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25-750 Calvin M. Costanza v. Florida Marine Transporters, LLC Louisiana 2025-12-23 Pending causation-standard daubert-standard jones-act maritime-law scientific-evidence toxic-tort Whether under the Jones Act's relaxed causation standard, a plaintiff must meet Daubert requirements for scientific causation in toxic tort claims
25-578 Joshua Eric Hawk Clark v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections Fifth Circuit 2025-11-17 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability fourteenth-amendment gatekeeping-function habeas-corpus scientific-evidence shaken-baby-syndrome Did the Court of Appeals erroneously deny Petitioner Joshua Clark a Certificate of Appealability on his Fourteenth Amendment claims regarding scientif…
25-5532 James Randall Rogers v. Georgia Georgia 2025-09-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP bitemark-evidence capital-punishment discretionary-appeal eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment scientific-evidence Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments require a remand where the State has conceded that no court ever addressed the impact of new evidence pro…
25-5183 Manuel Javier Perez v. Texas Texas 2025-07-23 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP brady-violation dna-evidence habeas-corpus materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct scientific-evidence Whether DNA evidence that is not conclusively exculpatory but potentially undermines the prosecution's case constitutes a Brady violation requiring re…
25-48 Tarek Farag v. Climate United Fund, et al. District of Columbia 2025-07-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) climate-change corruption-allegations fossil-fuel intervention-motion legal-standing scientific-evidence Whether the District Court and Appellate Court erred in denying petitioner's motion to intervene and addressing claims of a climate change 'hoax'
24-7365 Anthony Floyd Wainwright v. Florida Florida 2025-06-05 Denied IFP brady-violation due-process eighth-amendment mitigating-evidence post-conviction-relief scientific-evidence Whether the Florida Supreme Court's persistent misapprehension of Brady v. Maryland and its progeny deprives Mr. Wainwright of due process rights, and…
24-1241 Adam Kelnhofer v. United States Armed Forces 2025-06-05 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof constitutional-inference drug-testing due-process military-law scientific-evidence Whether the inference allowing a trier of fact to find knowing use of a drug based solely on the presence of a metabolite in a defendant's body, even …
24-1197 Tarek Farag v. Joseph R. Biden, former President of the United States, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-05-22 Denied Response Waived appellate-review climate-change declaratory-relief injunctive-relief judicial-procedure scientific-evidence Whether the Appellate Court improperly ruled on climate change claims and denied declaratory and injunctive relief
24-7079 Jeffrey Glenn Hutchinson v. Florida Florida 2025-04-27 Denied Amici (1)IFP combat-trauma constitutional-law death-penalty mental-health scientific-evidence veterans-rights Is it unconstitutional to execute a Gulf War veteran without considering the impact of new scientific evidence demonstrating diminished moral culpabil…
24-6379 Lamar Reese v. Ohio Ohio 2025-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-review due-process evidence-admissibility polygraph-evidence scientific-evidence Whether the polygraph examination is admissible under Daubert and the Federal Rules of Evidence
24-6152 Josh Pompey v. Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2024-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP dna-testing equitable-tolling false-confession habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief scientific-evidence Whether a petitioner is entitled to equitable tolling on a first federal habeas petition based on new favorable DNA results and whether new DNA eviden…
24-5753 Robert Leslie Roberson III v. Texas Texas 2024-10-15 Denied IFP actual-innocence capital-punishment due-process habeas-corpus procedural-bar scientific-evidence Whether the TCCA's unexplained application of a procedural bar violates the federal due process clause when a capital state habeas applicant asserts a…
24-5470 Larry Jerome Grady v. Kevin White, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure dna-testing post-conviction-relief scientific-evidence statutory-interpretation Whether a state's post-conviction DNA testing statute unconstitutionally restricts a criminal defendant's ability to challenge a conviction through ne…
23-7556 Nathan O. Beal v. Washington Washington 2024-05-23 Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-trials daubert-standard due-process evidence-rule expert-testimony federal-evidence-rule firearm-ballistics frye-standard scientific-evidence trial-procedure Should Washington State use the Daubert standard for criminal trials, or is the Frye standard sufficient?
23-6807 Floyd William Damren v. Florida Florida 2024-02-22 Denied IFP constitutional-amendments constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process florida-rule habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief scientific-evidence Does Florida's rule 3.851(d)(2)(A) violate petitioner's rights under the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments?
23-6626 Michael Gibson v. Mariejosee King, Acting Superintendent, Clinton Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2024-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law dna-evidence due-process federal-law frye-hearing habeas-corpus lcn-dna scientific-evidence Whether the denial of a Frye hearing regarding the admissibility of low copy number (LCN) DNA analysis evidence was an unreasonable application of cle…
23-6529 In Re Raymond Ramirez 2024-01-22 Denied IFP 14th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence scientific-evidence successive-petition Whether the court of appeals clearly abused its discretion and deprived the Petitioner of his constitutional rights to Due Process under the 14th Amen…
23-6522 Autley I. Salahuddin, II v. Scott Wilkes, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-22 Denied IFP actual-innocence direct-appeal exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus habeas-petition jury-review miscarriage-of-justice new-evidence prerequisites scientific-evidence Whether the filing of a direct appeal is a prerequisite to the filing of a habeas petition?
23-6077 Royal Douglas Robinson v. Texas Texas 2023-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 9th-amendment constitutional-challenge conviction criminal-conviction due-process false-evidence forensic-misconduct medical-examiner scientific-evidence Does a conviction based on unreliable scientific evidence violate due-process
23-6046 Antonio Lebaron Melton v. Florida Florida 2023-11-17 Denied IFP age-of-culpability age-of-offender criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment roper-v-simmons scientific-evidence Does the Eighth Amendment prohibit the death penalty for individuals whose crimes occurred at age 18 years and 25 days?
22-6985 Lisa Bergman v. Jeremy Howard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-right criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony expert-witness prosecution-evidence right-to-counsel scientific-evidence scientific-expert Whether the Due Process Clause requires an impoverished criminal defendant to be appointed a scientific expert that is essential to confront scientifi…
22-6713 Leonard Taylor v. David Vandergriff, Superintendent, Potosi Correctional Center Missouri 2023-02-06 Denied IFP actual-innocence death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus scientific-evidence Whether a freestanding claim of actual innocence presents a cognizable constitutional claim under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments
22-6474 Cody Jay Riley v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-01-06 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights due-process hiv incarceration penological-interests scientific-evidence Does a state violate the Americans with Disabilities Act when incarcerating a person living with HIV outside of any penological interests?
22-5308 Lashawn Lewis v. New York New York 2022-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure daubert daubert-standard due-process expert-testimony frye-standard scientific-evidence Was Petitioner deprived of Due Process where the court denied her any meaningful opportunity to contest the use of junk science at her trial?
22-32 John Hart v. County of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2022-07-12 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-defense due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-present-defense scientific-evidence voiceprint-analysis Where a criminal defendant has compelling evidence of actual innocence in the form of exculpatory expert voiceprint analysis, does that defendant rece…
21-1511 Joy Garner, Individually and on Behalf of The Control Group, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States Ninth Circuit 2022-06-02 Denied Amici (5)Relisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights control-group due-process fifth-amendment government-action mandatory-vaccination scientific-evidence scientific-method standing standing-doctrine vaccine-mandate Do the threatened members of the Control Group have standing to sue the President for systematically destroying their evidence and violating the panop…
21-1381 Enrique Vazquez-Quintana v. Jose Alberto Morales-Rodriguez, et al. First Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied civil-rights court-ruling democratic-system due-process expert-testimony free-speech medical-decision medical-expertise scientific-evidence standing Can a court issue a ruling dismissing scientific facts?
21-7476 Samuel Lee Dantzler v. Randee Rewerts, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process expert-witness habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel scientific-evidence sixth-amendment Whether a criminal defendant is entitled to a scientific expert essential to confront prosecution's expert analysis
21-7132 Dominique C. Swopes v. Ohio Ohio 2022-02-16 Denied IFP capital-case discovery-order due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment interlocutory-appeal scientific-evidence state-created-right trial-court-discretion Whether a defendant in a capital case has a Fourteenth Amendment due process right to take an interlocutory appeal of a trial court's discovery order …
21-6039 Stanley Blair Hill v. Tennessee Tennessee 2021-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process expert-testimony junk-science scientific-evidence strickland-prejudice Whether the trial court erred in admitting unreliable scientific testimony and evidence, in violation of the petitioner's due process rights
21-504 Joshua Eric Hawk Clark, aka Joshua Clark v. Mississippi Mississippi 2021-10-05 Denied Response Waived due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment judicial-reliability murder-conviction scientific-evidence scientific-reliability second-degree-murder shaken-baby-syndrome Does the Due Process Clause prohibit a conviction based on unreliable expert testimony?
20-7665 Donald David Dillbeck v. Florida Florida 2021-04-06 Denied IFP capital-punishment death-penalty due-process evolving-standards habeas-corpus medical-evidence mental-health post-conviction post-conviction-relief scientific-advancements scientific-evidence What constitutes diligence in raising newly discovered medical and/or mental health evidence and diagnoses?
20-6799 Kosoul Chanthakoummane v. Texas Texas 2021-01-08 Denied IFP bitemark-identification criminal-procedure dna-analysis dna-evidence due-process expert-testimony eyewitness-identification eyewitness-testimony forensic-evidence scientific-evidence trial-fairness Is Petitioner's conviction the product of a fundamentally unfair trial that was prejudiced by the admissibility of flawed forensic scientific evidence…
20-528 Nicholas S. Baas v. United States Armed Forces 2020-10-20 Denied Response Waived confrontation-clause court-martial daubert-standard due-process scientific-evidence sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict Whether a military servicemember's Sixth Amendment and due process rights are violated by allowing a conviction for non-capital offenses by a general …
20-5342 Rigoberto Avila, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2020-08-13 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-standard conviction criminal-conviction due-process false-testimony innocence post-trial-developments post-trial-review scientific-evidence Does a conviction violate the Due Process Clause if a key part of the prosecution's case was scientific evidence that later developments have proven f…
20-5127 Thomas Eric Espinoza v. Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence confrontation-clause constitutional-error due-process expert-examination fair-trial habeas-corpus lab-evidence right-to-present-defense scientific-evidence witness-testimony Did the trial court deny Mr. Espinoza before trial his right to counsel, a fair process, confrontation, and the right to present a defense that would …
20-5065 Brett A. Bogle v. Florida Florida 2020-07-15 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation capital-punishment due-process false-evidence giglio-v-united-states giglio-violation impeachment microscopic-hair-analysis prosecutorial-misconduct scientific-evidence Whether the prosecution violates Giglio v. United States and/or Brady v. Maryland
19-7946 Dirk Greineder v. Sean Medeiros, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk First Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause dna-evidence dna-testing expert-testimony laboratory-analysis scientific-evidence sixth-amendment substitute-analyst substitute-analysts targeted-accusation Does the Confrontation Clause prohibit an expert prosecution witness from testifying at a jury trial to the results of DNA tests
19-7875 Byron Gay v. Scott Daffenbach, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure court-procedure dna-testing evidence evidentiary-rules judicial-admission judicial-admissions legal-standards scientific-evidence standards Question not identified.
19-7676 Robert Jackson v. Florida Florida 2020-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP eighth-amendment graham-v-florida graham-vs-florida juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment mandatory-sentencing miller-graham-rule miller-v-alabama miller-vs-alabama national-consensus parole scientific-evidence Whether Eighth Amendment's protection established in Graham and Miller should be expanded beyond age cutoff at eighteen to prohibit mandatory life imp…
19-7670 Hooman Ashkan Panah v. Ron Broomfield, Warden California 2020-02-13 Denied Amici (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-conviction due-process federal-law habeas invalidated-evidence judicial-review post-conviction scientific-evidence trial What is the test to determine when due process is violated based on scientific evidence presented at trial which is later shown to be invalid?
19-7149 Guillermo Herrera v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility circuit-split daubert-standard daubert-v-merrell-dow expert-testimony eyewitness-identification federal-rules-of-evidence jury-instructions scientific-evidence Whether expert testimony on eyewitness identification should be treated differently than other expert testimony
19-6567 Danny Lee Hill v. Ohio Ohio 2019-11-08 Denied IFP bite-mark-evidence constitutional-rights conviction death-penalty death-sentence due-process expert-testimony fair-trial habeas-corpus scientific-evidence Whether a murder conviction and death sentence based on now recognized debunked unscientific evidence violates a petitioner's constitutional rights to…
19-5640 In Re Larry Swearingen 2019-08-20 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 death-penalty due-process false-testimony forensic-evidence habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition innocence innocence-standard schlup-v-delo scientific-evidence scientific-testimony successive-petition What is the scope of the evidence for a court's assessment of innocence under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(2)(B)(i)?
18-9509 Robert Lehmann v. Scott Kernan, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2019-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP arizona-v-youngblood bad-faith-exception brady-v-maryland due-process evidence evidence-preservation fair-trial ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct scientific-evidence scientific-testing strickland-v-washington With the advancement of scientific testing methods of biological evidence, is the 'bad faith' exception to the failure to preserve evidence carved out…
18-8974 Stanley Bruce Roberson v. Texas Texas 2019-04-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence scientific-evidence scientific-reliability statistical-extrapolation statistical-sampling unvalidated-methods Does the unvalidated method of statistical extrapolation constitute scientifically reliable evidence?
18-1153 Timothy J. Rizzo v. Applied Materials, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights daubert daubert-standard due-process expert-testimony scientific-evidence seventh-amendment standard-of-review summary-judgment Whether the courts below erroneously abused their discretion in dismissing Rizzo's experts, whether the courts below erroneously held a different stan…
18-7295 Earnest Barnes v. Florida Florida 2019-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment miller-v-alabama National-Consensus parole scientific-evidence Whether the Eighth Amendment's protection established in Graham and Miller should be expanded beyond age cutoff at eighteen to prohibit mandatory life…
18-7010 Jermaine Mitchell v. United States First Circuit 2018-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause expert-testimony expert-witness forensic-evidence lab-reports law-enforcement-testimony lay-testimony narcotics narcotics-testimony scientific-evidence sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence Whether law enforcement (lay) testimonies about the narcotics character of certain substances may be shined with the expert testimonial gloss of unpro…
18-6797 Stephanie Irene Greene v. South Carolina South Carolina 2018-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP but no text was provided for me to analyze. Witho I cannot generate a question presented or identif please provide the full text of the petition. conviction criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions mens-rea scientific-evidence standard-of-review Did the South Carolina Supreme Court apply the proper standard of review under Jackson v. Virginia when they affirmed the conviction of Stephanie Iren…
18-6438 Oscar Kenneth Moreno v. Alana Butler California 2018-10-26 Denied IFP confrontation-clause dna-evidence dna-testing due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment remand scientific-evidence sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the petitioner's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to confront and cross-examine his accusers were violated
18-5822 Charles O. Keene v. Illinois Illinois 2018-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure dna-exonerations due-process eyewitness-identification judicial-integrity scientific-evidence scientific-research state-court-rulings state-court-split Whether the Biggers test for determining the reliability of eyewitness identification evidence remains valid in light of scientific research demonstra…
18-5220 Roger A. Libby v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. Nevada 2018-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence adversarial-format due-process habeas-corpus indigent-petitioner post-conviction scientific-evidence sixth-amendment strickland Does the Due Process Clause guarantee an indigent petitioner the Sixth Amendment right to the assistance of counsel during actual innocence proceeding…
18-5096 Raymond Tibbetts v. John Kasich, Governor of Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-07-03 Denied IFP baze-v-rees baze-vs-rees eighth-amendment execution-protocol glossip-v-gross glossip-vs-gross lethal-injection midazolam prisoner-rights scientific-evidence substantial-risk substantial-risk-of-harm substantial-risk-of-serious-harm Whether a prisoner challenging a midazolam three-drug lethal-injection protocol must prove with scientific evidence that the first drug is sure or ver…