| 25-947 |
Robert William Moss v. Shawn M. Latourette, Commissioner, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection |
New Jersey |
2026-02-10 |
Pending |
|
14th-amendment due-process entire-controversy-doctrine forest-management procedural-dismissal state-law |
Whether a state court must explain why a plaintiff should have previously raised a state law issue under the entire controversy doctrine |
| 25-861 |
Minnesota Chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors, et al. v. Keith M. Ellison, Attorney General of Minnesota, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2026-01-20 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights enforcement-authority federal-court-review first-amendment judicial-precedent state-law |
Whether state officials may disclaim enforcement authority over a law to avoid federal court review of the law's constitutionality |
| 25-852 |
Kimberly Edelstein v. Eliott Edelstein |
Ohio |
2026-01-16 |
Pending |
|
civil-rights fourteenth-amendment judicial-notice property-interest state-law supremacy-clause |
Did the state court err and violate the Supremacy Clause and Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment rights in reclassifying a federal civil rights verdict … |
| 25-6586 |
M. G. J. v. Oregon Department of Human Services, et al. |
Oregon |
2026-01-14 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process indian-child-welfare-act state-law supremacy-clause tribal-adoption |
Does the Supremacy Clause preclude a state from enacting a state law to determine the foster care or adoptive placement of an Indian child? |
| 25-6540 |
Jason M. Potter v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2026-01-12 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment inventory-search state-law warrantless-search |
Whether the warrantless impoundment and inventory search of a vehicle violates the Fourth Amendment when the operator has not been arrested or taken i… |
| 25A802 |
Henry L. Klein, et al. v. Lewis Title Insurance Company, et al. |
Louisiana |
2026-01-12 |
Application |
|
federal-preemption insurance-regulation mccarran-ferguson state-law supremacy-clause title-insurance |
Whether the McCarran-Ferguson Act and Louisiana Title Insurance Act preclude federal preemption of state title insurance regulations under the Suprema… |
| 25-6448 |
Torrence Belcher v. Terri Hale, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-12-30 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
10th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection prisoner-rights state-law |
Whether intervening circumstances affect the continuing validity of a legal rule or policy in the context of prisoner rights and constitutional protec… |
| 25-733 |
Joseph Soaris v. Tony Aikhionbare |
California |
2025-12-22 |
Pending |
|
civil-rights equal-protection legal-equality state-law |
Whether the state is applying its laws equally amongst its citizens? |
| 25-724 |
Unified Life Insurance Company v. United States Fire Insurance Company |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-19 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine federal-common-law insurance-law reinsurance state-law |
Whether a federal court exercising diversity jurisdiction exceeds its authority under Erie R. Co. v. Tompkins by creating a new state law duty for ins… |
| 25-679 |
Glen Morgan v. X Corp., fka Twitter, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-11 |
Pending |
Amici (1) |
article-iii class-action federal-jurisdiction standing state-law statutory-damages |
Whether Article III permits a federal court to entertain a state law cause of action for deceptively procuring non-private information when the statut… |
| 25-6283 |
Samuel Patrick Cain, Jr. v. Carrie Bridges, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-12-04 |
Pending |
IFP |
constitutional-claim district-court federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-review state-law |
Whether the District Court erred in denying habeas relief based on its determination that the petitioner's claim involves state law and did not presen… |
| 25-615 |
Shane Vinales, Individually and as Next Friend of L. V. and S. V., et ux. v. AETC II Privatized Housing, L.L.C., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-26 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response Waived |
constitutional-interpretation federal-enclaves legal-borrowing legislative-authority military-servicemembers state-law |
Whether federal law on federal enclaves borrows current state law, rather than state law only as it existed when the enclave was created |
| 25A624 |
Cynthia Braccia, et al. v. Northwell Health Systems |
Second Circuit |
2025-11-26 |
Application |
|
employment-discrimination preemption religious-accommodation state-law supremacy-clause title-vii |
Whether the Supremacy Clause preempts state laws that conflict with Title VII's religious accommodation requirements |
| 25-611 |
Delta Air Lines, Inc. v. Oregon Department of Revenue |
Oregon |
2025-11-25 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
administrative-convenience equal-protection fourteenth-amendment intangible-property state-law taxation |
Whether the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits a state from singling out a few businesses for taxation of their intangible … |
| 25-612 |
Scot Van Oudenhoven v. Wisconsin Department of Justice |
Wisconsin |
2025-11-25 |
Pending |
|
criminal-record expungement federal-law firearms-prohibition state-law statutory-interpretation |
Does the word 'expunged' in 18 U.S.C. § 921(a)(33)(B)(ii) apply to all expungements under state law, or require a complete undoing of a conviction's e… |
| 25-6175 |
Luis Fernando Puente v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-counsel fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance reasonable-expectation-privacy state-law supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Fifth Circuit and U.S.D.C. misinterpreted state law and Supreme Court precedent regarding ineffective assistance of appellate counsel and … |
| 25-6162 |
Terrell Onterial Lobley v. Don Harris, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation ineffective-counsel judicial-review legal-interpretation state-law trial-procedure |
Are the Courts required to uphold Laws that are in violation of State and Federal Constitutions? |
| 25-6040 |
Gustavo Tijerina Sandoval v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process harmless-error jury-trial sixth-amendment state-law trial-counsel |
May a state court that reaches and decides an asserted violation of the Sixth Amendment right to jury trial that has not been waived or forfeited unde… |
| 25-543 |
Thomas John Styczinski, et al. v. Grace Arnold, in Her Official Capacity as Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Commerce |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-11-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-three constitutional-avoidance dormant-commerce-clause extraterritorial-regulation judicial-power state-law |
Whether a federal court exceeds its Article III judicial power by unilaterally imposing a constitutional avoidance narrowing construction on a state l… |
| 25-5878 |
Detrayous D. Curry v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-10-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance criminal-conviction drug-offense federal-schedule sentencing-guidelines state-law |
Whether the definition of a 'Controlled Substance Offense' for purposes of U.S.S.G. §4B1.2 includes a prior state law conviction for a cocaine offense… |
| 25-5852 |
Amro N. Elkabany v. Louis C. Shapiro, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Judge, Superior Court of New Jersey, Gloucester County, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-10-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-immunity rooker-feldman-doctrine state-law |
Whether judicial immunity bars relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when a judge conducts a secret, off-the-record hearing and deprives a litigant of due pro… |
| 25-5816 |
William Loydellton Speed, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
buyer-seller-exception career-offender-guideline controlled-substance drug-conspiracy federal-law state-law |
Whether the term 'controlled substance' in the Career Offender Guideline refers to substances controlled under federal or state law, and whether the c… |
| 25-5780 |
Timothy Marcus Mayberry v. Stacy Hall |
Indiana |
2025-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure court-of-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review state-law |
Whether the Court of Appeals of Indiana deprived the petitioner of the secured right to one appeal under state law, in violation of the Fourteenth Ame… |
| 25-5742 |
Zachary C. Crouch v. University of Tennessee |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-09-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-law de-novo-review freedom-of-speech sovereign-immunity state-law |
Whether state sovereign immunity applies to unofficial acts and conflicts with the Constitutional right to Freedom of Speech |
| 25-5746 |
Kevin Dwayne Woods, Jr. v. Iowa |
Iowa |
2025-09-26 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights firearm-possession individual-dangerousness marijuana-possession second-amendment state-law |
Whether a state may criminalize possessing a firearm while possessing a user quantity of marijuana without an individualized showing of dangerousness |
| 25-337 |
City of Huntington Beach, California, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-09-23 |
Pending |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-structure first-amendment government-powers local-government official-capacity state-law |
Whether the Constitution categorically denies a local government any capacity to invoke it against its State, without first determining its status wit… |
| 25A306 |
Shane Vinales, Individually and as Next Friend of L. V. and S. V., et ux. v. AETC II Privatized Housing, L.L.C. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
federal-enclave landlord-tenant military-housing property-rights state-law surrogate-law |
Whether the Federal Enclave Clause requires courts to apply only the state law in effect at the time a federal enclave was created, or whether more re… |
| 25-272 |
Andy Luu Tran v. Herbert Jacobs |
First Circuit |
2025-09-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bankruptcy-code deed-validity land-records mortgage-foreclosure state-law transfer-avoidance |
Whether the transfer avoidance provisions of the bankruptcy code should give way to state law regarding transfers and whether an Affidavit of Sale suf… |
| 25-245 |
Fire-Dex, LLC v. Admiral Insurance Company |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-09-03 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
abstention-doctrine coercive-relief declaratory-judgment diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts state-law |
When a complaint joins claims for declaratory relief on a novel state-law issue with claims for damages, does a district court retain its discretion t… |
| 25-5512 |
Robert Andrew Bartlett, Sr. v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2025-09-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights counsel-claim criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance post-conviction-review state-law |
Whether a state criminal defendant who is prevented by state law from raising a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel, who has a state right to r… |
| 25-173 |
Elizabeth Flynt v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-08-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-law dormant-commerce-clause economic-regulation interstate-commerce market-discrimination state-law |
Whether a state law that discriminates against firms engaged in interstate commerce by forcing firms to choose between being part of the enacting stat… |
| 25-159 |
Leonard W. Hoffmann, et al. v. WBI Energy Transmission, Inc. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-08-11 |
Pending |
CVSGAmici (2)Relisted (3) |
circuit-split fifth-amendment just-compensation land-condemnation natural-gas-act state-law |
In private condemnations under the Natural Gas Act, should just compensation be determined by reference to state law? |
| 25-5297 |
Christopher Jerome Ellis v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender controlled-substance federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the term 'controlled substance' in the career offender guideline refers exclusively to substances listed in the federal Controlled Substances … |
| 25-5245 |
Zachary C. Crouch v. Tennessee Department of Human Services |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-07-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation federal-law sovereign-immunity state-law supremacy-clause |
Whether state sovereign immunity can be applied to federal laws of fraud and theft under the Supremacy Clause |
| 25-5235 |
Carlton Vose v. Peter F. Neronha, Attorney General of Rhode Island |
First Circuit |
2025-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights federal-review habeas-corpus state-law |
Whether the First Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously applied state law and federal habeas corpus standards in reviewing a criminal defendant's const… |
| 24-1308 |
Jaffan International, LLC v. Radhe Krishna Properties, LLC |
Florida |
2025-06-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review federal-law final-judgment res-judicata state-law substantive-law |
Whether state law can supersede federal substantive law of res judicata in determining the binding effect of a federal final judgment in state court |
| 24-1294 |
Alan Grayson v. No Labels, Inc., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-06-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
attorney-fees diversity-jurisdiction federal-rule offer-of-judgment procedural-rule state-law |
In a diversity jurisdiction case, did the lower court err in awarding attorney's fees under a state procedural rule that conflicts with the federal of… |
| 24-7466 |
Patrick Joseph Duncan, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure state-law |
Whether federal courts may use state law definitions to narrow Fourth Amendment protections during law enforcement stops |
| 24-1230 |
Coinbase, Inc., et al. v. Darren Kramer, et al. |
California |
2025-06-03 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
arbitration-agreement consumer-protection federal-arbitration-act preemption public-injunctive-relief state-law |
Whether, or to what extent, the FAA preempts a state-law rule allowing a plaintiff to evade arbitration by pleading a request for 'public injunctive r… |
| 24-1224 |
Denver Ward v. Laura Fisher, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-06-02 |
Denied |
|
child-best-interests court-appointed due-process guardian-ad-litem quasi-judicial-immunity state-law |
Does a guardian ad litem violate due process when acting outside the scope of their duties for the child's best interests and in contravention of stat… |
| 24-7314 |
Missouri, ex rel. Jeffrey Weinhaus v. Richard Adams, Warden |
Missouri |
2025-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cause-and-prejudice constitutional-claim due-process habeas-corpus state-law summary-denial |
Where State law entitles a prisoner to habeas corpus review of a Constitutional claim upon a showing of cause and prejudice, does the summary denial o… |
| 24-7308 |
Zachary C. Crouch v. Braden Goddard, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation copyright-infringement due-process federal-law sovereign-immunity state-law |
Whether state sovereign immunity applies to federal copyright infringement and fraud claims under the Constitution |
| 24-7310 |
Ian Leonard Clark v. United States District Court for the District of Oregon, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-challenge federal-constitution judicial-interpretation state-law statutory-interpretation |
Does the Supreme Court agree with the Appellant's claim that Oregon Revised Statute 14.270 is unconstitutional? |
| 24-7282 |
Imre Kifor v. Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2025-05-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-separation constitutional-rights due-process federal-reimbursement lgbtq-rights state-law |
Whether Massachusetts can constitutionally 'double protect' some citizens by revoking Constitutional protections for others, and whether LGBTQ+ immuni… |
| 24-7160 |
Prentiss Jackson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights federal-law fourth-amendment marijuana-search state-law vehicle-search |
Whether it is constitutional to search a vehicle for the odor of marijuana alone in a state that has legalized marijuana, whether Illinois odorless co… |
| 24-1097 |
Monsanto Company, a Foreign Corporation v. Nancy C. Salas |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-04-22 |
Pending |
Relisted (3) |
epa-regulation failure-to-warn fifra-preemption product-liability state-law warning-requirements |
Whether FIFRA preempts a state-law failure-to-warn claim where EPA has repeatedly concluded that the warning is not required and the warning cannot be… |
| 24-1098 |
Monsanto Company v. Larry Johnson, et al. |
Oregon |
2025-04-22 |
Pending |
Relisted (3) |
epa-regulation failure-to-warn fifra-preemption product-liability state-law warning-requirements |
Whether FIFRA preempts a state-law failure-to-warn claim where EPA has repeatedly concluded that the warning is not required and the warning cannot be… |
| 24-7030 |
Moises Sandoval Mendoza v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-04-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-defendant habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-law trial-counsel |
Whether a criminal defendant has a right to effective habeas counsel to assert a claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel where, by operation … |
| 24-6984 |
Tyrone Woodson v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felon-in-possession firearm-regulation second-amendment state-law |
Does a state law prohibiting firearm possession by felons violate the Second Amendment when applied to an individual with no violent felony conviction… |
| 24-1020 |
Uber Technologies, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, et al. v. Amie Drammeh, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-03-25 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split erie-doctrine federal-courts judicial-prediction procedural-law state-law |
Whether federal courts can predict changes in state law under Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins |
| 24-1024 |
Clarence Cocroft, et al. v. Chris Graham, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Revenue, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-25 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
central-hudson commercial-speech constitutional-law first-amendment regulatory-speech state-law |
Is Central Hudson's first prong a constitutional 'on/off' switch for evaluating commercial speech legality, or a flexible factor? |
| 24-1006 |
Lisa Antoine v. Oxmoor Preservation/One, LLC |
Alabama |
2025-03-20 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment due-process equal-protection property-rights state-law water-drainage |
QP: Does the 14th Amendment allow Alabama to deny Lisa Antoine equal protection and due process by imposing drainage restrictions and property access … |
| 24-999 |
Premier Nutrition Corporation, fka Joint Juice, Inc. v. Mary Beth Montera, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-03-20 |
Pending |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
appellate-review circuit-court federal-certification federalism judicial-procedure state-law |
Whether a federal court must consider federalism interests when asked to certify important and unresolved questions of state law, and whether the Nint… |
| 24-6640 |
Jorge L. Quintana, Sr. v. Tanya Holzhaus, Individually and as Escrow Agent of Stewart Title Company, et al. |
Texas |
2025-02-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
bankruptcy-court exemption-limits homestead-exemption property-rights state-law trustee-jurisdiction |
Whether individual states can set the parameters of a homestead exemption for citizens filing bankruptcy or if bankruptcy petitions remove states' abi… |
| 24-868 |
The Art and Antique Dealers League of America, Inc., et al. v. Amanda Lefton, in Her Official Capacity as the Acting Commissioner of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-02-13 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
administrative-exception endangered-species-act federal-regulation ivory-trade preemption state-law |
Whether the ESA's preemption provision protects all activities enjoying an exception under the ESA, even if self-executing, or only those activities a… |
| 24-6410 |
Antoine Wiggins v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-01-28 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7)IFP |
circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-procedure federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law |
Whether the term 'controlled substance' in the Sentencing Guidelines refers only to substances controlled under federal law or also includes substance… |
| 24-801 |
Kevin Stitt, Governor of Oklahoma, et al. v. Rowan Fowler, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-01-28 |
GVR |
Amici (5)Relisted (2) |
birth-certificate civil-rights constitutional-law equal-protection gender-identity state-law |
Whether the Equal Protection Clause requires a State to alter its official certificate documenting a person's sex at birth to represent that person's … |
| 24-789 |
ECB USA, Inc., a Florida Corporation, et al. v. Chubb Insurance Company of New Jersey, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-01-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split contract-interpretation erie-doctrine federal-common-law judicial-precedent state-law |
Whether under Erie v. Tompkins a federal court can apply federal common law rules of contract construction instead of New Jersey state law principles |
| 24-769 |
Joan Stormo, as Assignee of Peter T. Clark v. State National Insurance Company |
First Circuit |
2025-01-17 |
Denied |
|
certification diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine federal-procedure federalism state-law |
Does the rule disfavoring certification employed by a minority of circuits violate the Erie doctrine and principles of federalism by discriminating ag… |
| 24-737 |
Sprout Foods, Inc. v. Gillian Davidson, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-01-13 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
fdca food-labeling private-enforcement regulatory-incorporation sherman-law state-law |
Whether § 337's explicit bar on private enforcement of the FDCA precludes a private action seeking to enforce FDCA food labeling regulations by assert… |
| 24A671 |
Premier Nutrition Corporation, fka Joint Juice, Inc. v. Mary Beth Montera, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-01-10 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certification class-action consumer-protection federal-procedure judicial-federalism state-law |
Whether federal courts can apply state-law class action restrictions when a plaintiff files a putative class action in federal court under a state con… |
| 24-668 |
Republic of Argentina v. Attestor Master Value Fund LP, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-12-19 |
Denied |
|
commercial-activity federal-standard foreign-sovereign-immunities-act jurisdictional-immunity property-execution state-law |
Whether courts should apply state or federal law to determine property location for foreign sovereign immunity under the FSIA, and whether property co… |
| 24-6159 |
Kevin Underwood v. Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-12-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrary-action clemency-proceedings constitutional-rights due-process procedural-fairness state-law |
Whether the due process clause provides any protection for petitioners in state clemency proceedings that are explicitly required by state law |
| 24-6133 |
Kyle Wolfe v. Jill Krowinski |
Vermont |
2024-12-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-scrutiny first-amendment free-speech petition-rights second-amendment state-law |
Whether Vermont State Statutes 15 V.S.A. 5133(e) and 12 V.S.A. § 5131(3) are constitutional under the First and Second Amendments, and whether Order N… |
| 24-480 |
Kimberly K. Sisia v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-10-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
diversity-jurisdiction eleventh-circuit insurance-coverage medical-payments state-law substantive-law |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit improperly applied state substantive law in a diversity jurisdiction case involving medical payments coverage by State Fa… |
| 24A400 |
Iowa Pork Producers Association v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-24 |
Presumed Complete |
|
agricultural-regulation ballot-measure dormant-commerce-clause interstate-commerce ninth-circuit state-law |
Whether a state ballot measure regulating agricultural production methods imposes an undue burden on interstate commerce in violation of the dormant C… |
| 24-448 |
Oskana Marinaro v. Parks Ziegler, PLLC |
Virginia |
2024-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review attorney-fees due-process fourteenth-amendment pro-se-representation state-law |
Whether a state appellate court can refuse full appellate review without a transcript when state law requires review based on written pleadings |
| 24-403 |
Cai Hunter McIntosh v. Washington |
Washington |
2024-10-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights-restoration federal-law firearm-rights juvenile-conviction second-amendment state-law |
Should a sealed juvenile conviction that has essentially disappeared and for which a person's civil rights have been restored prevent someone from own… |
| 24-405 |
Indiana, ex rel. Deborah Walton v. Superior Court 6 of Indiana, Hamilton County, et al. |
Indiana |
2024-10-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
dodd-frank foreclosure-proceedings mortgage-servicing respa state-law supremacy-clause |
Whether State Laws are bound by Dodd Frank Regulation X section 1024.41(f)(1) when pending RESPA complaints show foreclosure is preempted by the Supre… |
| 24-377 |
South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism v. Google LLC |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split federalism sovereign-immunity state-agency state-law waiver-doctrine |
Whether state law can limit the power of one state agency to waive the sovereign immunity of another |
| 24-350 |
Port of Tacoma, et al. v. Puget Soundkeeper Alliance |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-09-27 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (7)Relisted (2) |
citizen-suit clean-water-act federal-jurisdiction npdes pollutant-discharge state-law |
Whether Section 505 of the Clean Water Act authorizes citizens to invoke federal courts to enforce conditions of state-issued pollutant-discharge perm… |
| 24A299 |
Martin Gonzales v. New Mexico, et al. |
New Mexico |
2024-09-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-interpretation criminal-convictions double-jeopardy incidental-restraint kidnapping state-law |
Whether a criminal defendant's kidnapping convictions violate double jeopardy principles when based on incidental restraint under New Mexico state law |
| 24-264 |
Jay A. Liestman v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-09-09 |
Denied |
|
child-pornography circuit-split federal-law sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether a state offense involving child pornography can serve as a predicate for federal sentencing enhancement under 18 U.S.C. § 2252(b)(1) when the … |
| 24-5450 |
Anthony H. Warnick v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2024-09-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution mcgirt-decision state-law tribal-jurisdiction tribal-lands |
Whether Oklahoma can prosecute a defendant under state law for crimes committed on tribal lands after the McGirt decision expanded tribal jurisdiction |
| 24A220 |
Neil Dupree v. Kevin Younger |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-29 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-remedies exhaustion-requirement federalism judicial-deference prison-litigation-reform-act state-law |
Whether federal courts must defer to a state's longstanding interpretation of its own administrative grievance procedures when determining 'availabili… |
| 24-219 |
In Re Warren Petersen, et al. |
|
2024-08-28 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
constitutional-challenge high-ranking-officials legislative-intervention legislative-privilege morgan-doctrine state-law |
Whether legislative leaders waive legislative privilege and Morgan doctrine protections when intervening to defend a state law in a private civil cons… |
| 24-203 |
David Snope, et al. v. Anthony G. Brown, in His Official Capacity as Attorney General of Maryland, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-23 |
Denied |
Amici (10)Relisted (16) |
constitutional-rights firearms-regulation gun-ban second-amendment semiautomatic-weapons state-law |
Whether the Constitution permits the State of Maryland to ban semiautomatic rifles that are in common use for lawful purposes |
| 24-149 |
Kai Hansjurgens v. Donald Bailey |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-08-12 |
Denied |
|
11th-circuit bankruptcy-procedure due-process erie-doctrine federal-common-law state-law |
Whether the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals improperly interpreted state law, federal bankruptcy rules, and Erie doctrine principles in its decision |
| 24-80 |
Eliezer Taveras v. U.S. Bank National Association, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-07-25 |
Denied |
|
claim-splitting due-process federal-jurisdiction procedural-removal removal rooker-feldman state-law state-law-claims |
Does the removal of a case from state to federal court, under allegations of fraudulent procedural conduct by the defendants and when the principal cl… |
| 24-62 |
Yan Ping Xu v. City of New York, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-07-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment employment-law municipal-employment performance-evaluation state-law summary-discharge |
Whether a permanent employee who has served for less than five years in the noncompetitive class in the City of New York could be summarily discharged… |
| 24-58 |
Lisa Gindi v. New York City Department of Education |
Second Circuit |
2024-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
ada ada-violation civil-rights eeoc eeoc-retaliation employment-discrimination plain-error retaliation state-law timeliness whistleblower-protection workers-compensation workplace-harassment wrongful-termination |
Question not identified |
| 24-5094 |
Kenyatta Quinn Mitchell v. Paul Bennett, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
11th-amendment 42-usc-1983 circuit-court-review civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process heck-v-humphrey judicial-discretion legal-standards plra procedural-due-process state-law statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-1359 |
Fucich Contracting, Incorporated, et al. v. Shread-Kuyrkendall and Associates, Incorporated, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts judicial-federalism legal-reasoning reasoned-opinion state-law supervisory-authority |
Should a federal court of appeals sitting in diversity be required to issue a reasoned opinion in disposing of a case when that case involves signific… |
| 23-1357 |
Country Oaks Partners, LLC, dba Country Oaks Care Center, et al. v. Mark Harrod |
California |
2024-06-28 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
advance-directive agent-authority arbitration-agreement contract-statutes federal-arbitration-act health-care-decisions health-care-providers power-of-attorney state-law state-law-preemption |
Whether the FAA preempts state law contract statutes and regulations by singling out for disfavored treatment arbitration agreements entered into betw… |
| 23-1342 |
David W. Foley, Jr., et ux. v. Orange County, Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-06-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment administrative-injunction constitutional-provision due-process federal-courts fourteenth-amendment judicial-determination state-courts state-law |
Whether the Due Process Clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments require federal and state courts to answer the question of state law that the c… |
| 23-7792 |
In Re Ramiro Felix Gonzales |
|
2024-06-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment constitutional-review death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness post-conviction-review state-law |
Does it violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to execute an individual who does not meet the eligibility criteria for a sentence of death under… |
| 23-1332 |
Jarius Brown v. Javarrea Pouncy, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-21 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
28-usc-1658 civil-rights civil-rights-claims federal-interests owens-v-okure personal-injury section-1983 state-law statute-of-limitations |
Is a one-year state statute of limitations period consistent with federal interests underlying Section 1983? |
| 23-7719 |
Justin T. Winston v. Jon Noble, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cause-and-prejudice constitutional-rights constitutional-violations federal-claims postconviction-motion procedural-default state-law wisconsin-law |
Did Mr. Winston procedurally default all of his federal claims? |
| 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? |
| 23-7676 |
Romone Raphael Jackson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender career-offender-enhancement circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances-act drug-distribution federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law |
Whether a state conviction for distributing a drug that includes substances not regulated under the federal Controlled Substances Act qualifies as a '… |
| 23-1236 |
Law Office of Rogelio Solis PLLC, et al. v. Catherine Stone Curtis |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-law debtor-interest erie-doctrine federal-common-law legal-determination property-ownership property-rights state-law |
Whether a transfer of property, in which a debtor has no interest recognized under applicable state law, may be avoided pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 547 |
| 23-7533 |
Chadwick Wright v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review legal-procedure standing state-collateral-proceedings state-law |
Does the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution mandate the appointment of counsel by indigent prisoners in state collateral proceedin… |
| 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… |
| 23A943 |
Brian E. Conway v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2024-04-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
extraordinary-writ forum-selection habeas-corpus state-law successive-petition writ-of-relief |
Whether a successive habeas corpus petition can be summarily denied under state law when the petitioner seeks relief in multiple courts |
| 23-1130 |
Uber Technologies, Inc., et al. v. California, et al. |
California |
2024-04-18 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
arbitration-agreements eeoc-v-waffle-house federal-arbitration-act individual-relief litigation-claims monetary-relief preemption state-law state-officials |
Does the FAA allow state officials to litigate claims for monetary relief on behalf of people who agreed to arbitrate those claims? |
| 23-1132 |
Lyft, Inc. v. California |
California |
2024-04-18 |
Denied |
|
arbitration-agreement arbitration-agreements civil-procedure federal-arbitration-act individualized-monetary-relief monetary-relief preemption public-officials state-law |
Whether the Federal Arbitration Act preempts state law |
| 23-1076 |
Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. v. Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
emergency-medical-treatment federal-preemption health-care healthcare-law labor-act medical-emergency patient-stabilization preemption reproductive-rights state-law |
Whether the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act preempts state law in the narrow circumstance where terminating a pregnancy is required to stabi… |
| 23-7060 |
Marcus D. Ford v. David Buss, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-03-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
congressional-authority criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law criminal-procedure indian-civil-rights-act indian-territory oklahoma organic-act state-law tribal-sovereignty |
Did Congress establish state laws or certain general laws for Indian Territory Oklahoma? |
| 23-1040 |
Scott Smith v. Entrepreneur Media, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-03-20 |
Denied |
|
appeal civil-procedure federal-statute judgment-renewal motion-to-dismiss ninth-circuit renewal-of-judgment state-law |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit err in granting Respondent's Motion to Dismiss Appeal by failing to consider Petitioner's… |
| 23-7021 |
Darron Henderson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach divisibility federal-courts mathis-standard modified-categorical-approach state-law statutory-construction third-circuit-test |
Whether the Third Circuit's test for divisibility is consistent with Mathis |
| 23-947 |
Sunoco LP, et al. v. City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii, et al. |
Hawaii |
2024-03-01 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure climate-change environmental-law federal-preemption greenhouse-gas greenhouse-gas-emissions interstate-emissions standing state-law state-law-claims |
Whether federal law precludes state-law claims seeking redress for injuries allegedly caused by the effects of interstate and international greenhouse… |
| 23-952 |
Shell PLC, fka Royal Dutch Shell PLC, et al. v. City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii, et al. |
Hawaii |
2024-03-01 |
Denied |
CVSGRelisted (2) |
clean-air-act climate-change constitutional-law federal-law federal-preemption foreign-emissions interstate-emissions preemption state-law |
Whether claims seeking damages for the effects of interstate and international emissions on the global climate are beyond the limits of state law and … |
| 23-6874 |
Kendall Dean Mitchell v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2024-02-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review jurisdiction retroactive-application state-law state-prosecution supremacy-clause |
Whether Oklahoma violated its own law in an effort to deny Petitioner's right to due process of law pursuant to the 14th Amendment |
| 23-6685 |
Willie Perry Woods v. Heather Ray, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights consent-decree constitutional-rights due-process evidence-rules federal-agency state-law statute-of-limitations |
Should certiorari be granted if the 4th USCA judgment conflicts with the USSG on whether state Statute Of Limitations (SOL) bars Fed agency adverse or… |
| 23-6614 |
Kathy Allen v. Arthur Allen, et al. |
North Carolina |
2024-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeals civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process estate-litigation motion-to-dismiss standing state-law supreme-court |
Whether NCCOA and NCSC improperly denied appellant's motions and orders, and whether the orders violate constitutional rights and state appellate rule… |
| 23-788 |
Hope Medical Enterprises, Inc., dba Hope Pharmaceuticals v. Fagron Compounding Services, LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-22 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split drug-regulation federal-law federal-preemption food-and-drug-administration preemption state-law state-rights statutory-interpretation |
Whether the FDCA preempts state laws prohibiting the in-state sale of unapproved drugs whose sale is also prohibited as a matter of federal law by the… |
| 23-6499 |
Pete Manning v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-procedure drug-schedules federal-law federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-law time-of-consequences time-of-conviction |
Whether the term 'controlled substance' is defined by the drug schedules that existed at the time of the prior predicate conviction, or the drug sched… |
| 23-6464 |
Michael Edward Aguilar v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-interpretation criminal-appeal criminal-code due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment state-law statutory-ambiguity timeliness |
Whether the dismissal of a criminal appeal as untimely violates the Due Process Clause and the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counse… |
| 23A628 |
Gerald Ostipow, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Royetta L.. Ostipow v. William L. Federspiel |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-01-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-forfeiture constitutional-rights fifth-amendment property-rights state-law takings-clause |
Whether a county sheriff's office violates the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause by refusing to return nonforfeited property or proceeds after a civil … |
| 23-6380 |
Noel Austin v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Louisiana |
2023-12-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-amendment due-process federal-preemption jurisdiction jurisdictional-barriers standing state-law supreme-court-review |
Whether the lower state court's deliberate transgression of jurisdictional barriers imposed by the 14th Amendment should be addressed |
| 23-6376 |
Judy Thorpe v. Board of Trustees, Public Employees' Retirement System |
New Jersey |
2023-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-decision administrative-law appellate-review due-process government-benefits judicial-discretion manifest-error pension public-employee-retirement retirement state-law state-pension |
Whether it was manifest error and significantly prejudicial for the Supreme Court of New Jersey to Deny Certification and Not Fairly and Equitably Rev… |
| 23-691 |
Samuel Ghee v. Comcast Cable Communications, LLC, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-immunity official-liability standing stare-decisis state-law willful-misconduct |
Whether qualified or judicial immunity immunizes willful misconduct and failure to perform duties |
| 23A560 |
Exxon Mobil Corporation v. Connecticut |
Second Circuit |
2023-12-18 |
Presumed Complete |
|
climate-change federal-common-law federal-courts removal-jurisdiction state-law well-pleaded-complaint |
Whether federal district courts have removal jurisdiction over state-law claims that necessarily arise under federal common law but are artfully plead… |
| 23A530 |
Hope Medical Enterprises, Inc. v. Fagron Compounding Services, LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
drug-approval enforcement fdca preemption private-litigation state-law |
Whether the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act's enforcement provision preempts state-law claims that mirror federal drug approval requirements |
| 23-6226 |
Carmen A. Zammiello v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process ex-post-facto-law federal-law federal-review federalism habeas-corpus state-court-misconduct state-law trial-errors |
When will a state's 'substantive law' be applied in a federal court? |
| 23-6198 |
William Plummer v. Wellpath, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech incarceration medical-parole patent prisoner-rights standing state-law |
Whether the lower court erred in construing the patent claims at issue |
| 23-580 |
Lisa O'Brien, et al. v. United States District Court for the Southern District of New York |
Second Circuit |
2023-11-30 |
Denied |
|
anti-terrorism-act damages federal-courts federal-statute preemption state-law statute-of-limitations wrongful-death |
Whether Congress intended to preempt state wrongful death distribution laws in enacting the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) |
| 23-6118 |
T'Shaun Omar Jones v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split controlled-substance federal-law federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines guideline-construction legal-definition state-law statutory-interpretation vehicle-for-review |
Is the definition of 'controlled substance' in the federal sentencing guidelines controlled by federal or state law? |
| 23-567 |
Superior Well Services, Inc. v. American Home Assurance Company, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-11-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
commercial-general-liability commercial-liability faulty-workmanship federalism insurance-law occurrence state-law third-circuit |
Whether the Third Circuit's decision below violated core principles of federalism by rewriting Pennsylvania state insurance law |
| 23A469 |
Mike Moyle, Speaker of the Idaho House of Representatives, et al. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-challenge federal-court gender-affirming-care legislative-standing preliminary-injunction state-law |
Whether a state legislature has standing to challenge a federal court's preliminary injunction restricting enforcement of a state law regulating gende… |
| 23A470 |
Idaho v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-27 |
Presumed Complete |
Amici (5) |
abortion emergency-medical-treatment federal-preemption medical-procedure preliminary-injunction state-law |
Whether a state may enforce a law restricting certain medical procedures related to abortion when such law conflicts with federal emergency medical tr… |
| 23-540 |
Laura Covington v. City of Madisonville, Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights municipal-liability official-policy police-chief policymaker section-1983 state-law |
Whether a plaintiff must overcome a presumption that a police chief is not an official policymaker to prove the municipality delegated policymaking au… |
| 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… |
| 23-6036 |
David Santiago Renteria v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-11-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process executioner lethal-substances life state-law torture |
Does a State deprive a person of life without due process of law when it delegates to its executioner unchecked discretion to ignore a state law prohi… |
| 23-6022 |
Kevin Liu v. Marcus Pollard, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
choice-of-counsel constitutional-claim federal-constitutional-claim habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default right-to-counsel state-law state-procedural-bar |
Is the Ninth Circuit's decision contrary to this Court's decision in Martin v. Walker? |
| 23-5992 |
In Re John Bailey |
|
2023-11-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection habitual-offender judicial-discretion jury-selection legal-interpretation sentencing state-law trial-procedure unconstitutional |
Question not identified |
| 23-453 |
Special Risk Insurance Services, Inc. v. GlaxoSmithKline, LLC |
Third Circuit |
2023-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights commission-rights diversity-jurisdiction due-process federalism insurance-broker insurance-broker-commissions property-rights state-law |
Whether the court of appeals exercised its diversity jurisdiction to nullify settled state law by allowing an insured to switch brokers while keeping … |
| 23A364 |
BP America Production Company, et al. v. Parish of Cameron, Louisiana, et al. |
Louisiana |
2023-10-24 |
Presumed Complete |
|
coastal-erosion environmental-liability federal-preemption land-use oil-and-gas state-law |
Whether state courts can impose environmental remediation liability on oil and gas companies for coastal land erosion under Louisiana state law withou… |
| 23-5853 |
Alex Adams v. Unknown Layton, Sergeant, Coffield Unit, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-20 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection free-speech judicial-review legal-jurisdiction standing state-law takings |
Whether the state's actions in this case violated the petitioner's constitutional rights |
| 23-5782 |
Tyrone Robinson, aka Tyrone R. Robinson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance federal-law grievous-ambiguity rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the meaning of the term 'controlled substance' in the Sentencing Guidelines includes any substance prohibited by state law, or instead only th… |
| 23-5769 |
Brandon M. Jefferson v. Aaron D. Ford, Attorney General of Nevada, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights counsel-right criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance nevada-law right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-law |
Did the petitioner have the Sixth Amendment right to be represented by legal counsel during all stages of his criminal prosecution in the state of Nev… |
| 23-369 |
Javitch Block LLC, et al. v. Khadija Smith |
Ohio |
2023-10-05 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
arbitration-agreement class-action-waiver contract-enforcement federal-arbitration-act nonsignatory-agent principal-agent state-law |
Whether the Ohio Court of Appeals erred by denying enforcement of an arbitration agreement and class action waiver governed by the Federal Arbitration… |
| 23-5715 |
Taquan Rahshe Gullett-El v. Internal Revenue Service, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-10-05 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation consular-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-notice national-identity sovereign-status standing state-law treaty-rights |
Whether the petitioner has standing to challenge the court's judicial notice of certain facts under Federal Rule of Evidence 201 and Florida Statute §… |
| 23-5725 |
Edward Troup v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
antiracketeering-statute criminal-jurisdiction due-process federal-law federal-statute murder-prosecution predicate-offense racketeering state-law statute-of-limitations |
Does a federal antiracketeering statute reach murders committed outside a state's statute of limitations, for which the defendant could not be adjudic… |
| 23-5588 |
Roger A. Libby v. Robert Legran, Warden, et al. |
Nevada |
2023-09-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-cases criminal-law due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactive-application state-law substantive-due-process substantive-rule |
Whether the due process and equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment render Nevada state laws unconstitutional |
| 23-198 |
Jamar M. Lewis v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-09-05 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance federal-law predicate-conviction sentencing-guidelines state-law |
Whether the term 'controlled substance' in the Sentencing Guidelines is defined at the time of the predicate conviction or when federal consequences a… |
| 23-144 |
Anthony Marciano v. Eric Adams, Mayor of the City of New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-08-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process emergency-use-authorization informed-consent municipal-vaccine-mandate quarantine quarantine-law state-law state-preemption vaccination |
Whether the Mayor of the City of New York, through his appointed police and health commissioners, acts without legislative authority by mandating muni… |
| 23-5191 |
Michael McShan v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2251 age-of-consent child-pornography consent-standard federal-law self-produced-images sexual-relationship state-law |
Whether the age of consent under state law is relevant to deciding whether a person produced child pornography under federal law by requesting self-pr… |
| 23-59 |
Larry Eugene Clark v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitution constitutional-rights due-process election-integrity election-machines federal-law standing state-law voting voting-rights |
Whether injured voters have standing to challenge the use of uncertified voting machines that may have compromised the 2020 election |
| 23-49 |
In Re Betty Ayers, et al. |
|
2023-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-conflict due-process election-integrity federal-law hava-compliance standing state-law treason voting voting-rights |
Whether the Tennessee State Supreme Court's decision conflicts with other State Supreme Courts and denies Petitioners' right of suffrage and to redres… |
| 23-5134 |
Kenan Allen v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2023-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-supremacy discrimination due-process federal-preemption jurisdiction jurisdictional-barriers standing state-law |
Whether the lower state court's deliberate transgression of jurisdictional barriers imposed by the U.S. Constitution must be addressed |
| 23-5114 |
Leroy C. Tate v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-07-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance eighth-circuit-interpretation federal-sentencing-guidelines mcneill-precedent mcneill-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines state-law |
Does McNeill require courts to define 'controlled substance' under § 4B1.2 of the federal sentencing guidelines by consulting superseded state schedul… |
| 23-5001 |
Emmanuel Antione Hemphill v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process free-speech individual-rights judicial-review legal-procedure standing state-law statutory-interpretation takings |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals erred in its interpretation of the First Amendment's Free Speech Clause and the Due Process Clause of the F… |
| 22-1242 |
Jon McClelland v. Dr. Jack Chapman, M.D. |
Colorado |
2023-06-27 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-interpretation contract due-process judicial-immunity property property-interest state-law |
Is a Complaint a cognizable 'three-party' Contract |
| 22-7815 |
Joseph Carl Stanley v. Martin Biter, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-06-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
double-jeopardy due-process habeas-review implied-consent judicial-norms mistrial ninth-circuit state-law |
Double-jeopardy-challenge |
| 22-7710 |
Michael Walker v. Morris Houser, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Benner Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-06-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-evidence credibility criminal-procedure due-process evidence exclusionary-rule federal-procedure judicial-review standing state-law timeliness |
Whether the petitioner must support his claims of constitutional error with new reliable evidence, and whether an untimely petition of new evidence sh… |
| 22-7534 |
Charles Claude Ramsey v. Kimberly H. Runion, Director, Virginia Center for Behavioral Rehabilitation |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-05-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-circuit judicial-recusal self-incrimination standing state-law |
Whether the privilege against self-incrimination as set forth in Brown v. United States should be weighed against the need to put forward a defense th… |
| 22-7513 |
Jordan Nathaniel Mitchell v. John Stone, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-05-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection false-imprisonment government-misconduct incarceration involuntary-treatment medical-consent medical-treatment state-law |
Whether the petitioner was deprived of due process and equal protection rights when confined for 4 months without conviction and denied medical treatm… |
| 22-7455 |
Vernon Lee Wheeler v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-claim divisibility federal-appeals-court federal-court-of-appeals juror-unanimity means-versus-elements state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether a federal court of appeals may declare a crime 'divisible' based on its own interpretation of statutory language if the state's own appellate … |
| 22-7385 |
Timothy Eugene Brown v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-04-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substances eleventh-circuit federal-enhancement florida-priors sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-law state-priors |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its decision in United States v. Jackson |
| 22-7312 |
Jackie Mitchell v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-04-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-panel criminal-history domestic-violence federal-circuit-court federal-court-interpretation federal-implications panel-decision sixth-circuit-rule state-court-interpretation state-law state-law-interpretation |
Question Presented To resolve a federal defendant's criminal history, must a circuit court panel use the current state court interpretations of state … |
| 22-1022 |
Evan Scott Grant v. Nevada Board of Parole Commissioners, et al. |
Nevada |
2023-04-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
amendment-interpretation constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process legislative-intent liberty-interest parole state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether two separate acts passed by a state legislature concerning the same topic should be interpreted harmoniously |
| 22-7140 |
George Cerron v. Personal Investment Inc. |
Florida |
2023-03-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure counsel-disqualification due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment nonfinal-appeal nonfinal-order standing state-law |
Does a nonfinal appeal qualify to be dismissed by the court, claiming it is dismissed as being from a nonappealable nonfinal order? |
| 22-938 |
George Washington University v. Jabari Stafford |
District of Columbia |
2023-03-27 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
civil-rights civil-rights-act discrimination due-process federal-statute personal-injury personal-injury-claims state-law statute-of-limitations title-vi |
Whether courts should reflexively borrow the state-law general limitations period applicable to all personal-injury claims to govern any claim allegin… |
| 22-7099 |
Dana Simmons v. Andrew Beshear, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 advisory-opinion civil-rights color-of-state-law constitutional-challenge due-process injunctive-relief section-1983 standing state-law summary-judgment |
Whether lower federal courts may transpose a prima facie §1983 claim into a constitutional challenge not presented by the plaintiff's complaint |
| 22-932 |
North Carolina Division of Sons of Confederate Veterans, Inc. v. North Carolina Department of Transportation, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-03-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-law first-amendment fourth-circuit free-speech government-speech license-plate public-forum specialty-license-plate state-law |
Did the district court and Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals err in applying the 'Government Speech' doctrine? |
| 22-7079 |
Henry Joseph Stevens v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-statute due-process federal-courts physical-force state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code violent-felony |
Whether the ACCA's demand for certainty constrains a federal court's interpretation of conflicting state-law decisions |
| 22-6911 |
In Re Bradley M. Cunningham |
|
2023-03-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-defendant due-process extraordinary-circumstances pretrial-detainee standing state-law void-judgment |
Is the Petitioner entitled to benefit from existing state law and state supreme court decisions that all clearly provide for a finding of VOID JUDGMEN… |
| 22-804 |
Lennar Carolinas, LLC v. Patricia Damico, et al. |
South Carolina |
2023-02-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anti-discrimination arbitration-agreement consumer-contracts consumer-protection contract-law equal-treatment equal-treatment-rule federal-arbitration-act homebuying state-law state-law-presumption |
Whether the Federal Arbitration Act prohibits courts from applying a state-law presumption expressly disfavoring enforcement of arbitration provisions… |
| 22-752 |
Bi Rite Auto Transport, Inc., et al. v. Russell Dilday, et al. |
California |
2023-02-10 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment appeal appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment procedural-due-process standing state-court-rules state-law |
Is California's procedural due process satisfactory? |
| 22-717 |
Adrian Perkins, Mayor of the City of Shreveport, Louisiana v. Celcog, LLC, dba Strawn's Eat Shop Too, et al. |
Louisiana |
2023-02-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
42-usc-1988 attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-statute judicial-procedure louisiana-constitution louisiana-revised-statutes state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the lower courts erroneously granted attorney's fees |
| 22-719 |
Jessica Mackey v. American Multi-Cinema, Incorporated |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-01 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process erie-doctrine premises-liability risk-utility-test seventh-amendment state-law summary-judgment |
Whether the Fifth Circuit violated the Erie requirement of vertical uniformity by adopting a legal rule on premises liability that directly conflicts … |
| 22-6591 |
Alecia Trapps v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law |
Whether federal law or state law governs what constitutes a 'controlled substance offense' under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.1(a) |
| 22-6578 |
Derrick Tyrone Moore v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute federal-courts generic-offense mens-rea precedent state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether there is a reasonable probability of different result if the court below is directed to reconsider its judgment in light of Wooden v. United S… |
| 22-6524 |
Barry L. Brookins v. Rajendra Dwivedi |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment medical-procedure state-law |
Whether the plaintiff's 8th Amendment right against cruel and unusual punishment has been violated through an unlawful surgery performed without the p… |
| 22-6389 |
Justin Rashaad Brown v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-12-23 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (1)Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach drug-offense federal-law sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-conviction state-law |
Which version of federal law should a sentencing court consult under ACCA's categorical approach? |
| 22-567 |
Gary Mattos, et al. v. AFSCME Council 3 |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-12-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 agency-fees civil-rights constitutional-rights damages first-amendment good-faith good-faith-defense section-1983 state-law state-law-immunity |
Does defendant's good-faith reliance on a state law before it was held unconstitutional shield it from damages liability for taking agency fees from P… |
| 22-551 |
Francisco Negrete, et al. v. City of Oakland, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights consent-decree federal-consent-decree federal-court-power federal-jurisdiction federal-power local-government municipal-charter settlement-agreement state-law state-law-conflict subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether federal courts have subject-matter jurisdiction over a state law claim that requires resolving a conflict between state law and a federal cons… |
| 22-529 |
Alex Cantero, et al., Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Bank of America, N.A. |
Second Circuit |
2022-12-08 |
Judgment Issued |
CVSGAmici (13)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
banking-regulation consumer-protection escrow-accounts interest-rates mortgage-lending national-bank-act preemption state-law state-law-preemption |
Does the National Bank Act preempt the application of state escrow-interest laws to national banks? |
| 22-470 |
Oceltip Aviation 1 Pty Ltd. v. Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration arbitration-provision choice-of-law contract-interpretation federal-arbitration-act federal-common-law state-law state-standards |
Whether courts may displace state contract interpretation principles with a federal common law rule requiring 'clear intent' to opt out of the Federal… |
| 22-471 |
Consumer Data Industry Association v. Aaron M. Frey, Attorney General of Maine, et al. |
First Circuit |
2022-11-18 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
circuit-split consumer-reports fair-credit-reporting-act federal-preemption federal-regulation preemption state-law statutory-interpretation uniform-standards |
Whether FCRA broadly preempts state laws relating to the subject matters expressly described in 15 U.S.C. §1681t(b)(1), or narrowly preempts state law… |
| 22-5941 |
Albert L. Watson v. Stu Sherman, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process en-banc-hearing ninth-circuit penal-code procedural-rules reasoned-opinion sixth-amendment state-law state-penal-code |
Was the district court's use of state penal code justifying violation of sixth amendment correct |
| 22-5891 |
Kevin B. Burns v. Tony Mays, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-10-24 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (7)IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing felony-murder ineffective-assistance moral-culpability residual-doubt sentencing state-law strickland-v-washington |
Whether an ineffective assistance claim may be based on counsel's failure to exercise a state-law right to introduce residual doubt evidence at a capi… |
| 22-346 |
Robert Anderson, as Chapter 7 Trustee for Infinity Business Group, Inc. v. Morgan Keegan & Company, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-10-13 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
11-usc-544 bankruptcy bankruptcy-trustee circuit-split creditor-recovery creditors in-pari-delicto section-544a state-law state-law-preemption trustee |
Whether a bankruptcy trustee seeking recovery on behalf of creditors under 11 U.S.C. 544(a) is subject to the debtor's knowledge |
| 22-5755 |
Ervin Carter v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitution constitutional-protection court-transfer federal-preemption judicial-review jurisdiction lower-court state-law transfer |
Whether this Honorable United States Supreme Court 'must' investigate and resolve jurisdiction if raised by one of the petitioning party(ies) to the l… |
| 22-310 |
A. W., et al. v. Princeton Public Schools Board of Education, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-10-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (3) |
civil-rights educational-placement educational-placement-and-settlement-agreement federal-court individuals-with-disabilities-education-act procedural-safeguards special-education state-law waiver-of-rights |
Whether a school district can condition special education services on a parent's agreement to waive a child's federal statutory and civil rights |
| 22-294 |
County of Ontario, New York v. Brian Gunsalus, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-09-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bankruptcy-code bfp-v-resolution-trust-corp due-process foreclosure fraudulent-conveyance judicial-oversight real-estate-titles state-law tax-collection tax-foreclosure |
Did the Second Circuit err in refusing to extend the holding of BFP to a lawfully conducted tax foreclosure? |
| 22-286 |
Frieda Mae Rogers, fka Frieda Rogers Roen, et al. v. Wilmington Trust Company, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-09-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure erie-doctrine factual-stipulations federalism forum-selection judicial-admissions state-law statutes-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
May-the-court-of-appeals-override-the-parties'-factual-stipulation |
| 22-277 |
Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. v. NetChoice, LLC, dba NetChoice, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-09-23 |
Judgment Issued |
CVSGAmici (10)Relisted (3) |
censorship content-moderation first-amendment free-speech social-media social-media-regulation state-law state-regulation third-party-communications time-place-manner |
Whether the First Amendment prohibits a State from requiring that social-media companies host third-party communications, and from regulating the time… |
| 22-252 |
Howmedica Osteonics Corp. v. DePuy Synthes Sales, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-16 |
Denied |
|
federal courts sitting in diversity should apply under Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins choice-of-law circuit-split civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine erie-railroad-co-v-tompkins forum-selection-clause forum-selection-clauses procedural-law state-law substantive-law |
Whether federal or state law governs the validity of forum-selection clauses |
| 22-5589 |
Carrie Helen Fine v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment-challenge appeals constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-punishment drug-statutes due-process evidence judgment-of-acquittal state-law |
Whether the affirmation of the Appellant Court (that it was proper for trial court to deny Fine's Motions for judgment of Acquittal) was correct |
| 22-5591 |
Robert Lopez-Parker v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-09-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
americans-with-disabilities-act criminal-enhancement criminal-law disability disability-classification due-process equal-protection federal-standard fourteenth-amendment state-law |
When is an individual regarded as having or perceived to have, impairment within the meaning of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)? |
| 22-230 |
The Golden 1 Credit Union v. Dwaine Burgardt |
California |
2022-09-13 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
discriminates against arbitration and is contrary when such modifications are permitted under ordin arbitration-agreement contract-law contract-modification federal-arbitration-act jury-trial jury-trial-waiver kindred-nursing mutual-assent state-common-law state-law |
Whether a special rule that prohibits parties from adding an arbitration provision to a contract by mutual assent manifested by conduct, when such mod… |
| 22-187 |
County of Orange, California, et al. v. Kathy Craig, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-30 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights damages due-process federal-court section-1983 state-law survival-claim survival-claims |
Must a federal court apply a state law prohibition on 'loss of life' damages in survival claims pursued via 42 U.S.C. § 1983? |
| 22-5461 |
James Keith Russey v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation legal-uniformity sentencing-guidelines state-law |
Whether the categorical approach requires courts to define Sentencing Guidelines terms like 'controlled substance' uniformly |
| 22-5427 |
Jade Christian Nichols v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing preemption sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation |
Does a state definition of 'controlled substance' control a federal sentencing enhancement under the Sentencing Guidelines, when the state lists subst… |
| 22-5339 |
Maria Navarro Martin v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-law federal-review habeas-corpus legal-precedent post-conviction-relief standing state-court-decision state-law |
Whether the court erred in declaring the federal law 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a)(4) and the Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.430(b) invalid |
| 22-5342 |
Patrick LaJuan Jones, Jr. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing preemption sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation |
Does a state definition of 'controlled substance' control a federal sentencing enhancement under the Sentencing Guidelines, when the state lists subst… |
| 22-121 |
ML Genius Holdings LLC v. Google LLC, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-08-09 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (3)Relisted (2) |
breach-of-contract business circuit-split content-protection contract contract-remedies copyright copyright-preemption preemption service-terms state-law |
Does the Copyright Act's preemption clause allow a business to invoke traditional state-law contract remedies to enforce a promise not to copy and use… |
| 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… |
| 22-5260 |
David Perez v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-murder federal-sentencing racketeering-activity rico rico-sentencing sentencing state-law state-law-maximum statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
Whether a sentencing court is bound by the state statutory maximum exposure for RICO violations based on state racketeering activities |
| 22-5158 |
Bernard J. Battle v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2022-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance legal-nullity plea-bargaining procedural-default sentencing state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether a guilty plea obtained in direct contravention of the express provisions of an applicable statute renders the sentence illegal, and consequent… |
| 22-5159 |
Eddie Lamont Lipscomb v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-22 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act demand-for-certainty federal-courts mens-rea state-criminal-law state-law statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code violent-felony |
When evaluating whether a state-law offense satisfies the Armed Career Criminal Act's definition of a 'violent felony,' 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B), fede… |
| 22-61 |
Traci M. Cull v. Dyck-O'Neal, Inc., et al. |
Kentucky |
2022-07-21 |
Denied |
|
default-judgment due-process foreclosure property-deprivation service-of-process state-judiciary state-law wage-garnishment |
Whether due process is violated when a state court enters a default judgment based on improper service of process |
| 22-5093 |
Jerry Leon Haliburton v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof capital-punishment clear-and-convincing-evidence death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability state-law |
Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments permit States to impose on a capital defendant the burden of proving intellectual disability by clear and… |
| 21-1598 |
City of Anaheim, California, et al. v. Fermin Vincent Valenzuela, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-28 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
42-usc-1983 42-usc-1988 circuit-split civil-rights federal-court hedonic-damages robertson-v-wegmann section-1983 state-law survivorship-claim wrongful-death |
Whether state law prohibitions on hedonic damages apply to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 survival claims |
| 21-1571 |
Rozalyn Ragan, Personal Representative of the Estate of Charles Phillip Ragan, Deceased v. Melissa Ragan, aka Melissa Hudson |
Colorado |
2022-06-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
after an ERISA plan administrator has fully distr ERISA preempts a claimant's state-law right to th beneficiary-rights benefit-distribution distribution distribution-dispute erisa ERISA-preemption federal-court-jurisdiction life-insurance life-insurance-proceeds plan-administrator preemption state-law state-law-claim |
Whether ERISA preempts a state-law claim to recover life insurance plan proceeds after distribution |
| 21-1539 |
Spectrum Northeast, LLC, et al. v. Aaron M. Frey, Attorney General of Maine |
First Circuit |
2022-06-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
cable-communications-policy-act express-preemption preemption presumption-against-preemption rate-regulation state-and-local-laws state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Cable Act preempts state and local laws that prevent cable companies from selling their services at their chosen rate for the final month … |
| 21-1512 |
San Bernardino County District Attorney, et al. v. Kevin Cooper, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-02 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights death-penalty due-process federal-courts governor-powers judicial-intervention ninth-circuit standing state-law |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit improperly denied Petitioners intervention in death-penalty-litigation |
| 21-8041 |
Markentz Blanc v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidentiary-standards judicial-interpretation procedural-protections standing state-law vagueness-doctrine |
Whether an unaddressed Constitutional claim not affirmatively contradicted by the record deserves review, and if so, should review under Due Process C… |
| 21-1487 |
Brian Bilodeau v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-05-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appropriations appropriations-rider controlled-substances-act department-of-justice federal-prosecution medical-marijuana standing state-law |
Whether and under what circumstances the rider prohibits the DOJ from spending federal funds to prosecute criminal defendants for medical marijuana-re… |
| 21-1480 |
James Acres v. Lester Marston, et al. |
California |
2022-05-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
absolute-immunity california-common-law civil-litigation commercial-enterprise federal-law personal-immunity prosecutorial-immunity state-law tribal-immunity tribal-officials |
What personal immunities are available to tribal officials? |
| 21-7955 |
Michael Palma v. Harris County Appraisal District, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bill-of-rights civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct libel state-law state-sovereignty |
Do federal judges have the absolute right to ignore the laws of the State in which they sit and while doing so libel the Petitioner? |
| 21-1447 |
Estate of Gabriel Miranda, Jr., et al. v. Navistar, Incorporated, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
emergency-exit federal-preemption legislative-history legislative-intent motor-vehicle-safety school-bus-safety state-law statutory-interpretation |
Does FMVSS 217 preempt state law safety requirements? |
| 21-1390 |
Robert LaPoint v. Commerce & Industry Insurance Company, et al. |
Louisiana |
2022-04-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure claim-enforcement full-faith-and-credit interstate-law jurisdiction legal-preclusion res-judicata state-jurisdiction state-law workers-compensation |
Does the full faith and credit clause preclude enforcement of a claim dismissed as unenforceable under one State's law in another State? |
| 21-7714 |
Gurmeet Singh Dhinsa v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c categorical-analysis crime-of-violence federal-predicate federal-statute generic-definitions judicial-review predicate-offense state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether categorical analysis of the predicate crime of violence for a 18 U.S.C. Section 924(c) offense allows a reviewing court to 'look through' the … |
| 21-1358 |
Goodwill Industries of Central Oklahoma, Inc., dba Goodwill Career Pathways Institute v. Philadelphia Indemnity Insurance Company |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-04-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure covid-19 covid-related-claims direct-physical-loss erie-doctrine federalism insurance insurance-coverage state-law state-law-interpretation |
Whether federal courts are violating Erie R. Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938), and principles of federalism in uniformly refusing to seek guidance … |
| 21-1346 |
Friends of Merrymeeting Bay, et al. v. Central Maine Power Company |
Maine |
2022-04-12 |
Denied |
|
administrative-agency administrative-law civil-procedure federal-aviation-administration federal-preemption judicial-review no-hazard-determination regulatory-determination state-law |
Whether the issuance of a non-binding 'No Hazard Determination' by the Federal Aviation Administration preempts the application of state law, despite … |
| 21-7559 |
Vitaly Kolosha v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2022-04-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge detention-powers due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law legal-standing retroactivity state-law state-official state-sovereignty treason |
Whether a new SCOTUS ruling is automatically retroactive and applies to all cases |
| 21-7563 |
Alexander Kates v. New York |
Second Circuit |
2022-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure custody-determination district-court-discretion due-process federal-precedent habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance standing state-law state-law-precedent |
Are district courts allowed to disregard State law and controlling federal precedent when handling state habeas corpus petitions? |
| 21-1296 |
City of Edmond, Oklahoma, et al. v. BNSF Railway Company |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-03-25 |
Denied |
|
federal-railroad-safety-act interstate-commerce interstate-commerce-commission-termination-act preemption public-safety rail-crossing-safety rail-safety railroad-preemption state-authority state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether state laws affecting railroads are preempted under the ICCTA must consider all relevant federal railroad statutes, not just the ICCTA |
| 21-7451 |
Michael Shawn Bell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute categorical-approach generic-offense sentencing-enhancement state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states |
Whether the ACCA's demand for certainty applies to federal courts' application and interpretation of state-court decisional law |
| 21-7441 |
Edgardo Maldonado-Arce v. Deanne Criswell, Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency |
First Circuit |
2022-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-interpretation sentencing-guidelines standing state-law statute-of-limitations |
whether-the-federal-district-court-erred-in-dismissing-the-case |
| 21-7329 |
Von Lester Taylor v. Robert Powell, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-03-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
certification comity federal-court federalism judicial-certification legal-ambiguity state-law state-law-interpretation tenth-amendment |
Does a federal court violate principles of federalism and comity enshrined in the Tenth Amendment by selecting one possible interpretation of an ambig… |
| 21-1163 |
Carolyn L. Baburka v. Township of Hazlet, New Jersey, et al. |
New Jersey |
2022-02-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1988 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-amendments federal-law qualified-immunity search-and-seizure state-law |
Did the courts below commit error by failing to recognize federal law? |
| 21-7163 |
Nathaniel Ruth v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-02-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-procedure federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation |
Does the phrase 'controlled substance' in U.S.S.C. § 4B1.2(b) include substances that are excluded from the Controlled Substances Act? |
| 21-1138 |
Sherry Treppa, et al. v. George Hengle, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-02-16 |
Dismissed |
|
arbitration-agreement arbitration-clause choice-of-law delegation-clause official-capacity sovereign-immunity state-law tribal-government tribal-officials |
Whether a court can invalidate an agreement to have an arbitrator resolve questions of arbitrability (a 'delegation clause) based on the court's inter… |
| 21-6967 |
Lemonta Markuis Maddox v. California |
California |
2022-01-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights coerced-confessions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-law interrogation involuntary-statements plea-bargaining state-law |
Whether the use of coerced statements obtained through false promises of leniency violates federal and state constitutional rights to due process |
| 21-6893 |
Jabari J. Johnson v. Harold Clayhurst, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-01-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process federalism preemption standing state-law |
Whether the Supreme Court erred in holding that the Controlled Substances Act does not preempt state medical marijuana laws |
| 21-1004 |
Leon Cody, et ux. v. Superior Court of California, Trinity County, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment fair-trial fourteenth-amendment injunctive-relief section-1983 state-law |
Whether a State has an Eleventh Amendment right to arbitrarily enforce or not enforce a State Law having significant interest to federal Fourteenth Am… |
| 21-998 |
Daniel Bierbach v. Digger's Polaris, et al. |
Minnesota |
2022-01-13 |
Denied |
CVSGRelisted (2) |
civil-rights controlled-substances-act employer-reimbursement medical-marijuana preemption state-law statutory-interpretation workers-compensation |
Whether the Controlled Substances Act preempts an order under a state workers' compensation law requiring an employer to reimburse an injured employee… |
| 21-6766 |
Alan Eugene DeAtley v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2022-01-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-process due-process enrollment federal-law jurisdiction state-law tribal-businesses tribal-court-jurisdiction tribal-land tribal-law tribal-matters tribal-membership |
Whether the tribal court has jurisdiction over all tribal land, tribal businesses, and all tribal matters without question |
| 21-6758 |
Cameron Taevon Jones v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-law federal-law guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-law |
Does the term 'controlled substance offense' as defined in the Guidelines include offenses under state law that are not categorical matches under fede… |
| 21-6720 |
Ali Al-Maqablh v. Daniel Cameron, Attorney General of Kentucky |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa appellate-jurisdiction due-process federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-relief jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia mixed-question state-law |
When does AEDPA grant habeas petitioners complete relief or just review? |
| 21-6510 |
Luis Solis-Vasquez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process elements-of-offense federal-statute jury-determination jury-instructions mandatory-victim-restitution RICO rico-offense state-law state-law-predicates |
Whether state law RICO predicates are elements of a RICO offense that must be found by the jury |
| 21-6417 |
Mausean Carter v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection judicial-review miranda-rights search-and-seizure standing state-law |
Whether the lower courts' decision conflicts with an important federal question |
| 21-782 |
Rodney Renia Young v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
burden-of-proof capital-punishment constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability state-law |
Does requiring a capital defendant to prove his intellectual disability beyond a reasonable doubt violate the Due Process Clause and the Eighth Amendm… |
| 21-6319 |
Eric Martinez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-11-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
conviction crime federal-law probation sentencing state-law |
When federal law compels the use of state law to define and punish crime, and the state allows probation in lieu of a conviction, does federal law als… |
| 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… |
| 21-708 |
CLMS Management Services Limited Partnership, et al. v. Amwins Brokerage of Georgia, LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration-provision federal-arbitration-act foreign-insurer insurance-regulation mandatory-arbitration mccarran-ferguson-act preemption reverse-preemption state-insurance-regulation state-law |
Whether a provision of state law prohibiting mandatory arbitration in a policy of insurance issued by a foreign insurer is preempted by the Federal Ar… |
| 21-6210 |
Tony Bowen v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver armed-career-criminal-act conviction-counting felon-in-possession sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-maximum |
Whether the maximum penalty is 10 years or life when a defendant pleads guilty to felon-in-possession and waives appeal rights except for exceeding st… |
| 21-6218 |
Matthew Manuel Barnett v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2021-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
certiorari civil-rights criminal-law due-process influence-statute private-corporation public-servant state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether an employee of a private corporation can be considered a 'public servant' for purposes of a state statute criminalizing attempts to influence … |
| 21-676 |
Susan K. Musta v. Mendota Heights Dental Center, et al. |
Minnesota |
2021-11-05 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (2) |
controlled-substances-act due-process federal-law medical-marijuana preemption standing state-law workers-compensation |
Does the Controlled Substances Act preempt an order under a state workers' compensation law requiring an employer to reimburse an injured employee for… |
| 21-6174 |
Antonio Smith v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2021-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-precedent standing state-law statutory-interpretation |
Does the Arkansas Code's application of Ark. Code Ann. § 16-49-101 et seq. deprive necessary parties of due process and equal protection under the Fou… |
| 21-627 |
Air Transport Association of America, Inc., dba Airlines for America v. The Washington Department of Labor & Industries, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3) |
airline-deregulation-act carrier-prices-routes-services circuit-split federal-law morales-v-trans-world-airlines preemption state-law statutory-interpretation transportation-regulation |
Whether the Airline Deregulation Act preempts neutral state laws that have a significant impact on carrier prices, routes, or services, even if that i… |
| 21-621 |
Vince Flaherty, et al. v. Holly Hill Investments, LLC |
California |
2021-10-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
california-law civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judgment-adequacy notice-of-judgment service-of-notice service-of-process state-law |
Whether California's no-evidence-allowed rule concerning the adequacy of service of notice of judgment is consistent with the Due Process Clause of th… |
| 21-588 |
United States v. Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-22 |
Dismissed |
Amici (20) |
abortion-rights civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process judicial-review preemption preliminary-injunction sovereign-immunity standing state-law supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Texas's S.B. 8 violates the Supreme Court's precedents on abortion rights |
| 21-582 |
Mark Lee Dickson v. Whole Woman's Health, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-21 |
Denied |
|
abortion abortion-rights civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-review reproductive-rights severability standing stare-decisis state-law supreme-court-precedent |
Should the Court overrule Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pa. v. Casey? |
| 21-523 |
Damon Simon, et ux. v. Roche Diagnostics Corporation |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-discretion appellate-procedure certification civil-procedure court-of-appeals discretion judicial-procedure legal-review standard-of-review state-law state-law-certification |
Whether the court of appeals applied an improper standard of review in exercising its discretion when ruling on the Simons' request to certify the dis… |
| 21-5897 |
Shahram Shakouri v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process false-testimony federal-habeas habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-present-defense state-law state-law-interpretation |
whether-unknowing-use-of-false-testimony-violates-due-process |
| 21-5903 |
Angela Johnson, et al. v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2021-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process federal-governing-bodies federal-statutes legal-jurisdiction standing state-law takings victim-rights |
Can states overturn federal statutes by enforceable governing bodies without rebuke or expiation? |
| 21-5796 |
Larry E. Clark v. Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development, et al. |
Louisiana |
2021-09-29 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights condemnation due-process federal-courts federal-procedure jurisdiction standing state-courts state-law |
Whether 28 U.S.C. Section 1257(a) mandates this Court to consider the jurisdiction of this Court and the jurisdiction of the state appellate court, an… |
| 21-5823 |
Salvador Vasquez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment marijuana-decriminalization probable-cause search-and-seizure state-law state-marijuana-laws vehicle-search warrantless-search |
When a state has decriminalized marijuana possession and use, does evidence of marijuana use inside a car—combined with nonspecific indications that t… |
| 21-474 |
In Re Wisconsin Legislature |
|
2021-09-28 |
Denied |
|
article-iii census census-data comity federal-court-jurisdiction federalism judicial-power redistricting state-law state-legislature |
Does a federal court clearly and indisputably transgress its Article III judicial power by exercising jurisdiction over a redistricting dispute challe… |
| 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? |
| 21-380 |
Chad Everet Brackeen, et al. v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-08 |
Judgment Issued |
Relisted (5) |
adoption-preferences child-custody child-placement congress-authority congressional-authority federalism indian-child-welfare-act racial-discrimination state-law state-sovereignty |
Whether ICWA's placement preferences violate the U.S. Constitution by disadvantaging non-Indian adoptive families on the basis of race |
| 21-333 |
Amro Elansari v. Maite Ragazzo, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-09-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination equal-protection medical-marijuana pennsylvania standing state-law |
Does 14th Amendment Equal Protection apply to Medical Marijuana Card Holders in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania? |
| 21-290 |
Joseph Chapo, et al. v. Jefferson County Plan Commission |
Indiana |
2021-08-27 |
Denied |
|
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-oath constitutional-structure de-facto-officer due-process injunction jurisdiction standing state-law vacant-office |
Whether the de facto officer doctrine can be applied to individuals claiming to hold a vacant office of a political subdivision |
| 21-5477 |
Clifford Senter v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act collateral-attack criminal-law due-process federal-procedure federal-sentencing non-existent-offense sentencing-enhancement state-conviction state-law |
Where state law holds that a particular offense is non-existent, but a defendant has a conviction for the non-existent offense, and a federal sentenci… |
| 21-268 |
Coverall North America, Inc. v. Carlos Rivas |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-24 |
GVR |
Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
epic-systems federal-arbitration-act individual-arbitration iskanian ninth-circuit preemption private-attorneys-general-act representative-claims sakkab state-law |
Whether the Federal Arbitration Act preempts a state-law rule which precludes the enforcement of an agreement to arbitrate claims on an individual bas… |
| 21-5469 |
Ziahonna Teagan v. City of McDonough, Georgia |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-08-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process heck-doctrine judicial-authority judicial-power municipal-liability policy-practice-procedure-custom section-1983 state-law state-law-offense |
Can a Georgia Municipality be held liable for an official, agent, or entity actions that makes a deliberate choice to follow an internal official poli… |
| 21-260 |
Virgin America, Inc., et al. v. Julia Bernstein, et al., Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-23 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (5)Relisted (4) |
airline-deregulation-act carrier-regulations federal-aviation-administration flight-attendants ninth-circuit preemption significant-impact state-law state-laws |
Does the ADA preempt generally applicable state laws that have a significant impact on airline prices, routes, and services, or does it preempt such l… |
| 21-5413 |
Antoine L. Wallace v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation |
Does the undefined term 'controlled substance' in the federal Sentencing Guidelines refer to substances controlled by federal law or state law? |
| 21-194 |
California Trucking Association, Inc., et al. v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-11 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (12)Relisted (3) |
federal-aviation-administration-authorization-act federal-preemption independent-owner-operator independent-owner-operators motor-carrier motor-carriers preemption state-law statutory-interpretation trucking-services workforce-law |
Whether the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act preempts a state law that effectively precludes motor carriers from using independent ow… |
| 21-185 |
Scott Solomon v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, District Council 37, AFL-CIO |
Second Circuit |
2021-08-10 |
Denied |
|
agency-fees civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment good-faith-defense janus-v-afscme restitution section-1983 state-law |
Whether there is a categorical good-faith defense to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 that shields a defendant from damages liability for depriving citizens of their … |
| 21-5307 |
Millard Jerome Strickland, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-conviction federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law |
Whether a prior conviction involving a substance that is not a controlled substance for the purposes of federal law can render a federal defendant a '… |
| 21-5270 |
Robert Stanard v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process firearms judicial-interpretation legal-challenge personal-property state-law takings |
Does the taxing powers of Congress negate a person's possessory interest in personal property? |
| 21-94 |
Lt. Colonel Patrick Schreiber v. Tracy Renaud, Acting Director, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-07-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-issue-exhaustion administrative-law carr-v-davis child-definition constitutional-claim federal-common-law immigration-law immigration-nationality-act legitimation state-law statutory-interpretation |
Definition of 'child' in Immigration and Nationality Act |
| 21-96 |
Paul Daniels, et al. v. County of Alameda, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights federal-law malicious-prosecution probable-cause retaliation section-1983 state-law |
Where absence of probable cause to prosecute is an element of a federal section 1983 civil-rights claim |
| 21-70 |
Gary E. Albright, et al. v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2021-07-19 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
certification constitutional-federalism erie-doctrine fifth-amendment railroad-deed state-law state-law-interpretation takings-claim takings-clause |
Does constitutional federalism require certification of state law issue? |
| 21-29 |
Blake Leitch, et al. v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Council 31, AFL-CIO |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-07-09 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 agency-fees civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment good-faith-defense janus-v-afscme section-1983 state-law wyatt-v-cole |
Whether there is a 'good faith defense' to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 that shields a defendant from damages liability for depriving citizens of their constituti… |
| 21-31 |
Fast Auto Loans, Inc. v. Joe Maldonado, et al. |
California |
2021-07-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
arbitration-agreement civil-procedure federal-arbitration-act individualized-arbitration preemption public-injunctive-relief state-law state-law-preemption supreme-court-precedent |
Is California's McGill rule preempted by the Federal Arbitration Act? |
| 21-13 |
KinderCare Education, LLC v. Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco, et al. |
California |
2021-07-07 |
Denied |
|
arbitration-agreement contra-proferentem federal-arbitration-act lamps-plus-v-varela preemption state-common-law state-law supreme-court-precedent |
Whether California courts can avoid consideration of Lamps Plus v. Varela and instead adhere to a contrary state appellate precedent |
| 20-1804 |
In Re Peter R. Culpepper |
|
2021-06-25 |
Denied |
|
arbitration-act arbitration-award contract-interpretation employment-agreement federal-arbitration-act federal-law judicial-discretion preemption state-law tennessee-uniform-arbitration-act vacatur |
Whether the FAA preempts the Tennessee Uniform Arbitration Act |
| 20-1789 |
Lorna Y. Channer v. Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Authority |
Second Circuit |
2021-06-23 |
Denied |
|
bankruptcy federal-law governmental-unit jurisdiction state-law statutory-interpretation title-11 |
Does the term governmental unit under title 11 include any entity created or organized pursuant to state law or only those that fit within the boundar… |
| 20-8408 |
Scott R. Deichsel v. Lizzie Tegels, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-counsel certificate-of-appealability denial-of-constitutional-rights due-process federal-constitutional-right federal-constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-colloquy state-law |
Whether a Certificate of Appealability can be vacated |
| 20-8297 |
Michael Doyle Ruggles v. David Y. Ige, Governor of Hawaii, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-responsibility due-process equal-protection legal-ambiguity medical-cannabis patient-rights state-law state-responsibility vague-laws |
Does the State of Hawaii have a constitutional responsibility to draft laws that do not create ambiguities? |
| 20-8273 |
Roger G. Babcock v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion mandatory-sentencing sentencing sentencing-discretion state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the defendant was arbitrarily deprived of his interest in the exercise of judicial discretion in sentencing by the misapplication of a state c… |
| 20-8213 |
James Atwood v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-06-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law |
Does the undefined term 'controlled substance' in the federal Sentencing Guidelines refer to substances controlled by federal law or state law? |
| 20-8159 |
Craig S. Robledo-Valdez v. Aramark Correctional Services, LLC, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-05-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights county-deputy due-process employment-status government-immunity law-enforcement legal-standing notice-of-intent qualified-immunity standing state-government state-law |
Does a county jail deputy qualify as a 'state employee'? |
| 20-1611 |
Healthcare Distribution Alliance, et al. v. Letitia James, Attorney General of New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
circuit-split federal-courts fees-vs-taxes opioid-stewardship-act public-benefit regulatory-fee state-law state-tax tax-injunction-act |
Whether the New York Opioid Stewardship Act's surcharge is a 'tax' within the meaning of the Tax Injunction Act |
| 20-8074 |
Anibal Lucas Garcia v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-felony appellate-review categorical-approach duenas-alvarez formal-law generic-crime immigration-law overbreadth-doctrine state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether under Duenas-Alvarez and Virginia state decisions, Va. Code § 18.2-168, forgery of public records, is an aggravated felony as a crime relating… |
| 20-1566 |
David Cassirer, et al. v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-11 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
adverse-possession choice-of-law circuit-split federal-common-law foreign-sovereign-immunities-act state-law stolen-property substantive-law |
Whether a federal court hearing state law claims brought under the FSIA must apply the forum state's choice-of-law rules to determine what substantive… |
| 20-1495 |
Karen V. McIntyre v. Kevin L. McIntyre, et al. |
Maryland |
2021-04-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
contempt-of-court fiduciary-duties fiduciary-duty judicial-discretion state-law trust-accounting trustee-obligations |
Question not identified |
| 20-1483 |
Philip Pilevsky, et al. v. Sutton 58 Associates LLC |
New York |
2021-04-22 |
Dismissed |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-code federal-law federal-preemption legal-proceedings liability-based-on-bankruptcy misuse-of-bankruptcy preemption state-law state-law-tort-claims tort-claims |
Whether the federal Bankruptcy Code preempts state-law tort claims |
| 20-7813 |
Richard Allen Benson v. Kevin Chappell, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-21 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
aedpa aedpa-standard capital-case capital-punishment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mitigation-evidence prima-facie state-law |
When a federal habeas court examines for reasonableness a silent state court habeas denial pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) (AEDPA) and Harrington v. R… |
| 20-1341 |
Volvy Smilowitz v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-03-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bribery civil-rights election-fraud election-statute federal-elections federal-oversight state-elections state-law travel-act voter-fraud voting |
Whether federal government may regulate fraud in purely local state elections under 52 U.S.C. §10307(c) |
| 20-7551 |
Dennis Roger Bolze v. Warden, FCI Coleman |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
counsel-deprivation criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction miscarriage-of-justice right-to-counsel state-law subject-matter-jurisdiction |
When a State intentionally abandons State law and deprives an individual of counsel during a critical stage in the criminal proceedings, does the stat… |
| 20-7432 |
Kevin Leon Lucien v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility federal-law federal-preemption prosecutorial-discretion state-law |
Whether a state's own articles of law can supercede federal law to further prosecute a defendant in regards to admissable and inadmissable evidence th… |
| 20-7380 |
Michael Eugene Wyatt v. John Sutton, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-elements deliberation first-degree-murder habeas-review ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-precedent precedent premeditation premeditation-and-deliberation state-law sufficiency-of-evidence |
Did the Ninth Circuit improperly disregard and/or overlook United State Supreme Court and Ninth Circuit precedent that required it to defer to Califor… |
| 20-7327 |
Timothy A. Ward v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law federal-guidelines federal-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-drug-schedules state-law |
Whether the term 'controlled substance' in the federal sentencing guidelines should be defined by federal law or the law of the state where the prior … |
| 20-7347 |
Warren Tarver v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2021-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
capital-felony constitutional-standards death-penalty due-process federalism state-law state-laws unconstitutional |
Whether it is a violation of due process to detain a person under a statute that classifies an offense as a capital felony where the death penalty is … |
| 20-1089 |
Chevron Corporation, et al. v. City of Oakland, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-09 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
civil-procedure civil-rights climate-change due-process federal-common-law federal-removal interstate-pollution jurisdictional-challenge standing state-law takings tort-claims |
Whether putative state-law tort claims alleging harm from global climate change are removable because they arise under federal law |
| 20-994 |
Volkswagen Group of America, Inc., et al. v. The Environmental Protection Commission of Hillsborough County, Florida, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) |
clean-air-act emission-standards federal-authority federal-regulation nationwide-updates preemption state-law state-regulation vehicle-emissions vehicle-regulation |
Whether the Clean Air Act preempts state and local governments from regulating manufacturers' post-sale, nationwide updates to vehicle emission system… |
| 20-963 |
Stephen K. Walton, Sr. v. Virginia International Terminals, LLC |
Virginia |
2021-01-22 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
land-based marine-terminal-operator personal-injury preemption property-handling shipping-act shipping-act-1984 state-law terminal-operator time-limitation |
Whether a marine terminal operator's schedule of rates under the Shipping Act of 1984 can time-bar a land-based personal-injury action that is timely … |
| 20-953 |
Michael D. Ellis v. Liberty Life Assurance Company of Boston |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
|
choice-of-law civil-procedure erisa federal-courts insurance-contract insurance-contracts preemption state-law |
What is the correct test to apply in deciding whether an otherwise applicable state law—here, a state law prohibiting provisions in insurance contract… |
| 20-6834 |
Cynthia Holmes v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process health-privacy healthcare-compliance HIPAA hipaa-privacy medical-privacy patient-rights physician-liability state-law state-law-preemption |
Whether HIPAA's Privacy Rule is unconstitutional as applied by respondents |
| 20-930 |
Karl Geppert v. Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration |
Maryland |
2021-01-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights driver's-license due-process federal-law real-id-act social-security social-security-number state-law state-legislation state-privilege |
Where no federal law requires a citizen of the United States to obtain a social security number, may a State legislature, or its courts in applying th… |
| 20-6812 |
Keith McCoy v. Michael Atherton, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-01-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection inter-prison-transfer involuntary-treatment liberty-interest mental-health prison-transfer pro-se-representation state-law stigma |
Did the Appeals Court err in its decision regarding McCoy's transfer to a mental health facility? |
| 20-802 |
Virginia Ann Kurschinske v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2020-12-15 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment final-order-of-acquittal fourteenth-amendment state-law |
Are Pennsylvania state laws constitutional? |
| 20-6564 |
Eric Bernard Scott v. Artis Singleton, Warden |
Georgia |
2020-12-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights court-proceedings due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-review standing state-law supreme-court-jurisdiction |
Whether the Supreme Court abused its discretion by failing to rule that the Superior Court of Fulton County was without subject matter jurisdiction to… |
| 20-749 |
Kathy Roux v. Dennis Pharris, et al. |
Texas |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review attorney-fees civil-procedure due-process factual-analysis legal-analysis sanctions standard-of-review state-law trial-court-sanctions |
Whether the Tenth Court of Appeals for the State of Texas failed to apply the proper standard of review and perform the correct factual and legal anal… |
| 20-754 |
Albert Von Weingarten v. Lonnie Chester |
Second Circuit |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
certification-to-state-court civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction estate-administration federal-court independent-cause-of-action legal-certification maladministration state-law statutory-interpretation |
Does Title 14 Vermont Statutes Annotated Section 1208 provide for an independent cause of action for maladministration of an estate, which can be brou… |
| 20-700 |
Addie Smith v. Syhadley, LLC |
Washington |
2020-11-20 |
Denied |
|
arbitration-agreement arbitration-agreements civil-procedure federal-arbitration-act motion-to-compel preemption state-law state-law-conflict supersedeas supreme-clause |
Whether the Federal Arbitration Act preempts state Supersedeas law |
| 20-6301 |
Alfornia Jason Wall, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-law federal-state-interaction recidivism sentencing-enhancement state-law |
Whether the consecutive imposition of a federal and state recidivism-enhanced sentence violates the Double Jeopardy Clause |
| 20-6276 |
Arek R. Fressadi v. Arizona, et al. |
Arizona |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof constitutional-violations court-rules due-process equal-protection first-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-misconduct judicial-review oath-of-office procedural-default self-defense state-law supreme-court trial-counsel venue-transfer venue-transfer
20-6275" Would a jurist of reason find debatable the correc |
Whether failures to apply mandatory language of the U.S. Constitution, U.S. Supreme Court rulings, state law, and court rules are violations of the Du… |
| 20-635 |
Soo Line Railroad Company, dba Canadian Pacific v. Consolidated Rail Corporation, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-11-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
exclusive-jurisdiction federal-preemption interstate-commerce interstate-commerce-commission-termination-act jurisdiction preemption rail-corporation state-law termination-act |
Whether the court of appeals erroneously held that the exemption provision of the Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act (49 U.S.C. § 11321(a)… |
| 20-641 |
LSP Transmission Holdings, LLC v. Katie Sieben, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-11-10 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
commerce-clause discrimination dormant-commerce-clause electric-utilities electricity-transmission interstate-commerce market-preference state-law state-regulation transmission-lines |
Whether a state law that grants an express preference to entities with an existing in-state presence to build facilities serving a distinctly intersta… |
| 20-6241 |
Lisa Marie Smith v. Kelly Services, Inc., et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights discrimination employment-discrimination employment-law federal-law liability-exemption negligence retaliation state-law third-party-liability workplace-policies |
Whether work place polices made up by Kelly Services should overrule state and federal school laws |
| 20-601 |
Daniel Cameron, Attorney General of Kentucky v. EMW Women's Surgical Center, P.S.C., et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (5)Relisted (2) |
attorney-general civil-rights due-process federal-appeals-court intervention judicial-procedure june-medical standing state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether a state attorney general vested with the power to defend state law should be permitted to intervene after a federal court of appeals invalidat… |
| 20-582 |
Shadreck Kifayatuthelezi v. South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights compensation eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment incarceration qualified-immunity release-date seventh-amendment state-law |
Whether the Eighth Amendment, the Fourteenth Amendment, and/or state law provide a source of compensation when an inmate is incarcerated past his lawf… |
| 20-6201 |
Anthony Thomas v. Victor Calloway, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process federal-constitutional-law habeas habeas-corpus perjury procedural-default state-law |
Should a certificate of appealability have issued? |
| 20-6120 |
Johnny Tippins v. NWI-1, Inc., et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process fraudulent-concealment mandate-recall miscarriage-of-justice sixth-circuit standing state-law statute-of-limitations successor-liability |
Should the Sixth Circuit recall its November 27, 2017 mandate in order to prevent a miscarriage of justice? |
| 20-6072 |
Dorothy Grace Marie Maraglino v. J. Espinosa, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fees garnishment state-law |
Does the state of California have the right to circumvent its own state garnishment laws to impose the garnishment charge of $35 over the $10 fee pres… |
| 20-499 |
Nathaniel Richard Hull v. Jeffrey J. Rockwell |
First Circuit |
2020-10-16 |
Denied |
|
attachment bankruptcy bankruptcy-code circuit-split creditor-rights creditors homestead-exemption property-exemption reinvestment state-law |
Whether a debtor may keep a state-law homestead exemption inside bankruptcy, notwithstanding that the proceeds would be subject to attachment and exec… |
| 20-474 |
CMT Hospital HIMA San Pablo Caguas v. Jose Suero-Algarin |
First Circuit |
2020-10-13 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure damages-review diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine excessiveness federal-standard gasperini-standard gasperini-v-center-for-humanities remittitur state-law |
Whether the decision below contravenes Erie Railroad v. Tompkins by granting respondent a recovery that is ten times larger than the recovery responde… |
| 20-5998 |
Kevin Ray Prentice v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-analysis civil-rights criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit least-culpable-act mellouli-v-lynch predicate state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Fifth Circuit ignored this Court's authority and misapplied the categorical analysis by failing to consider the least-culpable act covered… |
| 20-5892 |
Russell A. Stoddard v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment enhanced-sentence fourteenth-amendment sentencing state-law |
Does the Eighth Amendment protection against cruel and unusual punishment prohibit a state from imposing a prison sentence that exceeds the maximum pr… |
| 20-5869 |
Michael Robert Everett v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process federal-law federal-preemption judgment-rendition reclassification sentencing state-law |
Whether reclassification of a criminal offense from one degree to another violates the Double Jeopardy Clause |
| 20-5820 |
In Re Gregory Lamar Mathis |
|
2020-09-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure constitutional-review due-process federal-jurisdiction mandamus standing state-law writ-of-mandamus writ-of-prohibition |
Would the issuance of a writ of prohibition and/or mandamus be justified where the petitioner's circumstances could aid this court in supervising an a… |
| 20-383 |
PAR, Inc., et al. v. Nichole L. Richards |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-09-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure enforcement-mechanism fair-debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act federal-law plain-meaning right-to-possession state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Courts may look to state law to define 'present right to possession' in 15 U.S.C. §1692f(6) of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act to e… |
| 20-5766 |
Christopher Andre Vialva v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-general-power death-penalty death-sentence execution-procedures federal-courts federal-death-penalty-act federal-law judicial-precedent state-law state-law-implementation |
What law governs a federal court's implementation of a death sentence? |
| 20-5722 |
Stanley J. Carter v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest speedy-trial state-law |
Does a Criminal defendant have a Fourteenth Amendment Constitutional Protection against the arbitrary deprivation by a state of one's State created li… |
| 20-342 |
Kyko Global Inc., et al. v. Omkar Bhongir |
Third Circuit |
2020-09-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
calder-effects-test calder-v-jones civil-procedure corporate-directors due-process effects-test personal-jurisdiction rule-12b2 state-law walden-v-fiore |
Whether Walden v. Fiore nullifies state personal-jurisdiction-statutes |
| 20-312 |
Texas Brine Company, LLC, et al. v. Rodd Naquin, Clerk, Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit |
Louisiana |
2020-09-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure appellate-review due-process geographical-bias judicial-discretion judicial-procedure panel-assignment random-selection state-law |
Whether due process requires judges to be assigned to panels randomly from the pool of all the judges available to hear a particular case |
| 20-262 |
Bridget Alex, et al. v. T-Mobile USA, Incorporated, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
certification civil-rights due-process erie-doctrine federal-jurisdiction federalism judicial-discretion state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation tort-claims-act |
Whether the Fifth Circuit abused its discretion by refusing to certify the case to the Texas Supreme Court |
| 20-5472 |
Henry Dailey v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-authority criminal-procedure due-process federal-law jurisdictional-challenge restitution sentencing state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court had legal and constitutional authority to impose restitution, in light of the clause in 18 U.S.C. 3231, and Mo. Rev. Stat. … |
| 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? |
| 20-188 |
Zhiheng Sheng v. Daniel Michael Snyder |
Georgia |
2020-08-19 |
Denied |
|
antenuptial-agreement beneficiary-designation civil-procedure erisa erisa-waiver retirement-plan spousal-rights spousal-waiver state-law |
Can a waiver by a spouse of her interest in a retirement plan covered by ERISA be enforced through a state law cause of action? |
| 20-166 |
Michael Scott Anglesey, et al. v. Allied Professionals Insurance Company, A Risk Retention Group, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-14 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
arbitration-clause arbitration-clauses consumer-protection federal-preemption insurance-contract liability-risk-retention-act mccarran-ferguson-act risk-retention-group state-insurance-regulation state-law |
Whether the federal Liability Risk Retention Act preempts state laws prohibiting mandatory arbitration clauses in insurance contracts issued by risk r… |
| 20-159 |
John Devos v. Rhino Contracting, Inc., et al. |
Minnesota |
2020-08-13 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
constitutional-rights due-process employment employment-law equal-protection interstate-commerce state-law state-residency workers-compensation |
Does a State's workers compensation statute violate Equal Protection when it treats Minnesota residents injured on the job in Minnesota differently ba… |
| 20-127 |
Douglas Jason Way v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
drug-analogue federal-regulation harmless-error knowledge knowledge-standard mcfadden-precedent ninth-circuit rebuttal state-law state-law-compliance |
Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals contradicted the holding of McFadden v. United States 576 U.S. 186 (2015) |
| 20-5151 |
Antoine Reed v. Daniel Paramo, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appointed-counsel clear-error compulsory-process credibility federal-district-court material-witness police-manipulation procedural-bar standard-of-review state-law state-law-error |
Did the federal district court commit clear error when it deemed the Reed's properly presented 28 USC section 2254 compulsory process violation claim … |
| 20-5045 |
In Re Daniel H. Jones |
|
2020-07-13 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-jurisdiction judicial-review mandamus standing state-law writ-of-mandamus writ-of-prohibition |
Would the issuance of a writ of prohibition and/or mandamus be justified |
| 20-5046 |
In Re Daniel H. Jones |
|
2020-07-13 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure extraordinary-writs judicial-review mandamus prohibition sovereign-immunity state-law supervisory-power writ-of-prohibition |
Would the issuance of a writ of prohibition and/or mandamus be justified where the petitioner's circumstances could aid this court in supervising an a… |
| 20-5047 |
In Re Daniel H. Jones |
|
2020-07-13 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction mandamus prohibition sovereign-immunity standing state-law writ-of-prohibition |
Whether the issuance of a writ of prohibition and/or mandamus would be justified |
| 20-15 |
Pennymac Financial Services, Inc., et al. v. Erich Heidrich, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1738 enforcement-of-agreement fair-labor-standards-act federal-arbitration-act federal-substantive-law individualized-arbitration state-court-decision state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Federal Arbitration Act requires enforcement of an arbitration agreement as applied to Fair Labor Standards Act claims where the parties' … |
| 19-1406 |
Lord, Lewis & Coleman, LLC v. Bellaco, Inc., et al. |
Texas |
2020-06-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
business-entity choses-in-action civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process notice notice-requirement standing state-law statutory-interpretation takings |
Whether a Texas statute, which extinguishes a business entity's choses in action without notice, violates the Due Process clause of the U.S. Constitut… |
| 19-8587 |
Reginald Young v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-06-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
affidavit-of-merit circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure medical-negligence preemption shady-grove state-law state-substantive-law summary-judgment |
Whether a state law 'affidavit of merit' requirement applies in a federal court medical-negligence case governed by state substantive law |
| 19-8441 |
Richard John Vieira v. California |
California |
2020-05-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-general-duty constitution-violation constitutional-interpretation federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-authority judicial-misconduct judicial-oath legal-accountability oath-of-office prosecutorial-discretion state-law |
What statute or authority do California Supreme Court judges have to violate, ignore, and disobey the absolute commands in the state and U.S. constitu… |
| 19-1264 |
Doncey Frank Boykin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-05-04 |
Denied |
|
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split elements-clause minimal-contact physical-force robbery robbery-offense state-law violent-felony |
Whether a state law robbery offense that extends to mere snatchings—involving only minimal physical contact with the victim—lacks the requisite degree… |
| 19-1249 |
Phyllis Davis v. Echo Valley Condominium Association, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-04-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure fair-housing-act federal-courts federal-rules-of-civil-procedure notice-pleading pleading-standards state-law summary-judgment twombly |
Whether the liberal notice pleading standard under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8(a) and Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544 (2007) ceases… |
| 19-1246 |
Rita McDaniel, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Johnny F. McDaniel, Deceased v. Upsher-Smith Laboratories, Inc. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-04-26 |
Denied |
|
failure-to-warn fda-labeling fda-regulations federal-regulations implied-preemption medication-guide parallel-federal-regulations preemption state-law tort-claim |
Whether a state-law, failure-to-warn claim that parallels a defendant's failure to follow FDA labeling regulations is impliedly preempted? |
| 19-8335 |
Mitchell Willoughby v. Deedra Hart, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-04-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
caldwell-precedent capital-sentencing closing-argument death-penalty jury jury-instructions prosecutor prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-circuit state-law voir-dire |
Did the Sixth Circuit panel misunderstand or frustrate the purpose behind this court's holding in Caldwell v. Mississippi |
| 19-1215 |
Steven Sussex, et ux. v. City of Tempe, Arizona |
Arizona |
2020-04-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure enabling-act federal-defense federal-enabling-act federal-law federal-preemption judicial-procedure jurisdiction property-rights quiet-title state-law |
Can a state law bar a federal defense in a quiet title proceeding? |
| 19-8176 |
Homer Lawrence Lane v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2020-04-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-claim constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas legal-preclusion procedural-bar state-law state-rule structural-error |
Whether the State of Alabama may impose a state procedural bar rule to preclude a structural error claim |
| 19-1184 |
Nikki Bruni, et al. v. City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-03-30 |
Denied |
Amici (10)Response RequestedRelisted (5) |
buffer-zone circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation content-neutrality due-process federalism first-amendment free-speech judicial-construction narrow-tailoring overbreadth standing state-law |
Whether federal courts have authority to save a state or local law from unconstitutionality by positing a limiting construction that has no state-law … |
| 19-1188 |
Samaca, LLC v. Cellairis Franchise, Inc., et al. |
Georgia |
2020-03-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitrability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-arbitration-act georgia litigation preemption sanctions standing state-law |
Is Georgia's remedy for abusive litigation under O.C.G.A. § 9-15-14 exempt from arbitration under the Federal Arbitration Act? |
| 19-8068 |
Daniel B. Boudette v. Tammy Boudette, nka Tammy Oskerson |
Montana |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law enforceability foreign-judgment full-faith-and-credit judgment-enforcement originating-state sister-state-judgment state-law time-limit time-limitation |
Does a state's enforcement of a sister state's judgment beyond the time limit when it is enforceable in the originating state contravene the Full Fait… |
| 19-8033 |
In Re Jonathan A. Hampton |
|
2020-03-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus harmless-error jury-instructions lesser-included-offense prosecutorial-appeal state-law structural-error |
Does the California Supreme Court's holding in People v. Breverman (1998) inadvertently impose an unlawful state of ambiguity when faced with the fede… |
| 19-1134 |
Lonny E. Baley, et al. v. United States, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-03-17 |
Denied |
Amici (6) |
endangered-species-act federal-agency federal-reserved-water-rights fifth-amendment mccarran-amendment reclamation-act state-law state-water-law tribal-rights water-rights |
Whether federal agency regulatory action under the Endangered Species Act can constitute the adjudication and administration of water rights for triba… |
| 19-1135 |
Dignity Health, dba Mercy San Juan Medical Center v. Evan Minton |
California |
2020-03-17 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Relisted (7) |
civil-rights employment-division-v-smith first-amendment free-association free-exercise free-expression medical-procedure medical-procedures religious-freedom religious-liberty state-law unruh-civil-rights-act |
Does the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment bar a state-law claim that seeks to compel a religiously affiliated hospital to allow medical pro… |
| 19-1101 |
Canada v. Cynthia L. Merlini |
First Circuit |
2020-03-09 |
Denied |
|
commercial-activity commercial-activity-exception consular-employees consular-employment consular-independence consular-sovereignty employment-conditions employment-terms foreign-sovereign-immunities-act legislative-decision sovereign-immunity state-law workers-compensation |
Whether the court of appeals erred in treating Canada's legislative decision to compensate its consular employees for workplace injuries exclusively u… |
| 19-1051 |
Kansas v. Timothy C. Boettger |
Kansas |
2020-02-24 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (3) |
civil-rights constitutional-protection criminal-law criminal-threats due-process first-amendment free-speech reckless-disregard standing state-law threat |
Does the First Amendment prohibit a State from criminalizing threats to commit violence communicated in reckless disregard of the risk of placing anot… |
| 19-1025 |
City of Ferguson, Missouri v. Keilee Fant, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-02-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure interlocutory-appeal required-entity rule-19 section-1983 sovereign-immunity standing state-law |
Whether an interlocutory appeal lies from a refusal to dismiss for failure to join a required-entity sovereign |
| 19-7623 |
Sinyo Silkeutsabay, et al. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cannabis-regulation civil-rights controlled-substances court-of-appeals district-court due-process federal-preemption federal-response medical-marijuana state-law state-legalization washington-marijuana-laws washington-state-law |
Did the Courts below err in their analysis of Washington State law governing growing and selling medical marijuana? |
| 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? |
| 19-982 |
Erica Y. Bryant, et al. v. United States, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-transfer multi-district-litigation multidistrict-litigation preemption procedural-error state-law statute-of-repose |
Whether a transferee court in an MDL proceeding must follow the decisions of the transferor court's state supreme court and federal circuit court of a… |
| 19-7549 |
Gerard Cliston Ellis v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit fifth-circuit lowest-level-conduct lowest-level-of-conduct state-law |
Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the 'lowest level of conduct' as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach, an… |
| 19-969 |
John M. Marshall, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-03 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
creditor-rights federal-law property-transfer recharacterization state-law stern-v-commissioner tax-law tax-liability transaction-recharacterization |
Whether state law or federal law governs the recharacterization of a transaction for federal tax liability purposes |
| 19-7520 |
Edward Steven Feeney, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law due-process eighth-circuit judicial-precedent lowest-level-conduct lowest-level-of-conduct rule-of-lenity state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the 'lowest level of conduct' as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach, an… |
| 19-923 |
Timothy Barnes v. Chase Home Finance, LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process federal-circuit-court federal-statutes ownership-interest principal-dwelling property-rights rescission-rights state-law state-law-interpretation truth-in-lending-act |
Does a consumer have the right to exercise federal TILA rescission protection where applicable state law has defined his ownership interest in a way t… |
| 19-7393 |
In Re David Gulbrandson |
|
2020-01-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrary-and-capricious death-penalty standing state-law successive-petition arbitrary-and-capricious death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit second-successive-petition state-law state-law-application successive-petition |
Whether transfer to the district court for a hearing pursuant to this Court's original habeas jurisdiction is warranted in this exceptional case |
| 19-875 |
OTO, L.L.C. v. Ken Kho, et al. |
California |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-proceeding arbitration-agreement civil-litigation federal-arbitration-act preemption procedural-protections state-law substantive-unconscionability unconscionability |
Whether the Federal Arbitration Act preempts a State from invalidating an arbitration agreement as substantively unconscionable |
| 19-870 |
Jeana K. Reinbold, Chapter 7 Trustee of the Estate of 180 Equipment, LLC v. First Midwest Bank |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-01-14 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
circuit-court-split circuit-split federal-court-interpretation federal-interpretation notice-of-collateral secured-creditor security-interest state-law state-law-interpretation uniform-commercial-code |
Whether the decision of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, that a secured creditor need not give any public notice of the collateral securing its s… |
| 19-7260 |
Darin Kaufmann v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-01-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-2252 categorical-approach child-pornography federal-criminal-law first-amendment predicate-offense prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the categorical approach applies to determining if a state conviction triggers a sentencing enhancement under 18 U.S.C. § 2252(b) |
| 19-7222 |
Timothy Richardson v. Edward Thomas, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-v-virginia death-penalty eighth-amendment federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus intellectual-disability rule-60(b) rule-60b state-law |
Whether the execution of an intellectually disabled defendant whose death sentence stands due to a federal court's misinterpretation of state law gove… |
| 19-842 |
Mark J. Schwartz v. Clark County, Nevada, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-03 |
Denied |
|
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-discretion federal-jurisdiction judicial-bias qualified-immunity section-1983 seniority-manipulation state-law supplemental-jurisdiction |
Does the district court abuse its discretion when it fails to differentiate between federal and state law claims under 28 U.S.C. §1367? |
| 19-7115 |
Alexander Faulkner v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca burglary burglary-definition categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause generic-burglary sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Does an Indiana burglary conviction qualify as generic burglary? |
| 19-7084 |
Andrew Haley Morcombe v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affirmative-defense criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process fair-trial international-kidnapping international-parental-kidnapping jury-instructions state-law state-law-definitions statutory-interpretation |
Whether the failure of 18 U.S.C. § 1204 to define 'domestic violence' violates due process and deprives defendants of a fair trial |
| 19-7040 |
Dalia A. Dippolito v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-defense criminal-law criminal-liability criminal-procedure due-process entrapment factual-disputes jury-trial objective-entrapment state-law trial-by-jury trial-court-proceedings |
Where state law recognizes objective entrapment as a complete defense to criminal liability, and that defense turns on disputed issues of fact, does r… |
| 19-7042 |
Christian Rosado v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-law guidelines judicial-interpretation judicial-opinions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines state-law state-law-offense statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
Whether a state-law offense qualifies as a 'crime of violence' for purposes of the career-offender enhancement of the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines even … |
| 19-774 |
Marcus Terrelle Marsh v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3) |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-sentencing drug-distribution drug-statute federal-sentencing predicate-offense state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether a state drug statute that lists a variety of means by which it can be violated, including purchasing, which does not meet the definition of a … |
| 19-780 |
Willie Newton v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure custis-v-united-states drug-offense due-process federal-sentencing habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states post-conviction-relief prior-conviction proposition-47 sentence-enhancement sentencing state-law state-sentencing |
Under what circumstances is successful post-conviction litigation a 'successful attack' on a prior state sentence? |
| 19-752 |
Hawaii Management Alliance Association v. Randy Rudel |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
adjudicatory-procedure administrative-law civil-enforcement civil-procedure erisa erisa-preemption federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption federal-regulation preemption state-law state-statutes statutory-interpretation |
Whether state statutes can provide the 'relevant rule of decision' in an ERISA § 502(a) action when the state statutes create an adjudicatory procedur… |
| 19-730 |
DeRay McKesson v. John Doe |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-10 |
Dismissed |
Amici (1) |
civil-rights demonstration-law first-amendment free-speech NAACP-v-claiborne-hardware negligence negligence-action protest protest-leader protest-liability standing state-law unidentified-perpetrator |
Whether the First Amendment and NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co. foreclose a state law negligence action against a protest leader for injuries caused b… |
| 19-718 |
James King v. Douglas Brownback, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 bivens civil-procedure civil-rights color-of-law due-process federal-law law-enforcement section-1983 state-law task-force |
Does a law enforcement officer's membership in a joint state-federal police task force managed, in part, by a federal agency preclude him or her from … |
| 19-6862 |
Dalton Betsinger v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law eighth-amendment eighth-circuit fifth-circuit lowest-level-of-conduct state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the 'lowest level of conduct' as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach, an… |
| 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? |
| 19-692 |
Sunil Deo v. California |
California |
2019-12-02 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process federal-law fifth-amendment penal-code property-rights state-law takings takings-clause |
Does California's application of Penal Code section 115 to deprive lienholders of their property constitute an uncompensated taking in violation of th… |
| 19-672 |
The Rams Football Company, LLC, et al. v. St. Louis Regional Convention and Sports Complex Authority, et al. |
Missouri |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (8) |
arbitrability arbitration-agreement clear-and-unmistakable contract-principles court-enforcement federal-arbitration-act lower-court-split state-contract-law state-law |
Whether the Federal Arbitration Act permits a court to refuse to enforce the terms of an arbitration agreement assigning questions of arbitrability to… |
| 19-6751 |
DeAngelo Pantalion Williams v. California |
California |
2019-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-court arbitrary-denial constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactive-application state-appellate-court state-law |
Whether a state appellate court's arbitrary denial of a defendant's request for the retroactive application of a new state law constitutes a violation… |
| 19-6720 |
James Dwayne Myers v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure divisibility divisibility-analysis eighth-circuit jury-unanimity mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation |
May a court properly apply the divisibility analysis prescribed in Mathis v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 2243 (2016), without considering the question o… |
| 19-6688 |
Robert Joseph Fisher v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split eighth-amendment eighth-circuit fifth-circuit lowest-level-of-conduct rule-of-lenity state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the 'lowest level of conduct' as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach, an… |
| 19-6677 |
Justin Scott Vasey v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing eighth-amendment eighth-circuit legal-interpretation lowest-level-of-conduct state-law statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the 'lowest level of conduct' as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach, an… |
| 19-641 |
Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, Division of Workers' Compensation v. Dami Hospitality, LLC |
Colorado |
2019-11-18 |
Denied |
|
8th-amendment ability-to-pay civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation corporate-liability corporations due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines regulatory-enforcement state-law takings workers-compensation |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's Excessive Fines Clause applies to corporations as it does individuals and, if so, whether and to what extent it require… |
| 19-558 |
Montville Township Board of Education v. Zurich American Insurance Company |
Third Circuit |
2019-10-29 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure coverage-evaluation diversity-action duty-to-defend four-corners-rule insurance insurance-coverage new-jersey-law sl-industries state-law third-circuit |
Has the Third Circuit correctly applied the law as set forth in SL Industries, and should this Court now establish a uniform standard of coverage eval… |
| 19-6436 |
Bharanidharan Padmanabhan v. Drug Enforcement Administration |
District of Columbia |
2019-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
10th-amendment administrative-law agency-deference controlled-substances controlled-substances-act due-process federal-agencies individual-rights liberty-interest property-interest state-authority state-law tenth-amendment |
Are federal agencies exempt from complying with the Tenth Amendment such that they can deem State law 'irrelevant' and violate the individual rights o… |
| 19-532 |
United States v. California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-23 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (14) |
anti-commandeering civil-rights federal-law federal-preemption immigration immigration-enforcement immigration-law information-sharing intergovernmental-immunity preemption sb-54 state-enforcement state-law |
Whether provisions of California law that prohibit state law-enforcement officials from providing federal immigration authorities with release dates a… |
| 19-526 |
Dexter Edwards, dba Edwards Land and Cattle v. Genex Cooperative, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
|
cattle-reproduction choice-of-law civil-procedure contract contract-law diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine federalism oral-agreement state-law |
Did the court of appeals violate Erie R. Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938) and the pragmatic federalism it represents by refusing to apply establish… |
| 19-518 |
Colorado Department of State v. Micheal Baca, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-10-21 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (12)Relisted (2) |
article-ii civil-rights constitution constitutional-rights due-process elections electoral-college federalism popular-vote presidential-electors standing standing-presidential-electors-state-officers state-law twelfth-amendment |
Whether a presidential elector who is prevented by their appointing State from casting an Electoral College ballot that violates state law lacks stand… |
| 19-6304 |
Martin Nava Lara v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-10-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-protections due-process federal-supremacy foreign-national miranda-rights self-incrimination state-law supremacy-clause treaty-rights |
Whether State law supercedes the Supreme Law of the Land in regards to the rights, of a foreign national, established by the treaties between two coun… |
| 19-490 |
Jonathan S. Metcalf v. Michael Fitzgerald, et al. |
Connecticut |
2019-10-15 |
Denied |
|
adversary-proceeding adversary-proceedings bankruptcy bankruptcy-code civil-procedure federalism judicial-interpretation legal-claims preemption standing state-law state-law-claims vexatious-litigation |
Does the Bankruptcy Code preempt state-law vexatious-litigation claims arising from adversary actions in bankruptcy proceedings? |
| 19-479 |
Carol M. Kam v. John B. Peyton, Jr. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
associate-judge judicial-authority judicial-misconduct probate-court probate-law rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-jurisdiction state-court-rulings state-law void-orders |
Does the Rooker-Feldman Doctrine apply to two Void 'proposed' State Court Rulings? |
| 19-480 |
John Hankins, et al. v. Barry Seifman, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights contract contract-law court-decisions due-process federalism judicial-overreach jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction michigan-law public-policy res-judicata sixth-circuit state-law |
Can the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals violate settled Michigan law, Sixth Circuit and U.S. Supreme court decisions and/or make Michigan law? |
| 19-6243 |
Jackie Ray Patrick v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2019-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-defects due-process indictment indictment-validity jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue mississippi-law standing state-law void-for-failure-to-state-offense void-for-vagueness |
Whether Patrick's conviction and sentence were derived from a defective indictment |
| 19-465 |
Peter B. Chiafalo, Levi Jennet Guerra, and Esther Virginia John v. Washington |
Washington |
2019-10-09 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (3)Relisted (3) |
civil-rights constitutional-discretion constitutional-rights due-process electoral-college first-amendment presidential-election presidential-electors standing state-law voting voting-rights |
Whether a State can legally enforce how a presidential elector casts his or her ballot and penalize an elector for exercising constitutional discretio… |
| 19-6229 |
John Joseph Douglas v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
acca aggravated-robbery aiding-and-abetting armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law overbreadth-doctrine predicate-offense sentencing state-law statutory-interpretation stokeling sudden-snatching |
Whether a state's aiding and abetting statute that is broader than the federal generic definition can qualify as a predicate offense under the ACCA |
| 19-6115 |
Jose Manuel Aguirre-Ganceda v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence collateral-attack criminal-justice criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-conviction due-process federal-law federal-state-comity mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimum prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-court-reduction state-law |
Whether a defendant is actually innocent of a mandatory life sentence once a prior state drug conviction relied upon by the District Court is set asid… |
| 19-409 |
City of Cleveland, Ohio, et al. v. Ricky Jackson, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 42-usc-1988 brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 federal-law municipal-liability personal-injury personal-injury-claims qualified-immunity section-1983 section-1988 state-law state-law-survival-rule survival |
Whether §1988 requires the survival of §1983 claims to be determined using the state-law survival rule for the most closely analogous state cause of a… |
| 19-6014 |
In Re Lee R. Comier, Jr. |
|
2019-09-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights due-process jurisdiction reparations slavery 13th-amendment 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus slavery state-law |
Whether the State of Arizona can legally apply a 'slave' label to a person of African descent after 1865, in violation of the 13th Amendment and due p… |
| 19-5960 |
Ben W. Bane v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affidavits breach-of-duty civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-prisoner federal-tort-claims-act judicial-enforcement medical-negligence prisoner-rights procedural-requirements standing state-law state-law-preemption |
Whether a Federal District Court and the Appellant Court can enforce a Local State Law requiring affidavits for a federal prisoner's Federal Tort Clai… |
| 19-314 |
Robert T. Chiu v. Jui-Chien Lin |
California |
2019-09-06 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights contract-law due-process federal-preemption legal-enforceability public-policy state-law statutory-interpretation |
Is an Agreement whose main purpose is to allow someone to circumvent and violate Federal law legal and enforceable under State law? |
| 19-316 |
Larry Drake Hansen v. Salt Lake City Corporation |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-09-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
10th-circuit civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-remedy due-process monell-claim municipal-liability Question not identified. standing state-law takings |
access-to-the-courts |
| 19-306 |
Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. v. Yury Rinsky |
First Circuit |
2019-09-05 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine federal-courts legal-standards punitive-damages standard-of-proof state-courts state-law state-law-certification subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether federal courts sitting in diversity should exercise their discretion to certify questions to state high courts when a state's courts are silen… |
| 19-5807 |
Thedrick Edwards v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-04 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (20)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment state-law |
Whether Louisiana's non-unanimous jury requirement for crimes requiring life sentences violates the Sixth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment of the Un… |
| 19-5744 |
Johnny Ellery Smith v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assimilative-crimes-act criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution federal-jurisdiction indian-country indian-law major-crimes-act state-law tribal-sovereignty |
Did the federal government's prosecution of an Indian for violation of state law in Indian country violate federal statutes and tribal sovereignty ret… |
| 19-5727 |
Trayvon Smith v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP |
against-the-person-of-another crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-court federal-law federal-recidivism intentional-conduct mens-rea negligence recidivism recidivism-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-court-interpretation state-law |
Whether a state offense qualifies as a crime of violence |
| 19-5749 |
Juan Manuel Perez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP |
against-the-person-of-another crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-court federal-law federal-recidivism intentional-conduct mens-rea negligence recidivism recidivism-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether a state offense qualifies as a crime of violence |
| 19-5696 |
Adrian Francis Williams v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment constitutional-rights custody discovery due-process fourth-amendment jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment speedy-trial state-law |
Whether the petitioner's speedy trial rights were violated by the delay in bringing him to trial |
| 19-196 |
Louisiana Health Service & Indemnity Company, dba Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana v. Encompass Office Solutions, Incorporated |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-14 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
antiassignment-provision authoritative-guidance choice-of-law civil-procedure claim-processing clear-authoritative-guidance erie-doctrine erie-railroad erie-railroad-co-v-tompkins erisa erisa-antiassignment-provision erisa-benefits erisa-waiver federal-court federal-courts liability medical-provider standing state-law statutory-interpretation waiver |
Whether a federal court may choose the option that expands liability under state law, absent clear, authoritative guidance from the state's courts |
| 19-5525 |
Erika Jacobs v. Atlanta Police Department, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-offense cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment homeless-rights judicial-conspiracy malice police-misconduct standing state-law |
Is there an issue of judicial conspiracy and malice to overtly conceal offenses of police officers against honest citizens fit the description, for th… |
| 19-5470 |
Spencer Tracy Holloway v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2019-08-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation constitutional-claim due-process federal-question liberty-interest michigan-state-law post-conviction prosecutorial-disclosure sixth-judicial-circuit state-law supreme-court-rule-10 |
Whether the Sixth Judicial Circuit Court for Oakland County decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the decision of Brady v… |
| 19-5285 |
Daniel Luke Meier v. Amanda M. Berger, et al. |
Michigan |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 42-U.S.C.-1983 42-usc-1983 5th-amendment circuit-court civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 constitutional-rights default-judgment due-process property property-rights state-law |
Did the Circuit Court err in failing to complete the default process against Allstate Property and Casualty Insurance Company under color of state law… |
| 19-5238 |
Arthur Lopez v. The Irvine Company Apartment Communities, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation due-process fair-housing-act federal-jurisdiction federal-review jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction remedies standing state-court-jurisdiction state-law |
Whether the Plaintiff and the General Cable did B permitted to Pursue Relief from Violations of the Kou Hearing Act (1968) for Segregation and Hearing… |
| 19-99 |
Northern Kentucky Area Development District v. Danielle Snyder |
Kentucky |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
arbitration-agreement contract-defense employer-employee employment-contract equal-treatment federal-arbitration-act kentucky-revised-statutes preemption state-law |
Whether the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) preempts Ky. Rev. Stat. § 336.700(2), which invalidates arbitration agreements between an employer and an em… |
| 19-72 |
PennyMac Financial Services, Inc., et al. v. Richard Smigelski |
California |
2019-07-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration-agreement civil-procedure consent federal-arbitration-act legal-fiction preemption state-consent state-law state-party |
Whether the Federal Arbitration Act preempts a state-law rule that prohibits the enforcement of an arbitration agreement in a dispute covered by that … |
| 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… |
| 19-13 |
Tennessee v. Tamarin Lindenburg, Individually and as Natural Guardian of Her Minor Children ZTL and SML |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
abstention certification diversity-jurisdiction federal-court first-impression judicial-procedure state-constitution state-constitutional-issue state-law state-statute |
Whether a federal court exercising its diversity jurisdiction should certify an important state constitutional issue of first impression to the State'… |
| 19-4 |
Jackson National Life Insurance Company v. Tamarin Lindenburg, Individually and as Natural Guardian of Her Minor Children ZTL and SML |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-06-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
certification consistent-application-of-state-law constitutional-interpretation cooperative-federalism judicial-efficiency sixth-circuit state-law tennessee-constitution tennessee-supreme-court |
Do principles of cooperative federalism, judicial efficiency, and concern for the consistent application of state law compel the Sixth Circuit to cert… |
| 18-1588 |
Norma L. Cooke v. Jackson National Life Insurance Company |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
|
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-fees civil-rights district-court-award due-process federal-rules-of-procedure federal-rules-procedure fee-award insurance judicial-bias judicial-discretion litigation-conduct sanctions seventh-circuit state-insurance-law state-law unreasonable-litigation-conduct |
Where the district court awarded fees to Petitioner under state insurance law for Respondent's unreasonable litigation conduct, did the Seventh Circui… |
| 18-9847 |
Lawrence J. Petitta v. Daniel Paramo, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-limitations contract-clause contract-rights due-process federal-preemption federal-supremacy jurisdictional-conflict plea-bargain police-power sovereign-authority state-authority state-law supremacy-clause |
Is there a conflict when the state of California exceeded the United States constitutional limitations found in Article 4, clause 10 unnecessarily, wh… |
| 18-1565 |
Matt A. Rogers v. SWEPI LP, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-06-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
arbitrability arbitration-provision arbitration-validity contract-formation contract-validity delegation-of-arbitrability federal-law federal-preemption first-options-standard prima-paint-doctrine severability severability-doctrine state-law |
Whether the severability doctrine applies to determine arbitrability in the absence of clear and unmistakable evidence that the parties delegated that… |
| 18-1526 |
Patrick J. Tobin v. City and County of San Francisco, California |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure federal-courts federalism forum-shopping government-code-911.3(b) judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits legal-interpretation preemption rule-10(a) state-law supervisory-powers |
Whether the federal court erred in exercising pendent jurisdiction over state law claims and failing to follow state supreme court precedent on the in… |
| 18-9526 |
Jimcy McGirt v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2019-06-07 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (13)Response RequestedRelisted (11)IFP |
criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus indian-country indian-major-crimes-act major-crimes-act state-jurisdiction state-law |
Whether Oklahoma courts can continue to unlawfully exercise criminal jurisdiction over Indians accused of major crimes in Indian Country |
| 18-1520 |
Michael A. Tricarichi, Transferee v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
9th-circuit federal-income-tax fraudulent-transfer internal-revenue-code irc-6901 state-law tax-court third-party-conduct transferee-liability |
Whether a tax court must apply the fraudulent transfer law of the state where the taxpayer lived, or can apply fraudulent transfer law from any state |
| 18-9561 |
In Re Benny Stewart |
|
2019-06-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-procedure due-process due-process,recusal,probable-cause,felony-prosecut felony-prosecution information judge-recusal judicial-bias judicial-recusal probable-cause prosecutorial-discretion recusal state-law |
Whether the potential for bias and lack of impartiality when a judge makes probable cause determinations and presides over all proceedings in a felony… |
| 18-9518 |
Blayne D. Williams, Sr. v. City of Austin, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
7th-amendment civil-rights due-process employment federal-law federal-rules-of-civil-procedure municipal-employer municipal-government property-interest rule-12b6 seventh-amendment state-law |
Whether the City of Austin, as a municipal government employer violated the Appellant's federal and state law rights secured by the United States Cons… |
| 18-9449 |
Nicole R. McCrea v. District of Columbia Police and Firefighters' Retirement and Relief Board |
District of Columbia |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ada ada-preemption americans-with-disabilities-act constitutional-law disability-discrimination disability-law employment-discrimination equal-employment-opportunity equal-employment-opportunity-commission family-medical-leave-act federal-preemption federal-statute fmla police-and-firefighters-retirement-and-disability- state-law wca workers-compensation workman's-compensation-act |
Does the ADA supersede a state Workman's Compensation Act? |
| 18-9447 |
QuintIn Irving Brown v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2019-05-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeal conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process judicial-boundaries jurisdiction jurisdictional-overreach procedural-error reversal state-law territorial-jurisdiction venue |
When a conviction occurs in any state of the United States where a county's jurisdiction occurs over 2,200 yards beyond its 300-yard permissible juris… |
| 18-9351 |
Craig Bassett v. Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights congressional-act court-rule due-process federal-courts federal-law respondeat-superior section-1983 separation-of-powers standing state-law statutory-interpretation |
Can a rule of court contradict an act of congress without violating due process? |
| 18-9165 |
Robert Warren v. Bobbette Ramage, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-05-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights conflict-of-laws constitutional-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process prison prison-rulemaking rulemaking state-law |
Whether or not prison authorities' failure to follow state law procedures for rulemaking denies due process |
| 18-1357 |
Randy Cummings, et al. v. Celina Bussey, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 clearly-established-law discretionary-function federal-court-interpretation federal-court-review ministerial-exception property-rights qualified-immunity state-law state-law-interpretation state-supreme-court-precedent statutory-interpretation |
Whether a federal court interpreting a state statute can conclude that it grants the state agency discretion such that the 'ministerial exception' to … |
| 18-1336 |
Walter P. Reed v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
campaign-finance criminal-forfeiture criminal-forfeiture,statute-of-limitations,mail-fr criminal-prosecution custom-and-practice custom-and-practice,federal-mail-fraud,state-law,s due-process federal-law mail-fraud notice state-law statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation wire-fraud |
Whether the petitioner was denied due process by lack of notice of the federal prosecutors' interpretation of a state campaign finance statute and an … |
| 18-8973 |
Joshua Mitch Johnson v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Virginia |
2019-04-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process earned-sentence-credits fourteenth-amendment good-time-credits liberty-interest mandatory-language sentence-credits state-law statutory-interpretation wolff-v-mcdonnell |
Has the petitioner been validly sentenced under the Virginia statute on earned sentence credits? |
| 18-8899 |
Eric Richard Eleson v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-interpretation due-process due-process-equal-protection equal-protection federal-statute judicial-discretion legal-definition non-violent-offense-classification penal-code-definition reasonable-jurist-standard state-constitution-interpretation state-federal-judge-duties state-law supremacy-clause violent-felony |
Does the U.S. Constitution's Supremacy Clause require judges to follow a federal statute's legal definition even if the state law lacks such a definit… |
| 18-1269 |
Simon E. Rodriguez, as Chapter 7 Trustee for the Bankruptcy Estate of United Western Bancorp, Inc. v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, as Receiver for United Western Bank |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-04-03 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
affiliated-group affiliated-groups bob-richards-rule circuit-split corporate-taxation federal-common-law state-law tax-refund |
Whether courts should determine ownership of a tax refund paid to an affiliated group based on the federal common law 'Bob Richards rule,' as three Ci… |
| 18-1265 |
September Ends Co., et al. v. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-02 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
circuit-split civil-procedure collective-bargaining erisa erisa-pension erisa-pension-obligations erisa-successor-liability federal-common-law labor-law pension-obligations state-law statutory-interpretation successor-liability takings |
What is the proper standard for successor liability for unpaid ERISA pension obligations? |
| 18-8668 |
Joseph Edwards Teague, III v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2019-04-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
affidavit appeal appellate-review detective-affidavit federal-law good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant state-law state-vs-federal state-vs-federal-law |
Was COA17-1134 dispositive of appeal brought to NC Court of Appeals? |
| 18-8635 |
Benny L. Willis v. Kenneth Ross, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing civil-rights due-process free-speech preliminary-injunction standing state-law |
Whether the district court erred in denying petitioner's motion for a preliminary injunction to prevent the enforcement of a state law that allegedly … |
| 18-8510 |
Travis Thaniel v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2019-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-counsel criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process federal-law ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactivity right-to-be-present right-to-presence state-law trial-counsel weaver-retroactivity weaver-v-massachusetts |
Does the federal law of Weaver v. Massachusetts, 137 S.Ct. 1899 (2017) have retroactive application in the state of Maryland? |
| 18-1226 |
Clinton County Children and Youth Services v. A. A. R., Natural Mother, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-protective-services child-welfare civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federalism fourteenth-amendment preemption prenatal-injury standing state-law supremacy-clause |
Whether a state violates the constitutional guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment when it denies protections to children who suffer prenatal injury |
| 18-8492 |
Reginald Gibson v. James Haviland, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-claims constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ohio-constitution post-conviction-relief procedural-default res-judicata state-law |
Whether a criminal defendant is denied due process of law if the state improperly invokes its res judicata rule |
| 18-1191 |
Carter Davenport v. Estate of Marquette F. Cummings, Jr. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-13 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights davis-v-scherer due-process legal-authority money-damages qualified-immunity standing state-law state-law-authority state-official takings |
Whether a state official's qualified immunity defense to a claim for money damages necessarily fails if he cannot first prove that he had authority un… |
| 18-8414 |
Dennis E. v. Matthew J. D'Emic, Administrative Judge, Supreme Court of New York, 2nd Judicial District, et al. |
New York |
2019-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process equal-protection jackson-v-indiana standing state-law |
Whether the State may compel relief under Jackson v. Indiana over a defendant's objection |
| 18-8356 |
In Re Steven Eason |
|
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-limitations procedural-bars prosecutorial-misconduct state-law successive-habeas successive-petitions |
Whether the petitioner's fundamental constitutional right to due process was violated when the state prosecuted him on counts of his indictment becaus… |
| 18-1140 |
Avco Corporation v. Jill Sikkelee, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of David Sikkelee, Deceased, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (8)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
aircraft-design aviation-safety design-defect federal-aviation-act federal-preemption field-preemption impossibility-preemption preemption product-liability state-law |
Whether the Federal Aviation Act preempts state-law design-defect claims |
| 18-8249 |
Rickey Morgan v. Dale W. Steager, West Virginia State Tax Commissioner |
West Virginia |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights code-interpretation due-process judicial-review legal-obligation mandamus prosecutorial-duty refund state-law state-tax-commissioner tax |
Does the West Virginia State Tax Commissioner Dale Steager have a legal obligation pursuant to the West Virginia Code § 11-1-5, to provide the petitio… |
| 18-1135 |
Batu Shakari v. Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, et al. |
Illinois |
2019-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-application due-process federal-courts illinois-statute standing state-law |
Did the Illinois courts' application of an Illinois statute deprive Batu Shakari of due process under the 14th Amendment? |
| 18-1118 |
Kim Kerrigan v. Qualstar Credit Union, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure federal-appellate-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction presumption-against-jurisdiction procedural-presumption removal removal-jurisdiction standing standing-challenge state-law subject-matter-jurisdiction washington-law |
Whether the presumption against federal court subject matter jurisdiction is rebutted by state procedural law |
| 18-8139 |
Louis A. Hardison v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
asset-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-procedure-forfeiture due-process federal-adoption federal-jurisdiction forfeiture in-rem-jurisdiction ineffective-counsel missouri-forfeiture-laws missouri-statute state-federal-jurisdiction state-law turnover-order |
Whether Missouri statute RSMO 513.607-613.647 provides exclusive in rem jurisdiction over seized property even when state and local government fail to… |
| 18-8135 |
Jerry Lee Williams, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process standing state-court-error state-law statutory-interpretation transcript-request trial-court-error |
Whether the Clerk of court erred in not applying LSA-R.S. 13:1885(A) and LSA-C.Cr.P. 873 |
| 18-1106 |
Delaware Riverkeeper Network, et al. v. Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-02-25 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law administrative-review administrative-review-process clean-water-act federal-preemption federalism finality-standard natural-gas-act preemption state-finality-standard state-law tenth-amendment |
May a federal court preempt a state's administrative-review-process by substituting a federal-finality-standard for a state-finality-standard |
| 18-1097 |
SkyWest, Inc., et al. v. Andrea Hirst, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
airlines discrimination dormant-commerce-clause federal-preemption federal-statute interstate-commerce judicial-review preemption state-law statutory-interpretation |
Is a state law exempt from the Dormant Commerce Clause merely because it does not discriminate against interstate commerce or because Congress has pas… |
| 18-8047 |
Randy L. Pope v. Steve Franke |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conviction-nullification convictions criminal-procedure disposition due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-discretion nullification re-sentencing relief-standard sentencing state-law |
Whether the district court must grant relief by adhering to the relief dictated by state law when the state concedes in habeas corpus proceedings and … |
| 18-1070 |
Village of Lincolnshire, Illinois, et al. v. International Union of Operating Engineers Local 399, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-02-15 |
GVR |
|
employment-law federalism labor-relations labor-unions local-government municipal-ordinance national-labor-relations-act political-subdivision preemption right-to-work state-law statutory-interpretation union-membership |
Does a law enacted by a political subdivision of a state constitute 'State ... law' under section 14(b) of the National Labor Relations Act? |
| 18-7930 |
Richard S. Button v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
filing-date habeas-corpus legal-interpretation motion-amendment postconviction-relief procedural-rules relation-back standard-of-review state-law timeliness |
Do the procedural rules in effect at time of filing govern whether an application for state postconviction relief is properly filed? |
| 18-7823 |
Edward Nolan Norwood v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights comity due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection federalism sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether it violates the United States Constitution as well as the principles of comity and federalism to treat a prior state drug conviction that is e… |
| 18-7806 |
George Berka v. City of Middletown, Connecticut |
Connecticut |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law administrative-procedure appeal-rights appeals civil-procedure due-process judicial-review notice notice-of-rights public-health-law state-law |
Did the Connecticut Department of Public Health act improperly, and deny the Petitioner his right to due process, by failing to inform him on how to p… |
| 18-7815 |
Shea Pascal Dease v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-judgment civil-procedure due-process service-of-process standing state-court-judgment state-law statutory-interpretation |
Did the state maintain a civil judgment for which it did not serve process in the manner required by its own statute? |
| 18-7768 |
Jon M. Strauss v. Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure |
Kentucky |
2019-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment administrative-law constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment hearing-record license-restriction licensing state-agency state-law |
Is it a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment right to due process for an independent state agency, completely dependent on member financing, to restr… |
| 18-7551 |
Joel Gomez v. Mary Berghuis, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure contract-formation contract-interpretation contract-law contract-validity due-process equal-protection legal-standards standing state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the lower court erred in its application of the legal standard for determining the existence of a valid contract under state law |
| 18-928 |
Midwest Machining, Inc. v. Jena McClellan |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-17 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights common-law due-process employment-discrimination equal-pay-act federal-common-law state-law tender-back-rule title-vii |
Whether the common-law tender-back rule applies to Title VII and Equal Pay Act claims |
| 18-929 |
Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services, Inc., et al. v. Rae Weiler |
California |
2019-01-17 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
affordable-forum arbitration-agreement arbitration-costs arbitrator-role contract-law cost-sharing cost-sharing-provision federal-arbitration-act federal-arbitration-act-preemption preemption state-contract-law state-law |
Whether the Federal Arbitration Act preempts a state rule that denies enforcement of a cost-sharing provision in an arbitration agreement without a fi… |
| 18-7459 |
Michael J. Greene v. William O. Huffman, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process juvenile-justice sentencing standing civil-procedure civil-rights due-process juvenile-justice standing state-law |
Whether the juvenile rights of the petitioner were violated under the Juvenile Rights Act, 14-F-13 of the state code |
| 18-7413 |
Billy Dean Smith v. Robert Corcoran, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
alaska-statute brown-vs-board civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-statute disciplinary-actions due-process free-speech prison-discipline prison-regulations state-action state-law vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
Does the Fell Faith and Credit Clause apply to the Bradshaw v. Ash case involving disciplinary actions against a prisoner? |
| 18-889 |
Dawn Smith, et al. v. Stephen P. Weber |
Illinois |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-court appellate-court-misrepresentation appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fair-adjudicative-process illinois-state-law illinois-supreme-court-rule judicial-fairness liberty-interest oral-argument procedural-due-process state-court-procedure state-law |
Were the Petitioners Smith deprived, without being afforded procedural-due-process, of their federal-constitutionally-protected-liberty-interest in ha… |
| 18-7325 |
John Joseph Zinkand v. Carlos Hernandez, Superintendent, Avery-Mitchell Correctional Institution, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus imprisonment indictment state-law statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Did North Carolina State unlawfully imprison Petitioner upon an unconstitutional statute? |
| 18-838 |
Scott Kaseburg, et al. v. Port of Seattle, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure federal-interest federal-jurisdiction federal-law federal-preemption federal-statute grable-type-jurisdiction property-rights quiet-title railroad-easement state-law subject-matter-jurisdiction trails-act |
Whether Grable-type subject matter jurisdiction exists where (A) it is undisputed that the Plaintiffs' state law cause of action for quiet title does … |
| 18-837 |
Scott Harris, in His Official Capacity as State Health Officer, et al. v. West Alabama Women's Center, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-03 |
Denied |
Amici (6)Relisted (11) |
abortion abortion-ban abortion-rights constitutional-challenge dismemberment due-process gonzales-v-carhart medical-debate medical-procedure partial-birth-abortion reproductive-rights state-law state-regulation unborn-child |
Whether a state ban on dismemberment abortions is unconstitutional where there is a reasonable medical debate that alternatives to the banned procedur… |
| 18-7217 |
C. G., a Minor v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2019-01-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-trial juvenile-justice state-law |
Does a state law that completely bans jury trials for juveniles charged with crimes violate the federal constitutional rights to a jury trial, due pro… |
| 18-7186 |
Corey Ian Weidner v. Jeri Taylor, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-counsel federal-habeas federal-habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel new-rule post-conviction-review state-law state-post-conviction-proceedings strickland-standard |
Whether state court decision on state law is binding on federal court |
| 18-769 |
Minnesota Living Assistance, Inc., dba Baywood Home Care v. Ken B. Peterson, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-12-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abstention abuse-of-discretion administrative-proceeding civil-administrative-proceeding civil-rights-preemption de-novo-review federal-preemption federal-question standard-of-review state-law younger-abstention younger-v-harris |
whether the principles enunciated in Younger v. Harris and its progeny require a federal court to abstain from deciding a federal preemption question |
| 18-6979 |
Lewis Carnell Jackson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-offense culpable-negligence deference federal-circuit-courts federal-courts mens-rea sentencing-enhancement state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether a criminal offense with a mens rea of 'culpable negligence' qualifies as a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 9… |
| 18-737 |
Gregory Aime, et al. v. JTH Tax, Inc., dba Liberty Tax Service, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
certification common-law contract-formation diversity-jurisdiction federal-appellate-procedure federal-court lehman-bros-precedent lehman-bros-v-schein state-law state-law-certification virginia-common-law |
Whether a federal court should certify an issue of state law to the highest state court |
| 18-721 |
Norman Bloom v. Aftermath Public Adjusters, Inc., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
|
certification circuit-split civil-procedure discretion diversity-jurisdiction federal-court federal-court-discretion federal-courts legal-uncertainty procedural-standards state-law state-law-certification |
Whether the language of a state's certification rule should factor into the federal court's decision to certify a dispositive state law question in a … |
| 18-6893 |
Joseph C. Garcia v. Carmella Jones, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
clemency clemency-proceeding due-process fourteenth-amendment meaningful-opportunity minimal-guarantees parole-authority state-law texas-law woodard-precedent |
Whether Texas's failure to provide Garcia with a clemency proceeding that comports with Texas law violates the minimal due process rights—including th… |
| 18-6912 |
Bryant Lamar Monie v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-statute drug-trafficking federal-jurisdiction federal-law felony-conviction persistent-felony-offender sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Defendant's Kentucky Drug trafficking conviction fulfills the conviction requirement under the Federal Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA)? |
| 18-6799 |
Maurice R. Nash v. Wachovia Bank, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-law civil-rights color-of-state-law congress congress-authority constitutional-rights due-process judicial-authority legal-jurisdiction state-law |
Do the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of Los Angeles, California 90012, Case Number LA02-30368TD, Acting under the Color of t… |
| 18-6821 |
Michael Brandon Kelley v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alabama-law capital-murder constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review sexual-abuse state-law |
Did the state court's failure to apply state-law double-jeopardy protections in Petitioner Kelley's case result in a violation of Kelley's constitutio… |
| 18-665 |
James Michael Alvis v. Leland W. Schilling |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-immunity state-court-action state-law |
Whether Respondent, a state court judge, was entitled to judicial immunity when he took action in a child custody matter in contravention of state law |
| 18-666 |
Alliance for California Business v. California Air Resources Board |
California |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
clean-air-act epa epa-approval epa-regulation judicial-review sovereign-jurisdiction state-courts state-implementation-plan state-jurisdiction state-law state-law-challenges statutory-interpretation |
Whether state courts are deprived of jurisdiction to determine if a state regulation included in an EPA-approved State Implementation Plan is inconsis… |
| 18-613 |
W. A. Griffin v. Aetna Health Inc., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
assignee-rights civil-procedure document-request erisa erisa-benefits erisa-statutory-penalty georgia-law georgia-supreme-court o.c.g.a.-9-3-22 o.c.g.a.-9-3-28 plan-administrator retroactive-assignment standing state-law statute-of-limitations statutory-penalty |
Whether the District court borrowed the appropriate state law for ERISA statutory penalty |
| 18-6621 |
Aloeng Kelly Vang v. Tom Roy, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Corrections |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel effective-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prejudice-prong sixth-amendment state-law straight-plea straight-pleas trial-rights ultimate-authority |
Where offers of straight pleas to the district court is permitted under state law, does state criminal defendants receive their Sixth Amendment right … |
| 18-6489 |
Guetatchew Fikrou v. Montgomery County Office of Child Support Enforcement Division, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion bankruptcy bankruptcy-code child-support civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute standing state-law supplemental-jurisdiction |
Whether the abuse of discretion standard applies to review of the issues presented in the petition |
| 18-6398 |
Deon Pittman v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-statute drug-offense element-of-offense federal-law means-of-offense michigan-law sentencing-guidelines state-law state-statute |
Whether the specific type of controlled substance is an element of the offense or one of many means to commit the offense under a state statute that p… |
| 18-6400 |
Tarvares James Watson v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit extraordinary-circumstances federal-habeas-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rule-60(b) rule-60b state-law state-law-procedural-principles state-procedural-law |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit abused its discretion in overlooking the relevant state law procedural principles underlying petitioner's constitutional … |
| 18-519 |
Joseph A. Jennings, III v. Susan W. Jennings |
Ohio |
2018-10-19 |
Denied |
|
agent-orange disability-compensation domestic-relations federal-law federal-preemption howell-v-howell preemption service-connected-disability spousal-support state-law veterans-benefits veterans-disability-benefits |
Whether veterans disability compensation may lawfully be included as a source of income in determining spousal support in a non-community property sta… |
| 18-499 |
Mark Griffioen, et al. v. Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railways Company, et al. |
Iowa |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
alternative-remedy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-preemption federal-railroad-safety-act federal-remedy interstate-commerce interstate-commerce-commission-termination-act preemption preemption-under-iccta public-safety rail-transportation savings-clause state-law state-law-claims takings |
Whether the Iowa Supreme Court erred in holding that state laws of general application addressing primarily public safety issues and with only an inci… |
| 18-511 |
Austin Gates v. Hassan Khokhar, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
|
arrest-standard civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech probable-cause qualified-immunity standing state-law supreme-court |
Whether a court, in determining whether arguable probable cause exists to arrest for a state-law crime, must consider any narrowing decisions by the s… |
| 18-490 |
Jael Watts v. Michael K. Allen |
Virginia |
2018-10-17 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure court-rules due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights hearing-rights notice procedural-notice state-law state-procedure trial-court virginia-court-rules virginia-supreme-court |
Whether the trial court's failure to provide advance written hearing notices, as required by state procedural rules, constitutes a denial of the Petit… |
| 18-6368 |
Dean Edward Calhoun v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-10-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection evidence standing state-law texas-criminal-justice |
Whether the Texas criminal justice system violated the petitioner's constitutional rights by denying them due process, equal protection, and access to… |
| 18-482 |
Paul Hill v. Accounts Receivable Services, LLC |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
|
bosch-v-commissioner circuit-split eighth-circuit fair-debt-collection-practices-act interest-statute materiality materiality-requirement pre-judgment-interest state-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Eighth Circuit may disregard this Court's instructions in Henson v. Santander Consumer USA Inc. regarding the Fair Debt Collection Practic… |
| 18-463 |
Bernard Morello v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-10-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitrary-enforcement civil-rights constitutional-proportionality due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment proportionality state-law state-statute statutory-fines |
Does a properly enacted state statute imposing fines and penalties violate the Eighth Amendment if the state applies the statute arbitrarily and abusi… |
| 18-464 |
Hatfield Enterprizes, Inc., et al. v. Washington State Employment Security Department |
Washington |
2018-10-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
carrier-classification carrier-control federal-aviation-act federal-aviation-administration-authorization-act federal-preemption independent-contractor independent-contractors preemption state-law trucking-industry unemployment-compensation |
Whether Washington's statute defining independent contractors for unemployment compensation taxes preempts the Federal Aviation Administration Authori… |
| 18-466 |
Gulick Trucking, Inc. v. Washington State Employment Security Department |
Washington |
2018-10-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
carrier-classification carrier-control faaaa-preemption federal-aviation-act federal-aviation-administration-authorization-act federal-regulation independent-contractor independent-contractors owner-operator preemption prices-routes-services state-law trucking-industry unemployment-compensation |
Whether Washington's statute defining independent contractors for unemployment compensation taxes, which effectively eliminates the owner-operator bus… |
| 18-469 |
MacMillan-Piper, Inc. v. Washington State Employment Security Department |
Washington |
2018-10-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
carrier-classification carrier-control faaaa federal-aviation-act federal-aviation-administration-authorization-act- federal-lease-contract-provisions federal-preemption independent-contractor independent-contractors preemption state-law trucking-industry unemployment-compensation unemployment-compensation-taxes |
Whether Washington's statute defining independent contractors for unemployment compensation taxes preempts the Federal Aviation Administration Authori… |
| 18-412 |
Jael Watts v. Michael Allen, et al. |
Virginia |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
|
access-to-courts court-access due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial seventh-amendment state-law tort-immunity |
Whether the Virginia Supreme Court's dismissal of the Petitioner's appeal without reaching the merits of the case violates the Petitioner's fundamenta… |
| 18-389 |
Parker Drilling Management Services, Ltd. v. Brian Newton |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-26 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (8)Relisted (2) |
choice-of-law circuit-split fair-labor-standards-act federal-jurisdiction federal-law federal-preemption gap-filling outer-continental-shelf-lands-act reliance-interests state-law state-law-borrowing statutory-interpretation wage-and-hour-laws |
Whether, under OCSLA, state law is borrowed as the applicable federal law only when there is a gap in the coverage of federal law, as the Fifth Circui… |
| 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 … |
| 18-6021 |
Patricia Burney v. Debbie Aldridge, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-09-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-v-maryland due-process exculpatory-evidence false-testimony federal-due-process harmless-error jailhouse-informant state-court-denial state-law trial-prejudice |
Whether the state court's denial of petitioner's due process claim, wherein he alleged that the state's destruction of exculpatory evidence fatally pr… |
| 18-6025 |
Rene Borrero v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act attempted-robbery due-process state-law state-statute statutory-interpretation victim-resistance violent-felony |
Whether Florida's State attempted robbery offense that includes as an element' the common law requirement of overcoming 'victim resistance' is categor… |
| 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 |
| 18-312 |
David R. Smith v. Tennessee National Guard |
Tennessee |
2018-09-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation employment employment-law preemption reemployment-rights state-law statute-of-limitations supremacy-clause time-limitation title-38-usc-4301 uniformed-services-reserve-reemployment-act userra-act |
Does a state law that sets a time limit on when an action may be filed under the Uniformed Services Reserve Reemployment Act, Title 38 U.S.C. §§ 4301,… |
| 18-301 |
Chieftain Royalty Company v. Charles David Nutley, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-09-07 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights class-action common-fund common-fund-fees diversity diversity-jurisdiction due-process federal-law inherent-power judicial-discretion state-law |
Whether common-fund fee awards are governed in diversity cases by state or federal law |
| 18-283 |
Charles Coleman, et al. v. Campbell County Library Board of Trustees |
Kentucky |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
due-process federal-due-process-rights fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure prospective-only retroactive-relief state-law state-retroactivity-doctrines tax-relief unlawful-taxes |
Whether a state can circumvent the requirements of the Due Process Clause to provide taxpayers retroactive relief from unlawful taxes by making its de… |
| 18-5865 |
Gary L. Pennington v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2018-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
capital-offense constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder fourteenth-amendment state-law substantive-due-process |
Whether petitioner's conviction of first degree murder violated the constitutionally protected state-created liberty interest guaranteed under the Fou… |
| 18-5835 |
Juan Fernando Lizarraga-Leyva v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-felony controlled-substance deportation drug-trafficking drug-trafficking-crime illicit-trafficking immigration-law immigration-nationality-act mens-rea state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether a state drug-trafficking conviction with no mens rea element or a mens rea element different than federal law constitutes the 'aggravated felo… |
| 18-251 |
Sheldon Schwartz v. HRI Hospital, Inc., et al. |
Massachusetts |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional constitutional-law due-process employment employment-rights equal-protection free-speech retaliation state-law whistleblower |
Whether the Massachusetts courts erred in refusing to consider the Supreme Court's proscription of post-employment retaliation in any profession |
| 18-5501 |
Donald Jones v. Bank of America, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection florida-law foreclosure jury-trial property-rights state-law viamendment |
Whether the petitioner received the same equality decision from Florida state law 702.1 as he would have from a jury trial under the 7th Amendment |
| 18-174 |
Applied Underwriters Captive Risk Assurance Company, Inc. v. Citizens of Humanity, LLC, et al. |
Nebraska |
2018-08-08 |
Denied |
|
arbitrability-delegation arbitration arbitration-agreement choice-of-law contract-interpretation delegation-clause federal-arbitration-act judicial-hostility judicial-hostility-to-arbitration preemption state-law substantive-law |
Whether a general choice-of-law clause in a contract that contains an arbitration agreement should incorporate state substantive law without incorpora… |
| 18-5450 |
Amilcar Rivas-Rivera v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2018-08-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pcra plea-agreement post-conviction-relief prison-mailbox-rule standing state-law timeliness |
Whether the Pennsylvania lower court and appellate court's decision dismissing petitioner's second pro se PCRA petition as untimely is contrary to Pen… |
| 18-111 |
Timothy M. Barrett v. Valerie Jill Minor |
Virginia |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment child-custody civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process family-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment parental-rights standing state-law |
Are Virginia's Child Custody Statutes Facially Unconstitutional? |
| 18-5290 |
Ronald Long v. George Robinson, Administrator, Northern State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure civil-procedure corrections due-process parole presentence-report standing state-law |
Did the N.J. State Parole deny Petitioner Due Process by conducting a parole hearing without having a mandatory presentence report? |
| 18-31 |
Joel Beck v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process foreclosure foreclosure-claims mortgage motion-to-dismiss pro-se pro-se-plaintiff procedural-dismissal rule-12(b)(6) standing state-law supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a pro se plaintiff's pleading of plausible state law claims, including an allegation that would stop a pending foreclosure, is subject to dism… |
| 18-5085 |
Teon Jamell Williams v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2018-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment cell-phone-privacy collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights criminal-procedure direct-appeal double-jeopardy effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-and-seizure sixth-amendment state-law warrantless-search |
Whether the petitioner's right to effective assistance of counsel in his first direct appeal of right was violated when counsel refused to brief his F… |
| 18-1 |
C. G. v. Deborah Heart and Lung Center, et al. |
New Jersey |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
|
federal-statute health-care-quality-improvement-act hospital-immunity immunity medical-reporting patient-care preemption professional-review state-law |
To what extent does the federal Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986 (HCQIA), 42 U.S.C. § 11101 et seq., preempt state laws governing a hospita… |
| 24A590 |
Kevin Underwood v. Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
|
Denied |
|
clemency-proceedings death-row due-process fourteenth-amendment life-interest state-law |
Whether the Due Process Clause provides constitutional protections for death row inmates in state clemency proceedings that are mandated by state law |