tenth-circuit
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-877 | Jeffrey Steven Clay v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2026-01-22 | Pending | Response Waived | appellate-review circuit-court criminal-conviction judicial-error legal-review tenth-circuit | Whether the Tenth Circuit erred when they affirmed Clay's conviction. |
| 25A826 | Marco Antonio Naranjo-Aguilar v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2026-01-20 | Application | court-of-appeals criminal-procedure federal-conviction procedural-challenge sentencing-review tenth-circuit | Question not identified. | |
| 25A812 | Jesus Herrera-Salazar v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2026-01-13 | Application | court-appointed-counsel criminal-conviction criminal-procedure federal-appeal tenth-circuit writ-of-certiorari | Question not identified. | |
| 25-747 | Matthew Cline v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-12-23 | Pending | Amici (1)Response Waived | co-conspirator criminal-law forfeiture property-transfer statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit | Whether under 18 U.S.C. § 981(a)(1)(C) a defendant may be ordered to forfeit property to the government that he transferred to a co-conspirator merely… |
| 25-702 | CO2 Committee, Inc. v. Montezuma County, Colorado, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2025-12-17 | Pending | civil-rights district-court facial-attack motion-to-dismiss rule-12b1 tenth-circuit | Because the District Court and the County agreed on the facial attack procedure, should the Tenth Circuit on appeal have reversed the Order of the Dis… | |
| 25-675 | Lawrence Rudolph v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-12-10 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-interpretation federal-prosecution forum-shopping prosecutorial-discretion tenth-circuit venue-statute | Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in interpreting a federal venue statute enacted by the First Congress to mean the government can prosecute a federal c… |
| 25A611 | Paul Kenneth Cromar v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-11-24 | Application | criminal-statute pro-se-petition property-seizure statutory-interpretation tax-law tenth-circuit | Whether 26 U.S.C. § 7212(b) criminalizes interference with property seized under federal tax law in a manner that exceeds the statute's plain textual … | |
| 25A607 | Alexander Jon Ogilvie v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-11-21 | Application | constitutional-challenge criminal-law federal-public-defender firearms-regulation statutory-vagueness tenth-circuit | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(n) is unconstitutionally vague as applied to criminal defendants' rights | |
| 25A517 | Bobby Dale Simmons v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-11-05 | Application | certiorari criminal-sentence federal-public-defender supreme-court tenth-circuit time-extension | Whether the Tenth Circuit's affirmance of a criminal sentence warrants Supreme Court review due to counsel's professional scheduling constraints | |
| 25A415 | Edgar Rene Garcia-Limon v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-10-10 | Presumed Complete | federal-criminal-statute indian-country jurisdictional-elements sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit | Whether federal criminal statutes governing sexual abuse in Indian Country are unconstitutionally vague or overbroad in their application to specific … | |
| 25-5790 | Kyle Davey v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substances criminal-law federal-statute firearm-possession statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit | Whether a person can be convicted of possessing a firearm by an 'unlawful user' of a controlled substance under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3) even if no law p… |
| 25-216 | Mathew Grashorn v. Wendy Love, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2025-08-22 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | clearly-established-law imminent-danger jurisdiction objective-reasonableness qualified-immunity tenth-circuit | Whether a reviewing court lacks jurisdiction over a district court's determination of imminent danger in a qualified immunity analysis, and whether th… |
| 25A127 | Bill Elder, Sheriff, El Paso County, Colorado, et al. v. Darlene Griffith | Tenth Circuit | 2025-07-30 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights deliberate-indifference detainee-care law-enforcement mental-health tenth-circuit | Whether a law enforcement agency's policies and practices can constitute deliberate indifference in a civil rights claim alleging inadequate mental he… | |
| 25A85 | Joshua Omar Garcia v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-07-22 | Presumed Complete | certiorari criminal-sentence extension-of-time federal-public-defender supreme-court tenth-circuit | Question not identified. | |
| 25A2 | Maurice Farris v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-07-01 | Presumed Complete | 28-usc-1254 criminal-sentencing federal-public-defender supreme-court-rules tenth-circuit writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Tenth Circuit's affirmance of Maurice Farris's sentence was legally sound and consistent with applicable federal criminal law standards | |
| 24-1214 | Jared Cosper, in His Individual Capacity, et al. v. Perla Enriquez Baca, as Personal Representative of Amelia Baca, Deceased | Tenth Circuit | 2025-05-29 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | deadly-force edged-weapon excessive-force qualified-immunity tenth-circuit use-of-force | Whether the Tenth Circuit may establish a bright-line rule for an officer's use of deadly force against a suspect armed with an edged weapon, and whet… |
| 24-1126 | Avon Capital, LLC, a Wyoming Limited Liability Company v. Universitas Education, LLC | Tenth Circuit | 2025-05-01 | Denied | Relisted (2) | district-court mootness personal-jurisdiction service-of-process subject-matter-jurisdiction tenth-circuit | Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in assuming the District Court reacquired subject matter jurisdiction after a judgment's expiration without new claims… |
| 24-6956 | Jimmy Dale Stone v. David Louthan, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2025-04-10 | Denied | IFP | certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief statute-of-limitations tenth-circuit | Did the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals violate 28 U.S.C. § 2254 and the Due Process Clause by denying Jimmy Dale Stone's petition for a COA and findin… |
| 24-6854 | Austin Roger Carter v. Genesis Alkali LLC, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2025-03-25 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights judicial-misconduct sarbanes-oxley statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit whistleblower-protection | Did the Tenth Circuit err in disregarding the unanimous findings of the United States Supreme Court in regard to the provisions of 18 U.S.C. § 1514A? |
| 24-6315 | Eric St. George v. City of Lakewood, Colorado, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2025-01-15 | Denied | IFP | clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process police-shooting qualified-immunity tenth-circuit | Whether the Tenth Circuit's application of White v. Pauly to a 2016 shooting under Qualified Immunity constitutes a permissible legal interpretation o… |
| 24A697 | Ismael Ruiz v. Dan Shannon, Director, Wyoming Department of Corrections, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2025-01-15 | Presumed Complete | access-to-courts clearly-established constitutional-violation prisoners-rights pro-se tenth-circuit | Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals violated a pro se prisoner's clearly established constitutional right of access to courts by disregarding h… | |
| 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 erred in its approach to re-appointment of counsel after a valid waiver of counsel, potentially contrad… |
| 24A704 | Ashley Parnell v. Tamika White | Tenth Circuit | 2025-01-01 | Presumed Complete | certificate-of-appealability federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction section-2254 tenth-circuit | Whether a federal habeas petitioner is entitled to a certificate of appealability when challenging a state court's denial of post-conviction relief un… | |
| 24A572 | Robert Lewis Dear, Jr. v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-12-11 | Presumed Complete | criminal-conviction federal-appeal procedural-due-process supreme-court-review tenth-circuit writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Tenth Circuit correctly applied legal standards in affirming the criminal convictions of a defendant who sought to challenge the procedura… | |
| 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 | |
| 24A555 | Gerardo Gamez-Reyes v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-12-06 | Presumed Complete | criminal-case extension-of-time federal-public-defender supreme-court-rule tenth-circuit writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Tenth Circuit's judgment in a criminal case warrants Supreme Court review based on potential legal errors in the underlying proceedings | |
| 24A515 | Utah v. Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2024-11-26 | Presumed Complete | administrative-authority federal-lands land-management statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit wilderness-study-areas | Whether federal land management agencies can unilaterally designate and manage wilderness study areas without explicit congressional authorization | |
| 24A504 | United States v. Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2024-11-21 | Presumed Complete | environmental-intervention federal-rules-civil-procedure intervention-of-right right-of-way scope-of-litigation tenth-circuit | Whether an environmental organization can intervene as of right in a federal land dispute when challenging the scope of a claimed right of way under R… | |
| 24-5722 | Buta Singh v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-10-08 | Denied | IFP | custody-determination eighth-circuit miranda-warning ninth-circuit tenth-circuit terry-stop | Whether courts must apply the second step of Howes to determine if a person is 'in custody' for Miranda purposes |
| 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… |
| 24A183 | Paul Curtis Pemberton v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-08-19 | Presumed Complete | criminal-appeal federal-public-defender pro-se-pleadings sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines tenth-circuit | Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals correctly applied the United States Sentencing Guidelines in affirming the criminal defendant's sentence | |
| 24A85 | David Vargas v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-07-23 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split criminal-law enhancement physical-restraint sentencing-guidelines tenth-circuit | Whether the phrase 'physical restraint' in the United States Sentencing Guidelines requires actual physical confinement or can include psychological c… | |
| 24-5109 | Clinton Mark Lewis v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-07-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2252 child-pornography circuit-split circumstantial-evidence criminal-law evidence-standard federal-statute image-specific ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit | Is the charge of possession or accessing child pornography under 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(4)(B) 'image specific'? |
| 24A7 | Duke Bradford, et al. v. Department of Labor, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2024-07-08 | Presumed Complete | administrative-procedure-act agency-determination employment-status judicial-review tenth-circuit worker-classification | Whether the Administrative Procedure Act permits judicial review of a Department of Labor determination regarding worker classification and employment… | |
| 23-1310 | Dean Gross v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-06-14 | Denied | Amici (1) | criminal-custody criminal-law criminal-procedure custody federal-courts federal-escape-statute federal-statutes halfway-house statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit | Whether a criminal defendant released to a halfway house is in 'custody' and can commit the crime of escape |
| 23-1288 | Nicholas Newman v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-06-10 | Denied | actual-innocence assault-federal-officer collateral-attack-waiver criminal-law-procedure criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law habeas-corpus plea-agreement statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit | Whether reasonable jurists could debate whether assault on a federal officer under 18 U.S.C. § 111 can be committed by reckless contact with another p… | |
| 23A1037 | Joshua Willis v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-05-21 | Presumed Complete | criminal-law felon-in-possession firearm-prohibition second-amendment statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutionally overbroad as applied to felons who do not pose a demonstrable risk to public safety | |
| 23-7465 | Tremane Wood v. Christe Quick, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2024-05-13 | Denied | IFP | federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance rule-60b state-court-decision state-postconviction strickland-standard strickland-v-washington tenth-circuit | Whether a federal habeas court's failure to review the last reasoned state court decision under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) is a defect under Rule 60(b) |
| 23-7361 | Sean A. Gray v. Kevin Payne, Commandant, United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth | Tenth Circuit | 2024-05-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burns-v-wilson constitutional-claims due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus military-habeas military-justice suspension-clause tenth-circuit | Are the Dodson factors a violation of the Suspension Clause and therefore an unconstitutional bar to habeas for military prisoners? |
| 23-6976 | Juan Cabrera v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-03-13 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure custody eighth-circuit howes-test miranda-custody miranda-rights ninth-circuit supreme-court tenth-circuit terry-stop | Whether courts must apply the second step of Howes to determine if a person is 'in custody' for Miranda purposes |
| 23A830 | Shawn Thomas Borne v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-03-11 | Presumed Complete | certiorari-petition criminal-conviction felon-in-possession firearm-statute supreme-court-review tenth-circuit | Whether a conviction for felon in possession of a firearm under 18 U.S.C. § 922(c)(1) is constitutionally valid or requires further judicial review | |
| 23A744 | Leslie J. Reynard v. Washburn University of Topeka | Tenth Circuit | 2024-02-12 | Presumed Complete | academic-proceedings civil-rights employment-discrimination tenth-circuit title-vii university-liability | Whether a university can be held liable for alleged discrimination in employment or academic proceedings under Title VII or other civil rights statute… | |
| 23A693 | Jabari J. Johnson v. Correctional Officer Giles, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2024-01-26 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights dismissal prisoner-litigation pro-se procedural-due-process tenth-circuit | Whether a pro se prisoner's civil rights complaint can be dismissed for lack of prosecution without a clear warning or opportunity to show good cause | |
| 23A694 | Jabari J. Johnson v. Carolyn Hansen | Tenth Circuit | 2024-01-26 | Presumed Complete | appeal-dismissal appellate-procedure failure-to-prosecute pro-se procedural-rules tenth-circuit | Whether a pro se litigant's failure to prosecute an appeal constitutes grounds for dismissal under Tenth Circuit procedural rules | |
| 23A571 | Craig Alan Morrison v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-12-21 | Presumed Complete | criminal-sentencing federal-appeal federal-public-defender supreme-court-review tenth-circuit writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Tenth Circuit's affirmance of the criminal sentence warrants Supreme Court review under standards for certiorari | |
| 23A443 | Brent Hebert, et al. v. FMC Technologies, Incorporated | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-16 | Presumed Complete | federal-courts fifth-circuit litigation-workload tenth-circuit time-extension writ-of-certiorari | Whether federal courts can grant extensions of time for filing petitions for writ of certiorari based on counsel's concurrent litigation workload and … | |
| 23A398 | Jeriah Scott Budder v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-11-01 | Presumed Complete | bureau-of-prisons criminal-appeal sentencing standard-of-review tenth-circuit voluntary-manslaughter | Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals applied the correct standard of review in affirming a criminal conviction and sentence for voluntary mansla… | |
| 23-5897 | Cedric Mack v. J.M. Smuckers Co., et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2023-10-27 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights discovery-sanctions discrimination due-process employment-discrimination retaliation standing summary-judgment tenth-circuit | Whether the United States District Court of Kansas and the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit misused FED. R. CIV. P. 56 (c)(1)(a) i… |
| 23A365 | United Behavioral Health, et al. v. D.K., et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2023-10-24 | Presumed Complete | administrative-record benefits-denial erisa medical-providers substantial-evidence tenth-circuit | Whether the Tenth Circuit improperly imposed a heightened explanation requirement on ERISA plan administrators when denying health benefits claims, co… | |
| 23A373 | Brenda Evers Andrew v. Tamika White, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2023-10-24 | Presumed Complete | appellate-procedure certiorari extension-of-time judicial-review tenth-circuit writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals correctly applied legal standards in reviewing the lower court's judgment | |
| 23A363 | Edmond Carl Warrington v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-10-23 | Presumed Complete | criminal-sentencing federal-public-defender supreme-court-extension tenth-circuit time-extension writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Tenth Circuit's affirmance of a criminal sentence warrants Supreme Court review based on counsel's workload and need for additional prepar… | |
| 23A359 | Amanda Lyn Walker v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-10-20 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review certiorari criminal-law federal-appeal tenth-circuit united-states-v-walker | Whether the Tenth Circuit's ruling in United States v. Walker improperly interpreted or applied a federal criminal law or constitutional standard | |
| 23-5762 | Isaiah Whitefox Redbird v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-10-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | where context made the basis of his objection to criminal-procedure evidence-preservation federal-rules-of-evidence plain-error-review preservation-requirement propensity-evidence tenth-circuit | Did the Tenth Circuit incorrectly hold that Mr. Redbird's claim was not preserved, where context made the basis of his objection to exclude the prosec… |
| 23-5584 | Raymond L. Rogers v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-09-14 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-appeal criminal-appeals due-process grand-jury-indictment jurisdiction jurisdictional-review merits-determination standing subject-matter-jurisdiction tenth-circuit threshold-question | Did the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals commit a reversible error when it resolved the merits of the petitioner's criminal direct appeals review withou… |
| 23-155 | Isaac Luna Ashton v. Rick Whitten, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2023-08-17 | Denied | aedpa certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals district-court evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel tenth-circuit | Whether the United States District Court erred in denying a Certificate of Appealability | |
| 23-5065 | Mario Reynoso v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-07-10 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | appointment-of-counsel civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process methamphetamine-distribution standing subject-matter-jurisdiction tenth-circuit writ-of-certiorari | Did the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously find that the courts lacked subject matter jurisdiction and that the petitioner's motion for appoin… |
| 22-1084 | Ernest J. Walker, et al. v. Dominion Voting Systems, Inc., et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2023-05-08 | Denied | Response Waived | attorney-fees attorney-sanctions civil-rights due-process inherent-authority sanctions section-1983 standing tenth-circuit voter-standing | Whether Petitioners were properly sanctioned |
| 22-7166 | Anthony H. Warnick v. Steven Harpe, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections | Tenth Circuit | 2023-03-31 | Denied | IFP | aedpa antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act civil-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jurisdictional-challenge subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court tenth-circuit | Can subject matter jurisdiction be raised at any time? |
| 22-7100 | Felipe Nevarez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-03-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process objection-timing speedy-trial speedy-trial-act statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit trial-delay waiver | Does the Speedy Trial Act require the accused to object to lack of speedy trial only after the time has lapsed, or can the accused assert this right p… |
| 22-6719 | Michael Anthony Conage v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-02-07 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split drug-schedules eighth-circuit federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense fourth-circuit sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense tenth-circuit third-circuit | Whether the 'serious drug offense' definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug sch… |
| 22-6683 | Terrell Javon Jones v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-02-01 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split drug-schedules eighth-circuit federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense fourth-circuit sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense tenth-circuit third-circuit | Whether the 'serious drug offense' definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug sch… |
| 22-6638 | James Ralph Dawson, Jr. v. Jeff Archambeau, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2023-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-procedure remedies standing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit | Whether Kelsi failed to show actual harm to entitle him to entire Remedies pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(c), the limiting the AEDPA's 1-year statute … |
| 22-6468 | Herbert Isaac Perkins v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-01-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act crime-of-violence criminal-law felony-classification hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit | Whether Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 22-5087 | Dawud Canaan Sturrup Gabriel v. Melton Truck Lines | Tenth Circuit | 2022-07-13 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review petition-for-redress tenth-circuit | whether-the-us-court-of-appeals-for-the-tenth-circuit-departed-from-the-accepted-course-of-judicial-proceedings |
| 21-1561 | Vickie Brooks v. Philadelphia Insurance Companies | Tenth Circuit | 2022-06-14 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine stare-decisis summary-judgment tenth-circuit | Did the Tenth Circuit Court fail to follow stare decisis by failing to follow its own ruling in Erie R. Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938) and affirm… |
| 21-7905 | Marc Anthony Sanders v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2022-05-18 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure ex-post-facto jurisdictional-conflict non-retroactivity oklahoma-court state-court-decisions subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court tenth-circuit | Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals' use of a new non-retroactivity doctrine to deny Petitioner's subject-matter jurisdiction claim is vali… |
| 21-1315 | Deborah Lingenfelter v. Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Colorado | Tenth Circuit | 2022-04-01 | Denied | Response Waived | business-judgment-rule employer-liability employment-discrimination employment-law fmla fmla-retaliation retaliation summary-judgment tenth-circuit truthfulness | Whether the court may immunize an employer's asserted reason for termination from examination of its truthfulness by characterizing it as a 'business … |
| 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… |
| 21-7366 | Raymond L. Rogers v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-03-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | court-appointed-counsel criminal-appeal due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-court-of-appeals ineffective-assistance mandate-recall tenth-circuit writ-of-certiorari | Remedy-for-CJA-attorney-failure-to-file-cert-petition |
| 21-1225 | The Estate of Dillon Taylor, et al. v. Salt Lake City, Utah, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2022-03-09 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | civil-procedure civil-rights excessive-force jury law-enforcement material-dispute qualified-immunity summary-judgment tenth-circuit | qualified-immunity |
| 21-6846 | Juan Jose Reynoso v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2022-01-13 | Denied | IFP | certificate-of-appealability fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review mitigation-evidence prejudice sixth-circuit supervisory-power tenth-circuit trial-counsel | Whether the Fifth Circuit has departed from the accepted course of judicial proceedings |
| 21-6847 | John William Childers v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections | Tenth Circuit | 2022-01-13 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence gateway-claim habeas habeas-corpus pro-se procedural-bars procedural-default remand tenth-circuit | Whether a pro-se-state-prisoner-adequately-alleged-gateway-actual-innocence-claim |
| 21-896 | Jimmy Martin, Warden v. Alonzo Cortez Johnson | Tenth Circuit | 2021-12-16 | Denied | anti-terrorism-act batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky direct-appeal federal-court-proceedings habeas-corpus jury-selection standard-of-review state-court-proceedings tenth-circuit | whether-the-tenth-circuit-violated-the-antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act | |
| 21-5811 | Hazhar A. Sayed v. Virginia Page, et al | Tenth Circuit | 2021-09-29 | Denied | IFP | 42-usc-1983 administrative-remedies civil-rights due-process judicial-mandate prison-litigation ross-v-blake ross-v-rlake tenth-circuit | Do the mandates stated by this Court in Ross v. Blake, 136 S.Ct. 1850 (2016) require the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and U.S. Dist. Co… |
| 21-5670 | Elijah Vines v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-09-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cell-phone-seizure circuit-split expectation-of-privacy fourth-circuit law-enforcement password-protected password-protection privacy-expectation tenth-circuit third-party-consent | Whether a third-party possesses authority to consent to the seizure of another's cell phone when that phone is password-protected, the owner has denie… |
| 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 | Whether Mr. Wilkins's conviction for Texas aggravated robbery is a crime of violence under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 in light of Borden v. United States |
| 20-8458 | Patrick Eugene Stein v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-06-30 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process jury-act jury-selection standing tenth-circuit weapon-of-mass-destruction | Does this practice substantially violate the plain language of the Jury Act under 28 U.S.C. § 1861, and was the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals wrong t… |
| 20-7949 | Terry Kent Holcomb, II v. Rick Whitten, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2021-05-06 | Denied | IFP | appeal constitutional-right due-process evidence evidentiary-ruling federal-court habeas-corpus probative-evidence section-2254 state-court tenth-circuit | Did the Tenth Circuit err in holding that the admitted evidence at trial established the same probative facts as the rejected evidence, without determ… |
| 20-7278 | Charles Dennis Friedman v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-03-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus parole statute-of-limitations tenth-circuit | Whether the Tenth Circuit's decision departs so vastly from the accepted course of judicial proceedings—by forcing a litigant to challenge a decision … |
| 20-7102 | Toheed Ahmed v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-02-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment circuit-split dog-sniff high-crime-area motion-to-suppress racial-profiling tenth-circuit totality-of-circumstances traffic-stop | Was the Tenth Circuit correct in affirming the denial of Mr. Ahmed's motion to suppress evidence |
| 20-6792 | Edgar Rene Mier-Garces v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split conspiracy conspiracy-prosecution constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process tenth-circuit | Whether the Tenth Circuit's test for determining whether two conspiracy prosecutions involve the same conspiracy renders the Double Jeopardy Clause in… |
| 20-5967 | John Elisha Mayville v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-10-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-history-check dog-sniff fourth-amendment officer-safety out-of-state-plates reasonable-suspicion tenth-circuit traffic-stop | Whether an officer can conduct unrelated investigations during a traffic stop |
| 20-5798 | Jose Velasquez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act common-law constructive-force robbery tenth-circuit violent-felony | Does the Tenth Circuit's analysis, which ignores the common law requirements of constructive-force robbery, conflict with the Court's adoption of the … |
| 20-5774 | Archie Manzanares v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-09-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach mens-rea new-mexico-aggravated-assault new-mexico-robbery tenth-circuit violent-felony | Whether the Tenth Circuit's analysis, which relies on facts rather than elements, abrogates the Supreme Court's holdings that the categorical approach… |
| 20-5291 | Dexter Leemon Johnson v. John Marlar | Tenth Circuit | 2020-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-conflict civil-procedure district-court due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirements medical-treatment standing tenth-circuit warrant-constitutionality | Whether the Tenth Circuit's failure to satisfy itself of district court's jurisdiction resulted in it exceeding its discretion and jurisdiction |
| 20-83 | Jacob Jones, et al. v. Wayne Duke Kalbaugh | Tenth Circuit | 2020-07-29 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | civil-rights clearly-established-law excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement objective-reasonableness police-conduct qualified-immunity tenth-circuit | Did the Tenth Circuit improperly focus on the knowledge and intentions of the suspect, rather than the facts knowable to the officers, in reversing th… |
| 19-1359 | Michelle Dawn Murphy v. City of Tulsa, Oklahoma | Tenth Circuit | 2020-06-11 | Denied | an abuse of discretion because it violates the pa and wrong factually about the issue it reached ou which was based on an issue not presented on appe abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure due-process party-presentation sineneng-smith standing summary-judgment tenth-circuit united-states-v-sineneng-smith | Is the Tenth Circuit's affirmance of summary judgment in favor of Defendant-Appellee City of Tulsa an abuse of discretion? | |
| 19-1222 | Nathan Duckworth v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-04-16 | Denied | civil-asset-forfeiture civil-procedure constitutional-concerns controlled-substances-act due-process property-rights seizure-of-currency standing substantial-connection-test takings tenth-circuit | Whether the government is required to show a substantial connection between money it has seized and an intended violation of the Controlled Substances… | |
| 19-1213 | Buck Leon Hammers v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-04-14 | Denied | Response Waived | conspiracy conspiracy-conviction-inferences-executive-positio criminal-conviction evidence evidence-standard exculpatory-evidence executive-position hearsay hearsay-exculpatory-evidence-chambers-v-mississipp inference judicial-review tenth-circuit | Whether the Tenth Circuit improperly found sufficient evidence for Mr. Hammers to be convicted of conspiracy based solely upon inferences from his exe… |
| 19-1106 | Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden v. Roderick L. Smith | Tenth Circuit | 2020-03-10 | Denied | Relisted (2) | adaptive-functioning atkins-v-virginia death-penalty-appeals habeas-corpus intellectual-disability moore-v-texas retroactivity teague-v-lane tenth-circuit | Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in concluding that Moore v. Texas I and II were mere applications of Atkins v. Virginia that could be applied retroact… |
| 19-943 | Alireza Vazirabadi v. Denver Health and Hospital Authority, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2020-01-28 | Denied | Relisted (2) | age-discrimination anderson-v-liberty-lobby civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employee-selection employment equal-protection summary-judgment tenth-circuit | Does the Tenth Circuit affirming in favor of Respondents' summary judgement conflict with Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., where in Tolan v. Cotton, t… |
| 19-7380 | Dino Constance v. United States District Court for the Western District of Washington | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability circuit-court circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection extraordinary-circumstances fourteenth-amendment mandamus mandamus-relief ninth-circuit post-conviction-review tenth-circuit | Did the Ninth Circuit's unique five-part test for Mandamus relief cause a Fourteenth Amendment 'Equal Protection' violation? |
| 19-382 | John Teets v. Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Company | Tenth Circuit | 2019-09-23 | Denied | civil-rights disgorgement due-process erisa fiduciary-duty harris-trust party-in-interest plan-assets tenth-circuit | May an ERISA plan participant or beneficiary seek disgorgement of unreasonable profits derived from a plan contract from a nonfiduciary party in inter… | |
| 18A1239 | Ian Alexander Bowline v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-05-30 | Presumed Complete | extension-of-time federal-public-defender jurisdiction supreme-court-rules tenth-circuit writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Tenth Circuit's affirmance of the district court's judgment warrants Supreme Court review | |
| 18-9459 | Trinidad Nanez-Rivera v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-05-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-common-law mitigating-circumstances sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness tenth-circuit within-guideline-sentences within-range-sentence | Have the length of within-guideline sentences become effectively unreviewable in practice, and is Mr. Nanez-Rivera's sentence near the top of the rang… |
| 18-9259 | Akunna Baiyina Ejiofor v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-05-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affidavit criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-faith-exception plain-language plain-meaning search-warrant search-warrant-affidavit standard-of-review suppression-motion tenth-circuit | May a reviewing court uphold a search by reading a statement in a search-warrant affidavit contrary to its plain meaning? |
| 18-8642 | DeJuan Leshae Hill v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-04-01 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924c 28-usc-2255 2nd-amendment 2nd-amendment-rights certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-offense habeas-corpus hobbs-act post-conviction-relief sentencing tenth-circuit unconstitutionality | Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in failing to address the unconstitutionality of use and carry of a firearm under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) offenses, in rela… |
| 18-1208 | William M. Turner v. Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2019-03-18 | Denied | civil-procedure civil-rights continuing-wrong continuing-wrong-doctrine due-process heck-v-humphrey malicious-prosecution section-1983 statute-of-limitations tenth-circuit younger-abstention | Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in finding that Appellant's 1983 and 1985 claims are barred by the Statute of Limitations | |
| 18-8451 | Luciano Garcia v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process gall-v-united-states judicial-review rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance tenth-circuit variance | Is the Tenth Circuit precedent allowing a district court to say nothing when a reasonable request for a variance is made at sentencing consistent with… |
| 18-1107 | Charles Chandler v. Vermont, et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-02-25 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split constitutional-challenge custody due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance lackawanna ninth-circuit strickland-standard tenth-circuit | Is the Exception for Habeas Corpus Custody under Lackawanna valid law as affirmed by the Ninth, Tenth, and Fifth Circuits? |
| 18-8061 | Philip Andra Grigsby v. Juan Baltazar, Jr., Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2019-02-25 | Dismissed | Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process fact-finding habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-due-process standard-of-review tenth-circuit | Has the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit failed to consider all relevant facts prior to denying a Certificate of Appealability? |
| 18-1080 | Anderson Living Trust, fka The James H. Anderson Living Trust, et al. v. WPX Energy Production, LLC, fka WPX Energy San Juan, LLC, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2019-02-21 | Denied | Response Waived | appeal appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure class-action class-certification federal-rules-civil-procedure final-judgment microsoft-v-baker mootness settlement-agreement standing tenth-circuit | Whether plaintiffs who settle their individual claims may appeal an earlier denial of class certification under Microsoft v. Baker |
| 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 |
| 18-7322 | Robert R. Yerton, Jr. v. Jason Bryant, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2019-01-09 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appeal confrontation-clause criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process expert-witness federal-appeal indigent-defense sixth-amendment tenth-circuit | Whether the Tenth Circuit Court erred in holding that the District Court of Tulsa County's refusal to permit a unique expert defense witness to presen… |
| 18-6511 | In Re Ken Ejimofor Ezeah | 2018-10-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal-waiver-guilty-plea-unite guilty-plea inherent-equitable-authority tenth-circuit united-states-v-galloway united-states-v-hahn united-states-v-mccarthy | Whether the court should expand the framework in United States v. Hahn on appeal waivers | |
| 18-6302 | Francisco Melgar-Cabrera v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-10-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law hobbs-act predicate-felony predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit | Whether Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) |
| 18-6257 | Edward Dean McCranie v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-10-09 | Denied | IFP | career-offender colorado-robbery common-law common-law-robbery crime-of-violence force force-clause generic-robbery sentencing-guidelines stokeling-v-united-states tenth-circuit violence | Is Colorado robbery, which follows the common-law definition of the amount of force required, a crime of violence for purposes of the career-offender … |
| 18-6139 | Julia Monique Frias v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-09-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | barker-v-wingo constitutional-rights government-delay judicial-review prejudice pretrial-incarceration reduced-sentence sixth-amendment speedy-trial state-sentence tenth-circuit | Whether a defendant's lost opportunity to seek a reduced state sentence under state law can constitute prejudice under Barker? |
| 18-6097 | Leonard G. Marquez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-09-25 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary burglary-definition circuit-split mens-rea predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement tenth-circuit violent-felony | Did the Tenth Circuit determine a New Mexico residential burglary is burglary' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i1) in a way that contravenes this Court… |
| 18-5967 | Matthew Wade Howard v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-09-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-courts federal-criminal-law federal-guideline guideline-application sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit | Whether the Tenth Circuit and other circuits have broadened the application of U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) beyond the plain language of the guideline's … |
| 18-5618 | Tae H. Chon v. Barack H. Obama, former President of the United States, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2018-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure fairness integrity judicial-proceedings plain-error preservation-of-error remand substantial-rights tenth-circuit | Whether a plain error affects the petitioner's substantial rights and implicates the fairness, integrity, or public reputation of judicial proceedings… |
| 18-5538 | Shawn J. Gieswein v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-08-09 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing guidelines molina-martinez-v-united-states peugh-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-errors sentencing-guidelines tenth-circuit volina-martinez-v-united-states | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit erroneously speculated that the District Court would have imposed the same sentence o… |
| 25A231 | Avon Capital, LLC, a Wyoming Limited Liability Company v. Universitas Education, LLC | Tenth Circuit | Presumed Complete | dissolution judgment-enforcement personal-jurisdiction service-of-process subject-matter-jurisdiction tenth-circuit | Whether a federal district court can reacquire subject matter jurisdiction and personal jurisdiction over a dissolved entity without new claims or pro… |