinion ninth-circuit standard-of-review Question not identified.
23-5560 Anthony Ravon Ruffin v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts jones-v-hendrix judicial-review ninth-circuit rehab-act standing Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals violated the Fifth Amendment in my case. Court's denial of relief presented in my appeal regarding Onfri …
23-234 Nicholas Crystal v. Calvin Johnson, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-12 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus mental-competency mental-deficiency ninth-circuit post-conviction Did the Ninth Circuit, in a post-conviction appeal by a sentenced Nevada State prisoner, commit reversible error in its pro forma, non-reasoned blanke…
23-207 R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, et al. v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-06 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) engine-manufacturers federal-law federal-preemption national-meat ninth-circuit preemption product-standards sales-ban sales-bans state-standards tobacco-control-act Whether the Tobacco Control Act expressly preempts state and local laws that prohibit the sale of flavored tobacco products.
23-5488 Dywane Tousant v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review motion-denial ninth-circuit standard-of-review substantial-showing Whether the Ninth Circuit Erred in Denying Tousant's Motion for Certificate of Appealability
23-5420 Bruce Wanzo, Jr. v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa certificate-of-appealability due-process equitable-tolling fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit Whether appointment of counsel on appeal for briefing, and the actions of counsel in detracting from the intended issues raised in the Certificate of …
23A163 Jason Green v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-08-23 Presumed Complete certiorari due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ninth-circuit prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires reversal of a conviction when prosecutorial misconduct deprives a defendant of a f…
23-5285 Asmerom Gebreselassie v. Gigi Matteson, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest court-of-appeals docket-entry ninth-circuit procedural-history retained-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment unreasonable-determination-of-fact Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in failing to grant a certificate of appealability?
23-5288 Jay Hymas v. Department of the Interior, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-privilege case-disposition civil-procedure constitutional-law federal-appellate-rules judicial-review ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-court-of-appeals procedural-standards Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals opinion overcomes the Federal Appellate Rules regarding the disposition of a case, and if so whether the pr…
23-5257 Angel Rios-Edeza v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof closing-argument criminal-procedure due-process evidence-vouching jury-instructions ninth-circuit prosecutorial-misconduct rebuttal-argument Did the Ninth Circuit error in finding that there was no prosecutorial misconduct?
23-5262 In Re Stephen Harmon 2023-08-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rule civil-rule-60(b)(4) court-of-appeals due-process independent-action ninth-circuit original-action standing Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in failing to address or resolve the 'Foundational Question' presented in an original and independent action under Civ…
23-5168 Isaac Silversmith v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 8-usc-1 certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law ninth-circuit second-degree-murder statutory-interpretation violent-crime Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in holding that second-degree murder is a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A)
23-53 Frederick Bates v. City of San Jose, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-21 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights due-process frcp-60 law-of-the-case miscarriage-of-justice ninth-circuit res-judicata Whether the Ninth Circuit's ruling affirming the dismissal conflicts with SCOTUS precedent on FRCP 60 and independent actions
23-5135 Leonardo Burgos-Valencia v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process judicial-procedure ninth-circuit right-to-be-heard standing substantial-rights summary-affirmance Whether the lower court's summary affirmance violated petitioner's right to be heard
23-5077 In Re Ronald Boyajian 2023-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-court appeal-of-right appellate-procedure appointed-counsel court-access due-process legal-representation ninth-circuit pro-se pro-se-litigation supplemental-brief Did the Ninth Circuit violate the defendant-appellant's due process right of access to the court in denying his pro se supplemental brief?
22-7873 Aguina Aguina v. Choong-Dae Kang, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii bankruptcy-settlement constitutional-authority court-of-appeals judicial-discretion ninth-circuit public-policy rooker-feldman-doctrine Did the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit err in approving the settlement of Trustee's and petitioner ex-wife's dispute
22-7842 Dashawn Lewis v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure directed-verdict due-process judicial-error jury-instruction jury-instructions ninth-circuit reasonable-doubt Whether the last sentence of the Ninth Circuit's pattern jury instruction on reasonable doubt is an incorrect statement of the law and akin to a direc…
22-7815 Joseph Carl Stanley v. Martin Biter, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP double-jeopardy due-process habeas-review implied-consent judicial-norms mistrial ninth-circuit state-law Double-jeopardy-challenge
22-1174 Michael Erwine v. Churchill County, Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-06-05 Denied Response Waived due-process employment employment-discrimination ninth-circuit procedural-due-process public-employee public-employee-rights stare-decisis stigma-plus To state a viable 'stigma-plus' claim, must a plaintiff prove as a matter of fact 'effective exclusion' from a chosen profession?
22-7496 Akkeli Frederick v. California California 2023-05-09 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment illegal-interrogation involuntary-confession ninth-circuit prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination Whether the admission of an involuntary confession derived from an illegal interrogation violates the accused's Fifth Amendment right against self-inc…
22-7425 James Conerly, et al. v. Kaiser Permanente, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment judicial-discretion judicial-immunity ninth-circuit subject-matter-jurisdiction systemic-racism Whether the Ninth Circuit Court abused its discretion
22-1050 Cedric Epple v. Albany Unified School District, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-28 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 administrative-actions civil-rights due-process exhaustion federal-court judicial-exhaustion ninth-circuit section-1983 state-court-remedies summary-reversal Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in requiring exhaustion of state court remedies for a Section 1983 claim
22-7390 Robert James Turner, aka Robert James Branham v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP assimilative-crimes-act civil-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction government-action jurisdictional-dispute legal-review ninth-circuit stipulation Whether the district court's jurisdiction over the case was legally defeated by the defendant's stipulation regarding the location of the offense, and…
22-7344 Oscar Jesus Salais v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempted-murder evidence-sufficiency habeas habeas-corpus jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia judicial-review ninth-circuit sufficiency-of-evidence summary-reversal Whether the Ninth Circuit's reliance on nonexistent testimony so departed from the accepted course of judicial proceedings as to justify summary rever…
22-1019 CoreCivic, Inc. v. Sylvester Owino, et al., Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Ninth Circuit 2023-04-20 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure class-certification commonality ninth-circuit rule-23 standard-of-review uniformity Whether courts of appeals reviewing Rule 23 class certification decisions must give district court decisions granting class certification more deferen…
22-7314 R. J. Kulick v. Brian T. Moynihan, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-19 Denied IFP ada americans-with-disabilities-act banking civil-procedure civil-rights due-process en-banc-review judicial-procedure ninth-circuit pro-se-status standing Whether the 9th Circuit's denial of a motion for en banc review without explanation violated the petitioner's due process rights
22-7256 Mickey Wahl v. Kris Mayes, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-11 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit sixth-amendment uncertified-issues Whether Mr. Wahl was denied his right to effective assistance of counsel in violation of the Sixth & Fourteenth Amendments?
22-982 Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections v. Danny Lee Jones Ninth Circuit 2023-04-10 Judgment Issued Amici (4)Relisted (9) capital-case capital-punishment credibility-findings district-court district-court-deference habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review strickland strickland-standard Did the Ninth Circuit violate this Court's precedents by employing a flawed methodology for assessing Strickland prejudice when it disregarded the dis…
22-7111 Tony Khong v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-claim brady-vs-maryland de-novo-review evidence-suppression giglio-vs-united-states habeas-corpus kyles-vs-whitley materiality ninth-circuit united-states-vs-bagley Did the Ninth Circuit's de novo disposition of Petitioner's Brady claim in the habeas corpus context, which focused exclusively on Bagley's earlier tu…
22-7029 Roger Keeling v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review brecht-v-abrahamson criminal-procedure harmless-error kotteakos-v-united-states ninth-circuit non-constitutional-error standard-of-review weighty-evidence Did the Ninth Circuit err in concluding that a non-constitutional error was harmless when it found 'ample,' rather than 'weighty,' evidence of guilt c…
22-7006 Lamone M. Johnson, aka Marylin Monae Porter v. Luke Pettigrew, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act disability-discrimination due-process employment-discrimination employment-law equal-protection grievance-procedure municipal-employment ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in dismissing Petitioner's grievance procedure claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act and Rehabilitation Ac…
22-6967 Arnoldo Antonio Garcia v. Afod Valdez, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-03-08 Denied IFP access-to-courts bivens-claim civil-detainee civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction government-liability ninth-circuit Did the Ninth Circuit err in dismissing a meritorious Bivens claim of nationwide importance?
22-6956 Michael Blake DeFrance v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP all-writs-act appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review categorical-approach civil-procedure domestic-violence final-judgment jurisdiction ninth-circuit standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether the Ninth Circuit correctly determined that the orders appealed were neither final nor worthy of consideration under the All-Writs Act 18 USC …
22-6933 John Hessmer v. Robert Bryan, Sheriff, Wilson County, Tennessee Sixth Circuit 2023-03-06 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct judicial-review ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation Whether the Sixth Circuit should be allowed to cover up Judge Crenshaw's violations of Sixth Circuit and Supreme Court precedents by intentionally mis…
22-6936 Edson Gelin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-procedure first-step-act ineffective-assistance murder-conviction ninth-circuit sentencing-guidelines sentencing-policy state-court statutory-interpretation Whether the Eleventh Circuit's holding in Bryant that the policy statement in USSG §1B1.13 applies to all motions under 18 U.S.C. §3582(c)(1)(A) confl…
22-6824 Daniel Dietz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process gall-v-united-states johnson-v-united-states ninth-circuit revocation sentencing supervised-release Whether imposition of a lifetime term of supervised release upon revocation of supervised release when the previously imposed term was 10 years is con…
22-6788 In Re Kent Williams 2023-02-15 Denied IFP access-to-courts administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit prisoner-rights standing Should this court order the ninth circuit court of appeals to discontinue its practice of sending orders and answers to prisoner litigants to a third …
22-743 Nevada Irrigation District, et al. v. California State Water Resources Control Board, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-02-08 Denied Amici (1) certification-request clean-water-act federal-power-act ferc ninth-circuit regulatory-review state-jurisdiction state-waiver water-discharge water-quality-certification Whether California 'fail[ed] or refuse[d] to act' on petitioners' requests within one year as Section 401 requires
22-6679 Debra Sauer v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-dismissal legal-claims ninth-circuit patent standing takings Whether the Aveand and the Ut Cieecit decisions conflict with the Circuit decision which dismissed my case?
22-6595 Solita Harrington v. MedStar Washington Hospital Center, et al. District of Columbia 2023-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-privilege civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance medical-malpractice ninth-circuit standing state-court Whether the respondents' actions violated the petitioner's constitutional rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments
22-6569 Charles Heard v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 9th-circuit california-law categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause implied-malice ninth-circuit second-degree-murder statutory-interpretation Does a VICAR murder conviction based on California second-degree murder constitute a crime of violence?
22-6564 Sohiel Omar Kabir v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split co-conspirator control-over-co-participants criminal-enhancement leader-organizer-enhancement leader-role ninth-circuit second-fourth-sixth-eleventh-dc-circuits sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines Does the aggravating role enhancement for 'leader[s]' or 'organizer[s]' of concerted criminal activity in section 3B1.1(c) of the United States Senten…
22-648 Igor Lukashin v. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Ninth Circuit 2023-01-11 Denied due-process equal-protection forfeiture judicial-discretion ninth-circuit padgett-fraud pre-filing-order pro-se pro-se-appeals waiver Whether the Ninth Circuit has been denying Due Process by applying a purportedly categorical rule
22-6454 Christine Chang v. Ezery Beauchamp, Captain and Commander for California Highway Patrol, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 abuse-of-discretion civil-rights dismissal dismissal-with-prejudice due-process fourteenth-amendment ninth-circuit pro-se section-1983 Whether the Ninth Circuit violates Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment due process rights
22-6370 Adam Limbrick v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-12-21 Denied IFP actual-innocence appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-testimony habeas-corpus ninth-circuit standing whether-the-court-of-appeals-for-the-ninth-circuit-rendered-a-decision-in-conflict-with-controlling-precedent-of-the-united-states-supreme-court
22-6129 Artak Ovsepian v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-11-23 GVR Relisted (2)IFP certiorari criminal-procedure dubin-case due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit petition-for-writ remand supreme-court supreme-court-procedure vacatur Whether this Court should hold this petition and then grant, vacate, and remand for reconsideration in light of the pending opinion in Dubin v. United…
22-6140 Taylor Winston Wright v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-11-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-claim district-court due-process judicial-review merits-review ninth-circuit procedural-violation Can the Ninth Circuit fail to address the merits of a constitutional claim based on a procedural violation the district court adjudicated wrong?
22-6104 Esteban Parra-Reyes v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion circuit-court-review compassionate-release criminal-justice federal-sentencing judicial-discretion ninth-circuit prisoner-rights sentencing summary-affirmance Whether the Denial of Esteban Para Reyes's Motion for Compassionate Release Was an Abuse of Discretion?
22-5988 Clemente Hernandez-Garcia v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-procedure discriminatory-intent equal-protection judicial-standard ninth-circuit peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike racial-discrimination If a trial court legally errs at step three of Batson, may an appellate court resolve the factual question of whether a party acted with discriminator…
22-5989 Michael Edward Bowman v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process jury-trial ninth-circuit religious-freedom-restoration-act tax-return Did the Ninth Circuit impermissibly ignore the express language of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and deny Mr. Bowman his right to a jury trial…
22-5941 Albert L. Watson v. Stu Sherman, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-10-28 Denied IFP constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process en-banc-hearing ninth-circuit penal-code procedural-rules reasoned-opinion sixth-amendment state-law state-penal-code Was the district court's use of state penal code justifying violation of sixth amendment correct
22-5870 Rodney Marshall v. Brian Williams, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-10-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial ninth-circuit sentencing Whether the Ninth Circuit erred by denying a certificate of appealability on the question of whether Mr. Marshall's right to be free from double jeopa…
22-5865 Charles Smith v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure criminal-conviction criminal-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect ninth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing waiver Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in dismissing the appeal
22-338 R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, et al. v. County of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-10-12 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights express-preemption federal-regulation flavored-tobacco ninth-circuit preemption sales-ban state-and-local-laws tobacco-control-act Whether the Tobacco Control Act expressly preempts state and local laws that prohibit the sale of flavored tobacco products
22-5566 Randly Irvin Begay v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP borden-precedent categorical-approach crime-of-violence extreme-recklessness federal-second-degree-murder ninth-circuit recklessness rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation targeted-use-of-force Whether federal second-degree murder is a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)
22-223 County of Riverside, California, et al. v. Estate of Clemente Najera-Aguirre, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-09-12 Denied Amici (1) 9th-circuit clearly-established-law constitutional-rights deadly-force excessive-force law-enforcement ninth-circuit particularized-consideration qualified-immunity use-of-force Did the Ninth Circuit's panel decision denying qualified immunity contravene this Court's mandate that courts should not hold officers to a standard o…
22-200 Slack Technologies, LLC, fka Slack Technologies, Inc., et al. v. Fiyyaz Pirani Ninth Circuit 2022-09-02 Judgment Issued Amici (18) civil-procedure ninth-circuit prospectus registration-statement section-11 section-12 section-12(a)(2) securities-act securities-act-1933 standing Whether Sections 11 and 12(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933 require plaintiffs to plead and prove that they bought shares registered under the regi…
22-5477 Tracey L. Brown v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender case-law circuit-split criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process hobbs-act jurisdiction ninth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines Should the Ninth Circuit's decision be vacated due to vacated case law?
22-5451 John That Luong v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied IFP and remand for further proceedings in light of Ta vacate the Ninth Circuit's judgment 18-usc-924c constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence davis-v-united-states hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery johnson-v-united-states ninth-circuit section-2255 section-924(c) section-924c taylor-v-united-states united-states-v-davis united-states-v-taylor writ-of-certiorari Whether the Court should grant Luong's petition for a writ of certiorari, vacate the Ninth Circuit's judgment, and remand for further proceedings in l…
22-5201 Jurel Dion Roberson v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-27 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus liberty-interest ninth-circuit state-courts state-created-liberty-interest Whether the state courts erred in denying Petitioner's state-created liberty interest, and whether it was error to deny the Certificate of Appealabili…
22-5208 In Re Paul C. Bolin 2022-07-27 Denied IFP 2nd-amendment administrative-rules civil-rights constitutional-authority court-filing due-process free-speech judicial-procedure legal-submissions ninth-circuit standing takings Does the SCOTUS petition raise a constitutional right to carry concealed firearms?
22-5209 Adam Paul Blomdahl v. Doctor Jaffe, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-27 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights disclosure due-process judicial-discretion ninth-circuit standing summary-judgment Whether the Court of Appeals erred when it issued its Mandate without addressing the Appellants' claim of County Appellees' withholding of disclosure …
22-5128 My Loan Nguyen v. Michael Pallares, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment fundamental-rights miranda-rights ninth-circuit police-interrogation police-questioning Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals violated petitioner's fundamental rights by ruling that the California Courts reasonably applied Miranda-v-…
22-5138 Arthur Frank Cardenas v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process firearm-possession habeas-corpus knowledge-element ninth-circuit rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states right-to-counsel sentencing Whether a certificate of appealability should be granted due to the District Court and Ninth Circuit's error in not granting it
22-5109 Teddy Brian Sanchez v. Ronald Broomfield, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-07-15 Denied IFP attorney-error brain-dysfunction capital-sentencing capital-trial circuit-split cumulative-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit penalty-phase prejudice-standard Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in finding that the petitioner's 'organic' brain dysfunction was not enough of a 'red flag' to trigger a duty for tria…
22-5073 Leroy McGill v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-12 Denied IFP arizona constitutional-law criminal-punishment criminal-sentencing death-penalty ex-post-facto ninth-circuit retroactive-increase retroactive-law Did the Ninth Circuit err in holding that Arizona did not violate the Ex Post Facto Clause by sentencing Mr. McGill to death under the later-enacted s…
22-5048 George A. Pilola v. Craig Koenig, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-07-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process exculpation fingerprint fingerprint-evidence napue-v-illinois napue-violation ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review prosecutorial-misconduct Should CERTIORARI be granted to review the failure of the prosecution to turn over fingerprint evidence and the untruthfulness of the detective and pr…
22-5010 Tedroy Davis v. Jeffrey A. Beard, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights doyle-error doyle-v-ohio due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights ninth-circuit post-miranda-silence Did the Ninth Circuit misapply the standard for the issuance of a certificate of appealability (COA)
21-8259 In Re Johnny Brett Gregory 2022-06-29 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process federal-courts federal-tort-claims-act habeas-corpus mandamus ninth-circuit standing united-states-court-of-appeals writ-of-certiorari Should this court issue a writ of mandamus ordering the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit to issue a writ of mandamus
21-8237 Odece Dempsean Hill v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington forensic-nurse-examiner melendez-diaz-v-massachusetts ninth-circuit sexual-assault sexual-assault-victim testimonial-statements Whether the Confrontation Clause permits the prosecution to introduce the testimonial statements of a non-testifying sexual-assault-victim lay-witness
21-8125 Carlos Montano v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-06-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP boykin-standard change-of-plea-hearing constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony-conviction ninth-circuit plea-bargaining plea-hearing substance-abuse did-the-ninth-circuit-overlook-boykin-and-its-progeny
21-8103 Ernest Armando Andujo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-06-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-law federal-law firearm-silencer first-sixth-seventh-circuits intent-requirement intent-to-use ninth-circuit objective-characteristics statutory-interpretation Whether the federal definition of a firearm silencer requires a showing of subjective purpose or intent to use a device as a silencer
21-1528 Patrick Combs, aka Patrick Davy Combs v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit 2022-06-06 Denied Response Waived anticipatory-assignment-of-income church civil-rights constitutional-rights constructive-dividends due-process ninth-circuit tax tax-court Whether the Ninth Circuit Court committed a constitutional violation by affirming the Tax Court's Order and Decision based on a nullified presumption …
21-1512 San Bernardino County District Attorney, et al. v. Kevin Cooper, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-06-02 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights death-penalty due-process federal-courts governor-powers judicial-intervention ninth-circuit standing state-law Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit improperly denied Petitioners intervention in death-penalty-litigation
21-8018 Ramon Ortiz Perez v. Giselle Matteson, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis ninth-circuit search-and-seizure standing supreme-court-rules writ-of-certiorari Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of petitioner's motion to suppress evidence obtained in violation of the Four…
21-7925 Robert Wallace Smith v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit procedural-default standing Did the Ninth Circuit err by deciding the merit of an appeal not properly before the court to justify the denial of certificate of appealability
21-7862 Mark DeWayne Hallcy v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus mootness ninth-circuit post-conviction-relief sentencing sixth-amendment Does the aggravated assault with deadly weapon conviction moot the petitioner's § 2254 motion seeking relief?
21-7853 Gregory Spiros Demetrulius v. Ron Broomfield, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-05-12 Denied IFP constitutional-claim cumulative-error due-process federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus harmless-error ninth-circuit state-concessions state-court-error state-court-findings Did the Ninth Circuit's refusal to accept the State's concessions of error conflict with this Court's decisions?
21-7701 Francisco Rosales Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines advisory-range criminal-procedure district-court extraordinary-compelling-reasons judicial-discretion molina-martinez-v-united-states ninth-circuit plain-error remand remand 21-7700" rosales-mireles-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines sentencing-law sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether a district court may consider nonretroacti When should a case be remanded for resentencing under the plain-error standard of review if the district court failed to announce its calculation of t…
21-1321 Yan Sui v. Richard A. Marshack, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-04-04 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-court civil-procedure civil-rights discharge-injunction due-process ninth-circuit property-rights standing summary-affirmance takings whether-lower-courts-were-lawless
21-7486 Eric Jamar Goodall v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-appeal illegal-sentence jurisdictional-defect ninth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing-error waiver waiver-doctrine Did the Ninth Circuit err in dismissing the appeal when Mr. Goodall's plea agreement contains a count of conviction and resulting sentence that is no …
21-7398 Ricardo Rizo-Rizo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-03-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-law immigration immigration-law mens-rea ninth-circuit presumption-of-mens-rea public-welfare-exception public-welfare-offense statutory-interpretation Whether 8 U.S.C. § 1325(a)(1) fits under the 'public-welfare-exception' to the presumption of mens rea when the statute does not involve 'dangerous-an…
21-1222 Joel David Joseph v. American General Life Insurance Company Ninth Circuit 2022-03-09 Denied california-constitution diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine judicial-procedure ninth-circuit oral-argument res-judicata ripeness Does the Erie doctrine require oral argument in a diversity case under the California Constitution?
21-1186 Michelle Manor, et vir v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-02-28 Denied Response Waived civil-rights coercive-interrogation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence immigration judicial-review marriage-fraud ninth-circuit unreliable-statements Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in finding that the Manors waived the issue that the trial court erred in relying upon unreliable statements made duri…
21-7188 Elishay Banks v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review counsel-performance criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-error ninth-circuit standard-of-review Is it error by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to fail to consider the petitioner's argument concerning the ineffective assistance of counsel obvio…
21-1156 Rodric David v. Tony Kazal, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-02-22 Denied Response Waived anti-stalking-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process extraterritorial-application first-amendment foreign-nationals free-speech ninth-circuit standing territorial-jurisdiction Did the Ninth Circuit impermissibly disregard this Court's holding in Agency for Int' Dev. v. All. for Open Soc'y Int'l, Inc.
21-7011 Jabari J. Johnson v. Kathleen McGuire, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-01-31 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation district-court due-process judicial-review jurisdiction ninth-circuit standing supreme-court takings Whether the District Court erred in dismissing Plaintiff's claims
21-6992 Michael Rocky Lane v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing ninth-circuit sentencing summary-affirmance Whether the denial of Michael Lane's motion for compassionate release was an abuse of discretion?
21-1019 The ERISA Industry Committee v. City of Seattle, Washington Ninth Circuit 2022-01-19 Denied CVSGAmici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split employee-benefits ERISA-preemption healthcare-expenditures ninth-circuit play-or-pay play-or-pay-laws state-and-local-laws state-local-regulation Whether state and local play-or-pay laws that require employers to make minimum monthly healthcare expenditures for their covered employees relate to …
21-913 Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe, et al. v. Lummi Nation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-21 Denied Response Waived federal-indian-law fishing-rights geographic-boundaries maritime-boundaries native-american-law ninth-circuit treaty-interpretation treaty-precedent treaty-rights tribal-rights Whether the Ninth Circuit properly abrogated the long-settled and original understanding of the treaty term 'usual and accustomed grounds and stations…
21-832 Terrance Walker v. Intelli-Heart Services, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-06 Denied anti-slapp circuit-split civil-procedure federal-procedure federal-rules necessary-and-proper ninth-circuit rules-of-civil-procedure shady-grove Is applying state law Anti-Slapp procedure in Federal Court consistent with Shady Grove?
21-6480 Francisco C. Martinez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-12-01 Denied IFP circuit-split civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit judicial-interpretation ninth-circuit prisoner-rights sandin-v-conner Whether the district court and the court of appeals for the Fifth Circuit misapplied the Supreme Court's decision of Sandin v. Conner, 515 U.S. 472 (1…
21-790 Bradford Disney Lund v. David J. Cowan, Judge, Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-29 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 ada civil-rights declaratory-relief judicial-immunity ninth-circuit respondeat-superior section-1983 title-ii-ada Whether judicial immunity applies to Title II ADA claims
21-775 Thomas Edward Rubin v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) cancellation-of-debt congressional-authority debt-cancellation due-process income-recognition ninth-circuit summary-judgment tax tax-law Did the Ninth Circuit err in disallowing a taxpayer from recognizing cancellation-of-debt income
21-6390 Marcial Carrillo-Serna v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-error guidelines-calculation molina-martinez-v-united-states ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review plain-error plain-error-review prejudice sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights When the district court fails to calculate the guideline range at sentencing, whether the defendant may rely on the district court's error alone to sh…
21-6208 Daliang Guo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP control-over-others criminal-procedure criminal-scheme criminal-sentencing leader-enhancement leadership-role ninth-circuit participant-control role-model sentencing-guidelines Whether a defendant who took part in a criminal scheme with multiple participants is properly subject to the leader/organizer enhancement at USSG § 3B…
21-6115 Jaime Mayorga v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP chapman-v-california criminal-conviction criminal-procedure harmless-error intent-to-defraud jury-instruction jury-instructions ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation united-states-v-neder Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioner's instructional error claim, which did not examine evidence Petitioner proffered regarding his lack …
21-613 Jeffrey Isaacs v. USC Keck School of Medicine, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-27 Denied Response Waived adverse-employment-action civil-rights civil-rights-act employment-action medical-student ninth-circuit rehabilitation-act retaliation retaliation-claim standing title-vi Whether a student can state a retaliation claim under Section 504 and Title VI
21-6054 Benjamin Koziol v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-10-22 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split civil-criminal-interpretation criminal-liability extortion hobbs-act legal-precedent leocal-v-ashcroft ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation Should certiorari be granted to resolve the circuit split on criminalizing baseless threats to sue as Hobbs Act extortion?
21-5969 Derrick E. Steilman v. Reginald D. Michael, Director, Montana Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-timeliness section-2254 standard-of-review statute-of-limitations timeliness Whether the Ninth Circuit erred when it determined that Steilman's 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition is untimely?
21-526 Uber Technologies, Inc. v. Damaris Rosales California 2021-10-08 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) california-labor-code contract-law epic-systems federal-arbitration-act individual-arbitration ninth-circuit paga-claims preemption Whether agreements calling for individual arbitration are enforceable under the Federal Arbitration Act with respect to claims asserted under the Cali…
21-5873 Justin Douglas Jones v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924(c) certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence federal-prisoner hobbs-act ninth-circuit physical-force sentencing-enhancement Should the Ninth Circuit have issued a certificate of appealability on the issue of whether conviction for Hobbs Act robbery qualified as a 'crime of …
21-5782 Cenobio Humberto Herrera, Sr., aka Bert Herrera, aka Cenobio Herrera Lanz, aka Cenobio Humberto Lanz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure custodial-status district-court methamphetamine methamphetamine-production ninth-circuit pseudoephedrine section-3553a sentencing sentencing-discretion Did the Ninth Circuit err in failing to vacate the district court's order based on clearly erroneous facts?
21-453 Uber Technologies, Inc., et al. v. Johnathon Gregg California 2021-09-23 GVR Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (3) california-labor-code contract-law federal-arbitration-act individual-arbitration ninth-circuit paga-claims preemption supreme-court-precedent Whether agreements calling for individual arbitration are enforceable under the Federal Arbitration Act with respect to claims asserted under the Cali…
21-5773 Alex Baah v. AT&T Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-09-23 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion alternative-dispute-resolution civil-procedure district-court district-court-discretion motion-for-reconsideration ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review procedural-rules reconsideration timely-response untimely-response Did the Ninth Circuit Court and the District Court overlook a clear procedural rule?
21-420 Postmates, LLC, fka Postmates, Inc. v. Wendy Santana California 2021-09-17 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse Waived california-labor-code epic-systems federal-arbitration-act individual-arbitration iskanian-rule ninth-circuit paga-claims private-attorneys-general-act Whether agreements calling for individual arbitration are enforceable under the Federal Arbitration Act with respect to claims asserted under the Cali…
21-5698 Jasper Crook v. Ricardo Aguilar, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-09-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-courts access-to-justice case-closure civil-rights court-fees due-process free-speech judicial-procedure judicial-process legal-rights ninth-circuit Does the petitioner have a right to 'free justice and open courts' without paying a fee to have their case heard in the Ninth Circuit?
21-5686 Tobias Soto-Melchor v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlling-precedent counsel-of-choice ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-rule right-to-counsel right-to-counsel-of-choice right-to-effective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial-delay Proper-standard-for-substituting-retained-counsel
21-5651 Taniko C. Smith v. Brian E. Williams, Sr., Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-09-13 Denied IFP civil-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-habeas habeas-corpus judicial-deference jurisprudence ninth-circuit state-court state-law supreme-court-precedent Does a federal habeas court owe deference to a state's wider jurisprudence when a state court arbitrarily fails to follow its own law?
21-389 Sergio Momox-Caselis, et al. v. Tara Donohue, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-09-10 Denied Response Waived anderson-v-liberty-lobby appellate-review civil-procedure judicial-procedure liberty-lobby ninth-circuit standard-of-review standards summary-judgment supervisory-power Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals departed from the accepted and usual course of the standards established by this Court in Anderson v. Liber…
21-5639 Siliaivaoese Fuimaona v. D. Hudson, Warden Tenth Circuit 2021-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP concurrent-sentences criminal-appeal custody federal-bureau-of-prisons federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review ninth-circuit parole sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas erred in holding that the petitioner wa…
21-5582 Marlon Darrel Evans v. Amy Miller, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-review due-process eyewitness-identification habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the state court unreasonably applied SCOTUS precedents in concluding that trial counsel was not ineffective for failing to challenge an eyewit…
21-5543 Louis Matthews v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review circuit-court-conflict conspiracy conspiracy-charge federal-law indictment judgment-acquittal ninth-circuit plain-error Did the Ninth Circuit err in upholding a conviction for a conspiracy other than the conspiracy charged in the indictment?
21-268 Coverall North America, Inc. v. Carlos Rivas Ninth Circuit 2021-08-24 GVR Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (3) epic-systems federal-arbitration-act individual-arbitration iskanian ninth-circuit preemption private-attorneys-general-act representative-claims sakkab state-law Whether the Federal Arbitration Act preempts a state-law rule which precludes the enforcement of an agreement to arbitrate claims on an individual bas…
21-260 Virgin America, Inc., et al. v. Julia Bernstein, et al., Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Ninth Circuit 2021-08-23 Denied CVSGAmici (5)Relisted (4) airline-deregulation-act carrier-regulations federal-aviation-administration flight-attendants ninth-circuit preemption significant-impact state-law state-laws Does the ADA preempt generally applicable state laws that have a significant impact on airline prices, routes, and services, or does it preempt such l…
21-220 DoorDash, Inc. v. Brandon Campbell California 2021-08-16 Denied Response Waived california-supreme-court epic-systems federal-arbitration-act individual-arbitration ninth-circuit private-attorneys-general-act Whether agreements calling for individual arbitration are enforceable under the Federal Arbitration Act with respect to claims asserted under Californ…
21-173 Marilyn Tillman-Conerly v. Office of Personnel Management, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-06 Denied Response Waived agency-closure alternative-service civil-procedure covid-19 due-process good-cause judicial-discretion ninth-circuit procedural-rules service-of-process Whether the Ninth Circuit Court abused its discretion
21-5170 Patricia A. McColm v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-22 Dismissed IFP appointment-of-counsel civil-rights counsel-appointment court-procedure disability-accommodation dismissal-with-prejudice due-process exceptional-circumstances judicial-discretion medically-verified-limitations ninth-circuit standing Did the Ninth Circuit err in finding an appropriate issue for appeal, where the magistrate judge failed to find that medically verified permanent limi…
21-5188 Malik Nasir v. United States Third Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review legal-interpretation ninth-circuit standing third-circuit Should the Ashrict court's denial of the defendant's motion for payment of attorney's fees be reversed by the Third Circuit?
21-55 Genet McCann v. Ward E. Taleff, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-15 Denied Response Waived civil-rights court-integrity due-process fraud judicial-integrity judicial-misconduct legal-standards ninth-circuit rule-11 rule-of-law standing vexatious-litigant Whether the Ninth Circuit's departure from the settled course of antecedent principles warrants this Court's supervisory power to reverse and preserve…
21-5054 Kevin Antonio Watson v. Virginia Virginia 2021-07-08 Denied IFP appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency habeas-corpus ninth-circuit prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence Whether after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the Commonwealth of Vir…
21-5019 Noe Perez v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-question fifth-circuit judicial-disagreement nevada-supreme-court ninth-circuit reasonable-jurists seventh-circuit Did the Ninth Circuit clearly err when it denied Mr. Perez's request for a COA even though three reasonable jurists on Nevada's highest court already …
21-5015 Reginald Franklin v. Robert LeGrand, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit post-conviction post-conviction-relief reasonable-jurists trial-counsel Whether the Ninth Circuit clearly erred in denying Franklin's request for a certificate of appealability
20-8420 Jimmie O'Neal v. Jay Christensen Ninth Circuit 2021-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-delay district-court-merits due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-discretion ninth-circuit procedural-timeliness standing Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying a certificate of appealability based solely on the untimely filing of the petition due to …
20-1805 Wylmina Elizabeth Hettinga v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-06-25 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-civil-rights ninth-circuit standing summary-judgment Are the United States District Courts routinely deciding disputed facts in favor of the defending state court actor's motion for summary judgment unde…
20-8235 Kory Christian Pedersen v. Oregon Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision Ninth Circuit 2021-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP expert-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit post-conviction post-conviction-review self-defense sixth-amendment trial-counsel Was Mr. Pedersen denied the effective assistance of counsel guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment?
20-8095 Pasqual Lozano v. Robert Legrand, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-20 Denied IFP confrontation-clause due-process fair-trial federal-prisoners habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit petition-for-review prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing Whether petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment rights to due process and a fundamentally fair trial were denied
20-1619 Expensify, Inc. v. Eddie White Ninth Circuit 2021-05-19 Denied Response Waived americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights declaratory-judgment dignitary-interests due-process free-speech mootness ninth-circuit nominal-damages standing Whether Uzuegbunam v. Preczewski merits summarily granting the petition, vacating the judgment, and remanding to determine whether the Ninth Circuit's…
20-1579 Vivian Epps v. CVS Health Corporation Ninth Circuit 2021-05-13 Denied appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process electronic-record-freedom-of-information-act federal-procedure federal-rule-60 judicial-misconduct natural-justice ninth-circuit standing Whether the Ninth Circuit 3-panel Judges had infringed the rule of natural justice
20-7952 Pablo Bastidas v. Matthew Atchley, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254(d) alibi-defense certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit prejudice Whether the Ninth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability on the petitioner's ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim is contrary to this C…
20-1546 Bellflower Unified School District v. Fernando Lua, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-06 Denied Response Waived administrative-law due-process fape idea individualized-education-program local-educational-agency ninth-circuit parochial-school reassessments special-education unilateral-private-placement Is the District of Residence the responsible Local Educational Agency for providing reassessments, and coordinate provision of special education, to a…
20-1539 Daniel Rivas-Villegas v. Ramon Cortesluna Ninth Circuit 2021-05-05 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Relisted (3) civil-rights constitutional-violation excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor law-enforcement ninth-circuit plumhoff-v-rickard qualified-immunity supreme-court-precedent Did the Ninth Circuit depart from this Court's decisions in Graham v. Connor and Plumhoff v. Rickard in denying qualified immunity to petitioner based…
20-7909 Juan Pablo Price v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-05-04 Denied IFP criminal-law due-process knowledge-requirement mens-rea ninth-circuit sexual-assault sexual-contact statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court Whether the knowledge requirement in 18 U.S.C. § 2244(b) applies to all elements of the offense
20-1494 Nob Hill General Stores, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board Ninth Circuit 2021-04-26 Denied Response Waived collective-bargaining contract-interpretation contract-law due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause ninth-circuit precedent precedential-value publication-rules Whether a contractual 'notwithstanding' clause precludes the applicability of competing contractual language
20-7838 Edward M. Vargas, Sr. v. Craig Koenig, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy conspiracy-charge criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process fair-notice indictment jury-conviction jury-instructions ninth-circuit Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied this Court's precedents in ruling that Petitioner was not denied fair notice of the charges against him despite t…
20-7747 Anthony A. Patel v. Charles Robinson, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction ninth-circuit political-discrimination standing Does Article III of the U.S. Constitution belong to the legal profession or to the American people?
20-1422 76 Orinda v. Francisca Moralez Ninth Circuit 2021-04-09 Denied Response Waived ada ada-standing attorney-fees circuit-rule civil-procedure ninth-circuit non-compliance rule-11 sanctions serial-litigation standing Should the Supreme Court adopt Chapman v. Pier 1 Imports as a national standard to balance the need to deter abusive serial ADA filings with the need …
20-7691 Ernest Donald Washington v. Tammy Williams, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-04-08 Denied IFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jurisdiction ninth-circuit procedural-default Whether the district court lacked subject matter jurisdiction to try the petitioner
20-1359 Superama Corporation, Inc., dba USA Sumo v. Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-26 Denied Response Waived arbaugh-v-y-h-corp copyright copyright-act extraterritorial-application jurisdiction jurisdictional-bar morrison-v-national-australia-bank ninth-circuit reed-elsevier-v-muchnick statutory-requirement subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the presumption against extraterritorial application, applied in the context of the U.S. Copyright Act, creates a jurisdictional bar
20-7544 Demian Dominguez, aka Demain Dominguez v. Brian E. Williams, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-of-death certificate-of-appealability effective-counsel ninth-circuit prejudice procedural-default reasonable-jurists Whether the Ninth Circuit's order denying a certificate of appealability was clearly erroneous
20-1300 Emilio Torres Luque, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit 2021-03-19 Denied Response Waived cross-border-residency double-taxation international-tax-law ninth-circuit reciprocity residency revenue-procedure supremacy-clause tax-treaty treaty-interpretation Is the US-Mexico tax treaty being applied correctly to dual residents?
20-7469 Joaquin Hernandez-Ayala v. Rene Baker, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-and-prejudice certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus impeachment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan ninth-circuit procedural-default Whether the Ninth Circuit clearly erred in denying Hernandez-Ayala's request for a certificate of appealability
20-7380 Michael Eugene Wyatt v. John Sutton, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-elements deliberation first-degree-murder habeas-review ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-precedent precedent premeditation premeditation-and-deliberation state-law sufficiency-of-evidence Did the Ninth Circuit improperly disregard and/or overlook United State Supreme Court and Ninth Circuit precedent that required it to defer to Califor…
20-1222 Julie Dalessio v. University of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-03 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights comprehensive-remedial-scheme due-process judicial-review ninth-circuit remedial-scheme section-1983 statutory-interpretation statutory-rights Does a comprehensive remedial scheme for the enforcement of a statutory right under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) foreclose resort to a 42…
20-7295 Isidro Sauceda v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appealability-standard certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights exculpatory-evidence factual-innocence ineffective-counsel lesser-included-offense ninth-circuit reasonable-jurists willits-instruction Whether the Ninth Circuit utilized an unduly burdensome certificate-of-appealability standard that contravenes Supreme-Court-precedent
20-7239 Hung Linh Hoang v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-02-24 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit reasonable-probability standard-of-review Is the Ninth Circuit's denial of a COA on Hoang's ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim contrary to this Court's jurisprudence?
20-7200 Michael Burciaga v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa criminal-procedure due-process gang-evidence habeas-corpus jackson-v-virginia ninth-circuit premeditation standard-of-review Whether the Ninth Circuit clearly erred in upholding the state court's finding of premeditation under Jackson v. Virginia
20-7202 Deon Anthony Romell Bailey v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel ninth-circuit plea-bargaining post-conviction sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Eighth Circuit decision improperly denied petitioner's claim of violation by failing to remand to give him the opportunity to plead anew?
20-6989 Rodney Louis Sims v. Kimberly A. Seibel, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-data criminal-appeal due-process evidence-admissibility fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence ninth-circuit privacy prosecutorial-conduct reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure witness-testimony Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable sear…
20-6957 Alfred Paul Centofanti, III v. Dwight W. Neven, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split collateral-order district-court habeas habeas-corpus interim-release interlocutory-appeal ninth-circuit standard-of-review Is a district court's order granting or denying an interim release motion in a habeas case an appealable collateral order?
20-985 Kathryn A. Flynn v. Department of the Army Ninth Circuit 2021-01-25 Denied Response Waived administrative-remedies circuit-split exhaustion-doctrine federal-employee federal-employee-rights ninth-circuit protected-activities res-judicata retaliation whistleblower-protection whistleblower-protection-act Where a federal employee failed to exhaust administrative remedies for all protected activities
20-972 Ikemefula Charles Ibeabuchi v. Eggleston, Director of Operation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-01-15 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights due-process failure-to-state-claim federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction legal-mail ninth-circuit panel-rehearing standing Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals committed reversible error
20-6816 Edward G. Rodriguez v. Timothy Filson, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit notice-of-appeal procedural-error right-to-appeal Whether the Ninth Circuit clearly erred in denying Rodriguez's request for a certificate of appealability on an ineffective assistance of counsel clai…
20-915 Unicolors, Inc. v. H&M Hennes & Mauritz, L.P. Ninth Circuit 2021-01-08 Judgment Issued Amici (14)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) administrative-procedure circuit-court-precedent civil-procedure copyright-law copyright-office copyright-registration ninth-circuit publication-standard registration-requirements standing statutory-interpretation Did the Ninth Circuit err in its interpretation of 17 U.S.C. § 411 regarding referral to the Copyright Office?
20-847 Billie Renee Frances Lillian Powers v. The Bank of New York Mellon, fka Bank of New York, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-23 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-fairness ninth-circuit pro-se pro-se-litigation summary-affirmance supervisory-authority Whether the pro se petitioner was denied due process and equal protection by the circuit court's treatment of informal briefs
20-6622 Devon Mitchell v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-12-15 Denied IFP 18-usc-924 armed-robbery bank-robbery crimes-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation violent-crime Did the Ninth Circuit err in holding that bank robbery and armed bank robbery are 'crimes of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A)?
20-742 Steven Bruce v. Alex M. Azar, II, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-30 Denied Response Waived administrative-law due-process false-and-misleading fifth-amendment medically-acceptable-indications medicare-part-d ninth-circuit rehabilitation-act rehabilitation-act-section-504 Can the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit sidestep issues under Medicare Part D by not looking behind a compendium's Medically Acceptable In…
20-622 Amazon.com, Inc., et al. v. Bernadean Rittmann, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-09 Denied Amici (2) arbitration-exemption arbitration-regimes contract-interpretation federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce local-delivery ninth-circuit seamen-railroad-employees transportation-workers Whether the Federal Arbitration Act's exemption for classes of workers engaged in foreign or interstate commerce prevents the Act's application to loc…
20-6191 Daniel Johnson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-sexual-abuse criminal-procedure due-process evidence-standard harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions ninth-circuit sexual-abuse victim-age Was the error in the jury instruction harmless?
20-6067 Angeledith Saramaylene Smith v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-disparity Whether the Ninth Circuit's methodology for denying a COA is out of step with Supreme Court directive
20-6082 Douglas D. Yokois v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice ninth-circuit procedural-ruling Whether the Ninth Federal Circuit Court of Appeals improperly denied Petitioner's Motion for Issuance of Certificate of Appealability
20-6073 Desmond Littlejohn v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-10-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c certiorari-review civil-rights crimes-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-law fourth-amendment ninth-circuit sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the government from using a person's prior convictions for a crime of violence as a basis to enhance the senten…
20-512 National Collegiate Athletic Association v. Shawne Alston, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-10-19 Judgment Issued Amici (2) antitrust antitrust-law board-of-regents circuit-conflict compensation federal-antitrust ncaa ncaa-rules ninth-circuit rule-of-reason student-athlete-compensation student-athletes Whether the Ninth Circuit erroneously held, in conflict with decisions of other circuits and general antitrust principles, that the National Collegiat…
20-6048 David J. Godine, III v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability eyewitness-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel misidentification ninth-circuit pro-se-petition strickland-claim Did the Ninth Circuit's unreasoned denial so clearly misapply Buck's modest standard as to call for summary reversal?
20-483 Artem Koshkalda v. Seiko Epson Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-10-14 Denied abuse-of-discretion appellate-review case-termination civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure legal-order ninth-circuit sanctions Did the district court err in imposing case-terminating sanctions?
20-479 David C. Shinn v. Ryan Robert Baker Ninth Circuit 2020-10-13 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) adversarial-system appellate-procedure case-transformation civil-procedure gvr judicial-restraint ninth-circuit party-presentation sineneng-smith summary-reversal Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision violated the principle of party presentation
20-5909 David Conerly v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-10-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court evidence evidence-review judicial-review ninth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Did the Ninth Circuit err by mining the district record to uphold an upward adjustment to petitioner's offense level under the Sentencing Guidelines?
20-5849 Uzoma Igbonwa v. Facebook, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied IFP civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process facebook free-speech immunity-provision ninth-circuit section-230 terms-of-service Whether Facebook was should be protected by the immunity provision of Section 230 of the Communication and Decency Act when they clearly violated its …
20-379 Certain Underwriters at Lloyd’s London v. Brighton Collectibles, LLC Ninth Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied abstention civil-damages comity due-process federalism insurance-policy invasion-of-privacy ninth-circuit privacy-rights song-beverly-act song-beverly-credit-card-act Whether the Ninth Circuit violated federalism, abstention, and comity by creating new law when it refused to follow California's precedence establishi…
20-5764 Rodney Berryman, Sr. v. Robert K. Wong, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-09-23 Granted Relisted (2)IFP counsel-representation dna-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interlocutory-appeal judicial-error motion-denial new-trial ninth-circuit prejudice pro-se pro-se-motion Did the Ninth Circuit err in finding no basis for interlocutory appeal and refusing to allow the petitioner to show district court prejudice
20-354 In Re Lorcan Kilroy 2020-09-16 Denied civil-rights criminal-obstruction criminal-procedure due-process federal-investigation judicial-review kamala-harris ninth-circuit political-bias standing Whether or not democrat political bias to protect Sen. Kamala Harris from exposure to criminal prosecution existed
20-343 Estate of David Maurice, et al. v. Life Insurance Company of North America Ninth Circuit 2020-09-15 Denied Response Waived circuit-split erisa-preemption health-plans insurance-policy-interpretation ninth-circuit proximate-cause saving-clause Whether the court below erred by refusing to apply Kentucky Ass'n of Health Plans, Inc. v. Miller
20-5515 In Re Tracey A. Merrill 2020-08-27 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction ninth-circuit pleadings predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted
20-195 Muckleshoot Indian Tribe v. Tulalip Tribes, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-20 Denied Response Waived d-c-circuit indian-tribes judicial-decree judicial-precedent ninth-circuit precedent treaty-fishing-rights treaty-interpretation treaty-rights Whether the Ninth Circuit impermissibly narrowed a decades-old judicial decree to deprive Indian tribes of treaty fishing rights
20-5366 Anthony Bernard Smith, Jr. v. Ron Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-08-19 Denied IFP civil-procedure equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstance judicial-precedent ninth-circuit reasonable-diligence statute-of-limitations supreme-court-precedent Whether reasonable diligence to remedy an extraordinary circumstance is sufficient for equitable tolling to stop the clock on a statute of limitations
20-173 James R. Hefflin, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit 2020-08-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-appeals agency-fraud agency-regulations civil-rights due-process fraud judicial-misconduct ninth-circuit tax-lien Can a federal agency commit fraud upon the court and deny citizens their due process rights?
20-5378 James Lynn Styers v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections Ninth Circuit 2020-08-17 Denied IFP capital-case certificate-of-appealability collateral-review eddings-standard eddings-v-oklahoma habeas-corpus mitigation-evidence ninth-circuit second-or-successive-petition Whether the Arizona Supreme Court is required to consider all available mitigation evidence during reweighing on collateral review to correct an Eddin…
20-142 Michael Skidmore, as Trustee for the Randy Craig Wolfe Trust v. Led Zeppelin, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-11 Denied Amici (4)Response WaivedRelisted (2) copyright-act copyright-act-of-1909 copyright-protection deposit-requirement musical-works ninth-circuit originality selection-and-arrangement sheet-music tangible-medium Whether musical works under the Copyright Act of 1909 are protected as created and fixed in a tangible medium, or limited to sheet music deposits
20-127 Douglas Jason Way v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-08-05 Denied Response Waived drug-analogue federal-regulation harmless-error knowledge knowledge-standard mcfadden-precedent ninth-circuit rebuttal state-law state-law-compliance Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals contradicted the holding of McFadden v. United States 576 U.S. 186 (2015)
20-5241 Dewoyne Curtis Potts v. John Garza Ninth Circuit 2020-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson batson-challenge comparative-juror-analysis discriminatory-pretext juror-strike miller-el-standard miller-el-v-dretke mischaracterization-of-testimony ninth-circuit prosecutorial-bias race-based-questioning Did the Ninth Circuit err in crediting the prosecutor's stated reasons for the strike and failing to find discriminatory pretext under Batson and Mill…
20-5218 Daniel Page v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-condition ninth-circuit plea-bargaining pre-sentence-motion trial-counsel Whether the trial court should have granted Mr. Page's pre-sentence motion to withdraw his guilty plea
20-5054 Michael Lance Davis, aka Michael Scott Davis v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-sentencing distribution manufacturing ninth-circuit possession-with-intent-to-distribute serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation Whether Shular v. United States, 140 S. Ct. 779 (2020), abrogates the 'related to' test for whether a state crime qualifies as a serious drug offense
20-5042 Julian Silva-Aguilar v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis guilty-plea ninth-circuit plea-agreement plea-bargaining supreme-court-precedent Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision is inconsistent with McCarthy v. United States
19-8901 Fabian Fuentes Rosas v. Timothy Filson, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equitable-exception federal-habeas habeas-corpus material-misrepresentation ninth-circuit plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct state-court-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether the Ninth Circuit failed to consider and decide one of the certified claims raised in Rosas's appeal
19-8732 Efrain Leyva Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion accurate-information criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion ninth-circuit record sentencing speculative-inference speculative-inferences Does a district court violate a defendant's due process right to be sentenced based on accurate information and abuse its discretion when it imposes a…
19-8615 Vera Zhiry and Pyotr Bondaruk v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP cross-examination federal-statute jurisdictional-hook mail-fraud materiality misrepresentation ninth-circuit remote-connection substantial-connection What level of connection between the fraudulent scheme and the mailing is required to trigger the federal statute's jurisdictional hook?
19-1302 David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections v. George Russell Kayer Ninth Circuit 2020-05-20 GVR Amici (1)Relisted (9) aedpa aedpa-standard comity de-novo-review federalism habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit rule-of-law sixth-amendment standard-of-review Did the Ninth Circuit violate 28 U.S.C. § 2254's deferential standard, and employ a flawed methodology this Court has repeatedly condemned, when it gr…
19-8463 Luis Ricardo Mayea-Pulido v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection gender-discrimination heightened-scrutiny legitimacy marital-status ninth-circuit parents'-marital-status statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Did the Ninth Circuit (and other courts of appeals) misinterpret the phrase 'parents' marital status' by holding that it refers exclusively to 'legiti…
19-1281 Dimitritza Toromanova v. Summit Real Estate Services, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-05-12 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure claim-preclusion federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure frcp-60(b) frcp-60(d) independent-action judicial-procedure ninth-circuit pro-se pro-se-litigant rule-60(d) Did the doctrine of Claim Preclusion preclude a party from asserting the right to file a complaint as an independent action under FRCP 60(d)
19-1255 Renee Baker, Warden, et al. v. Jeff N. Rose Ninth Circuit 2020-04-30 Denied aedpa credibility criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-evidence-admissibility due-process evidence evidentiary-ruling habeas-corpus impeachment nevada-v-jackson ninth-circuit prior-acquittals state-court-review Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision violates AEDPA
19-1244 Anthony J. Johnson v. Storix, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2020-04-23 Denied attorney-fees civil-procedure copyright copyright-fees due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment free-speech ninth-circuit petition standing Whether the Ninth Circuit denied Petitioner's Fifth Amendment right to due process
19-8219 Juan Gilberto Medrano v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstance extraordinary-circumstances federal-habeas federal-petition habeas-corpus legal-question ninth-circuit timeliness Was Petitioner's 2016 Petition filed in a timely manner?
19-8089 Michael W. Jenkins v. Brigitte Amsberry Ninth Circuit 2020-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability federal-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus ninth-circuit slack-standard slack-v-mcdaniel statutory-interpretation statutory-standard Does the Ninth Circuit's ruling, denying a Certificate of Appealabiliy to a habeas corpus petitioner, contravene the statutory standard, under 28 U.S.…
19-8093 Jose Passalacqua v. Mike McDonald, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-03-24 Denied IFP civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure jury-misconduct motion-standard ninth-circuit rule-60(b) rule-60b scope-of-hearing successive-petition Did the Ninth Circuit Erred In Holding That Petitioner's Rule 60(b) Motion, Was the Equivalent to an Unauthorized Second or Successive 28 U.S.C. § 225…
19-7981 Marcos Robert Castaneda v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender career-offender-guideline criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 johnson-v-united-states mandatory-sentencing-guidelines ninth-circuit residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines timeliness void-for-vagueness Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker car…
19-1085 Shannon Deasey, et al. v. Daniella Slater, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-03-04 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) 7th-circuit 9th-circuit civil-rights clearly-established clearly-established-law closely-analogous constitutional-rights due-process legal-precedent ninth-circuit qualified-immunity seventh-circuit sufficiently-analogous Whether a 'sufficiently analogous' case is enough to show that the law is 'clearly established' for purposes of qualified immunity, or if something mo…
19-7870 Louis Ivester Peets v. Robert W. Fox, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-03-04 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus insanity-defense ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity procedural-bar schlup-gateway schlup-test Whether newly presented evidence of insanity would constitute 'actual innocence' to allow passage through Schlup's actual innocence gateway
19-7863 Delores L. Knight v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 35-usc-101 civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-statute due-process federal-appellate-review judicial-review ninth-circuit patent sentencing-guidelines standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the lower court upheld the government's denial of her patent application
19-7796 Kevin T. Hawkins v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure interlocutory-appeal ninth-circuit vindictive-prosecution Does the Ninth Circuit circuit rules supersede the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedures, particular when it results in depriving an individual due pr…
19-7627 Ernesto Salgado Martinez v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections Ninth Circuit 2020-02-11 Denied IFP appellate-procedure brady-claim brady-evidence brady-violation capital-case gonzalez-v-crosby ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias kyles-v-whitley ninth-circuit Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied this Court's law of implied judicial bias
19-7580 Constantine Gus Cristo v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit 2020-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 26-usc-7491 9th-circuit burden-of-proof credible-evidence federal-agent irs-restructuring-and-reform-act-of-1998 ninth-circuit statutory-interest tax-court taxpayer-rights unconstitutional-conduct Whether the Petitioner's production of 'credible' evidence in the form of written admissions of unconstitutional conduct by a federal agent, citing § …
19-7582 Raul Arellano v. Daniel Paramo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-02-06 Denied IFP circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure mailbox-rule ninth-circuit petition-reconsideration prisoner-rights standing Question not identified
19-7493 Charles T. Kirvin v. L. Grant, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-30 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process excusable-neglect good-cause jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge ninth-circuit notice-of-appeal standing timeliness Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit arbitrarily and erroneously denied appeal notice for lack of jurisdiction
19-954 Brian E. Harriss v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit 2020-01-30 Denied Response Waived amendment-xvi civil-rights constitutional constitutional-interpretation direct-taxation due-process income-tax ninth-circuit standing statutory tax tax-law Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in recharacterizing the petitioner's right to refute the presumptive evidence of the Commissioner's correctness
19-7469 Olga Palamarchuk v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied IFP escobar evidence evidence-admissibility lender-conduct mail-fraud materiality materiality-standard ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-interpretation recipient-behavior supreme-court-precedent Whether the standard for materiality in a mail fraud case is determined by the likely behavior of the recipient of the alleged misrepresentations
19-7393 In Re David Gulbrandson 2020-01-23 Denied IFP arbitrary-and-capricious death-penalty standing state-law successive-petition arbitrary-and-capricious death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit second-successive-petition state-law state-law-application successive-petition Whether transfer to the district court for a hearing pursuant to this Court's original habeas jurisdiction is warranted in this exceptional case
19-7380 Dino Constance v. United States District Court for the Western District of Washington Ninth Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection extraordinary-circumstances fourteenth-amendment mandamus mandamus-relief ninth-circuit post-conviction-review tenth-circuit Did the Ninth Circuit's unique five-part test for Mandamus relief cause a Fourteenth Amendment 'Equal Protection' violation?
19-7329 Jamaar Jerome Williams v. Jo Gentry, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP alibi-witnesses habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-standard martinez-v-ryan ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review post-conviction-litigation post-conviction-relief prejudice prejudice-analysis Whether the Ninth Circuit erred when it concluded Williams had failed to establish prejudice under Martinez v. Ryan because the record clearly shows W…
19-881 Joseph Smith, et al. v. Pamela Motley, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied Response Waived anecdotal-evidence burden-of-proof civil-rights discriminatory-policing disparate-treatment equal-protection government-treatment ninth-circuit statistical-analysis Whether plaintiffs can establish an Equal Protection Clause violation based solely on anecdotal evidence of differential treatment, without statistica…
19-7282 John Anthony Arnold v. Virginia Virginia 2020-01-14 Denied IFP 4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment law-enforcement motion-to-suppress ninth-circuit search-warrant standing warrantless-arrest Did the Virginia Supreme Court err in upholding petitioner's warrantless arrest?
19-7151 Erick David Lopez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence evidence-admission fifth-amendment free-speech ninth-circuit prejudice rap-poem sixth-amendment Whether the Ninth Circuit's sanctioning of the admission of a vile and obscenity-laced rap poem found inside the purse of a 16-year-old girl and not w…
19-7108 Devell Moore v. Robert LeGrand, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection fair-trial jury-selection ninth-circuit peremptory-challenges purkett-v-elem trial-procedure Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying a Certificate of Appealability on Moore's claim he was denied equal protection of the law, and a fair trial…
19-794 Daniel Macias, et al. v. Raymond Nichols, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-dispute civil-procedure civil-rights district-of-columbia-v-wesby fourth-amendment law-enforcement ninth-circuit probable-cause qualified-immunity section-1983 wesby Whether the Ninth Circuit departed from this Court's qualified immunity decisions
19-769 Alaa Elkharwily v. Franciscan Health System Ninth Circuit 2019-12-16 Denied Response Waived bright-line-rule civil-procedure claim-preclusion different-facts district-court due-process federal-courts fraud-on-the-court issue-preclusion ninth-circuit post-trial-relief res-judicata Whether federal courts must refuse to dismiss on res-judicata grounds a second claim against the same defendant that is based on different facts, evid…
19-6898 Demicko Billie Thomas v. Maggie Miller-Stout, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment musacchio-precedent musacchio-v-united-states ninth-circuit reasonable-doubt supreme-court-review washington-state-supreme-court Whether the Fourteenth Amendment requires each and every element of a charged offense to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt
19-734 Trina R. Patterson v. Select Portfolio Servicing, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-10 Denied Response Waived 15-usc-1692a-6 circuit-court-split debt-collector fair-debt-collection-practices-act foreclosure ninth-circuit security-interest standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in holding consistent with the opinions in Dowers v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC, et al and Obduskey v. McCarthy and Holt…
19-6808 Phillip E. Smith v. Collins, First Name Unknown, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability cumulative-error due-process fourteenth-amendment insufficient-evidence miller-el-v-cockrell ninth-circuit severance sixth-amendment slack-v-mcdaniel trial-severance video-evidence Did the Ninth Circuit err in denying a certificate of appealability?
19-6755 Frederick Garcia-Cruz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure debatable-among-jurists-of-reason due-process habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason mandatory-sentencing ninth-circuit residual-clause sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied this Court's 'debatable among jurists of reason' standard for a certificate of appealability
19-6759 James A. Lackey v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-deference jurists-of-reason mandatory-sentencing-guidelines ninth-circuit residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review vagueness void-for-vagueness Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied this Court's 'debatable among jurists of reason' standard for a certificate of appealability
19-6769 Steven Hicks v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure debatable-among-jurists-of-reason johnson-v-united-states jurists-of-reason mandatory-guidelines mandatory-sentencing ninth-circuit sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-4b1.2(a)(2) vagueness void-for-vagueness Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied this Court's 'debatable among jurists of reason' standard for a certificate of appealability
19-6718 James Douglas Pridgen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-robbery carjacking certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence crimes-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states ninth-circuit section-924(c) section-924c unanimous-jury Whether the Ninth Circuit wrongly denied the request for a certificate of appealability
19-6706 Ramsin Jonathan Malek v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-bank-robbery federal-crimes federal-criminal-procedure force-clause ninth-circuit sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crime Whether this Court should grant certiorari to review the Ninth Circuit's decision because armed robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(d) does not categorical…
19-6668 Andrew J. J. Wolf, et al. v. Idaho Board of Correction, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-11-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure completeness-doctrine federal-rules-of-evidence motion-to-stay ninth-circuit rule-106 summary-judgment trial-record Did the Ninth Circuit err in failing to rule on whether the district court abused its discretion in denying Petitioner's Motion to Stay the Second Sum…
19-6562 Carlos J. Avena v. Kevin Chappell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-11-08 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability cronic cronic-standard death-penalty due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance miller-el-standard miller-el-v-cockrell ninth-circuit per-se Whether the Ninth Circuit's refusal to address the uncertified Cronic claim despite a strong showing of per se ineffective assistance constituted an i…
19-575 Charter Communications, Inc., et al. v. Steve Gallion, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-11-01 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) automatic-dialing-system constitutional-violation content-based-restrictions first-amendment government-debt-collection-exception judicial-remedy ninth-circuit prerecorded-voice severability speech-limitation tcpa telephone-consumer-protection-act Whether the TCPA's prohibitions on calls made using an automatic dialing system or an artificial or prerecorded voice are unconstitutional content-bas…
19-6478 Abdul King Garba, et al. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-standard apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure evidence expert-testimony jackson-v-virginia kumho-tire ninth-circuit restitution sufficiency-of-evidence sufficient-evidence supreme-court-precedent weight-vs-admissibility Whether the Ninth Circuit Memorandum conflicted with this Court's decisions (e.g., Kumho Tire) regarding whether unreliability of an expert's testimon…
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
19-6433 Edward Anthony Torres v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-jurisdiction district-court due-process federal-courts indian-status jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue magistrate-court native-american native-american-law ninth-circuit pretrial-decision standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a district court may, pretrial, decide an Indian status jurisdictional question
19-6311 Adam Douglas Boylen v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights claim-exhaustion constitutional-law due-process foreclosure habeas-corpus ninth-circuit petition-preclusion procedural-default record standing state-court-record takings Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims based on the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment
19-6306 Jonathan Mota v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-18 Denied IFP circuit-split commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process hobbs-act interstate-commerce ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation Whether the Hobbs Act requires an actual impact on interstate commerce or merely a potential/probable impact
19-6245 Keenan G. Wilkins, aka Nerrah Brown v. Stanislaus County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-10 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-review habeas-corpus immunity ninth-circuit parental-rights pro-se procedural-default standing state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation Whether incarcerated pro se litigants' custody, parental rights, property, and financial matters are at issue in a bona fide civil action seeking acce…
19-6125 Francis G. Hernandez v. Ronald Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied IFP appellate-review child-abuse criminal-procedure diminished-capacity habeas-corpus head-injuries ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-illness ninth-circuit prejudice-analysis strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Was counsel's failure to investigate and present a diminished capacity defense prejudicial under Strickland v. Washington?
19-6033 Christopher Johnson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-24 GVR IFP claim-preservation claim-preservation-yee-v-city-of-escondido crime-of-violence federal-rule-criminal-procedure federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure-32 federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure moncrieffe-v-holder ninth-circuit rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines yee-v-city-of-escondido Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously find Johnson forfeited his sentencing claim, disregarding this Court's claim preservation holding i…
19-379 Alfred Lam, et al. v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-20 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exceptional-importance federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fraud-on-the-court fraud-upon-court judicial-misconduct ninth-circuit perjury public-employee rule-60 standing Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision imposes an erroneous and unjustifiable standard for 'Fraud Upon The Court'
19-5979 Rodrigo Pablo Lozano v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey conspiracy conspiracy-offense criminal-restitution deliberate-avoidance due-process hester-v-united-states mental-state ninth-circuit sentencing sixth-amendment Whether Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466 (2000) applies to the imposition of criminal restitution
19-5940 Scott Peters v. Young Sun Kim Seventh Circuit 2019-09-13 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure damages due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit post-conviction standing state-court Whether the District Court erred in dismissing Petitioner's claims
19-5742 Robert Gene Rand v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion factual-findings ninth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-application sentencing-reductions standard-of-review Whether a circuit court errs by affirming a district court's decision regarding the applicability of the United States Sentencing Guidelines based on …
19-5711 Charles Fritsche v. Robert Legrand, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review post-conviction post-conviction-proceedings Whether this Court Should Grant this Petition, Vacate the Ninth Circuit's Certificate of Appealability Denial, and Remand the Matter for Further Recon…
19-5634 Daniel Marquez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 9th-circuit appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing downward-adjustment minor-role ninth-circuit sentencing sentencing-adjustment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-rule-10 ussg-3b1.2 Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit erred in affirming the lower court's decision to deny a minor-role adjustment
19-5582 Tuan Duc Lam v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied IFP circuit-split custodial-detention fourth-amendment knowles-v-iowa ninth-circuit probable-cause search-incident-to-arrest terry-stop terry-v-ohio warrantless-search Can a warrantless search of a person be 'incident to arrest' where, at the time of the search, no arrest has occurred, and the objective evidence fail…
19-5557 Josiah English, III v. Theodore Campagnolo, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Judge of the Maricopa County Superior Court, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-jurisdiction irreparable-harm ninth-circuit standing state-officials younger-abstention Did the U.S. District Court err in invoking the Younger Abstention Doctrine and not allowing the Plaintiff to state a claim in his Civil Rights action…
19-5446 Michael Thomas Balint v. Kelly Santoro, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure critical-stage due-process habeas-corpus harmless-error jury-instructions ninth-circuit right-to-be-present right-to-counsel Did the Ninth Circuit incorrectly determine that California's Dixon rule procedurally barred Balint's claim that he was denied his constitutional righ…
19-122 David Thompson, et al. v. Heather Hebdon, Executive Director of the Alaska Public Offices Commission, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (4) campaign-finance contribution-limits electoral-law first-amendment ninth-circuit procedural-history randall-v-sorrell regulatory-background standing supreme-court-precedent Whether Alaska's $500 individual-to-candidate and individual-to-group contribution limits violate the First Amendment
19-5262 Eulos Ceasar Knight v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-22 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-error criminal-record due-process guidelines johnson-v-united-states ninth-circuit residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-tucker welch-v-united-states Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in requiring more than evidence that the sentence 'might have been different' to establish a due process violation und…
19-5274 Anthony James Hill v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-22 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act collateral-relief constitutional-error criminal-record due-process misinformation ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-tucker Where sentencing is imposed based on misinformation of constitutional magnitude regarding the import of the defendant's criminal record, did the Ninth…
19-5229 Saldy Marzan v. CoreCivic Correctional Center, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review dismissal documentary-evidence due-process federal-courts frivolous habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-default standing Can the hintk Cireuid Courd of App esle dismissed My Lake US Frivelsus With 647. having given Ine opperrutedy 6 presentis documentary evidenze to demo…
19-5233 Martin Leyva Valdez, Jr. v. W. L. Montgomery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process federal-court-proceedings habeas-corpus ninth-circuit petition-timeliness rule-4 section-2254 state-court-proceedings state-court-records state-court-review timeliness ylst-v-nunnemaker Is the Ninth Circuit's decision contrary to this Court's decision in Y/st v Nunnemaker and Rule 4 of the Rules Governing Section 2254 cases?
19-5197 Eric T. Roden v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal article-iii-judge criminal-defendant criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion ninth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines waiver Whether a criminal defendant can ever waive a correctly calculated guidelines range for use at a federal sentencing hearing
19-5188 Jermaine Tart v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2019-07-15 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights digital-access discovery discovery-limitations due-process employment-royalties ninth-circuit procedural-scope royalties standing state-rights statutory-interpretation takings Do the plaintiffs have a due process right to funds from existing or future employment royalties?
19-76 Martin Marquardt, Deputy Sheriff v. William Fletcher Ninth Circuit 2019-07-15 Denied circuit-precedent civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process excessive-force ninth-circuit pretrial-detainee qualified-immunity use-of-force Whether the use of force by a correctional officer against a pretrial detainee was reasonable
19-67 United States v. Evelyn Sineneng-Smith Ninth Circuit 2019-07-12 Judgment Issued Amici (11) civil-rights commercial-activity constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute facial-challenge financial-gain first-amendment free-speech immigration immigration-law ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation Whether the federal criminal prohibition against encouraging or inducing illegal immigration for commercial advantage or private financial gain, in vi…
18-1590 Corey Lamar Smith, et al. v. Arnold Schwarzenegger, former Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response Waived 8th-amendment civil-rights clearly-established-test danger due-process helling-v-mckinney incident-rate-statistics ninth-circuit plata-receiver prison-conditions qualified-immunity standing state-officials Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied the clearly established test's generality principles by analyzing the issue too specifically, whether the Ninth C…
18-1560 Richard Leland Neal v. B. Marc Neal, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-06-21 Denied amended-complaint appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts federal-rules motion-to-dismiss ninth-circuit pleadings rule-12(b)(6) standing Whether the Arizona District Court and the Ninth Circuit created a split by holding that defendants timely responded to Plaintiff's amended complaint …
18-9697 Dennis Gordon v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit 2019-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1983-action 28-usc-2254 civil-rights civil-rights-action due-process ex-post-facto federal-court-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ninth-circuit parole parole-hearing parole-release-hearings section-1983 section-2254 Does Dennis Gordon's ex post facto challenge to the eight-year increase in the interval between his parole release hearings fall within the Federal Co…
18A1298 Ikemefula Charles Ibeabuchi v. Paul Penzone, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-06-11 Presumed Complete court-order federal-appeals jurisdictional-challenge ninth-circuit procedural-timeliness rehearing-denial Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals improperly denied a petition for rehearing in a federal case involving procedural timeliness and jurisdicti…
18-9535 Alexander Ocasio v. William Perez, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-06-05 Dismissed IFP access-to-courts citizens-arrest constitutional-rights due-process Fifth-Amendment-violation First-Amendment-violation fourteenth-amendment Fourteenth-Amendment-violation fourth-amendment Fourth-Amendment-violation inter-local-agreement judicial-bias jurisdictional-limitations liberty-interest nev-rev-stat-289-350 Ninth-Circuit police-powers property-interest unlawful-arrest warrantless-arrest Is it a violation of the Fourth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution where it is clear to every reasonable police officer that …
18-1509 Department of Homeland Security, et al. v. Rahinah Ibrahim Ninth Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied Relisted (2) administrative-procedure bad-faith civil-rights due-process foreign-national government-lists government-misconduct national-security ninth-circuit no-bad-faith no-fly-list standing Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in vacating the district court's finding of no bad faith in the government's conduct
18-9508 Floyd Dewaine Scott v. I. Jimenez Ninth Circuit 2019-06-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 8th-amendment appeals civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process internal-bleeding medical-care medical-indifference ninth-circuit qualified-immunity summary-judgment triable-issues Deliberate-indifference-to-medical-needs
18-9494 Matthew Mounir Awad v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-31 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice ninth-circuit procedural-ruling sentencing Whether the Ninth Federal Circuit Court of Appeals correctly denied Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability
18-9498 Mark Alan Lane v. Cynthia Swain, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights disciplinary-code due-process first-amendment free-speech inmate-communication ninth-circuit prison-regulation prison-regulations procunier-test procunier-v-martinez standing Is Section 203's prohibition against threatening another with any offense a close fit to a legitimate penological interest?
18A1247 The Depot, Inc, et al. v. Caring for Montanans, Inc., fka Blue Cross Blue Shield of Montana, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-31 Presumed Complete employee-benefits erisa federal-preemption health-benefit-plan insurance-regulation ninth-circuit Whether an ERISA health benefit plan can be challenged under state law when it is governed by federal preemption standards
18A1226 Thomas Lewis, Kurt J. Myrie, and Derrick Young v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-05-29 Presumed Complete criminal-case federal-public-defender final-order ninth-circuit supreme-court-rule writ-of-certiorari Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its final orders regarding the petitioners' criminal case
18-9431 William Maurice Smith v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-05-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-retroactivity,sentencing-reform drug-distribution due-process first-step-act griffith-v-kentucky ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review resentencing retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation Does Griffith v. Kentucky, 479 U.S. 314, (1987) apply to First Step Act of 2018?
18-9362 Timothy Stuart Ring v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability counsel-appointment federal-habeas-proceeding habeas-corpus motion-for-counsel motion-for-discovery ninth-circuit pro-se pro-se-petition Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in construing a pro se petitioner's appeal
18-9368 Antonio Dean Blackstone v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c 2255-motion criminal-procedure-sentencing due-process johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states ninth-circuit residual-clause section-2255 section-924c timeliness-standard united-states-v-davis vagueness Whether the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) is unconstitutionally vague
18-9320 Domenick James Howard v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach criminal-law due-process federal-crime federal-state-relations lockhart-v-united-states mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states ninth-circuit prior-conviction sentencing sexual-assault statutory-interpretation statutory-penalty Whether a prior sexual assault conviction should be used to increase the statutory penalty where the prior state conviction is over-inclusive vis-a-vi…
18-9324 Robert Gordon Johnstone v. Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-retardation ninth-circuit post-conviction-relief retrial-proceedings standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's due process clause requires a new trial for a mentally retarded criminal defendant whose original trial counsel was…
18-9314 Randall Pierce v. Stuart Sherman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-procedure clearly-established-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit pleadings pro-se pro-se-pleadings sentencing-information standing supreme-court Was the District Court Judge's liberal construction of the pro se pleadings a denial of access to the courts?
18-1381 Supply Pro Sorbents, LLC v. RingCentral, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response Waived advertising-space circuit-split commercial-availability fax-advertisement fcc-commentary incidental-advertisement ninth-circuit regulatory-interpretation seventh-circuit standing statutory-interpretation telephone-consumer-protection-act Whether an 'incidental fax advertisement' is exempt from the Telephone Consumer Protection Act's definition of a 'fax advertisement'
18-9072 Dewey Lee McBride v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections Ninth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights direct-review due-process judicial-bias legal-claims ninth-circuit standing unbiased-judge Whether Mr. McBride's direct review continued until his claims were decided by an unbiased judge
18-1364 Jim Miller v. Eric Olsen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-30 Denied Response Waived circuit-court district-court employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa erisa-plan jurisdiction ninth-circuit primary-purpose-test retirement-plan surrounding-circumstances-test Whether the Oregon District Court and Ninth Circuit erred in applying the 'primary purpose' test rather than the 'surrounding circumstances' test to d…
18-8920 Charles Franklin Glasscock v. Jeri Taylor Ninth Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-counsel due-process effective-counsel habeas-corpus impartial-jury memorandum-decision ninth-circuit supreme-court Does the Ninth Circuit's memorandum decision, affirming the denial of habeas corpus relief, contravene this Court's commands regarding the vital guara…
18-8799 Robert Gordon Lockwood v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-robbery bank-robbery-statute categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law descamps-ruling due-process firearms johnson-ruling mathis-ruling ninth-circuit sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent violent-crime Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals violate the Johnson, Mathis, Descamps, and Dimaya Supreme Court rulings because Prince confirmed that the Bank …
18-8759 Cuauhtemoc Juarez-Aquino v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing discretion district-court-authority due-process judicial-discretion majority-circuits ninth-circuit sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors Whether a federal district court is permitted boundless discretion to weigh established factors at sentencing
18-1271 Charles E. White, Jr., et al. v. Chevron Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-03 Denied Response Waived breach-of-fiduciary-duty circuit-split decision-making-process eighth-circuit employee-retirement-income-security-act-erisa erisa-fiduciary-duties erisa-fiduciary-duty fiduciary-breach ninth-circuit participant-claims pleading-standards secretary-of-labor twombly-iqbal Sufficiency of pleading breach of ERISA fiduciary duties
18-1262 Corona Regional Medical Center, et al. v. Marlyn Sali, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-02 Dismissed admissibility circuit-split civil-procedure class-certification evidence evidence-admissibility federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence ninth-circuit precedent rule-23 standards-of-proof Whether the requirements for class certification under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23 can be satisfied with inadmissible evidence
18-8547 Zachary Joseph Biggs v. Washington Washington 2019-03-25 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-intent criminal-procedure diminished-capacity first-degree-rape ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mens-rea ninth-circuit prejudice Did the Washington State Appellate Court err in finding that Mr. Biggs was not prejudiced by his trial counsel's failure to raise the defense of dimin…
18-8534 Gino Carlucci v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability collateral-review criminal-procedure-retroactivity fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel marital-communications-privilege mccoy-v-louisiana ninth-circuit retroactive-application retroactivity Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err by failing to issue a C.0.A. to determine if McCoy v. Louisiana applies retroactively to cases on collatera…
18-8382 Guy Ennis Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law coram-nobis criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment fourth-circuit free-speech military military-medals ninth-circuit speech-restrictions standing stolen-valor-act supreme-court-precedent Whether this Court's decision in United States v. Alvarez has any effect on the subsection that criminalized the unauthorized wearing of military meda…
18-8370 Lonnie Eugene Lillard v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-appeal criminal-procedure discretion due-process federal-procedure ninth-circuit self-representation What procedural safeguards are afforded to federal criminal defendants when an Appellate Court panel exercises its discretion in deciding whether or n…
18-8346 Danilo Velasquez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure diminished-capacity due-process evidence expert-testimony fundamental-rights life-sentence ninth-circuit sentencing Did the Ninth Circuit fail to protect petitioner's fundamental due process right to present his complete defense?
18-1139 BNSF Railway Company v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Ninth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2) ada ada-discrimination americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-court-split disability discrimination employment employment-discrimination job-applicant job-applicant-rights job-duties medical-examination ninth-circuit reasonable-accommodation regarded-as regarded-as-disability Whether requiring an individualized medical examination as a condition of employment to determine whether a job applicant or employee can safely perfo…
18-8209 Raymond Alford Bradford v. M. Marchak, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment appellate-review circuit-court civil-rights due-process healthcare judicial-precedent legal-interpretation mental-health ninth-circuit prisoner-rights prisoners-rights statutory-interpretation Whether state prisoners have a statutory right to refuse long-term treatment with psychotropic drugs absent a judicial determination of incompetence
18-8160 Paul Wagner v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-conflict circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-procedure cuyler-v-sullivan ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-precedent mickens-v-taylor ninth-circuit sixth-amendment supreme-court-interpretation united-states-v-hanoum Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision conflicts with other circuit courts and Supreme Court precedent on the issue of actual conflict between a defenda…
18-1107 Charles Chandler v. Vermont, et al. Second Circuit 2019-02-25 Denied Response Waived circuit-split constitutional-challenge custody due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance lackawanna ninth-circuit strickland-standard tenth-circuit Is the Exception for Habeas Corpus Custody under Lackawanna valid law as affirmed by the Ninth, Tenth, and Fifth Circuits?
18-8066 Roger E. Magana v. Ron Credio, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process effective-counsel habeas-corpus impartial-jury ninth-circuit sixth-amendment supreme-court-review Does the Ninth Circuit's memorandum decision contravene this Court's rulings affirming the guarantees of effective counsel and an impartial jury for a…
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 …
18-7832 Jason Lee Harris v. Karen A. Mullins, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied IFP access-to-courts appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process federal-law first-amendment in-forma-pauperis ninth-circuit sentencing-guidelines service-of-process standing Did the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit err in barring the grant of in forma paupe…
18-7843 Patrick K. Gibson v. Jeri Boe, Superintendent, Clallam Bay Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings judicial-review ninth-circuit sixth-amendment Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals error in denying a Certificate of Appealability?
18-7733 Tyrone Justin Cowan v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-02-04 Denied IFP appeals certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights ninth-circuit right-to-counsel Did the Court of Appeals err in denying a certificate of appealability and in evaluating petitioner's claims
18-7747 Jae Yung Kim v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-02-04 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling federal-habeas-proceedings habeas-corpus ninth-circuit substantial-showing Did the Ninth Circuit misapply the standard for the issuance of a certificate of appealability (COA)"
18-7662 Nolan Lewis v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion competency competency-evaluation criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea judicial-discretion mental-competency ninth-circuit restitution restitution-hearing Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals applied the proper legal standard for determining whether the district court abused its discretion in faili…
18-7614 Michael Jacoby v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment circuit-court-review circuit-split due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit reasonable-jurist reasonable-jurist-standard sixth-amendment strickland-standard undermining-of-confidence-in-verdict Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
18-958 Peter P. Mitrano v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response Waived appeals civil-procedure court-of-appeals custody custody-order due-process family-court family-law federal-courts jurisdiction legal-dismissal new-hampshire ninth-circuit standing Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit err in affirming the dismissal of this action?
18-7446 Anthony Jujuan Hopkins v. Warden, Ventress Correctional Facility Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction legal-proceeding ninth-circuit petition-for-review sentencing standing Whether the U.S. Appeals Court for the Eleventh Circuit erred in denying petitioners' COA, when petitioners raise jurisdictional issues that can be ra…
18-7177 Robert Joe Gonzales v. Kelly Santoro, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 chavis federal-habeas habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-bar procedural-bars statute-of-limitations summary-denial timeliness Whether the Ninth Circuit abdicated its responsibility under Chavis when it treated a pincite in a summary denial to a page of a state opinion that ad…
18-816 Gavin B. Davis v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-27 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 28-usc-2201 5th-amendment 8-usc-1481(a)(2) due-process expatriation-act expatriation-act-of-1868 federal-jurisdiction frap-21(c) frcp-57 frivolous in-forma-pauperis jurisdiction ninth-circuit political-asylum standing Whether Plaintiff-Appellant's Due Process rights were abridged
18-7168 Michael Deontray Williams v. J. Soto, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-12-26 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-interpretation federal-habeas habeas-corpus herrera-v-collins ninth-circuit non-capital standard-for-granting-coa substantive-innocence-claims supreme-court-precedent Whether a claim of actual innocence is cognizable in federal habeas
18-7083 Sylvia Ogbenyeanu Walter-Eze, aka Sylvia O. Okam v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-standards constructive-denial-of-counsel counsel-conflict critical-stage fundamental-fairness ninth-circuit presumed-prejudice structural-error waiver Whether the Court of Appeals of the Ninth Circuit erred in not applying the per se presumed prejudice rule
18-7050 Javier Portillo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP border-crossing border-search criminal-evidence criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence jury knowledge-standard mens-rea narcotics-possession ninth-circuit standard-of-proof sufficiency-of-evidence trial-sufficiency Whether the Ninth Circuit's analysis of the facts was inadequate
18-761 D. Dahne v. Thomas W. S. Richey Ninth Circuit 2018-12-14 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (4) civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech grievance inmate-rights ninth-circuit prison prison-grievance qualified-immunity Do prison inmates have a First Amendment right to include threatening, abusive, and irrelevant language in grievances?
18-6988 Donald Sanders v. Domingo Uribe, Jr., Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation confrontation-clause cross-examination due-process eyewitness eyewitness-testimony federal-proceedings fundamental-fairness ninth-circuit state-court state-court-proceedings Whether the Ninth Circuit clearly erred in its decision that the state court reasonably concluded that Petitioner's right to confrontation was not vio…
18-724 City of Sandpoint, Idaho, et al. v. Dana Maddox, on Behalf of Minor Children D. M. and D. M., et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process interlocutory-appeal ninth-circuit qualified-immunity summary-judgment waiver-and-forfeiture Does the Ninth Circuit Panel's refusal to hear these petitioning police officers' interlocutory appeal on their claim of qualified immunity deny them …
18-6875 Kendall Thrift v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing false-statements franks-hearing franks-v-maryland magistrate-judge ninth-circuit omissions search-and-seizure substantial-showing warrant-challenge Whether the Court should grant certiorari because the Ninth Circuit's decision that defendant Kendall Thrift had not made a substantial preliminary sh…
18-6876 Pierre Donte Joshlin v. Dwight Neven, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-29 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure davis-v-ayala federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus harmless-error ninth-circuit supreme-court Whether the Ninth Circuit properly applied the federal habeas harmless error analysis in light of this Court's recent decision in Davis v. Ayala, 135 …
18-695 Christopher Chung, et al. v. Gulstan E. Silva, Jr., as Personal Representative of the Estate of Sheldon Paul Haleck, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-27 Denied Amici (1) civil-rights clearly-established-law community-caretaking due-process excessive-force law-enforcement ninth-circuit qualified-immunity reasonableness use-of-force Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying the officers qualified immunity
18-6802 Patrick Kitlas v. F. B. Haws, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied IFP actual-reason actual-reasons batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing jury-selection ninth-circuit peremptory-strike prosecutor-reasons prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination Does the Ninth circuit's affirmance of the denial conflict with this Court's actual reason requirement?
18-6507 Alice Brown v. Del Norte County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-discrimination dereliction-of-duty due-process equal-protection fraudulent-concealment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment interlocutory-appeal judicial-disqualification jurisdiction magistrate-judge ninth-circuit Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit erred in dismissing the interlocutory appeal for lack of jurisdiction, thereby violat…
18-6414 Marvin K. Locke v. Daniel Paramo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP common-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process felony-murder habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-default second-successive-petition standing statutory-interpretation Whether the second-degree felony murder rule is based on statute
18-6434 Craig Martin Shults v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ninth-circuit precedent rule-52(b) severance severance-motion waiver waiver-rule Whether failure to renew a severance motion at the close of evidence waives the issue, such that it precludes appellate review
18-486 Toshiba Corporation v. Automotive Industries Pension Trust Fund, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-17 Denied CVSGAmici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split domestic-transaction domestic-transactions extraterritoriality forum-shopping legal-interpretation morrison-v-national-australia-bank ninth-circuit second-circuit securities-exchange-act securities-fraud securities-regulation Whether the Exchange Act applies without exception whenever a claim is based on a domestic transaction, or whether in certain circumstances the Exchan…
18-6343 Roberto Llerenas, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process human-trafficking ninth-circuit reasonable-opportunity sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness vagueness Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1591 is unconstitutionally vague
18-459 Emulex Corporation, et al. v. Gary Varjabedian, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-11 Judgment Issued Amici (11) circuit-split misstatement-omission negligent-misstatement ninth-circuit private-right-of-action section-14(e) securities-exchange-act securities-exchange-act-1934 securities-law tender-offer Whether Section 14(e) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 supports an inferred private right of action based on a negligent misstatement or omissio…
18-6214 Ricardo Rene Sanders v. Ron Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-10-04 Denied Amici (1)IFP brady-violation brady-violations california-habeas cullen-v-pinholster death-row eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing federal-habeas habeas-corpus materiality materiality-test ninth-circuit prima-facie-case prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the federal habeas courts should evaluate the summary denial of a California habeas petition based on whether the petitioner failed to allege …
18-6143 Oscar Rodriguez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-procedure mental-retardation ninth-circuit summary-denial Whether the Ninth Circuit's summary denial of a certificate of appealability complies with this Court's precedents requiring that a COA be granted if …
18-6126 Sally D. Villaverde v. Greg Smith, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60b constitutional-rights district-court due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ninth-circuit rule-60b standing Whether the U.S. District Court and U.S. Court of Appeals incorrectly treated petitioner's Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b) motion as a second or successive peti…
18-6079 Rowan Brooks v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims due-process evidence-fabrication fabricated-evidence forensic-evidence habeas-corpus judicial-review ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review state-court-proceedings Where the state court disposed of Brooks' constitutional claims by relying on 'evidence' that indisputably did not exist and the district court affirm…
18-6012 Lucious Wilson v. J. Soto, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa certificate-of-appealability constitutional-law darden-standard darden-v-wainwright due-process habeas habeas-corpus ninth-circuit non-unanimous-verdict prosecutorial-misconduct uncharged-conduct Is the Ninth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability (COA) on the claim that Wilson's conviction is unconstitutional due to prosecutorial m…
18-5971 Donavan T. Fortin v. Brad Cain, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence due-process estelle-v-mcguire evidentiary-hearing federal-courts habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-principles judicial-review ninth-circuit state-court state-law state-law-interpretation williams-v-taylor Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision, which interpreted state law contrary to the state court's ruling, conflicts with Estelle v. McGuire
18-5887 Cecil L. Morton v. Ron Haynes, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2018-09-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-component procedural-standard supreme-court-precedent Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying a certificate of appealability
18-5783 Robert A. Cotton v. County of San Bernardino, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied IFP brady-evidence brady-v-maryland brady-violation civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process issue-preclusion judicial-immunity jury-trial manuel-v-city-of-joliet ninth-circuit preliminary-hearing qualified-immunity self-defense Was the Ninth Circuit's affirmance of the dismissal based on issue preclusion in violation of Manuel v. City of Joliet?
18-5805 George Clifton Cobb v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-default standing Did the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals err in dismissing petitioner's application for Certificate of Appealability as untimely despite petitioner showi…
18-5775 William Christopher Hogan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split conflict-of-circuits criminal-history fifth-circuit ninth-circuit sentencing shop-lifting shoplifting texas-state texas-state-law u.s.-supreme-court-rule-10 Whether the District Court erred in sentencing Petitioner by adding one point to his criminal history score based on a Texas State shop lifting convic…
18-5604 Joe Fidel Flores v. W. L. Montgomery, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony gang-expert-testimony jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review reasonable-doubt standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Under the standard clearly established by this Court in Jackson v. Virginia, can a rational juror find an essential fact beyond a reasonable doubt bas…
18-5555 William Womack v. Landan Adams, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-review district-court due-process jurisdiction legal-procedure ninth-circuit standing summary-judgment Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has jurisdiction to review the district court's erroneous decision
18-152 Gregory Garmong v. Supreme Court of Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-06 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-complaint due-process exxon-mobil-precedent exxon-mobil-v-saudi-basic federal-jurisdiction judicial-review ninth-circuit rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983-complaint standing stare-decisis state-court-judgments Whether the Ninth Circuit may ignore and refuse to follow this Court's precedent in application of the Rooker-Feldman doctrine, which requires that th…
18-5410 Charles Podaras v. City of Menlo Park, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure good-faith good-faith-appeal in-forma-pauperis informal-form-brief ninth-circuit pro-se pro-se-litigant statement-of-reasons written-reasons Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in not permitting the petitioner to proceed on appeal in forma pauperis without further authorization
18-140 In Re Cliven Bundy 2018-07-31 Denied Response Waived attorney-admission civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process free-speech judicial-error legal-admission mootness ninth-circuit pro-hac-vice prosecutorial-misconduct sanctions standing Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in failing to vacate the erroneous denial of Mr. Larry Klayman's admission pro hac vice despite the fact that it is no…
18-5367 Edward David Jones, Jr. v. Arnold Schwarzenegger, former Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-07-26 Denied IFP 1st-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing takings civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-review free-speech habeas-corpus ninth-circuit patent standing state-court-conviction takings Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim
18-5229 Robert Adam Neuman v. Mark Nooth Ninth Circuit 2018-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflicts federal-law federal-law-analysis federal-law-review federal-review judicial-review ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-precedent ohio-v-reiner review state-court state-court-decision state-court-interpretation state-statute supreme-court-precedent Whether the Ninth Circuit's opinion unreasonably insulates the state court decision from review and conflicts with Ohio v. Reiner
18-5271 Roger W. Murray v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections Ninth Circuit 2018-07-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP batson batson-challenge Batson-v-Kentucky civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-selection mitigation-evidence ninth-circuit racial-discrimination voir-dire Whether the Arizona courts unreasonably applied Batson v. Kentucky and unreasonably determined the constitutionally significant facts, thus violating …
18-5172 Samuel Isaac Marquez v. Timothy Filson, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP brumfield-precedent brumfield-v-cain due-process fact-finding federal-law habeas-corpus insanity-defense ninth-circuit state-court state-court-fact-finding Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision contradicted Brumfield v. Cain by holding that a state-court determination of fact cannot be unreasonable due to …
18-5154 Edward Vincent Ray, Jr. v. Jamilah A. Jefferson, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 absolute-immunity civil-rights due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court ninth-circuit standing statute-of-limitations Whether a government attorney who allegedly committed fraud on the court is entitled to absolute immunity from a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 civil rights lawsuit
18-33 Subway Sandwich Shops, Inc. v. David Moshe Rahmany, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-agreement arthur-andersen circuit-split civil-procedure contract-enforcement equitable-estoppel federal-doctrine federal-equitable-estoppel federal-policy-arbitration ninth-circuit non-signatory standing Whether this Court's decision in Arthur Andersen LLP v. Carlisle, 556 U.S. 624 (2009), eliminated the federal equitable estoppel doctrine
24A729 Cyrus Mark Sanai v. Melanie J. Lawrence, et al. Ninth Circuit Presumed Complete appellate-discretion judicial-procedure litigation-strategy mandate-recall ninth-circuit pro-se Whether a federal appellate court improperly exercised its discretion in denying a pro se litigant's request to recall a mandate in a complex multi-pa…