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25-6779 Sasho Stantchev v. Bunker Hill Community College Massachusetts 2026-02-11 Pending IFP 14th-amendment due-process equal-protection personal-injury procedural-deadlines state-court Whether the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment is violated when procedural deadlines take priority over merits of personal injury cases at state…
25-6777 Olda Rachel Guardiola v. Maricela Rodriguez Texas 2026-02-10 Pending IFP due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-jurisdiction nunc-pro-tunc procedural-change state-court Whether the Fourteenth Amendment permits a state court to retroactively convert a dismissal through a nunc pro tunc order after its plenary jurisdicti…
25-6764 Jerry Lee Flores v. Texas Texas 2026-02-10 Pending IFP criminal-procedure due-process jury-verdict misdemeanor-enhancement prior-conviction state-court Whether the state can replace a jury verdict without another jury trial; whether the petitioner was denied due process; whether state courts decided p…
25A863 Steve Ferguson v. Republic of Trinidad and Tobago Florida 2026-02-02 Application appellate-review certification final-judgment judicial-procedure opinion-withdrawal state-court Whether a state appellate court's withdrawal and supersession of a prior opinion constitutes a final judgment for purposes of Supreme Court review
25A860 Ruth Torres v. Veretta Frazier, Judge, 44th Civil District Court, Dallas County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-01-30 Application constitutional-violations declaratory-relief due-process judicial-conduct judicial-immunity state-court Whether judicial immunity shields state court judges from declaratory relief when constitutional due process violations are alleged in their judicial …
25-6655 Kerry E. Silvers v. Indiana Indiana 2026-01-23 Pending IFP circuit-split constitutional-interpretation federal-question ineffective-assistance state-court strickland-standard Whether the Indiana Court of Appeals has decided an important federal question in conflict with Seventh Circuit and Supreme Court precedent
25-6603 David Martin v. Kwame Raoul, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2026-01-16 Pending Response WaivedIFP abstention-doctrine constitutional-rights due-process personal-jurisdiction section-1983 state-court Whether federal abstention doctrines bar § 1983 claims challenging a state court default judgment entered without constitutionally adequate notice and…
25-6602 In Re Derrick L. Johnson 2026-01-16 Pending IFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus state-court Whether the denial of a writ of habeas corpus by the state court constitutes a violation of the Constitution of the United States
25-827 Joseph Leslie McClory v. Scott Hobbs California 2026-01-13 Pending appellant-rights form-deficiency judicial-council record-on-appeal rule-making state-court If a rule-making arm of a state court system approves a form for use, should an appellant be penalized or forfeit rights if the form is deficient
25A775 Cosea Bell v. Louisiana Louisiana 2026-01-05 Application collateral-review habeas-corpus post-conviction procedural-bar state-court successive-application Whether a state court's procedural bar against successive post-conviction applications violates a criminal defendant's constitutional right to meaning…
25A770 John De Light v. Superior Court of California, Riverside County, et al. California 2026-01-05 Application due-process ex-parte judicial-review pro-se procedural-irregularity state-court Whether the pro se litigant's due process rights were violated by the state court's procedural irregularities and ex parte orders that prevented meani…
25A609 Aita Gurung v. Vermont Vermont 2025-11-24 Application certiorari constitutional-review criminal-case judicial-review state-court supreme-court Whether a state supreme court's decision in a criminal case warrants review by the U.S. Supreme Court under principles of federal constitutional revie…
25-6172 Quantell Williams v. Austin J. Robinson, et al. Florida 2025-11-19 Denied IFP due-process fourteenth-amendment pro-se-filing psychiatric-duress settlement state-court Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause is violated when a state court enforces a settlement entered over a litigant's explicit objectio…
25-6131 Zeno E. Sims v. Chris Brewer, Warden Eighth Circuit 2025-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP concurrent-sentencing federal-court judicial-discretion legal-precedent sentencing-procedure state-court Whether this Court should revisit Setser and affirmatively hold that once a federal court runs a future state court sentence concurrently to a defenda…
25-6059 Cristina M. Lancranjan v. Superior Court of California, San Diego County, et al. California 2025-11-07 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process extrinsic-fraud fourteenth-amendment parental-rights state-court Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause is violated when a state court, with knowledge of extrinsic fraud, refuses to remedy the fraud a…
25-6050 David Wood v. Rachel Patton, Assistant Attorney General of Texas Fifth Circuit 2025-11-06 Denied IFP criminal-appeals dna-testing due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review state-court Does the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' fifteen-year, twenty-three case unbroken string of denying DNA testing appeals create a plausible claim that…
25A506 Walter W. Bullock, et al. v. Rivian Automotive, Inc., et al. California 2025-11-04 Application corporate-charter federal-court forum-provision initial-public-offering securities-act state-court Whether a publicly-traded corporation can unilaterally amend its corporate charter to include a forum-steering provision that requires Securities Act …
25-536 Robert G. Hicks, Individually and as Trustee of the Roberta Cherry Hicks Testamentary Trust v. City of Hopkinsville, Sewerage and Water Works Commission, dba Hopkinsville Water Environment Authority Kentucky 2025-11-03 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment discretionary-review due-process eminent-domain jurisdiction state-court Does a state court's failure to follow its own statutory authority in an eminent domain proceeding violate due process rights of non-resident landowne…
25-529 Mike Brown, Warden v. Louis Chandler Sixth Circuit 2025-10-31 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived constitutional-violation due-process evidence-exclusion federal-review habeas-corpus state-court Do this Court's precedents prohibiting the application of arbitrary rules to exclude evidence 'clearly establish,' under § 2254(d)(1), that a state co…
25-522 Ruby Tang v. Somerset House Condominium Association, Inc., et al. Maryland 2025-10-29 Denied constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-procedure legal-fees state-court Whether the Due Process Clause permits a state court to deny a statutorily guaranteed de novo evidentiary hearing after collecting the required fees, …
25A470 Chase Hunter v. Joanne Auclair Massachusetts 2025-10-24 Application appellate-review constitutional-question due-process extraordinary-circumstances pro-se-litigation state-court Whether a state court's denial of a pro se litigant's application for further appellate review, coupled with alleged procedural irregularities and pot…
25-5931 Caleb Campbell v. Officer Terry Pruitt, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-10-22 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge conviction-review criminal-procedure due-process procedural-grounds state-court Whether a petitioner's due process rights were violated when a state court denied his constitutional challenge to a criminal conviction based on proce…
25A442 Palanikumar V. Gnanam, et al. v. Nathaniel Chibuzor Keita, et al. Florida 2025-10-20 Application automatic-stay bankruptcy certiorari jurisdiction state-court void-judgment Whether a bankruptcy filing and automatic stay can retroactively invalidate prior state court judgments and proceedings
25A427 Indiana, ex rel. Freddie L. Byers, III v. Superior Court of Indiana, St. Joseph County, et al. Indiana 2025-10-15 Presumed Complete attorney-client due-process fourteenth-amendment motion-to-compel property-rights state-court Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires a state court to provide a full and fair opportunity for a client to litigate a mo…
25-5886 Kevin Scott v. Florida Florida 2025-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-law due-process equal-protection legal-uniformity state-court Does a State Court that refuses to uniformly apply its own laws and rules to similarly situated state prisoners violate the Due Process and Equal Prot…
25A416 Kyle John Roberts v. Regions Hospital Minnesota 2025-10-10 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights judicial-review medical-malpractice standards-of-care state-court statutory-interpretation Whether a state court's interpretation of medical malpractice statutes and standards of care violates a plaintiff's constitutional right to judicial r…
25A417 In Re Ramsey E. Clayter 2025-10-10 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure constitutional-rights emergency-relief judicial-review procedural-due-process state-court Whether the lower court's procedural rulings improperly denied the petitioner's constitutional right to judicial review
25A403 Antonio Liberatore v. Nevada Employment Security Division, et al. Nevada 2025-10-08 Presumed Complete cares-act emergency-relief federal-jurisdiction pua state-court unemployment-benefits Whether the federal courts have jurisdiction to review a state court's interpretation of the CARES Act and Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) bene…
25A338 Earl Howard v. New York New York 2025-09-24 Presumed Complete appellate-review criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process leave-to-appeal state-court Whether a state appellate court's summary denial of leave to appeal without a substantive opinion violates a criminal defendant's due process rights t…
25A255 James Webb Hunter v. S. F. California 2025-09-03 Presumed Complete appellate-review certiorari jurisdictional-deadline state-court supreme-court time-extension Whether a state appellate court's decision, when followed by a state supreme court's denial of review, constitutes a final judgment for purposes of Su…
25A220 Roberto Lopez-Ortiz v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2025-08-26 Presumed Complete appellate-review criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process state-court time-extension Whether a state supreme court's denial of a discretionary extension of time for seeking further appellate review violates a criminal defendant's due p…
25-213 Atlas Turner, Inc. v. Donna B. Welch, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Melvin G. Welch, Deceased, et al. South Carolina 2025-08-21 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-limits due-process in-rem-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction state-court territorial-boundaries Whether the Due Process Clause permits a court with specific personal jurisdiction over a defendant to exercise in rem jurisdiction over the defendant…
25A199 Peyman Roshan v. Chika Sunquist, Commissioner, California Department of Real Estate Ninth Circuit 2025-08-19 Presumed Complete administrative-action civil-rights judicial-proceeding procedural-barrier state-court younger-abstention Whether Younger abstention requires a state administrative proceeding to be 'judicial in nature' and whether state administrative proceedings creating…
25-197 T. M. v. University of Maryland Medical System Corporation, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-08-19 Granted Amici (3)Relisted (2) appellate-procedure doctrine-interpretation federal-jurisdiction judicial-review rooker-feldman state-court Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine can be triggered by a state-court decision that remains subject to further review in state court
25-5195 Missouri, ex rel. Steven Albert Martin v. Ann Hansbrough, Presiding Judge, Circuit Court of Platte County, Missouri, et al. Missouri 2025-07-25 Denied IFP declaratory-judgment due-process fiduciary-control fourteenth-amendment judicial-inaction state-court Whether a state court may constitutionally refuse to act on a properly filed Petition for Declaratory Judgment regarding private trusts and fiduciary …
25-5180 Sherrod Anthony Wright v. Florida Florida 2025-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure defendant-rights jury-trial sixth-amendment state-court waiver Whether the ancient right enshrined in the Sixth Amendment to trial by a twelve-member jury applies to a state court trial for major felonies where th…
25-5172 William Trampas Widmyer v. Jonathan Frame, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex Fourth Circuit 2025-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights federal-court habeas-corpus procedural-default rule-60b state-court Whether a Rule 60(B) motion challenging procedural default in a habeas corpus proceeding violates constitutional rights when state and federal court e…
24A1273 Claudia C. Hoerig v. Shannon Olds, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-06-23 Presumed Complete aedpa certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right habeas-corpus procedural-default state-court Whether the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) permits federal habeas review of a state court conviction when the petitioner's clai…
24-7474 Richard Gerald Jordan v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-06-20 Denied IFP arbitrary-denial constitutional-claim death-penalty due-process ex-post-facto state-court Whether the State of Mississippi has run afoul of due process by arbitrarily denying an available state court forum to adjudicate a federal constituti…
24-1284 Eugene Dingle v. Leslie Armstrong, Individually and as Guardian ad Litem of Dorchester County Family Court, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-06-16 Denied constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-review rooker-feldman state-court Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars federal courts from reviewing state family court decisions where the petitioner alleges egregious violations …
24A1173 Bryant Buckhanan v. Illinois Illinois 2025-05-30 Presumed Complete appellate-review final-judgment habeas-corpus petition-for-leave state-court supreme-court Whether a state supreme court's denial of a petition for leave to appeal constitutes a final judgment for purposes of federal habeas corpus review
24-7065 Donald J. Englert, II v. Reginald Bishop, Superintendent, Five Points Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2025-04-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP aedpa due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-error state-court Whether a state court's denial of a hearing on an ineffective assistance of counsel claim can amount to an unreasonable determination of facts under A…
24-1092 Mungo Homes, LLC v. Amanda Leigh Huskins, et vir South Carolina 2025-04-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration contract-law federal-arbitration-act public-policy severability state-court Whether the South Carolina Supreme Court erred in applying a severability rule that disfavors arbitration and by creating a state-specific public poli…
24-1029 Abram J. Harris v. Department of Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, et al. District of Columbia 2025-03-27 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure district-court jurisdictional-requirements removal-jurisdiction state-court statutory-interpretation Whether an action may be removed to the district court after it has been dismissed in the state court and a notice of appeal filed; Whether the remova…
24-1023 Violet Love Ray v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-25 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right federal-petition habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief state-court Whether a certificate of appealability should issue under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) where one or more judges in the state-court habeas proceedings has deter…
24-6837 Katie Garding v. Montana Department of Corrections Ninth Circuit 2025-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction criminal-judgment custody-challenge federal-relief habeas-corpus state-court Whether a federal appellate court has jurisdiction to consider an appeal from a grant of federal habeas relief after a state court's vacatur of the un…
24-6780 Earl Felton Crago, Jr. v. Arizona Arizona 2025-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP conviction-review criminal-procedure federal-court habeas-corpus state-court subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Federal Court has jurisdiction to hear successive petitions for writ of habeas corpus when state courts lack subject matter jurisdiction o…
24-6741 Sasha Nicole Pringle v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa constitutional-claim exhaustion-doctrine federal-claim habeas-corpus state-court Whether a state habeas petitioner 'fairly presents' her federal claim when the petitioner raises the substance of a federal constitutional claim in st…
24-6722 Ashley Muse v. Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights collateral-estoppel due-process federal-jurisdiction res-judicata state-court Whether a U.S. District Court can apply Res Judicata and Collateral Estoppel to a void State Court judgment and deny due process rights in a federal c…
24-6675 Pierre Cornelius Stewart v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-02-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP collateral-review constitutional-review federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-deference state-court Whether the principles of substantial limitation on collateral review in habeas corpus cases pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 apply to habeas corpus cases…
24-898 John Doe Corporation v. Kennerly, Montgomery & Finley, P.C. Tennessee 2025-02-20 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process notice-requirement state-court summary-dismissal Whether a state trial court can summarily dismiss a plaintiff's complaint without providing notice to the plaintiff when the court has counsel's conta…
24-6552 In Re Kevin Othell La Ferney 2025-02-12 Denied IFP constitutional-rights conviction-challenge due-process judicial-review state-court subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a state court can arbitrarily deprive a defendant of constitutional rights by maintaining a conviction without subject matter jurisdiction
24-834 Evgeny Pistrak v. Kseniia Golubeva Washington 2025-02-05 Denied Response Waived federal-preemption immigration-law maintenance-obligations spousal-support state-court supremacy-clause Whether the Supremacy Clause and federal immigration law preempt a state court from imposing maintenance obligations solely because a spouse lacks wor…
24-6433 Jesus C. Gonzalez v. Dan Cromwell, Warden Seventh Circuit 2025-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process federal-claim ineffective-assistance merits-adjudication procedural-default state-court Whether a defendant who raises only a federal due process claim in state court proceedings has given state courts an opportunity to act on his claim p…
24-6408 Clinton Folkes v. South Carolina, et al. South Carolina 2025-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-preservation retroactivity state-court Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection is violated when a state court conditions the retroactivity of a new rule of criminal…
24-6346 Daniel Moore v. Misty Mackey, Acting Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-01-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights federal-law habeas-corpus sixth-circuit state-court Where the case presented a substantial showing of a denial of a constitutional right, and where the issues presented were debatable amongst jurists of…
24A666 Donald J. Trump v. New York, et al. New York 2025-01-08 Presumed Complete Amici (2) criminal-prosecution executive-power presidential-immunity state-court transition-period trump-v-united-states Whether a sitting or president-elect enjoys absolute criminal immunity from state court prosecution during the transition period between election and …
24-6217 Ricky Kamdem-Ouaffo v. Colgate Palmolive Co., et al. Third Circuit 2024-12-31 Denied IFP constitutional-rights federal-court patent-application procedural-action state-court subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a federal court has subject-matter jurisdiction to order a state court judge's jurisdiction and adjudge a patent application's procedural acti…
24-6138 Andre Terial Love v. J. M. Robertson Ninth Circuit 2024-12-13 Denied IFP constitutional-provisions due-process federal-review procedural-default state-court supreme-court-precedent Whether the state court's procedural default finding bars federal review of claims one and two, and whether the admission of other crimes evidence vio…
24-5985 Tara Dawn Chapman v. Tennessee Department of Children's Services Tennessee 2024-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act fundamental-rights guardianship mental-disability parental-rights state-court Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) applies to termination of parental rights cases and protects parents with mental disabilities from l…
24A459 Raymond Anthony Lewis v. Brian D. Phillips, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-11-07 Presumed Complete criminal-conviction federal-review habeas-corpus ninth-circuit state-court time-extension Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision improperly applied federal habeas corpus standards in reviewing a state court criminal conviction
24A415 Richard Rynn, et al. v. Daniel Washburn, et al. Arizona 2024-10-29 Presumed Complete child-custody constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte-injunction parental-rights state-court Whether a state court can issue an ex parte child custody injunction without notice when there is no showing of imminent harm to the child
24-329 Michael Ashford, et al. v. Aviation Technical Services, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2024-09-24 Denied case-controversy diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction realignment removal state-court Whether realignment can be used to create diversity jurisdiction in a removed case notwithstanding the presence of an actual case and controversy betw…
24A282 Linnea W. v. Matthew P. New York 2024-09-19 Presumed Complete custody-trial due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-fees state-court Whether the New York State Court of Appeals violated a parent's constitutional due process rights by arbitrarily denying legal fees and counsel in a c…
24A253 Kent Johnson v. Superior Court of California, El Dorado County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-09-10 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge contempt-proceeding emergency-relief injunctive-stay pro-se state-court Whether a pro se litigant can obtain emergency injunctive relief to stay a state court contempt proceeding without demonstrating a clear constitutiona…
24-175 Kathleen M. Bonczyk v. John Wardle, et al. Florida 2024-08-19 Denied Response Waived communication-restrictions due-process ex-parte-communications judicial-policy procedural-safeguards state-court Whether violations of the Due Process Clause occur when a state judicial policy allows exceptions to ex parte communication restrictions without proce…
24-154 Catholic Charities Bureau, Inc., et al. v. Wisconsin Labor & Industry Review Commission, et al. Wisconsin 2024-08-13 Judgment Issued Amici (43)Relisted (2) constitutional-challenge first-amendment religious-exemption religious-organization state-court tax-exemption Does a state violate the First Amendment's Religion Clauses by denying a religious organization an otherwise-available tax exemption because the organ…
24-5263 Pedro Rodriguez v. Officer Fisher Ninth Circuit 2024-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus ninth-circuit rule-of-lenity state-court timeliness timeliness-rules Did the Ninth Circuit err in holding that the California Supreme Court's summary denial of a habeas petition as untimely is beyond review by federal c…
24-5179 Forrest Hammond v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2024-07-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-liberties commutation criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review pardon state-court Whether the commutation of Petitioner's sentence to time-served ending his state custody before his pending federal habeas corpus application was adju…
24-74 In Re Alphonza Leonard Phillip Thomas Bey 2024-07-25 Denied Relisted (2) 14th-amendment 8th-amendment black-negro-colored-persons constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment jurisdiction property state-court Question not identified.
24A87 A.M.B., et al. v. Kelly J. McKnight, Presiding Judge, Circuit Court of Wisconsin, Ashland County Wisconsin 2024-07-25 Presumed Complete constitutional-protection due-process family-association fundamental-liberty parental-rights state-court Whether a state court's termination of parental rights violates a parent's fundamental constitutional right to familial association without providing …
24A42 Thanquarious R. Calhoun v. Warden, Baldwin State Prison, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-15 Presumed Complete clearly-established-law constitutional-claim federal-statute habeas-corpus state-court writ-of-certiorari Whether the federal habeas corpus statute under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 permits relief when a state court's adjudication of a constitutional claim was contra…
24-5068 Frankie Wayne Pope v. Kevin Sprayberry, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fraud habeas-corpus judicial-process post-conviction-relief state-court transcripts trial-fraud Question not identified.
23-7822 Nukarri Williams v. Florida Florida 2024-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law due-process equal-protection equal-treatment federal-code fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction petition relief state-court writ Whether the state court's failure to provide the petitioner with the relief provided to similarly situated defendants violates the Equal Protection Cl…
23-1339 Frank R. DiFranco v. Patricia M. Fallon, Circuit Judge, Circuit Court of Illinois, Cook County, et al. Illinois 2024-06-25 Denied Response Waived election-contest election-law mandatory-or-directory mode-of-procedure state-court statutory-deadlines statutory-election-contest statutory-procedure subject-matter-jurisdiction unauthorized-party vote-counting Whether a State Court has subject matter jurisdiction in a special statutory election contest proceeding
23-1334 Centennial Resource Production, LLC v. Northern Natural Gas Company Nebraska 2024-06-21 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment based exclusively on actions taken by the non-res federal-preemption minimum-contacts over a non-resident defendant personal-jurisdiction purposeful-availment violates the constitutional due-process 14th-amendment due-process federal-regulatory-requirement non-resident-defendant personal-jurisdiction state-court Whether the exercise of personal jurisdiction by a state court
23-7771 Stephen Lundquist v. Idaho Idaho 2024-06-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-intent due-process duress evidence evidence-standard judicial-procedure post-conviction-relief reasonable-probability state-court Is the Idaho state court in violation of the Brady-v-maryland rule by changing the evidence, contrary to uncontroverted evidence, in dismissing the th…
23A1116 John Phillip Bender v. Texas Texas 2024-06-18 Presumed Complete criminal-appeal discretionary-review due-process judicial-procedure state-court writ-of-certiorari Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals and Supreme Court of Texas violated the petitioner's due process rights by refusing discretionary review o…
23A1123 Sylvester Traylor v. Pacciuco LLC Connecticut 2024-06-18 Presumed Complete civil-procedure due-process notice-requirement premature-execution state-court summary-judgment Whether a state court's summary process judgment violates due process when prematurely executed without proper notice or opportunity to be heard
23-7721 Darren M. Reese v. Jay Forshey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-06-14 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure criminal-procedure'\n\n'May a State Court of Last due-process legal-interpretation rule-of-lenity state-court state-law statutory-interpretation Is the Rule of Lenity a Constitutional Due Process guarantee that must be employed when a State Court construes ambiguous statutory language?
23-7666 Brandon Washington v. Steven T. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-07 Denied IFP evidentiary-hearing factual-determination factual-record federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus state-court state-court-proceedings unreasonable-determination Whether a state prisoner must dispel 'any potential justification' for a state court's factual finding, even when the prisoner was unjustifiably denie…
23A1096 In Re Eric Drake Texas 2024-06-07 Presumed Complete appellate-review criminal-defendant emergency-relief mandamus procedural-stay state-court Whether a state criminal defendant can seek emergency relief from the U.S. Supreme Court to stay state court proceedings before exhausting state appel…
23-7635 Douglas Cornell Jackson v. Nathan Hoffman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-06-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus post-conviction postconviction-proceedings standing state-court Whether a district court's sua sponte stay of habeas corpus petition pending resolution of postconviction proceeding in state court is appealable afte…
23A1082 Eva A. Nieczyperowicz v. Andrew Nieczyperowicz Texas 2024-06-04 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure discretionary-review federal-question page-limits pro-se state-court Whether a pro se litigant's application for discretionary leave to exceed page limits in a state court appeal presents a substantial federal question …
23-7510 Tidiane Kone v. Justin Brown, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus indian-law judicial-procedure procedural-default standing state-court Whether a court applied the correct standard in dismissing a complaint alleging a violation of the Indian Civil Rights Act
23A1025 Vivendi S.E., et al. v. EPAC Technologies Ltd. New York 2024-05-17 Presumed Complete appellate-review certiorari final-judgment jurisdiction state-court supreme-court Whether a state appellate court's denial of leave to appeal constitutes a final judgment for purposes of Supreme Court certiorari jurisdiction
23-7479 Ronald Lee Howard v. Texas Texas 2024-05-14 Denied IFP appeal appellate-procedure constitutional-rights discretionary-review douglas due-process evitts fourteenth-amendment griffin state-court texas-court-of-criminal-appeals Is procedural due process violated regarding the constitutional requirement of a meaningful or effective appeal of right under Evitts, Griffin and Dou…
23-7450 Jihad A. Spann v. Missouri Missouri 2024-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights counsel-abandonment due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel liberty-interest post-conviction-proceeding post-conviction-relief rule-29.15 state-court state-court-procedure state-law May the due process clause require the State Courts to provide a full and fair post-conviction proceeding, if authorized by state law and as such cons…
23-1170 Franck William Yao v. Tamara Yao Missouri 2024-04-30 Denied best-interest-of-child best-interest-standard child-custody civil-procedure dual-citizenship expert-witness family-law judicial-consideration state-court testimony Whether the state courts erred in using Petitioner's dual-citizenship-status as consideration in their final-judgment
23-7302 In Re Michael A. Farrell 2024-04-24 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254d due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment full-and-fair-hearing reasonable-doubt state-court Did the U.S. District Court violate petitioners XIV Amendment right to due-process, equal-protection, 28-usc-2254d
23A931 Vernon Fiehler v. T. Anthony Mecklenburg, et al. Alaska 2024-04-17 Presumed Complete appellate-review certiorari federal-law jurisdiction state-court supreme-court Whether the Supreme Court of Alaska improperly exercised jurisdiction over a dispute involving federal law when determining the underlying case
23A871 Pushpa Shekar v. PHH Mortgage Group Illinois 2024-04-01 Presumed Complete federal-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct mortgage-servicing removal state-court sua-sponte Whether a state supreme court can improperly interfere with federal court jurisdiction by sua sponte remanding a previously removed case without legal…
23-1064 Juan Luis Leonor v. Diana Sabatka-Rine, Assistant Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Nebraska 2024-03-29 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment criminal-liability due-process imprisonment judicial-legislation state-court subject-matter-jurisdiction sudden-quarrel-provocation Whether the Due Process Clause prohibits imprisonment under a sentence derived from an unconstitutional law
23-7040 Hamid Houbbadi v. Kennedy Law Firm, PLLC, et al. Tennessee 2024-03-20 Denied IFP 14th-amendment appeals constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process legal-principles state-court statutory-interpretation Is the petitioner's constitutional right to due process of law under the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution violated when the Tennessee …
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…
23-1004 Moises Sandoval Mendoza v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-03-13 Denied capital-punishment capital-sentencing due-process federal-court fifth-circuit habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance merits-adjudication section-2254 state-court Whether a federal claim is 'adjudicated on the merits' in state court under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)
23-6948 Erick Wanjiku v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-03-11 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-bias jurisdiction legal-standards state-court vagueness-doctrine Question not identified
23-6953 Anthony Lamont Mason, II v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP federal-court federal-sentencing indian-major-crimes-act mandatory-minimum mcgirt-v-oklahoma sentencing-guidelines state-court state-sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether federal sentencing courts should treat a sentence that is optional in state court as mandatory in federal court under the Indian Major Crimes …
23-6816 Wayne Resper v. YesCare Corp., fka Corizon Health, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-02-23 Denied IFP ballot-access civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process election-law election-procedures federal-court removal standing state-court voting-rights Whether the Circuit Court for Alleghany County, Maryland should have given the pro se petitioner an opportunity to challenge the removal of his compla…
23-6791 Thomas Eugene Creech v. Idaho Idaho 2024-02-21 Denied IFP capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment evolving-standards judicial-sentencing post-conviction state-court Whether it comports with due process for a state court to reject as untimely an evolving-standards claim on a theory that would never allow for such a…
23-6563 Justin Taylor v. Tim Hooper, Warden Louisiana 2024-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure due-process jurisdiction legal-standing procedural-challenge remand standing state-court supreme-court void-proceedings Whether the lower court must investigate and resolve jurisdiction if raised by a party
23-6511 Thomas Albert Sosnowski v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-protective-services constitutional-rights due-process exhaustion-requirement exigent-circumstances federal-court fourth-amendment habeas-corpus social-worker state-court warrantless-search Whether a wrongfully convicted Section 2254 petitioner's U.S. constitutional rights violation claims that were not previously exhausted in the state c…
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…
23-770 John Doe v. Bill Crouch, in His Official Capacity as Cabinet Secretary of the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge equal-protection federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction redressability rooker-feldman standing state-court Does Rooker-Feldman bar jurisdiction when declaring a statute unconstitutional would undermine a state court's reliance upon the statute?
23-6407 Nira Woods v. Department of Housing and Community Development, et al. California 2024-01-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-constitution federal-procedure interlocutory-order judicial-review standing state-court state-courts Is the Existence of the State Courts Interlocutory Order(s) in this case impairs/offense/invalidate my Federal Constitution and Due processes?
23-6401 Wayne Johnson v. Contra Costa County Clerk Recorder, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-misconduct civil-rights court-immunity court-reporter criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process immunity judicial-proceedings procedural-error standing state-court Whether a court reporter in a state criminal action is entitled to immunity for failing to record objections made by parties in a criminal preceding t…
23-695 Samantha Taczak, et al. v. Nicolette Cremeans, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-12-27 Denied civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment qualified-immunity section-1983 state-court state-court-precedent u.s-constitution What sources of law constitute 'controlling authority' for the purposes of clearly establishing a right when analyzing Section 1983 qualified immunity…
23-6334 Nira Woods v. Department of Housing and Community Development, et al. California 2023-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-constitution interlocutory-order judicial-procedure state-court state-courts statutory-provisions Is the Existence of the State Courts Interlocutory Order(s) in this case impairs / offense / invalidate Federal Constitution and Due processes?
23A484 Kathy Allen v. Arthur Allen, et al. North Carolina 2023-11-29 Presumed Complete appeal-dismissal certiorari due-process judicial-explanation pro-se state-court Whether the North Carolina state courts violated the petitioner's due process rights by dismissing her appeal without providing a substantive explanat…
23-6127 Shawna Karnes, et al. v. Tiffany Montengo, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-11-28 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction fraud-exception judicial-review jurisdiction rocker-feldman-doctrine state-court state-court-judgement Does the federal district court and federal court of appeals have the jurisdiction to reverse or modify a state-court judgement though a fraud excepti…
23-6047 Ralph Reed v. Robert May, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2023-11-17 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights due-process federal-court habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdictional-issue legal-procedure state-court state-law statutory-interpretation Whether the State of Delaware's denial of Petitioner's request for a writ of habeas corpus violated his due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendm…
23A394 Steven LaWayne Nelson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-11-01 Presumed Complete circuit-split federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance section-2254 state-court Whether the preclusive scope of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) permits federal courts to consider ineffective assistance of counsel claims that were not adjudica…
23-5895 Ryan Rydell Bonner v. Texas Texas 2023-10-26 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure procedural-default speedy-trial standing state-court Speedy and effective adjudication of habeas corpus rights
23-5750 Todd Ferry v. Melissa Hainsworth, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. Third Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied IFP appellate-procedure brady-violation civil-rights default-rule due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se pro-se-petition state-court Did the State and the Federal Habeas courts' decision that ineffective-assistance-of-counsel issues were defaulted conflict with precedents
23-5744 In Re Jimmy Wheeler 2023-10-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights collusion constitutional-claims due-process federal-review fraud habeas-corpus post-conviction standing state-court Whether the Court's ruling in Shady Grove, 559 U.S. 393 (2010) remains active to review fraud, deceit, and collusion
23-5720 In Re Terrance A. McCauley 2023-10-05 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-proceedings legal-procedure peaceable-assembly sovereign-immunity standing state-court Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in sustaining the dismissal of Terrance A. McCauley's civil rights claims against state officials f…
23-5509 Vincent D. White, Jr. v. Michael Phillips, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP adverse-effect concurrent-conflict conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance 23-5508" mickens-standard post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment state-court trial-counsel Whether a state court's denial of post-conviction Whether a criminal-defense attorney, under indictment on charges of rape, kidnapping, and sexual assault, has a conflict of interest when simultaneous…
23-191 Nancy Williams, et al. v. Greg Reed, Secretary, Alabama Department of Workforce Alabama 2023-08-29 Judgment Issued Amici (8)Relisted (2) administrative-exhaustion administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-remedies section-1983 standing state-court state-courts statutory-interpretation Whether exhaustion of state administrative remedies is required to bring claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in state court
23-176 Robert Cox, et al. v. Helena Chemical Company Texas 2023-08-25 Denied Response Waived due-process evidence evidence-exclusion expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment legal-standards property-rights state-court Whether the Due Process Clause prohibits a state court from depriving petitioners of property protected by the Fourteenth Amendment without allowing t…
23-5306 Kenneth Ray Holbert, Sr. v. Texas Texas 2023-08-09 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-right direct-appeal ineffective-assistance legal-burden state-court state-court-procedure strickland-standard strickland-test summary-reversal two-pronged Where a Strickland claim is appropriately raised on direct appeal, may a state court add to the two-pronged Strickland test a burden of showing the tr…
23-83 Martine Bernard v. Christopher Hodyl Colorado 2023-07-27 Denied 14th-amendment contract-coercion court-ordered court-ordered-visitation due-process fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-contract procedural-due-process state-court visiting-supervisor Whether a state court's denial of the freedom of contract violates the 14th Amendment
23-5186 Kinley MacDonald v. Jeanne Lambrew, et al. Maine 2023-07-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP child-removal civil-rights due-process evidentiary-ruling family-law federal-review habeas-corpus standing state-court state-court-jurisdiction transcript-accuracy Whether a state court can remove children from a parent's custody based solely on hearsay evidence prohibited by state statute and in the absence of j…
23-5165 Jeff Baoliang Zhang v. County of Los Angeles, California, et al. California 2023-07-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP amendment-xiv civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-corruption judicial-misconduct standing state-court Whether the state court judges can willfully use all the lies made by Respondents and impose the unreasonable state statutes to dismiss this case
22-7891 Ronald James Littlefield v. California California 2023-06-29 Denied IFP access-to-courts due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness judicial-notice pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process state-court Can a state tribunal deprive litigants to that tribunal equal protection of the law and even handed justice based upon a commitment offense?
22-7892 Sherri Jefferson v. State Bar of Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-29 Denied IFP civil-rights claim-preclusion conspiracy due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review jurisdictional-bar racial-discrimination standing state-court statutory-interpretation Whether the federal courts have jurisdiction to examine 42 U.S.C. 1981, 1983 and 1985 claims not intertwined with a state court judgment
22-7850 In Re James C. Winding 2023-06-22 Dismissed IFP 14th-amendment attorney-general civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process federal-court habeas-corpus judicial-review mississippi-court procedural-challenge standing state-court Whether the U.S. Supreme Court should review the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the South…
22-1228 Josephine Tripodi, et al. v. North Coventry Township, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2023-06-21 Denied 14th-amendment civil-contempt compelled-sale due-process fourteenth-amendment property-rights real-property state-court Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment limit the power of a state court to order the compelled sale of a private person's real proper…
22-7721 William Whittman v. Prime Autotech, Inc., et al. Virginia 2023-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal civil-procedure due-process equal-justice equal-protection federal-questions petition-for-appeal reversible-error state-court state-court-decision Does the State Court Decision to deny Petitioner's Petition for Appeal on 2/27/23 on grounds that no reversible error occurred in the lower court viol…
22-7615 Willie Jerome Manning v. Mississippi Mississippi 2023-05-23 Denied IFP criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process evidence evidence-testing habeas-corpus post-conviction post-conviction-relief state-court state-courts Whether a State may curtail a protected interest in DNA testing arbitrarily
22-7545 Maude Laroche-St. Fleur v. Board of Bar Overseers of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, et al. Massachusetts 2023-05-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-discipline constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-proceedings fourteenth-amendment judicial-immunity state-court state-court-jurisdiction Whether a State court is permitted to issue decisions in conflict with Supreme Court precedents and violate fundamental rights under the Fourteenth Am…
22-7397 Daniel Kim v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2023-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-speech due-process fighting-words first-amendment free-speech jury-determination jury-instructions speech-protection state-court true-threats Whether a state court is prohibited from unilaterally determining whether a defendant's written speech on his blog is protected or criminal, without h…
22-7402 Nathan Alvarado v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2023-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment gideon-v-wainwright habeas-corpus public-importance state-court Did the State Court proceedings afford Due Process and Equal Protection of Laws under the Fifth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment?
22-1035 Shoman Kasbekar, et al. v. Ivy Station Community Association, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-25 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction pleading rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court state-court-jurisdiction Whether a state court acts with jurisdiction and in a manner consistent with Fourteenth Amendment Due Process when it enters judgment on a pleading ex…
22-7173 Marty Tarell Gaston v. North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2023-04-03 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial motion-for-appropriate-relief state-court state-laws Did the North Carolina State Superior Court deny this Petitioner actual justice in the face of established 'State laws allowing the filing of a second…
22-877 John Lugo v. Avena L. Sturm Illinois 2023-03-13 Denied Response Waived case-exception civil-procedure collateral-consequences judicial-review legal-precedent mootness sibron-v-new-york standing state-court Whether a State Court is bound by Sibron v. New York, 392 U.S. 40, 53 (1968) in determining whether a case is moot when a 'secondary or collateral inj…
22-6936 Edson Gelin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-procedure first-step-act ineffective-assistance murder-conviction ninth-circuit sentencing-guidelines sentencing-policy state-court statutory-interpretation Whether the Eleventh Circuit's holding in Bryant that the policy statement in USSG §1B1.13 applies to all motions under 18 U.S.C. §3582(c)(1)(A) confl…
22-6882 David Byron Russ v. Florida Florida 2023-02-28 Denied IFP capital-defendant capital-punishment criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus mental-competency review-claim state-court state-courts substantive-incompetency Whether a state court may refuse to review a capital defendant's claim of substantive incompetency?
22-813 Samuel Edward Trapp v. John Gunn, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-02-28 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 bar-licensing civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-action declaratory-relief due-process licensing rooker-feldman-doctrine standing state-court state-court-action Does the Rooker-Feldman doctrine foreclose a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action in federal court against individual influencers of a state's attorney licensing p…
22-6768 Stanley Foster Baker v. Texas Texas 2023-02-13 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights custodial-interrogation due-process equal-protection evidence-presentation judicial-procedure miranda-warnings reasonable-person-standard state-court supreme-court-precedent Was it objectively reasonable for the State courts to conclude that no reasonable factfinder could believe that Baker was in custody during interrogat…
22-6727 Kenneth Baldwin v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2244 constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure resentencing sentencing state-court statutory-interpretation Legality of multiple judgments and double jeopardy
22-6655 Theodore Washington v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2023-01-30 Denied Amici (1)IFP criminal-procedure deference due-process fact-finding federal-court federal-habeas habeas habeas-corpus judicial-deference procedural-review state-court state-court-findings Must a federal habeas court defer to a state-court finding of fact that favors the defendant?
22-699 Council for Education and Research on Toxics v. California Chamber of Commerce Ninth Circuit 2023-01-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) federal-preemption first-amendment petition-rights preliminary-injunction prior-restraint public-interest-lawsuit public-interest-lawsuits state-court Does a preliminary injunction enjoining public interest lawsuits constitute an unlawful prior restraint on First Amendment petition rights?
22-6595 Solita Harrington v. MedStar Washington Hospital Center, et al. District of Columbia 2023-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-privilege civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance medical-malpractice ninth-circuit standing state-court Whether the respondents' actions violated the petitioner's constitutional rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments
22-6512 Frank L. Perry v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2023-01-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP direct-review due-process equal-protection finality finality-date fourteenth-amendment lamb-v-state montgomery-v-state state-court Whether the lower Florida state court's error in failing to correctly calculate the date that petitioner's direct review of his case became 'final' de…
22-6485 Annamarie Riethmiller v. Unnamed Defendants Fourth Circuit 2023-01-09 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-rights declaratory-judgment due-process judicial-review legal-interpretation presidential-actions standing state-court statutory-interpretation Was the notice of appeal timely filed?
22-6465 Jess Richard Smith v. Washington Washington 2023-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process federal-law jurisdiction post-conviction state-court stay witness-testimony Whether the state court has decided an important question of federal law under the Due Process Clause of the United States Constitution
22-6376 Marcus Joseph v. South Carolina South Carolina 2022-12-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP arbitrary-suspension civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus proportionality-review sentencing-guidelines state-court Whether the Respondent's arbitrary suspension of the writ of habeas corpus is constitutional
22-6387 Kenakil Gibson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process fair-presentation federal-claim federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jackson-standard procedural-default standing state-court state-court-proceedings Does state prisoner fairly present federal nature of his claim on direct appeal
22-6356 Tyler Nees v. Oregon Oregon 2022-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause cross-examination due-process evidence federal-review habeas-corpus hearsay independent-state-ground procedural-default sixth-amendment state-court Whether the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment prohibits the admission of testimonial hearsay evidence without an opportunity for cross-exami…
22-6327 Anthony Naquan West v. Texas Texas 2022-12-16 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-review conviction-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus state-court state-courts Whether the state Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas' adjudication denying Petitioner's writ of Habeas Corpus was contrary to or involved an unreasona…
22-5868 Chad Alan Cappiello v. Texas Texas 2022-10-19 Denied IFP certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-ruling standing state-court statutory-interpretation supreme-court Whether the state courts are at liberty to review determinations of motions for unredactedness, or by asserting a timely filing, as an state due proce…
22-5856 Tracy J. McGill v. Oklahoma Department of Corrections Oklahoma 2022-10-18 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-indian-law federal-law habeas-corpus jurisdiction state-court subject-matter-jurisdiction unreasonable-determination Whether Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals' denial of petitioner's jurisdictional claim resulted in an unreasonable determination of the facts
22-5848 Benjamin Robert Cole v. Jim Farris, Warden Oklahoma 2022-10-17 Denied IFP death-row disputed-issues-of-fact eighth-amendment execution-competency ford-v-wainwright fourteenth-amendment panetti-v-quarterman procedural-safeguards state-court warden-gatekeeper Whether it violates the Eighth Amendment and this Court's decisions in Ford v. Wainwright and Panetti v. Quarterman, for a state court to bypass proce…
22-315 Earnest Eugene Padillow v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2022-10-03 Denied certificate-of-appealability direct-appeal due-process exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review procedural-default state-court state-court-hearing witness-opportunity Whether the United States District Court For The Northern District Of Oklahoma and subsequently the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in defaulting…
22-5613 Kennrith L. Foster v. Illinois Illinois 2022-09-20 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-interpretation notice plea-bargaining prisoner-rights state-court waiver Did the trial court violate the petitioner's constitutional rights to a jury trial when it accepted a plea without providing adequate notice of the na…
22-5556 Mehmet Ali Whicker v. Washington Washington 2022-09-12 Denied IFP arbitrary-action arbitrary-and-capricious civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process extraordinary-circumstances jury-instructions legal-procedure standing state-court sua-sponte Whether the Court violated due process by reaching a sua sponte answer to a question not presented
22-5526 William Paul Burch v. Homeward Residential Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP article-iii-judge bankruptcy civil-procedure constitutional-procedure due-process federal-court judicial-discretion jurisdiction removal removal-jurisdiction standing state-court Is it a violation of the United States Constitution for a federal court to accept removal of a case from state court after thirty days or can it be ex…
22-5495 Micquel Shemario Thomas v. Michigan Michigan 2022-09-01 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP brady-violation criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus michigan-supreme-court people-v-ginther post-conviction remand state-court supreme-court-review Whether the Michigan Supreme Court's denial of petitioner's delayed application for leave to appeal was contrary to the well-established law in People…
22-5452 Cameron Paul Crockett v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa evidentiary-hearing fact-finding federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice state-court Does AEDPA's 'unreasonable determination of the facts' clause contemplate that materially inadequate state court fact-finding processes can satisfy § …
22-5372 Tony Lee Foster v. Kansas Kansas 2022-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP Federal and U.S. Supreme Court precedent demands Kansas Supreme Court precedent civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process federal-precedent judicial-review kansas-supreme-court procedural-due-process state-court state-court-review state-precedent state-statute statutory-review supreme-court-precedent Whether a state high court can deny review of a constitutional challenge to its own statute when procedural due process, state precedent, and federal …
22-5324 Daniel Del Brumit v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-08-09 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-jurisdiction due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-protection indian-law native-american-rights res-judicata reservation-boundaries state-court state-law treaty-interpretation Does the AEDPA instruct federal courts to give full faith and credit to State Court judgments and decrees which have clearly on its face usurped exclu…
22-5228 William Paul Burch v. America's Servicing Company Fifth Circuit 2022-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii-court civil-procedure federal-issue federal-jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirements removal removal-procedure service-of-process state-court state-court-removal state-issue Should removal from a state court to a federal court by a defendant only be allowed after the state court judge conducts a hearing to determine if the…
22-73 Usha Jain, et vir v. David Barker, et al. Florida 2022-07-26 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-removal federal-statute jurisdiction remand-order removal-jurisdiction standing state-court state-court-proceedings Whether state court proceedings and orders are void during the removal period
22-5169 Antoine Deshawn Barnes v. T.V. Nationwide Network, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-25 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-statute due-process free-speech legal-challenge mens-rea standing state-court statutory-construction takings Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
21-1601 Areli Carbajal Escobar v. Texas Texas 2022-06-28 GVR Amici (3)Relisted (7) capital-murder criminal-procedure death-penalty dna-evidence due-process false-evidence federal-court habeas-corpus state-court Did the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals err in holding that the prosecution's reliance on admittedly false DNA evidence to secure petitioner's convict…
21-8252 Isaac Jude Rodriguez v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2022-06-28 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process excusable-neglect jurisdiction jurisdictional-time-limit legal-filing procedural-rules state-court writ-of-certiorari Whether the court of appeals correctly concluded that petitioner's motion for certificate of appealability was filed untimely
21-8193 Robert D. Keith v. Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-amendment civil-rights color-of-law conflict-of-interest due-process eleventh-amendment judicial-immunity state-court title-iv-d Does a State Judge have authority to preside over a case when they have a conflict of interest?
21-8107 Keith Undray Ford v. Suzanne M. Peery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP adjudication criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-statute habeas-corpus legal-interpretation presumption-of-innocence presumption-of-law state-court state-courts When an issue before a state court is resolved by an assumption of fact, as opposed to a factual finding, has the issue before the state court been 'a…
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…
21-8016 John Edward Burr v. Denise Jackson, Warden Fourth Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-due-process de-novo-review due-process federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus postconviction state-court witness-statement Where the State withholds the statement of a critical witness from the state court during the postconviction adjudication of a claim under Brady v. Ma…
21-7986 Stephen Gosch v. Florida Florida 2022-05-27 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-disclosure fourteenth-amendment jury-instruction jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct state-court Did the state court violate the petitioner's right to due process of law as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment?
21-1471 Denise Halvorson, et vir v. Hennepin County Children’s Services Department, et al. Minnesota 2022-05-23 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) consent-requirement due-process federal-indian-law foster-care indian-child-welfare-act jurisdictional-transfer nonmember nonmember-party state-court tribal-jurisdiction Whether a state court can order the transfer of a foster care proceeding to tribal court when it forces a nonmember party residing outside the reserva…
21-7884 Juan Carlos Rodriguez-Garcia v. Eddie M. Buffaloe, Jr., Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety, et al. North Carolina 2022-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction standing state-court state-jurisdiction Whether the State of North Carolina's continued confinement of the Petitioner is unconstitutional under the Court's prior rulings
21-7873 Charlie Branner, Jr. v. Georgia Georgia 2022-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process georgia-appeals-court motion-for-reconsideration service-of-order service-of-process state-court writ-of-certiorari Was the Georgia Supreme Court's denial of the writ of certiorari error when the Georgia Appeals Court failed to serve all parties with the order dismi…
21-7846 Jose L. Arroyo-Garcia v. Ohio Ohio 2022-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure discrimination due-process equal-protection exceptions indictment-amendment legal-discrimination state-court state-courts Does the Due Process Clause tolerate invidious discrimination by way of a state court's denial of a well-established exception to the rule?
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…
21-7602 Karyn Kelley v. Mary Feeney New Hampshire 2022-04-12 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment state-court supreme-court-review tribunal-judgment Whether the State of New Hampshire Supreme Court erred in affirming the tribunal court's judgment that violated the requirement for Due Process under …
21-1341 Wysingo Turner v. Christine Brannon-Dortch, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-04-11 Denied Response Waived 2nd-amendment civil-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process federal-law firearm-possession murder-trial self-defense standing state-court Whether a state court's decision that a criminal defendant can be falsely accused during his state criminal murder trial of 'illegally' possessing out…
21-7470 Reggie Orlando Williams v. Texas Texas 2022-03-25 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judicial-charging legal-procedure margin-of-error state-court state-prosecution When the State of Texas failed to elect which charging transaction of the offense the State was going to have Petitioner convicted under, did this res…
21-7401 Harold Edwards v. Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habitual-sentence liberty-interest sixth-amendment state-court state-procedure Did the state district court judge's failure to abide by Nevada's state procedural laws violate my constitutionally protected liberty interest, Fourte…
21-7407 Janece Tisdel v. The Witness Protection Fifth Circuit 2022-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-law federal-jurisdiction government-disability legal-jurisdiction mandamus standing state-court subject-matter-jurisdiction Does the United States Court of Appeals and the United States District Court have subject matter jurisdiction?
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…
21-7244 Walter L. Merritte v. Illinois Illinois 2022-03-03 Denied IFP appeal constitutional-law criminal-information criminal-procedure due-process legal-procedure standing state-court trial-court Whether petitioner's due process rights were violated
21-7261 Ezeani Gregory Ifesinachi v. Guy Cirillo, Warden Third Circuit 2022-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-misconduct habeas-corpus immigration-law judicial-review procedural-inconsistency state-court Whether the District Court's refusal to review the legality of the petitioner's detention due to the government's failure to timely adjudicate his pen…
21-7241 Darrell Johnson v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2022-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP alibi-instruction evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-error pennsylvania-state-court state-court stipulations trial-counsel Was the Pennsylvania State Court's ruling supported by the evidence and free from legal error when it held that Petitioner's trial counsel was not ine…
21-6869 Edward Oberwise v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-14 Denied IFP actual-innocence certiorari constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-court state-court-procedure successive-petition Should the Court use its power to grant certiorari to a noncapital state court defendant who has no other available forum to raise a compelling claim …
21-6755 Kenny Pugh v. Illinois Illinois 2022-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule in-forma-pauperis judicial-district legal-representation search-and-seizure state-court state-courts Whether the Petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the trial court denied his motion to suppress evidence obtained from an unlawful sea…
21-944 Josephine Tripodi, et al. v. North Coventry Township, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-12-27 Denied 14th-amendment civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-liability mold-remediation property-rights state-court takings Does the Due Process Clause prohibit a state court from compelling a real property owner to pay for mold inspection and remediation without legal duty…
21-6629 Jimmy Steele v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act judicial-interpretation retroactivity sentencing state-court statutory-interpretation Whether Congress intended a sentencing reduction under the First Step Act of 2018 to apply retroactively to defendants sentenced before the Act's enac…
21-6593 Murray Hooper v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2021-12-15 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 clearly-established clearly-established-law evidence-suppression federal-law greene-v-fisher habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct state-court supreme-court-review united-states-v-bagley witness-testimony Whether the state court decision by which 'clearly established federal law' is measured is rendered when the state court issues its mandate
21-6619 Jeremiah Y. Nation v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit 2021-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-process legal-review procedural-grounds procedural-review state-court state-court-petition Should a Certificate of Appealability be issued on a Fourth Amendment claim in a Habeas Corpus petition where there was a dispute in the U.S. District…
21-6576 Nicholas G. Peacock v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-conviction due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-review free-speech habeas-corpus marriage state-court statutory-law underage Do minors have a right to entice an individual for the purposes of marriage if similarly aged individuals are allowed to and being married in their re…
21-6562 Francis Timothy Plaza v. Barry Smith, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale, et al. Third Circuit 2021-12-08 Denied IFP case-progress civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling evidentiary-hearing judicial-precedent precedent prisoner-rights procedural-fairness state-court Was it an unreasonable application of this court's precedent to rule that equitable tolling should not apply to the petitioner's case where the state …
21-6506 E'Mario C. Allen v. Joseph Noeth, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2021-12-03 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion batson-challenge batson-issue constitutional-interpretation federal-habeas federal-habeas-court federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-discretion state-court supreme-court-review Whether the Habeas Court proceeding and adjudication of the claim regarding a Batson issue did not result in a decision that was contrary to, or invol…
21-6470 Michael George Kogianes v. Edward Jensen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federal-rights state-court Did the state violate the federal due process rights of my petitioner by sanctioning the proper format accepted by the court to deny a sub-trial based…
21-6379 Keith R. Gomez v. Ron Haynes, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-remedy sentencing state-court substantive-rights Whether Petitioner had a Constitutional right to be informed and/or Notified of 'right to appeal' after erroneously being sentenced, via 'corrected or…
21-745 Robert L. Alexander, et al. v. PSFS 3 Corporation Iowa 2021-11-19 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction forum-selection full-faith-and-credit judicial-procedure res-judicata state-court Was it a violation of the Full Faith and Credit Clause and Statute for the Supreme Court of Iowa to refuse to give effect to the ruling of the federal…
21-743 Donald Lempar v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-11-18 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2254 custody custody-definition federal-district-court federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus sex-offender-registration state-court state-court-judgment Whether a habeas corpus petitioner who is subject only to sex offender registration requirements when he or she filed his or her petition is 'in custo…
21-6320 Devon Carl Jordan-McFeely v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP ambiguous-statute criminal-procedure divisibility divisibility-inquiry federal-court federal-sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancement state-court state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-ambiguity supreme-court-precedent Whether a federal court may certify the divisibility inquiry to state court and rely on the newly created judicial interpretation of state law to enha…
21-6270 Catherine Pileggi v. Florida Florida 2021-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction postconviction-relief state-court state-court-procedure Whether the due process clause requires a state court to accept unrebutted factual allegations without an evidentiary hearing
21-6242 Shelly Margaret Arndt v. Washington Washington 2021-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-ruling factual-innocence fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice habeas-corpus state-court unlawful-incarceration When a state court evidentiary ruling impinges on the constitutional rights of a factually innocent person, does the fundamental miscarriage of justic…
21-607 Maura Lee Wahlberg, Individually and as Trustee of the Grever-Burke Trust Agreement v. Roy Grever Florida 2021-10-26 Denied extrinsic-fraud fraud full-faith-and-credit interstate-judgment intrinsic-fraud judicial-fraud legal-preclusion procedural-comity sister-state-judgment state-court state-court-judgment Does the Full Faith and Credit Clause permit a state court refuse to give a sister state's judgment full faith and credit based on its belief that the…
21-6088 George Brass v. Aaron D. Ford, Attorney General of Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-26 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default standing state-court takings Whether reasonable jurists would find the rulings as to the issues related to the withdrawal of claims and related issues debatable of wrong
21-5651 Taniko C. Smith v. Brian E. Williams, Sr., Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-09-13 Denied IFP civil-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-habeas habeas-corpus judicial-deference jurisprudence ninth-circuit state-court state-law supreme-court-precedent Does a federal habeas court owe deference to a state's wider jurisprudence when a state court arbitrarily fails to follow its own law?
21-344 Quest International Monitor Service, Inc. v. Rockwell Collins, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2021-09-02 Denied Response Waived arbitration-award federal-arbitration-act limitation-period procedural-rules removal removal-jurisdiction state-court state-court-procedure uniformity vacatur Whether the FAA's three-month limitation period for vacatur of an arbitration award is a substantive provision that must be applied to petitions to va…
21-5546 Fernando Rodriguez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest counsel-switching due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-review ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-ethics state-court state-legislature Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in deferring to the state court's ruling that Mr. Rodriguez was not prejudiced by his counsel switching sides in the s…
21-5555 Ross Allen Hartwell v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process fair-trial jurisdictional-limits jury legal-interpretation sixth-amendment standing state-court statutory-interpretation Does the Supreme Court's decision in Washington v. Deleon, 568 U.S. 068 (2014) allow lower courts to violate an individual's right to a fair and impar…
21-160 Justin M. Corliss v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2021-08-04 Denied certificate-of-appealability certificates-of-appealability ex-post-facto false-testimony habeas jury-instruction prosecutorial-misconduct state-court time-barred-charges Whether the applications for certificates of appealability were improperly denied
20-8447 Vinicio Jesus Garcia v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-06-30 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-remedy habeas-corpus jurisdictional-distinction procedural-bar standing state-court supreme-court supreme-court-authority Can a government agency circumvent the authority of the Supreme Court of the United States to create an impediment leading to a procedural bar of a §2…
20-8368 Bruce L. Farmer v. Keith Foley, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-06-21 Denied IFP criminal-statutes due-process habeas-corpus law-enforcement-officer presumption-of-correctness state-court Whether a clearly erroneous legal conclusion by a state court may be afforded a presumption of correctness and relied upon to deny habeas corpus relie…
20-1762 Ross R. Caliguri v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association New York 2021-06-17 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment appellate-review conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-decision mortgage-foreclosure state-court Whether the Court of Appeals of the State of New York was in a 'conflict of interest' position when it issued its Memorandum Decision dated December 1…
20-8337 Noe Torres v. Dwayne Santistevan, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claims court-rules criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process extension-of-filing-period habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-misconduct media-coverage procedural-default state-court Appealability of habeas corpus denial
20-8140 Jamaal Diggs v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-05-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure diligence due-process equitable-tolling federal-habeas federal-petition habeas-corpus judicial-notice state-court state-habeas Whether Diggs exhibited sufficient diligence to entitle him to equitable tolling
20-8044 In Re Annamalai Annamalai 2021-05-17 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights custody-release due-process habeas-corpus judicial-order privity-of-judgment specific-performance state-court warden-liability Whether Petitioner Annainalai is entitled to be released from custody pursuant to the specific performance (Execution) ordered & adjudicated by the In…
20-7949 Terry Kent Holcomb, II v. Rick Whitten, Warden Tenth Circuit 2021-05-06 Denied IFP appeal constitutional-right due-process evidence evidentiary-ruling federal-court habeas-corpus probative-evidence section-2254 state-court tenth-circuit Did the Tenth Circuit err in holding that the admitted evidence at trial established the same probative facts as the rejected evidence, without determ…
20-7932 Virgil Delano Presnell v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-05 Denied IFP 2254-limitations 2254(d) appellate-procedure factual-findings federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus implicit-findings judicial-interpretation state-court state-court-findings wilson-v-sellers Does Wilson v. Sellers permit federal habeas court to assign 'implicit' factual findings to state court order when applying 2254(d)'s limitations on r…
20-7933 Erika Jacobs v. 35 West Apartments Oklahoma 2021-05-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process federal-court judgment-reconsideration judicial-review post-trial-motion standing state-court supreme-court-jurisdiction trial-court-decision Whether the Supreme Court erred in dismissing the petitioner's appeal
20-1541 Pivotal Software, Inc., et al. v. Superior Court of California, City and County of San Francisco, et al. California 2021-05-05 Granted Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) discovery-stay federal-court private-action reform-act securities-act securities-litigation state-court Whether the Reform Act's discovery-stay provision applies to a private action under the Securities Act in state or federal court, or solely to a priva…
20-1490 Quinn Alexander Marez v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2021-04-26 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2254 federal-court federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-state-defense procedural-requirements state-court state-court-review May a federal court substitute its own reasons for denying a habeas petition when the state court's reasons were legally in error?
20-7744 Millard Price v. Delaware Delaware 2021-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure disciplinary-actions due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel parole sentencing state-court Question not identified
20-7754 Robert Roland Yerton, Jr. v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-04-14 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction mandamus mandamus-relief post-conviction standing state-court state-courts Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals (OCCA) erred in denying a writ of mandamus
20-7688 Roderick B. Lewis v. Florida Florida 2021-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus independent-state-ground procedural-default standing state-court Can a state's procedural default rule preclude a federal court from reviewing a defendant's federal constitutional claims?
20-7627 Khaled Shabani v. City of Madison, Wisconsin, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process federal-court free-speech judgment malicious-prosecution police-department qualified-immunity related-cases state-court Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the police and prosecutors
20-7569 Deidre M. Hunt v. Florida Florida 2021-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus legal-claim post-conviction procedural-dismissal standing state-court substantive-validity Whether an indigent, pro se state prisoner is entitled to a liberal construction of state post-conviction claim premises on inadvertent misapplication…
20-7582 Lonzell Green v. California California 2021-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial federal-review fourteenth-amendment procedural-challenge standing state-court writ-of-certiorari Question not identified
20-1327 PDX North, Inc. v. Robert Asaro-Angelo, Commissioner, New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development Third Circuit 2021-03-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law administrative-proceeding civil-procedure civil-remedies civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction standing state-court younger-abstention Whether Younger abstention is applicable and the district court may decline jurisdiction when there is a state administrative proceeding brought under…
20-7511 Carlos A. Espinoza v. W. L. Montgomery, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa appellate-review circuit-court concession habeas-corpus mattox-remmer-presumption non-jurisdictional-ground state-concession state-court summary-disposition May a circuit court affirm the denial of a habeas corpus petition on a non-jurisdictional ground not raised in either the state court or district cour…
20-7493 Jose Luis Sanchez, Jr. v. Donald Holbrook, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP anti-terrorism-act article-iii constitutional-interpretation federal-courts federal-judicial-power federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-power state-court state-court-review Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2254(d) of the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) is unconstitutional
20-7505 Olin Matice Gaskins v. West Virginia West Virginia 2021-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal constitutional-rights direct-appeal due-process equal-protection federal-law fourteenth-amendment legal-procedure retroactivity state-court supreme-court Did the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia violate clearly established federal law and petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment rights when it failed …
20-1273 Franek Olstowski v. Petroleum Analyzer Company, L.P. Fifth Circuit 2021-03-15 Denied arbitration arbitration-award bankruptcy federal-court federal-procedure full-faith-and-credit judicial-proceeding state-court state-court-judgment trade-secret Whether state-court judgments confirming arbitration awards, including state-court orders clarifying such judgments, are 'judicial proceedings' entitl…
20-1270 Scott Erik Stafne v. Bank of New York Mellon Ninth Circuit 2021-03-12 Denied Response Waived article-three boundary-lines federalism judicial-power real-property res senior-judges state-court subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Federalism structure of government prevented the District Court from assuming subject-matter jurisdiction over a real property res for pur…
20-1239 Edward Smith v. Ohio Ohio 2021-03-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment amendment-protection constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-procedure state-court stealthy-encroachment Whether the Supreme Court of Ohio violated the Petitioner's constitutional rights under the 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendments by refusing to enforce their…
20-7245 Jeremy Kerr v. John Collier, Judge, Court of Common Pleas of Ohio, Henry County Ohio 2021-02-25 Denied IFP 14th-amendment due-process notice notice-of-proceeding procedural-due-process receiver-appointment state-court substantial-right substantial-rights Does a State Court violate an individual's right to procedural due process under the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution, when it issues …
20-7226 John R. Scannell v. Washington State Bar Association, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP disciplinary-proceedings first-amendment fourteenth-amendment investigation judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction obstruction res-judicata rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court unlawful-practice Did the Washington State Supreme Court have jurisdiction to conduct original disciplinary proceedings against Scannell?
20-7196 Kristy Renee Rasnick v. Dickenson County Department of Social Services Virginia 2021-02-23 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-protection counsel counsel-representation due-process parental-rights state-court state-court-appeal statutory-interpretation Whether Petitioner was deprived her constitutional right affording her due process
20-7219 Cedric C. Westbrook v. California California 2021-02-23 Denied IFP arbitrary-action arbitrary-classification civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-classification procedural-hurdles standing state-court Does the State Court have an arbitrary right to re-classify a legal document into a specific classification of filings that the State knows has surimo…
20-7141 Curtis Jerome Brown, Sr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-ruling federal-review fraud habeas-corpus judicial-procedure standing state-court Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated under the 4th Amendment, 5th Amendment, and 6th Amendment
20-7111 Carlos Lopez-Vanegas v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-02-11 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence-presentation judicial-interpretation jurisdiction jury-trial state-court Should the 'Speedy Process' globally regarded as a 'Miracle Appeal' be properly adjudicated?
20-7035 Rondell Slaughter v. Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, et al. Third Circuit 2021-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel criminal-procedure error exhaustion ineffective-assistance legal-concession oral-argument procedural-exhaustion state-court state-court-pleading Whether a claim of ineffective assistance of appellate counsel is exhausted when the state-court pleading asserted that appellate counsel rendered ine…
20-6899 Cynthia Hudson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-01-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bench-warrant certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court Is a state habeas corpus petitioner denied federal constitutional due process when the state habeas court refuses to bench warrant the petitioner to a…
20-6906 Charles Hamilton v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2021-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-restrictions counsel-of-choice criminal-defendant criminal-defendant-rights federal-law sixth-amendment state-court state-court-review Whether a State Court's erroneous denial of a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment Right to be represented by counsel of choice resulted in a decision…
20-6833 Clorey Eugene France v. North Carolina North Carolina 2021-01-11 Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process federal-law free-speech standing state-court supreme-court-review Whether the appellate court has a constitutional duty to state its reasons for denying a petition for a writ of certiorari?
20-6760 Adam Lee Thomas v. Texas Texas 2021-01-04 Denied IFP civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process evidence extraneous-offenses innocence-phase judicial-interpretation legal-error state-court texas-rules texas-rules-of-evidence whether the weal Court erroneously admitted evidence of extraneous offenses or acts of miscanduct allegedly Committed by Petitioner luring the gui inn…
20-6625 Shane Q. Whipple v. Michael Johnson, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance standing state-court statute-of-limitations Whether Marcth Morales Howard should be allowed to stop the prosecution of all defendants in claims?
20-6617 In Re Theresa Romain 2020-12-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-law federal-law-application judicial-error justice-standard legal-interpretation standing state-court state-court-review Can a State Court applied clearly established Federal Law erroneously or incorrectly as to cause harm to a Petitioner?
20-6605 Demondray D. Mayo v. Perry Russell, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split federal-court federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-petition reasonable state-court state-court-reasoning statutory-interpretation wilson-v-sellers Whether a federal court incorrectly applies 28-U.S.C-2254(d)
20-6535 Levi Ruffin v. United States District of Columbia 2020-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appointment-of-counsel civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-review habeas-corpus indigent-representation judicial-interpretation procedural-default standing state-court Whether the petitioner has a due process right to have counsel appointed to represent them in a civil matter due to their inability to afford an attor…
20-6507 Darrell Berry, et ux. v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-12-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-court federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment foreclosure rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court Whether the Berrys' Fifth Amendment Rights to Due Process were Violated
20-756 Christopher Gary Baylor v. Ayano Eto, fka Ayano Eto Baylor Minnesota 2020-12-02 Denied Relisted (2) 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-status parent-child-relationship parental-rights standing state-court May a state court terminate the rights of a parent without notice or due process of service?
20-6432 Elise LaMartina v. David Adler, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied IFP automatic-stay bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-jurisdiction barton-doctrine creditor-claims immunity judicial-immunity jurisdiction state-court trustee ultra-vires-acts May a bankruptcy court exponentially expand the Barton Doctrine?
20-6355 Randall Thomas McArty v. Asa Hutchinson, Governor of Arkansas Arkansas 2020-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada ada-violations civil-action civil-rights declaratory-relief ex-parte-young injunctive-relief sovereign-immunity state-court Does the opinion of the Supreme Court of Arkansas in a State Court Civil Action for violations of A.D.A. make an exception in opposition to this Court…
20-695 Derek Piersing v. Domino’s Pizza Franchising LLC, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-11-19 Denied Amici (1) aaa-rules arbitrability circuit-court delegation-doctrine employment-agreement first-options procedural-rules state-court Whether providing that a particular set of rules will govern arbitration proceedings, without more, is 'clear and unmistakable evidence' of the partie…
20-672 Thomas Gilewicz v. Brylin Hospital, et al. New York 2020-11-16 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights court-proceedings due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-procedure standing state-court statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
20-6263 Haider Salah Abdulrazzak v. Brent Fluke, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-claims direct-appeal due-process evidentiary-hearing exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance standing state-court trial-attorney Whether petitioner is entitled to a copy of the state habeas evidentiary hearing record under the Due Process Clause
20-608 Tatyana E. Drevaleva v. California Department of Industrial Relations California 2020-11-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure california-department-of-industrial-relations employment-dispute evidence-transfer federal-court government-code retaliation state-court transfer-of-record unlawful-termination Does the Opposing Party the Governmental Entity the California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) have a right to refuse to transfer the record …
20-589 Reed Kirk McDonald v. Eagle County, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-11-03 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees case-conclusion civil-procedure criminal-conduct federal-jurisdiction federal-removal-law judicial-misconduct magistrate-jurisdiction removal state-court state-court-procedure Did the Magistrate for the District of Colorado error in determining that the Bellco and Eagle cases had concluded?
20-6113 Jeffrey Wogenstahl v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-10-23 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 capital-case direct-review habeas-review magwood-v-patterson merits-decision new-judgment state-court When a state court re-opens direct review in a capital case, does the resultant state court merits decision constitute a 'new judgment' pursuant to th…
20-522 Xavier Demetrius Porter v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied categorical-approach dicta federal-court federal-court-interpretation judicial-precedent legal-interpretation precedent state-court state-court-dicta statutory-interpretation Whether a federal court applying the categorical approach is required to give significant weight to on point dicta from the relevant State's highest c…
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…
20-5867 Jerome Ceasar Alverto v. Bryan Dwain Cline Ninth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process jury-trial standing state-court takings Whether the petitioner's due-process rights were violated by the state court's denial of his request for a jury trial
20-5837 In Re Edward Donald Oberwise 2020-09-29 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-standards circuit-court habeas-corpus state-court successive-petition teague teague-claim Whether the Court should grant a writ of habeas corpus to a non-capital state court defendant who has no other available forum to raise a compelling c…
20-5803 Raymond Brown v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federalism fourteenth-amendment petition-for-review standing state-court supreme-court-rules Did the Pennsylvania Supreme Court decide on a constitutional question that conflicts with a decision of another state court and the Supreme Court Rul…
20-5696 Dan Grandberry v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-09-15 Denied IFP civil-procedure forfeiture-rule habeas-corpus judicial-notice limitations-period procedural-waiver state-court subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the ordinary forfeiture rule, as codified in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, applies to the limitations period of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(a)
20-5698 Adrian Hernandez v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fair-trial federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection post-conviction procedural-default racial-bias standing state-court whether-a-petitioner-was-denied-a-fair-trial-when-a-juror-stated-she-could-not-be-impartial
20-5683 Carlton Smith v. Hilton Hall, Warden Georgia 2020-09-14 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-review constitutional-rights due-process federal-constitution fundamental-fairness judicial-review legal-standard standing state-court structural-defect Does the state's waiver standard of fundamental constitutional rights violate the established standard of the Federal Constitution?
20-327 BBB Industries, LLC v. Cardone Industries, Inc. Texas 2020-09-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-limits due-process forum-contacts personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction state-court supplemental-jurisdiction texas Whether the Texas courts' supplemental specific personal jurisdiction doctrine is inconsistent with the Due Process Clause
20-293 Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, et al. v. New Mexico, ex rel. Hector Balderas, Attorney General New Mexico 2020-09-08 Denied civil-procedure federal-judgment federalism government-intervention public-policy qui-tam res-judicata standing state-court Whether a state government is bound by a final federal judgment in a qui tam action when it declines to intervene
20-5551 Ohio, ex rel. Jeremy Kerr v. Robert Pollex, et al. Ohio 2020-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-sufficiency jurisdiction state-court state-court-judgment subject-matter-jurisdiction sufficiency-of-evidence Does a state court's judgment of conviction violate the 14th Amendment when the record is devoid of evidence proving the defendant committed an elemen…
20-5552 Ohio, ex rel. Jeremy Kerr v. Reeve Kelsey, Judge Ohio 2020-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure default-judgment dismissal-prejudice due-process non-legal-entity procedural-due-process standing state-court Does a state court violate the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution when it issues a Default Judgment against a non-legal entity?
20-207 Lara Bush-Pensy v. Timothy Pflieger Wisconsin 2020-08-21 Denied due-process first-amendment freedom-of-speech private-communication private-email state-court state-court-restraint unprotected-speech Whether basic First Amendment and Due Process freedom of speech is infringed where a state court restrains a person's private e-mail absent any eviden…
20-5445 Jelani Walker v. Ed Sheldon, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure merits-ruling procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct sanctions state-court state-courts Does a defense cause prejudice due to inadequate notice?
20-198 Tamatrice Williams v. City of Sherwood, Arkansas Eighth Circuit 2020-08-20 Denied Response Waived arkansas-supreme-court civil-rights court-reorganization legal-jurisdiction municipal-courts municipal-liability rehearing section-1983 state-actor state-court state-law Should the opinion below be vacated, and this case remanded, for reconsideration in light of City of Little Rock v. Nelson?
20-177 Ally Financial Inc. v. Alberta Haskins, et al. Missouri 2020-08-18 Granted Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) class-action due-process forum-contacts fourteenth-amendment nationwide-class out-of-state-defendant personal-jurisdiction state-court Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits a state court to exercise specific personal jurisdiction over claims against an out…
20-123 Jason Edward Rheinstein v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland Maryland 2020-08-05 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 28-usc-1450 5th-amendment constitutional-rights discovery-requests due-process federal-court federal-removal-law procedural-due-process removal-law state-court Whether pre-removal discovery requests are nullified upon removal to federal court
20-5109 Ganaa Otgoo v. Illinois Illinois 2020-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-between-state-court-decisions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial federal-constitutional-rights legal-review reasonable-doubt state-court state-court-actions wrongful-conviction Whether State Court actions denied Petitioner's Federal Constitutional Rights, denied Petitioner Fair and Impartial Trial
20-5095 Jethro L. Clairvoyant v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection ineffective-counsel jury-instructions martinez-claim reversals similarly-situated-defendants state-court Whether petitioner was denied due process and equal protection
20-5096 In Re Shavez Evans 2020-07-16 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 campaign-finance civil-rights constitutional-law declaratory-judgment due-process equal-protection first-amendment judicial-elections judicial-immunity state-court Did the District Court of Arizona deny the petitioner Evans justice when abusing their discretion ruling Judges are absolutely immune from §1983 suits…
19-8835 Billy Joe Wardlow v. Texas Texas 2020-06-26 Denied IFP capital-murder constitutional-rights federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice procedural-default procedural-grounds state-court state-habeas-corpus wiggins-claim Whether in Mr. Wardlow's case to grant certiorari, vacate the decision of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, and remand for reconsideration in the m…
19-1340 David Tribble, et al. v. First Security Bank, et al. Arkansas 2020-06-04 Denied Response Waived appeals appellate-review arkansas-judiciary civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection procedure state-court supreme-court Did reliance on the Appellate Review Attorney for the Office of the Clerk of the Arkansas Supreme Court and Court of Appeals' instruction for drafting…
19-8018 Timothy Humphrey v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-18 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 aedpa-limitations aedpa-limitations-period antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act federal-habeas federal-habeas-corpus postconviction-relief properly-filed state-court state-court-procedure time-barred Whether an application for state postconviction relief is 'properly filed' within the meaning of Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act provisi…
19-7815 Robert Grimsley v. Oregon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-03-02 Denied IFP civil-rights contractual-leniency custody due-process fraud fraud-in-the-facts habeas-corpus prison prison-contracts prisoner-rights sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-court state-court-judgment statutory-interpretation takings Can a state commit the crimes of fraud in the facts of its own sentencing guidelines to renege on prison contracts on behalf of a person in custody pu…
19-7614 Jason Perry v. Richard Brown Seventh Circuit 2020-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-rule civil-procedure civil-procedure-rules constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus judicial-review standing state-court Whether the Courts violated Rule 2 (a) Governing Section 2Z84Y Cases?
19-987 H. Stephens Winters, Judge, District Court of Louisiana, 4th Judicial District, et al. v. Stanley R. Palowsky, III, Individually and On Behalf of Alternative Environmental Solutions, Inc. Louisiana 2020-02-06 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1257a administrative-function case-pending federal-law forrester-v-white judicial-immunity record-destruction state-court state-law Does Louisiana Supreme Court have jurisdiction to review judicial immunity under federal law?
19-7533 Allan Leslie Sinanan, Jr. v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-law fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure state-court state-court-decision unreasonable-application Whether Law Enforcement Authorities engaged in tactics and procedures designed to circumvent Petitioner's Constitutional protected rights guaranteed b…
19-7461 Derrick Lamar Cheeks v. Alford Joyner Fourth Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process habeas habeas-review jurisdictional-conflict procedural-default state-court supreme-court supreme-court-precedent Question not identified
19-7406 Bartholomew Antonio Guzman v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federal-jurisdiction first-amendment freedom-of-information government-transparency habeas-corpus public-records standing state-court state-court-interpretation state-court-proceedings Whether the United States District Court erred in dismissing a pro se habeas corpus petition due to the lack of jurisdiction because the habeas per pe…
19-895 R. Kirk McDonald v. Bellco Credit Union Colorado 2020-01-17 Denied case-removal civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct legal-fabrication procedural-integrity removal standing state-court Whether a State judge can fabricate a lie into the Record attempting to prevent removal of a state case to federal court pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1441-…
19-7275 Cecil Boyett v. New Mexico New Mexico 2020-01-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-rights discovery-rules due-process exculpatory-evidence expert-witness fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment state-court state-prosecution Whether petitioner Boyett's constitutional rights were violated by the Thirteenth Judicial District Court of New Mexico under the Due Process Clause o…
19-803 Xiu Jian Sun v. Michael P. Kelly, et al. New York 2019-12-23 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights divine-intervention due-process free-speech freedom-of-conscience freedom-of-speech judicial-review legal-filing mandamus religious-freedom religious-petition separation-of-church-and-state standing state-court takings Petition for writ of certiorari
19-6962 Tom S. Mourning, II v. Honorable Gayle L. Crane Missouri 2019-12-17 Denied IFP civil-rights commitment constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus hearing judicial-circuit mental-health notice notice-and-hearing state-court state-department state-detention Whether a state judicial circuit court's refusal to provide notice and a hearing pursuant to the Due Process Clause of the United States Constitution …
19-773 Ann Merlino, et al. v. Cara Buonincontri New York 2019-12-17 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment amendment-violation constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte-communication ex-parte-investigation hearing investigation judicial-conduct state-court state-court-judge Is it a violation of the Due Process clauses of the United States Constitution, 5th Amendment and 14th Amendment for a State Court Judge to conduct a …
19-6955 Shondell J. Paul v. New York New York 2019-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-question due-process federal-constitutional-law fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel precedent stare-decisis state-court state-court-precedent state-court-procedure Does the Fourteenth Amendment place an obligation on the New York Court of Appeals to address a federal constitutional question when its prior precede…
19-6846 James W. Riley v. Dana Metzger, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal-as-of-right constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-precedent right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standing state-court statutory-analysis third-circuit-court Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel applies to a defendant's first appeal as of right
19-6873 Anthony Dale Carter v. Florida Florida 2019-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights due-process federal-rights individual-rights judicial-review standing state-court supreme-court-precedent Is it a departure from the essential elements of law to deny a notion based in part or whole on the Court's failure to rule within a reasonable time?
19-6835 Dennis David Antwine v. Branch Circuit Judge Michigan 2019-12-04 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights deprivation due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure liberty-interest state-court state-law Whether the Fourteenth Amendment was violated when the state court deprived petitioner of his liberty interest created by state law?
19-6793 Quentin Herndon v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute federal-court federal-courts physical-force sentencing-guidelines state-court state-court-interpretation state-courts statutory-interpretation USSG-4B1.2(a) Whether a federal court must defer to a state court's interpretation of the elements of a state criminal statute to determine if that offense requires…
19-674 James L. Martin v. National General Assurance Company Delaware 2019-11-26 Denied appellate-review civil-litigation civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal standing state-court Does the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause guarantee a civil litigant, in a state court, an appellate justice who did not oversee the same issue…
19-6679 Horatio Johnson v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-11-19 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial nonunanimous-verdict sixth-amendment state-court state-criminal-procedure Does the right to a jury trial guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment, as applied to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment, allow a state-court crimi…
19-6601 Kevin Battle v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-prosecution categorical-approach categorical-match circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing prior-conviction realistic-probability sentencing state-conviction state-court state-crime Whether a defendant must point to an actual state-court prosecution to demonstrate that a prior conviction is not a categorical match for federal sent…
19-6563 Robert William Wazney v. South Carolina Fourth Circuit 2019-11-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-court access-to-courts civil-rights court-access due-process federal-courts in-forma-pauperis judicial-immunity ministerial-duty standing state-court Whether federal citizens have standing when federal courts ignore their claims
19-599 Samuel C. Mohorne v. Beal Bank, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection foreclosure free-speech homestead-property property-rights standing state-court statutory-interpretation writ Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause
19-6558 Antonio Lebaron Melton v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied IFP due-process federal-court-review federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-findings state-court state-court-deference strickland-v-washington trial-strategy wilson-v-sellers witness-investigation Whether Wilson v. Sellers requires faithful adherence to the last reasoned decision of a state court, or may federal courts bolster such a decision by…
19-6467 Robert G. Pulley v. Daniel Paramo, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-31 Denied IFP actual-innocence due-process federal-court federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default state-court Whether the actual innocence exception to the procedural default doctrine applies to excuse the petitioner's failure to raise certain claims in state …
19-565 Antonio Passaro, Jr. v. Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-10-30 Denied civil-procedure federal-court federal-jurisdiction lapides-v-board-of-regents litigation removal sovereign-immunity state-court waiver Whether, in the context of a federal claim brought in state court where the state would enjoy sovereign immunity, a state's voluntary removal to feder…
19-6455 Jowarski Russell Nedd v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus state-court state-court-filing state-court-proceedings statute-of-limitations statutory-tolling tolling Whether the decisions of the courts below ought to be summarily reversed and the case remanded to the court of appeals with instructions to remand the…
19-6200 Michael Scott Smith v. Florida Florida 2019-10-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence constitutional-claims criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process florida-statutes habeas-corpus indictment jurisdiction lesser-included-offenses post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-court statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Can a State Court indict an accused on one charge and take him to trial on another in the case of the same crime merely because a theory of prosecutio…
19-463 Wilbur-Ellis Company LLC v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-10-08 Denied appellate-review comity comity-federalism comity-federalism-state-judicial-functions federal-court federal-court-override federalism interlocutory-orders judicial-function sealing-order state-court state-court-sealing state-court-sealing-order state-law-interpretation Whether a district court may override the order of a state court sealing a court filing necessary to resolve a motion in the state court, by compellin…
19-6161 John Connolly v. Florida Florida 2019-10-04 Denied IFP adjudication civil-procedure due-process federal-claim judicial-reasoning procedural-requirements reasons state-court Whether the due process clause requires a state court adjudicating a federal claim to set forth the reasons for its adjudication?
19-6052 Rafie A. Lee v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial federal-court fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus judicial-review state-court state-court-proceedings Whether Petitioner was denied 'Fundamental Fairness' in the State Court Proceedings?
19-6022 Angel Rodriguez v. Laura Heit, et al. Second Circuit 2019-09-23 Denied IFP 14th-amendment access-to-justice administrative-remedies civil-rights disability disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-interpretation legal-remedy medical-privacy retaliation state-court statutory-construction Whether Petitioner's 14th Amendment Rights were violated by denying him the opportunity to work in food service
19-362 Patrick Kent Lindsey Jones v. Allen Jones Louisiana 2019-09-18 Denied 14th-amendment appeal civil-procedure contested-funds due-process equal-protection finality-of-judgment fourteenth-amendment interlocutory-judgment right-to-appeal standing state-court state-court-jurisdiction Under the 14th Amendment, Section 1, how can a state court deny the right to appeal, by deeming a judgment which distributes contested funds to be a n…
19-363 Jim R. Nash v. Norma Nash, et al. Arkansas 2019-09-18 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts fourteenth-amendment full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction state-court state-courts substitution Whether a judgment without jurisdiction of the decedent violates the petitioner's right to due process under the Fourteenth Amendment
19-5940 Scott Peters v. Young Sun Kim Seventh Circuit 2019-09-13 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure damages due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit post-conviction standing state-court Whether the District Court erred in dismissing Petitioner's claims
19-5903 Martin Ogden v. Digital Intelligence Systems Arizona 2019-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process federal-claims federal-law judicial-authority judicial-review nullity state-court state-court-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause Whether a state court's refusal to adjudicate a federal claim under federal law, while entertaining similar state law claims, violates the Supremacy C…
19-259 Maron Pictures Ltd. v. Sam Eigen, et al. California 2019-08-28 Denied berne-convention contributory-copyright-infringement copyright-act copyright-infringement copyright-law copyright-ownership federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption motion-picture motion-picture-rights preemption state-court state-court-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation How can any state court make conclusions in relation to motion picture rights without referring to the Copyright Act to make a determination?
19-5728 Kristin L. Hardy v. Kelly Santoro, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review district-court evidentiary-hearing federal-habeas-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel performance-prong plea-negotiations sentencing-exposure state-court Whether a federal appellate court fails to provide legitimate federal habeas review
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…
19-191 Ashley Wilcox Page v. Todd L. Hicks, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 11th-amendment civil-procedure eleventh-amendment federal-court federal-jurisdiction lapides-v-board-of-regents removal sovereign-immunity state-court state-removal waiver waiver-by-removal Does a state waive its sovereign immunity by voluntarily removing a civil claim from state to federal court?
19-5542 Robert Maloy v. New York New York 2019-08-09 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection legal-assistance post-release-supervision sentencing state-court unusual-punishment Did the Auton Couty Supreme Court violate Petitioner's right to the due process of the law and right to the equal protection of the law by failing to …
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?
19-5323 Edwardo De Juan v. Florida Florida 2019-07-24 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-jurisdiction new-trial post-conviction procedural-rights standing state-court statutory-provisions Whether the petitioner's due process and equal protection rights were violated when the state court denied his post-conviction motion for a new trial
19-5271 Demarko Deon Cooper v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-23 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-review lower-court-decision state-court unreasonable-application Was the lower court's decision to deny habeas corpus relief to the Petitioner in this cause contrary to, and an unreasonable application of, clearly e…
19-5204 Jesus Loya Quezada v. Rick Raemisch, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal citizenship civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence harmless-error paper-foundation standing state-court uncorroborated-evidence Was the evidence allowed at my trial by the State court proper?
19-31 Carol M. Kam v. Dallas County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) associate-judge dallas-county judicial-authority judicial-misconduct probate-court probate-court-procedure rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court state-court-jurisdiction state-law void-judgment void-rulings Does the Rooker-Feldman Doctrine apply to two void 'proposed' State Court rulings produced by a former Associate Judge, employed solely by Dallas Coun…
19-5055 Isaac Decurtis Harris v. Michigan Michigan 2019-07-03 Denied IFP arraignment civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction court-rules criminal-procedure due-process liberty-interest state-court transcript warrantless-arrest Whether the State Court had caused a conflict within the State Court ignoring its controlling governed caselaw
18-1578 Pfizer Inc. v. Alida Adamyan, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied Amici (2) cafa-removal civil-procedure class-action-fairness-act diversity-jurisdiction federal-court joint-trial mass-action products-liability removal state-court state-court-proposal Whether a state court's proposal to try jointly the claims of more than 100 plaintiffs can qualify for 'mass action' removal under the Class Action Fa…
18-9732 Bejan David Etemad v. North Dakota North Dakota 2019-06-19 Denied IFP appeals certiorari constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process-clause federal-certiorari federal-jurisdiction jury-trial jury-verdict state-court state-courts state-supreme-court Can any State Court of last resort or specifically the North Dakota Supreme Court completely abrogate due process to the point that no process existed…
18-9595 Mike Du Trieu v. Michael Martel, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 appellate-review constitutional-law due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure procedural-bar state-court state-court-error Whether a federal court reviewing a state habeas decision must determine whether the state court erred in its application of a procedural bar when the…
18-9588 Reginald Lacey v. David Gomez, Warden Illinois 2019-06-07 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-hearing habeas-corpus illinois-supreme-court standing state-court state-court-review supreme-court Was the Petitioner denied his Constitutional right to a full and fair hearing, where the Supreme Court of Illinois denied his Petition for Writ of Hab…
18A1249 Maxcium Herring v. L. S. McEwen, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-06-03 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights criminal-defendant due-process federal-review habeas-corpus state-court Whether a state court's summary denial of a habeas corpus petition without a full evidentiary hearing violates a criminal defendant's constitutional r…
18-9450 Angela Pizzarelli v. Gurbir Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2019-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus habeas-relief jurisdiction notice notice-requirement procedural-default standing state-court time-limitation Does the failure of the state court clerk's office to notify petitioner of the court's decision on appeal constitute grounds for equitable tolling of …
18-1490 Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Bucks County, et al. v. Jason Piasecki Third Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied circuit-split custody federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus in-custody probation sex-offender-registration state-court state-court-conviction state-criminal-convictions third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously concluded that the respondent, who was no longer serving his state sentence of probation at the…
18-9476 In Re Anthony K. Anderson 2019-05-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction standing state-court state-court-proceedings Whether the Nevada District Court erred in denying petitioner's application for a writ of habeas corpus despite the court's lack of subject matter jur…
18-9372 Quisi Bryan v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-05-21 Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-interpretation federal-constitutional-law federal-review federalism habeas-corpus panetti-v-quarterman procedural-bar retroactive-law retroactivity state-court Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2244 prevents a federal habeas court from reviewing a state court's voluntary and independent retroactive application of a new rul…
18-9257 Lonnie Rarden v. Ohio Ohio 2019-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus judgment merits mitigating-evidence opinion petition search-and-seizure sentencing state-court state-courts writ-of-certiorari Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated when the state court failed to consider mitigating evidence during sentencing
18-9203 Leslie E. Thomas v. Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Union County Third Circuit 2019-05-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals appeals-court appellate-review civil-procedure court-authority court-hierarchy district-court due-process federal-courts jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction procedural-standing standing state-court Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit have jurisdiction?
18-9152 Gary Reid v. Florida Florida 2019-05-06 Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-claims constitutional-question eighth-amendment federal-habeas federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation legal-precedent merits-decision state-court state-court-decisions supreme-court-review Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. Ct. 1726 (2017), as a decision on the merits of the underlying constit…
18-9159 Freddy Brown v. Florida Florida 2019-05-06 Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-claim constitutional-claims constitutional-question eighth-amendment federal-habeas federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-review legal-interpretation merits-decision merits-determination state-court state-court-decisions supreme-court-precedent Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. Ct. 1726 (2017), a case arising under federal habeas review, as a deci…
18-9066 Peter B. Rojas v. Jay Lane, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied IFP does 42 U.S.C. § 2254 (e) obviate the need for fe 42-usc-2254 constitutional-provisions due-process federal-hearing habeas-corpus state-court statutory-interpretation supreme-court undeveloped-facts Where the State Court conducted a hearing and the party was 'denied due process of law in the proceeding
18-9021 Valerie Arroyo v. Daniel J. Zamora, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-04-26 Denied IFP bill-of-rights civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-conduct deprivation-of-rights due-process federal-court federal-questions judicial-interference sovereign-immunity state-agencies state-court Did the lower tribunal's actions deprive the plaintiff's civil rights and due process?
18-8982 Daniel Warren v. Josh Shapiro, Attorney General of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-04-24 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge custody due-process federal-constitutional-rights federal-habeas federal-rights habeas-corpus judicial-procedure procedural-due-process state-court state-court-review state-statute Whether a state court of last resort which dismisses without argument or opinion a challenge to the constitutionality of a statute from a judgment dis…
18-8949 Hakim Muhammad v. Cedric Taylor, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights COA-standard color-of-authority constitutional-review counsel-performance due-process federal-appellate habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-proceedings post-conviction-relief state-court supervisory-power Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in a decision that conflicts with decisions of other Courts of Appeals on the same important matte…
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…
18-8803 Raymond Ramirez v. Florida Florida 2019-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-violation conviction due-process fourteenth-amendment judgment-of-conviction jurisdiction jurisdictional-rule sentence sentencing state-court Whether the State of Florida / State Court violated the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution by enlarging a jurisdictional rule without au…
18-8608 William Ramirez, et ux. v. Court of Appeal of California, Third Appellate District, et al. California 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment precedent pro-se state-court statutes Should a pro se petitioner reasonably expect that a state court at the county level follow precedent as a part of due process under the Fourteenth Ame…
18-8503 In Re Leroy Lamont Wells 2019-03-21 Denied IFP case-documentation circuit-court conviction correctional-institution criminal-conviction criminal-convictions criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus lane-county-circuit-court legal-status leroy-lamont-wells oregon-correctional-institution prison-records procedural-inquiry standing state-court Does Petitioner have three convictions in Lane County Circuit Court Case No.201404943, State of Oregon v. Leroy Lamont Wells, as of 12/12/2018, as pur…
18-8430 Juan Bosco Alvarez v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 aedpa constitutional-claim due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-court federal-review habeas-corpus state-court state-court-rules supreme-court-precedent Whether a federal habeas court contravenes this Court's precedent when it evaluates the merits of a petitioner's claim without regard for the state co…
18-1190 DoctorDirectory.com, LLC, et al. v. Davis Neurology, P.A. Eighth Circuit 2019-03-13 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1446 article-iii federal-court jurisdictional-timing notice-of-removal other-paper removal removal-statute second-removal spokeo-v-robins standing state-court statutory-interpretation thirty-day-deadline Whether the thirty-day deadline for filing a notice of second removal from a state court pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1446(b)(3) can begin and expire in fe…
18-8384 Bruce L. Small v. Florida Florida 2019-03-13 Dismissed IFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights denial-of-review due-process extraordinary-writ florida-law precedent standing state-court state-court-denial written-reason Whether the state appellate court's denial of petitioner's extraordinary writ without providing a written reason or citing any precedent supporting it…
18-8301 Michael Daniel Cuero v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review court-of-appeals court-of-appeals-interpretation district-court due-process judicial-review mandate plea-agreement remand rule-21 sentencing sentencing-consequences state-court supreme-court-mandate writ-of-mandamus What was the import of the Court's prior decision?
18-8236 Robert L. Bianchi v. Sean Medeiros, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk First Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 10th-amendment 28-usc-2244(d)(2) civil-procedure due-process federal-court federal-procedure filing-requirements habeas-corpus mass-rule-25(b)(2) motion-for-new-trial motion-for-reduction-in-verdict new-trial state-court state-court-requirements statutory-interpretation Whether the United States District Court/United States Court of Appeals violated the 10th Amendments of the United States Constitution when they creat…
18-8242 Jody Ford McCreary v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied IFP civil-procedure collateral-review due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-review procedural-default sixth-amendment standing state-court strickland-standards substantive-claim Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit abused its discretion in denying a certificate of appealability on the denial of the …
18-8212 Harry Brantley v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-convictions dismissal district-court due-process federal-review federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus petition-dismissal standing state-court timeliness Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas corpus petition challenging his state court convi…
18-8178 Charles E. Justise, Sr. v. David Liebel, et al. Indiana 2019-02-28 Denied IFP civil-procedure exceptions federal-court federal-removal judicial-discretion jurisdiction multi-defendant procedural-rules removal state-court unrelated-claims Whether Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 18 allows a case with unrelated claims to be removed from state court to federal court, and, if so, the except…
18-8150 Ilya Liviz, Sr. v. Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, et al. First Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-court access-to-courts care-and-protection child-custody constitutional-rights due-process federally-protected-rights jury-trial parental-rights question-of-law state-court Is Dad being denied his federally protected due process right to petition for redress and access to a meaningful hearing resulting from state's refusa…
18-8157 James Arthur Brinson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction final-decision fraud fraud-on-court judicial-procedure state-court timeliness untimeliness Is a constitutional right of access to the courts being denied when a fraud on a state court decision is used to prove untimeliness when federal court…
18-8116 Budry Michel v. Florida Florida 2019-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment,federal-habeas,state-court,merits federal-courts federal-habeas federal-review habeas habeas-corpus juvenile-sentencing merits parole-eligibility plain-language standing state-court state-court-interpretation state-courts Whether a state court can treat a federal habeas decision of this Court as a ruling on the merits contrary to the plain language of the decision?
18-8009 Ernesto Aguirre v. Ken Clark, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-02-19 Denied IFP civil-rights collateral-review due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-review procedural-default state-court state-court-procedure state-court-rules May a state court ignore its own exception rules to barring untimely or successive petitions without violating the Constitution to Equal Protection of…
18-7798 Steven Floyd Voss v. Second Judicial District Court of Nevada, Washoe County Nevada 2019-02-08 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus sentencing state-court state-court-jurisdiction Whether the state trial court has jurisdiction to conduct resentencing proceedings and enter an amended judgment of conviction after the petitioner's …
18-7847 Ronell Howlett v. Reed Richardson, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-court-review federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-28-usc-2254 procedural-bar rape-shield-law right-to-present-defense state-court state-court-review Is a federal court permitted/required to review a state court's reliance on a procedural bar, when a petitioner claims the application of the facts do…
18-1021 Travis Hawkins v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-05 Denied Response Waived appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review preservation-of-error public-trial state-court state-court-decision state-courts Whether an objection is required to preserve appellate review for an alleged public trial violation
18-7736 Robert Davis v. New York New York 2019-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-counsel criminal-appeal due-process ineffective-assistance legal-review procedural-due-process questions-of-fact questions-of-law standing state-court state-court-review Did the State's highest court fail to lawfully review the questions of law in Petitioner's application prior to denying him permission to appeal his c…
18-7540 David Dewayne Riley v. Alabama Alabama 2019-01-24 Denied IFP capital-post-conviction-proceedings capital-proceedings collateral-review death-penalty death-sentence effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance martinez-v-ryan murray-v-giarratano post-conviction-counsel precedent state-court Should this Court revisit its precedent to consider whether death-sentenced inmates are entitled to the effective assistance of counsel on initial col…
18-7512 Ronald Jackson v. Illinois Illinois 2019-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-ruling ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-a-fair-trial right-to-fair-trial sixth-amendment state-court subjective-intent Whether counsel provided ineffective assistance by failing to adequately investigate and present exculpatory evidence
18-7414 Ray McArthur Freeney v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied Amici (1)IFP 28-usc-2254 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence habeas-corpus material-evidence notice-and-hearing procedural-fairness state-court state-court-deference statutory-interpretation Whether deference is accorded to a state court decision under 28 U.S.C. §2254(d) where the state court received and relied upon material evidence and …
18-7364 Brandon M. Chambers v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied IFP court-interpretation grammar grammatical-construction judicial-deference judicial-discretion legislative-intent punctuation state-court statutory-analysis statutory-construction statutory-interpretation What responsibility/power does a State District court have in interpreting a provision of a statute, and when interpreting a statute to determine legi…
18-894 Harold McNeal, et ux. v. Navajo Nation, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied Relisted (2) congressional-policy contract-negotiation federal-indian-law federal-jurisdiction gaming-enterprise indian-gaming-regulatory-act sovereign-immunity state-court state-court-jurisdiction tort-claim tort-claims tribal-sovereignty Whether the Tenth Circuit panel violated the current jurisprudence of this Court and the Congressional policy underlying IGRA by precluding the Nation…
18-871 Ronald Jarmuth v. The International Club Homeowners Association, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied Response Waived claim-preclusion extrinsic-fraud fair-housing-act federal-court federal-court-injunction precedent retaliation state-court state-court-order Whether the Court of Appeals and the District Court erred in ignoring all precedents by holding that a federal court may not enjoin a state court orde…
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 …
18-7053 Kevin Scott Varner v. John Christiansen, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-12-14 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment habeas-corpus state-court state-court-litigation state-court-review stone-v-powell What constitutes an opportunity for full and fair litigation of a Fourth Amendment claim in state court?
18-6988 Donald Sanders v. Domingo Uribe, Jr., Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation confrontation-clause cross-examination due-process eyewitness eyewitness-testimony federal-proceedings fundamental-fairness ninth-circuit state-court state-court-proceedings Whether the Ninth Circuit clearly erred in its decision that the state court reasonably concluded that Petitioner's right to confrontation was not vio…
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…
18-736 Carl Lawson, et ux. v. Bell Sports USA New Jersey 2018-12-10 Denied Response Waived civil-action civil-procedure conference court-rules due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hearing state-court witness-testimony Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause prohibits a State court from directly violating one of its own court rules, by failing to provid…
18-689 Mariano Moya, et al. v. Robert Garcia, Sheriff, Santa Fe County, New Mexico, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied 42-usc-1983 arraignment causation civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights detention due-process section-1983 standing state-court When a jailer detains a person for an extended period with no access to a court hearing for arraignment and bail review, in violation of his or her Du…
18-6776 Duane Eugene Owen v. Florida Florida 2018-11-21 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection jury-trial retroactivity state-court Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection and the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of capricious capital sentencing impose limits…
18-6753 Jesse Mendez v. Gary Swarthout, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 28-usc-2255 district-court federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-petition harrington-v-richter judicial-deference reasoned-decision state-appellate-court state-court state-court-decision statutory-interpretation When a state court denied a habeas claim without a reasoned decision, can the district court reject the state appellate court's clear statement that i…
18-644 David Carl Cottingham v. Washington State Bar Association, et al. Washington 2018-11-19 Denied Response Waived attorney-conduct bar-discipline due-process first-amendment objective-analysis petitioning petitioning-rights pro-se-representation professional-discipline regulatory-approval split state-court strict-scrutiny Should this court resolve the split in state court responses to this court's prescribed objective analysis protecting first amendment petitioning as d…
18-6730 William Ramirez, et ux. v. Superior Court of California, El Dorado County, et al. California 2018-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure default default-judgment due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment merits-based-adjudication pro-se pro-se-litigant relief-from-default state-court state-court-procedure Should a pro se petitioner reasonably expect relief from default as a part of due process under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitu…
18-6625 Darnell Bernard Blagmon v. Virginia Virginia 2018-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-constitution recantation state-court state-court-procedure witness-recantation writ-of-innocence Did the state court violate petitioner's federal constitutional right to due process by making this ruling without having held an evidentiary hearing?
18-6627 David Timothy Curry v. Florida Florida 2018-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure court-procedure direct-appeal due-process issue-preservation judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-reasoning standing state-court state-courts Where a state appellate court is required to address every issue that was presented when they decline to review a lower court's decision
18-6578 Elebert Fox v. Illinois Illinois 2018-11-07 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction standing state-court Whether the State of Illinois violated the petitioner's 14th Amendment right to due process and equal protection by denying his post-conviction petiti…
18-594 Robert R. Snyder v. California California 2018-11-06 Denied appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-deprivation constitutional-deprivations due-process grievance-system prison prisoner-rights standing state-court state-court-procedure state-prison unsupervised-determinations Should this court grant review to remedy the conspicuous violations of due process
18-586 Jack R. Koch v. Adam Estrella, et al. California 2018-11-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction final-judgment jurisdiction state-court statute-of-limitations supplemental-jurisdiction Is it lawful for the state courts to create a final judgment from within the federal court files when there is no entry of a final judgment and then h…
18-6493 Steven D. Burke v. Neil Turner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection standard-of-proof state-court Does changing the standard of proof in the state court deny a criminal defendant's due process and equal protection of law?
18-6410 Michael McKinzy v. Carletha Gaston (McKinzy) Missouri 2018-10-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection legal-notice notice procedural-fairness service service-of-process state-action state-court Did Missouri (CSE) violate Father's United States Constitutional Rights to Due Process of Law and Equal Protection of Laws under the Fourteenth Amendm…
18-6372 Michael Small v. Cherry Lindamood, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-challenge due-process evidentiary-ruling federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion procedural-default procedural-rules sentencing state-court sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the United States Court of Appeals erred when it agreed with the district court that the claim of ineffective assistance of counsel was withou…
18-484 Melvin Charles Pettigrew v. Texas Texas 2018-10-16 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus post-conviction-review state-court substantive-review texas Whether the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas violated the Petitioner's right to due process of law as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the …
18-6110 Mikal Mahdi v. South Carolina South Carolina 2018-09-28 Denied IFP appointment-of-counsel capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty death-sentence habeas-corpus indigent-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief procedural-history right-to-counsel sixth-amendment south-carolina-supreme-court state-court Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated when the state post-conviction court failed to appoint counsel for M…
18-6076 Wilton Eugene Sandifer, Sr. v. Florida Florida 2018-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-law mandamus standing state-court third-party-guilt trial-rights Whether the petitioner was denied due process and equal protection under the 14th Amendment by the state court's denial of his petition for a writ of …
18-6085 Gerald Daniels v. Janet Dowling, Warden Tenth Circuit 2018-09-24 Denied IFP constitutional-issue constitutional-law constitutional-review equal-protection evasion federal-court federal-courts habeas-corpus race-discrimination state-court state-law state-law-interpretation Whether a federal habeas court may reexamine a state court's interpretation of state law when it is an obvious subterfuge to evade consideration of a …
18-335 Nathaniel Teamer v. Scott Lewis, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial judicial-bias jury-instructions south-carolina state-court supreme-court truth-seeking Does the South Carolina Supreme Court's acceptance of judges instructing the jury that its 'sole objective is to simply reach the truth of the matter'…
18-5980 Shelton Denoria Jones v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied IFP 28-U.S.C-2254(e)(2) 28-usc-2254 diligence evidentiary-hearing factual-basis fair-trial federal-court federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment state-court state-court-review Whether a habeas applicant has 'failed to develop the factual basis' of a claim under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(e)(2) when the state court did not hold an evid…
18-5971 Donavan T. Fortin v. Brad Cain, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence due-process estelle-v-mcguire evidentiary-hearing federal-courts habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-principles judicial-review ninth-circuit state-court state-law state-law-interpretation williams-v-taylor Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision, which interpreted state law contrary to the state court's ruling, conflicts with Estelle v. McGuire
18-5857 Jeffrey Latimore v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2018-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency competency-hearing constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus mental-competency plea-agreement plea-bargaining right-to-counsel state-attorney-office state-court state-courts trial-court WHETHER TRIAL COURT ABUSED THEIR AUTHORITY BY DENYING PETITIONER LATIMORE A COMPETENCY HEARING BEFORE A PLEA AGREEMENT
18-227 Justin Michael Wolfe v. Virginia Virginia 2018-08-22 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appeal appellate-review class-precedent class-v-united-states constitutional-authority constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plea-bargaining double-jeopardy due-process guilty-plea plea-bargaining state-court state-court-appeals vindictive-prosecution Whether a guilty plea in state court waives the right to raise on appeal the constitutional authority of the State to prosecute based on a claim of vi…
18-220 Javier A. Carrillo, et al. v. U.S. Bank National Association, et al. Florida 2018-08-21 Denied Relisted (2) 15-usc-1635 appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-appeal creditor-possession due-process judicial-discretion judicial-procedure judicial-review per-curiam rescission-right standing state-court statutory-interpretation supreme-court writ-of-possession Can borrowers exercise the right to rescind a transaction under 15 U.S.C. 1635(b) and require the creditor to take possession of the property within 2…
18-5592 Oscar Madrid v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-08-15 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process exhaustion exhaustion-of-remedies fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress state-court sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the court erred in finding claims 1-3 were not exhausted to the state's highest court
18-5499 Hilario Sanchez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence evidentiary-hearing federal-court habeas-corpus involuntary-plea state-court time-barred Whether a federal court failed to hold an evidentiary hearing on habeas corpus if, among other factors, the petitioner was unable to develop the factu…
18-5492 In Re David Louis Colson 2018-08-09 Denied IFP appellate-review article-3-section-2 civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction original-jurisdiction standing state-court state-party state-vs-federal subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court Whether the superior court of Arizona had jurisdiction to render the judgments against the petitioner in a case where the state was a party
18-5283 David McGowan v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2018-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-court appellate-review due-process habeas-corpus state-appellate-court state-court unconstitutional-sentence unlitigated-claim Is a state appellate court's unexplained refusal to allow a petitioner to file for state provided avenue of writ of habeas corpus relief on an unlitig…
18-5229 Robert Adam Neuman v. Mark Nooth Ninth Circuit 2018-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflicts federal-law federal-law-analysis federal-law-review federal-review judicial-review ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-precedent ohio-v-reiner review state-court state-court-decision state-court-interpretation state-statute supreme-court-precedent Whether the Ninth Circuit's opinion unreasonably insulates the state court decision from review and conflicts with Ohio v. Reiner
18-87 Ludwig P. Samson, Trustee for the Heirs and Next of Kin of Christine R. Samson, Deceased v. Jack W. Gordon, et al. Minnesota 2018-07-18 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection opportunity-to-be-heard procedural-decision procedural-decisions retroactive-application retroactivity state-court state-court-rules state-statute Is a litigant denied due process when a state's highest court overrules a consistent line of procedural decisions and expands a state statute retroact…
18-5185 Tamara Zivot v. Superior Court of California, Contra Costa County, et al. California 2018-07-10 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-guarantee defendant-not-served due-diligence due-process household-member personal-jurisdiction service-of-process state-court statutory-mandate substitute-service Is the constitutional guarantee of due process in order to confer personal jurisdiction over a defendant denied when the evidence presented unequivoca…
18-5172 Samuel Isaac Marquez v. Timothy Filson, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP brumfield-precedent brumfield-v-cain due-process fact-finding federal-law habeas-corpus insanity-defense ninth-circuit state-court state-court-fact-finding Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision contradicted Brumfield v. Cain by holding that a state-court determination of fact cannot be unreasonable due to …
18-5039 Guy Kevin Rowland v. Kevin Chappell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied IFP aedpa criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federal-procedure good-faith habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition local-rules state-court statute-of-limitations Does the AEDPA apply where Petitioner's attorneys relied in good faith on the federal district court's local rules
18-5060 Konstantinos X. Fotopoulos v. Florida Florida 2018-06-29 Denied IFP capital-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection equal-protection-clause hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona state-court Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection and the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of capricious capital sentencing impose limits…
24A255 Irina Collier v. Donald J. Trump District of Columbia Presumed Complete circuit-court federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus petition-routing procedural-irregularity state-court Whether a federal habeas corpus petition challenging a state court conviction can be properly filed and adjudicated when procedural irregularities exi…
24A419 Cynthia Davis, Warden v. David M. Smith Sixth Circuit Presumed Complete criminal-conviction federal-review habeas-corpus mandate sixth-circuit state-court Whether the Sixth Circuit improperly interpreted federal habeas corpus standards for reviewing state court criminal convictions
24A531 Zachary Thomas Horton v. Superior Court of California, Solano County, et al. California Presumed Complete Relisted (2) due-process judicial-review mandamus petition-denial pro-se state-court Whether a state court's summary denial of a pro se litigant's petition for mandamus and prohibition without substantive review violates due process an…