| 23-7598 |
Arnaud Paris v. Heidi M. Brown |
Oregon |
2024-05-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
custody-dispute due-process equal-protection family-law federal-statutes fourteenth-amendment international-custody international-law national-origin state-statutes uccjea |
Does a state court's decisions and actions violating both Federal Statutes (UCCJEA) and State Statues in a custody dispute, which appears to favor an … |
| 23-7346 |
Oksana Marinaro v. Zimmer & Lewis, Attorneys & Counselor at Law |
Virginia |
2024-04-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-appointment judicial-appointments judicial-authority judicial-procedure procedural-rights separation-of-powers state-statutes |
Can a retired judge preside over a case without an appointment required by a state statute? |
| 23-461 |
Maria Navarro Carrillo, et al. v. New York City Department of Education, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-11-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-rights cooperative-federalism disability-rights due-process individuals-with-disabilities-education-act judicial-review state-statutes statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Second Circuit erred in setting aside binding state law in an Individuals with Disabilities Education Act case |
| 22-7900 |
David Wright, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing-guidelines guideline-range prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing-guidelines state-statutes statutory-interpretation |
Whether the District Court erred by counting a prior conviction for violation of a state statute that had been changed to make the conduct not a crime… |
| 22-5729 |
Jose Madrid-Becerra v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-history criminal-procedure deportation early-release federal-criminal-defendants immigration immigration-law sentencing-guidelines state-statutes |
Whether U.S.S.G. § 4A1.1(d) applies to federal criminal defendants who were previously released from prison pursuant to state statutes authorizing the… |
| 21-829 |
Timothy Scott Hardin v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-12-03 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
18-usc-2252 18-usc-2252a age-of-consent categorical-approach criminal-law federal-sentencing minor sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements state-statutes statutory-interpretation |
Whether a conviction under state statutes criminalizing consensual sex between a 21-year-old and a 17-year-old constitutes a predicate offense for fed… |
| 20-6970 |
Charles Maxwell v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-review due-process equal-justice ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pleading-requirements state-statutes |
Should the constitutional guarantees afforded to prisoners be tied to the constitutional violations raised, instead of to the manner in which a state … |
| 20-5141 |
Daniel Harold Williford v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
equitable-tolling family-resemblance-test federal-securities fraud iou-agreement private-transaction private-transactions securities-law state-statutes |
Whether a private IOU or other private document between individuals constitutes a 'security' under federal securities laws |
| 19-8763 |
James Delglyn v. Paulino Barros, et al. |
Wisconsin |
2020-06-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof credit-report credit-reporting debt-verification hearsay-evidence judicial-procedure state-statutes wisconsin-law wisconsin-supreme-court |
Is it reasonable to demand verification of an alleged debt in the form of a written contract, evidence of a transaction or a sworn statement from a cl… |
| 19-7722 |
Audrel Jack Watson, Jr. v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2020-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-appeals due-process federal-procedural-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure standing state-court-rules state-statutes statutory-interpretation supreme-court-error |
Did the Virginia Supreme Court err in denying Audrel Una Weston Jr.'s petition for writ of certiorari? |
| 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… |
| 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 |
| 18-8858 |
Aspen Warren v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency jury-unanimity manner-and-means murder murder-conviction state-criminal-law state-statutes statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether there must be sufficient evidence to convict under each manner or means alleged in a murder case where under state statutes a jury need not be… |
| 18-1150 |
Georgia, et al. v. Public.Resource.Org, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (34)Relisted (2) |
annotations copyright copyright-law government-edicts judicial-opinions legal-annotations official-code-of-georgia-annotated public-policy state-statutes statutes statutory-interpretation |
Whether the government edicts doctrine extends to—and thus renders uncopyrightable—works that lack the force of law, such as the annotations in the Of… |
| 18-8215 |
Blake Sandlain v. C. Johnson, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech maritime standing state-statutes takings |
Does the right of maritime states implicate the validity of the Assente Amendment for the purpose of banning certain cases, or was the validity of mar… |
| 18-7591 |
Kofi Kyei v. Tessica L. Swift, et al. |
Oregon |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process due-process,civil-procedure,turner-v-rogers,state- fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment state-statutes state-support-statute turner-v-rogers |
Do state support statutes like the Oregon Statute (ORS) at Chapter 416.440 (8) contravene the 2011 United States Supreme Court rulings in Turner v. Ro… |
| 18-6747 |
Gibran Richardo Figueroa-Beltran v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure divisibility-analysis divisibility-inquiry due-process federal-courts federal-divisibility-doctrine federalism mathis-doctrine mathis-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-court-certification state-courts state-statutes three-part-test |
When applying the federal divisibility doctrine to state statutes, may federal courts terminate the three-part test set forth in Mathis v. United Stat… |