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25-6518 Deandre M. Smith v. Bradley Mlodzik, Warden Seventh Circuit 2026-01-08 Pending Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-review sixth-amendment strickland-standard Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit err in denying Smith's application to appeal the denial of his Sixth Amendment ineffect…
25-510 Damon Balar Cook v. Luis Garnica, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-10-24 Denied appeal-reinstatement discretion-abuse mandate-recall miscarriage-justice ninth-circuit procedural-review Whether the Ninth Circuit abused its discretion in denying a timely motion to recall the mandate and reinstate an appeal to prevent a miscarriage of j…
25A303 G. G. v. Allegheny County Office of Children, Youth and Families Pennsylvania 2025-09-16 Presumed Complete allocatur certiorari petition-extension procedural-review supreme-court time-limitation Whether a state supreme court's denial of allocatur precludes or impacts a petitioner's ability to seek certiorari review in the U.S. Supreme Court
25-5622 Tara Jean McManus v. Frank Bisignano, Commissioner of Social Security Ninth Circuit 2025-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-dismissal judicial-error justice-seeking legal-pursuit ninth-circuit procedural-review Did the Ninth Circuit err in dismissing case 25-409 related to a 24-year pursuit for justice
24A1228 City of Fresno, California, et al. v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2025-06-12 Presumed Complete certiorari federal-circuit municipal-appeal procedural-review supreme-court-rules time-extension Whether a municipality may seek an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari under Supreme Court procedural rules when seeking review of a F…
24-6571 Roel Ivan Sanchez-Sosa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law judicial-interpretation legal-standard procedural-review supreme-court-precedent Should Almendarez-Torres v. United States be overruled?
24-6314 David C. Lettieri v. City of Binghamton, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2025-01-15 Denied IFP case-law constitutional-interpretation imminent-danger judicial-strike legal-standard procedural-review What constitutes an 'imminent danger' under legal standards, and how does Neitze v. Williams impact the interpretation of a 'strike' in judicial proce…
24-748 John Xavier Portillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-01-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-counsel constitutional-claim ineffective-assistance legal-error procedural-review strickland-standard Whether a court must review the merits of an omitted appellate issue before determining ineffective assistance of appellate counsel under Strickland
24-6182 Daniel O. Conahan, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-20 Denied IFP capital-defendant certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus procedural-review Whether a circuit split in procedures for reviewing certificates of appealability constitutes a due process violation and warrants Supreme Court inter…
24A482 James Timothy Norman v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-11-14 Presumed Complete criminal-conviction eighth-circuit legal-standard procedural-review sufficiency-of-evidence writ-of-certiorari Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals correctly applied the legal standard for reviewing a criminal conviction involving alleged evidentiary err…
24-5847 Albert Anderson v. Winston Salem Police Department, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-10-29 Denied IFP appellate-standard case-precedent court-decision judicial-discretion legal-reasoning procedural-review Whether the lower court abused its discretion in rendering an unreasoned decision that fails to adequately address multiple legal precedents
24-5793 Derek Don Posey v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-10-21 Denied IFP acquittal-standard case-law evidence-admissibility judicial-precedent procedural-review ultimate-issue Whether evidence which resulted in acquittal should have been deemed inadmissible based on a prior acquittal's determination of an ultimate issue cont…
24-5307 Phillip Lee Kelley v. Kevin Stitt, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-08-13 Denied IFP constitutional-provisions jurisdictional-issue legal-petition procedural-review supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
24-5221 Arthur Lee Burton v. Texas Texas 2024-08-04 Denied IFP atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment death-penalty diagnostic-criteria hall-v-florida intellectual-disability moore-v-texas-i moore-v-texas-ii procedural-review supreme-court-precedent Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' refusal to authorize plenary review of an unrebutted prima facie case of intellectual disability rendered…
23-1364 Troy Kendrick, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-02 Denied Response Waived buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-review standard-of-review supervisory-power Whether the Court of Appeals' repeated misapplication of the standard for issuing a certificate of appealability warrants another exercise of this Cou…
23-7601 Khari Devon Coley v. Correctional Officer Wayne L. Garland, et al. Second Circuit 2024-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-remedies civil-rights custody-challenge due-process exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus judicial-process prison-litigation-reform-act prison-transfer prisoner-rights procedural-review standing Whether the petitioner's prison grievance procedures were rendered unavailable to the prisoner upon his transfer to the custody of the New York Office…
23-7555 Rickey Lynch v. United States Second Circuit 2024-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appearance-of-impropriety civil-procedure due-process federal-defender judicial-ethics judicial-recusal procedural-review right-to-counsel standard-of-review Should a court of appeals review a judge's denial of a motion to recuse de novo or for an abuse of discretion?
23-7437 Overille Denton Thompson, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied IFP appellate-process certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-procedure fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-discretion legal-precedent procedural-review sanctions standard-of-review Whether the Fifth Circuit failed to engage in the COA process
23-1177 Eric Fisher v. Virginia Virginia 2024-05-01 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process expungement non-conviction procedural-review statutory-interpretation unconstitutional virginia-law Whether two non-convictions are expungable as 'otherwise dismissed' per Virginia's relevant operative statute or its certain statutory provision appli…
23-6913 Carl Thompson v. Marjorie K. Allard, Chief Judge, Court of Appeals of Alaska, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion circuit-court civil-procedure complaint-amendment federal-courts futile-amendment futility-standard judicial-discretion procedural-review rooker-feldman standing Was there a violation of the Rooker-Feldman doctrine?
23A758 Rachael Eubanks, in Her Personal Capacity, et al. v. Dennis O'Connor Sixth Circuit 2024-02-20 Presumed Complete administrative-law certiorari michigan procedural-review sixth-circuit state-sovereignty Whether the Sixth Circuit's ruling on state administrative procedures violates principles of state sovereignty or federal administrative law
23-5562 Paul Dubois v. Nelson Alves, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk First Circuit 2023-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-procedure court-conflict criminal-procedure due-process extradition extradition-law judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction procedural-review standing whether-the-united-states-of-appeals-has-entered-a-decision-in-conflict-with-the-decision-of-another-united-states-court-of-appeals-on-the-same-justic…
23-5497 Malik Woods v. District Attorney of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2023-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus procedural-review standing supreme-court-precedent third-circuit-court Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals run contrary to clearly established Supreme Court precedent
23-5468 Brittney Coleman v. Island Express Helicopters, Inc., et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP aircraft-operation civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation judicial-decision-making legal-competence negligence pilot-certification pilot-competency procedural-review reasonable-care Question not identified
23-5355 Johnny Lee Warren v. Chris Nanos, Sheriff, Pima County, Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-08-15 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection jurisdictional-issue legal-petition procedural-review standing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Did the district court err in dismissing the petitioner's claims under the Due Process Clause of the 5th Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause of …
23-5283 Clarence Leonard Hearns, Jr. v. Cal Trahune, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa appellate-review exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus nunc-pro-tunc procedural-review rule-60(b) rule-60b standard-of-review whether-dismissal-without-prejudice-of-federal-habeas-corpus-prematurely-filed-counts-as-first-filing-under-aedpa
23-57 Julio Yee Cabrera, et al. v. Enrique Lozano, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-21 Denied appellate-discretion attorney-fees circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-reasoning judicial-transparency legal-reasoning procedural-review standing transparency Whether a U.S. Court of Appeals panel has unfettered discretion in every matter to withhold all indication of its reasons for ruling
22-7106 Brian Keith Wells, aka B. K. Wells v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP counsel-denial criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing ineffective-assistance procedural-review role-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment sixth-circuit substantive-reasonableness ussg-3b1.1 Whether Mr. Wells' request for new counsel should have been granted
22-6655 Theodore Washington v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2023-01-30 Denied Amici (1)IFP criminal-procedure deference due-process fact-finding federal-court federal-habeas habeas habeas-corpus judicial-deference procedural-review state-court state-court-findings Must a federal habeas court defer to a state-court finding of fact that favors the defendant?
22-5938 Carrington K. Joseph v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2022-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus judicial-standard procedural-review standard-of-review substantial-showing supreme-court-precedent Whether the Court of Appeals decision to deny Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability conflicts with the standard articulated by this Court and its …
22-5834 Jose A. Torres v. Lisa Mitchell, Superintendent, Old Colony Correctional Center, et al. First Circuit 2022-10-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions legal-relief procedural-review standard-of-review trial-error Whether Mr. Torres was entitled to relief or an evidentiary hearing on his claim of ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
22-5646 Fred Freeman v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-09-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 8th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights classification-error court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion procedural-review qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity standing Did Court of Appeals err in ruling on disability claims under the ADA and Rehabilitation Act?
22-5198 Akeem Markiese Rogers v. Virginia Virginia 2022-07-27 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process evidence evidence-standard jurisdiction legal-standard possession procedural-review search-and-seizure writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
21-7861 Omar S. Folk v. Bureau of Prisons, et al. Third Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP abeyance case-holding certiorari circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-tort-claims-act legal-abeyance procedural-review standing supreme-court Whether the Pending Supreme Court Case Egbert v. Boule, Case No. 21-147(Cert. Granted Nov. 5, 2021) Should be Held In Abeyance until outcome
21-7590 Stephen Izuchukwu Onwuzulike v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Third Circuit 2022-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights deportation due-process immigration immigration-law judicial-discretion jurisdiction non-citizen-rights procedural-review standing takings Whether the Due Process Clause prohibits the suppression of a properly filed appeal application
21-6619 Jeremiah Y. Nation v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit 2021-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-process legal-review procedural-grounds procedural-review state-court state-court-petition Should a Certificate of Appealability be issued on a Fourth Amendment claim in a Habeas Corpus petition where there was a dispute in the U.S. District…
21-6554 Frank L. Amodeo v. FCC Coleman - Low, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence circuit-conflict constitutional-rights due-process federal-prisoner habeas-corpus legal-remedy procedural-review Whether §2255 is inadequate or ineffective when binding precedent forecloses relief even when a meritorious claim of actual innocence is proven
21-5808 In Re Tommy Rutledge 2021-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy habeas-corpus judicial-discretion judicial-mandate mandate procedural-review res-judicata sentencing supreme-court-order vacatur When a District Court Judge has executed a mandate of the United States Supreme Court by vacating a charge and its sentence, can that same Judge reins…
21-5625 Phillip Shawn Horton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-interpretation legal-conflict procedural-review remand remand-order sentencing stare-decisis supreme-court-precedent Whether the opinion of the court below conflicts with this Court's decisions in Witte v. United States, Stinson v. United States, and Davis v. United …
21-5360 Danta Omar Roberts v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure direct-appeal fourth-amendment fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-representation procedural-review standard-of-review trial-counsel Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by ruling that the record did not conclusively demonstrate any deficiencies in trial counsel's representation, and Mr…
21-135 Vaun Monroe v. Columbia College Chicago, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-08-02 Denied civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination equitable-estoppel procedural-review racial-discrimination statute-of-limitations title-vii Did the court of appeals err in requiring Petitioner Vaun Monroe to show, on a motion to dismiss, that equitable-estoppel can only arise when a defend…
20-8328 Juan E. Seary-Colon v. United States First Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-challenge conviction-review criminal-procedure due-process insufficient-evidence legal-sufficiency procedural-review standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether Evidence was Totally Insufficient for the Conviction to Stand
20-7795 Antwan Lamar Hutchinson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-04-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure competency competency-hearing criminal-procedure drope-standard due-process mental-health procedural-review sixth-circuit standard-of-review Should the Court reverse the Sixth Circuit's modified version of the three-factor legal test in Drope v. Missouri
20-7690 Jon Terrance Winzer v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus procedural-review section-2254 standing Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal err in allowing the Western District Court to deny his 28 U.S.C. Sec. 2254 petition as being improperly filed?
20-7339 Kevin Antonio Watson v. Virginia Virginia 2021-03-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-interpretation court-procedure critical-stage due-process federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation procedural-review right-to-counsel right-to-effective-assistance-of-counsel structural-error Whether trial counsel's absence during the Commonwealth's witness direct examination constitutes a critical stage of the trial and a structural error
20-7179 Nelson Viera v. Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-19 Denied IFP civil-procedure court-jurisdiction fraud fraud-upon-court judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-interpretation miscarriage-of-justice procedural-review rule-60 supreme-court Whether the lower Courts are properly interpreting and implementing the Supreme Court decree about jurisdiction and fraud upon the Court under Rule 60…
20-5412 Kenneth T. Bluew v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process factual-record habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-review sixth-circuit Whether the petitioner should be granted a certificate of appealability on his claims of ineffective assistance of trial counsel where he has not been…
20-106 Alberto Vilar, et al. v. United States Second Circuit 2020-07-31 Denied Response Waived appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel massaro-v-united-states procedural-review Whether the failure of the district court and the Court of Appeals to consider the expanded habeas record violates Due Process in preventing assessmen…
20-5159 Kristopher Lee Roybal v. Minnesota Minnesota 2020-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process fourth-amendment inventory-search misrepresentation ncic-search procedural-due-process procedural-review vehicle-impoundment Is impoundment of a vehicle unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment?
19-1408 James Coppedge, et ux. v. Janet Z. Charlton Third Circuit 2020-06-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-complaint civil-rights-procedure collateral-order-doctrine due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction pleadings procedural-review standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the District Court review of the facial sufficiency of 42 USC § 1983 and § 1985 complaint below ignored the requirements of FRCP Rule 12(c)
19-934 In Re Todd Britton-Harr 2020-01-27 Denied 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 circuit-split federal-prisoners habeas-corpus procedural-review second-successive-motion statutory-interpretation successive-petitions supervised-release Whether 28 U.S.C. section 2244(b)(1) applies to federal prisoners seeking relief under 28 U.S.C. section 2255
19-7345 Roberto Sanchez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied IFP circuit-precedent civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process fifth-circuit immigration immigration-status judicial-conflict legal-interpretation precedent prejudice prejudicial-evidence procedural-review Did the Fifth Circuit's opinion conflict with its own precedent in Rojas v. Richardson regarding the prejudicial nature of a party's immigration statu…
19-7319 Thomas Bradford Waters v. John Stewart, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process evidentiary-standards excessive-force free-speech judicial-interpretation legal-procedure procedural-review qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment takings Whether the district court erred by granting summary judgment in favor of the defendant, despite the plaintiff's claims that there were genuine issues…
19-6890 Kevin Lamont Pearson v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP district-court due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure final-revocation-hearing magistrate-judge probable-cause procedural-review revocation-hearing rule-32.1 standing Does the plain text of Rule 32.1 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure bar a district court from considering an alleged violation at a final revo…
19-5498 Qwindel Jerome Page v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason procedural-review sixth-circuit standard-of-review standards-of-review Whether the district court and the sixth circuit court of appeals erred in denying the petitioner a certificate of appealability
19-5421 Charles Earl Davis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-31 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process factual-error harmless-error judicial-standard legal-interpretation plain-error plain-error-review procedural-review standard-of-review Whether factual error is categorically immune from plain error review?
19-5304 Michael Paul Puzey v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-07-25 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 38-usc-7253 appellate-review article-iii civil-procedure constitutional-error due-process judicial-procedure jurisdictional-standard legal-interpretation procedural-review standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Appellate Court committed a Manifest error by Failing to adhere to its obligations and duty under Article III, subsection 2, and 38 U.S.C.…
19-5138 Jesus Alonso Gonzalez Gonzalez, aka Jesus Gonzalez, aka Jesus Alonzo Gonzalez, aka Alonzo Gonzalez, aka Roberto Soto v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP allocution allocution-error appellate-review criminal-procedure defendant-objection defendant-rights due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-error plain-error procedural-review rule-51b sentencing Whether allocution error deprives the defendant of an opportunity to object to that error within the meaning of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 51(…
18-9075 Ponce D. Howard v. Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure conflict conflict-of-evidence declaration-conflict declarations investigation investigation-findings magistrate-judge procedural-review summary-judgment workplace-policy Did the Magistrate Judge, District Court, and Eleventh Circuit misapply summary judgment principles by not addressing the conflict between the declara…
18-8891 Warner Bernard Crider v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP §-2255 buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus merits-review procedural-review sixth-circuit Was Crider denied a COA improperly, where the Sixth Circuit's decision is contrary to Buck v. Davis?
18-8703 Alan Wade Johnson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act federal-prisoner legal-background procedural-review residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement silent-record successive-habeas-motion successive-motion When a federal prisoner demonstrates that, due to a silent record and the relevant legal background, the sentencing court may have relied on the Armed…
18-8589 Demetrius S. Rankin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP anders-brief appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-law court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance legal-ethics legal-standards procedural-review right-to-counsel Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied and ignored the procedural pronouncements made in Anders v. California
18-8486 Joel Marvin Munt v. Eddie Miles, Warden Minnesota 2019-03-21 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights department-of-corrections due-process filing-delay frivolousness habeas-corpus judicial-error mootness procedural-review standing statutory-interpretation Was it error to not consider the DOC's role in filing delays when ruling Writ. of Habeas corpus moot?
18-8449 Juan Bustos-Chavez v. Matthew Hansen, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence alibi alibi-evidence due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-review murray-v-carrier procedural-review Whether the actual innocence exception established by Murray v. Carrier applies to alibi evidence
18-8089 Lattrell Anthony Morris v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-due-process court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts gvr habeas-corpus procedural-review rule-60b standing summary-denial summary-disposition Whether the Certificate of Appealability standard can be consistently applied when petitioners are denied relief under Rule 60(b)
18-7791 Joyce Ann Smith v. City of Princeton, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP case-dismissal civil-mediation civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal district-court due-process magistrate-judge mediation procedural-review reconsideration settlement settlement-dispute standing towing Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
18-833 Brandi K. Stokes v. Commission for Lawyer Discipline Fifth Circuit 2019-01-03 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure geneva-conventions international-law judicial-review jurisdiction procedural-review subject-matter subject-matter-characterization subject-matter-jurisdiction treaty-obligations united-states-courts Whether a United States Court of Appeals may rely upon the subject matter characterizations of a lower court to avoid jurisdiction to review a claim f…
18-6987 Javon Sanders v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-12-11 Denied IFP 13th-amendment civil-rights compensation constitutional-challenge due-process evidence-standard forced-labor-slavery interaction-log international-covenant international-law involuntary-servitude labor-conditions law-enforcement police-contact prison-labor prison-reform procedural-review Whether the failure of the Arkansas Department of Correction to pay equitable remuneration to its inmate population violates the Thirteenth Amendment'…
18-6546 Alexander Castellano-Benitez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit evidence exculpatory-evidence Judicial-Precedent precedent Procedural-Review prosecutorial-misconduct Writ-of-Certiorari Should a writ of certiorari be granted to determine if the Eight Circuit and the lower court erred in failing to follow this court's prior precedent i…
18-5608 Andres Mata v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-16 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeals federal-appeals-court habeas-corpus judicial-determination procedural-review state-appeals state-court-review Whether a federal court of appeals' determination that a habeas petitioner failed to make a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional righ…