petition-for-certiorari
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25A883 | Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Florida | Florida | 2026-02-05 | Application | 11th-circuit extension-of-time no-objection petition-for-certiorari supreme-court writ-of-certiorari | Question not identified. | |
| 25A878 | Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Federico I. Lopez, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-02-04 | Application | 11th-circuit extension-of-time petition-for-certiorari procedural-relief supreme-court writ-of-certiorari | Question not identified. | |
| 25A836 | Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Richard E. Gerstein Justice Building, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-01-21 | Application | 11th-circuit petition-for-certiorari procedural-relief supreme-court time-extension writ-of-certiorari | Question not identified. | |
| 25A833 | Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Andres Garcia, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-01-21 | Application | court-procedure extension-of-time judicial-discretion litigation-process petition-for-certiorari pro-se | Question not identified. | |
| 25A832 | Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Reynaldo Poveda, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-01-21 | Application | 11th-circuit extension-of-time petition-for-certiorari procedural-relief supreme-court writ-of-certiorari | Question not identified. | |
| 25A831 | Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Richard E. Gerstein Justice Building, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-01-21 | Application | 11th-circuit extension-of-time petition-for-certiorari prejudice supreme-court writ-of-certiorari | Question not identified. | |
| 25-810 | John W. Fink v. Kaydon A. Stanzione, et al. | Third Circuit | 2026-01-09 | Pending | Response Waived | appellate-review constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process judicial-misconduct petition-for-certiorari | 1. Does this Court need to intercede because the lower courts have deviated substantially from the norm in judicial proceedings? 2. Did the judges in… |
| 25A785 | Bernard Jones v. Dave Bergman, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2026-01-07 | Application | appellate-court jurisdictional-deadline petition-for-certiorari rehearing supreme-court-rules time-extension | Question not identified. | |
| 25-793 | Carlos A. Alonso Cano, as Next Friend of His Minor Daughters Katy Alonso Morejon & Jany Leidy Alonso Morejon v. 245 C&C, LLC, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-01-07 | Pending | Response Waived | appellate-review bill-of-costs circuit-court judicial-procedure petition-for-certiorari rehearing | Whether this panel of the U. S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals (CA) erred by: (1) denying our petition for rehearing and rehearing en banc with its ord… |
| 25A753 | Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Natasha Katherina Smith | Florida | 2025-12-30 | Application | 11th-circuit extension-of-time petition-for-certiorari prejudice supreme-court writ-of-certiorari | Question not identified. | |
| 25A697 | Tra'ven Boyer-Letlow v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-12-15 | Application | counsel-of-record criminal-conviction federal-appeal indigent-defendant petition-for-certiorari sixth-circuit | Question not identified. | |
| 25A646 | Albert Whitney Coburn v. Lara Brooke Seefeldt | Washington | 2025-12-03 | Application | constitutional-issues indigent legal-extension petition-for-certiorari pro-se supreme-court | Question not identified. | |
| 25A621 | Chad Henry Jones v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-11-25 | Application | appellate-review appointed-counsel extraordinary-circumstances petition-for-certiorari pro-se withdrawal | Whether a pro se prisoner is entitled to an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari when appointed counsel has withdrawn and the p… | |
| 25A619 | Jose M. Gonzalez v. Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-11-25 | Application | circuit-court constitutional-rights district-court en-banc-review judicial-conflict petition-for-certiorari | Whether a circuit court panel's decision that conflicts with a prior United States District Court ruling constitutes a violation of a petitioner's con… | |
| 25A604 | Joseph Heid v. Mark Rutkoski, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-21 | Application | financial-hardship indigency petition-for-certiorari pro-se-litigant supreme-court time-extension | Whether an indigent prisoner seeking Supreme Court review may be granted an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari based on finan… | |
| 25A558 | Chantel Mitchell v. Office Depot, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-11-13 | Application | equitable-tolling medical-emergency petition-for-certiorari pro-se statutory-deadline supreme-court-procedure | Whether equitable tolling principles apply to statutory filing deadlines when a litigant experiences an extraordinary and unforeseeable family medical… | |
| 25A479 | Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Florida | Florida | 2025-10-27 | Application | appellate-procedure eleventh-circuit extension-of-time petition-for-certiorari pro-se-litigant supreme-court | Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari given multiple pending cases and no opposition from resp… | |
| 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 | Whether the Ninth Circuit's judgment in a criminal case warrants Supreme Court review for potential legal error | |
| 25A207 | Daniel Gonzalez v. California Department of Real Estate, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-08-21 | Presumed Complete | court-of-appeals filing-deadline petition-for-certiorari supreme-court-rules time-extension writ-of-certiorari | Whether a federal court of appeals may grant an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari beyond the standard 90-day period prescrib… | |
| 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 | Whether the Ninth Circuit correctly applied the standard for granting summary judgment in a civil rights case | |
| 24A760 | Andre Bisasor v. Brian Moushegian, et al. | New Hampshire | 2025-02-05 | Presumed Complete | court-rules extension-of-time legal-representation petition-for-certiorari pro-se procedural-fairness | Whether a pro se litigant's lack of legal representation constitutes good cause for an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari | |
| 24A707 | Carlsel Alexander v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-01-17 | Presumed Complete | appointed-counsel criminal-justice-act deadline-extension federal-public-defender in-forma-pauperis petition-for-certiorari | Whether a criminal defendant represented by appointed counsel under the Criminal Justice Act may seek an extension of time to file a petition for cert… | |
| 24A574 | Colton Bagola v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-12-12 | Presumed Complete | criminal-conviction eighth-circuit federal-judiciary legal-procedure petition-for-certiorari time-extension | Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the petitioner's criminal conviction despite potential procedural or substantive defect… | |
| 24-364 | Anthony Futia, Jr. v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | constitutional-question federal-appellate-review guarnieri-precedent petition-for-certiorari second-circuit summary-order | Whether the Second Circuit's Summary Order in Futia v. United States conflicts with Borough of Duryea v. Guarnieri and presents an unsettled federal c… |
| 23A1176 | Sadick Edusei Kissi v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-07-02 | Presumed Complete | appellate-counsel criminal-justice-act petition-for-certiorari solo-practitioner time-extension workload-constraints | Whether a Criminal Justice Act appointed attorney may be granted an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari due to professional workload c… | |
| 23A1157 | Alicia Marie Richards v. Richard A. Marshack, Chapter 7 Trustee, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-06-25 | Presumed Complete | access-to-courts constitutional-rights petition-for-certiorari pro-se-litigant procedural-barriers supreme-court | Whether the First and Fourteenth Amendments protect a pro se litigant's right to meaningful access to the Supreme Court and timely filing of a petitio… | |
| 23A1148 | Mark Manuel Angeles Marino v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-06-25 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review criminal-procedure jurisdictional-requirements petition-for-certiorari supreme-court-rules time-extension | Whether a criminal defendant's right to file a petition for certiorari can be extended under Supreme Court Rule 13.5 when seeking review of a lower co… | |
| 23A1126 | Sir Mario Owens v. Colorado | Colorado | 2024-06-20 | Presumed Complete | counsel-obligations legal-filing petition-for-certiorari professional-responsibilities supreme-court time-extension | Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari due to counsel's professional and personal responsibilit… | |
| 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 | Whether a criminal defendant's constitutional right to file a timely petition for certiorari is preserved when seeking an extension under Supreme Cour… | |
| 23A987 | Joe Louis Adams, Jr. v. 3D Systems, Inc. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-06 | Presumed Complete | court-filing extension-of-time fourth-circuit hardship petition-for-certiorari pro-se | Whether a pro se plaintiff experiencing personal hardship and property damage may be granted an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certi… | |
| 23A973 | Marc Pierre Hall, aka Marc Valeriano v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-01 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules petition-for-certiorari supreme-court time-extension | Whether a criminal defendant's request for an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari constitutes a substantive legal challenge to the und… | |
| 23A963 | Jovan Marquis Harris v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-04-26 | Presumed Complete | bureau-of-prisons criminal-procedure eighth-circuit federal-inmate petition-for-certiorari pro-se | Whether the Eighth Circuit's judgment in a criminal case involving a pro se federal inmate improperly applied legal standards in reviewing the petitio… | |
| 23-6718 | Larry David Doak v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2024-02-09 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-proceeding due-process federal-review indian-law judicial-procedure petition-for-certiorari retroactivity supremacy-clause | Whether Oklahoma violated its own rules of criminal procedure retroactively by applying a new rule to Petitioner's post-conviction proceedings |
| 23A711 | Fitz D. Jackson v. Courtney E. James | Texas | 2024-02-01 | Presumed Complete | court-of-appeals legal-standing petition-for-certiorari probate-court state-court-appeal supreme-court-jurisdiction | Whether a probate court's ruling regarding a legal matter can be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court after exhausting state court remedies | |
| 23A708 | Brad Johnson v. PennyMac Loan Services, LLC | North Carolina | 2024-02-01 | Presumed Complete | academic-duties extension-of-time legal-filing petition-for-certiorari professional-obligations supreme-court | Whether a tenured university professor may be granted an extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari due to professional academic re… | |
| 23A549 | Omero Nino-Guerrero v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-12-14 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-access-to-courts court-appointed-counsel federal-prisoner language-barrier petition-for-certiorari pro-se-litigant | Whether a federal prisoner who does not speak English is entitled to court-appointed counsel to assist in preparing a petition for certiorari | |
| 23A438 | Lynn Richard Norton v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-11-15 | Presumed Complete | extension-of-time federal-court interest-of-justice petition-for-certiorari prisoner-rights pro-se | Whether a pro se prisoner's request for a brief extension to file a petition for certiorari should be granted in the interest of justice | |
| 23A413 | JDH Pacific, Inc. v. Precision-Hayes International, Inc. | Texas | 2023-11-08 | Presumed Complete | counsel-of-record family-hardship legal-practice petition-for-certiorari supreme-court time-extension | Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari based on personal family circumstances | |
| 22-6610 | Nicodemo S. Scarfo v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-01-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure attorney-withdrawal civil-procedure court-appointed-counsel court-appointment due-process en-banc-petition legal-remedy petition-for-certiorari standing withdrawal-of-counsel | What remedy is available for petitioner, where court appointed attorney is granted withdrawal from filing a petition for certiorari, when the attorney… |
| 20-447 | Francisco Rodriguez-Castro v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-08 | Denied | Response Waived | 28-usc-2255 career-offender criminal-sentencing miscarriage-of-justice petition-for-certiorari post-conviction-relief procedural-error section-2255 sentence-enhancement | Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that Rodriguez's erroneous sentence enhancement as a career offender was not a miscarriage of justice entit… |
| 20-5140 | Wilfredo Torres v. City of New York, New York, et al. | Second Circuit | 2020-07-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process judicial-procedure petition-for-certiorari qualified-immunity standing warrantless-raids warrantless-search | Whether the U.S. District Court-Southern District of New York and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred in dismissing the petitioner'… |
| 19-7286 | Leah S. Caldwell v. Doris Downs, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-01-14 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-circuit equal-protection federal-jurisdiction petition-for-certiorari pro-se standing summary-judgment | Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in dismissing Petitioner's civil rights claims against Respondents for lack of standing and failure to state a clai… |
| 19-781 | Frank Condez v. Massachusetts Civil Service Commission, et al. | Massachusetts | 2019-12-18 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights civil-service constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech massachusetts-appeals-court petition-for-certiorari standing | Does the Massachusetts Appeals Court decision constitute a forbidden intrusion of the petitioner's First-Amendment rights? |
| 19-5513 | Charles Head v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-08-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | court-appointed-attorney court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure defiance-of-request due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-remedy petition-filing petition-for-certiorari right-to-counsel statutory-right statutory-rights timely-filing writ-of-certiorari | What remedy is available for petitioner when court-appointed attorney failed to file timely petition for writ of certiorari in defiance of the petitio… |
| 18A1324 | Tina L. Morin v. Office of Disciplinary Counsel | Montana | 2019-06-18 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection legal-representation petition-for-certiorari supreme-court-order | Whether the Montana Supreme Court's orders violated an attorney's due process and equal protection rights in a manner that impermissibly impacted her … | |
| 18A1231 | Antonio Leonard Brown v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institution Division | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-30 | Presumed Complete | eighth-amendment intellectual-disability legal-resources petition-for-certiorari prison-conditions time-extension | Whether a prisoner with intellectual disabilities and limited access to legal resources can obtain an extension of time to file a petition for certior… | |
| 18-8877 | Reginald Knox v. Unknown Parties | Sixth Circuit | 2019-04-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law constitutional constitutional-error court-rules district-court due-process federal-statute judicial-review jurisdiction mandamus petition-for-certiorari standing statutory-provisions writ-of-mandamus | Should the District Court's dismissal of the Petitioner's Writ of Mandamus under 28 U.S.C. § 1361 be reviewed? |
| 18-6661 | Bryan Christopher Samuel v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure constitutional-issues court-of-appeals delayed-opinions due-process first-impression-issues habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jurisdiction jurisdictional-barriers jurisdictional-issues petition-for-certiorari petition-for-rehearing procedural-delay timeliness | Whether the federal courts abused their discretion in causing delays that made the petitioner untimely in seeking further review |