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