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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
24-480 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…
24-5732 In Re Jeremy Dewayne Foster 2024-10-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-violation forum-transfer judicial-misconduct procedural-rules substantive-law writ-of-prohibition Whether judges in the Western District of Louisiana have improperly practiced law and violated plaintiff's substantive rights through procedural rules
23-741 Iftikar A. Ahmed v. Securities and Exchange Commission, et al. Second Circuit 2024-01-09 Denied appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure cross-appeal-rule greenlaw-v-united-states judicial-discretion jurisdiction remand remedy-limitation substantive-law Whether the cross-appeal rule is jurisdictional or mandatory, or admits of exceptions
22-7481 Anthony Allen v. Illinois Illinois 2023-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel appellate-representation cause-and-prejudice constitutional-challenge constitutional-sentencing ineffective-assistance smith-vs-bailey substantive-law successive-petition Whether appointed Appellate Counsel's missapprehended the law and facts by failure to brief and raise the issues on appeal constitutes unreasonable if…
22-953 Pablo Calderon v. United States Second Circuit 2023-03-30 Denied Response Waived criminal-charges criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation substantive-law Does a federal district court have habeas corpus jurisdiction when a substantive element of the criminal charges was not found under the law mandated …
22-6495 Genero Javon Zuniga v. Colorado Colorado 2023-01-09 Denied IFP colorado constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment retroactivity substantive-law zuniga Did the State of Colorado violate Mr. Zuniga's Fourteenth Amendment due process protections when it failed to apply a new rule of substantive law retr…
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
22-57 Dean Allen Steeves, Acting Trustee of Brother's Keeper Ministries v. Internal Revenue Service Ninth Circuit 2022-07-21 Denied Response Waived church-organization constitutional-law constitutional-mandate integrated-auxiliary iRS-subpoena jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge non-organization-private-church procedural-error subpoena substantive-law Whether the U.S. District and U.S. Appellate Court usurped jurisdiction and declined to exercise jurisdiction by denying Petitioner's Motion to Quash …
22-18 Cuker Interactive, LLC v. Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP Ninth Circuit 2022-07-06 Denied CVSGAmici (2)Relisted (2) bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure case-law choice-of-law circuit-split federal-courts federal-jurisdiction forum-state judicial-interpretation substantive-law Whether federal courts must apply forum state or federal choice-of-law rules in bankruptcy cases
21-8285 Darryll Justin Lee Reed v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-06-29 Denied IFP criminal-procedure indian-law judicial-precedent jurisdiction mcgirt-rule procedural-law retroactive-application retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-law tribal-sovereignty Is McGirt a Substantive or Procedural rule?
21-1508 David Dotson v. Atlantic Specialty Insurance Company Fifth Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied Response Waived choice-of-forum day-in-court erie-doctrine federalism forum-selection insurance-litigation res-judicata substantive-law Did the court of appeals violate the federalism principle of Erie R. Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938) when it refused to apply Louisiana's substant…
21-7936 Jeffrey E. Akard v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2022-05-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP benefits civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing habeas-corpus incarceration retroactive-rule section-2255 special-appointment standing substantive-law Whether a disabled veteran has personal stake, interest, or standing to seek that his withheld 2021 benefit, due to his incarceration, receive a 'spec…
21-919 Rodenburg LLP, dba Rodenburg Law Firm v. The Cincinnati Insurance Company Eighth Circuit 2021-12-21 Denied Response Waived boilerplate-exclusion commercial-liability commercial-liability-policies illusory-coverage insurance-coverage jurisdictional-split north-dakota-law policy-interpretation property-rights split-of-authority substantive-law Did the court of appeals' expansive reading of a boilerplate exclusion used nationwide by insurers in their commercial liability policies, a reading w…
21-872 Amoneo Lee v. Shannon Meyer, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-12-13 Denied Response Waived aedpa-tolling alleyne-rule collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus innocence retroactivity sentencing statute-of-limitations substantive-law whether-aedpa's-one-year-statute-of-limitations-should-be-equitably-tolled
21-5967 Zenon Grzegorczyk v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-10-15 Denied Relisted (11)IFP collateral-review constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea retroactivity substantive-law waiver Does an unconditional guilty plea waive a defendant's right to challenge his conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) on the grounds that Davis rendered it…
21-5393 Hemy Neuman v. Georgia Georgia 2021-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-estoppel criminal-procedure double-jeopardy mental-health procedural-due-process procedural-law reversal-of-conviction substantive-law trial-reversal Where a defendant is found guilty at a second trial after reversal of the first trial's verdict of guilty but mentally ill: 1) Is a double jeopardy cl…
21-5356 Joel Dale Wright v. Florida Florida 2021-08-12 Denied IFP death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment procedural-law retroactivity statutory-construction substantive-law Whether the Florida Supreme Court's statutory construction in Hurst v. State constitutes substantive law, and if so, whether the Due Process Clause of…
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…
20-7228 Leroy Pooler v. Florida Florida 2021-02-25 Denied IFP criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-state state-v-poole statutory-construction substantive-law Does the Florida Supreme Court's statutory construction in Hurst v. State constitute substantive law and, if so, does the Due Process Clause of the Fo…
20-814 James Nalder, et al. v. United Automobile Insurance Company Ninth Circuit 2020-12-15 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure damages-review diversity federal-courts judicial-procedure jury-trial standing standing-doctrine substantive-law Whether a federal appeals court may be divested of jurisdiction by evaluating facts of an alleged post-judgment reduction in the amount of damages and…
20-6518 Blaine Milam v. Texas Texas 2020-12-03 Denied IFP briseno-framework collateral-review court-of-criminal-appeals death-penalty due-process intellectual-disability moore-v-texas retroactive-rule retroactivity substantive-law Did Moore v. Texas announce a new substantive rule that is retroactive to cases on collateral review?
20-6515 Anthony Ponticelli v. Florida Florida 2020-12-03 Denied IFP capital-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-state jury-unanimity retroactivity statutory-construction substantive-law Whether the Florida Supreme Court's statutory construction in Hurst v. State constitutes substantive law, and if so, whether the Due Process Clause of…
20-6043 Robin Lee Archer v. Florida Florida 2020-10-16 Denied IFP criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-role retroactivity statutory-construction substantive-criminal-law substantive-law Whether the Florida Supreme Court's statutory construction in Hurst v. State constitutes substantive law
19-1070 Jeffrey Alan Olson v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-02-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment Birchfield-v-North-Dakota blood-draw constitutional-rights criminal-penalties criminal-procedure due-process retroactivity substantive-law supreme-court-precedent warrantless-blood-draw warrantless-search Whether this Court's holding that states may not impose criminal penalties on the refusal to submit to a warrantless blood draw, Birchfield v. North D…
18-9378 In Re Tae Hon Chon 2019-05-22 Dismissed IFP constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights criminal-statute district-court due-process ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-doctrine fair-warning substantive-law Does a District Court's ex post facto construction of a substantive criminal statute deprive a petitioner of the fair warning to which the Constitutio…
18-9366 Michael T. Rivera v. Florida Florida 2019-05-22 Denied IFP collateral-review criminal-statute due-process eighth-amendment judicial-interpretation procedural-rule retroactivity substantive-law Whether the Federal Due Process Clause requires a state to apply a new interpretation of a state criminal statute retroactively to cases on collateral…
18-8090 Edward J. Zakrzewski, II v. Florida Florida 2019-02-22 Denied IFP capital-punishment criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-state jury-unanimity retroactive-application retroactivity savings-clause substantive-law Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments require retroactive application of the Florida Supreme Court's decision in Hurst v. State to capital defe…
18-7133 Paul Burks v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-tax due-process elements federal-courts federal-prosecution indictment indictment-elements pretrial-motion statutory-interpretation substantive-law tax-law uncertainty Whether the substantial existence of uncertainty in the governing substantive tax law is irrelevant to the determination of a pretrial motion to dismi…
18-616 Roger Nepal v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-13 Denied Response Waived criminal-law criminal-procedure de-novo-review direct-appeal Griffith-v-Kentucky plain-error retroactivity standard-of-review substantive-law Where the Supreme Court has changed the substantive law governing a criminal case that is on direct appeal, must Griffith v. Kentucky be applied to th…
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…
18-108 David Duncan v. GEICO General Insurance Company Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-24 Denied 14th-amendment 7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-interpretation due-process erie-doctrine erie-railroad-co-v-tompkins federal-case-law federal-common-law federal-courts judicial-precedent procedural-law substantive-law supreme-court-precedent Whether federal courts are wrongfully developing and applying federal case law in derogation of the U.S. Constitution and the established U.S. Supreme…
24A1261 Richard Gerald Jordan v. Mississippi Mississippi Denied capital-punishment due-process ex-post-facto-clause res-judicata substantive-law successive-petition Whether a state court violates the Ex Post Facto Clause and Due Process Clause by applying procedural bars to preclude review of a capital defendant's…