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25-895 Lee Michael Pederson v. Securities and Exchange Commission Eighth Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending Response Waived administrative-review circuit-split due-process judicial-review sec-regulations standard-of-review 1. Whether a legal argument concerning the standard of review may be deemed waived, notwithstanding that other courts of appeals—including the Sixth a…
25A727 Gregory W. Pheasant v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-12-19 Application criminal-conviction legal-test merits-briefing standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-review Question not identified.
25A692 Eliel Nunez Sanchez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-12-12 Application criminal-conviction direct-appeal federal-appellate ninth-circuit standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Question not identified.
25-6271 Eric Arthur Walton v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure discretionary-standard district-court pro-se-representation standard-of-review supervised-release Whether the standard of review of a district court's decision to allow a defendant to proceed pro se at a supervised release revocation hearing is de …
25-6143 Rodney James Dilworth v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-11-17 Denied IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-default standard-of-review WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN DENYING PETITIONER'S REQUEST FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY.
25A534 Roderick Leshun Rankin v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2025-11-07 Application arkansas constitutional-review death-penalty eighth-circuit habeas-corpus standard-of-review Whether the Eighth Circuit applied the correct standard of review in denying habeas corpus relief for a death-row inmate challenging the constitutiona…
25-5973 Eric Michael Schuster v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review clearly-erroneous-standard due-process fourteenth-amendment mixed-questions-of-law standard-of-review Whether a reviewing court must strictly adhere to the Supreme Court requirement that a district court's fact-findings "must not be set aside unless cl…
25A453 Eric Arthur Walton v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-10-21 Application certiorari circuit-split federal-law pro-se standard-of-review supervised-release Whether the Supreme Court should establish a uniform standard of appellate review for district court decisions allowing defendants to proceed pro se a…
25-5846 Elwood Lewis Thomas v. Virginia Virginia 2025-10-09 Denied IFP appellate-review due-deference legal-issues miranda-waiver standard-of-review supreme-court Whether a Miranda waiver was voluntary is a question that will always involve a mixture of fact and law on appellate review. All geographic Federal Ci…
25-355 James Dondero, et al. v. Stacey G. Jernigan, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-09-24 Rehearing Amici (3) appellate-deference bankruptcy-proceedings judicial-discretion judicial-recusal mandamus-review standard-of-review 1. Should a judge's order declining to recuse be reviewed de novo or for abuse of discretion? 2. When a litigant seeks review of a decision not to re…
25-5694 Eric Brenes-Colon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review clearly-erroneous findings-of-fact judicial-discretion record-support standard-of-review Whether a district court's findings of fact must be reversed when they are unsupported by the record?
25-5570 David Curran v. United States Third Circuit 2025-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-conflict drug-conspiracy due-process standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Third Circuit's standard of review of sufficiency of evidence in drug conspiracy cases is in conflict with other circuits and falls below …
25A224 Thomas Mitchell Overton v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-26 Presumed Complete brady-disclosure dna-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment standard-of-review Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel and Brady v. Maryland disclosure requirements are properly evaluated under the de…
25A176 James Dondero, et al. v. Stacey G. Jernigan, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-08-12 Presumed Complete abuse-of-discretion de-novo-review judicial-bias judicial-recusal mandamus-petition standard-of-review Whether a judge's recusal decision should be reviewed under an abuse of discretion standard or de novo review when reviewing potential judicial bias
25A124 Steven Nicholas Fulton v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-07-29 Presumed Complete appellate-reversal criminal-procedure felony-status jury-instruction prior-conviction standard-of-review Whether a district court's determination of a defendant's prior felony conviction status is a question of law to be decided by the court, not submitte…
25-46 Boat Santa Rita II, Inc. v. Magnus Aadland First Circuit 2025-07-14 Dismissed Response Waived court-of-appeals maintenance-and-cure maritime-law punitive-damages standard-of-review vessel-owner Under the general maritime law of maintenance and cure, what standard governs the award of punitive damages where a vessel owner provides maintenance …
25-5050 Carlos Caraballo v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review case-law findings-of-fact sentencing-guidelines special-offense-characteristic standard-of-review Whether the circuit court applied the appropriate standard of review regarding a challenge to the imposition of a Sentencing Guideline Special Offense…
25A1 Bret Healy v. Supreme Court of South Dakota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-07-01 Presumed Complete bad-faith civil-procedure discretionary-power eighth-circuit rule-11-sanctions standard-of-review Whether a federal district court may impose Rule 11 sanctions against a party without individualized findings of bad faith
24A1278 Stewart A. Feldman, et al. v. Scott Sullivan, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-06-24 Presumed Complete appellate-review commercial-litigation fifth-circuit motion-for-judgment standard-of-review summary-judgment Whether a federal appellate court correctly applied the standard for granting or denying a motion for summary judgment in a complex commercial litigat…
24A1270 Robert Gene Rega v. Lorraine Rega Scottie Fourth Circuit 2025-06-23 Presumed Complete appellate-review civil-judgment federal-rules post-judgment-motions pro-se standard-of-review Whether a pro se litigant's procedural challenges to a civil judgment can overcome the standard of review for affirming a district court's ruling
24-1211 Kristen Elizabeth Wagner v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-28 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-due-process standard-of-review Whether the Eleventh Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability based on a single judge's assessment violates the established standard for suc…
24-7284 Charles L. Burgett v. Scott Bessent, Secretary of the Treasury Eighth Circuit 2025-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP employment-discrimination pretext prima-facie-case standard-of-review summary-judgment title-vii Whether the lower courts applied the correct summary judgment standard of review for prima facie and for pretext in assessing a case of employment dis…
24-7208 Cornell Slater v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-05-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review constitutional-interpretation judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether the Court of Appeals improperly allowed district courts to nullify sentencing guidelines through inoculating statements that latent errors wou…
24-7149 Samuel James Weaver v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split federal-courts judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review What standard of review should apply when a district court applies a federal sentencing guideline to undisputed facts?
24-7078 Guillermo Vasquez-Landaver v. United States First Circuit 2025-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP drug-quantity federal-crime possession-with-intent schedule-drug standard-of-review state-offense Did the drug quantity determination and its application to either the federal crime of possession with intent to distribute or the state offense of fu…
24A917 Iván Vechioli Cruz, et al. v. Kiyomi M. Santos Onoda First Circuit 2025-03-25 Presumed Complete appellate-review bankruptcy-court discretionary-ruling reconsideration standard-of-review summary-judgment Whether a bankruptcy court's summary judgment ruling and denial of reconsideration can be overturned when the appellants fail to demonstrate legal err…
24-951 Sergeant Fred Cueto, et al. v. Hasmik Jasmine Chinaryan, Individually and as Guardian ad Litem for NEC, a Minor, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-03-05 Denied Response Waived appellate-review burden-of-proof civil-procedure harmless-error judicial-review standard-of-review Does the appellant bear the burden of proving prejudicial error in a civil case, or does the burden shift to the appellee to demonstrate harmless erro…
24-6660 Xiaorong Lan v. University of Texas at San Antonio Fifth Circuit 2025-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure credibility-of-evidence material-facts standard-of-review summary-judgment Whether summary judgment should be granted when genuine issues of material fact exist and evidence credibility is questioned
24A774 Darrel Eston Lee v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2025-02-11 Presumed Complete conviction-challenge death-penalty federal-review habeas-corpus ninth-circuit standard-of-review Whether the Ninth Circuit applied the correct standard of review in denying a death row prisoner's habeas corpus petition challenging his conviction a…
24-6459 Kyle Anthony Shephard v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-02-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review consent-review criminal-law due-process judicial-procedure standard-of-review Should the voluntariness of a defendant's consent always be reviewed de novo?
24-723 Provisur Technologies, Inc. v. Weber, Inc. Federal Circuit 2025-01-10 Denied Response Waived federal-circuit judgment-as-a-matter-of-law jury-verdict patent-infringement seventh-amendment standard-of-review Whether the Federal Circuit applied an incorrect standard of review for appeals of a Judgment as a Matter of Law (JMOL) and improperly overturned a ju…
24A460 Donald E. Deardorff v. Terry Raybon, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-07 Presumed Complete criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus standard-of-review writ-of-certiorari Whether the Eleventh Circuit applied the correct standard for reviewing a federal habeas corpus petition challenging a state criminal conviction
24A371 Benjamin Tyree Townsel v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-18 Presumed Complete criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit federal-appeal jurisdiction sentencing standard-of-review Whether the Eleventh Circuit correctly applied the standard of review in affirming a criminal conviction and sentence
24-5765 Robert Lance Walker v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-of-appeals evidence-sufficiency judicial-interpretation legal-precedent standard-of-review Whether the court of appeals misapplied well established precedent when determining sufficiency of the evidence presented
24-406 Matthew Hunady v. Donna Chisesi, Administratrix of the Estate of Jonathon Victor, Deceased Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-11 Denied Response Waived circuit-court deadly-force interlocutory-review law-enforcement qualified-immunity standard-of-review Whether the Eleventh Circuit's decision improperly applied a reasonable jury standard instead of a reasonable officer standard in a qualified immunity…
24A310 Rafael Antonio Bracero-Navas v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-01 Presumed Complete appellate-review criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit federal-criminal-law standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether the Eleventh Circuit correctly applied the standard of review in affirming a criminal conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 3742
24-5621 Christopher Dallas Nelson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review clear-error-standard federal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether varied definitions of the clear error standard of review for Federal Sentencing Guidelines are permissible
24-292 Salix Pharmaceuticals, Ltd., et al. v. Norwich Pharmaceuticals Inc. Federal Circuit 2024-09-13 Denied appellate-procedure evidence-standard factual-findings harmless-error judicial-review standard-of-review When a district court's findings of fact are unsupported by the evidence the district court relied on, may a court of appeals affirm based on other ev…
24-5524 Kenneth W. Blair v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review confidential-informant judicial-discretion motion-to-compel standard-of-review supervisory-authority Whether the Eighth Circuit's finding that the district court did not abuse its discretion in overruling Blair's motion to compel the disclosure of a c…
24A257 Jonathan High v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-12 Presumed Complete appellate-review criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit jurisdiction standard-of-review writ-of-certiorari Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals applied the correct standard of review in affirming the petitioner's criminal conviction
24-5414 Cleveland J. Enmon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit jury-instructions medical-prescription ruan-standard standard-of-review Whether the Eleventh Circuit erroneously applied an objective standard in jury instructions for a physician's prescription case in light of the Ruan v…
24A156 Humberto Falcon San-Martin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-08 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit government-inducement judicial-review sentencing-entrapment standard-of-review Whether the Eleventh Circuit correctly applied the legal standard for sentencing entrapment when denying the defendant's claim of improper government …
24-5230 Victor Vargas v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP clear-error-review constitutional-rights de-novo-review mixed-questions mixed-questions-of-law-and-fact sixth-amendment speedy-trial standard-of-review Whether the Eleventh Circuit's standard of review for Sixth Amendment speedy trial rights that involve 'mixed questions of law and fact' conflicts wit…
24-102 Manuel Adams, Jr. v. City of Harahan, Louisiana Fifth Circuit 2024-07-31 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived career-advancement circuit-split civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment government-interference liberty-interest occupational-liberty professional-rights standard-of-review Whether a plaintiff must plead that the government 'effected [a] prohibition' of his ability to pursue his career to state a claim for a violation of …
24-5143 Nicholas Nassif Hayek v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-statement district-court due-process evidence motion-to-suppress procedural-error sixth-circuit standard-of-review fourth-amendment
24-61 Michael Cloud v. The Bert Bell/Pete Rozelle NFL Player Retirement Plan Fifth Circuit 2024-07-19 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights de-novo-review deference deferential-standard due-process erisa plan-administrator procedural-violation procedural-violations standard-of-review Whether significant procedural violations of ERISA require de novo review, strict adherence, or some other heightened standard that does not defer to …
24A47 Cicel (Beijing) Science & Technology Co., Ltd. v. Misonix, Inc. Second Circuit 2024-07-16 Presumed Complete foreign-corrupt-practices-act inference-drawing material-factual-dispute non-moving-party standard-of-review summary-judgment Whether the lower courts improperly applied summary judgment standards by drawing adverse inferences against the non-moving party and resolving materi…
23-1364 Troy Kendrick, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-02 Denied Response Waived buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-review standard-of-review supervisory-power Whether the Court of Appeals' repeated misapplication of the standard for issuing a certificate of appealability warrants another exercise of this Cou…
23-7844 Marcus Orlando Armstrong v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-jurisdiction forfeiture forfeiture-doctrine judicial-discretion objection sentencing sentencing-procedure standard-of-review Does a defendant forfeit a challenge to the manner in which the district court imposed sentence by failing to object after the sentence is pronounced,…
23-1322 James W. Tindall v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue District of Columbia 2024-06-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-record agency-record discovery judicial-precedent standard-of-review stare-decisis subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-court tax-court-review whistleblower whistleblower-claim Whether this dispute is even ripe for review by the Supreme Court
23-7725 Jimmie Lee Walton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion allen-charge coercion court-of-appeals criminal-procedure Did the Court of Appeals abuse it's discretion in Did the Court of Appeals abuse its discretion in a directed-verdict double-jeopardy due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judgment-of-acquittal judicial-discretion jury-instructions mistrial motion-for-acquittal right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Did Walton receive effective assistance of counsel?
23-7729 Lee Antwan Johnson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure court-review findings-of-fact judicial-procedure legal-standard lower-court standard-of-review What is the proper standard of review to be employed by a reviewing court examining a lower court's findings of fact?
23A1114 Samuel San Miguel v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-06-14 Presumed Complete circuit-split civil-commitment due-process medical-care pro-se-litigation standard-of-review Whether the Due Process Clause requires a deliberate indifference or professional judgment standard for medical care claims brought by civilly committ…
23-7702 Stevie Whitehorn v. Maverick Tube Corporation, fka Tenaris Hickman Eighth Circuit 2024-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection fourteenth-amendment pretext-evidence racial-discrimination standard-of-review summary-judgment Whether the fabrication of false evidence by the respondent is evidence of pretext to discharge the petitioner
23-1279 NewYork-Presbyterian Hudson Valley Hospital v. National Labor Relations Board, et al. Second Circuit 2024-06-07 Denied Response Waived administrative-law circuit-split labor-law labor-relations nlra nlrb-review standard-of-review substantial-evidence taft-hartley-act Whether the application of the 'substantial evidence on the record considered as a whole' standard of review for Board determinations, 29 U.S.C. §160(…
23-7654 Tildren Sherron Hunter v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-standard criminal-evidence criminal-law drug-crimes evidence fourth-circuit-review intent intent-to-distribute jury-verdict methamphetamine-possession standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Fourth Circuit improperly upheld Mr. Hunter's conviction of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine
23-7608 Carney Turner v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion life-sentence sentencing standard-of-review Whether, in federal criminal cases where the district court has imposed a discretionary life sentence, the courts of appeal should employ a de novo st…
23-1258 Royce Wade Lander v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-31 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason motion-to-vacate standard-of-review threshold-showing Whether the Order of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit holding that Petitioner failed to make the threshold showing for a certi…
23-7549 In Re Kinley MacDonald 2024-05-23 Dismissed IFP child-custody child-welfare due-process family-rights hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction parental-rights standard-of-review state-court-procedure Whether a state court can remove children from a parent's custody based solely on hearsay allegations prohibited by state statute, in the absence of j…
23-7555 Rickey Lynch v. United States Second Circuit 2024-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appearance-of-impropriety civil-procedure due-process federal-defender judicial-ethics judicial-recusal procedural-review right-to-counsel standard-of-review Should a court of appeals review a judge's denial of a motion to recuse de novo or for an abuse of discretion?
23-7529 Reginald Andrew Paulk, Sr. v. L. Benson, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-22 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights counsel due-process federal-law judicial-review probable-cause qualified-immunity racial-animus sovereign-immunity standard-of-review Did the District Court and the Eleventh Circuit use the incorrect standard to review the issues and thus incorrectly apply the law?
23-7537 Mike Austin Anderson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process judicial-procedure jury-instructions jury-verdict motion-to-revoke recusal-motion standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the district court erred by finding that the prosecution produced sufficient evidence at trial for a reasonable jury to return a guilty verdic…
23-1224 Laila N. Hirjee v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-21 Denied Response Waived appellate-deference appellate-review deference evidentiary-standard inferences jury-verdict medical-decision prosecutorial-discretion standard-of-review weak-evidence weak-inference What level of deference from an appellate court is appropriate to a jury's verdict, when the verdict is based entirely on weak inferences to be drawn …
23A1021 Michael Cloud v. The Bert Bell/Pete Rozelle NFL Player Retirement Plan Fifth Circuit 2024-05-17 Presumed Complete disability-benefits erisa judicial-review plan-administrator procedural-violations standard-of-review Whether procedural violations by an ERISA plan administrator warrant a de novo standard of review instead of an abuse of discretion standard when eval…
23-7486 Edgar Vazquez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing motion-to-dismiss motion-to-suppress standard-of-review Whether certiorari review should be granted
23-7457 E. R. v. Colorado, In the Interest of S. M. and E. M., Children Colorado 2024-05-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-standard due-process equal-protection judicial-bias parent-child-rights racial-bias racial-prejudice standard-of-review termination-of-parental-rights Whether this Court's precedents on judicial racial bias bind the Colorado Supreme Court
23-7433 Gary Allen Kachina v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure habeas-corpus new-trial standard-of-review Whether the district court erred in denying the defendant's motion for a new trial
23-7437 Overille Denton Thompson, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied IFP appellate-process certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-procedure fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-discretion legal-precedent procedural-review sanctions standard-of-review Whether the Fifth Circuit failed to engage in the COA process
23-7416 Christopher J. Pratt v. United States Second Circuit 2024-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment circuit-court-split circuit-split fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant staleness standard-of-review Did the Second Court of Appeals err when they failed to apply their own standards under United States v. Raymonda, 780 F.3d 105 (2nd Cir. 2015), when …
23-7339 Philip Shane Young v. Texas Texas 2024-04-30 Denied IFP appeal criminal-procedure deadly-weapon evidence-sufficiency jury-finding jury-instructions standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Is the evidence sufficient to sustain the jury's finding that a deadly weapon was used?
23-1169 Michael H. Ponder v. Hans-Peter Wild Sixth Circuit 2024-04-30 Denied appellate-review circuit-precedent contract-law contract-specificity legal-interpretation oral-agreement precedent sixth-circuit specificity standard-of-review Whether this Court should grant certiorari review where the Sixth Circuit departed from established precedent regarding the required specificity of te…
23-1144 John Anthony Castro v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-04-22 Denied Response Waived affirmative-defense burden-of-proof estoppel good-faith good-faith-erroneous-interpretation judicial-admission standard-of-review If the government raises an affirmative defense, does it bear the burden of proof?
23-7285 Sabrina Gibson v. Thomas F. Roupas, Jr., et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure district-court federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discretion manifest-error prejudice procedural-standard standard-of-review Whether it was manifest error and significantly prejudicial for the District Court to apply a heightened standard under Federal Rule of Civil Procedur…
23-7262 Eric D. Sweet v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal conviction-review criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process florida-supreme-court fundamental-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-timeliness post-conviction-relief standard-of-review statutory-time-limit whether-the-tolling-statute-for-filing-a-timely-post-conviction-review-was-properly-applied
23-7192 In Re Lionel Davis 2024-04-10 Denied IFP 28-U.S.C.-§-2254 28-usc-2254 due-process federal-appellate-review fifth-circuit habeas-corpus standard-of-review successive-petition Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals failed to apply the proper standard of review in denying his motion for authorization to file a successive …
23A906 Miracle Hurston v. Indiana Gaming Company, LLC, dba Hollywood Casino Lawenceburg Seventh Circuit 2024-04-10 Presumed Complete administrative-law appellate-review federal-jurisdiction gaming-commission pro-se standard-of-review Whether a pro se litigant's procedural challenges to a state gaming commission's decision can overcome the deferential standard of review in federal a…
23-7134 Daniel Louis Jackson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure cole-application due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default search-and-seizure search-warrant standard-of-review Whether a magistrate can rely on information not provided in the affidavit when determining if there is a substantial basis to issue a warrant
23-7145 Richard Dewayne Lewis v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3583 appellate-review circuit-split extra-statutory-factors revocation-sentences sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation supervised-release Proper-standard-of-review-for-supervised-release-revocation-sentences
23A854 Anthony Earl Ridley v. Laura Kelly, Governor of Kansas, et al. Kansas 2024-03-20 Presumed Complete administrative-exhaustion extraordinary-writ first-amendment religious-freedom rluipa standard-of-review Whether a state prisoner may seek extraordinary writ relief under 28 U.S.C. § 1651(a) when state appellate courts have considered a claim on the merit…
23-7025 Stevie Wyre v. Texas Texas 2024-03-19 Denied IFP appellate-review confrontation-clause constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure record-examination right-to-counsel standard-of-review state-court Whether the state court denied the petitioner due process by presenting a close or misleading testimony by the state's witness and without a review of…
23-6992 Reynaldo Avila-Gonzalez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-sentencing district-court due-process federal-courts harmless-error judicial-review legal-reasoning presentence-report sentencing standard-of-review Whether a federal court of appeals should vacate the sentence when the district adopts the invalid reasoning of a Presentence Report to resolve a fact…
23-6977 Dasmore T. Coleman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-appeal criminal-sentencing defendant-rights due-process federal-sentencing procedural-history sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether Coleman's sentence is substantively unreasonable
23-6939 Jaime Dean Charboneau, aka Jaimi Dean Charboneau v. Tyrell Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-03-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence admissibility-of-evidence circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process evidence-standard federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation whether-28-usc-b-2-b-ii-actual-innocence-standard
23-6884 Alexander Yoichi Duberek v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors?
23-6853 William Marcellus Campbell v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review merits-determination procedural-denial standard-of-review Whether a court of appeals must state the basis for denying a certificate of appealability
23-908 Woojin Cho v. New York New York 2024-02-22 Denied Response Waived constitutional-error due-process harmless-error prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-possibility standard-of-review trial-procedure witness-credibility Whether it is constitutional error for a prosecutor in summation to express her personal belief that the defendant lied on the stand?
23-6766 Zavian Munize Jordan v. Chris Newman, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP binding-authority due-process lower-court precedent standard-of-review supreme-court Can a lower Court Use a different Standard other than the precedent Setting Standards from this Court?
23-6712 Abner Renato Natareno-Calderon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-02-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-presumption reasonableness-standard rita-precedent rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether the Court should clarify how a defendant who challenges the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence may rebut an appellate …
23-6695 Douglas W. Curtis v. Brian Eller, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa appellate-review due-process fourteenth-amendment novel-state-procedural-default plea-offer procedural-default standard-of-review state-procedural-default Whether Petitioner was denied his Fourteenth Amendment right to the Due Process of Law
23-6674 Terry Eugene Hambrick v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure judicial-discretion judicial-proceedings plain-error plain-error-review standard-of-review standards-of-review supervisory-power Whether the district court has departed from the accepted course of judicial proceedings in expanding the criteria for plain error review on appeal
23A704 Ethel Oyekunle-Bubu v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-01-31 Presumed Complete circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-conviction prescription-law ruan-precedent standard-of-review Whether the Supreme Court's precedent in Ruan v. United States requires a different standard of review for criminal convictions involving controlled s…
23-6599 Devon Blevins v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1 appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure first-degree-murder insufficiency-of-evidence jackson-v-virginia standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the court of appeals failed to correctly apply the standard of review for claims of insufficiency of evidence to support conviction of a crime…
23-6515 John Edward Hall v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-01-18 Denied IFP burden-of-proof death-penalty due-process federal-habeas standard-of-review state-court Whether the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA) (28 U.S.C. 2254(d)) governing federal habeas review of state court decisions…
23A659 Raymond Woodley v. North Carolina North Carolina 2024-01-18 Presumed Complete conflict-of-counsel ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-review strickland-standard Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a different standard of review for claims of ineffective assistance of counsel involving a trial court's failure …
23-757 Relish Labs LLC, et al. v. Grubhub Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-01-12 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) appellate-review clear-error de-novo de-novo-review likelihood-of-confusion multifactor-test standard-of-review trademark-infringement Whether the determination of a likelihood of confusion for trademark infringement is a factual finding, reviewable for clear error, or a legal conclus…
23-6451 Travis Dwight Green v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-01-10 Denied IFP abandonment attorney-abandonment cause cause-doctrine circuit-split federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus maples-v-thomas mental-incompetence procedural-default standard-of-review Are a district court's findings on habeas abandonment subject to clear error review?
23-6358 Devadrick Markevin Booker v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process jury-instructions prosecutorial-evidence reasonable-doubt standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the district court erred by finding that the prosecution produced sufficient evidence at trial for a reasonable jury to return guilty verdicts…
23-6332 Antonio Misael Rivera-Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure case-law circuit-split criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-review legal-precedent precedent procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review Whether Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, __U.S.__, 140 8.Ct. 762 (2020), applies to claims of procedural error
23-6333 Nora Gilda Guevara Triana v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit evidence-rule fair-trial rule-of-completeness special-verdict standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent u.s.-v.-griffin Whether the Eighth Circuit Court's failure to follow precedent violated the petitioner's right to a fair trial
23-6305 Brendan Hunt v. United States Second Circuit 2023-12-19 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-fact first-amendment free-speech independent-review speech-protection standard-of-review true-threat Whether the appellate standard of review of a jury's determination that a particular expression constitutes a 'true threat' should be deferential or d…
23-6292 Ray O. Crowell, Jr. v. Mark R. Sevier, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-12-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-court civil-rights clearly-established-law counsel-claim due-process federal-habeas ineffective-assistance post-conviction standard-of-review strickland strickland-standard Whether the state courts resolution of Crowell's ineffective assistance of counsel claim for failing to advise of an affirmative defense was contrary …
23-629 DeAndre Gordon v. Harold May, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-12-11 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-split constitutional-rights habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review Whether a Certificate of Appealability must issue when a circuit judge votes to grant one
23-617 Casondra Pollreis, on Behalf of Herself and Her Minor Children, W. Y. and S. Y. v. Lamont Marzolf, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-12-08 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) civil-procedure dashcam-video disputed-facts eighth-circuit non-moving-party scott-v-harris standard-of-review summary-judgment video-evidence Whether a court at summary judgment is still obligated to view the evidence in the light most favorable to the non-moving party where record video doe…
23-622 Dale Thrush v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-12-08 Denied Response Waived arizona-v-washington circuit-split constitutional-review double-jeopardy fifth-amendment manifest-necessity mistrial-standard prosecution-evidence standard-of-review trial-court-discretion Whether the trial court's declaration of a mistrial was supported by manifest necessity
23-6179 Anibal Miranda-Montanez v. United States First Circuit 2023-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review case-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-instructions legal-sufficiency procedural-challenge standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-evidence verdict-challenge Whether the evidence was insufficient for the verdict to stand
23-6148 Lawrence Jeffrey Brooks v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure district-court drug-quantity due-process judicial-discretion judicial-transfer motion-to-dismiss sentencing sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review transfer-of-venue Whether the District Court erred by transferring the case back to the original District Court Judge
23-6106 Damion Edward Cruz-Benavente v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-standard constitutional-error criminal-procedure criminal-trial cumulative-error cumulative-errors due-process harmless-error judicial-review procedural-fairness standard-of-review verdict-influence Whether a court should review the cumulative effect of preserved and forfeited errors to determine if they had a substantial influence on the verdict
23-6062 Holli Womack v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offenses jury-instructions plain-error ruan-standard sixth-circuit standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent Is the Sixth Circuit's draconian view of the plain-error standard contrary to this Court's precedents, including Henderson-v-United-States?
23-5983 Eric Spencer v. United States Second Circuit 2023-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review court-procedure de-novo-review district-court evidence evidence-rules hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-discretion standard-of-review Should the Court of Appeals apply an abuse of discretion standard or engage in de novo review when reviewing a district court's ruling to admit hearsa…
23-494 MacNeil IP LLC v. Yita LLC Federal Circuit 2023-11-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law agency-deference appellate-procedure fact-finding judicial-review patent patent-law remand standard-of-review Whether the Federal Circuit erred in substituting its own findings of fact for those of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board instead of remanding as requ…
23-483 Mauricio Gonzalez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-07 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure district-court eleventh-circuit predicate-offense rule-29 rule-29-motion standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether the District Court applied the proper standard of review to find guilt and issue their judgment on Petitioner's Rule 29 motion
23-5966 Jonathan Ericksen v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence jackson-v-virginia judgment-of-acquittal rule-29 standard-of-review Whether the Court should overrule its decision in Jackson v. Virginia, which rejected the 'reasonable hypothesis' test for motions for a judgment of a…
23A398 Jeriah Scott Budder v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-11-01 Presumed Complete bureau-of-prisons criminal-appeal sentencing standard-of-review tenth-circuit voluntary-manslaughter Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals applied the correct standard of review in affirming a criminal conviction and sentence for voluntary mansla…
23-5915 Keith Alexander v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2023-10-31 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review appointment-of-counsel civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court due-process evidence habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-error standard-of-review Whether the district court abused its discretion when it refused to appoint counsel for the appellant and denied the appellant due process and the rig…
23-5919 Wilkinson Oloyede Thomas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals criminal-law drug-enforcement federal-courts sentencing standard-of-review Whether the Fifth Circuit failed to use the standard of review for pill mill cases as established by this Court
23-5904 Hazhar A. Sayed v. Colorado Colorado 2023-10-27 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure excusable-neglect ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-motion sentencing standard-of-review Whether the Colorado Court of Appeals misapplied the standard of review applicable to assertion of justifiable excuse or excusable neglect for belated…
23A339 Norman F. Thornton v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2023-10-16 Presumed Complete 38-USC-7261 benefit-of-the-doubt-rule de-novo-review PTSD-disability-rating standard-of-review veterans-benefits Whether 38 U.S.C. § 7261(b)(1) requires the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims to conduct de novo review of the Secretary of Veterans …
23A340 Joshua E. Bufkin v. Denis McDonough, Secretary of Department of Veteran Affairs Federal Circuit 2023-10-16 Presumed Complete benefit-of-the-doubt-rule clearly-erroneous section-7261 service-connection standard-of-review veterans-benefits Whether 38 U.S.C. § 7261(b)(1) requires the Veterans Court to conduct de novo review of the Board of Veterans Appeals' application of the benefit-of-t…
23-5786 Mark Andre Green v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-court borden-precedent borden-v-united-states circuit-split crime-of-violence legal-analysis sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether Texas state law aggravated assault by injury can be considered a crime of violence under the Sentencing Guidelines
23-5784 Aaron Lee Porter v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP abandonment-doctrine clear-error de-novo-review fourth-amendment question-of-fact question-of-law search-and-seizure standard-of-review Is a finding that an object has been abandoned within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment a question of law subject to de novo review, or a purely fac…
23-5776 Andrea Lamont Medlock v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure federal-authority imprisonment-review judicial-discretion plain-error reasonableness revocation sentencing-review sentencing-standards standard-of-review supervised-release Whether sentences of imprisonment following the revocation of supervised release should be reviewed for reasonableness or plain unreasonableness?
23-5779 Donovan Romo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture-doctrine judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing sentencing-procedure standard-of-review Does a defendant forfeit a challenge to the manner in which the district court imposed sentence by failing to object after the sentence is pronounced,…
23-378 Joel Douglas, et al. v. David Hirshon, et al. First Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied civil-procedure district-court extrinsic-documents extrinsic-evidence judicial-discretion legal-procedure motion-to-dismiss pleadings public-records standard-of-review Whether the District Court was required to consider extrinsic documents that were public records or not directly challenged by anyone attached to the …
23-5749 Mark Anthony Thompson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus selective-adjudication selective-prosecution standard-of-review statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Does the Fifth Circuit's selective adjudication and undermining the law of this Court's ruling on conduct outside the statutory definition of a crime …
23-371 D'Andre M. Johnson v. United States Armed Forces 2023-10-06 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived case-scope court-of-appeals harmonious-reading jurisdiction jurisdictional-question legal-sufficiency legislative-history military-justice standard-of-review statutory-interpretation surplusage-canon Whether 28 U.S.C. § 1259(8) gives this Court jurisdiction to consider issues raised to, but not granted review by, the Court of Appeals for the Armed …
23-5701 Dennis L. Walls, Sr. v. Chad Wakefield, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, et al. Third Circuit 2023-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus standard-of-review third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit erred in denying Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability
23-346 Torriano Walpool v. Texas Texas 2023-10-02 Denied Relisted (2) actual-innocence credibility credibility-determination criminal-procedure deference-to-trial-court due-process habeas-corpus standard-of-review trial-court-findings Did this action by the Court of Criminal Appeals deny Petitioner's Due Process rights?
23-327 John Canada v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-09-28 Denied appellate-review clear-error fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress ornelas-standard ornelas-v-united-states probable-cause standard-of-review suppression-hearing Whether the review of the evidence in a suppression-hearing record 'in the light most favorable to the government' conflicts with Ornelas's standard o…
23-5666 Jeremy Aswegan v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure government-objection plain-error sentencing sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review Whether plain error review applies when a defendant opposes a government objection to a sentencing enhancement?
23A277 David Wong v. Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-28 Presumed Complete appellate-jurisdiction certiorari-petition extension-of-time memorandum-opinion ninth-circuit standard-of-review Whether the Ninth Circuit properly applied the applicable standard of review in evaluating petitioner's claims on appeal
23-5654 Daquail Ramon Johnson v. Virginia Virginia 2023-09-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia rational-trier-of-fact reasonable-doubt standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence virginia Whether Virginia's standard of review for appellate claims of insufficient evidence of a criminal conviction violates the Due Process Clause as interp…
23-281 Steven C. Fustolo v. The Patriot Group, LLC, et al. First Circuit 2023-09-22 Denied Relisted (2) appellate-review bankruptcy-court bias-in-fact circuit-split civil-procedure due-process fair-trial judicial-recusal recusal standard-of-review Should the national standard of review for a denial of a motion to recuse be abuse of discretion or de novo?
23-5554 Cameron L. Hickman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process jury-instructions prosecutorial-burden reasonable-doubt sexual-assault standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the prosecution presented sufficient evidence at trial to establish the elements of the alleged crime
23-5524 Michael Jones, Jason Reed, and Shaun Myers v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof daubert daubert-standard dual-role-testimony due-process evidence expert-witness fifth-amendment standard-of-review Whether the Seventh Circuit applied the wrong standard of review and erroneously shifted the burden of proof by failing to review the Daubert error de…
23-5488 Dywane Tousant v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review motion-denial ninth-circuit standard-of-review substantial-showing Whether the Ninth Circuit Erred in Denying Tousant's Motion for Certificate of Appealability
23-5489 Lonnie Dee Brown v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-08-30 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure daubert daubert-standard evidence expert-testimony ineffective-assistance kumho-tire standard-of-review strickland-test Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals' review of trial courts decisions to admit or exclude expert testimony comport with the United States S…
23-184 Karen M. Suber v. VVP Services, LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2023-08-28 Denied articulable-nexus civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment inconsistent-application jurisdiction long-arm-statute personal-jurisdiction standard-of-review substantial-relationship Whether the courts sitting in New York have inconsistently interpreted and applied the standard for the 'arising from' prong of the New York Long-Arm …
23-5440 Roman Andreyevich Glukhoy v. California California 2023-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review chapman-standard chapman-v-california criminal-procedure harmless-error jury-instructions legal-theory prejudice prejudicial-error standard-of-review When a defendant is convicted after a trial court instructs a jury on two theories of guilt, one of which is legally correct and one legally incorrect…
23-162 Christian Winchel v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-18 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure contemporaneous-evidence due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-procedure plea-bargain plea-bargaining postconviction-review section-2255 standard-of-review Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has departed from the accepted and usual course of postconviction proceedings under 28 U.S.C. § 2255
23-113 Michael G. Pohl v. United States Federal Circuit 2023-08-04 Denied Response Waived 10-usc-1552 28-usc-1491 administrative-appeal administrative-procedure jurisdictional-challenge military-law military-records standard-of-review statutory-interpretation tucker-act What is the proper standard of review for an appeal to correct a military record under 10 U.S.C. § 1552 or 28 U.S.C. § 1491?
23-114 Sharon A. Finizie v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Third Circuit 2023-08-04 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure factual-findings judicial-procedure legal-error legal-errors misapplication-of-law rule-of-law standard-of-review third-circuit Did the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit constitute erroneous factual findings and/or misapplication of a properly…
23-5283 Clarence Leonard Hearns, Jr. v. Cal Trahune, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa appellate-review exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus nunc-pro-tunc procedural-review rule-60(b) rule-60b standard-of-review whether-dismissal-without-prejudice-of-federal-habeas-corpus-prematurely-filed-counts-as-first-filing-under-aedpa
23-5276 German Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review appellate-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors?
23-5233 Randall Lamont Sanders v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-07-28 Denied IFP 14th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process insufficiency-of-evidence jackson-v-virginia oklahoma-court-of-criminal-appeals standard-of-review supremacy-clause supreme-court-standard Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals failed to apply this Court's standard for insufficiency of evidence as described in Jackson v. Virginia…
23-68 Springboards to Education, Inc. v. Mission Independent School District Fifth Circuit 2023-07-25 Denied Response Waived appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure consumer-confusion fact-intensive-inquiry legal-standard standard-of-review summary-judgment trademark trademark-law whether-the-case-met-the-standard-to-dismiss-on-summary-judgment
23-69 PrimeSource Building Products, Inc. v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2023-07-25 Denied executive-power judicial-review legislative-power separation-of-powers standard-of-review statutory-delegation tariff-regulation trade-expansion-act Whether separation of powers principles require courts to resolve ambiguity in statutory limits on delegations of legislative power to the Executive
23-5131 Xavier Dominique Garris v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit harmless-error judicial-review plea-bargaining plea-colloquy rehaif-error remand standard-of-review trial-probability Whether Rehaif error occurred and the Fourth Circuit erred in failing to remand the case
22-7878 Kenny Eugene Smart v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-922(g) criminal-procedure evidence-standard evidentiary-rulings federal-rule-of-evidence-404(b) federal-rules-of-evidence prior-convictions rule-404b rule-of-inclusion standard-of-review statutory-interpretation What is the proper standard of review of evidentiary rulings under Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) and is Rule 404(b) a rule of inclusion which always…
22-1231 Laird J. Heal v. Wells Fargo, N.A., as Trustee for WaMu Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates Services 2006-PR2 Trust, et al. First Circuit 2023-06-23 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-estoppel motions-to-strike standard-of-review summary-judgment Whether the motions to strike under Fed.R.Civ.P. 56(c)(2) were decided correctly
22-1234 Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. v. Sammie Louis Stokes Fourth Circuit 2023-06-23 Denied Relisted (3) aedpa default-rule federal-appellate-procedure federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default standard-of-review statutory-interpretation strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Fourth Circuit defied the Supreme Court's remand instruction and circumvented 28 U.S.C. § 2254(e)(2)'s limitations on federal court author…
22-7847 Colum Patrick Moran v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process insufficient-evidence judicial-precedent plain-error precedent standard-of-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence Whether a conviction predicated on insufficient evidence can meet the plain error standard in the absence of explicit statutory language or on-point, …
22-7822 Darwin Powell v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plea-bargaining rule-11 sentencing standard-of-review withdrawal withdrawal-of-guilty-plea Whether the courts of appeals have improperly narrowed the 'fair and just reason' standard for evaluating a defendant's request to withdraw a guilty p…
22-7833 Jeremy Randall Ezell v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-presumption reasonableness-standard rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether the Court should clarify how a defendant who challenges the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence may rebut an appellate …
22-7784 Demarcus Donte Ivey v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-06-14 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof chapman-v-california constitutional-error criminal-procedure cumulative-error-doctrine evidentiary-errors harmless-error standard-of-review When should evidentiary errors in a federal criminal trial be evaluated for their cumulative impact on the fundamental fairness of the trial?
22-1207 Columbia Falls Aluminum Company, LLC v. Atlantic Richfield Company Ninth Circuit 2023-06-13 Denied abuse-of-discretion cercla district-court environmental-response-costs equitable-allocation fourth-circuit judicial-review standard-of-review Whether a district court's equitable allocation of environmental response costs pursuant to Section 113(f)(1) of CERCLA is properly reviewed on appeal…
22-1162 Frank Lawrence, Jr. v. United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan Sixth Circuit 2023-05-31 Denied abuse-of-discretion bar-admission due-process free-speech independent-review speech-related-activities standard-of-review unconstitutional-conditions What standard of review should be employed by Courts of Appeals when reviewing a federal district court's decision to deny an attorney's application f…
22-7580 Victor Alfredo Bermudez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing notice-of-objection preservation-of-error preservation-of-objection procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review supervisory-powers trial-court-notice Whether a specific objection must be lodged to preserve a procedural error claim when the trial court was put on notice of the objection through defen…
22-1108 Reuben Haley v. Urban Outfitters, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2023-05-12 Denied Response Waived appellate-review burden-of-proof civil-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-standard standard-of-review summary-judgment Whether the grant of summary judgment against petitioner was error?
22-7505 Charles Alfred Armajo, Jr. v. Bridget Hill, Attorney General of Wyoming, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default standard-of-review Did the panel of the Tenth Circuit err by improperly deciding the merit of an appeal before the court to justify the denial of a certificate of appeal…
22-7517 Phillip Daniel Love v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split district-court-explanation holguin-hernandez-v-united-states mitigating-arguments mitigation-arguments preservation-of-error rita-v-united-states sentencing-arguments sentencing-procedure standard-of-review Whether a party is required to specifically object to the district court's failure to explain its rejection of nonfrivolous sentencing arguments after…
22-7393 Allen W. Thompson v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2023-04-28 Denied IFP affidavit-requirement collateral-attack credibility-of-witnesses criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standards habeas-corpus habeas-petition ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-litigation standard-of-review Circumstances-for-pro-se-habeas-petitions
22-7370 Donte Lamont Dingle v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure de-novo-review discovery-rule-16 fourth-amendment franks-v-delaware franks-violation jencks-material probable-cause search-warrant standard-of-review Whether the Fourth Circuit's decision conflicts with prior decisions of this Court and another United States Court of Appeals, including its own, on t…
22-1019 CoreCivic, Inc. v. Sylvester Owino, et al., Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Ninth Circuit 2023-04-20 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure class-certification commonality ninth-circuit rule-23 standard-of-review uniformity Whether courts of appeals reviewing Rule 23 class certification decisions must give district court decisions granting class certification more deferen…
22-1014 Estate of Rex Vance Wilson, et al. v. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-18 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure district-court exceptions federal-appeals federal-procedure issue-preservation judicial-discretion legal-arguments preservation-of-claims standard-of-review Where a plaintiff may advance new arguments on appeal
22-1004 Kurt Garrison v. City of Ottawa, Kansas, et al. Kansas 2023-04-14 Denied constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-bias prejudice procedural-due-process professional-engineering right-to-trial-by-jury standard-of-review substantive-due-process Whether substantive due process was denied
22-7288 Gilberto Gonzalez-Enriquez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process error-calculation harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review u.s-sentencing-guidelines Whether a sentencing court can insulate a substantial error in calculating the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines range from appellate review simply by assert…
22-997 Andrew Lewis v. Texas Texas 2023-04-13 Denied criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-evidence medical-testimony prejudice-analysis standard-of-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel Whether the TCCA failed to conduct the 'probing and fact-specific' prejudice analysis required by Strickland v. Washington
22-7252 Marlon McCay v. Kevin Genovese, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review merits-determination merits-review petition-denial sixth-circuit standard-of-review Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying the petitioner's petitions for a COA and rehearing?
22-989 Rodney Lynn Dalton v. Arizona Arizona 2023-04-11 Denied Response Waived appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-trial cumulative-error due-process prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review What is the appropriate standard for determining cumulative prosecutorial misconduct in a criminal trial?
22-7216 Terrell Anderson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-circuit judicial-review motion-to-suppress pretrial-motion search-and-seizure standard-of-review Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Terrell Anderson's pretrial mo…
22-966 Cavanta McLilly v. Adam Douglas, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-04-05 Denied Response Waived alleyne-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence harmless-error jury-instructions jury-verdict police-testimony sentencing-review standard-of-review surveillance-video Whether police testimony identifying Mr. McLilly as the perpetrator seen on a surveillance video from the crime scene had a substantial and injurious …
22-7145 Abdullah Khabir Yusuf v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process in-re-winship jackson-v-virginia reasonable-doubt standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether a federal court of appeals reviewing a defendant's challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence supporting his conviction must apply the reaso…
22-7169 Scott Teevan v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-31 Denied IFP actual-innocence appointment-of-counsel circuit-split counsel-appointment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance perjury standard-of-review Whether the standard of review for actual innocence claims should be resolved by this Court to address a circuit split
22-7112 Fuhai Li v. United States Third Circuit 2023-03-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction probable-cause procedural-default standard-of-review unconstitutional-search-and-seizure Whether the Court of appeals' decision denying Petitioner's request for a COA is contrary to the decision of this Court
22-929 BYD Motors Inc. v. Soderholm Sales and Leasing, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied appellate-panel appellate-review de-novo-review district-court hawaii-statute judicial-review memorandum-disposition salve-regina-college-v-russell standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether the Memorandum disposition, where the majority of the split appellate panel affirmed the district court's appealed decision without having con…
22-7068 Joshua Anderson v. Mark Bolster Fourth Circuit 2023-03-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burns-v-wilson constitutional-law constitutional-review due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus military-courts standard-of-review writ-suspension Does the indistinct standard of review promulgated in Burns v. Wilson, 346 U.S. 137 (1953) violate the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause and result…
22-7074 Christopher White v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-procedure standard-of-review supervisory-power supreme-court-precedent Did the Fifth Circuit's denial of a Certificate of Appealability (COA) in this case conflict with Supreme Court precedent, warranting correction by th…
22-7035 Brian Keith Person, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP fourth-circuit harmless-error mitigating-arguments procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review supervised-release whether-the-fourth-circuit-erred-by-applying-a-plainly-unreasonable-standard-of-review
22-7029 Roger Keeling v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review brecht-v-abrahamson criminal-procedure harmless-error kotteakos-v-united-states ninth-circuit non-constitutional-error standard-of-review weighty-evidence Did the Ninth Circuit err in concluding that a non-constitutional error was harmless when it found 'ample,' rather than 'weighty,' evidence of guilt c…
22-7020 Tiwian Laquinn Skief v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-15 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review misrepresentation procedural-error standard-of-review Did the Fifth Circuit misrepresent facts in this case that caused them to deny Petitioner's COA?
22-866 John Franklin Bell, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-13 Denied thus requiring a COA and plenary consideration by certificate-of-appealability dna-evidence due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice standard-of-review trial-counsel Are petitioner's due process and ineffective assistance of counsel claims debatable among reasonable jurists, thus requiring a COA and plenary conside…
22-6956 Michael Blake DeFrance v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP all-writs-act appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review categorical-approach civil-procedure domestic-violence final-judgment jurisdiction ninth-circuit standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether the Ninth Circuit correctly determined that the orders appealed were neither final nor worthy of consideration under the All-Writs Act 18 USC …
22-6923 In Re Jesse Brown 2023-03-03 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-claim defense-theory evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-trial-counsel legal-default post-conviction-relief standard-of-review trial-counsel Whether the Petitioner is entitled to a 'actual innocence' defense theory
22-829 Marla Faith Crawford v. Richmond City School Board Virginia 2023-03-01 Denied Response Waived circuit-court civil-procedure due-process idea-regulations jurisdiction pretrial-motion reversible-error sovereign-immunity standard-of-review subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court-of-virginia Did the Supreme Court of Va. error in determining that the Circuit Court for Richmond City nonruling on a pretrial motion filed on April 2, 2019 wasn'…
22-6844 Eladio Loya-Palma v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors?
22-6840 David Omar Caraballo v. Florida Florida 2023-02-22 Denied IFP appellate-review case-review civil-procedure court-decision due-process harmless-error judicial-procedure legal-interpretation legal-review petitioner-claims standard-of-review standing Whether the district court of appeals erred in denying petitioner's points of argument as presented on direct appeal
22-6779 Jong Sung Kim v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-rule brady-violation de-novo-review due-process fifth-amendment giglio-rule giglio-violation sixth-amendment standard-of-review Whether due process and the Fifth and Sixth Amendments require circuit courts to review Brady and Giglio violation claims de novo, rather than for an …
22-6782 Richard Leon Wilbern v. United States Second Circuit 2023-02-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment appellate-standard constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment standard-of-review witness-identification wrongful-convictions Whether courts of appeals should review de novo a district court's determination that an identification is constitutionally reliable
22-762 Robert Kreb v. Department of Labor Ninth Circuit 2023-02-13 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-discretion agency-review arbitrary-and-capricious employee-protection employee-protection-rights evidentiary-burden standard-of-review statutory-interpretation What is the appropriate standard of review when an agency administrative law judge abuses their discretion, is arbitrary and capricious or otherwise u…
22-6745 Robert Hill v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP Batson-challenge civil-rights constitutional-procedure due-process eighth-circuit equal-protection jury-selection prima-facie-evidence prosecutorial-discretion standard-of-review Whether petitioner established prima facie evidence demonstrating countervailing factors excusing him from making his similarly situated Batson-based …
22-6732 David Alvarado-Rios v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-discretion presumption-of-reasonableness rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness How does a defendant who challenges the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence rebut an appellate presumption of reasonableness?
22-6714 Wilson Laboriel v. William Lee, Superintendent, Eastern New York Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2023-02-06 Denied IFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights counsel-substitution due-process effective-assistance federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance standard-of-review trial-court Whether the United States Court of Appeals can sanction the district court's recharacterization of a petitioner's claim after such claim has been libe…
22-714 Harry C. Calcutt, III v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Sixth Circuit 2023-02-01 Denied Amici (6)Relisted (2) administrative-law agency-deference agency-review circuit-split civil-procedure due-process judicial-remand remand removal-restrictions standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether SEC v. Chenery Corp. and its progeny required the Sixth Circuit to remand the case to the agency after determining that the agency had applied…
22-6667 Robert Henry Steele v. Dan Redington Eighth Circuit 2023-01-31 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-standard reasonable-jurists standard-of-review summary-reversal Whether this Court should summarily reverse the Eighth Circuit's denial of a COA where the underlying issues were clearly debatable by jurists of reas…
22-702 Joseph D. Rued v. Catrina M. Rued Minnesota 2023-01-27 Denied child-abuse child-custody due-process evidence family-law judicial-discretion sexual-abuse standard-of-review therapist-testimony Whether the District Court's affirmative conclusion that sexual abuse did not occur denied due process to the father and child
22-6613 Robert Nathaniel Brown v. Florida Florida 2023-01-24 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment standard-of-review state-court-decisions Strickland-v-Washington Whether the state appellate court misapplied Harrington v. Richter
22-6596 Laverne C. Henderson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review precedent standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit violated Henderson's rights
22-680 Jun Li, et al. v. Colorado Regional Center I, LLC, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied Response Waived appellate-review attorney-fees civil-procedure discretionary-review due-process erie-doctrine judicial-proceedings standard-of-review supervisory-power May a court of appeals refuse to conduct any appellate review of attorney fees awarded under state law?
22-6579 Jaime Hoyos v. Ronald Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-01-19 Denied IFP batson-challenge due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination standard-of-review voir-dire Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals violate petitioner's rights under the Fourteenth Amendment?
22-6558 Roshua Marquiston White v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-sentencing minimal-role minor-role sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of a minor or minimal role reduction under the Sentencing Guidelines without …
22-6500 Richard Eugene Glossip v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-01-09 Dismissed Amici (2)Relisted (21)IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression impeachment-evidence materiality post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review suppressed-evidence witness-credibility Whether a court may require a defendant to demonstrate by clear and convincing evidence that no reasonable fact finder would have returned a guilty ve…
22-607 Noah Nagy, Warden v. Jimmy Baugh Sixth Circuit 2023-01-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) actual-innocence constitutional-error criminal-procedure federal-review habeas-corpus new-evidence sixth-amendment standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Did the Sixth Circuit misapprehend § 2244(b)(2)(B)(ii)'s standard by granting habeas relief to Jimmy Baugh when the newly discovered evidence at issue…
22-6425 Mirwais Mohamadi v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion procedural-default standard-of-review Did The Court Of Appeals Err In Denying A Certificate Of Appealability?
22-6399 Kerry Simpson v. Tom Watson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process judicial-reasoning legal-standard manifest-weight prejudice prejudice-standard standard-of-review Did the Federal Appellate Court Apply the Correct Standard in the Determination of Prejudice?
22-574 Tiffany Lay, et vir v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-21 Denied Response Waived appellate-review bench-trial bench-trials circuit-court-review civil-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure findings-of-fact judicial-findings obiter-dictum standard-of-review stare-decisis Whether Federal District Court judges properly comply with FRCP 52(a) in conducting complex bench trials
22-6311 Massey L. Allen, Jr. v. Nebraska Nebraska 2022-12-15 Denied IFP criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment jackson-v-virginia miranda-rights post-miranda-silence reasonable-doubt standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether there was sufficient evidence to convict under Jackson-v-Virginia
22-540 Paul Anthony Riojas v. Department of the Army, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-12-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-court-standards civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review military-court-review military-justice service-member standard-of-review Whether the proper scope and standard of review for a service member's habeas corpus petition challenging a military court proceeding is in accordance…
22-6280 Jose Adolpho Castillo v. Texas Texas 2022-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process hearsay-testimony ineffective-assistance prejudice right-to-counsel standard-of-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas has made the standard articulated by this Court in Strickland v. Washington so malleable that Stricklan…
22-6253 Michael J. Moller, aka Michael Robinson v. United States First Circuit 2022-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-waiver certiorari criminal-procedure district-court due-process paycheck-protection-program plea-bargaining sentencing sophisticated-means-enhancement standard-of-review Should certiorari be granted to address the enforceability of an appellate waiver where the District Court's entire inquiry consisted of a single ques…
22-6223 Byron O. Woods Sr. v. United States Federal Circuit 2022-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure clearly-erroneous-standard conclusions-of-law court-of-appeals fact-finding federal-circuit judicial-conflict legal-findings pullman-standard rule-52(a) standard-of-review Whether the Appeals Court for the Federal Circuit entered a decision in conflict with the decision of another United States Court of Appeals on the sa…
22-479 Steven Onysko v. Martin J. Walsh, Secretary of Labor, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-11-21 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act agency-deference circuit-court-conflicts circuit-court-review safe-drinking-water-act standard-of-review summary-judgment whistleblower-protection Whether the Tenth Circuit applied the wrong standard of review under the Administrative Procedure Act
22-6066 Brent Stephens v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2254 appeal appeal'\n\n'Whether the Federal Court of Appeals f appeal'\n\n'Whether the U.S. District Court Magist appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process exhaustion exhaustion'\n\n'Whether the Federal Court of Appea federal-statute fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-deference jury-trial jury-verdict magistrate-bar procedural-bar sentencing standard-of-review standard-of-review'\n\n'Whether the U.S. District trial-court-authority Whether the Trial Court had the authority to supplant the verdict of the jury on punishment
22-441 Rony Galicia v. Maryland Maryland 2022-11-10 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion accomplice-confession appellate-review confrontation-clause cross-examination double-murder sixth-amendment standard-of-review Whether the Sixth Amendment is violated by a denial of cross-examination into an accomplice's confession
22-6016 Sheila Gray v. City of Detroit, Michigan Sixth Circuit 2022-11-08 Denied IFP civil-procedure court-discretion judicial-error jury-verdict overturning-verdict standard-of-review substantial-evidence trial-evidence trial-procedure weight-of-evidence witness-testimony Whether Appellant presents substantial evidence that the unanimous jury verdict goes against the great weight of the evidence presented at trial and s…
22-5994 Kevin Leon Lucien v. Texas Texas 2022-11-04 Denied IFP criminal-procedure duty-to-investigate ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mitigating-evidence punishment standard-of-review trial-counsel voluntary-intoxication Was trial counsel ineffective for failing to investigate and present evidence of voluntary intoxication as mitigating evidence at punishment?
22-5983 Cordavia Daniels v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553(a) age-consideration criminal-appeal criminal-sentencing fifth-circuit mitigating-factors sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by affirming the district court's consideration of Cordavia's age and mitigating factors
22-5952 Randell Joseph Redmond v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-10-31 Denied IFP 2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process judicial-procedure legal-interpretation standard-of-review standing takings Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that the Firearms Owners' Protection Act (FOPA) does not preempt state laws prohibiting…
22-5938 Carrington K. Joseph v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2022-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus judicial-standard procedural-review standard-of-review substantial-showing supreme-court-precedent Whether the Court of Appeals decision to deny Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability conflicts with the standard articulated by this Court and its …
22-5924 Carl Jones v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2022-10-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standard legal-sufficiency self-defense standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Does the well-settled standard and scope of review governing claims a standard and scope of constitutional dimension prohibit an appellate court from …
22-5929 Juan Salvador Cordova-Briseno v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing immigration minor standard-of-review statutory-interpretation unaccompanied-minor Did the district court abuse its discretion in applying the 4-level enhancement for transporting an unaccompanied minor under U.S.S.G. § 2L1.1(b)(4)?
22-5915 Charlesworth Rae v. Children's National Medical Center, et al. District of Columbia 2022-10-26 Denied IFP burden-of-proof burden-shifting civil-procedure employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas-test retaliation standard-of-review supervisor-misconduct vicarious-liability Whether the United States Court of Appeals incorrectly applied the McDonnell Douglas burden-shifting test
22-5904 Matthew S. Becker v. George Little, Acting Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2022-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-split habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review standards threshold-determination Whether the Court should clarify and resolve the circuit split on the standards to be utilized when deciding the threshold determination on whether to…
22-358 Ronald Blake Fears v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied Response Waived double-deference federal-deference habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis standard-of-review state-court-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1) requires that a federal court apply 'double deference' to a state court's legal conclusion that a habeas petitioner was…
22-5834 Jose A. Torres v. Lisa Mitchell, Superintendent, Old Colony Correctional Center, et al. First Circuit 2022-10-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions legal-relief procedural-review standard-of-review trial-error Whether Mr. Torres was entitled to relief or an evidentiary hearing on his claim of ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
22-5819 Jose Efrain Vega v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-10-12 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default standard-of-review standing Whether the court of appeals properly denied Petitioner's certificate of appealability?
22-5791 Erin Carter v. St. Tammany Parish School Board, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure employer-discretion employment-discrimination fmla-rights incomplete-discovery incomplete-record judicial-review jury-trial prejudice-standard standard-of-review summary-judgment What is the appropriate standard of review when a trial court grants a motion for summary judgment, dismissing an entire cause of action designated fo…
22-5779 James Michael Johnson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-10-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency jury-instructions money-laundering standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence wire-fraud Whether the evidence at trial was insufficient to convict the petitioner of wire fraud and money laundering
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?
22-5762 Jonathan Mattox v. Arizona Arizona 2022-10-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal arizona-rule-criminal-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief sentencing standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Correct interpretation of ARS 28-1382(A) and how it should be applied
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?
22-5599 Denzell Russell v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation plain-error plain-error-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Is the Sixth Circuit's application of plain-error-review under Fed.-R.-Crim.-P.-52(b) in conflict with this Court's decisions?
22-235 Paul S. Morrissey, et al. v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. District of Columbia 2022-09-13 Denied Amici (2) appellate-circuit-split case-termination civil-procedure dismissal dismissal-standard federal-rules prejudice prejudice-analysis standard-of-review statute-of-limitations willful-noncompliance Whether a discretionary dismissal without prejudice, which nevertheless functions as a dismissal with prejudice because it would end a case forever, i…
22-5499 Scott James Repella v. Luzerne County Children and Youth Services, et al. Third Circuit 2022-09-02 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process judicial-review legal-error procedural-challenge standard-of-review standing Did the court of appeals err in denying the COA and not taking into account the complexity and severity of the constitutional rights violation?
22-5485 Juan Daniel Cano v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas, Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-08-31 Denied IFP civil-procedure diligence district-court due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances fifth-circuit habeas-corpus standard-of-review Did the Fifth Circuit err in affirming the district court's finding that the petitioner failed to show both that he pursued habeas relief diligently a…
22-5450 Jermaine Crump v. Joe Errington, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-disclosure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review Whether the district court erred in finding that Crump received effective assistance of trial counsel
22-5411 Darnay Thibodaux v. Jon Reeves, District Administrator, Jefferson Parish District, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, Department of Probation and Parole, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review statutory-provisions Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit properly denied Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability
22-5395 Michael Gorrio v. Correctional Officer Francis, et al. Third Circuit 2022-08-19 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rico civil-rico-conspiracy civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review motion-to-dismiss standard-of-review well-pleaded-facts Did the appellant's amended complaint ECF 43 present substantial 'well pleaded facts,' as to plausibly state a claim and support the claim to overcome…
22-5368 Kultar S. Goraya v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appealability certificate-of-appealability certiorari civil-rights due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus slack-v-mcdaniel standard-of-review Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals applied an improper heightened standard under Slack v. McDaniel and Buck v. Davis when denying petitione…
22-5346 Sylvia Hofstetter v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-08-15 GVR IFP 21-usc-841 circuit-split drug-offense global-tech healthcare-provider jury-instruction ruan-v-united-states scienter-standard standard-of-review willful-blindness Whether the District Court erred by instructing the jury
22-122 Philip Snyder v. Tenth Presbyterian Church Pennsylvania 2022-08-09 Denied appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure due-process factual-findings legal-review pennsylvania-law rule-of-law standard-of-review superior-court Did the decision of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania constitute erroneous factual findings and/or misapplication of a properly stated rule of law?
22-5317 Dora L. Adkins v. Merrifield Hotel Associates, LP Fourth Circuit 2022-08-09 Dismissed IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourth-circuit-review judicial-reasoning standard-of-review standing summary-affirmance unpublished-opinion Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Erred in the Order, Dated, July 28, 2022
22-5285 Alifonso Eduardo Garcia v. Kansas Kansas 2022-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP autopsy-evidence criminal-procedure due-process jury-questionnaire jury-selection lesser-included-offense presumed-prejudice skilling-factors standard-of-review venue venue-prejudice Whether the Kansas Supreme Court erred in finding no presumed prejudice in the venue of Rooks County
22-5291 Barton Ray Gaines v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-08-04 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review reasonable-jurists recusal rule-60b-motion standard-of-review substantial-showing Whether GAINES made a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right
22-5275 Russell M. Boles v. Jeff Long, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-08-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP case-statement civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process evidence jurisdictional-issue jury-instructions legal-procedure negligence standard-of-review statutory-provisions writ-of-certiorari Whether the court erred in drawing an adverse inference against the petitioner
22-5263 Jesse Brown v. Eric Armel, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2022-08-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review counsel-performance criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion procedural-default standard-of-review Whether the trial court erred in denying the petitioner's legitimate defense theory
22-5232 Jesus Javier Cruz-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-presumption reasonableness-standard rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether the Court should clarify how a defendant who challenges the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence may rebut an appellate …
22-5184 Dwayne Stoutamire v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-07-26 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default section-2253 standard-of-review state-court-exhaustion Whether the court of appeals properly applied Section 2253 of the Certificate of Appealability statute
22-5168 Rodney Mesquias v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-error jurisdiction legal-standard sentencing standard-of-review Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming Mesquias' convictions and sentences
22-5126 Davis Lamar Brooks v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof civil-commitment conditional-release due-process fifth-circuit haldol-injection involuntary-medication involuntary-treatment mental-health preponderance-of-evidence standard-of-review whether-the-fifth-circuit-erred-by-affirming-the-district-court's-denial-of-mr-brooks'-motion-for-unconditional-release
22-5110 Onterio Dimitri Brown v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2022-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence jackson-v-virginia standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-precedent Whether the Supreme Court has overturned Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307 (1979), and if there is sufficient evidence to justify a conviction
22-5113 Jerald Francis Gray v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-07-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review bail bail-reform-act bail-review circuit-split detention-standard liberty-interest standard-of-review What standard of review should courts of appeals apply when reviewing district court bail decisions?
22-5060 Fred Auston Wortman, III v. Tennessee Board of Parole, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP alford-plea civil-procedure complaint-dismissal due-process inferences judicial-procedure plea-agreement pleadings standard-of-review summary-dismissal summary-judgment Whether the District Court erred by summarily dismissing Petitioner's Complaint by failing to accept as true all of Petitioner's factual allegations a…
22-5054 Tyrik Upchurch v. United States Third Circuit 2022-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review due-process evidence-rules expert-testimony expert-witness-testimony judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings lay-witness-testimony new-trial standard-of-review third-circuit trial-error Did the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit err in failing to award the Petitioner a new trial due to the District Court's error in allowing the go…
22-5029 Christopher Michael Fairley v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-ruling criminal-procedure due-process error-preservation judicial-discretion legal-objection preservation-of-error standard-of-review Whether parties to a criminal proceeding sufficiently preserve error by informing the court
22-5018 Michael Allen Long v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure fifth-circuit jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-error standard-of-review waiver Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by finding that Mr. Long's appeal should be dismissed based on the waiver of appeal provision in his Plea Agreement
21-8277 Matthew Michael Cimino v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors?
21-8218 Ramik Banks v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, et al. Third Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-conflict due-process federal-appellate-review habeas-corpus jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia legal-precedent standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence third-circuit Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit entered a decision in this case that conflicts with its decision in Travillion v. Sup…
21-8132 James E. Sanicki, Jr. v. Chris S. Buesgen, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review biased-juror constitutional-review due-process judicial-procedure jury-selection legal-standard peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes reversal standard-of-review Whether errors in jury selection resulted in seating a biased juror, or deprivation of the mandated number of peremptory challenges should have been r…
21-1543 Jane Doe, aka Beeism v. Jomy Sterling Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-09 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (4) anonymous-speech civil-procedure first-amendment online-platforms standard-of-review subpoena What is the proper standard of review to be applied in determining whether a party may obtain a subpoena compelling the identification an anonymous sp…
21-8079 Kenyad Laquan Kelly v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process federal-sentencing gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion legal-standard sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether the District Court Erred in Applying a Different Starting Point for Defendant's Sentence than the United States Sentencing Guidelines?
21-1524 Jesus Rivera v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-06-03 Denied courts-of-appeals habeas-corpus judicial-review objectively-unreasonable precedent standard-of-review state-court unreasonable-manner What test should the Courts of Appeals employ to determine whether a state court writ of habeas corpus was decided in an objectively unreasonable mann…
21-8021 Frank W. Coon v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 abuse-of-discretion compassionate-release criminal-justice district-court-discretion first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing standard-of-review Whether the District Court Abused its Discretion by Denying Mr. Coon's Motion for Compassionate Release?
21-7988 Donald Tarnawa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure financial-factors financial-resources restitution restitution-modification sentencing sentencing-procedure standard-of-review Whether the controlling standard of review for modification under 18 USCA § 3664(k) should be de novo or abuse of description
21-7866 Carlos Alberto Zamudio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plea-bargaining rule-11 standard-of-review withdrawal withdrawal-of-guilty-plea Whether the courts of appeals have improperly narrowed the 'fair and just reason' standard for evaluating a defendant's request to withdraw a guilty p…
21-7798 Francisco Manuel Padilla v. California California 2022-05-06 Denied IFP constitutional-rights counsel-appointment criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal right-to-counsel standard-of-review Did the trial court abuse its discretion and violate the appellant's constitutional rights by denying his motion to withdraw his pleas?
21-7782 William Larry Foley v. Texas Texas 2022-05-05 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial jury-verdict standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Is the evidence sufficient to sustain the jury's guilty verdict?
21-7767 Michael Don Billups v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-opinions appellate-review district-court federal-sentencing judicial-discretion prejudice prejudicial-error sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether courts of appeals evaluating the prejudicial effect of a Guideline error must accept a district court's claim that the Guidelines exerted no i…
21-7769 Lonnell Tucker v. United States District of Columbia 2022-05-04 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP appellate-review base-offense-level circuit-split drug-quantity narcotics-prosecution relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether the Court should resolve the circuit conflict by requiring de novo review for contested methodologies used to determine Base Offense Levels in…
21-7756 Robert James Swint v. Robert R. Redfield, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-04-29 Dismissed IFP administrative-law agency-deference appellate-review civil-procedure remand standard-of-review Whether the district court's remand to the agency constitutes a waiver of de novo review by the district court of the agency's decision on appeal
21-1392 Abigail Simon v. Jeremy Howard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-04-29 Denied Response Waived actus-reus certiorari-review criminal-law criminal-sexual-conduct due-process jury-instructions legal-error sexual-assault standard-of-review trial-court Whether the state trial court judge gave erroneous jury instructions on the critical actus reus element of the crime of criminal sexual conduct
21-7717 Kacy Fonteze Williams v. Mississippi Fifth Circuit 2022-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claim discretion discretionary-review district-court federal-review firearm-charge habeas habeas-corpus right-to-be-heard standard-of-review state-court Whether the District Court failed to properly utilize its discretion on the petitioner's habeas where the court dismissed the firearm charge issue ren…
21-7694 Jason Paul Maple v. Lonnie Oliver, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion Third Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-error constitutional-trial-error due-process harmless-error pro-se-litigant standard-of-review supreme-court-standard third-circuit trial-procedure Whether the Third Circuit Appellate Court adhered to the terms of harmless-error review, judged by the standard set-forth by the United States Supreme…
21-7697 Michael Mirando, aka Michael John Mirando v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court loss-calculation sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review What standard of review applies to an appeal challenging a district court's methodology for calculating the loss amount under Section 2B1.1 of the Uni…
21-7687 Earl Jones v. Ohio Ohio 2022-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-review fact-inference jackson-standard reasonable-doubt standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-ohio Whether a reviewing court must consider all the evidence in determining whether inferences from basic facts to ultimate facts are reasonable to prove …
21-7683 Nelson Conto v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-circuit interview-evidence judicial-error motion-in-limine standard-of-review trial-procedure Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in dismissing the petitioner's meritorious appeal of the denial of appellant's…
21-7659 John Doe v. United States First Circuit 2022-04-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review business-records criminal-prosecution hearsay-exception interrogation-statements miranda-rights outsider-source standard-of-review trustworthiness Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's error of admitting the 795-SSA form through the business records exception to the…
21-7640 Ramel General v. United States Second Circuit 2022-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-rights circuit-precedent criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent procedural-challenge standard-of-review united-states-v-gomez-perez waiver waiver-enforcement Whether the Petitioner demonstrated that the waiver of his appellate rights is unenforceable under United States v. Gomez-Perez, 215 F.3d 315, 319 (2d…
21-1352 Vivian Tat, aka Vivian Lnu v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-04-14 Denied Response Waived appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure fundamental-rights jury-instructions plain-error-review rogers-error rogers-v-united-states standard-of-review Does plain error review govern claims of Rogers error on appeal, as the Ninth Circuit held below, or are such claims reviewed for harmlessness beyond …
21-1347 Kevas L. Ballance v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-04-13 Denied Response Waived appellate-review circuit-split clear-error criminal-procedure de-novo-review district-court standard-of-review suppression-hearing suppression-ruling When reviewing a suppression ruling on appeal, should the appellate court review factual findings for clear error and the ultimate legal determination…
21-1319 Mark Nordlicht and David Levy v. United States Second Circuit 2022-04-04 Denied Amici (1) credibility criminal-procedure discretion district-court-discretion evidence-weighing federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure jury-verdict new-trial new-trial-motion rule-33 standard-of-review witness-credibility Whether district courts have discretion to weigh the evidence, including the credibility of witnesses, when deciding to grant a new trial under Rule 3…
21-7522 Jerry Wayne Phillips v. Martin Frink, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto grand-jury indictment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection sexual-battery standard-of-review Can convictions of aggravated-sexual-battery be sustained when the state-failed-to-prove-elements
21-7411 Richard E. Platt v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default slack-standard slack-v-mcdaniel standard-of-review Whether the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying the certificate of appealability pursuant to Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473, 120 S.Ct. 159…
21-7375 Rodolfo Rodriguez, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review consensual-encounter consent criminal-procedure investigative-detention investigative-stop law-enforcement-interaction search-and-seizure standard-of-review voluntary-consent What is the appropriate standard to be applied in determining whether an encounter with police was consensual or an investigative stop?
21-7357 Joel Castro-Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing discretion district-court-discretion guidelines judicial-reasoning legal-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether a district court errs should reference or address substantial arguments for a sentence outside the Guideline range?
21-1233 Mark R. Joubert v. Todd Miley Massachusetts 2022-03-10 Denied Response Waived attorney-client-relationship collateral-estoppel due-process fourteenth-amendment individual-liberty legal-restriction liberty-interest non-legal-business occupational-freedom standard-of-review state-court May a state court establish an attorney-client relationship that will restrict an individual's liberty under the Fourteenth Amendment to pursue a long…
21-7321 Eric Labreece Mack v. Texas Texas 2022-03-08 Denied IFP appeal criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instructions sentencing standard-of-review Whether the court of appeals erred in finding that Mr. Mack was not entitled to a defensive jury instruction
21-7297 Jaime B. Garcia v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder habeas-corpus jury-instructions legal-theory prosecutorial-concession reasonable-jurists standard-of-review Whether a certificate of appealability should have been issued when the jury was instructed on an invalid legal theory to convict the petitioner of fi…
21-7280 Sammie Carroll v. Maryland Maryland 2022-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-of-special-appeals criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency jail-call-evidence standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Did the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland err in ruling that the evidence adduced at trial was sufficient to sustain a conviction?
21-7218 Ryan Antonio Matthews v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-02-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-circuit-court fifth-circuit-court-of-appeals ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-certification precedent precedential-analysis standard-of-review Did Petitioner establish that jurists of reason could debate whether he was deprived of his right to the effective assistance of counsel at his juveni…
21-1184 Joyce D. Hutton, et al. v. Hyundai Motor America, et al. Mississippi 2022-02-28 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-verdict standard-of-review state-court-review supreme-court trial-court Did the Mississippi Supreme Court violate the due process rights of the Petitioners under the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United S…
21-7214 Mark Anthony Taylor v. Anna Valentine, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief reasonable-diligence standard-of-review Whether the petitioner had a claim of actual innocence that was not fairly considered by the lower courts
21-7190 Jason Terrell v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process jurisdiction merits plea-agreement procedural-facts standard-of-review Whether the court of appeals erred by dismissing the appeal based upon an appeal waiver contained in the plea agreement and should have addressed Mr. …
21-7188 Elishay Banks v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review counsel-performance criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-error ninth-circuit standard-of-review Is it error by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to fail to consider the petitioner's argument concerning the ineffective assistance of counsel obvio…
21-1150 Sharon Finizie, et al. v. Department of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2022-02-18 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure due-process factual-findings federal-circuit judicial-review legal-misapplication merit-systems-protection-board standard-of-review Did the decisions/opinions of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the Merit Systems Protection Board constitute erroneous f…
21-7142 C. Holmes v. Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-02-17 Denied Relisted (3)IFP appeal appellate-jurisdiction article-iii-court civil-procedure de-novo-review dispositive-motions due-process judicial-review magistrate magistrate-referral standard-of-review Whether this Court should grant writ of certiorari regarding denial of the timely request for the substantial right of de novo determination by Articl…
21-7120 David John Telles, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency-hearing constitutional-rights due-process expert-testimony grooming-expert-testimony malingering mental-disorder mental-disorder-defense self-representation standard-of-review standard-for-reviewing-denied-motions-for-competency-hearings
21-7097 Sinmyah Amera Ceasar v. United States Second Circuit 2022-02-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3553(a) appellate-standard circuit-split criminal-sentencing gall-v-united-states sentencing-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness terrorism terrorism-cases Does the application of a stricter standard of review in assessing the substantive reasonableness of terrorism sentences contravene Gall and 18 U.S.C.…
21-1100 3M Company, et al. v. George Amador Eighth Circuit 2022-02-09 Denied Amici (6) appellate-review daubert-standard daubert-v-merrell-dow evidence-admissibility expert-testimony federal-rule-of-evidence-702 general-electric-v-joiner judicial-gatekeeping pending-mdl reliability-threshold standard-of-review Whether the Eighth Circuit's standard of initial admissibility for expert testimony conflicts with this Court's precedents and Federal Rule of Evidenc…
21-1080 Jacky Scott Garrett v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-02-04 Denied capital-murder constitutional-review extraneous-offense-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudicial-error standard-of-review strategic-decision trial-strategy Whether trial counsel's inadvertent act was 'strategic'
21-7024 Edgar Manuel Sierra-Serrano v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process exceptions fourth-amendment judicial-review probable-cause search-and-seizure standard-of-review warrantless-search Has the progeny of 'probable-cause' and the innovations of 'exceptions' to the Fourth-Amendment concerning the justification to advance in a warrantle…
21-7034 Jeriton Lavar Curry, aka Cheese v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender crime-of-violence criminal-procedure district-court-error due-process hobbs-act legal-analysis sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether a Conviction for Hobbs Act Robbery qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under the Sentencing Guidelines
21-6998 Robert Lars Pape v. California California 2022-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-exclusion right-to-present-defense standard-of-review third-party-culpability Does the Constitution permit the exclusion of a defendant's presentation of substantial evidence of third-party culpability simply because the court b…
21-7000 Dominic Dean Adams v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review conviction conviction-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure legal-error sentencing standard-of-review Did the court of appeals err in affirming Mr. Adams' conviction?
21-1041 Michael J. P. v. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-01-26 Denied Response Waived arbitrary-and-capricious benefit-eligibility erisa firestone-v-bruch judicial-review metro-life-v-glenn plan-administrator plan-administrator-discretion standard-of-review substantial-evidence Whether the Supreme Court's dicta in Firestone Tire and Rubber Co v. Bruch and the Supreme Court's ruling in Metro. Life Ins. Co. v. Glenn render it i…
21-6933 Carlos Rivera-Alejandro, aka Homero v. United States First Circuit 2022-01-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP barker-factors barker-v-wingo circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process speedy-trial standard-of-review trial-length Whether the Supreme Court should resolve a circuit split concerning the standard of review for a constitutional speedy-trial-claim
21-1028 International Energy Ventures Management, L.L.C. v. United Energy Group, Ltd. Fifth Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) appellate-review arbitration arbitration-waiver circuit-split civil-procedure clear-error-standard deference fact-finding federal-rules-of-civil-procedure litigation-conduct rule-52a standard-of-review Whether prejudice is part of the test for litigation conduct waiver in the context of an arbitration clause
21-6823 Richard M. Arnold v. Reed A. Richardson, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence credibility federal-petition habeas-corpus reasonable-juror recantation reliability schlup-standard standard-of-review Whether the district court must determine the credibility and reliability of new evidence of actual innocence before assessing its legal effect
21-6721 Tyrone Anderson v. Delaware Delaware 2021-12-23 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment confrontation-clause due-process fair-trial hearsay ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction standard-of-review trial-counsel Does it constitute ineffective assistance of counsel to fail to object to a state's chief witness's testimony that a non-testifying declarant stated t…
21-6708 Richard Max Tafoya v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process freedom-of-movement fundamental-rights international-travel judicial-review standard-of-review travel-restrictions What standard applies in reviewing the constitutionality of restrictions on the right to international travel?
21-915 Hugh McKinney v. Christine Wormuth, Secretary of the Army District of Columbia 2021-12-21 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act agency-action arbitrary-and-capricious civilian-board deference judicial-review military-records standard-of-review Whether a civilian board's administrative decisions concerning the correction of military records pursuant to 10 U.S.C. § 1552(a)(1) are properly revi…
21-6670 Eric Beverly v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP administration-of-justice bank-robbery beyond-reasonable-doubt criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit jury-conviction standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the appeals court conducted an adequate review of facts and evidence upon which the jury reached its decision to convict
21-6671 Valente Arias-Avila v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion sentencing-factors standard-of-review Can appellate courts reweigh sentencing factors under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)
21-6679 Juan Jarmon v. United States Third Circuit 2021-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court-conflict conspiracy conspiracy-law crack-cocaine criminal-law evidence evidentiary-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review united-states-v-pressler Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals entered a decision in conflict with the decision of United States v. Pressler
21-6659 Glen Seals v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky habeas-corpus johnson-v-california judicial-review mixed-question-of-fact-and-law peremptory-strike prima-facie prima-facie-case race-discrimination standard-of-review whether-courts-may-consider-potential-race-neutral-reasons-at-batson-prima-facie-stage
21-6662 Bryant Christopher Watts v. Texas Texas 2021-12-17 Denied IFP affirmative-defense appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process reasonable-doubt self-defense standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-court Did the court of appeals err in affirming the trial court where evidence is insufficient to rebut the affirmative defense of self-defense beyond a rea…
21-6643 Leonus Stevenson Peterson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-circuit appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit knowing-and-voluntary miscarriage-of-justice plea-waiver standard-of-review Did the Fourth Circuit err in finding that Petitioner's plea waiver was knowing and voluntary and then applying a stricter standard than a number of o…
21-896 Jimmy Martin, Warden v. Alonzo Cortez Johnson Tenth Circuit 2021-12-16 Denied anti-terrorism-act batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky direct-appeal federal-court-proceedings habeas-corpus jury-selection standard-of-review state-court-proceedings tenth-circuit whether-the-tenth-circuit-violated-the-antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act
21-6433 Jaimian Rashaad Sims v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP administration-of-justice beyond-reasonable-doubt criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-cases fifth-circuit-review jury-conviction sex-trafficking standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the appeals court conducted an adequate review of the district court's denial of a judgment of acquittal and the jury's decision to convict ba…
21-6384 Kimani I. Sterling v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-review criminal-appeal eighth-circuit judicial-procedure preservation-of-error procedural-due-process sentencing sentencing-objections standard-of-review waiver waiver-doctrine Has the Eighth Circuit imposed upon Mr. Sterling an unlawful burden by finding Sterling waived his argument that the District Court violated procedura…
21-6348 Rafael Ramiro-Medina v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review batson-challenge criminal-procedure discriminatory-intent equal-protection fact-finding jury-selection procedural-error racial-discrimination standard-of-review Whether a federal court of appeals can conduct appellate fact-finding and resolve the factual question of discriminatory intent under Batson v. Kentuc…
21-6325 Leslie Reed v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certiorari-standard circuit-court-review civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-question judicial-precedent judicial-review precedent standard-of-review supreme-court-jurisdiction Whether the United States Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals had decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions…
21-6240 Michael Roger Clemons, aka Chinaman v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review district-court guidelines-error harmless-error sentencing-error standard-of-review Whether any procedural sentencing error can be deemed harmless if the district court announces, without further explanation, that it would have impose…
21-6260 Samuel Lee Murchison v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review credibility-determination factual-findings findings-of-fact fourth-circuit judicial-procedure standard-of-review trial-court video-evidence Did the Fourth Circuit err by employing a 'particularly defer[entional]' standard of review to findings of fact by the trial court that did not involv…
21-662 Michael Bright-Asante v. Saks & Company, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2021-11-04 Denied civil-rights due-process human-rights-law jury-trial section-1981 seventh-amendment standard-of-review summary-judgment Did the Second Circuit apply the correct standard of review?
21-6133 Dean Rossi v. United States Third Circuit 2021-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-withdrawal conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure judicial-discretion necessary-witness prosecutorial-discretion right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-review Is a prosecution's claim that a defendant's lawyer is 'likely to be a necessary witness' an 'actual conflict' or 'serious potential conflict' overridi…
21-6128 Tommy Pabellon v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure first-step-act intervening-changes-in-law intervening-law judicial-review legal-standard lower-court-judgment motion-review petition-for-writ-of-certiorari standard-of-review Whether a lower court's failure to apply the proper standard of review effects its judgment in reviewing a petitioner's case based on clear intervenin…
21-6130 Brett Allan Corrigan, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review clear-error criminal-procedure drug-offense firearm sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review weapon-enhancement Whether the district court's finding that a weapon was connected to the drug offense under §2D1.1(b)(1) was clear error
21-6122 Malek Lassiter v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution motion-for-judgment-of-acquittal rico rico-conspiracy sentencing standard-of-review Whether the court of appeals erred by affirming the district court's denial of Lassiter's motion for judgment of acquittal on the RICO conspiracy char…
21-6100 Rodrigo Martinez-Mendoza v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-10-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review clear-error clear-error-standard due-process factual-findings immigration immigration-law law-enforcement-testimony public-confidence standard-of-review whether-appellate-court-reviewing-factual-findings-for-clear-error-must-take-account-of-undisputed-contrary-evidence
21-6101 Paul D. Timms v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-10-27 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-standard civil-rights constitutional-claim district-court-review due-process federal-civil-procedure federal-courts habeas-corpus standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent When a federal district court denies a state prisoner's 28-U.S.C.-2254-petition based upon an improper standard-of-review
21-603 Ohio v. George Brinkman Ohio 2021-10-26 Denied Amici (1) automatic-reversal boykin-advisement boykin-v-alabama constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea plea-review presumption-of-prejudice standard-of-review Does the Due Process Clause prohibit review of the entire record to determine whether a guilty plea was knowingly, intelligently and voluntarily enter…
21-589 Said Rum v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-22 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-action agency-review arbitrary-and-capricious due-process factfinding-procedures fbar-penalties reporting-requirements standard-of-review willfulness Are courts to apply de novo review of agency actions when the inadequacy of the factfinding procedures is due to a procedural due-process violation
21-5996 Jayson Thomas Weiss v. California California 2021-10-19 Denied IFP appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the evidence presented was sufficient to support the conviction
21-6008 Keyaira Porter v. Arizona Arizona 2021-10-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review batson-challenge comparative-juror-analysis criminal-procedure equal-protection jury-selection racial-discrimination standard-of-review trial-procedure Whether a trial court must make express rulings at Batson's third step
21-5989 Jeffrey G. Boyd v. United States Third Circuit 2021-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split contested-element criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions knowledge-element standard-of-review Whether the harmless error standard should apply to a failure to instruct the jury on a contested element of the offense
21-5969 Derrick E. Steilman v. Reginald D. Michael, Director, Montana Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-timeliness section-2254 standard-of-review statute-of-limitations timeliness Whether the Ninth Circuit erred when it determined that Steilman's 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition is untimely?
21-5977 In Re Rigoberto Melero Aguirre 2021-10-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constructive-denial counsel-rights criminal-procedure due-process fraud-on-the-court fraud-upon-court ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-proceedings miscarriage-of-justice plain-error-standard standard-of-review Whether the constructive denial of counsel during Melero Aguirre's judicial proceedings, coupled with the wholesale adoption by the Fifth Circuit, of …
21-5948 In Re Henryk S. Borecki 2021-10-13 Denied IFP citizen-privilege civil-rights constitutional-rights domestic-travel due-process freedom-of-movement habeas-corpus jury-trial standard-of-review supreme-court supreme-court-review Whether the final and conclusive determination of the right of a United States citizen to his unfettered privilege of domestic travel shall be determi…
21-544 Joshua O. Thomas v. Farmers Insurance Exchange Tenth Circuit 2021-10-13 Denied Response Waived appellate-review burden-of-proof civil-procedure genuine-issue-of-material-fact inference-standard judicial-precedent material-fact standard-of-review summary-judgment Whether the district court and court of appeals have effectively abrogated this Court's binding precedent for reviewing a motion for summary judgment
21-523 Damon Simon, et ux. v. Roche Diagnostics Corporation Fifth Circuit 2021-10-08 Denied Response Waived appellate-discretion appellate-procedure certification civil-procedure court-of-appeals discretion judicial-procedure legal-review standard-of-review state-law state-law-certification Whether the court of appeals applied an improper standard of review in exercising its discretion when ruling on the Simons' request to certify the dis…
21-5926 Rimma Kunik v. New York City Department of Education, et al. Second Circuit 2021-10-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP age-discrimination burden-of-proof civil-rights discrimination discriminatory-intent employment employment-discrimination religious-discrimination standard-of-review workload-comparison workplace-harassment Whether the presence of defendants' recorded slurs is indispensable for a discrimination case or if ample evidence of discriminatory actions is suffic…
21-470 Eric Lee Brown v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-28 Denied appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rule-criminal-procedure judicial-precedent legal-standard plain-error precedent standard-of-review statutory-interpretation whether-error-can-be-plain
21-475 Deanna Brookhart, Warden v. Kenneth Smith Seventh Circuit 2021-09-28 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) 28-usc-2254 appellate-review evidence-sufficiency evidence-weighing federal-habeas habeas-corpus habeas-relief jackson-v-virginia reasonable-doubt standard-of-review state-court-deference Whether the Seventh Circuit violated 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)'s strictures in awarding habeas relief to respondent based on its own reweighing of the evide…
21-5778 Jeffrey Glenn Hutchinson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-24 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-court circuit-split district-court habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard merits-analysis merits-ruling standard-of-review Does a court of appeals violate the threshold certificate of appealability (COA) standard when it adopts the district court's merits rulings as its ow…
21-434 Mary E. Canning v. Creighton University Eighth Circuit 2021-09-21 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination eighth-circuit jury-consideration material-fact material-facts retaliation standard-of-review summary-judgment Whether the Eighth Circuit improperly borrowed part of the standard in FRCP 50 to review a summary judgment under FRCP 56
21-389 Sergio Momox-Caselis, et al. v. Tara Donohue, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-09-10 Denied Response Waived anderson-v-liberty-lobby appellate-review civil-procedure judicial-procedure liberty-lobby ninth-circuit standard-of-review standards summary-judgment supervisory-power Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals departed from the accepted and usual course of the standards established by this Court in Anderson v. Liber…
21-5578 Guy Don Minze v. Texas Texas 2021-09-03 Denied IFP court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-facts jurisdiction notice penal-code prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-vindictiveness standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence tex-r-app-p Did the Court of Appeals err in failing to base its Opinion on the evidentiary and adjudicated facts in the record
21-5579 Emmanuel Perez v. Nebraska Nebraska 2021-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility evidence-rule evidentiary-standard federal-rules-of-evidence inextricably-intertwined judicial-interpretation standard-of-review Whether the 'inextricably intertwined' standard is a proper exception to Fed.R.Evid. 404(b)
21-307 Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, P.C. v. John J. Shufeldt Sixth Circuit 2021-08-31 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion circuit-split federal-common-law inconsistent-position judicial-estoppel preliminary-motion standard-of-review Whether a prior court's denial of a preliminary motion based on a litigant's prior inconsistent position constitutes judicial acceptance of that posit…
21-280 Amy Harrison v. Kevin Lilly, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-08-25 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure frcp-12(b)(6) iqbal judicial-review motion-to-dismiss plausibility-standard pleadings pleadings-stage standard-of-review twombly Whether the District Court and the Court of Appeals failed to follow the well-settled standard for a motion to dismiss under FRCP 12(b)(6) and dismiss…
21-5456 Yarlin Garcia v. United States First Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure district-court evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment legal-standard motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure standard-of-review Whether the District Court erred by denying Mr. Garcia's Motion to Suppress?
21-248 Philip E. Berger, et al. v. North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-08-23 Judgment Issued Amici (12)Response WaivedRelisted (2) adequate-representation civil-procedure civil-rights discretionary-standard intervention intervention-as-of-right judicial-review litigation-intervention standard-of-review standing state-agent state-sovereignty Whether a state agent authorized by state law to defend the State's interest in litigation must overcome a presumption of adequate representation to i…
21-245 Pyrotechnic Specialties, Inc. v. Lloyd J. Austin, III, Secretary of Defense Federal Circuit 2021-08-20 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure contract-appeals due-process right-for-any-reason standard-of-review Is a litigant entitled to have the correct standard of law applied by the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals or does a 'right for any reason' do…
21-224 Walid Jammal, et al. v. American Family Insurance Company, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-08-16 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1291 appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure common-law-agency employee-classification erisa-employee-definition final-judgment standard-of-review Does a court of appeals have jurisdiction to reconsider its prior decision?
21-5350 Bobby Earl Keys v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review compassionate-release criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process prisoner-release sentencing sentencing-factors standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals apply the wrong appellate standard of review?
21-5360 Danta Omar Roberts v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure direct-appeal fourth-amendment fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-representation procedural-review standard-of-review trial-counsel Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by ruling that the record did not conclusively demonstrate any deficiencies in trial counsel's representation, and Mr…
21-5324 Michael Dasean Robinson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process harmless-error rule-32 sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review Whether an explanation inconsistent with Rule 32(i)(3)(B) can inoculate an otherwise unreasonable sentence from appellate review
21-5309 Zachary Cooper v. Virginia Virginia 2021-08-06 Denied IFP actual-bias conflict-of-interest confrontation-clause due-process fraud judicial-bias judicial-conduct judicial-recusal standard-of-review state-judicial-conduct trial-procedure Due-process-recusal
21-137 Amanda P., et vir, as Parents and Next Friends of T. P., a Minor Individual with a Disability v. Copperas Cove Independent School District Fifth Circuit 2021-08-02 Denied Response Waived clear-error de-novo-review endrew-f-standard endrew-f-v-douglas-county free-appropriate-public-education individuals-with-disabilities-education-act judicial-deference retrospective-assessment standard-of-review Whether de novo review or clear error is the standard of review applicable to the FAPE-determination under IDEA
21-5243 Charles Givens v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-due-process standard-of-review unelaborated-opinion Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in issuing an unelaborated opinion denying a certificate of appealability after denial of a COA by…
21-5202 Esteban Figueroa-Larrea v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP contested-element criminal-procedure district-court jury-charge jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-scope plain-error standard-of-review trial-court-error trial-procedure Whether the district court plainly erred by misadvising the jury about the legal scope of the sole contested element at trial
21-5155 Michael Wayne Shellito v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-discretion postconviction-proceedings standard-of-review Whether the petitioner has demonstrated that jurists of reason could disagree with the federal courts' resolution of his constitutional claims or that…
21-5092 Dawn J. Bennett v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-07-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fourth-circuit judicial-discretion presumption-of-reasonableness presumptive-reasonableness procedural-error sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review summary-reversal Whether a district court applies an impermissible presumption of reasonableness to the Sentencing Guidelines range by referring to the range as 'presu…
21-5049 Yancey J. Myers, aka Yam v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fatal-variance judicial-integrity plain-error reversible-error standard-of-review When the as facto elauee is nic hed ae Ee eit 2 '5 obviously plain, does this error, reguire a reversal of Seog! criminal Conv aha
21-5014 John Bruce Fifield, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-history criminal-procedure judicial-notice plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether a court of appeals may consider judicially noticeable facts presented for the first time on appeal in deciding whether an error is plain?
20-1819 Lawrence B. Hughes v. Georgia Georgia 2021-06-30 Denied 14th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process indictment indictment-clarity jury-charge jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense standard-of-review Is it a requirement for an indictment to be clear and precise?
20-1790 Alston Campbell, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) accomplice-witness accomplice-witnesses appellate-review confrontation-clause cross-examination due-process sentencing-benefits standard-of-review Whether a trial court violates a defendant's rights under the Confrontation Clause by prohibiting cross-examination of accomplice witnesses about the …
20-8405 Robert Allen Vestal v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure deference federal-courts judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors?
20-8355 Jason Kyle Gee v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-06-22 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jackson-v-virginia jury-deliberations racial-bias standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence verdict-challenge Is it a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses for a state to convict a person of a crime where the elements…
20-8376 Jay Earl Haynes v. Bert Boyd, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-circuit standard-of-review tennessee-corrections warden Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in denying the certificate of appealability?
20-8328 Juan E. Seary-Colon v. United States First Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-challenge conviction-review criminal-procedure due-process insufficient-evidence legal-sufficiency procedural-review standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether Evidence was Totally Insufficient for the Conviction to Stand
20-8309 Robin Renee Melchior v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-06-15 Denied IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court habeas-corpus newly-presented-evidence rule-4 section-2254 slack-standard standard-of-review state-court-records Whether a United States District Court erred in failing to grant a certificate of appealability for a habeas corpus appeal
20-1709 David Ming Pon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-10 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (2) appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence-standard government-case harmless-error judicial-review presumption-of-innocence standard-of-review Whether an appellate court reviewing a cold criminal trial record may determine that an error at trial was harmless by applying an 'overwhelming evide…
20-8264 Jeremy Hough v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process harmless-error judicial-procedure procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review Whether, through 'assumed error harmlessness review,' appellate courts may affirm a criminal sentence without addressing allegations of significant pr…
20-8270 Maurice A. Jackson v. Kevin Ransom, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2021-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-of-appeals criminal-procedure dna-testing evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-standard standard-of-review trial-counsel witness-impeachment Did the third circuit court err in deferring to the Court of Common Pleas finding that Mr. Jackson was not prejudiced by trial counsel not having key …
20-1695 Todd Phillippi v. Humble Design, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) attorney-fees callon-petroleum-v-frontier civil-procedure de-novo de-novo-review frcp-60(b) frcp-60b4 jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirements rule-41-dismissal rule-54 standard-of-review Whether the Fifth Circuit can refuse to review the denial of a FRCP 60(b)(4) motion under the de novo standard of review
20-8199 Isiah Lamonte Brown v. California California 2021-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-remedy counsel-ineffectiveness counsel-violation criminal-procedure fundamental-autonomy prejudice prejudice-analysis right-to-testify standard-of-review waiver waiver-standard What standard of prejudice must be satisfied to reverse a conviction due to counsel's violation of the defendant's right to testify?
20-8181 Linwood Earl Stephens v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction clearly-erroneous-fact criminal-procedure due-process fact-finding fourth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding it did not have jurisdiction to review a decision to deny a departure under the United St…
20-8147 Hasan Shareef v. William O'Donnell, et al. Third Circuit 2021-05-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof civil-rights due-process employment equal-protection standard-of-review Whether the evidence presented by the petitioner was sufficient to establish a prima facie case of discrimination under the relevant legal standards
20-1640 Frederick M. Weber v. Ohio Ohio 2021-05-25 Denied civil-rights constitutional-review core-rights due-process firearm-regulation home-defense home-possession judicial-standard lower-court-uncertainty second-amendment standard-of-review Whether the proper standard of constitutional review for a law that impacts the core value of the Second Amendment and the use of a firearm within the…
20-8120 Gary Lee Willingham v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 acca-enhancement certificate-of-appealability district-court habeas-corpus jurisdiction merits-review post-conviction section-2255 standard-of-review summary-reversal Whether Mr. Willingham waived his argument that the district court had jurisdiction to adjudicate the merits of his § 2255(h) motion
20-8133 In Re Silas Wilson, Jr. 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure de-novo-review due-process inadequate-hearing judicial-discretion mandamus misreading-of-motion pro-se rule-60 rule-60(b)(4) standard-of-review Whether this Court has jurisdiction to issue a writ of mandamus directed to the Court of appeals
20-1621 Antonia Lerner v. Citigroup Third Circuit 2021-05-20 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure judicial-review legal-standard non-movant nonmovant opposition procedural-default standard-of-review waiver Whether the proper standard of review and correct legal standard are waived from appellate review merely because the nonmovant did not file an opposit…
20-1613 John Wayne Collins v. James David Green, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-05-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) aedpa aedpa-deference clearly-established-law criminal-joinder federal-constitutional-claim federal-constitutional-rights habeas-corpus standard-of-review state-court-proceedings state-supreme-court unreasonable-application Whether de novo review instead of deferential review under AEDPA applies where a state supreme court's analysis was not conducted deliberately as a fe…
20-8042 Jorge Cervantes v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process evidentiary-hearing fact-finding federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review legal-determination postconviction-relief standard-of-review state-court-findings strickland Did the trial court use the incorrect standard to review the issues and thus incorrectly apply the fact to the law under Strickland?
20-8021 Jason Scott Pedro v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-sentencing guidelines harmless-error procedural-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review statutory-maximum Can a significant procedural error be deemed harmless when the sentencing judge uses the statutory maximum as the baseline for imposition of sentence?
20-7983 Thomas Lam v. Robert C. Tanner, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-plea criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus henderson-v-morgan judicial-error jury-instructions plea-bargaining standard-of-review voir-dire Did the Fifth Circuit err in denying a request for COA on an important question of federal law regarding the trial judge's incorrect explanation of th…
20-7899 Christopher Middleton v. Georgia Georgia 2021-04-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process essential-elements harmless-error indictment-sufficiency jury-disbelief self-defense standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether a finding of guilt can be predicated on the jury's disbelief of a defendant's statements where the defendant does not testify and the State fa…
20-7870 Scott Raymond Tignor v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-04-28 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process elements-of-offense guilty-plea plea-voluntariness rehaif-v-united-states standard-of-review united-states-v-gary When a defendant argues for the first time on appeal that his guilty plea was not knowing and voluntary because he was not informed of the elements of…
20-7795 Antwan Lamar Hutchinson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-04-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure competency competency-hearing criminal-procedure drope-standard due-process mental-health procedural-review sixth-circuit standard-of-review Should the Court reverse the Sixth Circuit's modified version of the three-factor legal test in Drope v. Missouri
20-1437 Optimum Services, Inc. v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior Federal Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-action bid-protest contract-disputes-act court-of-federal-claims government-contracting judicial-review standard-of-review termination-for-convenience Is an agency's termination for convenience of a contract for voluntary corrective action in response to the filing of a post-award bid protest in the …
20-7757 James L. Toliver v. Florida Florida 2021-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection harmless-error jury-instructions standard-of-review Whether similarly situated criminal defendants should be treated equally in pipeline cases where erroneous jury instructions have been given?
20-7724 John K. Wilson v. Rosemary Ndoh, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-standard de-novo-review due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea no-contest-plea plea-bargaining standard-of-review state-court-proceedings Whether a defendant is entitled to de novo review of a claim that his guilty plea was involuntary under the Fourteenth Amendment
20-7683 Paul Wesley Baker v. California California 2021-04-07 Denied IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-standard equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination standard-of-review What showing must a trial court make to demonstrate a 'sensitive inquiry' under Batson v. Kentucky?
20-7646 Kennis Earl Gatson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-04-01 Denied IFP actual-innocence district-court due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit habeas-corpus procedural-bar schlup-exception schlup-v-delo standard-of-review Did the Fifth Circuit err in deferring to the district court finding that petitioner's Schlup v. Delo exception to overcome the procedural bar was not…
20-7545 Tyrone Robinson v. Christopher Buesgen, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP evidentiary-hearing fact-reduction hearing-standard legal-standing plea-withdrawal post-conviction-relief procedural-rule sentencing standard-of-review standing state-court-jurisdiction Whether a defendant seeking to withdraw a plea after sentencing must prove a reasonable probability of acquittal or only a reasonable probability of a…
20-1322 Michael Neely v. The Boeing Company Ninth Circuit 2021-03-23 Denied Relisted (3) administrative-action administrative-law age-discrimination civil-rights dodd-frank due-process equal-protection sarbanes-oxley standard-of-review whistleblower-rights Do Whistleblowers have a right to the equality of standard review under law, when the adverse effect dismisses the entire causes of action?
20-7531 Baidehi L. Mukherjee v. The Childrens Mercy Hospital Eighth Circuit 2021-03-23 Denied IFP after-acquired-evidence appellate-review civil-procedure due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection hearsay-evidence jury-instructions standard-of-review summary-judgment Should the violation of Standard of Review for Summary Judgment be allowed to stand uncorrected?
20-7476 Jose Armondo Ramos Cabrera v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-appeal criminal-procedure defendant-objection due-process firearm-possession firearms fourth-circuit sentencing sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review two-level-enhancement Whether the court erred when it denied defendant's objection to the two level enhancement for possession of a firearm
20-7457 Mark Andrew Morris v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-circuit appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus judicial-standard merits-review standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent threshold-inquiry Did the United States Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit, use an improper and unduly burdensome Certificate of Appealability (COA) standard which conflicts…
20-1271 Daryl R. Blanton v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2021-03-12 Denied Response Waived 38-usc-5109a administrative-law clear-and-unmistakable-error clear-unmistakable-error due-process federal-circuit judicial-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation veterans-affairs veterans-benefits Is the Cook standard to establish CUE in a VA decision erroneously restrictive?
20-7408 Trystan Keun Napper v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-courts judicial-discretion legal-interpretation plain-error standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b) permits courts of appeals to grant appellate relief in the absence of error shown by binding preceden…
20-7409 Eduardo Pena-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure deference federal-courts judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors?
20-1256 Malcolm A. French v. United States First Circuit 2021-03-10 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure impartial-jury juror-bias juror-mendacity mcdonongh-test right-to-jury standard-of-review structural-error When a criminal defendant claims the structural error of deprivation of the right to trial by an impartial jury, is that claim appropriately reviewed …
20-1246 Anna Valentine, Warden v. Johnny Phillips Sixth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland credibility-determination district-court expert-witness federal-civil-procedure federal-habeas habeas-corpus standard-of-review Did the Sixth Circuit violate Fed. Rule Civ. P. 52(a)(6) when it failed to apply the proper, heightened and deferential standard to the district court…
20-7381 Larry Wilkerson v. United States District of Columbia 2021-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-conflict evidence-based-concerns juror-discharge legal-disagreement rule-23(b)(3) sixth-amendment standard-of-review trial-court-discretion voir-dire Whether the court should resolve the conflict in the circuits regarding the standard applicable to determining when the Sixth Amendment prohibits disc…
20-7343 Justin David Williams v. Utah Utah 2021-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence hearsay sixth-amendment standard-of-review witness-testimony Whether the court of appeals erred in its admission of the father's 911 call under the excited utterance exception to the hearsay rule
20-7306 Agustin Madrid, aka Augustin Madrid v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure case-preservation circuit-split criminal-procedure holguin-hernandez-v-united-states judicial-interpretation legal-objection preservation-of-error procedural-unreasonableness sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review Whether Holguin-Hernandez v. United States is relevant to the objections necessary to preserve claims of procedural unreasonableness
20-7310 Derrick Arnold Johnson v. Raybon C. Johnson, Jr., Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus standard-of-review Did the Ninth Circuit misapply the standard for the issuance of a certificate of appealability (COA) articulated by this Court in cases such
20-7293 Willie Safford v. Florida Florida 2021-03-02 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation defense-counsel due-process ineffective-assistance jury-instructions lesser-included-offense mitigating-evidence post-conviction-relief right-to-counsel sentencing-phase standard-of-review Whether the defendant has a right to a jury instruction on a lesser-included offense when requested by defense counsel at the end of the defendant's t…
20-1196 Benjamin McClellan v. Ohio Ohio 2021-03-01 Denied 5th-amendment confession-suppression constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility involuntary-confession motion-to-suppress police-interrogation standard-of-review Whether the denial of petitioner's Motion to Suppress his confession was proper
20-1181 Kyle Stephen Thompson v. Maryland Maryland 2021-02-25 Denied Response Waived de-novo-review evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment franks-hearing franks-v-delaware materiality-prong probable-cause search-warrant standard-of-review When a court considers a request for a Franks hearing by excising the challenged statements in the warrant application, does the court review the rema…
20-7256 James Timothy Cobb v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court fourth-circuit motion-to-suppress pretrial-motion search-and-seizure standard-of-review Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Appellant's pretrial motion to…
20-7239 Hung Linh Hoang v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-02-24 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit reasonable-probability standard-of-review Is the Ninth Circuit's denial of a COA on Hoang's ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim contrary to this Court's jurisprudence?
20-1147 Thomas Jefferson Smallwood v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied certificate-of-appealability compulsory-process confrontation confrontation-clause fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-review Should a certificate of appealability issue
20-7199 Maurice Duncan Burks v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure motion-for-new-trial new-trial standard-of-review trial-court-discretion witness-credibility Whether Using a Different, More Stringent, Standard of Review When a Trial Court Grants a Motion for New Trial than Utilized When a Trial Court Denies…
20-7200 Michael Burciaga v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa criminal-procedure due-process gang-evidence habeas-corpus jackson-v-virginia ninth-circuit premeditation standard-of-review Whether the Ninth Circuit clearly erred in upholding the state court's finding of premeditation under Jackson v. Virginia
20-1134 John Myers v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison Seventh Circuit 2021-02-19 Denied Response Waived appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-defense ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis standard-of-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Seventh Circuit erred by holding, in conflict with at least four other courts of appeals, that to establish prejudice under Strickland v. …
20-7168 Loren Joel McReynolds v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review base-offense-level criminal-procedure firearms-offense reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review ussg-2k2.1 Whether the court's calculation of McReynolds' base offense level was erroneous?
20-1106 Jane Doe v. Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc., et al. First Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied administrative-record circuit-split de-novo-review erisa-benefits evidence material-dispute standard-of-review summary-judgment Whether, on de novo consideration of an ERISA benefits claim, summary judgment must be denied if there is a genuine dispute of material fact
20-6997 Joe D. Bryan v. Texas Texas 2021-01-29 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-punishment due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review substantive-due-process Does the criminal punishment of an innocent person violate the Substantive Due Process Clause of the Constitution?
20-1020 Donald Chimaobi Okoro v. Texas Texas 2021-01-28 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion appellate-review due-process fact-finding findings-of-fact judicial-review legal-contradiction procedural-error standard-of-review trial-court trial-court-findings Does an Appellate Court fail to provide meaningful appellate review when it adopts a Trial Court's findings of fact when those findings contradict the…
20-1032 Petrobras America Incorporated, et al. v. Vantage Deepwater Company, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Response Waived arbitral-award arbitration circuit-split de-novo-review enforcement international-conventions new-york-convention panama-convention public-policy standard-of-review Whether United States courts should review de novo an arbitrator's conclusions on issues of law or mixed questions of law and fact bearing on the ulti…
20-6957 Alfred Paul Centofanti, III v. Dwight W. Neven, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split collateral-order district-court habeas habeas-corpus interim-release interlocutory-appeal ninth-circuit standard-of-review Is a district court's order granting or denying an interim release motion in a habeas case an appealable collateral order?
20-6971 Jason Alfred Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure plain-reasonableness revocation-of-supervised-release revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether the court of appeals erred in reviewing the district court's sentence for plain reasonableness
20-6927 Anthony Freeney v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553a audio-recordings criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency jail-phone-calls jury-instructions jury-verdict sentencing standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Was the evidence insufficient to sustain the jury's guilty verdict?
20-988 Barry Smith, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale, et al. v. Aaron Edmunds Tyson Third Circuit 2021-01-25 Denied accomplice-liability aedpa aedpa-review benefit-of-the-doubt cullen-v-pinholster due-process habeas-corpus jury-instructions standard-of-review Whether the review required under AEDPA § 2254 and Cullen v. Pinholster, 563 U.S. 170 (2011) is violated by reliance upon a 'some ambiguity' standard …
20-964 Orien L. Tulp v. Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates, et al. Third Circuit 2021-01-22 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure evidence-standard genuine-issue-for-trial judicial-review motion-for-summary-judgment non-movant-evidence non-movant-inference standard-of-review summary-judgment tolan-v-cotton Did the lower Court fail to adhere to the axiom that in ruling on a motion for summary judgment 'the evidence of the non-movant is to be believed and …
20-6827 Abdul Majid v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review deference-to-lower-court fourth-amendment marijuana-legalization motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure standard-of-review vehicle-search warrantless-search Whether the Court of Appeals can override the District Court's factual findings and expand the scope of a warrantless search
20-6883 Christopher Brent Garner v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process federal-authority jury-trial legal-error sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review supervised-release trial-by-jury Whether 18 U.S.C. §3583(g) unconstitutionally deprives federal supervised releasees of the right to trial by jury?
20-6860 Antonia W. Shields v. United States Second Circuit 2021-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1915 28-usc-453 civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection judicial-review pro-se-litigation standard-of-review Does the federal government give unequal rights to a free U.S. citizen and the U.S. Constitution when the judiciary requires a different standard of r…
20-6842 Christine D'Onofrio v. Costco Wholesale Corporation Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure legal-sufficiency rule-50b-motion seventh-amendment standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-precedent Whether the majority opinion in affirming the grant of a Fed. R. Civ. P. 50(b) motion failed to apply the correct standard of review, and under the co…
20-891 American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc. v. Neapco Holdings LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied CVSGAmici (11)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) 35-usc-101 alice-v-cls claim-construction judicial-exception judicial-exceptions patent-eligibility patent-ineligibility patent-law standard-of-review two-step-framework What is the appropriate standard for determining patent eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101?
20-6765 Kevin Wayne Dickson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied IFP appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process expert-witness ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-sufficiency standard-of-review state-court-review Whether the Fifth Court of Appeal committed error in concluding that the appellant's ineffective assistance of counsel claim could not be reviewed on …
20-873 Herman Miller, Inc. v. Blumenthal Distributing, Inc., dba Office Star Ninth Circuit 2020-12-31 Denied civil-procedure household-name jury-trial standard-of-review trade-dress trademark Whether the appellate court improperly substituted its own factual findings in place of a jury verdict
20-875 Sok Kong, Trustee for Next of Kin of Map Kong, Decedent v. City of Burnsville, Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-12-31 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review circuit-split district-court genuine-issue-of-material-fact interlocutory-appeal material-fact qualified-immunity standard-of-review summary-judgment Whether, on interlocutory review of a denial of qualified-immunity, an appellate court may reject a district court's determination of a genuine-issue-…
20-6721 Monwell Dwight Booth v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights district-court fourth-amendment legal-standard search-and-seizure standard-of-review Whether the court erred in affirming the district court's decision that petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights were not violated?
20-6732 Adams Joel Forty-Febres v. United States First Circuit 2020-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence-insufficiency first-circuit judicial-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence Whether Evidence was Totally Insufficient for the Conviction to Fairly Stand
20-857 Dale L. Miesen v. John D. Munding, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-29 Denied circuit-split corporate-governance demand-letter derivative-action derivative-actions diversity-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure pleading-requirements rule-23.1 standard-of-review Whether the plaintiff in a derivative action must plead and prove the adequacy of its derivative demand letter
20-6680 Darryl Taylor v. Timothy E. Buchanan, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jackson-v-virginia standard-of-review standing sufficiency-of-evidence Whether federal judges should safeguard the constitutional right to a full and fair opportunity for consideration in state courts
20-6647 Douglas Charles Knicely v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court fourth-circuit motion-to-suppress pretrial-motion search-and-seizure standard-of-review Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Appellants' pretrial motion to…
20-6615 Cornell McHenry v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-12-11 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review witness-testimony Did the 11th Circuit err in deferring to the State Court finding that Mr. McHenry was not prejudiced by trial counsel's conflict of interest and failu…
20-6577 Victor Mondragon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility appellate-review criminal-sentencing district-court downward-adjustment federal-jurisdiction panel-review standard-of-review Did the district court err by denying Mr. Mondragon a three-level downward adjustment for acceptance of responsibility?
20-6568 Francisco Javier Gonzalez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-circuit court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process legal-review procedural-question remand standard-of-review supreme-court united-states-v-penn Whether this Court should remand to the court below in light of United States v. Penn
20-6517 Elvis Basic v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-quantity federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether a federal district court must use the 'err on the side of caution' principle when approximating the drug quantity?
20-769 GS Cleantech Corporation, et al. v. Adkins Energy LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-12-04 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure de-novo-review federal-circuit patent patent-act patent-law standard-of-review summary-judgment Whether the Federal Circuit, in cases arising under the Patent Act, may depart from the uniform rule of the other Circuit Courts that an issue resolve…
20-6504 Carolyn Barnes v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-authority delegated-authority due-process ex-post-facto fundamental-rights judicial-review motion-to-recuse recusal retaliation standard-of-review Whether it violates due process to ignore a Motion to Recuse and apply the wrong standard of review
20-6471 Israel Washington v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure court-standard due-process judicial-discretion legal-standard standard-of-review testimony-readback trial-procedure Whether the district court abused its discretion in denying a request for the readback of testimony
20-745 Ismael Lechuga v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) abuse-of-discretion circuit-split due-process federal-procedure fifth-circuit impartiality judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal sentencing sentencing-procedure standard-of-review Whether federal circuit courts should review the denial of a motion to recuse a district judge under 28 U.S.C. § 455(a) de novo or for an abuse of dis…
20-749 Kathy Roux v. Dennis Pharris, et al. Texas 2020-12-01 Denied appellate-review attorney-fees civil-procedure due-process factual-analysis legal-analysis sanctions standard-of-review state-law trial-court-sanctions Whether the Tenth Court of Appeals for the State of Texas failed to apply the proper standard of review and perform the correct factual and legal anal…
20-6468 Kinzey Shaw v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure drug-quantity evidence sentencing standard-of-review Whether there was sufficient foundation to support the District Court's drug quantity approximation?
20-6473 Jessica Arnold v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review district-court failure-to-address judicial-discretion mitigation procedural-error sentencing sentencing-mitigation standard-of-review trial-counsel What standard applies to appellate review of the appeal of a district court's failure to address arguments of counsel in mitigation of sentencing, whe…
20-6474 Pedro Fermin Barajas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors?
20-724 Donovan Middleton, et al. v. Complete Nutrition Franchising, LLC, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure dismissal-with-prejudice judicial-discretion motion-to-amend post-judgment-motion rule-12b6 rule-59e standard-of-review Should the standard of review in a Rule 59(e) post-judgment motion to amend following a dismissal with prejudice under Rule 12(b)(6) be clarified
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 …
20-6384 Owen McCants v. Steven Silva First Circuit 2020-11-19 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion appeals criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency federal-law-violation ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion judicial-review pretrial-procedure prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review Whether the trial court, appeals court, and Supreme Judicial Court abused their discretion?
20-692 Rosemary Webster, et al. v. Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc., aka Fresenius Medical Care North America Sixth Circuit 2020-11-19 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure bias civil-procedure due-process fundamental-rights impartial-tribunal judicial-bias prejudice standard-of-review tribunal-neutrality Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a judgment that violated the Petitioner's fundamental rights by supporting an opinion that (I) rep…
20-6327 Terry Charles Carroll v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plea-bargaining standard-of-review supervisory-powers supreme-court Whether the standard of review on a motion to withdraw a guilty plea conflicts with Supreme Court precedent
20-656 Robert Kinghorn, et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2020-11-13 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction intervention intervention-standard judicial-discretion motion-to-intervene procedural-motion standard-of-review What is the correct legal standard of review for determining a Motion to Intervene as of right as well as a Motion to Permissively Intervene when the …
20-6246 Adam Joseph Bogema v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 advisory-guidelines appellate-review criminal-sentencing mental-illness sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness unwarranted-disparity Whether this Court should provide some guidance to the appellate courts on the proper evaluation of a within guidelines sentence vis-a-vis 18 U.S.C. §…
20-6213 J. Santos Mondragon-Benitez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-authority imprisonment-revocation plain-error reasonableness reasonableness-standard revocation sentencing-review standard-of-review supervised-release Whether sentences of imprisonment following the revocation of supervised release should be reviewed for reasonableness or plain unreasonableness?
20-6226 Carlos Maez v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure judicial-proceedings jury-instructions jury-verdict olano-standard plain-error plain-error-test sixth-amendment standard-of-review Whether a conviction following incorrect jury instructions, failure of the petit jury to make a finding on an essential element of a crime, and an app…
20-6209 Louis Sanders v. Charles Williams, Jr., Warden Fourth Circuit 2020-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus miller-el-standard slack-v-mcdaniel standard-of-review threshold-inquiry Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in denying a certificate of appealability, in conflict with this Court's decisions in Miller-El and Slack v. McDaniel
20-6196 Mark Xavier Wallace v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-evidence criminal-procedure district-court-procedure due-process evidence fourth-circuit-review hearsay hearsay-testimony standard-of-review Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in admitting inadmissible and prejudicial hearsay testimony
20-570 Daniel Cvijanovich v. United States Secret Service Eighth Circuit 2020-10-30 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights criminal-prosecution foia-exemptions freedom-of-information-act judicial-review law-enforcement-exemption law-enforcement-monitoring secret-service-records standard-of-review Does FOIA-exemption-(b)(7)(A)-apply-to-monitoring-of-individual
20-6176 Brandon J. Weathers v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit 2020-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se pro-se-representation right-to-counsel standard-of-justice standard-of-review Did the Court of Appeals correctly apply the 'interests of justice' standard to the Petitioner's substitution of counsel claim where the trial court m…
20-6162 Frank Trujillo v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-10-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process elements-of-offense federal-courts guilty-plea plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness rehaif-v-united-states standard-of-review Whether a defendant's guilty plea was knowing and voluntary when the defendant was not informed of an element of the offense
20-6094 Sean Alonzo Bush v. Florida Florida 2020-10-22 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency florida-supreme-court legal-precedent precedent standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Florida Supreme Court denied the petitioner due process
20-6083 John Oliver Wooten v. Patrick Warren, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP deference factual-error federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-review sixth-amendment sixth-circuit standard-of-review state-court state-courts Is a state court decision entitled to deference on federal habeas review if it is undisputed that the state court applied the wrong standard of review…
20-6087 Tana Chris Lawrence v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-disparity standard-of-review Whether the Ninth Circuit's methodology for denying a COA is out of step with Supreme Court directive
20-502 Ken Mascara, in His Official Capacity as Sheriff of St. Lucie County, Florida, et al. v. Viola Bryant, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Gregory Vaughn Hill, Jr. Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied civil-police-liability civil-rights due-process evidence evidence-admissibility harmless-error judicial-review police-liability probation probationary-status rules-of-evidence standard-of-review Whether the Court should adopt a more flexible standard of admissibility of evidence than Huddleston v. U.S. under Rules 403 and 404(b) in civil polic…
20-6053 Dieter Riechmann v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 appellate-standard circuit-split evidence evidence-review federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus standard-of-review state-court-determination statutory-interpretation Is a state court's conclusion that evidence not presented at trial was cumulative of other evidence before the jury a 'determination of the facts' tha…
20-6030 Byron A. Wyatt v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure evidentiary-sufficiency interest-of-justice interests-of-justice material-evidence newly-discovered-evidence rule-33 standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-standard Whether F.R.Crim.P. Rule 33's standard for granting a new trial based on newly discovered evidence 'if the interest of justice so requires' cannot be …
20-6040 Charlie Bell Bullock v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied IFP capital-punishment confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence professional-norms sentencing-phase sixth-amendment standard-of-review victim-rights Does the Confrontation Clause require a victim to be made available for cross-examination if pictures of them are submitted, and is counsel ineffectiv…
20-5909 David Conerly v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-10-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court evidence evidence-review judicial-review ninth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Did the Ninth Circuit err by mining the district record to uphold an upward adjustment to petitioner's offense level under the Sentencing Guidelines?
20-5889 In Re Jesus Anaya 2020-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP adversarial-testing certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights constructive-denial-of-counsel criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel slack-standard standard-of-review Whether trial and appellate counsel's inadequate representation constituted constructive denial of counsel
20-5864 Peter George Noe v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability circuit-split civil-procedure federal-appellate-procedure federal-courts finality habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction standard-of-review standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of appellate jurisdiction
20-5832 Damon Graham v. United States First Circuit 2020-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process expectation-of-privacy habeas-corpus k-9-search sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review warrantless-search Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit abused its discretion by improperly denying Petitioner a certificate of appealability
20-378 North Cypress Medical Center Operating Company, Ltd., et al. v. Cigna Healthcare, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied administrative-discretion benefits-denial circuit-split conflicts-of-interest employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa firestone-analysis judicial-review standard-of-review totality-of-factors Whether, in reviewing an ERISA administrator's benefits denial, it is automatically dispositive that 'two other courts' upheld the administrator's int…
20-5782 Harold Warren v. Indiana Indiana 2020-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-prong sixth-amendment standard-of-review stare-decisis strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Indiana Court of Appeals' precedent has set the bar for the Strickland v. Washington prejudice prong too high
20-5783 Chia Jean Lee v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review chapman-v-california circuit-split constitutional-standard criminal-procedure deliberate-indifference harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions standard-of-review Whether the Fifth Circuit should apply the Chapman beyond a reasonable doubt standard rather than the substantial evidence standard to consider the ha…
20-5750 Chester Alan Staples v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-09-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit err in denying my motion (Stanles) for a Certificate of Appealability?
20-5759 Charles C. Williamson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP accomplice-liability criminal-procedure drug-quantity drug-weight judicial-interpretation relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether the district court and circuit court misinterpreted and misapplied the 'relevant conduct' provisions of United States Sentencing Commission, G…
20-5730 Jimmie Butler v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review career-offender criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review Whether the district court's improper designation of the petitioner as a career offender was harmless error and whether the court of appeals improperl…
20-5742 David Tachay Heard v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied Relisted (3)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure cross-racial-identification due-process eyewitness-identification federal-standard jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error standard-of-review Should federal district courts be required to give a cautionary jury instruction, upon a defendant's request, to guide the jury's evaluation of eyewit…
20-5706 Mark Berg v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence evidence-review legal-determination standard-of-review suppression-hearing suppression-ruling When reviewing a suppression ruling on appeal, should the appellate court view the evidence in the light most favorable to the prevailing party or rev…
20-334 City of San Antonio, Texas, On Behalf of Itself and All Other Similarly Situated Texas Municipalities v. Hotels.com, L.P., et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-09-14 Judgment Issued Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-costs circuit-split civil-procedure cost-award discretion federal-rules judicial-discretion procedural-interpretation standard-of-review Whether district courts lack discretion to deny or reduce appellate costs deemed taxable under Fed. R. App. P. 39(e)
20-5685 Ruben Sanchez v. Steven Silva, et al. First Circuit 2020-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenge pretext racial-discrimination standard-of-review Whether the prosecutor's peremptory challenge of Hispanic prospective jurors was justified
20-5692 Johnathon Nico Wise v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure error-preservation federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-circuit judgment-of-acquittal legal-motion preservation-of-error rule-29 standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether specific grounds must be identified in a Rule 29 motion for judgment of acquittal to preserve error?
20-5655 Casye Necole Richardson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors?
20-5660 Percy St. George v. Kevin Ransom, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claim court-of-appeals district-court due-process habeas-corpus legal-standard petition-review reasonable-jurist standard-of-review standing Whether reasonable jurist could debate the third circuit court of appeals adoption that the district court's ruling that appellant's petition does not…
20-5664 Marcus Hanserd v. Tony Trierweiler, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied IFP civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel relate-back relate-back-doctrine rule-15c sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-court-of-appeals standard-of-review Is there a conflict among the circuits as to the proper standard of review for Federal Rules Civil Procedure Rule 15(c), relate-back provision; does p…
20-5625 Ricky Williams v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus standard-of-review Whether the Court of Appeals employed the correct legal standard in determining that the Petitioner was not entitled to the issuance of a certificate …
20-5633 Darren M. Rowe v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-09-09 Denied IFP actual-innocence daubert-standard district-court due-process evidence-analysis expert-testimony habeas-corpus judicial-discretion legal-error new-evidence schlup-v-delo standard-of-review Whether the district court committed legal error when it determined that the newly presented evidence does not qualify for consideration under the act…
20-294 Lamont Kortez Gaines v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-09-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process equipoise evidence evidence-standard hobbs-act motion-for-acquittal standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether a trial court must grant a motion for acquittal when, in viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, the evidence pro…
20-5549 Javier Lopez-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review credibility-determination credibility-determinations fact-finding factual-issues federal-sentencing judicial-standard precedent reasonableness-review standard-of-review wrongful-incarceration Whether review for reasonableness in federal sentencing requires a separate, more deferential, standard of review for credibility determinations than …
20-5458 Fidel Alain Martin-Sosa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review clear-error criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-conspiracy methamphetamine mitigating-role role-adjustment sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Did the court of appeals err in holding that the district court's guidelines calculations did not constitute clear error where it denied a mitigating …
20-5533 Gayle McNamara v. United States First Circuit 2020-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review criminal-history district-court-error downward-variance judicial-discretion offense-level sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Should the petitioner's appeal be reinstated?
20-5494 Ernest Ray Snow v. Indiana Indiana 2020-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception search-warrant standard-of-review Does United State v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897 (1984), permit an appellate standard of review that requires an appellant to raise and rebut the applicability…
20-5453 Jose Luis Sanchez-Rosado v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-24 Denied Relisted (3)IFP appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-error criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit harmless-error involuntary-plea plea-bargaining plea-colloquy standard-of-review Whether an unconstitutional conviction based on a plea colloquy that omitted an element of the offense must be reversed where the defendant objected t…
20-5424 Alfred Lee Hanzy, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing fourth-circuit gall-precedent gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether the Fourth Circuit's decision is in conflict with the Court's decision in Gall v. United States, 552 U.S. 38 (2007)
20-5433 Gregory Wind v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-deference circuit-split deference district-court federal-courts-of-appeals federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Did the district court impose a substantively unreasonable sentence upon Mr. Wind?
20-5383 Dennis Marc Grigsby v. Dwight Neven, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-amendments due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction post-conviction-writ procedural-due-process standard-of-review state-court-proceedings Did the state district court failure to certify its grant of motion for reconsideration affect the course of proceedings and factor into the Nevada Su…
20-5356 Jabarr Ryeheine Rudolph v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-08-14 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility appeal cocaine-base criminal-appeal criminal-procedure drug-weight due-process obstruction-of-justice sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether the circuit court of appeals erred in the assessment of a two point enhancement against the appellant for obstruction of justice
20-5358 David Fuentes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-remand criminal-procedure davis-precedent davis-v-united-states habeas-corpus judicial-reconsideration legal-standard reasonable-probability reconsideration standard-of-review supreme-court-review Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light of…
20-5361 Luis Torres-Marquez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-sentencing discretion gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether the sentencing court meaningfully exercised its discretion in applying the guidelines
20-134 Abilio Hernandez, et al. v. Jason Boles, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-08-07 Denied appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law due-process fourth-amendment jury-deference jury-instructions standard-of-review traffic-stop warrant-check Should a federal appellate court grant deference to a jury's conclusions of law about constitutional issues in a civil rights lawsuit?
20-5293 Stanley P. Bates v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion circuit-split criminal-sentencing position-of-trust position-of-trust-enhancement procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review When reviewing the interpretation of the 'position of trust' enhancement under Sentencing Guideline §3B1.3, does a court of appeals apply a de novo st…
20-5298 Rodney A. Smith v. Susan Barker, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-08-06 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals de-novo frivolous frivolous-complaint informa-pauperis judicial-discretion standard-of-review Whether dismissal of informa pauperis complaint as frivolous is properly reviewed for abuse of discretion and it wass error for court of appeals to re…
20-5258 Nikole Marie Hunter v. Government Employees Insurance Company Fourth Circuit 2020-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP anderson-v-liberty-lobby civil-procedure evidence evidence-interpretation expert-witness judicial-function procedural-rules standard-of-review summary-judgment supreme-court-precedent tolan-v-cotton Whether the District Court failed to review evidence and ignored expert witness testimony in conflict with Supreme Court precedent on summary judgment…
20-5216 Brent Anderson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-30 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure davis-v-united-states fact-review federal-rule-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure gvr judicial-procedure plain-error questions-of-fact standard-of-review Are questions of fact cognizable on plain error review under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b)?
20-5223 Jorge Madrid-Uriarte v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-precedent court-decision criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-review legal-standard precedent reasonable-probability reconsideration remand sentencing standard-of-review Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light of…
20-5151 Antoine Reed v. Daniel Paramo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appointed-counsel clear-error compulsory-process credibility federal-district-court material-witness police-manipulation procedural-bar standard-of-review state-law state-law-error Did the federal district court commit clear error when it deemed the Reed's properly presented 28 USC section 2254 compulsory process violation claim …
20-49 Peter N. Myma v. Wendy A. Wroe Indiana 2020-07-20 Denied child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection family family-law liberty-interest parental-rights scrutiny-standard standard-of-review Whether joint child custody is a constitutionally protected, rebuttable presumption of equal rights
20-5105 David Scott Temple v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea louisiana-constitution plea-bargaining sixth-amendment standard-of-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Was Mr. Temple denied effective assistance of counsel?
20-5073 Gilberto Martinez-Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure clear-error evidentiary-errors harmless-error judicial-review judicial-standard legal-sufficiency standard-of-review Whether the court of appeals committed clear error by concluding that significant evidentiary errors were harmless
20-5007 Anthony Ray Foley v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review appellate-standard booker-standard circuit-split due-process federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review supervised-release Is the 'reasonableness' standard or the 'plainly unreasonable' standard the proper standard for appellate review of a sentence imposed upon revocation…
20-5014 Darwin Josue Peralta v. North Carolina North Carolina 2020-07-09 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence jury-instructions legal-standards right-to-present-defense standard-of-review Whether the trial court erred and violated Mr. Pecoraro's rights to present a complete defense by prohibiting him from introducing Doris Murillo's and…
19-1471 Jessica Lynn Tkacz v. Daniel G. Bogden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-08 Denied Response Waived administrative-law due-process evidentiary-standard. immigration standard-of-review administrative-law administrative-review burden-of-proof due-process evidence-standard immigration immigration-law judicial-review marriage-fraud standard-of-review Is the deferential 'substantial evidence' standard employed by federal courts to review decisions of the Board of Immigration Appeals fundamentally in…
19-1472 Phillip Antonio Davis v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2020-07-08 Denied character-evidence conspiracy conspiracy-theory criminal-defense criminal-procedure-evidence-admissibility due-process evidence-exclusion excessive-force jackson-v-virginia judicial-review relevance right-to-present-defense standard-of-review trial-procedure Whether the exclusion of evidence deemed necessary by Petitioner to present a complete defense and to combat the State's theory of guilt could be rati…
19-8900 Jeffrey Chleo Brown v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-06 Denied IFP appellate-preservation circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court-procedure factual-dispute factual-objection legal-sufficiency preservation-of-appeal procedural-error sentencing sentencing-objection standard-of-review Is a factual objection at sentencing sufficient to preserve for appeal the district court's failure to resolve the ensuing dispute?
19-1448 Excel Modular Scaffold & Leasing Company, dba Excel Scaffold & Leasing v. Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-07-01 Denied Response Waived administrative-law affirmative-defense civil-procedure due-process impossibility-doctrine judicial-review occupational-safety osha regulatory-compliance standard-of-review waiver Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) err in ruling that Excel Modular Scaffold & Leasin…
19-1426 Paul Pecina v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Third Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure fraud fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-proceeding judicial-review standard-of-review supervisory-powers third-circuit third-circuit-court-of-appeals united-states-v-sierra-pacific-industries Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the lower Western District Court of Pennsylvania depart from the accepted and usual course of judicial proc…
19-8784 Chester Brown v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-proceedings due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lower-court motion-denial standard-of-review Did the lower court err when it denied petitioner's motion for certificate of appealability?
19-8754 Francisco Armando Martinez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-06-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split consensual-encounter district-court fourth-amendment law-enforcement motion-to-suppress reasonable-suspicion standard-of-review suppression Whether an appellate court must uphold the ruling of the district court if there is any reasonable view of the evidence to support it where the distri…
19-8743 Jeremiah Lee Guerra v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-precedent court-decision criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-instruction legal-review precedent reasonable-probability reconsideration remand sentencing standard-of-review Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light of…
19-8734 In Re Ren Y. Deng 2020-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure district-court genuine-issue jurisdictional-review material-fact material-facts procedural-rule procedural-rules standard-of-review summary-judgment Did the district court deviation from procedural rule while there was overwhelming genuine issue of material fact disputed in the record granting the …
19-1372 Angel M. Ayala-Vazquez v. United States First Circuit 2020-06-12 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial fifth-amendment judicial-proceedings perjured-testimony sixth-amendment standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent writ-of-certiorari Whether the lower courts circumvented the standard of review for issuing a certificate of appealability
19-8670 Rosalio Ramos Tapia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-precedent court-decision criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-review legal-standard precedent reasonable-probability reconsideration remand sentencing standard-of-review Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light of…
19-8653 Jose Heriberto Ramirez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-standards criminal-procedure due-process independent-review judicial-review legal-principles sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether independent review is an obligation for the lower court and the appellate court to maintain control of and to clarify the legal principles in …
19-8658 Garian King v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP __U.S.__ 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020). court-reconsideration criminal-procedure harmless-error holguin-hernandez judicial-review lower-court-decision precedent reasonable-probability reconsideration remand sentencing standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light of…
19-8623 Joshua Charles Lovell Moseley v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-06-09 Denied IFP burglary criminal-conviction criminal-procedure dominion-control double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection federalism grand-larceny reasonable-doubt standard-of-review totality-principle When two state courts arrive at different conclusions using different governing legal principles on the same case, should the petitioner be given a re…
19-8625 Dedric Davis v. Florida Florida 2020-06-05 Denied IFP appeal criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judgment-of-acquittal legal-standard motion petitioner standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-court Whether the trial court erred in not granting petitioner's motion for judgment of acquittal
19-8603 Melvin P. White, Jr. v. Internal Revenue Service Fourth Circuit 2020-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-docket-entry civil-procedure constitutional-challenge district-court-procedure federal-court-jurisdiction magistrate-judge magistrate-judge-review notice-and-certification procedural-standards record-keeping standard-of-review Did the U.S. District Court fail to enter a petition for review by the Supreme Court, causing the exclusion of a prior order for money owed in the civ…
19-1333 Monster Energy Company, fka Hansen Beverage Company v. City Beverages LLC, dba Olympic Eagle Distributing Ninth Circuit 2020-06-02 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived arbitration arbitration-award arbitration-awards bias circuit-split commonwealth-coatings disclosure disclosure-requirements disclosure-rule evident-partiality federal-arbitration-act judicial-standard standard standard-of-review What is the standard for determining 'evident partiality' under the Federal Arbitration Act?
19-8565 Christopher S. Andersen v. Jeri Taylor Ninth Circuit 2020-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review standard-of-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the test for granting a Certificate of Appealability in a habeas action on an ineffective assistance of trial counsel claim must incorporate t…
19-1302 David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections v. George Russell Kayer Ninth Circuit 2020-05-20 GVR Amici (1)Relisted (9) aedpa aedpa-standard comity de-novo-review federalism habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit rule-of-law sixth-amendment standard-of-review Did the Ninth Circuit violate 28 U.S.C. § 2254's deferential standard, and employ a flawed methodology this Court has repeatedly condemned, when it gr…
19-8503 Darieus Malik Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP administration-of-justice criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court fact-intensive-inquiry federal-criminal-cases fifth-circuit prostitution-enhancement review-standard sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Did the Fifth Circuit's cursory review of the district court's record lead to an illegal, unreasonable sentence
19-8486 Quincy Tremayne Bloodworth v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-05-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement marijuana-legalization police-encounter probable-cause search-and-seizure standard-of-review unreasonable-seizures Are minott ties and pool people in America provided adequate protection from unreasonable Searches and Seizures?
19-8390 Do Kyun Kim v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors?
19-8372 Abdul Hakiym Ismaiyl v. Donald C. Nugent Sixth Circuit 2020-04-28 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-court-review clearly-erroneous clearly-erroneous-standard factual-findings frivolous-claims in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion record-review standard-of-review Whether a Circuit court abdicates its duty by accepting clearly erroneous factual findings without reviewing the record
19-8306 Marcel Nwagu v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-04-19 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure collateral-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default rule-60-motion standard-of-review whether-petitioner-is-entitled-to-rule-60-b-6-relief
19-1230 Bobby Knight v. Chenega Security, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-04-18 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights contract-law dismissal due-process evidence motion-to-dismiss pro-se-litigation qui-tam qui-tam-action standard-of-review standing whistleblower-protection Did the court below fail to use an appropriate standard of review when granting all the dismissal motions without recognizing the petitioner's evidenc…
19-8261 Sean Ath v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-sufficiency judicial-standard standard-of-review substantial-evidence sufficiency-of-evidence united-states-v-rahseparian Whether the United States Court of Appeals properly applied the 'substantial evidence' test in concluding there was sufficient evidence to affirm Peti…
19-8128 Bobby Joe Buckner v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-03-27 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-circuit implied-bias standard-of-review Did the Fifth Circuit err in its application of the implied bias doctrine by stating that this case is outside the 'extreme genre of cases' to warrant…
19-8106 Salvador Arteaga Aragon v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review conspiracy court-of-appeals criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency judicial-review petitioner standard-of-review Whether the court of appeals erred in finding sufficient evidence to sustain petitioner's conspiracy conviction
19-1165 Chuck Willis v. Tower Loan of Mississippi, LLC Fifth Circuit 2020-03-24 Denied arbitration arbitration-agreement arbitrator-selection baseline-intent-to-arbitrate circuit-split contract-formation contract-interpretation definite-agreement gorsuch-dissent intent-to-arbitrate meeting-of-minds meeting-of-the-minds standard-of-review Whether the parties entered into a sufficiently definite agreement to arbitrate despite multiple discrepancies between the arbitration agreements
19-1163 Bernard Rottschaefer v. United States Third Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response Waived appeals collateral-estoppel court-of-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy drug-distribution due-process judicial-deference judicial-review jurisdiction medical-professional precedent standard-of-review substantial-question May the District Court overrule the previous unanimous Court of Appeals decision in the same case?
19-8056 Brian Alan Matalka v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP administration-of-justice criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure federal-statutes fifth-circuit-review indigency indigent-status plain-error plain-error-review special-assessment standard-of-review Did the Fifth Circuit's cursory review of the district court record reached the wrong conclusion that Matalka was not indigent under the standard pros…
19-8065 Reinaldo Vasquez-Rivera v. United States First Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review district-court-discretion guidelines-range procedural-reasonableness sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness supervised-release Whether the district court abused its discretion in imposing an above-Guidelines sentence without adequately addressing the defendant's arguments for …
19-8066 Silvestre Lara-Cervantes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-remand criminal-procedure harmless-error holguin-hernandez judicial-review precedent reasonable-probability reconsideration remand sentencing standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light of…
19-8073 Kenneth Baker v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied IFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure standard-of-review statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent third-circuit Whether the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit rendered a decision in conflict with the law of the United States Supreme Court announced in Barefo…
19-1156 Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General v. Cesar Alcaraz-Enriquez Ninth Circuit 2020-03-20 Judgment Issued administrative-adjudication administrative-law appellate-procedure appellate-review credibility credibility-determination due-process immigration-law judicial-review standard-of-review withholding-of-removal Whether a court of appeals may conclusively presume an applicant's testimony is credible and true whenever an immigration judge or the Board of Immigr…
19-8020 Walter Freeman Jordan, III v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting criminal-procedure evidence-admission federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence fifth-circuit harmless-error hearsay hearsay-evidence standard-of-review Did the admission of the unrefuted inadmissible hearsay evidence constitute harmful error
19-1119 Sauk Prairie Conservation Alliance v. Department of the Interior, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-03-13 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-services arbitrary-and-capricious environmental-policy federal-property federal-property-and-administrative-services-act military-helicopter-training military-training national-environmental-policy-act national-park-service recreation secretary-of-the-interior standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Did the Seventh Circuit err in concluding that the National Park Service's approval of military helicopter training exercises on property conveyed for…
19-1124 Chrimar Systems, Inc., dba CMS Technologies, Inc., et al. v. Ale USA Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2020-03-13 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) administrative-agency administrative-law administrative-review article-iii-court article-iii-courts article-iii-jurisdiction damages damages-judgment executive-branch-decision federal-circuit finality finality-standard patent-infringement patent-law-finality patent-trial-and-appeal-board patent-validity standard-of-review Whether the Federal Circuit may apply a finality standard for patent cases that conflicts with the standard applied by this Court and all other circui…
19-7956 Molly Tsai v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs First Circuit 2020-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion circuit-court civil-rights comparator-evidence employment-discrimination evidence-exclusion evidentiary-standards judicial-discretion minority-rights probationary-period standard-of-review Did the First Circuit Judge err and abuse her discretion in excluding evidence concerning a minority employee terminated during her probationary perio…
19-7988 Junior Jean Baptiste v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence harmless-error hearsay hearsay-standard standard-of-review Where hearsay, consisting of an inculpatory, out-of-court statement made other than to law enforcement, is erroneously introduced to the defendant's p…
19-7993 Thomas Victor Sway v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review certificate-of-appealability conclusory-order conflict-of-interest discretionary-review due-process equitable-tolling precedent procedural-due-process standard-of-review strickland-standard When denial of COA was made in conclusory order without any precedent to rely on and there exists no sufficient basis for appellate court to review, w…
19-7957 Damar D. Ruffin v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence evidence-law jury-instruction jury-trial reversible-error sentencing standard-of-review Whether the court of appeals committed reversible error in determining the amount of a controlled substance
19-1105 Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden v. Jimmy Dean Harris Tenth Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied death-penalty death-penalty-appeal deference-to-state-courts deferential-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability standard-of-review Whether the Tenth Circuit contravened Supreme Court precedent in holding that the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals made an unreasonable determinatio…
19-7922 Scott L. Rendelman v. William True, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-03-10 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appeals appellate-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals docketing-fee due-process legal-fees non-frivolous-appeal prison prison-discipline prisoner-rights standard-of-review standing Whether 'some evidence' is required to support a finding on every element of a prison disciplinary offense, or if 'some evidence' supporting any singl…
19-7857 Chance Dechristian Adams v. Minnesota Minnesota 2020-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky circuit-split equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strike peremptory-strikes pretext prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination standard-of-review When a peremptory strike of a prospective juror is challenged under Batson v. Kentucky, must the reviewing court examine each proffered reason for the…
19-7845 Omar Weise v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process habeas-corpus standard-of-review standing Did the Circuit apply an improper, too demanding, and unduly burdensome COA standard? Should a COA be granted in this case?
19-1071 Gerald Claude Carlson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-28 Denied Response Waived circuit-split counsel-of-choice criminal-procedure delay due-process inconvenience judicial-discretion motion-to-terminate right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-review supervisory-powers Whether the Carlson Court's Memorandum Opinion conflicts with other Ninth Circuit opinions
19-7812 Lajbar Lajaward Khan v. United States Second Circuit 2020-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP clearly-erroneous criminal-procedure declaration district-court drug-quantity drug-weight fatico-hearing objections probation-office role-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether the District Court's findings as to drug weight and role were clearly erroneous
19-7800 Donald Sheman Bush v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion circuit-split de-novo de-novo-review evidence-admissibility evidence-rule-404b evidentiary-rules federal-rules-of-evidence-404(b) legal-interpretation other-acts rule-404b standard-of-review Whether evidence falls within Rule 404(b)
19-7779 Freddy Garcia v. Texas Texas 2020-02-26 Denied IFP constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process due-process,criminal-procedure,constitutional-erro harmless-error indictment indictment-variance jury-conviction jury-trial standard-of-review When a defendant is convicted of an offense for which he was not indicted, and has preserved the issues of constitutional error, what factors should a…
19-7681 Howard Aron Washington, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-02-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines appellate-review criminal-sentencing gall-v-new-jersey guideline-departure procedural-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness rosales-mireles Rosales-Mireles-v-United-States sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether the district court's methodology in imposing a substantial guideline departure was inconsistent with this Court's decision in Gall v. New Jers…
19-7685 Dominic Lindsey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-18 GVR IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure factual-determination factual-errors federal-rule-criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-error plain-error plain-error-review precedent sentencing standard-of-review Does plain-error review under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b) include factual errors?
19-7671 Daquan Ossie Bradley v. Minnesota Minnesota 2020-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-law court-trial due-process judicial-review standard-of-review structural-error sullivan-v-louisiana trial-procedure Whether a court-trial verdict that is based on a constitutionally-deficient burden of proof is structural error under Sullivan v. Louisiana, 508 U.S. …
19-7593 Young Yi v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure document-production due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct restitution standard-of-review Whether the government violated its Brady obligations by producing voluminous documents without identifying one document as Brady material
19-7585 Jerry Ellis, aka Jerry Leonard Ellis v. Noel Barlow-Hurst, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-standard post-conviction standard-of-review standing trial-procedure Whether the district court erred in denying the appellant's claim of ineffective assistance of first instance trial counsel
19-980 Ariana M. v. Humana Health Plan of Texas, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) attorney-fees beneficiary-rights civil-rights employee-benefits erisa fee-award health-plan judicial-review legal-success legal-victory standard-of-review Whether a beneficiary achieves 'some success on the merits' for purposes of a fee award under ERISA Section 502(g)(1) when she obtains a significant l…
19-7492 Inger L. Jensen v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 abuse-of-discretion evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-28-usc-2255 harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standard-of-review Whether the district court erred in denying an evidentiary hearing on petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 claim
19-7427 Rodolfo Perez-Jimenez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure deference due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors?
19-7440 Alan Strattan v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-U.S.C-2253 28-usc-2253 basis-for-denying-relief certificate-of-appealability circuit-court district-court habeas habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason merits-of-claims standard-of-review Whether a petitioner seeking the issuance of a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253 is required to demonstrate that jurists of reason w…
19-7365 Tyrone Terrance Roberts v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure post-conviction-relief standard-of-review Has the lower tribunal court denied Roberts due process and departed from the essential requirements of the law in denying him relief following his di…
19-7331 Lavorice Dondrell Cunningham v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion legal-standard pending-resolution remand sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness What is the appropriate standard for the determination of substantive reasonableness claim?
19-7273 Pablo Rodriguez-Palomino v. Illinois Illinois 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-sexual-assault due-process essential-elements fourteenth-amendment jackson-v-virginia rational-trier-of-fact reasonable-doubt standard-of-review state-evidence sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the standard to be applied by state courts when a defendant claims that the evidence is insufficient to convict is whether any rational trier …
19-7268 Acharayya Rupak v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP continuance criminal-procedure due-process plain-error-review plea-bargaining retained-counsel right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment standard-of-review Whether the district court erred in denying the defendant's request to substitute retained counsel
19-7240 Damon S. Allen-Bey v. Michigan State Treasurer Michigan 2020-01-10 Denied IFP 14th-amendment abuse-of-discretion administrative-rules constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion miscarriage-of-justice prisoner-funds restitution standard-of-review Whether the trial court violated the defendant's constitutional rights by abusing its discretion in rendering a decision contrary to law, resulting in…
19-861 Mark Shumski v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-01-09 Denied appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion prisoner-rights standard-of-review Is a prisoner entitled to a certificate of appealability (COA) on a claim for which other jurists have reached different conclusions from the district…
19-7178 Tracy Jarvis Allen v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act armed-robbery fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-precedent johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states robbery sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment south-carolina standard-of-review Whether the District Court erred in determining that Petitioner Allen's South Carolina Armed Robbery convictions are valid predicates under the Armed …
19-7180 Rafael Leonhard Wolfga Beier v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure mental-impairment motion-for-new-trial newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief rule-33 standard-of-review standards-for-new-trial trial-standard Does a criminal defendant's discovery of a recognized mental impairment after conviction at trial constitute newly discovered evidence under Federal R…
19-7182 Cirilo Mancilla Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-06 Denied IFP appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process legal-objection preservation-of-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-unreasonableness Whether claims of substantive unreasonableness must be preserved by specific objection?
19-7112 Gabriel Galindo-Serrano v. United States First Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied IFP confession confession-suppression court-of-appeals criminal-procedure delay magistrate-judge motion-to-suppress plain-error standard-of-review waiver Whether the standard of review on appeal of an untimely motion to suppress a confession, based upon the failure to bring the defendant before a magist…
19-7116 Eddie Estuardo Galindo-Mendez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process factual-error harmless-error judicial-review plain-error plain-error-review standard-of-review Whether factual error is categorically immune from plain error review?
19-7085 Ratha Oeur v. County of Los Angeles, California California 2019-12-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion child-support continuance de-novo de-novo-review due-process family-law income-expense-declaration standard-of-review unexpected-event Does this Court of Appeal's Opinion conflict with the Court of Appeal's decision in In re the Marriage of Tydlaska?
19-7098 Antonio Shaw v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-counsel due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel objective-standard sixth-amendment standard-of-review witness-testimony Whether defense counsel's performance fell below the reasonable standard of representation
19-7061 Charles Edward Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-27 Denied IFP appellate-review batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky burden-shifting clearly-erroneous-standard jury-selection peremptory-challenge prima-facie-case racial-discrimination standard-of-review What is the standard of appellate review applicable to an adverse first-step Batson determination?
19-7038 Angela Maxine Lee v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 18-usc-922 18-usc-924 3553-a-factors 3553a-factors appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether the above-Guidelines 84-month sentence ordered by the district court is substantively unreasonable under the § 3553(a) factors
19-7044 Darmarcus Fisher v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-assault appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fifth-circuit procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether the district court imposed a substantively unreasonable sentence and erred by imposing a 4-level enhancement for aggravated assault
19-6983 Kwasi Andrade McKinney v. Arkansas Arkansas 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-procedure de-novo-review discretionary-standard due-process hearing-requirement judicial-conduct judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics mandatory-recusal objective-standard standard-of-review Whether the trial court was required to hold a hearing on McKinney's motion to recuse
19-6994 Christopher William Manikowski v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights debatable due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)
19-6995 Richard Alan King v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process faretta-v-california fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice magistrate pro-se-pleading procedural-default remand reversal standard-of-review standing supreme-court-precedent Was the presiding magistrate's analysis so flawed as to warrant this court to reverse and remand so that a correct legal standard may be applied?
19-6996 Myron L. Johnson v. Darren Settles, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review case-disposition civil-procedure constitutional-law court-disposition due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-error legal-procedure lower-court-decisions standard-of-review standing statutory-interpretation Did the lower courts err in their disposition of petitioner's case?
19-6999 Charles Alan Dyer v. Jim Farris, Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-of-state-remedies federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review-2254-d-2-e-1 ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presumption-of-correctness prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review state-court-fact-finding state-court-factual-findings state-court-findings unreasonable-determination Whether a federal court is required to review the state court's finding of facts to determine if it is 'unreasonable' or can the court simply presume …
19-6966 Kyle A. Keys v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-split due-process exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-requirement fair-presentation federal-courts federal-habeas-corpus federal-review habeas-corpus standard-of-review state-court-remedies statutory-interpretation Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals correctly interpreted the 'fair presentation'/exhaustion requirement of 28 U.S.C. § 2254
19-6923 Adrian Alaniz v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause confrontation-clause-violation due-process harmless-error hearsay hearsay-evidence justifiable-homicide manslaughter prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct second-amendment self-defense standard-of-review Whether the conceded admission of gang hearsay evidence in violation of the Confrontation Clause was prejudicial
19-6913 Neal Benjamin v. Jennifer Saad, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review booker-error constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error judicial-review lower-court-error sentencing sixth-amendment standard-of-review Does the Petitioner have a Sixth Amendment Booker error?
19-740 Kayla Butts, Individually and on Behalf of Her Daughter, A. F., a Minor v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-12-11 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-52a evidence-consideration expert-testimony fact-finding federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-tort-claims-act medical-malpractice standard-of-care standard-of-review trial-court-deference Did the Appellate court violate Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 52(a) when it failed to consider all of the evidence before the trial court, inserted…
19-6882 Zackary Ikaika Bryton Thompson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure deference due-process judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors?
19-6817 Anthony Wheeler v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison Seventh Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process expungement ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-standards sixth-amendment standard-of-review Did the Seventh Circuit err under Miller-El v. Cockrell and Buck v. Davis when it determined Petitioner had not made a substantial showing of a denial…
19-6759 James A. Lackey v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-deference jurists-of-reason mandatory-sentencing-guidelines ninth-circuit residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review vagueness void-for-vagueness Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied this Court's 'debatable among jurists of reason' standard for a certificate of appealability
19-6767 Douglas D. True v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness standard-of-review Whether the Eighth Circuit's summary denial of Mr. True's application for a certificate of appealability was based on an adjudication of the underlyin…
19-678 United States, ex rel. Laurence Schneider v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, et al. District of Columbia 2019-11-26 Denied administrative-law appeal circuit-split civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process false-claims-act false-claims-act-fca-qui-tam-government-deference- government-dismissal habeas-corpus Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-deference qui-tam sentencing standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether the Government is entitled to absolute deference regarding its decision to dismiss an FCA action under section 3730(c)(2)(A), or whether the q…
19-6685 Scott McLaughlin v. Anne L. Precythe, Director, Missouri Department of Corrections Eighth Circuit 2019-11-20 Denied IFP capital-case capital-cases capital-cases-habeas-corpus certificate-of-appealability certificates-of-appealability confrontation-clause eighth-circuit giles-v-california habeas-corpus pro-forma-denial procedural-due-process standard-of-review Whether the Eighth Circuit's pro forma practice of issuing unexplained blanket denials of COAs in capital habeas cases conflicts with 28 U.S.C. §2258 …
19-6700 Abid Naseer v. United States Second Circuit 2019-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisement appellate-review district-court right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment standard-of-review waiver Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals applied an incorrect standard in concluding that Petitioner knowingly and intelligently waived his Sixth A…
19-6651 Shawn A. Thompson v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township Third Circuit 2019-11-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attempted-robbery constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions sixth-amendment standard-of-review third-degree-murder Did the Trial Court err in failing to provide the jury with the entirety of the Third Degree Murder instructions?
19-616 W.A., Individually and on Behalf of W.E., et al. v. Hendrick Hudson Central School District Second Circuit 2019-11-14 Denied circuit-split deference-to-administrative-decisions due-process free-appropriate-public-education idea-fape-private-school-deference-administrative- individuals-with-disabilities-education-act private-placement school-district-obligations special-education-law standard-of-review When a school district defaults on its obligations to provide a student with a disability a free appropriate public education (FAPE) as guaranteed by …
19-610 Mushkin, Inc. v. Anza Technology, Inc. Federal Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response Waived amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-15c-relation-back clear-error conduct-transaction-occurrence federal-circuit federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure notice relation-back standard-of-review Whether the appropriate standard of review for a 'relation back' determination under Fed. R. Civ. P. 15(c) should be
19-6589 Alicia Norman, Kendra Brantley, and Deenvaughn Rowe v. United States District of Columbia 2019-11-13 Denied IFP attorney-client-relationship criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-11 due-process federal-rules judicial-interference plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Was the D.C. Circuit's affirmance of Petitioner Brantley's convictions erroneous and in conflict with other federal jurisdictions on the requirements …
19-6606 Ryan T. Root v. United States Second Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure cumulative-errors double-prosecution due-process ineffective-counsel law-and-fact merger-doctrine miscarriage-of-justice money-laundering plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether cumulative errors led to a miscarriage of justice
19-6610 Mario Alberto Rubi v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-of-appeals criminal-procedure door-doctrine evidence expert-testimony fingerprint-evidence fingerprints open-door-doctrine open-the-door precedent standard-of-review unknowing-courier Whether the court of appeals erred in finding Mr. Rubi opened the door to expert testimony regarding unknowing couriers
19-6509 William Gaudet v. United States First Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2423(a) appeals-court appellate-review conviction criminal-sentencing district-court evidence-exclusion evidence-rule-403 federal-rules-of-evidence federal-sentencing-guidelines judgment-of-acquittal motion-in-limine prior-testimony sentencing standard-of-review whether-the-appeals-court-erred-in-upholding-the-d Whether the appeals court erred in upholding the district court's denial of the petitioner's motion in limine
19-6483 Carl Robinson v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Retreat Third Circuit 2019-11-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure clearly-erroneous-standard clearly-erroneous'-rule-52(a),exhaustion-of-remedi conviction court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process exhaustion-of-remedies judicial-independence judicial-procedure legal-remedy procedural-due-process standard-of-review statute supplemental-response timeliness unfairness Was the Petitioner denied due process of law,in vi When there is no authority for the preparation of an opinion by the attorney for either side, should the Court of Appeals have applied the 'clearly-er…
19-6488 Javier Yebra v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-11-04 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-review standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent trial-counsel Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit continue to impose an improper Certificate of Appealability (COA) standard that contraven…
19-572 Ravneet Singh v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-31 Denied civil-procedure due-process evidence harmless-error jury jury-instructions standard-of-review standing sufficiency-of-evidence Whether, upon invalidating one of two alternative theories of liability presented to a jury, the reviewing court should ask if there is 'sufficient ev…
19-6427 Ray A. Smith v. John Chapdelaine, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-10-31 Denied Relisted (2)IFP charging-document criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions professional-responsibility prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence As representatives of the Office of Public Defender, did lawyers Willie Rios and Eric Zale fulfill their professional responsibilities and obligations…
19-6450 Sherif Sayed Mahmoud v. Texas Texas 2019-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutionality content-based-restriction due-process first-amendment free-speech penal-code standard-of-review standing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions texas-penal-code Whether Section 33.021 of the Texas Penal Code is a content-based restriction
19-6430 Harold Blake v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review standing Whether the petitioner has demonstrated that jurists of reason could disagree with the federal courts' resolution of his constitutional claims or that…
19-6385 Neil Grenning v. James Key, Superintendent, Airway Heights Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2019-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability consecutive-sentencing due-process habeas habeas-corpus notice oregon-v-ice sentencing sixth-amendment standard-of-review straw-man Mr. Grenning's life sentence upon post-trial allegation of aggravating elements
19-535 Patricia A. Flowers v. Connecticut Light and Power Company Second Circuit 2019-10-23 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1981 42-usc-2000e civil-rights eeoc employment-discrimination employment-law federal-rules-of-civil-procedure racial-discrimination racial-discrimination-retaliation-claims retaliation-claim standard-of-review summary-judgment title-vii Whether Flowers proffered sufficient evidence in support of her prima facie case of racial-discrimination,retaliation,title-vii,42-usc-1981
19-6368 Richard Kalinowski v. Illinois Illinois 2019-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-review due-process liberty liberty-interest pre-trial-detention speedy-trial standard-of-review Does the right to a speedy trial in a civil commitment case require the Courts to apply a more strict standard of review due to the loss of liberty in…
19-499 Henry Posada v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-10-18 Denied Response Waived appeals-court-error appellate-review clear-error criminal-procedure district-court-error evidence government-evidence government-surveillance healthcare-billing loss-amount loss-calculation medical-fraud patient-records sentencing standard-of-review Whether the court of appeals erred in determining that the district court did not clearly err in accepting the government's assertion that Mr. Posada …
19-6289 Brian Thomas Mohr v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied IFP appellate-procedure case-review circuit-court-case criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-reconsideration jury-instructions legal-probability rehaif-v-united-states remand standard-of-review statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether there is a reasonable probability of different result if the court below is directed to reconsider its judgment in light of Rehaif v. United S…
19-6277 Mario Ruvalcaba-Garcia v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-16 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split daubert daubert-standard evidentiary-reliability expert-testimony harmless-error judicial-gatekeeping make-initial-daubert-decision relevance-and-reliability remand remand-for-new-trial standard-of-review When a trial court errs by failing to exercise its 'gatekeeping' role of determining whether expert testimony is relevant and reliable under Daubert v…
19-486 Donnett M. Taffe, Personal Representative of the Estate of Steven Jerold Thompson, Deceased v. Gerald E. Wengert, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-rights due-process federal-claims findings-of-fact interlocutory-appeal interlocutory-ruling material-facts pendent-jurisdiction qualified-immunity qualified-immunity,civil-rights,civil-procedure,ap standard-of-review summary-judgment Whether an appellate court may review disputed material facts and substitute its own findings when deciding qualified immunity
19-468 Keesha Elayne Frye v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied Response Waived appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment indictment-redaction jury jury-deliberation jury-instructions meaningful-review redaction standard-of-review Whether the criminal defendant was denied meaningful appellate review when the district court destroyed the only copy of a redacted indictment used by…
19-6216 Maxcium Herring v. L. S. McEwen, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied IFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admission jury-instructions jury-misconduct sentencing standard-of-review trial-errors waiver Whether the trial court erred in allowing the defendant to take the witness stand in his own defense
19-6203 Eric Christopher Barrass v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-08 Denied IFP chambers-v-mississippi constitutional-law double-jeopardy due-process federal-courts federal-review green-v-georgia habeas-corpus standard-of-review state-court-decision state-courts third-party-confession Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in applying 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) to the state appellate court's unexplained decision, rather than 'looking through' …
19-6204 James Michael Biela v. Nevada Nevada 2019-10-08 Denied IFP appellate-counsel appellate-procedure constitutional-amendments due-process fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-impartiality jury-selection sixth-amendment standard-of-review Whether the Nevada Supreme Court committed error when it applied the wrong standard in failing to grant Mr. Biela relief based upon an unfair and impa…
19-6171 Jorge Sanchez-Rodriguez v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-10-04 Denied IFP appeal appellate-review child-interview criminal-procedure due-process evidence insufficient-evidence judicial-error standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-court-error witness-testimony Did the state appellate court and the Louisiana Supreme Court err in denying petitioner's appeal because the evidence presented at trial was insuffici…
19-428 Ryan Courtade v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-10-01 Denied 18-usc-2252 18-usc-2256 appellate-review child-pornography child-pornography-statute circuit-split due-process lascivious-exhibition standard-of-review statutory-interpretation subjective-intent When reviewing a district court's conclusion that an image depicts a 'lascivious exhibition' under 18 U.S.C. 2256(2)(A), must the appellate court revi…
19-6113 Jose Armando Bazan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-01 GVR Relisted (4)IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review cocaine-conspiracy criminal-appeal criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing downward-adjustment fact-question guidelines plain-error plain-error-review role-adjustment sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that a defendant's claim for a minor or mitigating role downward adjustment under the Sentencing Guidelines…
19-6117 Jaime Ignacio Estrada v. Martin Biter, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-offer preponderance-of-evidence right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-review trial-counsel voluntary-manslaughter Whether petitioner established by a preponderance of evidence trial counsel's violation of the Sixth Amendment: failure to communicate a favorable ple…
19-6086 Luis Alberto Torres v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof circuit-conflict criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure harmless-error sentencing sentencing-error standard-of-review Does the government meet its burden to prove that a sentencing error is harmless under Fed. R. Crim. P. 52(a) if it shows that it is more probable tha…
19-5991 Howard Lee White v. Romeo Aranas, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-18 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection judgment lower-court-decisions qualified-immunity standard-of-review standing summary-judgment Did the lower courts err in granting summary judgment to the defendant?
19-5959 Loretta Fergerson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 appeals clear-error clear-error-standard federal-habeas habeas-corpus judicial-review motion-to-vacate plain-error plain-error-standard post-conviction-relief standard-of-review Did the Appeals Court err in applying clear error rather than plain error standard when deciding District Court's denial of Petitioner's 2255?
19-5948 Maria Margarita Valdez-Araiza v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review conflicting-evidence criminal-procedure-review evidence evidentiary-error harmless-error harmless-error-review judicial-precedent jury-factfinding sixth-amendment standard-of-review witness-credibility Is the Ninth Circuit's decision consistent with this Court's precedents?
19-5922 Pedro Munoz, aka Pedro Munoz Ruiz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure deference district-court federal-courts-of-appeals federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors?
19-5862 Jorge Alberto Ramirez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-11 Denied IFP circuit-court deference-to-state-courts federal-habeas-corpus federal-habeas-relief federal-review fifth-circuit habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standard-of-review state-court-deference strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Was the Fifth Circuit's 'unreasonable application' inquiry proper?
19-5917 Matthew A. Castro v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fact-finding federal-courts fifth-amendment habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment standard-of-review Whether the United States Court of Appeal for the Eleventh Circuit erred by unreasonably determining the facts based on a misreading of the state reco…
19-5860 T'Challa Rhashaed Washington v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP conflict-among-circuits court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-v-virginia jackson-virginia-standard judicial-review legal-standard standard-of-review strickland-washington-standard Whether the district state court of appeals rendered a decision in conflict with decisions of this court and other courts of appeals, when unreasonabl…
19-5820 Charles D. Raby v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-05 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 circuit-court-jurisdiction circuit-split habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence prima-facie-showing reasonable-juror standard-of-review statutory-interpretation successive-petition Whether a court of appeals can reach fact issues when ruling on a motion for authorization to file a successive habeas petition based on newly discove…
19-5836 Dennis Johnson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-05 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-ruling ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-error plea-bargaining prejudice reasonable-performance reasonable-probability sixth-amendment standard-of-review strickland-v-washington trial-fairness trial-strategy Whether the petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated when his trial counsel failed to properly investigate a…
19-5801 Emory Chiles v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-circuit motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure standard-of-review Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Chiles' motion to suppress evidence?
19-280 Judy Long v. Alameda Unified School District Ninth Circuit 2019-09-03 Denied appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial motion-dismissal standard-of-review standing summary-judgment What is the appropriate standard of review when a trial court improperly grants a motion for summary judgment dismissing the right to a jury trial?
19-5796 Alfredo Beltran Leyva v. United States District of Columbia 2019-09-03 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP circuit-split confrontation-clause constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review Whether the Court should require de novo review (or at a minimum, review for clear error) of sentencing fact-findings based entirely on uncorroborated…
19-5742 Robert Gene Rand v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion factual-findings ninth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-application sentencing-reductions standard-of-review Whether a circuit court errs by affirming a district court's decision regarding the applicability of the United States Sentencing Guidelines based on …
19-248 Walid Jammal, et al. v. American Family Insurance Company, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-08-26 Denied Relisted (2) circuit-split common-law-test darden employee-classification employee-status employment-status erisa standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether the district court's finding that a worker is an employee under the common-law test should be reviewed for clear error, hybrid standard, or de…
19-5705 Leighton Martin Curtis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure collateral-proceeding counsel-objection due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review magistrate-report martinez-v-ryan procedural-default record-preservation standard-of-review Does Counsel's failure to expand on the record and file pre and post hearing briefs for the petitioner's arguments, and make specific objections to th…
19-5695 Riodejuonerol Hudson v. Charles Bradley, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-deference appellate-counsel appellate-procedure complete-defense due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction sixth-amendment standard-of-review Does the denial of an 'application' alone constitute a decision 'on the merits' that warrants AEDPA deference?
19-5704 In Re James Larry 2019-08-23 Denied IFP 14th-amendment due-process federal-law fourteenth-amendment mental-disease mental-disease-defect post-conviction rule-32 standard-of-review Does the Alabama State standard of review in Rule 32 Ala.R.Crim.P. post-conviction proceedings regarding the mental disease/defect issue as presented …
19-5674 Ed Teague, II v. Regent Financial Group, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure failure-to-state-a-claim failure-to-state-claim judicial-interpretation legal-principles motion-to-dismiss pleading-requirements standard-of-review Whether the court of appeal's decision below contradicts existing legal principles when evaluating a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim up…
19-5679 Maria Aide Delgado v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-circuit-court habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review-standard-of-proof ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-review procedural-default schlup-standard standard-of-review Whether there is a sufficient likelihood that rational jurors would have credited the post-conviction evidence and, as a result, would have voted to c…
19-227 Adnan Syed v. Maryland Maryland 2019-08-21 Denied Amici (3) constitutional-review criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review jury-disbelief jury-evaluation prejudice prejudice-analysis standard-of-review state-case-presentation state-prosecution strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether a court evaluating prejudice under Strickland v. Washington must take the State's case as it was presented to the jury or may hypothesize that…
19-5653 Edward Lee Busby v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-08-21 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 adjudication-on-the-merits atkins-claim due-process due-process-clause eighth-amendment federal-constitutional-claim federal-law habeas-corpus intellectual-disability standard-of-review state-court state-court-review When a state habeas court denies a petitioner relief on a federal constitutional claim by imposing a higher burden than is required by federal law, sh…
19-5656 Armando J. Mena v. Rosemary Ndoh, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-colloquy presumption presumption-of-regularity silent-record standard-of-review Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied Henderson v. Morgan, 426 U.S. 637 (1976), in concluding that a state court could reasonably presume from a silent…
19-5648 Desmond Justin Murray v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure basis-for-denying-relief certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason merits-of-claims standard-of-review Whether a petitioner seeking the issuance of a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253 is required to demonstrate that jurists of reason w…
19-208 Mark A. Beckham v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-08-19 Denied appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt standard-of-review When is it constitutionally permissible for an appellate court to conclude that a district court's refusal to instruct the jury as to two elements of …
19-216 Harold Persaud v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-08-19 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure daubert-standard district-court-opinion district-court-review due-process expert-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judgment-of-conviction merits-review motion-to-vacate standard-of-review Whether Reasonable Jurists Could Debate the Denial of Petitioner's Motion to Vacate and Set Aside his Judgment of Conviction
19-5612 Steven Wayne Isbel v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-08-16 Denied IFP circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-claims discretionary-review document-production due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-instructions separation-of-powers standard-of-review state-court-exhaustion Whether the district court and the 5th circuit were correct that Isbel did not properly preserve and exhaust his ineffective assistance of trial couns…
19-5592 Dawud Spaulding v. Ohio Ohio 2019-08-15 Denied IFP capital-defendant capital-punishment defense-counsel due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-presumption post-conviction post-conviction-proceedings record record-evidence standard-of-review strategic-decision strategic-decision-making Should courts presume defense counsel acted strategically, even when the evidence in the record demonstrates a lack of strategy in their actions?
19-188 Ikechukwu Hyginus Okorie v. Virginia M. Crawford, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied administrative-search arrest arrest-without-probable-cause detention detention-standards fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation law-enforcement-conduct probable-cause qualified-immunity search-warrant standard-of-review tolan-v-cotton Whether the allegations establish a Fourth Amendment violation and qualified immunity defense
19-5550 Jackie Duncan v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 10th-circuit abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure constitutional-vagueness due-process evidence-admissibility federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-discretion procedural-error rule-403 rule-404(b) rule-404b standard-of-review Whether the 10th Circuit erred in ruling the Western District of Oklahoma didn't abuse their discretion?
19-5498 Qwindel Jerome Page v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason procedural-review sixth-circuit standard-of-review standards-of-review Whether the district court and the sixth circuit court of appeals erred in denying the petitioner a certificate of appealability
19-5523 Manuel Maldonado Aguilar v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion motion-reconsideration procedural-default procedural-ruling section-2255 standard-of-review successive-petitions Was petitioner's initial § 2255 Motion denied on the merit, for not demostrating or proving deficient performance or prejudice?
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
19-5500 Michael Woolls v. Virginia Fourth Circuit 2019-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights code-of-law disability-rights due-process equal-protection mental-capacity mental-retardation political-concerns standard-of-review standing Am I entitled by law to a higher standard of review as a disabled person with mental retardation?
19-5473 Samuel Benzant v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied IFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-review Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)
19-5448 Antolin Torres Abonza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deference due-process federal-courts judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness-review Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors?
19-5427 Danny Reaves v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1291 civil-procedure due-process final-order jurisdiction standard-of-review standing statutory-interpretation unadjudicated-claims Whether the court leaves claims unadjudicated, is that considered a final order within the meaning of 28 U.S.C. § 1291?
19-5436 Martin Araiza-Jacobo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-02 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error deliberate-ignorance harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-sufficiency standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the standard for assessing the harmlessness of an erroneously submitted deliberate-ignorance instruction turns only on the legal sufficiency o…
19-5438 Jimmy Fletcher Meders v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-02 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 anti-flyspecking-rule circuit-court-procedure clearly-established-law eleventh-circuit federal-court-deference federal-review habeas habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review section-2254 standard-of-review state-court-decision state-court-deference wilson-v-sellers Whether the Eleventh Circuit's adherence to its 'no-grading-papers-anti-flyspecking-rule' is incompatible with Wilson-v-Sellers
19-5429 Cantrell Lamont Burwell v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment appellate-procedure clear-error consent-search consent-to-search de-novo de-novo-review eleventh-circuit fourth-amendment standard-of-review totality-of-circumstances Whether an appellate court should review de novo or for clear error a district court's finding that a defendant did not voluntarily consent to a searc…
19-5411 Kirk Patrick Keshler v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis harmless-error judicial-review plain-error plea-bargaining plea-sufficiency standard-of-review sullivan-v-louisiana Whether the sufficiency of a factual basis for a defendant's plea should be subject to plain error review, or whether, under Sullivan v. Louisiana, 50…
19-5415 Darryl Dewayne Williams v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-31 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review evidentiary-findings habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether Applicant is entitled to a certificate of appealability or review by the Supreme Court
19-5421 Charles Earl Davis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-31 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process factual-error harmless-error judicial-standard legal-interpretation plain-error plain-error-review procedural-review standard-of-review Whether factual error is categorically immune from plain error review?
19-5408 Gregory Daniels v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-dismissal dismissal due-process fourth-circuit jurisdiction legal-error notice-of-appeal standard-of-review standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred as a matter of law by dismissing petitioner's notice of appeal
19-5297 Esterlin Appolon v. Arizona Arizona 2019-07-24 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-law judicial-review jurisdiction post-conviction second-amendment sentencing standard-of-review state-court sufficiency-of-evidence unreasonable-application Whether the Arizona Supreme Court abused its discretion by dismissing the Petition for Special Action and Motion for Stay?
19-5298 Kendrick Antonio Simpson v. Mike Carpenter, Interim Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-07-24 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-review certificate-of-appealability double-deference federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-deference prejudice-prong standard-of-review strickland-analysis strickland-standard Does the AEDPA require federal courts to apply a doubly-deferential standard of review to the prejudice prong of the Strickland analysis?
19-5290 Ryan Keith Mason v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-23 Denied IFP appellate-review attorney-performance credibility credibility-determination criminal-procedure deference deference-standard deference-to-trial-court evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-sufficiency plea-bargaining plea-offer standard-of-review Whether a court of appeals erred in finding that deference to a trial court's factual finding on an attorney's provision of a favorable plea offer was…
19-5291 Tyrone Jordan v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-review habeas-corpus habeas-proceeding iac-claim ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-standard martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-counsel procedural-default standard-of-review trial-counsel What is the District Court's duty and what standard is the Court to apply to a habeas proceeding presenting a substantial and meritorious IAC claim of…
19-101 Imperium IP Holdings (Cayman), Ltd. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., et al. Federal Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived appellate-review burden-of-proof credibility-determinations credibility-of-witnesses expert-testimony jury-trial jury-trial-rights jury-verdict patent-infringement patent-invalidity patent-validity seventh-amendment standard-of-review Whether an appellate court may reverse a jury verdict based on its own view that expert testimony was credible, 'unrebutted,' and 'uncontradicted,' or…
19-60 Cora Kerton v. Society Hill at Droyers Point Condominium Association, et al. New Jersey 2019-07-11 Denied abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure condominium-act condominium-law expert-report expert-testimony liability-coverage negligence net-opinion-rule new-jersey-appellate-court new-jersey-trial-court snow-removal standard-of-review summary-judgment Whether there was engagement in abuse of discretion and misapplication of the summary judgment standard
19-5130 Tammie McConico v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-courts circumstantial-evidence equal-protection federal-circuit-courts reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment standard-of-review Whether the Sixth Amendment requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt, even in a circumstantial case?
19-5122 David Alan Westerfield v. California California 2019-07-09 Denied IFP capital-trial de-novo-review due-process due-process-review fourth-amendment independent-review jury-sequestration polygraph-evidence pretrial-publicity probable-cause sheppard-v-maxwell standard-of-review Does the mandate announced in Sheppard v. Maxwell apply to the appellate assessment of the trial court's rejection of jury sequestration?
19-48 B&B Hardware, Inc. v. Hargis Industries, Inc. Eighth Circuit 2019-07-08 Denied bose disgorgement federal-circuit fraud fraud-standard lanham-act lanham-act-fraud patent rule-59-motion standard-of-review therasense trademark trademark-law uspto willfulness Whether the established precedent by the Federal Circuit for the determination of fraud on the USPTO should be adopted as the proper standard for all …
19-5077 Carlton P. Cabot v. United States Second Circuit 2019-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review clear-error criminal-procedure factual-determination factual-findings olano plain-error rule-52(b) sentencing-variance standard-of-review Does plain error review apply to unobjected to factual determinations?
19-5079 Kenneth Blackwell v. Georgia Georgia 2019-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-discretion appellate-procedure appellate-review evidence issue-preservation judicial-discretion legal-sufficiency legal-theory prior-bad-acts prior-difficulties-evidence standard-of-review state-argument trial-court trial-court-discretion trial-procedure waiver Whether the Georgia Court of Appeals erred when it held that the trial court admitted Petitioner's sexual acts in Ohio as prior difficulties evidence …
19-32 Gordon Scott Stroh v. Saturna Capital Corporation Ninth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived cause-of-action civil-procedure dismissal evidence evidence-dismissal motion-in-limine standard-of-review summary-judgment trial-court What is the appropriate standard of review when a trial court improperly grants a motion in limine that has the practical effect of dismissing an enti…
19-5072 Troy Lee Bridges v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP batson-challenge certificate-of-appealability fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel peremptory-strikes prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review voir-dire Did the Fifth Circuit err in deferring to the Federal court finding that Mr. Bridges was not prejudiced by his trial counsel,findings and the prosecut…
19-5013 Hugo Santana-Dones v. United States First Circuit 2019-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-circuit-review intercept-standard necessity standard-of-review statutory-burden statutory-rights warrant-necessity wire-communications wiretap Whether the First Circuit's standard of review on the necessity of a warrant to intercept wire communications violates the defendant's constitutional …
19-5020 Khaleefa Lambert v. Darren Settles, Acting Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-07-01 Denied IFP criminal-procedure felony-murder ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel murder-conviction prejudice premeditated-murder reasonable-jury sixth-amendment standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-counsel Did the Sixth Circuit err in denying Petitioner's claim that his trial counsel's performance was so deficient as to prejudice the outcome of the trial…
19-5022 Brian K. Banks v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 404(b)-evidence appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-error louisiana-supreme-court prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review Did the Louisiana Supreme Court err in allowing the Fifth Circuit to contradict its own prior rulings by overruling the District Court's decision to n…
18-9804 Michael Zachariah Gomez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-revocation plain-unreasonableness sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review Whether the standard of review in appeals of federal revocation sentences is limited to review for \'plain unreasonableness\'?
18-1574 William Henry Starrett v. Department of Defense, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied Response Waived 12(b)(6) appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process factual-allegations federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure motion-to-dismiss patent pleading pleading-standards standard-of-review standing takings technology-law Whether a complaint can survive a motion to dismiss when its factual allegations and claims involve one or more technologies, or capabilities of combi…
18-9769 Ishmael Wahid v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process equitable-relief preliminary-injunction remand standard-of-review standing Whether the Court of Appeals erred in not applying the correct standard for granting a preliminary injunction
18-9775 Dustin Washington v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment affidavit criminal-procedure drug-weight forfeiture fourth-amendment fourth-circuit motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing-error standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in failing to find that the trial court erred in denying Mr. Washington's motion to suppress the search of the BMW
18-9755 Sammy Redi Araya v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP business-records due-process fourth-circuit-review hearsay hearsay-evidence identification insufficient-evidence perjury perjury-challenge standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in affirming the trial court's failure to investigate and conclusively determine if perjury infected the trial
18-1561 Armament Services International, Inc., et al. v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. Third Circuit 2019-06-21 Denied Response Waived 18-usc-923-f-3 de-novo-proceeding due-process federal-firearms-licensing firearms-licensing gun-control-act standard-of-review statutory-interpretation statutory-review statutory-safeguards third-circuit willful-violation willfulness Whether the Third Circuit applied an improperly deferential standard of review in a de novo federal firearms licensing proceeding under 18 U.S.C. § 92…
18-9709 Angie Walker v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-06-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion administrative-law agency-action arbitrary-and-capricious due-process judicial-review legal-accountability obstruction-of-justice standard-of-review When Justices obstruct the law and legal proceedings by not adhering to the legal standards of review, who will hold them accountable?
18-9691 Dwayne Lee Stallings v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-32-violations criminal-rule false-statement false-statements federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure obstruction-of-justice plain-error plain-error-analysis sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure standard-of-review structural-error Whether the Court's plain error analysis is properly applied to violations of Fed. R. Crim. P. 32(i)(1)(A), and, if so, whether such violations are st…
18-9692 Jody Lanardo White v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error preservation-of-error reasonableness-of-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness standard-of-review Whether challenges to the reasonableness of a sentence must be preserved by specific objection?
18-9675 Tommy Dean Bullcoming v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights credibility-determination de-novo-review due-process evidence law-enforcement-testimony qualified-immunity scott-v-harris standard-of-review summary-judgment video-evidence Should a video recording of the actual events that clearly contradicts the sworn testimony of an officer support de novo review of the district court'…
18-9677 Martin Arreola Zavala v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility contested-cases criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process evidence evidence-determination federal-courts federal-sentencing legal-sufficiency quantity-determinations sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether this court should grant certiorari to address the proper application of law to fact relating to sufficiency of the evidence for quantity deter…
18-9678 Binika L. Hankton v. Frederick Boutte, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process,criminal-procedure,evidence,jackson-v- evidence evidence-sufficiency fifth-amendment fourth-amendment jackson-v-virginia sixth-amendment standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Is a conviction constitutionally suspect when the evidence used to convict does not meet the standards of Jackson?
18-9608 Trinidad Jesus Garcia v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process judicial-interpretation plain-error procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review Does the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals decision conflict with decisions of the Supreme Court and was the decision incorrect when it stated that Garc…
18A1287 Walid Jammal, et al. v. American Family Insurance Company, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-06-10 Presumed Complete common-law-agency darden-factors employee-status erisa independent-contractor standard-of-review Whether a district court's determination of employee status under the common-law agency test in an ERISA case should be reviewed for clear error or de…
18-1508 Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation v. Apple Inc. Federal Circuit 2019-06-07 Denied claim-construction de-novo-review due-process JMOL jury-fact-finding jury-fact-findings jury-findings jury-trial patent-infringement procedural-due-process remand seventh-amendment standard-of-review teva-v-sandoz Whether the Federal Circuit can construe a claim limitation de novo, disregarding the jury's implicit fact findings on the plain and ordinary meaning …
18-1507 Augustin Zambrano v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied Response Waived appellate-court appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability certificates-of-appealability coa-standard court-discretion due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review judicial-standard procedural-ruling standard-of-review Should this Court grant certiorari to make explicit that in ruling on a request for certificates of appealability, an appellate court must apply the a…
18-9537 Stephen S. Henry v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP assistant-united-states-attorney due-process federal-district-court fifth-amendment fraud fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court habeas habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review rule-60 section-2254 section-2255 standard-of-review state-court-review whether-fraud-on-the-court-can-be-reviewed-in-a-§-2255-habeas-proceeding
18-9510 Rasaq Aderoju Raheem v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure conviction criminal-procedure defendant-conviction due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit jurisdiction legal-review standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by affirming Defendant's Raheem conviction
18-1498 UnitedHealth Group Inc., et al. v. Louis J. Peterson, on Behalf of Patients E, I, K, L, N, P, Q, and R, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-05-31 Dismissed administrative-discretion circuit-split deferential-judicial-review erisa-plan-administration erisa-plan-interpretation firestone-deference firestone-standard firestone-standard-of-review judicial-review plan-construction plan-interpretation plan-silence remedial-actions standard-of-review Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in holding that under the deferential Firestone standard of review, an administrator's determination that the plan au…
18-9443 Arthur L. Campbell v. Sherman Campbell, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-05-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction miller-el-v-cockrell procedural-error sixth-circuit standard-of-review statute-of-limitations Whether the Sixth Circuit committed plain error in considering the merits of Campbell's appeal without issuing a certificate of appealability first
18-9406 Ricky Carlos Grant v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony standard-of-review telephone-evidence witness-qualification Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in failing to find that the United States District Court for Western District …
18-9382 Joshua Wofford v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review chapman-standard chapman-v-california constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-construction harmless-error prosecutorial-evidence standard-of-review Whether the federal court of appeals failed to effectively apply the Chapman v. California harmless-error standard
18-9350 Russell Rafael Whitehead v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-20 Denied IFP assault-battery constitutional-review court-procedure criminal-law deadly-weapon ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-charge jury-instructions legal-standard standard-of-review use-of-force Can a fist be considered a deadly weapon in and of itself?
18-9319 Robert Gray v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied IFP appeal certificate-of-appealability criminal-conviction due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-vacate sentencing standard-of-review Whether the trial and appellate court erred in denying Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability?
18-9329 Sean M. Barnhill v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-standard certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-procedure pro-se-petition section-2255 sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-review standard-of-review Did the Sixth Circuit err by exceeding the scope of the COA analysis
18-9335 Francisco Illarramendi v. United States Second Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP bail bail-standard civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus interlocutory-appeal standard-of-review structural-error summary-judgment tolan-v-cotton Whether lower courts should follow the Supreme Court's mandate in Tolan v. Cotton when ruling on a motion for summary affirmance
18-9259 Akunna Baiyina Ejiofor v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-faith-exception plain-language plain-meaning search-warrant search-warrant-affidavit standard-of-review suppression-motion tenth-circuit May a reviewing court uphold a search by reading a statement in a search-warrant affidavit contrary to its plain meaning?
18-9202 Edilberto Maso Diaz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP co-conspirator co-conspirator-testimony confrontation-clause conspiracy criminal-conviction criminal-procedure cumulative-error due-process evidence evidentiary-sufficiency fifth-circuit-review hearsay hearsay-evidence hearsay-statements jury-instructions standard-of-review trial-procedure Did the Fifth Circuit err by affirming the district court admission of hearsay statements made by an unindicted co-conspirator over the objection of A…
18-9145 John Patrick Fletcher v. Inmate Bank, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process prisoner-complaint prisoner-rights pro-se rule-8 standard-of-review standing supervisory-power Whether the lower courts' failure/refusal to follow this Court's standard of review for pro se prisoner complaints under Fed. R. Civ. P. 8(a)(2) as he…
18-9091 Antwayne Tremayne Lowry v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-conviction due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-vacate sentencing standard-of-review Whether the trial and appellate court erred in denying Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability
18-9046 Richard Shusterman v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-jurists standard-of-review Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying issuance of a Certificate of Appealability of a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 ruling when the District Court…
18-9059 Geary Gilmore v. Shirlee Harry, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure merits-adjudication sixth-circuit standard-of-review supervisory-power Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit violated the procedure prescribed by 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2) and imposed an improper b…
18-9048 Brian Boykins v. Robert Napel, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-04-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-court right-to-counsel standard-of-review standing trial-court-record Whether a federal court must grant an evidentiary hearing and findings, contrary to Townsend v. Sain, 372 U.S. 293 (1963)
18-8985 Michael Johnson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split eighth-circuit extraordinary-circumstances extraordinary-variance gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion major-departure minor-departure sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-review sentencing-variances standard-of-review Whether the Eighth Circuit's test that 'extraordinary variances do not require extraordinary circumstances' conflicts with this Court's mandate 'that …
18-1325 Dieter Charles Vogt v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals district-court-order due-process habeas-corpus procedural-grounds reasonable-jurist right-to-counsel standard-of-review summary-denial Should the order of the court of appeals denying a certificate of appealability be reversed and remanded, because it is manifestly incorrect to sugges…
18-8916 Steven Lawrence Wright v. California California 2019-04-19 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process fifth-amendment jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-standard motion-for-new-trial new-trial standard-of-review Did the trial court's erroneous jury instruction violate the Due Process Clause?
18-8893 Mark M. Brown v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-review criminal-procedure impairment mental-capacity mental-impairment probable-cause standard-of-review suppression-motion trustworthiness warrant warrant-issuance witness witness-credibility witness-testimony Does probable cause to issue a warrant extend to situations where a witness to alleged criminal behavior was severely impaired?
18-8852 Xavier Huron Sanders v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review motion-for-review standard-of-review Whether the trial and appellate court erred in denying Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability?
18-1310 Charmaine Clement v. Thomas Durban, et al. New York 2019-04-16 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts burden-on-access civil-procedure constitutional-law court-access discrimination equal-protection fundamental-rights non-resident-discrimination privileges-and-immunities privileges-and-immunities-clause residency-requirements standard-of-review state-courts Whether Article 85 is consistent with the Privileges and Immunities Clause despite its discrimination against nonresidents of New York and the materia…
18-8848 Antyane Robinson v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-04-16 Denied IFP certiorari civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-standard due-process judicial-bias judicial-impartiality rippo-v-baker standard-of-review standing state-court state-court-review vacatur Where a state court denied a judicial bias claim based on another state court's finding that the judge in question had not demonstrated actual bias, d…
18-8820 Carman L. Deck v. Richard Jennings, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability death-penalty district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-standard reasonable-jurists standard-of-review Did Mr. Deck present grounds for relief as to which reasonable jurists could differ concerning the correctness of the district court's conclusion, thu…
18-8769 Hilton Rios-Rivera v. United States First Circuit 2019-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-questions constitutional-review due-process first-impression plain-error plain-error-standard standard-of-review Whether the Supreme Court should review and reverse the First Circuit's holding that an appellant is without recourse under the plain error standard o…
18-8736 Juan Espinoza, et al. v. San Benito Consolidated Independent School District Fifth Circuit 2019-04-09 Denied IFP 5th-circuit civil-procedure due-process fair-labor-standards-act genuine-dispute-of-material-fact inferences-in-favor-of-non-moving-party standard-of-review summary-judgment trial-court wage-violations Whether the 5th Circuit erred in affirming the trial court's grant of summary judgment on FLSA-wage-and-hour-violations
18-8689 Joel Glaston Muir v. Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-04 Denied IFP clear-record constitutional-rights criminal-homicide criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel known-eyewitness legal-review lesser-degree-homicide postconviction-review right-to-counsel standard-of-review trial-counsel trial-strategy Whether initial-postconviction review counsel provided ineffective assistance
18-8700 Dorian Givens v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing standard-of-review supervised-release What is the proper standard of appellate review for sentences imposed on defendants following revocation of supervised release?
18-8681 Jamal James Carmouche v. Jason Kent, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency fifth-circuit-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review malicious-prosecution standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-counsel trial-record Whether there was sufficient evidence to convict Mr. Carmouche of a crime?
18-8692 Jerry Adams, Jr. v. Robert Neuschmid, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-04-03 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 appellate-review batson-challenge batson-claim equal-protection habeas-corpus jury-selection prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination standard-of-review state-court-review Whether the Ninth Circuit properly applied 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) to a Batson claim when the California courts' decisions relied upon legal principles in…
18-1266 Timothy P. O'Leary v. Aetna Life Insurance Company Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-02 Denied adverse-benefits-determination arbitrary-capricious benefits-determination civil-procedure claims-procedures department-of-labor erisa erisa-statute erisa-statute-and-regulations fiduciary-duties fiduciary-duty standard-of-review Does a fiduciary's decision take priority over compliance with ERISA statute and regulations?
18-8623 Justin Cole Milam v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing standard-of-review Are appeal waivers in federal criminal plea agreements unconstitutional?
18-8565 Evender Gene Jackson v. Texas Texas 2019-03-26 Denied IFP burden-of-proof constitutional-error direct-appeal harmless-error ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions standard-of-review strickland-standard strickland-test strickland-v-washington Whether a trial attorney's failure to object to the omission of a required jury instruction raises the burden of proof on direct appeal, where the out…
18-8566 John Bartholomew Lowe v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence civil-procedure criminal-procedure direct-evidence evidence jury-instructions standard-of-review Whether multiple instances of circumstantial evidence can accumulate and become direct evidence?
18-8567 Rohan McDermott v. J. Soto, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability due-process evidentiary-exclusion felony-murder habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief post-trial-confession standard-of-review Did the panel so clearly misapprehend section 2253's modest standard as to call for summary reversal?
18-8568 David Piper v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion compulsory-process criminal-procedure defense-witnesses due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure habeas-corpus sixth-amendment standard-of-review trial-rights witness-production Whether Petitioner was deprived of compulsory process under the Due Process Clause and Compulsory Process Clause
18-8527 Rene Rivera v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial foreign-born-national intellectual-disability language-barrier miller-el-v-cockrell post-conviction-counsel post-conviction-relief slack-v-mcdaniel standard-of-review Whether the courts applied the correct standard of review in denying petitioner's application for certificate of appealability
18-8540 Eric David Bennett v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3742 appellate-review booker booker-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review supervised-release united-states-v-booker Whether the appropriate standard of review for a sentence following the revocation of supervised release is the 'plainly unreasonable' standard or the…
18-8490 Bernard Mitchell v. California California 2019-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-street-gangs discretion due-process evidence gang-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-exposure jury-instructions jury-prejudice prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-discretion standard-of-review Did the court abuse its discretion in permitting the jury to be exposed to the nicknames 'Crip' and ''Scrap,' which have been taken as a suggestion th…
18-8440 Travis Trevino Runnels v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-03-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court counsel-misconduct equitable-relief habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default rule-60(b) rule-60b standard-of-review Whether certiorari should be granted when the circuit court improperly applied an 'overly rigid per se approach' in denying COA on petitioner's motion…
18-8404 Adrian Laroy Seymore v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process evidence evidentiary-standard government-evidence presentence-investigation-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether a District Court erred in applying a guideline enhancement based solely on allegations contained in the Presentence Investigation Report after…
18-8419 Fabian Hernandez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-03-13 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-review reasoned-decision standard-of-review state-court-decision state-courts statutory-interpretation unreasonableness-test Whether, in the face of a reasoned state court decision, a federal habeas court applies the unreasonableness test of 28 USC §2254(d)(1) to the specifi…
18-8348 Blair Garner v. William Lee, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 911-recordings ancillary-finding appellate-review civil-procedure de-novo-review due-process due-process-clause factual-determination factual-findings federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-procedure notice notice-and-opportunity-to-be-heard standard-of-review Whether the Second Circuit erred in rejecting the district court's prejudice determination without consulting the underlying 911 call recordings, with…
18-8325 Amaury Villa v. United States Second Circuit 2019-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance sentencing sentencing-calculation sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standard-of-review trial-procedure u-s-sentencing-guidelines Whether appellant received the effective assistance of counsel?
18-8336 London Ettione Dunbar v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-interpretation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review miller-el-precedent miller-el-v-cockrell standard-of-review stare-decisis Should this court grant this petition to determine whether the lower court's refusal to issue a certificate of appealability is at conflict with this …
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…
18-8292 Julius Greer v. United States Third Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied IFP circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-procedure forfeiture judicial-review motion-to-dismiss plain-error-review speedy-trial-act standard-of-review waiver Speedy-Trial-Act-violation
18-8251 Zachariah Joel Peterson v. Jay Cassady, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit felony-murder habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence jury-instruction jury-instructions standard-of-review Whether the Eighth Circuit court of Appeals abused its discretion in denying petitioner a COA on his claim on insufficient evidence
18-8184 Daryl Sharp v. Timothy Dolan District of Columbia 2019-03-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence free-speech jurisdiction jury-instructions standard-of-review standing Whether the evidence presented at trial was sufficient to support the conviction
18-8216 Zavia L. Johnson v. United States Third Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review clearly-erroneous clearly-erroneous-standard law-enforcement-officer law-enforcement-testimony scott-v-harris standard-of-review testimony video-evidence videotape videotape-evidence Does a federal courts of appeals misapply the clearly erroneous standard of review when it upholds a district court's crediting of a law enforcement o…
18-8149 Michael Achilles Fries v. Xavier Becerra, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied IFP 6th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial free-speech fundamental-fairness judicial-review legal-precedent standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court's order denying the petitioner's request for a fair review of court and jury proceedings violated the petitioner's constitutio…
18-8165 Michael J. Galvan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure deference federal-courts judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors?
18-8061 Philip Andra Grigsby v. Juan Baltazar, Jr., Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-02-25 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process fact-finding habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-due-process standard-of-review tenth-circuit Has the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit failed to consider all relevant facts prior to denying a Certificate of Appealability?
18-8062 Saundra Taylor v. District of Columbia Department of Employment Services District of Columbia 2019-02-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion administrative-law appellate-procedure appellate-review discretionary-review dismissal-with-prejudice due-process judicial-deference judicial-review standard-of-review substantial-evidence Whether memorandum and opinion is not supported by substantial evidence in the record, is not in accordance to the law and an abused of discretion
18-8087 Joseph Michael Kurz v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof capital-trial criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-error standard-of-review statute-of-limitations time-limitations witness-testimony Whether the district court erred in allowing the State to prosecute the defendant for an allegation that the time limitations had expired
18-8074 Javonte T. Morgan v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP challenge-for-cause civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial judicial-proceedings jury-selection peremptory-challenges standard-of-review standing sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the lower court erred in denying the petitioner's challenge for cause and finding the evidence sufficient to support the conviction
18-8091 Alvin Jakelyn Williams v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof conclusively-apparent-from-the-record direct-appeal due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure standard-of-proof standard-of-review summary-rejection Whether the court of appeals summary rejection of an ineffective assistance of counsel claim on direct appeal by placing the burden on the defendant a…
18-8097 Robert Herrera, Sr. v. Texas Texas 2019-02-22 Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction standard-of-review Was the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denied Mr. Benton's appeal and the Texas Court of Appeals stated that his counsel's actions were below a reaso…
18-8104 Robert William Frazier v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-justice civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-screening due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review merits-analysis procedural-standard standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent Whether the circuit justice supplanted the COA screening procedure with a merits analysis
18-8112 Floyd Andrew Brown, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-issues constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure merit-standard reasonable-jurists section-2255 standard-of-review standing Should the judgment be vacated and remanded in light of Buck v. Davis?
18-8049 Ramon Montero v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-circuit harmless-error harmlessness-standard molina-martinez molina-martinez-precedent molina-martinez-v-united-states preserved-error preserved-errors rule-52a sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Is the Fifth Circuit correctly conducting its harmlessness inquiry when reviewing preserved Guidelines-calculation errors arising under Rule 52(a) of …
18-8017 Jacoby Kindred v. Jeff Titus, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-02-19 Denied IFP barefoot-standard barefoot-v-estelle certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process federal-courts habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default procedural-grounds slack-standard slack-v-mcdaniel standard-of-review Whether district courts can employ the Barefoot v. Estelle standard instead of the Slack v. McDaniel analysis when determining whether to issue a cert…
18-7949 In Re Reginald Watson 2019-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2241-motion career-offender civil-rights criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2241 jurisdiction sentencing standard-of-review standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether the District Court erred in dismissing Watson's 2241 motion for lack of jurisdiction?
18-7952 Stanley D. Partman, aka Goat v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-vagueness due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirements standard-of-review unconstitutionally-vague Is the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal's Standard of Determination for Issuance of a Certificate of Appealability in Essence Decides an Appeal Without …
18-7930 Richard S. Button v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP filing-date habeas-corpus legal-interpretation motion-amendment postconviction-relief procedural-rules relation-back standard-of-review state-law timeliness Do the procedural rules in effect at time of filing govern whether an application for state postconviction relief is properly filed?
18-1046 Virginia Callahan, et al. v. Pacific Cycle, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2019-02-11 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-court-split circuit-split civil-procedure de-novo-review evidence evidence-admissibility evidentiary-ruling hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-discretion standard-of-review Standard-of-review-for-hearsay-rulings
18-1049 Peter M. Hoffman, et al. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-11 Denied Amici (3) criminal-law-fraud criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-acquittal criminal-procedure-burden-of-proof criminal-procedure-sufficiency-of-evidence due-process evidence evidentiary-standard jackson-v-virginia judgment-of-acquittal mail-fraud prosecutorial-burden regulatory-ambiguity standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence wire-fraud Whether a federal court must grant a motion for judgment of acquittal when, construing the evidence in the light most favorable to the government, evi…
18-7867 Meria James Bradley v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-rights due-process evidence-withholding federal-court-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standard-of-review state-court-findings state-court-proceedings state-court-review Whether defense counsel withheld evidence that could have shown the petitioner was actually innocent
18-7841 Adekunle Olufemi Adetiloye v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court-files due-process habeas-corpus legal-standard standard-of-review substantial-showing-standard threshold-inquiry Whether a court of appeals can deny a certificate of appealablity without conducting the prerequisite 28 U.S.C 2253(c)(2) threshold inquiry, two-compo…
18-1025 Lillie Leon v. New York City Department of Education, et al. Second Circuit 2019-02-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law arbitration arbitration-decision arbitration-hearing civil-procedure collateral-estoppel due-process hall-street-assoc-v-mattel legal-preclusion res-judicata standard-of-review If the Arbitrator's decision was rendered unlawfully will this limit the scope of the preclusive effect of Res Judicata and Collateral Estoppel per th…
18-7764 Marcellus French v. Illinois Illinois 2019-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-error standard-of-review Did the appellate court abuse its discretion in finding that the evidence of prior acts was admissible and justified according to FRE 404(b), when the…
18-7773 Jose Jorge Espinoza-Mendoza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP alien-smuggling appellate-review criminal-appeal criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-review guidelines-interpretation immigration risk-assessment sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review stare-decisis statutory-interpretation whether-the-sentencing-enhancement-under-u.s.s.g.-§-2l1.1(b)(6)-was-properly-applied
18-1003 Norma L. Slone, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied Response Waived appellate-review clearly-erroneous fact-finding factual-findings judicial-procedure standard-of-review tax tax-court tax-court-deference Whether a court of appeals may reverse a fact-dependent ruling of the tax court without articulating any standard of review, finding that any of the t…
18-7703 Nathan Smith III v. Sherry Pennywell, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied IFP 2254(d)(2) cumulative-error de-novo-review deference due-process fact-finding fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment standard-of-review unreasonable-determination Did the CCA so stretch the facts in this case so unreasonably that no deference could be possible to its interpretation of what occurred in the taco r…
18-7715 Jose Flores v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court-discretion drug-quantity due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure minor-role minor-role-reduction plea-bargaining plea-colloquy rule-11 sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review ussg-3b1.2 Was the District Court's failure to determine a factual basis, and to insure that defendant understood the nature of the charges, in violation of Rule…
18-7676 Louis Hill v. Cynthia Link, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Graterford, et al. Third Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus legal-error reasonable-jurists standard-of-review standing substantial-showing third-circuit Does the Third Circuit Court of Appeals denial of a Certificate of Appealability in the instant matter constitute legal error given it is debatable am…
18-7644 Carlos Benitez v. James Key, Superintendent, Airway Heights Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review conflict-of-interest constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process effective-counsel evidentiary-hearing habeas habeas-corpus legal-claim right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-appealability standard-of-review Did trial counsel have a conflict of interest by simultaneously representing Mr. Benitez and a defense witness?
18-7646 Jesse Sawyer v. United States Second Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process federal-procedure judicial-mandate judicial-power mandate sentencing standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether the powers of federal appellate courts are diminished and whether a defendant is deprived of his fundamental right to appellate review
18-7585 Lemuel Gay v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-court appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court guideline-enhancement guidelines judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing-court sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Can the sentencing court's statement—that it would impose the same sentence irrespective of any error in its application of a guideline enhancement—ab…
18-951 T&T Rock Distribution, LLC v. Rutilio I. Velasco Texas 2019-01-22 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion arbitration-agreement civil-procedure court-of-appeals discretionary-review federal-arbitration-act litigation-stay motion-to-compel standard-of-review stay-of-litigation trial-court-discretion Whether the Supreme Court should grant certiorari to review the denial of a motion to compel arbitration
18-7504 Raphael R. Hamilton v. Joe M. Allbaugh, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied IFP circuit-court-discretion coercion competency criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process guilty-plea guilty-plea-withdrawal jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue right-to-withdraw standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by not reversing the trial court's order denying petitioner his right to withdrawal of the guilty ple…
18-935 Michelle Monasky v. Domenico Taglieri Sixth Circuit 2019-01-18 Judgment Issued Amici (8)Relisted (3) child-abduction circuit-split clear-error-review de-novo-review domestic-violence habitual-residence hague-convention international-child-abduction parental-agreement standard-of-review Whether a district court's determination of habitual residence under the Hague Convention should be reviewed de novo, as seven circuits have held, und…
18-7445 Lennis A. George v. Jason Kent, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempted-manslaughter constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence procedural-history standard-of-review Whether there was sufficient evidence to convict Lennis George of attempted manslaughter?
18-922 Abraham M. Fisch v. Texas Texas 2019-01-16 Denied attorney-fees client-rights criminal-defense-attorney criminal-procedure due-process excessive-fines forfeiture sixth-amendment standard-of-review What is the appropriate standard of review for the forfeiture of attorney's fees?
18-7385 Cheng Le v. United States Second Circuit 2019-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP biological-weapons biological-weapons-act commerce-clause constitutional-law-commerce-clause-treaty-power-bi criminal-law-biological-weapons-anti-terrorism-act criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-standard-of-review-plain-error- federalism plain-error standard-of-review treaty-power Whether federalism principles preclude holding Le Whether the Biological Weapons Act 18 U.S.C. §175 Whether a less demanding standard of review than plain error should be applied
18-7301 J. C. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services Texas 2019-01-09 Denied IFP appellate-review clear-and-convincing-evidence constitutional-standard due-process equal-protection parental-rights standard-of-review Whether the Fourteenth Court of Appeals erred by employing an unconstitutional standard of review that violated the petitioner's due process rights
18-7265 Rodney Scot Armstrong, Jr. v. Michigan Michigan 2019-01-07 Denied IFP civil-procedure closing-argument de-novo-review directed-verdict legal-preservation motion objection preservation-of-error preservation-of-issues prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review trial-procedure Is a motion for a directed verdict an objection that preserves an issue for and mandates de novo review?
18-7219 Jose Amador and Diana Mekaeil v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-01-02 Denied IFP appellate-review burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule invited-error judicial-procedure legal-burden standard-of-review warrantless-search Whether a finding of invited error requires a finding of deliberateness
18-7140 Tommy Ray Hull, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-21 Denied IFP chavez-meza-precedent chavez-meza-v-united-states circuit-split district-court district-court-discretion due-process fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-standard mitigation mitigation-arguments sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in its standard of review when a district court fails to address arguments of counsel in mitigation of sentencing
18-7157 Cody Wayne Mayfield v. Jimmy Martin, Warden Tenth Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied IFP clearly-established-law deferential-review due-process estelle-v-mcguire federal-claim federal-law habeas-corpus standard-of-review state-court state-court-adjudication supreme-court-precedent unreasonable-application Whether deferential treatment is given when a state court's adjudication of a federal claim is not merely unreasonable, but too involved an incorrect …
18-7131 Andreco Lott v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-fairness standard-of-review standing Whether the lower courts applied the correct legal standard at the certificate of appealability stage?
18-7077 JC Christopher Pulham v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review district-court legal-standard plain-error plain-error-review presumption presumption-of-correctness presumption-of-knowledge sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review When a district court does not articulate the legal standard it is applying, may an appellate court presume that the district court knew and correctly…
18-7084 Anthony Steven Young v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion child-pornography close-scrutiny criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion internet-access relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review ussg-2g2.2 What standard of review applies to the district court's decision to use the guideline for receiving or distributing child pornography to sentence a ch…
18-769 Minnesota Living Assistance, Inc., dba Baywood Home Care v. Ken B. Peterson, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied Response Waived abstention abuse-of-discretion administrative-proceeding civil-administrative-proceeding civil-rights-preemption de-novo-review federal-preemption federal-question standard-of-review state-law younger-abstention younger-v-harris whether the principles enunciated in Younger v. Harris and its progeny require a federal court to abstain from deciding a federal preemption question
18-763 Chaka Fattah, Sr. v. United States Third Circuit 2018-12-14 Denied 6th-amendment circuit-split criminal-procedure deliberations due-process evidence judicial-discretion juror-removal jury-unanimity misconduct-standard standard-of-review Whether a district court must determine that there is no possibility that allegations of juror misconduct stem from the juror's view of the evidence t…
18-746 County of Los Angeles, California, et al. v. Angel Mendez, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-12-12 Denied 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment causation circuit-review civil-rights clearly-erroneous fourth-amendment intervening-event proximate-causation proximate-cause reasonable-force remand search-warrant section-1983 standard-of-review use-of-force warrantless-search Whether a plaintiff's injuries resulting from a police officer's use of force may be proximately caused by the officer's failure to secure a search wa…
18-6976 Joseph Lochuch Ewalan v. Washington Washington 2018-12-10 Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial double-jeopardy due-process evidentiary-basis jury-instruction jury-instructions lesser-included-offense standard-of-review state-court sufficiency-of-evidence united-states-v-dixon Whether the state trial court erred when it failed to instruct the jury on a lesser included offense when the evidence in the case supports an inferen…
18-738 Henry Paul Richardson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-12-10 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-restrictions circuit-split constitutional-claims defaulted-claims habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default sawyer-v-whitley schlup-v-delo standard-of-review Whether the Schlup v. Delo actual-innocence standard applies to a second habeas petition
18-715 Cynthia Carpenter-Barker v. Ohio Department of Medicaid, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied Response Waived ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process integration-mandate medical-necessity olmstead-v-lc rehabilitation-act rule-56-review standard-of-review Whether a state agency is entitled to deference of its fact opinion of medical necessity in a Fed. R. Civ. P. 56 de novo review?
18-6904 Oree Roberson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof chavez-meza chavez-meza-v-united-states circuit-conflict due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review mitigation presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure standard-of-review Whether the defendant bears the burden to establish that objected to information in the Presentence Report is materially untrue, or whether the govern…
18-6879 Darren Hogue v. Brad Cain, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2018-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court-decision due-process federal-courts federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-colloquy sixth-amendment standard-of-review waiver-hearing Did the Ninth Circuit's memorandum decision contravene this Court's command that a proper review of a viable Sixth Amendment claim of ineffective assi…
18-6862 John Thomas v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure johnson-standard johnson-v-united-states plain-error standard-of-review time-of-appeal time-of-law unsettled-law When the governing law is unsettled at the time of trial but settled-in defendant's favor by the time of appeals, should an appellate court reviewing …
18-6804 Shane Roach v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-conflict confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process legal-objection preservation-of-error sixth-amendment standard-of-review Does a defendant preserve a confrontation issue for review by clearly articulating Confrontation Clause concerns as the basis for his objection withou…
18-674 Jedidiah Isaac Murphy v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-11-23 Denied brady-violation criminal-procedure-error cross-examination due-process expert-witness habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel materiality materiality-standard presumption-of-correctness prosecutorial-misconduct psychological-evaluation standard-of-review Whether the court of appeals erred in requiring that an expert witness, instead of trial counsel, correct the false impression that the prosecutor cre…
18-675 Lisa M. West v. Missouri Missouri 2018-11-23 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion admissibility conviction-and-sentence criminal-appeal daubert-review daubert-standard evidence-admissibility expert-witness judicial-review missouri-law scientific-testimony standard-of-review trial-court-discretion Whether this court should require a de novo review of the trial court's handling of scientific testimony to determine whether Daubert v. Merrell Dow P…
18-6793 Derrick Lamont Booth v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2018-11-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony fire-investigation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel nfpa-921 sixth-amendment standard-of-review standard-protocols trial-strategy Whether the state court violated Mr. Booth's 6th Amendment rights
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…
18-6778 DeAngelo Horn v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability deficient-performance eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice reasonable-jurists standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Did the Eleventh Circuit reach beyond the threshold inquiry for a certificate of appealability and deny a COA based on the merits of the appeal?
18-6762 Edward Louis Thomas v. Texas Texas 2018-11-20 Denied IFP criminal-procedure cumulative-error due-process habeas-corpus harrington-v-richter hinton-v-alabama ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice standard-of-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals applied the wrong standard of review in analyzing the claims of deficient performance and prejudice by tri…
18-6680 Roberto Moreno Ramos v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied IFP calderon-v-thompson circuit-court conflict-of-interest counsel-conflict death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandate-recall miscarriage-of-justice standard-of-review Did the Fifth Circuit err in applying the 'miscarriage of justice' standard and demanding clear and convincing evidence that no reasonable juror would…
18-616 Roger Nepal v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-13 Denied Response Waived criminal-law criminal-procedure de-novo-review direct-appeal Griffith-v-Kentucky plain-error retroactivity standard-of-review substantive-law Where the Supreme Court has changed the substantive law governing a criminal case that is on direct appeal, must Griffith v. Kentucky be applied to th…
18-617 Spirit Airlines, Inc. v. Steven Maizes, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-13 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitrability arbitration-agreement bilateral-arbitration burden-of-proof class-arbitration delegation delegation-doctrine standard-arbitration-rules standard-of-review Must a party overcome a higher burden to show that an arbitration agreement delegates to the arbitrator the power to decide the availability of class …
18-6623 Carlos Cosme v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plea-bargaining effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-withdraw plea-agreement plea-bargaining sixth-amendment standard-of-review Did the District Court Commit Error in Applying the Standard of review for Motions to Withdraw a Plea Agreement as to an Issue of a Question of the Ef…
18-6620 Joe Louis Armenta v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 aedpa deck-v-jenkins fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings jury-instructions procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review Do prior decisions of this Court compel the conclusion that so long as the jury is properly admonished and instructed, there cannot be a viable claim …
18-599 Wi-Fi One, LLC v. Broadcom Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit 2018-11-07 Denied Response Waived 35-usc-315b administrative-law administrative-procedure-act administrative-procedure-act-apa indemnity-agreements inter-partes-review inter-partes-review-ipr judicial-review patent-law patent-trial-and-appeal-board patent-trial-and-appeal-board-ptab standard-of-review time-bar Whether the PTAB panel violated the Administrative Procedure Act by refusing to admit known indemnity agreements into evidence when deciding whether t…
18-6591 Leslie Chin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-diligence due-process equal-protection federal-courts new-trial newly-discovered-evidence standard-of-review trial-procedure Whether the Equal Protections Clause is violated when there is a conflict amongst the federal circuit courts of appeal dealing with what a defendant i…
18-6561 In Re Jesus Denova Lopez 2018-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-court-discretion guidelines-range section-3553(a) section-3553a sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether the panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals abused its discretion by the rubberstamp of the erroneous and impermissible conclusion of erst…
18-573 Colony Cove Properties, LLC v. City of Carson, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-01 Denied Amici (3) appellate-review character-of-regulatory-action city-of-monterey-v-del-monte-dunes economic-impact investment-backed-expectations investment-expectations jury-trial jury-trial-7th-amendment penn-central penn-central-test property-rights regulatory-takings seventh-amendment standard-of-review takings-clause-5th-amendment Whether a regulation that causes a property temporary but substantial cash losses is immune as a matter law from regulatory takings scrutiny if these …
18-6518 Gregory Crum v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure district-court-discretion drug-crimes drug-offense drug-offenses foreign-origin leadership-enhancement methamphetamine relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether the district court abused its discretion in determining relevant conduct
18-6524 Brian Thomas, aka O'Brian A. Thomas, aka Thomas A. O'Brian v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-standard berger-standard berger-v-united-states berger-v-us due-process fair-trial fifth-circuit harmless-error judicial-review jury-bias jury-misconduct procedural-violation prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review Whether the Fifth Circuit courts violated Berger v US after it conceded that the violations had occurred but deciding that it was 'implausible that it…
18-6494 Terrance Johnson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure discretionary-review district-court due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-procedure motion-to-reopen post-conviction-relief rule-60(b) rule-60b section-2255 standard-of-review Did the district court abuse its discretion by denying the Rule 60(b) motion without discovery or an evidentiary hearing?
18-6492 Pascual Rentas v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability clearly-established-law due-process eleventh-circuit giglio giglio-standard habeas-corpus habeas-petition ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standard-of-review strickland strickland-standard supreme-court-law supreme-court-precedent Should the denial of Mr. Rentas' COA be reversed and reconsidered due to the recent ruling by this Court in Marion Wilson v. Eric Sellers, Warden 584 …
18-6459 Cliserio Balmes-Cruz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review appellate-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-consideration non-frivolous-arguments procedural-reasonableness rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review Whether a sentencing judge must provide some express treatment to a defendant's non-frivolous arguments
18-6415 Amalya Cherniavsky, aka Amalya Surenovna Yegiyan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing standard-of-review sua-sponte sufficiency-of-evidence theory-of-defense trial-procedure Under what circumstances must a district court sua sponte instruct the jury on a theory of defense presented and relied upon at trial where the theory…
18-6428 Roberto Gonzalez Delacruz v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-10-25 Denied IFP brady-violation certificate-of-appealability due-process due-process,habeas,materiality,scientific-evidence fifth-amendment fifth-circuit-review habeas habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review materiality materiality-of-evidence materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit incorrectly denied a certificate of appealability
18-528 Elias Kifle, et al. v. Jemal Ahmed Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-23 Denied civil-procedure district-court diversity diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts jurisdiction rule-19 standard-of-review standing subject-matter-jurisdiction What is the standard of review for a District Court's determination that a required party is dispensable under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 19?
18-535 Residents Against Flooding, et al. v. Reinvestment Zone Number Seventeen, City of Houston, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-10-23 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure land-use land-use-decisions motion-to-dismiss property-rights rational-basis rule-12b6 standard-of-review substantive-due-process takings Whether, and to what extent, a court must give deference to a plaintiff's complaint and view the government's rational basis as a rebuttal presumption…
18-6381 William B. Crockett, III v. Richard Brown, Superintendent, Wabash Valley Correctional Facility Seventh Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review threshold-inquiry Whether a court of appeals' unreasoned, one-page order summarily denying a certificate of appealability conflicts with relevant decisions of this Cour…
18-494 Thomas S. Ross v. Apple, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-17 Denied Response Waived 17-usc-106 17-usc-501 copyright-infringement copyright-ownership eleventh-circuit exclusive-rights motion-to-dismiss standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether the Eleventh Circuit correctly held that granting defendant's Motion for Dismissal was justified even though a) plaintiff proved ownership of …
18-6361 Bob Lee Jones v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fair-trial harmless-error hearsay hearsay-exception involuntary-intoxication judicial-bias judicial-ethics present-sense-impression specific-intent standard-of-review Whether the District Court's demonstration of bias against the defense impeded the defendant's right to a fair trial
18-6341 John William Lieba, II v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury legal-standard standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether sufficient evidence existed to convict Mr. Lieba?
18-452 Jesse L. Wesley, III v. Town Square Media West Central Radio Broadcasting, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-11 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure civil-procedure de-novo de-novo-review motion-to-amend standard-of-review summary-judgment Whether a district court's decision on a motion to amend a summary judgment should be reviewed with the standard of abuse of discretion or de novo
18-6266 Ivan Rivera-Solis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553a appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing gall-standard gall-v-united-states sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Can appellate courts reweigh sentencing factors under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)
18-6271 Sonny Scott v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review appellate-standard booker-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure plain-error plain-error-review reasonableness-challenge reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness united-states-v-booker When—if at all—must a defendant object to the reasonableness of a sentence to preserve that argument for appellate review?
18-6249 Markos Pappas v. United States Second Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-851 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2255 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure-60(b) habeas-corpus rosales-mireles rule-60b section-2255 standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Does the certificate of appealability (COA) requirement apply to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b) motions related to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 proceedings…
18-6255 Christopher Earl Oden v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-precedent circuit-precedent due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review reasonable-jurists standard-of-review Is it necessary for a petitioner to show that his claim is not foreclosed by binding circuit precedent to obtain a certificate of appealability?
18-6258 Steven Lazar v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa aedpa-standard confession confession-voluntariness criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-adjudication reliability standard-of-review third-circuit-review voluntariness Did not the Pennsylvania state courts and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals convolute the difference between a confession's voluntariness and its rel…
18-6235 Michael Rocky Lane v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review miller-el-v-cockrell standard-of-review Whether, under this Court's precedent in Miller-El v. Cockrell and Buck v. Davis, it is sufficient for obtaining a Certificate of Appealability under …
18-6222 Donte Timothy Bacon v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP as-applied-challenges class-v-united-states commerce-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure de-novo district-of-colombia-v-heller federal-criminalization federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution firearm-regulation guilty-plea interstate-commerce intrastate-firearm-possession intrastate-firearm-sale plain-error second-amendment standard-of-review statutory-interpretation unconditional-guilty-plea united-states-v-lopez Whether as-applied constitutional challenges to statutes of conviction are waived by an unconditional guilty plea, and the standard of review
18-6161 Terrance Lombard v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review clear-error clear-error-standard criminal-procedure district-court due-process motion-to-suppress standard-of-review suppression-hearing Did the court of appeals misapply the clear error standard by considering facts adduced at trial, but not considered by the district court during the …
18-6171 Dion Terry Taylor v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review district-court-discretion district-court-proceedings inter-circuit-inconsistency pinney-dock proof-standard sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-standard standard-of-proof standard-of-review u-s-sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-§5k2.1 unraised-claims Whether the Sixth Circuit's 'Pinney Dock' standard for reviewing unraised claims should be clarified
18-6145 Maurice Nichols v. United States Third Circuit 2018-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus standard-of-review standing successive-petitions Did the Appellate Court and District Court close their discretion in construing the petitioner's Rule 60(b) Motion as a Second and Successive Habeas P…
18-6109 Keerut Singh v. United States Postal Service Ninth Circuit 2018-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-procedure de-novo-review due-process foia foia-request judicial-procedure privacy-act pro-se-litigant standard-of-review summary-judgment Whether the Ninth Circuit failed to comply with its own precedents under 5 U.S.C. §§ 552 and 552a
18-380 Darrel Vannoy, Warden v. John David Floyd Fifth Circuit 2018-09-24 Denied actual-innocence appellate-procedure brady-violation due-deference due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mcquiggin-v-perkins schlup-v-delo standard-of-review supreme-court-review Whether the court of appeals failed to apply due deference under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) and (e)(1) to the ruling of the Louisiana Supreme Court
18-6083 Jesus Manuel Laureano-Perez v. United States First Circuit 2018-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process government-prosecution plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review uncharged-conduct Whether the district court erred in enhancing Laureano's sentence based on uncharged conduct
18-6066 Melvin Noel Vasquez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure de-novo-review downward-adjustment due-process federal-sentencing fifth-circuit minimal-role mitigating-role sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-3b1.2 standard-of-review Whether the Fifth Circuit's cursory review rather than the proper de novo review resulted in a misapplication of the provision of U.S.S.G. § 3B1.2 den…
18-6067 Edward Lee Lewis v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act booker-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process overserved-sentence plainly-unreasonable reasonableness revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-standard standard-of-review supervised-release Whether the appropriate standard of review for a sentence following the revocation of supervised release is the plainly unreasonable' standard or the …
18-360 Ronald Bergrin v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-09-20 Denied Response Waived competency-test conflicts-of-interest counsel-conflict criminal-investigation due-process due-process,criminal-procedure,competency,conflict dusky-standard dusky-v-united-states right-to-counsel stand-trial standard-of-review structural-error Does the competency test established in Dusky v. United States permit a finding of incompetency based on the accused's unwillingness to assist counsel…
18-353 Tate Clark v. Southwest Airlines Company Fifth Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied Response Waived anderson-v-liberty-lobby appellate-review causation-standard civil-procedure district-court evidence-standard factual-inferences fmla-retaliation genuine-issue-for-trial judicial-review mixed-motive pretext prima-facie-case standard-of-review summary-judgment Whether the District Court and Court of Appeals failed to view the evidence presented in conjunction with Respondent's motion for summary judgment in …
18-6024 Eric Sijohn Brown v. United States Third Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-analysis section-2255 standard-of-review third-circuit Does the Third Circuit Court Of Appeals decision contravene Buck v. Davis
18-6005 Trayon L. Williams v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-09-17 Denied IFP appellate-procedure causation-element circuit-split claim-preservation criminal-procedure-waiver-forfeiture forfeiture preservation-of-issues preserved-claim standard-of-review sua-sponte-ruling violent-crime-definition violent-force-element waiver waiver-principles Whether a court of appeals can sua sponte hold a preserved claim forfeited and then dismiss it as waived when the government agrees the claim was prop…
18-6010 Babubhai Patel v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction miller-el-v-cockrell sixth-circuit standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals sidestep the COA process in Petitioner Babubhai Patel's COA Application
18-5989 Gary Dan Bilbo, Sr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation 28-usc-2255 appeals district-court habeas-corpus motion-to-reopen standard-of-review What is the appropriate standard of review for a district court's denial of a motion to reopen a habeas corpus petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2255?
18-325 Thomas F. Gehrmann, et al. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied Response Waived appellate-review exculpatory-evidence fourth-amendment franks-doctrine franks-v-delaware material-omissions probable-cause search-warrant standard-of-review waiver Whether Franks applies to material omissions and whether probable cause is vitiated and the entire affidavit and search warrant are invalid if omitted…
18-5929 David T. Odom v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal conditional-plea conditional-plea-agreement criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-appeals-court fourth-circuit plea-agreement standard-of-review statute-of-limitations Whether a defendant can make a knowing and voluntary decision under a conditional plea agreement when, believing he is preserving his Motion to Dismis…
18-298 Michael Vernon Beaty, Jr. v. South Carolina South Carolina 2018-09-07 Denied Response Waived chapman-standard chapman-v-california constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process due-process,criminal-procedure,constitutional-law, due-process,criminal-procedure,harmless-error,chap harmless-error judicial-review right-to-respond standard-of-review supreme-court-standard Does the South Carolina Supreme Court's standard for determining harmless constitutional error depart from this Court's mandates in Chapman v. Califor…
18-5898 Armando Castillo Valerio v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-09-05 Denied IFP appellate-review booker circuit-split criminal-sentencing downward-departure gall judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether a district court's denial of a motion for downward departure is reviewable and the appropriate standard to apply for such review
18-5867 Harvey Preston v. Willie Smith, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-error criminal-procedure federal-review gateway gateway-claim habeas habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins perkins-v-mcquiggins standard-of-review Whether the Petitioner has presented a credible claim of actual innocence to warrant reversal of the offenses of carjacking, home-invasion-first-degre…
18-5769 Edward Smith v. LaShann Eppinger, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit-of-indigence anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-proceed rule-60(b) sixth-amendment sixth-circuit standard-of-review standing Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in denying petitioner's habeas corpus petition challenging his conviction and sentence under the Antiterrorism and Eff…
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
18-5718 James Willis Campbell, Sr. v. Virginia Virginia 2018-08-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment jurisdiction probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant standard-of-review Did the Supreme Court of Virginia err in reversing the Court of Appeals of Virginia's ruling and affirming the judgment of the trial court?
18-222 EMED Technologies Corporation v. Repro-Med Systems, Inc. Federal Circuit 2018-08-21 Denied administrative-procedure claim-construction constitutional-amendment digital-claim due-process inter-partes-review patent patent-claim-construction patent-law-procedure review-procedure standard-of-review takings Whether the PTAB erred in applying the Texas-Digital claim construction standard rather than the Phillips standard
18-5629 Jermaine Dewitt Chaney v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealibility civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-district-court fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2254 standard-of-review standards Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err by reaching the merits of the case and denying certificate of appealability?
18-5631 Steven M. Jacob v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit 2018-08-17 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review double-jeopardy due-process habeas habeas-corpus jury-selection prejudice presumption-of-impartiality standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent voir-dire Was the Petitioner's demonstration sufficient to require de novo review under the Panetti v. Quarterman standard or the Johnson v. Williams standard, …
18-5604 Joe Fidel Flores v. W. L. Montgomery, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony gang-expert-testimony jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review reasonable-doubt standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Under the standard clearly established by this Court in Jackson v. Virginia, can a rational juror find an essential fact beyond a reasonable doubt bas…
18-5532 Galindo Jose Ruiz-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP alien-smuggling bodily-injury causation causation-standard criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process foreseeability immigration mens-rea reasonable-foreseeability sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the application of sentencing enhancements under U.S.S.G. § 2L1.1(b)(6) and § 2L1.1(b)(7) without requiri…
18-5557 Matthew Joseph Bussing v. Michigan Michigan 2018-08-13 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence expert-testimony expert-witness standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent Whether the court abused its discretion in permitting a rebuttal witness who was not an expert in pediatric child abuse to testify outside his compete…
18-5526 Michael P. Lough v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure standard-of-review warrant-requirement Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Lough's motion to suppress evidence?
18-5488 Eddie Allen Jackson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation jurisdiction legal-construction liberal-construction lower-court motion plea-bargaining prejudice pro-se pro-se-pleadings section-2255 standard-of-review Does the lower court violate this Court's directive to liberally construe documents filed pro se when they construe assertion in a §2255 Motion as mer…
18-5469 Chad Allen Dorton v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion obstruction-of-justice offense-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standard-of-review Did the district court err in applying the sentencing guidelines offense enhancement for obstruction of justice?
18-5452 Kenneth Roshaun Reid v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina Fourth Circuit 2018-08-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure conspiracy-liability conviction-validity drug-conspiracy due-process jury-instructions sentencing standard-of-review statutory-interpretation issue being raised
18-5412 Robert Eugene Johnson, Jr. v. Virginia Virginia 2018-08-01 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure conviction criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Can a state's highest court uphold a criminal conviction after being made aware that there was absolutely no evidence presented at trial that the crim…
18-117 Brian Grimm v. Maryland Maryland 2018-07-27 Denied Response Waived appellate-review constitutional-law dog-sniff fourth-amendment probable-cause reliability search-and-seizure standard-of-review When a defendant challenges the reliability of a dog's reported alert to the possible presence of drugs in a vehicle, what standard of appellate revie…
18-5355 Del Ray Sanders v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-07-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP accidental-death criminal-procedure criminally-negligent-homicide due-process homicide-charges jury-instructions lesser-included-offense lesser-included-offenses manslaughter standard-of-review texas-penal-code trial-court-discretion unreasonable-application-of-federal-law Whether the trial court erred in denying the defendant's request for jury instructions on the lesser-included offenses of manslaughter and criminally …
18-5287 Luis Salas v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-conviction due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-vacate sentencing standard-of-review Whether the trial and appellate court erred in denying Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability?
18-5295 Miguel Pedraza v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied IFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction mental-competency procedural-default standard-of-review Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in denying petitioner's certificate of appealability application based on the conclusion that he failed to make a s…
18-5273 Davian Wilson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP authentication criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sufficiency-of-evidence criminal-trial evidence-authentication federal-criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction guilty-verdict jury-verdict native-american reasonable-jury sentencing-disparities sentencing-disparity standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the district court erred in finding sufficient evidence for a guilty verdict against Mr. Wilson
18-80 Pamela Melvin v. Peter O'Rourke, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2018-07-17 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion due-process equal-protection inherent-power judicial-review search-and-seizure standard-of-review statutory-interpretation veterans-affairs veterans-law waived-arguments Whether 38 USC §7292 prohibits review of the Veterans Court's decision and evidence
18-5223 Gerand Earl Ratcliff v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights consent-search consent-to-search constitutional-rights deferential-review due-process fact-finding schneckloth-v-bustamonte standard-of-review voluntariness-standard Is the voluntariness of consent to search a question of fact that is subject to the same deferential review as findings of historical fact?
18-66 Regis Blake Ross v. Arizona Arizona 2018-07-12 Denied constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing federal-review-standards ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness post-conviction-relief standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent Did the Arizona courts err in failing to apply the proper federal standard of review for claims of ineffective assistance of counsel, involuntary plea…
18-5209 Michael Barrett v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal appellate-procedure attorney-client-relationship conflict-of-interest constructive-denial-of-counsel impermissible-risk ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion professional-ethics professional-responsibility right-to-counsel standard-of-review Does it create a conflict of interest for a lawyer to have to argue on appeal that the trial court should have replaced him? Can this create an imperm…
18-58 Edward Jaimaal Price v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-11 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment constitutional-rights evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-seizure motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure standard-of-review Whether the evidence seized during the illegal search and seizure should be suppressed
18-5156 D'Angelo Battis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process eleventh-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness pro-se pro-se-brief pro-se-representation sentencing standard-of-review unconstitutional-sentence Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in ignoring the petitioner's pro se brief on appeal, affirming the petitioner's unconstitutional s…
18-37 Securiforce International America, LLC v. United States Federal Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied Amici (1) abuse-of-discretion administrative-law authorized-agent authorized-official contract-termination discretionary-determination discretionary-determinations government-contracts government-procurement judicial-review procurement standard-of-review Whether discretionary government procurement determinations may be upheld as reasonable when the authorized official expressly disavows making the req…
18-25 Edward Mandel v. Steven Thrasher, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-court-decision damages damages-calculation damages-review judicial-review legal-standard reasonable-royalty remand standard-of-review trade-secret Whether the bankruptcy court properly calculated trade-secret damages
18-5090 Quonshay Douglas-Ricardo Mason v. DeWayne Burton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-07-02 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa cumulative-error due-process habeas-corpus judicial-bias judicial-misconduct offutt-v-united-states sixth-circuit standard-of-review state-court-adjudication ungar-v-sarafite Whether the Sixth Circuit applied the wrong legal standard in evaluating the petitioner's judicial misconduct claim
18-5020 In Re Lewis Brown 2018-06-28 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-violation due-process harmless-error judicial-bias judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal prosecutorial-misconduct recusal standard-of-review structural-error Whether a judge who is named as an adverse party opponent is prohibited from presiding over the proceedings in which he is a defendant, and whether th…
25A899 James Garfield Broadnax v. Texas Texas Application balance-of-equities irreparable-harm likelihood-of-success public-interest standard-of-review stay-of-execution Question not identified.