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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-750 | Calvin M. Costanza v. Florida Marine Transporters, LLC | Louisiana | 2025-12-23 | Denied | causation-standard daubert-standard jones-act maritime-law scientific-evidence toxic-tort | Whether under 46 U.S.C.A. § 30104 (The Jones Act) relaxed causation standard, requiring only that the employer's negligence play "any part, even the s… | |
| 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 even though Petiti… |
| 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 | 1. Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments require a remand where the State has conceded that no court ever addressed the impact of Rogers's new … |
| 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 | IS DNA DIFFERENT FOR BRADY CLAIMS? The State prosecutors suppressed DNA evidence of a third-party contributor which their own expert had labeled ''im… |
| 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 | I. Did the District Court and Appellate Court err in denying petitioner's motion to intervene? II. Did the District Court and Appellete Court err in … |
| 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 | 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's persistent and fundamental misapprehension of this Court's holding in Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), an… |
| 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 | I. The Appellate Court erred in not reversing the District Court's ruling that Farag's motion for a declaratory relief is frivolous, and not reversing… |
| 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 | 1. Given that "[o]ur Nation has a long tradition of according leniency to veterans in recognition of their service, especially for those who fought on… |
| 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 | itie Cause Involves cl SubstartlaJ Const ?tust,ona. I guest ?o n pursuant to Article Wi, Section Cl (8)( jz)£cl)(j') °ftbe °h?o Constltu-hlon, omd fun… |
| 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 | 1. HAVING OBTAINED FAVORABLE NEW DNA RESULTS VIA POSTCONVICTION DNA TESTING, IS PETITIONER ENTITLED TO EQUITABLE TOLLING UNDER HOLLAND V. FLORIDA, 560… |
| 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 | Question not identified. |
| 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 | ke/ft 5'ft^ft '^vft vft ft/\e. D 4fte Frye, S'Frdnrd 3uftft/ei£/iftft SkoJd £j«s/wWftfA ^Me L*oe_ c»- WK l J-rec-'f kpfpAtdn FzderjbUenee RJt 701^,'U… |
| 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 | 1. Does Florida's rule 3.851(d)(2)(A), which establishes a one year timeline (from the time that the evidence became discoverable) violate petitioner'… |
| 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 | A writ of certiorari is requested to review the Summary Order of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirming the decision of the United States Distr… |
| 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? Whether exculpatory scientific evidence, that was exclude… |
| 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 | If the state conceded that its medical examiner falsified evidence in the autopsy procedure of several cases, then Robinson discovered that the same e… |
| 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 | 1. Does this Court's holding in Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551 (2005), that the death penalty is unconstitutionally cruel and unusual punishment for i… |
| 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 | In light of the foregoing facts, this petition presents the following questions: 1. Whether a freestanding claim of actual innocence presents a cogni… |
| 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 | 1. Does a state violate the Americans with Disabilities Act when incarcerating a person living with HIV outside of any penological interests? 2. When… |
| 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 | Petitioner's conviction was predicated on the testimony of a so-called blood spatter expert. Defense counsel objected to the admission of this testimo… |
| 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 | Without a control group to establish a cause-and-effect relationship, 'science' is not science; it is guesswork. True science requires control groups.… |
| 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 | 1. In a democratic system, can a court of any hierarchy issue a ruling regarding a consensual medical decision that dismisses, refutes, or ignores the… | |
| 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 | 1. Whether it is clearly established federal law that a criminal defendant is entitled to a scientific expert that is essential to confront scientific… |
| 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 | When a trial court's discovery order regarding scientific testing of evidence will result in the total consumption of the evidence and thus preclude a… |
| 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 | Question not identified. |
| 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 of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibit a State from convicting a person of murder based almost exclusively on an expert opin… |
| 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 | 1) What constitutes diligence in raising newly discovered medical and/or mental health evidence and diagnoses? 2) Are capital defendants confined to … |
| 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 | 1. In light of this Court's decision in Ramos v. Louisiana, does it violate a military servicemember's Sixth Amendment and due process rights to allow… |
| 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 | 1. Does a conviction violate the Due Process Clause if a key part of the prosecution's case was scientific evidence that later developments have prove… |
| 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 | Question not identified. |
| 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 | 1. Whether the prosecution violates Giglio v. United States, 405 U.S. 150 (1972) and/or Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), if the prosecution pres… |
| 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 comparing the petitio… |
| 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 | 1. THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT HAS NOT ESTABLISHED IN THE FEDERAL COURTS OR THE STATE COURTS ANY CASE LAW INSTRUCTING JUDGES THAT THEY MUST EMPH… |
| 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 | In Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, 509 U.S. 579 (1993), this Court held that Fed. R. Evid. 702 superseded the common law rule governing the ad… |
| 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 | Bite-mark comparison evidence was the foundation of the State's case that convicted Petitioner Danny Lee Hill of murder and sentenced him to death. Th… |
| 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 | 1) What is the scope of the evidence for a court's assessment of innocence under 28 U.S.C. § 2244 (b)(2)(B)(ii) ? Is a court of appeals ' consideratio… | |
| 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 used to confirm quality and quantity of controlled substances constitute scientifically relia… |
| 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 dismissing Rizzo's Experts (Dr. Wang, Dr. Miloslaysky, Dr. Hodgman) in conflict with the … |
| 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 EIGHTH AMENDMENT'S PROTECTION ESTABLISHED IN GRAHAM AND MILLER SHOULD BE EXPANDED BEYOND AGE CUTOFF AT EIGHTEEN TO PROHIBIT MANDATORY LIFE IMP… |
| 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 | I. Did the South Carolina Supreme Court apply the proper standard of review under Jackson v. Virginia when they affirmed the conviction of Stephanie I… |
| 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 | Question 1. The Trial Presentation Violated My Sixth and fourteenth Amendment Rights to Confront and Cross-Examine His Accussers. Scientific Evidence … |
| 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 | In criminal cases, where a defendant's conviction is based on eyewitness identification, this Court has found that it was the likelihood of misidentif… |
| 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 | 1. Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment guarantee an indigent Petitioner to the Sixth Amendment right to the assistance of Counsel … |
| 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 | 1. Whether a prisoner challenging a midazolam three-drug lethal-injection protocol must, as the Sixth Circuit requires, "prove" with "scientific evide… |