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25-6704 Horacio Baca-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-02-03 Pending IFP case-precedent criminal-law judicial-review legal-standard statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Should Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), be overruled?
25-6703 Pedro Cesar Villalobos-Espinoza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-02-03 Pending Response WaivedIFP case-law-review constitutional-law judicial-interpretation legal-precedent statutory-analysis supreme-court-precedent Should Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), be overruled?
25A763 Peter Szanto v. Evye Geller Szanto, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-31 Application appellate-review certiorari-extension judicial-bias judicial-recusal liteky-standard supreme-court-precedent Question not identified.
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…
25-6462 Jamaur Lewis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-31 Pending Response WaivedIFP crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether, in light of United States v. Taylor, 142 S. Ct. 2015 (2022), and United States v. Jackson, 36 F.4th 1294 (11th Cir. 2022), Hobbs Act robbery …
25-6459 Oscar Dillon, III v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-12-31 Pending Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-law federal-criminal-procedure statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent In Fischer, 144 S. Ct. at 2185, this Supreme Court focused on what conduct was prohibited by the "otherwise" clause in 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2) and emph…
25-6397 Mark Dyer v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-12-18 Pending Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof conspiracy criminal-intent drug-distribution statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether a conspiracy conviction under 21 U.S.C. § 846 predicated on the § 841 unlawful distribution offense requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt t…
25-649 Tamim Shansab v. Nasir Shansab, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-12-04 Denied Response Waived continuing-violations-doctrine due-process evidence-tampering rule-12b6 statute-of-limitations supreme-court-precedent 1. On October 16, 2025, the United States Department of Justice disclosed its indictment of previous National Security Advisor (N-SA) to President Don…
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 1. THE FIFTH CIRCUIT AND THE U.S.D.C'S DECISION THAT A MANDATORY REQUIRED PIECE OF THE REPORTER'S RECORD THAT IS MISSING IS AN ISSUE OF STATE LAW AND …
25-6128 In Re Joseph Cammarata 2025-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review due-process judicial-process mandamus subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether a United States Court of Appeals violates the Due Process Clause and the All Writs Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1651(a), by refusing for over eight mo…
25-6105 Brittany Lyn Isaacson v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-11-13 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge facial-as-applied-challenge firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, both facially and as applied to Ms. Isaacson, in light of New York State…
25-6087 Leroy Thomas Joyner, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review due-process evidence-transcription judicial-proceedings summary-affirmance supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether a Federal Court may grant summary affirmance of an appeal taken from the district court order denying transcription of audio and video reco…
25-562 Mahfooz Ahmad v. Colin Day, et al. Second Circuit 2025-11-10 Rehearing Relisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction case-finality civil-procedure direct-review retroactivity supreme-court-precedent Whether a civil case dismissed without prejudice, in which appellate review was prematurely terminated and certiorari previously denied, remains "pend…
25-5987 Francisco Javier Ochoa-Anaya v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion actual-innocence ineffective-assistance procedural-default sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent QUESTON NUMBER ONE; Whether the district court and the Ninth Circuit abused its discretion by holding that Ground One, actual-innocence claim as to hi…
25-426 Karu Gene White v. Laura Plappert, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-10-08 Denied constitutional-review federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-court-review supreme-court-precedent In connection with petitioner's capital sentencing proceeding, trial counsel failed to investigate and present voluminous, powerful mitigation evidenc…
25-325 Robert L. Fooks v. Maryland Maryland 2025-09-18 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession maryland-law second-amendment supreme-court-precedent 1. Does Maryland Code, Public Safety Article, § 5-133(b)(2), which provides that "a person may not possess a firearm if the person has been convicted …
25A299 Curtis Solomon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-16 Presumed Complete categorical-approach crime-of-violence hobbs-act section-924(c) sentencing-enhancement supreme-court-precedent Question not identified.
25-5531 In Re Omar Rashad Pouncy 2025-09-03 Denied IFP habeas-corpus mandamus panel-rehearing sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent writ-of-certiorari 1. Should a writ of mandamus issue directing the Sixth Circuit to fulfill its obligation® as observed in Missouri v. Jenkins, 495 U.S. 33, 46 n. 14 (1…
25-5505 Valeria Taveras, et vir v. U.S. Bank National Association as Legal Title Trustee for Truman 2016 SC6 Title Trust Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-28 Denied IFP civil-rights federal-jurisdiction first-amendment judicial-procedure removal-statute supreme-court-precedent 1) Whether satisfying the second prong of Georgia v. Rachel, 384 U.S. 780 (1966), for removal under 28 U.S.C. § 1443(1) requires a formal state statut…
25-199 Daniel Concepcion, et al. v. Office of the Commissioner of Baseball, dba MLB, et al. First Circuit 2025-08-19 Denied Amici (2)Response WaivedRelisted (2) antitrust-exemption baseball-litigation constitutional-challenge equal-protection sherman-act supreme-court-precedent 1. WHETHER THIS COURT'S DECISION IN FEDERAL BASEBALL CLUB OF BALTIMORE V. NATIONAL LEAGUE OF PROFESSIONAL BASE BALL CLUBS, 259 U.S. 200 (1922) AND ITS…
25A193 Richard E. Warner, as Co-Personal Representatives of the Estate of Joseph Ardolino, II, et al. v. City of Marathon, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-18 Presumed Complete fifth-amendment property-rights ripeness-doctrine supreme-court-precedent takings-clause williamson-county Question not identified.
25-5379 Kayle Barrington Bates v. Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-17 Denied Amici (2)IFP discrimination-standard habeas-corpus motion-to-dismiss section-1983-challenge statistical-evidence supreme-court-precedent Whether the standard of proof ("virtually 100 percent") imposed by the Court of Appeals for statistical evidence of discrimination and arbitrariness c…
25-5341 Kenneth Jeremy Laird v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing sentencing-discretion supreme-court-precedent In 1994, an Arizona judge sentenced Mr. Laird to death for a murder conviction and a total of 129 years in prison for 13 other nonhomicide crimes. Mr.…
25-5331 Maurice Farris v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-08-12 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction gun-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether Mr. Farris's conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol A…
25A153 Jorge Enrique Barragan-Gutierrez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-08-06 Presumed Complete bruen drug-trafficking rahimi second-amendment supreme-court-precedent weapon-possession Question not identified.
25-5151 J. Ines Ruiz-Rivera v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP confession-admissibility criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error ninth-circuit supreme-court-precedent Whether courts should follow the direction of Fulminante and use "extreme caution" before finding the admission of a confession is harmless error.
25-5148 Jose Antonio Cossio, Jr. v. Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP air-force-court article-iii due-process mandamus supreme-court-precedent van-buren-decision WHETHER MANDAMUS SHOULD ISSUE AGAINST THE AIR FORCE WHEN ITS COURT DISREGARDED THE SUPREME COURT'S DECISION IN VAN BUREN 593 U.S. 374 (2021) IN VIOLAT…
25-5124 Jacob Graves v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether Mr. Graves' conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol As…
25-42 Adolfo Sandor Montero v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Fifth Circuit 2025-07-14 Denied Response Waived certiorari constitutional-enforcement constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-review supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether this Court still faithfully upholds the core values enshrined in the Constitution, or whether constitutional enforcement has been reduced t…
25-5009 Joshua Willis v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-07-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7)IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, both facially and as applied to Mr. Willis, in light of New York State R…
25A4 Karu Gene White v. Laura Plappert, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-07-01 Presumed Complete certiorari-standard federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-court-deference supreme-court-precedent Question not identified.
24-7479 Johnnie Franklin Wills v. Michael Reger, Superintendent, Northern Correctional Facility Fourth Circuit 2025-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process recidivist-statute residual-clause supreme-court-precedent Is a judicially crafted residual clause, which allows a life sentence to be imposed via a state recidivist statute only when certain underlying crime…
24-7449 Marco Antonio Casillas v. Janan Cavagnolo, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit's practice of adjudicating the ultimate merits of a habeas petition at the COA stage, often on prejudice grounds, violate…
24-1265 Glenn E. Diaz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-06-12 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure cross-examination judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent witness-bias 1. Whether a district court can completely bar defense counsel from cross-examining a key government witness on an issue probative of bias and motive.…
24-7400 Brandon Lee Mayfield v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-06-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6)IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction federal-firearms-law second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether Mr. Mayfield's conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol…
24-7346 Seaga Edward Gillard v. North Carolina North Carolina 2025-06-03 Denied IFP capital-punishment criminal-sentencing death-penalty felony-murder jury-instructions supreme-court-precedent Whether the Supreme Court of North Carolina violated this Court's precedent when it held that a jury instruction requiring a finding of culpability un…
24-7306 William Thomas Hill v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-05-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP counsel-failure district-court evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance motion-to-suppress supreme-court-precedent Whether the district court abused its discretion by Summarily Denying Ground One as to his claim of ineffective assistance of counsel claim, thus, fai…
24-7268 Oscar Olalde-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law-review constitutional-law judicial-interpretation statutory-analysis supreme-court-precedent Should Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), be overruled?
24-1174 Chelsea A. Hamilton v. David Steiner, Postmaster General Fifth Circuit 2025-05-15 Denied Response Waived causation civil-rights employment-discrimination retaliation supreme-court-precedent title-vi I. Did the Fifth Circuit err in affirming the dismissal of Hamilton's Title VI retaliation claim by improperly requiring proof of causation inconsiste…
24-7178 Douglas Turner v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process incarceration-setting interrogation-context miranda-warnings supreme-court-precedent After "Howes v. Fields," are Courts to treat interrogation of an incarcerated person as fundamentally equivalent to (or less serious) than interrogati…
24-1139 Joe Patrick Flarity v. Washington Washington 2025-05-06 Denied Response Waived administrative-action constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias state-court-review supreme-court-precedent 1. CONTEMPT FOR THE U.S. SUPREME COURT. Here are the "two forearms" on the scale described in Axon Enterprise v. FTC, No. 21-86. Washington State cour…
24-1124 Christopher Thomas v. Tracy Pachote Ninth Circuit 2025-05-01 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) fourth-amendment officer-assistance qualified-immunity split-second-decision supreme-court-precedent use-of-force This petition poses important, but unresolved, questions of federal law regarding whether the Fourth Amendment permits an officer to use force based o…
24-1122 Robin Root v. Jeremy Howard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-04-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split fifth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus miranda-warning supreme-court-precedent Under Missouri v. Seibert, 542 US 600 (2004), a mid-stream Miranda warning may not be effective. This was a plurality opinion and the Circuits are spl…
24-7071 Raul Palacios-De Paz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-04-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-overruling criminal-law judicial-review legal-precedent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
24-7053 Valente Brito, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari-petition fifth-circuit firearms-conviction plain-error-review second-amendment supreme-court-precedent Did the Fifth Circuit err in denying petitioner's argument that his federal firearms-related conviction violated the Second Amendment under plain erro…
24-7040 Neville McGarity v. Dan Sproul, Warden Seventh Circuit 2025-04-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence aedpa habeas-corpus legal-innocence statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent 1. Does Jones v Hendrix , 599 U.S. 465 (2023), a recent Supreme Court holding which only addresses "[] a prisoner asserting an intervening change in…
24-6981 Luis Alfredo Felix-Vargas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-overruling criminal-law judicial-review legal-precedent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
24-1061 Project Veritas, et al. v. Nathan Vasquez, in His Official Capacity as Multnomah County District Attorney, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-04-09 Denied Amici (10)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) content-neutrality first-amendment intermediate-scrutiny newsgathering speech-restriction supreme-court-precedent Did the Ninth Circuit err by holding that Oregon's prohibition of unannounced recordings—which expressly exempts recordings of police activity and dis…
24-6805 Anita Hollins v. Erin Maldonado, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-03-19 Denied IFP constitutional-review criminal-procedure habeas-corpus inconsistent-verdicts sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent Whether Dunn v. United States, 284 U.S. 390 (1932), overturned by United States v. Powell, 469 U.S. 57 (1984), and United States v. Powell, self-restr…
24-959 Richard Gerald Jordan v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-03-06 Denied Relisted (2) ake-standard due-process habeas-corpus mental-health-expert sentencing-mitigation supreme-court-precedent In Ake v. Oklahoma, 470 U.S. 68 (1985), this Court clearly established that the State must provide indigent criminal defendants whose mental condition…
24-6693 Sean Wayne Thompson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-03-04 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation criminal-law fifth-circuit firearms-conviction second-amendment supreme-court-precedent Did the Fifth Circuit err in denying petitioner's argument that his federal firearms-related conviction violated the Second Amendment, even after rece…
24-6594 Jermaine Alexander Foster v. Florida Florida 2025-02-19 Denied IFP atkins-standard death-penalty intellectual-disability procedural-hurdles retroactivity supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether the categorical restriction against executing the intellectually disabled can be circumvented via procedural hurdles implemented after liti…
24-6585 Patrick Jones v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-02-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography constitutional-law first-amendment mens-rea statutory-construction supreme-court-precedent Whether the child pornography offense set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) requires the government to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant h…
24-6571 Roel Ivan Sanchez-Sosa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law judicial-interpretation legal-standard procedural-review supreme-court-precedent I. Should Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), be overruled? II. Should this Court grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, a…
24-6507 Deonta Lowe v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation felon-rights heller-precedent law-abiding-citizens second-amendment supreme-court-precedent Do convicted felons have Second Amendment rights, in light of this Court's interpretation of "the people" in District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. …
24-6490 Jose Omero Carrizal-Osornia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law-review constitutional-law judicial-interpretation legal-standard statutory-analysis supreme-court-precedent Should Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), be overruled?
24-6477 Wilmer Yonathan Doblado-Padilla v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law-review constitutional-law judicial-interpretation legal-precedent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Should Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), be overruled?
24-831 Eddie Lee Evans v. James Hill, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-02-05 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment murder-charge supreme-court-precedent Did a 17 year unjustified delay in filing a murder charge violate petitioner's due process rights under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments andthe cle…
24-6404 Degny Oshmarlin Molina Villatoro v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law-review constitutional-law judicial-interpretation legal-precedent statutory-construction supreme-court-precedent Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) should be overruled.
24-6372 Isidro Romero-Corona v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process miranda-custody supreme-court-precedent In Howes v. Fields, 565 U.S. 499 (2012), the Court established a two-step test for determining whether a suspect is "in custody" for purposes of Miran…
24-6378 Von Clark Davis v. Bill Cool, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-01-23 Denied IFP appellate-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-waiver rule-28j supreme-court-precedent I. a. When a party brings to the attention of the court of appeals, via a notice filed pursuant to Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 28(j), a new d…
24-6334 John Fredenburgh v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law judicial-deference judicial-independence sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Does judicial deference to the Sentencing Commission's Commentary to the United States Sentencing Guidelines violate the principles of judicial indepe…
24-770 Darrell Eugene Clark, et al. v. City of Alexandria, Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-01-17 Denied Response Waived employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent title-vii workplace-harassment Whether a hostile work environment claim under 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2(a)(1) requires proof that harassment was "severe or pervasive" —a standard not foun…
24A708 Donald J. Englert, II v. Reginald Bishop, Superintendent, Five Points Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2025-01-17 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge evidentiary-hearing federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance supreme-court-precedent Question not identified.
24-6304 Rafael Paredes-Hinojosa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law-review constitutional-law judicial-interpretation precedent-analysis statutory-construction supreme-court-precedent Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) should be overruled.
24-6306 Willems Calixte, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal criminal-history judicial-fact-finding sentencing-enhancement shepard-documents supreme-court-precedent In light of Erlinger v. United States, 144 S.Ct 1840 (2024), was Petitioner Calixte properly sentenced as an armed career criminal where the district …
24-6239 Charles Randy Bowlds, Jr. v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-01-08 Denied IFP appellate-review counsel-waiver criminal-procedure due-process supreme-court-precedent tenth-circuit Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals approached this matter of first impression, re-appointment of counsel after a valid waiver of counsel, …
24-6249 Taiming Zhang v. Andrew Joseph Bonomolo Fourth Circuit 2025-01-08 Denied IFP constitutional-subversion due-process federal-circuit-rules judicial-procedure magistrate-judge-authority supreme-court-precedent a) (w/o parties ' consent) Per 28 U.S. Code § 636, the Master or Magistrate Judge must not as a practical matter dispose of a claim, defense, or moti…
24-6209 Edvin Santiagomazariegos v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent WHETHER TRIAL COUNSEL'S PERFORMANCE DEPRIVED PETITIONER OF HIS SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL AS MADE APPLICABLE BY THE FO…
24-6188 John Earl Broomfield, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 911-call anonymous-tip fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion supreme-court-precedent Whether the 911 callers in this matter were "anonymous" callers, and, if so, was the opinion in this matter then in conflict with Florida v. J.L., 529…
24-6180 Carl Hubbard v. Jeff Tanner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence circuit-court gateway-claim habeas-corpus judicial-review supreme-court-precedent 1. DID THE MAJORITY BELOW ERROR IN NOT APPLYING THIS COURT'S DECISION IN SCHULP V. DELO, TO HOLD THAT PETITIONER COMPELLING NEW EVIDENCE, THAT PRESENT…
24-6138 Andre Terial Love v. J. M. Robertson Ninth Circuit 2024-12-13 Denied IFP constitutional-provisions due-process federal-review procedural-default state-court supreme-court-precedent IS THE STATE COURT'S FINDING THAT CLAIMS ONE AND TWO ARE PROCEDURALLY DEFAULTED ADEQUATE TO BAR FEDERAL REVIEW OF THOSE CLAIMS? DOES THE STATE COURT'…
24-6118 Ezekiel Isiah Delgado v. Neil McDowell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-12-12 Denied IFP confession-admissibility criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process miranda-rights supreme-court-precedent Delgado was convicted of two counts of first degree murder. In a published decision, the California Court of Appeal held that detectives violated then…
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…
24-596 Aircraft Service International, Inc., et al. v. Danny Lopez Ninth Circuit 2024-12-03 Denied Response Waived employment-contract federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent transportation-workers The Federal Arbitration Act ("FAA") does not apply to "contracts of employment of seamen, railroad employees, or any other class of workers engaged in…
24A509 Willems Calixte, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-25 Presumed Complete circuit-split criminal-statute gun-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Question not identified.
24A479 Von Clark Davis v. Charlotte Jenkins, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-11-13 Presumed Complete constitutional-claims death-penalty habeas-corpus resentencing sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent Question not identified.
24-5894 Robert S. Pierce v. Jim Salmonsen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-procedure rule-10c supreme-court-precedent This case presents an Important Nationwide issue concerning whether State and Federal Courts can operate by void judgement and no authority in to main…
24-492 Marino Scafidi v. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-31 Denied Response Waived civil-rights material-fact nonmovant-evidence probable-cause summary-judgment supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision, clearly ignoring the nonmovant's (petitioner-plaintiff's) theories of prosecution and factual evidence set fo…
24-427 Ronald Hittle v. City of Stockton, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-16 Denied Amici (10)Relisted (5) burden-shifting causation employment-discrimination motivating-factor supreme-court-precedent title-vii 1. Whether this Court should overrule McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green, 411 U.S. 792 (1973). 2. Whether step three of the McDonnell Douglas burden-sh…
24-408 Raging Capital Management, LLC, et al. v. Brad Packer, Derivatively on Behalf of 1-800-Flowers.com, Inc. Second Circuit 2024-10-11 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived article-iii fiduciary-duty securities-exchange-act standing-doctrine statutory-violation supreme-court-precedent 1. Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit apply the correct standard of law, under Article III of the United States Constitutio…
24A331 Patricia A. Allen v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury District of Columbia 2024-10-07 Presumed Complete discriminatory-animus job-assignment jury-instructions material-adversity supreme-court-precedent title-vii 1. Whether Allen retains a constitutional right, under the 5th amendment to the Bill of Rights, to due process and equal protection of the law, to jur…
24-5707 Gary E. Peel v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence circuit-court-review due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-conviction supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, in violation of Supreme Court precedents 1 erred by affirming federal convictions for non-criminal co…
24-5557 Michael Avenatti v. United States Second Circuit 2024-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-liability criminal-statute identity-theft statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent In Dubin v. United States, 599 U.S. 110, 114 (2023), the Court narrowed the scope of the aggravated identity theft statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1028A(a)(1), a…
24-5488 Brandon Lee Mayfield v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-09-09 GVR IFP criminal-conviction gun-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tenth-circuit Whether Mr. Mayfield's conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol…
24-197 Rose Izzo v. AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc., et al. Delaware 2024-08-22 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 14th-amendment Can the Third Circuit disobey the Supreme Court's class-action disability-rights due-process educational-placement individuals-with-disabilities-education-act opt-out 24-196" opt-out-rights settlement stay-put-provision stockholder-rights supreme-court-precedent third-circuit-ruling Does the due process clause of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution require courts to give objecting stockholders the right to opt-out in a monetary…
24-196 Jenn-Ching Luo v. Owen J. Roberts School District, et al. Third Circuit 2024-08-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) disability-rights educational-placement individuals-with-disabilities-education-act stay-put-provision supreme-court-precedent third-circuit-ruling Can the Third Circuit disobey the Supreme Court's holding to rule that age 21 is a condition to end stay-put protection?
24-168 Usha Jain, et vir v. Donald Myers, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-16 Denied due-process federal-removal jurisdictional-transfer remand-order statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether an endorsed remand order on a new subsequent federal removal case with new ground filed under 28 U.S.C. § 1443, without issuance of a certifie…
24-5305 In Re Babubhai Patel 2024-08-13 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion district-court-jurisdiction habeas-corpus second-in-time-motion statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether the Sixth Circuit abused its discretion by holding that Mr. Patel's properly filed Second-in-Time 2255 Motion in which relied upon U.S. Suprem…
24-5221 Arthur Lee Burton v. Texas Texas 2024-08-04 Denied IFP atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment death-penalty diagnostic-criteria hall-v-florida intellectual-disability moore-v-texas-i moore-v-texas-ii procedural-review supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ("TCCA")—in refusing to authorize plenary review of Mr. Burton's unrebutted prima facie case that his i…
24-5128 Selvyn Gustavo Mejia-Marroquin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation legal-precedent recidivism sentencing statutory-analysis supreme-court-precedent Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) should be overruled.
24-57 Coalition Life v. City of Carbondale, Illinois Seventh Circuit 2024-07-18 Denied Amici (11)Relisted (9) abortion abortion-rights civil-rights constitutional-law due-process first-amendment free-speech public-debate public-forum supreme-court-precedent Whether this Court should overrule Hill v. Colorado.
24-51 Randall Bock v. Candace Lapidus Sloane, et al. First Circuit 2024-07-17 Denied judicial-immunity licensing-board market-participants professional-licensing quasi-judicial-immunity sherman-act sovereign-immunity state-action-doctrine state-action-immunity supreme-court-precedent This petition concerns the studied, repeated defiance over the past nine years by the United States Court of Appeals for First Circuit of this Court's…
24-5053 Patrick Keith Hirt v. Amber Sundquist, Superintendent, Deer Ridge Correctional Institution Oregon 2024-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts bounds-v-smith constitutional-provisions habeas-corpus lewis-v-casey prison-officials prisoners-rights procedural-default supreme-court-precedent Did the State of Oregon violate this Court's holdings in Bounds v. Smith, 430 U.S. 817 and Lewis v. Casey, 518 U.S. 343, when prison officials impeded…
24-5043 Cortlin Reese v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment bruen constitutional-law criminal-statutes due-process federal-statute firearms gun-rights second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)( 9) and (n) violate the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen , 597 U.S. 1 (2022)…
24-5012 Miguel Angel Ibarra-Mora v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit precedent-overturning sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-7839 Martin William Luther Hamilton v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-analysis criminal-law deference-to-state-courts legal-interpretation state-crime state-criminal-law supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-taylor violent-crime Where a state's highest court endorses two versions of the elements of a state crime and neither version has been overruled or abrogated, whether a co…
23-7759 Israel Santiago-Lugo v. United States First Circuit 2024-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-reasoning procedural-error reasoned-decision-making supreme-court-precedent (1) May the District Court and Court of Appeals ignore the Supreme Court's decision in Concepcion v. U.S S.Ct 2389, 213 L.Ed.2d 731 (2022) ? (2) May …
23-7691 Robert A. Espinoza v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c 924c-offense attempt-offense attempt-offenses crime-of-violence criminal-law predicate-crimes statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent taylor-decision taylor-v-united-states Illinois' Attempt offenses have two elements: an intent to commit a specific offense and a substantial step towards commission of the offense. Neither…
23-7679 Thaddeus Rhodes v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924(c) circuit-split crime-of-violence hobbs-act jury-instructions property-rights realistic-probability-test statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-taylor The circuits uniformly hold that Hobbs Act robbery is categorically a crime of violence and therefore can support a related conviction under 18 US.C. …
23-7642 John A. Beatty v. Jay Forshey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standards precedent precedent-validity standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent 1. Is McCarthy V United States, 394 U.S. 459(1969); Ex Parte Milligan, 71 U.S. 2(1866); Greenholtz V Nebraska Penal Inmates, 442 U.S. 1 (1979); Oregon…
23-7599 Jorge Ortiz-Juarez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law certiorari-petition constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure overruling precedent-overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-7473 Cody Ray Leveke, aka Cody Meyer, aka Cody Ray Meyers v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-intent criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech jury-instructions subjective-intent supreme-court supreme-court-precedent threat-standard Whether jury instructions based on Elonis v. United States (2015) sufficiently encompass the requirement of "subjective intent to threaten," as articu…
23-7374 David Allen v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation original-meaning sixth-amendment sixth-circuit speedy-trial statutory-interpretation substantial-effects-test supreme-court-precedent I. Whether the broad rule adopted by the Sixth Circuit, that the Commerce Clause gives congress the power to regulate all conduct incidentally using a…
23-7364 Jorge Galindo v. Nebraska Nebraska 2024-05-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP capital-punishment death-penalty eddings-v-oklahoma ineffective-assistance lockett-v-ohio mitigation sentencing-considerations supreme-court-precedent tennard-v-dretke youth youth-mitigation 1. May a state categorically exclude youth as a mitigating factor in a capital case? 2. Must a state court follow this Court's jurisprudence of Locke…
23-1154 Kurtis M. Bailey, et al. v. Worthington Cylinder Corporation, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-04-23 Denied appeal case-redress civil-procedure civil-rights counsel-disqualification disqualification-of-counsel due-process justice-stevens legal-modification standing supreme-court-precedent Should Richardson-Merrell, Inc. v. Koller, 472 U.S. 424, be modified so that the disqualification of counsel does not result in a catastrophic violati…
23-7106 Gemar Morgan v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-history guideline-commentary sentence-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stinson-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-havis Do the United States Sentencing Commission application note 4B1.4 cmt.n,(1) that states: "nor are the time periods for the counting of prior sentences…
23-7099 Keatron Walls v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law due-process eighth-amendment mental-health sentencing sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent variance-argument 1.) Whether the Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that 18 U.S.C. § 2261A(1) is not an unconstitutional expansion of the Commerce Clause in lig…
23-6954 Charles B. Thomas v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review case-law circuit-court-conflict criminal-procedure double-jeopardy judicial-interpretation sentencing statutory-analysis supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-blackwell united-states-v-phipps witte-v-united-states WHETHER THE 7TH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS DECISION IN THE CASE AT BAR IS IN CONFLICT WITH THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT'S DECISION IN WITTE V. UNITED…
23-944 Jeremy W. Langley, et al. v. Brendan F. Kelly, in His Official Capacity as Director of the Illinois State Police, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-02-29 Denied Relisted (7) 2nd-amendment civil-rights common-use constitutional-ban due-process firearm-regulation gun-rights heller-v-dc new-york-state-rifle-pistol-association-v-bruen second-amendment semi-automatic-weapons supreme-court-precedent 1. Is the State of Illinois ' absolute ban of certain commonly owned semi-automatic handguns constitutional in light of the holding in D.C. v. Heller…
23-6817 Israel Santiago-Lugo v. United States First Circuit 2024-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-rules-criminal-procedure first-circuit judicial-quorum nguyen-v-us notice-of-appeal standing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent 1) Whether the First Circuit's Judgment perform as a valid decision by a quorum according the Supreme Court's decisions in NGuyen v. U.S. , 539 U.S. 6…
23-6803 Eduardo Garcia Briseno v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres constitutional-interpretation criminal-law historical-record notice notice-clause prior-conviction-exception sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-text supreme-court-precedent Whether, in light of the historical record, Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), should be overruled?
23A764 Richard Rose, et al. v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-21 Presumed Complete certiorari eleventh-circuit mandate redistricting supreme-court-precedent voting-rights Question not identified.
23-886 Carlos Guardado v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2024-02-16 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) burks-v-united-states change-in-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy evidence legal-sufficiency prosecution-evidence second-trial supreme-court-precedent trial-rights In Burks v. United States, 437 U.S. 1, 11 (1978), this Court held that when the evidence the prosecution introduced at a criminal trial is legally ins…
23-6752 Patrick W. Wharen, Sr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims eleventh-circuit federal-law jurisdictional-prerequisites miller-v-cockrell slack-v-mcdaniel supreme-court-precedent WHETHER ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS MISAPPLIED FEDERAL LAW WHEN DECIDING MERITS OF FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONAL CLAIMS WITHOUT GRANTING CERTIFICATE OF…
23-879 Caleb Barnett, et al. v. Kwame Raoul, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-02-14 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (7) 2nd-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process firearms firearms-ban gun-rights second-amendment standing supreme-court-precedent Whether Illinois' sweeping ban on common and long-lawful arms violates the Second Amendment.
23A734 Dalibor Kabov and Berry Kabov v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-02-07 Presumed Complete brady-challenge controlled-substances drug-distribution ninth-circuit ruan-standard supreme-court-precedent Question not identified.
23-6656 Robert Kevin Boddie v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-02-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924(c) categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-taylor Whether Hobbs Act robbery, as proscribed by 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a), categorically qualifies as a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), in light of …
23-6661 Justin Granier v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2024-02-02 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP 28-usc-2254(d) circuit-court-split circuit-split due-process federal-review habeas-corpus implied-bias judicial-bias statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal has created a split in the Circuit Courts on this issue of implied bias. 2. Whether the Un…
23-6650 Pablo Guzman v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-01 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-prejudice federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus jury-instruction lockhart-precedent lockhart-v-fretwell prejudice state-court-decision supreme-court-precedent Does Lockhart v. Fretwell, 506 U.S. 364, 113 S. Ct. 838, 122 L. Ed. 2d 180 (1993), prevent federal habeas corpus relief regardless of substantive prej…
23-6612 Cornelius R. Caple v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP borden-precedent career-offender case-law criminal-law due-process jackson-case sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent Whether the Lower Court's erred in declaring the Petitioner a career offender in violation of Borden -v- United States, 141 S. Ct. 1817 (2021); Jackso…
23-805 Christopher Paul George v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-01-25 Denied Response Waived buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-v-cockrell ninth-circuit supreme-court-precedent Did the Ninth Circuit ignore the process re-emphasized by this Court in Buck v. Davis and MillerEl, by refusing to issue Cristopher P. George a COA, t…
23-6531 Terrance Brown v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP borden-v-united-states career-offender crime-of-violence criminal-conviction criminal-sentencing district-court judicial-review mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent 00hcVVvLC iht ddrtricrt coox-v trct6 vo $\o&[no^ -vViod Brouon \S a cac^r o-^ockr vxadxr U-S.S.G MfeU aad M5LZ, AoWerc OAt, Brouon ^ pccdxodc coavxc-…
23-6486 Schuyler Algernon Smith v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation criminal-sentencing federal-courts judicial-deference kisor-standard kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent Whether the standard for triggering judicial deference to an agency's interpretation of its own regulations, as clarified in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. C…
23-769 Lyft, Inc. v. Million Seifu California 2024-01-17 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (2) arbitration-agreement dismissal federal-arbitration-act individual-claims non-individual-claims paga-claims private-attorneys-general-act state-law-employment-claims state-law-preemption supreme-court-precedent This case involves the preemptive effect of the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) on state-law employment claims brought under California's Private Attorn…
23-6421 Remberto Rivera v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-guidance circuit-split deference judicial-deference sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stinson-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent Whether this Court's decision in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. Ct. 2400 (2019), now prescribes the amount of deference to be paid to the United States Sente…
23-723 Joseph Randolph Mays v. T. B. Smith, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-01-04 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (3) bivens bivens-claim civil-rights damages-suit due-process employment employment-discrimination federal-prisoner race-discrimination racial-discrimination supreme-court-precedent In Davis v. Passman, 442 U.S. 228 (1979) and Carlson v. Green, 446 U.S. 14 (1980), this Court made clear that claims for gender discrimination and cla…
23-6357 Dalton Laquane Smith v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP compassionate-release criminal-justice due-process federal-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion motion-for-relief sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether the denial of the Petitioner's 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A) Motion is contrary to this Court's ruling in CONCEPCION? see infra.
23-6375 Mark E. Sells v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-court-precedent constitutional-rights dismissal-of-appeal due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure plea-agreement supreme-court-precedent tenth-circuit-court united-states-supreme-court-law Question #1: Did the United States Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, violate Sells' Right to 'Due Process' and 'access to a Court of Law' guaranteed by …
23-6333 Nora Gilda Guevara Triana v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit evidence-rule fair-trial rule-of-completeness special-verdict standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent u.s.-v.-griffin 1. Whether the Eighth Circuit Court's failure to follow this Court's precedence in U.S. v. Griffin, 502 U.S. 46 (1991) and Turner v. U.S., 396 U.S. 39…
23A543 Mischa Shuman, et al. v. New York Magazine, et al. New York 2023-12-13 Presumed Complete defamation first-amendment journalistic-standards libel public-concern supreme-court-precedent Question not identified.
23A504 Fernando Diaz Rodriguez v. United States First Circuit 2023-12-04 Presumed Complete aiding-and-abetting criminal-statute hobbs-act section-924(c) supreme-court-precedent vagueness-doctrine Question not identified.
23-6116 Cynthia Clemons v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substances criminal-procedure jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error ruan-v-united-states sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent On October 17, 2022, this Court vacated the opinion of the Sixth Circuit affirming Petitioner Cynthia Clemons' convictions and remanded for further pr…
23-6057 Juan J. Zuniga-Bruno v. United States First Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy first-circuit issue-preclusion predicate-felonies sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vacatur 1. Whether the Court of Appeals of the First Circuit's affirming opinion in Zuniga-Bruno is case is conflicting with First Circuit precedents United S…
23-6062 Holli Womack v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offenses jury-instructions plain-error ruan-standard sixth-circuit standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent On October 17, 2022, this Court vacated Petitioner Womack's conviction in light of Ruan v. United States, 142 S. Ct. 2370, 213 L. Ed. 2d 706 (2022) an…
23-6041 Luis Alberto Hernandez-Perez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-6043 Dwaun Jabbar Guidry v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure discretionary-review due-process federal-question law-of-the-case supreme-court-precedent Petitioner, DWAUN JABBAR GUIDRY, submits the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals' ("Fifth Circuit") denial of relief was a violation of due process because…
23A430 Ernest Bustos v. Encino Park Homeowners Association, et al. Texas 2023-11-14 Presumed Complete access-to-courts due-process first-amendment fraud-upon-court pro-se supreme-court-precedent Question not identified.
23-495 Lucine Trim v. Reward Zone USA LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-11-09 Denied Amici (1) automatic-telephone-dialing-system circuit-split facebook-v-duguid number-generation random-or-sequential-number-generator statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent telephone-consumer-protection-act Does the plain language of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act's ("TCPA") definition of an Automatic Telephone Dialing System ("ATDS") at 47 U.S.C. …
23-5975 Caesar Mark Capistrano v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-court civil-rights due-process judicial-interpretation jury-instruction mens-rea prosecutorial-discretion reversal statutory-construction supreme-court-precedent 1. Are inferior courts, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in particular, allowed unrestricted and unrestrained freedom to interpret the clear and une…
23-5942 Christopher Rayquaz Singletary v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-11-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-1951(a) 18-usc-924(c) crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-taylor Whether Hobbs Act robbery, as proscribed by 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a), categorically qualifies as a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), in light of …
23-5858 Anthony Schneider v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure guilty-plea jurisdictional-challenge jurisdictional-challenges plea-bargaining supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-goodall united-states-v-taylor A guilty plea that includes an appellate waiver does not bar jurisdictional challenges on appeal. Class v. United States, 138 S. Ct. 798 (2018). The f…
23-405 Kristy Ross v. Federal Trade Commission Fourth Circuit 2023-10-18 Denied arguable-basis article-iii civil-procedure frcp-60(b)(4) jurisdictional-challenge rule-60(b)(4) rule-60(b)(6) subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court-precedent void 1. Whether a judgment lacking in subject matter jurisdiction under Article III of the U.S. Constitution is "void" under Federal Rule of Civil Procedur…
23-5825 Robert Robinson v. Savvy Ventures, LLC, c/o Gregory Real Estate, Inc., dba Gregory Property Management Fifth Circuit 2023-10-17 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitution constitutional-rebellion due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment government-officials standing supreme-court-precedent No. 1: Does the third section of Amendment XIV guarantee citizens of the United States freedom from government officials who rebel against the Constit…
23-5788 Roberto Buendia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review davis fifth-circuit intra-circuit-conflict molina-martinez plain-error plain-error-review rosales-mireles sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent Whether the standard the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals applied for determining if the sentencing Guidelines' error in Buendia's case was "plain" conf…
23-377 Chris Dutra, et al. v. Kim Jackson Ninth Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied circuit-court-precedent clearly-established-law excessive-force fourth-amendment ninth-circuit police-conduct qualified-immunity supreme-court-precedent The meaning of "clearly established" for qualified immunity purposes is not, itself, clearly established. There is a split among this Court's preceden…
23-5749 Mark Anthony Thompson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus selective-adjudication selective-prosecution standard-of-review statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent I. DOES THIS SUPREME COURT FINDS THE FIFTH CIRCUIT 'S SELECTIVE ADJUDICATION AND UNDERMINING THE LAW OF THIS COURT ACCEPTABLE WHEN IT AFFIRMED THE D…
23-304 Thomas Neilsen v. John Kellner, in His Official Capacity as District Attorney, et al. Colorado 2023-09-26 Denied Response Waived black-letter-law brady-rule civil-rights declaratory-relief due-process heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey mooney-v-holohan prosecutorial-misconduct section-1983 supreme-court-precedent In this case, Prosecutors for the 18th Judicial District in Colorado, acting as advocates for the State of Colorado convicted an innocent man by withh…
23-310 Cory Ratzloff v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-09-26 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation guidelines-commentary judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines stinson-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent united-states-sentencing-commission Whether the administrative law principles articulated in Kisor limit the deference owed to the United States Sentencing Commission's commentary on the…
23-269 Charles Juntikka v. Cadell & Chapman, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-20 Denied Response Waived arbitration-agreement arbitrator-decision civil-procedure contract-interpretation due-process equity-doctrine federal-arbitration-act serious-error stolt-nielsen-v-animal-feeds supreme-court-precedent 1. Does the Eastern Associated Coal Corp. v. United Mine Workers , 531 U.S. 57, 62 (2000) holding that an arbitrator's "serious error does not suffice…
23-5497 Malik Woods v. District Attorney of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2023-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus procedural-review standing supreme-court-precedent third-circuit-court 1. Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals run contrary to clearly established Supreme Court precedent in Miller-El v Cockerell, 537 US 322, (US 2003),…
23-5417 Ari Misha Liggett v. Colorado Colorado 2023-08-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-evidence criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule harris-v-new-york impeachment-exception insanity-defense james-v-illinois supreme-court-precedent Whether the Colorado Supreme Court's radical expansion of the narrow impeachment exception this Court adopted in Harris v. New York, 401 U.S. 222 (197…
23-5174 Dionte Houff v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver circuit-split constitutional-statute jurisdiction plea-agreement retroactive-application statutory-and-constitutional-issues supreme-court-precedent waiver-of-appeal Can a plea agreement that contains a waiver of appeal bar a direct appeal of a conviction and/or sentence based on a statute that this Court later rul…
23-5099 Dustin Jolly v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing deportation immigration immigration-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent The Sixth Circuit has declined to apply the Supreme Court's decisions in Lopez v. Gonzales, 549 U.S. 47 (2006), Carachuri-Rosendo v. Holder, 560 U.S. …
23-20 Reza Ahmadi v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-07-06 Denied constitutional-claims exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance johnson-v-williams judicial-proceedings procedural-default rule-60b supreme-court-precedent trevino-v-thaler 1. Does a court contravene Johnson u. Williams, 569 U.S. 289 (2013), evade application of Trevino v. Thaler, 569 U.S. 413 (2013), and depart from the …
22-7875 J Reyes-Carrillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-procedure statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7760 Todji Kijuan Martin v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempt-crime attempt-crimes criminal-interpretation criminal-law force-definition statutory-construction statutory-interpretation substantive-crime supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-taylor use-of-force I. Whether this Court's 2022 opinion in United States v. Taylor , is applicable to all attempt crimes particularly when the crime in question may be c…
22-7745 James William Walker v. Montana Montana 2023-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights contempt-of-court coram-nobis due-process judicial-branch motion-for-relief supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-morgan Did the Judicial Branch of Montana in denying Petitioner the opportunity for relief under Precedent Holding United States v. Morgan, 346 US 502, (19…
22-1172 Dejuan Andre Worthen v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-06-05 Denied Response Waived 18-usc-924(c) aiding-and-abetting attempted-hobbs-act-robbery crime-of-violence elements-clause hobbs-act statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-taylor Whether aiding and abetting a Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence under the elements clause.
22-7707 Kelvun Montrail Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-statute firearms gun-rights new-york-state-rifle-and-pistol-association second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(n) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle and Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022).
22-7653 Jose Carlos Gallegos-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-1103 Edward Bronson v. Securities and Exchange Commission Second Circuit 2023-05-11 Denied Response Waived appellate-review circuit-court-order civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-sanctions due-process injunctive-relief penalties punitive-sanctions standing statutory-penalties supreme-court-precedent Whether the Summary Order of the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit conflicts with decisions of this Court in: Kokesh v. S.E.C., Liu v. S.E.C., a…
22-7509 Gary R. Thompson, Jr. v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-05-10 Denied IFP blockburger-v-united-states constitutional-violation criminal-rights double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment hazel-atlas-glass-co-v-hartford prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-dixon Under a certified question of law; Does (1) the double jeopardy protection contained within the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution, st…
22-7443 Reno v. Ron Broomfield, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-05-02 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights court-of-appeals district-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-review procedural-default supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether the District Court's plain error in finding Claims 37, 86, 93, 100, and 120 were not raised in the first state habeas corpus petition, and …
22-7351 Leonard Scaggs v. A. Ciolli, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-04-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 actual-innocence habeas-corpus jury-instructions rosemond-decision savings-clause section-2241 supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-rosemond Whether this Court's decision in United States v. Rosemond was available to petitioner in a motion filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241 under the "savin…
22-1005 Cornelius L. Emily, et al. v. Christopher Welters Minnesota 2023-04-17 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process law-enforcement law-generality legal-standard precedent qualified-immunity supreme-court-precedent Did the Minnesota Supreme Court depart from this Court's decisions in City of Tahlequah v. Bond, 142 S. Ct. 9 (2021) (per curiam), Rivas-Villegas v. C…
22-7271 Gregg Haden v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-04-13 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review supreme-court-precedent texas-procedure ynoc^dut*. FaII ,'fcj Ut-jDer TU< 4 CRuTny Of Ttl<. Bull Com', -^TAA/ cIario AM) Vio IA Ti'hQ TH< FT/J hmtksOmcnT THAT iS To STATcS THROUGH Ttt& IHm…
22-988 Credit Consulting Services, Inc. v. Maritza Paredes California 2023-04-11 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling fair-debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act federal-law rotkiske-v-klemm statute-of-limitations supreme-court-precedent Whether the California Court of Appeal erred in holding that the California doctrine of "equitable tolling" applied so as to toll the one-year statute…
22-7223 Raymond Charles Lee v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 142-s-ct-2389-2022 case-compliance civil-procedure concepcion-v-united-states due-process judicial-review legal-remand remand standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent WHETHER THIS CASE SHOULD BE REMANDED FOR COMPLIANCE WITH CONCEPCION V UNITED STATES, 142 S.T. 2389 (2022)
22-7224 Trinidad Walter Encarnacion-Pascual v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-05 Denied IFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-precedent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7074 Christopher White v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-procedure standard-of-review supervisory-power supreme-court-precedent Did the Fifth Circuit's denial of a Certificate of Appealability (COA) in this case conflict with Supreme Court precedent, warranting correction by th…
22-7045 John Leendert Oskam v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP actus-reus bank-robbery criminal-law criminal-statute intimidation mens-rea physical-force supreme-court-precedent Under the Court's recent decisions in United States v. Taylor, 142 S. Ct. 2015 (2022), and Borden v. United States, 141 S. Ct. 1817 (2021), does the e…
22-890 Quad Graphics, Inc. v. North Carolina Department of Revenue North Carolina 2023-03-16 Denied Amici (4) commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation due-process interstate-sales judicial-precedent out-of-state-sales precedent state-courts state-taxation supreme-court-precedent In McLeod v. J. E. Dilworth Co., 322 U.S. 327 (1944), this Court held that a state may not tax sales that occur outside its borders, even when the pur…
22-6976 Golda D. Harris v. Credit Acceptance Corporation, et al. Third Circuit 2023-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitration-clause federal-arbitration-act judicial-bias judicial-discrimination prima-paint-corp-v-flood-conklin pro-se-litigation stare-decisis supreme-court-precedent unconscionable-claims zahid-n-quraishi 1. Is the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit allowed to substitute its decision(s) and overrule the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA), 9 U.S.C. …
22-847 Virginia Silva-Navarro v. Roosevelt REO PR Corporation First Circuit 2023-03-07 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction due-process executive-power federal-court-jurisdiction federal-courts foreign-entity-litigation jurisdiction precedent standing supreme-court-precedent tax-collection 1. Are lower courts in the federal system to follow the case law of this Honorable Court? Or, the case law of this Honorable Court is merely persuasiv…
22-6823 Abraham Conde-Herrera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-02-21 Denied IFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure fifth-circuit judicial-precedent recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-6764 Michael Ray Davis v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review lafler-v-cooper overruling padilla-v-kentucky statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether United States v. Granados , 168 F.3d 343 (8th Cir. 1999), Has Been Overruled by Padilla v. Kentucky , 559 U.S. 356 (2010), and Lafler v. Co…
22-6768 Stanley Foster Baker v. Texas Texas 2023-02-13 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights custodial-interrogation due-process equal-protection evidence-presentation judicial-procedure miranda-warnings reasonable-person-standard state-court supreme-court-precedent lA)as »4- £)]?j<d'iVC|^ wrtasbyxflkle } urd{r u*£.C. ■for 4ke, Sbrlt cowrfj 4t> dflncUwU Da -ilt record beJbrt i-H- ik^cf no r6aPN>ib^ PtiLcA 'P^dnf' …
22-6724 In Re Christopher Cobb 2023-02-07 Denied IFP collateral-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus precedent retroactivity supreme-court-precedent 1) Whether Hemphill v New York, 595 US be declared retroactive to cases on collateral review., 142 S.Ct. 681, 211 L Ed. 2d 534 (2022) should
22-6696 Rudy Garcia v. Texas Texas 2023-02-03 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-appeals due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-standards precedent prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-precedent trial-counsel Question 1: Xnlroducbi Q A *.Ike. lex.es Couri of Crlm'tr\a.l disbarrad Prasad^cr,- Ralph Padly s undisclosed Iona! m 'l scon duck RalidP in 4bai Ka…
22-6637 Roberto Francisco-Francisco v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-6596 Laverne C. Henderson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review precedent standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit violated Henderson's rights when it ignored this Courts precedent in Miller-El v. Cockrell, B…
22-6597 Jeremiah S. Farmer v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-conflict civil-rights drug-conspiracy due-process jurisdictional-requirement racketeering sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-authority supreme-court-precedent Whether the district court lacked statutory authority under 15 U.S.C. § 1962(d) for RICO conspiracy to be complete when the agreement is reached, not …
22-634 Richard Estle Carson, III v. Kathryn Hyland, et al. Second Circuit 2023-01-09 Denied Response Waived class-action class-actions common-fund incentive-award incentive-awards representative-plaintiff representative-plaintiffs rule-23 service-award supreme-court-precedent Does Rule 23 abrogate this Court's holdings that payments in common-fund class actions to compensate representative plaintiffs for their personal serv…
22-6446 James Thomas Burke v. Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-01-04 Denied IFP case-dismissal circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-procedure justice-stevens standing statute-of-limitations supreme-court-precedent time-barred #1. Whether Hardin v. Straub , 490 U.S. 536, 109 S.Ct. (1998), 104 L.Ed 2d 582, 57 USLW 4554 is relevant pursuant to United States Supreme Court, Jus…
22-6315 Iklas Richard Davis v. United States Third Circuit 2022-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federalism felon-in-possession rehaif-v-united-states scienter supreme-court-precedent 1. In United States v. Rehaif, _ U.S. ___, 189 S.Ct. 2191 (2019), this Court acknowledged the presumption in favor of scienter — that criminal statute…
22-6220 Martin Robert Moncada-Aguirre v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing supreme-court-precedent Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
22-488 Darrell Hemphill v. New York New York 2022-11-22 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appeal confrontation-clause constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-ruling harmless-error judicial-review out-of-court-statement supreme-court-precedent Whether the improper admission of the out-of-court statement by the alternative suspect in Hemphill v. New York, 142 S. Ct. 681 (2022), was "so unimpo…
22-6125 Carlos Bladimir Rodriguez-Juarez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-477 Lezlie J. Gunn v. Hans-Peter Wild Sixth Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied arise-from civil-procedure foreign-defendant foreign-defendants minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction relate-to sixth-circuit specific-jurisdiction supreme-court-precedent 1. Should the requirement that a plaintiffs cause of action arise from or relate to the defendant's minimum contacts with a state apply to foreign nat…
22-6094 William Milton v. California California 2022-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing descamps-v-united-states due-process mathis-v-united-states prior-conviction-enhancement retroactivity sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent Are the Sixth Amendment holdings of Descamps v. United States, 570 U.S. 254 (2013) and Mathis v. United States, 579 U.S. 500 (2016) fully retroactive,…
22-453 Hyuk Kee Yoo, aka Keith Yoo v. United States Second Circuit 2022-11-15 Denied Response Waived extradition-proceedings extradition-treaty individual-liberty judicial-discretion judiciary-role limitations-provisions statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent treaty-interpretation Article 6 of the United States -South Korea Extradition Trea ty ("Treaty") provides that "[e]xtradition may be denied under this Treaty when the pr…
22-431 Gigi Jordan v. Amy Lamanna, Superintendent, Bedford Hills Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2022-11-08 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) clearly-established federal-law habeas-corpus public-trial-clause sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent unreasonable-application The question presented is whether a federal habeas petitioner seeking relief on the basis of a violation of the Public Trial Clause can demonstrate an…
22-6002 Charles Morgan, Jr. v. United States District of Columbia 2022-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP ambiguity-standard criminal-statute criminal-statutes grievous-ambiguity gundy-v-united-states liberty-deprivation nondelegation nondelegation-doctrine rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether the rule of lenity should apply to all ambiguous criminal statutes or only to those that are "grievously" ambiguous. 2. Whether the full C…
22-5981 Jose Refugio Nieto-Uribe v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation legal-precedent recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) should be overruled.
22-405 Michael Leon Grubb v. Texas Texas 2022-11-01 Denied 5th-amendment confession confessions due-process fifth-amendment interrogation law-enforcement miranda-rights self-incrimination supreme-court-precedent Whether the Supreme Court's 1987 decision in Mauro effectively abdicated its 1980 holding in Innis by creating an analytical escape hatch related to t…
22-5938 Carrington K. Joseph v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2022-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus judicial-standard procedural-review standard-of-review substantial-showing supreme-court-precedent Whether the Court of Appeals decision to deny Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability conflicts with the standard articulated by this Court and its …
22-371 Pennsylvania v. Akim Sharif Jones-Williams Pennsylvania 2022-10-20 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment blood-draw blood-testing exigent-circumstances mitchell-v-wisconsin motor-vehicle-incident probable-cause supreme-court-precedent warrantless-search Did the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issue a decision in conflict with, and fail to properly apply and follow, binding legal precedent from the United S…
22-5785 Robert Alan Fratta v. Texas Texas 2022-10-07 Denied IFP attorney-neglect constitutional-compliance criminal-procedure grand-jury habeas-corpus indictment pro-se state-courts state-procedure supreme-court-precedent 1) IN LIGHT OF THE SHINN v. MARTINEZ RAMIREZ RULING, ARE STATE COURTS NOW REQUIRED TO ACCEPT AND RULE ON THE MERITS OF CLAIMS PRESENTED IN WRITS OF H…
22-5752 Ricardo M. Suggs, Jr. v. Warden, FCI Loretto Third Circuit 2022-10-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-review concurrent-sentence-doctrine due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment supreme-court-precedent 1) Whether the Court of Appeals for Third Circuit incorrectly determined that the concurrent sentence doctrine can be used on a petitioner with solely…
22-5708 David K. Lamb v. Susan Wilson, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-09-28 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP article-iii case-controversy civil-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process judicial-standing jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect ripeness standing supreme-court-precedent LACK OF STANDING IS A JURISDICTIONAL DEFECT OF THE SIXTH CIRCUIT PANEL. LACK OF POWER TO DECREE IS ALSO A JURISDICTIONAL DEFECT. THE PANEL DECISION CO…
22-5627 Justin Tyrone Young v. Texas Texas 2022-09-20 Denied IFP due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum supreme-court-precedent Can ft Lauiyen haue. his Client PieaCuibty -ho OS'years on ft Statutory maximum OP Zo years* ovftt'R TEXAS Lal/. Can ft Court Re Fuse ho Homor ft u …
22-5459 Jose Socorro Gonzalez-Ruiz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation legal-precedent recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) should be overruled.
22-5387 Ulises Ervey Islas-Macias v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-5359 Kareem M. Murray v. Joseph Noeth, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2022-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-procedure federal-review habeas-corpus peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike prosecutorial-discrimination supreme-court-precedent unreasonable-determination-of-facts 1. Whether a state trial court's granting of a prosecutor's challenge to a defendant's use of a peremptory strike, without following the three-step pr…
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 Wheather a state high court can deny a review to a constitutional challenge of its own statute when procedural due process, Kansas Supreme Court prece…
22-5356 Joseph Montrel Bourgeois v. Texas Texas 2022-08-16 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-review double-jeopardy effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default state-court-precedent state-court-review successive-petition supreme-court-precedent Does Slock Burge # vs, united States^py u.s,^ CM33P DPPlt To my Cnss? Dou&is ieoPARoy DOES BzRCWFXELD CSJ CONCuRRETfRuLlNOS reply To roy CASE? Birckf…
22-5259 Elseddig Elmarioud Musa v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel supreme-court-precedent 1. Where a Court of Appeals denies a Petition for Issuance of a Certificate of Appealability ("COA ") in disregard of the rule announced in Buck v Dav…
22-5271 Jose Erbo, aka Tito, aka Pinguita, aka Miguel Garcia v. United States Second Circuit 2022-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment autopsy-reports confrontation-clause due-process legal-conflict supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-precedents testimonial testimonial-evidence Whether Autopsy Reports Are Testimonial For Purposes Of The Confrontation Clause, And Whether The Unreasonable Application Of Clearly Established Su…
22-5145 Michael Kim v. Twelfth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-removal due-process eleventh-amendment in-forma-pauperis judicial-jurisdiction litigation-costs removal standing supreme-court-precedent 1. Should this Court overrule Home Depot U.S.A., Inc. v. Jackson, 139 S. Ct. 1743 (2019), affirmed on 5-4 (1 dissent), or hold that a defendant in a c…
22-5110 Onterio Dimitri Brown v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2022-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence jackson-v-virginia standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-precedent PLULE 2201 ve stole grsnneis le Culeye Cnlulaeal_uaulans my Question Two? Hes the Supreme Cour) overturned Jackson —v. Vitginim 443 U.§ O7 G) 1 Ed ad…
22-5100 Joshua Eric Townley v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-07-13 Denied IFP burks-v-united-states constitutional-claim criminal-procedure double-jeopardy federal-prosecution insufficient-evidence reinstatement-of-convictions state-prosecution supreme-court-precedent trial-court-reversal 1. Is there a constitutional claim of double jeopardy, reinstatement of convictions after acquittal, when a Federal or State trial court rescinds its …
22-5058 Davel Chinn v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-07-11 Denied Relisted (5)IFP aedpa brady-claim brady-v-maryland due-process evidence-suppression materiality materiality-standard prejudice sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether a petitioner who raises a claim under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), must establish that they were more likely than not prejudiced …
22-5015 Devoris Lamont Jackson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act due-process fifth-circuit supreme-court-precedent texas-aggravated-robbery texas-burglary violent-felony 1. Whether Jackson received due process, i.e., fair warning that his burglary convictions would count as prior convictions under the Armed Career Crim…
21-8180 Rives Grogan v. United States District of Columbia 2022-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP burwell-v-hobby-lobby court-of-appeals hobby-lobby-precedent punishment-magnitude religious-exercise religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act substantial-burden supreme-court-precedent Whether the Court of Appeals erred, contravening Supreme Court precedent set forth in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., by weighing Mr. Grogan's al…
21-8149 Jesus Rodriguez-Castro v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres constitutional-law criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit overruling-precedent rodriguez-castro statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent united-states writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-8035 Charlie John Williams v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924(c) conviction-review criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis Whether Petitioner's conviction under 18 U.S.C. section 924 (c) remains valid under the Supreme Court's holding in United States v. Davis. 139 S. Ct. …
21-7967 Jairo Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction procedural-default retroactivity statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court-precedent unconstitutional-statute Can a defendant, by failing to directly appeal his sentence, procedurally default his claim that the court had no jurisdiction to imprison him pursuan…
21-1478 Nicholas Honchariw v. County of Stanislaus, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-05-24 Denied Response Waived constitutional-interpretation due-process finality-requirement finality-ripeness knick pakdel ripeness-doctrine supreme-court-precedent takings takings-claim williamson-county Whether Knick v. Township of Scott, 139 S.Ct. 2162 (2019) and Pakdel v. City and Cty. of San Francisco, 141 S.Ct. 2226 (2021) have sanctioned a pervas…
21-7895 Antoine Mayes v. United States Second Circuit 2022-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-court criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis I. WHETHER IT WAS ERROR FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT TO DENY MAYES THE RIGHT TO FILE AN APPEAL OR COAIN LIGHT OF THE SUPREME COURT 'S DECISION IN UNITED STA…
21-1439 Jairus Collins v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections Fifth Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process fifth-circuit mississippi speedy-trial statutory-construction supreme-court supreme-court-precedent Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred in denying a Certificate of Appealability to the following issue: Whether Miss.…
21-7832 Daniel Casamayor v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-indictment criminal-law due-process felon-in-possession firearm-statute indictment knowledge-element rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent 1. Should a writ of certiorari be granted to determine if in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2019), if Casamayor 's indictment charg…
21-7727 Anthony Kimbrough v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-04-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-judgments criminal-judgments final-judgment indian-territory mcgirt-decision mcgirt-v-oklahoma race racial-classification retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-precedent Whether the U.S. Supreme Court decision in McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct.2452 (2020) applies retroactively to "all persons " in Indian Territory "irres…
21-1380 Seun Banjo Ojedokun v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied Response Waived civil-cases congressional-intent criminal-statute extraterritorial-application presumption-against-extraterritoriality statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent The question presented is: Whether, as in civil cases, a clear indication of congressional intent is required to rebut the presumption against extrate…
21-7663 Guy Adam Rook v. Donald Holbrook Ninth Circuit 2022-04-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment federal-constitutional-law gross-disproportionality habeas-corpus harmelin-v-michigan lockyer-v-andrade state-constitutional-law supreme-court-precedent 1) Whether a demonstration that a state constitutional test is less protective than the federal constitutional test means that an adjudication of the …
21-7639 Elizabeth Carley v. Dwight Neven, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment search-and-seizure sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether the 1) Fourth Amendment search and seizure issues, AND 2) Sixth Amendment effective assistance of counsel issues Herein were correctly interpr…
21-7535 Antonio Alejandro Gutierrez v. Steve Shelton, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1915 bruce-v-samuels civil-procedure due-process filing-fees in-forma-pauperis procedural-law retroactive-application retroactivity statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Should the Oregon Department of Corrections, the U.S. District Court of Oregon, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, be allowed to collect 28 U.S.C…
21-7546 Ronald Scott Eddington v. Josh Tewalt, Director, Idaho Department of Correction Ninth Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-habeas-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-decoster wilson-v-sellers 1. Should the Ninth Circuit or the Federal District Court of Idaho have issued a COA on Petitioner's claims based on the evidence that Idaho courts co…
21-1320 Robert Campo, et al. v. Department of Justice, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-04-04 Denied Response Waived constitutional-precedent court-interpretation evidence-rules federal-rules-of-evidence federal-rules-of-procedure freedom-of-information-act judicial-discretion judicial-review procedural-rules supreme-court-precedent u.s-constitution Whether, in adjudications under the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA"), federal judges are free to flout and knowingly violate FOIA, federal rules of…
21-7503 Lucas Victorino-Tista v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-1307 Santa Ana Healthcare & Wellness Centre, LP, et al. v. Rubyann Mondragon California 2022-03-30 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration-agreement california-private-attorneys-general-act class-action employee-rights federal-arbitration-act iskanian-rule iskanian-v-cls-transport lamps-plus-v-varela representative-claims supreme-court-precedent Does the Federal Arbitration Act require enforcement of a bilateral arbitration agreement providing that an employee cannot raise representative claim…
21-7383 Francis B. Armah v. Janet Dowling, Warden Tenth Circuit 2022-03-16 Denied IFP abrogation access-to-courts appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review pro-se pro-se-litigant supreme-court-precedent tenth-circuit Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit rendered an unreasonable application of Holland v. Florida, 560 U.S. 631 (2010) witho…
21-7389 John Peyton Alexander, II v. Mississippi Mississippi 2022-03-16 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process federal-prisoner habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis parole post-conviction-relief sentence-computation sentence-modification standing supreme-court-precedent unconstitutional-statute Question not identified.
21-1242 Chad Chronister, Sheriff, Hillsborough County, Florida, et al. v. Andrew Joseph, Jr., as Natural Father, Next Friend, and Personal Representative of the Estate of Andrew Joseph, III, Deceased Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-14 Denied article-iii article-iii-standing case-or-controversy circuit-court circuit-court-precedent probable-cause qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity standing supreme-court-precedent (1) This Court and several Circuit Courts of Appeals have held that federal courts should not reach the merits of a case, including issues such as sov…
21-7240 Robert Carr, Jr. v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2022-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeal court-of-appeals due-process judicial-review legal-standard standing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent (1) Did the lower courts erroneously employed the wrong legal standard (2) Was the Court Of Appeal decision in conflict with controlling opinion of t…
21-7192 Thomas Johnny Wilkins v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-02-25 Denied IFP circuit-court-interpretation civil-rights due-process evidentiary-standards federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review new-evidence supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-supervisory-power Question not identified.
21-7207 Robert Brewer v. New York New York 2022-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP accomplice-liability constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-unanimity precedent state-courts supreme-court-precedent This Court should grant certiorari to decide whether or how Schad v Arizona, 501 U.S. 624 (1991), continues to apply following the decisions in Ramos …
21-7217 Thomas Allen Twobabies v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-02-25 Denied IFP criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction major-crimes-act mcgirt-decision montgomery-v-louisiana native-american-law oklahoma-court-of-criminal-appeals retroactivity schriro-v-summerlin supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction 1. WHETHER THIS COURT'S DECISION IN MCGIRT V. OKLAHOMA APPLIES TO THE CHEYENNE AND ARAPAHO TRIBES FOR MAJOR CRIMES ACT PURPOSES. 2. WHETHER THE OKLAH…
21-7181 Mary Ellen Samuels v. Janel Espinoza, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP california-supreme-court conflict-of-interest due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-malpractice performance prejudice prejudice-presumption supreme-court-precedent 1. Did the California Supreme Court unreasonably fail to apply clearly established Supreme Court precedent that requires prejudice to be presumed wher…
21-7135 Daniel Joseph Dawson v. Jeremy Larson, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process effective-counsel eighth-circuit supreme-court-precedent writ-of-certiorari (1)Whether acircuit court candeny acertificate ofappealability when theApplicant has made asubstantial showing ofthedenial ofimportant constitutional …
21-1121 Handy Technologies, Inc. v. Patrick Pote California 2022-02-14 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) arbitration-agreement california-private-attorneys-general-act class-action employee-rights federal-arbitration-act preemption representative-claims supreme-court-precedent Does the Federal Arbitration Act require enforcement of a bilateral arbitration agreement providing that an employee cannot raise representative claim…
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 Notice is an "elementary and fundamental requirement of due process," so where a court enters a judgment absent notice, the Due Process Clause demands…
21-7099 Edwin Disla v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure eleventh-circuit fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus precedent remand rule-60b3-motion second-and-successive supreme-court-precedent Whether a Rule 60(b)(3) Motion for Fraud on the Court overcomes a Second and Successive Ruling Pursuant to the dictates & Supreme Court Precedent set …
21-7074 Benny Dennis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process fifth-circuit guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining standing supreme-court-precedent 1) Did the panel of the Fifth Circuit err by deciding the merit of an appeal not properly before the court to justify the denial of a certificate of a…
21-6942 Alison Gu v. United States Second Circuit 2022-01-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1542 circuit-court-split criminal-law false-statements oath-requirement passport-application statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether making false statements on a passport application form as to which the mandatory oath was never administered, the statements were never sworn …
21-6902 Daliyl Raaid Muhammad v. Eric Armel, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2022-01-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-standard circuit-split collateral-review criminal-procedure federal-prejudice-standards harmless-error jury-verdict jury-verdicts supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether the Third Circuit erred, in conflict with decisions of the Second and Ninth Circuits, when it held that this Court's decision in United St…
21-6858 Dalton Laquane Smith v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 851 922(g) 922(g)-conviction acca armed-career-criminal-act career-offender first-step-act government-concession rehaif sentencing-enhancement supreme-court-precedent 1. In light of the Court& Government concessions(twice ) that the petitioner never servedover a year,should the ACCA,851 removed in wake of theand Ca…
21-6804 Timothy Wayne Kemp v. Arkansas Arkansas 2022-01-10 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation cone-v-bell criminal-procedure due-process materiality materiality-standard prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-precedent Whether the October 7, 2021 decision of the Arkansas Supreme Court, finding that Timothy Kemp was not prejudiced under Brady v. Maryland, was in confl…
21-977 Robert E. Kovacevich v. Gordon R. Finch, et al. Washington 2022-01-07 Denied case-settlement civil-contempt evidentiary-hearing judicial-estoppel judicial-procedure least-intrusive-remedy mootness supreme-court-precedent trial-court-discretion The state courts have failed to dismiss a civil contempt that was decided during trial. The case was later settled. The failure conflicts with three d…
21-946 Michael Coscia v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-12-28 Denied Response Waived 28-U.S.C-2255 adversely-affected conflict-of-interest Cuyler-v-Sullivan-446-U.S-335-1980 evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance Machibroda-v-United-States-368-U.S-487-1962 section-2255 supreme-court-precedent trial-counsel Whether a petitioner is entitled to an evidentiary hearing under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 to resolve his claim under Cuyler v. Sullivan, 446 U.S. 335 (1980), …
21-923 Delila Pacheco v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-12-22 Denied criminal-conviction criminal-procedure final-judgments habeas-corpus indian-law mcgirt-v-oklahoma oklahoma-law retroactivity supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced.
21-6585 Freddy Crespo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus miller-el-v-cockrell supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's rule that a certificate of appealability cannot be granted where an issue is foreclosed by circuit precedent conflic…
21-6553 Chad L. Enderle v. Iowa Iowa 2021-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process heemstra legal-retroactivity pending-appeals retroactive-application retroactive-availability statute-of-limitations supreme-court-precedent 1) Do the federal Supreme Court cases issued subsequent to the Iowa cases determining the retroactive availability to Heemstra require the Iowa law to…
21-6520 Mark J. Zimny v. United States First Circuit 2021-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-court due-process motion-for-summary-disposition reasonable-jurists substantial-question summary-disposition supreme-court-precedent Did an appellate court contravene Supreme Court precedent by granting the government's motion for summary disposition when prior decisions of this Cou…
21-6494 Benjamin Robert Cole v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-12-02 Denied IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure final-judgments habeas-corpus indian-law mcgirt-v-oklahoma oklahoma-law retroactivity supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced.
21-6462 Clarence Rozell Goode, Jr. v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-12-01 Denied IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure final-judgment habeas-corpus indian-law mcgirt-v-oklahoma oklahoma-law retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced.
21-6464 John Fitzgerald Hanson v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-12-01 Denied IFP convictions criminal-conviction criminal-procedure final-judgments habeas-corpus indian-law mcgirt-v-oklahoma oklahoma-law retroactivity supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced.
21-6457 Ervin Anibar Lopez-Ordonez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
21-6432 James Chandler Ryder v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-11-29 Denied IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure final-judgments habeas-corpus indian-law mcgirt-v-oklahoma oklahoma-law retroactivity supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced.
21-785 Richard Riccardi v. United States Second Circuit 2021-11-29 Denied Response Waived burden-of-establishing-exception collateral-review legal-theory procedural-default retroactive-effect substantive-change substantive-change-of-law supreme-court-precedent yates-v-united-states Whether the exception to the procedural default rule of Yates v United States, 354 U.S. 298 (1957) applies where this Court has held declared a theory…
21-6355 Everett Earl Parker v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction criminal-sentencing federal-jurisdiction johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement serious-violent-felony statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent violent-felony Whether, under the Supreme Court precedent established in Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), Mr. Parker's life sentence for count 1 shou…
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 When a state statute is ambiguous as to its divisibility at the time of the defendant's state conviction, may a federal court certify the divisibility…
21-6243 Richard Barnhart, Jr. v. Neil Turner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-for-new-trial ohio-appellate-court search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent unreasonable-application Is a Petitioner denied his due process rights when the Ohio Appellate Court applies an unreasonable application of U.S. Supreme Court precedent in reg…
21-624 Brian D. Swanson v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-28 Denied Response Waived 11th-circuit circuit-court commissioner direct-tax frivolous income-tax internal-revenue supreme-court supreme-court-precedent tax taxable-income 1. May the Commissioner of Internal Revenue collect a uniform direct tax on Petitioner's taxable income? 2. Does the decision of The Eleventh Circuit…
21-6084 Jacquelyne Jones v. Nicole Jobe Kansas 2021-10-27 Denied IFP canon-of-judicial-ethics civil-rights court-procedure due-process ex-parte ex-parte-proceeding judicial-canon judicial-conduct judicial-ethics procedural-rules state-courts supreme-court-precedent DID THE KANSAS SUPREME COURT IN CONFLICT WITH THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT PRESENDENT FAILED TO FOLLOW THE LAW AND RULES OF THE JUDICIARY IN CONDON…
21-6101 Paul D. Timms v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-10-27 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-standard civil-rights constitutional-claim district-court-review due-process federal-civil-procedure federal-courts habeas-corpus standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent (1) When a federal district court denies a state prisoner's 28 U.S.C. §2254 petition based upon an inproper standard of review; (Harrington v. Richter…
21-612 Isaac Wolf v. University Professional and Technical Employees, Communications Workers of America Local 9119, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-26 Denied Response Waived affirmative-consent civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech labor-law labor-rights public-workers standing supreme-court-precedent union-dues 1) Whether a union can trap a public worker into paying dues without the "affirmative consent" required by Janus v. AFSCME, Council 31, 138 S. Ct. 244…
21-6067 Johnnie Franklin Wills v. Karen Pszczolkowski, Superintendent, Northern Correctional Facility West Virginia 2021-10-25 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process johnson-v-united-states recidivism recidivist-statute residual-clause sentencing sessions-v-dimaya supreme-court-precedent vagueness vagueness-doctrine Is a judicially crafted residual clause, which allows a life sentence to be imposed via a state recidivist statute only when certain underlying crimes…
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 Question not identified.
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 1. Should the Court overrule Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pa. v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992)? 2. Should th…
21-583 Stephen Brint Carlton, et al. v. Whole Woman's Health, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-10-21 Denied abortion abortion-rights civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process judicial-precedent judicial-review reproductive-rights stare-decisis supreme-court-precedent texas-law Whether the Court should overrule Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992).
21-587 Penny Clarkston v. Whole Woman's Health, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-10-21 Denied abortion abortion-rights civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-precedent judicial-review reproductive-rights stare-decisis supreme-court-precedent Whether the Court should overrule Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992).
21-497 T. E. L., a Minor v. Florida Florida 2021-10-04 Granted Relisted (2) criminal-statute due-process elonis-v-united-states first-amendment free-speech intent-requirement speech-protection supreme-court-precedent virginia-v-black watts-v-united-states 1. Whether Florida Statute § 790.162 (2007), which makes it a second degree felony to threaten to "throw, project, place or discharge any destructive …
21-486 Oklahoma v. Dakota James Alleyn Shriver Oklahoma 2021-10-01 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020) should be overruled appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-jurisdiction native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-law oklahoma-sovereignty precedent-review stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled.
21-487 Oklahoma v. David Deval Martin Oklahoma 2021-10-01 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law federal-indian-law jurisdictional-boundaries native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-law overruling-precedent stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tribal-sovereignty Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled.
21-5829 Amar Taylor v. United States Second Circuit 2021-09-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c 2nd-amendment crime-of-violence criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process firearm-statute statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis 1. Whether Petitioner's conviction for using a firearm during a crime of violence in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) remains valid in light of United …
21-467 Clifton Merrill Parish v. Oklahoma, et al. Oklahoma 2021-09-29 Denied Amici (1) collateral-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus indian-law oklahoma-law retroactivity supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced.
21-5817 James E. Pearson v. Bridget Hill, Attorney General of Wyoming Tenth Circuit 2021-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-uscs-2254 constitutional-standards federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel malloy-v-hogan miller-el-v-cockrell state-court-procedure supreme-court-precedent wilson-v-sellers Does the reasoning within Malloy v Hogan, 378 US 1, 10, 12 LEd2d 653, 84 SCt 1489 (1964) require specifically apply to claims of insufficiency or inef…
21-466 Eric DeWayne Cathey v. Texas Texas 2021-09-28 Denied Amici (1) capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability medical-criteria medical-standards precedent supreme-court-precedent Whether, in rejecting the detailed factfindings and legal conclusions of a state habeas trial court, disregarding medically accepted standards, and de…
21-453 Uber Technologies, Inc., et al. v. Johnathon Gregg California 2021-09-23 GVR Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (3) california-labor-code contract-law federal-arbitration-act individual-arbitration ninth-circuit paga-claims preemption supreme-court-precedent Whether agreements calling for individual arbitration are enforceable under the Federal Arbitration Act with respect to claims asserted under the Cali…
21-444 Andre Lee Thomas v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-22 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (22) aedpa-deference capital-punishment fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-bias racial-bias schizophrenia supreme-court-precedent voir-dire Under this Court's clearly established precedent, was Petitioner Andre Thomas —an African American man who, during a schizophrenic episode, killed his…
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 Under the principle that federal courts must defer to state courts on questions of state law, if a state court arbitrarily fails to follow its own law…
21-391 Paul Alexander, aka David Paul Hayes v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-09-10 Denied Response Waived circuit-conflict circuit-split constitutional-search derivative-evidence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-circuit harmless-error suppression supreme-court-precedent 1. Is the Fourth Circuit in violation of Supreme Court precedent and in conflict with other circuits when, in conducting a harmless error review, i…
21-5625 Phillip Shawn Horton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-interpretation legal-conflict procedural-review remand remand-order sentencing stare-decisis supreme-court-precedent I. Should this Court should grant review to determine whether the opinion of the court below conflicts with this Court's decisions in Witte v. United …
21-5580 Marion Taylor v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-09-03 Denied IFP appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-rights due-process federal-question judicial-proceedings judicial-review standing supervisory-power supreme-court-precedent writ-of-certiorari Whether Site United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decision…
21-336 Shiyang Huang v. Brian F. Spector, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-02 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing civil-procedure class-action class-certification future-harm monetary-damages money-damages risk-of-harm supreme-court-precedent transunion-v-ramirez Whether class-action plaintiffs can still rely on mere "risk of future harm" allegations alone to establish Article III standing, achieve class certif…
21-5462 James Michael Kerns v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-16 18-usc-924 constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence plea-bargaining plea-validity sentencing-challenge sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis Question I. If Count 3 charging a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924 is without legal, constitutional foundation as it alleges a crime of violence in Count …
21-233 Mike Finnin Motors, Inc., et al. v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-08-17 Denied bankruptcy civil-procedure direct-takings due-process economic-valuation federal-defense property-rights regulatory-takings supreme-court-precedent takings takings-liability During the liquidity crisis of 2008-09, the United States determined the public interest required Chrysler and General Motors because they were too im…
21-180 Michael Patrick Lathigee v. British Columbia Securities Commission Nevada 2021-08-09 Denied Response Waived civil-enforcement civil-procedure civil-rights disgorgement-order due-process foreign-judgment-enforcement foreign-judgments international-law international-legal-comity penalties penalty-characterization supreme-court-precedent Whether the Supreme Court of Nevada's opinion enforcing the BCSC's $21.7 million (CAD) Canadian "Disgorgement Order" against Lathigee as a judgment in…
21-5317 Mauricio Melendez v. Renee Baker, Warden Nevada 2021-08-09 Denied IFP attorney-concession criminal-autonomy criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel right-to-defense stare-decisis supreme-court-precedent In 2018, this Court decided McCoy v. Louisiana, 138 S.Ct. 1500 (2018), recognizing a criminal defendant's right to secured autonomy over his defense. …
21-5234 Melquiades Galvez-Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-5105 Cedric Antonio Wright v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP bodily-harm carjacking criminal-intent criminal-law driver-cooperation intent intent-interpretation mens-rea statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether this Court correctly ruled in Holloway v. United States, 526 U.S. 1 (1999) that during a carjacking, a person's intent to seriously harm or ki…
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, under which agreements for individualized arbitration are invalidated when a plaintiff seeks public injunctive relief, pr…
21-5065 Blake Taylor v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-09 GVR Relisted (2)IFP bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute divisible-offense double-jeopardy sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent 1. In Prince v. United States, 352 U.S. 322 (1957), this Court construed the first and second paragraphs of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a)—bank robbery and entry…
21-5046 Ira Lee Wilkins v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-07-08 GVR IFP crime-of-violence criminal-law reckless-conduct reckless-force sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review tenth-circuit violent-crime Should this Court grant this petition, vacate the judgment below, and remand in order to allow the Tenth Circuit to determine in the first instance wh…
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 Notwithstanding the express holding of this Court in Lamps Plus, Inc. v. Varela, 139 S. Ct. 1407, 1417 (2019) ("Lamps Plus") that the Federal Arbitrat…
21-5031 Luis Pitt v. United States Second Circuit 2021-07-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP bradshaw-v-stumpf circuit-split court-of-appeals due-process involuntary-plea judicial-review kercheval-v-united-states plea-acceptance plea-bargaining supreme-court-precedent Whether Petitioner's Due Process rights were violated when the Court of Appeals failed to remedy the District Court's improper acceptance of Petitione…
21-5005 Erwin Eugene Semien v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment administrative-claim due-process federal-tort-claims-act first-amendment jones-v-bock jurisdictional-threshold supreme-court-precedent QUESTION ONE: DID THE LOWER COURTS VIOLATE SEMIEN 'S RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS UNDER THE 5th AMENDMENT DUE PROCESS CLAUSE BY FAILING TO FOLLOW SUPREME COUR…
20-1808 Adam E. Billings v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-06-28 Denied Response Waived circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-booker united-states-v-roach 1. Whether the Sentencing Guidelines §2D1.1 Application Note 4 violates procedural due process. 2. Whether the Eighth Circuit's decision in United St…
20-1768 Ron Fenn v. City of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-06-21 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech government-accountability government-actor qualified-immunity standing supreme-court-precedent As the jurisprudence becomes broader on when a government actor enjoys qualified immunity and the instances where a citizen can hold that government a…
20-1672 Joan Carol Lipin v. Wisehart Springs Inn, Inc., et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-06-02 Denied attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-estoppel due-process first-amendment fraud-on-the-court judicial-authority summary-judgment supreme-court-precedent trust-agreement I. If the sanctity of the express and unambiguous written intent, terms, and conditions of an Act of Congress are inviolate, like the express and unam…
20-8196 William Severs v. Andrew J. Bruck, Acting Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2021-06-02 Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-error right-to-counsel supreme-court-precedent third-circuit-court 1) Whether the Decisions of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the District Court for the District of New Jersey were contrary to the United State…
20-1642 Brian Doty v. Tappan Zee Constructors, LLC Second Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied circuit-court circuit-court-split construction-site jones-act jury-determination maritime-worker seaman-status supreme-court-precedent vessel-navigation 1. Where, in this case, it is undisputed that the injured worker spent 90% of his working time on vessels in navigation, operating cranes and excavato…
20-8083 Derrick Baer v. United States Third Circuit 2021-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation franks-hearing law-enforcement-delay search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent Whether the decision of the Third Circuit denying petitioner's request for a Franks hearing conflicts with the United States Supreme Court's decision …
20-7986 Kevin Dunbar v. Arizona Arizona 2021-05-11 Denied IFP attempted-first-degree-murder consecutive-sentences constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence-weighing kidnapping self-representation supreme-court-precedent Was the petitioner's aggravated sentences was in violation of due process and conflicts with the United states Supreme Court holdings in Apprendi V. N…
20-1539 Daniel Rivas-Villegas v. Ramon Cortesluna Ninth Circuit 2021-05-05 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Relisted (3) civil-rights constitutional-violation excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor law-enforcement ninth-circuit plumhoff-v-rickard qualified-immunity supreme-court-precedent 1. Did the Ninth Circuit depart from this Court's decisions in Graham v. Connor, 490 U.S. 386 (1989) and Plumhoff v. Rickard, 572 U.S. 765 (2014) in d…
20-7829 Edmundo Bustamante-Muniz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment fifth-circuit precedent-overturning sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-7830 Firas M. Ayoubi v. Wexford Health Sources, Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof canton-analysis civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process likelihood-on-the-merits monell-claim preliminary-injunction seventh-circuit supreme-court-precedent 1: Did the Seventh Circuit s decision put an unreasonable require ment and hieghtened burden of proof in establishing likelihood the merits at the p…
20-7805 Melvin Knight v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-04-20 Denied Relisted (13)IFP brumfield-v-cain clinical-standards death-penalty documentation-requirement intellectual-disability iq-score moore-v-texas supreme-court-precedent Whether a State may require a defendant to present an IQ score of 75 or below that was "documented prior to age 18" to have his intellectual disabilit…
20-7783 Michael A. Farrell v. Chris S. Buesgen, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-04-15 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus lower-court-ruling perjured-testimony standing supreme-court-precedent 1. Are the lower court's rulings in direct conflict with Supreme Court precedent? 2. Did petitioner make a substantial showing he's in custody in vio…
20-1379 Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority v. Center for Investigative Reporting Third Circuit 2021-04-01 Denied Amici (3) categorical-ban commercial-speech content-restriction first-amendment free-speech government-speech political-speech public-forum supreme-court-precedent transit-advertising transit-authority 1. Whether this Court's decision in Mansky overruled or abrogated the Court's holding in Lehman that transit authorities have the discretion to catego…
20-7547 Saloman Martinez v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-discretion kentucky-law sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standard-of-proof supreme-court-precedent "VVvc G?ccoA * DecetuVi-er 11, Z02 -0 •\Vv£. uvu-V^A sAaFtS C^sAcnIcA' GoOfAr Qa^ senA-e/vc-e\A} WArWfC q^aOoa. roVi»Mj -\ o cx^<^■c \W, £ajz>\rec<\ O…
20-1344 Jeffrey T. Maehr v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-03-24 Denied Response Waived 16th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process income-definition irs standing stare-decisis supreme-court-precedent tax-law taxation 1. Can the IRS/United States government/Respondent and lower courts consistently call U.S. Supreme Court standing case precedent (stare decisis ) on t…
20-7519 Angadbir Singh Salwan v. Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2021-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP abstract-idea administrative-law civil-rights due-process intellectual-property judicial-corruption patent patent-law standing supreme-court-precedent takings (1) The US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA) judge Ms. Leonie Brinkema, the clerks of CAFC, and the CAFC panel of judges O'Ma…
20-7520 Shante Bruce Rice v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-03-22 Denied IFP age-of-defendant constitutional-law criminal-justice criminal-sentencing equal-protection equal-protection-clause life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent WHETHER THE PENNSYLVANIA SUPERIOR COURT'S DECISION THAT THE BAN ON MANDATORY SENTENCES OF LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE APPLIES TO ONLY THOSE DEFENDANTS WHO WER…
20-7523 Joseph M. Bryant v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-03-22 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure direct-review due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus non-unanimous-jury ramos-v-louisiana retroactivity supreme-court-precedent This Court held in Ramos v. Louisiana, that Louisiana's non-unanimous jury scheme was unconstitutional. Pretermitting the question raised in Edwards v…
20-1296 Walter Skipper v. A&M Dockside Repair, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-03-18 Denied Response Waived affirmative-defenses circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure pleading-amendment scheduling-order summary-judgment supreme-court-precedent Does precedent in the United State Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit which allows defendants to raise affirmative defenses in a motion for summar…
20-7504 Ray A. Gough v. Daniel Q. Sullivan, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-03-18 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sexually-dangerous-persons-act sixth-amendment speedy-trial supreme-court-precedent unreasonable-determination-of-facts (1) Whether proceedings under the Illinois Sexually Dangerous Persons Act, which may result in incarceration for an indeterminate and possibly lifel…
20-7457 Mark Andrew Morris v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-circuit appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus judicial-standard merits-review standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent threshold-inquiry 1. Did the United States Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit, use an improper and unduly burdensome Certificate of Appealability (COA) standard which confl…
20-1252 Stephen J. Simoni v. Jersey Shore University Medical Center, et al. Third Circuit 2021-03-10 Denied arbitration attorneys-fees circuit-court-interpretation civil-procedure federal-courts federal-labor-law labor-arbitration labor-law supreme-court-precedent union-rights United States Supreme Court precedent requires that union members be awarded attorneys' fees where the employer wrongfully blocked access to quick and…
20-1233 Johnny Gatewood v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-03-08 Denied Amici (2) cause-exception circuit-precedent due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-cause petitioner-rights procedural-default supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether cause exists to excuse a habeas petitioner's procedural default when near-unanimous circuit precedent foreclosed the petitioner's claim. 2…
20-7360 Emmanuel Feaster v. United States Second Circuit 2021-03-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-law criminal-statute firearm-possession firearms jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(g)(1), "[i]t shall be unlawful" for certain individuals to possess firearms that have traveled in interstate…
20-7311 Juan Matthews v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-03-03 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law discriminatory-intent due-process equal-protection jury-verdict racial-discrimination ramos-v-louisiana standing supreme-court-precedent Was Louisiana's Jury verdict Scheme that convicted petitioner in violation to the U.S.C.A. 14th Amendment of the Louisiana's Constitution? Standard se…
20-1165 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Citigroup, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2021-02-24 Denied 35-usc-282 access-to-courts collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights due-process patent-law separation-of-powers supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether the inferior courts arbitrarily claiming collateral estoppel without once proving it applying Supreme Court precedent dating back more t…
20-7038 David Paul Martinez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-05 Denied IFP 18-usc-921-a-33 criminal-law criminal-statute domestic-violence firearms firearms-possession mens-rea misdemeanor-domestic-violence plain-error-review rehaif-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether Mr. Martinez's convictions for violating 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9), possession of a firearm after a conviction for a "misdemeanor crime of dome…
20-1031 Northern California Small Business Assistants, Inc. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Amici (1) administrative-procedure civil-procedure equitable-tolling jurisdiction jurisdictional-deadline statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent tax-law Is 26 U.S.C. § 6213(a)'s deficiency petition (90-day) Filing Deadline jurisdictional (such that it is not subject to equitable tolling) under current …
20-6947 Alphonso Cave v. Florida Florida 2021-01-26 Denied IFP capital-punishment civil-rights collateral-review due-process intellectual-disability montgomery-v-louisiana procedural-law retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-precedent Must Florida apply Hall v. Florida, 134 S. Ct. 1986 (2014) retroactively and review a claim of intellectual disability on the merits for cases on coll…
20-6885 David Alan Vogel v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 10th-amendment 2255-appeal 2255-motion 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-precedent constitutional-grounds sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent tenth-amendment 1. Did the 5th Circuit violate the precedent of this Supreme Court and the legal standard of every other circuit when it denied Certificate of Appeal…
20-6842 Christine D'Onofrio v. Costco Wholesale Corporation Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure legal-sufficiency rule-50b-motion seventh-amendment standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-precedent A. Whether the majorit y opinion in affirming the grant of a Fed. R. Civ. P. 50(b) motion failed to apply the correct standard of review, and under th…
20-6809 Anthony Lynn Wood v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law constitutional-law executive-branch legislative-power nondelega tion-doctrine nondelegation separation-of-powers sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Should this Court overrule Gundy and, if appropriate, revisit its approach to nondelegation claims, and hold that 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) is an unconstit…
20-6774 Craig B. Snoddy v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment colorado-v-bertine fourth-amendment inventory-search investigative-search search-and-seizure south-dakota-v-opperman supreme-court-precedent vehicle-search warrantless-search Should certiorari be granted to determine whether the court of appeals' decision not to suppress the evidence found in a warrantless vehicle search, w…
20-852 Shaquere Myleshia Gray, Co-Administratrix of the Estate of Gregory Tremaine Miller, et al. v. Alabama Great Southern Railroad Company Fifth Circuit 2020-12-28 Denied Response Waived civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process employer-liability federal-courts fela fifth-circuit labor-law legal-interpretation statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether the Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit has deviated from established Supreme Court precedent under the Federal Employers Liability Act ("…
20-830 Washington v. Said Omer Ali Washington 2020-12-21 Denied Amici (3) 8th-amendment criminal-procedure eighth-amendment graham-v-florida individual-proportionality juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama proportionality-determination sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent Whether Graham and Miller require an individual proportionality determination before imposing any sentence on a juvenile offender convicted in adult c…
20-6498 Tony Barksdale v. Jefferson Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-02 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing certificate-of-appealability due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-amendment eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent 1. Did the Eleventh Circuit misconstrue this Court's guidance in, inter alia, Buck v. Davis, 580 U.S. ___, 137 S. Ct. 759 (2017), when it denied Petit…
20-751 Ashley Ann Krapacs v. The Florida Bar Florida 2020-12-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) abstract-idea administrative-law bar-discipline civil-rights disbarment due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech free-speech 20-7519" integrated-bar intellectual-property judicial-corruption patent-law political-speech professional-conduct state-action supreme-court-precedent Whether the Supreme Court will address alleged jud The Florida Bar, an integrated Bar system under the jurisdiction of the Florida Supreme Court, has disbarred an attorney who has posted what amounts t…
20-744 Michael Wigginton, Jr. v. The University of Mississippi, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-11-30 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established-right due-process fifth-circuit hope-v-pelzer qualified-immunity state-actors supreme-court-precedent Whether the Fifth Circuit's grant of qualified immunity to the state actors named in the instant matter was violative of Supreme Court precedent estab…
20-6463 Alex Murillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-731 Paul Winfield v. United States Probation & Pretrial Services, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied Response Waived 18-USC-201 18-USC-666 constitutional-vagueness criminal-law federal-bribery McDonnell-v-US overbreadth statutory-interpretation statutory-overbreadth supreme-court-precedent vagueness Since 18 U.S.C.A. § 666 is even broader than other federal bribery statutes, does it suffer from the same constitutional infirmities of vagueness and …
20-6418 Michael A. Harris v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting brandishing brandishing-firearm conspiracy crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act sentence-reduction sentencing supreme-court-precedent Whether the petitioner is entitled to a sentence reduction after pleading guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Hobbs Act Robbery and aiding and abetting bra…
20-6419 Romell Broom v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-11-24 Dismissed IFP clearly-established-law constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment execution-attempt habeas-corpus robinson-v-california section-2254 sentencing supreme-court-precedent trop-v-dulles Is Louisiana ex rel. Francis v. Resweber, 329 U.S. 459 (1947) the clearly established United States Supreme Court precedent, for purposes of 28 U.S.C.…
20-714 Stephen A. Saccoccia v. United States, et al. First Circuit 2020-11-24 Denied Response Waived appellate-review criminal-forfeiture criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture-law gross-disproportionality joint-and-several-liability joint-liability statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether the courts of appeal may create exceptions to this Court's finding in Honeycutt v. United States that there exists no statutory authority for …
20-670 Jill Dillard, et al. v. Kathy O'Kelley, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-11-16 Denied Response Waived circuit-split constitutional-right constitutional-rights digital-age informational-privacy precedent-analysis qualified-immunity sexual-abuse supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether the Court's opinion in National Aeronautics and Space Administrator, et al. v. Nelson, 562 U.S. 134 (2011), diverged from its previous hold…
20-673 Fraternal Order of Police, Chicago Lodge No. 7 v. City of Chicago, Illinois Illinois 2020-11-16 Denied Response Waived arbitration-agreements arbitration-enforcement eastern-associated-coal-vs-umwa federal-arbitration-act federal-policy labor-arbitration public-policy public-policy-exception supreme-court-precedent united-paperworkers-vs-misco w-r-grace-vs-local-union Whether the Illinois Supreme Court erred as a matter of law by expanding the scope of the public-policy exception to enforcement of labor arbitration …
20-6307 Gary Lawrence v. Florida Florida 2020-11-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP atkins-v-virginia death-penalty hall-v-florida intellectual-disability montgomery-v-louisiana retroactive-application retroactivity substantive-rule supreme-court-precedent Whether this Court's decision in Hall v. Florida, 134 S. Ct. 1986 (2014), merely clarified Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002), or announced a new…
20-6234 Karen Moynihan v. West Chester Area School District, et al. Third Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process endrew-f-v-douglas-cty-sch-dist individuals-with-disabilities-education-act judicial-review special-education standing supreme-court-precedent third-circuit third-circuit-court Did the United States District Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit disregard this Honorable Court's Opinion on the Individuals with Disabilities Ed…
20-6194 Brian E. Vodicka v. Michael B. Tobolowsky, Executor of the Estate of Ira E. Tobolowsky, et al. Texas 2020-11-03 Denied IFP 4th-amendment carpenter-v-united-states cell-phone-data civil-rights digital-privacy due-process fourth-amendment mandamus-petition riley-v-california search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent warrantless-search 1. Whether, in holding that a private citizen can lawfully search and seize the digital contents of a cell phone without a warrant, the state supreme …
20-6206 Travis Johnson v. Illinois Illinois 2020-11-03 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing eighth-amendment proportionality proportionate-penalties sentencing solem-v-helm state-courts supreme-court-precedent 1. IS Solem v. Helm, 463 U.S. 277 (1983) binding Case Law? 2. Must Illinois Appellant Courts be required to Follow the United States Supreme Court's …
20-487 Ho Wong Jeong v. Angel Cabrera, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-10-14 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion motion precedent pro-se rule-60 standing supreme-court-precedent Did the district court act contrary to this Court's precedents in Haines U. Kerner, 404 U.S. 519, 521 (1972) and Erickson u. Pardus, 551 U.S. 89, 94 (…
20-6004 Jconcepcion Alonso-Tobar v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-5914 Clifton Robinson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech interstate-commerce regulatory-authority sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent 1) peTiTIoNer Obsects To The hower courrs deTenmiratio> ThAT peTiTIONER STIpUlUTEd ait Triul That The scheme wuolved c1 WIne COMMUNiCUTIONS aFFECTINg …
20-420 Jack R. T. Jordan v. Department of Labor Eighth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure-act constitutional-interpretation federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence foia foia-review judicial-misconduct judicial-procedure judicial-review supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether, under the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA"), lower courts may disregard, violate or change the plain language of the judicial review pro…
20-240 Kentucky v. Larry Lamont White Kentucky 2020-08-28 Denied Amici (1) atkins-v-virginia atkins-waiver capital-defendant capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process habeas-corpus intellectual-disability standing supreme-court-precedent Whether a capital defendant can waive a claim of intellectual disability under Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002), and its progeny.
20-5510 Robert L. Pernell, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 direct-appeal equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus jurisdictional-requirements procedural-default supreme-court-precedent I. WHETHER THE GOVERNING PROVISIONS IN THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS PRECEDENT CASE LAW, IN RE GODDARD, 170 F.3d 43541999), HAS UNLAWFULLY CREAT…
20-5468 Corey Manning v. Michigan Michigan 2020-08-24 Denied IFP competency-hearing competency-to-stand-trial constitutional-rights criminal-procedure critical-stages due-process fair-trial judicial-procedure right-to-be-present supreme-court-precedent trial-presence 1.) WHETHER DEFENDANT-APPELLANT WAS DENIED HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO BE PRESENT AT ALL CRITICAL STAGES OF TRIAL WHERE HE WAS INTENTIONALLY NOT SUMMO…
20-5366 Anthony Bernard Smith, Jr. v. Ron Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-08-19 Denied IFP civil-procedure equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstance judicial-precedent ninth-circuit reasonable-diligence statute-of-limitations supreme-court-precedent Whether reasonable diligence to remedy an extraordinary circumstance is sufficient for equitable tolling to stop the clock on a statute of limitations…
20-5370 Luis Guillen v. Russell Washburn, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling federal-procedure habeas-corpus standing statute-of-limitations supreme-court-precedent 1. WHETHER THE PETITIONER'S PETITION IS TIMELY AND/OR THE ONE YEAR STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS IN PETITIONER'S CASE ARE EQUATABLY TOLLED UNDER HOLLAND V. F…
20-5362 David Wayne Allen v. Betty Mitchell, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-14 Denied IFP biased-juror death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus juror-bias ohio-supreme-court sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent Did the trial court's refusal to dismiss a biased juror from a Death Penalty Panel, deprive Petitioner Allen of protection under the Sixth and Fourtee…
20-5304 Stephon Williams v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP adverse-effect conflict-of-interest criminal-trial cross-examination effective-assistance-of-counsel eleventh-circuit right-to-counsel sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent witness-representation Whether Mr. Williams' Sixth Amendment right to conflict-free counsel was violated when his trial counsel simultaneously represented a witness testifyi…
20-5258 Nikole Marie Hunter v. Government Employees Insurance Company Fourth Circuit 2020-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP anderson-v-liberty-lobby civil-procedure evidence evidence-interpretation expert-witness judicial-function procedural-rules standard-of-review summary-judgment supreme-court-precedent tolan-v-cotton 1. Whether the District Court, failing to review such evidence and ignoring the Plaintiffs expert witness testimony, conflict with Supreme Court prece…
20-5262 Stephen Henderson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-tracking fourth-amendment habeas-corpus retroactive-application retroactivity search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent title-28-usc-2253 united-states-v-jones warrantless-search Should this Court's decision in United States v. Jones, 132 S.Ct. 945 (2012), (placement of GPS monitoring on a vehicle and cells-site tracking withou…
20-5194 In Re Kevin D. Moore 2020-07-31 Denied Relisted (2)IFP compassionate-release covid-19 due-process equal-protection federal-prisoner habeas-corpus non-successive-claim post-conviction-relief sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Question not identified.
20-5132 Antwan R. Cray v. Warden, FCI Coleman - Medium Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-21 Denied IFP criminal-innocence criminal-law due-process factual-innocence federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus legal-innocence rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent Whether Petitioner Is actually, Factually, Legally, and Lawfully Innocent of his Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019) recently decided by T…
20-5037 Bruce Zachary Pugh v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-07-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP criminal-procedure fairness-integrity judicial-review jury-instructions plain-error public-reputation substantial-rights supreme-court-precedent trial-record (1) Whether plain-error review for failure to instruct on an element of the offense, based upon an intervening U.S. Supreme Court decision, allows cou…
20-5099 Lantrel DeKeith Wilson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 6th-circuit consent-search consent-to-search criminal-procedure inevitable-discovery motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent terry-stop I. Whether the decision of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in affirming the District Court's denial of Lantrel Wilson's Motion to Suppress conflict…
20-5088 Francisco Javier Ponce-Mares v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-below different-result holguin-hernandez Holguin-Hernandez-v-United-States lower-court-decision reasonable-probability reconsider-decision reconsideration sentencing supreme-court-precedent Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light of…
20-5042 Julian Silva-Aguilar v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis guilty-plea ninth-circuit plea-agreement plea-bargaining supreme-court-precedent In deciding that the defendant's guilty plea was supported by an adequate factual basis, and was therefore knowing and intelligent and subject to the …
20-1 Nicholas E. Davis v. United States Armed Forces 2020-07-09 Denied Response Waived appellate-review court-martial criminal-procedure jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error supreme-court-precedent waiver Whether the failure to object to a pattern jury instruction erroneously describing the elements of the offense constitutes affirmative waiver such tha…
20-5018 Roy Howard Middleton v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-09 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-court-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-law-application habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-precedent stare-decisis supreme-court-precedent I. Petitioner asks did the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and the District Court for the Northern District of Florida apply f…
19-1443 S. O., Individually and on Behalf of Her Minor Son, B. O. v. Hinds County School District, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-07-01 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process fifth-circuit-review judicial-procedure plain-error plain-error-review standing supreme-court-precedent unpreserved-argument unpreserved-arguments 1. Whether Fifth Circuit has again refused to follow the United States Supreme Court Per Curiam as found in Charles Earl Davis v. United States, cites…
19-8860 In Re Lakshmi Arunachalam 2020-06-30 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP appointments-clause aqua-products arthrex constitutional-redress equal-protection fletcher-v-peck patent-prosecution patent-prosecution-history patent-review supreme-court-precedent virnetx Whether this Court must Order the Circuit Court to apply Arthrex, Virnetx, Aqua Products, consider Patent Prosecution History, and enforce Fletcher, i…
19-8869 Robert Wade v. Monroe County District Attorney, et al. Third Circuit 2020-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-action District-Attorney's-Office-for-the-Third-Judicial- district-court-order due-process rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 Skinner-v-Switzer standing supreme-court-precedent WHETHER THE AMENDED ORDER OF THE COURT OF APPEALS VACATING THE ORDER OF THE DISTRICT COURT AND DISMISSING THE 1983 ACTION BASED ON THE ROOKER-FELDMAN …
19-8707 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Apple, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2020-06-15 Dismissed IFP america-invents-act constitution-clause constitutional-prohibition contract-clause due-process government-grants patent patent-rights separation-of-powers standing supreme-court-precedent Whether the USPTO/PTAB (the "Agency ") and Federal Circuit were aware of the prohibition of the Constitution mandated by this Court 1 against repudi…
19-8708 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Presidio Bank Federal Circuit 2020-06-15 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment brown-vs-board civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech judicial-ethics patent patent-rights stare-decisis supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether this Court's duty to enforce its Governing Precedents as declared by Chief Justice J. Marshall in Fletcher v. Peck (1810) and Trustees of D…
19-1372 Angel M. Ayala-Vazquez v. United States First Circuit 2020-06-12 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial fifth-amendment judicial-proceedings perjured-testimony sixth-amendment standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent writ-of-certiorari Whether the lower courts so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, or sanctioned such a departure by a lower court, …
19-8671 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Federal Circuit 2020-06-11 Dismissed IFP chief-justice-roberts conflict-of-interest constitutional-redress government-issued-patents judicial-misconduct knights-of-malta patent-rights supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-precedents 1. Whether it is "misprision of treason " that eight Justices remained silent of Chief Justice Roberts ' conflict of interest against inventors as a …
19-8658 Garian King v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP __U.S.__ 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020). court-reconsideration criminal-procedure harmless-error holguin-hernandez judicial-review lower-court-decision precedent reasonable-probability reconsideration remand sentencing standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent I. Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light…
19-8640 Paul N. Littles v. United States Third Circuit 2020-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-U.S.C-2255 career-offender constitutional-vagueness Johnson-v-United-States mandatory-sentencing-guidelines postconviction-motion residual-clause sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent unconstitutionally-vague The question presented is whether a postconviction motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, challenging a sentence imposed under the pre-2005 mandatory version …
19-8633 Weylin O. Rodriguez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari-review due-process eleventh-circuit evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus miller-el-standard precedent remand section-2255 supreme-court-precedent title-28-U.S.C-2255 A writ of certiorari be granted since the Eleventh Circuit's decision in not remanding to the lower court was contrary to precedent of this court whic…
19-8613 Abdul Shabazz Wiggins v. Virginia Virginia 2020-06-05 Denied IFP anderson-v-creighton civil-rights due-process graham-v-connor hope-v-pelzer hudson-v-mcmillian qualified-immunity strickland-v-washington supreme-court-precedent use-of-force 1. Whether the General District and Circuit Courts of Suffolk ignored the defendant's right to Qualified Immunity as set forth in Hudson v. McMillian …
19-8617 Homar Perez Chavez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres case-review criminal-law due-process judicial-review legal-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), should be overruled?
19-8580 Lary James Plumlee v. Isidro Baca, Warden Nevada 2020-06-02 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-rule supreme-court-precedent teague-doctrine welch-v-united-states Under the new constitutional rule of retroactivity established in Montgomery v. Louisiana and clarified in Welch v. United States, is a state court re…
19-8463 Luis Ricardo Mayea-Pulido v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection gender-discrimination heightened-scrutiny legitimacy marital-status ninth-circuit parents'-marital-status statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Did the Ninth Circuit (and other courts of appeals) misinterpret the phrase "parents' marital status" by holding that it refers exclusively to "legiti…
19-8313 Thomas M. Tully v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-04-21 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-claim habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default statutory-provisions successive-writ supreme-court-precedent writ-of-certiorari In McQuiggin v. Perkins, 569 U.S. 383, 393 (2013), the United States Supreme Court ruled: "a prisoner otherwise subject to defenses of abuse or succes…
19-8257 Eric C. Miller v. Randy Gibbs, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-04-14 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-requirements due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus procedural-default successive-petitions supreme-court-precedent time-barred-petition Can the lower courts continue to bypass U.S. Supreme Court law in favor of their self-created rule calling time-barred initial habeas petitions 'adjud…
19-1191 Ohio v. Shawn Ford Ohio 2020-04-01 Denied Amici (2) atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability standing state-standards supreme-court-jurisdiction supreme-court-precedent What is the test for determining whether someone is "intellectually disabled" for purposes of the Eighth Amendment?
19-1170 Ricky W. Campbell v. Chad Wolf, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Fourth Circuit 2020-03-26 Denied Response Waived administrative-exhaustion causal-connection civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eeoc-filing employment-discrimination federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jurisdictional-bar standing staub-v-proctor-hospital supreme-court-precedent 1. If Fed. R. Civ. P. Rule 12(b)(1), grants 21 days for a party to respond after being served, why would the Fourth Circuit Court uphold an allegation…
19-8066 Silvestre Lara-Cervantes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-remand criminal-procedure harmless-error holguin-hernandez judicial-review precedent reasonable-probability reconsideration remand sentencing standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light of…
19-8073 Kenneth Baker v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied IFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure standard-of-review statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent third-circuit Whether the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit rendered a decision in conflict with the law of the United States Supreme Court announced in Barefo…
19-8029 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Lyft, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2020-03-18 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-emergency contract-clause corporate-infringement due-process government-contracts judicial-misconduct mutiny national-security patent patent-rights sedition separation-of-powers supreme-court supreme-court-precedent takings 1. Whether it is Sedition that Chief Justice Roberts engaged in conflict of interest against inventors as a member of the Knights of Malta with fealty…
19-7887 Juvenile Female v. United States Second Circuit 2020-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP adult-status congress-intent delinquency-prevention district-court-discretion due-process juvenile-justice juvenile-justice-and-delinquency-prevention-act juvenile-offenders juvenile-transfer sentencing supreme-court-precedent transfer-to-adult-status Whether a district court errs when it gives too much weight to the seriousness of charged offenses in deciding whether to transfer a juvenile to adult…
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…
19-1060 Victor Thomas v. New York New York 2020-02-26 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived appeal appellate-jurisdiction criminal-defendant criminal-procedure garza-v-idaho jurisdiction right-to-counsel sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent waiver waiver-of-appeal Whether a provision in a waiver of appeal that forbids a criminal defendant from filing a notice of appeal, and in so doing also strips superior court…
19-7750 Russell Patrick Brown v. Kenneth D. Hutchison, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-degree-murder constitutional-due-process constitutional-violation conviction criminal-conviction due-process insufficient-evidence jackson-v-virginia jury-instruction premeditation self-defense supreme-court-precedent (1) Whether it's a U.S. constituion Due Process violation proscribed by this court in Jackson v. Virginia, for Mr. Brown's 1st degree murder convictio…
19-7729 Aaron New v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-21 Denied IFP circuit-split false-claims-act judicial-interpretation legal-standard materiality materiality-standard objective-standard subjective-standard supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-gaudin universal-health-services-v-escobar 1. Did the Ninth Circuit 's opinion contradict this Court 's holding in Universal Health Services, Inc. v. United States ex rel. Escobar 136 S. Ct. 19…
19-7726 Larry Watkins, Sr. v. United States Second Circuit 2020-02-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP bail bail-reform-act constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence moot-question mootness pretrial-bail residual-clause sessions-v-dimaya supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis vagueness Whether the judgment below should be vacated for deciding a moot question.
19-7645 Ramiro F. Gonzales v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure decisional-law due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-courts federal-rules gonzalez-v-crosby rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6 split-among-circuits standing supreme-court-precedent Whether a change in decisional law may constitute an extraordinary circumstance justifying relief under Rule 60(b)(6).
19-7705 Michael Roman Burghardt v. United States First Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-defendant criminal-procedure-waiver direct-appeal element-of-offense elements-of-offense indictment plain-error-review plea-colloquy rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement supreme-court-precedent waiver 1. Whether a criminal defendant has waived a claim that the indictment failed to charge an element of the offense where the claim arose while his case…
19-7630 Paris Hollingshed v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fairness-integrity judicial-review jury-instructions plain-error public-reputation substantial-rights supreme-court-precedent trial-record (1) Whether plain-error review for failure to instruct on an element of the offense, based upon an intervening U.S. Supreme Court decision, allows cou…
19-7595 Rickey Todd Major v. Renee Baker, Warden Nevada 2020-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-law due-process federal-constitution retroactivity state-courts substantive-function supreme-court-precedent welch-v-united-states Following Welch , does the federal Constitution require state courts to apply retroactively decisions that narrow the scope of criminal laws?
19-7567 Richard Ben v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2111 18-usc-924 2nd-amendment crime-of-violence criminal-law dimaya-decision dimaya-vs-sessions due-process firearm-brandishing johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states johnson-vs-united-states sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether, under Supreme Court precedent established in Johnson and Dimaya, Mr. Ben's conviction for brandishing a firearm in relation to a crime of vio…
19-7568 Theodore Michael Brewster v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court-interpretation discretionary-review federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-circuit legal-procedure rule-11 supervisory-powers supreme-court-precedent united-states-court-of-appeals Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Cireuit")-which held Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Criminal…
19-7469 Olga Palamarchuk v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied IFP escobar evidence evidence-admissibility lender-conduct mail-fraud materiality materiality-standard ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-interpretation recipient-behavior supreme-court-precedent This case raises questions concerning the standard by which materiality is to be determined in a mail fraud case. The United States Supreme Court in U…
19-7461 Derrick Lamar Cheeks v. Alford Joyner Fourth Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process habeas habeas-review jurisdictional-conflict procedural-default state-court supreme-court supreme-court-precedent 1) Has the Supreme Court of the United States overturned its own precedent in Harris v. Reed, 489 U.S. 255 109 S.Ct. 1038 103 L.Ed. 2d (1989); Caldwel…
19-941 Billy Daniel Raulerson, Jr. v. Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied Amici (2) aedpa atkins-v-virginia burden-of-proof capital-punishment cooper-v-oklahoma due-process habeas-corpus intellectual-disability supreme-court-precedent Whether this Court's unanimous holding in Cooper v. Oklahoma, 517 U.S. 348 (1996), clearly established that Georgia could not impose the burden of req…
19-7170 Dante Taylor v. New York New York 2020-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel appellate-procedure appellate-review carpenter-v-united-states constitutional-law constitutional-ruling due-process fourth-amendment griffith-v-kentucky ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel retroactive-application retroactivity supremacy-clause supreme-court-precedent Q1. What is the appropriate appellate protocol for appellate counsel to follow when: (i) the Supreme Court has issued a new constitutional ruling affe…
19-7130 Fabio Morel v. United States Second Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review case-law circuit-court-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing judicial-precedent plea-agreement plea-bargaining precedent retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent I. WHETHER THE LOWER COURT'S DECISION IS IN CONFLICT WITH FREEMAN V. UNITED STATES, 564 U.S. 522 (2011); AND HUGHES V. UNITED STATES, 138 S. Ct. 1765 …
19-7073 Anthony Thomas v. Kenmark Ventures, LLC Ninth Circuit 2019-12-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure bankruptcy-law civil-procedure due-process fraud fraud-on-the-court judicial-bias judicial-fraud mandate mandate-recall supreme-court-precedent void-judgment Did the Ninth Circuit commit error by failing to recall the mandate based upon this Court's intervening decision in Lamar, Archer & Cofrin. LLP v. App…
19-7074 Victor J. Stitt, II v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-12-27 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act burglary criminal-sentencing generic-burglary rehaif rehaif-standard sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tennessee-law I. Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct…
19-7080 Stanley Jaboin v. Florida Florida 2019-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process due-process,criminal-procedure,federal-law,supreme failure-to-render-aid federal-law florida-statute-316.193 judgment-of-acquittal motion-for-acquittal standard-of-proof statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent I. Petitioner ask did the First District Courts of Appeals apply federal law issued by the United States Supreme Court in a way that frustrates and un…
19-6995 Richard Alan King v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process faretta-v-california fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice magistrate pro-se-pleading procedural-default remand reversal standard-of-review standing supreme-court-precedent Was The Presiding Magistrate's Analysis So Flawed As To Warrent This Court To Reverse And Remand So That A Correct Legal Standard May Be Applied ? pg7…
19-6980 John Lyndon Williamson v. City of Wichita, Kansas Kansas 2019-12-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP citizenship-clause commerce-clause compelled-commerce constitutional-interpretation criminal-sanction dormant-commerce-clause due-process police-powers presumption-of-innocence supreme-court-precedent tenth-amendment welfare-powers Whether this courts holding against the individual mandate sanction in NFIB v. Sebelious 567 U S 519, 132, S. Ct. 2566, 183, L Ed 2d 450 (2012) on the…
19-6945 Kevin Dameron v. Illinois Illinois 2019-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence eyewitness-identification judicial-review legal-error neil-v-biggers standing state-court-interpretation state-court-review supreme-court-precedent WHETHER THE ILLINOIS STATE COURT ERRED IN ITS APPLICATION OF WELL ESTABLISHED UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT PRECEDENT DECLARED IN NEIL v. BIGGERS, 409 U…
19-6845 David Steward v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-12-05 Denied IFP collateral-review constitutional-right constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process mccoy-v-louisiana retroactivity sixth-amendment substantive-decision supreme-court-precedent Whether the newly established constitutional right announced in McCoy v. Louisiana, 138 S.Ct. 1500(2018), created a substantive decision, that applies…
19-6873 Anthony Dale Carter v. Florida Florida 2019-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights due-process federal-rights individual-rights judicial-review standing state-court supreme-court-precedent 1. Is i a epe heaen d oton ai Or whole on the Court's failure to rule withinm a neasonable time? Constitutonal rigpt to Due Procss and Acess To Courts…
19-6799 Aamir A. Hafiz-Thompson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP acca appeal certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel precedent sentencing supreme-court-precedent 1. Nationally, where counsel admittingly is inaccurate, misinforms and fails, to. make specific inquiry regarding Petitioner's prior predicates (ACCA)…
19-6802 Gary Jackson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process identification identification-process judicial-circuit jurisdiction precedent sentencing standing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent 1) Did the State of Florida within the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit Court in and Broward County, Florida and the Fourth District Court of Appeal as we…
19-6804 Michael Helms v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure due-process extinguishment foreclosure foreclosure-judgment rescission rescission-rights security-interest statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent truth-in-lending-act The Truth in Lending Act ('TELA "), 15 U.S.C. §§ 1601 et seq., provides special rescission rights for loans secured by a borrower's principal dwelling…
19-6805 Hajes Rabaia v. Gubir Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied IFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-review sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent Under the fifth, sixth, and fourteenth amendment, Does the holding of Brady v. Maryland apply to the petitioner? 1. 2. Were the decisions rendered b…
19-6737 Leonard L. Little, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2019-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review carpenter-v-united-states constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-law fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure jurisdiction legal-standards privacy search-and-seizure sixth-amendment-confrontation-clause standing supreme-court-precedent I. Petitioner asks did the Second District Court of Appeal apply federal law issued by the United States Supreme Court in a way that frustrates and u…
19-6640 Ramelus D. Bradley v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment circuit-court circuit-court-review civil-rights federal-law federal-law-violation fourth-amendment gps-tracking jones-v-united-states search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent vehicle-search Whether the circuit court erred when it failed to find that the state court had; (1) violated federal law; and (2) in doing so, violated petitioner Br…
19-6594 David Ingraham v. Florida Florida 2019-11-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP violate the principals of due-process constitutional-fairness due-process eight-amendment eighth-amendment judicial-integrity juvenile-offenders parole stare-decisis supreme-court-precedent (1). Does the decision of the Florida Supreme Court in overturning its previous decision deciding a Federal Constitutional question, violate the prin…
19-6626 Allen Dodson v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 34-usc-20913(d) administrative-law constitutional-law criminal-law due-process executive-branch gundy-v-united-states legislative-authority nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers sex-offender-registration-and-notification-act statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether this Court should revisit its nondelegation doctrine precedent and, in doing so, overrule Gundy and hold that 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) is an uncon…
19-6486 Eduard Bangiyev v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1963 21-usc-853 co-conspirator-liability conspiracy criminal-forfeiture federal-statute personal-possession-or-use proceeds-of-crime property-forfeiture statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-honeycutt Whether the elements that availed the Supreme court decision in United States v. Honeycutt, also apply more broadly to the 18 U.S.C.S. 1963 statute.
19-6488 Javier Yebra v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-11-04 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-review standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent trial-counsel Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit continue to impose an improper Certificate of Appealability (COA) standard that contraven…
19-6478 Abdul King Garba, et al. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-standard apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure evidence expert-testimony jackson-v-virginia kumho-tire ninth-circuit restitution sufficiency-of-evidence sufficient-evidence supreme-court-precedent weight-vs-admissibility 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit Memorandum conflicted with this Court's decisions (e.g., Kumho Tire) regarding whether unreliability of an expert's testi…
19-6401 Anthony Viola v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York Second Circuit 2019-10-25 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure arkansas-v-sullivan civil-rights constitutional-ruling court-of-appeals due-process error-correction ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review lower-court-decision statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Title 28 U.S.C. § 2106 Gives The Court of Appeals Error Correction Power. Under § 2106, Error Correction Becomes An Exercise of The Court's Statutory …
19-6394 Jacques Paul Villafana v. Henry Thomas Padrick, Jr. Fourth Circuit 2019-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court-review civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine conflict-with-supreme-court fourth-circuit interlocutory-appeal judicial-procedure jurisdictional-challenge memorandum-order supreme-court-precedent I. Courts of Appeals may exercise jurisdiction over collateral orders. Petitioner appealed a District Court's Memorandum Order under the collateral or…
19-6331 Joseren Deshune Delancy v. Florida Florida 2019-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-framework Batson-v-Kentucky civil-rights constitutional-challenge equal-protection mccleskey-v-kemp prima-facie-case racial-discrimination sentencing sentencing-bias supreme-court-precedent Whether this Court should overrule McCleskey v. Kemp, 481 U.S. 279 (1987), and adopt the Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), framework that a defe…
19-6314 Ralph Willard Savoie v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process haymond-v-united-states parole plea-agreement precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation suborned-perjury supervised-release supreme-court supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-watts waiver-of-appeal [1] Can United States v. Watts stand in light of recent holdings in Haymond v. United States? [2] Does a waiver of appeal, in light of Garza v. Idaho…
19-6289 Brian Thomas Mohr v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied IFP appellate-procedure case-review circuit-court-case criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-reconsideration jury-instructions legal-probability rehaif-v-united-states remand standard-of-review statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether there is a reasonable probability of different result if the court below is directed to reconsider its judgment in light of Rehaif v. Unite…
19-6231 William Dean Chapman v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-10-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa aedpa-limitations circuit-split due-process equitable-tolling evidentiary-hearing fraud-upon-the-court habeas-corpus hill-v-lockhart holland-v-florida kyles-v-whitley lemaster materiality miller-v-united-states plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct raines-v-united-states rule-11 standing strickland supreme-court-precedent 1) a.Is equitable tolling warranted when access to legal files and resources is severely hampered? Where the 4th Circuit has denied equitable tolling…
19-6260 Craig Cross v. Florida Florida 2019-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process juvenile-sentencing precedent retroactivity state-supreme-court supreme-court-precedent Did the Florida Supreme Court violate Graham v. Florida, 560 U.S. 48, 130 S. Ct. 2011, 176 L. Ed. 2d 825 (2010), Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460, 132 …
19-6175 K. S. v. Contra Costa County Children & Family Services Bureau California 2019-10-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP california-welfare-and-institution-code civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federalism fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment santosky-v-kramer sixth-amendment standing supreme-court-precedent welfare-code Whether the application of California Welfare and Institution Code, in this case, violated petitioner's constitutional rights under the Fifth, Sixth a…
19-6126 Adelbaset A. Youssef v. Bill Schuette, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP abstention appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights doe-v-univ-of-ky due-process federal-courts judicial-review motion-to-dismiss sprint-communications-inc-v-jacobs standing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent younger-abstention Whether the Six Circuit Court of Appeals ' decision affirming motion to dismiss on Younger Abstention conflicts with the Supreme Court 's decision i…
19-6136 Thomas A. Bias v. Jimmy Martin, Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-sentencing juvenile-sentencing,eighth-amendment,fourteenth-am life-imprisonment miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana supreme-court-precedent IS THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA UNCONSTITUTIONALLY IMPOSING CONTINUED IMPRISONMENT ON JUVENILE 'S SENTENCED TO LIFE, IN DISREGARD OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREM…
19-6002 Nicole Rena McCrea v. Mark S. Devan, et al. Maryland 2019-09-20 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-conflict legal-sufficiency maryland-law maryland-rule standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Is the Maryland Court of Special Appeals ' March 13, 2019 unpublished Opinion and Memorandum affirming the judgment of the Circuit Court of Charles Co…
19-5973 Wilfred Warren Sheppard v. Texas Texas 2019-09-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-trial sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent united-states-constitution (1.) Whether the Texas Criminal Court of Appeals has ruled in a manner which conflicts with the Fifth and Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. (…
19-5983 Alejandro Llamas-Delgado v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof conspiracy controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-trafficking due-process statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-precedent Whether the lower court's decision conflicts with Supreme Court and other circuit precedent concerning the government's burden to prove the evidence w…
19-5990 David Alan Vogel v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-18 GVR Relisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure circuit-court-jurisdiction circuit-court-split civil-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction notice-of-appeal procedural-defect right-to-appeal standing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent By Denying the Petitioner the right to appeal based on a minor defect in his NOTICE OF APPEAL, did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals conflict with th…
19-344 Qihui Huang v. Ajit Varadaraj Pai, Chairman of Federal Communications Commission, et al. District of Columbia 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) burden-shifting civil-procedure civil-rights compensation constitutional-amendments discrimination due-process retaliation standing supreme-court-precedent Q1. Whether lower court could not comply rulings of Supreme Court on: (a) "[Respondent's] silence implies consent, not the opposite—and courts general…
19-323 Charles V. Schneider v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eighth Circuit 2019-09-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-court-ruling circuit-court-rulings circuit-split constitutional-authority constitutional-authority-of-courts federal-law inferior-courts judicial-conflict judicial-hierarchy judicial-review judicial-supremacy legal-precedent statutory-interpretation supervisory-power supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (or any other inferior court) has the Constitutional authority to rule in conflict with r…
19-324 Technology Properties Limited LLC, et al. v. Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., et al. Federal Circuit 2019-09-10 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process standing supreme-court-precedent the-patent-act federal-circuit patent patent-act patent-law prosecution-history-disclaimer separation-of-powers supreme-court-precedent Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's development and application of the doctrine of "prosecution history disclaimer" i…
19-5869 Jaime Enriquez-Hernandez, aka Jaime Enriques-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
19-5852 Roosevelt Leon Cooper v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-06 GVR IFP case-law certiorari criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review mens-rea rehaif-standard remand statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent vacatur Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2…
19-5853 Jambulat Tkhilaishvili v. United States First Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process extortion judgment-of-acquittal physical-possession property-transfer scheidler sekhar statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent takings I. This Court has held in Sekhar and Scheidler that, to be guilty of extortion, the defendant must take physical possession of the victim's property. …
19-5854 Sabrina D. Davis v. Bankers Life and Casualty Company South Carolina 2019-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP and SCRCP(South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process judicial-bias precedent standing state-courts supreme-court-precedent time-for-service CAN THE SOUTH CAROLINA COURTS IGNORE PRECEDENT SET BY THE US SUPREME COURT THAT CLEARLY STATES THAT TIME FOR SERVICE CANNOT BE REDUCED AND PRODUCE CON…
19-304 Ranger American of the V.I., Inc., et al. v. Frederick J. Balboni, Jr. Virgin Islands 2019-09-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bill-of-rights congressional-power due-process equal-protection federal-legislation federal-statute guam-v-guerrero judicial-interpretation kepner-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent territorial-courts territorial-law Is the Virgin Islands Supreme Court bound by this Court's Equal Protection decisions where Congress explicitly applied the Equal Protection Clause to …
19-5804 Jesse Lewis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-04 GVR IFP appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-law due-process federal-statute remand statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis vagueness vagueness-doctrine In United States v. Davis , 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), this Court held that 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B), which defines "crime of violence," is unconstitut i…
19-5817 Kendrick Taylor v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-09-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP apodaca-v-oregon criminal-procedure criminal-trial fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine johnson-v-louisiana jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent unanimous-verdict The issue presented is whether the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial requires an unanimous jury verdict and, if so, would that unanimity requireme…
19-5778 Hosam Maher Husein Smadi v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553a constitutional-rights due-process effective-counsel equal-protection manifest-injustice plea-agreement right-to-effective-counsel rule-11 sentencing sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent 1). Whether Smadi in this Case would suffer a manifest injustice and an extreme hardship by serving several extra years in prison absent such relief i…
19-5793 Anton Jevon Alexander v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c bank-robbery constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process federal-statute residual-clause statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness supreme-court-precedent underlying-crime vagueness vagueness-doctrine In United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), this Court held that the residual clause contained in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(b) is unconstitutionall…
19-5760 Aly Toure v. New York New York 2019-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure mental-health standing supreme-court-precedent waiver-of-rights 1. DID THE APPELMTE DIVISION VIOLATE CLEARLY ESTABLISHED FEDERAL SUPREME COURT RATIFIED LAW ? 2. DID THE LOWER COURT OVERLOOK DEFENDANTS SIGNIFICANT…
19-5709 Sam Newman v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruton-v-united-states constitutional-interpretation criminal-statute due-process firearm-discharge johnson-v-united-states reasonable-person-standard sessions-v-dimaya supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis vagueness vagueness-doctrine 1. Whether Louisiana Revised Statute Annotated § 14:94(A) (1995), barring the "illegal use of a weapon," is unconstitutionally vague under Johnson v. …
19-5565 Carlos Miguel Perez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-13 GVR IFP criminal-law due-process firearms firearms-possession rehaif-v-united-states sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent Mr. Perez respectfully requests that his 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) conviction be reversed and remanded in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (J…
19-163 Margaret A. Norton v. Colgate Palmolive Company New Jersey 2019-08-06 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law court-judgment due-process fairness judgement judicial-mistake legal-procedure mistake-of-fact precedent right-of-fairness standing supreme-court-precedent Whether the New Jersey Supreme Court failed to apply Supreme Court Precedent, when an acknowledged mistake by the court resulted in an improper judgem…
19-5476 Anthony L. Williams v. American Airlines, Inc., et al. California 2019-08-06 Denied IFP administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law corporate-defense default-judgment due-process equal-employment-opportunity equal-employment-opportunity-commission standing supreme-court-precedent Did the lower courts make an exception in this case in denying statutory default judgment to the petitioner in support of a corporate defendant and vi…
19-5485 Justin James Thrasher v. Arizona Arizona 2019-08-06 Denied IFP arizona-supreme-court brown-v-plata brown-vs-board civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-oversight prison-reform prisoner-rights standing supreme-court-precedent The Decision Of The Arizona Supreme Court Violates Brown -v- Plata 131 S. Ct. 1910(2011)
19-162 Michael Richards v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-08-05 Denied Response Waived collateral-attack collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation pena-rodriguez pena-rodriguez-v-colorado racial-bias retroactivity supreme-court-precedent Should this Court's decision in Pena-Rodriquez v. Colorado, 187 8, Ct. 855 (2017) be applied retroactively to Petitioner's collateral attack?
19-5456 Ibrahim McCants v. United States Third Circuit 2019-08-05 GVR IFP anonymous-tip categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute divisibility-of-state-statutes domestic-violence due-process federal-criminal-procedure firearms fourth-amendment mathis-v-united-states mens-rea police-stop-and-frisk reasonable-suspicion rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation stop-and-frisk supreme-court-precedent third-circuit-court-of-appeals Whether the government established the knowledge-of-status element under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)
19-5383 Christopher Stacy v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-31 GVR IFP case-law certiorari criminal-law criminal-procedure judicial-review mens-rea rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states remand statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent vacatur Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2…
19-5397 Charles Donelson v. Q. Tanner, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied IFP audit-standard circuit-split civil-rights class-action criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence fraud fraud-on-the-market free-speech securities-law standing supreme-court-precedent takings Whether The Seventh circuit prisoner lawsuit forms for District court create a fraudulent Execution or Information Whether the seventh circuit applic…
19-125 Gale Zamore v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, Individually and as Trustee for JP Morgan Mortgage Acquisition Trust 2007-CH5 Asset Backed Pass-Through Certificates Series 2007-CH5, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 15-usc-1635 amos-v-glynn-county civil-rights claim-preclusion due-process exxon-mobil-v-saudi-basic federal-jurisdiction federal-vs-state-law-for-res-judicata jesinoski-v-countrywide-home-loans res-judicata semtek-v-lockheed-martin statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tila tila-rescission tila-rescission-as-completed-event Whether the Eleventh Circuit can ignore Exxon Mobil and apply its own discarded standard
19-122 David Thompson, et al. v. Heather Hebdon, Executive Director of the Alaska Public Offices Commission, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (4) campaign-finance contribution-limits electoral-law first-amendment ninth-circuit procedural-history randall-v-sorrell regulatory-background standing supreme-court-precedent Whether Alaska's $500 individual-to-candidate and individual-to-group contribution limits violate the First Amendment
19-5308 Oscar Minaya v. United States Second Circuit 2019-07-25 GVR IFP 18-usc-924 18-usc-924c civil-rights conviction criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute residual-clause sentence sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis void-for-vagueness Whether the residual clause at 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is void for vagueness
19-5331 Michael Lee v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split due-process flawed-precedent prior-panel-precedent-rule stare-decisis statutory-right statutory-right-to-appeal supreme-court-precedent violent-felony Does the Eleventh Circuit too rigidly apply its 'prior panel precedent rule?
19-5295 In Re Larry Charles 2019-07-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP due-process exceptional-circumstances fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandamus right-to-appeal sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent writ-of-mandamus Do exceptional circumstances exist in the Petitioner's case that justify granting his Petition seeking a Writ of Mandamus when he has demonstrated a c…
19-5296 Ozzie Davis v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2019-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruton-v-us criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial-rights jackson-v-virginia prosecutorial-misconduct state-trial sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-precedent third-degree-murder Whether the Pennsylvania Superior Court's denial of the challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence resulted in an unreasonable application of Suprem…
19-5104 Maurice Samuel Arrington v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certiorari-review civil-rights court-records due-process evidence-assessment factual-findings federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-standards legal-review standing state-courts supreme-court-precedent Does the Court of Appeals deny prisoners Due Process by Ignoring vital Facts necessary to determining their Pre-COA issues and Merely quoting Black v.…
19-5114 Jovanny Rodriguez v. United States Second Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP alibi due-process evidence fifth-amendment indictment indictment-variance interstate-commerce jury-finding jury-instructions sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent trial variance Petitioner was convicted and sentenced without having an opportunity to establish an alibi due to a variance between the indictment and evidence at tr…
19-5102 Dan Pizaro v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-08 Denied IFP criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offense drug-offenses due-process federal-sentencing first-step-act mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent Whether the life sentence imposed on 21 U.S.C. § 846 and § 841(a)(1) pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(A) and § 851 must be reduced to twenty-five (25…
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?
18-9648 Jamelle Edward Armstrong v. California California 2019-06-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP african-american batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky due-process equal-protection federal-question jury-selection peremptory-challenges race-neutrality supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review Did the California Supreme Court improperly decide the issue of the race-neutrality of respondent's exercise of its trial peremptory challenges to exc…
18-9521 Christopher Anthony Jones v. Nevada Nevada 2019-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-statute due-process montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity substantive-rule supreme-court-precedent teague-exception welch-v-united-states Whether due process requires the states to retroactively apply a decision narrowing the interpretation of a substantive criminal statute
18-9530 Terry Margheim v. Kenneth Buck, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-06-03 Denied IFP favorable-termination fourth-amendment innocence legal-process malice probable-cause supreme-court-precedent unlawful-seizure Are malice and favorable termination indicative of innocence, necessary elements to prove a violation of the Fourth Amendment?
18-1493 Brittany Montrois, Class of More than 700,000 Similarly Situated Individuals and Businesses, et al. v. United States District of Columbia 2019-05-30 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-record agency-action chenery-corp civil-rights due-process standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tax-return-preparers user-fees voluntary-act Whether a U.S. court of appeals can decline to follow U.S. Supreme Court precedent on user fees, and instead apply its own test
18-1421 Nassau County District Attorney's Office v. Mark Orlando Second Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (23) aedpa aedpa-deference bruton-v-united-states confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation deferential-review habeas-corpus murder-conviction state-court-deference supreme-court-precedent teague-v-lane tennessee-v-street Whether the state court's admission of an accomplice's inculpatory statement, accompanied by limiting instructions, violated the Confrontation Clause
18-9215 Dale Giles v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process eighth-circuit fair-notice in-forma-pauperis judicial-process opportunity-to-be-heard procedural-fairness supreme-court-precedent Did the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals violate petitioner's due process rights to fair notice and an opportunity to be heard?
18-9185 Bobby Martin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-08 GVR IFP 18-usc-16 18-usc-924 constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process residual-clause sentencing sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent void-for-vagueness Whether reasonable jurists could debate whether Sessions v. Dimaya and Johnson v United States invalidated the residual clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3…
18-1403 Jehan Zeb Mir v. Sharon Levine, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-07 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-proceeding due-process equal-protection fair-notice issue-preclusion license-revocation medical-license notice-requirement procedural-protections supreme-court-precedent Whether petitioner was denied due process when respondents revoked his license without adequate procedural protections
18-9147 Donald G. Flint v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment boykin-admonishments constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment guilty-plea judicial-precedent sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent Was the federal district court's finding and the Fifth Circuit Court's finding contrary to the precedent of the Supreme Court, as well as a violation …
18-9158 Robert B. Lynn v. Theodore A. McKee, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, et al. Third Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP bias bias-standard circuit-court-procedure due-process ex-parte-proceedings federal-courts judicial-bias judicial-conduct judicial-recusal legal-standard precedent recusal recusal-standard supreme-court supreme-court-precedent Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals use the wrong legal standard; in conflict with the precedents of The Supreme Court and the Other Courts of Appe…
18-9159 Freddy Brown v. Florida Florida 2019-05-06 Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-claim constitutional-claims constitutional-question eighth-amendment federal-habeas federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-review legal-interpretation merits-decision merits-determination state-court state-court-decisions supreme-court-precedent Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. Ct. 1726 (2017), a case arising under federal habeas review, as a deci…
18-9069 Hector Rengifo v. United States Third Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-split civil-procedure controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standing supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-winstead Whether two United States Court of Appeals has entered a decision in conflict with relevant decision of this Court
18-9101 Pierre Montanez v. Ursula Walowski Illinois 2019-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-jurisdiction federalism judicial-regulation judicial-review peremptory-challenges separation-of-powers standing supremacy-clause supreme-court-precedent Whether the subject of peremptory challenges are valid under the Separation of Powers, Due Process, and the Supremacy Clause
18-9055 Ronald Ray Horner v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-protections constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process extra-territorial-jurisdiction extraterritorial-jurisdiction fifth-amendment international-law sovereign-territory supreme-court-precedent Does the fact that the Appellant was arrested and questioned in Canada immunize the United States Attorney from following the Constitution of the Unit…
18-8963 Jose Cobian v. Illinois Illinois 2019-04-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 730-ilcs-5-5-9-1-1 apprendi constitutional-challenge criminal-fines due-process guilty-plea sentencing southern-union-co-v-united-states standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether the U.S. Supreme Court's holding in Southern Union Co. v. United States has clarified that criminal fines are subject to the rule announced in…
18-8936 William Arthur McIntosh v. Texas Texas 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan newly-available-evidence schlup-v-delo state-court-review successive-writ supreme-court-precedent texas-code-of-criminal-procedure texas-court-of-criminal-appeals trevino-v-thaler Did the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals rule adversely by denying Petitioners successive writ of habeas corpus when he presented newly available evide…
18-8910 Norris Lynn Fisher v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federalism fifth-circuit judicial-accountability judicial-review rule-60b6 standing supreme-court-precedent Why do the Fifth Circuit courts continue to ignore the United States Supreme Court's authoritative precedent?
18-8921 Hector Tellez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-time-period recent-precedence recent-precedent supremacy-clause supreme-court-precedent trial-counsel trial-outcome united-states-supreme-court What is a reasonable time period for trial counsel to be required to become aware of recent precedence before he/she may be deemed ineffective for fai…
18-8890 Carl Lee Jones v. Willie Smith, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection medical-treatment standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent transgender-rights What is the appropriate medical treatment for individuals with gender dysphoria?
18-8892 Carlos Hernandez Machin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-statute due-process mandatory-minimum residual-clause samuel-johnson sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness Whether the Eleventh Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability is in conflict with this Court's precedent when reasonable jurists are current…
18-8898 Melinda J. Campbell v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-prosecution economic-harm hobbs-act hobbs-act,economic-harm,criminal-law,mens-rea,prec mens-rea precedent sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent wrongful-conduct Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals disregarded this Court's established precedent set forth in United States v. Enmons, 410 U.S. 396 (1973), a…
18-1299 Marie Gillispie v. Regionalcare Hospital Partners, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) anti-retaliation at-will-employment circuit-court-interpretation circuit-court-ruling civil-rights common-law due-process employment-law emtala emtala-statute free-speech medical-malpractice preemption public-policy-exception retaliation statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent whistleblower whistleblower-protection Does the precedential ruling by the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals directly contradict Supreme Court precedent and the intent of Congress regarding the …
18-8793 Larry Burstein v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-proportionality constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing drug-crimes drug-dealing drug-offense due-process eighth-amendment elderly-defendant elderly-offenders non-violent-crime non-violent-offense sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent Whether a forty-eight (48) month prison sentence for a first time non-violent, drug dealing, sixty-nine (69) year old grandfather is unreasonable, vio…
18-8797 Juan Lopez-Zuniga v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 8th-circuit eighth-circuit gps-monitoring gps-tracking gps-warrant probable-cause search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent vehicle-search vehicle-tracking warrant-standard Whether the Eighth Circuit's creation of a new standard in evaluating GPS warrants is contrary to existing United States Supreme Court precedent
18-8799 Robert Gordon Lockwood v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-robbery bank-robbery-statute categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law descamps-ruling due-process firearms johnson-ruling mathis-ruling ninth-circuit sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent violent-crime Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals violate the Johnson, Mathis, Descamps, and Dimaya Supreme Court rulings because Prince confirmed that the Bank …
18-8771 Timothy Barr v. Rebecca Pearson, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-circuit-review burden-of-proof civil-procedure civil-rights due-process due-process-rights judicial-authority jury-trial prisoner-civil-rights prisoner-rights pro-se-litigation standing supreme-court-precedent Does the 8th circuit federal court of appeals have the authority to supersede the standards and precedent set by the United States Supreme Court in pr…
18-8714 Kenneth Whigham, Jr., aka Kenneth Pringle v. United States First Circuit 2019-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process jury-submission jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement supreme-court-precedent Whether this Court's decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), which held that the allegation of a prior conviction need no…
18-1274 In Re Urvashi Bhagat 2019-04-04 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived 35-usc-101 administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act bilski-v-kappos federal-circuit-discretion graham-v-deere graham-v-john-deere judicial-discretion patent-eligibility patent-eligibility-35-usc-101 patent-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent uspto-discretion Whether the USPTO abused its discretion by refusing to allow claims that passed every requirement of Title 35 by insisting on extra-statutory requirem…
18-8662 Howard Lawson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP acca aggravated-assault armed-career-criminal-act criminal-history-classification criminal-law due-process florida-criminal-law predicate-offenses sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent Whether Petitioner's prior aggravated assault qualifies as ACCA predicates
18-8645 David Dean Harris v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-04-01 Denied IFP appeal-procedure constitutional-violation due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel presumption-of-innocence sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent victim-identification witness-testimony Was the state's use of the complaining witness's name specifically as the victim a violation of presumption of innocence, Supreme Court precedent, Uni…
18-1244 David Pickup, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-03-25 Denied Response Waived abrogation civil-rights content-based content-based-regulation content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech irreparable-harm mandate-recall recall-mandate supreme-court-precedent Whether the Court of Appeals erred when it refused to recall its mandate after this Court explicitly abrogated its opinion by name
18-8411 Lecephrus Pierce v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP conviction criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent traffic-stop vehicle-search warrantless-search Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals abandoned established Supreme Court precedent in affirming the petitioner's conviction despite finding no …
18-8430 Juan Bosco Alvarez v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 aedpa constitutional-claim due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-court federal-review habeas-corpus state-court state-court-rules supreme-court-precedent Whether a federal habeas court contravenes this Court's precedent when it evaluates the merits of a petitioner's claim without regard for the state co…
18-1181 Tim Shoop, Warden v. Ahmad Fawzi Issa Sixth Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied Relisted (2) aedpa aedpa-standard confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington due-process federal-court-review habeas-corpus retroactivity sixth-amendment state-prisoner-rights supreme-court-precedent Whether a state prisoner's conviction is constitutional under current Supreme Court precedent, even if it violated now-overruled precedent at the time…
18-8382 Guy Ennis Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law coram-nobis criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment fourth-circuit free-speech military military-medals ninth-circuit speech-restrictions standing stolen-valor-act supreme-court-precedent Whether this Court's decision in United States v. Alvarez has any effect on the subsection that criminalized the unauthorized wearing of military meda…
18-8393 Irma Ovalles v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied IFP categorical-approach constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness-doctrine Whether the residual clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague
18-8399 Randall Scott Jones v. Florida Florida 2019-03-12 Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-law death-penalty eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-due-process hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause supreme-court-precedent Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity formula for Hurst v. Florida violations violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments?
18-8202 Walter Ronaldo Martinez Escobar v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied IFP circuit-split eighth-circuit exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception leon-standard search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent warrant-execution warrant-requirement warrantless-search Does the Eighth Circuit caselaw the Panel applied in Escobar's case holding that the United States v. Leon good-faith exception applies even when the …
18-8104 Robert William Frazier v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-justice civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-screening due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review merits-analysis procedural-standard standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent Whether the circuit justice supplanted the COA screening procedure with a merits analysis
18-1077 Akil Jahi, aka Preston Carter v. Tennessee Tennessee 2019-02-19 Denied atkins-v-virginia collateral-review constitutional-protection death-penalty death-penalty-eligibility hall-v-florida intellectual-disability moore-v-texas retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-precedent Does Hall v. Florida apply retroactively to cases on collateral review?
18-8027 Michael Eugene Sample v. Tennessee Tennessee 2019-02-19 Denied IFP case-remand collateral-review criminal-justice death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus intellectual-disability judicial-review montgomery-v-louisiana moore-v-texas retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-precedent welch-v-united-states writ-of-certiorari Does Moore v. Texas apply retroactively to cases on collateral review?
18-1073 Tara King, et al. v. Phil Murphy, Governor of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2019-02-15 Denied Response Waived civil-rights content-based-regulation content-based-restriction due-process extraordinary-circumstances first-amendment free-speech irreparable-harm mandate-recall standing supreme-court-precedent takings Whether a lower court mandate should be recalled when the Supreme Court expressly abrogates the ruling by name and the lower court opinion continues t…
18-7949 In Re Reginald Watson 2019-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2241-motion career-offender civil-rights criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2241 jurisdiction sentencing standard-of-review standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether the District Court erred in dismissing Watson's 2241 motion for lack of jurisdiction?
18-7767 Joshua Sanchez v. Texas Texas 2019-02-05 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation court-of-appeals due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-precedents texas-court-of-appeals Whether the interpretation of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments by the Texas Court of Appeals is in conflict with preceden…
18-7675 Eric Hayes v. United States Third Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP abstract-approach circuit-court collateral-appeal constitutional-law crawford-v-washington criminal-appeal daubert-v-merrell-dow double-jeopardy federal-rules-of-evidence illinois-v-vitale sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent whalen-v-united-states Whether the circuit court departed from the established rules of Whalen v. United States and Illinois v. Vitale regarding the double jeopardy clause
18-7649 Sergeyi Bazar v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP caminetti-v-united-states criminal-law federal-law mann-act mann-act-18-usc-2422 prostitution sex-trafficking sexual-conduct sexual-intercourse statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-bitty When Congress amended the Mann Act (18 U.S.C. § 2422) in 1986, did it overrule this Court's decisions in United States v. Bitty, 208 U.S. 393 (1908), …
18-7652 Brian Anderson v. Colorado Colorado 2019-01-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights colorado-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction nelson-v-colorado presumption-of-innocence standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Does Colorado Revised Statutes 18-3-302 Supersede Nelson V. Colorado 137 S.CT. 1249 (2017)
18-7493 Hayward Jackson v. Equifax Workforce Solutions, dba Labor Ready Southwest, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-22 Denied IFP circuit-conflict civil-procedure civil-rights complaint-sufficiency conley-v-gibson due-process federal-causes-of-action judicial-review leatherman-v-tarrant pleading pleading-standards second-amended-complaint supreme-court-precedent Was the Ninth Circuit in conflict with this Court's Decisions in Leatherman v. Tarrant County Narcotics Intelligence and Coordination Unit, 507 U. S. …
18-7494 Richard Dernard Bozell, Jr. v. Greg Skipper, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP blackledge-v-allison blackledge-v-perry class-v-united-states constitutional-review due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-court-jurisdiction guilty-plea-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel lafler-v-cooper plea-bargaining procedural-cognizability supreme-court-precedent Whether guilty plea cases are cognizable for federal review
18-7508 Patrick Brooks v. Pinnacle Financial Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights consumer-protection due-process foreclosure home-rescission jesinoski-v-countrywide-home-loans res-judicata rescission supreme-court-precedent truth-in-lending-act Whether a lender can use res-judicata to bar examination of an invalid foreclosure that was barred by federal-consumer-protection-law
18-7473 William Dale Albright v. Kansas Kansas 2019-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne alleyne-decision alleyne-v-united-states apprendi apprendi-rule criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent Does this Court's decision in Alleyne v. United States, 570 US 99 (2013) announce a new rule or was it dictated by Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 US 466 …
18-7442 Kevin Underwood v. Mike Carpenter, Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied IFP aggravating-circumstances apprendi-v-new-jersey beyond-reasonable-doubt capital-punishment capital-punishment-scheme capital-sentencing death-penalty due-process jury-findings jury-instructions mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt supreme-court-precedent tenth-circuit Whether the Tenth Circuit's decision conflicts with Apprendi v. New Jersey and Ring v. Arizona
18-918 John Copeland, et al. v. Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., et al. Second Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law due-process facial-challenge free-speech johnson-v-united-states salerno-rule sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether a plaintiff need show that a law is vague in all of its applications to succeed in a facial vagueness challenge
18-7377 Jarvis Harris v. Joe Easterling, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-courts federal-law federal-question judicial-review legal-precedent standing supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and District Court for the Western District has entered a decision in conflict with t…
18-7335 Alonzo Alexander McKay v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missouri-v-frye supreme-court-precedent Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err by denying a Certificate of Appealability (COA), due to its exceeding the scope of t…
18-7351 Rahmad Lashad Geddes v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne appellate-review apprendi civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Can a court of appeals sanction a lower court's departure from this court's well-established precedents that effectively conflates the standard of rev…
18-7242 Dauntorian Lyndel Sanders v. Arizona Arizona 2019-01-07 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment precedent sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent Whether Arizona follows the precedent of Simmons v. South Carolina, 512 U.S. 154 (1994), as set forth in Lynch v. Arizona, 136 S. Ct. 1818 (2016)
18-7201 Mark Isaac Snarr v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-02 Denied IFP 18-usc-3599 ake-v-oklahoma appellate-review ayestas-v-davis capital-case capital-defendant circuit-split due-process expert-services federal-funding fifth-circuit statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether the Fifth Circuit disregarded this Court's precedent when it required petitioner to show that an expert was 'critical' to his case before fund…
18-7212 Anthony Ray Dailey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 castro-v-united-states certificate-of-appealability collateral-review habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review panetti-v-quarterman procedural-due-process retroactivity second-and-successive-petitions section-2255 supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-mathis Whether the U.S. District and Appellate Courts violated Castro v. United States, 124 S.Ct., by refusing to issue a Certificate of Appealability
18-7180 Miguel Antonio Urquia-Melendez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi case-law certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing supreme-court-precedent Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
18-7185 Santos Orlando Diaz-Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres-precedent constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-reconsideration recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review Whether the Court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998)
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 Did the Sixth Circuit err by applying the pre-Wilson 'could-have-reasoned' approach—which blatantly disregarded Wilson and created a split with other …
18-7168 Michael Deontray Williams v. J. Soto, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-12-26 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-interpretation federal-habeas habeas-corpus herrera-v-collins ninth-circuit non-capital standard-for-granting-coa substantive-innocence-claims supreme-court-precedent Whether a claim of actual innocence is cognizable in federal habeas
18-7141 Luis Rey Gonzalez v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-analysis constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent overruling precedent recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Should this Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998)?
18-7166 Gerard Mann v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-21 GVR Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924 constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process johnson-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness-doctrine Whether the definition of 'crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(B) is unconstitutionally vague
18-802 James DeHoog, et al. v. Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-12-21 Denied antitrust antitrust-law brown-shoe brown-shoe-v-united-states clayton-act clayton-act-section-7 market-concentration market-share merger-analysis potential-competition supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-el-paso united-states-v-el-paso-natural-gas united-states-v-penn-olin-chemical Whether the Court should reaffirm its commitment to the structural evaluation of mergers and acquisitions under § 7 of the Clayton Antitrust Act
18-7157 Cody Wayne Mayfield v. Jimmy Martin, Warden Tenth Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied IFP clearly-established-law deferential-review due-process estelle-v-mcguire federal-claim federal-law habeas-corpus standard-of-review state-court state-court-adjudication supreme-court-precedent unreasonable-application Whether deferential treatment is given when a state court's adjudication of a federal claim is not merely unreasonable, but too involved an incorrect …
18-7090 Leonardo T. Morales v. Florida Florida 2018-12-19 Dismissed IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction mandamus mandamus-writ-of-certiorari supreme-court-precedent Whether the Florida Supreme Court dismissal of mandamus conflicts with this court's decisions in Schlagenhauf v. Holder, Bankers Life and Casualty Co.…
18-7042 Robert Tracy Warterfield v. Texas Texas 2018-12-14 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation contracts-clause due-process federal-precedent plea-agreement retroactive-application retroactive-legislation state-plea-agreements supreme-court-precedent What is the proper application of the Contracts Clause to a plea agreement contract, and did Texas misapply the Federal Contracts Clause to Petitioner…
18-713 Stuart Wright v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-12-03 Denied Response Waived anderson-v-liberty-lobby drawing-inferences-in-favor-of-nonmovant. genuine-issue-of-material-fact procedural-rules tolan-v-cotton adickes-v-s-h-kress-co anderson-v-liberty-lobby civil-procedure due-process genuine-issue-of-fact inference-drawing nonmovant-evidence procedural-rules summary-judgment supreme-court-precedent tolan-v-cotton Whether the U.S.A.'s failure to 'respond' and the Magistrate Judge's failure to 'deem admitted' conflict with Supreme Court precedent
18-6795 Darrell Brown v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure due-process great-writ habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review judicial-precedent judicial-proceedings remand section-2255 standing supervisory-power supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Whether the Supreme Court should grant certiorari in this case
18-6737 Jose Lopez-Castillo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP booker booker-decision constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent title-21 Whether the mandatory-sentencing regime of Title 21 has been abrogated by United States v. Booker and its progeny
18-6689 Israel Sanchez v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-negotiations pleading-standard supreme-court-precedent Is California's stringent pleading standard to allege a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel during plea negotiations contrary to the governing …
18-612 CSX Transportation, Inc. v. Alabama Department of Revenue, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-09 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (2) commerce-clause csx-transportation discrimination discriminatory-taxation dormant-commerce-clause equal-protection interstate-commerce motor-carrier motor-carrier-tax preemption railroad-fuel state-taxation supreme-court-precedent tax-discrimination tax-jurisprudence Whether Alabama's imposition of a motor fuels tax on interstate motor carriers justifies its facially discriminatory sales and use tax on railroad die…
18-6566 Jara Meotta Ishon Flowers v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-11-06 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP bribery case-overturning civil-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process extortion judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-precedent precedent racketeering stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Should this Court overturn its prior decision in Evans?
18-582 Stephen Yagman v. Michael J. Colello Ninth Circuit 2018-11-05 Denied anti-SLAPP civil-procedure federal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure iqbal rules-enabling-act supreme-court-precedent twombly Whether a state anti-SLAPP statute can be used to dismiss a claim in federal court when its application is contrary to the Rules Enabling Act, Federal…
18-6522 Robert Prunty v. DeSoto County School Board, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-interpretation civil-procedure civil-rights due-process education educational-rights federal-regulations first-amendment free-speech standing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent Does the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals three judge panel have the right to create conflicts amongst the circuits when it unilaterally changed the Supr…
18-6492 Pascual Rentas v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability clearly-established-law due-process eleventh-circuit giglio giglio-standard habeas-corpus habeas-petition ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standard-of-review strickland strickland-standard supreme-court-law supreme-court-precedent Should the denial of Mr. Rentas' COA be reversed and reconsidered due to the recent ruling by this Court in Marion Wilson v. Eric Sellers, Warden 584 …
18-6428 Roberto Gonzalez Delacruz v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-10-25 Denied IFP brady-violation certificate-of-appealability due-process due-process,habeas,materiality,scientific-evidence fifth-amendment fifth-circuit-review habeas habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review materiality materiality-of-evidence materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit incorrectly denied a certificate of appealability
18-6433 Robert Norman Smithback v. Texas Texas 2018-10-25 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights,due-process,standing,civil-procedure, constitutional-guarantees cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection farmer-v-brennan prison-conditions prisoner-rights supreme-court-precedent Whether Texas jurisprudence enforces constitutional guarantees, especially the Supreme Court's Farmer v. Brennan decision
18-6359 Uriel Gomez-Saavedra v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3661-3553 5th-amendment 5th-circuit-law constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether the mandatory five-year minimum sentence under which Mr. Gomez-Saavedra was sentenced is unconstitutional and contravenes 18 U.S.C. 3661 and 3…
18-6387 Spencer Bowens v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) 28 U.S.C. §2255(£)(3) 28 U.S.C. §2255(f)(3) extend to pre-Booker mandatory career-offender gu that has been newly recognized by the United Stat career-offender career-offender-guidelines collateral-review criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure,sentencing,retroactivity,collat Johnson-right johnson-v-united-states mandatory-sentencing retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines Supreme-Court-precedent Whether the right in Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) that has been newly recognized by the United States Supreme Court and made retro…
18-6353 Michael Joseph Bien v. Texas Texas 2018-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process legal-precedent prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court supreme-court-jurisprudence supreme-court-precedent texas-court-of-criminal-appeals Whether a prosecutor who violates the Double Jeopardy Clause should have exclusive power to determine which of his unconstitutionally obtained convict…
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…
18-467 Barbara Fletcher, et al. v. Honeywell International, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2018-10-12 Denied Response Waived ambiguity-principles circuit-split civil-rights collective-bargaining collective-bargaining-agreement contract-interpretation due-process erisa federal-common-law labor-management-relations-act retiree-healthcare supreme-court-precedent Whether collectively-bargained retiree healthcare benefits may be implied and do not require unequivocal contract language
18-6119 Gary Long, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-sentencing de-facto-life-sentence due-process eighth-amendment federal-court-split federal-courts life-sentence sentencing-analysis sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent term-of-years Whether the district and appellate court failed to conduct the proper analysis of imposing a de facto life sentence on the petitioner?
18-387 Ben Gary Triestman v. Barbara D. Underwood, Attorney General of New York Second Circuit 2018-09-26 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus in-custody liberty-restraint liberty-restraints order-of-protection restraint-of-liberty risk-of-incarceration standing state-court-orders supreme-court-precedent Triestman v. Underwood
18-354 Stanley Weiss v. New Jersey Third Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied 4th-amendment due-process federalism interstate-law jones-case jones-v-united-states judicial-interpretation legal-uniformity privacy property-rights search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent trespass Whether United States v Antoine Jones is the law of the land and should be followed in all states?
18-6010 Babubhai Patel v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction miller-el-v-cockrell sixth-circuit standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals sidestep the COA process in Petitioner Babubhai Patel's COA Application
18-5961 Vincent Michael Marino v. Barbara Rickard, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights collateral-attack constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure criminal-trial double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jury-jeopardy supreme-court-precedent Whether the District Court, Appeals Court for the Second Circuit, and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals sitting En Banc committed reversible legal e…
18-5965 Rayburn Scott Harmon v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied IFP bodily-injury castleman-standard civil-rights criminal-law due-process felony-force-clause misdemeanor-force-clause statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-castleman violent-act violent-felonies violent-felony violent-force violent-physical-force Whether the mere causation of bodily injury necessarily includes the use of violent, physical force
18-319 E. & J. Gallo Winery, et al. v. Refugio Arreguin California 2018-09-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) arbitrability circuit-court-split circuit-split class-arbitration federal-arbitration-act gateway-question gateway-question-of-arbitrability oxford-health-plans oxford-health-plans-v-sutter stolt-nielsen stolt-nielsen-v-animalfeeds supreme-court-precedent Whether a court, or an arbitrator, decides whether an arbitration agreement permits class arbitration
18-5923 Brent Eugene Sanchez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-09-11 Denied IFP bodily-injury castleman-standard civil-rights criminal-law due-process felony-force felony-force-clause misdemeanor-force misdemeanor-force-clause precedent standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent violent-act violent-force violent-physical-force Whether the mere causation of bodily injury necessarily includes the use of violent, physical force
18-297 Eric White, et al. v. Barbara D. Underwood, Attorney General of New York, et al. New York 2018-09-07 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived canons-of-construction federal-indian-law indian-law indian-rights indian-treaty-rights native-american-rights new-york-indians seneca-nation sovereign-immunity state-taxation statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tax-assessment treaty-interpretation tribal-sovereignty Does New York's assessment and collection of taxes within the Seneca Nation of Indians violate the treaty rights of the Seneca Nation?
18-289 Alfred DeGennaro v. American Bankers Insurance Company of Florida, et al. Third Circuit 2018-09-06 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof circuit-court-split circuit-split civil-procedure-pleading-standards damages damages-calculation due-process fraud grubbs-v-kanneganti insurance-fraud monetary-value pleading-requirements pleading-standards rule-9b story-v-parchment supreme-court-precedent Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals improperly stated the law
18-5887 Cecil L. Morton v. Ron Haynes, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2018-09-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-component procedural-standard supreme-court-precedent Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying a certificate of appealability
18-5808 Rafael Angel Rondon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924c 6th-amendment constitutional-law crimes-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process federal-law jury-instructions residual-clause sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent violent-crime Whether the Eleventh Circuit's 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) pattern jury instruction violates the Sixth Amendment
18-5774 Rochelle Driessen v. Royal Bank of Scotland Second Circuit 2018-08-27 Dismissed IFP appellate-review circuit-conflict civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-review procedural-standard standing summary-order supreme-court supreme-court-precedent united-states-court-of-appeals Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit's May 25, 2017, summary order is in direct conflict with a decision of the United States Supr…
18-5739 Terril Kinchen v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-fraud civil-procedure constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sentencing standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent Whether the federal bank fraud statute plainly covered the defendant's conduct
18-5764 Richard Joseph Crane v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus life-sentence parole parole-consideration sentencing supreme-court-precedent Whether the Supreme Court intended for the opinion of California Department of Corrections v. Morales (1995) and Garner v. Jones (2000) to apply to in…
18-5687 Brian Kerry O'Keefe v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. Nevada 2018-08-23 Denied IFP civil-rights collateral-review due-process federal-review habeas-corpus liberty-interest procedural-default standing state-court-decision state-court-proceedings statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent time-bar Whether rights generated by federal procedural and substantive due-process prohibit the state from concluding direct review
18-5685 Clifton Patterson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law due-process johnson-v-united-states sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague
18-216 Judith Ann Paixao and Kevin A. Lombard v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-20 Denied Response Waived 18-usc-666(b) criminal-law federal-assistance federal-assistance-program fraud judicial-review justice-thomas-dissent lower-court-interpretation reconsideration-of-precedent statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent veterans-affairs vocational-rehabilitation Whether the Court should reconsider Fischer v. United States, 529 U.S. 667 (2000), because the lower courts have interpreted it such that 'any funds f…
18-217 Randall Mathena, Warden v. Lee Boyd Malvo Fourth Circuit 2018-08-20 Granted Amici (13)Relisted (9) collateral-review constitutional-law constitutional-rule criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity substantive-rule supreme-court-precedent teague-v-lane Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in concluding that Montgomery v. Louisiana modified and expanded the rule announced in Miller v. Alabama
18-211 Steven Morris Hurd v. California California 2018-08-17 Denied Response Waived cell-phone cell-phone-search criminal-procedure digital-data fourth-amendment physical-objects riley-v-california robinson-precedent search-incident-to-arrest supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-robinson warrant-requirement Whether the search incident to arrest exception to the Fourth Amendment warrant requirement applied to digital data on a cell phone prior to Riley v. …
18-5628 John Richard Tacquard v. Arizona Arizona 2018-08-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights compulsory-process due-process equal-protection evidentiary-standards post-conviction post-conviction-proceedings prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-precedent Whether the Arizona state courts violated the petitioner's due process rights by denying his post-conviction claims despite a lack of physical evidenc…
18-5631 Steven M. Jacob v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit 2018-08-17 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review double-jeopardy due-process habeas habeas-corpus jury-selection prejudice presumption-of-impartiality standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent voir-dire Was the Petitioner's demonstration sufficient to require de novo review under the Panetti v. Quarterman standard or the Johnson v. Williams standard, …
18-5557 Matthew Joseph Bussing v. Michigan Michigan 2018-08-13 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence expert-testimony expert-witness standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent Whether the court abused its discretion in permitting a rebuttal witness who was not an expert in pediatric child abuse to testify outside his compete…
18-5520 James Morris Sellers v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act conclusion constitutional-provisions drug-offenses index prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions supreme-court-precedent table-of-contents Whether the lower courts improperly subjected the petitioner to an enhanced sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act by arbitrarily and irrational…
18-5409 In Re Daniel Riley 2018-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights drug-reimbursement due-process erisa-preemption habeas-corpus judicial-discretion pharmacy-benefit-managers rate-regulation sentencing state-regulation statutory-interpretation supervisory-authority supreme-court-precedent time-limitation time-limits Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in holding that A Whether the First Circuit Court of Appeals has abused its discretion by failing to decide petitioner's application for permission to file a second or …
18-5357 Michael C. Redifer v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP congressional-legislation criminal-procedure due-process kastigar-doctrine law-of-the-case rules-enabling-act supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-precedents Does the Rules Enabling Act preclude a court from invoking the law of the case doctrine against a defendant in a criminal proceeding when the law of t…
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…
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
18-66 Regis Blake Ross v. Arizona Arizona 2018-07-12 Denied constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing federal-review-standards ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness post-conviction-relief standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent Did the Arizona courts err in failing to apply the proper federal standard of review for claims of ineffective assistance of counsel, involuntary plea…
18-5184 Ahmad Sayed Hashimi v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-10 GVR IFP appeal criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel right-to-maintain-innocence sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent trial-strategy Whether the case of United States v. Anmad Hashimi should be remanded for review and decision by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in light of the U…
18-5160 Michael Anthony Tanzi v. Florida Florida 2018-07-09 Denied Relisted (5)IFP caldwell-v-mississippi capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment harmless-error hurst-v-florida hurst-violation judicial-procedure per-se-rule supreme-court-precedent Whether the Florida Supreme Court's application of a per se harmless-error rule to violations of Hurst v. Florida in pre-Hurst cases violates the Eigh…
18-5169 Clifton B. Davidson v. Federal Bureau of Prisons Sixth Circuit 2018-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts administrative-remedies administrative-remedy bounds-v-smith circuit-split declarative-and-injunctive-relief declarative-relief declaratory-relief due-process fiduciary-duty injunctive-relief inmate-trust-funds lewis-v-casey mitchell-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent Inmate-trust-fund-management
18-5166 Darrell Taylor v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied IFP alleyne-retroactivity alleyne-v-united-states collateral-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure legal-interpretation retroactivity sentencing supreme-court-precedent time-limitations Did the Lower Courts incorrectly hold that Alleyne v. United States did not affect time limitations and held not retroactive on collateral review when…
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…
18-5036 Jerome Aristedes Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-law general-intent illegal-reentry immigration immigration-law mens-rea specific-intent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether attempted illegal reentry is a specific-intent crime or a general-intent crime
18-5041 Louis Robinson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-law-procedure criminal-statute due-process johnson-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether § 924(c)'s residual clause, 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B), is unconstitutionally vague after Johnson v. United States and Sessions v. Dimaya
25A356 Victor Tony Jones v. Florida, et al. Florida Denied atkins-v-virginia death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability supreme-court-precedent Question not identified.
23A1158 Rickey Lynch v. United States Second Circuit Presumed Complete canon-3e circuit-split due-process judicial-ethics judicial-recusal supreme-court-precedent Whether a district court judge's recusal order violates constitutional due process standards and binding judicial ethics guidelines