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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-576 | Stephen Buyer v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-11-14 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse Waived | constitutional-limitations criminal-prosecution insider-trading prosecutorial-discretion stock-exchange venue | The question presented is whether a stock trading on an exchange whose physical headquarters is located in Manhattan suffices to establish venue in th… |
| 25-439 | Karl Tobien v. Nationwide General Insurance Company | Sixth Circuit | 2025-10-10 | Denied | affirmative-defense burden-of-proof civil-procedure legal-standard non-patent-case venue | Whether a defendant who raises the affirmative defense of improper venue in a non-patent case bears the burden of proving that venue is improper. | |
| 25A205 | Stephen Buyer v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-08-20 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-limitation electronic-trading insider-trading sixth-amendment stock-exchange venue | Question not identified. | |
| 25-5328 | Ayana Saunders v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-08-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constructive-amendment indictment sixth-circuit trial-procedure variance venue | I. Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in finding that the proof at trial did not result in a Constructive Amendment or Variance from the… |
| 24A1182 | Ayana Saunders v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-06-02 | Presumed Complete | constructive-variance criminal-justice-act money-laundering sixth-circuit venue wire-fraud | Question not identified. | |
| 24A276 | Manuel Enrique Yates v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-09-18 | Presumed Complete | confrontation-clause fourth-amendment pro-se search-and-seizure sixth-amendment venue | (1) The confrontation clause under the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution; (2) Venue also listed under the Sixth Amendment of the Unit… | |
| 24-135 | James G. Robinson, et al. v. Armin Azod, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-08-06 | Denied | arbitration-award civil-procedure contract federal-arbitration-act federal-courts forum-clause forum-selection-clause judicial-estoppel manifest-disregard venue venue-selection | This case presents two important federal questions arising from an arbitration award confirmed by the United States District Court for the Central Dis… | |
| 24-5172 | Hassan Abbas v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy conspiracy-charges criminal-prosecution first-circuit money-laundering overt-acts venue venue-constitutional-protection wire-fraud | Has the First Circuit impermissibly narrowed the constitutional protections as to venue when it comes to wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy pr… |
| 24-5169 | Jeremy David Spielbauer v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-30 | Denied | IFP | challenges-for-cause constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection media-coverage trial-procedure use-immunity venue | (1) The trial court abused its discretion in denying challenges for cause to venire members Terry Freethy and Joseph Havlik; and the 7th Court of Appe… |
| 23A1153 | James G. Robinson, et al. v. Armin Azod, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-06-25 | Presumed Complete | arbitration attorneys-fees forum-non-conveniens judicial-estoppel manifest-disregard venue | Question not identified. | |
| 23-1317 | Jean Dufort Baptichon v. Department of Education, et al. | District of Columbia | 2024-06-18 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure constitutional-rights federal-courts federal-jurisdiction forum-non-conveniens personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction transfer venue venue-transfer | This writ certainly raises the questions of Personal jurisdiction versus forum non conveniens, venue, transfer and sovereign immunity In Piper Aircraf… |
| 23-1229 | Environmental Protection Agency v. Calumet Shreveport Refining, L.L.C., et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-22 | Judgment Issued | Amici (6)Response WaivedRelisted (3) | administrative-law circuit-court-review clean-air-act environmental-law epa-administrative-action jurisdiction renewable-fuel-standard statutory-interpretation venue venue-jurisdiction | Whether venue for the refineries' challenges lies exclusively in the D.C. Circuit because the agency's denial actions are "nationally applicable" or, … |
| 23-1230 | Growth Energy, et al. v. Calumet Shreveport Refining, L.L.C., et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-22 | GVR | Response WaivedRelisted (4) | administrative-law centralized-review environmental-protection-agency epa-action nationwide-scope renewable-fuel-program small-refinery-exemption small-refinery-exemptions statutory-interpretation venue venue-statute | Whether an action by the Environmental Protection Agency is "nationally applicable" or "based on a determination of nationwide scope or effect" for pu… |
| 23-7445 | Lloyd Kidd v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-05-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process electronic-evidence jurisdiction motion-to-suppress sufficiency-of-evidence summary-charts venue venue-challenge | Was there legally insufficient evidence to establish that venue was proper in the Southern District of New York for each count of conviction? II. Was… |
| 23-1136 | P. Koichi Yagi, aka Peter Yagi v. Estate of Robert C. Cannon | Washington | 2024-04-19 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-conflict civil-procedure due-process federal-question judicial-precedent legal-authority standing stare-decisis venue venue-selection | 1. Whether the lower court erred by ignoring Petitioner's right under Court precedent to original venue. 2. Whether the Court erred by refusing to re… |
| 23-7089 | Steven L. Lewis v. Mississippi | Mississippi | 2024-03-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process improper-venue mistrial retrial speedy-trial venue | *Whether the Constitution Permits the retrial of a defendant following a trial in an in Pro Per venue Whether the Constitution Permits the retrial of… |
| 23-7019 | Quindell Montrae Kirby v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2024-03-19 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution due-process evidence-disclosure exculpatory-evidence fair-trial jurisdiction venue | I. Why was "the Circuit Court of the County of Chesterfield Commonwealth of Virginia allowed to prosecute this case? where precedent supports Petition… |
| 23-6852 | Elisha L. Gresham v. Martin J. O'Malley, Commissioner of Social Security | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | ada-compliance administrative-law appeals civil-procedure disability-law federal-courts jurisdiction social-security standing venue | (A) Did the Eleventh Circuit Court have legal jurisdiction to hear and rule on my case since this case did not originate in Florida? {Established by C… |
| 23-816 | In Re Shiva Akula | 2024-01-29 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights conflict-of-interest district-court due-process financial-disclosure judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal recusal standing venue | (1) Does the law demand that the district court judges of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana are obligated to disc… | |
| 23-415 | BP America Production Company, et al. v. Parish of Cameron, Louisiana, et al. | Louisiana | 2023-10-19 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights defendant-rights due-process impartial-decisionmaker impartial-jury standing venue venue-transfer voir-dire | Whether a transfer of venue is required before voir dire to ensure a civil defendant's due-process right to an impartial decisionmaker where the entir… |
| 23-5813 | Medghyne Calonge, aka Sealed Defendant 1 v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | computer-fraud computer-fraud-and-abuse-act constitutional-interpretation criminal-venue data-access due-process fair-trial government-abuse statutory-construction venue venue-requirements vicinage | Petitioner was convicted of two Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) violations requiring "damage" to protected computers. At trial, the government's e… |
| 23-393 | Shichinin, LLC v. Sprint Corporation | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-13 | Denied | Response Waived | arbitration-agreement arbitration-venue contract-interpretation federal-arbitration-act forum-shopping hawaii-arbitration-statute post-arbitration-proceedings venue volt-v-stanford | Where Respondent Sprint Corporation filed a motion for arbitration in Hawaii state court pursuant to the Hawaii arbitration statute, and the Hawaii St… |
| 22-7540 | Harry Cole v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-05-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure district-court due-process essential-element jurisdiction jurisdictional-concept sua-sponte venue | 1. Whether venue is only a jurisdictional concept rather than essential element of an offense that must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt; 2. Wheth… |
| 22-7251 | Thomas Creighton Shrader v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-04-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-competence constitutional-standing criminal-procedure criminal-venue federal-courts federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit-review standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction venue | #1. When Congress by Statute has mandatorily set where the criminal Subject Matter Jurisdiction of the offense must be, was the Fourth Circuit in erro… |
| 22-7063 | Colby Dranoel Leonard v. James M. LeBlanc, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-03-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights compact-clause due-care due-process joint-tenancy jurisdiction prisoners-rights rehabilitation-programs standing venue venue-transfer | 4) Should have Pre State District Court transferred Me. Leonard's Civil suit to the correct venue / jurisdiction ? 2) did a joint tenancy contract be… |
| 22-6800 | Ronald Lee Sorenson v. Washington | Washington | 2023-02-16 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights due-process jurisdiction mathews-factors reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment structural-error structural-error-doctrine venue | 1. Where the First of the Four Total Specific Alleged Acts presented by the prosecution in its Evidence in support of the Four Total Counts Charged ag… |
| 22-6797 | Dominick Galluzzo v. Internal Revenue Service | Third Circuit | 2023-02-16 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | attorney-misconduct bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure irs iRS-assessment judicial-misconduct proof-of-claim tax-court tax-dispute venue venue-selection | Was I mis represented at bankruptcy by my attorney not asking for attachments to PROOF OF CLIAM accoding to rule 3001 and B10 (exhibits H & I) At 20… |
| 22-6521 | William Randall Brannan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-01-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | challenge circuit-split civil-procedure preservation-of-issues rule-29 venue | This Court should resolve the circuit split that has developed by finding that a general motion under Rule 29 preserves a challenge to venue. |
| 22-6343 | Rossen Iossifov v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bitcoin-exchange criminal-venue due-process extradition extraterritorial-jurisdiction money-laundering racketeering venue wire-fraud | The Petitioner, Rossen Iossifov ("Iossifov"), was indicted on July 5, 2018, and charged with one count of conspiring to engage in racketeering activit… |
| 22-5795 | Kevin White, Jr. v. Michigan | Michigan | 2022-10-07 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission judicial-discretion jurisdiction trial-procedure venue | Question not identified. |
| 22-5761 | Prinyah Godiah Nmiaa Pa El-Bey v. Cubesmart Self Storage, et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-10-04 | Denied | IFP | address-change bias-prejudice civil-procedure court-notification due-process judicial-bias notification pro-se-plaintiff procedural-due-process standing venue venue-change | 1.) Under the rules of Unified Courts when it comes to mailing don't Party(ies) have the rights to get notified whenever any party(ies) move notified … |
| 22-5455 | Tyrone Woolaston v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-09-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split civil-rights confidential-informant criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process government-conduct government-misconduct manufactured-venue venue venue-manipulation | Whether manufactured venue is a valid criminal defense that a defendant is entitled to present to a jury when it is undisputed that the Government tra… |
| 22-5285 | Alifonso Eduardo Garcia v. Kansas | Kansas | 2022-08-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | autopsy-evidence criminal-procedure due-process jury-questionnaire jury-selection lesser-included-offense presumed-prejudice skilling-factors standard-of-review venue venue-prejudice | 1. Whether the Kansas Supreme Court's presumed prejudice standard of review is in contrary to Skilling v. United States, 561 U.S. 358, 130 S.Ct. 2896,… |
| 21-1576 | Timothy J. Smith v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-06-21 | Judgment Issued | Amici (5)Relisted (2) | acquittal circuit-split constitutional-right criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process reprosecution retrial trial-remedy venue | Whether the proper remedy for the government's failure to prove venue is an acquittal barring reprosecution of the offense, as the Fifth and Eighth Ci… |
| 21-7996 | George Edward Purdy v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-27 | Denied | IFP | 5th-amendment blockburger-rule criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment jurisdiction plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion venue | Where identical chargee are filed for the same alleged victim in multiple counties, is it a violation of the 5th Amendment double jeopardy rule base… |
| 21-7148 | Mark Allen Banes v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-02-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process federal-law federalism improper-venue interstate-registration registration-compliance sex-offender-registration venue venue-jurisdiction | Whether the state of origin where a sex offender is properly registered is an improper venue for hearing a violation of the sex offender's registratio… |
| 21-1085 | Ikorongo Texas LLC, et al. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2022-02-07 | Denied | Response Waived | convenience convenience-standard forum-non-conveniens judicial-discretion mandamus patent-rights statutory-venue transfer venue venue-transfer | Ikorongo Technology LLC and Ikorongo Texas LLC have separate ownership and geographically divided patent rights that were infringed by Samsung, LG, an… |
| 21-7059 | Timothy George Muller v. Michigan | Michigan | 2022-02-04 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction plea-bargaining substance venue | MR. MULLED- EaJT/TIE D To uoiTA/TIRA lS DlEA AMD Tai/E /J& CoaJTclVoa} fa/Z DEA iuEAY oE 6orimoU.tX> SuBSfAAJCE tAOZiti^DEATbJ VACATED, l$EC/kJSE '… |
| 21-7005 | Adam M. DeVore v. Kenneth Black, Warden | Ohio | 2022-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-indictment due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction jurisdictional-change location-modification ohio-supreme-court venue | If an indictment alleges an offense occurring at the county of Ashland in the State of Ohio, can jurisdiction over the offense be lost if the loca ti… |
| 21-6775 | Temne Adah Hardaway v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-01-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy conspiracy-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure financial-transactions money-laundering sixth-amendment specified-unlawful-activity venue venue-jurisdiction | In United States v. Cabrales, 524 U.S. 1, 2 (1998) this Court and the Eighth Circuit held in a substantive money laundering charge that venue is impro… |
| 21-6754 | Chad Mink v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-prosecution eighth-circuit false-statement felon-in-possession procedural-jurisdiction venue waiver-rule | For purposes of venue for a criminal prosecution, if it were a crime to make false statement to another in connection with another offense (and the ot… |
| 21-6004 | Olufolajimi Abegunde v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-10-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split conspiracy-charges criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure indictment indictment-allegations rule-8-joinder venue venue-impropriety | In determining the propriety of Joinder of offenses and/or defendants under Rule 8 Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, there is a profound circuit sp… |
| 21-5869 | In Re Abdul Mohammed | 2021-10-04 | Denied | IFP | appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure executive-committee judicial-transfer nunc-pro-tunc standing transfer venue void-ab-initio | 1) whether the 7th Circuit shall transfer pending Appeal # 20-2419 and Appeal # 21-1591 to a different circuit; 2) whether the Orders of the Executiv… | |
| 21-340 | Orlando Carter v. District of Columbia | District of Columbia | 2021-09-02 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 6th-amendment constitutional-right court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process groppi-precedent groppi-v-wisconsin impartial-jury venue venue-change | Whether the District of Columbia Court of Appeals' categorical prohibition on changes of venue deprives defendants of the right to trial by an imparti… |
| 21-5154 | Dakota Stewart v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-07-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process interstate-travel prosecutorial-discretion sex-offender-registration venue venue-jurisdiction | In a prosecution for failing to update sex offender registration under 18 U.S.C. § 2250(a), does venue lie in the district where the offender resided … |
| 20-8468 | Deborah Petty v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-07-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-identity-theft criminal-procedure criminal-venue district-court due-process identity-theft interstate-crime jurisdiction venue | I. Was venue proper in the Northern District of Texas when the crimes were actually committed in Nevada and Florida? |
| 20-7900 | Monique A. Lozoya v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-04-30 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | aircraft-crime airspace aviation constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution trial-procedure venue venue-statute | 1. Is the airspace above a State part of that State, and thus the federal district or districts including that State, for purposes of the Constitution… |
| 20-1456 | Walter Osborne v. Douglas E. Kellogg, et al. | Florida | 2021-04-16 | Denied | appellate-procedure change-of-venue civil-rights court-recusal due-process judicial-bias legal-review procedural-fairness recusal standing venue | Can I get an impartial review via 5th DCA. Answer is absolutely no, based on what I have documented for 10 years. So 5th DCA should help me obtain a … | |
| 20-7453 | Douglas D. Jackson v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-03-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process sentencing statutory-interpretation venue | Question not identified. |
| 20-1211 | SynKloud Technologies, LLC v. Adobe, Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2021-03-02 | Denied | Response Waived | 1404(a) civil-procedure discovery district-court-discretion federal-circuit-review mandamus patent patent-litigation transfer venue venue-transfer | 1. Whether the Federal Circuit wrongly overruled a district court judge's discretionary 1404(a) transfer decision when rational basis exists for all o… |
| 20-1116 | Anthony Seward v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-02-12 | Denied | criminal-procedure criminal-venue due-process federal-criminal-law federalism interstate-registration sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation venue venue-jurisdiction | A registered sex offender who changes residence from one state to another must register in the new state within three business days of arrival. 34 U.S… | |
| 20-1098 | Tod Houthoofd v. Les Parish, Warden | Michigan | 2021-02-10 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-error trial-jurisdiction venue venue-challenge | Does Petitioner's convictions violate the U.S. Constitution and prior decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court? (See page 2) |
| 20-6981 | Phillip Jay Walter, Jr. v. Texas | Texas | 2021-01-28 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 6th-amendment appellate-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel meaningful-appeal pro-se-litigant sixth-amendment venue | 1) Is an Appellate Court duty bound to ensure that an appellant —Represented or Pro Se—is afforded a full, fair, & meaningful appeal, to inlcude: Ini… |
| 20-6828 | Mwenda Murithi v. Bryan Gleckler, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2021-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | ANOER-Son-v.-LIBERTY-LOBBY civil-procedure credibility-determinations deposition-testimony district-court due-process federal-rules material-fact summary-judgment venue | Whether or not the district court and the 7th circuit court of appeals superseded this Court's ruling in ANDERSON V LIBERTY LOBBY INC., 477 U.S. 242, … |
| 20-6736 | Salvador Diaz v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-12-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure constitutional-challenge court-of-appeals due-process jurisdiction prior-conviction sorna-violation statutory-interpretation supervisory-power venue venue-selection | 1. Whether the Court of Appeals' failure to remedy the District Court's improper venue selection conflicts with this Court's decisions in Nichols v. U… |
| 20-6394 | Michael A. Hagar v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-judicial-power criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process jurisdiction protective-order sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act venue venue-limitations | Do the Article 3, Section 2, Clause 3 provision, the "trial shall be held in the State where the said Crime shall have been committed" and the Sixth A… |
| 20-6044 | Luidgi Benjamin v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | character-evidence character-testimony criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process enticement evidentiary-admission judicial-discretion jury-instructions venue venue-challenge | 1. Should certiorari be granted where venue was laid in the Southern District of New York, even though no elements of the crime occurred there, includ… |
| 20-6007 | William Harold Wright, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-10-14 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process indictment judicial-review prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence venue | Did the Delaware Court Erect to Denie doaht's Modton bo t SINS Che Naictineit? |
| 20-347 | Charles Malcolm Spivey, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-09-15 | Denied | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process forum-shopping interstate-commerce registration-requirement sorna venue | Whether venue for a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 2250(a) for failing to update a registration under SORNA after traveling in interstate commerce can … | |
| 20-5684 | Frank Joseph Schwindler v. Shay Hatcher, Warden | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-09-14 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing state-court-procedures state-courts venue | 1. Whether or not the August 28, 2019, opinion of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, finding that it lacked jurisdiction to review the Ma… |
| 20-337 | Rosemary Ann Lynn v. Andrew George Brown, III, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2020-09-14 | Denied | Relisted (2) | civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction due-process personal-jurisdiction rico-statute service-of-process subject-matter-jurisdiction venue | Whether Appellees' refusal to serve Petitioner with summons and petition after passage of two years' and seven months divest the district court of per… |
| 20-5656 | Priscilla Ann Ellis v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure district-prosecution due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge overt-act venue venue-requirement | In a criminal conspiracy case, does proof of venue require that at least one defendant charged in the case have participated in an overt act in furthe… |
| 20-5604 | Atorbe Aaron Isibor v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure federal-rules forfeiture olano venue venue-insufficiency waiver waiver-doctrine | Under this Court's decision in United States v. Olano, 507 U.S. 725 (1993), does a defendant who argues for the first time on appeal that the governme… |
| 20-5420 | Helga G. Suarez Clark v. Republic of Peru | District of Columbia | 2020-08-19 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure court-appointed-counsel due-process pleading-standards pro-se pro-se-litigation rule-8a short-and-plain-statement standing venue venue-transfer | 1 USCA(case 20-7001) erroneously denied my motion for court appointed counsel, aledging case did not have merits despite chief judge Me Mahon NYSD(18-… |
| 20-5115 | Gerson Serrano-Ramirez v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-07-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence evidence-rules federal-procedure gang-affiliation jury-instructions motion-to-sever sufficiency-of-evidence venue | Mr. Gerson Serrano-Ramirez was tried and convicted on in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. Prior to and during tr… |
| 19-8738 | Charles Clark v. Vance Laughlin, Warden | Georgia | 2020-06-18 | Denied | IFP | competent-jurisdiction constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment state-trial-court subject-matter-jurisdiction venue | Is the Fourteenth AMENOMENT OF the UNited States Due process clause Violated where the State trial Court was without Subject -Matter Jurisdiction to p… |
| 19-8148 | Brent Douglas Cole v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-30 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct separation-of-powers sovereignty standing territorial-jurisdiction venue | A "Case" is "a suit instituted according to the regular course of judicial procedure." Muskrat, 219 US at 356-7. It must be instituted lawfully to ari… |
| 19-1092 | In Re TCT Mobile International Limited | 2020-03-05 | Denied | Response Waived | bristol-myers-squibb civil-procedure contact-attribution due-process eastern-district-of-texas federal-circuit forum-state mandamus nonresident-defendant personal-jurisdiction stream-of-commerce unilateral-activity venue | 1. Whether the Federal Circuit erred in denying mandamus and failing to correct a district court ruling finding personal jurisdiction over a nonreside… | |
| 19-7571 | Richard Williams v. Tony Mays, Warden | Tennessee | 2020-02-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof constitutional-law constitutional-standard criminal-procedure due-process evidence murder murder-investigation presumption statutory-interpretation statutory-presumption venue | Whether, as applied to the facts of this case, the statutory presumption if a body of a murder victim found within the state, the death is presumed to… |
| 19-7197 | Darryl William Young v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bank-robbery colloquy constitutional-law constitutional-question-of-procedural-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-11 criminal-procedure-rule-20 direct-appeal district-court-jurisdiction due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-question-of-statutory-law federal-rules-criminal-procedure jurisdictional-venue overbroad-interpretation plea-agreement plea-validity procedural-requirements sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-law venue waiver | 1. The United States Supreme Court is asked to resolve a federal question of jurisdictional law, whether the district court for the Eastern District o… |
| 19-6824 | Thomas Abdul Holcombe v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-12-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split circuit-splits ex-post-facto non-delegation-doctrine right-to-travel SORNA-prosecution sorna-violations venue venue-issue | 1. Whether the Court must resolve splits among and within the circuits because across the country there is no uniformity of prosecution of alleged SOR… |
| 19-6524 | Franklin Elliott Benson v. Aimee Smith, Warden | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actus-reus civil-rights constitutional-rights corpus-delicti criminal-murder criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions standing venue venue-challenge | Whether, for the element of "causing the death" an essential element of malice murder in Georgia O.C.G.A. 16-5-1(a), the indictment which accused the … |
| 19-570 | Greg Steven Elofson v. Stephanie Bivens, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-31 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split clayton-act judicial-economy nationwide-service nationwide-service-of-process process rico rico-statute rico-venue-process standard-oil standard-oil-co venue venue-process | 1. Does the RICO venue and process statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1965, provide for nationwide service of process under § 1965(d), consistent with the Clayton A… |
| 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… |
| 19-6359 | Stephen Nivens v. Maryland | Maryland | 2019-10-25 | Denied | IFP | administrative-hearing administrative-law correctional-services double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review sentencing-credits special-project-credits standing statutory-interpretation venue | 1.) Whether Judge Daniel P. Dwyer as the Administrative Judge was to preside over and hear Petitioner's hearing for Judicial Review instead of Judge B… |
| 19-6169 | In Re Anthony Brawner | 2019-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federalism jurisdiction mandamus maryland-jurisdiction sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction trial-rights venue | 1. Does the District of columbia superior cour+ nave subject -Matterjurisdict ion _over crimes that happen in nthe Stateof_Maryland. 2. Does the peti… | |
| 19-232 | New Mighty U.S. Trust, et al. v. Robert Shi, as Executor of the Will of Yueh-Lan Wang, et al. | District of Columbia | 2019-08-21 | Denied | Amici (2)Response Waived | burden-of-proof choice-of-forum choice-of-law circuit-split civil-procedure conflict-of-laws forum-non-conveniens jurisdiction jurisdictional-doctrine standing venue | Whether a forum resident bears a heightened burden to establish that a suit brought by a foreign plaintiff should be dismissed under the doctrine of f… |
| 19-5474 | Terry Lee Carlson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | computer-search district-court due-process evidence evidence-suppression fourth-amendment jurisdiction search-limitation search-warrant territorial-jurisdiction venue warrant-scope | Did the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, when ruling on the validity of a search of a computer located in Minnesota conducted pursuant to a search war… |
| 19-5169 | Timothy Stratton v. Mississippi | Mississippi | 2019-07-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 107 325 U.S. 91 65 S.Ct. 1031 89 L.Ed. 1495 (1945) civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jury-instructions screws-v-united-states venue | WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT FAILED TO INSTRUCT THE JURY ON ALL ELEMENTS OF THE CRIME IN THIS CASE (VENUE) AS ACCORDING TO SCREWS V. UNITED STATES, 325 U.S… |
| 18-9834 | Carlos Alberto Ochoa-Orozco v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-error cumulative-error due-process fair-trial federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct rule-18 sentencing sixth-amendment venue venue-challenge | 1. Whether the district court violated Appellant's right to due process, and his Sixth Amendment right to affair trial, where' the district court 'lac… |
| 18-9447 | QuintIn Irving Brown v. Virginia | Virginia | 2019-05-28 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appeal conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process judicial-boundaries jurisdiction jurisdictional-overreach procedural-error reversal state-law territorial-jurisdiction venue | I. WHEN A CONVICTION OCCURS IN ANY STATE OF THE UNITED STATES WHERE A COUNTY'S JURISDICTION OCCURS OVER 2,200 YARDS BEYOND ITS 300-YARD PERMISSIBLE JU… |
| 18-1341 | Jeffrey A. Robertson v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-04-25 | Denied | Amici (1) | civil-rights employee-benefit-plan employee-benefit-plans erisa erisa-venue-provision fiduciary-duty forum-selection forum-selection-clause participant-rights public-policy statutory-interpretation venue venue-provision | Whether a private employee benefit plan's unilateral adoption of a forum selection clause that circumvents the venue choices that Congress granted pla… |
| 18-8773 | Emmanuely Germain v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-10 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error essential-elements harmless-error jurisdiction jury-instructions statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence uncharged-offense venue venue-error | 1. Is the error of omission of an essential element of an offense from jury instructions rendered harmless by the sufficiency of evidence to support a… |
| 18-1284 | Jennifer L. Wilson v. SunTrust Bank, et al. | North Carolina | 2019-04-09 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure court-hearing due-process judge judicial-discretion judicial-procedure jurisdiction north-carolina-constitution north-carolina-general-statutes procedural-rules standing statutory-interpretation trial-court venue | Did the Trial Court hearing of August 15, 2016, Judge Gregory R. Hayes presiding, violate Article VI Section 11 of the North Carolina Constitution; N.… |
| 18-1263 | Jason Brian Braun v. Department of the Interior, et al. | District of Columbia | 2019-04-02 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure-error civil-rights constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction district-court due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-procedure mandamus mandamus-petition standing status-conference transfer venue venue-transfer | When a district court has erred and it's brought to their attention in contrast of that information a case continues to progress forward without corre… |
| 18-8581 | Robert Nicholas Brooks v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bank-fraud commerce-clause constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-indictment sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-fraud venue wire-fraud | Question 1: Whether the Supreme Court is obliged to address and determine whether the District and Appellate Courts violated Petitioner's Fifth and Si… |
| 18-8039 | James Barstad v. Washington | Washington | 2019-02-20 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus invasion jurisdiction legal-standing suspension venue void-ab-initio war | Has the Great Writ of Habeas Corpus been suspended in Americas If so, what entity has declared war against and invaded America? Could STATE OF WASHIN… |
| 18-7578 | Jeffrey T. Howard v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence circuit-court-procedure civil-rights coa constitutional-challenge due-process due-process,civil-procedure,standing,habeas-corpus habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdictional-issue manifest-injustice venue writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied the law applicable in COA proceedings such as would represent deviation from the directives of t… |
| 18-7337 | Gary D. Martin v. Ralph Terry, Acting Warden | West Virginia | 2019-01-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | change-of-venue constitutional-error due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus indigent-rights ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias right-to-counsel venue | GROUND ONE: Did the State of West Virginia and subservient Circuit Court of Fayette County, West Virginia "abuse its discretion" and commit 'clear err… |
| 18-7293 | Neil Walker v. Alabama | Alabama | 2019-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights conflict-of-laws criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process jurisdiction sentencing standing venue | 1. WHERE THERE ONLY BEED ONE PRONOCNIEMENT IN COURT, WHAT SENTENCE IS THE LEGAL SENTENCE, NATURAL LIFE, OR 5? 2. DID THE COUDT HAVE TURISDICTION TO P… |
| 18-849 | HTC Corporation v. 3G Licensing, S.A., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2019-01-04 | Denied | Response Waived | 28-usc-1391 28-usc-1400b federal-circuit foreign-defendant patent-infringement statutory-construction statutory-interpretation venue venue-statute | This patent infringement case squarely presents a question acknowledged by the Court but left unanswered in TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Grp. Brand… |
| 18-600 | Texas Advanced Optoelectronic Solutions, Inc. v. Renesas Electronics America, Inc., fka Intersil Corporation | Federal Circuit | 2018-11-07 | Denied | CVSGAmici (3)Relisted (2) | 35-usc-271 commercial-transactions extraterritoriality federal-circuit infringement international-relations offer-to-sell patent patent-infringement patent-law statutory-interpretation united-states-code venue | Under 35 U.S.C. § 271(a), a person directly infringes a patent whenever she "offers to sell" a patented invention "within the United States." The ques… |
| 18-240 | Kirk Tang Yuk v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-08-24 | Denied | Response Waived | co-conspirator-testimony criminal-procedure criminal-venue due-process government-overreach jurisdiction prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment telephone-call-evidence venue venue-manipulation witness-location | Whether a prosecutor can manufacture venue in a particular district solely by bringing a cooperating witness to a favored district and having the witn… |
| 18-237 | Gary Thomas and Felix Parrilla v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-08-23 | Denied | Response Waived | 6th-amendment civil-procedure conspiracy-venue constitutional constitutional-venue cooperating-witness criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure government-witness manufactured-venue prosecutorial-discretion sixth-amendment venue venue-determination venue-manipulation venue-provisions witness-cooperation | 1. Whether it is permissible under the venue provisions of the U.S. Constitution Article III, § 2, cl. 3; the Sixth Amendment; and Federal Rules of Cr… |
| 18-5649 | Charles Richardson v. Jason Kent, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-20 | Denied | IFP | criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct recusal trial-counsel venue | Whether the prosecutor's improper arguments resulted in an unfair trial and a guilty verdict of murder instead of a lesser charge thereto? Did the Fi… |
| 18-5448 | Ellen Elizabeth Packenham Stanley v. Nancy A. Berryhill, Acting Commissioner of Social Security | Eighth Circuit | 2018-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 42-usc-405(h) administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction pro-se pro-se-appellant social-security-administration standing stare-decisis tort tort-claim venue venue-jurisdiction | Is the U.S. Federal District Court of Minnesota the appropriate venue and jurisdiction to present an Appeal for a suit Sounding in Tort against the So… |
| 18-5123 | Eric Glenn Parker v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting conspiracy criminal-conviction criminal-procedure district-court jurisdiction murder murder-charge rico rico-conspiracy sixth-amendment venue venue-proof | 1. Was Venue Proven To Convict Eric Glenn Parker Of Conspiracy To Commit RICO- In The Northern District Of Mississippi? 2. Was Venue Proven To Convic… |
| 18-5076 | Billy R. Melot v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction standing tax venue | 1} Whether the 5" Circuit Decision is an intervening controlling Precedent that affects the Justiciability of Appellant's claims: 2) That without the… |