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25-6699 Martin Gutierrez-Barba v. United States Ninth Circuit 2026-02-03 Pending Response WaivedIFP 3553(a)-factors appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing Is urging a sentence recommendation lower than is ultimately imposed and grounding that recommendation in the 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) factors, sufficient …
25-6563 Gary Craig Stephens v. United States Ninth Circuit 2026-01-13 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP court-of-appeals plain-error-review procedural-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-range supervised-release Whether a court of appeals may affirm a sentence when the district court never calculated or identified the applicable Sentencing Guidelines range and…
25-6480 Jairo Huertas-Mercado v. United States First Circuit 2026-01-05 Pending Response WaivedIFP baker-v-wingo constitutional-rights judicial-review procedural-error sixth-amendment speedy-trial Whether there was failure to properly weigh the Baker v Wingo 3rd and 4th factors when the issue was not presented below in violation of the Petitione…
25-6439 Marquis Melton v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-12-29 Pending Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split district-court district-court-discretion harmless-error procedural-error sentencing-guidelines Whether a district court's statement asserting it would have imposed the same sentence regardless of any potential procedural error renders that error…
25-704 Fulton County, Pennsylvania, et al. v. Dominion Voting Systems, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-17 Pending breach-of-contract constitutional-authority elections-clause procedural-error standing voting-machines Whether the District Court erred in dismissing the Petitioners' breach of contract suit against Dominion for voting machine defects, based on lack of …
25-6319 Gary Allen Kachina v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-12-09 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP court-judgment due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-bias legal-review procedural-error Whether the district court's judicial bias and alleged procedural errors during the evidentiary hearing warrant reversal of the lower court's judgment
25-654 Ayyakkannu Manivannan v. Department of Energy, et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-05 Denied Response Waived agency-document circuit-split court-order judicial-interpretation privacy-act procedural-error Did the 3rd Circuit Court err by accepting District Court's interpretation on a County Prothonotary-signed court order not signed by a Judge, violatin…
25A660 Alante Martel Nelson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-12-04 Application acca brown-v-united-states career-offender procedural-error sentencing-guidelines time-of-conviction Whether the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. United States extends to the interpretation of federal Sentencing Guidelines for determining career o…
25-635 Edward Ronny Arnold v. Moore and Smith Tree Care LLC Sixth Circuit 2025-12-03 Pending appellate-review constitutional-violation electronic-evidence procedural-error sixth-circuit subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in ruling the Appellant forfeited appellate review and whether the court violat…
25-5981 Erick Pizarro-Mercado v. United States First Circuit 2025-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure evidence-sufficiency federal-rules procedural-error rule-29 sentencing Whether evidence was sufficient to justify the district court denial of Rule 29 of the Fed. R. Crim. P. and whether the district court committed rever…
25-5970 Charles S. Renchenski v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2025-10-28 Dismissed IFP federal-courts legal-interpretation magwood-v-patterson procedural-error supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Did the lower federal courts misapprehend and misapply the United States Supreme Court decision in Magwood v. Patterson?
25-5767 Robert Draft v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2025-09-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court district-court habeas-corpus legal-merit procedural-error Did the United States District Court err in ruling that Mr. Draft's petition for writ of Habeas Corpus was untimely, and did the Circuit Court of Appe…
25-318 Eric Matthew Mumaw v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township Third Circuit 2025-09-17 Denied appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court habeas-corpus procedural-error third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying the Petitioner's Certificate of Appealability and whether the District Court should have g…
25-5631 Brian Goorahoo v. United States Second Circuit 2025-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-appeal federal-sentencing preservation-of-error procedural-error sentencing-procedure Whether a federal criminal defendant must object post-sentence to preserve a claim of sentencing procedural error
25-5547 Samreen Riaz v. Shazib Riaz California 2025-09-04 Dismissed IFP appellate-review due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias procedural-error property-division Does a state supreme court's summary denial of a petition for review violate the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of fair adjudication and meaningful …
25-5404 Darren Smith v. United States Second Circuit 2025-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure mitigation-arguments official-victim-enhancement procedural-error sentencing-guidelines Whether a district court commits procedural error when imposing a within-Guidelines sentence without addressing a defendant's mitigation arguments or …
25-5369 C. Holmes v. Terrance C. Cole, Administrator, Drug Enforcement Administration Fourth Circuit 2025-08-14 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion local-civil-rule magistrate-review procedural-error Whether the lower court's application of Local Civil Rule 73.02(B)(2)(d) and denial of hearing and recusal is reversible as a matter of law
25-5294 Maria Navarro Martin v. Florida Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-06 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court due-process jurisdictional-challenge notice-of-judgment procedural-error Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals denied procedural due process by considering issues beyond the scope of appeal and failing to provide pr…
25-5223 Burte Gucci Rhodes v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction interstate-commerce jury-instruction legal-sufficiency murder-for-hire procedural-error Whether a conviction for murder-for-hire can properly be affirmed when the jury was instructed that it need not conclude an interstate facility was us…
25-5120 Muzammil Ali v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability eighth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-error Was The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in error when it denied the Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability?
24-7503 Bradley J. Harris v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-circuit amendment-821 judicial-discretion procedural-error sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of a sentence reduction under Amendment 821 despite procedural errors and all…
24-1295 Brandon Phillips v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-06-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split criminal-history expungement harmless-error procedural-error sentencing-guidelines Whether a sentencing court should apply the plain meaning of 'expunged' when calculating a defendant's criminal history under the Sentencing Guideline…
24-7208 Cornell Slater v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-05-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review constitutional-interpretation judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether the Court of Appeals improperly allowed district courts to nullify sentencing guidelines through inoculating statements that latent errors wou…
24-7065 Donald J. Englert, II v. Reginald Bishop, Superintendent, Five Points Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2025-04-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP aedpa due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-error state-court Whether a state court's denial of a hearing on an ineffective assistance of counsel claim can amount to an unreasonable determination of facts under A…
24-6973 James Arthur Meeks, III v. Alvin DeBouse, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-04-11 Denied IFP constitutional-search due-process federal-rules judicial-review procedural-error search-and-seizure Whether the district court's findings were correct in light of the constitutional search and seizure claims and procedural due process violations
24-6785 Brian Scott Sharp v. Texas Texas 2025-03-17 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-defense due-process jury-instructions objection-preservation procedural-error Whether a criminal defendant's due process rights were violated by jury instructions that denied a necessary defense and improperly preserved objectio…
24-6673 Israel Romero v. Meta Platforms Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-02-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP court-of-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment half-truth judicial-bias procedural-error Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteen Amendment requires recusal of a judge when there are multiple instances of bias, including half-truths,…
24-6682 Raequan Rucker v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-dismissal appellate-procedure fourth-circuit judicial-review legal-standing procedural-error Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Rucker's Appeal before that Court
24-6657 Leopoldo Villareal v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-sentencing harmless-error judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing-guidelines Whether an appellate court should rely on a sentencing judge's routine assertions that they would have imposed the same sentence despite a Sentencing …
24-6607 In Re Stephanie Mykonos 2025-02-21 Denied IFP brief-filing court-of-appeals docketing mandamus pro-se procedural-error Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the court of appeals to error correct a pro se petitioner's timely filed brief that was not docketed
24-760 Ryan T. Thornton v. Circuit Court of Wisconsin, Racine County Wisconsin 2025-01-16 Denied Response Waived appellate-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-error supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Did the Supreme Court and Wisconsin courts err in denying Ryan Thornton's multiple petitions and appeals related to ineffective assistance of appellat…
24-6274 Samreen Riaz v. Altura Centers for Health California 2025-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment-violation court-bias judicial-discretion motion-in-limine procedural-error witness-intimidation Whether the California Supreme Court and lower courts committed procedural errors and showed bias in multiple stages of a legal proceeding involving m…
24-6230 La'Tesa Cobbs v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2025-01-03 Denied IFP appeals-board good-cause misinformation procedural-error resignation unemployment-insurance Whether the Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board erred in determining Petitioner lacked good cause for resignation and whether Respondents used misinf…
24-6085 Tanya Tyson v. Madelyn Winningham, et al. Oklahoma 2024-12-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP fraud-claim insurance-contract interlocutory-appeal procedural-error right-to-appeal subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the Supreme Court err in dismissing the case for lack of an appealable order and denying the right to appeal despite alleged fraud and jurisdictio…
24-5979 Robert Seth Denton v. Chris Brun, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-11-15 Denied IFP exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus petition-review procedural-error sixth-circuit state-remedies Did the Sixth Circuit err in denying permission to appeal a § 2254 petition when no state remedies were available to exhaust?
24-5882 Tyrone Greenfield v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-history judicial-discretion miscalculation procedural-error relevant-conduct sentencing Whether a sentence may be sustained if it relies upon an obvious and gross miscalculation pertaining to alleged wrongdoing that results in incorrect r…
24-5736 James Ray Pendergraft v. Texas Texas 2024-10-10 Denied IFP constitutional-review criminal-appeals ineffective-assistance lesser-included-offense procedural-error trial-record Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals improperly denied a lesser included offense instruction and found counsel not ineffective, and whether the…
24-5735 Robert G. Moore v. Ronald Weber, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-10-10 Denied IFP district-court due-process evidentiary-ruling fourth-circuit judicial-review procedural-error Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals improperly applied due process standards in reviewing a district court's evidentiary rulings and potential…
24-5604 Samreen Riaz v. Court of Appeal of California, Fifth Appellate District, et al. California 2024-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP judicial-bias judicial-discretion legal-conflict petition-review procedural-error supreme-court-procedure Whether the California Supreme Court improperly denied a petition and application for stay, leaving unresolved legal and factual conflicts
24-5586 Ziyao Jiang v. Liu Yuan, et al. Third Circuit 2024-09-20 Denied IFP appellate-review court-departure judicial-proceedings jurisdictional-conflict procedural-error third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit Court's departure from standard judicial proceedings constitutes a reversible error or jurisdictional violation
24-5554 Harry Lee Goldsboro v. Florida Florida 2024-09-16 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-counsel judicial-review procedural-error Whether the Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims of due process violations and ineffective assistance of counsel when the lowe…
24-5551 Samuel Arnold v. Georgia Georgia 2024-09-16 Denied IFP constitutional-rights habeas-corpus legal-representation prisoner-rights pro-se procedural-error Whether a pro se prisoner's petition was improperly denied due to procedural errors and lack of proper legal representation
24-5433 David Vargas v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-08-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split district-court judicial-discretion legal-interpretation procedural-error sentencing-guidelines Whether a district court's failure to follow the plain language of the Sentencing Guidelines constitutes an incorrect application of the Sentencing Gu…
24-5384 Carlton Eugene Hooker, Jr. v. Kevin T. Hanretta, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure case-dismissal civil-rights court-remand judicial-discretion procedural-error Whether the Eleventh Circuit abused its discretion in denying the appellant's motion for judgment and remanding the case due to procedural irregularit…
24-5213 Gilbert Campa v. Ingrid Rosenquist, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-01 Denied IFP appeals civil-action civil-procedure court-of-appeals dismissal holidays judicial-procedure jurisdiction legal-review prejudice procedural-error time-limits Question not identified
24-5208 In Re Daimeyahn Stevenson 2024-08-01 Denied IFP arbitrary-order case-review civil-procedure court-authority due-process erroneous-order judicial-procedure jurisdiction jurisdiction-divesting legal-jurisdiction procedural-error standing Whether a court may divest itself of lawful jurisdiction by an erroneous or arbitrary order
24-5205 Carmen A. Zammiello v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2024-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus procedural-error supreme-court Question not identified.
24-5193 James E. Clifford v. Carla Walker, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-07-31 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights default-judgment due-process fair-adjudication fourteenth-amendment procedural-error racial-discrimination Does the failure of the Appellate Court to recognize and address a procedural error, especially the entry and subsequent denial of default judgment ou…
24-5143 Nicholas Nassif Hayek v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-statement district-court due-process evidence motion-to-suppress procedural-error sixth-circuit standard-of-review fourth-amendment
23-1336 Noel West Lane, III v. Matthew Curtis Witt, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-06-25 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure due-process fair-hearing fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion manifest-fraud pro-se-litigants pro-se-litigation procedural-error Should the Supreme Court provide guidance on mandatory accommodation of judicial discretion to ensure fair hearings for pro se litigants and clarify i…
23-7759 Israel Santiago-Lugo v. United States First Circuit 2024-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-reasoning procedural-error reasoned-decision-making supreme-court-precedent May the District Court and Court of Appeals ignore the Supreme Court's decision in Concepcion v. U.S.
23-7731 In Re Jack Carpenter, III 2024-06-17 Denied IFP burden-of-proof civil-liberties competence competency-evaluation constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure legal-interpretation presumption-of-jurisdiction procedural-error Question not identified
23-7557 Paul Henry Gibson v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus hospital-records incapacitation judicial-bias procedural-error structural-error Does the lower court's decision to bar petitioner, and deny equitable tolling for the period of time petitioner was incapacitated, violate due-process…
23A1018 Luis Marin v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-05-16 Presumed Complete criminal-case legal-standard ninth-circuit procedural-error time-extension writ-of-certiorari Whether the Ninth Circuit correctly applied the standard for granting or denying a writ of certiorari in a criminal case involving procedural or subst…
23A934 Damien Ford v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2024-04-17 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus indigent-status procedural-error successive-petition supreme-court-rules Whether the Supreme Court should grant a certificate of appealability for a second successive habeas corpus petition when the petitioner claims indige…
23-7139 Eugenia Woodard v. Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers' Compensation, et al. Texas 2024-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appeals civil-procedure due-process final-decision final-order jurisdiction jurisdictional-review procedural-error sovereign-immunity standing statutory-interpretation How does U.S. Supreme Court address final decision/order of lower courts when dates are in questioned?
23-7095 Jerico Matias Cruz v. Illinois Seventh Circuit 2024-03-28 Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure common-law due-process filing-fee judicial-review non-precedential-order nonprecedential-disposition procedural-error standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and three Circuit Judges entered a nonprecedential disposition order with a citatio…
23-6877 Omar S. Folk v. Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al. Third Circuit 2024-03-01 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP amended-complaint certiorari-finality civil-procedure district-court-dismissal due-process procedural-error standing summary-affirmance third-circuit-error third-circuit-review Whether the Third Circuit Erred in Summarily Affirmed District Court Dismissal on Plaintiff's Third Amend Complaint Doc. 196 before his original Cert.…
23-6841 Ronald D. Houston v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-02-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review booker-standard circuit-split crime-of-violence gall-v-united-states procedural-error reasonableness-review resisting-arrest sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-booker whether-the-circuits-may-forego-appellate-review-of-significant-procedural-error-under-gall
23-6820 Marvin Carcamo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure gang-membership harmless-error ninth-circuit procedural-error racketeering rico-conspiracy sentencing-guidelines Did the Ninth Circuit incorrectly affirm the district court's procedural error determining racketeering conduct was reasonably foreseeable under the U…
23-6640 Garland Ray Gregory, Jr. v. South Dakota South Dakota 2024-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment-claim collateral-estoppel constitutional-violation coram-nobis cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion procedural-error res-judicata Did the South Dakota Supreme Court abuse its discretion in dismissing the petitioner's writ of error coram nobis?
23-6401 Wayne Johnson v. Contra Costa County Clerk Recorder, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-misconduct civil-rights court-immunity court-reporter criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process immunity judicial-proceedings procedural-error standing state-court Whether a court reporter in a state criminal action is entitled to immunity for failing to record objections made by parties in a criminal preceding t…
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
23-659 Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Westside Donut Huntington Ventures LLC Second Circuit 2023-12-19 Denied appeals brief-filing circuit-rules civil-procedure clerk-error court-of-appeals due-process judicial-discretion procedural-error standing Whether inexcusable error or neglect by U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Clerk granting the defendant permission file an Appellee's brief …
23-6114 Andre Jackson v. California California 2023-11-28 Denied IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights court-opinion due-process evidentiary-issues ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure legal-issue legal-relief procedural-error record-development Whether APPELLATE Counsel's PERFORMANCE WAS deFiciut uNneteR StrickiANnd
23-6107 Joseph G. Cua v. Roberto A. Arias, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion aedpa aedpa-limitations discovery due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-error rule-60-motion time-limitations Whether exceptions to the AEDPA one-year time limitations rendered the district court's 2015 dismissal for untimeliness of Cua's habeas petition and d…
23-6005 Ehab Sadeek v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process plain-error procedural-error sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-wooden Whether the appellate court erred in affirming the petitioner's sentence based on a pattern-of-activity enhancement and a cross-reference enhancement
23-5915 Keith Alexander v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2023-10-31 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review appointment-of-counsel civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court due-process evidence habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-error standard-of-review Whether the district court abused its discretion when it refused to appoint counsel for the appellant and denied the appellant due process and the rig…
23-5900 Gus Massey, Jr. v. El Paso City Attorney's Office Texas 2023-10-27 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process jurisdiction justice-courts procedural-error sovereign-immunity standing texas-constitution texas-tort-claims-act tort-claims-act Whether Texas 'Justice Courts' should be submitted to the rules, precedents, and guidelines 'Outside of it's Texas Statutory Guidelines
23-5885 Donald Lee Kissner v. Heidi E. Washington, Director, Michigan Department of Corrections, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-10-25 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights collateral-consequences constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fact-finding-hearing judicial-discretion parole-revocation preliminary-hearing procedural-error Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals abuse its discretion when it claimed Mr. Bissner's appeal was frivolous?
23-5810 Christopher L. Laureano-Perez v. United States First Circuit 2023-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-verdict procedural-error section-2255-motion Should a writ of certiorari be granted to determine if the First Circuit of Appeals erred in not granting a certificate of appealability?
23-5805 Jeffrey Corporal v. Ronald Weber, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-10-16 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction filing-deadline harmless-error pro-se-litigant procedural-error standing statute-of-limitations Does a federal district court harmlessly err when it erroneously extends a defendant's inexcusably neglectfully missed filing deadline to respond to a…
23-5766 Richard Todd Haas v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553(a) 3553a-factors appellate-review criminal-sentencing fourth-circuit procedural-error sentencing-guidelines variance-sentence Is the Fourth Circuit's plausibility test for evaluating a variance sentence under the 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) factors, because it is untethered from any …
23-5645 Robert Eugene Stallings v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge counterman-precedent criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions procedural-error statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence Whether 18 U.S.C. §1038(a) requires proof of intent to make a reasonably believable threat
23-5385 Adam Knoll v. Florida Florida 2023-08-18 Denied Relisted (3)IFP constitutional-law constitutional-validity criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus procedural-error sexual-offense standing Whether the Florida Statutes, Chapter 794 and Chapter 800, are constitutionally valid
23-5320 Curtis Lavon Magee v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-error waiver Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Magee's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provisions in his Plea Agreement
23-5136 Chastity Quintana v. Rodney Wirthlin, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-07-19 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-counsel judicial-review legal-filing legal-standard procedural-error standing Whether the petitioner was denied due process and equal protection by having an unqualified or ineffective court-appointed counsel represent them in a…
23-5090 Travis J. Brown v. California California 2023-07-13 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP acquittal appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-protections criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judicial-review mistrial procedural-error Whether principles of double jeopardy protect a defendant from successive prosecutions of inconsistent verdicts contrary to Powell's analysis
23-5073 Cinque Robinson v. Janeen D. Guajardo Illinois 2023-07-12 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process justiciable-controversy parental-rights parenting-time procedural-error subject-matter-jurisdiction void-order Did the Appellate Court of Illinois, First District err in not vacating the abatement of my parenting time
22-7840 Cordelro Desean Shoulders v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-error waiver Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Shoulders' appeal based on the waiver of appeal provisions in his Plea Agreement
22-7717 Christopher A. Bernard v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-06 Denied IFP appellate-review below-guidelines-sentence circuit-split district-court-discretion holguin-hernandez procedural-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness Whether the holding in Holguin-Hernandez that a defendant's argument for a lower sentence preserves appellate review of the substantive reasonableness…
22-7580 Victor Alfredo Bermudez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing notice-of-objection preservation-of-error preservation-of-objection procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review supervisory-powers trial-court-notice Whether a specific objection must be lodged to preserve a procedural error claim when the trial court was put on notice of the objection through defen…
22-7587 John Wayne Spell v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review plea-agreement procedural-error waiver Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Spell's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provisions in his Plea Agreement
22-7478 Marla Faith Crawford v. David Patrick Corrigan, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-05-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-dismissal dismissal due-process en-banc-review judicial-discretion legal-review procedural-error rehearing-en-banc standing Did the Appeals Court of the Fourth Circuit err in dismissing the petition and refusing to grant a rehearing en banc?
22-7447 In Re Antonio D. McCaster 2023-05-03 Denied IFP civil-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion petition-review procedural-error standing statute-of-limitations timeliness writ-of-certiorari Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's habeas corpus petition as untimely
22-7254 Danny Wayne Alcoser v. Texas Texas 2023-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP amended-motion appellate-court appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process electronic-filing ineffective-assistance judicial-proceedings notice-of-appeal procedural-error Did the Texas Appellate Court(s) depart from judicial-proceedings to deprive petitioner's due-process rights
22-7035 Brian Keith Person, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP fourth-circuit harmless-error mitigating-arguments procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review supervised-release whether-the-fourth-circuit-erred-by-applying-a-plainly-unreasonable-standard-of-review
22-7020 Tiwian Laquinn Skief v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-15 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review misrepresentation procedural-error standard-of-review Did the Fifth Circuit misrepresent facts in this case that caused them to deny Petitioner's COA?
22-6954 Juanita Burch v. Rushmore Loan Management Services, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2023-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-procedure bankruptcy-removal civil-procedure court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction lien-extinguishment loan-management procedural-error removal summary-judgment Whether the 2008 bankruptcy extinguished the lien on the property and the lender's refusal to follow the court's instructions to reinstate the loan me…
22-6628 Johnell Lewis Britton, Sr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure fact-specific-reasons federal-sentencing judicial-discretion non-guidelines-sentences procedural-error reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether district courts are required to articulate fact-specific reasons for imposing non-guidelines sentences?
22-6257 Kenneth Ray Borders v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court compassionate-release criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment health-conditions judicial-misconduct procedural-error standing Should this court grant the writ where the lower court erred in violation of the eighth-amendment in denying compassionate-release when the lower cour…
22-6232 Trevor Jim Bishop v. California California 2022-12-06 Denied IFP due-process evidence hearsay other-acts other-acts-evidence procedural-error procedure prosecutorial-misconduct trial-counsel waiver Whether the majority opinion erred not only as to the substantive admissibility of the other acts evidence, but whether the majority also erred proced…
22-6213 In Re Mark Stinson 2022-12-02 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appeals case-assignment civil-procedure due-process judicial-procedure procedural-error right-to-counsel rights-to-counsel sixth-circuit standing Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit err by denying Mark Stinson due process and violating his right to counsel?
22-6058 Justin David Martin v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-of-record criminal-procedure evidence evidence-admission federal-prosecution procedural-error record search-warrant structural-error waiver Whether the federal prosecution's reliance on a state search warrant without making it part of the formal record constitutes structural error
22-5788 Martin Elliott Brooks v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-10-07 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split harmless-error judicial-discretion procedural-error rule-52 sentencing-courts sentencing-guidelines Whether errors in calculating the Sentencing Guidelines are rendered harmless by the district court's assertion that the Guidelines would make no diff…
22-5717 Brent Evan Webster v. Alex Trail, et ux. Ninth Circuit 2022-09-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-claim civil-procedure covid-19-impact due-process false-claim fraud procedural-error qualifying-life-event standing supplemental-judgment takings Did lower courts err in allowing Alex and Connie Trail's claim as creditor to stand, after their attorneys filed unreasonable fees of a supplemental j…
22-284 Gary Frisby, pka G-Money v. Sony Music Entertainment, dba RCA Records, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-09-26 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisprudence appellate-procedure case-consolidation copyright-infringement judicial-review musical-composition procedural-error sound-recording subject-matter-jurisdiction supervisory-power Does the Ninth Circuit's ruling that it lacked subject matter jurisdiction over the musical composition infringement claim appeal constitute a wrongfu…
22-242 Cyrano R. Irons v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-09-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court harmless-error judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure Whether errors in calculating the Sentencing Guidelines are rendered categorically harmless by the district court's assertion that the Guidelines woul…
22-5400 Maurice D. Bell v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error-review preservation-of-error procedural-error sentencing sentencing-procedure Whether an appellate court errs under Fed. R. Crim. P. 51 by applying plain error review to a claim of procedural error brought to the sentencing judg…
22-5402 Ronnie Jones v. Deanna Brookhart, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction procedural-error sentencing standing Whether the Court's imposition of a sentence or judgment lacks constitutional safeguards
22-5258 Jeremy Lafitte v. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Ninth Circuit 2022-08-02 Denied IFP appellate-procedure cause-of-action civil-procedure court-of-appeals federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-dismissal pleading procedural-error rule-8(a) Whether a plaintiff must plead a specific set of facts that constitute a cause of action under the federal pleading requirements of Rule 8(a) of the F…
22-5220 Palani Karupaiyan v. Jatinder Singh, et al. Third Circuit 2022-07-29 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process federal-statutes intellectual-property procedural-error standing tax-evasion USCA failed to vacate the Sua sponte order of dismissing the complaint is error
22-82 Charles Johnson v. TheHuffingtonPost.com, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2022-07-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure data-harvesting Did the Supreme Court of Virginia err in determini educational-evaluations forum-selection 22-829" jurisdictional-error libel personal-jurisdiction pretrial-motions procedural-error revenue-generation sovereign-immunity specific-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court-review targeted-marketing website-data-collection website-liability Whether the Supreme Court of Virginia erred in det Whether the panel majority of the Fifth Circuit correctly held that a national news organization's website that harvests visitor location data to shar…
22-71 Jerald Hammann v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Minnesota 2022-07-26 Denied Response Waived appeal-prematurity civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-findings due-process individual-rights judicial-procedure judicial-procedures legal-review procedural-error standing Whether a lower court erred in finding an appeal premature, but then attempting to make findings relative to the premature appeal
22-57 Dean Allen Steeves, Acting Trustee of Brother's Keeper Ministries v. Internal Revenue Service Ninth Circuit 2022-07-21 Denied Response Waived church-organization constitutional-law constitutional-mandate integrated-auxiliary iRS-subpoena jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge non-organization-private-church procedural-error subpoena substantive-law Whether the U.S. District and U.S. Appellate Court usurped jurisdiction and declined to exercise jurisdiction by denying Petitioner's Motion to Quash …
22-5018 Michael Allen Long v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure fifth-circuit jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-error standard-of-review waiver Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by finding that Mr. Long's appeal should be dismissed based on the waiver of appeal provision in his Plea Agreement
21-8206 Noble Laverne Bennett v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing sentencing-review Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in denying Bennett's appeal without an opportunity to be heard
21-7952 Steven P. Grados v. United States Third Circuit 2022-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion constitutional-rights due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-assignment magistrate-judge procedural-error recusal retaliation third-circuit-court-of-appeals Whether a trial judge can assign a non-consent magistrate judge to hear a 2255 motion involving the trial judge's own actions
21-7953 Antonio D. McCaster v. Ron Neal, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-05-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion petition-dismissal procedural-error related-cases standing time-bar Whether the United States District Court Northern District of Indiana South Bend Division's judge abused his discretion in dismissing the petitioner's…
21-7903 Steve Ballesteros v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-05-18 Denied IFP 5th-amendment appellate-review attorney-ineffectiveness constitutional-limitation due-process equal-protection federal-habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction procedural-error strickland-v-washington Is state-appellate-court-hindering-post-collateral-proceeding-unconstitutional
21-7552 Kalvin Bishop v. Thomas McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP adequate-grounds appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-of-appeals debatable-issue due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-error third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing Petitioner's application for certificate of appealability
21-7338 Chandler Saxton v. Georgia Georgia 2022-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conviction cumulative-error due-process fair-trial judicial-review medical-issues procedural-error trial-court Whether the cumulative errors in the lower court proceedings, including the failure to properly consider medical issues, resulted in a denial of the p…
21-6989 Jason Wayne Oien v. Chad Pringle, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-01-31 Denied IFP certiorari civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review lower-court-decision post-conviction-relief procedural-error prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing supreme-court-review Whether the petitioner's conviction was supported by sufficient evidence under the standard set forth in Jackson v. Virginia
21-6961 Mauro C. Palacio v. Justin Caraway, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admission fifth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-discretion procedural-error Whether the Court of Appeals erred in holding that the petitioner abandoned, through failure to brief, a separate claim that he is subject to an illeg…
21-6922 Jeffrey Charles Rodd v. Leann LaRiva, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-01-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights deliberate-indifference discovery district-court due-process eighth-circuit procedural-error standing summary-judgment Did the District Court err in dismissing Mr. Rodd's complaint without the benefit of discovery to further support his deliberate indifference claim
21-6861 Piyarath S. Kayarath v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP adolescent-brain compassionate-release extraordinary-circumstances mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimums neuroscience neuroscience-evidence procedural-error section-3553 section-3582 sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform Whether Booker's invalidation of the mandatory sentencing regime, and post-Booker neuroscience facts about the adolescent brain constitutes extraordin…
21-6805 Louis Roy Chapman v. Phyllis Smith, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process judicial-bias judicial-recusal jury-trial procedural-error recusal standing summary-judgment Whether the district court judge erred in not recusing himself
21-6672 Trevor Jim Bishop v. California California 2021-12-20 Denied IFP due-process evidence-code-section-1109 federal-rule-of-evidence-404(b) hearsay hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance other-acts-evidence procedural-error prosecutorial-misconduct trial-counsel Whether the majority opinion erred not only as to the substantive admissibility of the other acts evidence, but whether the majority also erred proced…
21-6617 Alan Douglas v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County Ninth Circuit 2021-12-15 Dismissed IFP american-heart-association civil-rights civil-rights-violation drug-eluted-stents due-process judicial-bias judicial-misconduct medical-malpractice procedural-error res-ipsa-loquitur Reverse and settle personal injury
21-6515 Chadd A. Morris v. Jerry Worley, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-12-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment case-dismissal civil-procedure civil-rights court-recusal due-process judicial-misconduct legal-standards precedential-law procedural-error property-rights standing Whether the government's warrantless seizure and indefinite retention of a person's personal property violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on u…
21-6431 Vegas D. Smith v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-11-29 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion appeals appellate-review career-offender criminal-procedure explanation judicial-discretion procedural-error record sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation Did the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit commit error when it affirmed the District Court's decision to deny petitioner's motion filed under 18…
21-6348 Rafael Ramiro-Medina v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review batson-challenge criminal-procedure discriminatory-intent equal-protection fact-finding jury-selection procedural-error racial-discrimination standard-of-review Whether a federal court of appeals can conduct appellate fact-finding and resolve the factual question of discriminatory intent under Batson v. Kentuc…
21-6334 Christopher Jason Henry v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review booker-standard circuit-court harmless-error molina-martinez-v-united-states procedural-error procedural-reasonableness rosales-mireles-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-booker Whether the sentencing adjustment in U.S.S.G. § 5G1.3(b) is completely advisory
21-560 Dakota Access, LLC v. Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, et al. District of Columbia 2021-10-18 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) agency-discretion civil-rights due-process environmental-impact environmental-impact-statement federal-agency judicial-review national-environmental-policy-act nepa pipeline-easement procedural-error standing Whether, under NEPA, an agency that carefully considers all criticisms of its environmental analysis must also 'resolve' those criticisms to the court…
21-5992 Jose Miguel Ramirez-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP COVID-19 criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection felony-convictions judicial-discretion medical-records procedural-error sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines time-served Whether the sentencing court erred in its application of the Sentencing Guidelines
21-5882 Jessica W. v. Administration for Children's Services New York 2021-10-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment child-custody constitutional-rights due-process evidence family-court fourteenth-amendment parental-rights procedural-error Did the New York County Family Court meet due process and evidence standards in their determinations against the petitioner in disposition of two conj…
21-458 L. Lee Whitnum v. Connecticut Office of the Chief State's Attorney, et al. Second Circuit 2021-09-27 Denied Response Waived administrative-law appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights complaint-dismissal due-process favorable-termination federal-jurisdiction legal-pleading procedural-error standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing
21-5716 Pecola Cousar v. New York-Presbyterian Queens Second Circuit 2021-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights discovery district-court-discretion due-process pro-se-litigant procedural-error standing summary-judgment title-vii Whether the district court erred and/or abused its discretion
21-5436 William D. Dickerson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-analysis civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-review court-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-standard legal-procedure procedural-error sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether Section 804 of the First Step Act of 2018's definition of 'covered offense' covers a 'dual-object' conspiracy that includes both crack cocaine…
21-5092 Dawn J. Bennett v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-07-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fourth-circuit judicial-discretion presumption-of-reasonableness presumptive-reasonableness procedural-error sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review summary-reversal Whether a district court applies an impermissible presumption of reasonableness to the Sentencing Guidelines range by referring to the range as 'presu…
20-8264 Jeremy Hough v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process harmless-error judicial-procedure procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review Whether, through 'assumed error harmlessness review,' appellate courts may affirm a criminal sentence without addressing allegations of significant pr…
20-8217 Donald R. Turner, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance just-compensation mandatory-minimum private-property procedural-error sentencing-enhancement takings Whether the government's seizure of private property without just compensation violates the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment
20-8146 Edward Lee Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-05-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory district-court district-court-interpretation judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-booker Whether the District Court committed significant procedural error when it mistakenly interpreted section 7B1.3(f) of the United States Sentencing Guid…
20-8150 Andres Cabezas v. Richard Corcoran, Florida Commissioner of Education Florida 2021-05-26 Denied IFP administrative-law due-process judicial-review procedural-error property-revocation property-rights remand state-agency Did the reviewing court of a state agency's determination to revoke property overstep its judicial authority in not granting the parties' desire to re…
20-8021 Jason Scott Pedro v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-sentencing guidelines harmless-error procedural-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review statutory-maximum Can a significant procedural error be deemed harmless when the sentencing judge uses the statutory maximum as the baseline for imposition of sentence?
20-7708 Jose Noe Castro Orellana v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process fact-finding plain-error-review procedural-error sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights Whether the Fifth Circuit misapplied Rita v. United States and Gall v. United States by elevating the presumption of reasonableness over a reliance on…
20-1237 Blanche A. Brown v. United States Third Circuit 2021-03-08 Denied Response Waived duty-to-protect federal-tort-claims-act ftca-claim patient-abuse patient-protection procedural-error rule-41-dismissal va-negligence va-security-policy victim-rights-act witness-protection Whether the Magistrate Judge exceeded authority and the District Court abused discretion in dismissing FTCA negligence complaint
20-7171 Luis Javier Correa-Figueroa, aka Barney, aka Gordo v. United States First Circuit 2021-02-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-intent criminal-procedure district-court-ruling evidence evidence-exclusion federal-property intent motion-for-acquittal procedural-error self-defense use-of-force Whether the district court committed a procedural error in excluding evidence
20-1020 Donald Chimaobi Okoro v. Texas Texas 2021-01-28 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion appellate-review due-process fact-finding findings-of-fact judicial-review legal-contradiction procedural-error standard-of-review trial-court trial-court-findings Does an Appellate Court fail to provide meaningful appellate review when it adopts a Trial Court's findings of fact when those findings contradict the…
20-6816 Edward G. Rodriguez v. Timothy Filson, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit notice-of-appeal procedural-error right-to-appeal Whether the Ninth Circuit clearly erred in denying Rodriguez's request for a certificate of appealability on an ineffective assistance of counsel clai…
20-6630 Alejandro S. Estrada v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence administrative-law agency-decision certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-review jurisdictional-challenge procedural-default procedural-error sentencing Whether the lower courts should be sanctioned for protecting the unconstitutional imposition of void and obsolete statute
20-6561 Jesus N. Rodriguez v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-08 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-law district-court due-process incorporated-grounds judicial-discretion pleading-defect procedural-error rule-violation standing statutory-interpretation supervisory-authority Whether the district court invited error resulting in a fundamental pleading defect
20-6537 Tamara Rouhi v. CVS Pharmacy, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-12-04 Denied IFP appeal appeals-court case-dismissal civil-procedure district-court due-process fraud injustice judicial-misconduct legal-procedure procedural-error standing Question not identified
20-6473 Jessica Arnold v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review district-court failure-to-address judicial-discretion mitigation procedural-error sentencing sentencing-mitigation standard-of-review trial-counsel What standard applies to appellate review of the appeal of a district court's failure to address arguments of counsel in mitigation of sentencing, whe…
20-6348 William J. O'Brien, III v. United States Third Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process free-speech law-enforcement procedural-error prosecution standing takings Whether the government's prosecution for a speech act violated the First Amendment's free speech protections
20-6319 Kathleen McCullough v. Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-order legal-appeal procedural-error standing Whether the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its final order dismissing Petitioner's claims
20-6138 Jerry Walker v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Arkansas 2020-10-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure declaratory-judgment due-process evidence procedural-error sixth-amendment Whether the petitioner was denied due process in his criminal trial
20-5979 Steven Dwayne Bailey v. Stuart Sherman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-10-09 Denied IFP case-review compassionate-release criminal-justice district-court due-process early-release judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-standard parole procedural-error sentencing Whether the court can recall and/or resentence the defendant upon recommendation of the district attorney due to change in circumstances since the inm…
20-447 Francisco Rodriguez-Castro v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 career-offender criminal-sentencing miscarriage-of-justice petition-for-certiorari post-conviction-relief procedural-error section-2255 sentence-enhancement Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that Rodriguez's erroneous sentence enhancement as a career offender was not a miscarriage of justice entit…
20-5942 John Tran v. United States First Circuit 2020-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule federal-criminal-procedure good-faith-exception judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction procedural-error rule-41 search-and-seizure void-ab-initio warrant-validity Whether the First Circuit erroneously applied the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule
20-5906 Demetrius Barber v. James Burke, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-10-05 Denied IFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights court-filing direct-appeal due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit judicial-procedure procedural-error standing Where does the petitioner have standing to bring this case before the U.S. Supreme Court?
20-5657 Eric Bernard Scott v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-review mandamus procedural-error standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals abused its discretion
20-5402 Joseph Glenn Savicki v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-review procedural-error prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the denial of a certificate of appealability violates due process and equal protection when the district court fails to consider the merits of…
20-113 Jerald Hammann v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Minnesota 2020-08-03 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights deemed-dismissal due-process judicial-procedure judicial-review procedural-error standing void-judgment writ-of-prohibition Whether existing judicial procedures and standards are adequate to protect individual constitutional rights
20-5053 Deandre Lornell Brown v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines appellate-review criminal-sentencing departure judicial-discretion presumptively-reasonable procedural-error sentencing-guidelines variance variance-standard Whether the district court's decision when imposing sentence improperly treated the sentencing guidelines
19-8900 Jeffrey Chleo Brown v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-06 Denied IFP appellate-preservation circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court-procedure factual-dispute factual-objection legal-sufficiency preservation-of-appeal procedural-error sentencing sentencing-objection standard-of-review Is a factual objection at sentencing sufficient to preserve for appeal the district court's failure to resolve the ensuing dispute?
19-8867 Leonard Lashun Bradley v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure district-court-discretion federal-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-review jurisdiction motion-for-permission out-of-time-appeal procedural-error standing time-limits Whether the district court erred by denying Mr. Bradley's Motion for Permission to File Out of Time Appeal
19-8724 Michael Garry v. Trane Company Wisconsin 2020-06-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure court-procedure evidence-review federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion judicial-procedures mandate-rules mootness newly-discovered-evidence procedural-error structural-error whether-the-wisconsin-supreme-court-contravened-appellate-procedure
19-8704 Rolando Q. Alvarado v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-06-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 appellate-review circuit-court due-process evidentiary-hearing factual-determination habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-error statutory-interpretation unreasonable-determination-of-facts Whether the decision of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals is based on an unreasonable determination of the facts due to an incomplete record and is c…
19-8569 Brandon S. Wilson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process procedural-error sentencing sentencing-reasonableness supervised-release Is Mr. Wilson's sentence procedurally and substantively infirm because the district court failed to consider the factors under 18 USC §3553(a) or offe…
19-8537 Susan Xiao-Ping Su v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-05-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction legal-remedy procedural-error sentencing whether the Ninth Circuit should sua sponte vacate a grand jury conviction and sentence because the defendant alleges court error in failing to apply …
19-8482 Graylin Gray v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP conviction district-court due-process habeas-corpus judgment judgment-of-conviction petition-for-writ procedural-error sentence state-custody Whether petitioner is in state custody pursuant to a sentence, not pursuant to the judgment, which includes both the conviction and sentence?
19-8462 Juan F. Perez v. Julie L. Jones, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-05-14 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-review legal-expertise legal-filing procedural-error standing Can the fact that the defendants' actions resulted in a deprivation of federal constitutional guarantees against cruel and unusual punishment be consi…
19-8228 Kirk Russell Marsh v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP claims-processing criminal-procedure direct-appeal equitable-tolling federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-procedure mandatory-claims-processing-rule procedural-error unique-circumstances Whether a trial court's violation of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32(j)(1) is subject to redress on direct appeal
19-8145 Santiago Cruz v. C. Betancourt Ninth Circuit 2020-03-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-grievance administrative-remedies civil-rights eighth-amendment exhaustion-of-remedies grievance-process prisoner-litigation procedural-error procedural-errors waiver Whether the district court erred in finding that the petitioner failed to exhaust administrative remedies for his Eighth Amendment claim
19-7912 Ali Mehdipour v. Keith Sweeney, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure court-filing dismissal erroneous-ruling fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree judicial-review legal-timeliness prejudice procedural-error review statute-of-limitations timeliness Does a fruit-of-a-poisonous-tree follow from an initial erroneous ruling on timeliness of filing the initial complaint follow through subsequent rulin…
19-7817 Maria de Lourdes Acosta v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court judicial-procedure plain-error pre-sentence-report prejudice procedural-error sentencing When the district court fails to either order a Pre-Sentence Report or make explicit on-the-record findings as to why a Pre-Sentence Report is unneces…
19-7681 Howard Aron Washington, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-02-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines appellate-review criminal-sentencing gall-v-new-jersey guideline-departure procedural-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness rosales-mireles Rosales-Mireles-v-United-States sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether the district court's methodology in imposing a substantial guideline departure was inconsistent with this Court's decision in Gall v. New Jers…
19-982 Erica Y. Bryant, et al. v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-transfer multi-district-litigation multidistrict-litigation preemption procedural-error state-law statute-of-repose Whether a transferee court in an MDL proceeding must follow the decisions of the transferor court's state supreme court and federal circuit court of a…
19-7377 Gerald Adger v. New York New York 2020-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment appeal appellate-counsel conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-argument procedural-error right-to-counsel trial-counsel weight-of-evidence Was the appellate attorney ineffective assistance of counsel?
19-7374 In Re John Wallace 2020-01-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion appeals civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-authority judicial-discretion mandamus procedural-error sanctions standing three-strikes three-strikes-law three-strikes-statute whether-magistrate-judge-exceeded-authority-in-issuing-strike
19-7346 Peggy Jean Clark v. Department of the Army, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-01-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-action-review administrative-law benefits-revocation due-process federal-circuit-court judicial-review military-benefits procedural-error property-rights retroactive-determination statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits Whether the Appeals Court err in its judgment affirming the retroactive revocation of benefits on the premise that the initial determination granting …
19-7279 Charlotte Oliphant-Johns v. Good Deal Remodeling Pennsylvania 2020-01-17 Denied IFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights court-records court-system due-process jurisdiction legal-filing municipal-court procedural-error record-keeping standing What laws of Gwil Court jurisdiction were applied in this Municipal Court; why were the defendants barely questioned concerning my complaint; why did …
19-7145 Carlos E. Rodriguez-Milian v. United States First Circuit 2020-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP §-2255-motion 2255-appeal appeals-court-discretion certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pro-se-motions procedural-default procedural-error subject-matter-jurisdiction summary-response Can an appeals court disregard the district court's procedural error and decide a COA application based on the underlying merits?
19-7059 John Kenneth Schiefer v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion legal-reasoning plain-error procedural-error respect-for-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure Did the district court plainly procedurally err when it selected and imposed sentence based on its desire to promote the defendant's respect for the l…
19-7009 Daniel Rosario-Gonzalez v. United States First Circuit 2019-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review case-disposition civil-procedure dismissal dismissal-with-prejudice district-court judicial-authority jurisdiction prejudice procedural-error standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a district court which had no jurisdiction over a case can dismiss it with prejudice
19-6713 Derek Tyler Horton v. Sam Cochran Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights constitutional-violation double-jeopardy due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus jurisdiction procedural-error writ-of-certiorari Is there a remedy when the Habeas corpus proceeding fails to protect a citizen from Double Jeopardy violation because of an incorrect procedural rulin…
19-6729 Cedric Gray v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion legal-standard mental-competency miranda-rights procedural-error sentencing suppression-hearing trial-rights Can my motion to suppress be denied even after I invoked my right to remain silent?
19-6595 Raymond Tavelle Holmes v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied IFP cell-phone civil-procedure civil-procedure-28-usc-636 due-process fair-trial florida-statute-934.23 fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-counsel inevitable-discovery magistrate-judge objection procedural-error report-and-recommendation search-and-seizure severance similar-fact-evidence sixth-amendment standing third-party warrantless-search Whether the failure to sever counts deprived the P Whether the warrantless search and seizure of text williams-rule Whether the Magistrate Judge failed to file a report and recommendation as required, depriving the Petitioner the opportunity to file a written object…
19-545 Jean Coulter v. Gerri Volchko Paulisick, et al. Third Circuit 2019-10-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-conflict civil-procedure conflicting-decisions domicile due-process judicial-bias jurisdiction procedural-error standing third-circuit venue Has the Third Circuit improperly determined that domicile of Plaintiff can be based exclusively on the determination of domicile in a subsequently fil…
19-6312 Bryan Timothyleenard Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus standard-of-review appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-standard procedural-error standing Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred by denying petitioner's application for certificate of appealability
19-5905 Ricky Davis v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-11 Denied IFP fairness-integrity federal-sentencing guideline-calculation judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-proportionality sentencing-uniformity statutory-maximum substantial-rights uniformity-proportionality USSG-5G1.1(a) When this Court held in Rosales-Mireles v. United States, 138 S. Ct. 1897 (2018) that a failure to correctly calculate the guideline range, which anch…
19-5518 Muamar A. Sayyed v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-08-09 Denied IFP §2254 §2254-petition civil-procedure district-court district-court-authority due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion motion-correction procedural-error successive-petitions void-judgment Does the district court have the authority to dismiss §2254 habeas corpus petition as successive when it was clearly not successive?
19-5550 Jackie Duncan v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 10th-circuit abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure constitutional-vagueness due-process evidence-admissibility federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-discretion procedural-error rule-403 rule-404(b) rule-404b standard-of-review Whether the 10th Circuit erred in ruling the Western District of Oklahoma didn't abuse their discretion?
19-5390 In Re Francisco Narvaez 2019-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP adequate-representation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-counsel legal-representation procedural-error professional-conduct sixth-amendment speedy-trial Whether the petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated due to his attorneys' failure to file a motion to suppr…
19-5215 Lowrell Neal v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion appellate-review circuit-court clearly-erroneous criminal-procedure habeas-corpus law-of-the-case manifest-injustice procedural-error sixth-circuit Did the Sixth Circuit err by holding the district court properly applied the law-of-the-case to an issue presented in 2255 motion when prior appellate…
19-5186 Mauricio Warner v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-court appellate-procedure application certificate-of-appeal certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review merits-ruling procedural-error standing Did the Appeal Court err in making a merits ruling on Warner's Application for a Certificate of Appealability and for failure to even consider the app…
19-5125 Francisco Gallegos-Lopez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3553a 3553(a)-factors abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion preservation-of-error procedural-error sentencing sentencing-recommendation statutory-factors Does urging a sentencing recommendation lower than that ultimately imposed, and grounded in the statutory factors in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), suffice to p…
19-25 Irma Rosas v. Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago Seventh Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Relisted (2) accepted-and-usual-course certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights due-process erickson-v-pardus judicial-proceedings legal-standard pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-error standing supreme-court-review Whether the lower court, in conflict with this Court's holding in Erickson v. Pardus, 551 U.S. 89 (2007), so far departed from the accepted and usual …
19-11 Lin Rountree v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-07-01 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure compliance dismissal district-court judicial-discretion mediation mediation-order motion-for-reconsideration motion-to-dismiss order procedural-error reconsideration standing Whether the district court erred in granting respondents' motion to dismiss when the respondents failed to comply with the district court's order to m…
19-5027 Eddie David Cox v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-07-01 GVR IFP criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rehaif-v-united-states,sentenci double-jeopardy eighth-circuit guidelines-calculation procedural-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states resentencing section-2241 sentencing sentencing-review Should the Court GVR the judgment of the Eighth Circuit so the appeals court may consider, whether Cox is entitled to relief from his conviction in li…
18-9803 Salvador Galvan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553a appeal criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process guidelines procedural-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg-2b1.1 victim victim-definition victim-impact Whether the district court committed procedural error by considering every resident of the City of Compton as a victim for purposes of its 18 U.S.C. §…
18-9819 Jose Francisco Rodriguez-Reyes v. United States First Circuit 2019-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion arrest-consideration arrests-without-convictions criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process excessive-sentence procedural-error sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-methodology substantive-error substantive-review Whether the district court's sentencing methodology was procedurally and substantively sound and that the district court did not abuse its discretion …
18A1357 Anthony Ray Welch v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-25 Presumed Complete certiorari counsel-mistake criminal-conviction extension-of-time fifth-circuit procedural-error Whether the Fifth Circuit's judgment affirming a criminal conviction should be reviewed due to counsel's inadvertent failure to timely file a petition…
18-9737 Laquan L. Kellam v. United States Third Circuit 2019-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-rights expert-witness-testimony fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-rights fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights procedural-error search-and-seizure sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-rights statutory-interpretation warrantless-arrest Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit abuse its discretionary, broadly-based authority of interpretation, thus, violating petit…
18-9658 Eric Daniel Doyle v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing grouping guidelines judicial-discretion legal-calculation procedural-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum total-punishment Whether due process requires the correct calculation of Doyle's Guidelines sentencing range
18-9690 Curt M. Lockett v. Florida Florida 2019-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-writ actual-innocence carrier-standard constitutional-claims due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-review habeas-corpus innocence-claim post-conviction-review procedural-error successive-petitions Should 4 habeas petitioners' claims of actual innocence, supported by the facts of the record, be subject to doctrines of abuse or successive use of t…
18-9608 Trinidad Jesus Garcia v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process judicial-interpretation plain-error procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review Does the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals decision conflict with decisions of the Supreme Court and was the decision incorrect when it stated that Garc…
18-9600 Patricia Diane Smith Sledge v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidence-rules evidentiary-ruling federal-rules-of-evidence procedural-error sufficiency-of-evidence summary-evidence witness-tampering Did the district court prejudicially err when admitting Exhibit 1 as a summary pursuant to Fed Rules of Evidence, rule 1006?
18-1510 Fredesvindo Rodriguez-Garcia v. Fior Pichardo de Veloz, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights detention-facility due-process forfeiture gender-identification gender-identity medical-examination medical-treatment procedural-error qualified-immunity Whether the court of appeals erred in denying qualified immunity to Dr. Rodriguez-Garcia without identifying precedent clearly establishing the violat…
18-9538 Mark Anthony Head v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60(b) constitutional-claim constitutional-claims due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction legislative-process merits procedural-error procedural-errors rule-60b standing Whether the court of appeals erred in failing to construe the appellant's motion under Rule 60(b)
18-9443 Arthur L. Campbell v. Sherman Campbell, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-05-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction miller-el-v-cockrell procedural-error sixth-circuit standard-of-review statute-of-limitations Whether the Sixth Circuit committed plain error in considering the merits of Campbell's appeal without issuing a certificate of appealability first
18-9456 Gary Giovon Lynn v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP bureau-of-prisons constitutional-law federal-bureau-of-prisons federal-sentencing nunc-pro-tunc procedural-error sentencing sentencing-authority sentencing-procedure-error separation-of-powers setser-v-united-states ussg-5g1-3c When the district court failed to follow the Court's ruling in Setser v. United States, 566 U.S. 231 (2012) at sentencing did it engage in an impermis…
18-9447 QuintIn Irving Brown v. Virginia Virginia 2019-05-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process judicial-boundaries jurisdiction jurisdictional-overreach procedural-error reversal state-law territorial-jurisdiction venue When a conviction occurs in any state of the United States where a county's jurisdiction occurs over 2,200 yards beyond its 300-yard permissible juris…
18-9401 Daniel H. Jones v. Kentucky, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-05-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure clearly-erroneous-findings injunctive-relief judicial-discretion jurisdictional-review legal-standards procedural-error sovereign-immunity wrong-legal-standards Did the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals err in allowing the District Court to abuse its discretion
18-9408 Freddie J. Hennington v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure criminal-procedure dismissal due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion legal-review procedural-error sentencing standing Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Hennington's appeal without considering the merits of his arguments
18-9376 Charles A. Davis v. United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2019-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure court-discretion judicial-review jurisdictional-defect jurisdictional-defects legal-standing lower-courts procedural-error standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the lower courts abused their discretion by their failure to address the jurisdictional defects that deprive them of subject-matter-jurisdicti…
18-9306 Shawn Sayer v. United States First Circuit 2019-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process maximum-sentence probation-report procedural-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness upward-variance Whether the district court erred by imposing a sentence without adequate explanation pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c), and the length of which sentence…
18-1422 Michael B. v. Tennessee Department of Children's Services Tennessee 2019-05-14 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment guardian-ad-litem legal-disqualification parental-rights procedural-error witness-disqualification Whether the lower court's denial of the Father's motion to disqualify the Guardian Ad Litem, when her actions clearly indicated she had ceased being a…
18-8987 Michael Wainaina Kariuki v. Washington Washington 2019-04-26 Denied IFP assault constitutional-law conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jury-instructions legal-relief procedural-error second-degree-assault sexual-assault standing victim Whether the defendant, Michael Kariuni, is entitled to reversal of the second-degree-assault conviction with instructions to dismiss
18-8994 Abie Wolf, aka Abraham C. Wolf v. Randolph Osherow, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal bankruptcy bankruptcy-appeal bankruptcy-discharge bankruptcy-procedure bankruptcy-rules bankruptcy-trustee court-jurisdiction creditors-meeting discharge discharge-appeal due-process legal-interpretation procedural-error transcript trustee trustee-objection Whether or not the Lower Court is talking about Petitioners Discharge and that's not what Petitioner appealed
18-8661 Eddie Lee Jackson v. Sandy McCain, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-04-01 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights counsel-medical-condition counsel-misconduct due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-representation misconduct procedural-error right-to-counsel suspension Whether the Petitioner was denied the right to assistance of counsel
18-8596 Jose Bernazard v. Joseph Koch Second Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appeals-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process exhaustion-of-remedies judicial-review legal-procedure procedural-error qualified-immunity section-1983 Did The Coork of Appeals not granting Ped, boner Access to Enter Appeal WAS ow Abvse of dixre lion by diswuss:
18-8425 Henry Johnson Lucas, Jr. v. Virginia Virginia 2019-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals brady-violation civil-procedure civil-procedure-appeal-timeliness-dismissal-rules- constitutional-violation due-process evidence-suppression new-trial-motion procedural-error prosecutorial-misconduct rules-of-court standing timeliness Did the Virginia Supreme Court rule erroneously in dismissing petitioner's appeal as being untimely under Rule 5:9(a) of the Supreme Court of Virginia…
18-8158 Jerry Anderson, II v. Rex Miller, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus procedural-error standing Whether the lower court's decision to dismiss the petitioner's claim with prejudice without affording the petitioner an opportunity to offer evidence …
18-8161 Kali Lord v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP above-guidelines-sentence appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion plain-error preservation-of-error procedural-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-arguments sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness Is a district court's gross failure to explain an above-range sentence or to respond to arguments for a lesser sentence reversible on plain error?
18-8168 Billy Long v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea habeas-corpus hearing-requirement ineffective-assistance-of-counsel material-fact plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal post-conviction-relief procedural-error withdrawal-of-plea Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's amended PCRA petition without a hearing
18-7995 Rodney Martin v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion procedural-error reasonableness-of-sentence section-3553a sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines Did the trial court improperly sentence Mr. Martin and did the appellate court improperly affirm the trial court?
18-7999 Raoul A. Galan v. Larry Gegenheimer, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-02-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion administrative-law arbitrary-and-capricious civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process judicial-discretion procedural-error racial-discrimination standing Were the lower courts manipulated by internal and/or external influences to deny petitioner his state and federal constitutional rights of protection?
18-7929 Robert L. Burns, Jr. v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-court circuit-court-conflict civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-error sixth-circuit standing united-states-supreme-court Are the sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in conflict with the United States Supreme Court, and other Circuit Courts by denning a Certificate of Appealab…
18-7710 Jose Garcia Mejia v. Shawn Hatton, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment administrative-processing aedpa constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus plea-bargaining procedural-error Were Petitioner's constitutional Rights violated during trial?
18-7664 John Felix Greer v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure appellate-review case-or-controversy civil-procedure court-of-appeals judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdiction-of-court jurisdictional-review legal-jurisdiction mandate mandate-recall procedural-error standing Whether the appellate court abused its discretion in deciding the merits of a motion to recall the mandate without first determining jurisdiction
18-7585 Lemuel Gay v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-court appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court guideline-enhancement guidelines judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing-court sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Can the sentencing court's statement—that it would impose the same sentence irrespective of any error in its application of a guideline enhancement—ab…
18-7261 Keith Stuart Cumbee v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion appeal appealability appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure fraud-on-the-court habeas habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jurisdiction merits motion-to-reconsider procedural-error rule-60(b) Whether the lower court clearly erred in abusing its discretion by dismissing the appeal as premature/no jurisdiction without addressing the merits of…
18-7274 Reginald L. Spears, aka RLS Ar Abdul Aziz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure bias certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-circuit impartial-judge judicial-bias procedural-error strawman-argument Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals introduced and attacked a strawman argument as a basis to deny appellant a COA, and whether this violates d…
18-7241 Mary-Ann Bernadette Kerrigan v. QBE Insurance Corporation Ninth Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bad-faith-investigation breach-of-contract civil-rights consumer-protection criminal-activity criminal-damages criminal-law due-process insurance insurance-coverage insurance-investigation insurance-regulations procedural-error property-damage property-rights statute-of-limitations Whether QBE insurance improperly denied coverage for insured damages caused by criminal activity
18-6971 Zachery Joseph Cooley, aka Red v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-sentencing gall-v-united-states guideline-calculation harmless-error judicial-discretion procedural-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness When a defendant appeals his sentence on the grounds that his Guideline range was miscalculated, may an appellate court disregard any error in the gui…
18-734 Daniel G. Szmania v. E-Loan, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-12-10 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection foreclosure foreclosure-dispute jurisdiction-challenge ninth-circuit-review procedural-error property-rights res-judicata standing trustee-sale Did the UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT error in not enforcing the District Court's ruling that this was not a foreclosure case
18-6693 Victor M. Mangual-Rosado v. United States First Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split conclusions-of-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court findings-of-fact opportunity-to-object procedural-error role-behavior role-in-crime sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-error whether-the-district-court-erred-in-sentencing
18-6506 Guy Boudreaux, Jr. v. Timothy Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts access-to-justice civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel judicial-procedure legal-education legal-mail legal-representation pro-se pro-se-litigants pro-se-litigation procedural-error right-of-access-to-courts Is our system of justice truly just when it requires an attorney to attend six years of college prior to being permitted to practice law, but requires…
18-507 Jessie D. McDonald v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee Sixth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure court-judgment due-process extraordinary-writ judicial-misconduct judicial-proceedings procedural-error standing void-judgment Whether the district court lacked jurisdiction to enter a judgment against the petitioner without a show cause hearing as required by Rule 11, FRCP
18-6268 Roger King v. Terence Kilpatrick, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-court access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights clerk-interference constitutional-rights discretionary-review due-process fourth-amendment fraud misrepresentation probable-cause procedural-error search-and-seizure Whether the Georgia Supreme Court erred in dismissing the Petitioner's application for certificate of probable cause because the Petitioner did not fi…
18-6123 Ameen Green v. United States Third Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-dismissal dismissal legal-standing notice-of-appeal procedural-error standing third-circuit Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit err in dismissing Mr. Green's Notice of Appeal?
18-5863 Corey E. Johnson v. Butler Law Firm Fourth Circuit 2018-09-04 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation court-jurisdiction due-process equal-protection fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review procedural-error statute-of-limitations Whether a petitioner and others similarly situated should be granted habeas corpus relief despite being denied due to no fault of their own, abandoned…
18-5811 Eusebio Escobar De Jesus v. United States First Circuit 2018-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appeals-court criminal-procedure district-court due-process gall-v-united-states guideline-range guidelines molina-martinez-v-united-states offense-level procedural-error rosales-mireles-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the Appeals Court erroneously concluded Petitioner failed to state a claim, reasoning for want of a substantial question
18-5712 Jerome A. Christmon v. B&B Airparts, Inc. Tenth Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied IFP 7th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process errata-sheets evidence jury-trial procedural-error summary-judgement summary-judgment uncertified-deposition whether-summary-judgement-based-on-uncertified-deposition-is-admissible
18-5595 Keith L. Williams v. Kul Sood, et al. Seventh Circuit 2018-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion prisoner-rights procedural-error standing summary-judgment Whether court of appeals or district court abused its discretion in (8th) amendment violation claim by failing to acknowledge evidence
18-184 John Ayanbadejo v. Mark Siegl, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion administrative-law appellate-court appellate-review civil-procedure court-procedure district-court due-process immigration judicial-proceedings legal-standard mootness procedural-error standing Whether the Lower Appellate Court departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, and/or sanctioned such a departure by the U.S. …
18-5187 Verissimo Tavares v. United States First Circuit 2018-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP beckles-v-united-states career-offender congressional-directive crime-of-violence criminal-sentencing-guidelines due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states procedural-error residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation violent-felony Whether application of the residual clause of the definition of crime of violence' in U.S.S.G. §4B1.2(a)(2) constitutes procedural error in light of J…
18-5193 William Brown v. United States First Circuit 2018-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion beckles-precedent beckles-v-united-states crime-of-violence due-process federal-sentencing-law johnson-v-united-states procedural-error residual-clause sentencing-guidelines void-for-vagueness Whether reliance on the 'residual clause' of the 'crime of violence' definition in the United States Sentencing Guidelines, U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(a)(2), is…
18-5106 Shirley A. Stewart v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal district-court-transfer due-process procedural-error rule-12-dismissal separation-of-powers standing transfer u-s-attorney-conduct venue-transfer Did the District Court commit clear error by transferring the case without informing the petitioner or allowing an opportunity to object?
18-5125 Kenneth Lee Foster v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 civil-procedure due-process fair-trial federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-remedy procedural-error prosecutorial-misconduct rule-60(b) Whether Petitioner was deprived of a fair opportunity to seek relief through 28 U.S.C. § 2255 and whether Rule 60(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Pro…