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25A726 Orna Shaposhnik v. Quality Loan Service Corp., et al. California 2025-12-19 Application ada-accommodations cognitive-impairment jurisdictional-extension pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process supreme-court-procedure Question not identified.
25A637 Arun K. Chhabra v. ACW New Jersey, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2025-12-02 Application deadline-extension disability-accommodation legal-assistance medical-limitation pro-se supreme-court-procedure Whether a pro se litigant's physical disabilities and temporary lack of assistance constitute grounds for extending a deadline to file a petition for …
25-6206 Brett Talmadge v. Alaska Alaska 2025-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP bill-of-attainder constitutional-interpretation federal-questions heck-v-humphrey judicial-error supreme-court-procedure I. DID THE ALASKA SUPREME COURT MISAPPLY HECK V. HUMPHREY. II. DOES THE ALASKA SUPREME COURT'S ERROR UNDERMINE THE BILL OF ATTAINDER PROHIBITION III…
25A558 Chantel Mitchell v. Office Depot, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2025-11-13 Application equitable-tolling medical-emergency petition-for-certiorari pro-se statutory-deadline supreme-court-procedure Whether equitable tolling principles apply to statutory filing deadlines when a litigant experiences an extraordinary and unforeseeable family medical…
25A471 Hasib Bin Golamrabbi v. California California 2025-10-24 Application indigent-defendant law-library-access legal-research prisoner-rights pro-se-litigation supreme-court-procedure Whether a prison's restrictive law library access policy unconstitutionally impedes an indigent prisoner's ability to prepare and timely file a writ o…
25A366 Calvary Chapel San Jose, et al. v. California, et al. California 2025-09-29 Presumed Complete certiorari first-amendment judicial-review religious-freedom state-court-review supreme-court-procedure Whether a state supreme court's denial of review without substantive analysis violates a religious organization's First Amendment right to meaningful …
24A1289 Kriston Price v. Ohio Ohio 2025-06-26 Presumed Complete extension-of-time incarceration legal-representation pro-se supreme-court-procedure writ-of-certiorari Whether the Eighth Amendment permits a pro se incarcerated petitioner to seek an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari based on …
24-7292 Germaine Ramsey v. United States Second Circuit 2025-05-27 Denied IFP appellate-review certiorari grant-vacate-remand judicial-discretion supreme-court-procedure thompson-case Whether the Court should grant, vacate, and remand (GVR) in light of Thompson v. United States
24A1069 Luis Fernando Puente v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-05-05 Presumed Complete ineffective-assistance legal-diligence pro-se-filing supreme-court-procedure time-extension writ-of-certiorari Whether a pro se prisoner's motion for extension of time to file a writ of certiorari should be granted when administrative errors and communication c…
24-6866 Adrian Lee Guzman v. Colorado Colorado 2025-03-26 Denied IFP case-statement constitutional-provisions jurisdiction statutory-provisions supreme-court-procedure writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
24A780 Thomas M. Adams v. United States Armed Forces 2025-02-11 Presumed Complete appellate-review court-martial jurisdictional-challenge military-justice service-member-rights supreme-court-procedure Whether a military service member's right to appeal a court-martial conviction is adequately protected when counsel with limited experience and resour…
24A769 Joseph D. Lento v. Pennsylvania Office of Disciplinary Counsel Pennsylvania 2025-02-07 Presumed Complete attorney-discipline certiorari disciplinary-proceeding due-process judicial-review supreme-court-procedure Whether a state disciplinary proceeding against an attorney violates due process protections when challenging the procedural fairness of the disciplin…
24A689 Christopher Langdon v. Sun Lake Multi-Family Holdings, LLC, et al. Florida 2025-01-14 Presumed Complete civil-rights discretionary-jurisdiction extension-of-time jurisdictional-requirements pro-se supreme-court-procedure Whether a pro se litigant's procedural errors in seeking discretionary review should be construed liberally under the standard of Haines v. Kerner and…
24A593 Edmund Arthur Gress v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General Second Circuit 2024-12-17 Presumed Complete appellate-relief jurisdictional-extension personal-hardship pro-se supreme-court-procedure writ-of-certiorari Whether a pro se litigant's request for a 60-day extension to file a writ of certiorari due to personal hardship constitutes good cause under Supreme …
24A559 Alexander Nicholaus Sweet v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-12-09 Presumed Complete criminal-conviction federal-appeal petition-for-rehearing supreme-court-procedure tenth-circuit writ-of-certiorari Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals correctly applied legal standards in affirming the criminal convictions of the petitioner
24A522 Michael Boutin v. Chicopee Housing Authority Massachusetts 2024-11-27 Presumed Complete appellate-review disability-accommodation due-process pro-se-litigation supreme-court-procedure time-extension Whether a pro se litigant with documented disabilities is entitled to an extraordinary extension of time to file a writ of certiorari based on procedu…
24A512 Steven Burda v. Alla Korenman aka Alla Burda Pennsylvania 2024-11-26 Presumed Complete appellate-jurisdiction emergency-relief legal-extension pro-se-litigation supreme-court-procedure writ-of-certiorari Whether a pro se litigant's procedural request for an extension to file a petition for writ of certiorari constitutes a valid legal basis for emergenc…
24A451 Emilio Santiago v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-05 Presumed Complete federal-appeal habeas-corpus prisoner-rights section-2255 supreme-court-procedure time-extension Whether a federal prisoner may obtain an extension of time to file a certiorari petition challenging a district court's denial of a Section 2255 motio…
24A381 Kirk E. Knopp v. CSX Transportation Inc. Sixth Circuit 2024-10-22 Presumed Complete bar-admission certiorari judicial-discretion pro-se-litigation supreme-court-procedure time-extension Whether a pro se litigant can obtain an extension of time to file a Supreme Court petition based on counsel's pending bar admission challenges
24-5769 Tanya Tyson v. Quiktrip Corporation Oklahoma 2024-10-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review default-judgment jurisdictional-challenge petition-of-error service-of-process supreme-court-procedure Did the Supreme Court err in dismissing the Motion to Dismiss the Default Order when it had already been certified and docketed, and in mooting compan…
24-5674 Gilbert Carrasco v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law judicial-interpretation legal-jurisdiction supreme-court-procedure Question not identified.
24-5604 Samreen Riaz v. Court of Appeal of California, Fifth Appellate District, et al. California 2024-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP judicial-bias judicial-discretion legal-conflict petition-review procedural-error supreme-court-procedure Whether the California Supreme Court improperly denied a petition and application for stay, leaving unresolved legal and factual conflicts
24-5541 In Re Joe Nathan Pyatt, Jr. 2024-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP all-writs-act clerk-of-court judicial-review mandamus non-discretionary-act supreme-court-procedure Whether the Supreme Court has authority to issue a Writ of Mandamus under the All Writs Act to compel its own Clerk to perform a non-discretionary act
24-5289 Martin Robinson v. Ohio Medical Board, et al. Ohio 2024-08-09 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP constitutional-due-process judicial-misconduct jury-trial-right motion-for-counsel recusal-request supreme-court-procedure Whether the Supreme Court improperly denied petitioner's motions for counsel, jury trial, and judicial recusal despite allegations of judicial miscond…
24-5146 Mike Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-procedure Question not identified
24-5077 Gary Davis v. Randy Irwin, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Forest, et al. Third Circuit 2024-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-statement civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provision due-process free-speech habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing statutory-provision supreme-court-procedure writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
23-7446 Erika Jacobs v. Quest Diagnostics Fourth Circuit 2024-05-09 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process employment free-speech jurisdictional-issue legal-standing standing statutory-provisions supreme-court-procedure writ-of-certiorari Whether the lower court erred in its judgment on the petitioner's claims
23-1049 John-Henry Ayanbadejo v. Chanel Goosby, et al. Texas 2024-03-22 Denied appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings seventh-amendment supreme-court-procedure Whether the Lower Appellate Court departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, and/or sanctioned such a departure by the Texas…
23-6482 Christopher J. Barnett v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-01-12 Denied IFP appellate-review brady-rule constitutional-provisions conviction-integrity criminal-procedure due-process judicial-process legal-jurisdiction petition-review prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-procedure writ-of-certiorari Whether the trial court and the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals erred in continuing to hold that the defendant's conviction stands despite a violat…
23-6444 David D. Madriz, Jr. v. Adam Aron, et al. Delaware 2024-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP chancery-court civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process extraordinary-circumstances interlocutory-appeal standing stockholder-litigation supreme-court-procedure Whether the Supreme Court of Delaware failed to follow Delaware Chancery Court's procedures
23A387 Towaki Komatsu v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2023-10-30 Presumed Complete deadline-extension financial-hardship litigation-burden pro-se-litigant supreme-court-procedure writ-of-certiorari Whether a pro se litigant experiencing financial hardship and ongoing litigation can be granted an extension of time to file a petition for writ of ce…
23-5724 Taylor Scott Meece v. Wyoming Wyoming 2023-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment supreme-court-procedure Did the Wyoming Supreme Court abuse its discretion in affirming the conviction and sentence?
23-5643 In Re Gregory Mercer 2023-09-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction assignments-of-error constitutional-rights due-process mandamus mandamus-writ procedural-rules rules-of-court supremacy-clause supreme-court-procedure Whether the Court of Appeals of Virginia impeded the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of Virginia and/or the Supreme Court of the United St…
22-7594 Gary V. Jenkins v. United States, et al. District of Columbia 2023-05-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure dismissal district-court district-court-order docket federal-docket judicial-review motion-to-strike related-cases standing supreme-court-procedure Will this UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT effectuate the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, ORDER NO. 22-3757
22-7072 Montoyya Sims v. Fox Ridge Apartments Michigan 2023-03-22 Denied IFP civil-procedure claim-transfer court-of-claims due-process judicial-review jurisdiction michigan-law procedural-rules removal standing supreme-court-procedure transfer Whether the United States Supreme Court should vacate the Michigan Supreme Court's order and transfer the individual claim to the Michigan Court of Cl…
22-6129 Artak Ovsepian v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-11-23 GVR Relisted (2)IFP certiorari criminal-procedure dubin-case due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit petition-for-writ remand supreme-court supreme-court-procedure vacatur Whether this Court should hold this petition and then grant, vacate, and remand for reconsideration in light of the pending opinion in Dubin v. United…
22-5457 J. Christopher Wreh v. Alex Gianotos, et al. Texas 2022-08-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure due-process judicial-discretion motion-denial motion-practice rehearing-request standing supreme-court-procedure time-extension Whether the Supreme Court of Texas erred in denying the motion for extension of time to file a rehearing petition
22-45 Jada Ku v. Great Falls Public Schools Montana 2022-07-18 Denied civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-accommodation legal-representation mental-disability public-education school-discrimination standing supreme-court-procedure Can the Great Falls Public Schools discriminate against me because of my mental disability?
21-8145 Gregory T. Ackerman, et ux. v. Bank of New York Mellon Ohio 2022-06-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights court-rules due-process emergency-motion legal-stay mediation mediation-request mortgagor-rights standing stay supreme-court-procedure Whether the Supreme Court of Ohio erred in denying the Petitioners' request for mediation proceedings
21-8114 In Re Jordan Cordell Hudson 2022-06-10 Denied IFP civil-rights court-filing due-process exceptional-circumstances legal-review mandamus procedural-validity standing supreme-court-procedure supreme-court-rules timeliness writ-of-certiorari Where the service of the Supreme Court of the United States was denied
21-5470 Aleksys Lomeli-Garcia v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP arizona casey-v-united-states constitutional-review fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus indigent-prisoners indigent-rights judicial-fraud supreme-court-procedure suspension-clause Whether the concealed 28 U.S.C. 2244(c) facts caused the Supreme Court to unwittingly suspend the Writ of Habeas Corpus for all Arizona indigent priso…
20-7410 Edward McCain v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP case-remand certiorari concurrent-sentences criminal-procedure eighth-amendment fourth-circuit-judgment jones-v-mississippi judicial-review juvenile-offenders plain-error sentencing supreme-court-procedure Whether an invalid conviction affects a criminal defendant's substantial rights and must be vacated on plain error review
20-5277 Joseph Thompson, Jr. v. Houma Terrebonne Housing Authority, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-08-05 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation discrimination due-process employment federal-review jurisdictional-challenge standing statutory-construction supreme-court-procedure Whether the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred in d…
20-5249 Marlon Blacher v. California California 2020-08-04 Dismissed IFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-procedure Whether the circumstances presented and detailed by the STATEMENT OF THE CASE portion of the present Petition warrant issuance of a Writ of Certiorari
19-8602 Eugene Washington v. Santa Rita Jail Ninth Circuit 2020-06-04 Denied IFP case-law civil-procedure constitutional-rights district-court-order due-process fifth-amendment motion-to-dismiss standing supreme-court-procedure supreme-court-procedures Was the District Court following proper Supreme Court procedures and case law when they issued their final order on August 7th, 2019 in violation of P…
19-6412 Dennis Jones v. Arizona Arizona 2019-10-28 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure conflict-with-precedent constitutional-interpretation due-process essential-elements-of-crime federal-jurisdiction federal-question judicial-review precedent-conflict right-to-counsel standing state-court-decision supreme-court supreme-court-procedure Whether the state court decided a federal question in a way that conflicts with this Court's precedent on the right to counsel and due process
19-5337 Arthur Shermaine Bussey v. Marty Allen, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-procedure Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated
18-9592 Gene T. Favors, Jr. v. Michigan Michigan 2019-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-procedure takings Whether the lower court erred in its application of the law
18-8723 Miles Sterling Bench v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2019-04-08 Denied IFP 8th-amendment affidavit civil-rights competency costs criminal-appeals death-penalty declaration due-process filing-fees in-forma-pauperis indigent indigent-status mental-illness oklahoma-law supreme-court-procedure writ-of-certiorari Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a person with severe mental illness
18-7749 Ada A. Gonzalez v. Grant Maloy Florida 2019-02-05 Denied IFP access-to-courts appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure certiorari-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-delay mandamus pro-se pro-se-litigant supreme-court-procedure Whether the Supreme Court of Florida unjust delay denied Petitioner access for certiorari review
18-6020 Stefan Rodgers v. Darrell Miller, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-09-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure consideration due-process fair-trial judicial-review legal-standards rule-10 standing supreme-court-procedure tribunal-fairness tribunals Did each of the tribunals rule fairly within the Consideration of Rule 10 (a), (b), (c) of the Supreme Court?
18-5950 Artis Ryan Miller v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-procedure writ-of-certiorari Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of Petitioner's motion for a new trial based on newly discovered evidence of …
18-88 Richard Gramm v. Deere & Company Federal Circuit 2018-07-18 GVR certiorari claim-construction claim-institution federal-circuit inter-partes-review patent patent-review patent-trial-and-appeal-board ptab sas-institute-v-iancu supreme-court-procedure Whether the Federal Circuit's decision affirming the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's final written decisions of the partially instituted inter partes …
25A491 Frederick S. Koger v. Charles E. Kleidon, et al. Seventh Circuit Application in-forma-pauperis judicial-review litigant-rights petition-denial pro-se supreme-court-procedure Whether a pro se litigant's in forma pauperis petition can be denied without a detailed explanation of the grounds for denial
23A733 Michelle A. Ferrell v. Department of Housing and Urban Development Federal Circuit Presumed Complete administrative-justice disability-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis pro-se supreme-court-procedure Whether the Supreme Court's procedural handling of a pro se litigant's in forma pauperis application violates due process rights when the application …
23A397 Mark A. Jones v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Presumed Complete filing-requirements in-forma-pauperis lockdown-conditions prisoner-rights pro-se supreme-court-procedure Whether an indigent pro se prisoner can obtain an extension of time to comply with Supreme Court filing requirements when incarcerated under lockdown …