| 25-3 |
Malco Enterprises of Nevada, Inc., a Domestic Corporation v. Alelign Woldeyohannes |
Nevada |
2025-07-01 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
financial-responsibility-law graves-amendment preemption rental-car-liability state-statute vicarious-liability |
Whether a state statute that imposes vicarious liability on rental and leasing companies through a provision governing insurance can evade Graves Amen… |
| 24-798 |
Kay E. Anderson v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2025-01-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights criminal-conviction evidence-suppression fraudulent-misrepresentation search-warrant state-statute |
Whether a party can be convicted of a crime based upon evidence obtained under a search warrant that was declared invalid because it was procured by f… |
| 24-5799 |
Maria Navarro Martin v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-10-23 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-law habeas-corpus state-statute |
Whether the exhaustion of inadequate remedies in federal habeas corpus actions requires dismissal of a petition under an unconstitutional state statut… |
| 23-7548 |
In Re Kinley MacDonald |
|
2024-05-23 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
child-custody child-welfare civil-rights due-process family-law hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-misconduct jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge parental-rights state-statute |
Can a trial court open and remove children in a 'protective custody' case based solely on hearsay accusations prohibited by state statute and in absen… |
| 23-7348 |
Oksana Marinaro v. Cheryl Eddy Benn, PC |
Virginia |
2024-04-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
case-mootness civil-procedure court-order due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-appointment procedural-notice retirement standing state-statute |
Can a retired judge preside over a case without an appointment required by a state statute? |
| 23-7322 |
Gabriel Paul Hall v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-04-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-conduct capital-appointments capital-punishment due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pecuniary-incentive sixth-amendment state-statute |
Whether a state statute that makes an attorney ineligible for future capital appointments if found to be ineffective creates a pecuniary incentive for… |
| 23-5849 |
Bryan H. Brown v. New Hampshire |
New Hampshire |
2023-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
arbitrary-action due-process earned-time-credits government liberty-interest procedural-due-process procedural-rights state-statute |
Whether the court arbitrarily denied the petitioner's state-created right to earned-time-credits |
| 23-5217 |
Kinley MacDonald v. Maine |
Maine |
2023-07-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
bail-bond-conditions child-protective-custody constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custody due-process family-reunification hearsay judicial-review legal-standards state-statute |
Can a judge in a child protective custody case base a decision solely on hearsay accusations prohibited by state statute, then set bail/bond condition… |
| 22-7577 |
Lamonte Ealy v. Dylon Radtke, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-05-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
blockburger-test constitutional-review double-jeopardy multiplicity procedural-default same-elements same-parties state-statute |
Whether jurist of reason would find it debatable or wrong the District court assessment of Double Jeopardy Multiplicity counts |
| 22-6648 |
Glen Plourde v. Redington-Fairview General Hospital, et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-01-27 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process government-misconduct judicial-overreach legislative-authority separation-of-powers standing state-statute state-supreme-court torture |
Separation-of-powers |
| 22-661 |
David Frank Campeau, Jr., et ux. v. Edward Sandercock, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Wayne County, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-01-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
10th-amendment 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 9th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights federalism-powers fourteenth-amendment marriage-law ninth-amendment state-statute tenth-amendment |
Whether the Ninth and Tenth Amendments reserve the right to marry to the people of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania |
| 22-6511 |
William Maskevich v. Illinois Department of Employment Security, et al. |
Illinois |
2023-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-interpretation notice-of-remedies precedent-analysis state-statute statutory-interpretation West-Covina-v-Perkins |
Whether West Covina v. Perkins, 525 U.S. 234 (1999) should be the driving precedent where a state has enacted a statute requiring notice of remedies, … |
| 22-498 |
Kristine Kurk v. Los Rios Classified Employees Association, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-28 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
civil-rights collective-bargaining compelled-association due-process first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-association public-employment state-statute union-membership |
Does the First Amendment protect a public employee's right to resign union membership at will? |
| 22-206 |
Bernice Curry-Malcolm v. New York State Teachers' Retirement System, et al. |
New York |
2022-09-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process pension pension-benefits property-rights standing state-constitution state-retirement-system state-statute |
Whether the word 'substantial' in the governing statute CPLR 5601(a) and the New York State Constitution provision for appeals as of right on constitu… |
| 22-5513 |
Jerome Jenkins, Jr. v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2022-09-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing due-process hearsay-rules hurst-v-florida judicial-bias jury-sentencing jury-waiver mitigating-evidence plea-bargaining state-statute |
Could a South Carolina trial judge who had told Petitioner he would sentence him to death if he pled guilty still rule, consistent with Hurst v. Flori… |
| 22-5372 |
Tony Lee Foster v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2022-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Federal and U.S. Supreme Court precedent demands Kansas Supreme Court precedent civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process federal-precedent judicial-review kansas-supreme-court procedural-due-process state-court state-court-review state-precedent state-statute statutory-review supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a state high court can deny review of a constitutional challenge to its own statute when procedural due process, state precedent, and federal … |
| 21-1569 |
SouthPointe Partners, LLC v. Louisville Metro Government, et al. |
Kentucky |
2022-06-16 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 administrative-law administrative-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exclusive-remedy federal-claims section-1983 state-statute |
Can a state statute providing a right of appeal from an administrative decision serve as an 'exclusive remedy' to bar separate federal claims under 42… |
| 21-7555 |
Brian Kerry O'Keefe v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2022-04-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
double-jeopardy due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel liberty-interest pretrial-detainee pretrial-detention reversed-conviction state-statute unlawful-restraint |
Whether the liberty interest created by state statute extends to prisoners whose convictions are reversed and remanded back to the class as pretrial d… |
| 21-1285 |
M & N Financing Corporation, et al. v. Department of Fair Employment and Housing |
California |
2022-03-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights civil-rights-statute constitutional-excessiveness eighth-amendment excessive-fines gender-discrimination penalty-damages small-business small-business-liability state-statute |
Is an award of more than $6 million in penalty damages against a small business and its owner unconstitutionally excessive, as a violation of the Eigh… |
| 21-1224 |
Laura Cozza v. PNC Bank, National Association |
Washington |
2022-03-09 |
Denied |
|
due-process equity-jurisdiction foreclosure-proceedings fourteenth-amendment judicial-officer judicial-partiality judicial-power judicial-recusal state-statute |
Did judicial officer, the Honorable Robert E. Olson, legitimately exercise the judicial power of the Superior Court for Whatcom County, Washington as … |
| 21-1116 |
Matthew Liebovich, et al. v. Diane Janice Tobin, et al. |
California |
2022-02-11 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure discretion due-process notice notice-requirement state-court-discretion state-statute supreme-court-precedent void-judgment |
Does Peralta compel courts to vacate void judgments entered absent notice, or does the lack of express reference in this Court's opinion to California… |
| 21-6479 |
Earnest Lee Langston v. Don Phillips, Chairman, Missouri Board of Probation and Parole |
Missouri |
2021-12-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
board-of-probation declaratory-judgment due-process fraud hearing judicial-review missouri-statute parole parole-eligibility procedural-fairness state-statute substantive-due-process |
Whether the Missouri Board of Probation and Parole violated petitioner's substantive due process rights |
| 21-5790 |
Patricia Ann Brown v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge crime-of-violence criminal-statute due-process felony-definition life-imprisonment sentencing-enhancement state-statute vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Is a state statute, providing for an enhanced punishment (life imprisonment) for one convicted of a 'crime of violence,' unconstitutionally vague, whe… |
| 21-5322 |
André J. Twitty v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-08-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-law federalism first-amendment preemption state-statute statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause void-for-vagueness |
Does the Assimilative Crimes Act confer jurisdiction upon a federal court to assimilate and alter the elements of an unconstitutional state statute to… |
| 21-27 |
Arrow Highway Steel, Inc. v. Robert Dubin |
California |
2021-07-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7) |
dormant-commerce-clause former-resident interstate-commerce judicial-enforcement non-discriminatory residency-status state-statute stipulated-judgment tolling-law tolling-statute |
Whether the dormant commerce clause may be used to invalidate the application of a state's neutral, non-discriminatory tolling statute to defeat the e… |
| 20-7799 |
Susan W. Vaughan v. Shannon Foltz, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-04-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process familial-association family-law fourth-amendment liberty-deprivation qualified-immunity standing state-statute |
Is Troxel v Granville correctly applied to a case that has nothing to do with grandparents' visitation requests, but is used, nevertheless, as grounds… |
| 20-1335 |
A. P. v. Vermont |
Vermont |
2021-03-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fourteenth-amendment sexual-conduct split-of-authority state-statute |
Whether Vermont's criminalization of lewd and lascivious conduct violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 20-7212 |
Kareem Davenport v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-02-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights counsel-adequacy defendant-fitness due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-competency state-statute trial-court |
Can a defendant waive their right to file a motion to vacate due to being on the wrong medication that heavily sedates them? |
| 20-1091 |
Robert L. Schulz v. Town Board of the Town of Queensbury, et al. |
New York |
2021-02-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment government-accountability government-obligations petition-clause public-records republican-form-of-government state-statute |
Whether the lower Court has misapplied Minnesota State Bd. for Community Colls. v. Knight, 465 US. 271 (1984) |
| 20-6444 |
Ronnie Eugene Fuston v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2020-11-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
cell-site-location-information fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause state-statute statutory-interpretation warrant-requirement |
Whether the state appellate court erroneously applied the good-faith-exception to the warrant-requirement despite a state-statute requiring a finding … |
| 20-137 |
Prescott McCurdy v. Maine |
Maine |
2020-08-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-misconduct mens-rea personal-liberty seizure state-statute takings unfair-trial |
Has the 'peoples' right to 'personal liberty' been suspended? |
| 19-1354 |
Tan Phan v. Minh Van Truong, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-liquidation chapter-7-bankruptcy creditor-claims homestead homestead-exemption lien property-liens secured-debt state-constitution state-constitution-vs-statute state-constitutional-law state-statute unsecured-creditor unsecured-debt |
Does Chapter 7 bankruptcy require the nonexempt debt to be secured as a lien in order to liquidate debtors' homestead? And if state statute conflicts … |
| 19-8595 |
Brandon Williams v. Lawrence J. Hogan, Jr., Governor of Maryland, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
bill-of-rights civil-rights constitutional-supremacy due-process federalism judicial-review negligence standing state-statute takings |
Does state statutes supersede the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights? |
| 19-1278 |
Hunter Fussell v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2020-05-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
automatic-transfer child-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process juvenile-justice juvenile-transfer liberty-interest state-statute |
Whether the Due Process Clause requires that a child receive an individualized hearing before being placed in criminal court to be tried as an adult |
| 19-7731 |
Michael Herrold v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary controlled-substance controlled-substances drug-distribution generic-burglary generic-definition intent intent-element overbreadth state-statute statutory-interpretation |
Where a state statute explicitly defines 'burglary' in a way that does not require proof of an intent to commit a crime, and thus lacks an element nec… |
| 19-7646 |
Davion Fitzgerald v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach criminal-law due-deference federalism federalism-principles judicial-deference judicial-interpretation judicial-subjectivity sentencing-guidelines state-court-deference state-courts state-criminal-statutes state-statute statutory-interpretation |
May a federal court dismiss state precedent interpreting the state's own criminal statute as an 'odd hypothetical' based on 'legal imagination' to sub… |
| 19-7538 |
Victoria Carlson, et vir v. Jodi Harpstead, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Human Services, et al. |
Minnesota |
2020-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-procedure administrative-procedures breast-cancer-treatment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-statute medicaid medicaid-coverage medical-assistance medicare state-statute statutory-interpretation |
Whether the applicable language requires or allows removal of Victoria from Medicaid breast cancer treatment coverage |
| 19-6989 |
George Calvin Belt v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-12-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law child-support federal-authority federal-legislation federal-preemption state-authority state-law-conflict state-legislation state-statute supremacy-clause unemployment-benefits |
How it is possible that the State of Florida, Department of Revenue, Child Support Program (DOR CSP) can enforce Fla. Stat. § 443.051 that became esta… |
| 19-722 |
Larry J. Hudack v. La Cresta Property Owners Association |
California |
2019-12-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anti-slapp anti-SLAPP-statute civil-procedure collateral-attack due-process federal-statute first-amendment jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect right-to-petition standing state-statute void-judgment void-judgments |
Is a collateral attack on void judgments, on its face, an assault on the constitutional Right to Petition under any state or federal statute? |
| 19-6570 |
Ray Jefferson Cromartie v. Bradfield Shealy, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process habeas-corpus procedural-history section-1983 standing state-statute stay-of-execution |
What standards should a district court apply in determining whether to grant relief on a claim under Skinner v. Switzer? |
| 19-562 |
Brian Burke v. New York City Transit Authority, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-10-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 ada civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation defamation due-process fair-labor-standards-act first-amendment leave-to-amend pleading-standards pro-se pro-se-litigation standing state-statute title-vii unconstitutionality |
Pleading standards for pro se parties in Title VII, 42 U.S.C. 1983, and ADA cases |
| 19-339 |
Eugene J. Sonnier, II v. Catholic Foundation of The Diocese of Lafayette, et al. |
Louisiana |
2019-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
armed-forces congressional-intent dis-internment federal-law federal-preemption military-benefits military-remains preemption remains-disposition service-member-rights state-statute |
Whether Louisiana's dis-internment statute is preempted by federal law and conflicts with congressional intent regarding the rights of members of the … |
| 19-5751 |
Charles Massengill v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment interstate-compact parole parole-supervision parolee-rights reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure state-statute warrantless-search |
Whether reasonable suspicion is required for a law enforcement officer to conduct a warrantless search of a parolee or his residence in the absence of… |
| 19-5732 |
Joel Luque-Rodriguez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach criminal-law federal-offense generic-offense gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez prosecutions realistic-probability state-statute statutory-interpretation |
To establish a 'realistic probability' that a state statute applies to conduct not covered by a generic, federal offense for purposes of the categoric… |
| 19-5441 |
Louis Mercado v. Jacob Sorey, Warden, et al. |
Florida |
2019-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-constitution habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-due-process property-rights standing state-statute takings |
Whether the petitioner's right to the writ of certiorari was unconstitutionally denied by the Florida appellate court |
| 19-5253 |
Jonathan Thomas Wright v. Adam Holley, Acting Commissioner of the West Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles |
West Virginia |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal-process appellate-procedure due-process due-process-rights fifth-amendment mootness state-agency state-statute stay-order |
Whether it is a violation of a substantial due process rights for a State agency to proceed with punishments in violation of state statute and a Stay … |
| 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'… |
| 18-1480 |
Jason Caissie, aka Jason Cullen Caissie v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2019-05-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment cheek-v-us constitutional-rights due-process right-to-counsel state-prosecution state-statute state-statutes traffic-ticket traffic-violation uniform-traffic-ticket |
Whether the State of Mississippi is in direct conflict of the due process protections provided in the 14th, 5th, and 6th Amendments |
| 18-9183 |
Zachary Wayne Jones v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach civil-procedure due-process federal-law federal-prosecution fifth-amendment generic-federal-standard predicate-offense state-statute |
Is it a violation of Due Process under the Fifth Amendment for the federal government to utilize a state statute in the prosecution of a federal law a… |
| 18-8982 |
Daniel Warren v. Josh Shapiro, Attorney General of Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-04-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge custody due-process federal-constitutional-rights federal-habeas federal-rights habeas-corpus judicial-procedure procedural-due-process state-court state-court-review state-statute |
Whether a state court of last resort which dismisses without argument or opinion a challenge to the constitutionality of a statute from a judgment dis… |
| 18-1167 |
Sam Francis Foundation, et al. v. Sotheby's, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-fees civil-procedure copyright-act copyright-preemption discretionary-standard federal-copyright-act federal-copyright-law federal-jurisdiction legal-standard preemption procedural-interpretation state-statute uniformity |
Where an action is brought under a state statute preempted by section 301(a) the Copyright Act of 1976 |
| 18-8339 |
Joshua E. Shepherd v. Jeffrey E. Krueger, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca-prior-conviction acca-purposes constitutional-interpretation constitutional-issue criminal-law due-process federal-court federal-court-jurisdiction federal-courts prior-conviction sentencing state-case-law state-courts state-statute state-statute-analysis statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Constitution permits a federal court to conclude that a prior conviction is 'generic' for ACCA purposes based solely on another federal co… |
| 18-7968 |
Joseph Ragland v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection postconviction-relief sentencing sixth-amendment state-statute |
Whether a state statute that limits the availability of postconviction relief violates the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth … |
| 18-7966 |
Desmond Smith v. J. A. Terris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-rights drug-offense generic-federal-offense generic-offense sentence-enhancement serious-drug-offense state-law-definition state-statute |
Whether the ACCA's definition of a 'serious drug offense' imposes a sentence enhancement or make an exception when a state's definition of 'delivery a… |
| 18-7915 |
Arthur Sean Warner v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alternative-locational-elements categorical-approach categorical-match categorical-matching criminal-statute-interpretation descamps descamps-v-united-states federal-statute mathis mathis-descamps-standard mathis-v-united-states school-property state-criminal-statute state-statute |
Did the District Court and the Fourth Circuit Court Of Appeals findings result in a decision that was(1) Unreasonable in light of the evidence present… |
| 18-986 |
Sara Huckaby, et al. v. Frank Halley, as Next Friend of J. H., a Minor Child |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-abuse child-welfare civil-rights due-process forensic-interview law-enforcement-procedure prosecutor-directives qualified-immunity search-and-seizure state-statute statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in determining that the Petitioners did not act in an objectively reasonable manner in relying on a state statute, … |
| 18-7263 |
Gerald Patmon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-sentencing deadly-weapon eleventh-circuit enumerated-offenses georgia-assault-statute gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez overbreadth sentencing-guidelines state-statute statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erroneously affirmed Mr. Patmon's sentence under USSG § 2K2.1 based on its determination that Ge… |
| 18-7126 |
Ishmael Abdullah v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-assault court-of-appeals crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-guidelines federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-criminal-statute state-statute statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's holding that New Jersey Statute §2C:12-1(b)(2) satisfies the elements clause of t… |
| 18-6671 |
Jimmy David Malone v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
acca constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federalism generic-conviction state-courts state-statute statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Constitution permits a federal court to conclude that a prior conviction is 'generic' for ACCA purposes based on an independent interpreta… |
| 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… |
| 18-463 |
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… |
| 18-6025 |
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… |
| 18-5565 |
Nicholas Edwards v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2018-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-constitution habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel innocent laws-of-united-states miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction-relief procedural-limitations standing state-statute treaties |
whether-the-state-writ-of-habeas-corpus-is-valid |
| 18-87 |
Ludwig P. Samson, Trustee for the Heirs and Next of Kin of Christine R. Samson, Deceased v. Jack W. Gordon, et al. |
Minnesota |
2018-07-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection opportunity-to-be-heard procedural-decision procedural-decisions retroactive-application retroactivity state-court state-court-rules state-statute |
Is a litigant denied due process when a state's highest court overrules a consistent line of procedural decisions and expands a state statute retroact… |
| 18-5229 |
Robert Adam Neuman v. Mark Nooth |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conflicts federal-law federal-law-analysis federal-law-review federal-review judicial-review ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-precedent ohio-v-reiner review state-court state-court-decision state-court-interpretation state-statute supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's opinion unreasonably insulates the state court decision from review and conflicts with Ohio v. Reiner |