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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25A742 | Shameek J. Halls v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-12-23 | Application | bureau-of-prisons criminal-procedure judicial-review plea-agreement second-circuit summary-order | Whether a criminal defendant may seek judicial review of an alleged breach of a plea agreement when the government contends no breach occurred | |
| 25A433 | Roberto Corral v. Arrow Electronics, Inc. | Second Circuit | 2025-10-15 | Presumed Complete | appellate-procedure extraordinary-circumstances medical-issues pro-se procedural-default second-circuit | Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals improperly denied a pro se litigant's appeal based on a procedural default without considering exceptional… | |
| 25-396 | Hernan Lopez v. United States, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-10-03 | GVR | criminal-prosecution foreign-commercial-bribery honest-services-statute judicial-interpretation second-circuit statutory-vagueness | Whether the honest-services statute criminalizes foreign commercial bribery and whether the statute is unconstitutionally vague | |
| 25A313 | Lairon Graham v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-09-18 | Presumed Complete | appeal-waiver certiorari due-process ineffective-assistance party-presentation second-circuit | Whether an appellate court's sua sponte reliance on an unargued theory violates the party presentation principle and due process rights of a criminal … | |
| 25A209 | Mahfooz Ahmad v. Colin Day, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-08-21 | Presumed Complete | appellate-procedure employment-discrimination motion-to-consolidate pro-se second-circuit workplace-bias | Whether an employment discrimination claim can proceed when a pro se plaintiff alleges workplace bias without meeting specific pleading requirements | |
| 25A170 | Andrew E. Roth v. Austin Russell, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-08-08 | Presumed Complete | counsel-of-record procedural-ruling second-circuit supreme-court time-extension writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Second Circuit's procedural ruling warrants Supreme Court review for potential legal error in extending time to file a petition for a writ… | |
| 24-7431 | Keisha Reynolds v. HNS Management Co., Inc., dba CTTransit, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-06-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | court-appointed-attorney law-of-the-case second-circuit stare-decisis summary-judgment vested-right | Whether Hodge v. Police Officers creates a vested right for court-appointed attorney under stare decisis or Law of the case doctrine |
| 24-1091 | Christopher Kiely, et al. v. Sherene Fagon, Administrator of the Estate of Zoe Dowdell | Second Circuit | 2025-04-18 | Denied | Response Waived | interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction qualified-immunity second-circuit trial-court undisputed-facts | Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in declining to exercise jurisdiction over Defendants' interlocutory appeal of the trial court's den… |
| 24-6823 | Thomas Caves v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-03-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-review criminal-procedure felon-in-possession firearm-statute plain-error second-circuit | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred by applying its plain error standard to affirm a judgment of conviction for fe… |
| 24-981 | Structured Asset Sales, LLC v. Edward Christopher Sheeran, pka Ed Sheeran, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-03-13 | Denied | agency-interpretation chevron-deference copyright-law first-impression legal-judgment second-circuit | Did the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously abdicate its responsibility to decide legal questions by applying their own judgment by deferring … | |
| 24-6753 | John Martin v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-activity joint-enterprise reasonably-foreseeable relevant-conduct second-circuit sentencing-guidelines | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit incorrectly interpreted the Sentencing Guidelines' relevant conduct provisions for j… |
| 24-6572 | Victor Rivera v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-02-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review breach-of-agreement plain-error plea-agreement second-circuit sentencing | Did the Second Circuit err by requiring Petitioner to object with specificity at sentencing and identify a particular provision of the plea agreement … |
| 24-6455 | Ernest Murphy v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-02-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-violation constitutional-precedent evidence-suppression favorable-evidence judicial-interpretation second-circuit | Whether the Second Circuit Court invented an entirely new definition of Brady's 'favorable' definition that is incongruent with well-established Const… |
| 24A712 | Steven Aiello, et al. v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-01-21 | Denied | criminal-prosecution federal-fraud-statute honest-services-fraud right-to-control second-circuit wire-fraud | Whether the federal fraud statute's 'right to control' theory of honest services fraud is a valid basis for criminal prosecution after the Supreme Cou… | |
| 24A647 | Owen Marlon Alexander v. Andreea Gleeson, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-12-31 | Presumed Complete | complaint-adjudication district-court judicial-review pro-se rehearing-petition second-circuit | Whether the Second Circuit and Eastern District of New York courts properly adjudicated a pro se litigant's complaint and subsequent rehearing petitio… | |
| 24A629 | National Basketball Association v. Michael Salazar | Second Circuit | 2024-12-27 | Presumed Complete | certiorari constitutional-challenge second-circuit sports-league standing time-extension | Whether a professional sports league has standing to challenge a state law regulating its operations under constitutional or statutory grounds | |
| 24A596 | William Stenger v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-12-17 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review criminal-conviction second-circuit supreme-court-rules time-extension writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Second Circuit correctly applied legal standards in reviewing the criminal conviction of William Stenger | |
| 24A425 | Brandon Green v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-10-30 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review criminal-appeal extension-of-time pro-se second-circuit writ-of-certiorari | Whether the district court's decision in Mr. Green's criminal case was legally sound and properly affirmed by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals | |
| 24-364 | Anthony Futia, Jr. v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | constitutional-question federal-appellate-review guarnieri-precedent petition-for-certiorari second-circuit summary-order | Whether the Second Circuit's Summary Order in Futia v. United States conflicts with Borough of Duryea v. Guarnieri and presents an unsettled federal c… |
| 23-1259 | BLOM Bank SAL v. Michal Honickman, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-06-03 | Judgment Issued | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | amendment-standard civil-procedure district-court extraordinary-circumstances federal-rules-of-civil-procedure finality-of-judgments judgment-finality rule-15(a) rule-60(b)(6) second-circuit | Whether Rule 60(b)(6)'s stringent standard applies to a post-judgment request to vacate for the purpose of filing an amended complaint |
| 23-7273 | Lidia M. Orrego v. Kevin Knipfing, aka Kevin James, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-04-19 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | abuse-of-power constitutional-rights deprivation-of-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-bias miscarriage-of-justice second-circuit | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recognizes the mitigating effects of upholding the Constitutional Rights to Due Proc… |
| 23A751 | Samuel D. Isaly v. Boston Globe Media Partners, LLC, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-02-15 | Presumed Complete | certiorari judicial-procedure petition second-circuit supreme-court time-extension | Whether the Supreme Court should grant a 60-day extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari beyond the standard 90-day period | |
| 23-810 | Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Almonte Stream Food Corporation | Second Circuit | 2024-01-26 | Denied | appellate-procedure circuit-rule civil-procedure court-procedure default-judgment due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-error procedural-default second-circuit standing | Whether inexcusable error or neglect by U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Clerk by not ruling for default judgment | |
| 23-506 | Occidental Exploration and Production Company v. Andes Petroleum Ecuador Limited | Second Circuit | 2023-11-14 | Granted | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | arbitration circuit-split commonwealth-coatings disclosure disclosure-requirement evident-partiality federal-arbitration-act judicial-precedent second-circuit | Whether an arbitrator's failure to disclose a relationship evinces evident partiality |
| 23-414 | Devon Archer v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-10-19 | Denied | Amici (1) | circuit-split criminal-procedure discretion judicial-discretion manifest-injustice new-trial new-trial-standard rule-33 second-circuit weight-of-evidence | Whether district courts have discretion under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 33 to order a new trial based on the weight of the evidence, even in … |
| 23A69 | James Owens, et al. v. Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. | Second Circuit | 2023-07-25 | Presumed Complete | forum-non-conveniens judicial-deference piper-aircraft plaintiff-choice-of-forum second-circuit terrorism-victims | Whether the strong presumption in favor of a plaintiff's choice of forum under Piper Aircraft Co. v. Reyno applies with equal force when a suit includ… | |
| 22-7766 | Ramon Ramirez v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-06-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-law criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure district-court federal-courts interstate-commerce jurisdiction second-circuit statutory-interpretation | Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in concluding that the district court had jurisdiction based on evidence supporting the interstate c… |
| 22-6799 | Emeka Dominic Okongwu v. County of Erie, New York | Second Circuit | 2023-02-16 | Denied | IFP | amendment appellate-review civil-procedure complaint-amendment district-court due-process judicial-procedure reconsideration second-circuit standing summary-judgment | Did the court of appeals err in affirming the district court's refusal to allow amendment of the complaint? |
| 22-5862 | Gregory Ramos v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal constitutional-right criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel second-circuit sixth-amendment | Whether the Second Circuit's determination that Petitioner was not denied his right to the effective assistance of counsel consistent with the Sixth A… |
| 22-5750 | Salvador Diaz v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-2255 5th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus second-circuit section-2255 standard-of-review | Did the court of appeals err in denying petitioner's COA application? |
| 21-7802 | In Re Jaime Rodriguez, aka Jay, et al. | 2022-05-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment second-circuit uncontested-factual-circumstances united-states-court-of-appeals united-states-v-heymond united-states-v-merced writ-of-mandamus | Whether a Writ of Mandamus should issue | |
| 21-7395 | Konstantinos Zografidis v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-03-16 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-2255 appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus second-circuit writ-of-habeas-corpus | Did the Second Circuit Court of Appeals en banc err in failing to reverse the District Court's ruling denying my Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus … |
| 21-1170 | Louis Ciminelli v. United States, et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-02-24 | Judgment Issued | Amici (5)Relisted (2) | circuit-split criminal-procedure economic-decision federal-statute fraud-statutes property-fraud right-to-control second-circuit wire-fraud | Whether the Second Circuit's 'right to control' theory of fraud states a valid basis for liability under the federal wire fraud statute |
| 21-6940 | Ferney Salas Torres v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-01-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion criminal-appeal criminal-procedure district-court-discretion minor-role-adjustment pilot-enhancement plea-agreement procedural-reasonableness second-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming Ferney Salas Torres' judgment of conviction and sentence which was procedurally unreaso… |
| 21-869 | Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Lynn Goldsmith, et al. | Second Circuit | 2021-12-13 | Judgment Issued | Amici (41)Relisted (2) | artistic-intent copyright copyright-law fair-use judicial-interpretation meaning message second-circuit source-material transformative transformative-work | Whether a work of art is transformative when it conveys a different meaning or message from its source material |
| 21-681 | Andy Altahawi v. Securities and Exchange Commission | Second Circuit | 2021-11-09 | Denied | Response Waived | capital-gains-tax civil-procedure consent-judgment restitution rule-60 rule-60(b) sec second-circuit tax-implications | Whether the Second Circuit erred when it upheld the district court's denial of Altahawi's motion pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b)(5) and (6) to make … |
| 21-5684 | Zaire Paige v. Stewart Eckert, Superintendent, Wende Correctional Facility, et al. | Second Circuit | 2021-09-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-confrontation constitutional-rights courtroom-presence criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus illinois-v-allen judicial-discretion second-circuit trial-rights | Whether petitioner was denied his constitutional right to be present at his trial |
| 21-157 | Anderson & Anderson LLP-Guangzhou, et al. v. North American Foreign Trading Corporation | Second Circuit | 2021-08-04 | Denied | Response Waived | amended-complaint appellate-review civil-procedure district-court federal-jurisdiction foreign-trading motion-to-dismiss second-circuit standing | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred when it affirmed the United States District Court for the Southern District of… |
| 20-8281 | Dominic Franza v. James Stinson, Superintendent, Great Meadow Correctional Facility | Second Circuit | 2021-06-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure discretion judicial-procedure legal-precedent mandate-recall recall-of-mandate second-circuit | Was it an abuse of discretion for the Second Circuit to deny Petitioner's Recall of the Mandate motion |
| 20-1644 | Devon Archer v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-05-26 | Denied | Amici (1) | appellate-review criminal-procedure evidence-weighing federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure jury-discretion jury-verdict miscarriage-of-justice new-trial new-trial-motion second-circuit | Does Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 33(a) afford district courts discretion to reweigh the evidence when evaluating a new trial motion |
| 20-7820 | Michael J. Little v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-04-22 | Denied | IFP | constructive-amendment criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process foreign-accounts green-card-holder indictment second-circuit stirone-v-united-states tax-reporting willful-violation | Whether the indictment was constructively amended to add additional undeclared 'overseas' accounts |
| 20-1454 | Vekuii Rukoro, et al. v. Federal Republic of Germany | Second Circuit | 2021-04-16 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | commercial-activity commercial-activity-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities-act gravamen international-law property-rights second-circuit sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation takings-exception | Does the Second Circuit's opinion conflict with the D.C. Circuit and this Court's FSIA jurisprudence? |
| 20-7300 | Robbull Bryant v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-03-02 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 2nd-amendment constitutional-challenge conviction criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea plain-error rehaif rehaif-error second-circuit standing | Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying Bryant's constitutional challenges to his guilty plea to a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g… |
| 20-6895 | Raheem Jefferson Brennerman v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-01-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-review liberty second-circuit trial-court | Whether the abuse of discretion standard is Constitutionally impermissible where a trial court deprived a criminal defendant of his Constitutional rig… |
| 20-6808 | Thomas Traficante v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-01-08 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-challenge constitutional-challenges courts-of-appeals direct-appeal due-process ripeness risk-condition second-circuit sentencing-reform-act sentencing-review supervised-release | Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying Traficante's constitutional challenges to his risk condition of supervision as unripe on … |
| 20-6638 | Raheem Jefferson Brennerman, aka Jefferson R. Brennerman, aka Ayodeji Soetan v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-12-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-review liberty second-circuit trial-court | Whether the abuse of discretion standard is Constitutionally impermissible where the trial court deprived a criminal defendant of his Constitutional r… |
| 20-6581 | Kimberly Hanzlik v. Joseph Joseph, Superintendent, Bedford Hills Correctional Facility | Second Circuit | 2020-12-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-standard reasonable-jurists second-circuit unreasonable-application-of-law | Was the Second Circuit's denial of Petitioner's application for a certificate of appealability unreasonable |
| 20-6569 | Quincey Frye v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-12-08 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review felon-in-possession judicial-proceedings jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error rehaif-v-united-states second-circuit trial-record | Should the Court of Appeals have looked beyond the trial record to Frye's presentence investigation report to decide that there was no plain error tha… |
| 20-6399 | Duwayne Jones v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-11-20 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense eleventh-circuit fifth-circuit florida-statute-§-893.13 mens-rea second-circuit sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-§-4b1.2(b) | Is a post-2002 conviction for possession of cocaine with intent to deliver or sell, in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13, a 'controlled substance offen… |
| 20-6381 | Domenico Anastasio v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure district-court indictment rico-conspiracy second-circuit standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred by affirming the judgment of conviction and sentence pronounced by the United … |
| 20-644 | Terrence Pendergrass v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-11-10 | Denied | Response Waived | buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance motion-to-vacate second-circuit summary-dismissal | Did the Second Circuit err in denying Petitioner's motion for a certificate of appealability where the district court conducted a merits analysis in s… |
| 20-6165 | James Edward Sandford, III v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-10-29 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure felon-in-possession fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance plain-error-rule rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states second-circuit sixth-amendment | Should the Court grant certiorari to resolve the Circuit split regarding the plain error rule between the Second and Fourth Circuits as it applies to … |
| 20-5973 | Efrain Santos v. Stewart Eckert, Superintendent, Wende Correctional Facility | Second Circuit | 2020-10-09 | Denied | IFP | certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct second-circuit sixth-amendment | Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred in refusing to grant petitioner a COA to appeal from a judgment of the District Court d… |
| 20-5794 | Scott T. Wilbert v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure fourth-amendment franks-hearing probable-cause search-and-seizure second-circuit suppression-motion | Should certiorari be granted due to improper affirmation of Fourth Amendment suppression motion denial? |
| 20-163 | Brett C. Lillemoe v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-08-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | circuit-split criminal-conviction due-process economic-harm federal-fraud fraud materiality money-property-fraud second-circuit statutory-interpretation | Whether a defendant may be convicted of federal 'money or property' fraud when his alleged deceit was incapable of affecting any economic decisions by… |
| 19-8821 | Jose Santiago-Ortiz v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-06-25 | Denied | IFP | -criminal-organization -federal-criminal-law -murder-statute -organizational-intent -substantive-nexus #NAME? criminal-organization federal-criminal-offenses murder second-circuit sixth-circuit substantive-nexus | Whether federal criminal offenses that include a substantive nexus between a charged murder and the defendant's alleged involvement in a criminal orga… |
| 19-8564 | David Ojeda v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-05-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split johnson-vagueness new-york-state-law second-circuit serious-drug-offense stokeling-precedent stokeling-v-united-states violent-felony | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit misapplied Stokeling v. United States |
| 19-1087 | Charles M. Hallinan v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-03-05 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-procedure criminal-intent fifth-circuit mens-rea rico rico-act-1962-c rico-statute scienter second-circuit second-fifth-eleventh-circuits third-circuit unlawful-debt wire-fraud | Whether a person violates 18 U.S.C. § 1962(c) by simply knowing an enterprise is collecting a debt that is separately determined to be unlawful |
| 19-7865 | Clifford Laverne Mecham, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-03-04 | Denied | IFP | 2nd-circuit 8th-circuit child-pornography circuit-split constitutional-law eighth-circuit first-amendment free-speech morphed-images second-circuit sexually-explicit-conduct | Whether the First Amendment protects morphed child pornography created without any child's involvement in sexually explicit conduct |
| 19-7661 | Redinel Dervishaj, aka Redi, aka Red v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-02-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 924(c)(3)(A) appellate-review crime-of-violence extortion federal-criminal-law force-clause hobbs-act physical-threat second-circuit title-18 title-18-924(c)(3)(a) | Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in determining that the underlying offense of Hobbs Act extortion, threatening physical violence in … |
| 19-7411 | In Re Lionel McCray | 2020-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | all-writs-act appeals circuit-court civil-procedure civil-procedure-mandamus contempt contempt-proceeding due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure mandamus second-circuit sequestration writ-of-sequestration | Whether Mandamus should issue to compel the Second Circuit Court to enter a Finding of Contempt | |
| 19-894 | Michael Yamashita, et al. v. Scholastic Inc. | Second Circuit | 2020-01-17 | Denied | circuit-split copyright-infringement copyright-ownership feist-publication feist-publications pleading-standard prima-facie-case second-circuit seventh-circuit third-circuit unauthorized-copying | Did the Second Circuit err in holding that a complaint for copyright infringement must be dismissed unless it alleges particular facts showing specifi… | |
| 19-7253 | Fabrizio DeFrancisci v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-60(b)(6) due-process post-conviction-relief rule-60b-motion second-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg | Was the district court and appeals court wrong to deny the Rule 60(b)(6) motion and certificate of appealability, respectively, when this court has sp… |
| 19-7206 | Robert W. Johnson v. Law Offices of Jennifer S. Adams, et al. | Second Circuit | 2020-01-08 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-fine-improvement-act criminal-liability criminal-procedure due-process insurance-fraud second-circuit sentencing standing statutory-interpretation white-collar-crime | Whether the lower court erred in its ruling on the petitioner's claims |
| 19-654 | Kaleida Health, dba Buffalo General Medical Center v. Kathleen Biondo | Second Circuit | 2019-11-21 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-rights damages due-process eleventh-circuit gebser-standard gebser-v-lago-vista intentional-discrimination monetary-damages official official-decision rehabilitation-act second-circuit standing | Whether the Gebser standard applies to the Rehabilitation Act |
| 19-6012 | Kevin Carroll Anderson v. Arthur B. Greene, et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-09-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-procedure-standards equitable-tolling judicial-procedure motion-to-dismiss pro-se pro-se-litigant second-circuit statute-of-limitations summary-judgment supervisory-power | Were the Second Circuit's decisions, approving the District Court's application of the summary judgment standard to all of the pro se and uneducated P… |
| 19-203 | David Greenberg v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-08-16 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review circuit-court-review cooperation-agreement criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing reasonableness reasonableness-of-sentence reasonableness-standard second-circuit sentence-disparity sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines unwarranted-disparity | Did the Second Circuit err in affirming Petitioner David Greenberg's sentence without addressing the sentencing court's failure to consider the proper… |
| 19-5595 | Marcel Malachowski v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-08-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability due-process false-evidence government-misconduct government-misrepresentations habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct second-circuit | Did the denial of COA violate due process |
| 19-5255 | Frank Lobacz v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-error per-se-ineffectiveness procedural-default second-circuit section-2255 sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington trial-counsel | Whether the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred in affirming the lower court's denial of Petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petition alleging ine… |
| 19-5134 | Kouwanii Brunstorff v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-07-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act assault attempt attempt-crime force-clause new-york physical-force second-circuit second-degree statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Is an attempt to commit a categorically violent felony, in this case, assault in the second degree in New York, categorically violent under the force … |
| 19-5083 | Aaron Clayton McVea v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-sentencing empirical-basis fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-vs-second-circuit judicial-review methamphetamine-sentencing presumption-of-reasonableness second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines | Is a sentence imposed under the methamphetamine sentencing guideline-a guideline crafted without benefit of Sentencing Commission expertise or empiric… |
| 18-9762 | Kwame A. Insaidoo v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-06-24 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-666 5th-amendment 6th-amendment circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process federal-benefit jury-determination jury-trial second-circuit statutory-interpretation | Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred, in violation of U.S. Const. V and VI, when it held that the government need not prove to a jury the… |
| 18-9657 | Joseph Howard Davis v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-06-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split confrontation-clause criminal-evidence criminal-procedure drug-dealer drug-distribution due-process evidence fourth-circuit hearsay informant methamphetamine-offense non-testifying-witness second-circuit | Is an out-of-court statement by a non-testifying informant which identifies the defendant as a drug dealer hearsay? |
| 18A1286 | Paul Tooly v. John F. Schwaller | Second Circuit | 2019-06-10 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-rights due-process hostile-work-environment qualified-immunity second-circuit workplace-violence | Whether a state university official is entitled to qualified immunity when allegations of workplace violence and hostile work environment are raised i… | |
| 18-9379 | Paul A. Light v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-05-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography criminal-sentencing ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-bias non-contact-offenders reasonableness recusal second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines | Whether a sentence imposed pursuant to the child pornography Sentencing Guidelines can be deemed reasonable when the Sentencing Commission has deemed … |
| 18A1203 | Azibo Aquart v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-05-21 | Presumed Complete | certiorari criminal-conviction direct-appeal federal-death-row second-circuit supreme-court-review | Whether a federal death-row inmate may challenge the constitutionality of his federal convictions through a direct appeal to the Supreme Court | |
| 18-9089 | Itoffee Gayle v. Home Box Office, Inc., et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-05-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review civil-procedure copyright-infringement due-process fair-use federal-jurisdiction first-amendment intellectual-property motion-to-dismiss second-circuit standing | Whether the plaintiff's intellectual property was improperly featured in the defendant's (HBO) series, Vinyl |
| 18-1069 | Diebold Foundation, Inc., Transferee v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue | Second Circuit | 2019-02-15 | Denied | circuit-split commissioner-notice jurisdictional-issue second-circuit statutory-interpretation tax-appeals tax-court-jurisdiction tax-liability tax-notice tax-procedure tax-year taxable-year waiver | Tax-court-jurisdiction,tax-liability,tax-year,tax-notice,tax-appeals,tax-procedure | |
| 18-6600 | Ringo Recto Labrador v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-sentencing empirical-basis fifth-circuit judicial-review methamphetamine-sentencing presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-standard second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines | Is a sentence imposed under the methamphetamine sentencing guideline entitled to a presumption of reasonableness? |
| 18-486 | Toshiba Corporation v. Automotive Industries Pension Trust Fund, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-17 | Denied | CVSGAmici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | circuit-split domestic-transaction domestic-transactions extraterritoriality forum-shopping legal-interpretation morrison-v-national-australia-bank ninth-circuit second-circuit securities-exchange-act securities-fraud securities-regulation | Whether the Exchange Act applies without exception whenever a claim is based on a domestic transaction, or whether in certain circumstances the Exchan… |
| 18-6308 | Edwin Hernandez v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-10-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure due-process duress-defense jury-instructions second-circuit sentencing | Did the Second Circuit err in finding that the district court's charge correctly stated the requirements for the duress defense? |
| 18-373 | Floyd Rose v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-09-21 | Denied | atm atm-robbery circuit-split commerce-clause commerce-element criminal-law federal-criminal-law fifth-circuit hobbs-act interstate-commerce robbery second-circuit | Whether the Second Circuit erred by holding, in direct conflict with the Fifth Circuit, that a robbery in which an individual victim is forced to with… | |
| 18-321 | TVEyes, Inc. v. Fox News Network, LLC | Second Circuit | 2018-09-12 | Denied | Amici (1) | 17-usc-107 campbell-v-acuff-rose commercial-success copyright-law fair-use market-harm second-circuit statutory-factors transformative-use | Can the transformative use of a copyrighted work cause a cognizable market harm under 17 U.S.C. 107(4) if it is used in connection with a commercially… |
| 18-5913 | Alfonso Escobedo Garcia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure empirical-basis fifth-circuit judicial-review methamphetamine-sentencing presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-review second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines | Is a sentence imposed under the methamphetamine sentencing guideline entitled to a presumption of reasonableness? |
| 18-5789 | John Thompson v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-08-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason motion-for-appeal procedural-default procedural-ruling second-circuit standard-of-review standing | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred in denying Thompson's Motion for Certificate of Appealability |
| 18-5516 | Isaiah Galbreath v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-sentencing empirical-basis fifth-circuit judicial-review methamphetamine methamphetamine-sentencing presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-standard second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines | Whether a sentence imposed under the methamphetamine sentencing guideline, which was crafted without benefit of Sentencing Commission expertise or emp… |
| 18-5251 | Sarjo Dambelly v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-07-17 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure deliberate-avoidance global-tech intent jury-instructions knowledge-standard mens-rea second-circuit willful-blindness | Whether, in light of Global-Tech, the Second Circuit errs by holding, contrary to at least six other circuits, that willful blindness in a criminal ca… |