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25-6426 In Re Tamas Hampel 2025-12-23 Pending IFP appellate-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-process petition-for-rehearing third-circuit Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit is required to docket a timely filed petition for rehearing and whether its failure t…
25-6052 David D. Richardson v. United States Third Circuit 2025-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review district-court duty-of-care medical-relationship pennsylvania-law third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals committed reversible error in affirming the District Court's judgment by misapplying Pennsylvania substanti…
25-5866 Davon Anthony Beckford v. United States Third Circuit 2025-10-10 Pending IFP miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines substantial-assistance third-circuit waiver-of-appeal Whether enforcement of a plea agreement waiver constitutes a miscarriage of justice when the defendant provided substantial assistance to the governme…
25-5764 James Edward King v. United States Third Circuit 2025-09-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP fourth-amendment reasonable-expectation-privacy search-and-seizure standing third-circuit ups-package Whether the Third Circuit erred in concluding that King lacked a reasonable expectation of privacy in a package addressed to another person
25-318 Eric Matthew Mumaw v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township Third Circuit 2025-09-17 Denied appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court habeas-corpus procedural-error third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying the Petitioner's Certificate of Appealability and whether the District Court should have g…
25A261 William Housman v. David W. Sunday, Jr., Attorney General of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2025-09-04 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure federal-review habeas-corpus state-conviction third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit improperly denied a certificate of appealability for a federal habeas corpus petition challenging a state criminal convictio…
25A256 Lujan Claimants v. Boy Scouts of America, et al. Third Circuit 2025-09-03 Presumed Complete certiorari jurisdiction precedential-opinion supreme-court third-circuit time-extension Whether the Third Circuit's denial of rehearing in a precedential opinion warrants extraordinary relief from the Supreme Court to extend the time for …
25A258 Tonnesha Kidd v. Lourdes Medical Center at Burlington, et al. Third Circuit 2025-09-03 Presumed Complete employment-law pro-se-litigation race-discrimination retaliation summary-judgment third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit improperly applied summary judgment standards in a case involving claims of race discrimination and workplace retaliation
25-5502 Aisha Asha Bradley v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2025-08-29 Denied IFP 28-usc-1443 federal-appellate-court jurisdiction-determination removal-procedure statutory-directive third-circuit Did the Federal Appellate Court for the Third Circuit ignore statutory directive 1443(1) by not performing a jurisdiction determination under 28 U.S.C…
25-5444 Steven Wilson v. United States Third Circuit 2025-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure dismissed-charges district-court judicial-review sentencing-colloquy third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit erred in determining that the sentencing colloquy of the district court did not unambiguously show the district court consid…
25A121 James Taric Byrd v. United States Third Circuit 2025-07-29 Presumed Complete criminal-conviction criminal-sentencing district-court life-imprisonment notice-of-appeal third-circuit Whether the district court's imposition of a life sentence for the charged criminal offenses was legally appropriate given the circumstances of the ca…
25-5082 Jake Bylsma v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2025-07-10 Denied IFP appellate-review bankruptcy-fraud judicial-misconduct real-estate-fraud state-corruption third-circuit Is a Real Estate and Bankruptcy Fraud racket operated by the Pennsylvania Judicial Elite a compelling reason for Supreme Court review?
24-7444 Jameel Ibrahim v. United States Third Circuit 2025-06-17 Denied IFP 28-usc-1291 appellate-jurisdiction district-court final-order interlocutory-appeal third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit erred in dismissing Petitioner's appeal for lack of jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 without remanding to the district co…
24-7361 Deshaun Curtis Jones v. United States Third Circuit 2025-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court judicial-review motion-to-suppress third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's denial of Appellant's Motion to Suppress
24-1188 Over the Line, LLC, et al. v. Christine Thompson Third Circuit 2025-05-22 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process fraud-allegation rule-9b summary-judgment third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit can raise and rule on a non-jurisdictional argument alleging fraud that was expressly disavowed by the benefitting party and…
24-1105 Alan Kushner v. Dave W. Sunday, Jr., Attorney General of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2025-04-24 Denied appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously denied the petitioner's application for a Certificate of Appealability
24-1053 In Re Sara Ann Edmondson 2025-04-07 Denied Relisted (2) article-iii color-of-law conspiracy mandamus third-circuit writ-of-certiorari Whether the Supreme Court will exercise its power to issue a writ of mandamus on the Third Circuit to reinstate Article III claims and direct investig…
24-665 John W. Fink v. Kaydon A. Stanzione, et al. Third Circuit 2024-12-19 Denied Response Waived due-process judicial-violations procedural-rules rule-60d summary-dismissal third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit and district court deprived the petitioner of due process by summarily dismissing his case and improperly applying procedura…
24-6149 Michael Boyer v. United States Third Circuit 2024-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2119 carjacking criminal-intent intent-to-harm statutory-interpretation third-circuit Did the Third Circuit err by upholding Petitioner's conviction for carjacking in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2119 when the Government failed to prove tha…
24-585 Kevin J. Patten, et al. v. Travis S. Sweigart Third Circuit 2024-11-27 Denied Response Waived appellate-review catastrophic-injuries circuit-split federal-rules-civil-procedure third-circuit trial-bifurcation Whether the Third Circuit's imposition of a categorical rule against bifurcation of trials involving catastrophic injuries violates the letter and spi…
24-6033 Frederico Bruno v. Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2024-11-26 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability district-court evidentiary-hearing judicial-review third-circuit Whether the District Court and Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in refusing to issue a certificate of appealability and granting an evidentiary he…
24A427 Cornel West v. Pennsylvania Department of State Third Circuit 2024-10-30 Presumed Complete administrative-action ballot-access constitutional-rights election-law third-circuit voter-registration Whether a state election official's administrative actions in managing ballot access and voter registration can constitute a violation of federal cons…
24-5678 Reginald L. Hopkins v. United States Third Circuit 2024-10-01 Denied IFP federal-prosecution ruse-exception speedy-trial-act state-arrest statutory-interpretation third-circuit Whether the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit erred in rejecting a 'Ruse Exception' to the Speedy Trial Act for state arrests leading to federal …
24-5586 Ziyao Jiang v. Liu Yuan, et al. Third Circuit 2024-09-20 Denied IFP appellate-review court-departure judicial-proceedings jurisdictional-conflict procedural-error third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit Court's departure from standard judicial proceedings constitutes a reversible error or jurisdictional violation
24-5555 Jermall Johnson v. United States Third Circuit 2024-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review government-motion judicial-procedure motion-for-summary-action summary-judgment third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in granting the Government's Motion for Summary Action
24A162 Reuben McDowell v. Melissa Hainsworth, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Laurel Highlands, et al. Third Circuit 2024-08-09 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus pro-se-petition procedural-notice stone-v-powell third-circuit Whether a district court must provide notice before relying on a procedural defense like Stone v. Powell that was not initially raised by the responde…
24-5209 Charles S. Renchenski v. Frederic J. Ammerman, Judge, Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Clearfield County Third Circuit 2024-08-01 Denied IFP due-process impartiality objective-bias public-confidence constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-courts judicial-bias third-circuit Has the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the Western District Court for Pennsylvania entered a decision that is in direct conflict with the United S…
23A1127 Sheldon Hannibal v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2024-06-20 Presumed Complete capital-case criminal-conviction federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals improperly denied a federal habeas corpus petition challenging a criminal conviction or sentence
23-7658 In Re Robert Gene Rega 2024-06-07 Denied IFP appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-delay standing third-circuit writ-of-certiorari due-process
23-7298 Jonathan Wayne Daniels v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process eyewitness-identification hobbs-act-robbery jury-instruction jury-instructions suggestive-identification suggestive-procedure third-circuit Whether petitioner's jury was adequately 'warn[ed] to take care in appraising identification evidence,' in accordance with due process, where his jury…
23-1123 In Re Lawyers For Fair Reciprocal Admission 2024-04-17 Denied Response Waived due-process first-amendment judicial-recusal local-court-rules local-rules rules-enabling-act supervisory-power third-circuit Should this Court exercise its supervisory duty over local rules and the administration of justice in the federal courts and assign a hearing panel co…
23-6593 Larry Rush, aka Leroy Thomas v. Michael Zaken, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. Third Circuit 2024-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction petition-denial third-circuit Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit err in affirming Mr. Rush's Denial of Habeas Corpus?
23A680 Robert J. Rice v. United States Third Circuit 2024-01-23 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure federal-appeal incarceration legal-review third-circuit writ-of-certiorari Whether the Third Circuit's decision in United States v. Rice warrants Supreme Court review based on potential legal errors in the underlying criminal…
23-6406 Jamal Eberhardt v. United States Third Circuit 2024-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court-standard criminal-procedure due-process excessive-sentence judicial-discretion reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review third-circuit Did the Third Circuit error by not finding Mr. Eberhardt's sentence was harsh and excessive?
23A605 Robert Holton v. Robert Henon, et al. Third Circuit 2024-01-02 Presumed Complete appellate-review disability legal-counsel third-circuit time-extension writ-of-certiorari Whether the Third Circuit's prior appellate decision in favor of the petitioner warrants Supreme Court review given the unique circumstances of counse…
23-567 Superior Well Services, Inc. v. American Home Assurance Company, et al. Third Circuit 2023-11-27 Denied Response Waived commercial-general-liability commercial-liability faulty-workmanship federalism insurance-law occurrence state-law third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit's decision below violated core principles of federalism by rewriting Pennsylvania state insurance law
23-6020 Henry Zabala-Zorilla v. District Attorney of Berks County, Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2023-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP habeas-corpus judicial-error legal-mistake rule-60(b)(1) rule-60b statute-of-limitations successive-petition third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its application of Kemp v. United States
23-5947 Kraig M. Trotter v. United States Third Circuit 2023-11-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP controlled-substances criminal-procedure deterrence due-process federal-sentencing methamphetamine methamphetamines proportional-punishment sentencing-guidelines third-circuit Did the Third Circuit err in failing to consider the disparity in sentencing under U.S.S.G §2D1.1(c) of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for methamph…
23-5701 Dennis L. Walls, Sr. v. Chad Wakefield, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, et al. Third Circuit 2023-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus standard-of-review third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit erred in denying Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability
23-244 Lawyers for Fair Reciprocal Admission v. United States Third Circuit 2023-09-14 Denied Response Waived civil-rights conflicts-of-interest due-process free-speech judicial-admission local-rules nonuniform-standards professional-speech standing third-circuit writ-of-certiorari Has the Petitioner established good cause for this Court to issue a writ of certiorari before judgment because the nonuniform local rules directly con…
23-5464 Patrick Okeyo v. USCIS, Newark Office, et al. Third Circuit 2023-08-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP appellate-review case-reopening civil-procedure civil-rights deprivation due-process judicial-discretion legal-procedure standing third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit Court erred in reopening case #22-1875
23-5409 Peter Fratus v. United States Third Circuit 2023-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP evidence-admissibility kars4kids prejudicial-effect probative-value rep-waters third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit properly weighed the probative value with the prejudicial effect when admitting the messages to Kars4Kids and Rep. Waters to…
23-5333 Abussamaa Rasul Ramzidin v. Angelo J. Onofri, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Mercer County Prosecutor, et al. Third Circuit 2023-08-10 Denied Relisted (3)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process judicial-error legal-standard prejudice procedural-prejudice standing third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey erred in their decisions which unfairly…
23-114 Sharon A. Finizie v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Third Circuit 2023-08-04 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure factual-findings judicial-procedure legal-error legal-errors misapplication-of-law rule-of-law standard-of-review third-circuit Did the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit constitute erroneous factual findings and/or misapplication of a properly…
22-7092 Lorenzo Hardwick v. United States Third Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability collateral-estoppel double-jeopardy fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel third-circuit Did the appeals court for the Third Circuit err by denying petitioners certificate of appealability where appellate counsel rendered ineffective assis…
22-7101 Charles Eugene Nolden v. United States Third Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 abuse-of-discretion compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-sentencing federal-statute sentence-reduction sentencing third-circuit Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit abused its discretion in denying Nolden's Motion for Compassionate Release/Reduction …
22-858 John W. Fink v. Jonathan L. Bishop, et al. Third Circuit 2023-03-09 Denied Response Waived bias civil-procedure civil-rights due-process impartiality judicial-bias plenary-hearing rule-12(b)(6) rule-60(d) standing third-circuit Did the Third Circuit judges repeatedly fail to impartially decide my underlying appeal case, as well as other previous appeal cases of mine?
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…
22-590 Sergio Verdu v. Trustees of Princeton University, et al. Third Circuit 2022-12-27 Denied Response Waived federal-courts rule-of-law supervisory-authority third-circuit title-ix title-vii whether-courts-should-issue-not-precedential-opinions
22-5676 Bernard D. Ellerbe v. Robert May, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2022-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability hinton-standard hinton-v-united-states ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan procedural-default strickland-claim strickland-v-washington third-circuit Did the Third Circuit & Delaware District Courts err by denying a Certificate of Appealability seeking to challenge procedural default findings where …
22-5255 Selwin Martin v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2022-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus procedural-timeliness statute-of-limitations third-circuit writ-petition Whether the District Court and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the Petitioner's Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus as untimel…
22-5104 Nakia Adams v. United States Third Circuit 2022-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession indictment speedy-trial third-circuit Did the Third Circuit err by not dismissing Mr. Adams' indictment on speedy-trial-grounds and/or the Government's failure to prove that he is a felon-…
22-5054 Tyrik Upchurch v. United States Third Circuit 2022-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review due-process evidence-rules expert-testimony expert-witness-testimony judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings lay-witness-testimony new-trial standard-of-review third-circuit trial-error Did the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit err in failing to award the Petitioner a new trial due to the District Court's error in allowing the go…
22-5002 Richard Winn v. United States Third Circuit 2022-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-922 18-usc-925 armed-career-criminal constructive-possession criminal-firearms sentencing-enhancement shular-v-united-states statutory-interpretation third-circuit Whether the Petitioner should have been sentenced as an Armed Career Criminal (ACCA)
21-8253 Silas Lee Sneed v. United States Third Circuit 2022-06-28 Denied IFP 18-usc-924(c)(8)(a) appellate-review attempted-hobbs-act-robbery certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence hobbs-act statutory-interpretation third-circuit united-states-v-taylor Whether an attempted Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A)
21-8218 Ramik Banks v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, et al. Third Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-conflict due-process federal-appellate-review habeas-corpus jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia legal-precedent standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence third-circuit Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit entered a decision in this case that conflicts with its decision in Travillion v. Sup…
21-7951 Omar Sierre Folk v. United States Third Circuit 2022-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 3582-motion community-safety compassionate-release criminal-sentencing danger-to-community district-court due-process sentence-reduction sentencing-factors third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit or District Court Erred in Denying Petitioner § 3582(c)(1)(A) Release or Reduction of Sentence
21-7694 Jason Paul Maple v. Lonnie Oliver, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion Third Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-error constitutional-trial-error due-process harmless-error pro-se-litigant standard-of-review supreme-court-standard third-circuit trial-procedure Whether the Third Circuit Appellate Court adhered to the terms of harmless-error review, judged by the standard set-forth by the United States Supreme…
21-7552 Kalvin Bishop v. Thomas McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP adequate-grounds appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-of-appeals debatable-issue due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-error third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing Petitioner's application for certificate of appealability
21-989 Jean Coulter v. Paul Laurence Dunbar Community Center, et al. Third Circuit 2022-01-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review bias district-court due-process extrajudicial-source-doctrine judicial-bias pervasive-bias third-circuit Has Bias/Pervasive Bias violated Due Process in both the District Court and the Third Circuit?
21-6733 Freddie Cleveland v. Chad Wakefield, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, et al. Third Circuit 2021-12-27 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure discretionary-review due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure gonzalez-v-crosby mens-rea rule-60b6 third-circuit Did the District Court and the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit abuse its discretion when not granting Petitioner's certificate of appealability
21-6069 Artavius Horne v. United States Third Circuit 2021-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-review supervisory-power third-circuit Did the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit fail to award the Petitioner a new trial as the result of error in the District Court where the Court a…
21-5788 Paul Joseph Begnoche, Sr. v. Melinda Adams, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mercer, et al. Third Circuit 2021-09-24 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-discretion judicial-neglect judicial-partiality jurisdiction statutory-jurisdiction third-circuit Issues being raised
21-5397 Jesse Carey v. United States Third Circuit 2021-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP crime-of-violence criminal-law enumerated-offense generic-robbery legal-interpretation robbery-definition sentencing-guidelines third-circuit third-degree-robbery Whether the Third Circuit misapplied the law and rendered a decision in conflict with other federal courts of appeals by holding that Petitioner's thi…
21-5188 Malik Nasir v. United States Third Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review legal-interpretation ninth-circuit standing third-circuit Should the Ashrict court's denial of the defendant's motion for payment of attorney's fees be reversed by the Third Circuit?
20-1549 Jeffrey B. Broadhurst v. Citimortgage, Inc. Third Circuit 2021-05-07 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure consumer-protection contract deposition-testimony due-process loan-modification standing summary-judgment third-circuit UTPCPL Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Affirming the District Court's Order Granting Respondent's Motion for Summary Judgment
20-7797 Jorge Luis Rosa-Hernandez v. United States Third Circuit 2021-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-decision due-process equal-protection sentencing sentencing-guidelines third-circuit unrelated-misconduct Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's Decision in allowing the Government to use unrelated, uncharged mis…
20-1460 Rolando Cruz, Jr. v. United States Third Circuit 2021-04-16 Dismissed Response Waived appellate-review conspiracy criminal-procedure evidence evidence-standard indictment indictment-variance rico-conspiracy third-circuit united-states-v-rowe Whether the Third Circuit erred in affirming RICO conspiracy convictions based on evidence of a different conspiracy than was charged
20-7709 Alvin Henry v. United States Third Circuit 2021-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-material brady-v-maryland due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel giglio-disclosure giglio-v-united-states prejudice-standard reasonable-probability third-circuit trial-counsel trial-procedure Whether the Third Circuit's focus on trial counsel's effective use of Brady/Giglo material at trial is consistent with this Court's uniform precedent …
20-1414 Uber Technologies, Inc., et al. v. Ali Razak, et al. Third Circuit 2021-04-08 Denied Response Waived circuit-split economic-reality employee-classification fair-labor-standards-act independent-contractor question-of-law right-to-control summary-judgment third-circuit Whether application of the FLSA's 'economic reality' factors to undisputed facts is a question of fact that can preclude summary judgment
20-1389 Kaboni Savage v. United States Third Circuit 2021-04-05 Denied appellate-procedure district-court federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion procedural-barriers record-on-appeal record-reconstruction statement-of-proceedings supplemental-record third-circuit transcript Whether the Third Circuit properly held—in conflict with decades of federal practice endorsing flexible procedures to assemble a complete record on ap…
20-1288 Craig Geness v. Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2021-03-16 Denied administrative-agency americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights constitutional-violation constitutional-violations due-process sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation statutory-violations third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit erred in granting the collateral appeal of Defendant, Administrative Offices of Pennsylvania Courts (AOPC), where the record…
20-1058 National Board of Medical Examiners v. Jessica Ramsay Third Circuit 2021-02-03 Denied Response Waived academic-performance-evaluation ada ada-disability-standard disability disability-diagnosis medical-licensing medical-licensing-exam reasonable-accommodation reasonable-accommodations standardized-testing-accommodation standardized-tests third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit erred in holding that the 'substantial limitation' standard requires disregarding evidence of real-world academic and standa…
20-997 Arlane James, et al. v. Noah Bartelt Third Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) civil-procedure civil-rights deadly-force johnson-v-jones law-enforcement officer-involved-shooting qualified-immunity self-defense summary-judgment third-circuit use-of-force Whether the Third Circuit's decision to exercise jurisdiction over an appeal of the District Court's denial of qualified immunity on a motion for summ…
20-817 Louis Roderick Ogden v. Eric Tice, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. Third Circuit 2020-12-17 Denied appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure standing third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying the Petitioner's Certificate of Appealability?
20-6469 Hector Valentine v. United States Third Circuit 2020-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-innocence criminal-law double-jeopardy judicial-review plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit erred in not addressing conduct rendered non-criminal by an intervening Supreme Court decision
20-667 Antwaun Bush v. City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2020-11-16 Denied civil-litigation civil-procedure federal-action federal-procedure procedural-waiver state-procedural-mechanisms statute-of-limitations third-circuit waiver writ-of-summons Whether the failure to contest a writ of summons constitutes waiver of the statute of limitations defense in a subsequent federal action
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…
20-6184 I. Dean Fulton v. Kathy Brittain, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Frackville, et al. Third Circuit 2020-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-assault buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence third-circuit whether-the-third-circuit-court-of-appeals-violated-buck-v-davis
20-6169 Tykei Garner v. United States Third Circuit 2020-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial drug-conviction due-process evidence interstate-commerce interstate-transportation prejudice third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's Decision
20-5983 Omar Sierre Folk v. United States Third Circuit 2020-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines career-offender criminal-procedure guidelines habeas-corpus pre-beckles section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines statute-of-limitations third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit erred in not addressing Erroneous Career Offender Designation under the Advisory Sentencing Guidelines Cognizable under 28 U…
20-5818 Tyrone Johnston v. Kevin Ransom, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2020-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP autopsy certificate-of-appeal circuit-split confrontation-clause confrontation-rights constitutional-provisions district-court due-process habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason third-circuit Did the Third Circuit err in denying a certificate of appeal (COA)
20-5658 Martin Racioppi v. United States Third Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-procedure divisibility divisible-statute mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states robbery-statute state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit's approach to determining that New Jersey's second-degree robbery statute is divisible is contrary to Mathis v. United State…
19-1426 Paul Pecina v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Third Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure fraud fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-proceeding judicial-review standard-of-review supervisory-powers third-circuit third-circuit-court-of-appeals united-states-v-sierra-pacific-industries Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the lower Western District Court of Pennsylvania depart from the accepted and usual course of judicial proc…
19-8826 Andrea Genrette v. Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company Third Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-stay lower-court manifest-error petition-for-rehearing third-circuit Was the Third Circuit's denial of the Petition for Rehearing an error?
19-8465 Earl T. Moore v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2020-05-14 Denied IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus procedural-timeliness third-circuit timeliness writ-of-habeas-corpus Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability on His Claim that His Petition for a Writ of Hab…
19-8293 Timothy Walker v. United States Third Circuit 2020-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-procedure circuit-court clerk clerk-discretion court-access due-process mandate mandate-recall third-circuit Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals error when it failed to compel its Circuit Clerk to accept, file, and submit Appellant's recall the mandate mot…
19-8155 Omar Saunders v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2020-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure denial due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review saunders third-circuit Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit err in affirming Mr. Saunders' Denial of Habeas Corpus?
19-1183 Odyssey Contracting Corp. v. L & L Painting Co., Inc. Third Circuit 2020-03-30 Denied Response Waived -appeal-waiver -judicial-interpretation -procedural-waiver -stipulation-rights -third-circuit-ruling #NAME? appeal appeal-right civil-procedure consent-judgment final-judgment standing third-circuit thomsen-v-cayser united-states-v-procter-gamble waiver Whether a stipulation forfeits the right of appeal from the final judgment
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…
19-1087 Charles M. Hallinan v. United States Third Circuit 2020-03-05 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure criminal-intent fifth-circuit mens-rea rico rico-act-1962-c rico-statute scienter second-circuit second-fifth-eleventh-circuits third-circuit unlawful-debt wire-fraud Whether a person violates 18 U.S.C. § 1962(c) by simply knowing an enterprise is collecting a debt that is separately determined to be unlawful
19-1049 Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, et al. v. Crystallex International Corporation Third Circuit 2020-02-24 Denied alter-ego alter-ego-doctrine attachment exceptional-importance foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity fsia instrumentality international-law judgment-enforcement pdvsa sovereign-immunity third-circuit Whether a judgment-enforcement action against a foreign sovereign and its instrumentality must be predicated on applicable exceptions to the immunity …
19-894 Michael Yamashita, et al. v. Scholastic Inc. Second Circuit 2020-01-17 Denied circuit-split copyright-infringement copyright-ownership feist-publication feist-publications pleading-standard prima-facie-case second-circuit seventh-circuit third-circuit unauthorized-copying Did the Second Circuit err in holding that a complaint for copyright infringement must be dismissed unless it alleges particular facts showing specifi…
19-7119 Larry Bell v. Kevin Ransom, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-rule-60b federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction legal-standard slack-v-mcdaniel standing third-circuit whether-reasonable-jurist-could-debate-third-circuit-court-of-appeals-adoption
19-6925 Sulaiman Taalibdin v. Lawrence Mahally, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals-court appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure district-court due-process final-decision habeas-corpus motion-timeliness rule-60(b) rule-60b standing third-circuit Did the Circuit Court possess appellate jurisdiction when the district court ruled petitioner's Rule 60(b) motion untimely under Rule 60(b)(6) which w…
19-6530 Vincent Williams v. United States Third Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 18-usc-924c 18-usc-924j concurrent-sentence-doctrine criminal-procedure davis davis-ruling davis-v-united-states habeas-corpus life-sentence life-sentences post-conviction post-conviction-relief section-2255 third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying Vincent Williams' habeas corpus/post-conviction petition based on the Supreme Court's ruli…
19-558 Montville Township Board of Education v. Zurich American Insurance Company Third Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied civil-procedure coverage-evaluation diversity-action duty-to-defend four-corners-rule insurance insurance-coverage new-jersey-law sl-industries state-law third-circuit Has the Third Circuit correctly applied the law as set forth in SL Industries, and should this Court now establish a uniform standard of coverage eval…
19-545 Jean Coulter v. Gerri Volchko Paulisick, et al. Third Circuit 2019-10-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-conflict civil-procedure conflicting-decisions domicile due-process judicial-bias jurisdiction procedural-error standing third-circuit venue Has the Third Circuit improperly determined that domicile of Plaintiff can be based exclusively on the determination of domicile in a subsequently fil…
19-6120 Raul Rodriguez v. United States Third Circuit 2019-10-01 Denied IFP 18-usc-924(c) categorical-approach circuit-precedent crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process gvr sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-ruling third-circuit vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether this petition should be granted, the vacated, and the case remanded (GVR) to the court of appeals for a determination in the first instance of…
19-5874 David Kirkland v. United States Third Circuit 2019-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility constitutional-claim evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining prejudice sentencing-reduction sixth-circuit strickland-standard third-circuit trial Whether the petitioner's attorney was ineffective for withholding information
19-5789 Jamar Lynn McMillan v. United States Third Circuit 2019-09-03 GVR Relisted (2)IFP career-offender career-offender-enhancement categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense pennsylvania-law predicate-offense rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines third-circuit Does the categorical approach apply in determining whether an offense qualifies as a predicate for the career-offender enhancement under the Sentencin…
19-190 Bernard McLaughlin v. National Elevator Industry Health Benefit Plan Board of Trustees Third Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied benefits-withholding discovery erisa erisa-plan erisa-plan-benefits indebtedness legal-relief lien money-judgment set-off third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit erred in affirming the ERISA plan's misuse of a court order to docket it under state law for money judgments, contrary to ER…
19-5387 Shevaun E. Browne v. United States Third Circuit 2019-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP cautionary-instruction criminal-procedure evidence guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions plea-bargaining sixth-amendment third-circuit trial-counsel Whether certiorari review should be granted where the Third Circuit affirmed the district court's ruling that trial counsel was not ineffective for fa…
18A1368 Ibrahim McCants v. United States Third Circuit 2019-06-27 Presumed Complete controlled-substance crime-of-violence felon-in-possession motion-to-suppress sentencing-guidelines third-circuit Whether a prior state robbery conviction qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under the United States Sentencing Guidelines for purposes of sentence enh…
18-1561 Armament Services International, Inc., et al. v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. Third Circuit 2019-06-21 Denied Response Waived 18-usc-923-f-3 de-novo-proceeding due-process federal-firearms-licensing firearms-licensing gun-control-act standard-of-review statutory-interpretation statutory-review statutory-safeguards third-circuit willful-violation willfulness Whether the Third Circuit applied an improperly deferential standard of review in a de novo federal firearms licensing proceeding under 18 U.S.C. § 92…
18-9738 Francisco Gonzalez Jose v. United States Third Circuit 2019-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP alternate-juror criminal-procedure deliberations due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation jury jury-deliberation jury-instructions mistrial third-circuit united-states-v-sotelo When a juror cannot continue deliberations and an alternate juror is empaneled, does the Third Circuit's decision in United States v. Sotelo conflict …
18-1540 VHT, Inc. v. Zillow Group, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-06-13 Denied Response Waived automated-systems circuit-split copyright-infringement direct-liability exclusive-rights fifth-circuit fourth-circuit proximate-causation statutory-construction third-circuit volitional-conduct Whether a defendant's volitional conduct is required to establish direct copyright infringement
18-1490 Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Bucks County, et al. v. Jason Piasecki Third Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied circuit-split custody federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus in-custody probation sex-offender-registration state-court state-court-conviction state-criminal-convictions third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously concluded that the respondent, who was no longer serving his state sentence of probation at the…
18-1481 Eric S. Strohmeyer v. Surface Transportation Board, et al. Third Circuit 2019-05-28 Denied Response Waived abandonment administrative-law federal-agency-decision jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss rail-line-acquisition standing surface-transportation-board third-circuit transportation-board-jurisdiction united-states Whether the Surface Transportation Board had jurisdiction to render a decision in the underlying proceeding
18-9063 Tyrone Leonard James v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3584 18-usc-924c 18-usc-924c3b certificate-of-appealability concurrent-sentences concurrent-sentences,federal-sentencing,state-sent Does the Supreme Court's grant of writ of certiora federal-criminal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-consideration sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors state-sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-rule-10 third-circuit unrelated-crimes vagueness Whether a district court's finding that a state crime and federal crime were unrelated is sufficient, in itself, to satisfy its obligation under 18 U.…
18-9064 Adonijah Lindsay v. United States Third Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP §-2255-motion §-924(c)-conviction 18-usc-924c 18-usc-924c3b certificate-of-appealability supreme-court-rule-10 third-circuit vagueness writ-of-certiorari Does the Supreme Court's grant of writ of certiorari on the same question of law establish a per se ground for obtaining a certificate of appealabilit…
18-1343 Princeton Digital Image Corporation v. Adobe Inc. Federal Circuit 2019-04-25 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure consent-final-judgment consent-judgment cross-appeal federal-circuit final-judgment interlocutory-ruling jurisdictional-dismissal standing third-circuit Whether the court below erroneously held, in conflict with a decision of the Third Circuit, that it may vacate a district court's consent final judgme…
18-8639 Anthony Franklin v. Patrick Nogan, Administrator, East Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-01 Denied IFP due-process equal-protection faretta-hearing faretta-v-california habeas-corpus pro-se-representation self-representation sixth-amendment third-circuit third-circuit-law Whether the district court erred in denying a Writ of Habeas Corpus to Petitioner
18-7676 Louis Hill v. Cynthia Link, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Graterford, et al. Third Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus legal-error reasonable-jurists standard-of-review standing substantial-showing third-circuit Does the Third Circuit Court of Appeals denial of a Certificate of Appealability in the instant matter constitute legal error given it is debatable am…
18-7454 Tyshaun St. Vallier v. United States Third Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 18-usc-3582(c)(2) constitutional-statutory-provisions district-court district-court-discretion lodestone lodestone-principle sentence-reduction sentence-reductions sentencing sentencing-decisions sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation third-circuit Are district courts required to maintain the Sentencing Guidelines as the lodestone of the sentencing decision when ruling on motions for sentence red…
18-805 Eric S. Strohmeyer v. Surface Transportation Board, et al. Third Circuit 2018-12-21 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure clear-error due-process jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss standing standing-doctrine surface-transportation-board third-circuit transportation Was the Third Circuit's failure to address the Surface Transportation Board's jurisdiction a clear error?
18-7009 Jimmy Davis v. United States Third Circuit 2018-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure notice notice-requirement procedural-due-process supervised-release third-circuit Whether Mr. Davis was denied procedural due process
18-668 Peggy Berg v. Social Security Administration Seventh Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied Response Waived absolute-debt bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-section-553(b) circuit-split creditor-rights debt-setoff fifth-circuit mutual-debt setoff seventh-circuit statutory-interpretation third-circuit Whether Bankruptcy Code Section 553(b) requires that a debt be 'absolutely owed' for a setoff to occur, or whether a setoff can occur at an earlier ti…
18-6733 Laura Shauger v. United States Third Circuit 2018-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 aba-standards-for-criminal-justice certificate-of-appealability circuit-courts-of-appeals district-court district-court-ruling ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-jurists section-2255 sentencing-counsel supreme-court-of-idaho third-circuit Whether rulings by the district court denying relief are debatable by jurists of reason if rulings by other courts in similar situations arguably supp…
18-6719 Bobby Kenneth Williamson v. Jamey Luther, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, et al. Third Circuit 2018-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split exhaustion-of-state-remedies federal-procedure habeas-corpus new-evidence newly-presented-evidence post-conviction-relief post-conviction-relief-act post-conviction-relief-act-petition protective-habeas-corpus-petition schlup-vs-delo statute-of-limitations statutory-exception third-circuit written-notice Did the Third Circuit err in rendering petitioner's Post Conviction Relief Act Petition untimely and 'THE END OF THE MATTER,' without the Pennsylvania…
18-529 Jenn-Ching Luo v. Owen J. Roberts School District, et al. Third Circuit 2018-10-23 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-process case-merger civil-procedure consolidation consolidation-of-cases due-process erie-doctrine erie-railroad-co-v-tompkins hall-v-hall informed-consent judicial-consolidation judicial-practice standing third-circuit Whether the decision of the Third Circuit conflicts with the Supreme Court decision by holding that the District Court effectively consolidated two co…
18-6292 Anthony Robinson v. United States Third Circuit 2018-10-15 Denied IFP 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law federal-criminal-provisions federal-criminal-statute force-element statutory-interpretation third-circuit united-states Whether the categorical approach applies in determining whether an offense has an element of force and thereby qualifies as a 'crime of violence' for …
18-6232 Dion Dakota Johnson v. United States Third Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924c categorical-approach categorical-approach-18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation third-circuit vagueness Does the categorical approach apply in determining whether an offense is a crime of violence' for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)?
18-6123 Ameen Green v. United States Third Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-dismissal dismissal legal-standing notice-of-appeal procedural-error standing third-circuit Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit err in dismissing Mr. Green's Notice of Appeal?
18-6024 Eric Sijohn Brown v. United States Third Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-analysis section-2255 standard-of-review third-circuit Does the Third Circuit Court Of Appeals decision contravene Buck v. Davis
18-5791 Robert Wharton v. Donald T. Vaughn Third Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process federal-law federal-laws judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-procedure relief standing takings third-circuit Did the Third Circuit erroneously apply, enlarge and/or ignore several established federal laws in denying petitioner relief?
18-5561 Jose Nieves-Galarza v. United States Third Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-criminal-career-act johnson-v-united-states new-york-penal-law new-york-penal-law-160.15(1) new-york-robbery-statute physical-force sentencing-enhancement serious-physical-injury third-circuit violent-felony violent-force Did the Third Circuit misread Castleman to erroneously require that a conviction under New York's first-degree robbery statute (N.Y. Penal Law § 160.1…
18-151 Alfred J. Petit-Clair, et al. v. Gurbir Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2018-08-03 Denied Response Waived americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-procedure,standing,due-process,tort,dismissa civil-procedure,standing,tort-claims,individual-de civil-rights district-court due-process municipal-defendant settlement settlement-enforcement standing third-circuit tort tort-claims Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit erred in affirming the District Court's dismissal of tort claims against an individual defenda…
18-5262 In Re Edward McLaughlin 2018-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court independent-action judicial-delay judicial-procedure mandamus third-circuit writ-of-certiorari Whether a writ of mandamus is the proper remedy to compel the Third Circuit Court of Appeals to rule on petitioner's independent action alleging 'frau…
18-70 William H. Cosby, Jr. v. Janice Dickinson California 2018-07-12 Denied attorney-client attorney-speech attorney-statements california-court-of-appeal client-representation constitutional-protection defamation first-amendment first-amendment-protection free-speech milkovich public-accusations public-figure third-circuit Whether an attorney's statement denying wrongdoing on behalf of a client who has been publicly accused of serious misconduct enjoys constitutional pro…