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25-6047 Peter Bormuth v. Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy, aka EGLE Michigan 2025-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment administrative-law due-process precedent religious-freedom standing Does the 14th Amendment Due Process Clause require state administrative tribunals to follow their own clearly established precedent? Do religious beli…
25-218 Brian Smith v. Florida Florida 2025-08-22 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure case-law florida-supreme-court jury-trial post-conviction-relief precedent Does case law from the Florida Supreme Court in 1999 take precedence over case law from the Florida 1st DCA in 1988, and what remedy exists when an ap…
25-153 Gator's Custom Guns, Inc., et al. v. Washington Washington 2025-08-08 Pending Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7) ammunition-feeding-devices arms circuit-split constitutional-protection precedent second-amendment Whether ammunition feeding devices with the capacity to hold more than ten rounds are 'Arms' presumptively entitled to constitutional protection under…
24-7271 Cristian Javier Chevez-Solano v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres certiorari criminal-law fifth-circuit precedent supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
24-5812 Timothy Robert Petrozzi v. Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law constitutional-law judicial-review legal-procedure precedent statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
24-5468 Dennis L. Flint v. Florida Florida 2024-09-05 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy precedent resentencing sentence-enhancement Whether a sentence can be enhanced during resentencing without violating double jeopardy principles
24-73 Sherry L. Burt, et al. v. Jimmie Leon Gordon Sixth Circuit 2024-07-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) constitutional-rights covid-19 pandemic-response precedent prison-conditions prison-officials qualified-immunity sixth-circuit Did the Sixth Circuit improperly deny qualified immunity to prison officials based on their response to the unprecedented COVID-19 global pandemic?
24-5118 Jared Holton Seavey v. Texas Texas 2024-07-19 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony medical-examiner precedent remand sixth-amendment Where the State used a surrogate medical examiner to opine as to the cause of death in a murder trial, should the Court GVR this matter in light of th…
24-5114 Benjamin Biancofiori v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech judicial-review legal-procedure precedent standing statutory-interpretation takings Question not identified
23-7843 Luis Alfredo Nanez-Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari-petition constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent precedent precedent-overruling sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-7813 John Ragin v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-06-27 Dismissed IFP administrative-law brady-violation constitutional-law due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-procedure precedent prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-a-fair-trial statutory-interpretation Question not identified
23-7788 Francisco Valtierra-Zuniga v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari-petition constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial precedent precedent-overruling sentencing supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-7642 John A. Beatty v. Jay Forshey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standards precedent precedent-validity standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Is McCarthy V United States, Ex Parte Milligan, Greenholtz V Nebraska Penal Inmates, Oregon v Hass, Vitak v. Jones still good law
23-7493 Lisa Marie Perez, fka Lisa Marie Belyew v. Captain Duch, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-17 Dismissed IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions genuine-issues-of-fact judicial-review jury-trial legal-interpretation precedent standing statutory-construction summary-judgment Whether summary judgment for the defendant was proper where genuine issues of material fact existed and a jury trial was warranted
23-7414 Mark A. VandenBoom v. Robert Strohmeyer Seventh Circuit 2024-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-review circuit-court-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-precedent precedent pro-se pro-se-litigation Did the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals judgement conflict with this court's precedents resulting in a limitation of access to the court due to the p…
23-7362 Tesae Harrington v. Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State District of Columbia 2024-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP affirmative-action civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection higher-education judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure precedent race-discrimination statutory-interpretation Whether the race-based admissions policies of Harvard College and the University of North Carolina violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteen…
23-1169 Michael H. Ponder v. Hans-Peter Wild Sixth Circuit 2024-04-30 Denied appellate-review circuit-precedent contract-law contract-specificity legal-interpretation oral-agreement precedent sixth-circuit specificity standard-of-review Whether this Court should grant certiorari review where the Sixth Circuit departed from established precedent regarding the required specificity of te…
23A920 Gatewood A. Walden v. The Disciplinary Board of the Alabama State Bar Alabama 2024-04-15 Presumed Complete binding-precedent due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-review precedent Whether a state appellate court violates a litigant's due process and equal protection rights under the Fourteenth Amendment when it refuses to follow…
23-1094 AT&T Services, Inc., et al. v. Robert J. Bugielski, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-09 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) arm's-length-agreement circuit-conflict employee-benefit-plan employee-benefits erisa fiduciary-duty precedent prohibited-transaction Whether a fiduciary to an employee benefit plan causes the plan to engage in a prohibited transaction under Section 406(a)(1)(C) of the Employee Retir…
23-7069 Jesse R. Redmond, Jr. v. District of Columbia District of Columbia 2024-03-25 Denied IFP 4th-amendment constitutional-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment jurisdiction precedent rule-4 rule-4a Whether the District of Columbia Court of Appeals fails to apply the law in the precedent set by the United States Supreme Court pursuant to Criminal …
23-6974 Bartolo Damaso-Sixtos v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-overruling precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-6766 Zavian Munize Jordan v. Chris Newman, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP binding-authority due-process lower-court precedent standard-of-review supreme-court Can a lower Court Use a different Standard other than the precedent Setting Standards from this Court?
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 Did the Ninth Circuit err in holding that community-owned areas in front of a multifamily dwelling constituted curtilage?
23-6647 Davaudrick Antron EtchisonBrown v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-02-01 Denied IFP 2nd-amendment bruen-standard criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce precedent second-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022)
23-6605 In Re Darius Lake 2024-01-29 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review jury-selection legal-procedure precedent racial-discrimination sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether the district attorney's striking of the only Black juror in the petitioner's trial violated the petitioner's constitutional rights
23-6483 Joanne J. Antrobus v. New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation Second Circuit 2024-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech precedent standing Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant civil-rights, due-process, and free-speech precedents
23-6396 Eleuterio Covarrubias-Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-analysis constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent precedent precedent-overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether the Court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998)
23-6332 Antonio Misael Rivera-Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure case-law circuit-split criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-review legal-precedent precedent procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review Whether Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, __U.S.__, 140 8.Ct. 762 (2020), applies to claims of procedural error
23-644 City of Charlotte, North Carolina, et al. v. Azucena Zamorano Aleman, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Rubin Galindo Chavez Fourth Circuit 2023-12-14 Denied Amici (1) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights deadly-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement precedent qualified-immunity use-of-force Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in the process it used to find a 'clearly established' Fourth Amendment right
23-6245 Donato Lopez-Arellano v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-precedent constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5837 Spencer Wallace v. Bobbi Jo Salamon, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2023-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights court-interpretation due-process francis-v-franklin judicial-review jury-instructions legal-precedent precedent statutory-provisions trial-court-instructions Did the lower court err in holding that the trial court instruction did not violate Wallace's constitutional right to due process?
23-5722 Armando Orozco-Calderon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5684 William J. Dahl v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2023-10-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP armed-robbery civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process felony judicial-review legal-procedure precedent sentencing statutory-analysis Whether a felon can be convicted of armed robbery without having a firearm or weapon and without being present at the scene of the crime?
23-5621 Amado Alvarez-Alvarado v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-interpretation precedent precedent-overruling sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5235 Hector Lares-Nunez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-precedent certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-overruling precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-80 Jeffrey Laydon, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Cooperatieve Rabobank U.A., et al. Second Circuit 2023-07-27 Denied Amici (3) circuit-split civil-procedure domestic-application extraterritorial-application extraterritoriality federal-commodities federal-securities judicial-interpretation legal-precedent precedent statutory-focus statutory-interpretation Whether courts may consider factors other than the statute's focus to decide if a claim involves a domestic application
23-74 Debra A. Vitagliano v. County of Westchester, New York Second Circuit 2023-07-25 Denied Amici (18)Relisted (2) abortion abortion-clinic-protests constitutional-law content-neutrality first-amendment free-speech precedent public-forum stare-decisis Whether the Court should overrule Hill v. Colorado
23-5070 Samuel Tobin McKaig v. Arkansas Eighth Circuit 2023-07-11 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech judicial-review legal-issue precedent prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-interpretation Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the police threatened him with prosecution for exercising his right to remain silent…
23-5046 Kashard O. Brown v. Brian Williams, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-05 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection precedent standing statutory-interpretation Whether the court erred in refusing to apply the historical record and U.S. Supreme Court precedent to the facts of this case
22-7847 Colum Patrick Moran v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process insufficient-evidence judicial-precedent plain-error precedent standard-of-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence Whether a conviction predicated on insufficient evidence can meet the plain error standard in the absence of explicit statutory language or on-point, …
22-7647 Nicasio Nevarez-Zamudio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7635 Deandre Hykeem Jackson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law divisibility federal-courts federal-law precedent precedent-interpretation statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §1951(a) is divisible into attempted and completed robberies for the purposes of the categorical approach?
22-7636 Jose Luis Manriquez-Gutierrez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-1140 Dr. Chinwe Offor v. Mercy Medical Center, et al. Second Circuit 2023-05-25 Denied Response Waived burden-shifting civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fabrication forgery fraud hospital-records mcdonnell-douglas precedent sanctions summary-judgment Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit manifestly departed from this Court's precedent by holding that egregious and repetitive acts…
22-1077 Sheryl Pereira v. Terrial O'Neal Georgia 2023-05-05 Denied civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion precedent property-rights stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supervisory-powers Whether Supreme Court of Georgia and Court of Appeals of Georgia erred by violating their own longstanding precedent
22-7389 Gerald Lee Banks v. A. W. Wingfield, Acting Warden Fourth Circuit 2023-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellant-court case-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit judicial-review legal-precedent precedent sentencing-error Did the Appellant err when it violated its own precedent in denying Banks sentencing error?
22-7367 Christopher J. Bailey v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 abuse-of-discretion concepcion-precedent concepcion-v-united-states criminal-justice-reform criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion first-step-act precedent sentence-reduction sentencing Whether the district court abused its discretion in denying petitioner's motion for a sentence reduction under the First Step Act
22-7352 Samuel Jesus Avila v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-rule plain-error precedent second-amendment standing Is an error 'plain' within the meaning of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b) only if controlling precedent has recognized the exact same error i…
22-1005 Cornelius L. Emily, et al. v. Christopher Welters Minnesota 2023-04-17 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process law-enforcement law-generality legal-standard precedent qualified-immunity supreme-court-precedent Did the Minnesota Supreme Court depart from this Court's decisions in qualified immunity cases?
22-978 Jackie Jackson v. Ohio Ohio 2023-04-10 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment contraband criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement lower-court-conflict police-conduct precedent probable-cause search search-and-seizure vehicle-search Whether a police search of a car occurred under the Fourth Amendment
22-7218 Jaime Tomas-Antonio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-05 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit legal-precedent precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7205 Miguel Valdivia-Gonzalez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-04 Denied IFP case-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7183 Manuel Camilo Ordonez-Mendoza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-03 Denied IFP case-law constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-890 Quad Graphics, Inc. v. North Carolina Department of Revenue North Carolina 2023-03-16 Denied Amici (4) commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation due-process interstate-sales judicial-precedent out-of-state-sales precedent state-courts state-taxation supreme-court-precedent Whether the North Carolina Supreme Court was correct that state courts and taxing authorities no longer must follow Dilworth because this Court has im…
22-847 Virginia Silva-Navarro v. Roosevelt REO PR Corporation First Circuit 2023-03-07 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction due-process executive-power federal-court-jurisdiction federal-courts foreign-entity-litigation jurisdiction precedent standing supreme-court-precedent tax-collection Are lower courts in the federal system to follow the case law of this Honorable Court?
22-6897 Ruben Hernandez-Correa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-01 Denied IFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi certiorari constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation precedent sentencing supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
22-6894 Hiking Dupre v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari civil-procedure concepcion-case due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction precedent remand supreme-court Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the Fifth Circuit's judgment, and remand for reconsideration in light of this Court's recent decisi…
22-797 Marquay Quamaine Sheppard v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-02-22 Denied Response Waived appeal circuit-court-precedent criminal-appeal criminal-procedure district-court due-process fourth-circuit precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-decisions Did the Fourth Circuit err by dismissing the Petitioner's appeal and affirming the 188 month sentence imposed by the trial court, inasmuch as this dec…
22-6760 David Lassegue v. United States, et al. Third Circuit 2023-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals case-law-analysis circuit-court-interpretation civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-review legal-standards precedent procedural-rights standing third-circuit-precedent Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit Violated Lassegue's rights
22-6758 In Re Mark Marvin 2023-02-10 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review precedent statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant civil-rights, due-process, and equal-protection laws
22-6730 Pabeel Narvaez-Gomez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-02-08 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
22-6724 In Re Christopher Cobb 2023-02-07 Denied IFP collateral-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus precedent retroactivity supreme-court-precedent Whether Hemphill v New York, 595 US » 142 §.Ct. 681, 211 L Ed. 2d 534 (2022) should be declared retroactive to cases on collateral review
22-6696 Rudy Garcia v. Texas Texas 2023-02-03 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-appeals due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-standards precedent prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-precedent trial-counsel Does the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' dismissal of Petitioner's habeas claim conflict with their previous decision of a similar claim?
22-718 Louisiana v. Jamaal Edwards Louisiana 2023-02-01 Denied Amici (2) civil-commitment civil-rights criminal-law dangerous-individual due-process judicial-precedent mental-health mental-health-law precedent public-safety sanity-acquittee Whether this Court's plurality opinion in Foucha v. Louisiana, 504 U.S. 71 (1992), which prevents States from continuing to hold insanity acquittees w…
22-709 DeAngelo Montez Moody v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-01-31 Denied Response Waived aedpa federal-courts habeas-corpus precedent precedential-interpretation state-court-review state-courts strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether Section 2254(d)(1) prohibits lower federal courts from considering precedent from courts other than the Supreme Court in determining whether a…
22-6596 Laverne C. Henderson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review precedent standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit violated Henderson's rights
22-6578 Derrick Tyrone Moore v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-19 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute federal-courts generic-offense mens-rea precedent state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation violent-felony Whether there is a reasonable probability of different result if the court below is directed to reconsider its judgment in light of Wooden v. United S…
22-6540 Brandon Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-13 Denied IFP actual-case-requirement categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez precedent sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states When the underlying state statute is plainly broader than the generic definition of a criminal sentencing enhancement provision, must the defendant al…
22-6317 Normando Eligio Esquivel-Ontiveros v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-jurisdiction constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit legal-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-6247 Denis Amilcar Munguia-Portales v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-precedent constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial legal-challenge precedent sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-520 Temple University Hospital, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board District of Columbia 2022-12-05 Denied Response Waived administrative-law circuit-court-review federal-labor-policy judicial-estoppel labor-law labor-relations nlrb-jurisdiction precedent subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the D.C. Circuit lawfully affirmed the National Labor Relations Board's new rule
22-5790 David Delva v. United States Second Circuit 2022-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel precedent section-2255 sua-sponte warrantless-seizure Whether appellate counsel was ineffective for failing to argue that Petitioner's Fifth Amendment right to be heard and due process were violated when …
22-5783 Kofi Kyei v. Oregon Oregon 2022-10-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment oral-argument oregon-state-courts precedent statutory-mandate utcr-5.050(1) zehr-v-haugen Whether the Oregon State courts violated pro se Petitioner's federal due process and equal protection rights under the Fourteenth Amendment
22-5728 Glenn Spradley v. Pat Frank, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-of-action circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights court-precedent due-process municipal-liability precedent standing venue-selection Whether a complaint's conclusory allegations of municipal liability state a cause of action
22-5668 Thomas Guerriero v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit judicial-review legal-argument precedent prior-precedent-rule stare-decisis Whether the Eleventh Circuit's prior precedent rule should be overturned
22-5532 Johnny Jasper Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split common-law common-law-offense criminal-classification criminal-law due-process generic-robbery legal-definition precedent statutory-interpretation Whether 'generic robbery' is equivalent to the common law form of the offense, or whether, instead, it carries a broader definition?
22-5511 Edmundo Portillo-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
22-5445 Ereby Lujan-Madrid v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-5389 Antonio Molina-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit legal-review precedent recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-5363 Rodney Flucas v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process federalism interstate-travel jury-instruction precedent sexual-conduct state-authority Was the Jury Erroneously Instructed That the Government Only had to Prove That Sexual Activity Was a 'Motivating Purpose' for Transportation of Person…
22-5349 Leopoldo Pacheco-Apodaca v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-5353 Ricardo Salazar-Munoz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-5052 Fox Joseph Salerno v. Arizona Arizona 2022-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment apprendi-rule constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury incorporation precedent subject-matter-jurisdiction Should the U.S. Constitutional Fifth Amendment requiring indictments be applied to the States, thereby overturning precedence from 1884; Hurtado v. Ca…
22-5003 Ernesto Villalobos-Marquez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-1608 McKinsey & Co., Inc., et al. v. Jay Alix Second Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied Amici (1) bankruptcy-fraud circuit-split civil-claims civil-rico judicial-precedent precedent proximate-causation RICO statutory-interpretation supervisory-responsibilities Whether lower courts must follow the standard established by this Court's precedent for an element of a plaintiff's statutory claim, even if, in the c…
21-8254 Bryant Calloway v. United States Third Circuit 2022-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process grand-jury guilty-verdict judicial-review material-perjury perjury petit-jury precedent structural-error Whether material perjury before the grand jury should be considered structural error not cured by a guilty verdict
21-8197 Michael James Bosman v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP alternatives criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement-conduct police-conduct precedent probable-cause reasonableness reasonableness-standard search-and-seizure seizure Did the Tenth Circuit misapply this Court's precedent, and wrongly reject Mr. Bosman's Fourth-Amendment-claim, when it dismissed the availability of a…
21-1553 Ramin Khorrami v. Arizona Arizona 2022-06-10 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (5) 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process felony fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury jury-trial original-public-meaning precedent sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony
21-1540 Nita Gordon, Personal Representative of the Estate of Antonio Gordon v. Keith Bierenga Sixth Circuit 2022-06-08 Denied Relisted (2) 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation excessive-force fourth-amendment police-misconduct police-use-of-force precedent qualified-immunity section-1983 Whether qualified immunity protects government officials when no prior precedent exists recognizing the unconstitutionality of a fact pattern exactly …
21-1524 Jesus Rivera v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-06-03 Denied courts-of-appeals habeas-corpus judicial-review objectively-unreasonable precedent standard-of-review state-court unreasonable-manner What test should the Courts of Appeals employ to determine whether a state court writ of habeas corpus was decided in an objectively unreasonable mann…
21-7835 Michael Perryman v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law due-process firearm-statute firearms legal-interpretation precedent precedential-reasoning sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether the mere-possession reasoning in Bailey and Bousley retain precedential value in regard to 'use' of a firearm under the amended Section 924(c)…
21-7845 Jennifer C. Rundle v. Windsor Manor, Inc. Virginia 2022-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP amended-petition circuit-court civil-procedure due-process liberty liberty-interest motion-to-compel precedent property property-rights state-action Should the Norfolk Circuit Court have granted the petitioner's Motion to Compel Discovery and Continue the Trial
21-1350 Jack Jordan v. Department of Labor, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-04-14 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act agency-sanctions constitution constitutional-precedent free-speech freedom-of-speech judicial-review petition precedent strict-scrutiny Whether federal judges are free to flout and violate the APA, Constitution, and precedent
21-7622 Alejandro Medina-Rios v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-1311 Rinaldo Pierno v. Fidelity Brokerage Services, LLC Second Circuit 2022-03-31 Denied Response Waived appellate-courts article-three circuit-court civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process judicial-power judicial-precedent non-precedential-decisions precedent Whether the proliferation of 'non-precedential' appellate court decisions violates Article III of the U.S. Constitution
21-1264 Larry Klayman v. Judicial Watch, Inc., et al. District of Columbia 2022-03-18 Denied Response Waived circuit-split consumer-confusion hearsay-evidence lanham-act likelihood-of-confusion non-disparagement precedent trademark-infringement trademark-law Did the US. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit err by failing to apply the 'appreciable number of consumers' standard to the 'likel…
21-7369 Dannie Simon Parker, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-proceedings agency-action bank-robbery criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-instructions precedent statutory-interpretation substantial-rights Whether the acting Leon Vhs Corl in Cape v. United States, 556 U.S. 255, 268, 129 S.Ct. 2155, 173 L.Ed.2d 1208 (2008), trial court's robbery under 18 …
21-7218 Ryan Antonio Matthews v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-02-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-circuit-court fifth-circuit-court-of-appeals ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-certification precedent precedential-analysis standard-of-review Did Petitioner establish that jurists of reason could debate whether he was deprived of his right to the effective assistance of counsel at his juveni…
21-7207 Robert Brewer v. New York New York 2022-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP accomplice-liability constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-unanimity precedent state-courts supreme-court-precedent Whether Saad v Arizona continues to apply following Ramos v. Louisiana and Edwards v Vannoy
21-1167 Terry Rene Chapman v. Social Security Administration, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-02-23 Denied Response Waived binding disability-rights federal-pleading-standards final-decision judicial-precedent legislation precedent pro-se-petition stare-decisis unbinding unpublished-opinion How can a decision be final & be final to what; if it is unbinding without a Precedent for Stare Decisis?
21-7102 Elmer Josue Rivas-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
21-7099 Edwin Disla v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure eleventh-circuit fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus precedent remand rule-60b3-motion second-and-successive supreme-court-precedent Whether a Rule 60(b)(3) Motion for Fraud on the Court overcomes a Second and Successive Ruling Pursuant to the dictates of Supreme Court Precedent set…
21-6784 Brian James Talbot v. Virginia Virginia 2022-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-consistency legal-precedent plea-withdrawal precedent Can the decision in the present case and the-prior decision of the Court of Appeals of Virginia in Williams v. Commonwealth and its progeny, be reconc…
21-6690 Joe Pyatt v. AECOM Technical Services, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-21 Denied IFP appellate-review burden-shifting civil-rights discrimination-framework disparate-treatment district-court due-process employment-discrimination judicial-precedent mcdonnell-douglas precedent title-vii Whether the district court, as well as the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, can overrule the precedent of this court set in McDonnell Douglas Corp. …
21-6645 Robert Brandon Bilus v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jurisdiction plea-bargaining precedent sixth-amendment Whether the Eleventh Circuit entered a decision that misapplies the precedent of this Court and as a result, violates the Sixth Amendment to the Unite…
21-6562 Francis Timothy Plaza v. Barry Smith, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale, et al. Third Circuit 2021-12-08 Denied IFP case-progress civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling evidentiary-hearing judicial-precedent precedent prisoner-rights procedural-fairness state-court Was it an unreasonable application of this court's precedent to rule that equitable tolling should not apply to the petitioner's case where the state …
21-6507 Lyle Quinton Brown v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-12-03 Denied IFP circuit-court civil-rights due-process judicial-decision jurisdiction native-american official-authority precedent retroactivity statutory-interpretation Whether the Matloff v. Wallace, 2021 OK CR 21 non-retroactivity decision conflicts with the holdings in Sharp v. Murphy, 140 S. Ct. 2412 (2020) and Mc…
21-6453 Duane Nishiie, aka Suh Jae Hon v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-12-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP fraud-offenses legal-interpretation precedent statute-of-limitations statutory-definition statutory-interpretation war-nexus wartime-suspension-act wartime-suspension-of-limitations-act Whether the Wartime Suspension of Limitations Act suspends the statute of limitations for fraud offenses that have no nexus to the war or armed confli…
21-805 Douglas Norberg v. Nevada Center for Dermatology, et al. Nevada 2021-12-01 Denied appellate-procedure civil-rights common-law court-rules due-process judicial-precedent precedent stare-decisis unpublished-opinions Is Nevada Supreme Court Rule 36 allowing appellate decisions to be unpublished and unable to the cited as precedent a violation of the rule of stare d…
21-6457 Ervin Anibar Lopez-Ordonez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
21-6325 Leslie Reed v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certiorari-standard circuit-court-review civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-question judicial-precedent judicial-review precedent standard-of-review supreme-court-jurisdiction Whether the United States Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals had decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions…
21-6231 Christopher Lee Scott v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offenses divisibility fourth-circuit-review modified-categorical-approach precedent remand sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether S.C. Code §§ 44-53-370 and 44-53-375(B) are divisible into three offenses
21-6248 Oliver Vaughn Douce Al Dey v. New Jersey Division of Child Protection and Permanency, et al. Third Circuit 2021-11-10 Dismissed IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review precedent statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant civil-rights, due-process, and equal-protection laws
21-6145 Omar Sanchez-Barrera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review certiorari constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent sentencing supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-6139 Yency Nuñez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-01 Denied IFP appellate-procedure article-iii circuit-courts circuit-precedent criminal-procedure due-process jurisdictional-facts maritime-drug-law precedent statutory-interpretation Whether proof of jurisdictional facts is an element of an MDLEA offense
21-6089 Edward N. Daniels v. Bobbi Jo Salamon, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2021-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruton-precedent bruton-v-united-states co-conspirator co-defendant confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence-admissibility precedent Did the lower court err when they refused to apply this court's precedent in Bruton v. United States, 391 U.S. 123 (1968) when the co-conspirator / co…
21-5953 Dennis Sena v. Steven Kenneway, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Shirley First Circuit 2021-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari federal-issue first-circuit good-cause habeas precedent precedents rhines-v-weber Whether this Court should grant certiorari to review a decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in conflict with this Cour…
21-5915 Thomas D. Holmes v. Randy Gibbs, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-10-06 Denied IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-statute defendant-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure oral-verdict precedent sentencing Whether a Certificate of Appealability should have issued
21-466 Eric DeWayne Cathey v. Texas Texas 2021-09-28 Denied Amici (1) capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability medical-criteria medical-standards precedent supreme-court-precedent Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals contravened the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments and this Court's precedents in rejecting a trial court's …
21-470 Eric Lee Brown v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-28 Denied appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rule-criminal-procedure judicial-precedent legal-standard plain-error precedent standard-of-review statutory-interpretation whether-error-can-be-plain
21-293 Vincent Alphonso Powell v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-30 Denied Response Waived civil-rights competency competency-hearing constitutional-rights due-process forcible-medication mental-health panel-decision precedent standing waiver-of-rights Did the State of Arizona, Superior Court, confront a set of facts that are materially indistinguishable from the decision of this honorable Court in t…
21-5509 Luther McKiver v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-27 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process eleventh-circuit fourteenth-amendment judicial-precedent legal-interpretation precedent Whether the Eleventh Circuit entered a decision that misapplies the precedent of this Court and as a result, violates the Due Process Clause of the Fo…
21-5401 Shawn R. Wilson v. Douglas Fender, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-08-17 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review precedent statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant civil-rights, due-process, and equal-protection laws
21-140 Rosemary Garity v. APWU National Labor Organization Ninth Circuit 2021-08-03 Denied Response Waived ada-discrimination circuit-court-conflict circuit-courts civil-rights discrimination due-process precedent precedent-interpretation pro-se-considerations summary-judgment union-liability Is 'But for' the standard for ADA discrimination claims?
21-5244 Burudi Jarade Faison v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause commerce-jurisprudence congressional-power constitutional-interpretation federal-sentencing firearm-possession overrule precedent scarborough-v-us tenth-amendment us-v-lopez If the current precedent case law for commerce jurisprudence, i.e, U.S. Lopez 514 US 549, conflicts with another currently-applied case decision, i.e,…
21-5250 Adalberto Martinez-Ramirez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP §3Bl.1(a)-standard buyer-relationship circuit-court-review criminal-leadership criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing evidence precedent precedent-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation U.S.-v.-Miller Whether the Eighth Circuit overlooked binding precedent in U.S. v. Miller when determining if the facts established that Martinez did not coerce buyer…
21-5051 Shangia Washington v. Cedric Taylor, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit precedent prison prison-conditions qualified-immunity risk-of-harm subjective-knowledge Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit is following its precedent prior to Hope v. Pelzer to require a prior case on all …
20-8234 Arian Lamont Brown v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-criminal-guideline criminal-procedure en-banc en-banc-review judicial-discretion mandate mandate-recall precedent sentence-enhancement sentencing sixth-circuit Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit abuse its discretion and err by denying the Motion to Recall the Mandate
20-8102 Adam Rosen v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, et al. Third Circuit 2021-05-21 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief precedent self-incrimination state-court-review Whether the Commonwealth's use of a defendant's statements to the Commonwealth, which were not elicited in violation of the defendant's Fifth Amendmen…
20-1592 Caitlin McCann, et al. v. Sheila Garcia, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-17 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process legal-principles precedent qualified-immunity social-workers standing Whether a plaintiff satisfies the 'clearly established law' prong of qualified-immunity
20-8033 Ivan Ignacio Minjarez-Molina v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-7948 Ernest H. Baker, III v. Oregon Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-action civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process free-speech judicial-review precedent religious-freedom standing statutory-interpretation Whether the 15 Supreme Court justices are the last line of defense for religious freedom and the free exercise thereof?
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
20-7802 Michael Green v. Illinois Illinois 2021-04-19 Denied IFP 6th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-doctrine precedent public-policy standing statutory-interpretation Whether there exists a factual basis to support petitioner's conviction
20-1438 Tina Cates v. Bruce D. Stroud, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-law courts-of-appeals due-process fourth-amendment legal-doctrine precedent qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing Whether the unanimous conclusion of multiple other courts of appeals suffices to clearly establish the law for purposes of qualified immunity
20-7738 Elmer W. Grant, Jr. v. United States District of Columbia 2021-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment-14th-amendment constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury grand-jury-selection judicial-precedent jurisdiction precedent subject-matter-jurisdiction Validity-of-indictment-with-foreman-signature-only
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…
20-7255 Samuel Zubia-Olivas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial precedent sentencing Supreme-Court writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-1154 Adan Torres-Nieves v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-23 Denied Response Waived 9th-circuit ambiguity ambiguity-resolution defendant defendant-rights government-breach legal-precedent plea-agreement precedent Did the 9th Circuit depart from precedent in failing to resolve ambiguity in favor of defendant in determining government breach of plea agreement?
20-7218 Crystal Zuniga v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-856 congressional-intent double-counting drug-involved-premise drug-sentencing fair-sentencing-act precedent sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether Congress intended The Fair Sentencing Act to more severely punish persons sentenced under 21 U.S.C. §856 in what is a departure from over 20 y…
20-7112 Hector Miguel Martinez-Carrillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-7073 Donovan Muskett v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-02-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-consequences due-process fair-warning precedent retroactive-application Can a single decision from another circuit afford fair warning that the federal circuit in which an individual resides may overrule settled precedent …
20-977 Zachary Pulera v. Victoria Sarzant, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-01-22 Denied Response Waived anderson-v-liberty-lobby causation-standard civil-procedure civil-rights legal-precedent precedent seventh-circuit standard summary-judgment Whether the Court should resolve the Seventh Circuit's departure from the summary judgment standard articulated by this Court in Anderson v. Liberty L…
20-958 Rickey Leon Scott v. Eric Arnold, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived aedpa civil-rights due-process judicial-interpretation precedent stare-decisis When a Justice contributes the necessary fifth vote to a majority opinion but also writes a concurrence interpreting that opinion, should lower courts…
20-959 Angela Thigpen v. Board of Trustees of the Local 807 Labor-Management Pension Fund Second Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review precedent statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant civil-rights, due-process, and equal-protection laws
20-6803 Dominic Lindsey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-conflict certiorari court-order criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-precedent legal-compliance precedent supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Whether the opinion below conflicts with this Court's decisions in Witte v. United States and Davis v. United States, and whether it adequately compli…
20-6754 Alford Donta Tarpley v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied IFP borden-v-united-states burris-v-united-states crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-sentencing precedent robbery sentencing sentencing-guidelines texas-law ussg-4b1.2 Whether the Texas offense of robbery by injury constitutes a 'crime of violence' under USSG §4B1.2?
20-6731 Kevin Francis v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2020-12-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP case-screening court-procedure criminal-procedure indigent-defendants judicial-error legal-waiver precedent public-defender sixth-amendment waiver Whether the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court erred when it held that a public defender case screener who did not represent the defendant waived th…
20-6609 Salvador Moreno Cervantes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-6094 Sean Alonzo Bush v. Florida Florida 2020-10-22 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency florida-supreme-court legal-precedent precedent standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Florida Supreme Court denied the petitioner due process
20-522 Xavier Demetrius Porter v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied categorical-approach dicta federal-court federal-court-interpretation judicial-precedent legal-interpretation precedent state-court state-court-dicta statutory-interpretation Whether a federal court applying the categorical approach is required to give significant weight to on point dicta from the relevant State's highest c…
20-481 GE Capital Retail Bank v. Nyree Belton Second Circuit 2020-10-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bankruptcy-code debt-discharge federal-arbitration-act implied-repeal legal-procedure lower-court-confusion precedent statutory-discharge statutory-interpretation Whether provisions of the Bankruptcy Code providing for a statutorily enforceable discharge of a debtor's debts impliedly repeal the Federal Arbitrati…
20-487 Ho Wong Jeong v. Angel Cabrera, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-10-14 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion motion precedent pro-se rule-60 standing supreme-court-precedent Did the district court act contrary to SCOTUS precedents in denying appellant's pro se Rule 60(b)(3) motion on untimeliness without oral argument?
20-5878 Renard Cortez Murray v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process eleventh-circuit fundamental-fairness judicial-review meaningful-review panel-order precedent second-or-successive-2255-motion section-2255 truncated-time-frame without-adversarial-testing Does the Eleventh Circuit's practice of applying published panel orders—issued in the context of an application for leave to file a second or successi…
20-5751 Pedro Fernandez-de Campa v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law certiorari-petition criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-reconsideration precedent precedent-review sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether Al/mendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), should be overruled
20-5549 Javier Lopez-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review credibility-determination credibility-determinations fact-finding factual-issues federal-sentencing judicial-standard precedent reasonableness-review standard-of-review wrongful-incarceration Whether review for reasonableness in federal sentencing requires a separate, more deferential, standard of review for credibility determinations than …
20-5470 German Milla-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-overturning precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-5446 Jin H. Zheng v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge motion-for-new-trial precedent standing supreme-court-certiorari uniformity Jurisdiction of an appeal of an interlocutory order
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
20-5376 Alfredo Estrada-Eugenio, aka Alfredo Erasto Estrada-Eugenio, aka Juan Eugenio Medina, aka Alfredo Estarada, aka Alfredo Eugenio-Estrada, aka Alfredo Estrada, aka Gerardo Amezquita v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-5311 Richard Hollihan, Jr. v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-08-10 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection extraordinary-relief fourteenth-amendment legal-precedent precedent precedential-decision state-court-jurisdiction supreme-court Did the Pennsylvania Supreme Court violate the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution when it Denied Petitioner's Application For Extraordin…
20-5223 Jorge Madrid-Uriarte v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-precedent court-decision criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-review legal-standard precedent reasonable-probability reconsideration remand sentencing standard-of-review Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light of…
20-5209 Robert L. Clark v. Chiquita A. Fye, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-29 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process false-information precedent standing Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals in Georgia erred in refusing to vacate its judgment based on false information provided by the defendants, in contra…
19-8752 Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. Annette Moore, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-06-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights complaint-dismissal due-process fourth-circuit judicial-procedure jurisdiction official-misconduct precedent standing Whether the petitioner's complaint contains sufficient factual allegations to survive a motion to dismiss
19-8743 Jeremiah Lee Guerra v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-precedent court-decision criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-instruction legal-review precedent reasonable-probability reconsideration remand sentencing standard-of-review Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light of…
19-8670 Rosalio Ramos Tapia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-precedent court-decision criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-review legal-standard precedent reasonable-probability reconsideration remand sentencing standard-of-review Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light of…
19-8658 Garian King v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP __U.S.__ 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020). court-reconsideration criminal-procedure harmless-error holguin-hernandez judicial-review lower-court-decision precedent reasonable-probability reconsideration remand sentencing standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light of…
19-8633 Weylin O. Rodriguez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari-review due-process eleventh-circuit evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus miller-el-standard precedent remand section-2255 supreme-court-precedent title-28-U.S.C-2255 Whether the Eleventh Circuit's decision not to remand for an evidentiary hearing was contrary to precedent requiring such a hearing under 28-U.S.C-225…
19-8617 Homar Perez Chavez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres case-review criminal-law due-process judicial-review legal-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), should be overruled?
19-8255 Emilio Medina-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
19-1163 Bernard Rottschaefer v. United States Third Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response Waived appeals collateral-estoppel court-of-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy drug-distribution due-process judicial-deference judicial-review jurisdiction medical-professional precedent standard-of-review substantial-question May the District Court overrule the previous unanimous Court of Appeals decision in the same case?
19-8066 Silvestre Lara-Cervantes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-remand criminal-procedure harmless-error holguin-hernandez judicial-review precedent reasonable-probability reconsideration remand sentencing standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light of…
19-1146 Centaur, L.L.C. v. River Ventures, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2020-03-19 Denied Response Waived circuit-split conceptual-approach contract-classification federal-maritime-law judicial-interpretation maritime-commerce maritime-law precedent spatial-approach Whether the Fifth Circuit's new mechanical test complies with the conceptual approach mandated by this Court in Kirby and Kossick
19-7993 Thomas Victor Sway v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review certificate-of-appealability conclusory-order conflict-of-interest discretionary-review due-process equitable-tolling precedent procedural-due-process standard-of-review strickland-standard When denial of COA was made in conclusory order without any precedent to rely on and there exists no sufficient basis for appellate court to review, w…
19-7955 Philip Berryman v. Randall Haas, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-03-11 Denied IFP circuit-conflict circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection exhaustion exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-of-remedies grievance-process precedent prison-litigation sixth-circuit stare-decisis Is the Sixth Circuit required to adhere to precedent under stare decisis when ruling on the same issue that has been ruled upon by the Sixth Circuit, …
19-7774 Ronald Muhammad v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Seventh Circuit 2020-02-25 Denied IFP certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure due-process federal-circuit federal-preemption judicial-review precedent preemption reconciliation standing Is the 7th Circuit's decision appropriate for this Court's review, and if so why must this Court hear and decide this?
19-7725 William Desmond Conrad v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-02-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa alleyne assistance-of-counsel attorney-negligence constitutional-rights constitutional-violation descamps habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance precedent pro-se pro-se-rights sixth-amendment Is 'the neglect or negligence committed by an Attorney a violation of the Constitution's Sixth Amendment's requirement of assistance of counsel ?
19-1026 Ford Motor Company v. United States Federal Circuit 2020-02-18 Denied Amici (4) customs-classification federal-circuit import-duties international-trade post-importation-modification precedent statutory-interpretation tariff-classification tariff-provisions vehicle-classification waiver worthington-v-robbins Whether the Federal Circuit erred in holding that a product's post-importation modification and use can determine its classification under a tariff he…
19-7685 Dominic Lindsey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-18 GVR IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure factual-determination factual-errors federal-rule-criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-error plain-error plain-error-review precedent sentencing standard-of-review Does plain-error review under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b) include factual errors?
19-7546 Juan Jorge v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-04 Denied IFP circuit-court civil-rights coa constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus precedent standing supreme-court Whether petitioner's constitutional rights were violated
19-7526 Gregorio Segura-Resendiz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent overrule precedent sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
19-7517 Mario Palacios-Cordero v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent sentencing supreme-court Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
19-7480 David Paul Lynch v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-error eleventh-circuit harmless-error hearsay hearsay-statements jury-trial precedent sixth-amendment weight-of-evidence Did the Eleventh Circuit violate this Court's precedent on harmless error
19-7345 Roberto Sanchez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied IFP circuit-precedent civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process fifth-circuit immigration immigration-status judicial-conflict legal-interpretation precedent prejudice prejudicial-evidence procedural-review Did the Fifth Circuit's opinion conflict with its own precedent in Rojas v. Richardson regarding the prejudicial nature of a party's immigration statu…
19-7316 Shawn R. Bough v. Kenneth D. Hutchison, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence corroborating-evidence due-process gateway-evidence precedent reasonable-juror self-preservation sixth-amendment timeliness Does the Sixth Circuit's failure to analyze the claim in consideration of the overwhelming corroborating innocence proof in Mr. Bough's case, in conju…
19-851 Manuel Lopez-Castro v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-08 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence constitutional-law criminal-conduct criminal-law habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-precedent precedent procedural-default Does the actual innocence gateway to review of procedurally defaulted habeas claims apply only where new evidence shows the defendant did not commit t…
19-7185 Stanley Brewer v. William Lee, Superintendent, Eastern New York Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2020-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 civil-rights district-court-review due-process facts-and-evidence federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-precedent legal-standard precedent standing statutory-interpretation Whether the district court violated long-standing precedent and misapplied 28-USC-2254-d-2, 28-USC-2254-e-1, and the facts and evidence presented by t…
19-7109 J'Veil Outing v. Miguel A. Cardona, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction Connecticut 2019-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-record due-process expert-testimony eyewitness-identification eyewitness-testimony ineffective-assistance precedent right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether assigned counsel violated the defendant's Sixth Amendment right to counsel and his right to due process
19-7130 Fabio Morel v. United States Second Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review case-law circuit-court-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing judicial-precedent plea-agreement plea-bargaining precedent retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether the lower court's decision is in conflict with Freeman v. United States, 564 U.S. 522 (2011) and Hughes v. United States, 138 S. Ct. 1765 (201…
19-7102 Ruben Mendez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-30 Denied IFP case-review constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-precedent legal-procedure precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
19-6961 Hernan Navarro v. United States Third Circuit 2019-12-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process equitable-relief evidence evidentiary-proceedings intellectual-predicate judicial-review precedent precedent-analysis standing statutory-interpretation Did the District court of The Virgin Islands contravene Binding precedents, holdings of Haein and Controlling Statutory Provisions, when they failed t…
19-6955 Shondell J. Paul v. New York New York 2019-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-question due-process federal-constitutional-law fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel precedent stare-decisis state-court state-court-precedent state-court-procedure Does the Fourteenth Amendment place an obligation on the New York Court of Appeals to address a federal constitutional question when its prior precede…
19-714 Pennsylvania v.William R. Landis, Jr. Pennsylvania 2019-12-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) blueford-v-arkansas criminal-procedure diminished-capacity double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause lesser-included-offense mens-rea murder murder-charges poland-v-arizona precedent retrial Did the Superior Court of Pennsylvania err in finding that the reinstatement of Murder in the Third Degree upon the award of a new trial violated the …
19-6799 Aamir A. Hafiz-Thompson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP acca appeal certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel precedent sentencing supreme-court-precedent Whether counsel's admitted inaccuracy, misinformation, and failure to make specific inquiry regarding the petitioner's prior predicates (ACCA) conflic…
19-6802 Gary Jackson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process identification identification-process judicial-circuit jurisdiction precedent sentencing standing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent Did the state courts and federal courts err in determining that the identification process violated Supreme Court precedent?
19-613 W&T Offshore, Incorporated v. Apache Deepwater, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response Waived choice-of-law civil-procedure conflict-of-laws federal-courts precedent state-courts civil-law court-procedure federal-court highest-court judicial-methodology jurisdiction jurisdictional-interpretation legal-precedent methodology precedent Whether a federal court applying the law of a civil-law jurisdiction should follow the methodology that the jurisdiction's highest court would apply o…
19-6610 Mario Alberto Rubi v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-of-appeals criminal-procedure door-doctrine evidence expert-testimony fingerprint-evidence fingerprints open-door-doctrine open-the-door precedent standard-of-review unknowing-courier Whether the court of appeals erred in finding Mr. Rubi opened the door to expert testimony regarding unknowing couriers
19-542 Robert L. Jarrett, Jr. v. State Bar of California California 2019-10-25 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction attorney-misconduct civil-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jurisdiction legislative-intent precedent recusal-standards standing supreme-court-review vexatious-litigant How does this Court resolve the absence of appellate jurisdiction in the proceedings in which the attorney misconduct is alleged to have occurred, eve…
19-6360 George C. Pugh v. Florida Florida 2019-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process felony florida-law habitual-felony-offender habitual-offender precedent release-date sentencing statutory-interpretation time-calculation Is it lawful for the Petitioner to be deemed an Habitual felony offender whereas the Petitioner was one day outside of the time period of conviction o…
19-533 River Birch, Incorporated, et al. v. Waste Management of Louisiana, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2019-10-23 Denied Response Waived antitrust burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence civil-procedure civil-rico evidence evidentiary-inference federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure matsushita-standard precedent rule-56 summary-judgment Whether the holding in Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co. v. Zenith Radio Corp. that 'ambiguous' circumstantial evidence does not support an inferen…
19-6314 Ralph Willard Savoie v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process haymond-v-united-states parole plea-agreement precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation suborned-perjury supervised-release supreme-court supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-watts waiver-of-appeal Can United States v. Watts stand in light of recent holdings in Haymond v. United States?
19-504 Kara Bowes v. Christina Melito, et al. Second Circuit 2019-10-18 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees central-r-&-banking-co-v-pettus class-action common-fund incentive-awards litigation-expenses precedent precedential-force representative-plaintiffs trustees-v-greenough Do the holdings of Greenough and Pettus, which prohibit payments in common-fund cases to compensate representative plaintiffs for their service to the…
19-6260 Craig Cross v. Florida Florida 2019-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process juvenile-sentencing precedent retroactivity state-supreme-court supreme-court-precedent Did the Florida Supreme Court violate Graham v. Florida, Miller v. Alabama, and Montgomery v. Louisiana when deciding Franklin v. State and State v. M…
19-6207 Kevin Henderson v. Don Bottom, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari-petition circuit-conflict civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-question due-process federal-courts judicial-precedent legal-interpretation merits precedent standing supreme-court supreme-court-review Did the Sixth Circuit err when reaching conclusions arguably in conflict and inconsistent with this Supreme Court's decisions?
19-6208 Darrell Alan Lussier v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals district-court due-process established-precedent habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-appeal judicial-precedent precedent right-to-appeal section-2255 When a District Court's denial of a §2255 motion is contrary to established precedent, is the Court of Appeals required to grant a certificate of appe…
19-6145 Anthony Mark Smith, Jr. v. Virginia Virginia 2019-10-03 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility fair-trial hearsay precedent standard-of-proof victim-testimony Whether the Virginia Supreme Court and Court of Appeals erred in refusing to set aside the petitioner's conviction and sentence, which violated his ri…
19-430 Athena Diagnostics, Inc., et al. v. Mayo Collaborative Services, LLC, dba Mayo Medical Laboratories, et al. Federal Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied Amici (11) 35-usc-101 chemical-process chemical-steps diagnostic-method federal-circuit medical-diagnostics medical-innovation molecular-detection novel-molecules patent-eligibility patent-protection precedent subject-matter-eligibility Whether a new and specific method of diagnosing a medical condition is patent-eligible subject matter
19-419 Antonio L. Saulsberry v. Randy Lee, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-09-27 Denied Response Waived constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus jury-trial precedent retrial sixth-amendment verdict Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause bars retrial of a defendant on a charge that was submitted to a jury at a prior trial but as to which that jury did…
19-6066 In Re Jeffrey S. Collier 2019-09-25 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights court-procedure double-standard due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review judicial-system legal-precedent manifest-injustice precedent standing Does the violation of guaranteed constitutional rights and doctrine of precedents create manifest injustice?
19-319 Bonnie Cruickshank-Wallace, et vir v. CNA Financial Corporation, et al. Third Circuit 2019-09-09 Denied alter-ego-doctrine civil-procedure claim-preclusion due-process holding-company issue-preclusion jurisdiction malpractice precedent standing subsidiary-liability technicality Should this Court affirm the standard that 'claim preclusion' requires the new claim to arise from the same set of facts as a claim adjudicated on the…
19-5844 James Arthur Ross v. John Myrick, Superintendent, Two Rivers Correctional Institution, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 9th-circuit-ruling civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court-error due-process evidence expert-testimony precedent pro-se-litigant standing summary-judgment Did the District Court error in determining that a 9th Circuit Appellate ruling from almost two decades ago in Bahrampour v. Lampert, 356 F.3d 969, 97…
19-5868 William Charles Burgess v. Chuck Bowers, Jr., et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-09-09 Denied IFP 4th-amendment circuit-court circuit-court-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-finding district-court-findings expectation-of-privacy legal-precedent precedent prior-decisions search-and-seizure sixth-circuit Whether the Sixth Circuit Court improperly reversed the District Court's finding that Petitioner had an expectation of privacy in and around his busin…
19-5854 Sabrina D. Davis v. Bankers Life and Casualty Company South Carolina 2019-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP and SCRCP(South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process judicial-bias precedent standing state-courts supreme-court-precedent time-for-service Can the South Carolina courts ignore precedent set by the US Supreme Court that clearly states that time for service cannot be reduced and produce con…
19-5575 Antwaine Enta Yarbrough v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus precedent sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions supreme-court supreme-court-review Whether this Court should hold the instant petition in light of Shular v. United States
19-184 United States v. Richard D. Collins Armed Forces 2019-08-09 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Relisted (2) armed-forces court-of-appeals-for-armed-forces criminal-procedure due-process military-justice precedent rape rape-prosecution statute-of-limitations uniform-code-of-military-justice Whether the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces erred in concluding—contrary to its own longstanding precedent—that the Uniform Code of Military Jus…
19-163 Margaret A. Norton v. Colgate Palmolive Company New Jersey 2019-08-06 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law court-judgment due-process fairness judgement judicial-mistake legal-procedure mistake-of-fact precedent right-of-fairness standing supreme-court-precedent Whether the New Jersey Supreme Court failed to apply Supreme Court Precedent, when an acknowledged mistake by the court resulted in an improper judgem…
19-5479 Gregory Waddell Hayes v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federalism fifth-amendment precedent separate-sovereigns sovereign-immunity Whether this Court should overrule the separate sovereigns exception to Double Jeopardy
19-154 Zafer Construction Company v. Army Corps of Engineers Federal Circuit 2019-08-01 Denied administrative-procedure bid-mistake bid-mistakes bid-verification cfr-14.407-3 contract-law drawing-errors government-contracts hollerbach-v-united-states judicial-precedent precedent reliance-on-drawings sulzer-bingham-pumps-v-lockheed Whether the government can reap the benefit of a contractor's mistaken bid caused by incorrect government drawings
19-5044 Adrian Moon v. California California 2019-07-03 Dismissed IFP abortion civil-rights constitutional-law due-process precedent standing standing-civil-procedure-due-process-takings-civil Where did the Supreme Court rule that the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision overruled Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey?
18-9798 Craig A. Lee v. United States District of Columbia 2019-06-25 Denied IFP circuit-court-conflict criminal-propensity drew-v-united-states due-process evidence-admissibility evidence-of-other-crimes federal-circuits legal-precedent precedent prior-sexual-conduct sexual-assault undue-prejudice Whether the DC Court of Appeals' decision directly conflicts with established legal precedent in federal circuits
18-9760 Andrew D. Dixon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP acca acca-sentence-enhancement acca-statute armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure elements-clause johnson-precedent post-johnson precedent predicate-prior residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement Did the court error denying claims that the residual clause didn't apply to defendant by using Post-Johnson precedent claims and raising elements clau…
18-1516 Veronica Price, et al. v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-06-06 Denied Amici (8)Relisted (2) abortion abortion-clinic buffer-zone civil-rights content-neutrality first-amendment free-speech narrow-tailoring precedent speech-restriction Whether the Court should reconsider Hill v. Colorado in light of Reed v. Town of Gilbert and McCullen v. Coakley
18-9472 Reginald Donell Rice v. Carey D. Cockell, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-06-03 Denied IFP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-question due-process federal-law federal-question jurisdiction precedent standing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions Whether the court of appeals decided an important question of federal law that has not been, but should be, settled by this Court
18-9270 Manuel Antonio Rodriguez v. Florida Florida 2019-05-15 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-murder capital-murder-elements-as-sentencing-factors due-process eighth-amendment florida-supreme-court foster-v-state fourteenth-amendment precedent sentencing-factors Whether the Florida Supreme Court's rationale in Foster v. State mirrors the overruled rationale of Hildwin v. Florida and reveals that Florida contin…
18-9158 Robert B. Lynn v. Theodore A. McKee, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, et al. Third Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP bias bias-standard circuit-court-procedure due-process ex-parte-proceedings federal-courts judicial-bias judicial-conduct judicial-recusal legal-standard precedent recusal recusal-standard supreme-court supreme-court-precedent Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals use the wrong legal standard; in conflict with the precedents of The Supreme Court and the Other Courts of Appe…
18-1371 Jefferson Morley v. Central Intelligence Agency District of Columbia 2019-05-01 Denied Response Waived administrative-law attorney-fees circuit-court-conflict civil-rights due-process foia-attorney-fees freedom-of-information-act judicial-precedent legal-uniformity mandate-rule national-uniformity precedent Whether conflicts within the D.C. Circuit and between the D.C. Circuit and other circuits created by Morley XI require reversal in order to maintain n…
18-1353 Kevin McCabe, et al. v. Lifetime Entertainment Services, LLC Second Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied Response Waived american-pipe american-pipe-doctrine appeal appellate-review civil-procedure class-action class-action-tolling class-certification due-process legal-tolling precedent procedural-rules procedural-tolling sanctions standing statute-of-limitations Whether class-action statute-of-limitations tolling under American Pipe & Constr. Co. v. Utah should continue until a district court's denial of class…
18-8913 Esteban Aguilera-Alvarez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
18-8898 Melinda J. Campbell v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-prosecution economic-harm hobbs-act hobbs-act,economic-harm,criminal-law,mens-rea,prec mens-rea precedent sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent wrongful-conduct Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals disregarded this Court's established precedent set forth in United States v. Enmons, 410 U.S. 396 (1973), a…
18-8902 Gustav Kloszewski v. United States Second Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation Crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility precedent sixth-amendment testimonial-statements Did the lower court fail to follow this Court's precedent in Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004)?
18-1295 Dale De Steno, et al. v. Kelly Services, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2019-04-12 Denied Response Waived appellate-review attorneys-fees civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-issue constitutional-rights due-process free-speech jury-trial precedent seventh-amendment sixth-circuit standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred by denying the Petitioners' request for a jury trial pursuant to the Seventh Am…
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
18-8674 Dewayne Montgomery v. Garry Lewis Properties Louisiana 2019-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof civil-procedure civil-rights discovery due-process landlord-tenant precedent slum-landlords standing summary-judgment tenant-rights tenants Whether the court of appeal's decision below, which effectively shifted the burden of proof onto Petitioner, a non-moving party at the summary judgmen…
18-8647 Amilcar C. Butler v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP binding-authority circuit-court civil-procedure dicta judicial-precedent law-of-case law-of-the-case panel-opinion precedent sixth-circuit Is The Dicta Of A Prior Sixth Circuit Panel Opinion Law Of The Case And Remain Binding On Any Other Panel, Despite Error?
18-8608 William Ramirez, et ux. v. Court of Appeal of California, Third Appellate District, et al. California 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment precedent pro-se state-court statutes Should a pro se petitioner reasonably expect that a state court at the county level follow precedent as a part of due process under the Fourteenth Ame…
18-8625 Jennifer N. Nere v. Illinois Illinois 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP burrage-v-united-states but-for-causation constitutional-rights contributing-cause controlled-substances criminal-law drug-induced-homicide due-process illinois-supreme-court precedent reasonable-doubt statutory-interpretation Whether the defendant may be convicted under the Minois drug induced homicide Statute when the use of the controlled substance was a coe. 'contributin…
18-8516 John E. Drummond v. Ohio Ohio 2019-03-21 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure collateral-appeals collateral-review direct-appeal due-process forum judicial-procedure legal-remedy precedent prejudice records standing Is the state required to provide a defendant a forum to litigate a due-process claim
18-8384 Bruce L. Small v. Florida Florida 2019-03-13 Dismissed IFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights denial-of-review due-process extraordinary-writ florida-law precedent standing state-court state-court-denial written-reason Whether the state appellate court's denial of petitioner's extraordinary writ without providing a written reason or citing any precedent supporting it…
18-1147 Deron Brunson v. L. Douglas Hogan, et al. Utah 2019-03-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure constitutional-disregard due-process equal-protection equitable-maxim fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion object-principle-of-justice precedent precedent-contradiction precedent-interpretation standing Whether the United States Supreme Court has set a precedence that contradicts its own precedence's
18-8103 Derrek Heard v. Walter Berry, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied IFP 11th-circuit appellate-review civil-rights court-discretion due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-precedent legal-procedure precedent state-courts state-prisoner Are the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia and the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit required to …
18-7887 Rodney Lyle Roberts v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 16th-amendment apportionment brushaber-case constitutional-basis constitutional-interpretation direct-income-tax direct-tax fifth-circuit-precedent income-tax parker-v-commissioner precedent sixteenth-amendment tax tax-law Whether the Fifth Circuit precedent in Parker v. Commissioner becomes unassailable in holding that the Sixteenth Amendment provided the needed constit…
18-968 Andrew C. Najda v. Nikolaos J. Paterakis Massachusetts 2019-01-28 Denied Relisted (2) appellate-review due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment manifestly-erroneous meaningful-appeal precedent state-supreme-court Does a state supreme court denying appellate review to parties that raise an error of law that is manifestly erroneous state supreme court precedent d…
18-7540 David Dewayne Riley v. Alabama Alabama 2019-01-24 Denied IFP capital-post-conviction-proceedings capital-proceedings collateral-review death-penalty death-sentence effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance martinez-v-ryan murray-v-giarratano post-conviction-counsel precedent state-court Should this Court revisit its precedent to consider whether death-sentenced inmates are entitled to the effective assistance of counsel on initial col…
18-7522 Freddie B. Kennedy, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-consistency judicial-decision-making legal-error precedent rehearing rehearing-request Did the lower Court commit error by not adhering to its prior decisions when it denied Petitioner's request for rehearing without discussion of the fa…
18-938 Ritzen Group, Inc. v. Jackson Masonry, LLC Sixth Circuit 2019-01-18 Judgment Issued Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (3) 28-usc-158 appellate-jurisdiction automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-stay circuit-split civil-procedure final-order precedent statutory-interpretation Whether an order denying a motion for relief from the automatic stay is a final order under 28 U.S.C. § 158(a)(1)
18-7410 Walter A. Kott, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit judicial-review legal-precedent petitioner-claim precedent standing supreme-court Whether the United States District Court, Eastem District of Louisiana and Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals mis-applied clearly established Supreme Cour…
18-871 Ronald Jarmuth v. The International Club Homeowners Association, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied Response Waived claim-preclusion extrinsic-fraud fair-housing-act federal-court federal-court-injunction precedent retaliation state-court state-court-order Whether the Court of Appeals and the District Court erred in ignoring all precedents by holding that a federal court may not enjoin a state court orde…
18-7242 Dauntorian Lyndel Sanders v. Arizona Arizona 2019-01-07 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment precedent sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent Whether Arizona follows the precedent of Simmons v. South Carolina, 512 U.S. 154 (1994), as set forth in Lynch v. Arizona, 136 S. Ct. 1818 (2016)
18-867 Matthew E. Jackson, Jr., et al. v. Frances Edith Jackson Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure civil-sanctions criminal-sanctions due-process eleventh-circuit equal-protection evidentiary-standards jurisdictional-limitations precedent procedural-protections sanctions supreme-court Whether the failure of a court to comply with the jurisdictional limitations, procedural and due process protections, evidentiary standards, the prece…
18-7141 Luis Rey Gonzalez v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-analysis constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent overruling precedent recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Should this Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998)?
18-7135 In Re Walter Edward Harrington 2018-12-20 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection key-terms legal-issues petition precedent scotus standing statutory-interpretation topic-areas writ-of-certiorari Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant statute and precedents
18-7008 Daniel Lee White v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights corporate-disclosure due-process equal-protection judicial-review precedent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its application of the legal standard for determining the existence of a constitutional violation
18-6566 Jara Meotta Ishon Flowers v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-11-06 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP bribery case-overturning civil-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process extortion judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-precedent precedent racketeering stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Should this Court overturn its prior decision in Evans?
18-6546 Alexander Castellano-Benitez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit evidence exculpatory-evidence Judicial-Precedent precedent Procedural-Review prosecutorial-misconduct Writ-of-Certiorari Should a writ of certiorari be granted to determine if the Eight Circuit and the lower court erred in failing to follow this court's prior precedent i…
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
18-6367 Joel Carter v. Jamie Ayala, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment medical-services medical-treatment precedent prisoner-rights summary-judgment Did the lower court err in granting summary judgment in favor of Respondents on Petitioner's Eighth Amendment deliberate indifference claim, by issuin…
18-6228 John Laschkewitsch v. American National Life Insurance Company Fourth Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP breach-of-contract civil-procedure contestability due-process estoppel insurance-authorities insurance-contestability insurance-contract insurance-law precedent statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation time-limitation unfair-and-deceptive-trade-practices unfair-claim-settlement Whether Hurni, Enelow, Stewart and Pickering contestability precedent from this Court; American Trust Co. and Chavis precedent from the NC Supreme Cou…
18-6164 John B. Laschkewitsch v. ReliaStar Life Insurance Company Fourth Circuit 2018-10-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights claim-limitation contestable-period due-process estoppel federal-rules-of-civil-procedure insurance insurance-contract precedent precedent-review rule-60a statutes-of-limitation Whether Hurni, Enelow, Stewart and Pickering precedent from this Court; American Trust Co. and Chavis precedent from the NC Supreme Court; unanimous U…
18-6121 Benjamin Vega-Garcia, aka Carlos Moreno Molina v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari-standard constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent precedent precedent-overruling recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review Whether the Court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998)
18-303 Henryk Oleksy v. General Electric Company Federal Circuit 2018-09-12 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure civil-procedure counterclaim-dismissal court-precedent due-process federal-circuit finality finality-of-judgment judgment-finality patent patent-law precedent supervisory-power Whether district court judgment was final despite lack of express dismissal of invalidity counterclaim
18-5923 Brent Eugene Sanchez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-09-11 Denied IFP bodily-injury castleman-standard civil-rights criminal-law due-process felony-force felony-force-clause misdemeanor-force misdemeanor-force-clause precedent standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent violent-act violent-force violent-physical-force Whether the mere causation of bodily injury necessarily includes the use of violent, physical force
18-5644 Gesner Delva, aka Ti Blan v. United States Second Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 appellate-review circuit-court-precedent court-of-appeals criminal-sentencing district-court due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion precedent sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Contrary to Its Own Precedent Affirmed the District Court's Judgment Order Whereby Denying the Pet…
18-169 Lance Laber v. Milberg LLP, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1291 appellate-rights circuit-split civil-procedure class-action class-certification intervention microsoft-corp-v-baker precedent standing united-airlines united-airlines-inc-v-mcdonald Whether an unnamed putative class member may intervene to appeal the denial of class certification after the named plaintiff's individual claims are d…
18-5471 Roman Gabriel Contreras v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-procedure-rules constitutional-rights dog-sniff due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion precedent probable-cause procedural-rules search-and-seizure standing vagueness Does the Appellate Court need to follow rules? Or are they allowed to circumvent established procedure?
18-5406 Orlando G. McDaniel v. United States District of Columbia 2018-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights court-of-appeals exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment police-powers precedent probable-cause scope-of-search search-and-seizure search-warrant seizure Whether the police exceeded the scope of the search warrant and seized additional items in violation of the Fourth Amendment
18-143 Sandra Lee Bart v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-07-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review conspiracy conspiracy-conviction due-process evidence evidentiary-hearing fair-trial government-witness juror-misconduct jury-misconduct precedent sixth-amendment substantial-evidence Did the Eighth Circuit fail to follow its own precedent and rule contrary to other Appellate Circuits and the United States Supreme Court when it appr…
18-5379 Marilyn Kaye Freeman v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-07-27 Denied IFP appellate-counsel california-supreme-court due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-disqualification precedent state-court-proceedings supreme-court-review trial-counsel Whether the reinstatement of a previously disqualified judge deprived the appellant of due process and a fair trial
18-5256 Brandon Wade Moragne-El v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2018-07-19 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection guilty-plea judicial-precedent pennsylvania plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal precedent sentencing supreme-court Does the denial of the Petitioner's Motion to Withdraw his Guilty Plea contradict Precedent case law from the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, the Supr…
18-5267 Arthur Waters v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment categorical-exception drug-distribution exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment in-home-arrest precedent protective-sweep reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure Should Buie be expanded to permit protective sweeps in all cases involving in-home arrests of suspected drug distributors?
18-5225 Junaidu Saljan Savage, aka James Kamara v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts-of-appeal in-camera-review pennsylvania-v-ritchie precedent prosecutorial-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct ritchie standing Whether, under Pennsylvania v. Ritchie, 480 U.S. 39 (1987), defendants requesting in camera review for potential required disclosures in accordance wi…
18-63 Steve K. Wilson Briggs v. Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-07-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights copyright copyright-claims copyright-law court-procedure due-process free-speech intellectual-property internet-guidelines legal-precedent patent precedent standing Whether by failing to clarify and update internet-access-guidelines, U.S. courts imperil the rights of U.S. intellectual-property-owners
18-21 Allergan Sales, LLC v. Sandoz, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2018-07-03 Denied Response Waived appellate-review circuit-court-precedent circuit-courts civil-procedure due-process factual-stipulation federal-circuit judicial-procedure legal-binding noninfringement patent-infringement precedent stipulation Whether the Federal Circuit may ignore a factual stipulation, contrary to this Court's precedent, and decisions of numerous circuit courts, holding th…