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25-6472 Roberto Lopez-Ortiz v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2026-01-02 Pending Response WaivedIFP criminal-offense direct-review due-process felony-murder retroactive-application substantive-change Roberto Lopez -Ortiz is serving life in prison for an offense that no longer exist s. He fully preserve d his challenge to second -degree felony -murd…
25-729 James King v. United States, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-12-19 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived circuit-split federal-tort-claims-act judgment-bar procedural-law retroactive-application rule-60b6 Whether a litigant can claim relief from judgment under Rule 60(b)(6) when a change in settled procedural law retroactively vitiates the litigant's re…
25-5625 Fred Krug v. New Jersey State Parole Board New Jersey 2025-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure ex-post-facto parole-law retroactive-application sentencing-benefit Whether the Ex Post Facto Clause protects against the retroactive removal of a substantial sentencing benefit that is conferred after the date of offe…
25-5381 Shameika Johnson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment-821 criminal-law judicial-discretion retroactive-application sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines Whether the lower courts erred by refusing to grant Ms. Johnson a sentence reduction under retroactively applicable Amendment 821 – Part A to the Unit…
25-96 Maryville Baptist Church, et al. v. Andy Beshear, Governor of Kentucky Sixth Circuit 2025-07-24 Denied attorney-fees due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-precedent retroactive-application vested-rights Whether retroactive application of a judicial decision changing legal precedent violates the Due Process Clause when it deprives a party of vested rig…
24-1254 City of Palestine, Texas, et al. v. Union Pacific Railroad Company Texas 2025-06-09 Denied constitutional-interpretation iccta-preemption interstate-commerce retroactive-application separation-of-powers state-court-judgment Whether the Texas Supreme Court erred in retroactively applying the Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act's preemption provisions to a final …
24-1233 John M. Barr, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission Fifth Circuit 2025-06-04 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-discretion due-process regulatory-standard retroactive-application whistleblower-award Whether an agency can deny a whistleblower award by applying a new regulatory standard retroactively, after the whistleblower's claim has fully mature…
24-6694 Emilio Santiago v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-decision career-offender criminal-procedure judicial-review retroactive-application sentencing-enhancement Whether an intervening Court of Appeals decision invalidating a defendant's career offender enhancement should be applied retroactively
24-6603 Michael Lee Gordon v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-02-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP compassionate-release criminal-procedure first-step-act retroactive-application sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether the 'reduced' penalties amended in the First Step Act of 2018 should be applied retroactively to cases prior to the amendment and whether such…
24-6431 Norman Seneka Bowers v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP direct-appeal judicial-discretion jurisdictional-delay retroactive-application sentencing-guidelines supervised-release Whether Amendment 821 to the United States Sentencing Guidelines should be applied retroactively on direct appeal and whether a district court may rea…
24-6354 Shelben T. Curtis v. Ron Neal, Warden Seventh Circuit 2025-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP ineffective-assistance jury-instruction retroactive-application sixth-amendment sudden-heat voluntary-manslaughter Whether the lower courts unreasonably applied Brantley retroactively when deciding if counsel's ineffectiveness denied Sixth Amendment rights due to i…
24-505 Robert L. Ignasiak, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-04 Denied collateral-review motion-to-vacate procedural-default retroactive-application section-2255 statutory-interpretation May a Supreme Court statutory interpretation case that was held to apply retroactively in collateral proceedings constitute cause to excuse procedural…
24-458 Laurie Weinlein v. United States Second Circuit 2024-10-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) criminal-sentencing ex-post-facto legislative-extension restitution retroactive-application victim-compensation Whether the retroactive enlargement of a restitution liability period violates the Ex Post Facto Clause
24A338 Joseph Blea v. Hector Rios, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-10-09 Presumed Complete constitutional-violation due-process ex-post-facto retroactive-application statute-of-limitations vested-rights Whether the Ex Post Facto Clause of the United States Constitution prohibits retroactive application of an amendatory act extending a statute of limit…
24-5375 Michael Antrantrino Lee v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-law due-process retroactive-application sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-interpretation Does retroactive application of sentencing guidelines violate due process as construed by the Supreme Court?
24A101 Valley Hospital Medical Center, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board Ninth Circuit 2024-07-29 Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-interpretation chevron-deference loper-bright nlrb-decision retroactive-application Whether the Supreme Court's recent decision in Loper Bright Enterprises overturning Chevron deference should apply retroactively to National Labor Rel…
23-7358 Eric LaQuinne Brown v. Mississippi Mississippi 2024-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP brown-v-state constitutional-error due-process fourteenth-amendment howell-v-state mississippi post-conviction-relief procedural-rule retroactive-application upccra Is it a Due Process violation, to apply a 2023 decision (Howell v. State.) case holding, that abolishment of the exception to Mississippi's procedural…
23-1171 Terrance Guinn v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-04-30 Denied Response Waived collateral-review constitutional-law due-process factual-innocence federal-habeas firearm-possession firearms rehaif retroactive-application statutory-interpretation Whether petitioner is entitled to seek relief under 28 U.S.C. § 1651 and 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e) based on his claim that his conviction for possessing a f…
23-7056 Allen Brooks, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law legislative-power liberty-interests non-delegation non-delegation-doctrine retroactive-application retroactivity sex-offender-registration Did Congress's delegation to Attorneys General the retroactive reach of SORNA to offenders convicted of sex crimes before its enactment violate U.S. C…
23A818 Pikerson Mentor v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-05 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability collateral-review davis-decision retroactive-application section-2255 successive-motion Whether a federal prisoner may seek collateral review of a conviction under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 based on a new substantive rule announced in United State…
23-6874 Kendall Dean Mitchell v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-02-29 Denied IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review jurisdiction retroactive-application state-law state-prosecution supremacy-clause Whether Oklahoma violated its own law in an effort to deny Petitioner's right to due process of law pursuant to the 14th Amendment
23-6777 Monty Dwayne Sullivan v. Wyoming Wyoming 2024-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-rights court-transcripts discovery discovery-rules due-process exculpatory-evidence medical-records retroactive-application Does Mr. Sullivan have a Constitutional Right to Court Transcripts and Medical Records dispositive to the State's theory of the case?
23-6432 Carlos Martinez v. California California 2024-01-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto first-step-act prior-conviction retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation takings Whether or not Pelytwuner is innocent of being Hebi toa! Cxiwminal olfeudtr and of the sentence of FO years () ve , im posed under the vetrcact ve app…
23-6064 Anthony Kimbrough v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-11-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-bias dna-testing due-process fourteenth-amendment material-false-testimony oklahoma-criminal-procedure post-conviction-dna-testing post-conviction-relief retroactive-application sixth-amendment whether-escobar-vs-texas-applies-retroactively
23-5755 Dewayne Joseph v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied IFP circuit-split discretion discretionary-relief fair-sentencing-act first-step-act retroactive-application sentencing-guidelines Whether district courts have an obligation to calculate revised guidelines to reflect the retroactive effect of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 as a b…
23-307 Kyran Javon Vaughn v. Louisiana Louisiana 2023-09-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) criminal-conviction criminal-defendants direct-review due-process griffith griffith-precedent non-unanimous-jury ramos ramos-decision retroactive-application retroactivity Whether the rights afforded criminal defendants in Ramos apply retroactively to a case on direct review of the sentence only, given Griffith's holding
23-5588 Roger A. Libby v. Robert Legran, Warden, et al. Nevada 2023-09-14 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-cases criminal-law due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactive-application state-law substantive-due-process substantive-rule Whether the due process and equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment render Nevada state laws unconstitutional
23A172 Bradley Wayne Berry v. Kirt Guerin, Warden Fifth Circuit 2023-08-25 Presumed Complete collateral-review constitutional-right jury-verdict retroactive-application sixth-amendment unanimous-jury Whether the Sixth Amendment requires retroactive application of the Ramos v. Louisiana unanimous jury verdict rule to state criminal convictions on co…
23-5174 Dionte Houff v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver circuit-split constitutional-statute jurisdiction plea-agreement retroactive-application statutory-and-constitutional-issues supreme-court-precedent waiver-of-appeal Can a plea agreement that contains a waiver of appeal bar a direct appeal of a conviction and/or sentence based on a statute that this Court later rul…
23-5148 Bernard Edmond v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-factors first-step-act resentencing retroactive-application sentencing-disparity Whether sentencing-disparities-can-serve-as-basis-for-compassionate-release
22-7687 James Jones v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-06-01 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion retroactive-application self-defense statutory-interpretation verbal-threat Whether a defendant may assert self-defense against a verbal threat even if the victim did not act on the threat
22-1098 David Parsons Demarest v. Town of Underhill, Vermont, et al. Second Circuit 2023-05-10 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived due-process federal-court-jurisdiction federal-courts property-rights retroactive-application retroactivity statute-of-limitations takings takings-litigation Whether the Court of Appeals erred in refusing to give retroactive effect to Knick v. Township of Scott and Wilkins v. United States
22-7449 Robert Richard Spurling, III v. Arizona Arizona 2023-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-law jury-instructions retroactive-application sexual-abuse state-courts statutory-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether a state court's decision that a state statute prevents the state courts from conducting analysis pursuant to United States Supreme Court prece…
22-806 John Doe v. United States First Circuit 2023-02-24 Denied Response Waived acca acca-predicates criminal-justice direct-appeal first-step-act remedial-purpose retroactive-application retroactivity statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant whose case was pending on direct appeal at the time of enactment of the First Step Act is entitled to the benefit of §401 (limitin…
22-770 Ross M. Jackson v. Glenn Cowan, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-16 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 1983 civil-rights civil-rights-conspiracy equal-protection first-amendment-speech internal-policies probable-cause public-forum retroactive-application retroactivity section-1983 Whether the Supreme Court's recent decisions in Nieves v. Bartlett and Lozman v. Riviera Beach apply retroactively
22-6658 Wade Bonk v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal circuit-court-ruling conviction criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion leadership-role retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement Did the District Court err by refusing to apply the Seventh Circuit's ruling in U.S. v. Carnell retroactively since Petitioner's conviction was not fi…
22-659 Padma Rao v. Anita Rao, et al. Illinois 2023-01-18 Denied american-rule due-process equity equity-doctrine fee-shifting litigation-penalty pleading-requirements retroactive retroactive-application Whether it was a violation of due process to retroactively impose a new fee-shifting penalty in contravention of the established American Rule
22-6377 Thaddeus Chaylon Martin v. Florida Florida 2022-12-22 Denied IFP civil-rights corrections criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction prison-credits retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-credits Whether the court had jurisdiction to re-sentence the petitioner to 18 years after initially sentencing him to 10 years
22-6256 Robert Gospodareck v. Alabama Alabama 2022-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP alabama-law assisted-suicide constitutional-law criminal-law murder-for-hire retroactive-application retroactivity statutory-interpretation When Alabama first enacted Assisted Suicide legislation in 2017 which specifically provided that it amended existing law and also created a new crime,…
22-480 City of Palestine, Texas, et al. v. Union Pacific Railroad Company Fifth Circuit 2022-11-21 Denied Response Waived circuit-conflict circuit-split contractual-obligations iccta-preemption interstate-commerce interstate-commerce-commission-termination-act judicial-review preemption retroactive-application summary-judgment Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in retroactively applying the preemption provisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act (ICCTA) to a…
22-6121 Michael Paul Conn v. West Virginia West Virginia 2022-11-21 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP bouie-principle bouie-v-city-of-columbia due-process judicial-interpretation notice notice-requirement retroactive-application retroactivity sex-offender-registration west-virginia Did the retroactive application of a new interpretation of a state sex offender registration law violate due process?
22-5934 Gemar Morgan v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP compassionate-release constitutional-due-process covid-19 criminal-justice-reform first-step-act health-conditions judicial-discretion retroactive-application sentence-modification sentencing-reform sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation Whether the district court erred in denying the petitioner's motion for compassionate release under the First Step Act, in light of the petitioner's h…
22-5825 Ahmed R. Morning v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction ramos-v-louisiana retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-review Whether the State trial court erred by imposing an unconstitutionally harsh and excessive sentence?
22-5747 Demmerick Eric Brown v. Karen D. Brown, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-10-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ex-post-facto good-time-credit good-time-credits mandatory-parole parole parole-board-policy retroactive-application retroactive-punishment sentencing-modification Whether retroactive application of a parole board policy to revoke the good time credits of a parolee violates the Ex Post Facto Clause
22-5614 Michael Lee Gordon v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law court-jurisdiction due-process judicial-review legal-procedure lower-court-decision retroactive-application standing statutory-interpretation Whether the enactment of the statute by Congress is constitutional
22-5505 Elec Elmer Cusick v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-09-02 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure habeas-corpus indian-law mcgirt-ruling post-conviction-relief retroactive-application retroactivity subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), is a substantive ruling or a procedural ruling
22-171 Centro Médico del Turabo, Inc., dba Hospital Hima San Pablo Caguas and Hospital Hima San Pablo Fajardo, v. Unión General de Trabajadores Puerto Rico 2022-08-24 Denied Response Waived administrative-determination administrative-determinations appellate-rules arbitration-awards court-review due-process procedural-due-process procedural-rules retroactive-application retroactivity review-procedures Whether the Puerto Rico Supreme Court erred and violated the presumption against retroactivity and procedural due process
22-113 Bradley Jacobs Shumway v. Texas Texas 2022-08-04 Denied Response Waived common-law corpus-delicti due-process ex-post-facto judicial-exception legal-sufficiency retroactive-application Whether the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas denied Mr. Shumway due process of law
21-8285 Darryll Justin Lee Reed v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-06-29 Denied IFP criminal-procedure indian-law judicial-precedent jurisdiction mcgirt-rule procedural-law retroactive-application retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-law tribal-sovereignty Is McGirt a Substantive or Procedural rule?
21-8160 Jamie M. Coffey v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-16 Denied IFP 14th-amendment appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process griffith-v-kentucky judicial-precedent retroactive-application retroactivity Do the State and Federal courts violate a petitioner's 14th Amendment Right to due process when they decline to apply a new rule governing a criminal …
21-7908 Jose Mejia v. New York New York 2022-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactive-application retroactivity sixth-amendment Does the failure to apply the amendment retroactively deprive a defendant of his fundamental rights under the Sixth and Fourteenth amendments where he…
21-7792 John Joseph Dedeaux v. Marc McClure, Superintendent, Central Mississippi Correctional Facility Fifth Circuit 2022-05-05 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-questions due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto jurisdiction retroactive-application statutory-interpretation vagueness whether-the-retroactive-application-of-mississippi-statute-creates-a-significant-risk-of-prolonging-the-petitioner's-stay-in-prison
21-7727 Anthony Kimbrough v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-04-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-judgments criminal-judgments final-judgment indian-territory mcgirt-decision mcgirt-v-oklahoma race racial-classification retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-precedent Whether the McGirt v. Oklahoma decision applies retroactively to all persons in Indian Territory irrespective of race, including their final civil and…
21-7558 Vitaly Kolosha v. Luke Pettigrew, Warden Tenth Circuit 2022-04-06 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights congressional-act due-process federal-law free-speech jurisdictional-conflict retroactive-application retroactivity standing state-jurisdiction treaty-interpretation When is a new religious word 190 years old treaty, law, prior ruling, or act of congress automatically retroactive, or does it apply to all cases as i…
21-7535 Antonio Alejandro Gutierrez v. Steve Shelton, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1915 bruce-v-samuels civil-procedure due-process filing-fees in-forma-pauperis procedural-law retroactive-application retroactivity statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Question Presented
21-7197 Dennis Lee Shaffer v. Kansas Kansas 2022-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-law ex-post-facto kansas-offender-registration-act punishment-clause retroactive-application sex-offender-registration smith-v-doe Do the cumulative burdens of the Kansas Offender Registration Act constitute punishment under the test set out in Smith v. Doe, 538 U.S. 84 (2003), su…
21-6719 N. R. v. Kansas Kansas 2021-12-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment ex-post-facto juvenile-adjudication juvenile-justice retroactive-application retroactive-law sex-offender-registration Do the Ex Post Facto Clause and Eighth Amendment permit a retroactive imposition of registration obligations on a person adjudicated of a sex offense …
21-6553 Chad L. Enderle v. Iowa Iowa 2021-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process heemstra legal-retroactivity pending-appeals retroactive-application retroactive-availability statute-of-limitations supreme-court-precedent Do the federal Supreme Court cases require Iowa law to apply full retroactive availability to pending appeals?
21-6462 Clarence Rozell Goode, Jr. v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-12-01 Denied IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure final-judgment habeas-corpus indian-law mcgirt-v-oklahoma oklahoma-law retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced
21-6249 Daniel Rosa v. Bruce Gelb, Superintendent, Souza Baranowski Correctional Center First Circuit 2021-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process habeas-corpus retroactive-application statutory-interpretation Whether a Court of Appeal's decision that failed to provide a reasoned justification for denying a Certificate of Appealability, but rather stated onl…
21-6204 Antonio A. Tankes v. Florida Florida 2021-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment free-speech retroactive-application sentencing-enhancement standing Whether the petitioner should be prohibited from filing pro se pleadings
21-6080 Carl Henry Olsen, III v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa anti-terrorism-act circuit-split federal-habeas federal-statute habeas-corpus presumption-against-retroactivity retroactive-application retroactivity second-or-successive-petitions second-petition Whether AEDPA's restrictions on second or successive habeas petitions apply retroactively to petitioners who filed pre-AEDPA federal habeas litigation
21-5516 In Re Freddy Perkins 2021-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 841-b-1-a 846 851-enhancement actual-innocence cocaine-base criminal-procedure mathis-v-united-states retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing-law statutory-enhancement Whether Mathis applies retroactive to Petitioner Perkin's claim of 'Actual Innocent' under 841 (b)(1)(a) & 846, 280 grams or more Cocaine Base and 851…
21-5490 Joseph Montrel Bourgeois v. Texas Texas 2021-08-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure deadly-weapon direct-appeal due-process guilty-plea intoxication plea-agreement retroactive-application sentencing-enhancement warrantless-search Whether the trial court and criminal court of appeals of Texas violated established federal law as determined by the United States Supreme Court
21-199 Mohammad Sharif Khalil v. Ur Jaddou, Director, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-11 Denied asylum-status immigration-law immigration-nationality-act inadmissibility military-training real-id-act retroactive-application terrorist-activities terrorist-organization Whether the INA, as amended by the REAL ID Act, permits the government to retroactively deem a noncitizen inadmissible for receiving military-type tra…
21-5125 Reginald Lamont Thomas v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of California Ninth Circuit 2021-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-consideration civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process judicial-council judicial-suspension retroactive-application sentencing-limits statutory-interpretation suspension time-limits How can the judicial council for the Ninth Circuit ratify an application to suspend the time limits of 18 U.S.C. § 3161 for the Eastern District of Ca…
21-5100 Matthew James Haymond, Sr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP crack-cocaine criminal-sentencing drug-offenses fair-sentencing-act first-step-act mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimum plea-bargaining retroactive-application sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether Mr. Haymond was improperly denied First-Step-Act-relief
21-5053 Hernando Javier Vergara v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment amendment-challenge constitutional-scrutiny criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process jury-trial retroactive-application retroactivity supervised-release Should the Haymond ruling be considered retroactive?
20-8380 David Simmons v. Earl Houser, Superintendent, Goose Creek Correctional Center Ninth Circuit 2021-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment administrative-remedies civil-procedure constitutional-claim dna-registration due-process ex-post-facto retroactive-application state-supreme-court Whether the district court erred in failing to give deference to the state supreme court's determination that petitioner's administrative remedies had…
20-1698 Philip Palade, et al. v. Board of Trustees University of Arkansas System, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied academic-freedom contract-rights declaratory-judgment due-process employment-contract property-rights retroactive-application standing standing-doctrine tenure-rights Whether the lower courts erred in holding that Petitioners lacked standing to seek declaratory relief concerning the retroactive application of newly-…
20-8208 Ashanti Lusby v. Illinois Illinois 2021-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-factors miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing-hearing How to determine when a juvenile sentenced to life in prison without parole or its functional equivalent prior to Miller v. Alabama is entitled to a n…
20-1645 Don Wilburn Collins v. Texas Texas 2021-05-26 Denied Response Waived capital-murder constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto juvenile-jurisdiction juvenile-justice retroactive-application retroactive-jurisdiction Did the Texas appellate courts fail to realize that the retroactive expansion of jurisdiction over a previously exempt juvenile for capital murder vio…
20-1409 Graham B. Spanier v. Chad Libby, Director, Dauphin County Probation Services, et al. Third Circuit 2021-04-07 Denied Response Waived criminal-liability criminal-statute due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment jury-instruction retroactive-application retroactivity May a state prosecute a defendant for violating a statute enacted after the defendant's conduct, without violating the Ex Post Facto Clause, merely be…
20-7648 Kesner V. Joaseus, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2021-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP age constitutional-law criminal-justice culpability due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-sentencing retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing whether-the-proportionality-principle-&-the-eighth-amendment-has-been-violated
20-1380 Security People, Inc. v. Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-04-01 Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge due-process federal-circuit fifth-amendment inter-partes-review jurisdiction patent patent-law retroactive-application vested-property Whether the retroactive application of inter partes review deprived Petitioner of its vested property in violation of the Due Process Clause
20-1150 Shelby L. Haynes, et al. v. Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Health and Welfare Fund, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied agreement common-fund common-fund-rule equitable-lien erisa erisa-fiduciary fiduciary non-contractual-claims plan-administrator retroactive-application retroactivity Can an ERISA plan fiduciary assert equitable lien by agreement claims against persons with which it has no agreement?
20-1094 Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied administrative-agency administrative-law agency-determination civil-procedure due-process federal-circuit judicial-review methodology procedural-fairness retroactive-application retroactive-methodology Whether the Federal Circuit erred by affirming the practice that an administrative agency may penalize the subject of an agency determination for fail…
20-7073 Donovan Muskett v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-02-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-consequences due-process fair-warning precedent retroactive-application Can a single decision from another circuit afford fair warning that the federal circuit in which an individual resides may overrule settled precedent …
20-7083 Jeremy Brown v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-02-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment burden-of-proof collateral-review criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process presumption-of-innocence rehau-v-united-states retroactive-application Whether a criminal defendant has substantial due process rights under the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution
20-1030 Tommie Rae Brown v. Deanna Brown-Thomas, et al. South Carolina 2021-01-28 Denied Response Waived due-process equal-protection fundamental-right-to-marry judicial-decree marriage-validity retroactive-application retroactivity void-marriage Whether requiring the class of persons in marriages that are void ab initio to obtain a judicial decree of invalidity before remarrying violates the D…
20-6947 Alphonso Cave v. Florida Florida 2021-01-26 Denied IFP capital-punishment civil-rights collateral-review due-process intellectual-disability montgomery-v-louisiana procedural-law retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-precedent Must Florida apply Hall v. Florida, 134 S. Ct. 1986 (2014) retroactively and review a claim of intellectual-disability on the merits for cases on coll…
20-6879 John D. Freeman v. Florida Florida 2021-01-14 Denied IFP due-process eighth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability montgomery-v-louisiana postconviction-procedure retroactive-application retroactivity substantive-rule Whether Florida's postconviction procedures governing intellectual-disability claims fail to vindicate defendants' substantive Eighth-Amendment rights…
20-6787 Matthew Lee Pryor v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-sentencing direct-appeal direct-review first-step-act retroactive-application retroactivity section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation Does Congress' express 'Clarification of Section 924(c) of Title 18, United States Code' in Section 403 of the First Step Act apply to a defendant con…
20-6734 John S. Mobasseri v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2259 child-pornography criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process restitution retroactive-application statutory-amendment Whether it violates due process to retroactively apply the 2018 amendments to 18 U.S.C. § 2259 to offense conduct occurring prior to the effective dat…
20-6634 In Re Karen Denise Chades 2020-12-15 Denied IFP collateral-proceedings constitutional-law constitutional-right due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactive-application retroactivity strickland-v-washington teague-v-lane trial-counsel whether a prisoner has a right to effective counsel in collateral proceedings which provide the first occasion to raise a claim of ineffective assista…
20-6307 Gary Lawrence v. Florida Florida 2020-11-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP atkins-v-virginia death-penalty hall-v-florida intellectual-disability montgomery-v-louisiana retroactive-application retroactivity substantive-rule supreme-court-precedent Whether Hall v. Florida applies retroactively on collateral review
20-5787 Thomas Wayne Godard v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 924(c) 924(c)-conviction due-process equal-protection first-step-act retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-relief Whether the Circuit Court Erred Failing to Apply First Step Act retroactively to multiple 924(c) convictions that were announced, but not final, at th…
20-5426 David Moss v. Texas Texas 2020-08-20 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance retroactive-application retroactivity strickland-standard strickland-v-washington texas-code-of-criminal-procedure Whether the state court's decision was contrary to this Court's decision in Lafler v. Cooper and Chaidez v. United States, and whether the court's dec…
20-5262 Stephen Henderson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-tracking fourth-amendment habeas-corpus retroactive-application retroactivity search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent title-28-usc-2253 united-states-v-jones warrantless-search Should this Court's decision in United States v. Jones and Carpenter v. United States be applied retroactively under Title 28 U.S.C. § 2253
20-5051 Andre Patrick Staggers v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-841(b) criminal-procedure drug-offense first-step-act retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-law statutory-minimums Does the First Step Act provision lowering the enhanced statutory minimums of 21 U.S.C. § 841(b) apply to persons who were sentenced before the provis…
19-8834 Monosij Dutta-Roy v. Jysk Bed'n Linen, dba By Design Furniture, as Successor to Quick Ship Holding, Inc., dba By Design Furniture Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP cybersquatting-protection domain domain-name-dispute equitable-accounting fiduciary-duty joint-venture joint-venture-rights profit-sharing retroactive-application trademark-ownership Whether the Eleventh Circuit properly reviewed de novo the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of Jysk, ignoring issues of fraud, iden…
19-8764 James William Burney v. Florida Florida 2020-06-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-provision due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-law state-constitution voter-intent Whether the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process and Equal Protection protections requires enactment legislation for a state constitutional provision to b…
19-8636 Silas Bernard Peterson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law attorney-general attorney-general-authority constitutional-delegation ex-post-facto notification-act retroactive-application sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-delegation Did the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) unconstitutionally delegate to the Attorney General the decision of whether and how it …
19-8536 In Re Robert P. Russell 2020-05-26 Dismissed IFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-constitutional-right federal-crime federal-habeas habeas-corpus liberty-interest liberty-interests murder-conviction retroactive-application statutory-interpretation successive-motions Whether Petitioner Robert Peter Russell retains a federal constitutional right to be released from federal prison upon existing record of uncontrovert…
19-8522 Richard Felton v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2020-05-22 Denied IFP common-law due-process fourteenth-amendment procedural-waiver retroactive-application rogers-v-tennessee structural-error Did the Massachusetts Appeals Court deny a defendant due process of law in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment
19-8469 Viengxay Chantharath v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-851 career-offender collateral-review criminal-procedure drug-convictions first-step-act mandatory-minimum retroactive-application sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether the First Step Act (FSA-2018) altered the statutes: 21 U.S.C. § 851 enhancement for prior drug convictions
19-8345 In Re Steven Ciotta 2020-04-23 Dismissed IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule procedural-default retroactive-application retroactivity right-to-counsel Whether review should be granted to correct a U.S. Constitution violation when inferior federal courts have failed to acknowledge a claim alleging ine…
19-1204 Arthrex, Inc. v. Smith & Nephew, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2020-04-09 Denied administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-challenge due-process fifth-amendment inter-partes-review patent-law patent-law-retroactivity patent-office retroactive-application retroactivity takings Whether the retroactive application of inter partes review to patents that were applied for before the America Invents Act violates the Fifth Amendmen…
19-1160 Robert J. Murphy v. Office of Disciplinary Counsel Pennsylvania 2020-03-23 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech judicial-code pennsylvania-rules-of-professional-conduct pennsylvania-workers-compensation-act retroactive-application workers-compensation Whether petitioner had fair warning of disciplinary proceedings
19-8079 Mark Steven Elk Shoulder v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP federal-jurisdiction major-crimes-act nondelegation-doctrine retroactive-application retroactivity sex-offender-registration special-relationship statutory-interpretation Whether SORNA can be applied, retroactively, through the Wetterling Act, to a defendant whose underlying sex offense conviction was prosecuted under t…
19-8034 Whitney Atkinson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP crack-cocaine drug-offense fair-sentencing-act first-step-act mandatory-minimum retroactive-application sentence-enhancement statutory-interpretation Did Mr. Atkinson receive a sentence for a covered drug offense, such that he should be eligible for retroactive application of the Fair Sentencing Act…
19-7980 Maechel Shawn Patterson v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2020-03-13 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection retroactive-application statutory-interpretation victim-rights victims-rights Whether the North Carolina Crime Victims' Rights Act can be constitutionally applied to the petitioner for crimes committed before the Act's effective…
19-7745 Willie B. Smith, III v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-24 Denied Relisted (3)IFP batson-challenge collateral-review death-penalty death-penalty-law hall-v-florida intellectual-disability moore-v-texas peremptory-strikes prosecutor-conduct prosecutorial-discretion retroactive-application retroactivity substantive-rules Whether Hail v. Florida and Moore v. Texas apply retroactively to cases on collateral review
19-7503 Michael Bernard Bell v. Florida Florida 2020-01-31 Denied IFP buck-v-davis constitutional-right constitutional-rights criminal-trial ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel racial-animus racial-bias retroactive-application strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Does the decision in Buck v. Davis, 137 S.Ct. 759 (2017), which rejected the improper injection of racial animus, bias, or prejudice into a criminal t…
19-7371 Larry Bentley, Jr. v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment narcotics-detection prejudice retroactive-application retroactivity search search-and-seizure Question not identified
19-883 Jason Isaiah Robinson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied Response Waived aedpa-limitations anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus miller-v-alabama montgomery-retroactivity retroactive-application substantive-rules suspension-clause Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit failed to conduct the requisite threshold inquiry and imposed an unduly burdensome st…
19-7170 Dante Taylor v. New York New York 2020-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel appellate-procedure appellate-review carpenter-v-united-states constitutional-law constitutional-ruling due-process fourth-amendment griffith-v-kentucky ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel retroactive-application retroactivity supremacy-clause supreme-court-precedent What is the appropriate appellate protocol for appellate counsel to follow when: (i) the Supreme Court has issued a new constitutional ruling affectin…
19-789 Maghreb Petroleum Exploration, S.A., et al. v. John Paul DeJoria Fifth Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) anti-retroactivity-provisions civil-rights constitutional-law de-novo-review due-process erie-doctrine federal-constitution foreign-judgment foreign-money-judgment judicial-review retroactive-application retroactive-legislation retroactivity texas-constitution texas-law texas-legislature uniform-foreign-country-money-judgments-recognitio Whether the retroactive application of the 2017 Texas Act violates the anti-retroactivity provisions of the Federal and the Texas Constitutions?
19-6863 In Re Melvin Bonnell 2019-12-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-law due-process federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus retroactive-application retroactivity sixth-circuit state-court-decisions teague-doctrine teague-standard Whether a state court's merits decision applying a new rule of constitutional law opens up federal review
19-6751 DeAngelo Pantalion Williams v. California California 2019-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-court arbitrary-denial constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactive-application state-appellate-court state-law Whether a state appellate court's arbitrary denial of a defendant's request for the retroactive application of a new state law constitutes a violation…
19-634 Republic of Sudan, et al. v. James Owens, et al. District of Columbia 2019-11-18 Denied chevron-oil circuit-court due-process foreign-sovereigns foreign-sovereigns-immunity,terrorism-exception,su landgraf retroactive-application sovereign-immunity substantive-liability terrorism-exception Whether the D.C. Circuit applied an unconstitutional rule of substantive liability
19-601 Collabo Innovations, Inc. v. Sony Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied Relisted (4) 5th-amendment america-invents-act due-process inter-partes-review leahy-smith-america-invents-act patent retroactive-application retroactivity takings-clause Does the retroactive application of inter partes review to a patent that issued before the passage of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, Pub. L. No.…
19-6407 Derran Smiley v. California California 2019-10-28 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance penal-code post-conviction retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing state-court-ruling Whether the retroactive application of California Penal Code Section 667(c)(2) violates the Ex Post Facto Clause of the U.S. Constitution
19-6389 Quincy Dennis v. J. A. Terris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-10-25 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 categorical-approach drug-offense federal-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-relief-28-usc-2241 intervening-change mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence presidential-commutation presidential-pardon retroactive-application retroactively-applicable-decision sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether petitioner Dennis is entitled to seek federal habeas corpus relief
19-6358 In Re Morris J. Warren 2019-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-conflict circuit-split conflict-of-laws constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process ex-post-facto parole-eligibility retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-regulations statutory-interpretation Does Daniel v. Fulwood, Case No. 12-5327/Citation 766 F. 3d 57 (D.C. Cir. 2014), apply to my parole-eligible sentence, where which was given December …
19-6336 Eddie Jennings v. United States Third Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review criminal-law johnson-ruling mandatory-sentencing new-right retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether this Court's rulings in Johnson and Welch apply to the residual clause of the career-offender provision of the former mandatory Sentencing Gui…
19-6195 Alejandro Martinez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-07 Denied IFP 18-usc-924c3b civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure equal-protection federal-appeals pro-se-petition retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-review unconstitutionally-vague united-states-courts united-states-v-davis vagueness Whether the retroactive application of the Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Davis, 588 U.S. ___, 139 S.Ct. 2319 (2019) holding 18 U.S.C. §…
19-5928 Marcos Santiago v. United States Third Circuit 2019-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-841 civil-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process first-step-act retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether Congress' decision to make the retroactive application of the First Step Act fully retroactive creates a significant risk that thousands of pr…
19-5858 Lamarr T. Crittenden v. Keith Butts, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights constitutional-violation due-process ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel retroactive-application sexual-violent-predator sexually-violent-predator Did the Seventh Circuit fail to address an ex post facto violation and failure to issue a Certificate of Appealability?
19-5809 Lloyde Dubry v. Kansas Kansas 2019-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-history descamps-v-united-states discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sixth-amendment state-v-wetrich Whether the petitioner was denied his remedy by due course of law due to disparate conclusions by Kansas courts on the retroactive application of Stat…
19-5756 In Re James Bryant 2019-08-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process felony-murder felony-murder-doctrine-retroactivity habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-jurisdiction jurisdiction retroactive-application retroactivity subject-matter-jurisdiction vagueness Whether the state trial court lacked subject-matter jurisdiction by convicting Petitioner in 1971 under a vague first-degree murder statute
19-5516 Rayshawn Roshard Robertson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 burden-of-proof constitutional-law constitutional-provision criminal-defendant criminal-procedure criminal-relief federal-procedure retroactive-application retroactive-constitutional-decision section-2255 sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum Whether a criminal defendant moving for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 can satisfy his burden of proof by showing his sentence may have been based on a…
19-5367 Ralph Arthur Duarte v. California California 2019-07-29 Denied IFP 14th-amendment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus hicks-v-oklahoma liberty-interest people-v-vargas retroactive-application retroactivity three-strikes three-strikes-law whether-petitioner-was-denied-due-process-of-law
19-5372 Mary Katherine Day-Petrano v. Charles D. Hall, et al. Florida 2019-07-29 Dismissed IFP ada-violation americans-with-disabilities-act attorney-fees bankruptcy-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing due-process florida-supreme-court judicial-amendment retroactive-application standing statutory-construction takings Whether the Florida Supreme Court's order requiring the petitioner to write a longer brief and award attorney's fees to the respondent violates the pe…
19-5041 Matthew Jamison v. Levern Cohen, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review conflict-with-other-states constitutional-law due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto federal-constitutional-rights federal-question retroactive-application vested-rights Did S.C. Supreme Court decide on an important federal question in ways conflicting with decision of other state?
18-9659 In Re Quisi Bryan 2019-06-13 Denied IFP constitutional-law death-penalty federal-review habeas-corpus hurst-claim hurst-v-florida jury-determination jury-trial retroactive-application retroactivity sixth-amendment sixth-circuit Whether the Ohio Supreme Court's merits denial of Bryan's Hurst claim was erroneous insofar as appellate reweighing cannot cure the errors that affect…
18-9644 Jeffrey Castleberry v. Florida Florida 2019-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-discretion mental-disabilities mental-disability reasonable-accommodations retroactive-application sentencing state-courts Does the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) require State trial courts to make reasonable accommodations for persons with mental disabilities?
18-9546 Everett Charles Wills, II v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP collateral-review criminal-justice criminal-procedure danforth-v-minnesota federal-law greene-v-fisher mccoy-v-louisiana montgomery-v-louisiana post-conviction-proceedings postconviction-review retroactive-application retroactivity retroactivity-of-new-rules teague-rule teague-v-lane watershed-rule Whether States must apply a 'watershed rule' under Teague v. Lane in post-conviction proceedings
18A1257 United States v. Richard D. Collins Armed Forces 2019-06-04 Presumed Complete criminal-prosecution eighth-amendment military-justice rape retroactive-application statute-of-limitations Whether a 2006 amendment to the Uniform Code of Military Justice allowing prosecution of rape without a statute of limitations can be applied retroact…
18-9495 Jason Jones v. Martha Underwood, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-05-31 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 federal-habeas-corpus federal-jurisdiction federal-statute habeas-corpus ineffective-remedy intervening-decision mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence post-conviction-relief retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing statutory-construction Whether petitioner is entitled to seek federal habeas corpus relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2241
18-9499 Chad Austin v. Timothy Stewart, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal bureau-of-prisons civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-review retroactive-application sentencing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation time-bar How can the Bureau of Prisons make petitioner's federal sentence, where petitioner was sentenced of violating 18 USC 3581(b), 18 USC 3553, USSG § 5G1.…
18-9431 William Maurice Smith v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-05-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-retroactivity,sentencing-reform drug-distribution due-process first-step-act griffith-v-kentucky ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review resentencing retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation Does Griffith v. Kentucky, 479 U.S. 314, (1987) apply to First Step Act of 2018?
18-1449 Harold Lee Harvey, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2019-05-21 Denied arbitrary-factors constitutional-rights death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida judicial-decisions retroactive-application retroactivity ring-v-arizona sixth-amendment Does the Florida Supreme Court's decision denying retroactive application of the Hurst decisions to Mr. Harvey violate the Eighth or Fourteenth Amendm…
18-9360 Lazaro Veliz v. John V. Flournoy, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924 circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute due-process first-step-act johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court void-for-vagueness Whether the residual clause in 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(3)(B) is void for vagueness
18-9029 Tyron James v. Kansas Kansas 2019-04-29 Denied IFP appeal apprendi civil-rights constitutional-challenge conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment unconstitutional-error upward-departure Whether a conviction based on an unconstitutional sentencing enhancement can be overturned under this Court's decisions in Apprendi and Alleyne
18-8844 Farris G. Morris v. Tennessee Sixth Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied IFP recognized by Tyler-v-Cain to determine what opinions are subject to retroac 28-u.s.c.-2244(b)(3)(e) 28-usc-2244 batson-challenge capital-punishment civil-rights collateral-review due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-discrimination retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-authority tyler-v-cain Does the Constitution permit Congress to enact 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(3)(E) to divest this Court of its authority, recognized by Tyler v. Cain, to determ…
18-1304 Richard Ashbaugh v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied Response Waived burrage-decision burrage-v-united-states collateral-review criminal-law due-process habeas-corpus retroactive-application retroactivity sentence-enhancement sentencing statutory-interpretation substantive-rule Whether the courts below erred by failing to hold that this Court's decision in Burrage announced a substantive rule that courts must apply retroactiv…
18-8534 Gino Carlucci v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability collateral-review criminal-procedure-retroactivity fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel marital-communications-privilege mccoy-v-louisiana ninth-circuit retroactive-application retroactivity Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err by failing to issue a C.0.A. to determine if McCoy v. Louisiana applies retroactively to cases on collatera…
18-8435 Roy Allen Green v. United States Third Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review constitutional-vagueness due-process mandatory-sentencing residual-clause retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing-guidelines vagueness Whether this Court's rulings in Johnson and Welch, retroactively invalidating the residual clause of the ACCA because it was unconstitutionally vague,…
18-8148 Johnathan Hawthorne v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-interpretation due-process first-step-act new-law pipeline resentencing retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether the 'New Law' of the First Step Act made this an appeal 'Pipeline' case with First Step Act legal protections
18-8156 In Re Dennis Bowden 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct collateral-review due-process habeas-corpus nelson-v-colorado retroactive-application retroactivity sentence-enhancement sentencing united-states-v-watts Whether the Court should issue a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that Nelson v. Colorado has been or should be made retroactively applicable to ca…
18-1111 James J. Kaufman v. Scott Walker, et al. Wisconsin 2019-02-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-versus-punitive ex-post-facto fourth-amendment gps-monitoring judicial-review Lifetime-GPS-Monitoring Reasonable-Suspicion retroactive-application retroactive-law sex-offender sex-offenders Whether lifetime GPS monitoring of sex offenders based on decades-old convictions and the possibility of future crimes is reasonable under the Fourth …
18-8090 Edward J. Zakrzewski, II v. Florida Florida 2019-02-22 Denied IFP capital-punishment criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-state jury-unanimity retroactive-application retroactivity savings-clause substantive-law Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments require retroactive application of the Florida Supreme Court's decision in Hurst v. State to capital defe…
18-8095 Enrique Gamino-Perez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether a criminal defendant should receive retroactive application of sentencing guidelines under 18 USC 3582(c)
18-8109 Robert Blake Adams v. Texas Texas 2019-02-22 Denied IFP 4th-amendment blood-draw criminal-procedure due-process exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment retroactive-application retroactivity texas-transportation-code warrant-requirement warrantless-search Should this court's holding in Missouri v. McNeely, 133 S. Ct. 1552 (2013), be applied retroactively to state cases?
18-1084 Minnesota v. Mark Jerome Johnson Minnesota 2019-02-21 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process dui fourth-amendment implied-consent retroactive-application retroactivity search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Retroactive application of Birchfield v. North Dakota rule on warrantless blood tests
18-1077 Akil Jahi, aka Preston Carter v. Tennessee Tennessee 2019-02-19 Denied atkins-v-virginia collateral-review constitutional-protection death-penalty death-penalty-eligibility hall-v-florida intellectual-disability moore-v-texas retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-precedent Does Hall v. Florida apply retroactively to cases on collateral review?
18-8027 Michael Eugene Sample v. Tennessee Tennessee 2019-02-19 Denied IFP case-remand collateral-review criminal-justice death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus intellectual-disability judicial-review montgomery-v-louisiana moore-v-texas retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-precedent welch-v-united-states writ-of-certiorari Does Moore v. Texas apply retroactively to cases on collateral review?
18-7974 Carlos Cruz-Rivera, aka Chiqui, aka Cano, aka Cano Llorens v. United States First Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing direct-appeal federal-statute first-step-act pending-cases retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(C), as amended and clarified by the First Step Act of 2018, should apply to this case on direct review
18-7923 Derrick Jones v. James M. LeBlanc, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation due-process ex-post-facto fair-notice judicial-interpretation judicial-procedure retroactive retroactive-application sentencing-provision substantive-rule-change Could jurists of reason debate whether Louisiana may, consistent with the Due Process Clause's fair notice requirement, judicially invent a new proced…
18-1038 Land of Lincoln Mutual Health Insurance Company, an Illinois Nonprofit Mutual Insurance Corporation v. United States Federal Circuit 2019-02-07 Judgment Issued Relisted (2) affordable-care-act appropriations appropriations-riders government-contracts government-obligations legislative-history money-mandating-statute retroactive-abrogation retroactive-application risk-corridors Whether a temporary cap on appropriations availability from certain specified funding sources may be construed, based on its legislative history, to a…
18-7812 Raheem Wilcox v. New Jersey New Jersey 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP adverse-inference adverse-inference-charge civil-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-discovery-rule-3:13-3 discovery discovery-rule due-process evidence new-trial-factual-predicate new-trial-standard post-conviction-relief pre-indictment-destruction pre-indictment-destruction-of-evidence retroactive-application teague-v-lane Whether the New Jersey Supreme Court's decision in State v. W.B should be retroactively applied to the petitioner's case
18-1016 Lloyd Gene Beam v. Michigan Michigan 2019-02-04 Denied Response Waived collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-constitution judicial-impartiality judicial-impartiality-standard-retroactivity montgomery-v-louisiana retroactive-application state-collateral-review teague-retroactivity teague-v-lane watershed-rule watershed-rules Was the new standard from People v. Stevens a decision by the Michigan Supreme Court interpreting the federal Constitution?
18-7735 Michael Kenta Davis v. Justin Andrews, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-analysis criminal-law due-process mathis-v-united-states retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation WHETHER THE S$. C. CODE ANN 44-53-370 TS OVERLYBRO&D AND INDIVISBLE AND NO LONGER QUALIFIES IN LIGHT OF BOTH MATHIS V US AND DESCAMPS?
18-7511 Edwin J. Ortiz-Fagot v. United States First Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-3582-c-2 criminal-statute due-process non-delegation retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation Whether the district court's modification of a sentence via 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) to include deciding whether to retroactively apply the plain language …
18-7423 Rodney Washington v. Gary A. Boughton, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights court-discretion criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-profile double-standard due-process ex-post-facto legal-precedent perjury retroactive-application statute-of-limitations What constitutes a specific DNA profile for the purposes of tolling the statute of limitations?
18-7382 Jervon L. Herbin v. Virginia Virginia 2019-01-11 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sixth-amendment structural-defect Did the Lower Court(s) Err in refusing to grant retroactive application to Fishback v. Commonwealth?
18-819 Victoria Vasconcellos v. Debra Hamlin Illinois 2018-12-27 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights civil-union civil-unions constitutional-interpretation dissolution-action due-process equal-protection property-rights retroactive-application retroactive-legislation same-sex-couples same-sex-marriage same-sex-relationship statutory-recognition Whether, under the Illinois State and U.S. Constitutions, where a same-sex couple did not enjoy the legally recognized rights and benefits of civil un…
18-7132 James R. Bright v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender circuit-split filing-period habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states retroactive-application retroactivity section-2255 statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Whether Section 2255(f)(3) tolls the filing period for a defendant asserting that Johnson v. United States applies in a situation similar to that in J…
18-7134 Lindsey Brooke Lowe v. Tennessee Tennessee 2018-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP bouie-v-city-of-columbia criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto exclusionary-rule good-faith-exception judicial-decision-making retroactive-application rogers-v-tennessee Whether the limitations on ex post facto judicial decision-making that this Court recognized in Bouie v. City of Columbia and Rogers v. Tennessee, and…
18-7042 Robert Tracy Warterfield v. Texas Texas 2018-12-14 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation contracts-clause due-process federal-precedent plea-agreement retroactive-application retroactive-legislation state-plea-agreements supreme-court-precedent What is the proper application of the Contracts Clause to a plea agreement contract, and did Texas misapply the Federal Contracts Clause to Petitioner…
18-6981 Dexter Leon Surratt v. North Carolina North Carolina 2018-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto north-carolina punitive-restrictions retroactive-application retroactivity sex-offender-registration smith-v-doe Whether the retroactive application of North Carolina's sex offender registration statute violates the Ex Post Facto Clause
18-6537 In Re Gerald Phillip Wooten 2018-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct collateral-review due-process habeas-corpus nelson-v-colorado retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement united-states-v-watts Whether the Court should issue a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that Nelson v. Colorado has been or should be made retroactively applicable to ca…
18-6387 Spencer Bowens v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) 28 U.S.C. §2255(£)(3) 28 U.S.C. §2255(f)(3) extend to pre-Booker mandatory career-offender gu that has been newly recognized by the United Stat career-offender career-offender-guidelines collateral-review criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure,sentencing,retroactivity,collat Johnson-right johnson-v-united-states mandatory-sentencing retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines Supreme-Court-precedent Whether the right in Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) that has been newly recognized by the United States Supreme Court and made retro…
18-454 Derek L. Dinger v. United States Armed Forces 2018-10-11 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived bouie-v-city-of-columbia court-martial due-process ex-post-facto military-justice precedent-overruling retired-personnel retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-rules Whether applying a new rule allowing court-martial to sentence retired Navy and Marine Corps personnel to a dishonorable discharge violated due proces…
18-6175 Victor Tony Jones v. Florida Florida 2018-10-02 Denied IFP 1981-homicide 1990-homicide capital-murder criminal-law death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing,hurst-v-state,jury-unanim hurst-v-state jury-unanimity reasonable-doubt retroactive-application retroactivity substantive-criminal-law Given that the elements of capital murder identified by the Florida Supreme Court in Hurst v. State are being applied in a prosecution for a 1981 homi…
18-308 Anthony Rayshon Bethea v. North Carolina North Carolina 2018-09-11 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto punitive-restrictions retroactive-application sex-offender-registration smith-v-doe Whether the retroactive application of North Carolina's sex offender registration statute violates the Ex Post Facto Clause
18-5767 Fox Joseph Salerno v. Jo Lynn Gentry, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County, et al. Arizona 2018-08-27 Denied IFP bill-of-attainder constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining retroactive-application retroactivity Did the State Trial Court err by unconstitutionally using Federal case laws of Missouri v. Frye/Lafler v. Cooper and applying it retroactively thus vi…
18-241 Paminder S. Parmar, Individually and as Executor of the Estate of Surinder K. Parmar, et al. v. Lisa Madigan, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. Illinois 2018-08-24 Denied constitutional-challenge due-process estate-tax jurisdiction post-deprivation-remedy retroactive-application retroactivity sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation tax-refund Whether the State of Illinois failed to provide the Petitioner taxpayer with a clear and certain post-deprivation procedure consistent with the Due Pr…
18-5632 Juan L. Leonor v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Nebraska 2018-08-17 Denied IFP collateral-review constitutional-law constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process final-conviction habeas-corpus procedural-rule retroactive-application retroactivity substantive-rule vagueness Whether a new substantive rule of constitutional law must be applied retroactively to final cases
18-194 Craig Robert Nunn v. Tennessee Department of Correction, et al. Tennessee 2018-08-14 Denied community-supervision-for-life constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process ex-post-facto parole-conditions retroactive-application retroactive-punishment sex-offender-directives sex-offender-registration Does the retroactive application of the Sex Offender Directives to Mr. Nunn violate the Ex Post Facto Clause of the United States Constitution?
18-5549 Phillip Anthony Kenner v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-08-10 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-review due-process filing-period habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states retroactive-application retroactivity section-2255 statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-recognition Does Section 2255(f)(3) toll the filing period for a defendant asserting that Johnson applies in a similar situation?
18-5441 Milford Wade Byrd v. Florida Florida 2018-08-02 Denied IFP capital-murder criminal-procedure death-penalty ex-post-facto hurst-v-state jury-unanimity retroactive-application retroactivity Whether a death sentence can remain intact when the jury did not unanimously find the elements of capital murder proven beyond a reasonable doubt
18-5339 Tyron James v. Paul Snyder, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining retroactive-application sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Whether the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the conviction and not applying the Santobello decision on counsel's performance retroact…
18-5275 Christopher Counts v. Eddie Wilson, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-issues deference due-process due-process-clause ex-parte federal-court-deference judicial-order retroactive-application state-court-order summary-judgment Does federal court deference to an ex parte judicial order violate due process?
18-5257 Frederick E. Melvin v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Florida 2018-07-18 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto parole prisoner-rights retroactive-application sentencing separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation Whether the Florida Commission on Offender Review (formerly the Florida Parole Commission) unconstitutionally operates under Florida Senate and House …
18-87 Ludwig P. Samson, Trustee for the Heirs and Next of Kin of Christine R. Samson, Deceased v. Jack W. Gordon, et al. Minnesota 2018-07-18 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection opportunity-to-be-heard procedural-decision procedural-decisions retroactive-application retroactivity state-court state-court-rules state-statute Is a litigant denied due process when a state's highest court overrules a consistent line of procedural decisions and expands a state statute retroact…
18-5214 David R. McGinley v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2018-07-11 Denied IFP collateral-review constitutional-error constitutional-law due-process ex-post-facto mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentencing new-substantive-rules retroactive-application retroactivity substantive-rules supreme-court-holdings Whether the state courts erred in not declaring the unconstitutional mandatory minimum sentencing statute retroactively applicable to cases on collate…
18-39 Jason Lee Boyd v. Washington Washington 2018-07-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-convictions criminal-registration due-process ex-post-facto in-person-appearance offender-registration punishment punitive-law registration-statutes retroactive-application retroactivity statutory-interpretation Whether the requirement of frequent, in-person reporting renders an offender-registration law punitive, such that applying the law retroactively viola…
18-5116 Benjamin A. Gibbs v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process jurisdiction life-sentence murder patent retroactive-application sentencing-guidelines standing takings uncharge-offense Whether the petitioner's life sentence for an uncharged offense of murder violates due process, retroactive application of law, and sentencing guideli…