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24A401 Xengxai Yang v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-10-24 Presumed Complete certiorari jurisdiction legal-standard seventh-circuit supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Whether the Seventh Circuit's decision in Yang v. United States improperly interpreted a critical legal standard or constitutional principle in the un…
24A176 Anthony Patterson v. Asli Baz Seventh Circuit 2024-08-15 Presumed Complete appellate-review certiorari jurisdiction pro-bono rehearing seventh-circuit Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals correctly applied legal standards in its decision in Baz v. Patterson that potentially impacted the appli…
24A39 Mark Bochra v. Department of Education, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-07-12 Presumed Complete appeal-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-misconduct official-immunity seventh-circuit Whether the Seventh Circuit improperly dismissed a civil rights appeal without a full panel review and in violation of procedural due process protecti…
23A1170 Bryant D. Aron v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-07-01 Presumed Complete criminal-conviction criminal-justice-act federal-case sentencing seventh-circuit writ-of-certiorari Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's criminal conviction and sentence under federal law
23-7508 Matias Zarate v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process guidelines reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines seventh-circuit supervised-release Whether a sentence within the guidelines range is unreasonable when the defendant has already served more time on supervised release than originally s…
23-7407 Mario H. Lloyd v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP assistance-of-counsel due-process fraud-upon-the-court indictment-defect ineffective-assistance ischemic-stroke judicial-misconduct seventh-circuit substantial-right Whether the Seventh Circuit and its predecessor made an error in the judicial proceedings by allowing a defective indictment by naming $1,240,675:00 a…
23A860 Jeffrey Batio v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-03-25 Presumed Complete appointed-counsel certiorari criminal-justice-act petition-requirements seventh-circuit supreme-court Whether the Criminal Justice Act requires appointed appellate counsel to file a certiorari petition when counsel determines there are reasonable groun…
23A584 Tony Love v. Ron Neal, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-12-27 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights criminal-defendant en-banc petition-for-rehearing seventh-circuit writ-of-certiorari Whether a criminal defendant's constitutional rights are violated when a federal appellate court denies a petition for rehearing en banc in a case inv…
22-6981 Thomas R. Alt v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-conflict criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process equivocal-invocation miranda-rights right-to-counsel seventh-circuit unequivocal-invocation Whether a suspect's question as to the availability of appointed counsel, in immediate response to having been advised of his right to counsel prior t…
22-6845 Jesus Lopez v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment judicial-interpretation legal-procedure plea-bargaining rule-11 seventh-circuit Whether the Seventh Circuit's stringent application of Rule 11(d)(2)(B) violates due process?
22-649 Jacinta Downing v. Abbott Laboratories, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-01-12 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence civil-rights discrimination employment employment-discrimination judicial-interpretation pretext seventh-circuit Whether the Seventh Circuit defeated the fundamental holding of this Court's decision in Costa when it affirmed the district court's refusal to allow …
22-6345 Jeffrey Johnson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-cfr-1308.11 career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substance-analogue drug-classification motion-to-suppress schedule-1 search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing seventh-circuit Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals incorrectly allowed the District Court's Determination that Furanyl fentanyl was a 'controlled substance …
22-525 Adrean L. Smith v. Gary A. Boughton, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-12-06 Denied Response Waived constitutional-guarantee fair-presentment fifth-amendment habeas habeas-corpus lower-courts miranda-rights seventh-circuit state-court-review Whether a habeas petitioner fairly presents his federal claim in state court
22-295 In Re Deborah Walton 2022-09-28 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure court-order district-court due-process first-amendment judicial-interpretation jurisdiction legal-procedure remand seventh-circuit standard-of-review Did the District Court err by misinterpreting the Order from the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals?
22-5628 In Re Tony Walker 2022-09-20 Denied IFP civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts federal-procedure in-forma-pauperis mandamus procedural-rules seventh-circuit standing standings-blanket-order statutory-interpretation Whether the January 23, 2014 standing blanket order of the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit violates 28 U.S.C. §1651(a) and 28 U.S.C. §1915(e)…
21-7259 Keith Prescott Gace v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-02 Denied IFP child-pornography circuit-split d-c-circuit dost-factors federal-criminal-law first-amendment judicial-precedent lascivious-exhibition seventh-circuit statutory-interpretation Should a jury or court consider the Dost factors when determining whether a visual depiction of a minor constitutes a 'lascivious exhibition' for purp…
21-1178 Subhadra Gunawardana, et vir v. American Veterinary Medical Association, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-02-25 Denied amendment-standard circuit-split civil-procedure constitutional-claims dispositive-motion due-process federal-rules procedural-waiver seventh-circuit timeliness waiver Whether objections to an untimely dispositive motion are waived if not presented orally prior to the response deadline
21-5019 Noe Perez v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-question fifth-circuit judicial-disagreement nevada-supreme-court ninth-circuit reasonable-jurists seventh-circuit Did the Ninth Circuit clearly err when it denied Mr. Perez's request for a COA even though three reasonable jurists on Nevada's highest court already …
20-7830 Firas M. Ayoubi v. Wexford Health Sources, Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof canton-analysis civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process likelihood-on-the-merits monell-claim preliminary-injunction seventh-circuit supreme-court-precedent Did the Seventh Circuit's decision put an unreasonable requirement and heightened burden of proof in establishing likelihood on the merits at the prel…
20-7597 In Re Gary Peel 2021-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-delay mandamus seventh-circuit subject-matter-jurisdiction writ-of-mandamus Whether a Writ of Mandamus should issue
20-1107 Roddie Melvin v. Federal Express Corporation Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived age-discrimination circuit-split eleventh-circuit employment-discrimination evidence-standard preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence seventh-circuit standard-of-proof summary-judgment What standard of proof must courts apply in evaluating summary judgment motions in employment-discrimination cases?
20-977 Zachary Pulera v. Victoria Sarzant, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-01-22 Denied Response Waived anderson-v-liberty-lobby causation-standard civil-procedure civil-rights legal-precedent precedent seventh-circuit standard summary-judgment Whether the Court should resolve the Seventh Circuit's departure from the summary judgment standard articulated by this Court in Anderson v. Liberty L…
20-6527 Byron Brown v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review bivens civil-rights criminal-procedure damages due-process federal-government legal-interpretation seventh-circuit writ-of-certiorari Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in affirming the district court's dismissal of petitioner's civil rights claims against the United States government…
20-270 Irma Rosas v. R.K. Kenzie Corp., et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-09-02 Denied Response Waived 7th-circuit case-law civil-complaint civil-procedure dismissal george-v-smith judicial-precedent pleadings procedural-rule seventh-circuit standing Whether a civil complaint can be dismissed solely pursuant to George v. Smith, 507 F.3d 605 (7th Cir. 2007)
19-1424 Kevin LeBeau v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Response Waived bank-fraud criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions materiality restitution seventh-circuit strickland strickland-claim strickland-v-washington Was the omission of the concept of materiality from the bank fraud elements instruction error requiring a new trial?
19-8162 In Re Curtis Smith 2020-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-court-discretion due-process judicial-precedent mandate mandate-recall post-judgment-relief recall seventh-circuit supreme-court writ-of-certiorari writ-of-mandamus Did the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit adopt a divergent interpretation of the Supreme Court of the United States binding precedent case law…
19-1143 FMC Corporation v. Shoshone-Bannock Tribes Ninth Circuit 2020-03-18 Denied CVSGAmici (3)Relisted (2) civil-rights due-process eighth-circuit federal-indian-law inherent-authority jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits montana-exceptions ninth-circuit-interpretation nonmember-regulation seventh-circuit tribal-jurisdiction tribal-jurisdiction-over-nonmembers tribal-self-government tribal-sovereignty Whether the Ninth Circuit correctly holds that tribal jurisdiction over nonmembers is established whenever a Montana exception is met
19-7934 Kathleen Betts v. United Airlines, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitration-procedure arbitration-procedures civil-procedure collective-bargaining court-review due-process eeoc-charge employment judicial-proceedings lower-court pro-se-litigation retaliation seventh-circuit Whether the Seventh Circuit so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, or sanctioned such a departure by a lower cour…
19-1085 Shannon Deasey, et al. v. Daniella Slater, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-03-04 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) 7th-circuit 9th-circuit civil-rights clearly-established clearly-established-law closely-analogous constitutional-rights due-process legal-precedent ninth-circuit qualified-immunity seventh-circuit sufficiently-analogous Whether a 'sufficiently analogous' case is enough to show that the law is 'clearly established' for purposes of qualified immunity, or if something mo…
19-997 Gary S. Williky v. Securities and Exchange Commission Seventh Circuit 2020-02-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review circuit-court civil-penalties discretion guilty-plea guilty-pleas guilty-verdicts judicial-discretion seventh-circuit whistleblower Did the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals err in determining that the Trial Court did not abuse its discretion by awarding 2x civil penalties against W…
19-7323 Leo Stoller v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-01-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP bankruptcy chapter-13 civil-procedure criminal-law due-process false-statement fifth-amendment perjury seventh-circuit Whether the Seventh Circuit's holding that knowingly making a false statement under penalty of perjury in a Chapter 13 bankruptcy proceeding violates …
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…
19-6680 Tony Lipscomb v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-criminal-act-acca illinois-armed-robbery illinois-robbery sentencing sentencing-enhancement seventh-circuit statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states supreme-court-review violent-felony Is Illinois armed robbery an ACCA violent felony after this Court's decision in Stokeling v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 544 (2019)?
19-6678 Joseph Van Sach v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-criminal-act-acca circuit-split criminal-law illinois-armed-robbery sentencing sentencing-enhancement seventh-circuit statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states violent-felony Is Illinois armed robbery an ACCA violent felony after this Court's decision in Stokeling v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 544 (2019)?
19-6673 Lashon Browning v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act illinois-armed-robbery illinois-robbery sentencing sentencing-enhancement seventh-circuit seventh-circuit-interpretation stokeling-precedent stokeling-v-united-states violent-felony Is Illinois armed robbery an ACCA violent felony after this Court's decision in Stokeling v. United States?
19-6664 Steven Klikno v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act illinois-robbery sentencing sentencing-enhancement seventh-circuit seventh-circuit-interpretation stokeling-precedent stokeling-v-united-states violent-felony Is Illinois robbery an ACCA violent felony after this Court's decision in Stokeling v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 544 (2019)?
19-624 Mark Graf, et al. v. Hyung Seok Koh, et ux. Seventh Circuit 2019-11-15 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights coercive-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment interlocutory-appeal johnson-v-jones qualified-immunity seventh-circuit Whether the Seventh Circuit's renouncement of jurisdiction over Petitioners' interlocutory appeal misapplied Johnson v. Jones
19-6247 In Re Donald Lee McDonald 2019-10-11 Denied IFP criminal-sexual-assault due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habitual-criminal-act habitual-criminal-statute pro-se sentencing seventh-circuit vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness Whether Petitioner is being held unlawfully in state custody in violation of the Constitution
19-6177 Valerie Flores v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court government-admission government-waiver plain-error plain-error-review sentencing seventh-circuit supervised-release vagueness waiver waiver-doctrine Whether the Seventh Circuit errantly disregarded the government's failure to brief a waiver argument and disallowed relief for a supervised release co…
19-5531 Joseph Reinwand v. National Electrical Benefit Fund Seventh Circuit 2019-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP authority disability-benefits disability-pension disability-pension-plan erisa erisa-disability-benefits judicial-authority pension-plan seventh-circuit verbal-modification vested-participant vested-rights Whether and to what extent does the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit possess the Authority to permit a Disability Pension Plan u…
19-5499 Marvel Thompson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6 seventh-circuit standard-of-review standards-of-review timeliness Whether the district court and Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying the petitioner a certificate of appealability
19-5115 Cordero Robert Seals v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof burrage burrage-test but-for-causation causation-standard causation-test circuit-split contributing-causation contributing-cause eighth-circuit government-burden judicial-interpretation legal-standard seventh-circuit Whether the Eighth Circuit misinterpreted the but-for causation test in light of the government's burden, and inappropriately applied the contributing…
18-1588 Norma L. Cooke v. Jackson National Life Insurance Company Seventh Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-fees civil-rights district-court-award due-process federal-rules-of-procedure federal-rules-procedure fee-award insurance judicial-bias judicial-discretion litigation-conduct sanctions seventh-circuit state-insurance-law state-law unreasonable-litigation-conduct Where the district court awarded fees to Petitioner under state insurance law for Respondent's unreasonable litigation conduct, did the Seventh Circui…
18-9326 David Marshall v. Wisconsin Seventh Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus habeas-petition jurists-of-reason procedural-ruling seventh-circuit Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit erred in failing to issue a Certificate of Appealability
18-1424 Michael N. Thomas v. Raymond Anderson, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-05-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split government-inconvenience habeas-corpus importance-of-testimony inconvenience-to-government inmate-testimony judicial-discretion nonparty-inmate nonparty-witness seventh-circuit trial-procedure trial-testimony witness-testimony writ-of-habeas-corpus Whether the Seventh Circuit correctly held that a district court may deny a request for the issuance of a writ of habeas corpus to compel the appearan…
18-1381 Supply Pro Sorbents, LLC v. RingCentral, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response Waived advertising-space circuit-split commercial-availability fax-advertisement fcc-commentary incidental-advertisement ninth-circuit regulatory-interpretation seventh-circuit standing statutory-interpretation telephone-consumer-protection-act Whether an 'incidental fax advertisement' is exempt from the Telephone Consumer Protection Act's definition of a 'fax advertisement'
18-8730 In Re Jimmie Dixon 2019-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP all-writs-act circuit-court-rulings eleventh-circuit extraordinary-writ habeas-corpus multiple-holdings new-rule retroactivity retroactivity-of-new-rules seventh-circuit supreme-court-holdings Whether the Supreme Court can make a New Rule Retroactive Through Multiple Holdings that Logically Dictate the Retroactivity of the New Rule, as the S…
18-8506 Jose Jaime Lopez v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-846 7th-circuit 7th-circuit-precedent 851-colloquy abuse-of-statute appellate-review attempt-charge attempt-conviction civil-rights criminal-procedure drug-deal due-process indigent indigent-defendant indigent-status prior-conviction reasonable-doubt right-to-counsel seventh-circuit speculation standing substantial-step Whether petitioner was deprived of the right to counsel
18-7303 Joel Rivera v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP advance-knowledge aiding-and-abetting armed-robbery credibility-of-witness credible-witness criminal-intent due-process evidence firearm-use new-trial prosecutorial-discretion seventh-circuit witness-credibility Whether Rosemond v. United States was wrongly interpreted and applied
18-7239 Daniel P. Cannon v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender circuit-precedent due-process mandatory-sentencing mandatory-term post-booker sentencing seventh-circuit Should this Court GRANT this Writ because the decision of the Seventh Circuit violates Petitioner's Due Process Right, whereas sentencing occurred Pos…
18-829 John H. Davis v. Jeanne W. Anderson, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-01-02 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure attorney-client-relationship attorney-discipline attorney-removal civil-procedure civil-rights court-rules due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure legal-ethics presumptive-reasonableness seventh-circuit supervisory-power Whether the Seventh Circuit's removal of an attorney's name from the roll of attorneys is presumptively reasonable without due process, record support…
18-797 Brian M. Burmaster v. Stephen J. Herman, et al. Seventh Circuit 2018-12-21 Denied Response Waived civil-rights detention detention-without-trial due-process enforced-disappearance habeas-corpus international-law rome-statute rome-statutes seventh-circuit Is being detained without a trial for two years a frivolous case or an international case of enforced disappearance?
18-6895 Michael Clark v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP bureau-of-prisons circuit-court classification criminal-history habeas-corpus judicial-review relief revocation sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-relief seventh-circuit Whether being placed in too high a criminal history category is a cognizable harm for which a defendant can obtain relief
18-668 Peggy Berg v. Social Security Administration Seventh Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied Response Waived absolute-debt bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-section-553(b) circuit-split creditor-rights debt-setoff fifth-circuit mutual-debt setoff seventh-circuit statutory-interpretation third-circuit Whether Bankruptcy Code Section 553(b) requires that a debt be 'absolutely owed' for a setoff to occur, or whether a setoff can occur at an earlier ti…
18-623 Katrina Walker v. Carl Weatherspoon, et al. Seventh Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment illinois-v-gates informant informant-tip probable-cause qualified-immunity search-warrant section-1983 seventh-circuit May a police officer, who secures a search warrant on the uncorroborated tip of a first-time informant by withholding from the issuing judge facts tha…
18-610 TiEnergy, LLC v. Wisconsin Central Ltd. Seventh Circuit 2018-11-09 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure consignee-liability contract contract-law demurrage-charges seventh-circuit shipping-law statutory-interpretation summary-judgment Whether a party who has not agreed to be a consignee can nevertheless be liable for demurrage charges as a matter of law
18-6100 Hugo Pliego-Hernandez v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-16 administrative-law attempted-robbery circuit-court-review criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process federal-jurisdiction guideline-commentary sentencing-guidelines seventh-circuit stare-decisis statutory-interpretation stinson-v-united-states Whether the Seventh Circuit contravened Stinson v. United States when it relied on guideline commentary inconsistent with 18 U.S.C. § 16
18-103 Nathalie Thuy Van v. Language Line LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-07-23 Denied Response Waived court-impartiality disqualification-requirement due-process fraud fraud-upon-court fraudulent-court-records impartiality judicial-disqualification jurisdictional-fraud procedural-irregularities seventh-circuit supreme-court-review void-orders Whether the disqualification of a judge is required if an objective observer would entertain reasonable questions about the judge's impartiality, whet…