| 25-767 |
Daren K. Margolin, Director of the Executive Office for Immigration Review v. National Association of Immigration Judges |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-31 |
Pending |
Amici (2) |
csra-preclusion district-court party-presentation personnel-actions summary-reversal supreme-court-precedent |
1. Whether the decision below should be summarily reversed for violating the party-presentation principle.
2. Whether the decision below should be su… |
| 24-7317 |
Laurack D. Bray v. Matthew Scott Kenefick, Individually and as Partner in Jeffers Mangels, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-05-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
court-of-appeals judicial-bias legal-procedure race-discrimination section-1981 summary-reversal |
1. IS IT REVERSIBLE ERROR FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS TO TREAT OPPOSING PARTIES (ONE A BLACK MALE ATTORNEY AND THE OTHER A WHITE MALE ATTOR… |
| 24-6796 |
Steven Nicholson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
covid-19-test district-court ninth-circuit sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act summary-reversal |
Whether this Court should summarily reverse the Ninth Circuit, which itself summarily reversed the district court's order dismissing petitioner's indi… |
| 24-613 |
Frederick Lewis Washington v. Sunflower County, Mississippi |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-04 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-interpretation first-amendment judicial-review public-employee-speech summary-reversal supreme-court-precedent |
1. Should this Court summarily reverse when a
court of appeals defies clear, unmistakable decisions of
this Court?
2. Should a judge or a jury deci… |
| 23-1204 |
Daniel Kinsinger v. Sherelle Thomas, Administrator of the Estate of Terelle Thomas, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-05-09 |
Denied |
Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
arrestee-rights civil-rights constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference due-process law-enforcement medical-care qualified-immunity summary-reversal |
1. Whether the Third Circuit erred in holding that law enforcement officers' decision to transport an arrestee they believed had ingested drugs, but d… |
| 23-6774 |
Tremayne Silas v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-02-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ambiguity appeal-waiver circuit-court criminal-appeal guilty-plea involuntary involuntary-plea legal-ambiguity summary-reversal |
Whether this Court should summarily reverse the Eighth Circuit's dismissal of Silas's appeal when the appeal waiver is ambiguous as to whether it appl… |
| 23-6083 |
Chalmer Detling, II, aka Chuck Detling v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review due-process judicial-procedure notice notice-requirement opportunity-to-be-heard speedy-trial-act sua-sponte summary-reversal supervisory-power |
Detling appealed the district court's denial of his Speedy Trial Act motion to dismiss, a three-judge panel rejected the Government's argument but the… |
| 23-5970 |
Jerry S. Wilson v. Michael G. Gierach, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-11-07 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence eyewitness-testimony federal-review habeas habeas-corpus house-v-bell procedural-default reasonable-doubt schlup-v-delo summary-reversal |
Procedural default bars a state inmate from obtaining federal habeas based on an issue not presented to the state courts. Schlup v. Delo recognized a … |
| 23-5306 |
Kenneth Ray Holbert, Sr. v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-08-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion constitutional-right direct-appeal ineffective-assistance legal-burden state-court state-court-procedure strickland-standard strickland-test summary-reversal two-pronged |
Where a Strickland claim is appropriately raised on direct appeal, may a state court add to the two-pronged Strickland test a burden of showing the tr… |
| 22-1050 |
Cedric Epple v. Albany Unified School District, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 administrative-actions civil-rights due-process exhaustion federal-court judicial-exhaustion ninth-circuit section-1983 state-court-remedies summary-reversal |
1. Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in holding, in direct conflict with this Court's precedent, that litigants challenging administrative actions must … |
| 22-7344 |
Oscar Jesus Salais v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-murder evidence-sufficiency habeas habeas-corpus jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia judicial-review ninth-circuit sufficiency-of-evidence summary-reversal |
In this federal habeas case, petitioner Oscar Salai s challenge s his California convictions on three counts of attempted murder, all premised on one … |
| 22-756 |
Lannette Linthicum, et al. v. Robin Wayne Smith |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit medical-needs qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment summary-reversal |
1. Whether the Fifth Circuit manifestly departed
from this Court's precedent by holding that authority
that postdates the defendant's alleged acts can… |
| 22-6667 |
Robert Henry Steele v. Dan Redington |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-01-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-standard reasonable-jurists standard-of-review summary-reversal |
Whether this Court should summarily reverse the Eighth Circuit's denial of a COA where the underlying issues were clearly debatable by jurists of reas… |
| 22-675 |
Vicki Jo Lewis, et vir, Individually and as Co-Personal Representatives of the Estate of Isaiah Mark Lewis, Deceased v. City of Edmond, Oklahoma, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-01-20 |
Denied |
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42-usc-1983 civil-rights clearly-established clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity section-1983 summary-reversal |
1. Whether this Court should reconsider the judge made doctrine of qualified immunity.
2. Whether qualified immunity insulates a law enforcement offi… |
| 21-1295 |
St. Augustine School, et al. v. Jill Underly, in Her Official Capacity as Superintendent of Public Instruction, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-03-28 |
Denied |
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constitutional-claims doctrinal-determination establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause government-interference public-benefits religion-clauses religious-preference summary-reversal |
1. Whether summary reversal is warranted where the Seventh Circuit did not consider this case in light of Espinoza v. Montana Dep't of Revenue, 591 U.… |
| 21-6329 |
Steven Blakeney v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process eighth-circuit evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-standard summary-reversal |
Whether this Court should summarily reverse the Eighth Circuit's denial of a COA where the underlying issues were clearly debatable by jurists of reas… |
| 21-5668 |
Freddy Angel Trujillo v. Raymond Madden, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment gang-evidence joinder joinder-of-charges prejudicial-evidence summary-reversal |
Trujillo's trial was rendered fundamentally unfair due to the joint trial of unrelated charges and the admission of highly prejudicial gang evidence r… |
| 21-5092 |
Dawn J. Bennett v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-07-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fourth-circuit judicial-discretion presumption-of-reasonableness presumptive-reasonableness procedural-error sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review summary-reversal |
Does a district court at sentencing apply an impermissible presumption of reasonableness to the Sentencing Guidelines range if it refers to the range … |
| 20-8120 |
Gary Lee Willingham v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 acca-enhancement certificate-of-appealability district-court habeas-corpus jurisdiction merits-review post-conviction section-2255 standard-of-review summary-reversal |
After obtaining the prefiling authorization required by 28 U.S.C. § 2255(h)(2), Mr. Willingham moved to vacate his ACCA-enhanced sentence. The Governm… |
| 20-922 |
Lisa Marie Montgomery v. Jeffrey A. Rosen, Acting Attorney General, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-01-09 |
Denied |
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appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-regulations first-impression judicial-procedure legal-standard standing summary-reversal |
1. Federal regulations provide that "[i]f the date designated for execution passes by reason of a stay of execution, then a new date shall be designat… |
| 20-479 |
David C. Shinn v. Ryan Robert Baker |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
adversarial-system appellate-procedure case-transformation civil-procedure gvr judicial-restraint ninth-circuit party-presentation sineneng-smith summary-reversal |
1. Whether this Court should reverse the decision below under Sineneng-Smith.
2. Whether this Court should grant, vacate and remand in light of Sinen… |
| 20-5792 |
Ronald Leslie Pierce, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
concurrent-sentence concurrent-sentencing conviction-review criminal-monetary-penalties fourth-circuit harmless-error independent-sentences judicial-precedent sentencing-doctrine summary-reversal |
Whether concurrent sentence harmless error doctrine is not appliable to multiple convictions and sentences with criminal monetary penalties on each si… |
| 20-5312 |
Sharrieff Brown v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-interpretation discovery-violations habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review prosecutorial-disclosure prosecutorial-misconduct statute-of-limitations summary-reversal |
Petitioner Sharrieff Brown filed a claim for the ineffective assistance of counsel based on trial counsel's failure to locate critical impeachment mat… |
| 19-5348 |
Stanley James Oliver v. Glenn Johnson, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability credibility credibility-challenge habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel summary-reversal telephone-records trial-counsel |
A federal habeas petitioner challenging a state conviction cannot obtain appellate review unless and until a certificate of appealability ("COA") issu… |
| 18-9719 |
Jason M. Lund v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence aedpa antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act burrage-v-united-states federal-habeas federal-prisoner habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations summary-relief summary-reversal supreme-court-precedent |
Does the Seventh Circuit's decision directly conflict with the holding of McQuiggin v. Perkins ? And does the error warrant summary relief? |
| 18-8977 |
Scott E. Schmidt v. Brian Foster, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-04-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 circuit-court-procedure clearly-established-federal-law clearly-established-law federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation summary-reversal supreme-court-review unreasonable-application wilson-v-sellers |
1. Whether this Court should summarily reverse or, at a minimum, grant certiorari, vacate, and remand in light of Wilson v. Sellers, 138 S. Ct. 1188 (… |
| 18-7149 |
Mary Danielak v. Shawn Brewer, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 circuit-split due-process federal-court federal-court-review habeas-review habeas-review-28-usc-2254-d-1 sixth-circuit state-court-opinion statutory-interpretation summary-reversal supreme-court-precedent wilson-v-sellers |
In Wilson v. Sellers, 138 S. Ct. 1188 (2018), this Court explicitly stated that a federal court on habeas review must look to the actual reasoning of … |
| 18-7082 |
Juan Bautista Rosas Cuellar v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure collateral-estoppel criminal-defendant due-process intervening-change-in-law intervening-law-change issue-preclusion legal-doctrine offensive-preclusion summary-reversal |
I. May collateral estoppel ever be applied offensively against a criminal defendant, to bar him from relitigating an issue resolved in a previous case… |
| 18-6374 |
William Carl Welsh v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-19 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-4248 actual-innocence civil-commitment federal-prison jurisdiction jurisdictional jurisdictional-requirement rule-60(b)(5) rule-60b5 section-4248 summary-reversal |
Whether a district court may deny relief from a civil-commitment judgment under 18 U.S.C. § 4248 and keep a person in federal prison indefinitely when… |