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25-820 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC v. WhereverTV, Inc. Federal Circuit 2026-01-12 Pending Amici (1)Response Waived appellate-procedure circuit-split jurisdictional-issue party-presentation sua-sponte waiver Whether a court of appeals may override the principle of party presentation by deciding sua sponte a non jurisdictional issue that a party deliberatel…
25-6497 Candelario Cruz-Trujillo v. Indiana Indiana 2026-01-06 Pending Response WaivedIFP appellate-review ineffective-assistance judicial-proceedings post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct waiver I. Whether the Indiana Court of Appeals ' holding that Candelario Cruz-Trujillo waived his post-conviction claim because he failed to make specific c…
25-6316 Kyle Ray Campbell v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-12-08 Pending IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure ninth-circuit sentence-reasonableness sentencing waiver Whether the district court erred and imposed a substantively unreasonable sentence of three hundred months? Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal…
25A591 Nadarius Barnes v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-11-19 Application appellate-rights circuit-split criminal-procedure guilty-plea plea-agreement waiver Whether a defendant who enters an unconditional guilty plea waives the right to challenge on appeal that the admitted facts do not constitute the char…
25A582 The Glynn Environmental Coalition, Inc., et al. v. Sea Island Acquisition, LLC Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-18 Application citizen-suit clean-water-act corps-of-engineers jurisdictional-determination permit-challenge waiver Whether a waiver in a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers preliminary jurisdictional determination that precludes 'any challenge... in any Federal court' bar…
25A566 Jakalien J. Cook v. United States Armed Forces 2025-11-14 Application court-martial maximum-punishment military-justice sentencing-calculation uniform-code-military-justice waiver Whether a military judge's calculation of maximum authorized punishment constitutes a waivable error subject to general waiver principles in a court-m…
25-5899 Michael Keith Marechale v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure invited-error jury-instruction waiver "Courts of Appeals have stated . . . under the 'invited error' doctrine that a party may not complain on appeal of errors that he himself invited or p…
25-343 CashCall, Inc., et al. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Ninth Circuit 2025-09-23 Pending circuit-precedent constitutional-rights jury-trial legal-restitution seventh-amendment waiver This Court has held that equitable restitution can be awarded without a jury but is capped at "a defendant's net profits," Liu v. SEC, 591 U.S. 71, 87…
25A334 Amaplat Mauritius Ltd., et al. v. Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation, et al. District of Columbia 2025-09-23 Presumed Complete arbitration enforcement-of-award foreign-sovereign-immunity new-york-convention sovereign-immunity waiver Whether a foreign state's submission to arbitration in a New York Convention jurisdiction constitutes an implied waiver of sovereign immunity from a s…
25-322 Dimitry Kuperschmidt v. Jeff Angradi, Chief Probation Officer, et al. Third Circuit 2025-09-18 Denied appellate-court custody district-court habeas-corpus procedural-default waiver 1. Was the Pennsylvania appellate court rule on which the District Court relied to find procedural default a "firmly established" and "consistently fo…
25-5592 Brijesh Goel v. United States Second Circuit 2025-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights direct-appeal knowing-voluntary on-the-record right-to-counsel waiver Whether the Court of Appeals below violated the Petitioner's constitutional right to counsel on direct appeal by failing to make an on-the-record find…
25-5241 Clarence Fry v. Timothy Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-07-30 Denied IFP capital-trial constitutional-right federal-courts mitigation state-courts waiver I. a. When the undisputed factual record demonstrates the denial of the constitutional right to testify at a capital trial , but the State courts f…
25-5224 Kelechi Collins Umeh v. United States First Circuit 2025-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction defendant-rights jury-trial structural-error trial-court waiver Is it structural error for a trial court to enter a conviction against a defendant who did not expressly waive his right to a jury trial?
25-5180 Sherrod Anthony Wright v. Florida Florida 2025-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure defendant-rights jury-trial sixth-amendment state-court waiver Whether the ancient right enshrined in the Sixth Amendment to trial by a twelve-member jury applies to a state court trial for major felonies where th…
24A1168 Richard W. Gannett v. Board of Bar Overseers Massachusetts 2025-05-30 Presumed Complete bar-discipline conflict-of-interest disbarment right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver Whether the Sixth Amendment guarantees a right to counsel in state bar disciplinary proceedings, and whether a petitioner must use specific language t…
24-7257 Alejandro R. Duarte v. Nebraska Nebraska 2025-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance medical-evidence self-defense waiver Whether defense counsel's failure to offer medical evidence supporting a self-defense claim constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel, and whether…
24-1181 Matthew T. McLeay v. Coke Morgan Stewart, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Acting Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2025-05-19 Denied Response Waived appellate-review argument-revival federal-circuit judicial-discretion legal-precedent waiver Whether a court can revive a waived argument previously abandoned by the government
24-780 Anthony Blue v. New York New York 2025-01-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-right criminal-trial defendant-understanding right-to-counsel sentencing-range waiver Whether a valid waiver of the constitutional right to counsel at trial requires that the defendant understood, at the time of the waiver, the 'range o…
24-680 Dennis G. Collins, et al. v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Eighth Circuit 2024-12-26 Denied appellate-procedure civil-procedure district-court rule-9b sua-sponte waiver Whether a United States Court of Appeals can sua sponte affirm a district court's judgment on Rule 9(b) and other grounds that were waived on appeal w…
24-6065 Joshua Austin Ward v. Kentucky Kentucky 2024-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-procedure defendant-rights hybrid-representation pro-se waiver witness-selection Whether a pro se defendant's hybrid representation arrangement affects his right to determine witness selection, and if so, what constitutes a valid w…
24A491 Stephen C. Stanko v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-11-18 Presumed Complete conflict-of-interest expert-services habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance trial-counsel waiver Whether an actual conflict of trial counsel that adversely affects representation can be validly waived without fully advising the client of the conse…
24-5924 Elliot Morales v. New York New York 2024-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process right-to-counsel sentencing-exposure trial-court-procedure waiver Does a criminal trial court violate Iowa v. Tovar in failing to advise a defendant of his potential sentencing exposure before waiving right to trial …
24-5655 Juan M. Cruzado Laureano v. Popular Democratic Party and Its Governing Board Puerto Rico 2024-09-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure certiorari criminal-conviction department-of-justice supreme-court-rule waiver Whether a waiver by the US Department of Justice under Supreme Court Rule 15 constitutes an admission of the illegality of a criminal conviction
24-244 In Re Scott Douglas Ora, Individually, and In His Derivative Capacity as Trustee of the Leo Robin Trust, on Behalf of the Leo Robin Trust 2024-09-05 Denied appellate-review conditions-precedent due-process mandamus trial-by-jury waiver Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the Court of Appeal to remand the case to the trial court to rectify alleged due process violations …
24A228 Elliot Morales v. New York New York 2024-09-03 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sentencing-exposure sixth-amendment waiver Whether a criminal trial court violates the Sixth Amendment right to self-representation when it fails to inform a defendant of his actual sentencing …
24-5400 Javontae Quintez White v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-split constitutional-law due-process judicial-review waiver Is a Constitutional Due Process violation triggered when an appellate court holds that an issue is waived if not specifically raised in the statement …
24A211 Richard Stanton Whitman v. David W. Gray, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-08-27 Presumed Complete circuit-split due-process federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default waiver Whether a state waives its procedural-default defense in federal habeas proceedings by arguing the merits of a claim in district court while raising t…
24-5236 Francisco German Alvarez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP boykin-v-alabama competence-to-stand-trial constitutional-rights due-process guilty-plea united-states-v-ruiz voluntariness waiver In determining the voluntariness of a guilty plea, did the Ninth Circuit improperly apply the competence-to-stand-trial standard instead of the Boykin…
24-5164 Joel Miles v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeal judicial-review miscarriage-of-justice sentencing waiver Whether appellate waivers in federal criminal cases contain an implied exception for judgments that represent a miscarriage of justice?
24-32 Donavan J. White Owl, aka DJ v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-07-12 Denied Response Waived constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy eighth-circuit implied-consent manifest-necessity mistrial waiver Whether implied consent is valid consent to waive double jeopardy protections, and if so, what qualifies as implied consent?
24-27 Next Generation Technology, Inc., et al. v. Ur M. Jaddou, Director, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, et al. Second Circuit 2024-07-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure de-novo-review district-court federal-magistrates-act federal-procedure judicial-review magistrate-judge subject-matter-jurisdiction waiver waiver-of-objections Waiver-of-subject-matter-jurisdiction
24-5028 Rafael Cardona, Sr. v. United States First Circuit 2024-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure forfeiture good-cause motion-timeliness multiplicity plain-error-review rule-12 waiver Whether Fed. R. Crim. P. 12, as amended in 2014, mandates a forfeiture or waiver of a multiplicity claim not timely raised in the district court, and …
23-7833 Walter Payton v. Kansas Tenth Circuit 2024-06-28 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus statutory-law waiver miscarriage-of-justice
23-7738 Terrill Goods v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure in-absentia presence sentencing waiver Whether a defendant who does not clearly and expressly waive his presence at his sentencing hearing may be sentenced in absentia under Fed. R. Crim. P…
23-7709 Percy Leroy Jacobs v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP bradshaw-v-stumpf criminal-penalties due-process right-to-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial speedy-trial-act trial-counsel von-moltke-v-gillies waiver whether-defendant-must-understand-elements-of-charged-offenses
23-7694 Juan Antonio Hernandez Alvarado, aka Tony Hernandez v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2024-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-privilege attorney-communication due-process impartial-jury jury-impartiality law-enforcement-interaction no-contact-rule right-to-counsel waiver Whether New York's 'no-contact' rule was violated
23-1291 Gazul Producciones SL Unipersonal v. Sheddf2-FL5 LLC Florida 2024-06-11 Denied corporate-disclosure covid-19 foreclosure general-appearance non-litigation-counsel pandemic-procedure service-of-process waiver zoom-hearing Whether a Spanish entity waived service of process
23-7663 Sandra Denise Curl, aka Sandra Curl Jacobs, aka Sandra Curl-Jacobs El, aka Minister Sandra El v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process mental-health right-to-counsel sixth-amendment von-moltke-v-gillies waiver waiver-of-counsel Whether a defendant must understand the elements of the charged offenses for a valid waiver of the Sixth Amendment right to trial counsel
23-7581 Glenn D. Odom, II v. Scott Jordan, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-counsel conflict-of-counsel constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-rights due-process jury jury-questioning pro-se-defense waiver witness witness-testimony Does a criminal defendant have a constitutional right to fully present himself / herself as a witness
23-7477 Joseph Ira Patterson, III v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-jurisdiction criminal-appeal criminal-procedure drug-possession due-process plea-agreement plea-bargain sentencing sentencing-enhancement waiver waiver-of-rights Whether a provision in a plea agreement which bars a defendant from appealing 'any sentence of imprisonment' can be knowingly entered into well before…
23-7371 Laron Darrell Carter v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-05-02 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-court jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue mandate mandate-rule procedural-law waiver Whether the rule requiring a district court to follow the mandate of a court of appeals is jurisdictional
23-1143 Nelda Kellom, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Terrance Kellom, Deceased, et al. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-04-22 Denied Response Waived administrative-exhaustion circuit-split civil-rights claims-processing due-process excessive-force federal-tort-claims-act standing statutory-interpretation waiver Whether Petitioners' FTCA claim should have been allowed to proceed against the United States
23A941 Rafael Cardona, Sr. v. United States First Circuit 2024-04-19 Presumed Complete circuit-split criminal-procedure forfeiture plain-error rule-12b8 waiver Whether a failure to raise a Rule 12(b)(8) issue in the district court results in waiver or forfeiture, and thus whether the issue is unreviewable or …
23-1065 Robert A. Eaton v. Montana Silversmiths Ninth Circuit 2024-03-29 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion ninth-circuit pro-se-litigation standing waiver waiver-of-rights Whether the Ninth Circuit had power to waive Eaton's constitutional rights
23-1061 Hawkeye Gold, LLC v. China National Materials Industry Import and Export Corporation, dba Sinoma Eighth Circuit 2024-03-28 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure default-judgment federal-rules-of-civil-procedure motion-to-set-aside personal-jurisdiction rule-12b waiver Whether a party waives the defense of lack of personal jurisdiction if available but omitted from its first court filing in a motion to set aside a de…
23-7055 Jacob Lyon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-922g constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure second-amendment sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-v-rahimi waiver Whether an objection to a sentencing enhancement waives all other grounds for the enhancement
23-829 City of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, et al. v. Deer Creek Water Corporation Tenth Circuit 2024-02-01 Denied Response Waived 1926(b) 82-o.s.-1324.35 civil-procedure federal-obligations oklahoma-law private-corporation standing state-sovereignty statutory-interpretation waiver Whether a private corporation may waive State sovereignty without the permission of the State
23-766 Scott Douglas Ora v. Hollywood Chamber of Commerce California 2024-01-17 Denied Relisted (2) appellate-review burden-of-proof conditions-precedent due-process judicial-procedure judicial-review right-to-jury-trial standard-of-proof waiver Did the Court of Appeal violate the due process rights of Appellant?
23-6351 Jerome Terry, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect ninth-circuit notice sentencing sentencing-departure upward-departure waiver Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in dismissing the appeal
23-6291 Pietro P. A. Sgromo, aka Peter Anthony Sgromo v. Leonard Gregory Scott, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-12-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP arbitration arbitration-clause contract criminal-reference federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce lease-agreement public-policy waiver Does the residential lease agreement involve interstate commerce such that it falls within the Federal Arbitration Act?
23-6262 Raymond Clyde Robideau v. Minnesota Minnesota 2023-12-14 Denied IFP aggravating-factors constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy judicial-discretion jury-trial jury-trial-waiver remand state-remand waiver Is a court required to obtain a renewed jury-trial waiver when the State amends its Aggravating Factor[s] after remand from State's Highest Court, and…
23-642 Kevin Scott Karsjens, et al. v. Jodi Harpstead, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-12-14 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts implied-waiver legal-standard professional-judgment waiver Whether federal courts have a duty to apply the correct legal standard to a due process claim or can the court apply the wrong legal standard based on…
23-6162 James Williams v. United States Third Circuit 2023-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure irreconcilable-differences judicial-discretion mckaskle-v-wiggins pro-se pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver When a defendant takes reasonable steps to remedy perceived irreconcilable differences with court-appointed attorney, does the 6th Amendment afford th…
23-5977 Sean Overstreet v. United States Second Circuit 2023-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights counsel-waiver criminal-defendant-rights criminal-procedure due-process right-to-be-present sentencing supervised-release waiver May counsel waive a criminal defendant's right to be present during the portion of his sentence in which special conditions of supervised release are …
23-5925 Isaac Johnson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-10-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 21-u.s.c.-§-851(c)(2) criminal-defendant criminal-procedure plain-error plain-error-review predicate-offense prior-conviction rule-52(b) rule-52b sentencing-enhancement waiver Does a criminal defendant waive Rule 52(b) plain error review pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 851(c)(2) by failing to argue before the trial court that a cons…
23-5764 Kevin Lynn Tucker v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process nolle-prosequi nolle-prossed plea-agreement pretrial-detention sentencing sentencing-credit substantive-reasonableness waiver Whether the District Court's failure to give credit in sentencing for state pretrial detention on subsequently nolle prossed 'related' charges created…
23-5739 Daniel Ray Metsinger v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing waiver Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Metsinger's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provision in his Plea Agreement
23-357 Jacob Hilbert v. Missouri Missouri 2023-10-04 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process jury-trial jury-trial-waiver split-of-authority trial-court-discretion waiver must a trial court obtain some personal acknowledgement from a criminal defendant that the defendant has waived the defendant's right to a jury trial …
23-5660 Taberon Dave Honie v. Robert Powell, Warden Tenth Circuit 2023-09-27 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2)IFP capital-sentencing constitutional-rights federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-waiver prejudice-standard state-statutory-right waiver When a capital defendant on federal habeas review challenges as ineffective his counsel's performance as it relates to the defendant's waiver of a sta…
23-5633 Demetrius Verardi Ramos v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-09-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure de-novo-review due-process factual-error judicial-procedure magistrate-judge objection-standard report-and-recommendation waiver Does the court of appeals' opinion conflict with Raddatz and principles of due-process?
23-204 WY Plaza LC v. Safeway Stores 46 Inc. Tenth Circuit 2023-09-05 Denied affirmance affirmance-standard alternative-bases alternative-grounds appellate-procedure brief-waiver circuit-split civil-procedure judicial-procedure legal-waiver waiver Whether an appellee is obligated to raise all alternative bases for affirmance in its answer brief, or risk waiver of those alternative bases
23-179 Alaska, et al. v. Alaska State Employees Association/American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 52, AFL-CIO Alaska 2023-08-25 Denied Amici (8)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) civil-rights due-process employee-rights first-amendment free-speech paycheck-deduction public-sector-unions state-action union union-speech voluntary-waiver waiver Whether the First Amendment prohibits a state from taking money from employees' paychecks to subsidize union speech when the state lacks sufficient ev…
23-5435 Marques Webb v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-default waiver Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Webb's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provisions in his Plea Agreement
23-5324 Michael D. Beiter, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3006a court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process forced-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation waiver Whether a district court can force counsel upon a defendant
23-5320 Curtis Lavon Magee v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-error waiver Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Magee's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provisions in his Plea Agreement
23-5218 In Re Jerome Curry 2023-07-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process indictment material-facts non-response sentencing standing summary-judgment waiver Does the law require that due to the Respondent's non-response to Summary Judgment and failure to present before the Court a genuine issue of material…
23-5121 Kyle Ross Rivers v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentence-appeal sentencing waiver waiver-of-rights Whether a defendant can waive the right to appeal his sentence before the right has accrued
23-5004 Gregory L. Randle v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-waiver right-to-appeal waiver Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Randle's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provisions in his Plea Agreement
22-7840 Cordelro Desean Shoulders v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-error waiver Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Shoulders' appeal based on the waiver of appeal provisions in his Plea Agreement
22-7761 Aaron Keith v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-06-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure federal-courts judicial-procedure motion-to-dismiss speedy-trial statutory-right trial-continuance waiver Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that petitioner waived any speedy-trial objection
22-7599 Curtis Marcel Barnette v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process government-prosecution plea-agreement plea-bargaining right-to-appeal waiver Does it violate due process for a defendant to be required to waive his right to appeal in order to enter into an otherwise favorable plea agreement w…
22-7587 John Wayne Spell v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review plea-agreement procedural-error waiver Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Spell's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provisions in his Plea Agreement
22-7553 Ivory Joe Tisdale v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process government-prosecution plea-agreement plea-bargaining right-to-appeal waiver Does it violate due process for a defendant to be required to waive his right to appeal in order to enter into an otherwise favorable plea agreement w…
22-1096 Ariadna Ramon Baro v. Lake County Federation of Teachers Local 504, IFT-AFT/AFL-CIO, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-05-10 Denied Response Waived collective-bargaining consent employee-rights first-amendment government-employer janus-v-afscme union-membership waiver waiver-doctrine May a government employer withhold money from an employee on behalf of a union based solely on the employee's signature on a union membership card whe…
22-1090 Christopher David Tarpey v. Wyoming Wyoming 2023-05-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-waiver due-process fundamental-right personal-right public-trial sixth-amendment waiver Is the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial a fundamental right that is personal to the defendant such that waiver must be on the record by the def…
22-7290 Michael Kenneth Howard v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure district-court fourth-circuit right-to-appeal sentencing-guidelines waiver waiver-of-appeal Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by ruling that Mr. Howard waived his right to appeal whether the District Court erred by not applying Acceptance of R…
22-7124 Ricky Lee Scott v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Arkansas 2023-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation due-process first-degree-murder jury-instructions life-imprisonment state-procedural-default trial-error waiver Whether petitioner's right to due process was violated
22-7108 Andrew Ryan v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-03-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-4241d appellate-review competency competency-determination due-process incompetent-defendant statutory-rights timing-violations united-states-v-olano waiver Whether under United States v. Olano an incompetent defendant waives appellate review of his statutory and due process right to a timely resolution of…
22-7100 Felipe Nevarez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process objection-timing speedy-trial speedy-trial-act statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit trial-delay waiver Does the Speedy Trial Act require the accused to object to lack of speedy trial only after the time has lapsed, or can the accused assert this right p…
22-7054 Jamar L. Travillion v. Bobbi Jo Salamon, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2023-03-21 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process federal-review forfeiture habeas-corpus procedural-standard right-to-counsel waiver Could reasonable jurists disagree with the District Court's rejection of Petitionen's claim that the State Courts' determination that he forfeited his…
22-901 Richard E. Gardiner v. Nels Anderson Utah 2023-03-17 Denied attorney-fees civil-procedure contract court-of-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-theory utah-supreme-court waiver Whether the Utah Supreme Court denied Petitioner his Fourteenth Amendment right to due process
22-910 Javitch Block, LLC v. Jerome Redman Fourth Circuit 2023-03-17 Denied civil-procedure district-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction federal-question-jurisdiction procedural-remand remand removal state-court-litigation waiver Whether waiver by participation in state court litigation is a permissible basis for District Courts to decline to exercise their original jurisdictio…
22-6990 Scott Ray Bishop v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process presumption-against-waiver right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver Whether the Von Moltke advisements remain prerequisites for a knowing and intelligent waiver of the right to counsel and whether this Court continues …
22-850 Jacqueline Graham v. United States Second Circuit 2023-03-08 Denied Response Waived effective-assistance-of-counsel party-presentation-rule plea-bargaining sixth-amendment united-states-v-sineneng-smith waiver Whether a defendant waives her Sixth Amendment claim by not asking the trial court to reinstate a plea offer that expired before her counsel conveyed …
22-846 Department of Agriculture Rural Development Rural Housing Service v. Reginald Kirtz Third Circuit 2023-03-07 Judgment Issued Amici (2)Relisted (3) civil-liability civil-procedure fair-credit-reporting-act federal-jurisdiction federal-law sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation waiver Whether the civil-liability provisions of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. 1681 et seg., unequivocally and unambiguously waive the sovereign i…
22-840 K. M., Individually and on Behalf of M. M. and S. M., et al. v. Eric L. Adams, Mayor of the City of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2023-03-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedies affirmative-defense claim-processing-rule disability-education idea-statute individuals-with-disabilities-education-act judicial-challenge jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirement waiver Whether IDEA exhaustion requirement is jurisdictional or a claim-processing rule
22-827 Carlos Herrera, Daniel Sanchez, and Anthony Ray Baca v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-03-01 Denied commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge post-trial-motion rule-12 waiver Whether a facial constitutional challenge to a criminal statute under the Commerce Clause can be brought by post-trial motion under Federal Rule of Cr…
22-648 Igor Lukashin v. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Ninth Circuit 2023-01-11 Denied due-process equal-protection forfeiture judicial-discretion ninth-circuit padgett-fraud pre-filing-order pro-se pro-se-appeals waiver Whether the Ninth Circuit has been denying Due Process by applying a purportedly categorical rule
22-616 Turlock Irrigation District, et al. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. District of Columbia 2023-01-06 Denied Amici (2) administrative-procedure certification-request clean-water-act federal-environmental-law federal-jurisdiction one-year-rule pro-forma-letters section-401 waiver Whether a State can avoid waiving its one-year period of time in which to act on a request for certification under Section 401 of the Clean Water Act
22-6348 Douglas James Schneider v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plain-error procedural-violation rule-11 substantial-rights waiver Whether the court of appeals erred in holding the failure to object to the violation of Rule 11(c)(1) provides dispositive evidence that the violation…
22-541 Peter Jokich v. Rush University Medical Center Seventh Circuit 2022-12-13 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure contract-waiver due-process erie-doctrine federalism protected-activity retaliation summary-judgment waiver Whether the panel imposed an unsupported standard of proof for waiver under Illinois law, depriving the petitioner of due process
22-6289 Kevin Singleton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-circuit judicial-review plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-history waiver Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Singleton's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provisions in his Plea Agreements
22-6232 Trevor Jim Bishop v. California California 2022-12-06 Denied IFP due-process evidence hearsay other-acts other-acts-evidence procedural-error procedure prosecutorial-misconduct trial-counsel waiver Whether the majority opinion erred not only as to the substantive admissibility of the other acts evidence, but whether the majority also erred proced…
22-456 Lynett S. Wilson v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, et al. First Circuit 2022-11-15 Denied appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure motion-to-dismiss waiver Whether a complaint that states a claim may be dismissed on the grounds that a plaintiff waived an argument against dismissal by failing to make the a…
22-6058 Justin David Martin v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-of-record criminal-procedure evidence evidence-admission federal-prosecution procedural-error record search-warrant structural-error waiver Whether the federal prosecution's reliance on a state search warrant without making it part of the formal record constitutes structural error
22-5865 Charles Smith v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure criminal-conviction criminal-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect ninth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing waiver Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in dismissing the appeal
22-318 Ronald Tai Young Moon, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-05 Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure forfeiture public-trial sixth-amendment waiver What is the standard for finding a waiver (as opposed to mere forfeiture) of the Sixth Amendment right to a 'public trial?'
22-283 Rachel Mosby v. City of Byron, Georgia Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-26 Denied Response Waived charge-filing charge-filing-requirements civil-rights court-doctrine fort-bend procedural-requirement summary-judgment title-vii waiver Must a trial court apply this Court's holding in Fort Bend when a Title VII plaintiff timely argues that the defendant has waived its objection to a c…
22-5655 Robert Frank Miller v. United States District of Columbia 2022-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP compassionate-release criminal-history equal-protection procedural-fairness rehabilitation sentence-reduction sentencing-objectives standing waiver Whether the district and appellate court erred in denying the appellant's motion for a sentence reduction
22-5613 Kennrith L. Foster v. Illinois Illinois 2022-09-20 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-interpretation notice plea-bargaining prisoner-rights state-court waiver Did the trial court violate the petitioner's constitutional rights to a jury trial when it accepted a plea without providing adequate notice of the na…
22-5620 Ebrahim Kalatehe v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-process evidence-collection fourth-amendment judicial-review pen-register standing third-party-doctrine waiver Whether the government may use information obtained through a pen register against an individual over whom the government did not obtain a pen registe…
22-5567 Lamar Harris v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error plain-error-review sentencing sentencing-waiver waiver Whether sentencing issue is waived where the Defendant raises, but drops an issue as part of a sentencing or subject to plain error review under Fed. …
22-212 Jonathan Savas, et al. v. California Statewide Law Enforcement Association, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) associational-rights compelled-speech constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech janus-v-afscme labor-rights speech-rights union-membership waiver Does it violate the First Amendment for a state and union to compel objecting employees to remain union members and to subsidize the union and its spe…
22-213 Delores Polk, et al. v. Betty Yee, in Her Official Capacity as State Controller of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 first-amendment nonmembers state-action union-speech waiver Whether states and unions need clear and compelling evidence of a waiver to seize payments for union speech from nonmembers
22-194 Jehan Zeb Mir v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-09-01 Denied arbitration civil-procedure de-novo-review discovery estoppel insurance-code notice notice-requirement statute-of-limitations summary-judgment waiver Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in de-novo review of summary judgment on disputed issues of fact
22-5446 Jose Francisco Maldonado-Rosa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing waiver waiver-of-rights Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by ruling that Mr. Maldonado waived the right to appeal his sentence
22-5304 Nuelito Morel-Vargas v. Connecticut Connecticut 2022-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment waiver waiver-doctrine Whether the Constitution requires a canvass on the right to testify
22-5111 Robert Doyle Harper v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-law defendant-rights due-process federal-courts federal-criminal-procedure judicial-review miscarriage-of-justice waiver Whether appellate waivers in federal criminal cases contain an implied exception for judgments that represent a miscarriage of justice?
22-21 Abdur-Rahim Dib Dubar v. Department of Community Affairs Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-06 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment federal-jurisdiction immunity-waiver procedural-default standing taking-clause takings waiver Was Petitioner's Amended Complaint considered in All Courts?
22-5018 Michael Allen Long v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure fifth-circuit jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-error standard-of-review waiver Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by finding that Mr. Long's appeal should be dismissed based on the waiver of appeal provision in his Plea Agreement
21-8210 Ralph William Lee, III v. Maryland Maryland 2022-06-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights confidential-documents constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment right-to-counsel unreasonable-seizure waiver warrantless-search Did the lower court violate Maryland Rule 4-215 and Appellant's constitutional rights by failing to ensure that he knowingly and voluntarily waived hi…
21-8172 Juan Manuel Contreras-Zamora v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fifth-amendment interrogation interrogation-rights legal-communication miranda-rights re-initiation right-to-counsel self-incrimination suspect-invocation waiver Whether a suspect who states 'Look man, 'm going to tell you just like this; I need my lawyer' must have a lapse of time before being deemed to have r…
21-8134 Jacquere Doran v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-procedure waiver Whether the District Court Erred in Ruling that Petitioner Waived an Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Claim Based on a Fourth Amendment Violation?
21-8036 Jason Slaughter v. Delaware Delaware 2022-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights guilty-plea IAD-rights ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default speedy-trial waiver Did petitioner's attorney provide ineffective assistance of counsel sufficient to constitute cause for a procedural default
21-7876 Matthew Alexander, III v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-05-16 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure motion-to-suppress plain-error suppression-motion waiver When a defendant files a motion to suppress, then raises a new argument to support suppression in the court of appeals, is the new argument waived abs…
21-7725 Jeffrey Ndungi Sila v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appointed-counsel criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-proceedings plain-error plain-error-standard pro-se-motion summary-affirmance waiver Whether the Fifth Circuit proceedings in petitioner's case so departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings as to call for this …
21-7648 Luis Fernando Ceja, aka Chako v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-04-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure foreign-citizen foreign-defendant jury-trial jury-trial-waiver oral-colloquy rule-23 waiver Whether courts may decline to enforce the plain language of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 23(a) requiring that a waiver of jury trial be in writi…
21-1359 Robert Corliss v. Crossroads Financing, LLC, et al. California 2022-04-19 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-waiver california-state-court contract-law contractual-rights court-inconsistency equal-treatment equal-treatment-principle litigation-conduct prejudice prejudice-standard waiver Whether prejudice is required to prove waiver of arbitration rights
21-7640 Ramel General v. United States Second Circuit 2022-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-rights circuit-precedent criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent procedural-challenge standard-of-review united-states-v-gomez-perez waiver waiver-enforcement Whether the Petitioner demonstrated that the waiver of his appellate rights is unenforceable under United States v. Gomez-Perez, 215 F.3d 315, 319 (2d…
21-7575 Keith Morris v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-waiver criminal-procedure due-process knowing-waiver plea-agreement plea-bargaining right-to-appeal sentencing waiver Whether a provision in a plea agreement which bars a defendant from appealing 'any sentence of imprisonment' can be knowingly entered into well before…
21-1335 Waleed Khalid Abu Al-Waleed Al Hood Al-Qarqani, et al. v. Saudi Arabian Oil Company Fifth Circuit 2022-04-07 Denied Response Waived arbitral-award arbitration cross-appeal foreign-sovereign-immunity jurisdictional-immunity new-york-convention sovereign-waiver united-nations-convention waiver Whether a foreign sovereign may assert FSIA as a defense to enforcement of a foreign arbitral award
21-1325 Estate of Samuel I. Roig, By and Through Its Personal Representative Gail Olivera, et al. v. United Parcel Service, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court-review civil-procedure consent-judgment diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction waiver Whether a Panel of the Circuit Court erred when it dismissed an appeal holding that there is no appellate jurisdiction to consider on the merits wheth…
21-7548 Sergey Genadievich Novitskiy v. Colorado Colorado 2022-04-05 Denied IFP bench-trial burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial standard-of-proof waiver Whether a defendant's choice to proceed to a bench trial in a criminal case lowers the prosecution's burden of proof
21-7507 Valedia Gross v. First NLC Financial Services, LLC, et al. Maryland 2022-03-31 Denied IFP appeal appeal-waiver case-reopening civil-procedure court-intervention default-judgment legal-procedure motion-to-vacate standing timeliness waiver did-the-court-of-special-appeals-err-in-holding-that-ms-gross-waived-her-right-to-appeal
21-7486 Eric Jamar Goodall v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-appeal illegal-sentence jurisdictional-defect ninth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing-error waiver waiver-doctrine Did the Ninth Circuit err in dismissing the appeal when Mr. Goodall's plea agreement contains a count of conviction and resulting sentence that is no …
21-1275 Abetubokun Adesioye v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-03-22 Denied Response Waived appeal appeal-waiver court-of-appeals criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargaining right-to-appeal rule-11-colloquy sentencing sentencing-guidelines waiver Did the Court of Appeals err in finding that the petitioner knowingly and intelligently waived his right of appeal
21-1270 MOAC Mall Holdings LLC v. Transform Holdco LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2022-03-21 Judgment Issued Amici (2)Relisted (2) and even when a remedy could be fashioned that do such that it is not subject to waiver appellate-jurisdiction bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-section-363(m) circuit-split jurisdictional-limitation lease-assignment remedy sale-order statutory-interpretation waiver Whether Bankruptcy Code Section 363(m) limits the appellate courts' jurisdiction over any sale order or order deemed 'integral' to a sale order, such …
21-1226 Michael Washington v. Florida Department of Transportation Florida 2022-03-09 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-waiver counsel-representation due-process forfeiture fundamental-rights right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-rights waiver Whether the reasoning in Olano applies in a civil context where the failure of a party's counsel to object to closing argument due to misconduct or ne…
21-7328 Glen S. v. Connecticut Connecticut 2022-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-right criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process judicial-canvassing probation-violation right-to-testify testimony-rights trial-court-duty waiver waiver-of-rights Should an affirmative duty be imposed on trial courts to canvass criminal defendants about their right to testify?
21-7231 Caleb L. McGillvary v. New Jersey New Jersey 2022-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process faretta-inquiry Faretta-motion right-to-counsel self-representation waiver Whether the denial of a defendant's motion to self-represent without a Faretta inquiry constitutes a waiver of the right to self-representation if the…
21-1178 Subhadra Gunawardana, et vir v. American Veterinary Medical Association, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-02-25 Denied amendment-standard circuit-split civil-procedure constitutional-claims dispositive-motion due-process federal-rules procedural-waiver seventh-circuit timeliness waiver Whether objections to an untimely dispositive motion are waived if not presented orally prior to the response deadline
21-7169 Latwon James v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-02-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-factors supervised-release waiver Whether the Fourth Circuit erroneously dismissed Mr. James's appeal based on a plea-agreement-waiver
21-7161 Deja Paschal v. Connecticut Connecticut 2022-02-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process equivocal-request right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment waiver Whether the defendant's request for self-representation was unequivocal, despite being made in the context of a request for new counsel
21-7084 Dwight David Jordan v. Florida Florida 2022-02-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-instructions legal-precedent lesser-included-offense principal-liability waiver Whether the court can depart from clearly established law on case by case basis?
21-7092 Epati Malauulu v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-02-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2255 constitutional-rights counsel-waiver criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief section-2255 waiver Whether, Despite a Waiver, Malauulu Can Properly Raise Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Claims Under 18 U.S.C. § 2255?
21-7060 Christopher N. Bilynsky v. Maine Maine 2022-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP boykin-v-alabama constitutional-rights due-process jury-trial self-incrimination sentencing-exposure stipulation waiver Do the Due Process Clauses and Boykin v. Alabama mandate a colloquy before accepting stipulations to offense elements that increase sentencing exposur…
21-1073 Kourosh Kenneth Hamidi, et al. v. Service Employees International Union, Local 1000 Ninth Circuit 2022-02-02 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights employee-protections first-amendment fourteenth-amendment good-faith state-action union-rights waiver Whether a labor union acting in concert with state officials may seize payments for union political speech from an employee absent clear and compellin…
21-6839 Frank L. Amodeo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process jurisdiction laches void-judgment waiver Does the doctrine of laches apply to a jurisdictional challenge that if proven, renders the judgment void?
21-992 Dori Yates, et al. v. Hillsboro Unified School District, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-12 Denied Response Waived belgau-v-inslee first-amendment janus-precedent janus-v-afscme membership-agreement political-speech public-employees public-sector-unions union-dues waiver Do boilerplate union membership agreements supersede employees' First Amendment rights when it comes to government unions taking employees' money for …
21-949 George Little, Acting Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. v. Samuel Randolph Third Circuit 2021-12-29 Denied continuance continuances counsel-of-choice criminal-defendant criminal-procedure forfeiture right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-court waiver Whether a criminal defendant can forfeit or waive his or her Sixth Amendment right to counsel of choice
21-6661 Alonzo Cortez Johnson v. Jimmy Martin, Warden Tenth Circuit 2021-12-20 Denied IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-procedure habeas-corpus jury-selection peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination reconstruction-hearing waiver Do the normal rules of waiver apply in a situation like this to preclude a reconstruction hearing where the State has failed to offer any reasons for …
21-6633 Hamid Michael Hejazi v. White Bird Clinic Oregon 2021-12-16 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure claim-payment due-process fundamental-error judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge poverty procedural-dismissal standing waiver Whether an appellate court can dismiss a case for lack of payment of an 'undertaking' on appeal when the undertaking was not allowed in the first plac…
21-6557 Tekoa Glover v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure guilty-plea non-jurisdictional-claim sixth-amendment waiver withdrawal Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err by ruling that Mr. Glover waived his Sixth Amendment claims by entering a guilty ple…
21-6384 Kimani I. Sterling v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-review criminal-appeal eighth-circuit judicial-procedure preservation-of-error procedural-due-process sentencing sentencing-objections standard-of-review waiver waiver-doctrine Has the Eighth Circuit imposed upon Mr. Sterling an unlawful burden by finding Sterling waived his argument that the District Court violated procedura…
21-6209 Angelo Cobbins v. Illinois Illinois 2021-11-05 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance evidence-suppression intellectual-capacity motion-to-suppress right-to-counsel trial-court waiver Whether the ruling on the Motion to Suppress was error as it was demonstrated the Petitioner did not possess the intellectual capacity to waive his Cu…
21-639 Mark R. Smith v. Kate Bieker, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-01 Denied Response Waived dues-seizure employee-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment johnson-v-zerbst state-action union-speech waiver waiver-of-rights May a State, consistent with the First and Fourteenth Amendments, seize for union speech payments from an employee who has notified the State that he …
21-615 Christopher A. Woods, et al. v. Alaska State Employees Association, AFSCME Local 52, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-27 Denied Amici (1) first-amendment free-speech public-sector state-action union-dues waiver Do government employers and unions need clear and compelling evidence that employees waived their First Amendment right to refrain from subsidizing un…
21-609 Loriann Anderson, et al. v. Service Employees International Union Local 503, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-26 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech nonmember-employees public-employees state-action union-dues union-membership waiver Whether government employers and unions need clear and compelling evidence of employees' knowing, intelligent, and voluntary waiver of First Amendment…
21-5967 Zenon Grzegorczyk v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-10-15 Denied Relisted (11)IFP collateral-review constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea retroactivity substantive-law waiver Does an unconditional guilty plea waive a defendant's right to challenge his conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) on the grounds that Davis rendered it…
21-5978 Derek Levert Hall v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-15 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure indigent-defendant pro-se pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel waiver Whether an indigent criminal defendant's waiver of trial counsel requires a clear and unequivocal request to proceed pro se
21-510 PDVSA US Litigation Trust v. Lukoil Pan Americas, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-06 Denied Response Waived and raised in the appellate briefing to such an e appellate-procedure appellate-review argument-abandonment civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-court issue-preservation judicial-review legal-briefing merits-determination waiver Whether a court of appeals may deem an argument to have been abandoned when it was properly raised and fully briefed in the district court, and raised…
21-5858 Enrique E. Quintana v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence collateral-attack commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure indictment indictment-deficiency plea-agreement waiver actual-innocence,plea-agreement,waiver,indictment,collateral-attack,commerce-clause,gonzales-v-raich
21-5844 James Malcolm Hale v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-disposition federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion pretrial-motion pretrial-motions procedural-waiver waiver Whether a defendant may appeal an adverse pretrial motion determination despite not reserving the right in writing under Rule 11(a)(2)
21-446 Justin Pannell v. Roger Abshire, et al. Texas 2021-09-22 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process jurisdictional-waiver non-resident-company personal-jurisdiction special-appearance texas-civil-procedure texas-rules-of-civil-procedure waiver When does a court in a resident's state have jurisdiction over a non-resident company who harms a resident in that resident's state?
21-328 Robyn Morgan v. Sundance, Inc. Eighth Circuit 2021-09-01 Judgment Issued Amici (10)Relisted (2) arbitration arbitration-waiver circuit-split contract-law equal-treatment equal-treatment-principle federal-courts litigation-conduct prejudice prejudice-requirement state-courts waiver Does the arbitration-specific requirement that the proponent of a contractual waiver defense prove prejudice violate this Court's instruction that low…
21-5488 John Patrick Blackmon v. Jeffrey A. Uttecht, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process exceptional-circumstances habeas-corpus judicial-inquiry prior-testimony right-to-testify testimony-waiver trial-procedure waiver Did events in the second trial establish additional process due the Defendant in any subsequent trial?
21-5486 Scott Sanford v. Virginia Virginia 2021-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fundamental-rights intelligent-waiver jury-trial knowing-waiver sixth-amendment voluntary-waiver waiver Minimum requirements for waiving jury trial right
21-5404 Maria Teresa Duarte Godinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure disparities due-process judicial-discretion plea-bargaining sentence-disparity sentencing sentencing-waiver waiver whether the appellate court erred in enforcing the waiver keeping the defendant from appealing her sentence in violation of her due process rights
21-5368 Alberto Rodriguez v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2021-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-right legal-representation notice-of-charges sixth-amendment waiver Whether the Sixth Amendment fundamental right to notice of charges can be waived by the lawyer's failure to object or whether the defendant must perso…
21-5373 Bernard Hollomond v. Tracy Ray, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-08-13 Denied IFP confusion constitutional-rights due-process evidence-consideration jury-trial knowing-and-intelligent sentencing trial-procedure voluntariness waiver Whether the defendant's statements show that he knowingly and voluntarily waived his right to a jury trial
21-5342 Jamerl M. Wortham v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review essential-element jury-instruction jury-instructions sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict waiver Whether a defendant waives appellate review of his Sixth Amendment right to a unanimous verdict when the government and defense counsel jointly submit…
21-5042 John Shields v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied IFP controlled-substance criminal-procedure double-jeopardy evidence guilty-plea money-laundering plain-error waiver waiver-doctrine Whether the Sixth Circuit's blanket policy of relying on the waiver doctrine conflicts with this Court's plain-error-jurisprudence
20-1786 JoAnne Troesch, et al. v. Chicago Teachers Union, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights employee-rights first-amendment free-speech government-restrictions janus-vs-afscme union-dues waiver waiver-doctrine Under the First Amendment, do governments and unions need clear and compelling evidence of a knowing, intelligent, and voluntary waiver to seize payme…
20-8378 Michael R. Gore, Jr. v. Andrew J. Bruck, Acting Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2021-06-22 Denied IFP criminal-procedure faretta self-representation sixth-amendment voir-dire waiver Is the right to self-representation violated when a defendant is not afforded voir dire under the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Faretta to determin…
20-1751 Susan Fischer, et al. v. Phil Murphy, Governor of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights employee-rights first-amendment government-action public-employee standing union-dues union-speech waiver waiver-doctrine Whether governments and unions need clear and compelling evidence of a knowing, intelligent, and voluntary waiver of First Amendment rights to seize p…
20-8247 Marcus Darwyn Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-misrepresentation sentencing-consequences sorna waiver Whether reliance on a prosecutor's legal misstatements regarding the consequences of a guilty plea renders that plea involuntary and unknowing
20-8199 Isiah Lamonte Brown v. California California 2021-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-remedy counsel-ineffectiveness counsel-violation criminal-procedure fundamental-autonomy prejudice prejudice-analysis right-to-testify standard-of-review waiver waiver-standard What standard of prejudice must be satisfied to reverse a conviction due to counsel's violation of the defendant's right to testify?
20-1655 W. A. Griffin v. Delta Air Lines, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-26 Denied Response Waived anti-alienation anti-assignment claims-fiduciary erisa fiduciary-duty health-benefits plan-administrator waiver Whether the anti-assignment provision in the Delta Air Lines Plan apply to W. A. Griffin, MD (Dr. Griffin)"
20-8103 Sayda Powery Orellana and Manuel Porras Salas v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure forfeiture jury-instructions plain-error procedural-default waiver Whether agreement to a set of joint jury instructions is a waiver or forfeiture
20-1621 Antonia Lerner v. Citigroup Third Circuit 2021-05-20 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure judicial-review legal-standard non-movant nonmovant opposition procedural-default standard-of-review waiver Whether the proper standard of review and correct legal standard are waived from appellate review merely because the nonmovant did not file an opposit…
20-1603 Susan Bennett v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31, AFL-CIO, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-05-18 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) affirmative-consent employee-rights first-amendment janus-v-afscme paycheck-deduction public-sector-union public-sector-unions union-dues waiver waiver-requirement Whether an employee's signature on a union membership card and dues deduction authorization by itself authorizes a government employer and public-sect…
20-7960 Michael Anthony Carroll v. Michigan Michigan 2021-05-07 Denied IFP due-process fundamental-defect-exception ineffective-assistance interstate-agreement interstate-agreement-on-detainers jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits jury-impartiality sixth-amendment tad-claims time-limits waiver Whether the statutory time limits imposed by the Interstate Agreement on Detainers are strictly jurisdictional and cannot be waived or proceeded upon …
20-7843 Timothy Howard Johnson v. Renee Baker, Warden Nevada 2021-04-26 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence-exclusion retroactivity right-to-counsel right-to-defense right-to-jury-trial trial-court-discretion waiver witness-testimony Whether the state district court lost subject matter jurisdiction by rendering the judgment of conviction void when it failed to comply with the requi…
20-1444 W. A. Griffin v. Coca-Cola Refreshments USA, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-15 Denied Response Waived anti-alienation anti-assignment assignment-of-benefits claims-fiduciary erisa fiduciary-duty health-benefits plan-administrator provider-services waiver Whether the anti-assignment provision in the CocaCola Plan apply to W. A. Griffin, MD (Dr. Griffin)"
20-7626 Robert Frank Miller v. United States District of Columbia 2021-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review appellate-standards criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion probable-cause waiver Whether certiorari should be granted to clarify that probable cause must be based on actual facts, rather than mere assumptions interposed by the cour…
20-7571 Hilliard A. Fulgham v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2021-03-26 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interstate-agreement-on-detainers interstate-detainer judicial-discretion trial-fairness waiver Is an objection required before a court would have understanding that a detainee did not want to be tried after the time-line set in his involuntary r…
20-7543 Victor Real-Alomar, aka Toston v. United States First Circuit 2021-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure first-amendment ninth-amendment plea-agreement plea-bargaining pretrial-detainee waiver Whether a criminal defendant must raise the issue of nonapplicability of a waiver of appeal in his opening brief or whether it falls upon the governme…
20-7507 Christopher Faella v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2259 appellate-rights eighth-amendment plea-agreement restitution sentencing sentencing-appeal statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum waiver Whether a defendant's waiver in his plea agreement of the right to appeal his sentence precludes him from appealing an order of restitution that excee…
20-7466 Charles L. Burgett v. The General Store No. Two Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP bill-of-costs civil-procedure cost-waiver costs court-discretion deposition-costs indigency local-rules waiver Whether a party waives costs if it does not file a bill of cost on time pursuant to local rules?
20-7262 Melvin Stills v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure conflicting-opinions court-opinion due-process judicial-integrity legal-procedure merits-review record-completeness waiver Did the Pennsylvania Superior Court violate the due process rights of the Petitioner when it issued two opinions that conflicted on whether the record…
20-7173 Venecia Depaula v. Florida Florida 2021-02-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency competency-hearing constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health plea-offer privileged-communication waiver Was counsel's assistance rendered ineffective
20-6731 Kevin Francis v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2020-12-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP case-screening court-procedure criminal-procedure indigent-defendants judicial-error legal-waiver precedent public-defender sixth-amendment waiver Whether the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court erred when it held that a public defender case screener who did not represent the defendant waived th…
20-6601 Savannah Sifuentes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure elements-of-offense essential-element forfeiture guilty-plea indictment indictment-challenge statutory-interpretation waiver Whether a defendant who unsuccessfully moves to dismiss an indictment for failure to allege an essential element of the crime waives or forfeits the a…
20-6449 Anthony Don Brown v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment waiver Whether a defendant's appeal of a sentence imposed in violation of due process and notice rights is barred by a plea agreement's waiver provision
20-6382 Randall Allen Eplion, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-practice plea-agreement sentencing standing waiver Whether a provision in a plea agreement which bars the defendant from appealing 'the right to seek appellate review of . . . any sentence of imprisonm…
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
20-568 William Geoffroy v. Town of Winchendon, Massachusetts, et al. First Circuit 2020-10-30 Denied Response Waived 29-usc-626 age-discrimination due-process employee-rights employment-law statutory-interpretation voluntary voluntary-consent waiver waiver-validity Whether a waiver of age discrimination claims can be found to be voluntary when an employer verbally revokes an employee's twenty-one (21) day review,…
20-6147 Shane Anthony Roberts v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-right waiver Whether the Court of Appeals improperly denied Mr. Roberts of the statutory right to appeal his 70-month sentence
20-6070 James Dee Gilmore, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-10-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility interrogation-techniques miranda-rights sixth-amendment voluntary waiver whether-the-ninth-circuit-court-of-appeals-established-a-troubling-precedent-inconsistent-with-edwards-v-arizona-and-lego-v-twomey
20-6049 Isidoro Gonzalez-Ferretiz v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP aggravated-felony criminal-procedure deportation-order due-process fifth-amendment immigration judicial-review mendoza-lopez pro-se-alien waiver waiver-of-appeal Whether a pro se alien's waiver of the right to appeal is 'considered and intelligent' under Mendoza-Lopez in the absence of an opportunity to dispute…
20-5874 Jerry Lard v. Arkansas Arkansas 2020-10-01 Denied IFP categorical-prohibition death-penalty eighth-amendment execution intellectual-disability ripeness waiver Whether a death-sentenced inmate is permitted to waive a viable claim for an Eighth Amendment categorical probation against the execution of persons w…
20-389 Peter J. Schaffer, et al. v. Joey Long Ninth Circuit 2020-09-25 Denied appellate-review bristol-myers-squibb civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction waiver waiver-of-rights Does a full litigation of the merits of a personal jurisdictional challenge sufficiently preserve the issue for full review on appeal?
20-395 Timothy C. Rote v. Max Zweizig Ninth Circuit 2020-09-25 Denied Response Waived arbitrability-standard arbitration-enforcement employment-agreement federal-arbitration-act free-speech-retaliation non-signatory non-signatory-arbitration oregon-uniform-arbitration-act post-employment-retaliation prior-adjudication waiver waiver-doctrine Whether the district court erred and exceeded its authority under the FAA and OUAA by refusing to compel arbitration (finding waiver and non-signatory…
20-5816 Jose Antonio Acevedo-Lemus v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure good-cause plain-error probable-cause search-warrant suppression-motion waiver Whether a new theory raised on appeal in support of a suppression motion is reviewable for plain error or under Rule 12's good-cause standard
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 Whether a defendant who argues for the first time on appeal that the government failed to meet its burden to prove venue waives the issue or merely fo…
20-260 Personal Audio, LLC v. CBS Corporation Federal Circuit 2020-09-01 Denied appointments-clause collateral-estoppel inter-partes-review patent-law reexamination-clause seventh-amendment waiver Must the collateral estoppel effect of an inter partes review be raised and litigated in the appeal of the inter partes review, rather than in the cou…
20-5467 Carlos Michael Lopez v. Texas Texas 2020-08-24 Denied IFP adversarial-process appeal appeal-waiver appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process garza-v-idaho inherent-powers sua-sponte-dismissal waiver Does due process require courts to treat at least some claims as unwaiveable on appeal?
20-5431 Walter Ackerman v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-of-the-case waiver warrantless-search Did the Tenth Circuit err under the law-of-the-case doctrine when it permitted the government to raise in a second appeal a claim the government waive…
20-5388 Michael J. Buck v. Texas Texas 2020-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP adversarial-process appeal appeal-waiver appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process inherent-powers sua-sponte sua-sponte-dismissal waiver Whether due process requires courts to treat certain claims as unwaivable on appeal, whether due process guarantees a limited right to appeal, and whe…
20-5108 Salvador Ojeda-Amarillas v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure firearms-enhancement leadership-role necessity necessity-requirement sentencing-enhancement sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines waiver wiretap wiretap-application Whether the Court of Appeals erred in finding the July 2006 wiretap application met the necessity requirements and whether it erred in holding Mr. Oje…
20-5089 William Kirkpatrick, Jr. v. Kevin Chappell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-07-16 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254e1 capital-inmate-rights capital-punishment colloquy due-process federal-review habeas-corpus presumption-of-correctness state-court-proceedings waiver waiver-of-rights whitmore-v-arkansas Whether the Ninth Circuit contravened Whitmore v. Arkansas in upholding a capital inmate's waiver of the right to proceed absent a colloquy demonstrat…
20-1 Nicholas E. Davis v. United States Armed Forces 2020-07-09 Denied Response Waived appellate-review court-martial criminal-procedure jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error supreme-court-precedent waiver Whether the failure to object to a pattern jury instruction erroneously describing the elements of the offense constitutes affirmative waiver such tha…
19-1448 Excel Modular Scaffold & Leasing Company, dba Excel Scaffold & Leasing v. Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-07-01 Denied Response Waived administrative-law affirmative-defense civil-procedure due-process impossibility-doctrine judicial-review occupational-safety osha regulatory-compliance standard-of-review waiver Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) err in ruling that Excel Modular Scaffold & Leasin…
19-8787 Wayne A. G. James v. United States Third Circuit 2020-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-objection circuit-split civil-procedure evidence evidence-admission forfeiture plain-error trial-record waiver Whether an otherwise silent trial record showing only that an attorney declined to object to the admission of evidence establishes forfeiture or waive…
19-8723 Shane P. Irish v. Ohio Ohio 2020-06-17 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process incarceration indictment sixth-amendment speedy-trial waiver Whether the speedy trial guarantee of the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution applies to an accused serving a prison sentence on a prior offense?
19-8663 Tesa Keith v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-statute facial-challenge federal-courts federal-law plea-agreement procedural-challenge waiver Whether facial challenges to a federal criminal statute may be waived by plea agreement?
19-8527 Rodney Douglas Eaves v. Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment affidavit constitutional-rights court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment probable-cause waiver Whether the Fifth Amendment is violated when an unverified Complaint and Information is used in lieu of a probable cause hearing
19-1288 Alan Singer v. Mondex Corporation Arizona 2020-05-13 Denied appellate-procedure attorney-fees choice-of-law civil-procedure cross-appeal jurisdiction minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction waiver Did the Arizona Supreme Court have subject matter jurisdiction to grant attorney's fees on behalf of an appellee after it declined to grant review; al…
19-8339 Juan M. Santiago v. United States First Circuit 2020-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver booker booker-error criminal-procedure federal-sentencing mandatory-guidelines miscarriage-of-justice sentencing sentencing-guidelines waiver Whether an established Booker error (mandatory application of the USSG) can be considered per se a miscarriage of justice/exception that is not waived…
19-8262 Miguel Algarin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-15 Denied IFP 28-usc-636 appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure equitable-exceptions federal-statute judicial-review magistrate magistrate-review objection-standard procedural-waiver waiver Whether a party's failure to object to a magistrate's ruling under 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(A) creates a jurisdictional bar to appellate review, or merel…
19-8180 M. H. v. Indiana Department of Child Services Indiana 2020-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment civil-rights compulsion constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fundamental-rights parental-rights self-incrimination waiver What are the present-day parameters to any assertion of privilege pursuant to the 5th Amendment to the United States Constitution (re: compulsion and …
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
19-8145 Santiago Cruz v. C. Betancourt Ninth Circuit 2020-03-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-grievance administrative-remedies civil-rights eighth-amendment exhaustion-of-remedies grievance-process prisoner-litigation procedural-error procedural-errors waiver Whether the district court erred in finding that the petitioner failed to exhaust administrative remedies for his Eighth Amendment claim
19-8094 Caleb S. Motupalli v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2020-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 35-usc-112 america-invents-act enablement interdisciplinary-invention interdisciplinary-team patent-enablement patent-examination patent-specification pre-aia pro-se single-skilled-person waiver Does the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) permit the retroactive application of a scintilla of inadequacy in Pre-AIA to overturn precedent by ins…
19-7942 Daniel Dale Parsons v. R. Blades, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP adverse-witness co-defendant-guilty-plea co-defendant-statement compulsory-process compulsory-process-clause confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination harmless-error plain-error waiver Has the accused's right of confrontation been converted from the prosecutor's duty under Confrontation Clause into the accused's privilege under the C…
19-7858 Todd Darrell Ballard v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2020-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief post-sentencing procedural-rights sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation substantive-rights waiver waiver-doctrine Whether the Act of the General Assembly [42 Pa.C.S. § 9543 and 9544] is in violation of Appellant's substantive and procedural rights; and whether sai…
19-7854 Howronda Overstreet v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure Did Ms. Overstreet's waiver of appeal unenforceabl Did the district court commit plain error when it due-process guidelines guidelines-calculation plain-error plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines waiver Did Ms. Overstreet preserve her right to appeal the district court's inapplicable guidelines calculation?
19-1060 Victor Thomas v. New York New York 2020-02-26 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived appeal appellate-jurisdiction criminal-defendant criminal-procedure garza-v-idaho jurisdiction right-to-counsel sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent waiver waiver-of-appeal Whether a provision in a waiver of appeal that forbids a criminal defendant from filing a notice of appeal, and in so doing also strips superior court…
19-1052 Andre G. Dewberry v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-02-24 Denied appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure guilty-plea self-representation sixth-amendment waiver Whether a guilty plea waives a challenge on appeal to the denial of a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to represent himself
19-7733 Gustavo Diaz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-dismissal civil-procedure constitutional-rights dismissal district-court-procedure due-process fifth-amendment pre-sentencing-waiver sentencing substantive-due-process waiver Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner's constitutional right to a substantive due process under the Fifth Amendment by the United States Co…
19-7705 Michael Roman Burghardt v. United States First Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-defendant criminal-procedure-waiver direct-appeal element-of-offense elements-of-offense indictment plain-error-review plea-colloquy rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement supreme-court-precedent waiver Whether a criminal defendant has waived a claim that the indictment failed to charge an element of the offense
19-1026 Ford Motor Company v. United States Federal Circuit 2020-02-18 Denied Amici (4) customs-classification federal-circuit import-duties international-trade post-importation-modification precedent statutory-interpretation tariff-classification tariff-provisions vehicle-classification waiver worthington-v-robbins Whether the Federal Circuit erred in holding that a product's post-importation modification and use can determine its classification under a tariff he…
19-7659 Ashley Rios, et vir v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources West Virginia 2020-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-neglect abuse-or-neglect child-custody due-process expert-witness foster-placement indian-child-welfare-act knowing-waiver parental-rights qualified-expert-witness statutory-interpretation waiver May a court deny a petition to invalidate a foster placement proceeding under the Indian Child Welfare Act when no qualified expert witness testified,…
19-7467 Frankie Beqiraj v. United States Second Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-presence due-process jury-selection peremptory-challenges right-to-be-present waiver Whether a defendant has a constitutional right to be present during a conference at which the parties exercise their peremptory challenges to strike p…
19-7422 Andre Antonio Fairley v. Mississippi Mississippi 2020-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights colloquy constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction record self-incrimination sentencing waiver Whether the court committed reversible structural error by failing to consider unindicted conduct on the record colloquy with a waiver of course, besi…
19-920 Boulder Young, aka Boulder Daniel McManigal v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-01-23 Denied Response Waived appeal appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error judicial-discretion plea-bargaining plea-hearing sentencing waiver Whether the waiver of a right to appeal a judgment of conviction is controlled by the defendant's written waiver or the oral pronouncement of the cour…
19-7376 Alice C. Trappler v. New York New York 2020-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof confrontation-clause conspiracy criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture hearsay hearsay-exception legal-insufficiency sixth-amendment waiver Whether the automatic waiver and permanent forfeiture of legal insufficiency claims due to trial counsel's failure to move to dismiss on those grounds…
19-7245 Darren Lavald Bowie v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-relief constitutional-waiver habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-agreement sixth-amendment unknowing-waiver waiver Does a Plea Agreement which waives challenges to collateral relief forbid challenges to ineffective assistance in proceedings following the entry of t…
19-7236 John Joseph DeBlase v. Alabama Alabama 2020-01-09 Denied IFP capital-case codefendant confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process jury-unanimity sixth-amendment waiver Do the Sixth Amendment and the Due Process Clause permit, in a capital case, the admission of statements of a nontestifying codefendant, acknowledged …
19-7237 Christopher L. Croom v. Illinois Illinois 2020-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP admonishment conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant judicial-admonishment jury-bias right-to-counsel trial-court trial-court-admonishment waiver Does a defendant knowingly waive the right to conflict-free counsel when the trial court merely admonishes the defendant that a conflict exists, witho…
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 Whether the district court had jurisdictional venue to accept the petitioner's plea agreement and sentence when the requirements of Federal Rules of C…
19-7159 Sir Giorgio Sanford Clardy v. Garth Gulick, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure due-process service-of-process standing statute-of-limitations waiver Whether the appellate court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims due to lack of timely service of process and whether the district court abused…
19-7112 Gabriel Galindo-Serrano v. United States First Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied IFP confession confession-suppression court-of-appeals criminal-procedure delay magistrate-judge motion-to-suppress plain-error standard-of-review waiver Whether the standard of review on appeal of an untimely motion to suppress a confession, based upon the failure to bring the defendant before a magist…
19-7117 Vance Edward Ingram, III v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appellate-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process government-power plea-agreement plea-bargaining waiver Is a defendant's right to due process of law violated when the government requires an appeal waiver as part of a plea agreement?
19-7051 Adan Reyes-Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing waiver waiver-of-rights Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by ruling that Mr. Reyes-Martinez waived the right to appeal his sentence
19-791 Anderson Law Offices, et al. v. Common Benefit Fee and Cost Committee Fourth Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied appeal-rights appeal-waiver appellate-review civil-procedure common-benefit-fund court-review due-process equitable-relief federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-discretion judicial-responsibilities standing waiver Whether federal courts can require waiver of appeal rights as a condition for receiving an award
19-7013 Kenneth M. Gray v. Paul S. Kemper, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights confession criminal-procedure due-process false-confession false-promises ineffective-assistance interrogation no-merit-report parent-attorney post-conviction-counsel sentencing sentencing-error waiver waiver-petition Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated due to ineffective assistance of post-conviction counsel, false promises by detectives du…
19-6952 Sir Giorgio Sanford Clardy v. Judy Gilmore, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure default-judgment due-process federal-rules procedural-compliance service-of-process standing summons time-limitation time-limits timely-answer waiver Whether defendants must comply with Fed. R. Civ. P. 4(d)(1)(F) and timely answer after waiving service of summons
19-6781 Donato Luna-Quintero v. Indiana Indiana 2019-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance effective-assistance-of-counsel foreign-defendant jury-trial language-barrier language-barriers limited-english-proficiency right-to-counsel waiver Whether the defendant's constitutional right to a jury trial was properly waived, and whether counsel provided effective assistance, when the defendan…
19-6778 Michael Daemon Blackburn v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-waiver criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment interrogation-rights miranda-rights self-incrimination waiver Is a written-only advisement of Miranda rights -without time or silence to read it - a sufficient advisal allowing a knowing, intelligent and voluntar…
19-6700 Abid Naseer v. United States Second Circuit 2019-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisement appellate-review district-court right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment standard-of-review waiver Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals applied an incorrect standard in concluding that Petitioner knowingly and intelligently waived his Sixth A…
19-6617 Melissa Morton v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure-waiver due-process inter-circuit-conflict intra-circuit-conflict jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-procedure right-relinquishment right-to-appeal waiver Whether a defendant waives his right to challenge a jury instruction on appeal if he proposed the instruction below, even if the record contains no ev…
19-611 Rene A. Boucher v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appeal below-guideline-sentence criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-appeal waiver waiver-of-rights Did the government waive its right to appeal the defendant's sentence?
19-6624 Andre D. Lee v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process hearing right-to-counsel sentence state-trial-court void waiver Was the petitioner's right to counsel violated in the state trial court, thereby making the conviction and sentence completely void?
19-6576 James Marvin Reed v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP blackledge-v-perry circuit-court-review district-court district-court-power eighth-circuit guilty-plea jurisdictional-challenge penson-review subject-matter-jurisdiction united-states-v-cotton waiver Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in ruling that the defendant waived his jurisdictional challenge by pleading guilty, despite the well-settled princip…
19-565 Antonio Passaro, Jr. v. Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-10-30 Denied civil-procedure federal-court federal-jurisdiction lapides-v-board-of-regents litigation removal sovereign-immunity state-court waiver Whether, in the context of a federal claim brought in state court where the state would enjoy sovereign immunity, a state's voluntary removal to feder…
19-6376 Josue Osvaldo Solis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal construction criminal-procedure due-process fairness fairness-doctrine plea-agreement sentence-appeal sentencing waiver waiver-of-rights Whether a defendant can knowingly waive the right to appeal his sentence before understanding the right
19-6216 Maxcium Herring v. L. S. McEwen, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied IFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admission jury-instructions jury-misconduct sentencing standard-of-review trial-errors waiver Whether the trial court erred in allowing the defendant to take the witness stand in his own defense
19-6177 Valerie Flores v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court government-admission government-waiver plain-error plain-error-review sentencing seventh-circuit supervised-release vagueness waiver waiver-doctrine Whether the Seventh Circuit errantly disregarded the government's failure to brief a waiver argument and disallowed relief for a supervised release co…
19-6045 Scott H. Summerhays v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-counsel change-of-plea criminal-procedure critical-stage effective-assistance-of-counsel faretta faretta-waiver ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver Does a criminal defendant have a right under the Sixth Amendment to reassert his right to counsel at a critical stage (a change of plea hearing) after…
19-5962 David Tjader v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court government-waiver plain-error plain-error-review sentencing supervised-release vagueness waiver waiver-doctrine Whether the Seventh Circuit errantly disregarded the government's waiver of a waiver argument and disallowed relief for a supervised release condition…
19-5931 Darryl Allen v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-09-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal appellate-rights collateral-relief collateral-review constitutional-rights counsel-consultation due-process garza-v-idaho ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief right-to-appeal roe-v-flores-ortega waiver Did the Pennsylvania courts err in denying collateral relief where prior counsel was ineffective for failing to consult fully with the petitioner, Dar…
19-5941 Roger Cha v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process interrogation law-enforcement miranda-rights miranda-waiver self-incrimination waiver Is a Miranda waiver invalidated when the law enforcement officer providing the advisal involves himself in the waiver process by asking the subject of…
19-296 Damien Guedes, et al. v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, et al. District of Columbia 2019-09-04 Denied Amici (7)Relisted (5) administrative-law chevron-deference criminal-law deference due-process judicial-review overrule rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation waiver Whether Chevron deference takes precedence over the rule of lenity
19-257 California Trout, et al. v. Hoopa Valley Tribe, et al. District of Columbia 2019-08-28 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived certification certification-request circuit-conflict clean-water-act environmental-protection forum-shopping project-licensing section-401 state-authority waiver water-quality Do states waive their authority under section 401 of the Clean Water Act if they do not approve or deny a certification request within one year, even …
19-196 Louisiana Health Service & Indemnity Company, dba Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana v. Encompass Office Solutions, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2019-08-14 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived antiassignment-provision authoritative-guidance choice-of-law civil-procedure claim-processing clear-authoritative-guidance erie-doctrine erie-railroad erie-railroad-co-v-tompkins erisa erisa-antiassignment-provision erisa-benefits erisa-waiver federal-court federal-courts liability medical-provider standing state-law statutory-interpretation waiver Whether a federal court may choose the option that expands liability under state law, absent clear, authoritative guidance from the state's courts
19-5588 Luis Ordonez-Vega v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-counsel civil-rights conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process inadequate-representation-of-counsel ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merit-review section-2255 waive waiver Did conflict of interest arise when appellate counsel's failed to raise non-frivolous merit(s) 'ineffective assistance of counsel' on defendant's firs…
19-191 Ashley Wilcox Page v. Todd L. Hicks, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 11th-amendment civil-procedure eleventh-amendment federal-court federal-jurisdiction lapides-v-board-of-regents removal sovereign-immunity state-court state-removal waiver waiver-by-removal Does a state waive its sovereign immunity by voluntarily removing a civil claim from state to federal court?
19-5563 Ian Alexander Bowline v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plain-error plain-error-review pretrial-motions timeliness waiver Whether an appellate court can review a defense, objection, or request that is not timely made under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 12 for plain e…
19-138 First State Community Action Agency v. Tamra N. Robinson Third Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure invited-error jury-instructions plain-error trial-court waiver Whether a party that first raises an issue on appeal has per se waived plain error review
19-5286 Adam Patton v. Arkansas Arkansas 2019-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver Whether a criminal defendant, who has not knowingly and intelligently waived his Sixth Amendment right to counsel and who clearly requests the assista…
19-5197 Eric T. Roden v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal article-iii-judge criminal-defendant criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion ninth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines waiver Whether a criminal defendant can ever waive a correctly calculated guidelines range for use at a federal sentencing hearing
19-5079 Kenneth Blackwell v. Georgia Georgia 2019-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-discretion appellate-procedure appellate-review evidence issue-preservation judicial-discretion legal-sufficiency legal-theory prior-bad-acts prior-difficulties-evidence standard-of-review state-argument trial-court trial-court-discretion trial-procedure waiver Whether the Georgia Court of Appeals erred when it held that the trial court admitted Petitioner's sexual acts in Ohio as prior difficulties evidence …
19-5006 Peter J. Rosato v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights confrontation-clause confrontation-right constitutional-waiver criminal-procedure deposition deposition-testimony depositions due-process knowingly-intelligent-waiver right-to-be-present video-deposition waiver Does a waiver of a citizen's constitutional right have to appear on the record either written or orally in order to establish a knowing, intelligent, …
18-9764 Adnan Ibrahim Harun A. Hausa v. United States Second Circuit 2019-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment circuit-court-conflict circuit-split faretta faretta-inquiry pro-se pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver waiver-of-counsel Should a defendant be found to have waived his right to counsel and proceed pro se even if he declines to answer the district court's questions?
18-9743 Hollins Tizeno v. Gerald Janda, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion legal-procedure procedural-default standing sua-sponte waiver Whether a district court may sua sponte raise a waived procedural default defense and, if so, under what circumstances is it appropriate to do so.
18-1543 Michael A. Katz, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Cellco Partnership, dba Verizon Wireless Second Circuit 2019-06-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration-act arbitration-stay article-iii civil-procedure consent constitutional-rights due-process federal-arbitration-act federal-courts fifth-amendment judicial-review standing voluntary-consent waiver wellness-international-network-v-sharif Whether Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) § 3 requires the district court to stay the action after it compels arbitration of all claims and a stay is requ…
18-9363 Michael Lee Robinson v. Florida Florida 2019-05-21 Denied IFP capital-sentencing constitutional-waiver due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection federal-constitutional-rights hurst-rule penalty-jury retroactivity waiver Can a defendant waive a federal constitutional right that was unknown and unrecognized at the time?
18-9256 Zeeshan Khalid Syed v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights counsel-affidavit court-discretion due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se reasonableness-of-counsel standing waiver waiver-doctrine writ-of-certiorari When a pro-se files for a COA and discusses his claim extensively in his argument, can the Court construe the issue as being waived?
18-1415 ASARCO LLC v. United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union, AFL-CIO, CLC Ninth Circuit 2019-05-10 Denied arbitration-authority arbitrator-authority arbitrator-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure collective-bargaining collective-bargaining-agreement contract-interpretation due-process judicial-review labor-arbitration labor-law no-add-provision remedial-limits remedial-power scope-of-authority waiver Whether an arbitrator can reform a collective bargaining agreement by adding language despite a contractual provision prohibiting the arbitrator from …
18-1405 Robert N. Taylor, III v. United States Third Circuit 2019-05-08 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment good-faith income-tax standing tax tax-liability waiver waiver-of-rights Whether a citizen can be compelled to waive constitutional rights or pay a tax he does not owe in good faith
18-8915 Jonathan Zepeda v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3006a appellate-waiver criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process fifth-amendment independent-counsel judicial-manipulation sentencing sixth-amendment standing waiver Whether an individual's challenge to the constitutionality of his sentence and case proceedings in a criminal prosecution on bases outside the limited…
18-8865 Marvin Lopez-Aguilar v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-conflict collateral-attack collateral-challenge conviction criminal-procedure district-court forfeiture government-enforcement government-forfeiture habeas-corpus waiver Does the government forfeit its right to enforce a defendant's waiver of a collateral challenge to his conviction by failing to raise the waiver issue…
18-8804 Carlos Antonio Raymond v. Martin Joseph Roy, et al. Texas 2019-04-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP appeal appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion manifest-injustice plea-bargain standing trial-procedure waiver waiver-consent Did the District (Trial) Court err in Allowing trial to proceed without first obtaining a written WAIVER consent from Petitioner/Plaintiff?
18A1004 Marcus Davis v. Universal American Mortgage Company, LLC, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-04-02 Presumed Complete appellate-review district-court foreclosure judicial-procedure pro-se waiver Whether a pro se litigant's failure to challenge the specific legal basis for a district court's dismissal of a foreclosure complaint constitutes a pr…
18-8514 Jonathan Leroy Homedew v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion co-defendant co-defendants criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion plea-arrangement plea-bargaining procedural-rights right-to-be-present speedy-trial waiver Whether Petitioner waived Speedy-Trial-Rights based on Co-defendants-Plea-arrangements
18-8439 Richard Larry Lacey v. Oregon Oregon 2019-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP courtroom-removal defendant-misconduct forfeiture misconduct right-to-representation self-representation sixth-amendment trial-rights waiver waiver-forfeiture Does a self-represented defendant waive or forfeit his Sixth Amendment right to representation when the defendant intentionally engages in misconduct …
18-8387 Delmart E. J. M. Vreeland, II v. David Zupan, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflicting-rulings defendant-rights due-process forfeiture implied-waiver intelligent judicial-discretion knowing right-to-counsel trial-court-procedure voluntary waiver waiver-of-counsel Whether a trial court violates this Court's requirement that any waiver of counsel be knowing, voluntary and intelligent
18-8349 Daverne Michael Foy v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-proceedings plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights waiver Whether the trial court's consideration of non-charged offenses with significantly higher sentencing guidelines constitutes plain error affecting the …
18-1156 Morgenthau Venture Partners, LLC, et al. v. Robert A. Kimmel Florida 2019-03-06 Denied appellate-review arbitration blanket-order circuit-split federal-arbitration-act kpmg-llp-v-cocchi motion-to-compel prejudice prejudice-standard standing waiver waiver-defense Whether the Florida court of appeal's one-word refusal to compel arbitration disregards this Court's decision in KPMG LLP v. Cocchi, 565 U.S. 18 (2011…
18-8273 Cecilio Cuero Payan v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied IFP conflict-free-attorney conflict-of-interest criminal-defendant criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver Whether, under the sixth amendment, a criminal defendant may waive his right to raise a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel as part of a plea-a…
18-8292 Julius Greer v. United States Third Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied IFP circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-procedure forfeiture judicial-review motion-to-dismiss plain-error-review speedy-trial-act standard-of-review waiver Speedy-Trial-Act-violation
18-8183 Gregory Frank Sperow v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver civil-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fundamental-fairness government-breach government-misconduct plea-agreement property-rights rule-11 waiver waiver-provision Whether the government can breach a Rule 11(c)(1)(c) plea agreement concerning the return of seized properties and then rely on the agreement's waiver…
18-8119 Walter Douglas Jenkins v. Israel Hamilton, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel standing waiver Was the petitioner denied by the United States Court of Appeals a prima facie of Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment due process
18-1071 Brandi K. Stokes v. Timothy Martin Sulak Fifth Circuit 2019-02-19 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process geneva-conventions international-law legal-notice prisoner-of-war procedural-waiver standing treaty-interpretation waiver war-crimes Whether rights secured by the Geneva Conventions can be waived by inadequate briefing or late notice
18-1069 Diebold Foundation, Inc., Transferee v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Second Circuit 2019-02-15 Denied circuit-split commissioner-notice jurisdictional-issue second-circuit statutory-interpretation tax-appeals tax-court-jurisdiction tax-liability tax-notice tax-procedure tax-year taxable-year waiver Tax-court-jurisdiction,tax-liability,tax-year,tax-notice,tax-appeals,tax-procedure
18-7997 Samuel Gregg Allen v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-provision criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit plea-agreement unconstitutional waiver waiver-of-appeal Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by enforcing the unconstitutional Waiver of Appeal provision in Petitioner Allen's Plea Agreement
18-7698 Lawrence Andrew Ingram v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights contemporaneous-objection criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal-evidence-waiver-contempo definitive-ruling evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance trial-procedure waiver Does trial counsel waive a defendant's right to appellate review of an erroneous ruling on evidence if counsel chooses not to object to the ruling whe…
18-7506 Jonathan Glen Turner v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure dilatory-conduct due-process manipulative-conduct obstreperous-conduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver Whether a defendant may waive his Sixth Amendment right to counsel by dilatory, obstreperous, or manipulative conduct, as opposed to express statement
18-7390 Martin R. Stancik v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver circuit-split constitutional-error constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process sentencing sixth-circuit waiver Whether a criminal defendant's waiver of his right to appeal a sentence includes a waiver of the right to appeal a later, unforeseen constitutional du…
18-7313 Lewis Templeton v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure drug-crimes firearms sentencing spatial-connection sufficiency-of-evidence u.s.s.g.-2k2.1(b)(6)(b) waiver Whether the Tenth Circuit correctly concluded that Mr. Templeton had waived his argument that the evidence was insufficient to support increasing Mr. …
18-7164 Nathan Daniel Knuth v. Randall C. Arp, Judge, District Court for the First Judicial District of Colorado, et al. Colorado 2018-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights dismissal due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-discretion procedural-fairness standing waiver Whether the Colorado Court of Appeals violated Mr. Knuth's constitutional rights to due process
18-7078 Joseph O'Shaughnessy, aka Joseph D. O'Shaughnessy v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review appellate-waiver criminal-procedure due-process involuntary-plea judicial-review ninth-circuit-procedure plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness voluntariness waiver Whether the Ninth Circuit properly dismissed the appeal without articulating the factors it found to base its conclusion that the plea and waiver were…
18-7083 Sylvia Ogbenyeanu Walter-Eze, aka Sylvia O. Okam v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-standards constructive-denial-of-counsel counsel-conflict critical-stage fundamental-fairness ninth-circuit presumed-prejudice structural-error waiver Whether the Court of Appeals of the Ninth Circuit erred in not applying the per se presumed prejudice rule
18-6946 Sergio Louis Trevino v. Texas Texas 2018-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargaining presentencing-waiver right-to-appeal sentencing sentencing-procedure waiver waiver-of-appeal waiver-validity Can a presentencing waiver of appeal be knowingly and intelligently entered when potential errors cannot be anticipated and the consequences of the wa…
18-6906 David E. Miller v. Tony Parker, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Correction, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-12-03 Denied IFP coercion cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment ex-post-facto execution-method lethal-injection waiver waiver-of-rights When an inmate alleges that both his original and later-imposed punishments for the same crime violate the Eighth Amendment but the later-imposed puni…
18-6836 Carlos Dagoberto Rivas v. Sherman Spearman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment interrogation interrogation-waiver miranda miranda-rights self-incrimination waiver Does the State meet its burdens of showing that it clearly informed a criminal defendant of his Miranda rights and that a defendant validly waived the…
18-697 Tony Von Carruthers v. Tony Mays, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-11-27 Denied argersinger-v-hamlin capital-case capital-punishment criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process faretta-v-california pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver Does depriving a criminal defendant of trial counsel against his will, without at least the warnings and voluntary waiver required by Faretta, violate…
18-656 Johnathan Hall, Director, Kentucky Department of Corrections, Division of Probation and Parole v. William O. Ayers Sixth Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied 28-usc-2254 experienced-criminal-defense-attorney experienced-criminal-trial-attorney federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-corpus right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-court-decision uncounseled-defendant waiver Was federal habeas relief improperly granted when, without basis in this Court's clearly established precedent, the federal court disregarded the dete…
18-6746 Joseph Haymore, et al. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-precedent severance severance-motion waiver waiver-rule Whether failure to renew a severance motion at the close of evidence waives the issue, such that it precludes appellate review
18-6695 Zafar Mehmood v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-interpreters-act due-process judicial-procedure plain-error plain-error-standard right-to-interpreter sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-procedures waiver waiver-of-right-to-interpreter Whether the plain error standard applies to appellate review of a claim that the district court's acceptance of a waiver by defense counsel of his cli…
18-6582 Kareem Glass v. Melissa Hainsworth, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset Third Circuit 2018-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-rights capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-circumstances penalty-phase sixth-amendment waiver waiver-of-rights where-capital-counsel-induced-petitioner-into-a-waiver
18-6434 Craig Martin Shults v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ninth-circuit precedent rule-52(b) severance severance-motion waiver waiver-rule Whether failure to renew a severance motion at the close of evidence waives the issue, such that it precludes appellate review
18-6417 Derrick Wilson v. United States Second Circuit 2018-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP faretta-v-california faretta-waiver Fifth-Amendment-due-process Fourth-Amendment Franks-v-Delaware johnson-v-zerbst pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right United-States-v-Giordano voluntariness waiver wiretap-application When trial counsel informs the court that he is not prepared for trial and the court's Faretta colloquy does not inquire into the voluntariness of Pet…
18-495 Morris & Associates, Inc. v. John Bean Technologies Corporation Federal Circuit 2018-10-17 Denied claim-construction due-process equitable-estoppel federal-circuit implied-license judicial-procedure patent patent-claims patent-infringement patent-law reexamination scotus-precedent waiver Whether the Federal Circuit erred and contradicted a century of this Court's licensing precedent in holding that implied license rights to a patent ar…
18-6005 Trayon L. Williams v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-09-17 Denied IFP appellate-procedure causation-element circuit-split claim-preservation criminal-procedure-waiver-forfeiture forfeiture preservation-of-issues preserved-claim standard-of-review sua-sponte-ruling violent-crime-definition violent-force-element waiver waiver-principles Whether a court of appeals can sua sponte hold a preserved claim forfeited and then dismiss it as waived when the government agrees the claim was prop…
18-325 Thomas F. Gehrmann, et al. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied Response Waived appellate-review exculpatory-evidence fourth-amendment franks-doctrine franks-v-delaware material-omissions probable-cause search-warrant standard-of-review waiver Whether Franks applies to material omissions and whether probable cause is vitiated and the entire affidavit and search warrant are invalid if omitted…
18-5909 Barry Soldridge v. Lawrence Mahally, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2018-09-06 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction post-conviction-relief waiver Whether a defendant's waiver of post-conviction relief rights was entered knowingly, intelligently and voluntarily
18-5679 William J. O'Brien, III v. United States Third Circuit 2018-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment trial-court trial-procedure waiver waiver-of-counsel Was William O'Brien, III denied his Sixth Amendment right to counsel?
18-5656 Venise Metayer v. Florida Florida 2018-08-20 Denied IFP constitutional-rights counsel-misadvice counsel-role due-process illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing trial-court-denial waiver waiver-of-rights Were the petitioner's constitutional rights violated when the trial court denied her motion for illegal sentence based on counsel's misadvice to accep…
18-202 Haynes Timberland, Inc. v. United States First Circuit 2018-08-15 Denied Response Waived appeal-waiver collateral-attack criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining pre-sentence-waiver sentencing waiver waiver-of-rights Whether a defendant who waives the right to a direct appeal of his conviction and sentence can implicitly waive his right to collaterally attack his c…
18-5424 Patsy N. Sakuma v. Association of Apartment Owners of the Tropics of Waikele, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1985 circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-claim due-process hypothetical-jurisdiction jurisdictional-waiver merits-question rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing sua-sponte waiver Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit properly applied waiver on appeal as a new exception to bypass the Rooker-Feldman jur…
18-125 Miriam Grussgott v. Milwaukee Jewish Day School, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2018-07-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) ada church-governance civil-rights employment-discrimination first-amendment grussgott hosanna-tabor ministerial-exception non-discrimination non-discrimination-policy religious-institution waiver waiver-doctrine Does the definition of 'religious institution' in the ministerial exception require a faith-based institution with a hierarchy of ministers?
18-113 Jeremiah Rodgers v. Florida Florida 2018-07-25 Denied Amici (1) constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process hurst-v-florida jury-trial jury-waiver retroactivity sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment waiver Does waiving a state-law right to have a jury make an advisory sentencing recommendation constitute a knowing and intelligent waiver of the federal co…