| 24-6798 |
Karl Douglas Roberts v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-03-18 |
Denied |
Amici (2)IFP |
aedpa-standard atkins-claim death-penalty federal-claim habeas-corpus state-court-adjudication |
Whether a claim has been adjudicated on the merits by a state court under § 2254(d), where the defendant did not present a federal claim for relief an… |
| 24-797 |
Scott Speer, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Corrections Center, et al. v. Jeffrey Weller, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-01-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
aedpa-standard federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit-review state-court-adjudication |
Whether the state courts adjudicated the merits of an ineffective assistance of counsel claim for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) when expressly citin… |
| 24-6370 |
Anthony Medina v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-review state-court-adjudication |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's interpretation of 'adjudication on the merits' under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) conflicts with Supreme Court precedent in Johnson… |
| 23-682 |
Alabama v. Marcus Bernard Williams |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-26 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
AEDPA-deference habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits merits-review procedural-grounds state-court-adjudication |
Does a state-court adjudication on the merits lose its entitlement to AEDPA deference if it is affirmed on procedural grounds? |
| 23A453 |
Alan Osterhoudt, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-claims eleventh-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus section-2254 state-court-adjudication |
Whether a federal habeas court may grant relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 when state court adjudications fail to provide a full and fair review of a crim… |
| 23-5051 |
Andrew Valles v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-law due-process federal-review first-amendment habeas-corpus separation-of-powers standing state-court-adjudication |
Does the resort of 28 U.S.C. 2415(e) - a safety valve created by Congress - succumb entirely to and find defeat in 8 U.S.C. 1182(a) - a seeming inhere… |
| 22-7127 |
William Michael Meyer v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment habeas-corpus proportionality state-court-adjudication term-of-years-sentences |
Whether the state court adjudicated the petitioner's Eighth Amendment claim on the merits |
| 22-701 |
Norman Bartsch Herterich v. Mary E. Wiss, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appellate-review claims-and-issues constitutional-violations district-court federal-constitutional-violations federal-district-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-adjudication state-court-proceedings |
Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars federal-district-court jurisdiction over an action merely because the action alleges federal-constitutional-v… |
| 21-7774 |
Brandon Leon Bibbs v. Alex Villanueva, Sheriff, Los Angeles County, California |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-and-statutory-provisions constitutional-review due-process federal-review habeas-corpus jurisdiction reasons-for-granting-the-writ standing state-court-adjudication |
Whether the lower court erred in denying petitioner's claim for adequate relief when petitioner is fully denied standing to bring his claims |
| 21-540 |
Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc., et al. v. Rick C. Sasso |
Indiana |
2021-10-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
claim-scope exclusive-jurisdiction federal-circuit federal-patent-law gunn-v-minton jurisdictional-split patent-jurisdiction patent-validity state-court-adjudication state-court-jurisdiction |
Whether a dispute raises substantial issues of federal patent law when its resolution necessarily depends on patent-law determinations regarding claim… |
| 20-826 |
Mike Brown, Acting Warden v. Ervine Davenport |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-12-18 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (3)Relisted (2) |
28-usc-2254(d)(1) brecht-test chapman-standard chapman-test constitutional-error federal-habeas-court federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-review state-court-adjudication |
May a federal habeas court grant relief based solely on its conclusion that the Brecht test is satisfied, or must the court also find that the state c… |
| 19-7810 |
Dale W. Eaton v. Mike Pacheco, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-02-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2254 cullen-v-pinholster federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-competency new-evidence state-court-adjudication strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether a state court has adjudicated the performance prong of a Strickland v. Washington claim on the merits within the meaning of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d… |
| 18-8030 |
Charles Russell Rhines v. Darin Young, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 cullen-v-pinholster federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan pinholster-standard procedural-default state-court-adjudication |
Where is the boundary between 'new claims,' whose default federal habeas courts may excuse, and 'new facts,' which federal habeas courts may not consi… |
| 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 … |
| 18-6409 |
Scotty Garnell Morrow v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-23 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
28-usc-2254 clear-error due-process fact-finding federal-review habeas-corpus reasoned-opinion section-2254 state-court-adjudication state-court-deference |
Where the last state court to review the merits of a state prisoner's habeas claim denied relief in a reasoned opinion, may a federal court assume the… |
| 18-5090 |
Quonshay Douglas-Ricardo Mason v. DeWayne Burton, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aedpa cumulative-error due-process habeas-corpus judicial-bias judicial-misconduct offutt-v-united-states sixth-circuit standard-of-review state-court-adjudication ungar-v-sarafite |
Whether the Sixth Circuit applied the wrong legal standard in evaluating the petitioner's judicial misconduct claim |